skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so true.

My girlfriend and I both have visual impairments, although hers is much more significant (she's legally blind). Until recently, she refused to use a white cane or do orientation and mobility training. It took a lot of convincing to get her to learn how to use a screenreader. I used to recommend simple accessibility techniques to her (using bump dots on her microwave and stove, or asking her landlord for an accessible thermostat) and she'd say no because she was worried that she would be perceived as blind.

As a consequence she wasn't very independent and her lack of independence was causing conflict in our relationship.

Eventually there were enough incidents at work that her bosses made it really clear that they wanted her to use a white cane. Between that and me pushing her, she's finally accepted that it's time to start learning the skills and techniques that blind and visually impaired people use to be independent.

I think she's discovering now that there are so many techniques that people have discovered for adapting to vision loss - you just have to be willing to learn them.

Her parents are very nice people, but they never pushed her to be independent. I think there was a combination of denial and a perception that being blind is somehow shameful.
You said temperatures had plateaued and would not increase. I said they would and only seemed to plateau due to El Niño/la Nina cycles. I was right.
A typo! Thank you for pointing it out :) !
Whether we like it or not, tourist attractions do not scale. Everyone isn’t going to get their 15 minutes with the Sistine chapel. Some won’t even get more than a few minutes if at all.
I haven't set foot in a church in probably 30 years, except as a tourist for some that are architecturally notable.
One more key point -- approximately 1 percent of the population is born intersex: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/key-issues-facing-p...

That means they're born literal with both sexes, and "correcting" that is effectively 50% accuracy.

So please tell me how immoral they are for "fixing" the original "correction" when it was done incorrectly.
If you look it carefully, the green bar indicate performance of peerdb
It's a 2nd party application
On the topic, I urge you to check out https://rubyjard.org/

I have never looked back.
I loved LAN parties growing up. One benefit I don't see mentioned often, virtually everyone, even kids who had no interest at all in tech, knew how to setup a router, basic network config, and install Windows (because inevitably for some reason at least one person's entire setup died immediately at every LAN party.)
Bulbs divide.
I’ve read Masters of Doom, The Making of Prince of Persia and I also recommend ‘Once Upon Atari’

https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Atari-history-industry/dp/0...
TC as in Time Crisis?
I'm a lazy vegetarian, but this sounds terrible.
Please, I need more details.

- which chromebook do you have?

- how do you run your dev stack?

- Can it handle developing a node + react app?
> I'm perfectly contented to take some days off from work and knock around the countryside on my bike.

For the last decade-plus, I have spent about half of every year traveling around the world on my bike. A lot of routes are starting to feel very crowded, and seemingly every cyclist is posting on social media, which in turn attracts more people to cycle there. Even some grueling bikepacking routes that are feasible only for those who are fit, can afford quality gear, and can be on the road for weeks at a time, now draw so many cyclists that local people’s attitudes to foreigners are changing.
You Know I Couldn’t Last
It's one louder, isn't it?
Perhaps the web is not well-suited for commercialising free information. "Monetisation" as the meme goes..

Using the internet/web to sell widgets, i.e., products or non-internet services, is a different matter, IMO. One that was anticipated from early days.
I have extensive ruby and python experience. I lately opted for go for it's minimalism because it won't let me over engineer.

With python I knew I would end up over engineering with meta classes, magic methods and what not. Same with ruby.
Yeah on Firefox on desktop (with uBO) scrolling doesn't work, and Reader Mode didn't have any of the content, so I just closed the tab. There's plenty of less user-hostile websites to read.
Yes but this breaks the very container routing that we need Docker for. An "all or nothing" approach is not ideal.
Not downplaying this, but how is it any different than using any number of free audio transcription libraries (sphinx, google, etc.) and any LLM?
How does ice cream work? A chemist explains why you can’t just freeze cream
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

It’s probably smart to browse his other titles, Tufte is the Knuth of his field.
What we plan to remove in (KDE) Plasma 6
If it wasn’t for fashion it would probably be the most popular building material for roofs. Make your roof out of that and at an angle and you probably never worry about leaks for decades.
more like baseline and maximum possible (natural) strength are encoded in genes. and even that is still subject to environmental factors (diet growing up, etc)
juicero for coffee? An investor who tried to get me on board at juicero said it was nespresso for fruit drinks!
Slides on large language models for statisticians
This would be compelling if your goal in using Ruby is to gain easy access to metaprogramming tools.

Metaprogramming is just one of the things that make Ruby a joy to use. It's not really a reason unto itself.
Tips for Saving Money
I'm intensely weirded out to see that all of the classic Commander Keen games were developed-and-released between December 1990 and December 1991. That is a wild pace of graphical and gameplay development.

Check out the evolution from the first game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_in_Invasion_of_...

To the last game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_in_Goodbye,_Gal...

