skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question-- why weren't the tools glued together or perhaps replaced entirely with the lisp inside Emacs? What was it missing?
Macross has been in licensing hell since the VHS days if I recall correctly.
Now? SQL connectors have been part of Excel since at least Office 97...
Show HN : Nova - GPT with composable prompts, workspaces, + LlamaIndex
To be fair, this has always been pretty evident. Fansubs quality are higher because they embrace the anime-watchers culture, rather than being a translation in the traditional way. Starts with -chun -kun and friends, but over time there are many more words that should not be translated.

And the fansubbers subs quality for some are incredible, integrating the sub in the anime itself (text over a sign and similar things, sometimes different coloring to easily identify characters and such.

Very passionate about anime, but lately struggling to get hooked, I have 2 children that are young, so what I can watch without traumatizing them is limited (had to watch Made in Abyss late at night)
> Fansubbers these days are a tiny shadow of that they used to be. The vast majority of anime piracy these days consists of ripping official streams, which include subtitles.

Yep, like another commenter says, the scene got Crunchyrolled 2010-2012ish and many subbers retired.

It's funny (frankly outright amazing) how Crunchyroll, originally a major pirate streaming site, managed to cross the chasm by striking legal agreements with content owners, and for a large amount of content to boot. It might have been possible only for a small window (before the real rise of global online media platforms), during which the owners wanted to gain the global online audience and didn't have as much familiarity with building online international distribution channels. Can't imagine moves like that happening any more in our climate.
Serial Experiments Lain is by far my favorite anime of all time, and was prophetic about how the internet would evolve over time. It is required watching for all HN users.
A couple of months ago I started working at a company that (mainly) develops C# libraries.

The pipeline to deploy is complicated. Using a tool like ILMerge to combine DLLs into a single DLL (to prevent DLL hell issues). Using Babel to obfuscate the code base. Using nuspecs to create a Nuget package from the DLLs and various metadata. Signing the DLLs with some certificate. Then, if native stuff is included, also ensure the Nuget package can be deployed on all supported architectures. Probably some more stuff.

Setting up a pipeline in Azure devops for a product I am working on, for the company, is already taking me a week and will probably take another couple of days to complete. But at least it’s a one-time task.
There is also the abomination which is Windows container “support” which works perfectly as long as you sacrifice a small fuzzy animal on a granite block at exactly midnight. Use a copper blade though, not bronze! Rookie mistake…
The current post's link points to the mdBook sources on GitHub, while the previous one points to the generated website.
Current was flowing through the "body diode" which is intrinsic to the construction of ICs (it's normally reverse biased). The forward voltage was likely around 0.6v, maybe a little higher with a lot of current flowing through it. So roughly that times however many amps the power supply could supply with the resistance of the leads/rails. It doesn't actually take that much power to make a DIP package extremely hot though, lacking any sort of heat sink.
You're doing an excellent job on your own, cupcake.

"Very good", take off.
Right as I clicked the link, I thought to myself “I bet it’s smartphones.”
Well this one certainly hits home unfortunately.
That sounds amazing! There are a bunch of animes that are unwatchable if you don't remove all the fillers. Or in case of naruto, all fillers and flashbacks, lol
We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.

Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market's expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?
I fixed it. Didn't trim enough of the URL on mobile..
This is very common at Uber and Airbnb
As someone who did away team work at Amazon, and also hosted away teams: the model sucks in most ways and was unpleasant for everyone. It got the job done in extreme situations, but it was mostly a result of subpar managers taking the term "fungible" too seriously.

Source: was sr engineer at Amazon
There is no agreed upon definition of science or the scientific method. I'm sure we could agree upon a demarcation between scientist and engineer, though, and I was drawing that distinction in a way I think we can all intuit.
GPS Log
Divorce was invented by the wedding industry in ‘96 to sell more weddings
disclaimer: lapsed typesetter/scanlator/vn patcher

Your and the parent's statements are actually congruent: they're not saying ripsubs aren't shit, which they are, but that they're good enough to minimize the relevance of fansubbing to the mass market, which they are.

I mean, just look at the output of prolific fansubbing groups from ~2010 to ~2020. At the start of that window, groups like FFF/Underwater/gg/commie/Vivid (and many more I'm forgetting) would race to release subs for airing eps and would frequently have them out within a day or so of the rips. Now, like... maybe three, generously? shows a season get that treatment, and a lot of the people from the scene have moved on.

