skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused. Isn't Jupyter Lab the same as Jupyter Notebook but also with a file chooser and some extra functions? I don't care a lot which one I'm choosing. I always open Jupyter Lab because it has some very small neat additions. Why would I want to want to use Jupyter Notebook without the Lab interface around it?
From the abstract:

> Generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) systems that flexibly encode, integrate, and interpret this data at scale can potentially enable impactful applications ranging from scientific discovery to care delivery.

The problem with AI models is it may bring us medical innovations that are actually harmful to humanity, such as increased lifespans, which in turn will drive further overpopulation.
Because the website is not just asking your browser to attest, the attestation process requires the OS to send verification.
So what is for rent on AWS or MacStadium are not VMs on genuine Mac hardware?
>So is it possible to define the missing function and continue from the same state in Python? I don't think so, but I'm not a heavy Python user

This is a pointless debate - someone has to catch the exception, save caller registers, handle the exception (if there's a handler) or reraise. Either you have to do it (by putting a try except there) or your runtime has to be always defensively saving registers or something. Lisp isn't magic, it's just a point on trade-off curve and I have without a shadow of a doubt proven that that point is very close to python (wrt the repl). So okay maybe clisp has made some design decisions that make it a hair more effective at resuming than python. Cool I guess I'll just ignore all the other python features where there's parity or advantage because of this one thing /s.
So sad, I have been following his stories since I was a young. RIP Sinead
Finally I found an expert in time travel technology!

Please tell us more about it!
There are basically two reasons. The first one:

> A combination of rapid economic development, very high levels of education among young adults, very competitive labor market, long work hours, unaffordable housing, traditional gender norms and persistent gender inequalities in work and family life have created a perfect storm — conditions that make it very difficult for young people to marry and pursue their fertility plans

and the second one:

> The research I have been conducting with my colleagues shows that the appeal of marriage and having children has been vanishing among the young adults and many of them are likely to stay unmarried, childfree and without a partner.

And this is very real. Men increasingly don't want to marry because they perceive the current system as unfair. Women increasingly don't want to marry because they don't want to settle for anything less than a certain threshold that is increasingly difficult to find. This trend is clear everywhere in the West.
I can't quite put my finger on why, but somehow these exchanges with fringe theorists strongly remind me of one-sided versions of those "who would win" arguments that people have between Star Trek technology versus Star Wars. The real objective seems to be to show off one's ability to creatively avoid being pinned down by argument from scientific knowledge while affecting that one's own claims are grounded in it.
How hard can it be...

Here even contactless payment on debit works perfectly well on any gas station. Show card, maximum of 50€ gets charged. Then fill up either you get only 50€ worth of gas or soon enough the sum is lowered to what you got...
Yes, ad blockers aren't big right now, but Safari on iOS and Samsung Browser on Android has ad blocker support. What happens if Apple or Samsung decides to bundle an ad blocker? Google wants to defend against any future moves.

Already, other browsers have led on tracking protection and control of third-party cookies, affecting Google's business model. So Google built Chrome, invested in it so people would prefer it, pushed it on their websites to ensure people would prefer it, and built a walled garden with Chrome Sync + Passwords.

Then they started using it to decrease privacy by signing in to Chrome when you sign in to Gmail. They track your websites visited and use it to improve their advertising even when the website doesn't use Google ads.

Theirs is the only password manager for Android which is limited to their browser. That's for a reason.
Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.
> in some areas of the Thames, you can create a nesting habitat for an endangered bird on your boat, and then once the bird settles in, they can't force you to move, since doing so would destroy an important habitat.

Seems like the fix for that would be to force you to leave the boat where it is, but to stay off of it so as not to disturb or disrupt the bird's habitat while at the same time leaving you responsible for rent and the boat's upkeep. That way you'd have an expensive boat you can't use but must also pay for and maintain. The plus side being that nobody in their right mind would try to attract endangered birds, the downside being that in order to avoid the costs, a cruel person might harm the bird if it happened to build a nest on their boat naturally (not sure how often that actually happens when people aren't intentionally building habitats for them).