I was playing them at the time, as a young child, and I'd forgotten the pace at which things were apparently happening.
No space is wasted, unless you need to squeeze in a rectangle thing (e.g. tennis court, driveway) into a tight lot. But boundary disputes in urban areas are already bad enough so trying to define a wavey boundary wont be fun! That said how much freaking character would this add to a back garden!
Which part of the Constitution has an issue with this?
PanGu-Coder2: SOTA for Code LLMs on 15B
There is a new code LLM in town, and with only 15B params, it reaches 62.20% pass@1 on HumanEval!
The whole office and home debate is not about working physically outside of your home. It is about excessive and unhealthy commutes to work due to myriad factors.

If you could hop on a bike/trolly/bus/train/walk to work (to multiple employers) in 10 minutes consistently, then this would not be a discussion.

Which is impossible without density, so in the end, the discussion is about how densely we want to live vs how spread out we want to live.
Came out in 1994, which more or less aligns with OP's "well into the 1990s" timeline.
Excited to give this a try. I tested almost every existing solution and as you said, nothing worked at scale.

In the end I wrote my own tool specifically optimized for the use cases. It’s been rock solid for years so I know that better solutions are possible. But it has its limitations with little flexibility and I wouldn’t want to try an initial load of a table with 1B rows.

It’s great to see someone with experience with large high throughput instances working on this.
Adding here, a lot of this unknown is mitigated by convention over configuration in Rails.

If one using Rails accepts this and tries not to fight it, then the metaprogramming of Rails provides a lot of goodies.
There were a couple my city in the late 90s and early 2000s. I remember playing Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike with my friends there in high school. None lasted very long though.
If you find a giant Lilac bush on an old farm, it's probably where the outhouse was. The fragrant flower was used, to try and hide the odor.
I agree this is surprising behavior. Other comments have placed blame at the feet of Docker, iptables, or Ufw. However the easiest workaround is to tell docker to publish the ports ONLY on 127.0.0.1, making them inaccessible from elsewhere:

- ports:
127.0.0.1:8000:8000
The Louvre Is Thrilled to Announce It Is Rebranding to “UVR”
Unlike Vercel, Zeabur can deploy full-stack services, including front-end, back-end, and the database. You can try it here: https://zeabur.com
There have been many cases of UUIDv4 collisions because an RNG wasn’t as random as expected, due to broken RNG or developer error. It is one of those cases where practice is not as reliable as theory, and it is banned in some places as a consequence.

It depends on how paranoid you need to be.
I just saw the memory usage on Zeabur dashboard.
They tend to not have the right base of training materials - the models are constrained not just by the lobotomization but by some specialized writing not being part of the corpus. Training a lora on a specific corpus - fan fic, alt.sex.stories, or a persons specific writing, can help induce behavior or language choices specific to that corpus. You can also use context injection but I’ve found combining a model weight adjustment with priming the context to be the most effective.

I think over time it’ll become standard practice to train special purpose models on top of general purpose models. If I have a very specific task domain a model tuned to that domain will less often wander off and will be more likely to respond in the desired way.
Presumably the same list of people any Second Amendment auditor would repeat.

Note that I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the behavior - just engaging with something you labelled as a thought experiment.
I'm a Sr. SRE (IC5) with corporate, startup, and consulting experience also looking.
Really doesn't benefit companies that much because once the market turns around those people won't stay
Tesla shows you percentage by default. The percentages for arrival in navigation are spot on for most people.
Yes, throw shade at the stack used to build over 75% of the value captured by the top 50 YC funded companies.

Pretending Rails sucks never gets old, I guess.
As much as I hate to say it, the food is good. They have a fully staffed kitchen at every restaurant and cook quite a bit on-site it appears. Their menu which is notorious for being huge also appears smartly designed with many dishes sharing ingredients and technique.

Their burger is actually really good.

My gripe is the portion sizes are just too big. So much waste. I wish I could order half portions at 3/4 the cost.
Lived through the OG satanic panic and as a D&D playing metalhead it sucked.
Imo this is the worst market I've seen since 95 when I started.
This healthcare/Cheesecake Factory mashup is one of my all-time favorite articles:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med
Every time I read on of these articles, I just keep asking myself the question, why? Why do people actually wake up in the morning and work on this stuff:

Video understanding tasks are becoming increasingly important in our society. With the rise of video content on social media platforms and the increasing use of surveillance cameras in public spaces, there is a growing need for automated video understanding systems. However, despite the importance of this problem, it has received relatively little attention compared to text and image understanding tasks.

I just cannot understand why you'd want to be contributing to "the next generation of ultra high performance video surveillance", for example. I think mostly, young enthusiastic people like to tell themselves they're some how just going to be helping the poor, disabled and disenfranchised, but these things are ultimately going to be used to build terminators and robo cops. You're lying to yourself if you don't think this is the case.

