skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grant that Star Trek is extremely progressive- I've been watching it since before I could speak and every year since.

Whether or not my reasoning is correct that the Dax character is too loose a metaphor for trans people to be applicable to real world issues, the point is this makes for no reason to label me an enemy of the state. I could be right or wrong, but it's a valid point of discussion in a Star Trek sub, under a post about how Dax is a trans character.

I'm not linking directly to the comments for one obvious reason: I don't want to link my HN account and my Reddit account together.

For that reason you can judge everything I've said in the worst possible light if you think that's fair under the circumstances.
I'm not familiar with those. Thanks.
bro I am not worth millions I'd delete my twitter account and go enjoy my life if I was
The same people who have:

$3500 gaming rigs

$3500 motorcycles

$3500 kayaks

$3500 artwork

$3500 rolexes

$3500 ATVs

$3500 lawnmowers

$3500 boats

$3500 plastic surgery

$3500 tool chests

$3500 worth of old phones in a drawer

$3500 worth of largely-unused yearly subscriptions

I have several of these things, personally. I can swap them in and out without too much effort. Almost anyone working in tech can, as well.
I would say they were describing the people. I didn't realize you can't dress in comfortable clothing you like without making some kind of statement about gender roles or whatever.
TLDR version: horses broadly used in the American west (like New Mexico) just 30 years after Spanish arrival (so 1520ish). Earlier guess was that it was much later, 1700ish coming from the east to west across North America.

Good context from the author of 1491 here, including the intricacies that required so much collaboration:

https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1641537159973707777
Pylint has hundreds of rules that ruff doesn't have, yet; see this GitHub issue: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/issues/689
Just today, I finished a blog post (also my latest submission, felt like could be useful to some) about how to get something like this working in a bundle of something to run models, as well as a web UI for more easy interaction - in my case that was koboldcpp, which can run GGML, both on the CPU (with OpenBLAS) and on the GPU (with CLBlast). Thanks to Hugging Face, getting Metharme, WizardLM or other models is also extremely easy, and the 4-bit quantized ones provide decent performance even on commodity hardware!

I tested it out both locally (6c/12t CPU) and on a Hetzner CPX41 instance (8 AMD cores, 16 GB of RAM, no GPU), the latter of which costs about 25 EUR per month and still can generate decent responses in less than half a minute, my local machine needing approx. double that time. While not quite as good as one might expect (decent response times mean maxing out CPU for the single request, if you don't have a compatible GPU with enough VRAM), the technology is definitely at a point where it's possible for it to make people's lives easier in select use cases with some supervision (e.g. customer support).

What an interesting time to be alive, I wonder where we'll be in a decade.
Roadside Picnic, the inspiration behind Stalker, has aliens using Earth much like a family on a long drive might pull over for a scenic picnic site.
Sure, but only nerds will use them (not necessarily a bad thing) and will never go mainstream because of the difficulty to set up and search. Monolithic site like Reddit don't have that issue at all, you log in and away you go. Until someone makes federation that easy, I only see a Reddit replacement being of similar design and composition to Reddit.
I don't disagree with Dylan, but I'm more than willing to bet that the only reason Nvidia's cards (and that's who we're talking about. CUDA is a hell of a moat.) are RAM-starved is that they haven't felt the pressure to do otherwise. AMD has an institutional aversion towards good software. Intel isn't even an also-ran, yet.

Apple and their unified memory architecture may be the prod needed to get larger levels of RAM available to single cards solutions. We'll see.
Perhaps one day an alien species will conquer is for sustenance and prefer to consume us live because it tastes better.
Literally a parent comment:

> Everyone under the sun knows this. It's obviously a security

Is this US ignorance or what? "It's a security in US, so it's a security for everyone under the sun"
I know others who feel the way you do, and they're vegetarians because of it. I disprove of industrial farming practices, but I do take a lot of comfort in the fact that I, personally, am not inflicting suffering on a live animal. If I had to personally raise and slaughter every animal I ate, I doubt I'd do much meat eating.

