skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the commenter who mentioned syntax is on to something. If I write this

fn my_big_subroutine(ma: Option<isize>, mb: Option<isize>) -> Option<bool> {
match (ma, mb) {
(Some(a), Some(b)) => Some(a > b),
(_, _) => None,
}
}

it’s clearer to me what the intent is. I’m not sure why the other syntax is so hard for me but it feels hard to understand for some reason.
I'm not sure what NPR is complaining about, they themselves state that federal funding is "essential" (in bold) for them.
As opposed to the status quo before, when we had no suspects, yet there were many many comments immediately rushing to blame homeless people?
I want backpack battery packs for the bigger power users. Chainsaws and weed whackers and stuff in the gas engine range anyway.

For smaller tools there could sensibly be a couple to 4? perhaps sizes of battery pack, "handheld" for screwdriver to toothbrush to "personal manipulation tools", a bit bigger for handheld drills; double that again for small saws and stuff... any bigger and it begins to become an an unwieldy burden just for the battery, and the tool becomes more sensible to power in other ways.

Look at the standard AA, C, D cell sizes and what they did for the electronics market. Come up with a set of some standards and then go sell manufacturers on your package because of the profit opportunities it will offer them. Get some big battery cell manufacturer to back you, perhaps.
Vendor lock-in. If I buy a Makita drill that comes with a universal battery, I'm just as likely (all other things being equal) to buy a DeWalt or Milwaukee circular saw as another Makita. But if my drill batteries only work with Makita products, I have a big incentive to stick with that brand.
Air Guardsman Arrested in Connection with Leaked Documents
Thanks. I just googled 'faiss ivf disk' and a couple of clicks later found this page: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexes-that-...
The thing you're missing is there are no incentives for a sovereign nation to give up the ability to mint their own currency and control its supply (monetary policy).
Would be useful if the prompts used to generate the drawing code were included in the site.
> Interest goes up every year. Donations go up every year. The crowds at the conferences they host go up every year. More stuff is added to GNU every year. They keep on innovating in the realm of software licensing. More stuff than ever is released under AGPL3.

That is very good to hear, but if that's the case then it's still doing far less well than I think it should be.

> You don't see it, because you, gentle soul, don't care about the FSF. You care about what you care about, and that means you only see ancillary stuff that other people are sharing.

I shouldn't need to care about the FSF specifically to hear something about it. I don't need to hang out in Blender-specific places to hear about Blender, because the project runs well, creates stuff people like, and makes good progress and people talk about it. The FSF doesn't seem to be doing that well in this department, and that's concerning because an organization that wants to push the world needs to have its message heard by the world at large, not just the fan club.

> And that stuff is hate because a lot of people hate the FSF, just as more people come to love the FSF every year. It's getting more attention and not less. It's gaining relevance. RMS has stated that the FSF has been successful beyond his wildest dreams.

Yeah, you're barking up the wrong tree. I want the FSF to be relevant. I agree with a lot of Stallman's ideas. I just don't think it's being nearly effective enough, and needs to do much better.
Rage Against the Intelligent Machines
It's happened at least 10 times, there's a nicely formatted table about it on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Classified_docum...
GPU instances are also a favorite option for crypto miners using compromised AWS accounts. They run up $20k in bills in a short period, which AWS typically nulls out if you beg.
Exactly my point. I was trying to illustrate for the OP's benefit that this is not the first time in human history that game-changing tech was invented.

Gunpowder was controlled by kings for the longest time. No different from modern billionaires or oligarchs, heck monarchs had greater control and inflicted extensive misery. But despite all that, despite the control, the misery and the harm, do you seriously consider that we should not have invented gunpowder?
Both good points! Upon reflection, I guess my main thought here is that from the publisher's perspective, it's difficult to provide a "subscribe with RSS" button and have it be as frictionless as a typical email subscribe form. e.g. even if the user does have an RSS reader, the publisher has no way to know that, let alone which RSS reader they use.

I was thinking about Mastodon while I wrote this--IMO it would be a more approachable experience for many people if Mastodon profiles had a typical email subscribe form where you could put in your own Mastodon username + server, in the same format as an email address (i.e. without the leading @), and then have it send a request to your server. Then next time I open Mastodon I'd have a notification with an "approve" button or something.

Of course that may just open up a whole other can of worms around spam signups, so that may or may not be a worthwhile train of thought.
Isn't this a little bizarre? Didn't Google just layoff the entire EDR team? And then brain publishes an article on their work and credits the team that was shut down?

