skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time, I was trying to cross from VA into MD via the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The bridge was closed due to an accident. Waze happily directed off the highway and onto side streets, where it had me do circles in and out of parking lots and strip malls until I gave up and went home. It was really weird - literally couldn't go anywhere, so instead of telling me to stay put, it just ran me around in bumper-bumper traffic for 90 minutes.
But we're talking for example about a CDC director talking to concerned public, and she says:

> vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data.

This does not require you to be scientifically literate to be able to understand what she's saying. It's not a scientific show, they're not using greek symbols and formulas, but "vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick". This means that a vast majority if not all vaccinated people don't carry the virus and don't get sick (as they don't with eg. polio vaccine, mumps vaccine, whooping cough etc. vaccines).

If we put a scale from "totally work" to "don't work at all", the vaccines would be closer to "don't work".

The cigaretta analogy is bad. This is like seeing dark smoke coming from a long hallway at work, your boss closing of the hallway, saying "we have everythng under control, go back to your office" and your coworker getting arrested for saying "the burning will burn down, run outside".... and then the building burns down.
If you think US is tanking wait until you see how much worse off the EU is
Chances are you're not the only person with that IP due to IPv4 exhaustion.

At least that's my theory.
I don't get that take, wouldn't most people use a tool if it made you even 5% or 10% more efficient at your job after a little bit of research? Sure digging for the tool and task use case takes time but it'll more than pay back itself
>Uh, what do you think we can "actually determine" from before recorded history?

That is my point. You made a claim but have no evidence to prove it.

>I used to live on the next island over (French Island), and your clueless questioning of Penobscot sovereignty is disappointing.

I don't think you understand what my point even is if you think I am doubting anybody's sovereignty.

>Would you also suggest that maybe Natufians should control the Levant?

I don't think being the earliest inhabitants of an area gives permanent ownership. My issue is we are told we need to give back land to the previous owners. It just seems ridiculous that we should do that when many of the tribes we took the land from did the exact same thing we did.
This seems pretty disingenuous. Keeping up with costs is just part of stable profitability and in no way implies growth at the rate modern investors demand.
I tried to explain a bit more in a related comment, FWIW.
I totally agree with you. It can be hard to chain together grants to make a cohesive business. But if you want to have funding for pure research, it is one option available to anyone (US citizens at least)
Buddhist office turns to Thai cyber police over AI-generated Facebook content
There has been an influx of social media “ads” for these CT scanners - probably the worst (and obviously paid) example is Adam Savage’s YouTube channel where they just throw random things into a CT scanner under the guise of “how does this thing we’re scanning function from the inside out” - but it just ends up being an advertisement for “check out the features of the scanner and the settings you can change” with literally no investigation into the object being scanned
> this will surely age well

People are already experimenting and/or deploying systems that run an LLM before doing text2image [1]. This helps a lot with 'understanding'.

The next low-hanging fruit would then be to go back and improve the labeling used for training the image-generation models in the first place (using new multi-modal LLMs).

[1] eg. the current GPT+ standard model will do Prompt -> GPT-4 -> DALL-E
Thanks — is there a short answer to what can wide angle get you?
Perhaps Microsoft could get back into cell phone space with a phone built from the ground up with an OpenAI OS of sorts. A phone designed with OpenAI in mind first.
This is kind of a nothing-burger. Corporate officer/shareholder physically injured himself on the job, used his status as an employee to pay himself a legal settlement, which would normally be taxable, but not for physical injury.

The settlement seems too high to me for the relatively minor nature of his injury, but he got around that by hiring separate lawyers to arrive at a "reasonable" number.

The article starts out on a weak note however:

>the general rule is that any money you earn from your business is taxed twice.

No, that's not the "general rule". That is only for corporations which are organized by default under subchapter C of the tax code ("C-corp"). For the very reason of double taxation, most small businesses are indeed organized as pass-through entities, such as S-corp (subchapter S), partnerships, or even sole proprietorships. S-corps in particular are used to reduce self-employment tax (Soc. Security) based on "reasonable compensation" for officer/employees. There is very little reason for a small business owner to choose the C-corp entity.
The Dead Sea effect?
That was my first thought as well. Yahoo's internal culture was already scrambled beyond real repair (at least not in any timeframe the board would have likely accepted) and any acquisition they made they would have bolloxed.
Attention brokers don't have biases, they have markets. They produce the stories the market wants to read.
Thanks for this, I’ll explore.

Saying available for ‘Apple Mac OS X platforms’ isn’t encouraging but auto segmentation and 3D printer support, and screenshots look good.

