skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to art (audio or visual especially) iterating over a concept with some air of "generality" and "good enough" can have very interesting emerging properties. You get a "vibe" for what you want, but you might not have a perfectly clear idea of the entire composition until you actually see it in front of you, and then you iterate over that.

When I write a song I usually just noodle on my guitar with some pre-programmed drums in the background, I just play whatever comes to mind at the time, record it, then listen back to it, change a few things, add a few accents, decide to add another guitar line, maybe shift in fifths or sevenths to add more voices, add a few instruments that fade in and out like strings or brass, etc.

Some people might have more methodical approaches to art, and that's fine too, but in my case it's absolutely a 100% exploration effort about stuff that I don't even know I want until I see it in front of my eyes. These tools are amazing for this.
It's reductively the same thing as the Semantic Web, just for JSON. It still suffers from the link rot issue, as well as the left-pad issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35322592
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If people walked or biked to work, they'd end up eating healthier.
Ok, I'll bite. What does she have to do with this?
reminds me of a quote in the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog" (context: Stanley Motss, a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman, helps Conrad Brean, a political spin doctor played by Robert de Niro, to stage a war in order to cover up a presidential sexual-advances-to-underage-girl type scandal two weeks before the election):

Motss: "It's all, you know, thinking ahead. That's what producing is."

Brean: "It's like being a plumber".

Motss: "Yes, like being a plumber: do your job right, nobody should nocice; but when you fuck up, everyone gets full of shit."
+1 Highly recommend the Flexispot – just make sure you get the one with the single piece desktop (had a friend accidentally buy one where the desktop comes in two pieces)
Yes, thank you. That's the exact point I've been getting at. Median salaries for workers in the US is far too low and should be brought up, rather than fighting to bring FAANG engineers lower which is exactly what businesses want.
I don't want my app to change performance-sensitive behavior at runtime, that's a debugging nightmare.

I do want my framework to throw an error in development mode if I screw up the preloading.
> You seem to be confused about the difference between labeling something as a social construct and analyzing it as a social construct.

I am not sure what that cryptic insinuation is supposed to accuse me of.

> Can I ask how you were introduced to the concept?

I don't remember? It was probably 10 years ago or more.
What part of what you just wrote couldn’t we do before, with human labor and/or existing tools?
It really depends on the area of CS. The math used in ML and FP don’t have a lot in common.
Well that would be where the firsthand experience comes in.
> I imagine soon we'll have languages, systems, and tools specifically built to be extremely usable by AI.

Those are called programming languages, we have quite a lot of them.
Because any government's primary objective is to secure the power of the government, and most governments including western "democratic" ones view their people as the biggest threat to that objective. Which they are right about, mind you.
Interestingly, they never get it. Every layer of the stack up to the client's database connector is unpredictable.

But yes, people want it. And will trade a lot of performance for a false promise of predictability.
> I believe the intoxicating idea that companies will not need employees soon

Look, if you want to not need employees, you need to do capex. If you spend more money on stock buybacks than you save in payroll by doing layoffs, you're taking money away from capex.
Why would it be sarcastic? Lots of people doubted the internet too, but people learned to use it in ways that one might not normally think of.
The parent comment said that america always made up for its poor educational system by accepting immigrants, and then used SV as an example. But having educated immigrants is a relatively recent phenomenon. Nearly all immigrants before H1B were refugees or poor and poorly educated.

You’d be surprised how relatively recently most of the skilled immigrant groups have been in the US. In 1990 there were 781,000 Indian Americans. Today there are 2,800,000. The non-Hispanic white population grew 8% over that time (and birth rates aren’t any higher among Indian Americans). The other 1.95 million or so are immigrants and their kids who came here after 1990.
Think "weddinsday," and it might make more sense. I hear that mostly from British-English speakers though.
FYI mountpoint is written in Rust, but using a new framework called CRT (common runtime) that’s written in C. The perf is multiple of that of the AWS cli since the CLI is in Python. You can actually try using CRT in Python by setting some flag - I forgot what. It doesn’t support all the APIs yet though
Having lived in China for a few years, what many in the West don't understand is that large parts of the Chinese tech ecosystem have moved away from copying the West. They're extremely competitive and innovative. If one innovation springs up in the local market, there will be many clones. The ultimate competitor wins in the end. The last standing competitor is usually good enough to compete with anyone in the world.

Unlike the US, where getting students to take STEM majors is like pulling teeth, there are plenty of STEM graduates in China. So much so that the supply of software engineers, for example, is huge and their salaries are depressed. This in turn, allows companies to compete without having to invest a large sum of money like you need to in Silicon Valley.

