skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point, I keeping that in mind, but you have to start somewhere.
I think we could build some features, that will be both hard to replicate and have strong value, but what will require first customers and cashflow.
Also, the fact big players will do the same is a good sign of a market for me. But definitely, something to keep in mind.
At the most basic, you just have N+1 copies of the program, and run whichever one is longest, since that must be the one with no missing characters.

The program itself then prints N+1 copies of itself...

You just need a little care about the start of the first program, since that is the 'entry point' - it needs to fall through to the 2nd program if the first is damaged.
Arclang forum has had 4 new posts in the last 365 days
Depending on how you measure it, we are somewhere between 10% and 20% through Arclang's hundred year language plan. I wondered if this idea is officially gone, or whether it's likely that any centralised or community push can revive it.
There is some kind of hilarious circularity to this. It's almost comparable to founding a publicly-traded company which asserts that its principal source of profits will be shaking down doubters through the legal system, and then suing anyone who indeed expresses doubts for damages based on the expected loss in stock value if the company were to fail to bring or lose that very lawsuit.

(Is this an appropriate model for certain "reputation economy" actions that exist in many human societies, like duels over perceived slights to one party's physical prowess?)
To build an interstate underground tunnel for evacuating lgbt?

This feels like 1998 on IRC. I'm shaking my head and laughing at the same time.
Ask HN: How to progress to engineering team lead as a senior dev?
I am thinking about applying (outside of current company) to an engineering team lead position. However the job description expects experience in leading a team.
(Both my current company and the company I want to apply at are big corps.)

I don't have that. I have about 10 years experience as an IC. I have mentored junior programmers and written my share of design documents etc. I am generally a good communicator and actively take part in meetings. I can often resolve misunderstandings between developers/managers.

However I have never led a team. Is it pointless to apply for these positions that state such a requirement? What questions do you have to expect in the interview.

Every hint on the topic is appreciated even if it's not an answer to my questions. Thanks!
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I chatted to a Facebook engineer at one of the early HN London events back in 2013, got talked into sending through a CV and I've been with ... Meta ever since.

Very grateful to this community as it had genuinely never occurred to me to apply to work for big tech. Which is obviously dumb, I've been obsessed with the industry since the early 90s, a good reminder that goals and sense of possibilities can be surprisingly blinkered by our environment/culture.
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As a reminder; the main purpose of the SQL standard is for governments and Oracle to negotiate sales contracts. The OSS databases don't need ISO. They can just coordinate using the Internet.
I would argue that unnecessary complexity
results in:

1) opaque functionality

2) compounded vulnerabilities

Owning one feature vs owning two features and having exponentially more difficulty in designing systems to accommodate both possibly incompatible features.

This is a direct result of management having no technical competence.

Microsoft and Amazon should be nowhere near our defense systems, they are a liability you are happy to inflict upon an adversary.
Exactly. It provides an API using which you can build connectors to whatever systems you want. e.g. Here's a connector for GitHub API https://github.com/nineinchnick/trino-rest/tree/master/trino....

It doesn't have to be SQL based systems on the other end - the most used connector with Trino is to query files on object storage (S3/GCS/Azure Blob).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of the project.
TLDR: CIA openly admits it controlled art, philosophy, scholarship, and theory to steer leftists, and along with orgs like USAID and NED openly fund such projects today. Who can guess what they do in secret.
Yes, and then during the 2007-2008 recession, there was even a brief deflationary period, so it's not the gold standard that's the issue.
What happens when you do this is that a few or one people in the system become trusted above the others, network effects do their thing, and the whole thing becomes informally centralized around them.
I’m astounded at the outrage at having to buy them. Producing standards takes time and labor. Editing them takes time and labor. So does posting them and maintaining them. So it’s no surprise that one way to pay for that time and labor is to charge money. I doubt anyone here complaining about buying standards works for free. That other standards-producers post their standards for free does not mean that charging for them is automatically an outrageous business model.

Finally, for the folks who need professional access to this document, such as RDBMS implementors or professional developers using an RDBMS, the price is a pittance. To anyone for whom the price is a problem - perhaps someone writing a free software application - the lack of access to the standard isn’t a problem, because what they really need is documentation on how their implementations work, and two superb implementations - PostgreSQL and SQLite - have voluminous documentation and they’re 100% free of charge.
No that's not the case. I just checked.

The GitHub issues that you linked also are closed. I followed the duplicates and they're all closed with comments mentioning that it's been fixed.
Another interesting topic to look into is forge federation. Forgejo [0], the code forge on which Codeberg is based is one forge software that intends to federate their repositories between server instances over the network using ActivityPub protocol extensions such as ForgeFed [1] and F3 [2] specifications.

