skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't scale well. It is a perfectly fine approach for smaller systems with a few dependencies, but you are going to have serious headaches whenever you (1) start to see more complex internal system dependencies, and/or (2) start taking on deeper integration with external systems like cloud infrastructure, other services, etc. Once you hit this inflection point, you either start getting very robust with your integration boundaries (and likely developing more complex 'stubs'), or go the dev/stg/prod route.

You start with a database? Great. But wait, you need bulk storage now, so you start sticking it in a cloud bucket (and ensure you use a separate namespace for it). But then Team 2 introduced a new service you now need to spin up in a separate container, so you pull their repo. Then there's a production issue that could have been solved by proper AB testing, so you decide to go with a third party solution that offers that. The party continues, and soon your simple one-click setup ends up so complicated you end up with a full time person just keeping it alive. Whoops! Someone got the cloud namespace wrong on their desktop instance, and production data got hosed. Etc.
hmm so should I use Insular, or Island, or Shelter? Am I not tech savvy enough if I don't know which of those is more trustworthy/better?

Is the bar for tech savvy so high now that I have to know what fdroid is, and how to install it (since I don't think it is on google play).

Am I only tech savvy if I know what a custom android ROM is and how to install one?

This is getting absurd!
> On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.

Czech often does the same thing though, both when counting and naming years - "devatenáct set osmdesát čtyři" is literally "nineteen hundred eighty four"

There's "půldruha" and "poldruha" in Czech and Slovak too, but I feel like it loses competition to "jeden a půl/pol" in terms of usage.
Back in the wii home brew days, I used to hang around in their irc channels. Those channels were a main way for people to get help with what we would now call "jailbreaking" their wii. Sure some sites and forums existed with instructions, but if you ran into a weird edge case or just misunderstood what some kid wrote on a forum you'd be stuck till you found how to get on irc and asked in those channels. During the peak of that scene's activity, once you get in there you would have top notch support from several volunteers handholding you though every step of the way. The actual people who wrote the tools you were having problems with would help you out. Sometimes they'd give you a debug version comoiled just for you. Often, your bug would get fixed and a new point release made while you wait. The people writing guides would camp out in there and take note of the most common questions their guides cause and go fix them to head off problems early.

To me, forums felt like a place information went to die. Your answer would be on page 5 of a 30 page rambling thread but you wouldn't ever know because you wouldn't read that far. Read page one and maybe two, then jump to the end to see if it's solved and instead they are on another topic entirely.

IRC meanwhile was always 100% relevant and timely.
You are correct, I wrote that in a rush and mixed up examples in my head.

I don’t think you need to trust the LLMs for this kind of thing to be very useful. The LLM could generate the KG with every node labelled as “autogenerated.” When you use the graph for research, you are still going to read the papers you are interested in so you can then update the relevant citation node with the label “human checked.”

If a research group uses the same graph over time, the nodes will gradually become “trustworthy” (ie verified by humans). Maybe even get reviewers to update a papers graph during review and publish that for other groups to add to their graphs.
Limit Goroutines with Buffered Channels
> eventually they let you in.

Often they don't. I've run Google out past 20 attempts and not gotten in. More common are 10x-15x rounds that dump me back to the Sorry page.
> Python, C++, Java, PHP, Typescript (Javascript), C#, and Bash

What?!? No Befunge[0], Brainfuck or Perl?!?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge

/just kidding, of course!
I find the tone of these articles baffling.

China has refused to just live accept the US deciding it's not allowed to do AI? How surprising. Washington is pushing to ban something? No, Washington can just ban it. Ban or don't ban, there is no push.

Also phrasing it as US technology is misleading: the current chip leader is in Taiwan and the main kit comes from the Netherlands. No one is after "US Technology".

The US and China (and all other countries) have a right to pursue their own interests as long as they avoid certain extreme measures like actual war (something both those countries need to remember). And like it or not, they will. No one's law applies to anyone else except by mutual agreement. So Taiwan and SK (and anyone else) can continue exporting to China as long as they're happy to live with the consequences.

And I have been a hawk on china for a long time.
Isn't the entire point of a museum customer service? What else are they doing other than preserving the stuff? Isn't a museum with bad customer service more properly called a "warehouse"?
We changed RoPE's theta from 10k to 1m and fine-tuned with 16k tokens long sequences.
One day or an other, your proprietary pocket tracker and his mandatory connectivity will fail. What if the device is broken (yah, go buy another) ? What if the upstream service don't work ? What if the GSM network is locally in maintenance ? Overall, why should we require obsolete-when-bought, extremely costly and polluting locked-down devices you don't even control to access public places ?

