skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit harsh.

The fact that something is subjective does not mean that it is useless.

IMHO, writing maintainable code requires a lot of experience, which one cannot expect from all junior developers. Requiring style guidelines for everything is a bit pedantic, and does not even make sense when you stride in to new territories. The latter is increasingly becoming the only part of software development where I would like to go.

If all code and requirements would be so objective and so simple, then I'm afraid you'll soon be replaced by an AI agent :)
"there are no original problems" in this domain is the crux of it with Threads and Elon calling it a copy.
I think this ended up pretty much useless. If you use the app in public transport, you would get a warning every day.

What were you supposed to do with that information then? Most people just ignored it.
Nice. I was at msft then and had access to the code. My friend and I had a great time hacking his daughter's Barney to make it say things it shouldn't.
It’s posted further down the page
... you cant be serious.
I think you may be miss-remembering.
I live in the Netherlands, and even here, everybody knows: Harvard is for the Rich.

I know it's comedy, but it's typical: Louis in suits referring to anything non-Harvard as "worse than sludge".
I sometimes wonder if the data transformations found in ECS Systems could be constructed through a visual editor. An analogue might be Unity's Shader Graph, where a developer with a less technical background can program a GPU's SIMD architecture.

Do you think that sort of thing could ever be feasible in Bevy?
Real reason Tesla is letting rival car companies use its EV charging stations
An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma
[citation needed]

I'll take down votes all day.

Information wants to be free. I can't believe I have to say this on a site like this.

I'm glad Elon bought Twitter because it allows for disinformation to be exposed and discussed.

The more you suppress it, the more people seek it out.

The petty tyrants out there with opinions like yours deserve the freedom of speech they get because it shows that some stuff you think is valid isn't actually as valid as you think it is.
lol it literally says that masks reduce the spread of COVID. By all means, provide some evidence to the contrary
Hmm...if I get on the internet and download and read a paper from some website, am I liable if that paper was actually private if I had no clue it was obtained illegally? It seems to me that the distributor would be liable at that point, not the person who got it from the distributor (unless they knew they were stolen goods, then of course they are liable!).

A search engine that indexes the internet might be equally liable at that point, although the DCMA gives them an out if they have a mechanism to remove pirated entries from their index on request. Could LLMs have the same out?
Intellectual property in the way of progress, again.
Perl Mason does web templating similar to PHP:

http://www.masonhq.com/

For years Amazon.com used Perl Mason.
After seeing the "lumographic lens" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiDqUkmozlM) I managed to dig up some interesting research on what is basically a method of milling a "lens" to project an image at an arbitrary focal point using light convergence for "white" and divergence for "dark.

https://cdfg.mit.edu/publications/fabricating-microgeometry-...

https://cdfg.mit.edu/publications/goal-based-caustics

https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/papas11goal.m...

https://cdfg.mit.edu/publications/ in general has a considerable amount of interesting publications regarding computational design and fabrication of neat optical effects.

As does
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623052716/http://lgg.epfl.c...

>Caustics are captivating light patterns created by materials bundling or diverting light by refraction or reflection. We know caustics as random side effects, appearing, for example, at the bottom of a swimming pool. In this work we show that it is possible to control caustic patterns to form almost any desired shape by optimizing the geometry of the reflective or refractive surface generating the caustic. We demonstrate how this surprising result offers a new perspective on light control and the use of caustics as an inspiring design element. Several produced prototypes illustrate that physical realizations of such optimized geometry are feasible.

Now redirects to https://www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/publications/
I've not seen much (any?) anti-ebike stuff in UK media. Scooters, yes, but not ebikes. And 20 minutes sounds fine to me?
Feels obvious to say this, but very odd that the article didn't mention, lying is bad, especially when done for profit.
Can you recommend any books on this subject?
That's definitely not how Amazon works. The most successful engineers there never stay in one place for long. This, plus the perpetual burnout due to things like Away Teams and S-Team goals, means you will instead have a revolving door of talent and fresh hires.
That's funny, because so many of the early sales pitches for .net focused on polyglot as a main feature.
The best part imho is the shrinking.
From what I understand are they not rejecting all of it, just the parts that hypothesized how things work in brain. These parts are hard to verify and I believe the essay claims that these parts have been falsified by now and it proposes an alternative hypothesis.
> Is there any legal basis for saying fair use permits distributing an LLM trained on copyrighted material, but you have to purchase all the content first to do so legally if it's only available for sale?

