skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter if there are lawsuits if none of them are successful.
It's fully static and hosted on github. It won't go dark.
(And I'm actively working on it :) )
I've always wondered why we haven't just come up with an actual language with a pseudocode syntax. Even if the focus was on prototyping with the intention of transpiling to a different lang later it seems like it would save us some time having proper dev tools for prototyping with pseudocode.
Add me (born 1990) to the list of people who immediately recognized Ferengi as playing into how racist people would stereotype Jewishness. "Utterly dead in the mainstream" is pushing it somewhat.
I'd call "may retire, or work on whatever you want for the rest of your life, after a few years of saving" life-changing.
Possibly, but it has 1.5-2x'd since the beginning of the year, so that's not quite "gone".
The test says not to interpret it like that:

"please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)."
Would love to hear people's experience with it, especially for more complex things. Seen it used a few times to add consistent metadata to pages (through forms), but never much built on top of such basics.
Why doesn't SK find a way to feed the north in hopes for good propaganda and perhaps save a few lives? Or do they? Entirely uneducated on the subject, just seems an obvious win/win.
Neither being gay nor being forcibly castrated has anything to do with personality [1].
[1] Link to Wikipedia personality page
I agree a LOT with the comment below.

D3.js comes with function that modify the DOM. This is react job too. So using both together can be a challenge.
You're absolutely right. And if companies are not allowed to do fraud detection using reputation scores, they'll simply treat everyone as a potential fraud, and raise rates accordingly.
I used to live in Illinois and wrote a lot of letters to Durban on tech issues. His responses were consistently awful. Above average awful.

I feel like tech is the most underrepresented demographic in politics. Neither party cares about us at all. We hear cries of "defund the police", but we want to give the police the right to read all of our thoughts? It's so hypocritical; if you think the government is abusing its citizenry and that removing their source of funding is your political goal, why give them spying tools?

Meanwhile, the country's tax plan seems to hinge on one strategy: "software engineers should pay for everything". We make enough money to pay a ton of taxes (I paid the AMT every year before 2017), but we don't make enough money to afford lobbyists. It does get a little better as you get older; mortgage interest and dependents are nice deductions. But really, a lot of our money is being taken to make the country objectively worse. It doesn't feel great.

That said, you can't vote for Republicans because of their hot takes on social issues. They would have half of my friends killed just for existing if they had their way. At least the Democrats kind of let people exist and even get married. (It's also not clear to me that they would ever meaningfully reduce the tax burden on people that work for a living; Trump's supposed tax cuts which removed the state tax deduction increased my taxes!)

It's a mess out there. Consistently depressing. But you gotta keep writing the letters and make them think about the issues. Sometimes they accidentally do the right thing.
Yes, that was edisons original system.
Number 9 will shock you! Don't forget to smash that subscribe button and share with your friends.
To me that's precisely the point: since vehicle itself is not defined and is a subject to interpretation, excluding emergency services is less of a problem than carving out an accurate boundary around what is or is not a vehicle.
> No point elecrtifying everything if your electricity comes from fossil fuels

This is a bad mistake in an otherwise good video. Many (most?) things are better when you electrify them, even if you don't have 100% clean electricity, and even if your electricity is filthy by modern standards.

Obviously, cleaner electricity is better, but we don't need to wait to electrify everything. Do it now, and clean up electricity in parallel.

Oh, and in general I support this "15 neat tricks that your <expert> does want you to know" version of anti-clickbait. Life is complicated, nerds and wonks have thought about it. Learn what they recommend before you go thinking outside the box, or claim "<one thing> won't save us", as if anyone serious was claiming that <one thing> would.
FDR's administration was the most effective of the 20th century and was characterized by more top-down control than any other during the period in question. Maybe you don’t like the outcomes, but it can’t be argued that much was accomplished.
Ever heard about ggplot2 ?

www.r-graph-gallery.com
The crassness in the terminology feels... somewhat appropriate for the phenomenon.

The experience is an extremely unpleasant, and it would be nice for users to recognize it as such -- so they avoid repeating the cycle of network effects + value extraction, so we have a chance to build sustainable platforms which don't take control away from users.
This is so hilariously bizarre to me. Does Second Life have no concept of attacking? So basically all one can do is stand around making verbal threats at little cartoon characters?
Being out of work isn’t a way to improve your social status
Pygame 2.5.0 – Delicious but a Weird
"The code is bad because it was written by a novice dev" sounds like an ad hominem attack to me (as opposed to "the code is bad because of X attribute of the code itself").
Ooh, you can still do focus work.

I give it a year and that time will fill up with meetings too =)
"The purpose of SMW is to allow users to improve the structure and organization of the knowledge in a wiki by adding simple, machine-processable information to wiki articles."

