skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure that's dystopian, though. Sounds kinda neat to me.

Sounds like you're not familiar with telemarketers, door-to-door salesmen, ...
Only if the the algorithm is somewhat trivial.

Counterexample: Solving the traveling salesman problem to optimality.

We know exactly the requirements, yet we have been struggling for decades to find an algorithm that satisfies the requirements. We have not, and we probably never will.
Here geriatric doesn't refer to the average age of first birth, it refers to issues that the mother and child will experience during gestation and delivery. Isuues such as :

High blood pressure and preeclampsia

Gestational diabetes

Miscarriage or stillbirth

Labor problems that require you to have a C-section

Premature birth

Low birthweight

Chromosome disorders like Down syndrome
It could also be colloquial use of "credential pairs." In that it could be that they were, in fact, hashed; but the report went with a quick verbiage to say they were leaked. Especially considering that most hashing/encoding tricks will go out of date and many common passwords will still be as effectively leaked.
Hmm. Makes a few unsubstantiated claims, with hand-wavy appeals to risks that our private corp overlords are presumably protecting us humble users from, now that they've built their product on open source and data by closing it down and changing terminology to suit.

There's an intelligent discussion to be had, and I think this otherwise-reasonable article could be part of it if it toned down the presumption and condescension a little.
But don't tell them how much food or other preparations you have in detail. If you have to go a month without the ability to get new food you don't want the entire neighborhood at your door. Better to generally recommend how much food they should have and encourage them to get it themselves.
Nix Community Survey 2023
Yes it would be, so what sane person would sign up for it?

The chance we would see a person standing on surface of mars is 0%, unless there is some revolutionary scientific/engineering breakthrough or an actual threat to life on earth.
> most charts out of school aren't anchored at zero, many wouldn't even be useful if they were.

What would make it useless to start a graph at zero?
A place for sharing dev configs and dotfiles
> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt.

Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume?

I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.
I think the point here is that by being explicit you avoid the need to have this argument.
> Second, let’s give credit where credit’s due. GPT-4 is exactly as impressive as users say. The details of the internal architecture can’t change that. If it works, it works. It doesn’t matter whether it’s one model or eight tied together.

If this is true, I wonder about how likely chain of thought is involved in passing data between the different models?
So, the 3 hard problems in computer science are now:

1. Cache invalidation

2. Naming things

3. Requirements

4. Off-by-one errors
Obviously everyone is pushing for their own interests, some of them more effectively than others. But I also don't see many voters ranking this as their single biggest issue, and politicians are well aware of that. Whatever forces you think are pulling the strings behind the scenes, getting to broad support seems likely to be a necessary precondition to overcoming the inertia of a system and a people that are generally comfortable with the status quo.

How did the voters react to the gas tax increases in France? Was that the result of the evil billionaires and lobbyists? Or was it regular people afraid of the potential disruption to their lives?
They will defederate servers that send them troll content though, and I don't see Meta stopping that anytime soon.
From other comments, I believe it's 33%: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600945
> Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content

Netflix's proliferation of reality TV (Love is Blind etc) felt absolutely jarring to me at first but it's just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly.
People (including a now-dead comment) are trying to blame this on "wokeness" due to a fluffy statement about hiring "inspirational" young people, ignoring the facts that a) he was trying to cut costs wherever possible, and b) he did try to recruit experienced "old white guys," but most of them told him he was going to kill somebody: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan...
I think that’s probably overthinking it. I think most of these accounts are just chasing engagement, and they’ve figured out a solid formula: post something really stupid (the tweets by statue PFPs inevitably contain basic factual mistakes), get QRT’d by people dunking on how stupid it was, boom: instant viral spread and engagement. It’s the utterly standard griefer playbook that’s been on forums since the internet began, just with new contemporary culture war material.
> process forking (depending on runtime) to get actual parallel programming

If you get into a time machine back to the 1980s, then yes.
I have to ask, are you seriously claiming that stuff like ChatGPT appears conscious to you? Do you really think we've created consciousness?
I mean, it's happening whether you're using snapshots or not; ZFS doesn't overwrite things in place basically ever. Snapshots just mean it doesn't delete the old copy as having nothing referencing it.
What FF version ? No issues here, I'm on 102 ESR
>I went on to implement storing numeric values as text strings, which worked exactly as well as you'd expect.

It can be made to work. I would've gone with Binary-Coded Decimal if IEEE 754 standard isn't precise enough.
It depends on what you like, but there is stuff out there. And the pirating is easier because good content is spread so thinly across platforms.

Personally, I enjoy comedies and cooking, and those have done right. I’m kind of over the dramatic HBO-style experience.
Well human lived just fine before endless weekly, daily, hourly and up to minute news came in. If bad things are happening or will happen it will reach to people in physical form that is much more actionable.