My understanding (disclaimer: IANAL) is that in order to claim fair use, you have to be legally in possession of the work. If the work is only legally available for sale, then you must have legally purchased a copy, or been given it by someone who did so (for example, if you received it as a gift).
I'm not sure it was the tour that was popular when Lance was winning it... Lance was popular and his Live Strong brand was popular, but I don't think many Americans actually cared about world tour cycling.
That is a very clever solution.

I have seen a person take out a standard moniter, laptop stand, keyboard and mouse from their carry on and set it up on an airport table.
Honestly I did not realize that acquisition happened so early in YT’s existence. That’s on me I suppose.
Presupposes a monolithic marketplace. Locker rooms and scientific journals self-sort. Who decides which ideas are “worthwhile”? We are what we are, indeed what we were meant to be, deplorable as we may be in the eyes of the “elite.”
this is not viewable on the web
> People who know how to use C rarely if ever have problems with undefined behavior.

I think the CVE database would disagree with that statement.
Few reasons:
1. I've gotten value from these folks on other platforms and mediums
2. I'm interested in what they have to share
3. I hope that starting to populate my following helps to choke out all of the bullshit brand recommendations I'm getting

Reason for sharing: can't imagine I'm the only one.

Not sure what you mean about the money thing. Whether you mean me or another person hypothetically following, I don't see a direct way to make money off of it.
Prelife, atmosphere was 90% co2. Now it’s less than 1%. Even if we burned all the existing fossil fuel, I don’t think we could get co2 above 2% if we tried. But the whole debate is moot as electricity is so much more efficient carrier of energy than carbon-hydrogen.
thank you sir! don’t hesitate in contacting me if clarifications needed, will be glad to help
mirror anyone? hangs loading forever
Dated?! By banking tech standards, ISO 20022 is futuristic magic, a mere decade old. A lot of banks (particularly in the US) would still be using ISO 15022 or even older standards.
https://archive.is/MAj1e
>On information and belief, the reason ChatGPT can accurately summarize a certain copyrighted book is because that book was copied by OpenAI and ingested by the underlying OpenAI Language Model (either GPT-3.5 or GPT-4) as part of its training data.

While it strikes me as perfectly plausible that the Books2 dataset contains Silverman's book, this quote from the complaint seems obviously false.

First, even if the model never saw a single word of the book's text during training, it could still learn to summarize it from reading other summaries which are publicly available. Such as the book's Wikipedia page.

Second, it's not even clear to me that a model which only saw the text of a book, but not any descriptions or summaries of it, during training would even be particular good at producing a summary.

We can test this by asking for a summary of a book which is available through Project Gutenberg (which the complaint asserts is Books1 and therefore part of ChatGPT's training data) but for which there is little discussion online. If the source of the ability to summarize is having the book itself during training, the model should be equally able to summarize the rare book as it is Silverman's book.

I chose "The Ruby of Kishmoor" at random. It was added to PG in 2003. ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 hallucinates a summary that doesn't even identify the correct main characters. The GPT-4 model refuses to even try, saying it doesn't know anything about the story and it isn't part of its training data.

If ChatGPT's ability to summarize Silverman's book comes from the book itself being part of the training data, why can it not do the same for other books?
Well, in this case a random law enforcement deputy could get sensitive location information about random people with no meaningful cross-check of any sort - and this has only come to light after the fact, as part of a criminal investigation. So there's reason to be highly skeptical that the status quo is the best we can do when it comes to preventing abuse across the board.
is there legal jargon for this distinction?
Gov'ts that want to monitor citizens for say a tendency to get an abortion have more power than a corp that wants to sell me diapers. One step at a time. Try to stop the worst offenses then work your way down.
The problem is that there is too much garbage and too much consumerism.

Sure, go ahead and buy the cheapest rain coat you can find. You are going to regret it. Need a bookcase? Pick the cheapest Billy from IKEA. You can only put it together and take it apart exactly once.

This has nothing to do with obsessions, but rather avoiding to get fucked over crapware and planned obsolescence.
I do not actually think they are better. They are broken for most of my use cases. Most of the time I'm better off using traditional enums with explicit sizes (a C++ extension that I deem sane), optionally wrapped in a namespace.

The mere existence of all those features costs a lot of time just to understand and navigate them. They can diminish productivity. C++ is a huge language. It has tons of features that suck up a lot of time until you understand the space where the features can be used to good effect.

And "good effect" often means just writing the same thing in fewer characters, or a little more type-safe (which often wouldn't be needed if the design were sane).

And if the requirements slightly change and that good feature breaks, enjoy your rewrite! Or add another set of abstractions or even macros to work around the breakage -- like MS did in case of enum class bitwise operators for example.

