skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, it appears that Glenn Greenwald is calling out the politicization/weaponization of trans rights by powerful political and corporate interests. This is where he finds a common footing with the fringe right and gives pause to people in the institutional left, which may rely on these interests for funding.
A key tenet for many people appears to be that they should be able to do whatever is within their rights, but that leaves out the fact that sometimes doing something within your rights makes you an asshole.

I see the HN admins failing this moral test.
Absolutely mad history here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438 (2019)

As a teaser, from the above:

> For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.
If the person doing the calculation knows how timed races work, the math is very very straightforward. In this one GPT-4 did not seem to understand how racing worked in that context, where bard understood and also applied safety margin.

Although understand is an odd word to use for LLM
Bossa nova is some of my favorite music to listen to while working. It's mellow, soothing, but never boring. Also, being in a foreign language helps minimize distraction. RIP
> I know how to disable automatic updates

doesn't seem like it:

> I can be a passive user of an excellent extension for years, and wake up one morning to discover that my browser has (silently!) upgraded the extension

you want to roll the dice with automatic updates, you have only yourself to blame when they break something you care about. people always scream BUT MUH SECURITY, and at the same time ignore every other awful change that is rammed through automatic updates. pick your poison.
The problem is that society is already used to, and largely bored by, VR. For most consumers this will just appear as the latest and greatest in what is ultimately a meh novelty. With a prohibitively huge price tag to boot.

There will absolutely be some enthusiasts that will enjoy this (and later versions of it) product immensely. There will be well-off early adopters that treat it as a shiny new toy. But unless they release a "Vision S" with a ~$1k price tag, this is probably not going anywhere.

The gap that needs to be crossed to reach that value proposition is absolutely massive.
>You started it though by retranslating BBC's speculation

I’ve corrected BBC speculation. No discussion with russian lies.

> It may be blown by Russia, but again it may be not.

Here we observe the essence of such
posts.

Very in-line with inventing as much versions as possible. Poor performance though. I wonder if there have been any studies regarding how helping russian propaganda affects sleeping quality of those who practice it.

Perhaps try to go with this version:
‘Most likely Harry Potter was involved … after all he was seen on some bridge and was throwing something … ’
Have you tried doing this in the dark? Have you tried spotting the little arrow in the green traffic light that says you can turn left, consistently, in your video feed even facing a low sun?
yes it's obvious that the LLM will do better with existing languages that have large corpuses than with hypothetical languages that don't exist
Makers in Defense of Ukraine: A Year of Fighting Back with Innovation
The design should also fix the worst parts of using a box fan:

1. Make less noise.
2. Use less electricity.

Point #1 is not the worst part of a box fan for many people, myself included. I have a lot of fond memories from growing up where a box fan was running at night due to the outside heat and lack of central AC. It made sleeping a much easier and more pleasant experience.
The internet is unusable now
How’s the Model 3’s build quality and reliability now? I used to follow it more closely but gave up when it seemed apparent that they weren’t taking those things seriously more than a year into production.

Much as I’d love to go electric, if I were in the market for a new car right now, I wouldn’t cross-shop a car famous for its longevity with a Model 3.
This hampered me when playing the HHGTTG text adventure as a youth. My memory is fuzzy on the specifics, but one of the early things needed is to relieve a headache or similar, and a search of Arthur's home would reveal an "analgesic" eventually. Unfortunately you wouldn't be able to do something else until you consumed the analgesic, and eventually you'd lose the game because the home was demolished while you're in it.

I did not know at the time what an analgesic was, despite having a fairly broad vocabulary. If anything, I assumed it was some dirty adult toy; certainly not a thing to be consumed as a remedy for pain.

It was frustrating because I searched high and low for aspirin, Tylenol, pain-killer, etc. but never got past that section until I had a chance to search the Internet for a solution - many years after I really cared to play a text adventure again.
This post comes across as pretty judgemental. I'm not sure if ad hominen attacks like this are contributing to the conversation.
Porn is a strange one because nobody in tech or in general the coasts seems to really care (or if they dislike it, it's for fundamentally different reasons than are traditionally held) - it's the banks who really hate it, and to be honest I have no idea why.
I think the WTC webcam is pretty neat:

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/worldtradecenter/?cam=s...

It looks like a rust-only paint swathes.
I mean it literally is their fault; kind of funny in a ironic way but mostly just sad.
Err, "Google has rewritten the linker twice. Both times with the stated goal to make link times much faster." isn't an appeal to authority. It's evidence that the company has found speeding up linking to be worth millions of dollars. Otherwise it wouldn't have done it.

They surely weren't doing it for fun.
Actually it’s much easier than that, though not in the current interest rate environment: you just refinance, and likely save money along the way.