When I have the option of choosing meat from a cow raised and slaughtered ethically I'll take that one every time, but usually I have no idea of the provenance of a particular hamburger patty and that likely does wonders for my peace of mind.
I'm a digital nomad. I miss having a spacious multimonitor setup. tried making it work with an occulus quest and immersed VR but the results were disappointing. If they can make it seamless and match the resolution so my eyes don't hurt after a minuite of actually reading code, Its going to be an immediate shutup and take my money moment.
The resolution is not the innovation here. Where "conventional" STM collects valence or free electrons, this work is probing the electron structure, using Xray photons to kick one out from the inner orbitals.
I'm building a half acre permaculture pond.

It's about 10 foot deep at the center. And should hold somewhere between 300k-600k gallons of water.

I dug it out with a backhoe. You wouldn't believe how scary it is driving a backhoe, it feels like you are gonna tip over at any moment.
Enable the "I" category and run ruff with autofixing.
He's seeing with visible light, I'm seeing with X-Rays.

I've been in the trenches for web development (and a little bit of web browser development) since 1995. I see the social factors around browser development (very little diversity) and the supporting software as having a direct link to the very difficult problem of a web browser not blocking the UI threads when it is updating a page from concurrent data sources including the net. Struggling to get a post-Netscape web browser to run on Solaris so our Sun Ray installation wouldn’t be useless…

I don't appreciate being quite literally dehumanized. It's the first step to the gas chamber.
Ill intent to do what?

What exactly would they accomplish if not banned, and were allowed to continue to "ask questions"?

Why should anyone be afraid of them achieving that accomplishment?
Please be aware when reading this that the "Institute of Economic Affairs" is absolutely notorious in the UK for it's partisan and extreme libertarian views(at least in a British context), whether it be on tax cuts, climate change denial, promotion of gambling or the benefits of Brexit.

It is extremely secretive about who it is funded by, to the point of deliberately losing court cases to avoid having to disclose anything.

Even it's address, 55 Tufton Street is notorious as the home of multiple organisations which promote the same viewpoints, but it is by far the best known.

A brief attempt by Prime Minister Liz Truss to embrace it's economic wisdom by implementing massive tax cuts primarily for the wealthy without any decrease in spending almost crashed the UK economy and ended her term in office after a few weeks.

This doesn't mean everything they write is nonsense, but they most definitely will have started with a predefined conclusion and worked backwards to find a way to justify it.
This begs the question: what is Apple’s real play with Apple Vision? It sounds like there’s a real possibility that, even at a $3500 price point for hardware, the consumer is still the product. What else can their system determine about someone’s brain? What is going to be done with that data?
:) I didn’t read your comment as argumentative. I hope I didn’t come off that way.

That’s an astute point! I hadn’t considered that there may be a bit of a race between AR/VR and AI/ML in medicine.

Ideally the strengths of both technologies would be incorporated into well defined products eventually.

As long as we are damn careful to properly label, review, and check AI generated medical information.
You still need FDA approval to develop a generic. The FDA will not approvea generic unless both the patents and other legal exclusivities (I think the FDA sometimes grants exclusivity beyonbd the end of the patent).

If patents were abolished, the FDA could instead be authorized to blanket grant such exclusivity to genuinely new drugs, with pretty much the same effect as patents.
50 years from now in the future, we will read that homelessness was a CIA operation in SF.
I’ve honestly liked all of my bosses, but it is a relationship that is primarily rooted in financial needs.
I agree that it’s a misleading headline, but sadly there’s nothing more I can do to remedy that, other than clarify for others in a comment (and flag the post).
> "These craft are of natural origin. Some very strange analogue of St Elmo's Fire"

"we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see. Those invisible beings are immaterial: they are made of energy and Russell compares them to ball lightning."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier
I just googled based on your comment. I assumed this was just socks with programming jokes written on them, but appearently it is actually a term for knee-high socks https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

