skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is just an ad hominem pretending to be civil discourse.

The closest I got to an ad hominem was saying he seems to be impacted by a common problem that afflicts the extremely wealthy and powerful. It doesn't take much research to find celebrities, the ultra wealthy, etc talking about how easy, dangerous, and seductive it is to become surrounded by sycophants. I don't know of anything else to attribute his increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior to. Although some people have gone as far as to say he has "friend his brain with drugs", which I think absolutely is an ad hominem.

In terms of XAI, my experience with the Twitter algorithm is clearly relevant as it's obviously an AI implementation at X. If you want something more direct, Elon Musk has said XAI is "based" and "loves sarcasm" while implying it was directly modeled after him and his own sense of humor. From[0] citing his direct announcement:

'"It's also based & loves sarcasm," he wrote. "I have no idea who could have guided it this way."'

Creating an LLM with a "sense of humor" ranges from "interesting choice" to absurd to dangerous. Humor is a matter of subjective and highly individualized tastes, and sarcasm can be (and is often) lost on people, which starts heading towards dangerous. "Based" is meaningless but also implies it has been influenced towards whatever he thinks that is, which I'm guessing is more alignment with him and his own opinions, etc.

I have to imagine if Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, etc were to attempt something similar someone around them would tell them it's a bad idea (because it absolutely is). Announcing it, touting it as a positive, and being proud of it is next-level.

The world does not need eccentric tech billionaire mini-me AIs and the fact he seems to have created one speaks to an ego run amok.

[0] - https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-unveils...
For what it's worth, for me it appeared nothing was different except I could leave the Default model on, upload a picture, ask it to generate a similar one with a change, and it just booted up Dall-e and did so. I'm not sure if everyone's experience is like this. I agree it's super annoying how they handle these things. I do still have the dropdown but, set to Default, it would generate images for me.

I do recommend logging off and logging back in if it isn't working. I've seen that update things for me.
How are western companies blocked from accessing China’s domestic market? Because they are obligated to follow local laws? That’s like saying GDPR blocks American companies from operating in Europe.
What Happens to Illustrators When Robots Can Draw Robots?
Ask HN: What Will Replace ETL?
In all the places I have worked, we ETL data from source systems and copy them over to data warehouses, reporting platforms, message/orchestration platforms, etc. It is a lot of work and expensive to sync all of these platforms. I have come to the conclusion that multiple SAAS, applications, and microservices are not going away. My question is how can we reduce the amount of ETL needed?
That's an old outdated way of viewing the world. Everyone sitting around a whiteboard trying to brainstorm an idea is wasteful. Someone comes up with an idea and then everyone takes some credit and you've spent $10,000 and wasted the day but feel productive but deep down you know you didn't need most people in the room.
My personal favorite are the occasional cases of airport malaria.
https://archive.ph/LsnnV
> even if so far you had wip wip doh wip as the commit messages

Aside, `git commit --fixup HEAD` is often better than `git commit -m "oops, one more thing"`, since it means you can easily `git rebase -i --autosquash`.
Sometimes it seems like logging off and back on causes these updates to hit. I didn't have Dall-e or image capabilities after weeks of it being released and I logged off and back on and both were available. This was between multiple computers logged in so it wasn't just a cache clearing situation.
> I do not care at all whether you clean your room starting from left and continuing to right

But you didn't say that you don't want it clean. It sounds like you're talking about how it's organized rather than whether it's organized.

> The reason why it is hard to defend

I'm talking about intangible benefits and no that's not the reason. Intangible benefits are inherently difficult to defend in words. Citing this as evidence of anything is akin to a debater's trick.
Everyone forgets the "directory" era. There was a time when Yahoo was the primary way to find things on the web. Getting your new website listed there was like winning the SEO wars.
Well, it's funnier to play inda game club
Thanks, that worked
Replying to your later edit. I’m aware of Fossil’s language, which is pretty hyperbolic. It’s largely a straw-man argument, because Fossil devs have presumed to state the intentions of git devs and git users, and they jump to a bad-faith conclusion in order to state their opinion that Fossil is better than git. Keep in mind the Fossil pages are marketing, and they are comparing themselves to the competition (git) by trying to paint git in a negative light, with prejudice. They wish they had the market share that git does, and so you should trust that language just as much as you trust a Pepsi TV commercial. Dr. Hipp has stated on HN his belief that editing code history should be considered a criminal activity, without sufficient justification for such an extreme and unique point of view.

