skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited to try it but some errors and comments in the notebook gave me pause.
and yet, here we are talking about it
We didn’t even understand the mitigations that were enacted, which is the worst part. To this day nobody can provide evidence that the lockdowns or almost three years of mask mandates did a single damn thing. And if the answer requires a phd to understand, it means it was never worth doing because the massive easy to foresee collateral damage would have outweighed whatever minuscule benefit the measures had.
Ah, interesting. I wonder why everyone doesn't do that instead of poor attempts at validation.
New AI-powered camera promises instant art at the press of the shutter
How is it "probably OK" when the author mentions it isn't and writes about workarounds?
AFAIK most of the current CL compilers memoize dynamic dispatch as well as slot vector lookup. They clear these caches if a relevant class or method gets redefined.

Of course this precludes the use of some MOP functions like slot-value-using-class; if you use those the system won't cache the slot lookup mechanism.
> Building third party flakes takes forever since every flake uses its own version of nixpkgs.

The “official” (as in, community consensus) solution seems to be to bring your own nixpkgs, and manually override the nixpkgs of every dependency (and their transitive dendencies) and verify your build still works. Which just doesn’t seem right to me.

Flakes are great for building an ecosystem of composable, reproducable software. The more they succeed at that, the bigger the problem becomes. Surely it’s not too late to figure out a principled solution before stabilizing flakes?
While your anecdote is indeed sad, that still doesn’t mean lockdowns and masks worked or should have been forced.

Just like yes tons of people died from covid, but that doesn’t make our response okay.
I use TransIP, they're ok.
They also happen to buy one of the largest political parties by voter intention in Germany, matching the CDU in some polling.
I don't think it's wise to take an Apple exec's word for it, especially in the context of a trial where it was very convenient for them to reach that position. We don't even have any objective info on what criteria Apple uses internally to quantify the levels of malware that are "acceptable" on macOS (if that even exists. I also think the exec may have been talking out of his ass)
- "Worthless" in The Brave Little Toaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UfsEj7AOGI

- the chant in The Dark Knight Rises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXxw-zXRqOs&t=130s

Probably a lot of variations in musicals, but most will be mundane.
> Some of deprecated elements won’t render without some extra work, for example <frame> and <frameset> are designed to be used instead of a <body>, for I guess some kind of collage web page made up of other pages.

The author is too young to remember frames, huh? :) I'd just link the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(World_Wide_Web) ), but I feel like it doesn't explain it very well.

So, to briefly explain -- in the early web (OK, not the really early web, but once it got popular) frames were very common. They were commonly used for menus/sidebars, as well as things like headers that were meant to stay visible. So perhaps a page would have three frames -- a frame up top with a persistent header, one on the left with a sidebar, and then one main frame with the content.

Each frame acted fairly independently, with e.g. its own back/forward history (a link in a frame would by default only affect that frame, although you could have links in one frame open in another, useful for implementing a sidebar). This meant using back/forward/reload/etc with frames could be pretty troublesome and unintuitive. If you somehow got a page into a messed-up state where the wrong thing was loaded in one frame, it could be hard to get out of this state other than by navigating to the page from the start. Or it could be troublesome if you accidentally loaded just the content page without the framing page it was supposed to be a part of.

CSS got rid of most of the use case for frames, which is good, because frames were a real pain to deal with as a user!
No idea why this was posted today, but I'm one of the two people who put the Mooninites up that night.
(Also we had put another 20 or so up two weeks prior)

It was incredibly stressful as my friend/roommate Zebbler and I kept calling the people who'd hired us once we saw something went wrong. They said they had it under control, and not to call the police.

It took them from 10am (our first call) until around 4pm to notify the Boston police. By which point the city was shut down, and lots of people were pissed off. The police needed someone to blame for people's frustrations around traffic etc.

Zebbler and I cooperated fully, but we were still arrested and thrown in jail (without being offered any dinner or blankets even, in January in Boston).

To us clearly this was post 9/11 over-reaction. We wanted to draw attention to how absurd it was for the police to be accusing us of intentionally trying to scare people by planting "hoax devices".

There was a lot of press outside, and we knew we wouldn't be able to talk about the case. There was also a good 100+ people who had organized to protest in support of us on Livejournal :)

We knew this moment (of police over-reach and culture-deafness) deserved more than "no comment".
We brainstormed for a moment when we were brought back together in the courtroom and decided on our topic for the press:
Hairstyles of the 1970's.

Something neither of us know anything about.
We're both pretty good at thinking on our feet.
Couldn't have imagined the situation would have become so big.

