skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The country has officially asked that it be referred to and spelled that way.

If a friend asked me to refer to them with a different name, I'd sure look like a jerk if I made a point to not do so, even though I know it's their preference. Just the same, I try to remember that the country formerly spelled Turkey is now spelled Türkiye.

Perhaps someday they'll say it doesn't matter, or they prefer the old way. Today isn't that day yet.
Okay smart phone penetration rate is 91%

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-many-americans-have-sm....

4.5% of the US is "unbanked". So now we are talking about 4.5% vs 9% and the overlap is probably small.

And before you say poor people probably don't have smart phones. 94% of homeless people have cell phones. The percentage of poor people with cell phones is probably higher.

https://priceschool.usc.edu/news/homeless-los-angeles-cell-p....

(No I'm not judging homeless people for having a life line for survival)
Another good one: https://nandgame.com/
My Instagram ad is full of betting website, gubbins from wish, and language learning courses.
In the future, how does one pay to replace a lost device at the store after losing the device that is the exclusive holder of all your payment details, as well as the exclusive holder of all the credentials to all your accounts?
Yeah, dying is wishful thinking; but at the same time, the massive adoption of ad-blockers speaks volumes about what the “targeted audiences” think about this circus…
My experience with t-mobile service is that it has the worst coverage (western states) out of all the big players.

I'll routinely have no signal on my t mobile work phone while my verizon personal phone is just fine.
Do you still use this? Thoughts?
Both appear to be derived from the same source:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutzend
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuzin
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dozen

The most recent common ancestor is Old French “dozaine”, and ultimately it derives from Latin “duodecim”.
$500M Solar Farm Near Glenrock Will Have Raised Panels So Sheep Can Graze
I thought that SpaceX, due to the nature of their work (rockets) were specifically prohibited from hiring non-citizens?

Edit: seems like the DOJ is claiming that that is not the case. Weird…so this is basically going to boil down to each side arguing their interpretation of a regulation.

Can’t say this doesn’t smell just a little political.
How does something infinite "expand" though?

It's not expanding into anything, because it's infinite.

I always hear "space itself is expanding" but how does that work with topology?

When you travel in a given direction you will arrive back where you started?

Surely that "shape" or "object" or topology or whatever you want to call it has a volume, relative to something else, or it wouldn't be able to be calculated?

As you can tell, I have no idea what I'm talking about but endlessly curious on this subject.
Pretty much any PC with 16GB+ of fast RAM can do this, any PC with a dGPU can do it well.
It's so much fun to watch the hostile tone of Sen. Pastore transform over a few short minutes. Mr. Rogers was a national treaure. Wish he was still around.
Even today, infant male circumcision is excused by the argument "they're too young to remember it". That may be true, but they're not too young to feel it in the moment.

The present moment is the most important moment in the world for every live being, and yet amongst humans it's pretty low on the totem pole of "things that are important to consider when interacting with other independent beings".
Congratulations to Chris Lattner and the broader Mojo team!
It is interesting that reading a bunch of good books is considered a crucial part of learning to write well, but in programming classes we tend to just explain the syntax and then say “so here are some projects…”
I just don’t understand how anyone is making practical use of local code completion models. Is there a VS Code extension that I’ve been unable to find? HuggingFace released one that is meant to use their service for inference, not your local GPU.

The instruct version of code llama could certainly be run locally without trouble, and that’s interesting too, but I keep wanting to test out a local CoPilot alternative that uses these nice, new completion models.
I had a pretty similar experience: spent a decade (2007-2017) working professionally in Haskell and just got completely fed up with the state of the language, ecosystem, and community. I migrated most of my new work to Ocaml and haven’t looked back.

For me I think the failure of the Haskell Prime effort to establish a successor standard to Haskell 98 was a big factor: the language and ecosystem became more chaotic and inconsistent over time as people drifted away from any hint of a common standard. Add to that the changes in the community when there were big changes in the cohort of “leaders” who had driven things from the 90s until the early 2010s (eg, when both Simons changed their roles). The folks who took their place haven’t done good things for the language in my opinion.
Likely trained on internal code.
> "douce-article"

Never seen that, I'm only aware of "logiciel" for software.
A while ago my mother had issues buying a ticket from the much ridiculed state train company ticketing system[0]. The payment went through, but no ticket was issued. Eventually she had to go an office of theirs and apply for a refund filling out a paper form because the online one required having a ticket id assigned.

I helped her through this, but it was utterly confusing for the both of us.

[0] the frontend files are not minified so it's possible to see what a shitshow it is in all its glory - method names which are partly in English and partly not being but one example.
The Internet Relay Chat Protocol (1993)
It's called free will. We all are free to make our own life choices and accept the consequences of those choices. We are not free to impose our choices on others.
> The tier 3 Windows XP target is no_std only, which makes it useless for the vast majority of developers.

