skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent question, and this was a serious concern for us. And we have experience with this! We had one deep Haskell expert on the team who helped build a bunch of core primitives who has since left to another company.

One of the motivations for adoption for us was strong interest on the team. Looking back on our team...

1. We started with me (enthusiast), our expert,and a Go developer with no Haskell experience.

2. Over time, at its peak, the team grew to us 3, Python developer who had dabbled, two Ruby developers who were interested but had no experience, a frontend expert who had dabbled, and another engineer who I didn't work with closely but I think had a background in Java?

3. Our expert left the team before or around the time that the last person (maybe-Java person) joined, I think.

4. On the second Haskell team I spun up, it's me, one person from the old team, a Ruby/JS developer, and a JS developer.

We were able to get all of these people productive in Haskell. It got easier once we had more experience teaching folks. There are a handful of _key differences_ between Haskell and ALGOL-family languages (mostly around evaluation model and effect tracking), and once you nail those down, the rest is pretty smooth sailing, and your SWE experience and intuition begins kicking in again.

Although we miss our expert very much every day (they were a very cool person! They drove a motorcycle!), their departure has not had an outsized impact on our velocity.

A sibling comment recommended a bus factor of 2-3. I think this is roughly correct, although I would think of this as not merely your "don't get hit by a bus" group, but also your core teaching group.
Not exactly what you asked for, but check out Doom Guy, it covers a lot of history from the game perspective.

https://romero.com/shop/p/doomguy
Why Hydrogen Cars Refuse to Die
What if requiring meat in the loop necessarily means more human suffering? Maybe you're not offended as long as there's someone to blame, but I'm offended at the unnecessary additional human suffering.
Pure speculation on my part, but from having ridden in one of these Kei trucks (and lots of US trucks): I wouldn't be surprised if American-style trucks get in and cause more accidents per mile, both because of their lesser visibility and weaker cultural norms around speeding and rules of the road ("biggest car wins").

(This doesn't make Kei trucks safer, but it might have the same paradoxical effect as helmets on cyclists[1].)

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/bike-helmets-cyclist-de...
https://archive.ph/thrr4
You probably have to clarify that it only applies to the direct transformer training with fixed weights for samples, and not RL variants or variable sample weights.
Huh? How big is the blind group compared to the older population?

You are saying it’s not economical to use tech to speech to support blind people. I’m saying the benefits are huge for older population. It isn’t just for fraudsters or spammers as you claim.
I totally get where you're coming from, but being "forced to appreciate" the event yourself is part of the diegetic experience.

You just climbed a tower-- behold this sweeping view while you catch your breath.

You can't feel the weight of this heavy chest lid, but you do feel it in how long it takes to open.

I hated the cooking animations (fuck those dancing vegetables), but they make you feel the effort involved in the process.

Letting you skip that stuff ruins the immersiveness. Nothing you can fast-forward through is ever going to feel epic. (It's not a fuck-you unless Hideo Kojima was involved.)

Red Dead Redemption did this too. By the end I had seen so many animals skinned it broke something inside me, which gave fourth-wall consequence to what I was doing in-game.
> Yet, life elsewhere in the universe may defy these constructs. It could hinge on principles entirely alien to our comprehension, making it "life" in the truest sense of the word. Consequently, our current definitions might fail to recognize or comprehend such forms of existence.

This is a cop-out. It might make for a good episode (or a bad one) of Star Trek, but in the real world, life's going to be made out of particles. Likely even out of atoms/molecules.

It will be recognizable, in that it is self-sustaining... it creates itself. It will, for lack of a better term, "do things".

The chemistry might be weird (hell, we almost expect that). The effects might be subtle (at minimum, we imagine we'll need microscopes, but it gets more difficult from there).

But none of these things are incomprehensible. "Incomprehensible" is probably nearly non-overlapping with "life", if not outright incompatible.

> But should we find green plants on another planet, can we instinctively conclude that they indicate life as we know it? Probably not, as such assumptions hinge on our Earth-centric model of life.