[0] https://forgejo.org

[1] https://forgefed.org

[2] https://lab.forgefriends.org/friendlyforgeformat
Yep. As mentioned in the other links ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35945777 17 days ago )

This did not "almost" happen, it was not going to happen since Hippos are "the world's deadliest large land mammal" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35946285 )
All of that seems like evidence that he fully intended to seize this public land for his private use, and I think he should be very seriously fined for that.
I actually hesitated before posting for exactly this reason, and I don't think you're wrong to be sensitive to this. But you'll notice that there's actually no real political content in the link, nor was there any political discussion in the thread, so I think your response is a little bit of an overreaction.
no tab preview like old opera? That was like my favourite feature
It's a faulty consensus that came from people comparing outputs from the base model with fine tunes of the SD1.5 model. SD2.1 actually is a far superior model once fine-tuned.

I agree that it's a shame that StabilityAI seem to struggle so much to actually leverage their community (ideally with much more open development)... One could say they're a little too "full of themselves" and think they know better than everyone else.
I also got hired/contracted a couple of times from HN (I'm usually posting to the Freelancer thread as well). I have good experiences from HN. It's also good for networking. I got to know ppl who wasn't a good fit but after talking they referred to to someone who needed my help.
Get privacy policy from iubenda. Easy and cheap.

Use Wide Angle Analytics instead of Plausible or Google Analytics. Much better choice if you ever leak personal data to your analytics platform and very few solutions support PD. Wide Angle does.

Given the personal data you are processing, some might even become sensitive (disability status), you need DPO ( Data Protection Officer). There are DPO as a service out there.
Yes. It seems there's some thinking around doing offline validation for DNSSEC as part of DANE, so you'd get the proofs you need from DNSSEC on the server side, then combine those with a certificate and send that to TLS clients. That seems reasonable.
> Everything in software is a hard fact

Ok, you are obviously using language loosely. There are some hard facts in software but they are mathematical (logical) not physical.

In fact in various languages software has connotation of working with logic (logiciel in French) or information. I don't have an overview but in many languages computer engineering is associated with hardware and the programming side is some variation of informatics or programming.

Unless I hear something more insightful the working hypothesis is that the term has come to be seen as more dignified than mere "programming" because it implies a more abstract, scarce skill set. So its abuse is a sort of title inflation similar to everybody becoming a "VP". One could equally well have assumed that computer programmers (or developers) do have those skills.

Anyway, as far as I am concerned programmers can call themselves doctors, prophets or supermen, just curious how and why the term "engineer" has been overloaded from its previous hardware association to over time denote purely programming activity.
The structural oppression of children is pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment of kids.

Only when two - or three - of them get together under a trenchcoat society treats them with dignity.
Oh this is cool! Whats the best way to apply?
A JavaScript Proxy sits between an object and the code that uses it. It can intercept interactions such as property updates to execute further code (metaprogramming).
The how is important though. The money supply grew due to PPP "loans" freely being given out to corporations with the help of street banks. I believe a more careful release of the same amount of money wouldn't have caused the same amount of inflation.
Did Stable Diffusion "force" OpenAI or Google to open-source their imaging models? No. Don't see what the mechanism would be for that
Yes, like all good satire there is a serious point behind it, but I think the way the GP referenced the two articles doesn’t make it clear that it’s a satire as opposed to a real example of poor/flawed EBM.
When hearing gunshots from the occupying soldiers, many people would just run away.
> There is no reasoning

> elicit some kinds of reasoning

I know it's hard, but you have to choose here. Are they reasoning or are they not reasoning?

> next word prediction models

238478903 + 348934803809 = ?

Predict the next word. What process do you propose we use here? "Approximately" reason? That's one hell of a concept you conjured up there. Very interesting one. How does one "approximates" reason and what makes it so that the approximation will forever fail to arrive at its desired destination?

> Whereas each automaton in the human world had it's own distinct 'context' - the AI world will not have that at all. Context will be as fleeting as memory in RAM, and it will be across various systems that we use daily.

Human context is fleeting as well. Time, dementia and ultimately death can attest to that. Even in life identity is complicated and multifaceted without singular I. For all intents and purpose we too are composed of massive amounts of loosely linked subsystems vaguely resembling some sort of unity. I agree with you on that one. General intelligence IMO probably requires some form of cooperation between disparate systems.

But you see some sort of fundamental difference here between "biology" and "tech" that I just cannot. If RAM was implemented biologically, would it cease to be RAM? I fail to see what's so special about the biological substrate.

