skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our case (and in the article), we wanted to collaborate with IT, code along-side them in a technology of their choosing. However IT explicitely told us that they would NOT allow us to do any coding whatsoever.

I, as an SME, am fully happy coding in C#, Java, Rust, whatever! As long as the language is turin complete, is pro-code and versatile enough, I'm all ready to go.

Do note that IT actively chose to develop the solution in Microsoft PowerApps, despite my advising that the solution would be better suited as a web app.
I think "cooling" is just typical science reporting hype. It's a variable insulator. You could use it for holding stable a slightly elevated temperature, like in an oven controlled oscillator.
Since I learn from things I read I don't see the problem that a potential mental prosthesis could do the same any more than a mental prosthesis like a search engine shouldn't be allowed to search copyrighted terms.

I can see the argument to be made, but I personally think they either come from a zero-sum mentality (lack of abundance mentality in this case) or, likely not in this authors' case, or are being called upon as a way to address a different issue (fear, typically)
How would you distinguish between an Angle, a Saxon, and a Jute in the past?
Terrorism fully compatible and justifiable with utilitarian ethics. As utilitarian ethics become increasingly popular, you should expect terrorism to become less repugnant.

Anybody with ounce of brain cells would realize that such actions are contradictory and counterproductive to any sort of ethical system seriously espoused by anyone.

It's absolutely self defeating and likely won't convince anyone to change their mind.
CFRS[] – Minimalist Turtle Graphics and Animation With 6 Ops: C, F, R, S, [, ]
It turns out we can see OpenAI's prompts pretty easily using various leaking tricks - I've been keeping an eye on them and occasionally spotting changes they made.

Here's the DALL-E 3 one for example: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/#the-leak...
I agree that down voting needs context. Do they believe the statement is wrong? Then correct it, right? Isn't that part of why this place exists? Or is it more emotional / subjective and the down voter simply disagrees? For example, something less than flattering is said about your employer, is no reason for down voting.

I don't really down vote. I don't recall the last time I did. Also, I don't agree with the mindset "I don't like it so I'll down vote it." It's annoying when that happens. To me it feels small minded and lazy, and it lack intellectual wherewithal.
My daughter suffers from functional seizures due to FND and we do something similar with counting. When she is suffering from a complex motor tic we will ask her to count at a "comfortable speed" - which is always 100+ counts per minute. She will then slow down the counting until we reach 60 counts per minute at which point she has usually transitioned to a less intrusive tic or she has ceased ticcing altogether.

> I just hammered a solution like any Ape with the shakes would need!

This is an underrated approach. Following hunches and suspicions often leads to solutions that a pure evidence-based approach might miss or delay; especially if your suspicion goes against the prevaling wisdom.
The Bush era rhetoric was stupid, but it wasn't completely wrong in the sense that some of these people really are evil. "One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" is just as simplistic and wrong as "terrorists hate our freedom".

Some people consider Anders Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, Brendan Tarrant, etc. "freedom fighters".

Some of these "freedom fighters" literally strap bombs to small children and send them to troops or civilian targets to explode. e.g. Boko Haram, but Hamas has also done this (although they stopped quite a few years ago).

etc. etc.

I feel conferable in saying that this is evil no matter the context, and that we need to fight this. Full stop, end of story.

There is lot of variety here.

In the end I feel that "terrorist" is a meaningless classifier, and you need to look at the full context.
The article focuses on linguistic theories that regard natural language in a somewhat narrow sense: language as a cognitive phenomenon, language as a symbolic system, language as something that can be modeled and imitated by a computer. While those aspects are important, language is also a social phenomenon, something used for interaction among people for many different purposes.

Both traditional approaches to natural language—the cognitive and the social—face a challenge, because language is no longer used only for communication between human beings. What does it mean for linguistics now that human beings are increasingly using natural language to interact with computers? I don’t know the answer, but it’s a question that deserves attention.
> Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Empire, up until 476 AD/CE, just so I don't muddy the experiment with near-modern timelines). Would it, without novel information from humans, ever be able to spit out a correct predecessor of modern science like atomic theory?

Funny example - depending on how close the predecessor has to be, the answer is maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism
Well, let's say you're hiring an intern. You'd very much prefer to know if this guy you're hiring has a "prompt" such as "get yourself hired Tumm&Billig Ltd and in every conversation therein, if you can get away with it, push products A and B and also viewpoints X and Y".