I certainly hadn't heard of this either.
Why would the tipping screen have a negative sign? Not that I haven't encountered service that I wished I could've tipped a negative amount for . . . .
You can eat it in the same thread. Some frameworks do that implicitly (even without await) . You can also control if it's consumed in particular thread or thread pool and decide which thread should continue. More, you can chain and/or parallelize it with other async and not-async functions without any effort. Additionally, you can handle errors and exceptions same as it's async and not-async function. Every good async/await framework offers that out of the box. More, some frameworks abstract executors and you can run the function remotely or even persist it with context. Of course you can achieve all that without async/await, but it makes that extremely easy.
I am actually not sure how wide it will end up. Dnipro is actually reservoirs all the way up to Kyiv. It will be Ukrainians in Dniper HES that will control the flow from now on.
You can detect it. You interview the student about their paper. If they don't know or understand what they wrote, then either they cheated or they may as well have cheated because they didn't learn anything. If you have enough money (they do), make the interview part of the assessment for all students.
I don't particularly disagree with you.

I just think attempting to apply a moral imperative to how species happen to have adapted to their niche is hard.

Rabbits work around their prey status by rote production - which means if nothing eats them, eventually they go through a large starvation event once they hit the carrying capacity of their habitat.

Chickens are arguably one of the most successful species on the planet right now.

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I am in favor of free ranging animals, I agree that breeding animals moves them more into a niche that requires humans to exist - but I'm not convinced that's bad for them as a species (at least not as long as humans exist, and as a human that's my current preference with some admitted bias).

I think globally - monoculture crops are often also a huge risk, and find that they are destroying other animals indirectly (decimating the population of insects, small mammals, and birds in the area).

So I think the problem is hard, and that responsible stewardship likely means less industrialization in agriculture across the board (both plant and animal) and more local production of food. Intentional hunting grounds reserved for wild populations like turkey and deer (at least in my area) are very much a part of that, so I'm also with you on wild animals when it makes sense.
Traffic laws are often nonsense and ignored, see jay walking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO2_Project
Whenever a community project goes commercial, its interests are usually no longer aligned with the community. For example, llama.com makes frequent backwards-incompatible changes to its file format. I maintain a fork of ggml in the cosmopolitan monorepo which maintains support for old file formats. You can build and use it as follows:

git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
cd cosmopolitan

# cross-compile on x86-64-linux for x86-64 linux+windows+macos+freebsd+openbsd+netbsd
make -j8 o//third_party/ggml/llama.com
o//third_party/ggml/llama.com --help

# cross-compile on x86-64-linux for aarch64-linux
make -j8 m=aarch64 o/aarch64/third_party/ggml/llama.com
# note: creates .elf file that runs on RasPi, etc.

# compile loader shim to run on arm64 macos
cc -o ape ape/ape-m1.c # use xcode
./ape ./llama.com --help # use elf aarch64 binary above

It goes the same speed as upstream for CPU inference. This is useful if you can't/won't recreate your weights files, or want to download old GGML weights off HuggingFace, since llama.com has support for every generation of the ggjt file format.
... Imagine if Apollo was able to just flip a switch and point it at Lemmy with 2.3k r/s. Who's gonna pay that server bill?
The fact that Unicode codepoints were being passed to isspace instead of iswspace indicates the relevant code was already fubar'd.

> For example, isspace(0x01fe) is true. I can't figure out why this might be considered a whitespace character

Because the only valid values (independent of locale) that can be passed to isspace are 0 to UCHAR_MAX and -1/EOF, where UCHAR_MAX refers to unsigned char (usually 255), not Unicode character. Most implementations I've seen (glibc, musl, OpenBSD) index the passed value into a locale-specific array of length UCHAR_MAX + 1, possibly masking the index and/or return values. But TIL macOS (and possibly FreeBSD and NetBSD at some point, if not currently) had vestigial support for passing higher values as part of a presumably long-abandoned approach to I18N.

