skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There really seems to be a lack of quality analysis of the copyright status of AI models in written form.

The lawyers I've spoken with about this (two specialize in US copyright) all told me basically the same thing: this is uncharted territory and until court decisions start coming in, all anyone can do is speculate.

It may be that attorneys are more hesitant to speculate in public, so the only people we hear talking about this issue are those laypeople (including me) who are affected by them and have a particular point of view they want to be (and so will argue is) reality.
> There are interviews, too, with Peter Saville, best known for his sleek and minimalist design work with Joy Division and New Order, and something of a counterweight to Hipgnosis who, after all, mainly worked in a time of great musical excess.

Peter Saville helped design Jony Ive's "LoveFrom" typeface: https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/corporate-design-...
Yeah, that's the only part that makes it a toy project - the rest can be added w/o too much of an effort. This is pretty much what makes it a toy project.
great substack and podcast (love the guests you have on)

i can't help but notice that Swyx (author of latent space) is accumulating a body of work exploring LLMs and covering AI progress. is this something that is analysis by an expert or are we reading convincing-sounding text generated by a very advanced AI hype language model? I guess the only way to know for sure is for Swyx to train an LLM or do deep learning research and see the results?
Personally I don't think AI is very likely to destroy humanity in the next couple of decades. I also don't think that the Ukraine war is very likely to end in a global thermonuclear exchange. But I don't think worrying about nuclear war is insanity. What strikes me as insane in the Ukraine case, or at the very least dangerously irrational, is calling for a no-fly zone without thinking about the consequences. And I feel similarly about attitudes towards AI...
The reason you're being downvoted is you keep dismissing this as a "toy" project, and pointing out that it would be hard to make a real project.

But, as the previous commenter attempted to point out to you this project is a *self-described* toy project.

On the very page that is linked, the author of the JVM specifically says:

"I want to stress that this is a toy JVM, built for learning purposes and not a serious implementation."

Thus, absolutely no one disagrees that its a toy JVM. They just want you to stop being dismissive of someone's toy project by repeatedly pointing out its a toy project and not a "not a thing"
Have used both DO and Vultr for years. Put simply, DO is better, but Vultr isn’t terrible.

Higher number of outages at Vultr over 5 years, but none longer than a few hours. I can’t remember the last DO outage lasting more than a few minutes.

Experienced a Vultr routing problem that lasted several hours; they communicated about it, but it was still a long time to fix.

DO once did an auto-migration of a server to another cluster with an attendant outage that lasted a few minutes at most. No IP changes, completely transparent.
I wonder if home automation is one of those things that eventually gets figured out and we look back at today thinking, “we tolerated that?” or if it never gets solved at a standards level and we just have egregiously subpar experiences delivered by vendors all naively attempting to dominate the market with a crippled product.

Also, I think the spying has the potential for being more insidious and more passive. Im thinking of sound beacons, at human-imperceptible frequencies, sent by a TV or smart speaker that lets some data aggregator determine what is being played in a home or who is at home.
I assume not many phones are placed 2m above ground though, although not on the surface either, so the measurement should be only needed for getting an idea about the heat.
One factor to consider is that "plastic" is almost as generic a term as "material"

Most consumer plastics are low grade polymers that, in their pure state, resemble glass fiber. They're only made useful through the addition of plasticizers (flexibility), flame retardants (increase melting point, reduce chance to burn), stiffeners (durability), colorants, antioxidants, fillers (reduce cost and change density), blowing agents (foam plastics like polystyrene), and more.

These additives are responsible for most of the negative health outcomes, and many of the remaining problems (like microplastics) stem from the unstable nature of the base polymer that these additives try to address.

These additives and the poor properties of the original material are also a problem in industry, where the financial problems that stem from them can't be swept under te rug like they can with human health or environmental impact.