Windows XP has been EOL for 9 year already[1], the vast majority of developer don't care about it. And if you happen to be a Rust developer who care about Windows XP you can either stick to an older version of the Rust compiler that still supports it. If you can afford to use a 22-years old OS that hasn't received patches for the past decade, you can probably afford to use an older Rust compiler…

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
One thing that spins my head around is the sheer number of different units related to radiation and radioactivity. I can't keep the damn things straight.

Millisieverts and becquerels and curies. Rads, rems, grays. Roentgens! (NG,NT)

Whenever I see a pop-sci article or video relating to radiation, it feels like one unit is chosen at random.

I know this isn't the case. Each one measures a different thing. And of course we have to have a pair of competing units for each thing because that's how we do all other units.

I had to go look all those units up before writing this comment.
Doesn’t your browser of choice have some kind of reader mode?
Anecdote from 4 years ago? I ran that speedtest while writing the comment. You're blinded by your hate.
If you want to get things done, don't use Haskell.

You'll be fighting against the type system constantly.
You'll be asking questions on Stack Overflow only to get no response.
You'll be rewriting software that's in other language's standard library.

Productive programmers don't use Haskell.
These are the same thing.

Good code should always solve the solution, to be considered good code. Bad code might solve the solution, it might not.
Canadian wildfires fueled by climate change, study shows
I mean you still need CPUs to run your workloads. And AMD makes decent ones. I work for a company that sells data centre network switches. There's nothing AI specific in our boxes but we will sell a lot more if them if people are building more data centres to cater to AI driven demand.

Something, something gold rush, shovels.
In practice "use the app" means "use an Apple or Android phone". If "modern society" means "please make these ethically dubious companies in a duopoly that produce devices I don't even like even richer", then I will gladly be "ancient". I have serious problems more or less forcing people to give money to one of these two 100% for-profit companies, especially when it's for public services. It's fundamentally and profoundly anti-free market.

For all the hate the web and browsers get here, at least that's an open platform that you can run on more or less $any system of your choice, or even re-implement from scratch (which, while still a large project, is quite as hard as sometimes made out to be).
And what is the cost/benefit of all this economic activity?
Another write up from 2021

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/how-to-go-from-stole...

One aspect of this is that some laptop manufacturers provide a setting to erase the TPM if the laptop is opened. You opened that laptop to see if you can add more RAM? Better hope you can access the bitlocker key or have a good backup.
Everyone has said this
If they aren't, they probably should be.
As a business strategy I would see it as preventing themselves from being hemmed in from the market leaders. By open sourcing and raising the bar for commodity AI, they get to crowd source improvement to their models and techniques to get ahead in their own uses by co-opting open source improvement. I would say to sage this is working amazingly well - the amount of interest around open source models from meta is immense. I also think, as do I, the majority of uses in the future will be from fine tuned RAG capable models embedded in devices, not pangalactic planet sized computers running septillion parameter models. Llamacpp is a perfect illustration of where that’s working.

We followed a similar model under more duress at Netscape. When you use Firefox that’s the fruit of that effort. It didn’t save Netscape, but Meta has a better and more diversified revenue base.
What were some things people were using?
Unreal Engine MetaHuman Realistic Person Creator
This is the solution I've chosen as well. But you need to realize this is a high bar to clear, even in the tech community. Researching, buying the correct phone model, installing a user-representing distribution, and then staying on that distributions' device upgrade treadmill all take time and effort. It would be best described as a hobby, and unfortunately nobody has the time and effort to do all the hobbies they'd like. (I've also got a bunch of "smart" devices sitting around effectively unutilized because Home Assistant crapped the bed 5 years ago and I haven't had time to set up something new)

Furthermore all of the secure Android distributions are community projects spearheaded by one or two developers. They could easily fall by the wayside tomorrow (eg CopperheadOS). It's nowhere near a self-sustaining off the shelf solution, despite how easy it seems once you actually do it.

Also the looming threat of remote attestation could destroy using secure Android distributions for consumer apps in the blink of an eye. And it's not like the venues that went digital only will then go back to having a paper option if the secure option has disappears.

In short, it's great to proselytize and grow the number of people interested in secure phone operating systems. But it's so far from being a prescriptive model to imply that people who haven't done so deserve what they get.
Yes.

And my argument is basically, that companies will not be incentivized to contribute back to the project if it's effectively transparent but proprietary in practice.
> That's proven false by the cars continuing to drive into stationary objects.

