skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, also, what makes someone a researcher? Do you have to forcefully be affiliated to a University, a Newspaper, or similar institution? Then the world would be missing out on work done by independent researchers, journalists, etc.
To download all of the pdfs into the current directory:

wget -r -np -nd -l 1 -A pdf https://math.mit.edu/~shor/435-LN/

(There might be more elegant ways, but this does the job.)

-r, --recursive specify recursive download.
-np, --no-parent don't ascend to the parent directory.
-l, --level=NUMBER maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite).
-A, --accept=LIST comma-separated list of accepted extensions.
-nd, --no-directories Do not create a hierarchy of directories
Stories and 10 Years of Telegram
>Paid access?

No, in that case you need permissions or licensing from the rightsholders to resell or otherwise profit en masse from their work.

>Zero access except for the person who created the archive?

This is, fundamentally, what archiving something means. It is legal for someone to rip a music CD that they own for archival purposes, but it is illegal to share the resulting archives.

>The archivist needs to vet potential accessors for certain motives?

One facet of fair use is whether the use is for academical, educational, or other non-profit purposes. So yes, the archivist needs to vet potential accessors for certain motives.

>Only offer access to small samples?

Another facet of fair use is that only the minimum portion required from a given work is used for a given purpose under fair use. For example, quoting certain passages and only those passages in a book to discuss them in a review or critique, etc.
They are married to Android, naturally everything that doesn't exist on Android will hardly make it into Kotlin.

And since they also want to compete with Swift and TypeScript, on their own turf, even less likely.

This is the thing with guest languages, cannot embrace the platform, always full of compromises.
You adapted to the underdeveloped UX of wonky proof-of-concepts built by researchers, working around shortcomings that will be ironed out once genuine sofware developers start releasing actual products.
Are we pretending now, that even mentioning these "forbidden topics" will get you banned?

Here, I'll mention some for you: eugenics, Holocaust, incest.

So please, if I don't get censored for these, please tell me what these secret topics hidden from me are!
Perhaps their own internal tooling also relies on the t.co redirector?
That's the illusion you've been sold. Semantics.

You give someone with political power money in order to buy their support and/or influence the way they spend government money/efforts. That's what bribery is. That's what lobbying is.
print(guided)
# What is the IP address of the Google DNS servers?
# 2.2.6.1

correctly formatted wrong answers are still wrong answers.
WhoFundsWho: Instantly see who funds the organizations you are reading about
Which suck both.
radio.com looks legit, what is wrong with it?
Interceptors are a hack, instead of a properly designed AOP framework, which Microsoft already has, although comes with Visual Studio Enterprise price tag, Microsoft Fakes.

Inline arrays are another hack, instead of properly designed language grammar, like in languages like D or Swift.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls - can check without app too. Also you can click on "vehicles" and get free access to technical service bulletins (TSB). And complaints about the car :)
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"Strive for quality!"

"Okay, how?"

"You'll figure it out. Bye!"
Their frontpage is terrible. I literally clicked twice on the page and twice got dead links: the survey has finished, the link to https://blog.openfarm.cc/ has DNS issues.
What I never understood about communism is what's the point of adding it if you already have post-scarcity? Say you got there, just keep using what got you there. And if to get there you need an oppressive "temporary" state, then I don't want it.
Illegal gold mining gangs from Colombia and Brazil.

It is not some bootleg mining to scrape by.
So this is more than just on parser for those statements. Very confusing.
Are you open to the problem being "you"? Not just you specifically, but you, me, and every individual who lacks the connection to self, morality, true knowledge?

And with that, are you (and by extension), all people ready to do the inner work to self govern, and make right choices in the absence of an external motivation?
But that kind of state Marxism happened in other countries as well. The state Marxists might ask the anarchists how they expect to accomplish a sateless, classless, moneyless society. The state Marxists didn't succeed, but it does still pose a question toward anarchists. How do you get rid of the state? To that I'd add, what makes you think people want a classless, moneyless society?

Or another question would be, how do you have a revolution to overthrow the state and not just replace it with another state setup by whoever ends up leading the revolution?
As stated in the lawsuit, Sony, et al. filed their side of the required paperwork under the Music Modernization Act with the US Copyright Office. Internet Archive meanwhile failed to do so, and in failing to do so did not give Sony, et al. an opportunity to give or withhold permissions as the rightsholders.

So this lawsuit, to me, seems like a fair thing to do. Sony, et al. were never given an opportunity to respond due to either negligence or malice from Internet Archive, so they filed suit.
And that's why you shouldn't just be testing manually but you should be writing automated tests that run again and again, even long after you have moved on.
Have you considered that may speak more to your biases than the site's? How many far left-wing news sites do you regular?
Well, that went downhill pretty quickly.
Open AI has released this as a feature, is this news ? what am i missing ?
At the very least, I can get at the info if it's on twitter.

