skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to address that in the second paragraph, which I ultimately deleted before submitting, because I couldn't phrase it right. But since you brought it up: I'd consider this an effect of specialization.

In the process of improving your object-level "how things work" goals, you end up generalizing and stacking increasingly complex theoretical models. Soon enough, you end up with people working high up the stack - not knowing or caring about the initial goals. Those people end up growing the "mound of knowledge" both upwards and sideways. The work is sort of self-justifying, but really, it's also self-similar. Where early materials science may have been driven by, say, desire for better/cheaper weapons, soon enough, you have people doing materials science because they desire to solve a puzzle. Whether the practitioners are smelting different combinations of ores to find one that will win them the war, or they're mixing up different kinds of equations to figure out a clean solution to a theoretical conundrum - it's the same process, same motivation. And it always involves play.

The kind of methodical, boring approach, with hypotheses and control groups and peer-reviewed papers? That's the boring part you have to do after play.

See also (with no implied judgement in this context): software developers that lose sight of (or care little about) business goals, and instead aim for theoretical markers of what "good code" is, and/or solve abstract puzzles of algorithms and architecture. Or the MBAs that view companies as abstract money-printing processes, running them by the rulebook that's entirely independent of whatever it is the business is actually doing or selling. Both are cases of growing complexity creating a new field of work that's independent of what brought it into existence.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes interference with a computer system a felony punishable by five years in Federal prison.

That’s what intentionally and maliciously blinding a self-driving car is.

That’s not something affected by local politics. FBI investigates CFAA offenses and SF office of DOJ prosecutes the charges. There is zero doubt the companies involved kicked off that process when the attacks occurred.

This is not speculation. Have fun.

Also imagine the lack of vision in not understanding that automating transport is a prerequisite to massively expanding accessibility.

You have zero ability to think in terms of growth. Short term zero sum mindset is what kills cities.
I've spent a lot time around people doing statistics for environmental science, especially regulatory compliance around accidentally killing birds and bats. The unfortunate reality for the statisticians is that every tech thinks they're Henry David Thoreau or something. Like, nobody cares if it was a particular large exemplar of a given species, or that it had magnificent plummage, just write down the species of the carcass and where it was located, and move on. Instead, there's so much variance from (mass produced and standardized) data sheet to data sheet that you can't even use hand writing recognition to automate the process of ingesting the data. Manually entering the data is somebody's whole job, because they've tried to automate it, and failed.

The billing codes exist explicitly to limit the amount of independent thought that can be applied to something that is adequately summarized as "bit by a duck, third visit".
RTL latency doesn't seem that bad on chips that are built for the purpose, like RME's. Just the off the shelf stuff might be less than ideal.

If anything I think a problem is there's just overall too much slop in the whole chain, including the operating system, motherboard, whatever else. It's a little ridiculous that a $50 guitar pedal can easily get better RTL numbers than a $1500 computer system.
That is because the messed up pre-tax benefit the US gives to big businesses so they have (another) advantage over small businesses, so you are buying from whoever your employer chooses to let you buy from.

Ideally, everyone in the US would have to buy health insurance from healthcare.gov, and can choose whoever they want with zero input from their employer.
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Why would you strip driverless cars instead of other cars? If anything the driverless ones probably have more counter measures and monitoring.
It's also still in Google if you search for a specific-enough phrase.

`newpipe site` brings it up as the first result
OP here. I learned about this while reading Stanford's LLM course's "Data" lecture [1]. Very interesting how it assesses the datasets used for GPT 2 and 3, etc, and how The Pile addresses their issues. A very interesting course!

[1] https://stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2022/lectures/data/
Thanks for this.

I think high level control over control flow manipulation is really underrated and underutilised in programming languages.

For example, the decision where to jump is extremely powerful but the primitives we have for it are weak. (Exceptions, algebraic effects, if statements)

Inheritance controls control flow but doesn't actually solve the pattern of desired behaviour and code organisation most people want.

One idea I am exploring is the idea that efficient control flow can be compiled from the inferred relationships of a rule engine.

Information systems should be used to create all the relationships between data and associations of desired behaviour to data values or partial data values.

Then all the if statements, switch statements and vtables can be inferred.

In other words the types the code operates on is inferred from desired behaviour based on state.
The ads in start menu search results (insiders channel) are what drove me to chainge my primary boot to Linux a bit over a year ago... I've booted windows twice since.
I lost my dad to prostate cancer last year with much the same timeline. Healthy as could be, out surfing and building decks and shit one day, dead a year later.