I'll probably get down voted for this, but I find AI people just weird. The cognitive dissonance is staggering.

Nearly everyone is concerned about the risks, yet people seem to wake up in the morning, hop on the Google staff bus and go off to work building this stuff? Strange behavior.

I saw Geoffrey Hinton talking the other day about what the world will look like when we have police and soldiers with no morals, it will be absolutely fucked, like you will be able to crush, and I mean crush and dissent with absolutely no guilt, no obstructions, no moral qualms.

Why work on tech that contributes to this world? If the argument here is "because China is doing it too", I think a better solution is to pick up the phone, and start talking with China about the world we should be building together for our children, not to start an arms race which will just wipe people out.

I truly hope I'm wrong and we're on the cusp of techno utopia, but I really can't imagine that we are going to a better place given the current trajectory.
In the winter, it's cold outside, and everything is frozen. So you don't need to hide the odor. Same with the fall. The lilac is easy to grow, and nice in the spring. So that just leaves the summer, but not many bushes are producing scent in the late summer, anyway.
I can’t argue with that. That is why I hope end of life chromebooks are not landfill. A good outcome is a container of them going to help poor people.

Prisons are an interesting one. The constraint is political not financial, at least for US prisons. Probably giving someone a access to a $1k computer requires $10k to feed the rent seekers inbetween. And that is if we even value not punishing prisoners beyond the fact they are inside anyway.
Dueling AIs: AI reviewing AI generated code
Came across this very interesting GitHub pull request of an AI bot reviewing another AI bot’s generated code!

Is this the way of the future?
"A careless slip" is really understating it. "A completely irresponsible and reckless indifference to safety" would be more like it.
It's been this way for 40 years. Are you a taxpayer? I'd rather not pay for any such retrofit. Furthermore, what makes you think that typos won't be made with any different domain name? Why would a fake hypothetical improvement of the situation drive a massive rewrite of millions of lines of code, server configurations, TLS certificates, specification documents...?
The article that you linked discusses abuse in America and makes the claim:

> Furthermore, of the public school teachers who have sexually abused children, most are married or non-celibate, and somehow, public school teachers tend to offend in this way at a higher rate (5-7%) than Catholic priests or other clerics (4%).

It cites https://abc7chicago.com/religion/catholic-priest-blasts-idea... as the source for this information. However, the cited article is about abuse in Australia and makes no claims about public schools.

With some quick googling, I found this article: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-lighthearted-dispute-do...
The challenging task of sorting colours – Alan Zucconi
can't wait for space billboards on the Solar Highway advertising

"Visit Historic Earth!"
I gave it to my kids and they were all creeped out

It’s clearly got issues but it’s tuned to be spookily charming

Very much uncanny valley for chat
yes. It's very much OK.
a future contract is for the delivery of a commodity, which has some kind of non zero value the market agrees on

startups can have zero value and until there is substantial IP there or customer base it remains zero

so i don’t see how SAFEs can become futures contracts
Ask HN: I've learned JavaScript, should I learn Python?
I'd like some pros and cons of whether it would make sense to up my skills and learn Python. Any feedback would be helpful.
Google Inactive Account Policy extended to 2-year of Inactivity
Mennonites looked for black walnut trees, as a sign of fertile soil, suitable for farming and starting a settlement.
I mean, he has a PhD in physics, at least. He's not just some rando off the street.
> this bug only arises _because_ "One function's return value is [being passed, directly, without any interpretation, as ] another function's parameter".

Which is the normal way of programming. If you can't safely compose functions without adding an extra layer of interpretation between them, programming becomes much harder.

> If the type signatures were changed so that interpretation was required - so that "the answer is None" could be distinguished from "I don't have an answer" - then the bug in the overall system goes away.

Which is something that using sum types rather than union types achieves by default. Wherever you want to localise the problem, union types add a big, easy class of ways to shoot yourself in the foot that just aren't there if you use sum types.
The optimistic mode is alleged to ignore outside temperature. This is mentioned on the second page of the article:

>Other data cited by Reuters found that Tesla cars "almost always calculated that they could travel more than 90 percent of their advertised EPA range estimates regardless of external temperatures."

All EVs encounter cold weather, but most of them pretty much hit their range ratings regardless. Why should Tesla be different?
Paraphrasing someone so badly, as you have done above, is not good faith. And the GP is basically talking about 'Bullshit jobs', the subject of which David Graeber wrote a well regarded, well received book on [1], [2].

[1] https://www.penguin.com.au/books/bullshit-jobs-9780141983479

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
ModernMT v7 adds trust attention – machine translation
Lol gotta love the Musk stans flagging the article...
All knowledge is lossy compression.