With LLMs those tags have suddenly become a lot cheaper to make. Arguably their cost was the largest barrier to the semantic web vision. But now it may already be practical to semantically markup wikipedia content automatically as submitted. But does AI moot the semantic web, or enable it? Is the semantic layer redundant with an AI interface? I can't predict.
I'm a fan of rider, it's my go-to for anything dotnet and after a few years of rider usage I really don't enjoy VS like I used to when I have to dive back into using VS.
"culture eats strategy for breakfast" -- Peter Drucker, (made popular by Mark Fields, 2006)
Machine Learning in the Life Sciences Has a Data Problem
Smells like token pumping
Could I just give this page to chatgpt and feed paragraph by paragraph my report and get it to be the most outstanding writing that has ever been
I am just going to say one thing: what's the fair market value of art? or an alpaca? It's subjective.
I also have the d3 graph gallery. It shows only simple charts which ease the learning curve

d3-graph-gallery.com
Just curious to know how many people are tired of only digital streaming? Would prefer not to hear the "I love streaming, it works with my lifestyle, no talking in theaters etc" or "I hated the crowds, I don't see why we went to the cinema every weekend, more convenient at home" comments because mostly it's not the response I'm looking for. I'm interested to hear from the people who are tired of streaming and have gone back to the cinema or are planning to quit streaming and go to the cinema at least 3 times a week?

I think streaming worked for me for a while. I have a kid, I totally get the convenience and comfort of it, but I also miss being around and experiencing movies with human beings in person. Home theaters and viewing parties are no substitute for this. Watching with people in other settings is also not a replacement for this. I miss the collective excitement and one that's in person. I miss going somewhere that's out of my house for the purpose of enjoying a film that's thrilling or at the very least entertaining.

Not knocking the choice of fully digital streaming. It works for people and that's great, I still take advantage of that convenience, but there is something hugely lacking because I'm not going somewhere to share the experience with people. And I think some of that will entirely change how and where I watch movies next e.g do not want to solely rely on streaming, do not want to watch alone, preferably want to be in a group of less than 10 people.

Who else is with me?
>Large business wastes just as much money as govt, but when a business makes a mistake they just stop talking about it. In govt it ends up on CSPAN.

The other difference is that the business has to compete with other businesses and turn a profit (or convince investors it will eventually turn a profit) to survive. In any given year they might get away with waste. If you’re a mega corp in an oligopolistic business, maybe even a decade or two. But eventually, you live or die by the bottom line. By contrast, a government keeps existing no matter how poorly it manages its finances. Look at Zimbabwe, Argentina, Venezuela, South Africa, Greece, etc.
If 1 day you need to compute the position of all the rectangles in a treemap, you will understand how handy d3.js is.

D3.js is split in 2 types of functions:

- "math"
- rendering

Math functions cannot be avoided for sure
You are perhaps conflating the model with its output. The output is the result of a human initiated action (for example, a prompt), that can result in anything ranging from a completely new work, not resembling any in the training set, up to a verbatim reproduction of a training work. Depending on the specific circumstances, that output might be a sufficiently transformative derivation, an infringing copy, or a non-derivative, fully independent work.

The model itself however is always a derivative work, it's an algorithmic representation of the training set, so it must abide by the license terms of that material.

For example, a karaoke machine might include public domain songs and you could use it legally for public performances of those works. But if the machine also includes unlicensed copyrighted songs, then the machine maker is guilty of copyright infringement for those tracks, even if a buyer of the machine can choose a non-infringing work. The ability to produce infringing works is sufficient to taint is as a whole, even if some user might not like those tracks and prefer the public domain tracks.

In the same way, an AI machine is tainted by unlicensed training data, even if it can be used in a non-infringing manner; the owner of the machine cannot operate it and offer its services with disregard to the ownership of the source material on which his machine is in fact based on. Conversely, even if some holder might grant the AI shop a license to use their material for training, that does not also automatically grant the users of the AI tool a license to create derivative works of those originals.
This blog post could really use links to other sources.

First of all, I had no idea what an E-graph was, so I had to search for that myself.

Then the post presents the problem itself, without explaining a practical situation in which you’d need to compute/solve this. Would this be used by a compiler to come up with an optional execution strategy? Or an interpreter to evaluate terms?

It talks about the use of a cost function, but to me it’s not clear where it comes from, and what the cost represents. Would that be CPU cycles? Memory use?

I decide to do a Google search for “E-graph extraction problem”, but apart from the blog post itself, I get no meaningful results. I feel lost.
> what would be a minimal test for consciousness?

I think episodic memory and ablitity to simulate reality to plan are huge part of it.