To be clear, I'm not saying LLMs are AGI, but I have a hard time dismissing the notion that some combination of systems - of which LLMs might be one - will result in something we just have to call generally intelligent. Biology just beat us to it, like it did with so many things.

> It's just tech, that's it.

The human version is: it's just biology, that's it. What's the purpose of stating that?
"set & setting" is mainly a convenient red herring to switch off any curious inquiry about the risks from psychedelics. It goes like this:

-- My friend took drug X and he had an accident!

-- Set & setting?

In other words, we don't care about your friend and his accident, we're just trying to counter any suggestions that he had an accident because of drug X. It was his fault for choosing the wrong set & setting.

Which should tell you all you need to know about the "communities" that form around those substances. People ready to blame each other for whatever happens to them just in case their favourite drug gets a bad name. What a community.
Beginner here. Having done most of the Karpathy YT course I have seen embeddings trained as part of a larger net that is predicting the next token. After the embedding is run on several tokens the output goes though several layers of linear;batchnorm;nonlinear. I haven’t done the wavenet or transformer stuff yet.

How can you train the embedding without that? And if you can, is it a good or bad idea to prepare your embedding using this script first then chuck those weights into a bigger model (I think I know what the answer will be…)
Shatters Apple's argument that all of these hurdles are better for security. I wonder if testimony like this could affect any of their antitrust lawsuits or right to repair lobbying.
> homeopathic medicine is clearly marked as such, do you disagree on this point?

I disagree that it qualifies as medicine.
Even stepping on land should be legal as long as you don't cause any damage or infringe on any privacy. It's disgusting that rich landowners can effectively seize control of public land by denying access to it. That should be illegal and punished harshly.
The moment you load a message preview, it may as well be.
That's a good point. Additionally, it seems the standard isn't freely available and I doubt most of the developers of existing SQL DBs partecipate in drafting new standards. It seems it is doomed to diverge even further, which begs the question whether is it relevant anymore to have the SQL standard at all
It is a bit easier with parcels that touch at corners, but that isn’t unique to using a checkerboard. With almost any way you cut land into parcels, people can surround a plot with land they own.

Also, this doesn’t require a single owner to own those black squares. It could also be four individual owners, each building a (virtual or physical) wall on the border of their land.

Because of that, I expect that any civilized country has laws that give land owners and their visitors the right to reach their land, so that they can benefit from owning it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way)
The formal news release on this from the Dutch Standardization Forum can be found here: https://forumstandaardisatie.nl/nieuws/securitytxt-mandatory...

Note that you can test if a website has valid security.txt with the Internet.nl test tool: https://en.internet.nl/article/securitytxt-test-toegevoegd/
K8s and the like will never replace coding for actual computers nor do they replace the many layers they sit upon. Networking isn’t well thought out, and we generally need to stop propagating the idea that this is the future of application execution, it’s a hack, a clever hack, but insufficient to obviate hypervisors and operating systems.
If you truly seek shrinkwrapped application s look into exokernels.
Honest question: is this satire or gpt?
I started with OPL on a Pison Series 3 (“no bloody A, B, C, or D!”) with 128 kbytes of storage — unlimited potential but limited resources… my first project was to code up something that looked like John Connor’s ATM-cracking program from Terminator 2.
If you want to behave like 5 years old don't be surprised that people behind you will behave like 5 years old too and start just kicking your seat.
42 percent potatoes. So low. Makes me wonder what percentage real ‘potato’ chips have?
I have gone through several Psion 5's over the last few years. They all broke eventually - mainly the screen (ribbon cable).

Because I couldn't justify spending yet another £60 for a Psion 5 which soon breaks down, I run Epoc Agenda now on my Windows PC on an EPOC emulator, and it's great for keeping track of events.
That's great! How about performance? Say I want to use MATCH_RECOGNIZE on a postgresql backend, is the compiled query going to be significantly less performant as compared as the same query on databases that support (oracle) that statement natively?
Top open-source model Falcon required half the compute of LLaMa to train
i just want to know what possesses a man to do such a wonderful thing, and to even know if such a thing is possible before pursuing it

i would also watch a 128 hour livestream of him coding it because how do you even start
No. (But the MCUs are rather rugged. I would imagine they have a watchdog to catch some error conditions, possibly in hardware.)
why you directly think I dismiss something?
I just want to indicate there some community only exist on github.
DNA doesn't make a copy of itself, the cell makes a copy of the DNA. DNA doesn't really do anything, it requires RNA and proteins to actually do anything.
Sideberry is fantastic. Not only is it a great replacement for Tree Tabs, I've also found it to be a better alternative of Simple Tab Groups. With `userChrome` entries to auto-hide Sideberry and the native FF tabs, it's improved the web experience on my smallish laptop screen tremendously.
Related thread yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154102

SQL:2023 has been released (iso.org)
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Show HN: OpenWorldAI – What is curation in the AI space?
I know there have been a lot of AI directories that popped up recently, but I thought there was still something missing from the experience of finding interesting projects and staying up to date. My current routine of scrolling through Twitter is not perfect either.

