skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have believed it was aliens until I saw what you posted.
> a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.

Is it meant to be like a zoo, where humans gawk at other creatures?
What nonsense is this?

The monitor is within the warranty period and failed. Dell didn't deal with their warranty issue in an honest and direct way. They suck. No other details matter. The end.
Isn't linking to a place to buy a licensed copy an argument in favor? It implies that they sincerely believe that the "free download" doesn't hurt the market for the book, given that they expect people to still be willing to pay for it.

And not making sure the book is removed from the self seems kind of irrelevant when the book is on a shelf in a closed library where nobody can borrow it anyway. Are we really supposed to believe that the number of copies they lent out during COVID exceeded the number of copies locked up in libraries everywhere?
Huh, weirdly enough I've been hoping for exactly this kind of thing - albeit easily called from Python.

My use-case is that with SQLite there are aspects of the table - things like generated columns - which aren't yet available via the regular SQLite PRAGMAs for introspecting tables.

For those things, the only way to introspect them is to read the CREATE TABLE statement out of the "sqlite_master" table and parse it.

But you need a very robust parser!

I've been investigating tree-sitter recently for this, notes here: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/tree-sitter

If anyone needs an implementation of that advanced ALTER TABLE mechanism (where you create a new table with the new schema, copy the data cross from the old one and then swap the names) my sqlite-utils CLI tool and Python library implements that, as described here: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Sep/23/sqlite-advanced-alter-...
They used to deliver your groceries in these (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan#/media/File:Webvan_tubs...) tubs, leaving the tub with you. You were free to keep them if you wanted. I had several for years which served as the best moving boxes I've ever had.

kozmo.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com) was another one that was ahead of its time.
I don't think that everyone, or even a majority of people understand this. That's certainly not how AI is being marketed to the general public. The concern here is that syntactic correctness might be mistaken for factual accuracy.
That thing has to be so bloody tiring to use, it'd have to be like constantly holding a dip right?
Back in the 80’s this is the sort of news I was promised would happen in the 2000’s! Finally! Now if only the LLM controlling the jet pack found an ethical dilemma in its new life of crime and decided to cut power mid flight and avenge the villagers we’d be fully in a William Gibson novel!
$1000 is for brand-name. Used/imported are cheaper.

Refills of LOX are cheap, but you need to pay for the cylinder, which is expensive. At the end of the day you can get welding oxygen, which is exactly the same as medical/aviator. (And also you need to handle the cylinder safely)

Anyway, just start with Boost and see if it helps. They run out quickly, but nothing beats the convenience.
I like that openly funding dems and hidden money funding repubs equals Democratic boogieman. Big brain stuff.
Regulating administrative overhead as a single line item with a fixed percentage is micromanaging?
Or, staying at a previous job for 3-4 years can signal the same level of commitment. Dare I say, staying at a job for the same amount of time as a degree signals more commitment, as staying in college could just indicate 4 years of partying.
I don’t know if this applies on the surface, but divers don’t use pure oxygen on dives because of oxygen toxicity.
True, but in some cases , it’s just a case of pedagogical mismatch . May I recommend https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
? I have cribbed from this endlessly when explaining quantum computing , and it’s certainly my goto talk for explaining quantum computing.
WVU recommends cutting 169 faculty positions, 32 majors – WV MetroNews
The woke have destroyed the corporate D&D architecture. Old school is the only way to go now.
Content is not necessarily preserved for the good of humanity of no one alive today is likely to access it during the productive years of their life. Who knows what the future holds legally, politically, or more broadly.

Whether they are likely to win or lose, IA is fighting the good fight on behalf of humanity. They are entitled to fight that fight, regardless of whether you think they should shrink back and stay in some arbitrary lane that copyright lawyers decide is financially irrelevant.
Firefox for Android. Somehow Firefox on Windows, even in private mode doesn't challenge me.
This is exactly what's wrong with modern people. You'll believe some generalized 'study' instead of common sense data.
Those are really nice tubs to just give away to customers. Worked out well for you though!
Which god? Koalemos?
Dijkstra used this notation for his formal work later on[1]. He didn't like invisible infix operators, so he introduced "." as the function application operator and made it left associative. So f.x.y is the same as (f.x).y. I find it very elegant now that I've gotten over the usual knee jerk aversion to new syntax.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...
I made this (non) tool as a public service, for specifically this purpose.

https://isthiswrittenbyai.surge.sh/
Maybe I’m a bit naive here, but I thought finding of many supermassive back holes in the very early universe should be expected, and not a surprise. My chain of thoughts is following:

- Blackholes are collapsed masses. In our phase of the universe, they are normally the results of supernovae but only because today stars are the only source of dense masses.

