skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What that means is not only that they learn what it means to be a dog or a cat,

NO. Please.. they have no idea "what it is like to be a bat" they have been trained to respond to images with a high enough threshold of dog-ness or cat-ness about them.

"what it means to be" is not a phrase anyone in this field should be using.

Then, when you refer to “Lambda”, “ChatGPT”, “Bard”, or “Claude” then, it’s not the model weights that you are referring to. It’s the dataset.

This I can get behind. "its statistics. whichever method you use, the underlying model is most probably like the input set its derived from, because the quality it reflects is in that dataset"

If however, the divergences between them turned out to be interesting, I'd say "its not the dataset, its how people intuit fit against the dataset"
RemedyBG is so good as is Sublime Text. I would pay $50-100 a month alone for a great and fast debugger for x64 Linux and/or Apple Silicon macOS.
I'm confused by your post.

"the jab will kill you"

Why did, an educated RN, believe this? And why was she trying to spread the idea? Is this RN also (generally) an anti-vaxxer? I'm not sure if it is the location of so many media outlets, but Los Angeles County (and Orange County) does seem to be the epicenter of anti-vaxxer culture in the US.
>my strongest belief is that all people have an equal right to exist and pursue their own purpose

Everyone who says this naturally excludes pedophiles, nazis, or any other "undesirables" in their given society, whoever is deemed to be socially unacceptable in the current moral framework.
Considering his lack of success and the fact that he had better military thinkers as subordinates, looking for "military wisdom" from Hitler sounds like the kind of thing you'd do because you had an ulterior motive.
I went with the A770 for my new desktop this year and couldn't be happier.

They did one thing in their first gen that ATI/AMD and Nvidia have always completely failed to do: release 1st party open source Linux drivers that just work without any fuzz.

I see no reason to ever even look at an Nvidia or AMD card again, for my own purposes, assuming Intel keep releasing GPUs. It's laughable how bad their drivers have always been. And Nvidia's pricing is a disgrace.
In the skilled fields, the justification for immigration is the lack of qualified local workers. However when I look at women and minority participation in STEM fields, they’re highly underrepresented. So, there’s plenty of people who can be invested in, to fill these jobs, and our government fails to act. They could impose a huge tax on the H1B, and use that money to subsidize programming education. With the added tax, the H1Bs would not be as lucrative compared to domestic employees. By not implementing this type of system, it’s clear that our government isn’t trying to do anything but feed cheap labor to industry, which ultimately just drives up real estate prices in tech hubs. If H1Bs were taxed at 50%, Silicon Valley rental rates would plummet.

As for agriculture, again, we already have a system for temporary migrant workers, who should return to their home countries at the end of the farming season.

However there are jobs which US citizens would like, in the construction trades, which are currently paid too little due to the foreign labor. These foreign workers aren’t being vetted for the right to work in the US, and their employers continue to get away with this. Again, the government could enforce this, like is happening in Florida, but they opt against it. The people who are competing against these foreign laborers are typically US citizens with a HS degree or less, and over represented by the minority population.
TL;DR This is a bad example as we're mixing content construction with http service layer concepts. It should probably be more like:

public class GreetingResource {
@POST
@Path("/make-greeting")
public MakeGreetingResponse greet(final MakeGreetingRequest request) {
return MakeGreetingResponse(Greeting(request.name, request.addendum));
}

public Greeting(string name, Value addendum) {
if (addendum.isPresent()) {
return "Hello, " + request.name + "! " + addendum.getValue();
} else {
return "Hello, " + request.name + "!";
}
}
}

I think this is actually a little problematic. This handler is a likely location to mix http service logic with application logic and the interface exposed, via automatic parameter injection etc, implies the code in here should be application level but it's actually in the seam between then application and the http service layer.

Testing custom http service logic should involve mocking as it depends on objects and behaviours owned by the http service layer.

Code that we want to easily test for application level logic can be extracted into application level concepts.
Is being a dev ops engineer going to hurt my career as a software engineer?
I’ve been a software engineer for 5 years and I recently took a job as a Dev Ops Engineer. This new job is really interesting to me but I’m concerned it will hurt my career as a SWE. If I do 2-3 years as dev ops will I be shoehorned into dev ops? I’d like SWE to still be an option even as I work this new job.

Do you think dev ops is going to hurt a future SWE career? Would you hire someone with a chunk of their experience being in dev ops?
Discord is a walled garden, but on the other hand it is quite enjoyable. If you find smaller servers. I am only on a handful of servers (none of them is gaming related) and the experience has been stellar so far.
100% agree.