Cancer sucks.
Yea it's a tradeoff, sadly.
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Anyone who has ever had to produce some sort of on-screen demo like this knows how miserable, tedious and thankless a task this can be. There was probably a better justification for their choice to use a spreadsheet than we are all imagining!
> I am currently completing 2 other Python certifications in scientific computing and machine learning and am already out of my planned schedule for them.

If you want to focus on scientific computing and machine learning, don't spend time on Excel/Power BI (it might actively harm your employability). If you want to focus on analytics and business intelligence, take the Power BI course and don't spend too much time on ML.

They're completely different career tracks, they aren't complementary, one of them isn't a more advanced version of the other - the only thing in common is that "data science" sometimes means one of these tracks and sometimes it means the other depending on the team/company - pick which one you want to do and focus on that.
Genius! And local too. Take my investment dollars.
Access to YouTube videos is only "authorized" through YouTube's site and official apps (or yada yada), and YouTube videos are copyrighted material. YouTube has technological measures to ensure that you only watch YouTube videos that way. If you circumvent those technology measures, that's prima facie a DMCA violation, no?

The definition of circumvention of a technology measure is extremely broad including "to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure".

I'm pretty much of the opinion that the DMCA is a piece of crap as a law, but it doesn't lack for breadth and generality in those definitions.
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To make this more numerical:

Windows is about 66% of our customers, macOS about 33%, Linux about 1%. On Windows we currently only test on x64 for Windows 10 and Widows 11. On macOS we test 4 configurations. Each Windows configuration we test is 33% of our users. Each macOS configuration about 8%. Linux is starting at 1%, and previously we tested only one configuration, which was already 8x more costly than macOS. But there were a lot of complaints from people using other distros / versions, which resulted in anger, bad reviews, claims that we don't understand Linux...

To get reasonable coverage of the Linux desktop landscape, we'd need to test probably 20+ different configurations, meaning each of them would cover about 0.05% of our customers. The QA tests take multiple hours to run through. That makes supporting a Linux user a staggering 160x more expensive than supporting a macOS user, and 660x more expensive than supporting a Windows user.

Again, you need either a giant user base, or a disproportionate number on Linux (which is the opposite of true in pro-audio) to even hit break-even on Linux users.
Followed some links around, and this was interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_3266 !

"The Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County discovered that a large mass of gas is hurtling through the cluster at a speed of 750 km/s (466 miles/second). The mass is billions of solar masses, approximately 3 million light-years in diameter and is the largest of its kind discovered as of June 2006."
How does this differ from the "Clip" feature that's already available under Youtube videos? https://youtu.be/A63imEmP_-I
I wonder how many times the Earth appears on alien "List of potentially habitable exoplanets" articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_...
Whether or not training on publicly available data counts as a copyright violation is still completely up in the air legally, and clearly a lot of lawyers at all of the top tech companies think they're going to end up in the clear under fair use.

At some point this stuff will have to get tested by making its way up the appeals stack in the US, and IMO there is only a minuscule chance that will result in Google, MS, and Meta getting slapped with anything more than a token fine (my bet is it won't even be that), let alone paying every person who ever wrote anything that was used in these datasets for copyright violations, which would basically be everyone.
Mini-ITX is still alive, but it's a lot larger. Nano-ITX is more comparable, but I don't think there were very many systems based of it?
Of course, it’s this blog of mine that’s #1 on HN!

If you like this sort of thing: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode and https://behind-the-screens.tv/
How do you know people use Nix?

They will tell you
Ask HN: What are your recommended shader development workflows for the web?
> I'm interested but $100/yr kind of sounds like a lot. Is it free to host?

Sounds like it is... maybe?

> Membership is free if you only want to host (great traffic for businesses like breweries)
I know the point of it all, but make a point of not revealing it. Which points to its recursive nature, if you catch my drift.
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Given that this is an online forum, another advantage is that a conversational trail is left for others to discover. The inferences these types of individuals make are often based on a structure of knowledge and reality that others share, so the most common preconceived and incorrect notions tend to have the most documentation on how to ameliorate the incorrectness (given that these individuals are allowed to state their inferences out loud).
Flaky drivers. KVM induced unresponsiveness is pretty much the only reason I ever have to hardboot my computers.

Also, even if the drivers are solid, they take longer to renegotiate with a monitor that was removed and plugged back in compared to one they think was always there, which matters if you switch back and forth frequently.