This is incoherent. I don't even know how to parse it.

"We found photosynthetic organisms on another planet, but are they life?"

Like, seriously? Are you saying that plants aren't really alive here on Earth, or that plants are only alive if on Earth? If I take a potted plant to Mars, "is it really life as we know it"?

> We may have to accept that some entities might exist beyond our grasp of understanding and should develop novel tools that seek not only life as we know it,

I think that some people learn to think like this because their mouth-breathing public school system teachers gave them B+s for this bullshit in 7th grade. It's bizarrely bad. Have you never listened to yourself?

> Such a perspective fundamentally changes the narrative of our search for alien life.

Yes. It hobbles the search in any number of ways. Entire generations of children grow up thinking this poorly. Influencers and politicians start thinking such is somehow clever or insightful, and money/effort is wasted on it.
The energy resolution of scintillation counters like those is rubbish, and spectroscopic results obtained with them can be misleading as a result. We initially used NaI just to surround high resolution Ge detectors to reject Compton scattering events which deposit only part of the gamma energy in the Ge. However, the lumps of hyper-pure Ge you need to do high resolution spectroscopy are expensive and need to be cooled with liquid nitrogen.
Oh.

I use OpenAI API (Not Azure) version, and I wonder if this "degradation" is only about ChatGPT (b2c productised web ui), or is it about OpenAI models in general, regardless the type of access?

Maybe I become dumber as well, but (at least gpt-4-*) still do the trick for my daily tasks the way i want it and the way I remember it

Bonus thought:

I wonder if any kind of nerfing is primarily related to the requirements like:

"Provide smart heavy-ass models to explosively increased user base without going bankrupt/insane + keep it reliable as a service"

I mean it's unprecedented challenge which send shivers down my spine
Right but it’s not a maximizing theoretical loss function, it’s picking a specific expenditure of energy as the goal - kinetic energy of the bit. Particularly you don’t know the goal of the bits motion, and the work the energy does could translate into the machined parts final configuration or something else. The goal isn’t specially to account for energy in some full final system but to give an optimization function for the tool itself to maximize. You’re looking at it from a physics point of view rather than an engineering point of view, the engineering view is practical - how much energy is expended to get a certain amount of work done by the bit and not doing other stuff like heating the environment, making noises, inducing vibration. The metric is a practical one, and it’s never meant to capture the entire energy transfer dynamic in a physics sense.
OK, but it's probability-based. It will pick lower probability answers depending on the temperature. But that means it knows what the probabilities are.

So what it needs is a line of the form 'if(highest_probability < threshold){dont_know()}.
> You have made some bad decisions if you find yourself 15 divs deep.

Open instagram.com in a browser :D
Yeah I just copy the html that's relevant. There's some manual work involved but it doesn't take a lot of time.
> and simply excretes more and absorbs less material

My B-I-L once said that Americans have more vitamins in their urine than many people do in their bloodstreams in emerging economies.
HN commenters leave so much context out of the discussion. Google is already scanning photos for CSAM. Meta is already scanning photos for CSAM. Dropbox, OneDrive... EVERY storage provider is scanning your photos for CSAM. And yet confusingly you only complain about Apple.
Ah, the joys of open source: where "nobody has implemented 'mark all as read' on a space yet" is extrapolated to "half-baked and just a bunch of hacks".

Custom emojis & sticker packs exist as per MSC1951 (thanks for linking it), and implemented in various clients. The fact the data is stored in a room shouldn't exactly be a surprise, given 'rooms' (i.e. persistent decentralised pubsub topics) are the main primitive for storing data in Matrix, much as everything is a file in unix.

Sorry you feel Matrix feels half-baked; meanwhile we're busy doing a major iteration as per https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/matrix20 and https://element.io/blog/element-x-experience-the-future-of-e.... Right now the target is more WhatsApp/Signal/iMessage style messaging than Discord/Slack/Teams, but we'll (re)address the latter eventually.
An ETF generally requires a redemption mechanism.