And some domains are extremely complex, requiring an extensive learning process. This is why large consulting-led projects fail, because there isn’t enough time taken to truly understand the domain.
Someone disrupt Reddit already... I'm sick of it sucking up all the forums on the internet into its eternal September matrix.
You can assume those groups feel the same way. Lock it down so bots cant mass crawl your watermarked thumbnails.

If AI companies can hoover up all of Shutterstock’s photos their business is in real trouble.

Do we know if google deleted all their cached GIS images? I doubt they did…
Wow, I already liked Stewart but really respect him to have the stones to bring that up. He doesn't fall into the left or right dichotomy.
This is what nobody sees - they have a thriving marketplace of ads that rivals Google and they did not need to start a hardware business to get it. But they want too and so far it seems they'll burn everything to find their niche in hardware.

They are their own platform.
Enragement is engagement!
> gives them a life similar to the middle class one in the West

Successful students in Algeria get to immigrate to France. They’re literally middle class here (France has no qualms with letting their farmers commit suicide out of poverty and desperation).
Cultural Marxism is an extension of the older idea of Cultural Bolshevism, which was a term used by Nazis (as in, the original 1930s-1940s ones) as an attack on modernist art and philosophy by associating them with the Bolshevik Revolution, and claiming that the Bolsheviks were using modernist thought as an attempt to subvert traditional values. It was antisemitic because it also involved the conspiracy theory that the Bolshevik Revolution was actually a Jewish plot and that the Soviet Union was controlled by Jews.

Essentially, modern art, philosophy, and media was Bolshevik, and Bolshevism was Jewish, and the Jews were a priori bad, therefore modernism (and thus many critics of the Nazi regime) were bad and couldn't be trusted. (And moreover, the Jews controlled the Bolsheviks, and the Bolsheviks controlled modernist thought via cultural Bolshevism, therefore modernism is just a Jewish plot.)

The modern variant is Cultural Marxism, which essentially makes similar claims about post-modernism. In fairness, Cultural Marxism tends not to be so blatantly antisemitic, although many of its early proponents in the 90s and 00s were themselves antisemitic. That said, it retains the same basic structure of claiming a conspiracy by a small group of philosophers (typically the "Frankfurt School") to subvert traditional values with a corrupt philosophy.

It is principally antisemitic in that it is simply a rehashing of an older antisemitic conspiracy theory, proposed predominantly by antisemites. The parts involving Jews have been filed off to make it more palatable to a mainstream audience, but this is a pretty thin veneer over what is fundamentally a Nazi-era conspiracy theory.

It's worth reading the Wikipedia article on Cultural Bolshevism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism) and following some of the links from there to understand the progression between the two ideas, and why people are understandably quite concerned about how mainstream the idea of Cultural Marxism has become.
I wouldn't be surprised too much if Reddit (or others) would begin pumping GPT conversations onto dead subs like this one to make it look real.
Is that not the point of VeraCrypt(formerly TrueCrypt)?

Normal everyday OS in Main encrypted volume, then your secret hidden OS in the hidden volume.

Should someone make you divulge your password, you give them the one to get access to the normal boring mundane volume, and they have no proof that the other volume exists.
"Never get high on your own supply"
You wrote:

But most major countries are working on biological weapons.

And provided no evidence or sources.
Whis is why laws like the GDPR exist. That doesn't mean you need to allow domestic intelligence agencies to rife through victims' pockets and see what they can find.
Let's face it: we were already pretty dumb.
>The problem is that the human body isn't wired for losing weight.

Complete nonsense. Obesity was never an issue in human society before the 60s. No, this is definitely not about the human body wanting to preserve calories as fat. The body has means to regulate its weight and those mechanisms worked up until a few decades ago.
("more food" is not to blame by the way, e.g. look at Japan, almost nobody there suffers from a poverty induced calorie deficit)
In particular, UTF-16 surrogates use 2048 code points in the basic multilingual plane (BMP), but surrogates allow another 2^20 code points to be encodable in addition to the non-surrogate 65536−2048 code points of the BMP.
The kernel aint hard real time anyway. In userspace, guess you can pin the task to one or two core, have it the highest rr priority and get more or less the same soft realtime we have in kernel?
I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s the death of Reddit. They are going dark for 2 days, then it will be business as usual.
Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?
Looks like Reddit has gone dark. I logged out and deleted the apps. How are things internally?
There was a build failure in one of its dependencies and that bug didn't get fixed in time for it to re-enter bookworm before the freeze.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dnscrypt-proxy
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1366204/dnscrypt-proxy-remov...
https://bugs.debian.org/1017302
oh that was great idea
Old Reddit with a Stylus theme is how I've been using it for years. I'd occasionally switch to the new site just to check it's progress and while it has gotten a bit better in the last year or so, little nitpicks eventually drive me back to old.
> If you think the ... aren't running bio-weapons labs, then you are being too trusting at best or too naive at worst.

