skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every output can be said to be "defined in terms of strings"

Get real, the whole point is some strings in HTML are HTML, and some are malicious code.

You're being adversarial to equate the two.
For those interested in RL portion, https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedReinforcem... and https://github.com/0ad4ai

There has also been some work to establish a geospatial intelligence class using the game engine as well (map/market/resource analysis).
I'm not the OP, but I've built a little bit of software [0][1] in Deno. I don't know if I'd do it again. Thoughts, in no particular order:

- Big plus: the built-in stdlib is strong (coming from Node; it's not as strong as Python or even Ruby, but I'll take what I can get). The stdlib is also pretty "good Unix citizen" focused--it's very easy to build an ergonomic command-line application.

- Theoretical plus: the capabilities-based security model is smart and cool.

- In-reality minus: you end up passing most `--allow` flags anyway for anything that isn't trivial. It could scope down to specific modules if you are a tryhard, but I am not sufficiently a tryhard, and this really should just be within the capability of Deno to figure out and recommend for you.

- Moderate plus: `deno compile` being built in is nice, and it is easier than the Node `pkg` library from Vercel.

- Small minus: The set of targets for `deno compile` is limited, though, and (for reasons that are both reasonable and unfortunate) it spits out truckasaurus-sized executables, which is a bummer.

- Enormous, world-stopping minus: dependency management. It's bad, and it's not easy to get around. "Just put all your deps in a TypeScript file and export it" is not the amazing solution that its adherents want you to think it is. The developer experience of upgrades is annoying and unpleasant and `deno-upgrade` helps but makes your project feel out-of-control. (Import maps don't really help, it's just another road into the same unpleasantness and since they don't work if you're writing a library I don't think you should ever use them at all; just stay consistent between applications or libraries.)

- Whiny minus: VScode support is pretty bad. It exists, but it's not great, and there's a weird lag to dependency management that I never figured out.

- Real minus: the Deno VScode stuff freaks out when you use a Node project, even if you set `deno.enabled: false` in your .vscode/settings.json file.

There are definite, real benefits to some of what Deno does. But I just don't see why I'd continue to use it over Just Continuing To Use Node.

[0] - https://github.com/eropple/tmuxed

[1] - https://github.com/render-oss/render-cli
Thanks for the clarification, after briefly looking up the term I could have ended up believing this was the common translation for what I know as "Blindenstock" in German.

What is the correct term for this? White stick?
This already exists and people rent them out for weddings and parties and stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTlpwIhcSHQ
Yes: in the US, your SSN (or EIN) is on every single paystub. (You could always manually redact it if some third-party asks for a copy).

By the way, another huge reason: images of paystubs can be and have been used by identity thieves to open fake accounts/loans, remotely.
But it would ruin the day of anyone who did.
> Total exports in terms of adjusted cost _has_ stagnated

This doesn't seem to match what you'd get by multiplying their figures of inflation-adjusted GDP [1] with their figures of exports as a percentage of GDP [2].

> Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA

Home prices aren't factored into in either GDP or inflation because they're considered an asset. You're right that the economy has stagnated since the pandemic, especially in America. My point is that it's absurd to suggest that the global economy hasn't grown in the past decade.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-gdp-over-the-last-t...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/merchandise-exports-gdp-c...
This is really delightful. I lost it when my Fontemon started to Capitalize.
> A test can only test for a sampling of the material presented in class. Specifically looking up the test, and memorizing the answers, does not demonstrate any mastery

None were in that class because they wanted mastery. They were in that class because if it wasn't a requirement for graduation, no one would take it.

To demand mastery of worthless material so that the university can charge them another $5000 in credits, fees, and overpriced-by-the-academic-publishing-cartel books is not asinine, it's criminal.

> For example, if I teach a course in "How To Multiply", and on the final have ten multiplication problems, if the student memorizes the answers to those ten problems, he did not learn to multiply.

If that happens, it means you are a lazy fraudulent teacher. You insist that they learn more than what is on your exam, but you continue to use the same exam because you have no work ethic. Perhaps instead of multiplication you should go teach ethics in the philosophy department, where that sort of thing is considered high performance.

> The professor said some of the planted answers were obviously wrong, if one knew the material at all.

I think that "obvious" means something completely different than "if you master a university-level field of study, you will then know that it is wrong".

Such a thing is, by definition, the very opposite of obvious. I don't know how to explain that to you so that you can understand. Your words make very little sense, it's as if you said "the snow was burning hot" or "that blue thing over there is red".

> I disagree with your conclusions.

This would be disappointing, but given that I'm no longer certain of what you even mean by "disagree" or "conclusions", it might be impolite of me to take that as something other than a compliment.
Have you used Cloudflare Workers? How does Deno Deploy stack up, if so?
There also was the Trinity Firefighting Robot competition which was great fun, but, sadly, seems to have been discontinued.

https://trinityrobotcontest.org/
Thanks, Simon! We’ve been working our way through the most asked-for features. This was #2 after TypeScript declarations which we shipped in 0.6.5.