Anything that's exclusively on a facebook page may as well not exist to me.
E-bike companies are fighting to stop riders from repairing their electric bikes
Coinbase Officially Launches in Canada
The police, hah. What are they going to do, shoot it?
Hmm, you can surely use multiple lets in a lambda in haskell, as in every other function?

And it doesn't have to be the pipe operator, just something similar. Like list.map().filter().reduce() instead of reduce(filter(map(list))) which quickly gets unwindly.
Enshittification spares no platform business.
Highly surprising mammals didn't adapt to this,
aren't nitrogen levels the same for 100m years?
Being 10% slower is actually a huge handicap,
and seems to be something fishy with the idea we
live permanently under influence without evolving
something like biological counters.
A rabbit that is 10% slower will face a huge
evolutionary handicap.
From BUILD 2023 Q&A session, nowhere, too expensive to retrofit, even though in hindsight would have been a better approach, given how hard still is to write correct async/await code.
Yeah, I think you’re right that stack allocated data can’t be pointed to by the heap. I don’t know what you mean about “the limited ability to pass references to stack allocated objects” though—you can always pass stack allocated references, you just can’t return them (or they will escape to the heap).
Porting this to Python is left as an exercise to the reader.
July 2023 Temperature Update and Causes of Recent Warmth
What are you adding, exactly? Communism is just a thought experiment that imagines what the world will be like when post-scarcity is achieved. Star Trek is a more modern adaptation of the same thought experiment.

Perhaps you are referring to actionable ideas we have come up with over the years to try and push us towards post-scarcity?
Not a fan after they chopped up a journalist
GPT4 can run code, so you can ask it to run the code it generated and iterate until it works. Does that make it one shot? Either way, its limitations are becoming apparent, but it's still quite the leap forwards for writing code.
Youtube without Premium is unbearable for me. I rather pay a few € than submit my family to the advertising terror, and even the creators get more (6x, any yt creator here that can chime in?) revenue from a Premium view.

Imagine we could have Internet Premium and never see ads again.
something in the middle i think.

Like every skill, it depends on what you do with it.

LLMs are controlled by language already, thus far i figured out that you best let the machine define the query and refine it.

My personal take is that AI is not at a point yet where it will take over jobs in tech, but we are already at a point where someone with LLM skills is more efficient that someone who is not.
I was using "download" in a very broad sense. I wanted to view them on my iPad. Is that what you mean by 'access'?

In any case, the site is stupidly bad ad describing what exactly you get for your PRO subscription.
I think the phrase “stranger than fiction” is commonly used for this.

That is also the title of a pretty funny movie.
Can confirm.

I needed to learn how a very specific OS thing worked and I read the code from Linux, openbsd, L4, hurd, minix, and a few other projects.

The openBSD kernel code was easiest to follow because it favored simplicity over all other things (improved security was just a byproduct).

For the record, the microkernels where hardest to follow despite having tons of books and a few experts nearby. But that's a whole different discussion
The discourse exists though, right? Here and elsewhere. Censorship isn't pushback, bad arguments aren't either
Just to throw in my 2c, I've had significant breakages with most Go upgrades. I've had far fewer issues with rust upgrades, and gcc upgrades. C and Rust compiler updates feel actually backwards compatible to me.

I posted a list of a few breakages I've run into before, though of course I've run into more since, and far more I didn't mention there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29763324

I think the main reason I've had more issues with Go upgrades than with Rust upgrades or C upgrades is because for rust/gcc, I'm upgrading the compiler and getting language features, but most of the complex libraries don't change, and I can upgrade them separately from the compiler (i.e. hyper for http in rust, or libcurl in C).

For go, whenever I upgrade the compiler, I get a mix of language features (generics, embed, other toolchain features), but also a set of library updates (tls and security libraries yet again dropping support for something I use, http client or server changes, etc).

I think go would have been much better served by making 'http', 'tls', 'crypto', and other large chunks of the standard library their own separate libraries. Even if you kept the exact same go1 promise for those (which is to say "we sometimes break http and tls, but we tell you it's backwards compatible"), it would be far better because I could then actually fearlessly upgrade the go compiler version, and then later upgrade those libraries at my own pace. Or, when the tls upgrade breaks my code for the nth time, I could roll it back without also having to roll back the entire compiler version and revert any code changes which used new compiler features.