No, they are. But that's a bit different. Though I understand the confusion. Gain of function research can be classified as weapons. You got to develop weapons to defend against them. And of course, momentum. Especially in politics, where once funding is given it is hard to take it away, though not hard to reduce. I'm more saying if they would seriously deploy such a weapon and how serious the research is.

> What makes you think leaders aren't willing to hurt their own countries to hurt their enemies?

Some yes, some no. I think most countries have learned that the Russian strategy doesn't lead to great outcomes. Then again, you think Russia would have learned it too. But most countries realize that you can't rule over the dead. But you're right, that I may be too trusting. As far as vaccines, it is hard to keep those secret. Especially if we're talking about a country like China with a billion people, where you have to distribute at least a few hundred million. You don't think a few are going to fall off the truck? There'd be a lot of money for such a situation. Or even just the recipe. I mean vaccines don't confer 100% immunity so it still comes with big costs to yourself. But you're right, Russia keeps doing the Russian strategy. Though this is more easily done in an authoritative country. This is a lot of what jcranmer is pointing to. One more thing to consider, it is hard to invade this region after. You might think the same thing about nuclear but there's a reason they've focused on increasing the explosion and decreasing the radiation. Same reasons.

> Every major terrorist organization is or was created, funded and controlled by major nations.

Not quite true, but if they were, then the above arguments would apply there so that no terrorist organization would get the bio weapons from the big countries. You might want to ask why there haven't been any dirty bombs, despite that this should be easier, especially after the collapse of the USSR where many nuclear materials went missing. They all went somewhere (smaller countries and probably bigger countries too, to keep away from smaller countries), but we'll probably never know the full extent.

> And yet, all weapons labs in history were created by big/rich countries.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. Not all weapons were created in big countries. But weapons like nuclear, bio, and others were from big countries because to have such a program is quite expensive. Currently bioweapons, of the kind we're discussing, are still fairly expensive. This may change as things become cheaper. But regardless, these types of weapons are more attractive to the crazy anarchist who wants to watch the world burn than the angry dictator. They just aren't practical in the modern globalized world.

But there's got to be a logical reason for well over a century of research in the area and not seeing it used in practice. If it were a good weapon, it would have been used.
> these kind of sanctions given with absolute bullshit reason would really hurt west's claim of being better

Point is if Air India strolled into Russia with restricted engine components, there would be consequences. Everyone at GE involved would be subject to criminal investigation. Everyone's banking relationships would be in jeopardy.

Sanctions indirectly enforce themselves. Air India could get a waiver, but that takes time, time during which that plane would be stranded and unproductive. Those were the stakes here. Because nobody is stupid enough to stick their finger to U.S. sanctions and rely on the “West’s claim of being better.”
I wouldn't say unique, r/bayarea has been a dumpster fire for a long time now. r/sanfrancisco followed suit a few years after that. I won't miss the toxicity they bring to Bay Area discourse at all.
1 minute? Is that a typo?
Show HN: ask.sh: Terminal AI assistant that can read and write your terminal
I'm mostly worried about how long this can last and whether it will have the intended effect. It's a huge community rallying point but Reddit has clearly shown it does not care about the community's opinion.
The gist of unicode is that code like

const char *const end = str + strlen(str);
for (const char *it = str; it < end; ++i) { .. }

is almost always wrong unless your locale is C and you explicitly say you only work with ASCII. It's wrong with UTF-32 and char32_t too, because as the post suggests Unicode codepoints are not glyphs - you can have glyphs spanning over multiple codepoints, with multiple normalization forms. This is particularly tricky, because characters printed the same can be represented in multiple ways and it's hard to discern them, i.e. è can be a single codepoint or a combination of a '◌́ ' modifier and 'e'.

In general the trivial C assumption "strings are just char arrays" most people are accustomed to is dangerous and broken in Unicode. str[x] in Unicode is wrong 99% of the time, thus UTF16 and 32 are nonsense¹ and either you treat strings as bytes you just pass around, or you need a full Unicode library such as ICU to operate on Unicode text safely.

¹: in my experience they are NEVER used mostly, UTF-16 is actually two incompatible encodings and use it as a way to "UTF-wash" the broken UCS-2 they so eagerly adopted in the '90s (including Java, Windows NT, Cocoa, Qt, Unreal, JavaScript, [partially] Python, ...) .
The Unicode space used to be 31-bit. UTF-8 defined 5 and 6-byte encoding sequences for this reason. When UCS-2 had to be extended to create UTF-16, the solution chosen effectively limited things to a 21-bit space. Unicode was then redefined to be 21-bit, and the 5 and 6-byte encodings of UTF-8 were removed from the standard, though old systems might still accept them.

