skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accusing people of using hidden messages, intentionally interpreting their post as negatively as possible, is very against the community standards here. Please don't do that.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
There's a big difference between "this causes cancer" and "this causes lots of cancer". IARC look at the quality of the evidence to put things into one of four groups. Some things definitely do cause cancer, but they don't cause very much cancer.

Don't forget that there are several multi-billion dollar companies who sell aspartame who are vigorously campaigning to promote the safety of their products. It's entirely unsurprising that the data is unclear when you have that level of interference in the research. It's also really tricky to do diet research on humans - we can't lock people up for a year to give them a controlled diet, so we end up asking them to write down what they've eaten and drunk. This means the data researchers have is pretty bad. Looking for a small signal in very noisy data is hard.
> I think game art for programmers or people with a game design idea but no visual arts chops is a very fitting use. As would be generating text for such a use, like dialog for an NPC.

People aren't nearly creative enough with this.

You can use generative AI to give you a complete schedule for every NPC in the town. You can use generative AI to determine what the relationships between people in the town are.

I am working on using generative AI to simulate an entire small town.
> Why not just.. well, let poor people come first?

I recently listened to an NPR piece on this and it seems like you're right here. Even with affirmative action you're really only affecting those that are going to elite colleges, and a large amount of people who benefited from it actually didn't come from low-income households. Essentially affirmative action benefited a tiny (like <1%) portion of all people going into universities in the way it was intended. What would be much more useful is exactly what you say, taking much more of the student's overall socioeconomic status into account rather than race.

We would probably find that this does a better job of helping those who actually need help. And that would likely mean that minorities are still prioritized.

Finally, what we should really be doing if we care about helping those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder is make all community college free. It's already very cheap as-is , we just need to take the leap to make it totally free. This would also help the student loan crisis since those who are going for bachelor degrees would only need a couple more years of education vs. 4
See, that's the opposite of no judgment. Choosing not to drink or do drugs (or whatever) is a-okay.
Because the operate in two different parts of the system. One is about our social systems and the other is about our legal systems.

Governments, contracts, civil and criminal litigation should work on a presumption of innocence (even if the bar is lower in civil court, it still exists), and require evidence (often an abundance of it, or so much it removes all shadows of doubt) to enact binding legal outcomes and punishments.

Groups, events and organizations should work on a basis of empathy and freedom of association. People generally don't want to associate with predators, abusers, and fascists (though the reactions of many commentators in hacker communities often make me question that assumption). And so many social systems are designed to filter those people out. And in more emotional settings like friend and support groups, believing victims is a way to exercise our empathy and provide mental and emotional support and healing for them. Which is the purpose of these groups.

This is like basic civics.
Thank you! I was looking for this.
I don't know what your definition of taking privilege away means, but in my definition giving preference to someone for limited resource means taking privilege away from others.
I think the "well it's transformative" argument is pretty bad faith and I think a lot of the people making it might know that.

Generative AI cannot exist without pre-existing bodies of work created by human labor. It also displaces that labor and hurts the people whose content was a requirement for AI to exist. From this view, AI is not fair use.
Not neglected - complicated. This blog is nearly 3 years old now but still gives a good summary https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/11/19/deve...

And here is the relevant ongoing proposal https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
I used to think that LLMs were just parrots. But it looks like parrots at scale can actually be useful. I keep on seeing new uses regularly. This is one that I would have never imagined. It's been less than a year since the start of chatGPT. Now, imagine 10 yrs from now. LLMs will impact society in ways we can't even imagine.
And the policy certainly is stupid, as its second-order effects increase the risk that most of the passengers will die in the explosive fireball-like conflagration that could quickly follow a fire during evacuation.
amazing haha
Neither nor. They're saying to see things in perspective.
Also push everything up to GitHub before deplaning starts :^)

(or always bring a large USB)
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Poland has fairly less wealth than Germany. Is it fair that Germany has so much wealth today when the countries they attacked do not?

The affirmative action discussed here are not about survivors of slavery. They are descendants and non-descendants. The Germany and Austria jointly paid compensation to surviving Polish. Not to every polish person who by being polish is today impacted by the historical events of world war 2.