And because these tech companies can compete with anyone in the world, the West (especially the US) is starting to get nervous that China is moving up the value chain fast. They're no longer just cheap labor. In turn, politicians and the media are using every tactic possible to slow China's economy down. For example, the US has renewed interest in allying with Taiwan because the US does not want China to get access to TSMC chips. For a free market, capitalist country, the US sure does not want competition.

On Hacker News, and the general internet, it's very common to see "but they just steal" comments. Perhaps it's true in the past. Today, it's far less true because China leads in quite a few areas on advanced tech and they now produce more original research than the US.

If I could have one thing, it's for the HN community to not naively view the US vs China conflict as good (US) vs evil (China). Rather, I'd like to see this community move beyond that sort of propaganda and see the conflict as simply economics.
I think people are generally happy when such systems get repurposed, because the new purpose is likely to be something they're happy with when it comes. For example, in New Zealand, a car number plate tracking system that was only supposed to be used for specific purposes like finding stolen cars, was improperly used during covid lockdowns to catch some people who had been given permission to travel to another region and were doing so legally but the government discovered the permission was a mistake and wanted to stop them. Everyone loved it because bogey-man covid was more important than whatever promises some politician seduced people with years ago.
While I am admittedly not a parent, I promise you that my approach to parenting would be to parent my children and not every child in the state.
Usually it's the wrong pattern, but not always. If you have a very large dataset, it can be beneficial. You can make smaller transactions, smaller query results, and not fill up local memory. For offline backfills, or various reporting jobs this can be the difference between something that works, and something that doesn't.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/best-chess-players-of-all...

Anyway, I really don't care about chess, so make of it whatever you want.

> A single experiment getting to 8th ranked player is a major win for his theory

That's not how it works.
The rich still needs the poor to buy the crap his/her company is making that makes him/her rich. He needs the poor to have enough money for that.
> CCC/Harvest

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

(Was working at McDonnell Douglas at the time (mid 1990s), ISS related, had no idea about the F-15 connection. I do remember thinking CCC/Harvest seemed like a really strange choice at the time, but this F-15 connection... alright, so that's probably why.)
> So they didn't know that it caused myocarditis or not - but they deemed it safe for rollout

They knew it was far less likely than complications from COVID. That's how drug approval has worked from the beginning of time, but the conspiracy theory blogs you read won't tell you that.

> I will not undergo an irreversible treatment without understanding the risks and accepting them by my free will (not coercion).

SARS-CoV-2 doesn't give you a choice about whether you get treated with the virus. You could weigh the risks vs. benefits of being infected with or without the vaccine, but instead, you chose to believe conspiracy theories because of your reductionist idea of freedom.
Jewelry made from beetles may have been a status symbol 2k years ago
> It will be much easier than pimbook to sample and read casually. It could be a bathroom reader for the stalls of software firms.

Thank you, I have a copy and it went over my head a couple times so I guess I wasn't exactly the target.

Also not sure if this fits within the scope but something like this would be great for those not already familiar with it, helped me a lot - https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
> tardigrade-specific intrinsically disordered proteins (TDPs)

Going from "Tartigrade-specific intrinsically" to a single T in the acronym is rather interesting...
Overemphasizing the previously-underemphasized is how social corrections begin. It's often noisy, myopic, superficial, misdirected, and even ignorant. But completely human.

And yes it can be uncomfortable for those of us who are losing our default stature as nature's chosen ones.

The pendulum swings, inevitably. The successful case we can hope for (work toward?) is that the swings are damping over time. This doesn't have much historical precedent, however.
It's the prototype for the NWO. Only half joking.
This is when I get super hopeful that more draconian bullshit like this gets passed. The only way to get regular people to stop accepting their government's bullshit is to severely outrage them. Tiny outrages just get accepted as the new norm.
The canonical JSON mapping of protocol buffers uses a JSON-LD @type field for google.protobuf.Any.

Other than that, the only use I've ever run into is for Schema.org, which is as you say a "semantic web"-era initiative.
> Many White people choose images of Black people when it comes to expressing exaggerated emotions on social media – a burden that Black people didn’t ask for, she says.

I can see why that would be pretty upsetting.

Seems like software could help with a lot of the frameworking around solutions to this issue, incidentally. Maybe starting simple, like with whatever process happens when you type the name of an emotion into your gif-search box...
I think the secret sauce of Temu and Shien are the prices and delivery which has nothing to do with the app itself,just like AliExpress, you find super cheap stuff with Walmart quality at best. For a broken teen obviously it would be appealing. But going as far as comparing a Chinese drop shipping e-commerce platform with an app as a front end to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc in the context of technical innovation and "embroidery" is just plain ridiculous.
I hope the people who think this is a bad idea are equally horrified by what factions of the US government and media did to silence speech not in alignment with their preferred ideology. Lying, obfuscating and preventing information from reaching everyone.