Support for interaction was the biggest conceptual piece left to declare “1.0”, so I’m thrilled by the progress we’ve made. This is the culmination of a couple years of thinking and experimentation! Fil got brushing working a few minutes after the release, so I suspect we’ll see brushing and other selection modes in the near future. (Sneak peek: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-brush-interactio...) We also want to allow panning & zooming and declarative animation, but I expect those to take longer.
That screenshot has the exact same problem.
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I tried a few questions. When I press the "speak" button, it takes a while to get the answer (not too much, half a second). It would be nice to show a spinning thing to show the page is retrieving the new answer.
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Duolingo is kind of garbage.
As a native french, for fun, I tried to quickly finish the whole french course. I quit well before halfway. Duolingo would refuse perfectly fine sentences. The accepted answers aren't flexible enough.

I didn't try english though.

Esperanto is super easy if you speak both french and english. But man there is less content on the internet than klingon...
This is it for me too... with Deno, I can write a fully contained one-off script with a shebang and use it for general shell scripting.. with node, it was never that simple. Though having to use the `#!/usr/bin/env -S -- deno run ...` is still a little more awkward.

Direct imports that the runtime caches for you, vs node_modules is way easier to deal with most of the time.
you've got it backwards: Earth is not a zero-sum game.

"we'd be better off with fewer than 8G people" is not advocating murder, either.
If anyone is interested about how this was made, I wrote a blog post about how I made fontemon and which type features I used: https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/HowI...
> Before cables modems everything was symmetric.

Late 1990s V.90 modems were asymmetric, higher download speeds caused upload speed to deteriorate, and often up traffic would be shunted into a more limited analog channel to keep it from interfering with the down speed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Standardized_56k_(V.90/V...

I remember something in the earlier 14400/28800/USRobotics era being asymmetrical too, but can't find a reference.

Where I've lived, ADSL also predates cable modem, and the A there is for Asymmetric.
Hard disagree. Unless they manage to get a computer as good as a brain, they're going to need all the sensor help they can get.
It’s vested. It’s yours. You are giving up future equity by leaving. The other founders continue to vest. If equity is needed for the reasons you state then I would expect equal contribution from the other founders. Don’t give away your hard work.
Did you say foundry? Nations (including US and Germany) have tried to out smart TSMC, and yet here we are.

If you meant outsmart nvidia, Google’s TPU is already more efficient but a GPU is much more than an efficient design .
TIL it's against Verizon's ToS to host a website on a residential account. Ah well, I guess I'll continue to roll the dice.
Yeah... was wondering if it eventually learns that digging straight down is more likely to kill you than any other direction or if it could ever learn to down down only when standing on the edge of another block, instead of the one you're breaking.
Sam Altman shares his optimistic view of our AI future
Huh. I admit I haven't tried it on a huge variety of clients but among emacs, firefox, and urxvt (which probably make up 99.9999% of my typing time) I get consistent results.
By your argument, everyone using string templating for HTML has bad/nonexistent web security. I disagree.
I'm not sure what this would achieve? I mean, surely it wasn't some random developer who came up with this idea and implemented it. This is a management decision and management decisions are driven by the company culture.
"Cloud is too difficult, you have to learn tons of stuff to use it!"

"BTW here's the new product I'm selling which requires you to learn a new cloud-oriented programming language and has its own CLI and has diagrams like [this](https://docs.winglang.io/assets/images/arch-f803472c761aa198...) on its introduction page!"

The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming...
> If I own a house (outright) and live in it, I pay nothing, and no impact on GDP

This is not true, at least in the US. If you're a homeowner, they estimate how much it would cost to rent your own home and include that in the GDP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent
To start getting info from the team, as nothing indicates that at that time, Google knew where the vulnerability was.
From TFA:

> My University has an academic honesty policy that explicitly says that looking at other tests without the instructor’s permission counts as cheating (Although had I know it would be this much of an issue I would have been explicit about that in my syllabus as well, rather than just linking to the policy, an oversight I plan to correct going forward.)

If they went to Quizlet and viewed previous tests, yes, they were cheating by definition. No assumption necessary.
George: All right, no more lies. Elaine has been chosen to represent the Upper West Side in the next Biosphere project.

Vivian: I haven't heard anything about another Biosphere.

George: That's because it's underwater.

Vivian: This is insane.

George: Is it?

Vivian: Yes it it.

George: Well, it's all for charity, so what's the difference.
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Sorry late reply -- this section of the last release has the tl;dr !