In the case of the BlackRock ETF it’s in the application. “Baskets may be created or redeemed only by Authorized Participants who pay BlackRock Investments, LLC”.

No you can’t personally physically redeem the Bitcoin yourself. That’s not the purpose and use of this ETF.
Global climate disasters are raising insurance rates
Anyone considered deploying with docker compose? Simple, well known and pretty flexible. I wrote some helpers to manage monitoring, logs, and deployments: lostdock.com
This essay doesn't actually say much, but it sure wraps itself in much jargon.

> "...what is called for is a theory of governance that recognizes the promise while affirming the autonomy of humans, albeit reconfigured through a new awareness, by striving to shape what we now understand as anthropo-technogenesis."
It's not about energy capture. It's about energy being used to accomplish useful work vs energy expelled towards non-productive ends. And I fail to see how this is a useless measurement of energy consumption when it's the entire reason we harness energy beyond what we can consume by eating.
None. And that is in spite of massive attempts over the 20th century, including some of the first applications of computers to a problem of this nature. The conclusion drawn from this lack of progress is that the corpus is simply too small for decipherment and/or we lack any surviving relatives for the language that the script recorded.
Long term vs short term. It's a bad idea to rush through refactors.
Make us infinitesimally warmer?
You are right that we should not got back from html. I find .txt file publishing interesting anyhow because the files can be rendered in everything. A .txt file can be viewed in a browser, rss reader, any text editor, in the terminal, etc. .With a html document you are limiting yourself to viewing the information in a browser or an email/rss client the supports html rendering. There is more redundancy with publishing through .txt files
I’ve found Google’s Bard to be far superior from day one. Sure, I’ve heard people say GPT4 is superior but I’m using Bard for free and it spanks the free ChatGPT.
These HN threads about trucks are amazing. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again

* Kei trucks are the coolest. Big gubment is making it so we can’t register them due to protectionism!

* Chicken tax chicken tax chicken tax

* Big trucks cause more crashes because reasons!

* Trucks are just lifestyle vehicles and nobody actually needs or uses them

Over and over and over again
It's tough because this kind of person probably doesn't exist in any significant quantity.
Isn't https://go.readly.com/ the Spotify for news? Many magazines and newspapers are available.
LRADs and sound cannons are not safe (2020) [video]
Tay was released (and taken off line) in 2016.

In the same year, 2016, Google announced that its Neural Translation Engine, at the heart of Google Translate services had developed its own "interlingua" capable of acting as a bridge between any language pair among about a hundred languages. Still in the same year, AlphaGo became the first AI system to beat a human master at Go. In 2018, BERT, the first Large Language Model amazed AI specialists with its ability to perform language tasks it had not been explicitly trained on, like question answering and machine translation. Around the same time, CEOs of large tech companies began predicting the rise of the autonomous car, that would soon be circulating in every street in the entire world (by 2019, according to some, 2020, at the latest according to others). In 2020 AlphaFold, a DeepMind AI system, repeated AlexNet's ImageNet feat, but this time in the CASP competition on protein folding. In 2021 the years of the AI image generators began, with Dall-E, StableDiffusion,
Midjourney, and friends. In 2022 DeepMind announced that their AlphaCode code generator was better than 50% of some arbitrary group of programmers in an online competition.

These are just some of the highlights, and excluding the GPT-x releases. Far, far from "everyone" quietly backing away and not mentioning AI, the AI hype has been increasing monotonically, and quite rapidly at that, all the way to the present day.
https://archive.is/eSS7T
i solidarize with you about the madnees of this "over-everything", but maybe marketing department at the higher floors are to blame, more than environmentalist, usually they are not sitting in the executive boards...
What an ignorant statement.

This blog wasn't written _by_ a newbie, but _for_ newbies, to help them in breaking down a real world example of otherwise abstract CSS features.

