skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the detailed answer; it's important to understand temperature vs time. I presume you sometimes sous vide fish?
I Keep My Kids Away from AI (For Now)
PDF forms: the standard that seemingly isn't
> At best it'll result in the terrorist attack being moved from the airplane to the security queue.

Isn't that an improvement? You can't fly a security queue into a skyscraper or a crowded arena.
the sun settles onto westagons.
My point is that most people have probably broken a bunch of laws unknowingly, but only some get hit with jail time for it.

For example: ever jaywalked? you probably broke a law. Police have used jaywalking as an excuse to jail people.
I actually downloaded the original Angry Birds a few weeks ago, just for a little nostalgia trip. They've changed it & completely ruined it with ads and other crap. Deleted it after a few minutes. Was really disappointed. I Paid for the game originally. That's the game I want to play. Utter joke that this nonsense ever became acceptable.
> To the original question of proof, it sounds like we agree that there is indeed proof that tech platforms were censoring the right.

No, we do not agree. A lot of what the right calls "censoring" is nothing more than "making the platform a space normal people want to participate in". By their conflation of very normal practices (e.g. banning people for racist language, or purposeful misgendering) with censorship I've stopped giving them any benefit of the doubt.

You're free to show scientific assessments of censorship of the right, but until then it's nothing more than the usual propaganda for me.
https://archive.is/jpNw9
I bet most of us do mispronounce ghee.
anyone who pays a utility bill regularly in California has the right and opportunity to be heard. Some media stories are painting this as "inevitable" and this is not true. Make your voice heard on this issue otherwise you get the future that you deserve.
but can it play doom? or download and install packages from the command line on windows?
Pinochet remained in charge of the army for another 10 years after that referendum, effectively continuing to "oversee" the transition. Even after that, he was senator for life.

Oh and he didn't really want to go anyway. From Wikipedia: "In the wake of his electoral defeat, Pinochet attempted to implement a plan for an auto-coup. He attempted to implement efforts to orchestrate chaos and violence in the streets to justify his power grab, however, the Carabinero police refused an order to lift the cordon against street demonstrations in the capital, according to a CIA informant. In his final move, Pinochet convened a meeting of his junta at La Moneda, in which he requested that they give him extraordinary powers to have the military seize the capital. Air Force General Fernando Matthei refused, saying that he would not agree to such a thing under any circumstances, and the rest of the junta followed this stance, on grounds that Pinochet already had his turn and lost. Matthei would later become the first member of the junta to publicly admit that Pinochet had lost the plebiscite. Without any support from the junta, Pinochet was forced to accept the result."
Well you haven’t answered my question about your potential financial involvement with EVs nor why you’re so enamored by them. I’ll continue this conversation and disprove your recent post when you explain why it must be EVs we use instead of any other much better option.
Everyone’s prohibitive level is different, but 10GbE connectivity has come down a lot in the last 5 years and is (IMO) reasonable for home backbone and select machine connectivity for techies now.

I went 10Gb for that and 2.5Gb to the kids’ desktops (with a 10Gb uplink) and I think the entire network setup was well under $1000 for 2 servers and 3 computers (1 10Gb, 2 2.5Gb).
The switches and fiber link will be in service for 10 years in all likelihood, making it feel pretty reasonable to me.
Why isn't it melted down into a giant "distillery" where you can drain certain levels for the materials? The slag would be hardened out then crushed, and maybe a centrifuge can take it from there to separate even further.
I look forward to reading breathless thinkpieces in the New York Times about how "techies" are keeping their kids away from AI, written in the same tone as articles written today about how they're limiting the "screen time" of their children.
Do you wear the Baresocks with or without socks? Either way, how often do you wash them?
Google removes a standard nobody uses, I don't see the problem. AVIF is a decent alternative that can actually be used in modern browsers, with WebP as a fallback.

We've got plenty of open image formats for the web already. I don't get why people get so hung up about JPEG XL, it's not as if they're trying to force HEIF onto you like some other tech companies do.
Isn't this just the implementation of a law that already passed?
Average profit margins in restaurants are 2–6%.

Not 33%.

The actual rule of thumb is one third ingredients, one third labor, and one third overhead including rent. And you hope to have a tiny sliver of profit left over, by making them a hair less than a third.

But that's also just a rule of thumb, as both labor costs and rental costs have a great deal of geographic variation compared to ingredient costs.
A lot of countries with a token military forces would now invest, and pay nicely for, the military (equipment but especially men), seeing how Russia struggles to do achieve its objectives with its ~200,000 men while Ukraine struggles to remove them having twice as many. Whereas they look at their own army and only see a handful of capable divisions.

It is possible that in the post-AI, post-employment world, the main way to earn a decent living will be becoming an enlisted military, as it was during Ancient Roman times.
Unfortunately, I think this is a phenomenon with the FSF...