A lot of other people you mention they are not some kind self-less humanitarians. They are mostly agenda driven partisans looking to rile people and treat everything as game to win. One clear way to win is to not play their game.

Another real joke is 90% of people who write or read news are not solving any real problem. They read news and then go on spew their rants on social media and hector people in doing things where they have no business.
I dont agree, but thats okay. You and I don't have the same level of trust that future government employees and leadership will be objective and reasonable with their interpretation of what we post to our friends and family, I guess. I hope you're the right one here, but I cant make myself believe it.
You do realize this 100% worked with the Falcon 9 right? Nearly all things launching into space soon use the F9 to get to orbit and the bottom stage failed to land so much it was a meme until they eventually got it to work. This style of development totally works for aerospace as long as you make sure that the worst happening isn’t that bad. They failed to do that here but otherwise this development strategy is totally fine.

Also this rocket isn’t going to be human rated for a very long time, neither NASA or SpaceX are going to put people in it until it’s done a ton of cargo missions
iframes?
The motivation for Ariane 6 is to halve launch costs and increase launch cadence.

As some have noted though it will still be an order of magnitude slower cadence than SpaceX is achieving and still not re-usable at all.
That would a very misleading choice.

.astro files are not .ts or .tsx. Similar to .vue files, they have their own structure that needs to be interpreted.
Yes, and the issue is the "capital allocators" of today graduated in 1980-2000.

The "capital allocators" of 2030-2050 will have attended a more diverse set of schools for their undergrad, but will have still attended the same handful of High Schools. I'm saying this from experience as someone who went thru the college application process only 10-13 years ago and with a sibling who went through it 3-5 years ago.

Then again, most people in top industries in their 20s and early 30s aren't on HN. The CTO of Loom was right about HN tbh.
I did not say that all extremely cold (or hot, for that matter) days are climate change.

Climate change is both an increase in global temperature (increased average), and an increase in extreme conditions (increased variance)

The number of extremely cold days increases, but the number of extremely hot days increases more, and both are relevant.
If you posted your data into a service where the TOS allows this use then yes.
wow Japan and Taiwan have pretty good air quality.
This whole '8 models not 1' thing is really confusing to me.

My understanding of the MoE paper is that it's 8 FFNN modules attached to a single embedding and attention module. In that sense it is a 1tn+ parameter model, but a subset of those FFNN parameters are trained on each token/used in inference.

OpenAI made a lot of noise about the power of scaling with raw compute, so I get why people are confused about why they are now in optimization mode, but the amount of disinformation I see about MoE right now is astounding.
There are a bunch of different reasons DANE was unworkable, not just that DNSSEC is an untenable operations problem.
How can you have extra revenue if you're not earning a living?
https://www.airnow.gov is a fairly good equivalent for the US. Includes a heat map, which is a bit easier to parse as well.
Of course yes, but most people seem to be waiting to let the government mop up the problems and aren't spending anything themselves that isn't advertised as a guaranteed investment like solar panels where the electricity company has to pay you for the service of dissipating your excess energy (bluntly put). We need to realise that, at least until the government starts spending big (because it's basically too late for the perfect outcome already, the best we can do is mitigate even bigger disasters), the only other option is do it ourselves.
>Instead Harvard and Yale have created an environment where every single step through your career as a Harvard grad there's a helping hand for you

This is the key to the Ivies' brand.

And it's not really covered in the article, but the reason we care about the Ivies is because whatever fad catches on in the Ivies goes on to become government policy. And why not? They are the best and the brightest, the great and good, destined to guide the benighted masses into the future.

Bill Buckley famously said he would rather be governed by the first 500 names in the Boston telephone book than the faculty of Harvard. Interestingly, this somewhat reflects the idea behind Free Software, where many eyes make bugs shallow. If you were trained in an Ivy, everybody you work with came from an Ivy, all of the potential eyes work the same way, so the bugs remain deep.
New grad talent is a huge pipeline for Google or any other FAANG, and they'll recruit at every well-rated and large engineering program they can find, the large majority of which aren't just MIT. And tons of engineering programs that aren't those, though they may just do all their recruiting through the colleges' online resources, since they have a limited number of humans to physically travel.
The character can find the answer, but how do you the viewer know what happens in their head to reach it? Either they deliver a bunch of exposition to explain themselves, or the director uses the medium more effectively to actually show you what is happening in their head.
They have the low hanging fruit (large apartment blocks) sewen up and are now spreading out.

Last week I was excited to see FTTH guys cabling up my suburban street and was told it should go live in a month or so. I went onto their website and their register info form didn't work (and still doesn't) due to them using some broken Experian email validator script!