I believe fansubbing still has immense value, but effort is obviously shifting towards making really high quality releases of older stuff rather than racing to sub airing shows (not to imply that the former didn't happen beforehand; it did, but was a smaller slice of the overall scene). And even though I never worked on airing shows, I get it: why kill yourself to release a better version ASAP if 99% of schmucks will just grab Horrible instead?

e: s/high-tier/prolific before someone goes in on me for gg/commie
The truly ironic thing is how the cycle is now complete. Crunchyroll is now owned by Sony. Sony also owns Aniplex, a major anime distributor, and A1 Pictures, its animation subsidiary that produces a lot of popular anime. The former pirate site is now owned by the company that produces the work!
That's a good point. You'd need to figure out what to do about persisted data the service depends on as part of the forking process. In the cases that aren't such that you described, I'd guess most of the time you'd be stuck trying to get your changes merged by the home team - something I think is much more desirable for long term code quality (in theory)
This is a terrific strategy! I'm going to do exactly this. Thanks for sharing.
>That's obviously false.

That perspective is how being wrong looks here. Its an incredible shortsightedness, you have no basis for that degree of certainty. For starters, if it was so obvious you could explain how.

We are talking about a barrier to enter public discourse enforced through DDOS, not freedom to do business with whom you please. This robs you of the ability to self host. With zero checks and balances. You being certain that the likes of the daily stormer shouldnt exist in the public discourse doesnt absolve you of the responsibility for the delete function you just created. For which you have zero concern. That is how a totalitarian slope looks, totalitarians prick holes into the public discourse with no regards for the safe use of such holes. Unsurprising as there is no safe way to do this. Its building a horrific weapon with no targeting mechanism or safety.

You having made yourself a totalitarian through your flagrant disregard for the consequences of your actions. Your error lies in believing your intention matters more then the outcome. To the degree that safeguards became unnecessary. You could and should know better, reality always wants its toll for such behavior.

edit: Please check the comment a bit down starting with " Naive being the key point." on the use of the term totalitarian. I also mentioned stuff to read on the topic by people a lot more capable then me and and hopefully a lot harder to ignore.
Counter-argument: Bezos.

It's not a good counter-argument, though. Plenty of people grow more hair.
Awk today is very much the same language it was in 1977 when it was introduced. Comparing your links with today's POSIX awk manpage doesn't yield a single thing Perl brought to awk. At best, while JavaScript syntax is even based on awk, you could say JavaScript regexpes are based on PCRE, and it wasn't clear whether use of capture groups/back references makes Perl regexpes accidentally Turing.
Wow, this book's pricey. Is it worth it for a beginner?

btw, Ed wasn't an adjunct at Berkeley. He taught at the UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz _extension_ program.
I have an M1 MacBook Air and use an app called CoconutBattery to monitor power usage.

What I’ve noticed is that while the laptop is usually super efficient (say, 2.5-4W while web browsing giving 8+ hours battery life), occasionally the power draw climbs up to 6, 7, 8W or more with no obvious explanation, draining the battery in 3 or 4 hours.

Activity Monitor will show no apps using unusual energy yet the power is going somewhere? I’m suspicious that there’s something with maybe the WiFi hardware or the SSD which sometimes causes elevated power use, unseen by Activity Monitor?

Even a reboot won’t solve the phantom power drain while it’s happening, but it does seem to go away on its own eventually…
Perhaps. Still feels obscure though by conventional definitions of the word.

I just don’t really expect something like crunchy roll to be carrying titles that are over 30 years old and I think it’s kind of silly to expect them to do otherwise. Not that I really use crunchy roll.

I perceive a different vibe of crunchyroll cataloging stuff like that vs Netflix offering things like neon genesis, cowboy bebop, and other impactful old titles. Idk if I can justify that belief. Perhaps it’s just that Netflix’s anime catalog is small and honestly pretty well curated cache for people that probably aren’t anime watchers. I kind of expect crunchyroll to be a service that focuses only on the latest stuff with ads and merch for big anime fans.
I'll keep listening for bad guys who are stealing people's purses on the street and swoop in just before they get away.
I don’t remember anything from before the first Men in Black movie.
What (if anything) will survive of similar works created in today's classrooms, where all work is performed via electronic devices?

Maybe, since it is not actually possible to "scribble" with a touchscreen/keyboard, this isn't even a meaningful question?
Technology: (1) getting off “free” platforms aka adtech. (2) Software quality aka actually providing good software that is intuitive to use and does what people need.
The funny thing is, for a lot of people, it wasn't. They figured out a way to keep living their lives as all as they could, while minimizing concerns about whether this mysterious illness might be incredibly dangerous.

And you never crossed paths with them because you were living in different worlds.
Fair enough. The point of my comment was the incentives are set up in 'science' to research fundamentals (I don't think there are many interesting fundamentals in degradation, but I may be wrong). I am arguing there should be a separate stream of funding/researchers with incentives to work on other types of problems.