They want to raise a point X, which could in theory be communicated in a persuasive way.

But they can't resist also mentioning their zero-tolerance on unrelated point Y.

I think the Y makes people tend to go WTF, and then dismiss both X and Y.

Every time now, I'm thinking "You don't have to always mention Y!"

On at least a couple occasions, I actually abandoned an argument I was making on some X in a venue, because some FSF person jumped in with a Y. If I didn't know they were a true-believer in Y and at least sympathetic to X, I'd think they were trying to discredit both.

The FSF has some great principles, but a lot of the communications don't seem to be calibrated for me, nor for my understanding of anyone else.
To each his antidepressant. He probably (rightly) thinks that these are more effective than an equivalent helping of SSRIs. When you cannot degrade him, pity him!
Is it possible that ramp up times have increased or become more complicated in the last 100 years due to changes in technology and capabilities of adversaries?
Yes. I have ADHD, chronically daydream and have aphantasia.

You don't need to see things with your inner eye to be able to conjure them in your fantasies. Daydreaming is just being preoccupied on something that only exists in their mind. It's not a strictly visual phenomenon.
Certainly your statement is false in economies such as South Korea which have heavily and intentionally relied on national champion corporations to drive economic growth.
Ancient Dutch goddess was nearly lost to time–and rising seas
Chris Re: Is AI Rare or Everywhere?
WW2 was amazing for women’s rights
Discord: What is it and how are service members and veterans using it?
This is an issue open for discussion since 2017

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13347
Palestinian nationalism, and Arab nationalism more generally, is closely linked to socialism. Arafat was a socialist. Both of the largest PLO parties historically, Fatah and Popular Front, are socialist or social-Democratic parties.
ETL and batch processing have little to do with each other.

Batch processing is a term from HPC systems, which are typically multi-user, and have to share computing resources by means of a workload manager (eg. Slurm, PBS, UGE etc.) Workload managers function by defining queues, queues have associated resources (eg. number of CPUs, particular network hardware, accelerators, s.a. GPUs and so on). Users interact with workload managers by scheduling execution of their programs on particular queues (because they want the resources associated with those queues).

The interaction between the user and the workload manager is described as "submission of a batch job", where this is contrasted with running a program interactively (s.t. the user can simply start the program and observe its behavior right away). I believe, these are the batch jobs the article is talking about. These kinds of jobs are very common in HPC, and I'd imagine in ML performed on HPC resources.
JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen
Somewhat (not) related, my dog is nearing death and I’ve contemplated burying his body once he dies, planting a tree over the grave, then transplanting the tree to a pot and train it as a bonsai.
On whether ethical algorithmic frameworks can force ethical behavior:

> Sometimes the problem is not how the sausage gets made, but that they’re making people into sausage.
What about videos (embedded or not)?
I love fast these old websites load on smartphones and stay in desktop mode.
FSF slams Google? Do they even have enough power to slap companies on the wrist anymore?
I credit that random UAE dude that was bankrolling TyranT and kept the game going. Without real money the game would not reach the critical level for Microsoft to pay attention again.
They wish to impose rules in others, but not to be subject to rules themselves.
If you like this site design you should check out neocities!

There are many websites on there that have this style: https://neocities.org/browse.
GPT-4 doesn’t get the humor: “The paper aims to apply the Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT) framework to this algorithmic system to ensure better ethical outcomes. However, given the nature of the proposed solution, researchers and practitioners should consider alternative approaches that respect the dignity of elderly individuals and maintain a more ethical stance when addressing food security and population ageing issues.”

I then told GPT that the system was already in widespread use and was popular: “It is crucial to explore alternative, more ethical solutions to address food security and population ageing issues. This could involve investment in sustainable agriculture, technology to improve food production, and social policies that provide support to the elderly population and their families.”
I'm not sure how good natured it was. Eventually Jimmy founded Wikia/Fandom.com and later a lot of well-sourced fiction-work pages was expelled from Wikipedia, with Wikipedia admins (or whatever they are) bullying people into moving content to Fandom, in deletion discussions. Some remain due to some people putting up long fights. The difference in quality from the content we had in the 2000s in Wikipedia to the content we have today in Wikia/Fandom is abysmal. No sources, bad categorized, terrible interface. This was terrible for the internet.

I never particularly cared about those articles, but Fandom.com is such a terrible website that this whole move made me vow to never donate to Wikipedia or to anything involving Jimmy Wales ever again.
Google unveils never-before-seen text-to-video AI tool in this week's 60 Minutes
The Japanese navy was largely sunk via air power though.
Not the OP, but I have. I’ve driven cars from cheap econoboxes to exotics and all of them have had mediocre infotainment and navigation systems at best.
No, there's no need to talk about it urgently.

