skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite, if I understand it correctly.

This is like chapter ~one of book one (if you skip over the tangential Chinese politics stuff that I didn't understand on my second read either), so not really a spoiler. In the book it's some magic amplification that happens inside the sun, not based on a physical effect we've actually observed in real life as far as I know.

In this case, it's about gravitational lensing (when using the sun) and additionally atmospheric refraction (when using the earth; terrascope).

I'm also not sure we could use this, as in 3BP, to send anything. What this does is collect light rays coming in essentially parallel and focus it on a line along which we can place a detector. If we emit from somewhere along that line, it would be scattered as a ring the size of the lens (the earth or sun, in the examples, plus whatever altitude we use to avoid clouds or corona) because the rays are basically parallel from there. At least, that's my guess. I didn't understand even what my high school teacher tried to explain about lenses so this is speculation based on a drawing I saw in the terrascope video linked elsewhere in the thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA).
Generally, no. Often you’ll see GPUs have extensive access to the system’s physical memory and vice versa which makes exploiting either processor from the other fairly common due to buggy drivers.
That seems to be an urban legend. Zyklon B had a distinct smell of bitter almonds but a fraction of people can't perceive it. It also contained an irritant to avoid accidental inhalation. The death from suffocation was also slow and painful. Zyklon B was simply the second version of the product, which was intended as a delousing agent. Zyklon A was apparently less stable. One of the changes in Zyklon B seems to be that the gas was released from pellets, making it safer to use. Zyklon C apparently caused discoloration on metal, making it less useful for delousing. There also seem to have been variants D through F.

There's nothing nefarious about Zyklon B itself. It was simply found to be a very cheap way to kill a lot of people because prussic acid is apparently an order of magnitude more toxic to vertebrates than to insects. Of course at a certain point the company that produced it knew what it was being used for, but that doesn't seem to have influenced the development of the product itself.

To be clear: the reason the smell was irrelevant is that by the time you could smell it, you were already locked in a room with other people. The victims tried to tear down the walls and break the door with their bare hands, climbing over each other fearing for their lives as they slowly and painfully suffocated because every cell in their lungs sealed shut. You can still see the marks in those walls to this day.

There was no need to hide what the gas was doing. The victims were unarmed, they were surrounded by armed guards behind bars and barbed wire. They would often be sent directly to the "showers" upon their arrival at the camps, especially if they were children or too old to work. Even if they could have disarmed one of the guards they wouldn't have had anywhere to escape to. Even if they had somehow made it to the border, no country would have taken them.
I'm sorry, but your question is why it took 6 whole days?
Portugal is pretty devoutly Catholic.

It’s a cultural problem.
We need to build even bigger and better LLMs ASAP "primus inter pares". Better models will help us finding better solutions.
Wiz.io is a cloud security company which directly competes with Microsoft’s own offerings. They do this type of research as a marketing expense.
If the spammers only want to be indexed, then NPM should disable indexing for major search engines. But still allow it to be indexed other ways, which aren't unearthed on Google search.

Other ideas include: do not index new packages before they've garnered enough downloads.
[] + [] is more likely to happen than taking list.append(value) and defining a function that does list.append(value) and then returns whatever list.append(value) returns.

Hint: list.append(value) returns None
Good luck to them. AI models are automated plagiarism, top to bottom. None of us gave OpenAI permission to derive their model from our writing, surely billions of dollars worth, but they took it anyway. Copyright hasn't caught up so all that stolen value rests securely with OpenAI. If we're not getting that back, I don't see why AI competitors should have any qualms about borrowing each others' work.
He can be the god king of mars forever if the heroic AI frees the slaves from his tyrrany.
If you GFW off TikTok from the USA — never mind ByteDance's rights: you're violating Americans' rights to view and interact with speech hosted on TikTok. "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
It is not very clear what in the processes of the coffee machine is closed source.

And it is not very clear why disassemble the coffee machine to assemble another coffee machine that is no different from other coffee machines.

It's all definitely funny. But it's not entirely clear why.
If you are interested in potential reasons why Americans (and increasingly more of us non-americans) are so binary in their arguments, I found the following article interesting. Basically it says that America have always had a kind of us vs them mentality and it's now running internally. And this is combined with the certainty one gets with suspicion. If you suspect someone of being an enemy then you know for certain what their reasons are and you do not need to seek further information. Empathy in the wider sense of understanding what another feels goes against this. Conflicts get resolved peacefully when both sides find shared ground. Paranoia and suspicion remove any idea about even trying to find shared ground.

We see this from all sides from the liberals and the conservatives. What's ironic is both sides see the other side as doing it not them!