Am I missing something or is this incredibly tone deaf?
As is noted in the paper from which this is inspired from: GPT-4's image generation capabilities were severely diminished by the instruction/safety-tuning process. Unfortunately this means the currently available model from the API won't be very capable - certainly not as capable as the early version of GPT-4 that Microsoft had access to.

edit: I'm specifically referring to the "image generation by trickery (e.g. SVG)" technique being diminished. Other tasks were diminished as well though - is my understanding.
I don't know why this reply, I am totally agreeing with you!
To be clear I was saying that I see no problem with using a pinephone almost no matter what deficiencies it might have compared to the latest galaxy or iphone etc.
Yeah, this is how I do it. If it's a reasonably modern remote image you even get color highlighting. And in a way, it lets me segregate, "on this host, I'm working on this project, on this host I'm on this project, all the state/context is there when I re-activate my tmux ready to see what's up.

If I'm writing a lot of code or doing a refactor needing more thought, I'll do it locally, to be sure.
Try a co-ed bowling league, or stop by your local pub on karaoke night and you'll be astonished at how many women are there.
I'm not sure how anything beyond your opening accusation is supposed to contradict what I've said. The party that was unable to reconcile its position with respect to the new border and the Good Friday agreement was the EU, not the UK.
The problem is that these reality-deficient narratives spill out into the real world where they have real consequences.

For example, the pitchforks came out to recall the "soft on crime" DA and replace him with a "tough on crime" one. Why didn't that fix anything? And why was the DA ever the problem when crime was actually down during his tenure, but had simply shifted neighborhoods as a result of covid emptying out the previous high-property-crime areas (downtown and fisherman's wharf)? People in other neighborhoods had every right to be upset that crime shifted to their area, but alleged city-wide policy changes never made any sense as an explanation for that.

Every time there's a crime panic, a bunch of "no more mr. nice guy" politicians throw a few thousand more people in prison for minor crimes in this country, which already imprisons more people per capita than any other country except this very short list of places: El Salvador, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Cuba. Think we can beat them?
Sounds nice. I want to believe. But, let's get real...Apple doing something good for humanity? I still remember the separate charger shitshow. There must be a catch here as well.
But homeowners and businesspeople couldn't possibly vote based on emotions?

Or are you suggesting they don't vote based on what they've been told the world should be?
I was hoping for advice along the lines of "too many teeth or fingers, mismatched earrings". But there was none.
Ouch, right in the narrative.
> entirely civilian

...Hrrm... There has been a strange clustering of Leukemia in children near Geesthacht, with much fuss about why that could be, and that it can't be at all related to the NPP Krümmel and adjoining research center there.

There has been a tv-documentary by the ZDF in 2006, titled "Und keiner weiss warum... Leukämietod in der Elbmarsch" a few articles in the mainstream media, and some blogposts then.

From my memory it was all very strange, much hush-hush by the local government, defamation of concerned citizens, and even stranger the burning up of evidence in of all possible places, a fire station involved several times with emergencies there. By random chance...imagine....

( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk%C3%A4miecluster_Elbmarsch... /

https://www.atommuellreport.de/daten/detail/forschungszentru... /

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geesthacht-labor-bestrei... /

https://netzwerk-regenbogen.de/atomgk070413.html )

Also harassment and hampering of scientists which collected ground samples all over the area, and found no lab willing to examine them in all Germany. So they got it done in Minsk, Belorussia. Funny, isn't it?

What was found there where so called 'spherules', not bigger than one millimeter, hollow ceramic spheres, with (meanwhile?) weakly radioactive matter in them.

Obviously artificial. And unknown. Speculation ensues. Micronukes...

Conspiracy!1!!

Interestingly very similar stuff was also found in Hanau.

( www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/hanau-ermittlungen-wegen-radioaktiver-stoffe-im-wald-a-195069.html )

Whatever, call me sceptic regarding 'civilian'. Especially when the names of Kurt Diebner and Erich Bagge are involved :-)
Things are not worse than ever. Things are slightly worse after the pandemic, but nowhere as bad as the 70's. Feel free to check the statistics.

Anyway I agree we need to get aggressive, but a lot of folks thinks that means more cops. We spend a hell of a lot on police, but police don't address the root causes of most crimes.

We need to aggressively invest in urban areas with new housing, job opportunities, drug treatment, gang disruption, violence interruption, mental health care, and other meaningful interventions in the cycles and circumstances that lead people to commit crime.
Umm. Lots of entrepreneurs have both mental health problems and use drugs. Especially use drugs.
Good thing nobody asked you, because a tyranny like that would be worth taking up arms against.

I'll note many countries did have voting restrictions like that, and it did nothing good.
What browser do you use? I used to use w3 but it is unsatisfactory now.
Why do they sterilise it? Seems counter-intuitive.
The Brussels EU big-wigs very likely don't use cordless power tools personally (unlike mobile phone chargers), so it will probably take a few more years until it reaches their radars. And then it's 50/50 if they'll do something smart or stupid about it. They will do something, though.