He pulls a sleight of hand by talking about purchasing power parity.

But PPP isn't that meaningful for things that priced globally, which an awful lot of high tech stuff is.

China's PPP is about 4:1 according to

https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...

China's ZTZ-99 main battle tank apparently costs around $2.6 million. A German Leopard 2 is around $5.7 million.

You can see they don't actually get 4:1 savings, so using PPP is misleading.
You can close the auto-playing video by simply waiting 10 seconds for the “x close” button to appear, which is 5px high and 12px wide.
The world is smaller nowadays. And our allies are not so warlike anymore, if there were a big war we’d probably be in more of a rush to get to them.
Ah yes why make something good when you can make it standard instead and force everyone bang their heads against the wall.
Doesn't this effectively eliminate the incentive for people to use less electricity? If I am going to pay a fixed amount every month, why make any effort to buy more efficient appliances, light bulbs, turn off my A/C and electric heaters when I don't need them.
Households receiving power are a superset of tax households.

I assume household income is the sum of all taxpayers? I hope this is done in a privacy preserving way where you don't need to tell your PGE bill paying roommate your income.

But even then that seems impossible. If my roommate makes $50k a year and I make > $130k, it seems it's impossible to not reveal that fact to him unless they are assessing fees per taxpayer.
Is it the actual original Angry Birds? (Now renamed "Red's First Flight" or something like that)

IIRC they did this renaming switcheroo to get people into the freemium+ads-supported version. The original was undercutting their new monetization.

(Which don't get me wrong, is exceedingly scummy already. "The original was undercutting their new monetization", AKA people prefer to not have ads and annoying freemium if they know the game is solid)
The manifold project integrates code gen directly into the compiler. The GraphQL[1] module is amazing.

The JSON[2] module for REST looks similarly impressive, but I haven’t personally used it.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...

2. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
Kotlin 2 – static extensions, collection literals, name-based destructuri (cont)
You're probably referring to Spring boot, which I haven't used but I presume is fine.

However, the Spring framework in the 2000s was a horrible mess of "aspect oriented programming" and obscure XML configuration files. Till this day I had no idea what it was trying to achieve with that architecture (except maybe trying to avoid writing code by writing lots of XML configuration files instead)

I think they learned their lesson.
This is so awesome. Well done! I played a little with Pico/RP2040 (as a hobby), and it is so much fun. I wish educational content and institutions would embrace it more quickly.
Guilty as charged. Also don’t forget about frames, marquee text, and that smoking skeleton wearing sunglasses gif. :)
Algorithms + Data Structures = Program
Yes, that is a problem, but it's absolutely not some problem intrinsic to it - it's completely a political problem. The cost of the regulatory red tape is staggering, and beyond cost is sheer capriciousness on the part of the NRC.

Note this article for example: (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-new-nuclear...)

"Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 1978"

The NRC was created in 1975. So think about that.

In stark contrast, France built 52 reactors between 1975 and 1990, supplying a whopping ~70% of France's power needs. Are the laws of physics and economics different in France? Hardly. The difference is political.
If there were other methods, but lobbying prevented the most useful.
A few years ago they were forbidden to launch an app that provides user with free forecasts. This would hurt the earnings of the companies that use the same free data to make money.
We are good at experimental development i.e making replica of already existing technology or improvement over already existing technology.
what about inventing a new technology ?
Supreme Court Opens SEC, FTC to Broad Legal Challenges
Ann Reardon's channel definitely has lessons for the HN startup crowd - definitely a case of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade".

Her channel was originally a high quality baking channel, but then she did a video titled "Is So Yummy the worst channel on YouTube?" or something like that. It basically highlighted how all these "hands and pans" content farms just have these sped up, interesting to look at videos, but their actual "recipes" were total nonsense. Most importantly, she highlighted how these channels were basically killing the view counts of real baker's on YouTube. I'm sure she saw that these debunking videos were here most popular ones (nothing addicts like outrage) and she leaned hard into it.

The sad corollary is that her original premise was so right - so many video algorithms end up just promoting these flashy, "bright colors and good music" type of videos. People always say "TikTok is so addictive", but I find it addictive the way a room full of cotton candy is addictive to a 3 year old. I can hardly stand modern content sites (of lots of different variants) because it's the mental equivalent of empty carbs.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client did not threaten anyone! His accusers are on record as saying he merely told them that they had a, quote, ‘nice little restaurant’, and that it would be a ‘shame if it caught fire’. These are not threats, but simply facts.”
Honest question: Are you coding in a tent, outside of civilization?

I've never understood this "battery argument".
The Psychology of Groups
If all platforms start catering to the lowest common denominator, everything will be banned.