It's possible that discouraging that kind of thing just isn't worth it. Maybe the people taking up space with their houseboats aren't as big a problem as there not being enough nice habitats for a struggling species, and the loophole is a net good for the restoration of the bird population without being a major problem for others.
Neither of those use cases are exclusive to jupyter. You can run scripts on remote machines quite easily, and matplotlib will happily pop up a window for your charts.

The real reason is because it’s a much better workflow for data exploration and manipulation because you don’t always know exactly what code to write before you do it. So having the data in memory is really useful.
Google “Web and App Activity” Control Litigation: Motion for Class Certification [pdf]
Diamond Artistry: Dogs, Appaloosa, and Horses Diamond Painting Kits
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Dogs Diamond Painting
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Consumer radios operate by witchcraft. Presumably a fairy from another dimension rides into town on horseback with a satchel full of vinyl and then camps out outside your window so when she sees you switch on the radio she can play the vinyl for you.

It feels different when you put it together yourself out of basic components and see that there is no magic in there, and yet... there is.
Reminds me of the guy that had the witter account with the handle '@'.
I literally do this everyday in the office. I get lost in the previous moments which drug my work. This may probably be attribute to me being alone in the office?
Show HN: LLFn – A Light-Weight Framework for Building AI (LangChain Alternative)
Hi HN,

After building a few AI apps with LLMs and LangChain (including https://github.com/orgexyz/BlockAGI), we finally felt that it's time for a change.

LLFn was born out of our necessity to iterate faster on building AI agents. We found that the current frameworks are convoluted with complex abstractions which over time has present more of a road block than saving our time.

LLFn is an open-source framework that turns any prompt into a function and let you decoratively define their output. This abstraction allows us to build AI apps, especially those with multiple agents interacting with each other, much faster. Because each "agent" is just a function, you can compose it any way you want with minimum boilerplate. This turned out to be 10x productivity for our team.

We're super excited to share it with you and hear your feedback!

https://github.com/orgexyz/LLFn

If you want to try LLFn on Colab, here's the link:

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Could be one of the sibling encodings, like base85 or uuencoded, perhaps? From afar they could look sufficiently similar to base64 that OP got them mixed up?
Everything about tarsnap is absurd. It's basically the world's most absurd backup service (insanely expensive, poor UX, bus factor of ~1, restoring moderate amounts of data appears to take days (!)[1]), brought about by an absurdly bad allocation of human capital (it's run by a double Putnam challenge winner, with several other impressive accomplishments), and as such, absurdly beloved by HN.

[1] In case of an emergency, you will always be able to get back your data from tarsnap at a blazing rate of 50kB/s https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333.
Virtualization at least does not have a functional sign-in
This is especially rich coming from google's, who's 'safetynet' for android results in a significant reduction in security (contrary to its stated purpose): it locks out 3rd-party up-to-date and secure ROMs while allowing horrificly insecure manufacturer-provided ROMs to still pass, because to disable those would cause a massive user outcry.

That's not the case with GrapheneOS:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

SafetyNet is deprecated anyway:

https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/deprecation...
The sad thing is that i wish that you were joking.

Again to all SW engineers out there: If there is only 1 (one) input field on the application which has focus ( in A.D. 2023, 55 after the Mother of all demos was presented, according to Wikipedia), why do i have to click on this field before typing so that the characters typed do not go somewhere else ?
Honestly that figure makes the argument of legalization more compelling. Taxes

Fwiw, my argument is that compared to Visa or Mastercard, you weren't going to find a company that has anywhere near the valuation. You're still well under 1% of either of them, and pointing to a company that's been around just under a decade. I'm not saying they aren't big, just that the risk to Visa and Mastercard is very high and it would be idiotic to risk all that just to accept payments for weed.
Simplified monitoring, ownership and true app health with microservices
It's a great service but honestly I think they just got lucky with how they named it. It's short, easy to pronounce and very memorable. Were it to be called anything else, I'm not sure it would've caught on.
I think circumstances are different now because alternatives to IE provided superior user experience, so there was a motivation for "normies" to switch. At present it seems to me that "normies" are quite content with Chrome and enticing them to switch is going to be quite challenging.