It has? This again gets to "are they safer than human drivers?", because the competition hits stationary objects all the time. If you have data let's discuss data, but "proven false" is, again, just spin.

> Pedestrian motion is not strictly a vision challenge but a general category of environment understanding

Semantic evasion. You agree that it's "not a problem solved by LIDAR", right? It needs a camera. You can use a LIDAR output as a (somewhat inferior) camera, but it's not providing any advantages.
The problem with 2 is that the people in power, and with immense wealth, remain there because of capitalism. They have the political power, and the resources, to enact the change ... but they also lose the most (unless you count altruism as gain, which of it were true the World would be so different).

We could structure things so that LLM, and the generalised AIs to come, benefit the whole of society ... but we know that those with the power to make that happen want only to widen the poverty gap.
Python software simply rots while you're not watching it. Either you make it a full time occupation, every time some library gets an 'upgrade' (with a ton of breaking changes) you get to rewrite your code, sometimes in non-obvious and intrusive ways. And every time the language changes in some breaking way you get to spend (lots of) time on debugging hard to track down problems because the codebases they occur in are large enough to mask the problems that would have come out if the same situation had occurred during development.

And that's before we get into the various ways in which python versions and library versions can interfere with each other. You couldn't have made a much bigger mess if you tried. And I actually like the core language. But so many projects I wrote in python just stopped working. I remember having a pretty critical chunk of pygame code written for a CAD system that just stopped working after an upgrade and there was no way it was ever going to run again without rewriting it. That's the sort of thing that really puts me of an I remember it long after. Machine learning code is still so much in flux that it doesn't matter. But hardware abstraction layers such as pygame should be long lived and stable between versions. And that really is just one example.

Anyway, I think asking 'That other languages don't' doesn't really matter. But Haskell (see TFA) is one language that always tried hard not to be successful so breaking changes would be permitted (which is fair). Python tries both to be popular and to allow for major stuff to be broken every now and then and that is very rough on those that have large codebases in production.

By contrast, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, ERLANG, C and C++ code from ages ago still compiles, maybe you'll have to set a flag or two but they're pretty careful about stuff like that.
Author here.

> Errr... no. Using no TPM of any kind decreases your security.

You're right, I wrote too fast, sorry about that. What I meant to say is that it discrete TPM with no PIN is an inferior solution compared to PIN/passphrase or fTPM. Also I should have added that it gives the illusion of security which I hinted at in the foreword. I'm leaving it as is for now, the discussions here are interesting.
Depends what you mean by platform and depends what you mean by FB. If by FB you mean Meta, they have also https://www.workplace.com/ (which is like an internal facebook), instagram, whatsapp and some others. Integration of LLMs technology in those "platform" might give them some advantage.
Yev from Backblaze here -> thanks for your perspective Mike! We do work hard on making sure the client stays speedy and system-efficient, so glad that's coming across! Re: the disc prices -> The cost per GB of storage has somewhat plateaued over the recent years, something we discuss in this recent blog post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ and in addition to the raw storage costs there are others associated with running a cloud storage platform like electricity, cooling, bandwidth, and team members to keep things running smoothly. That's why we're constantly evaluating the market, economy, our costs, and customers usage patterns when thinking about pricing. It's all part of running a sustainable business. And re: Extended Version History, yes that feature will be made available for anyone with a Computer Backup license to enable after October 3rd at no additional charge.
Yeah, of course. But maybe you should just be happy to share knowledge with those lacking it, rather than cringing and making some kind of personal judgement of them.
Per the website linked, asylees and refugees do not come under the export control act, as opposed to citizens of other nations. The timing of the lawsuit does seem interesting though.
Looks neat. Minor typo s/Pinoromi/Pimoroni/
To be fair, all of it is hard to believe, or rather, unlikely when seen without further context. Climate may be a factor that influences fossil survival, but also one that influences migration. Especially if the rest (rhinos migrating from Turkey to Africa?) is also true. I guess we'll just have to wait for more information connecting the dots, if it's ever discovered.

It does however show that all these popular ideas about the origin of man are not rock solid.
As mentioned in the article I used Elecrow, who made 5 boards for $24.14. I accept that the unit cost will be more if you're only making one.
I got a subscription to Family and Home Computing about a year or two before we could afford a computer. Usually I’d throw the old issues away but one had the game of Asteroids in the back in BASIC. I held onto that one. A game I didn’t have to beg my parents to buy? Yes please.

When I finally got a computer I typed it in, which took impatient little me days to complete. And when it was done it did not work. I spot checked my transcription and couldn’t find much. I had written hundreds of lines of BASIC total in a class and this was three columns of print over something like, four or five pages. No way was I up to debugging that. One of the big disappointments of my childhood.
Pushing advertisements to people who don't want to see them? /s

Every trade matches two parties who came to the market to trade.
Hugging face is a terrible name for an ai company. Predicting it suffocating us all both mentally and physically?
Lots of possible reasons.