To address that industry has several grades of plastic, some you're familiar with, but there are advanced plastics like PEEK and PEI that we don't see in consumer products yet. As you move up in sophistication to materials like PEEK and PEI, they inherently have the properties we associate with the chemical cocktail commonly referred to as "plastic"

https://i.imgur.com/NwqhfVl.png

This means that they're more stable in almost all dimensions and in a wide range of temperatures, and don't leech additives because there are no additives in them.

AND the good news is that you can buy food storage products made of advanced plastic, namely PEI. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/cambro-66hp150-h-pan-1-6-si... You can actually cook in these up to 300°f without leeching materials into your food. It's really awesome
Hmm, I was thinking that's a standard thing, atleast in HN crowd. basic setup Cloudflare -> Nginx -> Docker -> 3rd Party app, all on a dedicated vm
> In some places, it's "gay" if two guys hold hands.

Sure, but that doesn't mean those two guys are gay.

> On the racist bit: it can be hard to disambiguate why someone treats you in an unfavorable way -- it could be because they're actually racist or they could just be a pissy person who hates their job.
Just because a person or group of people classifies you a certain way doesn't make it universally true.

It might not be universally true, but it is subjectively true. That's the difference: even if you think you're not being racist, you might be racist from the PoV of someone you were racist towards.
Maybe charge in your fridge?
Seth McMeekin's book, _Stalin's War_, is a great way to understand just how they did it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/06/stalins-war-by...
Such a great loss. He came to Google, did five songs, answered questions. I was lucky to be there.

A song stylist and a great voice. He loved The Great American Songbook and stayed with it his whole life.
Good point. Back when we did that we just used a reversible hash function (some would call it encryption). There are some simple algorithms meant for encrypting single integers with a reasonable key.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

This records 165 attempts including non-crewed missions of all types, like flyby of impactor. Of 165, 87 had some form of failure. 40 at launch, 32 at spacecraft and 5 partial failures. 32/(165 - 40) is .25, so about 3/4 of the time a moon mission launched, it succeeded. This indicates to me that "the rest of the trip is not that difficult" mischaracterizes the difficulty.

> $x("//tr/td[7]").length
165
> $x("//*[contains(normalize-space(text()), 'failure')]").length
87
> $x("//*[normalize-space(text()) = 'Partial failure']").length
5
> $x("//*[normalize-space(text()) = 'Launch failure']").length
40
> $x("//*[normalize-space(text()) = 'Spacecraft failure']").length
32
And season 3 was better and season 4 will never come ...

I do recommend the book.
Has someone already compared to whisper.cpp running on the CPU with cuBLAS on the GPU? That was a lot more than 4x faster than whisper on the CPU, and was sufficiently parsimonious with GPU ram to allow me running even the large model (and without quitting firefox, which is a bit of a GPU ram hog).
So... what, are you trying to say they do what they do as a form of charity? Trying to improve the security landscape out of the goodness of their hearts, one bug at a time?

To be clear, I'm not complaining, obviously I'm grateful for their work. I'm just trying to understand their motivation.

As you can probably realize, it's highly unusual behavior for a company to employ an entire team to do what they're doing, without any obvious benefit to the company itself (except perhaps PR value?).
> I mean worst that could happen is that it's harmful to someone standing right next to it if it fails catastrophically (no clue if that's even a realistic concern in this case).

AFAIK, these areas are restricted while the LHC is operating, so there would be nobody near it (and I believe trying to enter these areas triggers an interlock which stops the whole system before you can get near it).
I like the philosophy

Don't watch the world burn, warm yourself by the fire
> Honestly if you drink alcohol and you worry about microplastics you're just hypocritical

That’s correct. Some people feel powerless to address the bigger elephants in the room.

Being obsessively anti-plastic (or anything) shouldn’t be a coping mechanism (but that’s what it is, not hypocrisy).

But I’m suggesting that as a society, we can easily have the collective will to uncover and address issues - more research on plastic, more education on alcohol, etc.