BTW I have a ton of respect for SQLite and Dr. Hipp’s work. I love the way he has talked about testing. Nonetheless, I’m very much not a fan of their trash-talking of git that intentionally ignores the context, guidance, and real-world usage of rebase. The irony of them saying that git rebase is “dishonest” is that they themselves are being intentionally dishonest about how they talk about git, and I find it very off-putting and hypocritical, to be as polite as possible.
There are strips that go inside?

Intake is a specific brand, its a reusable magnetic plastic band and little adhesive strips you put on either side of you nose with the little piece of metal that the magnetic strip attaches to. Seems to be less harsh on the skin than the breathe-rite strips and also much stronger of an effect of pulling the nostrils open. Intake goes on the outside.
You forgot at least one: 5V / 48V.
It's good news, but reminded me at once
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters (1971) by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis,
where a bacteria made to utilize plastic went wild and started destroying wire isolation everywhere, causing multiple crashes etc.
Researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them
Is that happening in practice? When I see listings, they're usually in a range of $30k or so. Still a huge range, but sort of in the ballpark, and often enough to know I don't want to read any further because the range is too low.
Are you sure it only applies to smoking weed? not for edibles?
Think about going into the hospital and not having access to your drug of choice.

Think the anxiety might spike, along with the likelihood of a heart incident?
I’m firmly in your camp on this one, but I’ve noticed that advocating a tidy history gets a lot of push-back online. I think there is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy here. If a team habitually leaves a messy history behind, that history is rarely going to be useful, so naturally the team has low expectations and sees little value in doing anything to curate it. And if a team isn’t used to making an effort to curate its history, they may assume that doing so is expensive because `git rebase -i` is scary and not something they use on auto-pilot for a few seconds at a time.

In other news, our developers also create several small PRs every day but each is for an incomplete change that doesn’t stand alone so we’re never quite sure which features are finished in any given build, everyone keeps complaining about being interrupted to do code reviews all the time when the code reviews have no value anyway because they always just say LGTM :+1:, and we have targets that no more than 15% of commits should break production when CI/CD deploys them and that we recover fully within an hour each time that happens. If only there were something we could do to improve all this…
ChatGPT is surprisingly good at translating games. There are some tools for RPG maker and Unity games that extract text, run it through ChatGPT, and place them back into the game.
git stores diffs, but the usual operations are between commits, which resolve to a snapshot, yes.

but there are operations that get the diffs (interactive rebase for example)

so, git, in typical UNIX fashion, is a bit of this and that, a very useful collection of tools to work on a repository, under some allegorical unification umbrella.
If they aren't in physical danger why would they leave the office before 6pm?
The article says that he's now able to walk 6km without problems but doesn't seem to say what happens after that. Walking 6km is just his typical Sunday routine, so I assume he could walk further if he wanted to, but it's never made clear if that's true or if the batteries of his device typically die after a certain distance, or if the implant somehow becomes less effective after a large number of steps, or what.

It's a strange emphases on a very specific number. I wouldn't say "I repaired my car's engine and it can now drive 20 miles" if what I meant was "I repaired my car's engine and it drives normally now"
Alpine Ajax
Or just add ‘echo’ in front: echo rm ... . Especially when the command is in a loop of some sort.
> On the other hand, if Apple or Microsoft or Google add some really baller stuff, then Element's version has to compete by blindly reproducing that work.

> Even worse, if Apple or Microsoft or Google add some mediocre feature, but use that feature to make their users incompatible with Element's version, then Element will have to compete by blindly reproducing a feature that no one actually wants!

Can't they already do this w/ the Apache version?
Solana Development Course
> - Ability to create your own, custom "GPTs".

... and to publish them to the "GPT Store" that comes later this month. They are turning this into a new type of operating system, everyone can use the "GPT Builder" to publish apps/GPTs to that store.
Nice product! I haven't heard of Garden until now.

Adding a CLI for Cicada has been on my todo list for a while, and is long overdue! This should be easy enough to do.
Or if it turns out that copyright is a major issue OpenAI now have standing to fight any claims.
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
Author of the blog here, curious what a better alternative would be in this context. The channel has to be passed around for the producer and consumer to interface with each other. Are there better patterns for this?
> Frankly, people lately spend more time managing commit history then using it.

At one company with a Giant Custom Enterprise App, I ended up occasionally acting as a historian for pieces of the company with bad communication/institutional-memory, ex: "Oh, the +5% Foo charge was because of a request 3 years ago by vice-president X, here's the ticket number, before that it used to be +3%."