Türkiye may have an environment that is very suitable for the preservation of fossil, and one where said fossils remain near the surface. Africa is huge, but may lack areas that both has those hominids and preserved their fossils well.

Fire example, there are very few footprints on sidewalks, but lots in the mud beside them - should we conclude people must prefer to walk in the mud?
Agreed! What can we do about this? I'm an advocate for web over app, but that has it's own downsides
Once again, your anecdotes don't match reality, which is decreasing quickly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250468

You can say 210Mbps all you want, but that's simply not even close to what most starlink users get.
memcpy argument order matches the left-to-right arrangement of assignment. lhs=rhs is rhs is copied to lhs. memcpy(lhs,rhs) is the contents at rhs is copied to lhs.
I'm curious what the root cause of this is.

- Ongoing disagreement between SpaceX and DOJ regarding applicable law?

- SpaceX HR misunderstanding, at the time, the applicable law? (I can see how this category of applicants might be rare enough that HR people fail to account for them.)

- SpaceX HR policy lining up with DOJ's view, but hiring managers choosing candidates with a suspicious statistical distribution?
This is why we recycle our plastic, vote carefully every couple years, and wait for technical solutions
US Government: You have to careful about potentially leaking export controlled material, or your employees will be held personally responsible and go to jail.

SpaceX: Okay, will be extra careful

Also US Government: How dare you be too careful!

(probably) SpaceX: WTF
I'm going to assume bad faith because the alternative would be to rude to you.

If you wanted to paint a photorealistic halle berry having sex with whomevere you'd need years if not decades of art training. Or shelling a minimum of 500$ to commission an artist. Now I can have 25 different jpgs of that mental image in less than a hour of "work". And no you don't even have to write that piece of software, it's already online for free.

If you don't see ho this is a new problem you should log off
> No one is using Python like that in the professional world. The most complex you'll see are simple comprehensions.

I'm always surprised what I find when I move into a codebase. A lot of it is just what was fashionable when the application started. 90s and 00's everything is over objectified complete with lots of factories and tons of getters and setters. 10's you started seeing a lot more FP style usage, and now I'm seeing a lot more async code.

> Python is supposed to be a readable language for newbies, like Golang.

Python is supposed to be readable because most developers spend more time reading code than writing it.
I wonder if a modern equivalent of a game like this would sell at all. Modern supposedly story-driven games often have extremely short flavor/clue text so as not to interrupt the flow. Reading the clue docs outside of the game would allow you to enjoy the experience even through moments when you aren't playing the game itself, and it wouldn't break the pacing. I suppose the game could give you 30-40 page docs or book chapters as PDFs throughout the story as you unlock them by finding books in the game.
>Then use your phone as a wifi only device and don't buy a phone with an operating system created by an adTech company.

I am concluding that you are, indeed, severely uninformed on the subject matter. I would recommend reading up on the baseband system of mobile phones as a starting point.
Some heavy lifting for the claim that skin impacts health comes from this:

> it's thought that intrinsic factors are responsible for the tiniest fraction of the classic "aged" look, while UV light is responsible for over 80% of visible skin changes.

Here's the result from the study this links to:

"By calculating statistical correlations between the four clinical clusters (wrinkles/texture, ptosis, vascular disorders, and pigmentation disorders), and real age and apparent age on the one hand and heliodermal status on the other hand, we identified a link between each clinical cluster and aging and the photoaging process. By comparing evaluations of clinical signs between the two groups for each 10-year cluster, we demonstrated that whatever the age, a prevalence of pigmentation disorders for the sun-seeking group (ie, pigmentation) is strongly linked to ultraviolet exposure. Meanwhile, clinical signs of ptosis are linked more to chronological aging and do not present differences between the two groups, nor, therefore, photoaging. Wrinkles and texture are affected by the two aging processes. Finally, clinical signs of vascular disorders present no evolution with age."

I guess since UV impacts pigmentation and partially wrinkles, they add that up to 80%, but I see no hard number given for % impact on wrinkles/texture.

One problem I can immediately see is that people are judged to be older primarily based on wrinkling, not pigmentation. Though it may be uncommon to notice age spots absent of significant wrinkling.

I don't see a convincing case that unprotected skin is correlated with mortality risk moreso than poor health is correlated with aged skin.
If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first
I am a self taught LAMP guy that wrote a mini saas that 34 companies pay for and use.
It pays the bills, and works surprisingly fast compared to most CRMs, but I can assure you, it is not good code. Even I'm pissed how shitty I let it get.