skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact it was defined a long time ago isn’t good enough. If, upon passing the test, you realise the test was insufficient, you change the test. You don’t shrug your shoulders and go “well it must be right because a guy said so 50 years ago!”
To problems that can't be solved (like how can I get my wife back) I just imagine I have solved it, or my brain will just keep trying to solve the problem. For solvable problems i either brute force by moving the mountain one sand corn at at time, or keep iterating. When you have a grip on how much the problem will cost to solve you have to ask yourself it it's worth solving - or if you can just use a more crude existing solution.
If I buy this can I issue my own tax free municipal bonds?
> We trousered apes are so primitive and utterly dim when it comes to interspecies communication

I know this is a common and cute framing. But it's escapist.

We're the planet's apex species using our unrivaled control to make it uninhabitable for other complex life. The Earth may not care about the damage we're doing, but the species that are dying would prefer not to. There isn't a rebellion they can mount against us. Their entire survival depends on our giving a shit.
I wonder if https://tenstorrent.com/ will be able to take some market share away
Lasers beams are bounced back and forth many times, so the deviation builds up. The beams have to be very powerful (100s of kW) to reduce photon counting noise sufficiently.
Last time I checked, their hosted databases run in dedicated VMs, which is where the real security boundary is.

Getting access to the host OS won't give you much other than some internal binaries and config.
back in my day — which really wasn’t very long ago — profs used to google their exams before administering them. if they found results (like this), they would simply administer a different (new) exam.

it’s work: it might mean maintaining a pool of questions double the size of your exams ready to go at any moment, but it’s a decent way to just not have to worry about this.

the response, hopefully unsurprisingly, is that past students would circulate their exams under the table. every big frat maintained a dropbox (or megaupload, at the time) of scanned exams, with links shared only to the frat members.

i actually did study for exams. i wasn’t in a frat but one day a friend from a frat showed up to our study session with some “practice exams” for us. i learned about these scans and worked some grease to get access to these files for a good 4-5 different frats.

if doing homework is prep for the exam, then working through past exams is even better prep for the exam. having access to realistic exams was a huge leg up for me, even when the questions didn’t overlap. the best profs were aware of this and just published their previous exams on their course webpage to level the field. yeah, it’s extra work to write a new exam every year but that’s just what you do: especially if doing so encourages your students to study!
A paywall article is part of the private internet. No need to index inside of the walled garden.

If you gave #1 position to a paywall article most will click away causing rankings to drop.
Based on the domain this article was posted at I don't think it's worth my time to read it and determine if it is good reporting.
Indeed. The difference isn't the type of sensor. This oft repeated argument that Tesla's problems are down to a lack of LIDAR doesn't add up.
I remember I read it before but I can’t find the source, will update this comment if I find it. Keep in mind, Orcas don’t kill us either, not just as a food

>"They're killing the porpoise, it's already dead or dying. And with one bite they can eat the whole thing. Yet these whales just don't see these porpoise as prey. And I think it's the exact same thing with humans—they don't see humans as prey. Thank goodness, they don't see humans as play toys.”(1)

Sharks on the other hand, mostly they don’t eat the humans they kill, they just kill and probably realize we don’t taste that good after the first bite, but unlike Orcas, they are not as intelligent and/or able to teach and pass this info to their kids.

(1) https://www.newsweek.com/there-no-records-orca-ever-killing-...
Filter by "Time Aloft" [1]. I did and don't see the specific plane in the YT video (they certainly don't have every airplane in their database).

Search for Walkalong Glider [2] to find what you want.

[1] https://www.foldnfly.com/#/0-1-0-0-1-1-1-1-2

[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walkalong+glide...
again, zero quantifiable. Just "many".

Biden hugged Modi less than a week ago. There are gay hangouts in Bangalore. Nearly every major company tech company has office in India. Saying that people need to claim asylum from India is insulting.
Those hacks are literally how a large language model using a transformer architecture to predict the next token in a sequence works.

They take advantage of how a function choosing a token with maximal probability of appearing works.
To be clear, this announcement is less scary that it sounds. Qt 5.0 was first released in 2012, and had its final release in 2023.
Compiling Scala without a SAT solver is probably too difficult.

The CNF Converter is a gem.

https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.13.5/src/compiler/sca...
Cars are high-volume, mass-market products in a mature industry, so there's some amount of pressure to be efficient with resources. If you build a small series space capsule, presumably the extra cost of being able to run a heavy web-based UI isn't your biggest worry.

The Dragon dashboard is also mostly presenting information, it's not used to, say, pilot/operate the vehicle, change settings or other complex applications.
Today’s Facebook grumpy posters would be the same kids doing “New Math” in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math - just something to consider
My favorite, Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream, and other cookie-dough ice creams made from fresh, honest ingredients, seem safe to me.

