skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was going to be a project like ts-node [1]

[1] https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node
I don’t agree with your characterization of China, but if you don’t like it, pick another. It doesn’t matter. As long as some country isn’t artificially restricting AI, then the research and development moves to that country. Your strategy is completely flawed from a game theoretic point of view.

We’re still far from needing to worry about alignment.

We need to see some real intelligence first. LLMs are not intelligent at all. Doing massive research into how to align them seems pointless.
Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.
I love it. I am also a regular listener to "PG Essays"[1]. I would never have read so many of his essays as I'm listening to.

[1] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkyLndvbmRlcmN...
But the constitution does say it.

And so does Tsai Ing-wen:

> “We don’t have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” Tsai told the BBC. “We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China, Taiwan.”[0]

So it's not factually incorrect. Of course the issue is fraught and just saying "the country on Formosa is called the Republic of China" would be completely deceptive, but nobody is doing that.

Talk about Chinese politics is always heated but I don't appreciate being accused of being disingenuous.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/tsai-ing-wen-s...
Poor and unpopular rulings combined with revelations about serious amounts of grift going on? I don't think coverage is for sinister reasons.
I don't know if "great" is the right word since robotaxis not only don't fix the problems you list, they make them unlikely to ever get fixed.

It would be better for your elderly parents (and everyone else) if instead of putting our energy into adapting to robotaxis, we made cities more walkable and invested in public transportation.
This is GREAT! The usability is through the roof, and supporting HN in the same way is super cool. It's similar to Sync but simpler and even better in some ways.

To bring your own subreddit subscriptions into this, use a multireddit:

1) Go to: https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/

2) On the right, copy the link "multireddit of your subscriptions" which has all your subreddits separated by "+".

3) Replace <all-your-subreddits> in this URL: https://marioslab.io/projects/ledit/#<all-your-subreddits>

4) Bookmark the page. Or you can click the tag icon in the upper right to save it. Find it again by clicking the Ledit icon in the upper left, where you can also set it as default.
To be fair, I don't know in this particular case but science "journalism" tends to be the source of most naive information resulting in the public believing scientist are clowns randomly asserting stuff.

I suppose "how to talk to journalists" should be a major skill of scientists, but really: no matter what they say, you know journalists will turn it into "Scientists Now Claim Parallel Universe Full Of Aliens".
This sounds cool.

I have a wildly paranoid Firefox setup (hardened config, NoScript, Cookie AutoDelete, ClearURLs, uBlock). It basically runs everything off (js, custom fonts, cookies, etc) unless I whitelist it explicitly.

I was never quite able to replicate it on Android because some extensions didn't worked as expected or were clumsy on mobile.

Will give another try.
The magic of Bell Labs [video]
Interview with Jon Gertner (author of THE IDEA FACTORY: BELL LABS AND THE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION) and Jimmy Soni (author of A MIND AT PLAY: HOW CLAUDE SHANNON INVENTED THE INFORMATION AGE)
This sounds like something that already existed out there I've read about in the past. Either way, this lets me out: "Assuming you have the Go tools installed"

Not interested in Go or anything else that gives Google control over the world, or any of the FAANG.
tldr; the fifth force of nature is love
DoD Announces Establishment of Generative AI Task Force
Securing Infrastructure as Code: Step One, Setting Up IaC
NextDNS.

They have a feature where if you're a free user, and you exceed your query quota for the month, they turn off all features and it acts like a normal resolver.

For some reason, there is no access to such a setting to do it manually, and I am a subscriber now, too.

There are profiles that can be configured separately, but even just to activate an alternate profile, one must reconfigure the DNS settings on the devices.
> Certainly not well enough to debate someone on the topic.

This part in particular is tricky, because debate is a specialized skill of its own, and most people who you might see publicly debate others on a given topic aren't (necessarily) experts in the topic, they're experts in debating it.

Story time: one example of how that forms is being a person with strongly held minority beliefs. I have had good friends who were the lone very conservative person among a university left-leaning crowd, or on the other side an avowed Maoist communist among again, just normal vaguely left-of-centre folks. Both of those people got into an argument every single day defending their basic outlooks on life; sometimes 10 arguments in a day. They built up a repertoire of points and phrases, heard the same objections and accusations over and over, and developed strategies over time to handle each of these.

In reality they each became experts at debating novices more than true debate experts, but you can see how their type of knowledge, and how it lived in their brains was totally different from reading a lot of books about the topics they knew about, and different from just developing expertise in those topics.