Because we know what short term thinking unregulated actors can do, intentionally or unintentionally.
sounds like a car in Australia in summer, I've had a reading off my dashboard of over 55C.

Phones won't charge, apps crash, the UV destroys things at a rapid rate.
None of these are performant, no?

Generally, you can have consistency, speed, or low cost - but not more than two at the same time.
This has nothing to do with fiction. Roughly speaking, if you are some kind of wave function realist, then the implication that the past has a similar kind of uncertainty as the future is a simple consequence of the time reversibility of quantum mechanics (without the measurement postulate). Read a book.
Yes. Read Timothy Snyder's _Bloodlands_ for a deeper understanding of just how the peasants were starved. Or watch the movie "Mr. Jones".
Is this an add-on case situation or IP play?
re: GPT4 degrading --

From this recent study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09009.pdf

> For example, GPT-4 (March 2023) was very good at identifying prime numbers (accuracy 97.6%) but GPT-4 (June 2023) was very poor on these same questions (accuracy 2.4%).

There is more in the study but I just grabbed a short snippet as an example.
We have the same

https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2021-08/cdu-connect-...
>I don't think comparing everything by value makes or breaks the implementation.

Nothing much to think -- distinct objects must have distinct references [e.g. new String("a")!=new String("a')], literals must have the same references for the same values [e.g. "a"=="a"].
I didn't say Newton's work wasn't special. The implication is that general relativity is special-er.

> because it was all just "ripe for picking" (or any new tech or theory really was all ripe for picking at the time that it was picked).

Yea, that kind of is the point. General relativity came out of nowhere and was executed on at the same time. SpaceX is irrelevant to discussing achievements in physics.
But it doesn't address the actual, real risks. It looks to me like they're just talking about the fake ones.
It's not about KNOWING, it's about CONTROLLING. The concern is they can shut off your ability to make transactions if you don't cooperate with whatever their agenda is at any given moment, like what the truckers in Canada protesting vax mandates experienced.
Right, just because something is a "toy" doesn't mean it's not still impressive. If someone implemented a "toy" database that could parse and execute SQL queries, distribute data across nodes, etc., you would probably not want to use that in production, but it's still a very impressive project for a single person to pull off, even if it's riddled with bugs. Getting a very complex system to "just barely functional" is still a huge achievement and very cool!
Werner von Braun and his team deliberately sought US troops to surrender to them. They chose the US.
They explain their motivation here: https://vercel.com/blog/turborepo-migration-go-rust
TypeScript will continue to dominate IaC since it has structural typing and set theoretic types and impeccable IDE/LSP support.

I use Terraform HCL 40 hours a week, but it is severely lacking in lang design and type system and IDE/LSP experience.
SpaceX’s Swarm Technologies is halting new device sales
For the sake of fly.io, you should either restrict yourself and not respond or, if you can't resist, make it crystal clear, that you DO NOT represent fly.io. Your first message can and will be misunderstood and it DOES throw a poor light on fly.io.

I am a paying customer of fly.io, on the Scale plan.
lol on #2: We had a funny situation where leaders were mad that tickets were getting carried over every sprint. We would then say that the velocity works out to the original planned velocity, the reason tickets would get carried over was that the devs would complete their tasks, then pull in tickets while the tasks went to QA for verification. Next sprint's ticket that would get pulled in would get done when it was supposed to: Next sprint.

The leaders were like "Why are you pulling in tickets you can't complete!?!" Which led to the hilarious exchange of trying to explain that they stated that devs can only work on tickets pulled in, but because QA happens before the ticket gets marked as done, the only way no work flows over is if the dev, after handing their last ticket to QA, sat on their hands for two days. They just couldn't wrap their head around it.
Do you actually get to take a break or a rest when finishing the sprint work early? In 10+ years of doing sprints, I don't think that's ever happened to me or my team. In practice if we finish early (which is rare, maybe 1 in 5 sprints) then we try to jam in some refactor or performance fix or bug fix or something, and that ends up taking at least the remaining sprint time. There is never a chance to catch a breath.
For those who, like me, tried to find ways to influence this imbalance positively, the article mentions one specific protein called GDF15 as having a strong association with dementia risk. The researchers identified 32 proteins in total that were strongly associated with an increased risk of developing dementia if their levels were unbalanced in middle age.