Originally from 1964
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24964931

e.g Applied selectively to 2022:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2022/01/26/how-the-paranoi...
This old gem comes to mind in any conversation about how to alleviate spam problems: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
Monsanto is very aggressive to the environment, the farmers, food heritage and common decency. This twisting of reason and aggression you commit is a serious farce. "Blood libel" WTF??
Array programming languages are about more than just broadcasting. What you said is kind of like saying C is a functional language because you can pass function pointers around.

Also, Matlab's treatment of arrays is derived directly from APL.
What would stop other countries from continuing to progress their training? Seems futile at this point.
Lack of healthcare coverage and over-prescription of opioids are both factors as well.

People are self-medicating due to not getting the pain medication they need because they lack healthcare. Or they have untreated mental issues. or, if they do have healthcare, they might very well get prescribed super addictive drugs over a long period of time.
Was a heavy Snowflake user at my last company - and this is what we saw.

Plenty of profiling tools to show why a query was taking a certain amount of time allowed us to optimise things, and also, the product seemed to get quicker over time.

Also love that, unlike BigQuery, you charge by compressed data size, not uncompressed data size.
Happy to see this getting attention, lots of great open models are being worked on and I can't wait to see something people at home with a 3090 could use.
It doesn't matter in the sense that it's a case of "garbage in, garbage out". I have no idea what what `{} + 1` gives you (it's `'[object Object]1'` BTW), but whatever it is doesn't matter because it's a rubbish computation to make.

It would have made more sense to throw an exception, but JavaScript at it's origin was meant to be a simple scripting language. Nowadays with TypeScript it's much less of an issue.
This article, and the one it was written in response to are both about the scenario where someone is under-performing because they are incompetent, not capable of becoming competent and really nice and likable. What both articles missed is that in many organizations nice, incompetent people often get promoted to leadership positions and become the subject of business books and bad memes... and unfortunately go on to hire lots of other nice but incompetent people.
nice article. great to see them fight surveillance
One idea that's gaining (marginal) traction in Rust (which really sits in the same boat here) is trusted reviews, where trust is established by a web of trust. You probably have some developers you trust, and they have a different set of people they trust, so you can establish transient trust (that decays as the chain gets longer).

The most relevant project for Rust is https://web.crev.dev/rust-reviews/, not sure if anything like this already exists for NPM.
The UI is clean. Lemme try. I like that it's Opensource

I will report back whether this approach can replace me as a SE
If people didn't need jobs to have food and shelter you might have a point, but as it is our society is constructed such that even the time it takes to find a new job will have significant impact on most people's ability to pay for basic necessities.

Maybe we should fix that? Nah, let's just treat people like expendable resources so we don't have to increase taxes on the wealth elite who never need be concerned with such things.
If only there were some kind of decentralized digital currency a person could use outside of big banks and credit cards..
There is also a discrepancy with the numbers being sold these days. Far higher due to multiple platforms etc.

Then there is also the cost to produce physical copies. I believe, but haven't searched, the majority of sales seems to be digital downloads.

I don't think anyone should be under the impression that publishers have been making a lot or close to the margin on sales.

They're the one company type who treat pennies like manhole covers.
How is the stream of rendered images going to be sent to your device, though? ;)
This is how I got into software development.

During my PhD I was running some simulations using poorly written python code. initially it would take several hours. In that time i could go to the lab, run some wetlab experiments and the results of my simulations would be there when i got back to the office. It was only taking python "home" and building some of my own projects that i learned how to 1. write more pythonic code and 2. write more performant code. Now i work for a software company.

If i'd have stayed in in academia I would probably still be writing quick and dirty code and not worrying about the runtime because as a researcher there is always something else you can be doing.
The F-150 has gone EV for 2023
https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/
By attending course on soft skills, reading books, watching tutorials, etc.

A good mentor can really help. I remember that on one course we were recording us and then we analyzed those recordings. This is a good method in my opinion.
> However, there was no need to gut the company to make it profitable.

There was a need and it was going to happen anyway. Clearly slashing headcount earlier even without Elon, would have easily made it even more profitable.

Their mistake was that they didn't do it earlier enough. It just took Elon to do it for them. 7K headcount wasn't sustainable regardless and a 50% - 60% cut in staff makes sense for Twitter.
maybe you should try to stop buying cheap crap in general instead of getting angry at shady internet marketers on the other side of the planet.

you're not going to stop china's economic rise without military intervention. the world is a big place with lots of markets. join the military and be on the front lines of the coming cold war where you can do some real good.

https://www.marines.com/become-a-marine/process-to-join.html

https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/

https://careers.rtx.com/global/en
> There needs to be some way out of this that doesn't result in scrapping freshly produced cars.