- Because the total mass of the universe is constant and the early universe has a volume of dozen orders of magnitude smaller than the universe in later stage (the universe we normally observe), collapsed masses should happen much more likely than in later stage.

- Those masses do not necessarily come from the stars, which are masses with a visible fusion processes but could come directly from mass-lumps, left after the Big Bang.

- In fact, I think the idea of a super homogenous universe right after the Big Bang is suspect. Even the CMB is only homogeneous on (very) large scale (3000 mega parsecs), ways too big for blackholes.

- Therefore, I think after the Big Bang, there should be a large number of primordial blackholes.

- We can only observe blackholes with an accretion disk, but the primordial blackholes with no visible accretion will stay invisible unless there is a collision/fusion in progress.

Consequently, we will find a lot more blackholes in the early universe, the more we look. They are super massive because of the bias: only supermassive blackholes with accretion disk were producing radiation, powerful enough so we can detect with our current technology.
Nobody can make unlimited copies of anything. There isn't an unlimited amount of bandwidth or storage capacity or users.

Did the finite number of copies they actually made at any given time even exceed the number of copies locked up in closed libraries everywhere?
ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is pretty new, it was added in https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html#version_3_35_0 3.35.0 in March 2021.

That line about it being missing in the README was added in 2018: https://github.com/marcobambini/sqlite-createtable-parser/co...
Could lead to cool sim games.

I’d love a modern zoo tycoon. I enjoyed that game as a kid. Or roller coaster tycoon.

There you go, hopefully y’all make some money. Just send me the games you help to make on steam lol.
The source for the graph is just "NASA", without even a hint of a proper attribute. The link to the sciencedirect paper is a nifty and super geeky description of a continuous effort to extract more and better information from one of the many, many datasets NASA has on wildfires.

Without a proper citation, climate change denier is denying climate change in a way that doesn't have enough data to challenge. Given that Bjorn is supposed to be an actual scientist, they should know better.
That's the wrong argument to be making. Education should be free.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-free-college-a-good-id...
Are you saying they can't testify about wanting to live in a future where Montana doesn't greenlight every fossil fuel project without an environmental impact review?

Or are you saying they don't know what those words mean?

I think you can get a meaningful testimony from them (yes, "I like hiking, I like swimming in our local lakes, I want policies that protect our environment because I want to continue to be able to enjoy it" - nothing here seems incredible for a five year old to say)

You might ask "ok but why? Isn't the case well represented by older kids? Isn't it well funded?"

I have no inside knowledge of this, but if a five year old's older sibling is participating, they might want to too? Does that make their testimony more or less valid? It shouldn't
Yep, undergrad in EE. I don’t do our semiconductor design but interface with teams of engineers to make tools for biology.
You could always download it from github, turn on developer mode in chrome (there's a little switch in the top right corner of the chrome://extensions ui), and then load it as an unpacked extension from source without ever touching the chrome web store.
> Until companies ditch the stupid degree requirement for jobs that obviously do not require a degree, everybody is going to suffer.

It’ll never happen. They need low effort filters.
Yes, that's why after your first job, your college degree means a lot less. Some employers still require it, and some will consider "equivalent experience"
Having played around with this sort of thing in the llama.cpp ecosystem when they added it a few weeks ago, I will say that it also helps if your models a) are tuned to output json and b) you prompt them to do so. Anything you can do to help the output fit the grammar helps.
I didn’t say we discovered the greenhouse effect in 1985.

I said we started addressing the issue about 40 years ago.

Actually, the Carl Sagan video is still worthwhile. He did an excellent job.
It’s certainly an emotionally and ethically challenging subject, but at the same time there a Godwin’s law vibe about declaring things you disagree with “steps that lead to to dystopia”. That’s not a mindset that lends itself to compassion.
Sometimes folks look at me askance when I talk about my pride in 'my people' -- I get eyeball rolls now and then. But stories like these remind me that I'm from a psychosocial lineage that is strength and brilliance incarnate.

Power to us all. <3
Yep. "Find the AI" is broken for now, because whenever I've played it, humans can just be exceptionally rude/lewd or use super-modern slang. Making the humans try to blend in as AI is much more interesting, as a game.
I and most would completely agree with this.

The challenge is that even despite these measures vulnerabilities will still be found and exploited. In the same way that critical safety systems are also found to have vulnerabilities.

In my opinion what needs to be done and should be done, is looking at the network as a whole and thinking about how you can mitigate the impacts of potential vulnerabilities and designing the entire network with defence in depth. If it's a critical OT system that controls a power plant which could kill or injure someone, then it should realistically be completed air gapped as a first point of all.
Agreed, simple solution though.