The article doesn't provide specific steps on how to influence the levels of these proteins. The purpose of this research seems to be more about identifying potential biomarkers for early detection and risk assessment of dementia rather than outlining therapeutic interventions.

Edit:

GDF15, or Growth Differentiation Factor 15, is a protein that is naturally produced by our bodies. It's a stress-responsive cytokine, meaning that it's part of the body's response to conditions of stress or damage. It has roles in various physiological and pathological processes, including inflammation, metabolism, and apoptosis (a form of cell death).

In terms of influencing GDF15 levels, most research so far has been in the context of pharmaceutical interventions, particularly in relation to conditions such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.
I think if you search for youtube + (sound of the animal that gave the name to python's "typing"...if it walks like a...) a channelname starting with said sound and ending in "ope" should come up as one of the top channels along with many videos about a certain bag building game named after a city.

Sorry for being so cryptic :D
Sardinia has been inhospitable since the Roman times - and probably before since we don't have much history prior to Tacitus complaining about the heat on the island.
There was a bit of a fad a year ago with Cooking YouTube and improving instant noodles:

NYT Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFTJN1tF8A

Binging with Babish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCW1hVAebWU

Bon Appetit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjT8n3Yw4c

Joshua Weissman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XDdXdap4w

I'm sure there are a lot more of them. I agree with some of the other commenters that your recipe is probably too salty for most. Also I don't really see the reason for using egg as a thickener besides maybe adding protein? Just soft boil both eggs if you want 2 eggs and do something like add a little starch slurry if you want to thicken up the soup. Also the cheese just feels wrong but to each their own I suppose.
> commitment

I am convinced that when people talk about burnout from trying to hit sprint goals, it's because of this word, and either being coerced one way or another into commitments they can't meet, or not having enough information or experience to judge what a reasonable commitment is.

It was recently changed in the Scrum Guide from "forecast", which is much more reasonable: you can track forecasts over time to improve them, and nobody expects a forecast to be bang on the money every time. "Commitment" doesn't work that way.
If they're going to update that page just add it to the list:

- Title (ideally unique, like Login | Hacker News)

- Use of section heading elements for "Login" and "Create Account"

- A background color

- Set the autocomplete attribute on the two password inputs to "current-password" for login and "new-password" for Create Account. Give both username inputs the autocomplete "username"[0]

- Give the two username and password inputs unique names (e.g. username, new-username, password, new-password)

- Stop being "clever" and change to standard HTML forms. Currently, both login/create forms point to the same endpoint, with the button's "value" mutating what that end-point does. This is completely non-standard and therefore difficult for any password manager to navigate without hard-coding. Instead, have each submit to a different endpoint (e.g. login, and create-account respectively).

- The forgotten password page also points to an endpoint called "x" and the username input has a different name than either one found on the login page "s" and no autocomplete hint.

If someone wanted to target HN with a bot, circumventing this would be trivial. It only really negatively impacts legitimate users trying to use password managers.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_...
Wouldn't that cause condensation problems with the phone?

Not sure if that's a valid way to charge your phone or not. Would be interesting if it was!
Just tell it you're already subscribed
There are some good reasons for data caps on mobile carriers. The last mile is a shared access medium, and the carriers only have so much spectrum licensed to them.

All mobile carriers are offering plans with soft caps, meaning you may be derated to a lower speed after a known amount of data and (usually) there are bandwidth limitations in your area.
That’s a pretty terrible rule. Unless you’re rolling over them with chair wheels, a bad BNC cable should be easy to spot by visual inspection. In my 20 years of instrumentation work it’s rarely the cable.
Yes, experience in both. I'm considerably more inclined to use Rust for any use case, but I'll freely admit that I'm biased because it appeals to my sensibilities more.