For me, whatever dreams is conscious.
Not quite. Odd releases EOL with the next release. Even releases are on LTS. https://nodesource.com/blog/understanding-how-node-js-releas...
convolutional network to pilot a simulated car on the GPU

Seems silly enough to get you somewhere cool. Though the best pass is recommendation. Impress your colleagues so bad, they will recommend you somewhere one day.

than for impactful work at my actual job

Oh you have to fight hard to get one of those. You cant just do what you're told. Ive got a cool story to tell from my time at amazon but I fought heroically to get it (I was younger though).

I guess hiring is just incredibly noisy

Careful what you believe because your belief becomes your reality.

If you want to be great, you cant just act and think like anybody else. Work on yourself and be great. Get the mindset first.

"life has strange ways"
> SSR dropped from 93% to 65%. This is a damning indictment of their government and economic system.

The opposite. PRC SSR dropped because economy exploded and people can afford significantly more calories, including imported food products. Meanwhile absolute food security increased since 2000s baseline, grain production per capita went from ~350kg to ~400kg while adding ~200m people. Meanwhile SSR in SKR is 44%, JP is 38%, TW is 31%. Obviously, this is a damning indictment of their government and economic system.
Animation is the trickiest part of dataviz on the web IMO.

I like react-spring but there are sooo many approached. All with pros and cons.

I'll write more about it soon!
Same about "human rights"
Rust is great for a backend service. We love sqlx as something lighter than an ORM but with glorious compile-time query validation. Actix is very fast and fairly easy to use. We are able to handle hundreds of req/s sustained on a single instance with minimal CPU/RAM usage.

If your company has rust knowledge and/or really cares about perf, and there are no major third-party libraries you’d need that are lacking, it’s a great choice I think.

I have not used Rust for the FE side of web dev (eg yew), so I can’t speak to that.
Internal combustion blowers and line trimmers are legal here. All my neighbors have switched to electric blowers. The lawn guy also runs a fully electric setup with mowers, trimmers and blowers.

It’s not legislated. The battery gear is just simpler and more reliable. And the fact it’s quieter is a bonus.
I love that their demo is to finally give me a dry run command for pip.
What's wrong in 908B64B197's statement is not that it's a good survive strategy. It's wrong that russian commoners take sides. Indifference leads to caring only for yourself and those who are close to you. And whoever is in power - doesn't matter.

There's a ukranian proverb that is also part of russian culture in english it's meaning sounds like "lords fight - serfs struggle" (паны дерутся - у холопов чубы трещат). So for ordinary person best strategy is not to get yourself between Scylla and Charybdis and be loyal to any power unless you get direct profits from loyalty.
Devastating consequences as Swedish government scraps environment ministry(2022)
Yeah it is something but as an app that usually runs at startup, I'd just be pleased if it can snap a little faster and be less janky. Fingers crossed.
All the map sections are not ready yet. But they will be soon!
Reel to Reel (The Cambridge University Tape Recording Society)
On the privacy front, we're never going to compromise the user data, never going to sell it, never going to share it with anybody else. We'll be making writedown self-hostable as well.

On the security front, we're using firebase firestore as the database. So at rest, it's well encrypted.

We're thinking of introducing some sort of encryption via passwords (kinda how I already am doing it on https://maglit.me). E2EE would be quite difficult and would affect the usability.
The coupling between results and costs is fundamentally broken in the minds of most people who get to make the decisions
Thank you SO MUCH for pointing this out: I never knew about YouTube being a feed. I will make a YouTube video demonstrating this so those who use RSS readers will be able to monitor my channel.
Yes, I was just trying to show that the same people can have a different attitude to the same rules if the context is a bit different.
Right, they HAD to break the law otherwise lawlessness would be pervasive...
10% of US households experienced food insecurity in 2021: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
This is a very good question as performance is a key struggle in Data Visualization. Swizec answer below is great.

I will write more about performance soon. But using several layers of canvas is definitely the way to go in most situation to put it in a nutshell
I think the linked article makes for better reading than the tweet: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-plugin-vul...
Because Shannon's name has to be heard as well just for some people who admire Steve Jobs as the biggest IT Idol in the universe and have no idea who the hell is Dennis Ritchie. Just saying..
> "Aside from a handful of rare genetic issues and unlucky coin tosses, none of those are likely with a healthy lifestyle."

I guess you are a young person!
https://archive.is/XwWTi
I think the thing that is relevant here is that, as opposed to what life was like at the end of the 18th century, there are now corporations that are so large and powerful that they can control many levers of what it means to participate in society in today's age, and thus constitutional freedoms should apply to them as well.

For example, much has been written on HN about how credit card companies essentially control what is acceptable for online content (at least online content that one might pay for). It may be correct as to "the letter of the law" that these companies shouldn't have to abide by freedom of speech or association, but the fact on the ground is that there are nearly no other options if the 4 main CC companies decide they don't want to allow you to take payment (please don't let this devolve into a discussion about crypto...)