There badly needs to be a cross section platform viewer that gets full support on each platform. I’m using InteleViewer currently and it’s borderline abandonware on its native platform (Windows) and it’s creaking badly on the Mac. Having copy and paste being the Windows default keys (when in the Mac) is like a middle finger to the user every time you use it.
Java, C#, probably Go and others, are able to do async I/O on multiple threads. It doesn't help with the actual async I/O being performed, but it does help with parallelising CPU work, or with the fact that not all I/O can be async and the runtime is faking it, such as local file I/O, which is going to be blocking system threads.

Async I/O is all about multiplexing work on few CPU cores efficiently, and multi-threading is still required. Python or JavaScript are seriously limiting environments and should not be given as an example when we're talking about a language that does 1:1 scheduling.
I am glad that your terrible news was delivered well.

I agree that it would be good if we stopped delivering such news via police officer.

But the reality is that we DO deliver such news via police officer. And even if we stopped in this instance, we would certainly continue delivering other bad news via police officer. News like, "Your child has been arrested and is currently in jail." So we still have the problem of how to protect the privacy of civilians that the police come in contact with.
To me it is more Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
I also agree with echelon, and I've been working with async rust daily for two and a half years. It was a bit painful before tokio 1.0, but by and large it's consistently great to work with, especially now. My only complaints remain having to restructure closure-based code into loops and occasional weird lifetime issues caused by the `#[async_trait]` macro, but hopefully the latter will go away with stabilization of `async_trait`.

The amount of "async rust is impossible to use," "async rust is fundamentally broken," etc. commentary that comes up on HN is absurd. I have trouble squaring my own experience with it, and it makes me think people are either complaining just to complain or that they haven't worked with it in anything other than toy contexts. I have a hard time imagining how difficult it would be to maintain our ~100k line rust codebase (http proxy that processes requests & responses, makes DB queries, and makes http requests to other services) and keep any kind of predictable performance by spawning threads, using channels, etc.

Like, not trying to be elitist, but I feel like people are missing the benefits for the sake of piling on or something.
> A Solvable Model Groks Without Understanding

What? But "grok" means "to understand at an intuitive level".
to be honest, HN is one of the few venues where I think someone who is core to a project might actually see what is said about a language. I've tried getting involved in mailing lists and stuff, but they aren't often as welcoming to this discussion as one might assume.

My hope is that by raising these things on HN, someone will take notice in a different way and at least start considering / revisiting alternatives
Sardinia is a trove of Roman artifacts.

Most friends I know from the east coast have some roman vase or something in their house (and yes, it's illegal if they have found those in most recent times).

Essentially as scuba diving became popular 50/60 years ago locals started finding lots of stuff in the sea and many did not report those to the Ministry of Culture.

Also, another fun fact.

One of the most common scams I've seen in Rome area where I live by farmers is to buy roman artifacts on the black market (few coins or something else will do). Then they report the finding to the ministry, which then pays them for years to not work the field and they bring entire teams to search for more artifacts.

It's extremely sad, but there's like no way to prove it or report it.
Don't get the hypemongers rope you into thinking you're missing out. FOMO is above all a sales tactic.
This project was born out of regular games of Dutch Blitz.

For gaming, existing scoring apps had more complexity (and friction) than I was after. I wanted something quick & dirty.

I ended up on Google Sheets with some simple formulas. Other groups also started using it. It seemed to be something I could generalize with a bit more work, and here we are.

Welcome any and all feedback.
Fine-tuning the model to force it to understand the insane tokenization its forced to use for its vocabulary and perform accurate addition sounds great until you start trying very large numbers or messing with whatever decoding settings you're using (and let me guess, it was beam search).

Or, you can simply ask it to use a tool, like a calculator for you. This is more reliable than fine-tuning a current technique BPE tokenized model ever will be.
CBT-I was very effective for me - I'm glad someone is making it more accessible! Keep it up!
The way I read it they ended up with double the starting money, because they both got a refund and sold the headphones.
Cloud Sandbox SDK for Building AI Code Interpreters with Any LLM
You're asking to rely on a smaller company with fewer spectrum licenses, fewer towers, and therefore spottier coverage.
I'm on my second pair of Sony LinkBuds, and these are starting to go also.

The warranty covered the second pair because they lasted less than a year. I'm not sure if it'll cover the third pair, but I'll probably buy another if not, because I really like the hear-through design, and no one else makes anything like it.
Can you explain in more detail what you want? If you undertrain a diffusion model it will produce meaningless gibberish. Which is still 'creative', just not what you expected. Training for a diffusion model is not 'inserting' images into a dataset. Rather you should view it as a 'taste' alignment.
That's hard to say. Racket is a rather complete language, as is F# and Elixir. And F# and Racket are extremely capable multi-paradigm languages, supporting basically any paradigm. Elixir is a bit more restricted in terms of its paradigms, but that's a feature oftentimes, and it also makes up for it with its process framework and deep VM support from the BEAM.