Not sure what is the solution here. Several years ago it seemed to me that Mozilla may be on track to get their shit together, then they decided to lay off Rust/Servo people, left their Firefox for Android team barely staffed so they couldn't even handle more that handful of supported extensions and instead spent all the money on their CEO bonuses. Guess this is going to be quite a painful decade for the open Web...
I know you're trolling, but don't worry AI would have the answer to this solution too!! Don't you get it?
>I happen to prefer dynamic, multicultural societies over static, xenophobic ones.

Can people in other societies have a say about what they want in the matter in their own society, or your also prefer the norms of you and your society imposed upon everybody?

("I like multiculturalism, as long as every country has the same cultural mindset as mine").

>From that I’m sure you can guess my own nationality.

Is it one where foreigners massacred and replaced the native population, took their land, relegated them to specific areas, and even took their children and closed them in camps? I guess those natives were xenophobic too.
Sigh, no.

We would’ve gotten Electron any other way if it wasn’t Chromium, it’s the only endgame for UI given how native layers shat the bed.

Mozilla also no longer even supports embedding. ;P
> To be fair, mass misery is very real: starvation, thirst, poverty, forced migration, etc. It's just a "local" problem and internal so "doesn't count" to the popbomb deniers.

Those have all been problems even with far lower population levels. By many statistics people worldwide have never been better off. Life expectancy, lower rates of military conflicts, etc are all generally improving.
Importance of using a B-Tree index by the planner and executor for efficient query execution and performance optimization.

Translated from a 2019 french blog post of mine.
There are SD models tunes for vector like raster output. And XL has specifically focused on this use case as one of the improvements. Try SDXL 1 on Clipdrop or Dreamstudio.
> while sites like HN, personal blogs and wikipedia won't touch this stuff

Don't be so sure, after all they adopted TLS. Which is essentially the same shit, just slightly less draconian.
Hardtechno, Schranz and German Hardtekk. Always makes me feel like I'm a superhuman and can power through the Pull Requests
It's illegal in all states of the US. Some states have decided to make it legal, but that only protects you from prosecution by the state. If you enter a federal facility or you're stopped by a federal agent, then you can still go to jail despite the states' stance on cannabis.
> Every time I've written to my Senator or Representative about something they support but I don't like, I get a form letter in response that just restates their existing position

The funniest (Anecfote not from the USA) is when they state in their response email something that you have first hand experience of being false, such as "this legislation does not ban the right to protest because we've seen protests take place" when, the legislation does give that power and they do prevent them, but allow Corporate approved protests to go on (think protest for something unobtrusive).

I just hope more people realize govs don't have their (the people) interest in mind when pushing increasing authortiarian power for them.
It works in code compiled from c++ too: define and associate a signal handler for sigkill, call a function whose symbol can't be runtime resolved by the linker, sigkill is sent and caught, define your function (in your asm dejure), patch the GOT to point from the original symbol to wherever the bytearray is with your asm, and voila.

I'll say it again: what exactly do you think your magical lisp is doing that defies the laws of physics/computing?
They only like it when they are the ones doing it. Nothing new here.
My aunt used to live in Paris. I remember, she used to come home and tell us these stories about being abroad. And I remember she told us that she jumped into the river once, barefoot. She smiled,
leapt without looking and tumbled into the Seine.

The water was freezing, she spent a month sneezing, but said she would do it again. Here's to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. Here's to the hearts that ache, here's to the mess we make.
> or maybe your Electronic National ID card

This is the actual missing key bit. The problem that Google is trying to solve here is not actually a hardware / computational problem, it's a Real Identity problem. Hardware / TPMs are a poor proxy for solving that problem.

There's drastically less eWaste and impact on software freedom if you seek attestation from a national ID provider than if you seek attestation from one of a handful of personal electronics OEMs. National ID providers can offer to sign not only Real Identity attestations, but also anonymized attestations to protect citizen privacy. A web operator can decide whether to allow for attestations from only their own national ID provider, foreign national ID providers, private ID providers, or none at all if they just have a read-only site and don't really care.