To put the question in a different way, why is things settled between the polish people and the German people, while things are not settled between the white population in US and the black population?
Harmless garbage, mind you
There's no bulletproof solution to this. JSON5 (https://www.npmjs.com/package/json5) gets you slightly more leniency, as does plugging the currently streamed content into another smaller LLM. I also wrote a deterministic parser more tailored towards these partially-complete LM outputs. Not perfect certainly but handles the 99% of cases well: https://github.com/piercefreeman/gpt-json. In particular the "streaming" functionality here might be of interest to you.
Not a fair analogy since in one case the water is acting chemically and in the other it is physically obstructing. Potatoes are good for you but if someone
shot one out of a cannon at your face it might not be.
If only Wayland worked on NVidia GPUs.[1][2][3]

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1968929

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/2020249

[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=nvidia-way...
> If you want your money used to pay for reparations you can donate to a charity with aims aligned with that desire. No one is arguing about what you do with your money.

I can also advocate for the state to do it on my behalf. I prefer that solution, because a larger amount of resources can be allocated.

> A functioning society requires accepting other people have different priorities and values from yours.

I accept this, but the values expressed disturb me.
> Let's suppose a chemical causes slow damage to the body, maybe greatly increasing your risk of cancer or alzheimers if you drink a can of diet soda per day. How could we possibly know if it is safe?

The same way we know cigarettes are unsafe. You look at human cohort data and run variable adjustment models on it and control for confounders. How do cigarette smokers or diet soda drinkers do over time, especially in older cohorts? Are there any other products out there with aspartame that we can look at as well until we've isolated a risk model for aspartame by itself?
I watch a lot of gaming videos or instructional videos that benefit from better resolution when viewing on my iPad. It is beyond aggravating I can't set them to at least 1024 by default.
> Primarily, what I’ve learned is that Wayland is actually really well-designed. The writing is on the wall for X, and Wayland really is the future.

Hmm. The first sentence does not imply the second is true. I wonder what it would take to see widespread adoption of a new windowing system. Quite a lot, I would imagine.
"technically" is a really thin veneer though. The founder of Rocky is also the CEO of CIQ. That's not exactly six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

(to be clear: I don't consider this a problem. But I do consider that for RH, this may be an unintended side-effect.)
1: Mouse polling rate needs to be higher than rendering rate and and NOT the other way around. The higher the better because it guarantees that there is less of a delay between the latest sample from the mouse and the time the mouse cursor is rendered. (There are plenty of articles about how to minimize latency for fighting games by going from triple to double buffering and sampling just at the start of the "double" rendering phase)

2: Hardware cursors of old were akin to sprite hardware on consoles, here the hardware did compositing (or pre-compositing) operations on a per-line basis just before sending the frame contents to the display.

On platforms like the C64 you only had 8 sprites in hardware but if you tuned your code to race the display processor you could have more by updating the sprite positions to lines below (so still limited to 8 per line but non-overlapped it was possible to have more).

3: Looking at WDDM there seems to be 2 ways cursors could be handled, either Windows uses overlays under the hood for the cursor (if overlays support operations like alpha-blending automatically) or the compositor pre-empts the GPU when it's time for an display update, modern GPU's are fast enough that compositing operations should be able to finish quickly enough to meet frame-times but if done off-screen for safety it could be producing an extra frame of latency. Regardless the GPUs should be fast enough today to make it happen whenever needed even if not using the classic ways.
The public cloud route is pretty elegant. Red Hat is restricting source code to subscribers only, so Rocky contributors will just subscribe for an hour at a time when they need to download source code. There’s no way for Red Hat to stop this without terminating all public cloud licensing everywhere.
Isn't it a healthy alternative to sugar? If you have a one in five chance to live ten years longer because you don't develop cardiovascular issues from obesity, but one in a million develops cancer, I mean...

It's going to depend on how this turns out exactly.
I'm not sure why you think I'm leaving that out. Are you imagining with what you imagine me to have said or what I actually said?
I call it “stretching your mind” which I can reliably do with a 30 min run.

I’m much more chill and relaxed after that
we opted in a very long time ago, the only opt out is pure silence for now
The commute distance would put a hamper on it even for private schools.

But you can move to a better school district but that requires money.

There are however many areas with decent schools and decent prices which could be a destination. And some minority families do move there.
Yes, and the rest of this thread shows a few people confused about the meaning of "possibly causes cancer" and how to interpret that wrt their own behaviour.

IARCs comms strategy isn't great, and science journalism isn't great either.
You are right. We do send it to OpenAI, and it's mentioned in a couple of lines below. I meant to update the readme to mention it everywhere but forgot! I just pushed a fix.