My thinking “the enemy gate is down” when considering the tokens “Ender’s Game” is my recalling a learned association of those tokens to the given token string.

My knowing that doesn’t strip the copyright. My telling someone the meaning and context of the phrase generally doesn’t strip the copyright away from Orson Scott Card. I’m not reproducing his work but my knowledge of it. And it’s dependent on what I do with that knowledge and how if I’ve violated his copyright.

We are prosecuting the LLMs for possessing fragments of knowledge. And we’re assuming that the recall of some of those fragments means a copy of that work is in fact contained within the weights.
Any plans to support .NET?
My partner and I don’t go often, but when we do we order one main and a slice of cheesecake. Maybe a smaller appetizer if we’re particularly hungry. It’s a ton of food but it’s a good amount for two.
I am really confused by the communication thread and am interpreting that the toddler is somehow in charge of running the infrastructure as a joke. Yet I can’t see it as either a joke or serious.

I’m a native English speaker but sometimes I swear I’m losing grasp on communication in the Internet age and am sincerely trying to understand this all.
Victoria announces ban on gas connections to new homes from January 2024
The people that make them often post them or comment in the sub-Reddit below. I've linked to a search for uncensored models in there. Usernames of main people involved are faldore and The-Bloke. Most had Wizard Uncensored in their names.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/search/?q=uncensored&res...

People have posted comparisons showing it works pretty well. Some foundational models have enough censorship built in that they still try to resist it. You have to prompt those cleverly to do what you want them to do.
Games started redrawing everything because once you have a camera that rotates in 3D, the pixel reuse drops a lot vs one that pans over a 2D plane.
Except they haven't arrived in any meaningful way for commuting.

Talk to me when they're more plentiful and cheaper than an Uber and is a better option than owning a car.
Agree but you should split a meal with someone else and / or take home the extra. Portion sizes are huge but no need to throw it away.
I received email about this, and one of the exceptions involves anyone who has a YouTube channel, comments, or videos. So IIUC, because I do have those things, I am exempt from the policy and my account won't be tampered with. Pinky-swear.
Awesome.

> Those poor saps with 2,400 bps modems would spend almost a full half hour doing this.

This was me! Still remember it to this day.
I very much miss LAN parties. Analogous to meets in car culture, they where a fun place to show off your rig and see others. You diffused knowledge about hardware, software, and strategies, but not just about games. You had an opportunity to get support on tricky problems or help others. You got to lose yourself in your obsession with other people at or above your level, in a way you couldn’t in other social interactions. It could even lead to career opportunities. It’s no surprise that the two scenes I was heavily into (punk rock/hardcore/metal and LAN clubs) shared a DIY aesthetic.

The cherry on top was actually gaming and competition. Very little beats the satisfaction of dominating and actually seeing several people across the room react.

I still love building PCs. But today, when I finish a build, I feel a little sad I won’t be showing it off at the monthly LAN party. I’ve tried to reengage but between problems mentioned in the article and all the complications of adulthood, I’ve failed to recapture the experience.
For the federal government doesn’t work that way Constitutionally: the question is “what part of the Constitution authorizes it?”

(Arguably the answer is “the interstate commerce clause”, but its important to ask the right question.)
What exactly is your justification here? It seems like a fairly good mechanism for consumers rather than control.
For some background on the comment, see the following paper.

Title: Opening up ChatGPT: Tracking openness, transparency, and accountability in instruction-tuned text generators

Authors: Andreas Liesenfeld, Alianda Lopez, Mark Dingemanse

Abstract: Large language models that exhibit instruction-following behaviour represent one of the biggest recent upheavals in conversational interfaces, a trend in large part fuelled by the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, a proprietary large language model for text generation fine-tuned through reinforcement learning from human feedback (LLM+RLHF). We review the risks of relying on proprietary software and survey the first crop of open-source projects of comparable architecture and functionality. The main contribution of this paper is to show that openness is differentiated, and to offer scientific documentation of degrees of openness in this fast-moving field. We evaluate projects in terms of openness of code, training data, model weights, RLHF data, licensing, scientific documentation, and access methods. We find that while there is a fast-growing list of projects billing themselves as 'open source', many inherit undocumented data of dubious legality, few share the all-important instruction-tuning (a key site where human annotation labour is involved), and careful scientific documentation is exceedingly rare. Degrees of openness are relevant to fairness and accountability at all points, from data collection and curation to model architecture, and from training and fine-tuning to release and deployment.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05532

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.05532.pdf
I worked at a different game company in the same time frame and I invented the same technique as the second approach. I don't think it's that amazing - if you were working on it at the same time you probably would have come around to it. Just as we also made our own PWM audio driver to play sampled sounds through the PC speaker - so did everyone else it seems. The PC didn't get enough love before we were all on to the consoles. I get excited when I see demos like 8088 MPH by Hornet.