The fortune they're spending on roadworks etc yet their bloody signup form doesn't work!
ITYM “syllable”
C++ regexes are literally just copy-pasted ECMAScript regexes. They could have just used an existing regex library, but C++ compiler developers presumably don't want to support an extra dependency.

That's the only real reason why std::regex is slow.
On a separate note, Guy Steele's Common Lisp Book is awesome.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html

It's a bit of a regret for me that it was always a hobby thing and my career never took me in a direction where I would have got to use it in a professional capacity.
I'm not sure OCV gets to decide any of this. Just like I don't think OSI trying to be the sole dictator of the term "Open Source" works out long term. My opinion is always received controversially about things like this, but terms evolve to meet the common usage by the people. If people are calling this "Open Source", and there are more people who want to call this "Open Source", than people who don't; unless you intend to legally bar them from using the term, with actual action, like a lawsuit or something then eventually this will will also be encompassed by the term "Open Source" as people know it like it or not.

Yes I know this term is currently defined explicitly by OSI, no I don't think language prescriptivism wins out regardless how hard they try with it, and since I haven't seen any of the hundreds of quasi Open Source, but not really, companies get dragged to court over usage of the term, this is all toothless complaining in my view.

As to their actual point, I might actually agree with them if it were only the weights being shared. In most cases the configuration is also shared which allows popular frameworks to instantiate the model and then execute it for either inference or further training making the release fully suitable for modification and rerelease. I don't need the exact implementation of FlashAttention they used if I can load the model into Huggingface and use theirs, or mine or whatever.

Edit: This obviously doesn't apply to the models who have restrictions placed on usage just in case people think I mean every instance of sharing a model. Those are obviously restricted use and I agree it muddies the term.
"The Lightning Tamers", by Kathy Joseph, is a wonderful and accessible book about the history of electricity. Her youtube channel is great too: https://www.youtube.com/c/KathyLovesPhysicsHistory
You're basically suggesting implementing JS within HTML, which htmx exists on a technicality, but not sure that's something we should be pushing at all. We're just spreading JS problems to HTML which is a perfectly fine language.
Do we know if this is the original group of moderators? I don't see a list on the page, so it's hard to tell. Reddit has been theorised to be replacing mods on popular subreddits.

There is no pinned post explaining the return, as might be expected if the same mods are stopping the protest. That also seems odd.
Starship might not have a real payload at all because in theory it’s only payload is people inside it so it might just have a bunch of mass dummies distributed where they expect weight to be when they build the interior in the future
Srinivasa Ramanujan would be a counterexample. He grew up poor with no formal training in mathematics but was nonetheless one of the world's greatest math geniuses.
A great tool which really simplified the technology stack and improved my code efficiency and maintainability.
There is no solution to the contradiction inherent in both showing off your ability to craft convoluted sentences and informing the public.
There was a plot point in Madam Secretary about how the FCC is underutilized for regulating things like social media or deepfake videos on Youtube. Obviously, that's a fictional drama where they can hand-wave solutions as needed, but I do feel like in the US, federal regulators are being underutilized, or overall don't have the teeth I would expect.
Yep. And what I'm always pleased to see is projects that have a section or page dedicated to explaining why it might not be the right tool for you, whereas commercial software tries to convince you it's fit for every purpose. And it's quite common to see FOSS projects linking to their "competitors". That sort of integrity is worth far more than any snazzy marketing website (plus some the best tools often have websites that look like they were designed in 2005 anyway)
Didn't realise at the time but you have made me appreciate that that was one good thing about the British system - I was 24 when I submitted my PhD which is fairly typical so still time before such decisions (it was another 11 years before I discovered the challenges of combining a career with motherhood!)
LOL, wrote the thesis in one month. Very funny.
For a problem at work, I needed to create a RegexSet of over 10 MM really long regexes. No engine out of the box could handle it. Even Rust’s RegexSet wasn’t good enough by default.

However, trying to use and read through regex-automata and regex-syntax (even in 2018) was such a very valuable and helpful learning resource. I ended up modeling the project at work off Lucene APIs, but it was all only after learning the basics from the regex crates.

Best set of libs! Thanks sushi!
And it‘s expensive, especially the API. Everyone knows the scalability of plain ChatGPT and it‘s there as a fallback - and so we tend to forget that and kind of also attribute it to GPT-4. But it will take two orders of magnitude of performance improvements/hardware speedups to be cheap for many interesting cases, 3 orders of magnitude to be interactively/conversationally cheap. At least if the rate limit and official pricing reflect the underlying reality.
Weird that you put ignorance in quotes when I didn't use the word.