Lastly, sometimes the OS doesn't put things back they way they were when you plug a monitor back in. If you have a laptop which has a lower resolution display than the external monitor, you'll often return to find all the windows shrunk to fit the laptop display. Not an issue if you run everything full-screen, but annoying if you tile windows.
Twitter is not dying.
"nuke-u-luhr"

Yes
It is rather annoying how much they hate Musk because it affects their coverage. If they want to hate him privately in their rooms at night, that's fine with me. But when you can't trust their coverage of things like rocketry, tunneling, satellite internet or especially twitter, well, why do we need them? They're just going to paint his work in the worst possible light.
I think that's a pretty privileged viewpoint. That's $100/year of disposable income for maybe a parking spot where you want to go, maybe available when you want to go. That's definitely not a trivial dollar amount for something like that, especially when there are free alternatives (strip mall parking lots, rest stops, federal lands, moving between neighborhoods, etc.). Then there's the question of being able to offer a designated parking spot (hosting) in exchange for staying credits. Paid private parking, especially extra spots, is an absurd luxury in much of the country, for many people.

I knew many people -- climbers, travelers, dirtbaggers, backpackers -- who really wanted to see the public lands that they partially own but could not afford to travel in luxury, people who ate ramen and rice and beans for months just to be able to afford to see the lands. There are also people who live in campers and vans because they can't afford rent. That $100 could definitely go to better uses.

If $100 is nothing to you, perhaps you're the kind of traveler this website is targeting. It's definitely not for everyone. I've met many amazing people on Couchsurfing and Warmshowers, which (at the time) were totally free and still today are much cheaper. The vast majority of the people I hosted were very poor but very well traveled, with stories to tell and friendships across the world. Very few of the rich people I've met have had the same experiences to share. Hosting them was a privilege, and not something I would've wanted to charge them for even if I could. I also met very interesting hosts traveling the same way, because at the end day doing that becomes way more relational and way less transactional -- the opposite of luxury travel.
On a related note, could the leader of the team have shutdown a supercomputer by shooting the monitor?
If you're talking about sending live people, absolutely

If you're talking about sending alien drones, the light mass and lack of having to keep them alive makes energy requirements a lot lower, but they'd probably just be scouting us (if not trying to kill us) so we wouldn't be able to detect them
And don't use smileys as substitutes for punctuation.
Oh wow, this seems much better than Samsung, they promise 5 years of security updates, but after the first year or so only every six months.
I always liked this for Win 10

https://github.com/southpaw5271/BeachedWhale
you could do a sort of validation of output by prompting the llm repeatedly with the same prompt and then compare the responses to eliminate outliers. I do feel like this stuff is magic though, just wanted to provide a counterpoint.
Yeah, I'm running HA on the server that I use for all home services, so I needed the BT relay.
"disingenuous bait-and-switch?"

It's usually done without the actual company name or final "brand", so you wouldn't even know about it.

I guess these guys didn't get the memo, if this is actually a "demand gauging" website...
Firstly, they seem to be a hack around old unmaintained library code that accepts a callable that cannot be patched to change the callable's argument list. C++'s solution: give them a new callable "lambda" that extends passing new arguments (silently) in capture list ^^. Moreover, the combination of choices [=] mutable, [&], etc: seem like a documentation disaster. The idea that one has to read the body of lambda function to decipher what is getting passed to the lambda is another layer of lazz...
Have you tried VNC over an Ethernet cable at all? What you are proposing is basically having a VNC-like protocol over IP over Ethernet. Now try it out and see how well it works.

To be even more reductive, a thought experiment is to consider the classic USB. Why did people even invent USB in the first place in the 1990s? The first USB had only 12Mbps, not much better than the first Ethernet at 10Mbps which had existed since 1980! Why didn't people who invented USB simply use Ethernet?
I sadly stopped hosting a few years ago. What happened to the community/site? I must've missed that part?
Archived version: https://archive.is/xhxoc
My headcanon for that scene is that the two of them were letting a program run in the background, and at the same time were just fucking with the rest of the team. The rest of the NCIS team was remarkably tech illiterate, while Abby and Tim were definitely the type to joke around. It was just two geeks trolling their coworkers.
The van equivalent of couchsurfing.org. I'm going to go with they probably are flaunting local laws as to where people can park.
Audio is covered as well, as written in the article, I recommend reading it.
> Lately, my Magit buffer broke once again because of something weird going on with major mode

It's 2023, and emacs still sucks in exactly the same way as it did when I first used it in 1995, and when I last used it for everyday coding in 2009-2010. Every time I tried to buff emacs with extra functionality, I found it constantly breaking. I would post to mailing lists about code changes I had to make to get modes working, and I found that other users treated it as a totally normal part of the user experience to have to rewrite some code to get things working in your setup. Comments like this let me know that it happens even to the emacs gurus; they just don't mind it as much and (presumably) can fix it faster than the rest of us.

Emacs doesn't need a GUI library. It needs a rewrite with a different architecture for modern times, and people who love emacs should keep trying despite the many past failures.