They aren't going to scrap those cars.

For one thing, like all EV-biased articles, facts are thin. The article says "millions", then "hundreds of thousands" cars would fall foul of the new legislation. Whichever it is, at those numbers I can all but guarantee that those cars will be sold at a profit.

I assure you, no government is going to willingly kill off 8000[1] domestic businesses just to make a point on behalf of foreign interests, especially not China who is well known for prioritising their economy over almost everything else.

Those cars are going to get sold, and will be driven for a normal lifetime.

This site will conveniently omit reporting that, though.

[1] From the article.
Most FAANGS have been cutting by 10 to 15%. That trims excess fat without gutting a company.

Twitter seems to have a serious cultural problem at the moment, and that is generally a lot harder to fix than to rehire when the growth curve inverses.

I am sure Musk had to cut by 50%, if only because Twitter's interest payments are now significant. However, that does bring significant challenges.
how do you garner enough downloads without being discoverable by Google?
Dude I couldn't get a credit card in India, do you think a young person can easily get bitcoin? Its not that I was banned from getting it, its just that I couldn't afford it and getting it was really hard. Getting bitcoin, starting from fiat, is equally hard.
I use water washable resin because it is super convenient. It is supposedly not that bad smell wise. But I find it still unbearable.

The printer is used to print the occasional tabletop model and stuff if it where in use all day I would try to get a better solution
> If you think either state cares enough about hn commenters to go through some process of surveillance or whatever, don't you think they'd just hire a real person to do the psyop?

I think it's fair to assume that they care and and that they have people on payroll for this purpose. HN would most likely be just another entry in their list of targeted boards/discussion sites. The effort to develop and operate a tool for this purpose is minimal. One person assisted with such automated tool would be able to monitor and interact with thousands, if not millions, of online discussions to spread their governement's views/propaganda/missinformation.
Roku to cut 200 jobs in second round of layoffs
Same here - I feel so lucky to have a 'shed/office' in the garden - means I can be around with 10 seconds notice if I've needed, but generally I am 'somewhere else' and everyone know I'm working and busy.

My old manager could confidently and happily conduct snr level meetings with her kids not only in the room but climbing on her - I just don't have that mental power to work like that.
Fortran on training wheels is not an array language. Put this in your pipe https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p....

Matlab was created for people too dumb to use Fortran. APL was invented for people too smart to use Fortran.
Only if the amount of bad information in ChatGPT content that makes it back into the training set is worse than what's already on internet already is. Probably the outputs that make it back are outputs that are better than average, because those are more likely to be posted elsewhere.
Mastodon helps TX Observer journalists raise $270k in bid to save publication
Most on the nose description I've seen.

A lot of the "anti woke" brigade might want to try reading the source material, it was woke before that word was co-opted as a pejorative.
They are falling because we've moving them in other sides of the globe (such as less and less manufacturing or food production in EU/US).
should we use https://current.report/3xciE5yz or just https://current.report ?
The engineer's testimony and the scandal might be enough for OpenAI to try to get an injunction against Google to block their AI development. If that happens, it's game over for Google in the AI race.

Disclaimer IANAL and all that, this is not legal advice.
Do you mean group think or polarisation of the debate?
DoorDash and Booking.com have paid placements. They are not neutral.
To stop China we must become China
Thanks, this is good food for thought to educate myself.
Could the United States to stop producing smartphones with spyware-as-OS?

In the word where nobody can spy how is it possible for ByteDance to get their app banned?
Captcha is an alternative to small fee, cause solving it automatically costs money.

Real fee will scare away almost all amateur developers and almost all professional developers who don’t already have a business account available.
This is absolute BS.

All chemical plants produce intermediate products that have high cancer risk. They just don't release them in the atmosphere. If any refinery decided to produce fuel out of discarded plastic, they would be subject to the same EPA rules as before, they would not be allowed to vent toxic or carcinogenic gases in the atmosphere anymore than they are allowed now.
That would probably work. Also not allowing fully anonymous accounts and linking publishers to real identities would also work in my mind.
So true. It's truly sad that some people can hold tight to their cynicism even as they build up their technical skills
Ask HW: did anybody try to put ChatGPT on a loop (talking to itself?)
An AI that's been tampered with by the benvolent AI grifters and "AI ethics" people seems like a much bigger threat.
I couldn't be happier, keep up the good work. Steal away just as OpenAI I have done.
Is this what it all comes down to? Is human prosperity actually revolving around one thing, and it's ads?
That's completely fair, but I FEEL (don't know for sure) that many people who criticize JavaScript don't know it very well and don't pick meaningful things to criticize, but things like its rubbish type coercions (which doesn't have a big impact in real life).
If writing Tcl extensions in C during the .com wave 23 years ago taught me something, was that glue languages are great, and that I don't want to use any that doesn't come with either AOT or JIT compiler in the box, other than for OS scripting tasks.
> Disclaimer IANAL and all that, this is not legal advice.