So why, any concrete response capable of holding up in practice ?
It’s used to signal when you have a pair of the same letters but the second has a different pronunciation.

So “deer” has two e’s but no umlaut because they make the same sound but “coördinate” has the umlaut since the second o is a new sound.

I personally like them and wish they would come back if only as a small push back against the horrific ambiguity that is the English language
"Worst interpretation" isn't about matter of preference on which interpretation is moral rather intentionally choosing the least supportive definition as proof the phrase is a misnomer. Ignoring the Cambridge one, which seems to be post phrase, definitions like "sameness of essential or generic character in different instances" are very stealable things, even if another definition is not.

As I've stated I'm in favor of the individuals. When doing so, I like to stick to factual and logical reasons why instead of insist the root of the problem is the chosen definition of "identity" does not match my preferred one. The root of the problem is the current process for dealing with identity theft is more burdensome than it needs to be on individuals. If you change the name it's still too burdensome because, outside of you, everyone already interprets "identity" to mean what it should in this case. That the process is bad is not proof the interpretation of the phrase is bad and needs to be fixed, it's proof the process is bad and needs to be fixed.

Just because someone disagrees with one component of your stance does not mean they automatically agree with all opposing positions that followed from it.
The Future of Computer Wargaming (1981)
Anyone know of a good plugin for the JetBrains IDE ecosystem (namely, PyCharm) that is CoPilot but with a local LLM?
Seems fair. Don't embarrass your professional body or they will sanction you and may even expel you.
It does, but for a different reason, to mark when two vowels are pronounced separately. Like naïve. Not often used, but the New Yorker does.
Airlock is not using anything as far as I can tell, they are warning their customers that if they are using old binaries, that are signed with the revoked key, that airlock or windows (unsure) will now complain about it.

> Over the coming months Airlock Digital customers may notice an elevated occurrence of files reporting ‘(invalid certificate chains)’ over the coming months, for software that was signed between 2006 – 2017 with revoked certificate chain.

As Airlock seems to be software intended to allowlist the execution of binaries, it would make sense that they pick up on the user running binaries signed with revoked certs.
“Time budget” is ultimately the same thing as the monetary budget. Spend more, get more ms time.

In a life or death situation, you should opt for the system which will keep you alive more, not the one that costs less.
How naïve.

But that's the only not-foreign not-name word from the list I've seen written with the ¨ in Britain. I have see Chloë and Zoë written with it too.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_spelle...
when everything is perfect first time maybe.
That's fine, and gamers can no longer be expected to upgrade every generation or two, like they used to, if the improvements are going to be marginal between generations. The enthusiast market will just shrink and of course that no longer matters to Nvidia as they are playing in bigger leagues now.

GPUs will be bought like TVs. It took 4060, about 6 years to double the Passmark score over 1060.
There is that.
Should putting a celebrity's face on a billboard without their consent be covered under "freedom of speech"? What about if you release a movie starring "Tom Cruise" but Tom Cruise hasn't consented to it and his face is actually deepfaked?
we have a secret plan to change our logo to a Face Hugger some time in the future :)
Amazing! It's great that Meta is making AI progress.

In the meantime, we are still waiting for Google to show what they have (according to their research papers, they are beating others).

> User: Write a loop in Python that displays the top 10 prime numbers.

> Bard: Sorry I am just an AI, I can't help you with coding.

> User: How to ask confirmation before deleting a file ?

> Bard: To ask confirmation before deleting a file, just add -f to the rm command.

(real cases)
The article feels dated, like the study began long before the latest revelations about our cosmos have been announced. E.g., we believe the current universe is > 23 billion years old, and that the 13.x bn year timeline is now out of date. Secondly, there is a growing agreement in the academic community that the big bang is just teleological fantasy at its best, and that there is no way to know what happened before inflation, just that inflation happened. So accurately we now know the universe is > 23bn years since inflation, and we have no idea what happened beyond that border, just that it "appears" to be expanding from a point.

Its also very dated to perceive time as a 4th dimension. This is not academic, this is now common knowledge. 4th dimensional reality is the superposition of all objects in 3 dimensions, see the term "tesseract." Its the stuff of kindergartners to believe time is the 4th dimension.

Also agree with the other comments that it sounds naive to measure things in "seconds" when there is nothing relative from which to measure time in the earliest states of the universe.

The article basically sounds like it came from 1970s WASP academia, and is a few decades behind in the current academic perspectives of astrophysics and cosmology.
> Starlink as a technology is nothing new

Dishy is the first phased array antenna widely available to consumers, as far as I know.