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/03/release-0.14.2.html#me...
Interestingly a 2 days prior to https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601, someone released https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08291

> Large Language Model Guided Tree-of-Thought
> In this paper, we introduce the Tree-of-Thought (ToT) framework, a novel approach aimed at improving the problem-solving capabilities of auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). The ToT technique is inspired by the human mind's approach for solving complex reasoning tasks through trial and error. In this process, the human mind explores the solution space through a tree-like thought process, allowing for backtracking when necessary. To implement ToT as a software system, we augment an LLM with additional modules including a prompter agent, a checker module, a memory module, and a ToT controller. In order to solve a given problem, these modules engage in a multi-round conversation with the LLM. The memory module records the conversation and state history of the problem solving process, which allows the system to backtrack to the previous steps of the thought-process and explore other directions from there. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique, we implemented a ToT-based solver for the Sudoku Puzzle. Experimental results show that the ToT framework can significantly increase the success rate of Sudoku puzzle solving. Our implementation of the ToT-based Sudoku solver is available on GitHub:

I don't recall whether it was this paper, or another that I read that talks about using the LLM's ability to also show the probabilities of each token to measure the validity of the particular completions. However that isn't exposed in the OpenAI chat APIs (GPT-Turbo-3.5 / GPT-4), just the completions APIs (Text-Davinci-003 etc.)
As well as the Apollo FPGA emulated one there's an ARM based M68K emulator https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68
Yes. Google preventing page-clicks by showing their half-assed, confidently wrong summaries that they scraped directly from the top results? Yes, that's copyright infringement. Simply linking to the site with a short preview is not.
I have heard it both ways. Shingles at 13 is chicken pox and one must have chicken pox to have shingles.
> GPT-4 is ~200 Elo better than the next best semi-public Vicuna-13B in Chatbot Arena [2]. That is a non-zero moat

Its a non-zero advantage.

A moat is something that inhibits someone from closing an advantage.

(Also, its odd that the biggest models, outside of the big vendor centralized ones, they are testing are 13B-14B when 30B-ish and 65B-ish versions exist.)
> Succeeding by building pure tech with no pre-established audience will be very hard

But that's how "Open"AI and Hugging Face started, didn't they? So, it's possible. Not easy, and probably not single-handedly. I would say it's much harder then selling another game in app store.
Did you get full salary during this years?

(I agree with the other comment, but this is also important to frame the discussion.)
> This is not what democracy is. Democracy is mainly about one thing: Being able to remove people from office you dislike.

This is absurd and wrong on its face if you take the word “democracy” even a little literally, which you should even if only for the theoretical exercise. Democracy roughly means that the people govern. But now you’ve said that it is “mainly” about removing someone else from governance. Huh? Something doesn’t seem right here.

This is of course “representative democracy”, or roughly “elite(-driven) democracy”; a sort of governance where the elites jocky for power (as per usual), present to the rest of the population who they may vote for (every two years or so), and then the general population goes back to their private (non-political) affairs.

And this according to some people is something that we are supposed to be grateful for. What a sham.
Yeah, I'm sorry I missed this! The example of asking it things like counting or sequences isn't a great one because it's been solved by asking it to "translate" to code and then run the code. I took this up as a challenge a while back with a similar line of reasoning on Reddit (that it couldn't do such a thing) and ended up implementing it in my AI web shell thing.

heavy-magpie|> I am feeling excited.
system=> History has been loaded.
pastel-mature-herring~> !calc how many Ns are in nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
heavy-magpie|> Writing code.
// filename: synth_num_ns.js
// version: 0.1.1
// description: calculate number of Ns
var num_ns = 'nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn';
var num_Ns = num_ns.length;
Sidekick("There are " + num_Ns + " Ns in " + num_ns + ".");
heavy-magpie|> There are 20 Ns in nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

As far as the not not thing, ChatGPT-4 seems to handle that pretty well...
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Until you try to build a TS project that imports an .mjs from node_modules that doesn't work right. Oh, set the project to type=module, nope, then other crap breaks. I mean, you can get it all working, but simple and easy are two words I would not use for modern node, especially when working with typescript.
Ask HN: Does anyone remember a spoof design app for classic Mac OS?
I remember finding it in about year 2000 on my university’s classic Macs. For a joke, it was remarkably well executed and could actually be used for making designs. It had filters to remix your work in the style of trendy design studios such as Tomato and if it thought your design was boring it’d quit without saving your work.

I’d love to find if anyone else encountered it or knows of the backstory, I’d love to know more. I can’t even remember what it was called.
This exists. https://bigfreeze.com/projects - They have one at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle: https://podcam.net/pacsci/
Is that code mirror?
Thanks for your kind words and for sharing this link, you beat me by a couple minutes!
I think you should attach your self-worth to your design; but not to some minor mistakes in implementation. Not your entire self-worth, just that of it which has to do with being a designer.