Should platforms start banning material that's not allowed in, let's say Saudi Arabia? Or Iran? In Finland "disturbing religious peace" (basically blasphemy) is illegal, should that be censored on tech platforms if we say so?

IMO it's just easier to pull out of said country/state/region altogether or if they bring enough business you create a separate sandbox just for them (Like Google.cn used to be).

Just the threat of being cut off from just Youtube, Facebook and Instagram _will_ make Texas politicians back off really fucking fast. There are very very few voters who don't use Alphabet and Meta services daily.
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Industry_support_and_a...

JPEG XL is a general purpose image format, like JPEG and PNG, but improved. WebP is not a serious modern image format; it doesn't even support 16-bit channels. WebP has one specific purpose: web delivery of ephemeral images, leveraging VP8 hardware decoding driven by consumer consumption devices. That's what Google, and web-oriented companies in general, care about. They have no particular interest in general purpose image formats.
And that is precisely what using the Internet in 2023 entails. Every
single thing you do is being monitored and compiled by the government. Likely with CloudFlare acting as the universal man-in-the-middle.

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-tr...

And you directly feel the chilling effect of it, no longer can you type whatever you want into that search box anymore. It's super creepy, and we're used to it. Only when it's gone, for example when we use a locally running AI chatbot, do we feel freedom again, and the difference is striking.

Thank God the next great thing in tech is AI and we have the option of running that locally. And because of that, I am looking forward to tech progress again. Where progress doesn't always mean expanding state control over people.
Currently? You don't know for sure. It might be possible to make some guesses by examining how the model responds to various prompts, and checking the output of the model against the output from the same prompt against known models. But that will at best, give you a good guess, not certainty. This is why the FLI's proposal for AI regulation [1] suggests that AI models be both watermarked and that the output from AI models be clearly identified as such. In a world where most people use regulated models, this would enable you to identify which model generated a certain piece of content.

As for applying a delta to the weights, that would likely break the model. It would be like randomly scrambling bytes in a compressed file and then expecting the file to decompress properly.

[1]: https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FLI_Poli...
I think the idea is the model becomes fully open source.
Hey Ray? Is the site dead? Or just hugged to death? :)

I have MeatballWiki still. I’d like to pass the torch.
Making such a bet is not a really professional thing to do. Regardless of the actual risk it introduces. If I was a manager in that company and two of my employees made such a bet I'd be tempted to fire both or, at the very least, have a very serious conversation. I think that's borderline malpractice.
There is at least 1 state that allows human composting. You're turned into compost upon death, and then can be used in any number of ways your relatives see fit (or that you dictate in your will).
It reduces it. Per kilowatt pricing still exists, they just shift fixed utility costs (e.g. transmission infrastructure) to a fixed rate.

Better explained at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/pge-utility-elec...
Google Phenaki – Realistic video generation from text
Air Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw the Last Dance
Varian Fry
A reminder that “Reason” is a libertarian propaganda rag.
Fan made websites were very popular in the nineties. This one is really well made and recently updated which is really cool. This particular anime has also a cult follwing in the west.
Its pretty much lingua franca for type setting mathematical formula. In my experience most math graduates already know it from typesetting their own work for assessment submission or publication.
As an aside, I'm on mobile and tried to visit the TypeScript playground to play around with this, but weirdly, the default code is an implementation of FizzBuzz! There was not an obvious way to clear it to get a blank editor. Even "select all" context menu was hijacked. So I gave up. I'll have to file an issue.
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/15036/2023-presidential-... - prediction seems like 50/50 now
I think this article explains it better: https://abc7.com/utility-bills-income-california/13126671/

There are two parts of the bill: a fixed amount, and an amount by usage.
The US seems to be having a general collapse on multiple fronts due to the apparent unwillingness to tax corporations and the wealthy to a reasonable level. I’ve heard the same thing about infrastructure.

Yet European nations that are not as rich as the U.S. seem to be having issues but doing ok on healthcare, infrastructure and public education.
> None of that has anything to do with GUI toolkits, or front ends, or native experience, or UI or UX or any of the things we've been talking about.

This was the basis for my comment. It's not possible escape native APIs, but what differs will be how you consume them. You can either choose to use them directly (true native) or you can use a toolkit that abstracts the various backends. This provides you a single development layer across all platforms while the toolkit itself is what handles the access to the underlying platform native APIs. So it's not on you the vendor to keep up with what's changing at the OS layer, but the toolkit.

Obviously there are trade offs with all methods, and they can be mixed and matched as needed. For example, Qt is not a GUI toolkit like GTK, but a platform toolkit providing APIs for a whole host of functionality beyond visual representation. Does that mean you need to use Qt's multimedia package to handle video or such? Absolutely not, but for the features it provides that are shared across platforms it can make things easier to develop (this is purely for example purposes, I've never authored anything with Qt Multimedia).