IMO the most compelling use case to use Go over Rust is if you're writing a networked service or networking code.
Totally understand the interpretation, but if you take a closer look I think you'll find Primo is actually the opposite. Site builders like Dreamweaver, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Weebly, etc. (and even WordPress now) replace code with visual controls - bridging the gap between users and their websites, but also putting up a wall that keeps them from modifying the code directly (or at best, applying some custom CSS on top of it). Primo, on the other hand, bridges the gap directly to the code, which means the interface doesn't get bogged down by toggles, sliders, and color pickers and users are never limited to just the subset of the underlying platform pre-ordained by whoever built the tool. That's the beauty of code, and it's what excites me most about Primo - that people who would otherwise think code was outside of their reach would realize it's actually something they'd be good at and enjoy.
Just use function calling, declare your function schema using Zod, and convert it to JSONSchema automatically. You don't have to write your types more than once, you get proper validation with great error messages, and can extend it.
Content aside, I've got to give Mr. acko.net credit for that header. It's been there for, what, almost twenty years now? And yet it somehow still feels really fun and cool and not particularly dated, which is something that cannot be said for more mid-00s web art kinds of stuff!
I've pointed the only part that makes it a toy project is the lack of Threading support, the rest is not hard to add. So the items in list of things missing after 'toy' thing should have totally different weights (with Threads being the added to the last).
The coming disruption of animal food production is almost here
The vast majority of actual software engineers can't even write JS and SQL right.

It would make no sense to send humanities students on a wild goose chase trying to learn two harder languages when visual programming delivers the message just as effectively.

We often get lost in this industry thinking anyone can do what we do. We even see it with this new "ChatGPT is going to take your job" non-sense. The truth is what we do, when we do it well, is hard. If the goal is to deliver a greater point and use some programming construct as a conduit you can't get simpler and more effective than something visual.
I'm not sure on this, will it make any sense - customers who DON'T WANT to be aware of what is required for HA (say lonely devs) choosing such a hosting types. Even if you put educational articles, I'm unsure it will be used. Putting some BANNER IN RED LETTERS into CLI output + link to article may work, though.

What do you think?
Controversial Youtuber Ruben Sim also has some (also controversial) vids showcasing the bad stuff that happens on Roblox (Weird developers, moderators ignoring reports, weird/inappropriate groups and items not being removed, etc) [0-2]

This is the same person that was sued by Roblox in 2021[3] but that doesn't nullify the content he has been showing about all the shady shit that Roblox does.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STS1horM6JY

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLF6YUdt8aE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUWnxP_YAw

[3] SomeOrdinaryGamers deep dive into the lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dlxp-X7O54

[-] https://www.youtube.com/@RubenSim/videos
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I had a bathroom sink where we put in a new faucet that had a pinhole leak in the tubing which you couldn't see when installed. Everything would look good, but the water would come out and drip down the drain pipe.
At large, the problem with on prem in this will be that a lot of the items in any of these "infrastructure as code" tools abstract a ton of things a human will have to do. Unless you are using "on prem" to be more akin to "private overprovisioned cloud."

Adding a new machine to your setup? When is it delivered? Who is physically connecting it to power and a network rack? Adding additional storage? Same questions, basically.

All of the software that goes onto these machines can still be done this way, of course. But that is bog standard deployment scripts. Well, it was. Not sure when we changed that.
"And I'm proud to be an American, because at least I have A.C."
Yeah, it works just fine in the fridge, I have tried it. It also works with an old charger than can only deliver 5W.
My uncle, who is not a physicist, but "one smart mf", was one of the heads of the beam instrumentation team at Fermilab, and spent a large part of his career designing, building and maintaining detectors. It utterly blows my mind.