A great novelist would be foolish to let some editor's remarks about spelling errors and run-on commas destroy their self-worth as a writer.

If a knowledgeable critic points out problems like the plot being a series of unoriginal tropes, and the characters being paper-thin stereotypes, that has to strike at the author's self-worth as a writer. I don't see how you can get around that.
I'd believe it's a orca street gang.

Not sure if you're familiar with the kea[0], but it's a rather intelligent alpine parrot, and very social, and, like orca, when one learns something new, the knowledge is transferred to its peers quickly.

When I was living in a village in the mountains, groups of young male kea would come down to the village to have fun and incidentally cause trouble.

E.g., one group would hang out by the public toilets, and when people would pull in to use it, the kea gang would deflate a car tyre, sometimes two, it felt like a way of showing how tough they were, because one kea would remove the valve cap, then the other kea (plural) would take turns depressing the valve to make that "pfsssh" noise for as long as they could handle it, then to a chorus of cackles from its peers.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea
That was obviously my point
Good point. You're likely to get 200,000 - 300,000 miles out of a Tesla. That might take 5 years if used as a robotaxi or 20 years without, but the cost per mile and thus the value of the car will be comparable either way.

That might be different with an LFP Tesla, which have what should be 750,000 mile batteries.
Does't Rust use a SAT solver for aspects of its type system?
I tried to play it at a LAN party. It started off great, but as the number of units increased, the connection slowly deteriorated until eventually it was literally unplayable. You say that it is "100% playable and has been for years"?
Remember playing that demo over and over as a kid! Really cool that you worked on it.
I likely learned about it from Reddit or from a peer in University.

HN is likely part of a lineage of online discourse. I was introduced to that lineage with slashdot. Slashdot -> digg -> reddit -> HN was the likely path.

A lot of comments here are in the spirit of slashdot, but HN punishes "funny" comments so is a bit more serious.

I imagine slasdot was ultimately a child of usenet. I think SomethingAwful and metafilter and the greater phpBB ecosystem were also in there somewhere.

There are likely related lineages with IRC, Slack, TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and discord.
It is open for tourism. Is an amazing thing to see.
I don't have any expertise in this area other than offering the 1.1 driver I used: https://canon.ca/en/Features/EOS-Webcam-Utility

While it looks like your camera is supported by both versions, maybe you'll have better luck with this one.
Do you customise your .XCompose? If you don’t, you’ll probably get fairly consistent results. But I do things like include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kragen/xcompose/master/dot... and add a bunch of things of my own. Overlapping definitions and the likes become common.
I notice it I just don't care at all. Latency is a much bigger deal to me and it may not be technically part of Wayland or the widget toolkits used by compatible apps but it is consistently a problem.
Docker has to run as root, or use otherwise insecure methods ("rootless" is a sham, it requires suid binaries and CVE ridden unprivileged user namespaces).

I agree with ports, working[0][1][2] on it.

[0] https://github.com/moby/moby/discussions/45524

[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/45532

[2] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/45076
The first biosphere is earth
this isn’t nearly as comprehensive, but Michael Collins’ notes on machine learning for NLP are really succinct and IMO intuitive

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/

(search for notes, where he’s listed links to pdfs he uses in classes)
I’ve tried two times (once 1 year ago and one more time one month ago) without success to register an account on Hetzner. They always end up either directly rejecting me or asking for my ID/passport. There’s simply no chance I’m giving a copy of my passport (which is not even a guarantee of admission) to such a private company. I guess I’ll stay with digital ocean.
Is there another way? Please do tell
If Google announced a ChatGPT equivalent embedded in Google Docs, I think ChatGPT would lose a ton of users very quickly. The Microsoft partnership/investment is their saving grace.

I think it’s a bit early to declare either of them to be a long-term (commercial) success.

Edit: See Google Duet: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet...
I would love something like networking-as-a-service. My ignorant ass do not understand the specifics related to it. I would love to option to specify that service A should be able to call service B irregardless of IP schemes, peering, firewalls, service discovery and 1000 other layers.
Then you have Congress artificially restraining the pool knowing full well there is a dire shortage.

https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/medical-residency-slots-c...
Not everyone, just the people whose pages display untrusted inputs. Which is a huge fraction of the modern web...

(The rest just have brittle websites that might break when someone uses certain punctuation for the first time.)
If you mean the vaccine leads to shingles in those who receive it, I don't think there is evidence for that. When I had shingles in my early 40s, my doctor did mention that she is seeing it occur earlier in adults who never received the vaccine. The working theory was that we don't come in contact with the virus nearly as much as we used to and our immune systems can't suppress it as easily when it flares up. I don't know if that's actually been studied though.
A $189 Airport Travel Hack Is No Longer Working Well