Starlink is the first low orbit massive satellite constellation. The scale is truly new. The older geostationary communication satellites are a distinctly different system.
> you cannot efficiently search by face and body features

Yet. That feels like something an LLM trained on lots of images would be good at. It's also the basis of biometric identification.

(Heck, google lens will give you celebrity identification about 10% of the time even though it's not designed for that. The Bing image search will try to identify the clothing and handbag in the photo instead so it can sell them to you)
Photons travel, and, as far as we can tell, have always traveled, at the same constant speed in a vacuum. It's "so constant" that even if you try to fly away from a photon at nearly c, it will still hit you with velocity c. Even if you try to fly into it at nearly c, it will still hit you with velocity c.

No time dilation, not even from black holes, can slow down (or speed up) light.

Instead, the light's frequency from your perspective is what changes. This is where redshift/blueshift comes from. (Imagine the waveform being compressed/stretched out.)

This is one of the crucial insights of special relativity.
> You have ownership over your face and likeness [...]

> This doesn't translate to the code you write. The most one can say is that they are violating your copyright, [...]

You are really trying to hairsplit that one intangible personal property right is “owned” and another is not?
> but nothing really production-ready that I'm aware of

Here are some:

http://hdrhistogram.org/

https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/ (Victoria Metrics is also worth looking at, IIRC they store quantiles differently)

https://prestodb.io/docs/current/functions/qdigest.html
So mud and dirt and dust and oil and antifreeze and all kinds of garbage spray on the roads covers all parts of a car. Some people never wash their car if they don't want to.

What happens with these sensors? Can they detect physical interference? Will they refuse to let an assist mode of any kind activate if there is a malfunctioning sensor?

What kind of self-diagnostic do they run, how often and how fail-proof is it?
> I don't like that it is a single point of failure. It has replaced our wallets and then some

I also have a cellular Apple Watch that also has a copy of my digital wallet....
It's not just the 'non tech-savvy' that are failed by this, it is all of us. I don't want to be required to take my smartphone everywhere I go and to make sure the battery doesn't die. There is no excuse for it in most cases. And as for Ryanair requiring a printout, that's just a way of forcing users to pay more. When I last flew with SAS from Trondheim, many years ago there were no check-in staff. I put the credit card I had used to book the ticket with in a reader, it spat out a label that I attached to my bag which I then placed on the belt. I used the same card to gain entry to air side. I used the same card to enter the corral by the actual gate. Finally when boarding there was a person there to attend to any problems and that was it. No need for apps, no paper.
Developing Artificial Intelligence That Can Identify Every Species on the Planet
A Hugging Swarm which then loses tech mindshare to an immensely complex frankensteined offering, "cogit8s".
The embeddable package from python.org [1] is 20 MB unpacked. To install different sets of packages per workbook, just have Excel automatically set the module path as appropriate.

[1] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3114/
You claim that 60% humidity and cotton clothes you will not be sweaty by the end of a bicycle ride under the sun in the summer?

I have lived on earth for a few years and I have very strong experimental evidence that you are incorrect.
The main thing I find copilot good for is things that are easy to validate, but tedious (not hard!) to write. Stuff like colors for different statuses, or error messages.

I actually love it for writing error messages. Keeps me in flow better not having to switch to writing Human English every five lines when something fails validation.
No turn it around, you lose the piece of paper saying you have a yearly pass, do you forfeit your right to enter these places?
A Finnish friend once told me a joke from his country, that went something like this: Two old childhood friends meet for the first time in many years at a bar. They both order drinks and sit in silence for several minutes drinking. One of them says, "So, how has your life been?" The other says "Are we here to talk or to drink?"
Do you feel all of linguistics is vapid? Is language not worth studying?
This article is mostly about just the need for a smartphone, not specifically about apps. But I specifically hate all the apps! I don’t want to download a Taco Bell app to order food or whatever. Just let me use a website that works reasonably well on a phone and doesn’t request a bunch of permissions I don’t want to grant.
I suspect that this has something to do with it:

https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/

Zig is also very easy to learn in comparison to rust.
It's just shy of it by the part where people rather than important information die; the structure of the argument is exactly the same. "We should do the thing we want to not have happen so much and to such a severe degree that people will finally get upset enough to want to stop us, but we better do it *a lot* because we know they won't care otherwise" is a truly idiotic argument to make when the thing you're doing can't be undone, and your goal is to not have it happen at all.