It also really makes no sense for libraries like 'http' and 'archive/*' to be part of the standard library. Presumably they're just there because the Go team wanted to release 1.0 before figuring out a good dependency system (though golang.org/x/ was a really quick follow-on, and that would have been enough for these), but that has led to the "go 1 compatibility promise" really meaning "enough go upgrades break my code that I'm scared to update, but not because the compiler has a breaking change, but because some part of the stdlib that doesn't even need to be bundled with the compiler breaks me".
I am still surprised that Linus is perfectly fine with possible clever use of Rust macros, and derivation attributes, which are hardly different from his complaints towards C++ metaprograming.
This project could perhaps be adopted by Wikimedia foundation. With a good web ui for contributors to add variants and knowledge which could be stored in the wikidata knowledge graph.
Double negation is hard... :) (yes and no should be switched)

> Ask yourself a question: do you have any reason to think that your engineers will not do a good job? If the answer is no: why are they still there? If the answer is yes: let them do their damn job.
I think this is the rabbit hole you're looking for, https://twitter.com/RLanceMartin/status/1690829179615657985

note you still need pinecone (vector db) and something called clerk.com that does auth, not sure why, seen other projects swap out pinecone for chroma, and not sure why we are authorising things with clerk.com, but that cannot be essential...
I think he means he's watching YouTube on an appletv device.
Solar America / Sunrun robocall scam exposed [video]
In our experience, at least for code generation, the experience has been that base models can be improved significantly by guiding token level generation.

In our paper titled "Guiding Language Models of Code with Global Context using Monitors" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10763), we propose Monitor Guided Decoding, which interfaces LLMs to static analysis, and guides the model to generate type-consistent code. Without any kind of fine-tuning, we show that using static analysis to guide token level generation at specific points leads to significantly improved quality of generated code, both in terms of compilability and match with ground truth. Even very small models (1.1B) are able to generate more compilable code than much larger models (175B) while also improving on match with ground truth.
They could ban smoking under that law, perhaps.
I've seen those posts here, I've read the arguments in the comments. What is censored then? Unpopularity or pushback isn't censorship
No doubt.

I have noticed as my vision has gotten worse that sometimes I just don't pay attention to what is in front of me. At times it takes a lot of effort to parse out the blurry image so I just let it all meld. In TV shows and movies where I used to study the background sometimes just turn into basically radio plays where I just get the gist of where the characters are, but don't have the energy to pay attention to details.

This has also affected my reading. I am much more likely to search for a Youtube video or other audio explanation of a subject than read it myself - since again reading for long periods takes a lot more concentration when the text is blurry/shifting around.

There is no way to wont lead to mental degradation over time.
Sure, but how long until they became profitable? Running at a loss to keep competition away sounds anti-competitive, but sure, there might not be a good way to tell a bad bet from an evil one.
> Then why web.archive.org isn't also banned?

Because web.archive.org is generally used for...

... things which aren't available from the original source anymore.

While archive.is is generally used to bypass paywalls. These 2 websites have 2 very distinct missions and use-cases.
Payment convenience fees are evil. Just a way to hide markup.
> Communism was taken seriously by many in the West, and was quite popular.

It is easier to understand the popularity if you imagine the support was for Marxism, since plenty of the intelligencia (mostly in humanities?) still publicly support Marxism.

The word "communism" has changed its meaning over time - especially in the USA.

Eric Blair (George Orwell) was not a supporter of communism - he used the word "socialist" for his beliefs and he fought with the "anarchists" in Spain. Both of those political words have changed their meaning too.

Animal Farm was written by him and his wife[1] as a satire of communism because a direct criticism was not palatable at the time. Eric also experienced the Soviet Union undermining a revolution - he wrote about this in Homage to Catalonia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606380

The most bizarre story is the CIA funding[2] the UK animated version of Animal Farm so that they could change the script for propoganda purposes: "To meet the CIA's objectives, the ending was changed to show that only the pigs had become totally corrupt. The film ends with other animals mounting a successful revolt against their rulers. There is no mention of the humans in the film's conclusion."

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-12/anna-funder-new-book-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/07/artsfeatures...
What level are you hiring at? I could well imagine e.g. fresh graduates not having a good handle on some of the nuances of the language. You can get pretty far without having to refine your understanding of rvalue semantics.
How easy is it to clawback money donated to a politician through a 3rd party? I am not a lawyer and don't live in the US, but I imagine that being super difficult and lengthy as a process.
Almost as easy to miss as sarcasm, apparently. Sigh….
Fun fact: among the publishers who rejected Animal Farm was T. S. Eliot:

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm—in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed, (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.

https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/t-s-eliot-rejects-george...