Edit: There's also the financial interests of german companies like Festool, Bosch, Metabo, Stihl, Einhell. Imagine if they were forced to use a common battery format so that anyone could build a battery for their tools?
For me, because life is really cool and interesting, and I love the fact that more people than have ever lived so far will probably live after I'm dead, and I'm happy they'll see and enjoy things I probably can't imagine. I want those future people, and the present people who are not me, to do well. I care about my life, and I'm sad it'll end, but that's just one drop of tragedy in the ocean of comedy. c:

I think that emotional investment in others is crucial to overcoming death anxiety, at least for me (as a hardcore based fedora atheist). If your outlook is confined to your ego, everything seems pretty bleak and hopeless since your existence (which is the only thing you're emotionally invested in) is doomed to end, probably sorta miserably.
Yeah, same reason there's no universal lens mount for cameras, and lots of other examples.
Children. And death. You can't have the former without the latter indefinitely. And you need the former for progress to happen. Old people aren't merely a less healthy version of young people. They're also people who have settled mentally and now they DEPEND on the environment staying the way they're familiar with it. They will try their best to prevent change. This means children can't thrive & take the next step. Notice I've not mentioned yet also that we can't have infinite people on that planet. But we can't, anyway.
Efficient PLs are useful for latency sensitive applications too, not just CPU bound ones. Though, that doesn't widen the number of cases by much...
I am not sure. Also before ChatGPT you could google and copy and paste some foreign code together you did not understand, even before stackoverflow. In fact, this is what I did as a beginner and I would think most did. You start to modify and play a bit with it and after a while you understand (something). Or you try until it somewhat works.

I don't see, why ChatGPT changed that, I only tried it a little bit so far, but it doesn't usually give you a ready program, right? It gives you snippets, that might work, or not, but in my case required understanding of the domain. So I could adopt the scripts to my need, but I doubt a beginner could. At least not for anything non trivial. Also those beginners can ask a million stupid questions to the AI that just patiently answers. So yes, those answers can be wrong, but that can happen in a forum as well and even in university occasionally I was taught some BS.

So yes, ChatGPT changes the game a bit, but not that drastic. If you want to become a professional programmer, you still have to get your hands dirty and grind away the basics. But you cannot skip certain things, or you never manage to get even a mid sized project running performant and stable.

And if necessary, it would be probably trivial to weed out "programmers" that aren't really programmers by asking them some questions directly.
You know, when you make a statistical fail, the polite thing to do is take the correction in good heart and then sit it out for the day, instead of battling through the thread and tagging the person you originally disagreed with as 'delusional.'
It'd be crazy expensive
Sometimes it’s worth checking comment history before vouching.
While not universal if you stay within Ryobi there's good compatibility among products.
They appear to be here:

https://github.com/adamkdean/gpt-unicorn/blob/master/src/lib...

{ role: 'system', content: `You are a helpful assistant that generates SVG drawings. You respond only with SVG. You do not respond with text.` },
{ role: 'user', content: `Draw a unicorn in SVG format. Dimensions: 500x500. Respond ONLY with a single SVG string. Do not respond with conversation or codeblocks.` }
The main concern with the AI's ethical values is that they tend to reflect the values of its creators. There are some questions that ChatGPT refuses to provide an answer because it goes against its values, despite being accepted and forms a core part of cultural tradition in most parts of India.

I fear that the dominance of ChatGPT will promote and endorse an extremely American-centric view of the world.
Why do people still use emacs and vim in this age of VS code and intellij?

I’ve heard plenty of arguments, but they kind of suck to be honest. They’re more like rationalizations for why they stick to what they know.

I just don’t get it. Why use inferior tools?

Both are lighter weight. Big deal, buy a faster computer. It’s nothing compared to your salary.

Both may let you type slightly faster and move around faster. Maybe. But that’s not the bottleneck anyway.