I wanted to go to court and ride it out, but Zebbler was in the USA on political asylum from Belarus. They strongly suggested if we both didn't go along with community service, he'd lose that and any hope of citizenship, quite possibly be deported. (He's now a full US Citizen :)

Someone at a nearby hospital saw what was happening and requested we do our community service there, and they made it as pleasant as possible.

Surreal experience!

Many things made it feel like fun was illegal in Boston.
I've since moved to San Francisco Bay Area.

I've started Momentum Infinity, a non-profit to help people amplify their creative abilities with technology. Link in profile.
> i’ve never heard someone say that it’s a human right to run a webserver.

Now that you have, will you say that it has more merit if discussed in future?
You're asking about this, but not about sexual content being shown to grade school children or the fact that teachers are trying to hide it from the parents?
The scary thought is that once this sort of thing starts to work, it will be used by call centers for low-end medical services.
I think this is the wording I have beef with: “DoctorGPT is a Large Language Model that can pass the US Medical Licensing Exam. This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor.” The “provide everyone their own private doctor” part definitely makes it sound like it can replace a doctor.

I’m just worried about the combination of medical misinformation and the people who don’t understand how LLMs work who will take everything a LLM spits out as truth. There are already a ton of examples in the news of people who really don’t understand how they work (like that one professor who failed an entire class because ChatGPT told him that all the papers that the class wrote were plagiarized.) We also just saw how much harm can be done with medical misinformation with COVID.

Maybe I’m just being pessimistic and paranoid, but god am I scared of how things could cause people to inadvertently harm themselves and the people around them.
Is there an AI tool for doing AI jobs to make money to spend with your right hand or forehead?
Turning 40: Life as a 39-year-old
The biggest difference is the need to have shared access and it therefore does not easily allow for contributions from people without write access to the repo, although a similar workflow is possible with multiple publicly-readable repos (esp. with the help of `git request-pull`). Another advantage a send-email–based workflow has (compared to the workflow you describe, at least) is that the presence of the patch in the email makes it trivial to respond to specific code changes inline, using standard email quoting.

ETA: Many forges reintroduce the latter (commenting directly on lines of code), in which case this may not be an advantage depending on if such a forge is used. (But then you're back to using a forge, and needing to open the website to review changes in addition to using git and email.)
There are plenty of people and established organizations, experts, and scientists that will assert, with full confidence, a "complete" explanation for something in nature and decry further examination. This is part of the arrogance of the academic class that assumes they know everything there is to know about something.

I categorically disagree that you do not need to have both some humility in your own understanding and some rejection of the status quo of current understanding (the word dissident was used here, I feel this captures the idea) to have the curiosity to pursue study that others reject.

Pure science exploration is continuously challenged by experts and administrators holding the purse strings in the pursuit of something more marketable, profitable, or easily reproducible (think something like iterative changes to drugs to be different enough to patent but similar enough to have the same effects and use the same processes of manufacture).
Off topic because I am skeptical of the claims in the first place. As a general principle: the licensing exam is not the benchmark AI should be evaluated against to then go about calling itself a doctor.

I'm from a different country but these exams are the minimum standard to demonstrate a doctor is safe prior to interacting with patients. To be really explicit, the core competency being assessed is identifying potentially serious situations and answering the same way every time: "I WOULD CALL FOR HELP" +/- principles of basic care.

The benchmark for doctors actually making decisions about patient care are the assessments to become fully qualified consultants in a each specialty.

Again, to be really explicit don't confuse a test for "doctor won't immediately kill someone and commence reasonable first steps" with an actual "doctor with years of experience and subspecialty training who regularly makes decisions about patient care".
"PC refers to a non-Apple x86 machine" then :)
Except there were no mass casualties and no first world healthcare system collapsed. Covid was not space aids. We knew this within weeks of “two weeks to flatten the curve” and rather than celebrate the models got it wrong, society decided to double down on the insanity.
Music labels sue IA for copyright infringement on digitized 78s of Frank Sinatra
Migrant boats in the Mediterranean: Why are so many people dying?
> there is no set of standards to draw upon for implementation

Fair point. I used those examples mostly to acknowledge that programming has moved on from treating them as strings and integers. It's true that in the US there are few, if any, restrictions on naming. Only in 2017 did California, by law, allow names with diacriticals, as in José. However, in other countries there are interesting restrictions and patterns. Icelandic law, to give one example.