Eliot was surely wrong to call Animal Farm "Trotskyite" but that was probably his way of noting that Orwell's critique of communism was coming from the left, not the right. This fits with another fun fact: the most famous fan of Orwell's unpublished preface is Chomsky, who has been championing it for decades.
Open Source was never about guaranteeing company profits. You're just putting one company above another, while ignoring that one company was the user and open source is about user rights. The companies that pretended to be open source for a while to get access to free labor and marketing are not one bit better than Amazon or Google.
You’ll never find two C++ programmers with the same skill set. Every C++ project has its own peculiar subset of the language. Forget rvalue references, some code doesn’t even use references.

This is a result of backwards compatibility. Features can only be added, not removed (or at least only removed if nobody is using them, like export templates and GC).

As a result C++ hoovered many different types of users over the years who all had their own idea of what they wanted from the language.

For a C++ programmer, navigating this by learning and adapting your skill set for a new project is simply a part of the job. You’ll always be able to find missing spots in even the most grizzled C++ vet’s knowledge.
Considering how common it is to deliberately break (not just with a "you log in now" modal, but not loading content, spinning forever, breaking layouts, etc) websites for non-logged-in mobile users, that's exactly how petty in imagine them to be. Twitter and Reddit do it, and Imgur comes and goes so I can't decide if for them it's deliberate or just incompetence.
Darker, perhaps :D
Cooperative agents have a lot of utility in more applied settings and the interesting part here is the agents are autonomous agents operating over an abstract semantic space using LLMs unique ability to “reason” abductively. The key to my mind in these exercises is the construction of constraints, management of context, and delegation to task based optimizers (i.e., the agent has a goal, the LLM abstractly constructs a solution given the context, and optimizers like path finders carry it out)

I’ve thought a lot that these sorts of techniques can be used to make things much more generalized. A multimodal model backing say manufacturing equipment can make the equipment much easier to reconfigure to new tasks in an environment that’s more adhoc and includes other machine and human agents.

The key to my mind is the fact it’s not just LLMs it’s a mixture of techniques - constraints, optimizers, information retrieval, etc.

More specifically the demo involves a lot of Andreessen Horowitz investments to demonstrate them in an accessible way that people find interesting because it’s a game. And people like games.
> At the same time, Lynn was dismayed that transsexual women are still treated so inhumanely by parents, relatives, employers, the legal system and society at large. The total rejection of teenage transgender and transsexual girls-to-be by their families is especially tragic, since it often happens just as they first cry out for help, and can doom them to years of marginalized existence.

In addition to intolerant families and workplaces, transgender people still face a Kafkaesque battle to change their legal names to one which doesn't cause dysphoria on every interaction with government, financial, and healthcare institutions (in the US, it requires deadname-filled forms with conflicting instructions to obtain a court order and change your birth certificate, passport, social security database, and ID/license, followed by bringing these documents to banking, medical, and insurance providers), difficulties accessing medical care (in some states, even bigots creating laws specifically to deny them treatment), some doctors following outdated or inaccurate practices resulting in ineffective treatment or dangerous side effects (blood clots or prolactinoma), and increased unemployment rates (for one reason or another). I hope things get better, for the sake of my own survival and future.
12 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971327
We see this working more alongside Airflow—we see Airflow mainly centered as an orchestrator/scheduler to chain together your ETL steps after you've written your data transformations and connections. With Serra, we're a flexible dev tool to write these transforms and connectors. I think you could accomplish something similar but the implementation would be unwieldy (ie breaking up 4 SQL script tasks into 40 modular transform blocks), whereas we see ourselves falling into the camp of being able to integrate with Airflow and have great error logs in those 4 SQL tasks that you have simplified into Serra configs.
From all wannabe C++ replacements candidates, the only language that is really a TypeScript for C++, is Circle.

For whatever reason, Herb Sutter decided to ignore this language on the presentation.

https://www.circle-lang.org/

This is the only one with the syntax based on C++, incrementally changing the features via #pragma settings.

"Circle Fixes Defects, Makes C++ Language Safer & More Productive"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fxeNqSK2k

"Circle Evolves C++"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ZDOGDMNLM
That’s neat!

I took a different approach to openapi specs https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/LLM-OpenAPI-minifier
I find COVID to be an especially bad example. the whole spectrum is represented in politics.
And archive.is is down on all subdomains again. Hasn't been working for a few weeks now, the captchas aren't working
I read her whole retrospective last summer and it was the story that made me feel like I not only had a place as a trans woman in science, but could be ambitious as well!
Retrospective: https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html

It also so charming to see other trans people here on hacker news celebrating Lynn Conway. I didn't know there were so many of us here!
I came to HN because it seemed to be a place of free dialogue.

It certainly does feel like a series of monologues at times.
Shameless plug, but you may like the Inertia Mode of my TPMouse script[0] if you need a keyboard-based workflow systemwide.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse
Info on what Project Loom is: https://cr.openjdk.org/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html