So we launched https://openworldai.com

The project is still super early/beta but our goal is to figure out how to help AI projects best reach people who want to implement AI in their daily lives/routine.

Final goal is to have something between a directory, a marketing agency, and the AppStore.

Would love some feedback and thoughts on what would make you want to visit or use such a website.
> US Air Force official says, 'It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective'

This makes it seem like the whole thing was a setup to precipitate an argument about whether or not AI can be trusted.

If you can already act without the operator's permission (which you patently can, if you can kill the operator) then why do you need to kill the operator?
I use your site constantly by manually typing ipinfo.io/geo. Thanks for the free service.
So, this was a simulation? Did it even involve a real drone / control tower?
https://chat.lmsys.org/
We can't handle less.

As a child you would scream if your toys were taken away. As adults we scream at the mere suggestion of something being taken away. It doesn't matter how rich you are. Some things never change.

This is why we get stuck in ridiculous local optima and just can't get out. Individuals, including those in government, might be able to see better long term solutions, but getting there often involves convincing people to lose something. Nobody seems to be willing or able to explain their long term strategy. Or perhaps nobody is willing to listen.

Start by being better than the people you hate. Campaign for strategies that involve short-term personal loss to get to better places.
Another problem I stumbled over is how evidence based medicine makes it increasingly more difficult to deviate from established routines and modalities. Long time existing methodologies will by nature of having been around longer have a larger pile of evidence backing up their efficacy, compared to a new method, that might perform better, but has limited patient study data to back that up. I've seen how this stalls uptake of otherwise evident (non patient trial data based) improvements. I even seems that some manufacturers are very well aware of this, and are thus using their fortunate position of having to only incrementally improve methods at very low R&D cost.
It used to be a good website, but due to moderation, forcing users to use the app, and just the corny user base I find it unbearable sometimes.

however, in the age of LLMs this a greater database to train on
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Insurance companies have a pretty good idea of who the "good" and "bad" drivers are. It's a question of statistics.
To save you time trying it out, their implementation of tiling is better than that of Arc. Unfortunately it suffers the same problem most mainstream browsers do: broken pinned tabs, and there is no pinned tab groups like Arc
Neurons = (H * √L) * (A/2)

Parameters = A * (H^2 / A) * L

Is that OK?
I wonder if that might be why the US has stricter property laws on this and no universal right to roam: to restrict the native people.
It was to prevent the operator from cancelling the mission, apparently. Shades of HAL.
same here, I love me some ggplot.

Python for everything, but if I need to make something nice to look at, R makes my life so much easier, and the final touch in Affinity Designer/Photo.

In jupyter it's trivial to mix and match python and R anyway, all the wrangling in python and once it's clean, just basic tidyverse in R
I know that would solve the problem. What I'm curious about is what happens if that isn't done, because I can see promoting the idea of a "photorealistic AI sketch artist" as a very attractive proposal for a certain type of manager. It's just a thought experiment.
for the GPT-2 Medium architecture:

Layers: 24

Hidden Size: 1024

Attention Heads: 16

Using the formulas:

Neurons = Hidden Size * Attention Heads * Layers

Parameters = Attention Heads * (Hidden Size^2 / Attention Heads) * Layers

Plugging in the values:

Neurons = 1024 * 16 * 24 = 393,216

Parameters = 16 * (1024^2 / 16) * 24 = 345,471,744

Therefore, for the GPT-2 Medium model, the number of neurons is 393,216, and the number of parameters is 345,471,744.
That might be a reflection (no pun intended) of non-code reality being proportionally larger than the coding realities across our industry.

Stuff that used to work semi ok with a handful of nerds becomes unwieldy when saddled with non tech mgmt types.
Enforcement of 2FA for upload.pypi.org begins today
x86 performance is usually better with smaller instructions, which can be accomplished by writing code that doesn't require prefex bytes and also using certain instructions that sometimes have alternative shorter encodings for specific registers.
> The structural oppression of children

I hardly think having to wait half an hour to eat some candy counts as "oppression" of any kind.
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They were added to Unicode because they were already part of other encodings, and then were expanded. Makes total sense to add them.