That blog is as far as I'm concerned the best blog about CSS and its new features that exists today.
If you mean the calculator, bc is based on dc, IIRC.

See you later, alliterator.
Yep. I just got diagnosed recently. Still figuring out the right dose of the right meds, but in the meantime it has become painfully obvious that a lot of discussion around productivity and procrastination is happening without a lot of people realising they may simply have ADHD. There's a reason psychiatrists treat ADHD with medication first rather than trying to get you to follow productivity hacks or change your habits. Would have been good if ADHD was on my radar as a possibility much earlier.
writers rarely have complete control over what editors do to their pieces before the nyt publishes them, and in this case there are no middlemen muddling things up
We are talking about a chatgpt response here, a snippet of code.
OK but this is self-hosted
me 12/4
I have no qualms with "acting your wage." This goes below the minimum bar in my opinion. Real engineers don't get away with fuckups with real consequences because of their salary.
> Political appointees are not the ones making investment decisions.

Political appointees are making investment decisions by choosing the people who make investment decisions.
https://archive.is/SWHnB
What's your field and YOE?
Slightly off-topic but using coworking spaces pre-Covid was also a different experience. They seem to have turned into call centres nowadays. I find it pretty hard to find a silent spot to work without having someone borderline scream at their screen next to me.
I skimmed the "Top Titles"[1], and most of the publication aren't exactly what comes to my mind when I think of "hard hitting journalism".

[1] https://us.readly.com/products/magazines
One usecase that isn't mentioned here is call transcription. There are a lot of usecases where recording your own call and having some automated way to turn it into a transcript, and possibly generating some structured summary is a big time-saver.

OpenAi's Whisper is the most accurate transcription model that I know of. The weights are open-sources, so it can be self-hosted, or you use the API. The downside is that you have to roll your own diarization (seperating the text between speaker A/B). I used pynote audio.

Paid services like fireflies, and transcription tools built into your call software, are much easier to use, but lead to some transcription quality dropoff.
Ships nearby responding to a distress call is a matter of expedience rather than good planning - something is better than nothing. But typically once an organization like a coast guard gets involved, they start giving orders to other responding ships, including sending ships away if they aren't needed and adding to the fray. This general concept is called incident command or the incident command system (ICS) after a set of practices that I think originated in firefighting but are now broadly taught by FEMA to all sorts of disaster responders. Basically that there needs to be someone in charge of the incident and there need to be standardized and controlled flows of information, otherwise it's very easy for the response to be ineffective and even dangerous because of poor communications, miscoordination, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of HN readers doesn't even know what a good requirements document looks like.
Who here remembers the debates we used to hold in the one manga forums? lol
what’s the difference with british scarecrows? eyes or something?
This is not about safety, this is about ticking boxes. Boxes that make sense, but which are irrelevant compared to the potential impact of the change.

For example, replacing the constant with a file parameter is important, but completely out of scope of the PR, and could lead to unexpected impacts. Sounds like there are enough things to QA with this small change that there’s no need to add other sources of potential bugs.

The naming of the configuration key is also completely ridiculous and a huge waste of time.
> nobody actually needs or uses them

These make me chuckle. Those people have never done home improvement projects or just projects that require picking up 8ft sheets of plywood or 20 bags of mulch.
...and, inevitably, someone to make the above comment. Maybe you can be the one to finally break the cycle :-)
https://archive.is/lPQ0B
Seeing color following gene augmentation therapy in achromatopsia
Well there is a "hire me" button in the header, so it looks like you are in luck!
I got the gist of it though, and I think you do have a point: FORTH showed the power of stack machines (and the HP calculators of course did too) in a way that not much else did and I'm pretty sure that the ease with which you can bring one up to bootstrap a new environment is part of the reason why they were (and still are) more popular than many people realize for embedded stuff and first silicon of new and experimental CPUs. You can bootstrap to an interactive system in an afternoon in FORTH and some of the JVM instructions are definitely reminiscent of FORTH.