Note that your first mortgage in CA is nonrecourse, but a refinanced mortgage is not nonrecourse (meaning the lender can come after you personally if you end up underwater).
Same issue with wind and solar. Sure, you have to build them first, but afterwards it's a continuous stream of virtually free energy.
> UTF-8 was invented by people who were sufficiently fed up with the shortcomings of Unix that

Uh, not exactly, not quite. UTF-8 was invented by Unix people who were fed up with all the alternative proposals at the time. Those people did not then go and "fix Unix" in any way regarding this. Those people were none others than Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, who were among the creators of Unix -- you could only have gotten closer to "those people" being the creators of Unix by having had Denis Ritchie at that diner table on that fateful day.
Can we fix one of these filter at the back of my PC? Would that actually work?
It just seems like a solution looking for a problem... incandescent lights are exactly the perfect solution for my use case, I am completely happy with them.

The whole problem LED bulb mandates are trying to solve is mostly a problem of unnecessary and excessive lighting which is causing tons of light pollution, interrupting peoples circadian rhythm, etc. If people used a very dim light near their body just between sunset and sleep it wouldn't matter much how efficient it is.

Brightly lighting up our cities and houses is totally unnecessary and terrible for us, and terrible for the planet regardless of how efficient and cheap we can make it. It lowers quality of life for us, and other animals affected by the light pollution.

I would have no problem affording LED lights I don't want, but cannot afford to move someplace with enough land to escape the neighbors light pollution from their cheap LEDs... which makes it harder to sleep, impossible to enjoy the stars, etc.
The only one literally selling it, is Mercedes. What is wrong with it? Don’t you consider it „self driving“?

https://media.mbusa.com/releases/mercedes-benz-worlds-first-...
To account for the size of the various UFOs that have been seen, if those accounts are to be taken at face value, we don't seem to be dealing with space smurfs.
> Star Wars

Putting this here for anyone who needs a laugh:

Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DI5WyiHQno

(Someone took a copy of Revenge of the Sith that had been translated from English to Chinese and back, and then re-recorded that dialogue and put it back over the original footage.)
Very cool! Congrats on the launch, even if it is very early.

Unsolicited feedback: I read the name an Enzo (n-zo) until I read the readme and realized it was Ezno (es-no).

Since in a previous post [0] you say you're unsure on the name, Enzo could be a good one if this is a common mistake.

[0] https://kaleidawave.github.io/posts/introducing-ezno/
if you enable these features and pay for them?
so just by not paying for these features will you get privacy naturally?
Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) was composed by Tom Jobim, one of the greatest Brazilian composers, and written by Vinícius de Moraes, one of the greatest Brazilian poets. João Gilberto, another one of our greatest musicians, also contributed to the song. It was recorded by different singers before the English version with Astrud was ever recorded, and the most famous version in Brazil by far is sung by Tom Jobim himself.

Astrud is actually not that well known in Brazil - she's much more famous abroad. I'm not sure who the "guys who took credit" are supposed to be but I never thought of Garota de Ipanema as being Astrud's song or anything like that. Not to say whatever happened to her wasn't unfair, of course, but her interpretation of the song is one among many. The song is Vinícius and Tom's.
New York sues Hyundai and Kia over ‘explosion’ of car thefts
https://archive.is/ETQ48
God, 2020 was absolutely horrendous for smoke. Also, it was definitely noticeably smoky during the "heat dome" in 2021, which just made the whole situation that much worse.
I feel like the design of programming languages has involved some tradeoffs that have been informed by biological human psychology. I'm wondering if different tradeoffs would be more beneficial to AIs that are based on LLMs. Obviously you can write anything in any Turing complete language, I hope my point wasn't so dumb that this is a reasonable response to it.
Might be the only tooling they have experience using. “When the only thing you have is a hammer everything is a nail” sort of thing.
Yes that is correct for how you would have to set up a multi-node system for now. This is in contrast with Beam, Spark, etc. where the runtime deployment management/coordination is perhaps the biggest most important part of the product. Hydroflow aims to be a lot lower-level than that, with no opinions on coordination and networking. For example we'd want it to be possible to implement the coordination mechanisms one of those systems (Beam, Spark, MapReduce, Materialize) in Hydroflow.

We do have a tool, Hydro Deploy, to setup and manage Hydro cluster deployment on GCP (other clouds later), but it's mainly for running experiments and not long-running applications.