In those circumstances--where the implementation is the source of truth for business process--a well-maintained stream of commit-messages become quite useful.
By definition, yes. The government are reducing the costs of doing something through a special dispensation, which is a subsidy.
For me personally, being able to fine-tune the local LLM's at a much higher rank and training more layers is very useful for (somewhat unreliably) embedding information. AFAIK the OpenAI fine-tuning is more geared towards formatting the output.
I'd guess you could source it and then override the PS1 env variable with whatever prompt formatting you wanted.
Manjaro considering dropping ZFS support
This like the Ewoks taking down AT-STs with logs
> formed within the first half-billion or so years of the galaxy.

Universe?
Is there an open source version of archive.is?
OK, OKLCH in CSS
> I ser it the other way around - why spend time on a ‘nice’ commit history in a (smallish) feature branch when you can squash merge later.

Squash-merge is a scourge. I've seen squash merged commits 30 lines long ("try 15", empty line, "try 14", empty line...). I'm not even sure if you can do anything about such commits because squash-merge is a github/gitlab thing. So, I'm not sure if there are hooks to block it via a commit message linter.

And I've seen people going through some intense mental gymnastics to justify avoiding squashing locally, writing a proper commit message and then merging.
Then why do I need an account?
> use python and some library

Was it pandas? Because it looks like they expected to see https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFram...
Show HN: Keploy – open source eBPF-Based API Test Generation from Prod Traffic
Sure, but also no one particularly wants to CI every commit inside a PR, so there is a usefulness in `git bisect --first-parent` as the "first pass" of known CI points (merge commits presumably from PRs) to find the "PR that introduced the problem" and then drill down into every smaller commit to see if you can get additional bisect information (from commits that may or may not have passed CI in the first place in development work-in-progress).
I think the dumbest thing in a lot of ETL is the API:
- company collects data in database then creates API on top of
- another company uses this API to put stuff into their own database
waste of everyone's time, just share the relevant database or relevant dump in some way
this will make everyone's life easier, this of course doesn't work for dynamic data
thanks, migration guide included!

I wished this was linked or integrated visibly in public documentation
And this will deter me from ~~ever~~ trying Fig. :/
It really seems like there's something deeply culturally wrong at Stanford.

SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, Do Kwon, Stan Cohen, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and more.

They seem to produce or attract people for whom truth is an inconvenience and to whom the ends justify the means. Entitled people taught to "fake it til you make it" with some weird hyper-capitalistic/accelerationist philosophy. For whom a moral compass is only for the kids at state schools who don't have the right connections.
I tried to get something from that link but the abstract is too broad. Can you quote anything from the paper that could help someone understand without reading the whole thing?
> For me, even though rebasing comes with some trappings, I still greatly prefer it to the alternative, which is to have merge commits cluttering up the commit history.

The purpose of history is to remember. Rewriting history, whether git or in life, is bad; outside of the context of don't use it on public repos. Such advice is similar to saying, only point the shotgun away from you when firing. If you have to remember such a rule, it's best to avoid it.
128k context is getting up to the point where it will fit all of a moderately large codebase, right?
Even when there were rigid salary bands, I've seen companies regularly work around it by inventing new roles with new salary bands. At one company where I worked, a specific title could refer to one of several different independent roles with their own salary bands. The headline title was not the primary key of the system.
Not all of our code is in Go. PeerDB has multiple components: the workers, the UI and the query layer. Some of which is in Rust, Go and Typescript.

While it would certainly be possible to package them into individual binaries, I found it significantly easier to define the stack in a docker compose file with the requisite environment setup.
Yeah, I'm not saying emoji came from emoticon. I'm saying some people called them emoticons, and others called them emojis. At some point, we there was a debate about it on the internet (when the internet was much smaller), and the collective decision was to call them emojis.

I'm citing myself as a primary source because I was there when it happened.
As a US english-only person, even with a smidge of other languages here and there, I would assume you meant banana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that, in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

To answer your question more succinctly, because the poster isn't the only person who will read these comments.
The money quote:

> Ordinarily, when you run a highly leveraged financial institution, and it collapses, and you say “ah well that’s the way things sometimes go at highly leveraged financial institutions,” you were running a regulated financial institution.

> The thing you were running — a bank, a commodities futures exchange — served some social purpose, and the leverage you provided was an essential part of that purpose. So regulators allow it, but uneasily: They keep an eye on you, they monitor your risks, they don’t let you lend all of your depositors’ money to one affiliated hedge fund, etc.

> There are rules to keep the customer money safe, and they also serve to keep you safe: Sometimes banks blow up, but if you ran your bank according to the rules, you don’t generally go to jail for its failure.

> Running a crypto futures exchange in the Bahamas is not like that.