One thing that struck me in conversations with these people over time is that they sometimes came to not even really believe a fallback phrase they had developed and would use often, because they came to learn enough nuance to know how it was a flawed take, but they knew it would stop a drive-by-arguer in their tracks. It could make the driver-by realize they didn't know all the details and second-guess themselves, even when the actual details sometimes weren't so bad for them. But at that point, they've lost the debate, and the expert moves on.
> That's the Free Software slogan, not open source. The only relationship between the two is that open source can easily be relicensed into Free Software (or proprietary, or whatever.)

> There's nothing in open source about friendliness or collaborative development.

Your view of the meanings of "free" and "open source" software is very literal and narrow. I'm not trying to debate the technical definitions of those terms, because frankly, I don't care and I don't think they matter in this discussion.

The crux of what I am saying is this:

A company may choose to share their source code for others to benefit from, under the hope that large players will contribute back in some way rather than use the situation to the disadvantage of the upstream company.

In other words, they might hope to:

* Let hobbyists learn from and use their code for free.

* Let competing companies use their code, as long as they contribute something back (money, bugfixes, festures, community support, QA).

* Make their employees happy.

and they may not hope to:

* Empower other large companies to freeload--ie, profit without contributing back at all.

Yes, I understand that permissive open source licenses allow freeloading in a legal sense. That does not mean the upstream companies have to be happy about it, much in the same way that you're allowed to use your office's shared kitchen to microwave fish, but your colleagues do not have to be happy about it.

What about this is so hard to understand?
Ask HN: Favorite Online Teacher?
Who is your favorite online teacher that you really enjoy learning from?

Why do you think you enjoy their style of teaching?
I read HN almost every day, and this is the first time I've seen the link. I'm glad it was posted again.
can't read, paywall.
> To learn he's an American Jazz critic makes perfect sense, it's almost exactly who you would expect to be this pretentious.

TFA:
"Most young people listen to new music and only become less interested in the current hits when they get older"

"I did the exact opposite. I learned the tradition and heritage first, and only then felt I had the proper perspective for the current day."

"I wasn’t quite as extreme in my music listening habits, but I still focused primarily on the tradition when I was learning how to be a pianist and critic. Today I’m much more focused on new music."

All this reading and it's right over his head his "most people x when it comes to music, i am not them" deeply contrasts proceeding to devote your life to "old people music." (sorry jazz fans)
No, companies keep making services with code I can read and modify for my own use, and people in the community keep bringing this fight to them because they're peeved that other companies can't commercialize that software that they didn't build.

Companies will naturally conclude they should just make proprietary software, which doesn't require a big fight. And I think that's a shame.
I've just been catching up with Corey Olsen's exploration of Lord of the Rings, and he makes the same point regarding Tolkien: the man thought in alliterative prose, and there are some places where it stands out even to the eye, but you can catch a lot more of the alliteration by reading passages out loud.

The example that brought it up was towards the end of the attempt to climb the Redhorn: "Soon they all stood once more on the flat shelf at the head of the steep slope where they had felt the first flakes of snow the night before." (The F in 'before' might not line up with the previous F's unless you've been reading out loud.)
https://smtp.cheogram.com/
20 year zen practitioner here. Don't expect meditation or buddhism to make your problems go away. If you have an acute mental problem like depression, bipolar syndrome or are suicidal get professional help first. Then go study buddhism. Some teachers will even ask you to sign a waiver acknowledging this.
To own my own biases: nothing interesting has happened in jazz for at least a half century. I have as much use for a jazz critic as I do for a telegraph operator. (All of the really good shit in jazz is live, not on record, anyway.)

Not to mention the fact that I have about zero fucks to spare for a critic who isn't a musician.
Narrowlink: Securely connects devices and services, even in restricted networks
The inability to compatibly resolve the two most important and basic theories (relativity and quantum throry) means we know either gravitation or quantum mechanics, or most likely both, are wrong, or at least incomplete, in the same way Newtonian mechanics was only partially right.

And that's been an embarrassment well-known for the last century. The word has a metaphorical use of the sore spot, that which sticks out, which is ugly, which is confusing or awkward. "This code is embarrassing" doesn't necessarily mean the author should literally feel embarrassment. It's just messy. (Yes, really. It's in the dictionary as a sense of the word.)
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy
We need a Weizenbaum test for AI
Is spelling part of science?
I'm using this setup at the moment, mostly because I work on legacy code base that has no good types yet.