I would say that the key difference is that F# and Elixir are backed by industry whereas Racket is primarily backed via academia. Thus, the incentives and goals are more aligned for F# and Elixir to be used in industrial settings.

Also, both F# and Elixir gain a lot from their host VMs in the CLR and BEAM. Overall, F# is the cleanest language of the three, as it is easy to write concise imperative, functional, or OOP code and has easy asynchronous facilities. Elixir supports macros, and although Racket's macro system is far more advanced, I don't think it really provides any measurable utility over Elixir's. I would also say that F# and Elixir's documentation is better than Racket's. Racket has a lot of documentation, but it can be a little terse at times. And Elixir definitely has the most active, vibrant, and complete ecosystem of all three languages, as well as job market.

The last thing is that F# and Elixir have extremely good notebook implementations in Polyglot Notebooks (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...) and Livebook (https://livebook.dev/), respectively. I would say both of these exceed the standard Python Jupyter notebook, and Racket doesn't have anything like Polyglot Notebooks or Livebook. (As an aside, it's possible for someone to implement a Racket kernel for Polyglot Notebooks, so maybe that's a good side project for me.)

So for me, over time, it has slowly whittled down to F# and Elixir being my two languages that I reach for to handle effectively any project. Racket just doesn't pull me away from these too languages as it doesn't really offer anything over them, and I would also say that Racket is a bit too locked to DrRacket. I tried doing some GUI stuff in Racket, and despite it having an already built framework, I have actually found it easier to write my own due to bugs found and the poor performance of Racket Draw. However, I do reach for Racket anytime I want a Scheme for learning purposes.
You give feedback, they ignore it, and you leave. Most engineers don't want to spend their times fighting politics instead of doing their job. And if leadership doesn't have confidence in your job, why should you not seek a place that does? Not like there's really much employee retention factors these days.
Not exciting enough for a new consumer device.

OpenAI needs to leapfrog into robotics, that’s the only hardware that makes sense.
Oddly, I agree with you - but I think I may be approaching it differently. I use async as a mechanism to be able to have clearly-defined "tasks" in an embedded context, where tasks have straight-line code that handles something. I have most of the interaction between tasks be synchronous; in the case of embassy, the thing it brings is that it manages that otherwise-spaghetti-feeling mix of state machines in an easy-to-read kind of way.

Example from a current side project, since it's not work-encumbered: A wifi-enabled clock light for my 5yo. It has a task that sits there and every hour pings an SNTP server, updating a (mutex-protected) global with the time state. It has another task that listens for a telnet session for various control signals - which also updates a mutex-protected global config state. And it has a task that spins doing LED effects.

With embassy/async, I can write each of those as a separate task, without paying much attention to what gets invoked by interrupt handlers.

(This particular one is an rp2040, but I use it on stm-based systems as well).

I feel like this is kind of analogous to the discussion of threads-vs-events as a mechanism for structuring code vs. threads as a mechanism for achieving parallelism. :-)

Edited to add: Or, perhaps an alternative view of what I'm doing is that I'm using the embassy runtime as a really lightweight alternative to an RTOS, since I mostly haven't met an RTOS I don't want to throw across the room. An argument against what I'm saying here is, "well, use Hubris as your embedded OS and then you can have tasks and they can be synchronous" - which seems entirely fair.
Push is often better than polling for new data and then pulling, but it's all a question of interfaces. Data flows want to be a global DAG, but also want sections to be segmented.
This AirPods scan is so unbelievably cool, there is cross section view aligned along speaker battery and circuit board (click Slice Place A on the left) https://app.lumafield.com/project/b618e6f7-9a17-42bc-a2b4-a2...
There is going to be an immense amount of experimentation before someone figures out the right way of building the experience.

Enter: everyone copies the UX

Result: Brand, marketing, distribution and becoming top of mind will determine the winner.