The takeaway? If you're going to be losing a lot of other people's money, follow the rules, and try to do something useful with it. You might not get the book thrown at you.
Maybe a dumb question, but why do you need to launch directly to the moon instead of launching to earth orbit then doing a transfer? How much better is the direct method delta v?
Alternate headline: "Drunk grizzlies, and why trains keep hitting them".
This is what I've been wondering about all along. Has there been any move to prosecute them?
I also loved to read these catalogs when I was a kid. I never ordered anything, I didn't have any money!
Tupi wasn't spoken only in Brazil. It was spoken on all of the South or South America, and at least for some small time became the main language of every country there.

Interestingly, in Brazilian Portuguese, it's "abacaxi" instead, from another indigenous language.
The analysis was adjusted to account for individual demographic and economic factors, alcohol use, smoking and other cardiovascular risk factors linked with heart failure, such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity.
How a Steam Locomotive Works (Union Pacific "Big Boy") [video]
> it's like every single manufacturer changing their engine design in order to have a different wiring harness with a slightly thicker shielding around a single cable.

Car manufacturers improve their engine designs all the time.

It's also not uncommon that programs get rewritten in order to achieve better results, and recently Rust happens to be a popular choice where both speed and security are important. There's nothing extraordinary about it really.
I think what lysozyme said holds even if you do not consider "whole" bottles at all. According to wikipedia the biggest microplastics are 5mm, whereas the enzyme is 10nm, that is 5 orders of magnitude of difference, but just in lenght! To process the entire volume you need to cube the units and you get 15 orders of magnitude in difference (1 mm^3 to 10 nm^3).

To get an idea I asked wolfram alpha what is the volume of the average human, and apparently that is around 66 liters. Then I looked up the estimated water volume of the Baltic sea, and wikipedia says it is 21,700 km^3 of water, soo

$ units
586 units, 56 prefixes
You have: 21.7E3 km3
You want: 66 liters
* 3.2878788e+14
/ 3.0414747e-15

if you could somehow fill your entire body with water, then make 30 copies of yourself, and you (30 of you) drink an entire Baltic sea (one for each), that is a very very rough analogy of the task we are giving to that poor enzyme. And this is for a single speck of microplastic! Of course the enzyme is not alone, there are a few other billions (trillions?) others with it, but there are also a few million specks of microplastic at any point in the sea. This is a very difficult task.
Maybe i'm cynical but my impression is that most productless companies with lots of storytelling around some phd's are almost always about scamming investors / grant money / public funds.

If anyone have great non sensational examples of the opposite i'm all ears.

I remember becoming aware of this during the crypto wave where there was always a bunch of "researchers" with PhD's around paper-thin whitepapers - and these researches were often from very prestigious universities, and of the hundreds of these companies no one produced anything valuable - and i've seen the same thing in many sectors like nutrition, "healthcare", financial products etc.
We may write a research paper at some point. For now, see here: https://vectara.com/cut-the-bull-detecting-hallucinations-in...

Given the number of models involved, we have over 9k rows currently. Judging for this task is quite time consuming as you need to read a whole document and check it against a several sentence summary and some of the docs are a 1-3 min read. We wanted to automate this process and also make it as objective as possible (even humans can miss hallucinations or disagree on an annotation). Plus we also wanted people to be able to replicate the work, non of which is possible with a human rater, plus others have attempted that but on a much smaller scale, e.g. see AnyScales - https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-... (but note that is under 1k examples).

We did some human validation and the model is well in alignment with humans but not in perfect agreement, as it is a model after all. And again human's don't agree 100% of the time on this task either.
Black hole formation without star collapse is pretty amazing. I wonder if this is something that could only happening in the early universe, when everything was closer together.
Yes. Hopefully, sandboxing limits the damage somewhat, but it doesn't help if you put any private docs in the sandbox.

Also, the limitations of the Code Assistant tool's server-side Python sandbox aren't described in their API docs. In particular, when does the sandbox get killed? Anyone know? If they're similar to the Code Assistant tool in ChatGPT, then it kills your sandbox within an hour or so (if you go to lunch) which is a crappy user experience.

Running the sandbox on the user's machine seems like a better approach. There's no reason to kill the sandbox if it's not using any server-side resources. Maybe the function-calling API would be useful for that, somehow?

The most immediately useful thing is the price cut, though.
Nothing unique about Stanford, sadly.
> If it ever flies

SLS has already been around the Moon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1
Ha, yes, I've just gone through this myself. I've had a 27" Ultrafine 5K for several years but it was just starting to feel 'wrong' somehow. Gone for a 32" 4K monitor and it's proving much better, despite clearly not being anywhere near as good in terms of fidelity. Would I prefer a 30" 5K? Yes. But no-one makes them.