This advice is directed at people who make the stuff at home and do a lot of unsafe things at once.
There is a big problem with your dream: stairs.

Once you hit a certain age, the stairs become an obstacle that cannot be solved. Have seen it with my grandparents and parents in normal houses. Now imagine the stairs in a lighthouse.
This kind of software development is hard and expensive. I do not think that this can enable you to make enough income from benchmark website or YT channel, considering most people are not interested in those low level details.
Theoretically the ARC should work with llama.cpp using OpenCL, but I haven't seen benchmarks or even a confirmation that it works.
The article does not talk about security problems. It's about whether your daemon works correctly.

1. Depending on the environment, process supervision can break if there is an unexpected process sitting between the supervisor and the supervisee. The article describes how the switch to PAM forced the introduction of an in-the-middle process responsible for closing the PAM session. The old su used exec, which avoids an in-the-middle process.

2. Su uses the shell of the target user, and will outright not work if the target user has a "nologin" shell.

The article goes on to mention correct workarounds for this like daemontools setuidguid, Runit chpst or just rolling your own exec wrapper.
Very soon there's gonna be a VR for that
So you're telling me CDC doesn't stand for Cookie Dough Company?
> Yes, it's a minor thing

I think you may slightly misunderstand the functionality, it's an updateable link to some other file (which is, frankly, great). I can import a CSV file I generate with code ONCE, build up a huge calculation from it (probably in other sheets), and then the next day, regenerate the CSV, update the link WITHIN EXCEL, and boom, all of my computation is redone.

Very underutilized feature, but incredibly useful when using Excel not as a CSV viewer (if you want that, you can buy that elsewhere) but as a critical part of running a business.

Excel exists to make it almost free to write accounting-like software. It does NOT exist to view CSV files.
You can't (well, couldn't) make steel or concrete from electricity from a nuclear power plant. And up until recently you couldn't really drive a car from the electricity from a nuclear power plant. You can't plow or plant a field, or pave a road, or so many other things.

I think if you look at a breakdown in sources of CO2 emissions, it's less than half. Yes, that's a lot, but it's not the whole story.

I'm 100% for getting off fossil fuels. I drive electric. But the transition is a hell of a lot more complex than "build a lot of nuclear power plants."
I get the same. I use a tiling window manager (sway) and monitors in portrait mode. No way I'm changing my whole screen layout just to use a particular site/game.
The primary design constraint for all of those is security whereas for generating HTML it's done combination of simplicity/maintainability/performance.
I'm much younger than you (in my 20s) and in my experience STEM has been normalized and heavily evangelized in American culture now.

Lots of younger SWEs, PMs, and SEs have entered the industry thanks to their experience playing around with mods in games like Minecraft, and even the stereotypical chad/jock is into gaming and technology now. And I say this as a former HS wrestler.

Also, STEM has been heavily evangelized since I was growing up in the 2000s.

> all kinds of shows and movies, with a few exceptions, make fun of geeks.

Not anymore, especially with the media people my age (12-30) watch. For example, Anime, KDramas, and Youtube+TikTok+IG Influencers are much more popular than American shows now in my age demographic and all treat STEM with deference.

> I mean, why, why the interests of STEM subjects are "obscure, weird or unusual forms"?

Even your stereotypical "jocks" and "Barbies" major in STEM now and work in STEM. For example, most of my classmates when I studied CS were Fratbois (as am I) and Sorority Chicks, and STEM is viewed as a degree that will get you a white collar job with less grind and more money.
Doing nothing your entire life but killing grazing animals and wearing their fur on your shoulders and teeth around your neck is just man a few thousand years removed.
Researchers Locate Signals in Brain Related to Chronic Pain
I’m sympathetic to the idea of new types of specialized models to assist in this effort. We’re using our one hammer for all problems.

In particular, it jumps out that a “ranking model” (different, I think from current ranking models) to judge which paths to take and which nodes to trim would make some level of sense.
Plenty of alternatives to academia, but then you're working on a company's projects. And yeah, the cost of equipment, not to mention consumables, is prohibitive.
In math notation, division is indicated using fractions, which removes the ambiguity. The idea of equal priority of multiplication and division is a programming thing.
Study narrows long Covid’s 200 symptoms to core list of 12
I guess the people who are not aware of this effect might make a lot of decisions in life and a confident AI agent will be like a high-tech con-artist.

As a child, I would read the horoscope of the day with the wrong sign for mother and her female friends and they always thought it was talking about them and I never had the courage to tell them I switched as a joke. I keep imagining a fine tuned GPT for insights from the "mystic realm".
Does it lower it compared to not getting the virus nor the vaccine?

Seat belts lower car accident deaths. But not lower than simply not driving. Isn't this a similar example?
None of those are working yet. I'm hoping to get things going with MAUI.

But I've made some progress with Avalonia.