This is still far better than uploading your codebase to a third-party service for indexing and embedding generation. This tool intends to solve that right now with OpenAI's function calling.

However, the dream goal is to eventually run an LLM locally on your machines and support search without talking to any third-party service - https://gpt4all.io/index.html. But they are yet to arrive; none of the open-source LLMs are even close to the level of performance or quality as GPT 4 yet.
> If you give a worker 5 examples of cars, and tell him "draw me a new car in this style", and he does so

Yeah that's great, but it actually has nothing to do with how the AI works. A worker learning through observation about 5 cars is hugely different situation than an AI company scraping 400 million often copyrighted images onto their servers to run through a training algorithm to create a for-profit system that displaces the people who produced the original images.
Yeah I drink a lot of Pepsi Max. I just love it especially in summer. I've drank it for decades.

Would this make me worry a lot? Not really. I have worse health risks like being overweight, pfas etc.

The "if it was that dangerous we'd see the effect" is a pretty decent argument IMO considering it's been heavily used for almost 40 years.
https://youtu.be/5Jik-FdWhWk
They do: "Group 4: probably not carcinogenic"

The list is empty...
There's not a terribly high amount of caffeine in it anyway compared to coffee.
Why? There is still a much lower cap because of the refresh rate. Rendering at 2k fps would be useless.
Is there an accompanying architecture diagram that goes with this?

I'm not sure which bits and pieces are included without poking through the code
This site has a pretty good tutorial and conceptual overview: https://tkdocs.com/
Made by people with none of the skills or drive to make games.
Scientific America has a good piece about this.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-anthropology-...
Strawman, that’s not what they said.
Google accused of running TrueView video ads no one watched
Yep. Same thing in the e-bike market. So much trash on Amazon etc. They don’t pollute the air, but they have cheap batteries more prone to fire, trash brakes, etc.
That sounds like a fucking nightmare if you're running a marketplace for what is essentially intellectual property.
I'm the same.

But it's not hard to see how nearly 100% of people who drive recklessly would avoid such programs, but less than 100% of good drivers would.

The statistical skew makes sense to me. I doubt that insurance companies are assuming that every driver who doesn't take part in such program are bad drivers, but insurance is purely a game of statistics.
Well, X is definitely showing its age and some week-spots. I think we need something. And given how huge X is - in both features and users - it's gonna be really hard. And, it seems only Wayland is making any progress - even if slow. The other options are slower or non-existent.
this is standard industry parlance
We Analyzed 1,626 Banned Books Here's What We Found
Helmans also uses Calcium Disodium EDTA for shelf life.

Im not saying its bad, or being processed is bad, but its manufactured at scale with additional ingredients to make it shelf stable. Its not the same thing you make at home. Frankly I think thats fine.
Those examples are legal entities with decision-making hierarchies and individuals with the power to exit the group and with limited liability.

Racial groupings are not even natural categories (there are tons of ways to divide people up by ethnicity).
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The linked article says that the survey was commissioned by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the line of questioning seems very leading to me. I wouldn't put too much faith on the accuracy of the poll.
Maintenance is development, unless the system is being kept on life support. If pros build V1, will non-pros be capable of building V2?
To add insult to injury, the first sentence is false.
Can they sell that $500K in PPUs though, since OpenAI is not public? That's one part that is a bit unclear to me, not sure how that works.
Bioavailability isn't the while story: some foods can be too bioavailable (and not great for you when consuming too much) such as sugars which can cause your body to form inappropriate hormonal signals and disrupt normal satiety. (Looking at you, fructose!) Additionally, there are literally thousands of antinutrients, toxins, carcinogens, and endocrine disruptors that simply aren't accounted for in normal nutritional analyses.
This is like why doesn’t Seattle and San Francisco grow to cities of 10 or 20 million to meet demand?

Harvard could increase in size 10 fold and still not come near satisfying demand. Why does Harvard have to expand at all? Why not just have more schools?
Possibly - but I could just claim that for me déja vu is exactly when two experiences are not differentiable from one another. And if someone claims to have experienced this moment before, identically, how would I refute their claim. It's their experience after all.
I think you are overestimating the amount of power in these gravitational waves by several dozen orders of magnitude.

To even detect these, we need to observe multiple pulsars over long periods of time in order to find minute effects only visible at galactic scales due to the nanohertz frequency of these waves. In other words, spacetime is being stretched and compressed at subatomic scales on a sinusoidal wave with a period of a month or so.