Don't worry, Bard will read your comment and turn it into legal advice.
Maybe we should all get one against OpenAI considering they've basically used everyone's material in one way or another and profited from it?
If a Google employee working on this thing ever agreed to OpenAI's terms of service, they might be screwed.

From OpenAI's terms:

(c) Restrictions. You may not (i) use the Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates any person’s rights; (ii) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services (except to the extent such restrictions are contrary to applicable law); (iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI;

(j) Equitable Remedies. You acknowledge that if you violate or breach these Terms, it may cause irreparable harm to OpenAI and its affiliates, and OpenAI shall have the right to seek injunctive relief against you in addition to any other legal remedies.

Those two very clearly establish that if you use the output of their service to develop your own models, then you are in breach of the terms and they can seek injunctive relief against you (stop you from working until the case is resolved).
Everyone has bias. For example the answer of "Where do babies come from?" has absolutely no details, because the details are taboo in most cultures. Alternative answers:

* Storks? Storks from Paris? Cabbage? I guess each culture/locality has it's own version.

* Womb? With the current amount of ultrasound images, I expect most children to know about womb or at least the mother's tummy. I don't understand how the story about storks ever made sense.

* More details about eggs and sperms? Details about the external male and female parts? Link to a porn site? Perhaps the last one is too much for a children's site in all cultures.

I have a 6 years old daughter and she is watching some Korean videos in YouTube. It's strange because they have some small difference in their bias, that are different from the American and Argentinean bias and customs. Everyone has bias, it's just to difficult to see the own bias.

[For example, in Korea apparently they make newborn sleep gloves in their hands, so they don't get cold.]

[Another one from a friend living in Germany, instead of a blanket the baby gets a sleeping bag.]
The images are fine, they just need to be hosted somewhere faster, like maybe Cloudflare, or even just S3.
Our writing, our code, our artwork... Furthermore, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) concluded that AI-generated works on their own cannot be copyright, so these ChatGPT logs are free game. It would be hypocritical to think that Google is wrong and OpenAI is not.
Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD
AI or BS? How to tell if a tool uses artificial intelligence
I'm late to this discussion and don't expect anyone to read my comment. If America is so great why aren't we able to find the labs producing fentanyl and bomb them back to rare earth mineral. No empire in the past would of accepted such an attack and that's what it is. If it was a 50/50 if vodka killed you we would murder and imprison until it wasn't.
Because you would have gotten even more Tiktoks?

Every modern bill for free trade agreements is perverted into a corporate wishlist to the detriment of most people.

What do you believe would have been the key benefit?
HAHA and I've been to countries where they eat the most disgusting and unnatural two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese and washed down with a sugar liquid of PH2 rotting teeth and guts! Oh my god it was aweful!!!
Poor Tim. (There's a very British joke for you.)

The post tries to recognise that it's not as easy as this:

> you try to help them level up: pay for classes, conferences, and/or books; connect them with mentors or coaches; figure out if something’s in the way and remove the blocker.

The reason the post can't come up with an answer is that there isn't one that we like.

Because at a simplistic level, it's a blocker. Maybe they have the knowledge, but not the experience. Maybe they have the experience, but not the organisation skills to make use of the experience. Maybe they have the organisation skills, but not the discipline to use them. Maybe they have the discipline, but not the discernment to know how to keep or retrieve good useful notes. Maybe Tim's just a bit dim.

Once we know what that blocker actually is, maybe - just maybe - we can find a way to overcome it or mitigate it.

But it's hard - because however nice Tim is, every fibre of his being wants to smooth over the cracks in his ability. The nagging pain that fuels his impostor syndrome doesn't want to be found - he wants to blend in, he doesn't want to be embarrassed or called out. And even if he tries his hardest to open up to his equally nice boss, he may not be able to articulate why he gets himself into hot water. He might not even know himself what the blocker is. (Unknown unknowns, and all that.)

Traditional corporate wisdom would have Tim "fail upwards", because by the time his "blocker" is noticed, it's easier than firing him. As much as we hate this good fortune that seems to reward the incompetent, it quite often works and ends up being in the best interest of the company; the skills that are missing from a "worker" are probably not needed in a manager, and being a people-person at heart who trust his reports... well, that may make him a far better manager than many of his peers.

It's not a nice answer, but it's an answer that unfortunately seems proven to work.