That's why many people restrict themselves to C entirely -- no time to waste on finding out why C++ features X, Y, and Z all don't work for the given problem. Time could be better spent than with obsessing over all the ways in which an arbitrary set of features can be abused to write the implementation in fewer lines of code, meanwhile making it harder to read & write. Just think about the algorithm & the data layout, and bang out the code.
The site's layout is all over the place. I haven't used Twitter for a while, but I don't remember it being that confusing.
If you already know that your model contains falsehoods, what is gained by having a chain of provenance? It can't possibly make you trust it more.
This isn't a law. This is an opinion by someone who can't stand being told that something he might think is correct isn't and when pushed on it can't argue in good faith because his position isnt as good as he thought.

Also considering who came up with it, it's another prime example of someone who is an expert in one area assuming he has expertise in another that he has zero expertise in.
Non-Threads link: https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-move-f...
You could ingest all reviews that are extent in the online corpus, remove from the book all quotes found. Then ask the AI if a distinctive triples, say, of words appeared in their book, somehow, you'd probably need prompt engineering to get past "While I don't have access to the full text of the book [...]". A little maths and you might prove beyond reasonable doubt that the LLM was trained on the book.

As a step towards a PoC I looked at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bedwetter-Stories-Courage-Redemptio... and found a reference to "Boys' Market Manchester" which seemed like a Googlewhack-ish (unlikely) triple of words. Then I asked ChatGPT about it:

Me: Has Sarah Silverman ever written about Boys' Market Manchester
ChatGPT

ChatGPT: As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I do not have any information indicating that Sarah Silverman has written specifically about Boys' Market Manchester. Sarah Silverman is an American comedian, actress, and writer known for her stand-up comedy and her work in film and television. While she has written books and has often shared personal anecdotes in her comedy, I couldn't find any specific references to Boys' Market Manchester in relation to her work. However, please note that my information might not be up to date, as Sarah Silverman's career and activities may have evolved since then.
Despite how hard the UK government tries, it's still the third-largest tech sector in the world, only behind the continental-scale economies of the US and China.
It gets kinda dicey in jurisdictions that have media levy taxes.

The uploader might be breaking the law but not the downloader that stores the copyrighted material on levy-paid media.

I’ve heard inklings of this argument in Canada but can’t figure out what the current state of the art is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada

Then is a corporation’s internal use for the purpose of analysis considered “private use”? If there’s no redistribution/broadcasting, is it still non-commercial?
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1550168842378170368
I agree in spirit, but the $1000 price is wrong.

There are brands like Harley Benton producing amazing €200 guitars.

I have one that I like as much as my two Custom Shop Gibsons... and it is vaaaaaastly superior to my Gibson SG Standard in terms of quality and playability.

Also the $1000 price point is a very awkward price point, IMO. Not that much of a quality jump compared to $400/$500 guitars, and proportionally not as good as more premium instruments starting at $1500 and up.
It seems to be hot-patching the image to redirect the kernel command line to boot from the iventoy server.

I booted ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso and the resulting kernel command line of the installation environment has a "url" argument that points at the iventoy server URL for the iso image.

I was not able to directly boot a homegrown Debian live ISO image, so I think they just have a broad set of specific ISOs that work with iVentoy. It's not a generic "boot any ISO" solution.
> As an applied science, thus, the practice of eugenics referred to everything from prenatal care for mothers to forced sterilization and euthanasia.

Spektorowski, Alberto; Ireni-Saban, Liza (2013). Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare

https://web.archive.org/web/20211019203011/https://books.goo...

(emphasis mine)

After birth for non-sterile individuals is before birth for their progeny.
I wonder what portion of pros have moved to mirrorless since it's been intoduced? It doesn't change much for image quality, and it forces you to change your lens range or run adapters, it's quite annoying but I'm pretty sure a lot of people have jumped anyway.

I'm biased, I'm still on a 5d mark i !
I agree if only black people would change.
i don't think that is at all possible.
Those 18 bytes aren't the binary, they're just the command to call the program. Don't count it just as you wouldn't count the length of the filename and its arguments for a regular executable.
If you're using firefox with facebook containers you need to allow threads.net to run in the facebook container.
And for completeness, here’s an article about the telecoms themselves: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/19...
ITS it's the most amazing OS (with Emacs and "TV") you can try there.
It's the only language I'm aware of that takes C's explicitness and pushes it even further: it bans some implicit conversions, and it makes you pass an allocator as an argument to functions which can allocate memory. Most languages choose to go the other way and introduce features like try/catch and operator overloading.
Why is 1 not violated by 3 in this context?
The theory seems to be that a voltage spike can mangle an ADC re-calibration which results in large "corrections" to the acceleration position sensor resulting in unintended accelerations which "look" just like someone pushed down hard on the gas pedal.