When you are for free speech, you have to actively protect that with which you disagree. That’s the only way it works.

If you don’t, someone will eventually come for what you think should be protected…and there will be nobody left to defend it.
>I don't really agree with their level of "open"ness

I see this complaint a lot, but after watching a lot of interviews with the founders, I think they have by and large taken the right approach. They're trying to drip feed things at a rate that allows it to be digested enough by all parties before releasing more. They actually appear to be quite principled thinkers on this topic.
They make several interesting looking games
https://gamesforthinkers.org/all/
This was referenced at the end of the recent Japanese Toilet episode of South Park.
I don't see the EU repealing much. How can there be an expectation of a fruitful campaign to accomplish that? Would it require a sea change in the outlook of the ruling blocs of MPs? Asking sincerely.
Jack Ma’s Self-Exile Undercuts China’s Pitch to Private Business
Another thing to note is the length of retirement has increased significantly since Keynes' time. So if you look at a person's whole life, the amount of time at work certainly has decreased.
Cool, as long as we're saying that 'woman' is a mindset and not a set of verifiable attributes.

Does everyone take "woman" as this meaning though, or is this the root of the confusion that everyone has ?
https://www.conscious-robots.com/consscale/index.html
Explain that to anyone living under a dictatorship their grandparents originally supported.
Unfortunately, I think the answer is no. Congress has to get involved to make it happen.

In the mean time, local communities need to map out their safety-critical crossings and figure out ways to mitigate problems. Federal money is available for grade separation projects. For example, this is a regional website that deals with all problems related to trains and attempts to fix them:

https://www.createprogram.org/projects/#grade-separations
> If you don't find it useful then good, it wont replace you.

When the age of steam descended on the age of sail, the sail-makers were replaced without any option of making use of steam power to stay relevant.
You conveniently glossed over judge Duncan history of hate

I repeat:

Judge Duncan represents hate against women, gays, and transgender citizens

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/articl...

> He’s built a lengthy and high-profile record of battling against gay, transgender and abortion rights, including defending abortion restrictions on behalf of the state of Louisiana. He also defended highly controversial voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina and fought against gay marriage.

I wouldn’t let a guy with “a lengthy and high-profile record of battling against gay, transgender and abortion rights” speak at my house would you ?

And I’d question the intentions of anyone who invited him

Same thing at Stanford, who TF in 2023 wants to hear anything he has to say ?

I see the students protest in this same vein “not in our house”
It's not that the number of kinds of glue is large. It's that the one kind of glue (function composition) is particularly powerful.
I actually did not, for some reason. I was on a bunch of phpBB forums in high school, but none surrounding programming/tech. I was obsessed with music and gaming way more than IT stuff, back then. I initially learned programming more as a means to an end (my first scripts were to automate backups to an external drive, transfer stuff between Windows/Linux, that kind of stuff), and just generally for my own enjoyment, than a real plan to do anything with it. I don't even think I realized it was a potential career path before I was already out of high school lol
First Citizens Said to Near Deal for Silicon Valley Bank
No, you need to abolish SSH. It's an incredibly limiting protocol that does not support modern computing needs. Hacks and add-ons solve some but never all of its many problems.

Wire-level network protocols like Wireguard are somewhat useful, but largely a large step away from the modern best practices. We need more Zero Trust, Federated Identity, Fine-grained Access Control, and Least Privilege. Those solutions exist, but they are almost always for-pay, because SSH is always used as the default option, and so no more effort is put into better security practices.

And even without putting any real effort into a better protocol, you can just implement on top of HTTPS. Look at HTTPS+Git, compared to SSH+Git. First and foremost, this RSA key leak bullshit just wouldn't happen. Even if the TLS key on the server got leaked (and why the hell would it?! it gets generated automatically by Let's Encrypt), revoking and issuing a new one happens automatically for the client with no fraught extra options, and nobody's client configuration by default disables validating the certs! Then there's the fact that you can use a variety of AuthN+Z options, it goes over standard ports, and most providers give more fine-grained access control for it.

Nerds love SSH. But it is literally worse than the alternatives, and is in practice often not used in a secure manner. Kill your darlings and use something demonstrably better.
NGL I read that as First Republic & nearly fell over. Two once highly regarded (even more so now) Northern Cali banks, they're perfect for each other.
See also: Overton Window and Anchoring

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)

...but yes, this is why in the US republicans are constantly floating all sorts of batshit regressive policies on social welfare programs, LGBTQ people, voting rights, immigration - it shifts the ultimate compromise closer to their desired outcome, and even if it doesn't, it still is virtue signaling to their base, something to shout about at campaign rallies.

