skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
De Gaulle said about Monnet: "ce petit financier à la solde des Américains"

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Monnet#cite_ref-28
> If we can all get together in advance and co-ordinate

Haha yes. If you can get humans to do that, solving housing prices is one of the less interesting things you can do. World peace and solving child hunger are just some starter projects if you could finally solve the coordination problems of large groups.

Techies can barely get together and decide which editor is the best, let alone decide on housing allocation or decide which types of schooling to allow in "their" neighborhood. Also an enforced tech-only community sounds super dystopian. Would you get kicked out of your house if you lose your job or change careers?
It’s already practically abandoned, he has only to pass “exams” twice a year, which is quite easy for him and doesn’t take much time. He finished second grade in February.

It doesn’t bring much understanding, though. It’s hard to create parallel curriculum for my kids, while I have my startup running. And the war isn’t helping either, with air alerts and rockets/drones trying to strike Kyiv seemingly every night.

Would be helpful to have concrete examples, directions, etc.
Your odyssey has a radar component not a LiDAR sensor. (Big gap in resolution)
My wife and I yesterday sat in a spacious oak timbered shelter containing just one bench overlooking amazing gardens. Perfect.
A bit unrelated since the article is more about stylistic repetition, but I had a hard time using repetition in my writings after decades of school drilling into my that it was a bad thing.

Yet in teaching, repetition is not just acceptable, it's necessary.

You need to say the same thing over and over again for it to stick.

And still, you'll note people will have missed half of it.

So it turns out repetition is like everything: whether it's good or bad is highly contextual.

The hard part is making repetition not boring.
Australia's relatively unique in that they have compulsory voting. This helps remove some of the threat vectors, like voter impersonation. You can't just find an inactive voter and turn in papers on his behalf. But in spite of this built in protection they also have numerous other safeguards. You read about them here [1]. They include, but are not limited to:

- Needing to request a ballot, and including a security question/answer. The security answer will be cross referenced when returned to avoid somebody filling out a mail-in ballot that was not their own.

- One must already be enrolled to vote (which implies ID verification) when requesting a ballot, and the ballot request also requires knowledge of the address used to register to vote, though the ballot itself can be sent to another address for e.g. expats or whatever.

- When filling out the ballot, you are also required to have a witness sign it, affirming that it was you who filled it out. And that witness must be on the electoral roll.

It's definitely not perfect, but it's vastly better than what we have. And targeting some reasonable fears like impersonation, harvesting, and so on. And I think that effort to target these fears is, in reality, just as important as whether or not it even does, or if those fears are even justified. Because, again it's all about perception. Anything they can be done to help increase the perception of transparency and security in elections, without meaningfully encumbering the process, should be done.

[1] - https://www.aec.gov.au/about_aec/Publications/easy-read/file...
> on their PHP-Nuke clan website

Wow, I haven't seen or heard that name since the 2000s. Good times.
90% of Earth's gravity reaches the ISS
Yeah the occurrence is fairly rare which is why we don’t do much about it.

And we trust that NDT(non destructive testing) like die and ultrasonic etc, periodic testing will catch any cracks.
This concerns quartz dust that comes with the stones from the groove, as well as new dust from putting the stones into place.
Heh-he. In the olden days of 1990, our school's computer-based registration system used DTMF/'Touch-Tone'. When the new registration season started, lots of people learned to love their redial button. So many people would be trying to call that the local phone system around the school lost the dial tone, though not service.
Show HN: SpotiFM – Discord bot streams Spotify music, with control via text chat
Not exactly his. SAP is Malvino's teaching computer from the late 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-As-Possible_computer

But indeed, Eater is the one who made it famous thanks to Youtube.
Restoring the Amazon would be great locally because it would stabilize the local ecosystem of weather events. I think we should push more on the local benefits of environmentalism.

A single city banning petrol engines is just a blip on the radar, but the sudden embetterment of the air? The sudden removal of noise pollution? The sudden decrease in respiratory illnesses and cancers? That's noticeable to the population, unlike some mysterious "global" phenomenon.

A single town repopulating the local forest is only a blip on the radar, but the increased resilience against floods and landslides? Better air and, better outdoors opportunities? Better local climate? That's noticeable
Show HN: Mkcross – Python program to bring up a cross toolchain in seconds
Hi HN!

I wrote a python script to bring up a Linux or MingW toolchain in around 30 seconds (6 times faster than musl cross make). It uses a pre-installed version of clang rather than compiling an entirely new compiler. Apart from speed, this approach has another advantage: the toolchains can be used on any computer with any OS or architecture as long as it has clang.
I mean, you're getting way to vague here. "Any group that have ever killed anyone? or done any bad thing?"

The nature of the law is being a lot less cut-and-dry than this. But I think hate groups are a pretty readily available opportunity. And there's a lot of them that are operating pretty openly.