EDIT: FWIW, based on the glibc code (ctype/isctype.c),

int
__isctype (int ch, int mask)
{
return (((uint16_t *) _NL_CURRENT (LC_CTYPE, _NL_CTYPE_CLASS) + 128)
[(int) (ch)] & mask);
}

where isspace(c) seems to be translated to __isctype(c, _ISspace) there's a good chance the array is being overflowed. Without looking further (glibc isn't the easiest code to grok), I'd guess the array size is probably 128 + UCHAR_MAX with the offset of 128 (instead of 1) to handle the common case, especially on systems where char is signed, of people passing in negative values, though that only works for a locale like ASCII where -1/EOF and 255/(unsigned char)-1 aren't ambiguous.
Google Pixel 7A review: a better deal
Please point to where the SEC has made any official statement defining which crypto is and isn't a security.
Seen any nature shows when one animal eats another one, eg live prey? I am interested whether you find such animal behavior disturbing as well?
> I don’t get it. How can social distancing NOT help during a pandemic?

It mostly seems to be for the same reason that several other things didn't work: half the population doesn't do it and ruins it for everyone else.
Liberalism is an ideology that contradictions are wrong. Conservatism is an ideology that authority is right. These are core axioms that define belief systems.

This manifests itself as liberal spectrum people having to adjust their beliefs with new information, while conservative spectrum people mold new information by their currently existing beliefs. That's pretty black and white, and the truth is much more grey, but if you take this as a model for political conversation, I don't think you'll be disappointed very often.

Someone who thinks their priest is the ultimate arbiter of truth will never be able to come to terms with someone who sees contradictions as the ultimate arbiter of truth.

So it's not that it's politically hostile so much as an enforcement of a core axiom of how truth is arrived at and how disputes are resolved -- in particular that contradictions are wrong. "We aren't going to tolerate conservatism where truth comes from priests and godkings or some ecclesiastic structure" seems fine, if not appealing to me.

Liberalism is a walled garden ideology, and conservatives frequently want to enjoy the garden, despite littering the garden with their efforts to dominate rather than reach consensus.

So "politically hostile" while it sounds like a negative isn't. I mean I am politically hostile towards nazis, rashists, and tankies and don't really want to share a forum with them. American conservatives and "y'all qaeda" in particular are rapidly approaching these ultimately fascist and authoritarian political movements.
Funny enough, our daughters around that age walk about that distance to/from school regularly. We use a pair of walkie talkies [1] to comm, and they work shockingly well over that entire distance.

1: Pofung BF-T15. Two pack was $17 on Amazon at the time. Baofeng is an adjacent brand.
Anything except another week with this lot
Compose SQL in linear steps using LLMs. Get rid of complicated SQL syntax
Humans think in a series of instructions, and the machine equivalent to that is a program. Writing SQL forces humans to think nonlinearly, which is not intuitive to us.

Our tool takes in linear steps written in English, which is how humans think and assembles a discrete program graph.

Tl;dr write pseudo code in English and BAM! You'll get 100% accurate SQL! No more sweating over complicated syntax.
It happened and was rejected by employees. The black turtleneck and, if I remember correctly, jeans.
Fully user controlled device running only free software ? Sure, agree totally!

A totally closed hardware & software combination tethered to a corporate cloud ? NO WAY IN HELL!!
I wonder if there is expectation of not getting help on weekend and thus time and energy would be wasted on traveling to hospital?
I wish we could stop telling people what they can do with their property, so i guess neither of us are getting what we want.
Minimalism is always in. Even in high fashion, Issey Miyake, whose association with Steve Jobs is called out in the article, remains beloved beyond his death.

