skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but also, what the hell is going to do with the cat carrier? Velcro it to his wheelchair?
What is thought is not what is said. What is said is not what is heard.
Mine's just weight, blood pressure/pulse, and a chat.
> and having that be the keynote talk would imply to a lot of people that it would end up in Rust and put the language in an uncomfortable position

People inviting the author knew about the content and the author double checked if they're ok with that direction. This wasn't a surprise or something missed. The original vote was done by enough people who can make the decisions.
I happen to be reading "Churchill’s Secret War," the book mentioned in the article.

It's amazing. Get it if you're interested in this topic.
With embeddings you can compute distance. The questions don't have to be the same, they just have to be sufficiently close.

Regarding context, that should be a part of the input for the embeddings.
Plus being much more educated. That might even be a bigger problem.

The idea that more educated people are easier to propagandize practically goes against our self conception and mythology but that doesn't make it less true.

I am pretty sure most people believe that their education insulates them from propaganda or lets them decipher what is true or not but that is actually part of the problem. If what they read lines up with what they want to believe, viola.
Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has apparently given out $2 billion in grants. I haven't really heard anything about any of its projects, while Parton's library project sounds very effective. It did say on Wikipedia though that the Zucc's initiative issued a grant to matplotlib, so that's nice.
> If you are a man and have sex with a woman then you're consenting to be a father.

That sounds primitive and regressive. "If you're a women who has sex, you're consenting to be a mother".
I think their twisted view of the world is that anyone playing an old game in an emulator is a "lost sale" for a new game.

It's unsurprisingly cheap to be a decade or more behind the gaming bleeding edge.

(I just re-played through Deus Ex, that's two decades...)
Premium subscribers. Offer a token benefit to people who pay, can even be something worthless like flair on a username or listing their name in the “credits” or “hall of fame”. Then advertise it on your site and make it easy for people to pay.
Ask HN: Could US cocaine legalization halt Mexican cartels?
If the US government allowed the growing and selling of cocaine in the US, would this halt the power and wealth of Mexican cartels? The US government is powerful, but it seems to be incapable of removing markets that American citizens really want. Maybe the US needs to be more flexible.
It’s literally his job to care about that. Chances are the students in his university classroom got their place in competition and other people weren’t so lucky. Plus everything else the previous reply said and also in mine.
Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
That's great to hear! I'll certainly send an email when i've completed the intermediate track! Thanks for building such a fun learning app :)
>But enough nitpicking; the actual answer to your question is that those are about physical limits of our current hardware implementation of computation.

Yeah, but unless we come up with another "hardware implementation of computation", which I don't see happening anytime soon, those are our limits for the next few decades at least, if not centuries (if not forever).
Yeah the analogy works much better here than as an answer to the Fermi Paradox
I feel like I’ve read that on a billion pop science psychology blog spam websites. Always wondered if there are any serious studies behind it
You understand a central tenant of Rust is forbidding shared ownership?
Portugal paves way to a Huawei ban on country’s 5G network
https://archive.is/cWFGF
Because this is what happens when you try to restrict not only speech, but how community members even express themselves for fear someone might be hurt or offended.
The ultimate computers is black-hole like. We are far far away from reaching that limit.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8836-black-holes-the-...

> Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-say-aliens-may-be-us...
They don't have N steps of iterative internal monologue before arriving at end result.
I wonder if Rust would be better off with a BDFL. It sounds like the antithesis of some of the governing goals that were established but perhaps it would deliver some consistency.
Desaturated colors are a good middle ground between monochrome and fruit salad, especially for text.

My other screen is a Thinkpad X230 and there's no definition of "too bright" that fits it, even at max brightness.
I was with you until this part:
>It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers. Rightly so, as both the Rust organization and the conferences had little to no Black representation.

Am I the only one that considers such arbitrary "diversity enforcement policy" horribly racist?

No organisation should be "called out for a lack of - insert-race-here- representation unless that organisation is in fact discriminatory. No one should be discouraged, relegated, skipped for mentoring or removed from a membership or a leadership role in an organisation because that person is the wrong race. Regardless of the reason why you feel that race is wrong. Calling out a group "for lack of Black representation" is basically telling every single non-Black member of that group they are less valuable because of the color of their skin.

People are not exchangeable units whose defining feature is the color of their skin. How can intelligent people not see this kind of thinking leads to the worst of social divisions?

Personally, I was with the author until that quote. If I was a member of that organisation I too would not be OK being represented by a person that makes such horribly offensive personal opinions known regardless of their technical expertise.
>> If I did this in an interview, you wouldn't accuse me of a lack of some ineffable human quality of "deep understanding".