Like, I hope no one is wringing their hands that we might get the wrong "nazis" or the wrong "kkk". Let's start with the very straightforward obvious groups, and then we can have a hand-wringing conversation about where to draw the line. But let's not pretend like this is a hard classification problem with hate groups openly running around.
> And they want to have it local, private, and as cheap as possible.

Most people don't care about local and private. They care about cheap and free ChatGPT is the cheapest they could get, which is better than all open access models.

> Open source foundation models on which tuning can be done are accelerating by the week

Based on the (unverified)information I have been hearing in the research circle is that OpenAI invested heavily in data collection. One thing I heard is that they have hired experts to label lot of codes with information like complexity, correctness etc. Also the questions and RLHF data they get from real users is something open access models can't match.

Palm 2 chat is significantly worse than ChatGPT(free), even though it is larger and trained by experts in the field.
It's only a hazard for the workers, not the passengers if I read the article correctly. Perhaps someone can explain why that is the case.
COMPUTE! Interviews Wendy Carlos And Frank Zappa (1986) [pg 38] [pdf]
I genuinely laughed out loud when you posted the ChatGPT link, and I shared it with my partner, who also loved it :)

(my original GGGP reply was based on a conversation that she and I had about the article)
Yeah it's shocking to me how many people overlook this. Even if we pretended that the Tesla sensor suite was capable of FSD, it's not FSD if you have to disengage when the lens gets mud on it. Sensor cleaning is an integral part of actually being able to have driverless operation. When I worked at Argo we spent a lot of time making sure that we were designing failsafe methods for detecting and dealing with obstructions (https://www.axios.com/2021/12/15/self-driving-cars-clean-dir...).
> Without the ballast in place, railway lines would simply not be able to cope with the stress from the weight of the trains passing over them, not to mention the impacts of expansion and contraction.

How does this relate to tram lines? They don't seem to have much ballast at all, and they are often just inset into asphalt, so there's no draining, and the asphalt presumably limits expansion and contraction?
Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules
Bicycles have much lower mass _and_ lower speed and thus likely far lower emission.

To put it into the words of the WHO:

> More than 15 years have passed since the publication of Global update 2005.
In that time there has been a marked increase in evidence on the adverse
health effects of air pollution, built on advances in air pollution measurement
and exposure assessment and an expanded global database of air pollution
measurements (discussed in Chapter 1. New epidemiological studies have
documented the adverse health effects of exposure to high levels of air pollution
in low- and middle-income countries, and studies in high-income countries with
relatively clean air have reported adverse effects at much lower levels than had
previously been studied.

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240034228
Disabling login is not deprecation. It's outright discontinuance.
What question was that?
Welcome to CringeTok, Where Being Insufferable Can Be Lucrative
I've been working in a project in the free subdomain space that may help some people impacted by Freenom's failure.

https://www.getlocalcert.net offers free subdomains that are compatible with Let's Encrypt (including wildcard certs) but you've got to setup split-DNS on your local network as we don't allow public routing or email.

My hope is that this enables free subdomains for private use while avoiding the mess of self-signed certs and the spammer/malware issues that appear to have killed Freenom and plague FreeDNS.

Still in the early days, so there's some kinks getting worked out. I set up a number of ACME clients and web servers for demo just last week: https://github.com/robalexdev/getlocalcert-client-tests
I wonder if one day in the future computer technology will be opaque and magical to most humans. Whether someone will be curious enough to look under the hood and try to figure out how it all works instead of just asking the AI to do stuff and moving on with life. Will they remember that once upon a time, before the first assembler was created, the first programmers once wrote binary code by hand?
And yet, France is the country with the most nuclear-generated energy, despite having a tons of state regulation and social push-back to prevent companies to privatize gains and socialize losses.

In fact, water, electricity, the road and internet have one of the best cost/quality ratio have ever seen in the entire world, and I traveled a lot.

France is not a great place to make business, but the quality of life is fantastic.

Meanwhile, the US as a terrible health care system, they have water and electricity scandals every years, your internet has awful value (especially in the silicon valley, talk about irony) and roads are hit or miss.

So yes, the USA are a great place to do business, but touting it has the only way to not be stuck on 1800s technology is a joke.

They are the ones having tasteless tomatoes and $800 insulin, things that were cheap and good less than a century ago.

They are the ones with power outages and polluted water.

We had a war at our border, cutting energy supplies, and last winter, my power wasn't cut even once.

They get a strong winter or summer and their grid dies, plus the public pays the bill.
I mean, I'm not taking advice on this from you. You have done nothing to convince me you're worth listening to.
And? Castro had a friendship on a former right wing minister from Franco's dictatorship in Spain, as they shared some of culture traits and heritage from an Atlantic region in Spain, Galicia.
Binding left and right populisms together wont make Russia left-leaned. Neither with do that with China.
This tells me the FUD/smearing campaigns by hedge funds that are (or have been) short Tesla have been extremely effective at brainwashing everybody including the relatively intelligent who roam HN.