> Names are effectively a collection of arbitrary Unicode values

Well, yes, for just the string, but names are more than a sequence of characters.
The structure of what a name is, and how it's presented, matters. for example given vs surname order, patronymic, Mongolian clan names, supported characters in CJK, and so forth. Those are things that are hard to get right, and having every organization doing i18n create its own one-off name handling code has led to chaos and a lack of interoperability internationally.
Sad times, but not surprising unfortunately.
They don't own the company though. If you're raising 10 million on a 100 million dollar valuation, there's no way that VCs own the majority. There really is no reason to listen to anything they say.
It gets "better":

https://marionrecord.com/

"Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner"

"Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home."
Preventing some users who have the know-how from running a web server is not mutually exclusive with protecting people who don't wish to or don't know how.
This sounds like some basic Libertarian nonsense.

Markets do not exist as free-formed objects of nature, like the sun and planets.

Like there is some "Free Market Force" in the universe that somehow government is trying to hold back.

Markets are created by laws/regulations, by the government(people agreeing to certain rules), like contract law, property rights, courts, etc... to form a system for exchange. And the exchange, is through money, which is also created from laws/regulations, to set the standard for the exchange.

A market doesn't exist outside of government. Like you would stumble across it in nature while out for a walk.

This concept that somehow there is a "free market" that can exist outside of regulation and laws is a 'utopian' concept.

And, maybe the point, the Government, laws, regulations, can be corrupted through the power of the corporations it spawns. We need stronger government, to hold corporations in check, in order to have a more efficient market.
Just reframe it as education
I'd argue that's usually the case, because writing little language inside your normal language is full of problems, compiler writing is neither taught much anymore nor well supported (this is not a dig on the programmers - it's more that it feels like we're told that this and that is magic and should be left for the wizards).

So then you finally find yourself needing to do something that requires DSL, and you quickly end up on the annoying self-destructive treadmill of growing from small simple grokkable config file to something that should be put out of its misery (and the misery it forces on developers).

FWIW, some languages make it (IMO) much easier to handle that, if one decides from start to "embed" the DSL - Lisps are infamous on this, but this works just as well with Ruby, builder patterns in various languages (this can be a bit more prone to error though), or the less liked languages like poor TCL.
What is Intel's future? I find myself asking this lately. The desktop market is strong but niche, and their datacenter numbers are waning. Perhaps there's a future where an Intel/AMD consortium could take on the dominance of Nvidia in the GPU ML space. It really comes down to creating a viable alternative to CUDA, which maybe they could do together.
Why would one necessitate the other?
It feels really good to see this RFC cross the finish line into a finalized plan.

The plan itself seems very well thought out. I had a vague desire for an incremental stabilization of flakes some time ago, but this is so much better.

The flakes divide is one of the biggest remaining problemd facing the community, now that the issues with the release cycle have improved so much and continue to improve. Each step taken in executing this plan will be a real boon for the Nix community.

Onward!
* On 4 June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided Smethurst's home over a story she published in 2018.

Goaded on by then Australian PM Scott Morrison who was regarded (in Australian terms) as a bit of a mini Trump crossed with a holy roller evangelical meglomaniac.

* On 15 April 2020, the High Court of Australia ruled that the search warrant used in the raid was invalid.

As was apparent at the time, the over reach was deliberate, a strategy of heavy stick now, get the infomation we need, kick the consequences down the road.

* On 27 May 2020 the AFP announced that Smethurst would not be charged over her stories that "...relied on classified intelligence documents".
AI Prompt Engineer Hype: When Technology Meets Deception
You are better off staying put in your house. Get supplies, the most important is two weeks of water. You probably have two weeks of food, but more is better. After supplies return, it would mainly be waiting around for services to get fixed. Then could think about leaving.

One big problem with walking to safety is that the bridges along the highways will be out. Plus, a lot of people will have the same idea. Most of the official help from central Oregon will be focused on helping western Oregon and not on refugees.

Finally, you are missing route for the supplies: the river. It should be possible to clear the fallen bridges and open the ports. Ships can provide a lot more aid than trucks.
Can they take a step forward and fix their drug crises, homelessness, and corruption first?

Oh wait, helping the poor doesn't make those holding stocks in these companies any money.

Maybe they can propulse their rockets with their politicians hot air.
You don't have to use them, docker has flags to disable things like network isolation. If you want to go deeper systemd-nspawn doesn't isolate anything (network, pid, user, etc.). And if you are some anti-systemd zealot the plain old chroot command does what you want too (and has done so for decades).
Crazy. Imagine the environment in this is either lawful or felt like they could get away with it.
The nativist constituency of the GOP is a relatively recent development in the last couple decades. If you watch the Reagan/Bush debate they are falling over each other to demonstrate who is more pro-immigrant. Imagine the GOP offering amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control...
The implicit argument is that I don't see what else one could possibly do with a degree in philosophy.