Correction: emacs doesn't need anything. It can continue in its present form for decades, but I think it would be nice if it had a bigger, brighter future that might bring me back to it someday.
I dont see how LLMs using many experts means it's very different from AGI. Why would anyone assume that human AGI isn't based on multiple models running in a similar architecture? At minimum humans are operating with a left and right brain, which process data very differently.
> The code isn't readable (you can't even reliably tell at a glance what the operator does) and it takes negligibly longer to write "add()" rather than "+" in your program (yes, 'add()' is more keystrokes and thus takes longer to type, but most of your program isn't addition instructions).

Except now you replaced + with a name that tells you just as much/little as + does. So you made your program verbose for the sake of verbosity.
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IntelliJ ultimate is probably the one exemption, being possible to be turned into the kitchen sink IDE with the right plugins. It still maintains some of its java first nature more than the language specific quirks though, I remember IntelliJ plus the python plugin used to have the hierarchy of package and module labels inverted to what Python actually does because the labels were created with Java in mind. (It was some time ago now though, so maybe they've fixed that specific example)
> Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google

Money well spent. Now it is clear why they spend milions for "lobby".
This is why we don’t get invited to parties.

I’m on board with it, but this is the reason.
how do you have that much saved up at 29 ? faang salary / vest schedules ?
"No Social Obligations"

What does that mean exactly? Or do I want to know...
The Cajun navy, for example, is well documented as going out to other communities including out of state communities that do not share the same ethnicity and have helped people for years in flood conditions. Only helping people out because of the religion they follow is utterly barbaric anyway.
Yes. I think that is a solid NUC alternative with one exception: the lack of USB4/ Thunderbolt as standard. Intel was very good about including TB on its NUC line and also did a better job upgrading to 2.5GbE.
If you only read it on Kindle you would miss out on the whole section where the text is printed in boxes that are mirrored on opposite sides of the page. On that note, where did you even find a Kindle version?
Nice, I’ll check this out
If SSO is properly set up and combined with a SSO compatible SCM solution like GitHub Enterprise or GitLab Enterprise this becomes rather easy.

Add user account to proper groups from the get go (Because as IT you know what permissions the new employee should have, right? Right?!?) and you are pretty much done.
The tumblr site asks me to log in if I want to continue seeing posts after I get to the Futurama one :-(
Are you serious? Do you seriously believe what you wrote? Why do you think that? What’s the source of your discontent?
I loved your moviecode project, spent countless hours during college reading at these random snippets of code :)
Really informative little article. Reminds me of the shall/should and must/may that are in some processes listed in the CFR (code of federal regulations) in the US. Shall - meant you had to do it or be out of compliance (in some cases that was a felony). Should - was good practice but not a legal violation if you did not do it.

Interesting that you could feed that content into a prompt in ChatGPT and ask it to make those kind of evaluations.
Stay tuned! I've got a paper I'm writing about a new followup which is a 40x improvement in size (basically every open source debate card... Ever) and a 40x improvement in metadata and duplication detection. The work is all done since late april and I've just been lazy/writer-blocked (ironic in a world of high end LLMs) and haven't gotten the paper finished.

Kinda of sad to have missed NeurIPS dataset track deadline and ACL, but I know that anything close to this in scope is a slam-dunk accept at the argument mining workshop
I was agreeing with them. Why assume wilful ignorance? Have we become the new reddit? People just yelling in disagreement? Maybe it's time to log out and delete this password...
There's a bunch of different models of the 5050 (poor branding on Dell's part IMO). OP is probably talking about the micro version.
Maybe they could fix the naming scheme of Azure AD B2B and Azure AD B2C and make the new brands easier to distinguish than a single letter flip? That would be a really nice use of a new brand name.

…

Oof, looking it up the answer for myself is: yes and no. Two of the new products mentioned are Entra External ID and Entra External Verified ID which are apparently the replacements of B2C (definitely) and B2B (sort of), respectively. Neither existing B2C nor B2B are going anywhere, may live beside their "Entra counterparts" for some time to come (including that Entra External ID is still only in Preview), adding even more confusion plus future migration headaches. Wow.
$100/year, $0.27/day is not in the realm of privilege. The groups you mention spend more than that a year to upgrade gear/etc. I call bollocks on this.
1) You don't need a YouTube creator (google) account to create a clip, anyone can create a clip without being logged in.
2) There is no 5-60 seconds clip duration restriction, the clip can be however long you like.
Is the low win rate a surprise though? As a foreign observer, the US justice system seems to largely be based on who can spend the most - so large company > government > small company > citizen is pretty much the assumed outcome. I have a vague sense the order also wraps around (individual > large company) because of cases like the McDonald's boiling coffee, but in those cases headlines and bad PR are just acting as a proxy for money.