The average (hedge fund owned) media outlet, especially the financial ones, basically read "please remember to hate Elon".
OK, so why is that a problem? And maybe, as someone wrote, if you tried to force yourself to enjoy something you were probably trying too hard. Not everyone is going to enjoy what other profess to enjoy. And that's OK.
> "Problem is you cannot control the spread."

Some historians say that the English defeated Napoleon at Waterloo because many French soldiers (including Napoleon) had diarrhea.

An important difference between French and English soldiers was that the former boiled water for tea, while the French preferred wine.

https://www.historynet.com/napoleonic-wars-soldiers/
Testing in Zig
Careful you don't hurt yourself getting down from that high horse of yours. I guess alternatively you could just keep living up there, but it sounds lonely.

OOC, what in the initial message makes you think I was angry when I'm telling you I was not? (Oh all-knowing-being who can tell me what's inside my head that I cannot even see)
It depends on what you’re trying to achieve with it. If you’re consuming, scrolling through content and memes and such but mostly not dwelling on things, the new one is way better than the old one. But if you’re using it as forums (announcements, discussions, that kind of thing—e.g. /r/rust for me), the new one is hopelessly bad, and the old one is rather good. Reddit is clearly not at all interested in the latter class any more.
I used to think react mattered, but then I realised it's the idea of the view library (not framework) that matters and probably the streamlining of the web's stack (webpack, typescript, jsx).

Honestly I don't know what people're on about. webpack, typescript, jsx are simple enough for me while vanilla js & whatever template langue/obscure toolset other frameworks invented are the complex stuff.

React these days is no longer the "minimal API surface" not-a-framework it used to be, but that should be the direction, not the one Vue & everything else is going with.
>Still waiting..

Not magic, for sure.
Isn't a product necessarily an externality?

If they kept it internal, nobody else would have access to it.
Oh and if you need a different sort of domain, this list seems most up to date:

https://free-for.life/#/?id=domains
I don’t think you understand how damaging it is to your argument that you need to refer to events that took place before the invention of the microchip in order to make this point.
>It's a boilerplate generator and you're happy when it saves you tedious mental effort.

On the other hand the person trying to track down a subtle bug afterwards might be a little less happy at having to wade through oceans of boilerplate.
I was more surprised that tickler files were patentable (ie not obvious) as late as the XIX!

(was correspondence low enough beforehand that they just used linear scan?)
My threat model includes negative consequences for me should I be discovered.
> Surely the equivalent is the reward during training?

Surely the counter-example to when a self-driving vehicle drives straight into a stationary fire truck?[0]

If a human driver did this more than once (and lived to tell the tale!) - yet had no explanation other than "Of course I saw it, but I wasn't sure what it was and didn't realise I needed to avoid hitting it it <shrug>" - wouldn't they lose their driving licence fairly quickly?

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+stationary+fire+truck
> Most people don't care about local and private.

Right, but corporations do. And AI is a revolution because it makes workers substantially more efficient, not because it makes for a slightly better Google. If corporations want to leverage AI to make their workforce more efficient, it must be local and private in many cases. OpenAI is already experiencing friction in the EU.
Yes, increasing vehicle weight dramatically increases tire wear.

Large trucks generate a staggering amount of it, so much so that I wonder if it matters much how much an EV generates. I haven’t seen the figures for something like a Model Y though, so it’s hard to say.
The problem with what Python used to have is that the encoding wasn’t fixed.

I’ll agree with you that strings-are-sequences-of-bytes is bad. That’s painful compiler-flag, codepage, &c. territory.

But what’s not bad is strings-are-sequences-of-code-units. That’s what Rust has, for example. Rust strings aren’t sequences of bytes, but of UTF-8 code units, and the two are semantically very different.
How do cars filter combustion soot? Does the muffler have some sort of soot trap?
I asked ChatGPT to write an HN comment thread on this topic and posted the whole thing here. - Nick
It is ironic that you just anthropomorphized it yourself by using "it forgets".
The key bit is this - “Work on the ballast can result in quartz dust being released from the stones, which can cause lung cancer.” (Emphasis mine)

Since the tracks are closed while ballast is being put down, tamped, etc. passengers don’t tend to be in close contact. By the time the trains are running again, much of the light, dangerous dust will have blown away and/or settled, hence the risk is mostly to track workers during certain types of work. It would pose some risk to people in nearby properties, but since the dust would be dispersed into the air it would probably drop off something like exponentially with distance.