Yeah, sorry but I would. The experiment in the article is about identifier swapping, not about function redefinition, which is what you have done.

Better not do that in an interview.
I've had that for months.. if you want that quickly you need a project in which you already incorporated the OpenAI API. At least that's what I did.
I linked my open source project when applying and got access a few days later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill's_Secret_War
No. GPT is a model of human writing. But, as the Box quote goes, "Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.". It isn't writing the same way that we are, with the same thoughts or mental models. It's just amazingly good at imitating it. For tasks that can be achieved by just writing, the GPT model is so good at modeling writing that it performs as well as a normal person using their writing skills plus their mental model of the world. But GPT won't look up information unless asked to. It won't try something new to see if it works.

It's this distinction useful? Rarely. But it's one of those things users should remember, like leaks in an abstraction. When it doesn't do what you expected, you should know these gaps exist in the model.
What’s Going On With US Car Insurance?
https://archive.is/wvum5
Not sure what that has to do with how, in today's US society, the 'White' vs 'PoC' labels and paradigm is used by an extremely divisive and toxic 'Us vs Them' mentality. Even when completely off-topic. Which the parent was making an obvious allusion to.
The fact that you even dared to threaten him with gross insinuations says a lot about you, or more broadly about the US in general.
The blog post sound reasonable until the racial part started.

Is this an accusation that the change was made on racial grounds? Otherwise I fail to see why mentioning it.
I think the issue is that it's trained with the assumption that it has all of the data it needs to answer. It's definitely tricky to get it to follow a data collection step and then stop before trying to complete a task. But it is possible. I think that langchain and ChatGPT demonstrates a good way to do this.
Also always confused by this - been there 5 times over the years in different seasons and never had any issues with it
>and the point here is we should not ignore further subtleties, intent, internal process, qualia, etc because they are extremely relevant to the issue at hand.

But the point is those are only relevant when trying to understand GPTs internal motivations (or lack thereof).

If we care for the practical effects of what it's spits out (the function the same as if GPT has lied to us), then calling them "hallucinations" is as good as calling them "lying".

>We do care how it got to produce incorrect information.

Well, not when trying to access whether it's true or false, and whether we should just blindly trust it.

From that practical aspect, most people care about (than about whether it has "intentions"), we can ignore any of its internal mechanics.

Thus treating it like it "beware, as it tends to lie", will have the same utility for most laymen (and be a much easier shortcut) than any more subtle formulation.
Cixin Liu of course. Now let me tell you about “elbigbad’s Theory of Relativity” (hat tip to Einstein who had a hand in its development). More modernly phrased: “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ -Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott
Here's what the system look like when put into action, as seen by Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites in 2021. [1]

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149151/venice-holds...
What do you think why the rich are so rich? How much of the tax money lands in their pockets because they don't pay their employees good enough?
Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress
It’s very clear from the article that they actually value the work and do NOT want to destroy it.

The problem is that they feel obligated to protect it from vandals and thieves.

As mentioned elsewhere, the whole thing may be essentially marketing to find a buyer.
I'm reminded of Sayre's Law [1]:

> Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Conference speakers is the definition of low stakes rife for pointless politicking.

I honestly don't understand why the Rust compiler reflection tech talk was the slightest bit controversial. Even if no one is in favor of the proposal, it can still be an interesting thought experiment. Such issues may expose design issues.

I agree with other commenters: anyone who is prone to playing politics with these low stakes issues needs to be pruned before they do real damage.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Not for a long time. I think the drama queens might have moved on to another language.
There is also A34 if A510 gets too big for your tastes
Much more prevalent in public sector and regional tech.
Yeah, this part was kind of puzzling :

> But when she tried to play the adventure game Gold Rush, she discovered that the version she had played obsessively as a kid no longer existed.

What do they mean by that ? That she failed to ask around ??

Related : https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-s... (2012)
I didn't say it did. I said that including decryption keys so brazenly was not a good idea. I also stated my views on the greater discussion at hand, which does include the topic of piracy, like it or not.
yet the earth is more flat it is remarkable..
On a Lighter Note
No, he's a known compilers guy and it was known he worked on Rust.
This isn't necessarily an exact comparison, but looking at the list of 1934 robber barons on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)

I only recognized a three of them: J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Three more I recognized universities named after them: James Duke (Duke University), Andrew Mellon (Carnegie Mellon University), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt University).

To the degree that I have a positive opinion of Rockefeller and Carnegie, it's because of their philanthropy rather than their industrialism or politics.
Thank you for the suggestion.