Why? Am I missing something or is it just an irrational attachment to software they learned long ago and prefer to stick with rather than learn something new?
I don't think you're wrong per se, but all of AWS's landing pages look exactly like this sort of enterprise sales "call us for pricing" pitch. Of course AWS will offer a service in this area -- all of the hyperscalers are AI factories now -- but it wouldn't be a surprise to discover that Bedrock is a repackaging of the SageMaker ecosystem.
Can podman be used instead of docker on Windows for minkube? Would it work faster than docker in such case?
Hmmm, but what's stopping devices like this to use dns-over-https currently?
Prime age employment in the US is at an all time high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12000060
The name Kanerva rings a bell, the 1st edition of the RL book mentions "Kanerva coding" as an option for function approximation. What you tell sounds interesting, maybe I should look a bit deeper into his work.
When I left Canada after my PhD, I stopped paying for my pre-paid phone plan for my Canadian number. A couple of months later, someone tried to scam my cousin in Pakistan, using Whatsapp. The scammer

1. Acquired my Canadian number.

2. Identified it as "my" account, and downloaded a picture of my social media to use as a Whatsapp display picture.

3. Somehow, identified my cousin as a potential target. Not sure how they did it.

4. Located where roughly my cousin lived. Perhaps via social media check-ins or some other way.

5. Asked my cousin to meet in a park not too far from his house, because I was in trouble and needed money.

Thankfully, my cousin did not fall for the scam and contacted me via other means to verify.
You are arguing against your point. Everything has its own quirks and no one has it easy or tough.
There's a ton more to both editors than just keybindings.

See this post[1] where I talk about some of the things I've done with emacs -- none of which have anything to do with bindings.

You can do millions of other things too, as I'm not using emacs nearly to its full capacity. Same with vim.

Bindings in editors are like symbols in math. Yes, they're necessary, and you can do a lot with them, but symbols are not nearly all there is to math.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35560107
A distributed blockchain would actually prevent the malicious server issue. It would theoretically be better.

The practical problem is that you don't want to consume a ton of battery juice so this just isn't really feasible on mobile. (PoS wouldn't help because you'd still have to keep up with two billion users doing key changes.) Keybase ran into the same issue, there's a Github ticket somewhere where this was discussed. There was some blockchain lite they were hoping to implement, but that never happened, not sure if it was just off their radar or has issues of its own. I don't remember what its properties would be / if that would genuinely have distributed the trust for key exchanges. (Keybase was already publishing merkle root hashes on a chain, but the client didn't verify anything so it didn't help anyone, just like here with WhatsApp publishing the keys on a second system but that's still their own server controlled by a single party.)
When I was younger and money was tighter, I needed a sawzall for a project and bought a DeWalt because they had a good price on a bundle. Many years later, my entire set is DeWalt because it was the convenient choice after I had two of their batteries. If I bought from scratch today I'd probably buy into Milwaukee, although the difference is small enough that I don't mind too much.
I love it, but projects like OpenMorrowind and Daggerfall Unity have given me new appreciation for the older games I struggled with as a kid.
> Having talked with legislators and staffers on both sides of the aisle about this issue, they are massively concerned about having a foreign adversary with the capability to inject social commentary and promote propaganda into 150 million americans media stream.

Replace "foreign adversary" with "American" and you have the status quo. This is the problem with the national security angle: when powerful Americans manipulate people into doing things against their own interest, sow discord in the public sphere, manipulate elections, buy officials, or engage in mass data collection it's somehow not a threat to "national security".

Domestic powers have far more reach than China and have done what is functionally the same as a foreign destabilization/misinformation campaign. The politicians aren't concerned about it because they are in the club; they benefit. The real losers from TikTok are the political/economic elite because this is competition for them. To the average person a successful destabilization/misinformation/manipulation campaign would just be a bit more of what we already have.
100% agreed with this comment.

We kind of got lumped into the VPN segment back in the day, despite being a hardware product. The cutthroat nature of the existing media agreements (NordVPN and Express VPN mainly) along with the sky high CPMs they were paying made it impossible for us to acquire customers and keep them long enough to pay our bills.

Pretty smart tactic... if you're them. Quite bad for the consumer though.
I envy Sir Wolf but wear the chain for the savoury messes.
It's not just image generation the rlhf worsens too. Calibration (confidence on solving a question in relation to ability to solve that problem) went from excellent to non existent. and you can see from the report that the base model performed better on a number of tests. Basically a dumber model.
Vendor lock in is obviously a side effect, and there are consumer- hostile reasons why companies like proprietary batteries. But fundamentally the battery shape and power characteristics as well as the charging are still areas where companies can innovate and differentiate themselves. I'd rather have to choose a brand than get some out of date, un-ergonomic "approved" battery and connector that I have to use with my tools.

It's fundamentally different than phone cables, where the shape of the connector doesn't really matter and was / is purely a lock-in. There are big differences between the choices the cordless tool manufacturers have made re batteries. It's certainly not a place for government mandates.
Interesting background. I've recently been toying with the idea of writing some open-source Mac DriverKit drivers for Mellanox cards, so I'm not forced to pay through the nose for ATTO cards (which are just rebranded Mellanox cards.)

Sadly all the DriverKit stuff appears to be completely closed source. At least its user-space though, so perhaps a bit less painful than normal kernel driver development...