It’s the same with all sorts of things, such as drilling through bricks, concrete cutting, etc. - in my experience tradesmen still take far to little precaution (often none) even though we now know the risks of silica dust.
Poorly. Particulate filters have been common on passenger car diesels since the 80s.
Trams are much lighter and have way fewer carriages/cars, so I expect the need is much reduced. The foundation of the road is probably even more sturdy than the ballast, and there are gaps between rail sections for expansion.
Two programmers where hired to create an MVP: 100% Coding Vs Copilot+GPT+No-Code
I agree.

if we have a model that can do (end to end) the role of a lawyer, scientist or software engineer, then I think we have reached AGI.
Yes. AIUI, it's the illegitimate copy that's the problem, not so much the decompilation approach.
Gender, Generation, and Politics Shape the Values of American Students
I can think of the following sentence used in Maghrebi Arabic dialect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghrebi_Arabic):

إِلِّي صَارْ صَارْ

Which translates to: "Whatever happened, happened."
All of which is entirely reasonable and so is considering all of Samas possible motivations.

But just declaring another parties intentions as you see fit is such an incredibly bad style in any discourse. When filling the gaps of your knowledge, there has to be a world in which Sama is in fact a good human being – in addition to the world where he is not – when that assumption does not logically conflict with anything that he is proposing.

His argumentation for regulation is coherent. The concept of regulation is not complicated or new, it requires no good faith, it makes obvious sense for obvious reasons.

This does not mean that those reasons are what Sama motivated to make this proposal. But when being able to string together an argument is all that is required to forgo any other possible arguments, we are in deep trouble. We need to be able to consider intentions with uncertainty and stay attentive to what is being said and done.
It's an exaggeration to claim that ballast would have been used for railway tracks for centuries as the article claims. Railways haven't even existed for 2 centuries. Although there are only 2 years left. Still in the 1970s, only 50 years ago, Finland had railways build with weaker material, small round stones.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173938
Cycling and walking are active and would have a net benefit if more people switched away from sedentary driving.

Bike brakes and shoe soles don't have to slow down thousands of kilograms of mass either, so the wear and subsequent particulate emissions are much less than a car.
Much heavier is stretching things. An VW ID3 is about 200kg heavier than the identical sized petrol Golf.

A lot of EVs will be lighter than plenty of bigger petrol or diesel SUVs.
1) Giant serverfarms are expensive, but Microsoft has money and savings on scale. This can compare favourably to running locally.

2) People use what LLMs software makers give them and don't care at all about on premise. Software makers want something reliable they can deploy at scale, and not end up debugging problems on a client 4GB machine with an iGPU and multitude of OSs. The actually deciding people want to delegate to an API, and the only offerings available right now are from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic (aka Google again) etc..

3) Open source LLM products and APIs are at the zero point and remain so by the week. "Download from GitHub and compile" is not going to fly.

4) Right now the question is whether the Closed Source and Propriety product people will actually use will be provided by a web API (openAI or maybe Meta) or by the OS (Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.). Either way it will be controlled by giant corporations. Unless 3) ever changes, but doing product is icky for OSS people for some reason so that will never happen.

[EDIT: Note that the Stable Diffusion area is in way better shape. There's a one-click installer for Auto111! There are some products and sites using SD! There are some usecases important commercial interests don't want! These OSS people also don't engage in triumphalism much less unearned triumphalism! They are probably still going to lose to Adobe and Midjourney but at least it will be a fight.]
In general I'd agree. But I think there's also an interesting angle to consider. You are only really considering bioweapons as a tool for mass killing. But in modern society, lengthy disabling could arguably be even more effective and the creator might even think themselves more 'ethical' or merciful. This would not only completely cripple a target's economy, but also similarly cripple their armed forces. It would also spread panic and damage morale. All of that from a relatively negligible mortality rate, which also minimizes the worst case scenario of it coming back home.

The one reason I think this improbable is because it would make no sense for the US to fund the research relatively transparently through a third party and carry out the research in China of all places. We have a million off the books labs and other areas where such could be done, and also without any transparency in funding or operation. It just looks like a typical case of human hubris. 'We'll never leak this if we take the proper measures' even though there's an absurdly high rate of lab leaks, from labs all over the world - including at the highest biosecurity levels. [1]

Though impossible to measure, it really seems as though the net change in global biosecurity from gain of function and similar research is extremely negative.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
Yup, mobile is ahead of desktop here, in terms of making it reasonably safe to run moderately questionable applications.

I just hope flatpak sandboxing works well...
If I ask to see just a bit of your private documents - I can choose the corner of the document, let's say, the top left - and I can inferr with 70% accuracy who you're getting services from, did I respect your privacy? This seems a bit like smoke and mirrors. Either scan the image or not!

Inference from partial images is super cool research for example to deal with corrupted image files, but not for privacy imo.