I will look into it when I could add support for it sometime in June. It should be possible to run without difficulties, as also noted by CharlesW.
The recent Tetris movie seems somewhat similar ? It was surprisingly pretty good !
This recent paper from SEL engineers is interesting, it discusses potential issues with a rapid increase in high-current EV charging on existing power grids:

https://selinc.com/api/download/138271/

It also clarifies what is meant by an 'energy packet':

> "Simply stated: “Energy packets are precise measurements of energy exchanges, independent of system frequency and phase angles, and are computed and communicated at a fixed rate, with a common time reference” [5].

> "Power analysis software integrates 1,000 samples of 1 μs data into a 1 ms energy packet [5] [6]. The analysis calculates joules (watt seconds) of energy packets exchanged every 1 ms. For example, a 1-watt load consumes 1 millijoule of energy within a 1 ms period. Energy packets are calculated in the SI unit joules (J). Joules are converted into watthours (Wh) by a time-scaled 3,600 seconds per hour where 1 Wh equals 3,600 J."
It is not the form of government that is the issue. It's the corrupt dinosaurs that have for too long rigged elections in their favor and Congress today is hardly different from the old Soviet Politburo - a description given me by a friend that escaped the Soviet Union in the early 80s. Term limits would help since machine politics controls elections in most states.
Midjourney has a model that worked for me ... you can queue into the "free lane" which is slower and limited by total requests for the day, and I assume is adjusted for how successful they get and are willing to spend. Or, you can subscribe for a low fee and get instant access.
Definitely not "completely"
I am a nonprofit CEO who’s worked in community, sport, educational and health charities.

Organizations and causes require people who work full time to help organize the charitable work. It is very difficult to find people to volunteer at this level and typically if you do, they are independently wealthy. Retired people can do more but typically they do not want to give that much time and have other things they want to do.

4 hrs a week which is a typical volunteer shift at our hospital does not lend itself to pulling all the details together.

Good people deserve to get paid to do good work. Just like in tech, you get what you pay for. And typically a nonprofit worker puts extra hours and time in as does their family members in support of the cause.
Maybe it can kickstart their own industry, like when Samual Slater stole British textile technology and brought it over.
There are a few reasons that people prefer the term nonwhite over POC in certain contexts, and I think most people using it are using it intentionally because of them. The main issue is that the latter term is homogenizing:

> Political scientist Angelo Falcón argues that the use of broad terms like "person of color" is offensive because it aggregates diverse communities and projects "a false unity" that "obscure[s] the needs of Latinos and Asians".[39][40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

Another criticism I've heard is that the terminology for POC originated among black activists during the civil rights movement in the US who were reclaiming the term "colored" used in the Jim Crow/segregation era, and so it's only really appropriate for black people to use.

The former term (nonwhite) is iffy too, but sometimes it's a better descriptor

To be clear, I haven't heard many people voicing the second criticism -- I think most people using "nonwhite" subscribe to the former point of view
> If I start an open source product or service, the homepage shall contain the reference manual and examples and all the documentation. It shall be one asset that can be copied and archived and replicated across servers and mirrored. It won't be a paragraph of text in hundreds of web pages but a single long document.

A noble goal for sure, but much easier said than done. Complete documentation is harder than I anticipate.
You very literally accused someone of 'covering something bad up' because of a random post.
I believe in Occam’s Razor, so I’d say no. This guy was already caught cheating before, also.
The tone of your comment implies that sanctions against the CCP would somehow be unjust.

They should be sanctioned for their treatment of the Uyghurs alone, not to mention Tibet, reneging on their promises around Hong Kong, and the fact that their sloppy laboratory practices most likely unleashed a global pandemic. Their cruel zero COVID policy resulted in the death and suffering of millions. The CCP are not the good guys.

I really just can’t wrap my head around HN’s sympathy for such an evil regime.
Hybrid Electric Powered Multi-Lobed Airship for Sustainable Aviation
Can we detect companies doing bad things, today? Yes, and we still have a hard time containing them and their externalities.

AI will just mean more of the same. It will make companies even more efficient at what they already do. It will be detected, it will be resisted, but will it help?

That's the big question IMHO.
After the Kardashians, the world needs a new reality show: the rustaceans. Somewhere btw Dallas and the youth and the restless.
I'm surprised that the local authority doesn't step in to protect and preserve it.

We had a relatively recent Banksy not far from where I live (Bristol, UK so we do have quite a few around the place): https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/has-a-new-... . The council quickly put a protective plastic covering over it.