Typically you would do jsconfig.json though, which is same as tsconfig.json but allowJs is already set. Mostly stylistic change, but some tooling might benefit for having jsconfig instead of tsconfig.
Aye. there are certainly reasons to think that PFAS is a bad thing and having an impact, but given how insanely widespread it is, what is the real impact?
It changes because they ask different ppl.
characterizing it as an "embarrassment" is silly. Maybe if there was a group of alien civilizations that had all figured it out early on while we didn't then sure.
Neural network in pure Dart [video]
Can you expand on "no golden path to geometry"? I've not heard this and my mind immediately went to Phi - it seems to me that in geometry, there actually is a path, e.g. anyone would arrive to parallel line axioms and platonic solids ..
50 Years of Hip-Hop
"Working" is a matter of degree. They do work partially, so "they don't work" is partially false.
Strangely, he is the brother of Dana Gioai, who I find to be absolutely lovely and not pretentious. He was the poet laureate of California, and ran the national endowment for the arts and is a pleasure to listen to:
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/dana-gioia/
The URL is different, so it probably slipped under the dupe radar
27 years to build and $300M for just 2 mile road
The complex simplicity of my static websites
We can read what some random Roman lawyers did 2000 years ago.
But what did people who lived near the Baltic sea do at that time? We have no idea. They might as well have not existed at all as far as historians are concerned.
Your comment reminded me that Cyrix had a "586" chip (technically was called the 5x86) and 12 year old me definitely thought it was an Intel when I bought it at a local computer show. Turned out to be a great little processor for the price.

Cyrix was a really fascinating company. Extremely short lived but had a huge impact on Intel's grip over the processor space (Intel lost all their lawsuits against them and nearly faced antitrust proceedings because of it).
Ye of little perspective!

That blasted corpratocracy which feeds upon our dreams has buckled.

The trend has pulled a groin, over reach you see.

There is an inevitability which crests all our minds.

Until some charger sets fourth a realm for us all to co-identify, we shall remain divided. And each into their own “verse.”

We should be grateful, for what we have so far. Better to see dreams come true in their own time than to be built by those who would contrive them as their own.
No. First paragraph of the proposal:

> This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a JavaScript engine ignores them, treating the types as comments.

The problem is handling errors. If the engine does a full analysis of every code path to ensure the types aren't violated, there's a startup penalty - this includes every time a dynamic import is used, which could interfere with the user as they interact with the page. I'm not entirely sure that such an analysis would be entirely possible- there are many ways to add layers of indirection to JavaScript code.

If the engine doesn't do a full analysis up front but instead checks every time a type is used, you end up with, at best, roughly the same performance characteristics that current JIT engines already have.
I didn't get through the article, had a hard time trying to read the text with the contrast.

To check if it was just me I used this site: https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https%3A...

On the up side, at least it isn't stark white on a stark black background.
Thanks! We’re planning on adding a lot more!
I think badsectoracula was comparing Doom with one of Bethesda's previous games - Terminator: Rampage.
Glad it’s proving useful!
Is it provably not turning complete? That property pops up everywhere even when not intended, like Magic: The Gathering card interactions.

Technically you may not want to call it Turing complete given the limited context window, but I'd say that's like insisting a Commodore 64 isn't Turing complete for the same reason.

Likewise the default settings may be a bit too random to be a Turing machine, but that criticism would also apply to a human.
Surely there are already existing laws for first responders and if the robo-taxis aren't following them they can just be ? for violating them.

I mean, this can't be the first time somebody has interfered with them ...

> The incidents include ... blocking firehouse driveways

Straight up impound the car and they'll start not doing this.
I'm saying how you determine the distribution in the training set depends on what the model understands and what the people who selected the dataset understand.

There's no distribution of meaning in the training set that's independent of interpretation and understanding. Aside from maybe the literal series of bits (and words and pixels) in it, as encoded.

In statistics that is not as severe a problem because you can plot how the data distribution lies in a commonly agreed upon position in one or more clearly defined and agreed upon dimensions. And you can look at the chart and talk about this shared interpretation objectively, and its distribution.

Although as a matter of fact just as often it matters what questions you asked, and how and when and whom you asked, for the distribution of answers you got. Lying with statistics is easy as it's full of hidden variables. This is why statistics is great when the data is simple and the analysis is simple, mathematical, objective, but social studies tend to yield, whatever you want them to yield.

So. What dimensions are we talking about with a self-evolved model? You have some understanding of what the data is, subjective to you. Maybe your team has some shared understanding of what the data covers, you have overlap. But the model has its own understanding, evolved independently. How much does it overlap with you? Not as much as you think.

It's a problem decades old, that people give to the model data that contains things they didn't realize it contains. They themselves didn't see that. And then get surprised by the results.

Say when an apple falls on your head, did you realize this contains the data required to describe classic mechanics? For centuries, billions of people didn't realize. To Newton it was there as clear as daylight. In the apple's fall. I know, the example is a myth, but the principle stands.

Another example, a video of the change of light patterns reflected on the floor around the corner of room where a person, out of frame, is writing on a computer. What does this data contain? You think nothing much. Maybe it contains how a floor looks. To a model, it can easily also contain what the person who is not in frame, wrote on their keyboard.