The truth is that government inaction is forcing Big Tech down the road of violating user privacy and freedoms to solve Big Tech's problems. But getting the government to offer a flat Identity Provider playing field would solve these problems in a way that doesn't require such violation.
Programming Language Popularity: Rust
Room Temp supercondictivity or bust, Experiment WIP
yes true! But by default, `conda env export > env.yml` will include the version numbers of the current environment, which is how I usually use it.
What's being asked is, after defining the missing function, whether it's possible to clear the exception and continue the execution without having to restart from the beginning. This is very useful when you hit an exception after 10 minutes of execution. (This is a real usecase which would have saved me untold hours.)

I hope it's possible somehow, but if you just load pdb (e.g. with %pdb in ipython), pdb is entered in post-mortem mode, from which it's impossible to modify code/data and resume execution. Setting a breakpoint (or pdb.set_trace()) would requiring knowing about the bug ahead of time. Does it only work when interrupting with a remote debugger rather than on exception?

However, it wouldn't be possible if the interpreter unwinds the stack looking for exception handlers before finding that there is none? In other languages/VMs such as SBCL the runtime can look up the stack for handlers, and invoke the debugger before destructively unwinding.
I did not know this, thanks for sharing!
... didn't Elon always get those? He founded x.com in 1999 (with some other people).
Your solution is worse in every way.
> Unless intelligent life appeared everywhere in the universe spontaneously at the same instant, which seems rather unlikely, then someone has to be first.

Yes, and for any given species, it is incredibly unlikely they are the first.

> If the universe has, on the scale of potentially uncountable trillions of years, just barely reached a stage where the probability of life appearing has risen above "infinitely small" then there's nothing chauvinistic or anthropocentric about speculating that we're it.

That is a humongous if that you have to prove, and it still would mean that it's very unlikely we are the first.
> It’s fairly standard practice for triathlons to dump a whole bunch of bleach into a lake or river to make it safe to swim

I'm not sure where this might be standard practice, but this would be very illegal in most of Europe. So that's not what is going to be done (as explained in the article).
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875940
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875226
>Common Lisp programs run by default in a way that calls to undefined functions are detected.

Cool so what you're telling me is that by default every single function call incurs the unavoidable overhead of indirecting through some lookup for a function bound to a symbol. And you're proud of this?
Thread? I only see a single message. Is the rest of it hidden when not logged in?
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Positively affirming rights are passed, and often passed regularly. But remember we monkey brains are drawn towards the negative. Positive news doesn't make it on the news that often, and even when they are, we forget them way faster than negative news

That's such a cop out. This is not a balancing thing. Since 911, privacy and fundamental rights have been increasingly crushed and no amount of gay marriage offsets that. It's two separate things.

Hell, while things like gay marriage are awesome and expand rights, we seem to be now using identity politics to limit them.

So no, there's no "glass half full" here.
> please name the last 5 presidents and tell me how many of them won the popular vote?

There is no national "popular vote", but rather popular votes plural in each state.

Most states are tilted toward one party or another, which can result in low voter turnouts in those states -- but if there were this mythical national "popular vote", then many folks in those states would vote.

So claims of who "won" or "lost" a national "popular vote" that never happened are entirely partisan nonsense. Stop it.
The problem with mechanisms like that is that they can also be (ab)used for bad stuff.

For example - in my country gay marriage was made explicitly illegal with a constitutional amendment in 2005.

Many other countries could legalise it with a simple majority vote. But we now need either a 2/3 majority or a referendum. Both of which are very unlikely to pass.
Male Frogs Sing for Sex but Why Don’t They Do Their Best?
If their presence is revealed and approximately simultaneously we develop some new fantastically high Isp rocket-engine technology, I for one am going to start to wonder if this is evidence of some kind of squid pro quo.
We provide value by increasing their wealth, and take a % for doing so, they benefit and we benefit. This concept is new to you?
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