Again the point that I'm trying to make is that someone making a big deal out of standards is generally not a result of other things being "difficult to figure out, discuss, or acknowledge" but instead because some people genuinely care a good bit about sticking to standards.
OK, for starter the while loop. Main rule of writing shell scripts is, Use The Shell, Luke. Don't start external programs, if your shell (which is already running) can do it. "while /usr/bin/true" is nonsense, every time an external program gets executed for nothing. There are plenty of bash (since this shell is used in the example) internals, which evaluate to true, like ":", "test 1", "(( 1 ))", maybe others too. So "while :" should be better. But why even use dummy true statement, since the loop terminates with read? You can put the read as argument to while directly: "while read -r line; do" ... Same with echo and date. Just use one single printf builtin.

while read -r line ; do printf '%(%FT%T%z)T %-9s %s' -1 "$(/usr/bin/id --user --name --real)" "$line" ; done
I think everyone is still going to push for it to happen for the Artemis program
Why can't this just be on their website? Not everything needs engagement from the masses.

Also building online communities is incredibly difficult and resource heavy, seeing that we can barely get enough funding for teachers to run their classrooms appropriately would this be the best use of taxpayers money?
> Your run-of-the-mill business drone will be trained on Word/Excel/Outlook and be hard to impossible to retrain on anything else (either because of actual stupidity or resistance to change).

Change purely for the sake of change is bad and people are right to resist it.

The vast majority of businesses have no compelling reason to switch off Microsoft Office. Would the world be a better place if there were more feasible options? Maybe. But that's not the concern of either a random business or its employees.
TIL. Truly strange times.
I'll suggest USPS.com

USPS is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government. They have around 13M visits per day [1]. Their website looks modern although I'm uncertain about their uptime.

[1] https://analytics.usa.gov/postal-service
Isn't a better question what could be gained from a government-run social media site?

The only reason this article gives is that government agencies could use it to broadcast messages to the public. But that's backwards. Government agencies want to broadcast their messages where large numbers of people might see it... Twitter happened to be such a place, but if it stops being so, they can find where the people are able to see their messages.

(Note: all these agencies have web sites, so we're talking about better/lower-friction means of communication, not the question of communicating at all.)

It seems incredibly inefficient for the government to build their own social media site for the purpose, since they'd have to somehow get large numbers of people to use it. Is it not far more efficient to just go to where large numbers of people are already going? $500 million/year is a hell of a lot to spend on something that seems to have no particular use or value.

(Not to mention the question of content moderation, which surely sinks this idea all by itself.)
Kickstarter with lots of local marketing sometimes works for a smaller venues.
$1.5m and a multi concept venue from scratch might be a hard sell unless you've a proven track record for any backer though.

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=bakery&ca...
I suspect your view is going to be unpopular but I agree with you. It's fine to find today's selection of streaming TV awful. Just don't watch it. "I'm going to watch this awful thing, I'm just not going to pay for it" isn't really all that defensible as a viewpoint.

Declining streaming revenue means the expensive, good shows will get cancelled and replaced by shitty, cheap to make reality TV. And then people will moan about how all the good TV they used to pirate got cancelled.
I was thinking about players like Hines Ward, who played his entire career without an ACL.

Most players will get it repaired because at that level any small percentage performance improvement (or risk reduction) is worth it. But the body can compensate for the lack of an ACL through strengthening the surrounding musculature.
Reminds me of the old Yahoo! messenger days when you could do RCE on the target's PC but I'm pretty sure other IM clients of the era had similar vulns. Good times.
The thing I don't quite get yet about Deno (and maybe some other similar things), is that do so much that they need to be perfect to be worth using.

Deno is effectively a language and runtime, webserver, package ecosystem, and arguably infrastructure and database. When choosing the technology to use for something that feels like a lot of eggs to put in one basket. Sure there are benefits to bundling like this, but the downside is that you're more exposed to bits of that bundle being insufficient.

Maybe this criticism doesn't play out in practice, but Deno and some other things trying to re-invent Javascript again, seem to be trying to do too much at once, and are risking ending up too far away from the original ecosystem to be able to return. Now maybe the only way to re-invent JS in a convincing way is to do these wholesale rewrites making big divergences, but then again, perhaps that just indicates that JS is not the foundation that it needs to be for some kinds of development.

Note, I've said JS as a grouping of the JS/TS ecosystem and existing packages. I don't think TS changes things that much as it's still the same ecosystem of tooling for the most part.
I have a similar story but replace "FAANG" with "hedge funds".
Mosquitoes could be spreading a flesh-eating bacteria that affects humans
Which is why the founder that succeeded and got the sale is not the one building the new version. He is going off and re-doing an unrelated acquisition.
No need to use Flask, just use the browser dev tools to set the value to Googlebot and it works directly in the browser