Students pay a maximum of N% of their income over Y years and anything above this is forgiven. The university has any forgiven amounts deducted from their actual cash payments for future student loans.
There are hundreds of people on r/datahoarders that would gladly mirror it many times over.
I hope I haven’t discouraged you in any way. I love the idea, I’m not really sure how hard it will be though. I think this is why we see those hard guardrails on the openAI models, but they really make the model less useful in as many ways as they make it “safer”. It might be like trying to make a “safe” axe. If it’s safe, it may have much less utility.

My project is somewhat intersectional to yours in some respects, and I have no idea how to overcome this issue without hard guardrails.

I’d love to see you succeed with tuning! That would certainly give. me some hope!
Re: fitness standard.

The federal government already has the bureaucracy for this in say the DCAA (https://www.dcaa.mil/).

I would very much like any universities accepting student loans to be audited and publish audited financial statements detailing where the money goes.
"climate change denier is denying climate change"

He is not a climate change denier...

He is saying the hysteria is unnecessary and we may not be following the optimal approach for dealing with the changing climate.

It's different...
Huh, I didn't see any administration cuts in that list.
> Most universities have a wait list a mile long, so they're not going to run out of students.

Have a look at the stats at https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_305.40.a...

Add up the percentages and you'll see that only 7% of American undergrad institutions accept fewer than 50% of their applications. That means half of colleges and universities take at least half of everyone who applies. Not much of a waiting list, in other words.

Anyway, as someone who has attended a California community college and a UC and an elite private brand name school, I very much agree that California community colleges have some fabulous faculty and can be both extremely supportive and cost effective for their students!
Where did they vehemently deny it?
I'm having trouble even parsing your comment. Could you explain what you mean without using buzzphrases or potentially polarizing language?
In theory, that's what accreditation is supposed to represent: a set of standards to ensure students are educated to a certain minimum bar for a given major.

However, the cynical reality is that university is as much about signalling competence relative to the rest of the population as it is about learning. Fun fact: Stanford's computer science program is not accredited. The department explained that it's a mountain of paperwork to get accredited and it wouldn't benefit Stanford at all because it's already so prestigious.
I’ve yet to see any real correlation between increasing technology in the classroom and increasing learning. In general technology in the classroom is a hindrance to real education. It turns out most people learn better writing by hand and interacting in person vs staring at a screen.
Or, potentially, of any other computer hardware reseller. I’m surprised OP is mad at Dell, typically you’d expect the reseller to handle such an issue. Amazon allowing to replace it isn’t doing anything extraordinary here.
Thank you for the links. They look interesting and informative (and now, they're all saved in my Pocket list)
This is an incredibly disingenuous post. Soros called 1944 the happiest year of his life because he witnessed his father's bravery in saving other Jews.
Someone recommended The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, 1988, by Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar - as a business management story telling comparable to Soul of a new machine. It's on my list. (Offhand, btw, I would expected it tainted by the west coast vs east coast business style difference.)

Oh, and in The Soul of A New Machine itself, the "responsible adult" is the engineering manager.

And for far more recent and startup-y stuff, there is Founders at work and European Founders at Work
If this is the attempt of some dept to increase ads for whatever metrics or bonuses, I suggest that this move will not increase ads much at all.

Many of us will just pay for premium to avoid. Some of us will engage in the non-stop war of ad block blocker blocker and perhaps ramp up to some other caching / buffering system that blocks the ads another way that makes it seem they run or whatever.

Sure a few grandmas who had a blocker setup for them will capitulate, but I would bet if you are aiming for some sort of 2% increase it will fall very short.

I block ads primarily for security, and because I abhor being forced alcohol ads and similar without a way to block at the ip level.

If adblockers are blocked I will be forced to go premium or switch to peertube / rumble / fbook, etc. I can't do ads, sanity, security, and time wasting are not in my future time blocks.

Although I would say, that some ads are interesting from a mar-tech / creative interest, and I wouldn't find a separate tab with a list of 'ads that may interest you' similar to the home page - strange I know - but that way I could avoid the security concerns and other concerns, and choose a few that could offer interesting offers.
oh boy, I haven't seen that one before. that's awesome - so insane looking at a glance
I think the issue is that the bread we buy today is very different from the bread our grandparents bought. Also, we are no longer dying of many of the same illnesses that killed people in centuries past, which means we're living long enough to get knocked off by colorectal cancer.
The negative consequences of incomplete privacy are certainly real, they’re just not nearly as numerous as you seem to believe.

I can and I will dismiss the kinds of privacy concerns that rely on me being unable to understand how risk works, that rely on me falsely believing a solution to any problem exists with zero downside, that rejects any decision that has even one casualty.

I tried to show you how futile a game of, “your idea hurts people” is, but you seem incapable of moving past it. What a shame.
The test doesn't require there to be no impact on the commercial viability of the work; rather, benefits exceeding the loss in commercial value of the work is one (important) factor arguing in favor of fair use.
That was an ambitious error recovery in Interlisp indeed. It took like 30 ~ 40 years to get similar thing in Emacs, and we still don't have the "trusted" mode, just cautious with flycheck & co.