So it isn't all that farfetched to see the link between the Bitcoin embedded scripting language and the FORTH language, especially the stack section of the opcodes. I'd say they're of the same family, not necessarily a subset, and the lack of Turing completeness is of course a purposefully limiting factor.

Stackmachines are fascinating, incredibly simple and yet quite powerful. There are a couple of such concepts in computing (NAND gates on the hardware side, the Lambda function on the software side and FORTH as well as for/if/jsr/load/store, and even brainfuck (and ook!)) which all allow you to build just about anything. Each of them warrants study.
A lot of the undocumented instruction "match" bits make sense, such as POP CS at [0F]. However, it's clear that the authors of the microcode deliberately made every opcode match to some routine, as evidenced by Jcc being mirrored into the [60..6F] region, LOCK into [F1], group 2 /6 into /7, etc. It wouldn't've "cost" anything extra to make Jcc only match on its documented [70..7F] region (and others) like later processors do. What's the advantage of matching on undefined byte sequences?

Also, SALC is still technically undocumented by Intel (AMD documents it, though). It doesn't have a dedicated section in the SDM (would be in Volume 2, Chapter 4), and in the opcode map (Volume 2, Appendix A), there's a blank there. One actually has to go to Volume 3, Chapter 23 "Architecture Compatibility", Section 15 "Undefined Opcodes" (of version 080 from June) to see it mentioned. It's weird. They even call it out as SALC "when not in 64-bit mode" and that it performs "IF (CF=1), AL=FF, ELSE, AL=0", but refuse to officially document it.
The reason is usage. At this point I will cancel my subscription. And I'm sure more will follow.
It does load fast, but I'm pretty sure the ditherpunk aesthetic is bogus. Byte for byte, JPEGs should beat dithered PNGs / GIFs, and they never proved that the end-to-end costs of JPEG encoding and decoding are worse than dithering. It just looks distinct.
> If it were cumulative, the first values would be 0, 1, 3.

No.

When you count events, each one contributes a count of 1. The running sum of that is sequence 0, 1, 2, 3 ...

The meaning is "how many job postings have posted until time T.
But those devices, particularly the VR headset and mobile phone, are not good candidates for an IR-based networking solution as their use-case inherently has a lot of movement. What good is a VR headset that loses connection with the host computer when you accidentally block the receiver while moving around?
https://archive.is/kR1d4
It's certainly less common now, but prior to 2015 it was common for "legacy" vendors (y'know... the paranoid and posessive types, like ProgressDB...) - or just those embarassed about the state of their products compared to the rest of the industry: they'll hide their KB articles, bug-reports and workarounds, and more besides) behind a registration-wall, or even worse: only grant you access if you have a current support contract with them.
Anchor’s text-to-speech integration with WordPress.com has been discontinued
At least in some parts of Seattle, you do see them a lot. In my neighborhood of Ballard, for instance, I can go for a walk and see three of them parked on the street.
I put 20 bags of mulch in an SUV last weekend, one that almost certainly could carry less than TFA's mini-truck-thing. What gives?
I stopped using it. Then 4 came and then I used it extensively. And paid for it. Now last 2 months it's not created something useful that didn't cost me time in the end.
It seems like generating training data with some LLMs that don't have license restrictions on the output should be allowed.
https://archive.is/0IFpe
>While the workings of the SOSUS and IUSS systems may be declassified, the deployments and capabilities (mostly range and computation related) of such systems most likely are not. And there is always the possibility that there is yet another system the author simply isn't aware of.

But they confirmed it 4 days later - which would be admitting to its capabilities. The entire talk track of: "they kept it secret because of conspiracy theory X" makes no sense when they didn't actually keep it secret, they simply didn't make it public until AFTER the team was there to search - for the fairly obvious reasons the author stated. Mainly it creates unnecessary publicity that is hurtful to the relatives of the folks that are at the bottom of the ocean, and political pressure to "not spend money on the search" which was already coming from some circles even without the Navy's information.