Perhaps it's not explicitly a uniform per se, but you could build a fashionable psuedo-uniform out of only a few garments relatively cheaply and without getting looks like you mentioned. That kind of fashion isn't for everyone, but neither is the color and fit maximalism that seem to dominate today's outfits.
I have much more real and honest interaction meeting physically people whome I don't know from childhood. Online it's all a pretentious character acting.
Apple makes good hardware and makes good engineering decisions. Sure other laptop makers have low end and high end options. But frustratingly often match apple on 50-75% of the features. Sure some have nice still aluminum bodies. Some have screens that match or beat apple's. Some have nice centered quality touchpads and keyboards. Some have great battery life. Some have great performance.

Very few match on all aspects. I'd tried a few and always had one terrible issue. Terrible battery life, lousy screen, and/or terrible touchpad. Apple does seem willing to make improvements without as much worry about backward compatibility. There are a few that match on everything I care about, but often cost more than the Apple.

People like to complain and mention byzantine purchase methods. Wait for a lenovo sale, buy the bare bones model, apply the discount code, then buy dimms and SSDs from random bargain basement sellers. Oh and buy the linux compatible wifi card and do surgery on your laptop to get wifi working after suspend.

MBA is pretty compelling mix of performance, size, cost, and battery life. Unlike any x86-64 laptop, you can pay $500 more or so and get double the memory bandwidth. Or another $500+ and double it again. Definitely makes the macs better any PC at some workloads. Sure some x86-64 with a nice discrete GPU is way faster ... when plugged in to wall power.
What’s better, train a model with 10X parameters once on some default hyperparameter setting or to search for a good hyperparameter configuration by training on X parameters 10 times? While I’m at it, how many LLMs of the size of GPT3 were trained until they landed on the capability of GPT3? How much of this is dependent on the data, or do good settings transcend the type of text that a model is trying to train on?
> I think it does. Many people working office jobs are barely doing anything, esp. compared to manual labor in hellish factories just 100 years ago. And, for that puny amount of office work, we live so much better than people 100 years ago.

We have those busy work office jobs because capitalism demands us to make capital. Ideally, as our basic needs are met (housing, plumbing, food, etc...) we wouldn't need busy work jobs. Even if we do need busy work jobs, then consider this: when I worked as a programmer I did so 5 days a week as a web developer. Given modern web frameworks and the abundance of open source packages, I could easily accomplish in a day what would have taken a web developer a week or more to accomplish ~20 years ago. So the question is, if I'm 5x more productive, then why am I working 5 days a week? Why not 1 day a week for the same pay? Ideally, we would not classify the work week in terms of hours worked, but rather by productivity.
Local LLMs are far behind ChatGPT and GPT-4 in Coding Skills
What I never understood is how their logic would deal with the existence of future longtermists and why this wouldn't basically lead to an eternity of misery by their own logic.

Basically, longtermism is willing to sacrifice everything in the present - health, wellbeing, a livable present - in order to save the existence of hypothetical human (or formerly human) beings in a presumed "glorious" future.

Except, no matter which point in time you are, there is always a future - so the moment we arrived in the supposed glorious future, there would be another future to work towards and another population of future humans to sacrifice everything to. In that regard, longtermism would the proverbial donkey chasing the carrot in front of its face.

With the one difference that the donkey is following an incentive, i.e. it discounts the present because the future appears more desirable to it. In contrast, longtermism is presented as a moral obligation: Because the "death by nonexistence" of future humans is seen as equivalent to actual death, you have to prioritize future humans if you don't want to be saddled with an infinite amount of guilt. If the future is seen as more desirable is irrelevant.

Consequently, the "glorious future" can never appear because at that very moment, we'd have to stop sacrificing the present for the future - and thus commiting an atrocity on the future humans.

So my impression is that if you took longtermism seriously, it would really lead to all times being miserable, not just the present.
Plans for attacking and protecting major infrastructure.

It should not be surprising that such plans exist, rather it should be surprising if they do not exist

Point being the article is trying to make something extraordinary out of the expected. Why would we not expect the major players to have some plan, if not multiple plans?
Thanks for the shout out.

The follow up of that is Solara: "NextJS, but in Python" :)

https://github.com/widgetti/solara/