Perhaps a better article here: https://www.carscoops.com/2023/07/feds-assess-allegations-th...

A very detailed paper by the fellow mentioned in that article here: https://www.autoevolution.com/pdf/news_attachements/breaking...
Thanks for pointing out that oversight of mine. Bummer that I can't edit (past the window).

https://threads.net/@drstanier

https://threads.net/@msjewelia

https://threads.net/@kellan

https://threads.net/@louiebacaj

https://threads.net/@rands

https://threads.net/@mitraraman

https://threads.net/@neha.nark

https://threads.net/@peter_vukovic

https://threads.net/@s3nd1l

https://threads.net/@willrlarson
If you want to take a macro view of it: the losses taken by failing to control climate change by allowing unions to dictate emissions standards far outweigh any gains the union workers and their customers get.

Or put another way, internalizing the costs of driving and making SUVs and trucks doesn’t make everyone poorer, it means that the public is t paying the costs for the private benefit of a few
Companies ofc now circumvent that by selling you licenses, and not something you own.
I think there's two things going on here. First, there's a phenomenon wherein people, many of them journalists, don't know or care about anything that happened more than about five years ago. They live in the moment, unmoored from any historical perspective and immune to books, encyclopedias, archives, and anything that contains information about things Before. I don't know if this is something that's increasing; it seems that way to me, but it may be that I'm starting to get old enough that I remember a bunch of things first-hand that younger people don't know or care about.

The second is that the core audience for the New York Times is rich Manhattan assholes, and there's sort of a bread-and-butter Times article that's basically "Hey, this rich asshole who makes the world a worse place every second he continues to draw breath is actually a complex nuanced person for reasons we will not adequately explain, so maybe you, Rich Manhattan Asshole, also have redeeming qualities and you should feel better about yourself and keep buying our newspaper".
Threads doesn't have a public web interface yet; you can only share Threads and see just that. I'm sure that will change in the near future, but I imagine that is why you're confused.
They seem to inject additional people into their processes, for reasons I can't discern but I'm sure exist.

For example, even buying something as simple as an Airtag means waiting for a random employee to be free, who then gets one for you, only to then wait for another different employee to be free to allow you to pay for it. Maybe that's just about theft prevention?

My one "Genius Bar" experience (recently) in Munich was really crappy - told to check in, then told to wait by a table where I was ignored; when I re-approached someone, told to wait somewhere else... and watching the flow of things, it became very apparent that my 'appointment' had no value - I was helped in a queue after people who'd just walked in.
can you find a master woodworker with a dull scalpel?
You're writing this like I don't agree with you and do the exact same thing. Explaining the social dynamics at play doesn't mean I agree with them.

> When was the last time you told someone not to use a word

Literally never. Again you assume a lot about me. I am speaking purely from the perspective of being told to use different words. It's
never really bothered me. My response has always been "sure whatever." Some of them are a stretch but a lot of them make sense. No one has ever made me to feel bad about it.

Clearly someone hurt you and made you feel bad and I'm sorry for that.
This is the correct approach for VR IMO, especially or a brand like apple. It's going to continue being a niche within a niche for years to come and you don't want to expose how immature & jank the entire industry is to normal people yet.
The commenter is talking about the local equivalent of Uber, not actual taxis.
Yeah, a standardized test that can be prepared for in short order via expensive tutors is absolutely a great way to rank applicants, you’re right on the money, which is great because money money money.
Well, dang. I was skeptical of these after the ones in Toyotas proved to be people hitting the wrong pedal, but props to these researchers for continuing to dig after everyone else decided the case was closed. They’ve almost certainly saved lives with this discovery.

*edit: looks like this may have been debunked
Somehow I stumble upon that paper once every few years, and I enjoy reading it every time.
Have worked for the A to Z company. Away teams as a concept exists because teams that are overworked and understaffed can't do everything asked of them (including things you can't say no to, like S-Team goals). The Search team was especially famous/infamous for using this, due to the sheer volume of asks (i.e. can we do a twister on fabric types for clothing and see if it improves dress sales?). Your team makes the ask, search says "sure we'll support you as you make the changes to it," and the asking team provides the brave souls diving into a strange codebase.

Does it work? Technically, yes. Is it sustainable for the engineers on both sides? Not in my eexperience.

>> An away team is a self-sufficient engineering team that works on code owned by another team (the host team) to deliver features they are dependent on.

This is fundamentally wrong. The point of the away team is to get support from the host team as they work. It is not self sufficient by nature. Otherwise, this is just a team randomly contributing to a codebase you own.
It is my understanding that most VCs expect only one in ten businesses to succeed, but that one is enough to offset the loss and ensure a profit.