Otherwise, the house owners could just attempt to sell it and specify that the buyer has to cover the costs of removal and repair.
Could US cocaine legalization halt Mexican cartels?

Is cocaine their only revenue? I think it would have to include anything they are bringing into the country that gets entirely legalized such as making fentanyl non-RX. I can not imagine pharma lobbyists being OK with this.

Assuming cocaine was their only revenue and I am just guessing but perhaps if federal, state, county and city governments did not add bureaucracy, gave businesses a quick path to being productive and did not put a high tax burden on them then maybe. Anything that adds friction or high cost overhead could give cartels a competitive advantage. There is a higher cost overhead to operating a business legally. Subsidizing a few years of startup costs and giving major tax incentives for a decade may help to change purchasing behavior.
Along the same lines, I read something (on here but I don't think I can find it) suggesting that llms + prompting are kind of overfitting, where if you know what you achieve, you can try few things and get it - which would be equivalent to optimizing on a train set. Whereas if you try to get it to do something you don't already know how to do, all bets are off.
Does it count as crippling the product when a new feature has a UX so bad that it makes the entire product worse? I’m thinking of AWS Organizations. The console UX is several steps beyond terrible, and it drove me to find alternative clouds.

(Of course, the others have their own problems.)
Ask HN: The State of the Chip and AI/ML Market. Hype vs. Reality
All right, there is a lot of recent discussion about chipmakers: from NVIDIA's stock price jump to question about how to learn more at chip making, AI/ML specific chips, etc.

I don't have enough experience in both fields: chipmaking and AI/ML to really understand the landscape. But to me, it seems that the chip situation is two-fold: there is need for high performing chips for model creation. But once you need to actually do inference, there comes less need for high performance chips and more commodity hardware can suffice. The way I see the NVIDIA price jump (as a proxy for the AI/ML market), is there seems to be a focus on model creation as the value generator, and perhaps an investors' lack of understanding of how large the surface area is for inference/model execution.

Could members of the community chime in here with their own analysis and thoughts? It seems that this kind of post could (if gets enough discussion) be a good aggregate of sources and thoughts on the state and future state of chip+AI/ML. Thanks!
How scouts find the perfect film locations
https://archive.is/iseDm
It is plausible that it's part of a broader antitrust litigation defense strategy
Nope... I'm using a tiny SBC, a Radxa Zero with a A53 Cpu, with Manjaro Linux, as a ultra low power daily driver and it is perfectly usable for light browsing, programming or productivity.

It boots Linux in 7 seconds and xfce desktop is pretty snappy.

Kernel is 6.1 and RAM is only 4GB.

Opens Lazarus almost instantly and FPC compiles ARM binaries super fast.

Amazing little machine...
>have been plagued by vandals and forced to either pay for the bird’s protection and preservation, which would cost almost $50,000 per year. Otherwise, they could have the mural removed, which could cost up to a quarter of a million dollars

I do not understand this quote. Why are they being "forced" ? Either paint over it or let the vandals destroy it. Who is forcing them ?

With that said, I would like to see it maintained but the owner should not have to do that. If the City wants to keep it, they foot the bill.
Seriously, one of the true wonders of the world. It is amazing it was not fully ruined in XX century with cars and advertisements and "modern" architecture. I feel like all of the western civilisation should be spending money on saving Venice, considering its historic influence as well.
>In 2021, Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment purchased the film rights for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow for $2 million. The film will be produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and Isaac Klausner,with Zevin writing the script.
We wouldn’t debate fire risk with a city as dense as Manhattan. There is a cutoff where the population density and size makes fire prevention/risk management economical.
rentry.org might be a suitable replacement for some.
That makes sense if it's a construction used in the UK that's starting to be adopted elsewhere. I've been seeing it in US media (NPR, USA Today, Newsweek, to name a few).
I've written services in both Warp and Axum that are in production right now (hosted on k8s, with metrics, liveness probes, and all of that jazz that you expect from a service). I like Axum the most.
Hercules was our first PC too, but I was 10, so it was more about learning to use SIMCGA :-). Good times though!
I think being apathetic about it won't solve anything either. An expert leaving a is a big issue as that brings about the underlying rot in the committees way of handling bad or fool hardy behavior from a mob.
You maybe should care a little given the flaws it exposes in their processes or lack of managing the human element.
We've deprived a whole generation of the rhetorical tools for healthy, impersonal and professional argument. It's no wonder that they've pressed this "stylized language of emotion and abuse" into service to fill the void: it's all they know.