> For display it removes the com and the hyphens.

In Emacs, packages are supposed to define a group node and a prefix for symbol names for Customize. Not all packages do, but most of quality ones do. We could actually use that prefix and implement similar strategy to display labels for menus and commands. Menus in Emacs are also implemented as keymaps, but they do require a programmer to specify a label for display in "easy menu" as they call their menu implementation. This strategy could thus remove the need for that extra label.

DWIM from Interlisp could be implemented in forms too. All forms have to use known symbols unless in some well-defined places: literals (strings, quoted symbols), the symbol name which is the word after the certain operator (defun, defmacro, defalias, etc), in argument lists, or as a first symbol of locally defining symbols (let, let*, flet, labels and similar). But there are some questions I am not sure how to answer: I think I will have to tell the system somehow that certain part of an expression is a "defining" part so it understands which symbols are to be introduced into the system and not checked or mistaken for misspelled.

It would be actually useful to have such feature, bound to space and return, so when we type it just replaces misspelled symbols. I am a master of misspellings, I often replace two characters place for some reason, like in Siebel as seen :).
I had a teacher 15 years ago who didn’t trust us not to have family members edit our work to the point where it was no longer our work so he only gave in class writing assignments. Homework was always research or reading.
No, companies warranties start to expire from the point of original sale not whenever you happened to get it. What you’re complaining about is no different than expecting a used car to still have the original manufacturer’s warranty, that just not how warranties work.

The real moral of this story is to never buy electronics from Amazon. Amazon sold you a fraudulent product and you’re blaming Dell for Amazon’s failures.
Amazon has a return window. After that, they tell you to take it up with the manufacturer. When Dell refused to honor their warranty, Amazon covered it even though it was outside their window.
Not to justify the murder or anything, but I don’t think that Nielsen can be said to have zero responsibility. He voluntarily worked in such an unsafe environment.

Ultimately if you work in a safety-critical field and you don’t speak up when something is very wrong, then you are just as responsible as anyone else.

Plugging away at your job while maintenance people disconnect the phones from ATC is negligent inaction. Without a working phone line the ATC was clearly offline in a very literal sense and he should have recognized that and either passed the responsibilities to another ATC and/or closed the airspace.
It has replaced a lot of stackoverflow for me. If it’s a “how to do X in Y language” ChatGPT is pretty good.
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As usual, Betteridge's Law of Headlines holds sway, and the short version of the answer is "No".

Still, the longer version has some interesting caveats and nuance.
This comment would be significantly improved by fully spelling out what UB is at least once.
Good Q, hadn't thought of that. I think the back is providing most of the thrust and the hands are just to steer you, so you don't need to support the full bodyweight.
How am I just finding out about this? Apple is doing a very poor job of promoting it.

I just tested, and if you look just a little to the left, right, or above the camera, the effect goes away -- smoothly apparently (I was creating the effect for someone else, not seeing it myself)
I couldn't take that article seriously after reading this paragraph:

The French state spends 6,700 euros per public student per year, but up to thirteen thousand euros can be spent per student enrolled in Grandes Écoles, despite their only accounting for five percent of total students. Thus, though they only teach five percent of French students, these Grandes Écoles receive 30 percent of the government’s education budget.

(I read the paragraph after this as well, but it made even less sense, as it was suggesting the low fees paid by French students, of the order of hundreds of dollars per year, were somehow related to the quality of education, when it's simply because the vast majority of the cost is paid for by the state.)
> LEDs are inherently dimmable.

What? This isn't true. LEDs function using DC current, and are either on or off. "Dimmable" LEDs have chips in the bulbs that use pulse-width modulation (PWM) to turn the diodes on/off at a different rate to create the dimming effect.

All incandescent bulbs are dimmable (on AC power) with no additional hardware other than the dimmer, which adjusts the input voltage to the bulb. Try to do this with a non-dimmable LED and you'll damage the bulb.
Some brand name not-for-profits pay surprisingly high salaries to their senior executives, some in the range of USD1M/year. It’s led me to believe that whilst not-for-“profit” in the technical definition of the meaning, they are certainly run as “for-the-benefit” of their management.

There are many which do not play this game - apparently not Kiva - and seem truer to their charitable purposes. Some will say: does it logically matter - if higher salaries win improved achievement of charitable purpose? The answer then is why not structure as a business rather than not-for-profit?

Edit [additional point]: microfinance is a high cost, high risk business. Organisations at the sharp end of loan management need to charge interest rates which cover costs, including defaults, currency hedging etc. I find that fair enough.

What irks me is a management hiding behind a not-for-profit status to enrich themselves without taking risk.
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