Here's a sample using Native AOT and Avalonia, with a projection to Rust:

https://github.com/sourcegear/bridge-info/tree/main/samples/...

And here's (basically) the same sample projected to TypeScript:

https://github.com/sourcegear/bridge-info/tree/main/samples/...

These are built using the binding generator I mentioned elsewhere in the comments here. All this stuff is just raw tech, not a ready-to-use solution.
Put this in the list of things I didn't know I needed.
Have not tried Netlify so can't exactly compare. But Deno Deploy is a very convenient FaaS. No discernible cold starts. Fast automatic deployment on push. No build step hassle.

I'm really excited for when they also get state (Deno kv).
Eh, part of the problem is people don't currently understand what LLMs are doing...

Have you ever had a dumb/wrong thought in your head? I'm going to go ahead and answer yes for you, you do all the time. In fact you don't (hopefully) verbalize a stream of consciousness to other people around you. In general you think of something then reflect on what it is true/false.

This is not what LLMs do, they pitch back the first 'thought' they have, "correct" or not. This is why things like COT/TOT greatly increase the accuracy of LLM output. The problem? It requires at least an order of magnitude more processing to get an answer, and with GPU time already in high demand and expensive you don't see much of it happen.

Betting on LLMs commonly being wrong is not a safe bet at this point.
yeah, thats a good point. Like having 1 bike with training wheels and others without. That could work
Ask gpt the answer, then correct its errors
>> Anxiety about problems often leads to rumination, which causes more anxiety. It can be a bad feedback loop. In a rumination cycle, people generally don't seek out new information, so their mind spends time analyzing and re-analyzing the same incomplete information.

I once got in that cycle, ruminating on possible interpretations of a situation. It can really bring you down. I noticed that each of my possible interpretations produced a different (strong) emotional response and concluded that was driving a "need to know". There is a thing in psychology called "intolerance of uncertainty" and for me the emotional uncertainty was driving the rumination.

So when ruminating, ask yourself "why is this so important to me?" If you can't answer that, get some distance from it before the rumination bring you down. In my case I knew that the answer to "why is this important to me?" was itself very important to understand so I kept at it until I had my answer to that.
Nope, not unethical.
Conda uses a SAT solver. It is still very slow on degenerate cases and I’m not sure if work to replace it with Microsoft’s SAT solver has started.

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/understanding-and-improving-co...
I seem to recall that a poorly scaling sat solver in conda-forge broke so badly in 2020 that it shifted the tectonic plates underneath the entire academic python ecosystem away from conda and towards pip.

Solving Environment | / - | \
"We estimate that over a 7-year follow-up period, getting vaccinated averts one in five new dementia diagnoses."
Once AI starts grading papers you'll have to be more clever than that.

Like re-code your project in another language and then back again.
This is possibly a risk, but it's not one I've ever seen play out. I don't think most people favor failing fast. It's something you do because it's good practice, while crossing your fingers that it doesn't fail. I think this is because in order to prove that something doesn't work, you first have to come up with that something -- deciding on a problem and thinking of a potential solution. While some people might find it fun to disprove other people's ideas, I don't think most really find it satisfying to disprove their own.

I think the bigger risk to this approach is that it can be disheartening and demotivating to see your ideas that you already got attached to and were looking forward to pursuing shut down. But it's still less demotivating than spending a year on it before watching it fail.
This is a crucial failing in far too many security products. They see buggy instantiations of their API all over the place and start ranting about incompetent developers instead of asking themselves why otherwise smart people are struggling to use the API.

The developers aren't all idiots, they are following your incomplete documentation and using the buggy and incomplete example code you provided. Or they are using the buggy example code they found online because you didn't provide any. If your API isn't useful without first taking a college course on the problem domain then that is a problem with your API and probably documentation. The whole point of an API is to encapsulate the complexity and provide the user a tool they can use without having to first learn everything about it.
Seems a good place to ask: anyone know a good tutorial for building your own diy photo booth?
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You’re talking about effort, the parent comment is talking about alignment.
Please follow this advice people. We are all waiting for the dip
Have we tried positive intervention? I know it's against marine biologists' code of ethics. But if they're intelligent enough to mount this response, they might be intelligent enough to...erm...reason with? Recondition?
If you're ok with it, I'll fix it in a few days and ping you here again.
I actually learned this from "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" when SG was interviewing an Ag professor from Georgia Tech.

Who said you can't learn anything from cartoons?
I've been collecting thoughts on the next generation extension to make for HN. Hopefully when I have a bit more time (in the middle of a giant home remodel), I'll find some time to implement it. One core thought that I really enjoy about this extension is that it doesn't really change the UI/UX at all, it just refines it. I think that is important.
Making flash cards from the exam's answer sheet is somewhat hard to defend on it's own. But when you're getting tested for your knowledge of a subject, and you make flash cards from an exam's answer sheet with blatantly incorrect answers that demonstrates a lack of knowledge, I have a hard time feeling sympathy.