> Philosophy has one of the highest average incomes of degrees, because of the number of graduates that go into law and business.

And why do they need those degrees in order to do that? What are they employed to do?
Seatbelts and taxes vs. covid lockdowns are not even close to comparable.
The 6600 had multiple functional units - 2 floating point multipliers, a divider, two adders, etc.,[1] and if the instruction stream allowed it, many of them could be running at the same time. So it was a superscalar machine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600#Central_Processor_(CP...
How often do failed rockets, or any space debris, fall on cities?
Are we all aware that the repository owner is Siraj Raval? The guy infamous for claiming others' work as his own? I think the ML community disowned this guy a long time ago for peddling snake oil
> That is an extra helping of pedantic. People are equal

So if someone is more successful than someone else, since they are "equal", the only explanation is discrimination?
Nope. I'd convict immediately for the INTENTIONAL infliction of emotional distress and the death such action caused. Misdemeanors that cause death become felonies - see DUIs.
GitHub – Mvbasov/LWS: Lightweight Web Server (LWS) for Android
Am surprised. No love for iwantmyname.com?
Basically what Chipotle kind of is
That god for that. Counties that didn’t have such a government turned into authoritarian hellholes (Australia, China, and Dominican Republic are good examples).

Or are you arguing we should have gone full China?
Autonomous driving would be a solved problem today if we got all of those pesky people out of the way.

Navigating a dark dirt road in a snowstorm is a piece of cake compared to predicting a drunk pedestrian's walk into the street. This is why I don't have much hope for L5 in the near future.
Seems legit...
What is the efficiency of this vs algae based systems like brilliantplanet.com?
Are they going to offer this course again this Fall? I think you have to sign up in order to submit assignments so I'd like it if they offered it again soon.
Here is a video of the press conference. I'm the one on the left.
I think given everything we held it together pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2fGzmphx4U
Ah you're totally right, my bad.

Better to say "The goal of these systems isn't to neutralize the planet's emissions all by themselves"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
Both are required! (did I make it seem like it was either/or, lemme know)
I'm not sure if you're trying to show me why I'm wrong or showing why I'm right. As near as I can figure, she was illegally raided by the police for crossing Scott Morrison, who is the leader of the main right-wing political party in Australia. I don't see any reason here to believe Smethurst is far-right. If anything, I suspect she's Labor because she seems pretty good at shining a light on Liberal Party malfeasance. Maybe the downvoters can deign to explain what I'm missing.
It's not so much a choice that we take pride in doing but a problem we have boxed ourselves into. Path dependency sucks. The benefit of a republic is that huge political shifts happen over a long period of time. Sharp changes only happen in response to an immediate crisis. Normally the system rewards grafting yet another patch onto the existing system instead of throwing it out and setting an entirely new set of rules.

Medical services became much more effective when physicians accepted scientific methods. Allopathic physicians used state licensing to restrict who could call themselves a physician. Due to post WWII price controls employers offered health insurance. Baby boomers did not grow up with the existence of all the drugs we have or neonatal intensive care units. People are still considered alive after their heart stops beating. Standards of care went up. Health workers' scopes of practice are carefully circumscribed by their license which does not transfer across state lines. The government agreed to pay for the medical costs of the elderly and poor, letting private health insurance skim profits from the lower cost working age population. Attempts to rationalize the system via a National Health Service, single payer financing, or heavy regulations on a universal private insurance market have failed. Instead the ACA just plugged the most egregious pitfalls for Americans and tinkered around the edges to try get everyone insured. Some states have chosen to not expand Medicaid to the detriment of their indigent population and rural hospitals.

If medical costs are to ever stop growing at 6% per annum the end result will likely be due to a combination of price controls, wait times and limits on care to hold down demand, lower health worker pay, free training for health workers, and rationalization of the system to incentivize population wide health. Switching from fee for service to per capita removes the incentive to treat more to generate more revenue. If universal eligibility is achieved that removes the incentive to refuse service to uninsured patients or discharge them ASAP. When outcomes are measured for the health sector as a whole, problems like hospital re-admissions or high co-pays that result in some patients not filling their medication orders get a harder look instead of being a perverse gain for one business and a bigger cost for the rest of us. Right now healthcare is run as a business. Each firm optimizes for the profitability of their link in the chain. The government tries to help those left behind by loading money into the top of the medical-industrial complex without ever making changes to the Rube Goldberg machine within.