So given all this... what IS in the distribution? Depends with whose eyes you're looking. Your eyes are not the most objective eyes, nor the most intelligent eyes. You have no anchor to point to as the ultimate arbiter of what complex data contains or does not.
I understand there is a market for these books. There has to be for someone to bother writing hundreds of pages and then for someone else to invest in editing and publishing and making cover art. That's why I'm not naming specific names, because I know there are a lot of people involved in making these things and I'm genuinely happy for them. I already buy these books from goodwill but I guess I should just give them back on the off chance that this stuff actually connects with someone.
Because the U.S. reports actual numbers and doesn't just vaporize its own people :)
Interesting that computational speed for lattice QFT
has overtaken grad students staring at Feynman diagrams.

That is the significant step change here.
Q: What do you get when you cross a mathematician with an Intel Pentium Chip?
A: A mad scientist!

This bug is a great counterexample to the adage that 'computers don't make mistakes - they do exactly as they're told'.
> Your score is stored in memory at the address pointed to by R12

As someone who has very little idea of what instructions or addresses are, what is this a reference to?

Edit: I had the page loaded before your reply, so I didn't see it until I replied, reloading the page lol
This work has nothing whatsoever to do with gravitation.
I'm currently wearing a F-91W with one of these installed. Here's what I have running:

* Clock

* Sunrise and Sunset times

* Die roller (d2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100)

* Stopwatch

* Temperature sensor

* 36-hour temperature log

The die roller was the main one that I was excited about, but the sunrise/sunset seem useful while hiking or backpacking, and the temperature sensor and log are great for camping use. Great job by @josecastillo all around!
Covid alarmism returns with the Eris variant
How much money developers in Germany make in 2023
It's even more complicated than that!

Subaru has 4 different AWD systems, the only one that is a true 50/50 split is installed on their manual transmission non-sporty cars. If you've got a CVT, you get a 60/40 split. Their sporty cars are rear-biased, either 45/55 or 41/59.

Audi Quattro uses a Torsen center diff that is 50/50 or 40/60 based on the model, and the Quattro Ultra is like a Haldex system but with an extra clutch at the rear so that when it is running in pure FWD mode the drive shaft doesn't spin at all. This is more fuel efficient than your typical part-time AWD setup.
Of course you can just start doing this, but there are a lot of real, difficult problems in the world that'd be solved if people "just start solving them."

It's good to feed into people's agency but it's bad to rely upon it.

People in the past weren't more socially connected because they had more ironclad determination to be more socially connected.

The reality is that there are lot of external factors that mediate the formation and maintenance of communities like the one you have built: physical proximity, the built environment and what activities it supports, availability of less "fruitful"/social pastimes, etc.

People are struggling with this now because these external factors have changed dramatically over the last few decades. A few exceptions here and there (and there are plenty!) does not actually stand up against a well-documented epidemic of loneliness. There is simply no evidence for the implicit claim that this trend is due to people being born with less determination to be socially connected.

There is plenty of evidence that we have built our cities (and especially suburbs) to be socially atomizing, our culture has shifted toward extreme individualism (which, unsurprisingly, atomizes), our media is now hyper-personalized which atomizes our perception of the entire world, we have significantly degraded important social institutions (nothing has filled the vacuum of religion), we increasingly prevent our children from going outside and building their own social networks, we change jobs with increasing frequency, we physically move locations with increasing frequency, so on and so forth.
That's the reason we have developed field-level access control [1] with policies on the top of rating-limiting [2] for Metatype.

[^1] https://metatype.dev/docs/tutorials/policies-and-materialize...

[^2] https://metatype.dev/docs/tutorials/authentication-and-secur...
A JVM in Rust part 4 – The Java bytecode
I also don’t get the sense that if anything interesting had happened, Ted would think it was worthwhile in any way, lol.
Users are told what's wrong. They get a friendly "Page not found" or "Server error" page. They're not denied access to the cryptic error code that means nothing to them.
‘Barbie’ Reaches $1B at the Box Office, Studio Says
It always amazes me that these large companies insist on reinventing the wheel.
I've installed and played the game. It's Zork, but without anything important to do, and the words are thrown at you 3-4 at a time like a reader of a children's story who's had too much coffee.
Why pain is so hard to measure – and how our study of brainwaves could help
https://archive.ph/EJERl
>Firefox lost power-users

There is no better vertical tab solution than FireFox + Sidebury.

If you are using horizontal tabs, you are not a "power-user" of a browser.
People have known this for a while. See the film "Malice" and Alec Baldwin's "I am God" diatribe.
I wouldn’t want to read a blog about your setup.