To oversimplify, it's hard to defend a CS exam where a student selects (D) here and their excuse was that a flash card told them to do it:

How would you import a module in javascript?

A) import * from 'foo'

B) from 'foo' import *

C) import { * } from 'foo'

D) for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo "$i"; done

Note, there are a tonne of questions upstream from this like the validity of requiring these students to be taking this class, and requiring them to take this exam, and this format of testing students, etc. But keeping the question of whether the student's outcome was reasonably impacted by the decision to replace the answer sheet with a fake answer sheet on Quizlet, I have a hard time believing it did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087175

'nocoiner mentioned in a sublevel comment that the syllabus was not very clear about not referencing old course materials:

>His policy of disallowing students to refer to prior tests was not even explicit in the syllabus, but behind a link. If this policy were clear upfront - absolutely, reference to outside materials is inappropriate and there should be consequences.

If you want to catch students cheating, you should be clear with them beforehand what constitutes cheating.
It most certainly did not. XY'ing me would be stating that the question is a waste of my and their time and an answer wouldn't help me and then choosing not to answer, as was the suggested approach. It is pompous and shitty behavior so call it what it is.
Is there an actual argument there? What are they supposed to do or eat?

Orcas, other than humans, are the most widespread animal. They're in practically every ocean and continental coast and eat a variety of food. Orcas who concentrate on a single or a few species, like salmon, tuna, or rays, do so as a strategy. They are huge animals with huge caloric needs, so it makes sense to diversify so as to not over compete, and thus this makes it possible for different pods to live in the same areas.

Humans the world over are starving and yet there is an over abundance of food. The U.S. alone wastes 120 billion pounds of food every year. Humans have to monitor how much fish we eat because we have filled fish with toxins like mercury and microplastics. So orcas are the "dumb" ones because some eat fish?
"By culture I mean teachers work hard to come up with questions that really help students understand fundamental concepts"

This is not a part of the culture in any asian country. There is no culture around teachers working hard to come up with questions that help students understand fundamental concepts.

Teachers in the US are struggling from economic situation. They are underpaid, underappreciated, and overworked which leads to poor performance.
It is not students and families fault that America is so developed you can get by with lower quality education exceptionally well. The 'culture' , a word you are obsessed with and think is a solution rather than another form of bias, is that you dont need to have brains to be successful in the US.

More and more asian people are leaning away from this. In fact look at this data from 2019 in India

At undergraduate level the highest number (35.9%) of students are enrolled in arts/humanities/social sciences courses followed by science (16.5%), engineering and technology (13.5%) and commerce (14.1%), the All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) report revealed.

Hmm...seems just like USA... not everyone in these countries is obsessed with becomining an engineer/doctor/lawyer. You are making conclusions through a small lens of what you see, ie anecdotal
They are propagated via cuttings. Nobody is sending the cops to burn down your fields for taking some grapevine cuttings.
Unless we:

1: Discover some previously unknown method to directly recreate cheap and easy unlimited photosynthesis either electrically or mechanically or

2: Somehow create a fan system that can atomically slice the carbon atoms off of gaseous co2 particles

And the one that we create is ALSO cheap enough to deploy world wide en masse capable of equal or greater CO2 concentration reduction than the number of CO2 producing ICE engines in use and industries put out, it's not going to ever be a miracle fix.

or

3: Hijack a currently existing biological system to do the heavy lifting for us:

I imagine that with government incentive something like a self-regulating robotic rooftop duckweed farms being required for every vehicle owning household, but something like that would first need to be perfected and made available at an affordable price, like $400 or less with minimal maintenance expense which is a HUGE ask considering that duckweed propagation is not a solved part of agricultural science.

I chose Duckweed because it is the fastest growing plant in the world, which can double in mass almost daily under ideal conditions, uses photosynthesis to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and its dietary requirements are met easily, only needing a small amount of additives to common water and a ready source of carbon dioxide as could be handled by bubbling atmospheric air into the water.

Additionally, duckweed is edible by humans and animals, and if there were unconsumable excess as would be likely given 3 billion home duckweed farms, we could theoretically dry and burn it for carbon negative fuel (as the leftover carbon ash from the burn would count as sequestered carbon).

Alternatively, some genetically modified cyanobacteria could probably do the trick, but with risk of harm should it escape from its confines into the ecosphere.
Oof. I was worried I was going to mess that up.
I think this view fixes it. https://imgur.com/a/yIY13pe

I can totally add it if thats what you guys want
Measure of Inflation Closely Tracked by Federal Reserve Increased in April
Meh. Webassembly has polyfills. I think an incremental approach wouldn't be as hard as people make it out to be but someone does have to sit down and do it.
Depending on your IO pattern, adding an index can make writes quite a bit slower.