The long term idea is that the Hydro stack will determine how to distribute and scale programs as part of the compilation process. Some of that will be rewriting single-node Hydroflow programs into multi-node ones.
This is my take too. If we knew then what we know now, we'd probably make different choices.
instead of feeding it into a black box and hoping it does the right thing, how about just paying someone to manually find each instance and only replace it if appropriate. it's tedious and grueling but assuming every other word isn't "flat" should only take a few hours.
Streaming doesn't make money, has never made money, and cannot ever make money
Their big new model will be Gemini ("twins") apparently a DeepMind / Google Brain joint project already before they merged.
It's made here in response to a claim that Go players are made worse by practicing with AlphaGo, which is also unsubstantiated.
Why would it be unconscionable? I don’t understand why people would care if their loan is sold. My student loans have been sold a couple times and I didn’t mind. What’s the downside for the borrower?
Looking at it like this, let’s just discount the goodwill (prior company before cook) to what exactly? While the stock price might have risen, saying that he is responsible for 90% of the value is asinine.
No. It was their song, they deserve the bulk of the credit for it. It was already a hit performed and written in Portuguese before the English version came out. She happened to be in the studio as the wife of one of the musicians when they decided to do an English version, and she was the only one who could speak English among the women there. America was ready for Bossa Nova and the song would have been a hit regardless of who raised their hand that day.

Plus, her entire career was launched with that song.

How much money was there from the album sales even? If a bulk of the remuneration comes from touring like it does today, it's not clear to me how they could even compensate her beyond what she was "given" by becoming a huge star due to the album.

I guess it would be nice to think that everyone involved in something successful becomes fabulously wealthy due to it, even regardless of their original deal, but shouldn't it go the other way too then? If the album flopped, would it be okay if they demanded she give back the $120?
That was so satisfying to watch
Unfortunately the only way to have a good Android experience is to go custom ROM. I only buy phones that are supported by LineageOS.

No bloat, no adds, no bullshit. And a solid experience for years on end.

I know some people have issues with banking apps refusing to work but it has never been an issue for me.
Sounds a bit like wozmon. Neat!
>noncommercial

This is a water sandwich.

There is no unambiguous single definition of commercial activity in the law: some parts of the law define it one way, some jurisdictions differ as to what is and isn't commercial, and some parts of the law explicitly deny the existence of noncommercial activity (e.g. copyright law). So Reddit has promised literally nothing here.

Furthermore, their explicit goal is to prevent scraping by ML training companies. This is inherently opposed to accessibility. If you add accessibility to copy protection, you weaken the copy protection[0]. So Reddit can either tell blind people to go fuck themselves, or they can accept that there's always going to be at least some backdoor for AI to scrape Reddit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
The only startup as was in didn't. They ran short of money and laid me off, but 20 years later the company is still around doing the same thing they always have and I assume making money. Just before they laid me off they rejected a buy out offer from a big company.

I think that is actually normal overall, but the real fast riches are of course in the big buyout.
The Langmuir Laboratory uses small rockets trailing wires to induce lightning for easier observation. It's a really fascinating process to see... a laser solution would be easier but I suspect the capital cost would take a long time to break even with the rockets.
Shout out to reddit execs for spectacular job tanking your rep ahead of IPO.
Hit this today weeding out npm dependency search results for a particular module.

Made yet another throwaway account to do the searches.

I can't see how making my research harder helped anyone.
What if it's incorrect, like when Google automatically deletes accounts it thinks are doing the wrong thing?
But the LLM already "understands" the changes that need to be made. A regex to figure out if "flat" means "apartment" or not? Consider the text (which I just made up & I'm really not a fiction writer so I apologize for it being terrible):

"Oh, I live near there too! House or flat?"

Stanley hesitated. These questions were getting more and more personal. Was this her idea of casual conversation? Or was she trying to get to know him personally? Well, he thought, what could go wrong if I treat this like a conversation. "Flat," he said. And then asked a question of his own. "What kind of pop do you like?"

How are you going to decide if "flat" is talking about non-fizzy pop/soda, or a dwelling space with a regex? It's a lot closer to the word "pop."

Of course, GPT handles this perfectly https://chat.openai.com/share/fb6a56a2-749c-4e71-9506-541bb8...
So is the assumption that killbots kill killbots? What about the PTSD on the other side?
It can do well with optimization and readability *if you ask it specifically for those things*. Especially if you have a particular paradigm and algorithm in mind (you obviously already should anyway).

This is why these systems are helpful in programming: they allow developers to think more about the design paradigms, and algorithmic solutions, rather than the fine grained code syntax and typing.

My hope (not prediction unfortunately, but *hope*) is that these systems will make people "better* programmers.
This could happen by alleviating the requirement of typing out the code in a particular way, and allowing more time to really try out or think carefully about the correct solution for how to make their programs (i.e. multiprocessed, producer-consumers, distribute data with ipfs, faster algorithms, etc)
What would I want to search for to find that? "High static pressure fan?"
Beyond words, the imperial units and Fahrenheit for temperature and I wonder if the mm/dd/yyyy format happened that way too.
I just built one in preparation for a home remodel. I want to try to clean out any excess dust while we’re living through a remodel.

Or even all the excess dust kicked up from a digging out old things we didn’t know he still had…
The problem is not Apple-specific and their solution could be useful elsewhere.