Scientists tend to be interested in 'neat cool solutions' or 'neat cool problems' and there should be separate funding for 'important problems with boring solutions' that sits separately to current science funding. I agree leave the small-scale iteration to industry.
Silly thought: so it's shoehorning evolution into organizations. Regardless of how something is made to replicate itself, it inherently does so because that's what it does. Evolution arises when changes (accidental or not, from some perspective) present opportunities for thriving. It's not a matter of will as it is a matter of fact. I suppose for organizations, regulations and oversight are necessary to prevent evolution towards fulfilling perverse incentives. A bit hard to do when we're dealing with hyacinths, though. Herbicide, anyone?
10% is the theoretical quantum efficiency of the chlorophyll complex. Ps I/II use all sorts of tricks to squeeze electrons out of light, it's hard to imagine it getting better.

Remember that photosynthesis is a two stroke process. Fixing carbon tends to happen at night, so both sides are subject to optimization, and the day side has way more variation (seasonal etc) so you can't just say "RuBisCo sucks so PSI/II must be very suboptimal".
Someone rewrote a bunch of text books from the 1970s and put them on the internet. Unless you work in IC development you don't need to know how comparators work internally. The logic gate examples are slighly less obsolete (early 1980s). This is yet another joke introduction written by a hobbyist who wants to mess with individual transistors for no purpose. There are no practical applications for these examples and there is no learning value in them.
I think it's helpful before open-sourcing something to understand, and ideally, articulate your reasons for doing so.

In this case "I'm releasing the code because you might find it useful. I don't plan to maintain this project" is clear, and doesn't lead to others wasting effort (unless they want to fork it and maintain it themselves. )

Equally something like "this is open source because I'm actively looking for contributers" is a great signal for someone looking to get involved and help move something forward.

Perhaps more cynically I'd even appreciate "this is open source because marketing - I'm not planning to interact with hopeful contributers" is also useful to me, although maybe less useful to you.

As an aside; if you do release it as open source for marketing or contributer reasons be sure you pick a license that aligns with your other goals - specifically note that others can, and will, sell your product to make money for them, not you. That's fundamental to the open source concept.
I grew up in China and came to the same conclusion as yours! I never expect such a similarity. I've always thought that education in the US must be much better.

After graduating from college, I realized that the problem I was facing was a systematic one of the whole society, rather than one limited to particular teachers, middle schools, or even the entire education system.

Many people say Chinese maths education is better than the US but I can hardly agree. But based on what I have seen, there are problems on both sides. Chinese education is focusing too much on memorizing existing pieces of knowledge, but too less on teaching the young how to create new ones. The knowledge which our ancestors had struggled for thousands of years to find was taught to us in a spendthrift manner. Aside from lacking training on how to find/create new knowledge, Chinese education does not encourage students to learn advanced topics since it could have negative effects on the students' grades. But there is nothing you can do to change it, because too many things are correlated: fair distribution of teaching resources, less demand for highly educated people in the job market, and the overall not-so-innovation-appealing social vibe. I cannot foresee any possibility of a true, self-driven, systematic reform.

Education in the US, especially math education, on the other hand, is somehow too frivolous. I have no learning experience in any US middle school, so my opinions can be biased. But it seems that US education is more like elite education. The average/universal maths education level should be a little higher in such a highly modernized society.

These different (or even opposite) problems surprisingly show some similarity. Shall I say the problems actually reflect some real problems in the two societies?
It already exists! https://github.com/cuviper/alloc_geiger
This aging topic is very important. Re: stock markets, economies need to shift from eternal $ growth to share holder wallets, to providing equitable outcomes for all people and the planet - that will be very interesting to watch, i can’t see it going well.
My math teacher in 6th grade had a conversation with my parents that essentially went "he's not going to learn algebra from the Hobbit, but I feel bad telling him not to read"

There are worse problems to have!
As with many ML-phrases, the use of 'unlearning' frames data modelling as a false dichotomy between 'learnable' and 'forgettable' data. Whereas humans are able to forget over time, it would be quite disturbing to block some memories from access entirely, how traumatic they might be (and quite apparent among people suffering memory loss).

While from a privacy perspective, not all 'data points' (i.e. memories) need be shared with the populace at large, to the individual they do constitute affective buildings blocks to deal with previous experiences. Similarly, the threshold for sharing (private) experiences depends on the communicative context one's in and how comfortable one feels sharing them.