It’s a bit like asking if cosmic rays from the Pinwheel Galaxy are affecting cancer rates.
Not gonna lie, seeing him ditch Mongo for Postgres then say "API calls generally take 8 ms now, not 150 ms" made me a little happy. Mongo can make sense, but it seems like he was thoroughly on the hype train for it rather than actually needing it.
Yeah this solves the "I don't use it enough to remember it problem". ChatGPT eliminates the first hurdle of using it, so I'm likely to use it more, and then hopefully it will start to stick.
I eat tortilla chips of all kinds outside of the dorito sphere, dont need anything besides a little salt, let alone engineered powders
It's already been priced in: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/eberem/ever... ;)
The fact that they were backwards and poor was a feature, not a bug. It was an intentional decision by the leaders of the South at the time.
Each implementation of Wayland is its own beast (called a "compositor"). Sure there is a libwayland they all share, but all the implementation details are up to the compositor. The idea of a cursor being hardware or software is not a fundamental part of Wayland as far as I can tell. Hardware cursors are supported in wlroots.
Murphy’s Laws About Programming
#16. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English.
There's a demo at https://wolfia.com/ that lets you try out their code search on some popular repos and see other people's questions and answers.
Or the flip of a coin?

I don’t know the answer but it’s an interesting question
Even though adcoms try to keep the same regime through other proxies, but they have to be very careful: 'But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.' (p. 39)
They can claim what they want; the fact remains that I have to trust them. If I use Brave or DDG or even Google, I can do things to obfuscate my identity from them. Kagi is the only search engine that requires users to authenticate, and ties that authentication to a method of payment that can be trivially tied to the user's identity. As far as the user is able to verify, that makes them the least private search engine.

Even if they're telling the truth, if they receive a national security warrant, they'll start collecting that information secretly. Hence my interest in a warrant canary.
It's more a question of which of the (tens of) thousands of various different healthcheck pings that GitHub has undoubtedly implemented across their infrastructure should be used to determine the status page status?
On some very loaded questions. Holy crud. Had they just asked "Are you in favour of tech companies like Google and Facebook paying news companies for linking to their articles?" perhaps the outcome would have been different.
Government bodies took a lot more responsibility before the 90's after 90's they rather fund the private sector than be blamed for being authoritarian and monopolistic.
Yes, this was an extremely severe case of water hammer, so no surprise it failed.
Its OK to drink kool aide but not snort it.
the problem is the quality of training, i can't see lots of high quality training (it exist) but isn't available like in other areas, 1 most training is buzzword centric learn this new tool, we have "methodologies" but most of them are trash, and optimize for managers convenience and feeling of control, not output, they are books out there who teach you basic of system design, and fundamentals (even this is full of bullshit like, java architects), but they are scarce and is harder for manager to justify spending in this instead of this new tool who will revolutionize the world in the next 5 year and give the manager and increase in responsibilities.
> there is no discussion of the European health systems that appear, at least from the outside, to be significantly better.

Problems with the NHS are not about the model, they're about the funding. The current government has defunded Public Health, has defunded social care, and has defunded the NHS. They've also made it harder for people to immigrate to the UK. These decisions have caused immense pressure on the NHS.

We already have a Euro-style insurance model for dentistry, and everyone agrees it doesn't work.
We do support for a commercial Linux desktop program that gets primarily run on Windows clients. We use VcXsrv (a X-Server for Windows) for that.

I'm wondering, is it/will it be possible to forward a Wayland program like you can a X11 program? Or will we have to go back to NX/X2Go/VNC/RDP solutions and login to a whole desktop environment?
use newer Nvidia driver helps https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland
Timecraft, a runtime built on WebAssembly that enables time travel debugging
Well you had a nice professor. Mine would have a few "tough questions" that accounted for 50% of your grade. It forced you to know everything inside and out if you hoped to pass.
C# really is an absolute gem! Don't know why more people don't give it a try.
Ask HN: What are the best programming tutorials that are project based?
What tutorials do you recommend that are project based? Where you end up with a functioning (and hopefully very cool) program at the end of it?

Could be in any form of videos, books, online courses, blog posts, etc.
Why is New Relic not profitable? Is their cost structure just too high for what they do?
Oh goodness, I'm so sorry you had to repeat yourself.. The reason I started my question by saying "forgive me if I'm missing something obvious" is because I'm no expert on licensing issues and was asking a genuine question.
I understand that. What I don't understand is what you think our point of disagreement or contention is.