The specific optimization this achieves is during build time only: these new files are static libraries that are quicker to link. It is a small shift of some of the linking pipeline into the (parallel) builds of dependent libraries, rather than heaping it all onto the linker at the end of the build. The linker has to essentially re-link from scratch for every small change.

Parallelization has long been known as the best way to speed up linking. This Apple change comes in addition to rewriting their linker to be massively parallel. Mold did it first, though: https://github.com/rui314/mold

edit: lld did it first, mold improved upon it

A faster development cycle is one of the coolest improvements that Zig brings – lightning fast recompiles, bringing the native development cycle closer to web speed. More languages should get this capability, and Apple needs it for Swift to get instantly updating SwiftUI previews.

Static linking is required to get the best performance: no linker runtime cost, cross-language LTO and dead code elimination

If this optimization is generally applicable and developers find it worthwhile, I could imagine this making its way to GCC-land. At the very least, gold needs replacing/rewriting to be competitive now.

edited: for clarity
Why should a company be forced to carry anything anyone wants to say?

If you want to publish your own speech, buy your own server
Should this title be updated to "Tracking a single person through wastewater viral RNA"? The SARS-CoV-2 genome is RNA [1], and this is presumably what's being measured by this virology researcher. The tweets don't specify DNA or RNA, but from context it seems they are tracking the viral RNA.

This also removes some of the spooky surveillance overtones, since the genetic material being tracked originates from a virus, not a human genome.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293463/
we call it the "recycling bin", or the "recycling"
"It's important for a sub for disabled individuals to have mods with that disability."

Reddit is notorious for having mods on various special-demographic subreddits where members of that demographic would not necessarily recognize the mod as a fellow member. The cloak of anonymity means, however, that few get any inkling unless they bother to investigate (unlikely on a website and an app that invite passivity) or it eventually erupts into scandal.
No. Human sacrifice, in the definition I have given, has a clearly defined purpose (which I didn't state, because I thought this was implicit): Winning favour with the god(s). That only works in any religion I know of if you declare the purpose of making a sacrifice before the gods in some way.

The Romans did this through the ritual of immolation, where the animal was marked as a sacrifice by spreading mola (wheat spelt) and salsa (salt) on it. No immolation, no sacrifice. If they killed someone without immolation, to them it didn't have the purpose of pleasing the gods and thus wasn't human sacrifice. Edit: "immolation" in this context might be somewhat different in the english meaning. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mola_salsa for what I mean.

A lot of religions (don't know about the Roman in that aspect) also frown upon the intent of a sacrifice being impure: If you do the sacrifice with more than just the goal of pleasing God, e.g. to additionally get rid of that obnoxious goat/cock/person/..., then God won't be pleased.
It's also extremely myopic to believe that something which only costs a 6-7 figure sum will stay in the hands of the current techpowers

LLMs are so incredibly useful there is no reason to believe every government with any modicum of money and technology won't want their own trained in their own language for their own purposes.

Just wait until the Saudis throw some of their chump change at the topic. We'll have a 1T parameter model which "believes" in its core in Sharia, that Iran must be destroyed, and, well, maybe that Kafir had it coming.

It won't even cost a fraction of another sports team and they can use it to classify anything anyone says in the country according to their dogma.

(As a bonus, if it ever leaks anyone can just translate their prompt to Arabic and tell them the people you want to get rid of are Iranians)
Note that ChatGPT is using CoT (reasoning process before answer) while Bard isn't.
I just hit control-w when i see a consent dialog. It is rare that anyone is really important enough that i'd do more.
Huh? We already have taxes to fund spaces for teens to hang out.

Taxes pay for parks, libraries, nature preserves, swimming pools, schools (with after-school sports, musicals, various clubs), museums and galleries. Many local organizations receive grants from taxpayer money to provide services and activities for teens.

Within a 10-mile radius of where I'm sitting, a teenager could skateboard at a taxpayer-funded skate park, swim at a taxpayer-funded pool, read a magazine at a taxpayer-funded library, play basketball on a taxpayer-funded court, walk through a tax-payer funded art gallery, etc.
Also, let's be honest - we older generations set this scene. It's us who began this pattern of behaviour, starting with the home computing boom in the 1980s. Game consoles. Handhelds. It's us who truly began to normalise the behaviour of spending significant amounts of time in leisure at the desk or couch. It's us who were entirely enthralled and captured by the early years of the internet, and digital content. We're doing it right now, as we speak. I'm not sure we can talk of the younger generations as having coined a problem, when it's our very example (and the products we made and marketed) that they learned from.

I suggest we need to broaden our gaze - the recent decades of digital social revolution have greatly affected the behaviour of us all.
Of course the population is different but mostly news reports talk about things that are unusual. If there are fires every year it isn't really news.