"See what I tried to do for you? But those evil liberals shot me down! I need your support!"
All the real information is already in the binary, no guessing is necessary. It takes data, processes it through a set of defined steps, and outputs it. Both the C code, the assembly code, and the obfuscated assembly code, express the same fundamental conceptual object.

If you have a good enough model with a large enough token window to grasp the entire binary, it will see all of those relations easily. GPT-4 already demonstrates ability in reverse engineering, and GPT-5 is underway which if it as powerful of a generational jump as 3 to 4 will advance these abilities tremendously.
For that fetching in chunks is usually a way to go. I use something of these usually https://handy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/db.html#queryset_iter...
So no amount of logic, moral argumentation matter, and links to mainstream sources, words of the very political involved in brokering peace, or polls sampling billions of people are dismissed as "propaganda"? Can you please define what you mean by "propaganda" here -- you seem to be making a category error.

I don't understand. Are all Indians susceptible to propaganda, but you and Timothy Snyder know the actual truth? I can certainly listen to Dr. Snyder (I haven't) but it's going to be one opinion, one data point, for me. Not an absolute authority.

Can you at least answer my questions from a logical and moral point of view?

PS: Just in case your "hard right" implies that somehow this is a right-wing conspiracy or propaganda, I should point out that "the war could have been avoided and we should have peace talks" is understood by people on all sides of the political spectrum. The pope is on the left. The progressives in US Congress are lefties. Noam Chomsky is a leftist. They all say the same thing. Heck even the World Socialist Website highlights thousands of people in Spain protesting the NATO summit in Spain: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/02/ydws-m02.html

Propaganda... you keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
That sounds like she's pretty close to being a lame duck, and has little to lose, popularity wise. If that's correct, she's in an optimal place to become unhinged from a lack of accountability. I'm curious in this case if it's being a professional fall-guy or engaging in their own (u|dys)topian radicalism.
Oddly enough, I've done something pretty similar, but using Python + PIL instead: https://github.com/notpushkin/glitzz

Two improvements you can borrow:

1. FFmpeg can read frames from HTTP URL, which you can (ab)use to generate frames on the fly without hitting the disk

2. If you do that, you can also switch from PNG to BMP, since CPU is now your bottleneck
If there's 'digital blackface', then I'm guessing there's also 'digital whiteface' and other 'digital [input race]face', or am I missing something? Either way, are those who are both white and black wrong when they use 'digital blackface'? /s
> If you take those genes and put them into organisms like bacteria and yeast, which normally do not have these proteins, they actually become much more desiccation-tolerant

Well I have a newfound fear of humans creating a bacteria as hard to kill as a tardigrade…
To be fair it sounds like this isn’t for that use case.
I didn't see it in https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf -- which paper are you referring to? (Or if I missed it, what page number?)
The point is that LLMs can’t backtrack after deciding on a token. So the probability at least one token along a long generation will lead you down the wrong path does indeed increase as the sequence gets longer (especially since we typically sample from these things), whereas humans can plan their outputs in advance, revise/refine, etc.
That's so 90s. Nowadays, ask GPT to write the most dense obscure legalese supporting your contention, at least 100 pages of A4 paper, no margins, font size 9. Have fun emailing that pdf.
So what's your take?
Suggested alternative: The "End Political Corruption Proposal"

"Given that political corruption is rife in European countries, with great detriments to the healthy function of government, all politicians in positions where they may be engaging in corrupt behavior must submit to 24-7 audio and video surveillance, which will be piped over public platforms for crowdsourcing of corruption detection. All personal communications of politicians and of government bureaucrats will become matters of public record for the same reason. Since we cannot trust a corrupt head of government to investigate their own corruption, or one of their underlings, this kind of public exposure of all politicians and bureaucrats is the only reasonable, rational solution to the problem of endemic government corruption in the EU."
Very few industries have been broadly "disrupted" by replacements that hire more people to give more individual attention to each customer. It's rather antithetical to the whole model.
The EU seems to be trying to catch up with China and Russia.
Ask HN: Python’s Prospects in a Copiloted World
Given that models are emerging that can write code at a competent level, do you think the attractiveness of dynamically typed languages like python will diminish while statically typed languages like C++ and rust will become more popular?

My thought process here is that languages like python are easy for humans to write, but hard for computers to validate. The advantages somewhat go away when code can be written by a model. Meanwhile, the disadvantages such as poorer maintainability and performance of these languages would still exist.
This is a really dumb thing to say and it really undermines the power of every day people to have a say in how our world is run.

The Government is our voice and our strength, and we are going to need that voice heard and our will exercised in the coming years.

We need to stop undermining our governments, we need to get money out of politics, and we need to sort out our democracies.