It is worth noting that if we ever run out of space in 21-bit Unicode, one could conceivably re-extend it back to the original 31 bits by throwing UTF-16 under the bus. The only reason Unicode is limited to 21 bits is because of UTF-16.
>The solution you're looking for would require legislating a ban on any food products that didn't exist before the mid-twentieth century.

Why? You can have food that is more satiating and less palatable without banning all food from before the 60s, you even claim it has been engineered for the opposite effect. In fact that does not seem like a high ask of the food industry.
> Some people have an aversion to "goto" statements

That's because 1 of the 1st things they teach at school is that "goto" is bad, but no 1 really gets why (at the time). It just goes into their brains and this carries forward.

> Java examples which show trivial code annotated with @POST or @Path are not representative of production systems

That happens with every language though. There are disasters everywhere.
I mean, maybe the original post was an emotional exaggeration, but the systems designed like Stack Overflow where the vendor out sources their day-to-day operations to the member of the public (free-to-join for all) are prone to this kind of vulnerabilities.

The main problem is, without strong oversight, interest group starts to develop and then you got a Cambrian Explosion of motives. And as result of that, fragmentation of experience starts to happen (and maybe even corruption???).

Maybe a centralized management style is better for some of these services. At least so the users can directly talk to someone who's contractually responsible to serve them, instead of to another user from the public who is privileged but unpaid.
This is ALWAYS broken on unicode. It only makes sense in ASCII and with alphabets similar to the Latin alphabet.
Someone posted the archive link
> So Google scrapes the entire internet, and even caches thumbnails of images.
If I have a website where I host some of my own images, and I outline a terms of use regarding use and/or caching of those images, is Google obligated to follow those terms of use?

It isn't quite the same as the hypothetical case you lay out, but a number if news organisations have argued that Google should follow some rules about how they used the scraped information. Any ruling against Google here may be relevant against Invidious and similar products.
The problem with this approach is human nature.

If you save the world and then fart once in public, nobody will remember you as "the hero that saved the world". You'll be forever remembered as Mr. Fartman. And the same applies to any group of people.

Being a mod doesn't make you a good mod, not even a good person; you're bound to have a few piece of shit moderators, like awkwardtheturtle, godofatheism, millionsofcats, bardfinn and the likes. And when you remember "the mods" you'll remember those farts, and end blaming the rather decent big majority, who silently does their mod duties for the best of their communities. I sympathise with _those_ moderators.
Reddit has about as much technical complexity in its core product as Twitter—both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist.

It’s the network effects that made Reddit valuable: the people, communities, 3rd-party clients, platform integrations, etc.

Most of these things are fairly portable, so I think Reddit execs are mainly gambling in users not wanting to bother with finding a new place to gather.

I have to wonder why they didn’t just start off charging reasonable prices for the API and dial things up over time. Crummy either way, but less likely to alienate literally everyone they depend on to make the system work.
> Intel couldn't have retained their dominant market share for decades without having those long periods of undisputed technical leadership ...

That kind of misses where Intel pulled all kinds of illegal business tactics to have AMD excluded from manufacturers, etc.
> Not every case deserves forward compatibility.

REST APIs do. SOAP has the same "feature" of failing on unknown properties and it made API evolution very hard.
I’d say with you being a passive observer, you are clearly not a part of that community.

Voting wise, all communities I’ve seen were pretty overwhelmingly in favor.
>Isn't it like this at most places? Even here, where mob rule (the introverted ones hiding behind their downvote ability) oppresses contrarians?

To be fair Reddit has an additional issue:

Whoever is the top mod is based on seniority. This sort of system tends to attract basement dwellers with no social skills (even if those are essential for a good mod), who are there just for the power.
No because it is a different thing. US black population has their own distinct culture (grown out of a shared struggle and history) that simply does not exist for the group that people call 'white'. In this case black teens isn't just pointing at skin color but at culture, one that is very valuable for the VC crowd because it's where cool stuff originates.
The digital detox app minimalist phone has reached 1M downloads
Comes with substantial compute costs at scale… know of companies where the cost of supporting AVIF is many millions more than the cost of supporting JXL
As a fellow Angular developer at a similar state of affairs, I am curious as to what problems you think documentation would solve, how you plan to maintain it after more "Jira tickets" layer up and what's your general strategy.
> likely to completely change in 5-10 years?

...we have been saying the same in the past 3 decades.

No industrial player is large enough to push this change. We need some very extensive backward compatible hardware and software to make this possible.
40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours
So records in Java aren't syntactic sugar over an immutable class? They appear in Bytecode?