Might similar mechanisms provide large models the ability to retain an internal recollection of 'traumatic' or 'problematic' data and become more attuned to the context its communicating in instead? Leaving blank spots or blocking out experience completely sets the stage for 'disturbing' a model's memory after the fact. While I don't want to draw a comparison between current NN architectures and organic ones, it is worth questioning our framing of currently emerging methods, as the incipient terminology can imbue how later practioners implement and think about these mechanisms.
GP is talking about the numerical popularity of fansubs versus corpo-subs, not their quality. Fansubs have always had freedom and going-above-and-beyond as their strong point. They've just lost their relative share of the audience (barring the occasional exception). Doesn't mean some subbers won't continue to put out labors of love.

Also, newer people getting into the medium are mostly only used to consuming media via official streaming sites, so there's simply less awareness of fansubs versus the 2000s when fansubs were the only way to get Naruto online.
Make time to hang out when you’re not looking at your phone. Establish a norm that it’s rude to just pull out your phone while you’re with your partner or child.
“Meanwhile the away team has no obligation to help you.”

I think you meant the host team.
Same here, except for a seven-year-old. I’ve seen no indication that that sort of thing is going to get less funny any time soon.
Was it an Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology Program? My digital course skipped over transistor level and spent that time on basic FPGA's instead.
I can't think of a way to concisely convey my response without being crass, so here it is:

The author of this piece is an idiot who has drunk the Kool aid and has very clearly never performed away team work.

I have personally wasted a year of my time on away team work, have supported several away teams, and most importantly: operated systems/built on top of stuff built by away teams. All of this at Amazon, specifically.

Having personally experienced every engineering facet of away teams, I feel as qualified as anyone to say this: away teams are a stupid concept that hurts everyone except management.

You spend way more time to deliver a product you don't really understand and will have a hard time spinning on promos, which will almost certainly be a nightmare to maintain and operate, all because your employer is too cheap to allocate headcount for surprises and your team took a dependency on another team years ago so they have you by the balls.
How to survive as a human race when AI takes over the world?
I’ve periodically looked into it the differences and mostly it seems to come down to priorities. Statistics prioritizes mathematical rigor all the way through the process from collection to analysis. ML / Data science has more algorithmic concerns. Even the theoretical aspects of the two fields emphasize that distinction.
It is no way “generally” available. That would imply the general public has access. We don’t. You have to have a “track record” and you can be manually excluded on top of that.

I’ve never done anything even remotely shady with the API but I don’t have GPT 4 access and likely never will.
It's not using GPT-2 - the README is incorrect.

It's using "from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings" - which is the OpenAI embeddings API, text-embedding-ada-002

The only aspect of GPT-2 this is using is GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained("gpt2") - which it uses as the length function to count tokens for the RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter() langchain utility.

Which doesn't really make sense - why use the GPT-2 tokenizer for that? May as well just count characters or even count words based on .split(), it's not particularly important how the counting works here.
> couples have to reconsider the balance of power: Who’s working? Who’s the primary parent? And that’s coming with a lot of renegotiations

Do you people really put this much conscious thought into their relationships? Idk sounds tedious. My SO and I just kind of exist and split bills and just do what feels right? Id probabaly be miserable too if I sat down and talked about roles like business.
Don't know where you heard that. PsI and PSII are definitely subject to lots of optimization towards efficiency.
\begin{rant}

Immanuel Kant (I paraphrase liberally) said the Golden Rule was not enough to decide if an action was ethical or not. One also had to answer in a positive way the question, "What would happen if everyone behaved this way?" So, Sam Altman, what if everyone lived by your 13 lessons?

There is not a shred of humanity here. It's all about money, money, and more money. Think about what the world would be like if everyone, and I mean everyone, only valued money. (Ironically, money in and of itself has no value.) I don't think cutthroat would begin to describe that world.

Interestingly, native Americans disparaged Europeans because they were addicted to money. For native Americans, time spent with friends and family was more important than money. Almost all the native Americans who went to Europe returned to native America, and likewise the Europeans who had once lived among native Americans, then went back to Europe, returned to native America.

Colin Shaw said, "Every generation has something they regret. The generation before me was smoking. My generation is obesity. I worry that this generation is about the lack of social interaction and having your head down at a screen rather than talking." I think he's wrong: it's artificial intelligence that we will regret.

Personally, I don't care one way or the other. I don't expect to live much beyond a decade. I do feel immensely sorry for my kids, though, and I do hope the world will hold Sam Altman personally responsible for the harm I think he has unleashed.

The AI revolution is not going to end well, starting with the AI-powered hatred that will be spewed before the 2024 election and then continuing with AI-powered monitoring of every microsecond of a person's life. 1984 will be paradise by comparison.

All that might be true, but, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra (unlikely; Niels Bohr is more likely).

\end{rant}