Whether it's information deletion or human deletion, you can't undo the damage you're doing, so what the hell are you talking about when you pretend it's something to consider?
> Even in something as late as 2009, I installed Ubuntu, was told by Ubuntu to upgrade the packages, did so, and on next reboot saw some sort of arcane panic message and was dropped into a bare shell

Yet after 10 years people still think automatic updates are a good idea.
This article is about how non-hierarchical graphs, those with cycles, are performing better than trees or chains.
I’ve found the utility of the coding LLMs gets a lot higher when you’ve got code comments and descriptive variable and function names - the LLM makes better inferences and suggestions. We’ve seen similar on data - properly tagged data and descriptive field names helps the LLM to produce much more useful responses. I’m secretly hoping the spread of these tools will finally lead my fellow developers to comment their code and stop using three character variable names.
Or the age of the universe is different for all observers.
This stance could be somewhat tenable if there were secure smartphones that didn't betray their owners, and if the systems designed around these things weren't so janky and user-hostile (see the comment above about trying to fix some digital problem while on a bus, and having to deal with multiple accounts hassling with "login verification" and associated garbage). In other words, if these information systems could be taken for granted rather than often being a bottomless source of problems and frustration. As it stands it's completely understandable that people don't want to invest themselves into the current environment.
> “You should just get a smartphone” is an unreasonable position to take and policy should actively discourage outcomes based on that position. It’s an accessibility and “fail safe|gracefully” issue.

Is you must have an ID to get on plane also unreasonable? A modern smart phone (at least an iPhone) has all sorts of affordances that make life easier for the disabled.
Now that reminds me also of the glue that we used in secondary school and also art school. Smelling it would definitely give a little high/dizzy feeling, whereas smelling the air at the gastation for me is more of a dopamine kick.
You can choose what shows up in that context menu or choose to show nothing at all, you can also choose to have it cascade (which I believe is the default).
This post has more comments than the linked post.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art is bordeline quackery and it's interesting the extent to which it has wormed its way into every discussion. Nestor does not exercise enough skepticism and overlooks the placebo effect completely in reporting out that breathing deeply will essentially solve every problem in your life. As a clinician, I think pretty weak, and also overlooks that poor breathing or mouth breathing is a symptom of other underlying issues not the issue itself. Go exercise for 60 minutes a day and you'll breath just fine.
So what people actually have a problem with is shitty implementations, not the idea of "QR Code Menus"? Why don't they just say so?
My initial reaction was one of suspicion, but the story as it was laid out seemed pretty persuasive. One detail that swayed me was the reported lack of fossils in Africa of early hominin species:

While the remains of early hominines are abundant in Europe and Anatolia, they are completely absent from Africa until the first hominin appeared there about seven million years ago.

Is there another explanation for why these fossils might have been missing despite early hominines inhabiting Africa?
This is the way. Too many engineers are disconnected from the metal.
It's basically a form of rubber duck debugging.

I also use for quickly writing tiny programs to isolate and test a specific piece of functionality.
I don’t know. You can buy a solderless breadboard, some pre-cut wires, and a lot of 74xx chips for the $99 that the the bare board costs.
In my experience, if you have to build an older maven project, you have to go through a lot of painful hoops, mostly around HTTP vs HTTPS repos and java source/compiler versions.
I have encountered many old projects that don't build out of the box, and of those, I've only managed to get about half working.
New flame retardants found in breast milk years after similar chemicals banned
How is it a “new problem” when painting has existed for a 1000 years and photo-realistic painted had existed for at least 100.

The idea that someone, be it a celebrity or a non-celebrity, should have a concern that someone might paint them without their consent is simply mind bogglingly ridiculous. As if anyone can have a say in what I choose to paint (I can paint in a photo realistic manner).

If I want to paint Halle Berry having sex with Bill Cosby I may and no human on the planet should have a say in telling me I cannot. Not Halle, not Bill and not you. To imply that someone should be able to stop me from making any painting I wish is to subscribe to the most dystopian of world-views.

And yes, my mind has been “trained” on various photos I’ve seen of Bill Cosby over my lifetime. He doesn’t somehow get to own my creative works just because I trained my mind on photos of him or tv shows.

Replacing the paint brush with a piece of software I write is not going to change this logic.
I watched a good talk from Yann LeCun who is Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and he explained that the thinking is that open source AI models will be the long-term winner, so it's best for them to work in that arena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqXLJsmsrk
GitHub is pretty excellent.
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Yes, but the time it takes the visitor to get a QR code is a lot more than ringing up a transaction. The museum has offloaded work on the visitor and this is not acceptable. The visitor, after all, is the one paying the bill.