All of this, if OpenAI does not kill you in the meantime
Literally what it says - a wider field of vision. Read the text on the ESA page.
C2C caberQU is very useful
Ask HN: What are you doing to make ends meet?
A lot of developers are having trouble finding a job right now. What are you doing to stay afloat? Moving back in with parents? Taking work in a different industry? Relying on your spouse's/partner's income? Asking friends/family for money? Maybe something else?
p values are meant to relate whether or not 'some' hypothesis is statistically relevant versus a control study. For something like biology, human nature, dieting, weight loss, in a world where you can't really control how stressed someone is, how far they walk to work, among 100 other things... if you're trying to find out how 'the potato' works, safe citizen science (a Riff trial) may be far more effective than 'traditional' proofs to get to the bottom of something that works, and then someone can do a controlled study.
Some decades ago, swimming in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, I dived to pick up what at first very-nearsighted glance (not wearing my specs in the sea) could be an amphora. At the surface it was obvious that it was an unexploded shell, which I put down very carefully then swam far away.
It seems to me that might makes right is at least as old as humanity itself. I don't see many animals organizing to resolve disputes peacefully. When it comes to relations between groups that do not engage socially with each other, might makes right seems like the default means to come to agreements.
Euclid aims at measuring the shape of as many galaxies as possible to observe statistical effects that let us draw conclusions about the dark matter distribution
Has it even been shown that the average human can generalize beyond their training data? Isn't this the central thrust of the controversy around IQ tests? For example, some argue that access to relevant training data is a greater determinant of performance on IQ tests than genetics[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKPsLxgpuY
This actually works in some cases. There is a section of I95 near me with an exit "shunt" that's divided from the main highway. The main highway has a merge where another interstate joins, and that "shunt", where you can enter/exit is protected from the merge traffic. So taking the shunt can save you 5-10 minutes when the merge point is at a standstill.
Eh. There's whatshername at Xitter. It takes a special kind of stupid to volunteer for a "glass cliff" position like that.
You might have more towers, or you might have all 5 companies on the same set of towers. Regardless, I think the spectrum is fully sold, so a challenger network isn't going to have spectrum to use, and if they get spectrum reallocated, existing towers that lose spectrum will be less effective.

Edit to add: If your towers are as congested as they seem, the carriers should be aware, and the problem is likely a lack of available tower sites; either because of geographical considerations, site owners don't want towers, or local regulators don't want towers. Additional networks won't really help with that either.
Intel TDX 1.0 technology preview available on Ubuntu 23.10
They shall hurry, because when GTK5 is comming, they will have to start again. /s
Euclid has visible imager and near-infrared spectrometer and photometer. Webb is all infrared. So they have non-overlapping missions even when observing the same structures and objects.

Also space is very large. The L2 orbit is gigantic and the probes are teeny tiny in relation. So it's hardly crowded in any sense.
> So the moral authority comes from country-level democracy, and state-level, being able to rightly supersede local level.

Why stop there? Why not: So the moral authority comes from universe-level democracy, and planet-level, being able to rightly supersede national, provencial and local level.
Maybe it's just an approach to try to force logically smaller PRs without trying to limit the number of lines changes.

I.e. with an idea like:

- if we try to commit so that each commit does a singular change

- then by limiting the number of commits we limit the number of "logical" changes in a PR

- and in turn make reviews and similar easier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)
It's 2256x1504 and 3:2. It's a nice screen, but it's one that absolutely works best at 1.5x scale since 1 is unreadable and 2 wastes plenty of screen real estate.
Simply Hackernews makes you better informed than about 80% of other engineers. Follow and read popular documents from a few professors, entrepreneurs, and communities on Twitter/Reddit/Quora to get to about 95%. Hunt for specific information to get to around 98%. Build something new and useful to get to 99%.
That's if you want the whole stdlib, you can make your own dist with only what you need: https://www.brython.info/static_doc/en/import.html
People don't even realize that the government agencies responsible for saving us from "climate change" are the same ones causing absolutely stupid issues like this.
The Guardian digital design style guide
strawman

and its asking for a fact about their current financial situation. instead an employer should only either publish a public number. or make a concrete offer in good faith

this is esp important as the gov/corp/criminal surveillance state seems to be accelerating out of control in the last few years
What's wrong with fast fashion?

To it captures the two important ideas: it's unhealthy (like fast food) and it's unhealthy because the items are designed to come and go and be quickly replaced with a new destructive production.
I bet they figure they can balance the budget with a great find :)
I don’t really get your point.

You cannot, (should not), do blocking IO in async in any language.

The language provides libraries to do non blocking IO.

What is unclear about that?

Multi threading has nothing to do with async, except as a way to run certain things in an executor thread to avoid blocking.

Also I don’t really know what you mean by async IO…. even in the languages you reference I would guess IO operations are all run in a single thread.
Why would you ask that? It’s literally your time and resources.
The complexity of this code snippet almost seems satirical (though I do get the point you're making, and agree with you).
You are making an argument for why I should be for more monitoring than we currently do. I agree with that argument, and that is why I stated that I am for more monitoring than we currently do.

You aren't making an argument for the maximalist position of monitor everything, all the time, with three separate cameras. Which is the position that I'm actually arguing against.

There are more than just two possible positions here. And arguing against a position that I don't hold is a straw man argument.
It makes me sad that Treacherous Computing support is getting added to Linux.
From Ars' description of the legal never-never land around the ESA - it sounds like an absolute paradise for all the worst sorts of people and behaviors.
Generators are one of those things that pop up more often in library code than in application code, I've found.
Seems like the government and residents blocking use of land that neither of them owns it more tyrannical than building a new housing development.
The execs who make these decisions ought to be named and shamed.