The US already recognizes this when it comes to credit bureaus - the 3 major bureaus are highly regulated and the types of information they are allowed to collect, use and share is explicitly detailed. I see no reason why phone companies should get a free pass.
Feature Store Comparison
It’s true that lending is heavily regulated in the US. However I know for a fact that there are startups here that are designing credit scores for foreign markets in developing countries that include all sorts of factors that we would consider bad in the US.
Chemist and professor making the 'electric vehicle of cement making'
>Cement is necessary for making concrete, which is foundational in constructing buildings and infrastructure around the globe because it is relatively low-cost, strong and durable. But making cement generates about 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, a leading cause of global warming
Still trying to figure out how to use github
The US sanctions were very limited and temporary, and didn't restrict trade in food.
Follow a hashtag on Mastodon also creates an RSS feed you can subscribe to.

For example, if you're on mastodon.social and follow the #a11y hashtag, you can subscribe to mastodon.social/tags/a11y.rss

Very handy.
I've been using it since over two years and it has never worked.
> I think this is one of those look in the mirror moments for you.

Unfortunately, self-reflection isn't the strong suit of most people, and especially so for their alter ego internet personas.
That would be ironic because Linus also predicted the death of discrete GPUs.
No the experimenter doesn't assume that, they say: "please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)."

The intent of the experiment is to get your view on whether X is a vehicle or not, and whether Y counts as a place "in the park" or not.
Having a generic, easy way to strip off the extra attributes (immutably), that wouldn’t be a problem. Making up an api: Object.exact<T>(obj: T): exact T, eg Object.exact<User>(user)

It’s not possible at the moment as all type information is erased at runtime of course.
Amazing work! Here are the pictures from the video, if anyone is interested https://imgur.com/gallery/4KBCqrU
Responding to "can you..." with "I can but won't" is generally obnoxious behavior.

Maybe he was thinking out loud, but they should have known full well what the judge was asking and by refusing to answer the clarified follow-up they seemed to be doing whatever they could to weasel out of saying anything meaningful.
I also heard this. I unfortunately forget which study it was but yes, their paper spoke of likely diminishing returns at least at around 400-500B parameters for current LLM's. The recent news of GPT-4 running on 8x 220B LLM's (which doesn't equal a 8*220B size) fits that range and it's also questionable how much further we can push LLM's further by introducing multiple models like this, because this too eventually introduces problems due to granularity and picking the right model if I understood this correctly (from an earlier Hacker News discussion). (sorry for altogether no sources lol)
It's been just a few months since GPT4. Calm down.
Link seems broken?

https://www.msn.com/
Further down (39) there is a suggestion that you start a paragraph with a summary sentence. That might help cover this.

‘Each paragraph should have a lead sentence summarizing its content. If this doesn't work naturally, the paragraph is probably too short.’
No one's asking for 'kindergarten' and I'm a bit puzzled why you would use that word, since the kindergarten side of the internet is the very flamewar dreck we're trying to avoid.
It's a utility company - someones uncle booger works there - there will always be zero culture there face palm
A key tenet of international law is that collective punishment is prohibited and criminal responsibility can only be attributed to individuals. Freedom of movement, presumption of innocence, and respect for basic human dignity are all part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It is not just to treat the non-criminals like they are criminals a priori. But, I will say, I can confirm that I have definitely also seen that sentiment of scapegoating on the rise.
Twitter and Reddit API Issues
Recently as I'm sure you know Twitter and Reddit have spiked their API prices.

Does anyone know of a way to get around this? Anything at all?

I know this question sounds stupid but there are so many ideas that I and other people have that just don't work because of the recent API changes on Twitter and Reddit. As an example someone I know has been working on a project called Unified, a platform were all of your social networks are consolidated, but has sunsetted months of work due to Twitter prices.
Effective at concentration camps, or supreme-court packing?

God save us from effective government.
Non paywall: https://archive.ph/XwWTi

Imo, it is true that the current architecture is hitting the limit. We need a breakthrough on the scale of the transistor to get past this problem. We know it is possible though. Every single human is proof that high performance AI can be run with less energy than a laptop. We just need a dedicated architecture for their working mechanisms the same way a transistor is the embodiment of 1 and 0.

Unfortunately, in terms of understanding intelligence and how they work, I don't think we have made any significant advance in the last few decades. Maybe with better tools at probing how the LLM work, we can get some new insights.
Major AI winter #3. Let's gooo!
When food demand skyrockets but production doesn't, that's a damning indictment of the system. Production should be scaling with that economic prosperity, but in the case of China it isn't. Other countries with economic prosperity and huge amounts of land have food SSR above 1. China's economic prosperity is masking the problem.