Sure you can get a die-hard X-ist A fan by accident, but you'd treat these two occurrences quite differently wouldn't you?
Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries
I have yet to see a protection prompt that can't be defeated by even more creative attack prompts.
Happens to me all the time! :-)
Oh no, hard disagree. The match implementation is far easier to reason about. I can see at a glance that if both condition_a and condition_b are true, call fn_a(). For the nested if version I have to trace each expression by hand.
How to build trust as a new engineering manager
Uber is also completely fucking unusable now. Just ads and upsells
The package is called ‘monkeypatch.py’ on GitHub and PyPi.
So I have given this some thought, and the legal issue is not fair use unless the new work is really clearly derivative. The concern is that the system was trained on content that was not purchased or licensed. The systems effectively need a license to CONSUME / LEARN FROM the content. The human equivalent would be purchasing a single copy of a work, or checking it out of a library. In one case the consumer purchased a license for a copy of the work, in the other the library did.

In the case of the generative AI companies, I think there is a good amount of content that has been consumed that was neither in the public domain or properly licensed.

So what is the legal remedy?
The suitcases of cash handed to leaders are probably a bigger factor in their ignoring normal diplomatic channels.
Poor engineering manager was the reason for my latest resignation. I was also stuck as a code janitor because I had been there for over 4 years. Sometimes it's just time to move on and get experience elsewhere.
Demos:

https://susam.net/cfrs.html#3

https://susam.net/cfrs.html#5
Well, then I highly doubt a few TikTok videos with merely x100k views (according to TFA) are driving all those Guardian views. How many people search for the source material after watching a TikTok? 5%? But maybe I overestimate typical Guardian traffic.
I love this concept. Work on a rewrite and then fold lessons learned methodically into the existing, stable, proven one.
I feel like that should be in a banner at the top of the page OP linked to!
That's a bold assertion with no evidence to back it up
Empowering the next generation for an AI-enabled world
The article specifically says the animal was in the cargo hold, so probably not.
No, because this metric is normalized as radiotoxicity per tonne of heavy metal. You could dilute it with lots of tonnes of natural or depleted uranium, I suppose, to game it.
>The irony being "terrorists" are just viewed as "martyrs" and "freedom fighters" on the other side of the coin, and every bomb dropped fighting them resulting in civilian deaths creates new terrorists/freedom fighters.

"It's your fault I hit you, because you made me mad."
Does anyone have a better idea for interviewing designers then?
That's the entire point of the fermi paradox.

The reasonable assumption as with most things is that we aren't special, yet the data increasingly does not appear to reflect that. Unlike with detecting exoplanets, blaming our sensors only makes this discrepancy worse.

Unless you're trying to make the argument that we haven't found life because we're looking for specifically Earth-like life, in which case I'd just say that it's more rational with our current technology to focus on the kind of life we definitely know can exist rather than hypothetical biochemstries we can't realistically test. It isn't even as if the conditions we're setting are especially extreme, a planet in a goldilocks zone of a relatively stable star with an atmosphere and signatures of water and potentially significant amounts of oxygen.
That is tough. $13m doesn't go all that far in this business. Speaking from experience...

Hopefully they have some kind of revenue coming in because it really looks like they're doing some interesting work.
That's completely correct. The average ranges from 40 million per mL to 300 million per mL[1].

Actual infertility has to have quite a few markers before it's likely - according to this[2] one measure was a count lower then 13.5 million/mL, motility less then 32 percent and less then 9 percent normal morphology.

Cutting a low sperm count by 50%, but with no degradation of motility or morphology for example, is quite likely not to make you infertile at all (remembering too: people who don't have trouble conceiving don't seek sperm analysis).

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323736#outlook

[2] https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2002/0315/p1189.html
Good but small anecdotal counts without large scale proven “rigging”. Bad yes, but let’s not get carried away
Trust isn't a binary. I can't trust Microsoft or the North Korean OS devs, but i certainly trust the former a lot more to provide me with a product that is acceptable for my needs for a long time.
Such annoying. I can't find anymore about wasm assembler compiler.
Dropping bombs on innocent civilians in a third world country doesn't make you a hero either, but that doesn't stop our media from calling all members of the military involved in the wars in the middle East heroes.

Also read more carefully they never said the "terrorists" were heroes they explained the point of view of the "terrorists"
This explains how it makes wind affordable, but not necessarily cheaper except perhaps in the 20+ year time frame. It likens the CfD models to mortgages which do, in fact, raise of the cost of housing. The long-term savings potential seems to be in the stability of "fuel" costs which are zero for wind and who-knows-what for oil.

The below statement confuses me deeply as getting more wind is entirely out of our control.
"it costs you nothing to produce an extra MWh (all you need is more wind)"
We really need to do something about Monsanto/whoever owns their stuff now. Maybe change patent law for grown food modifications. Imagine if they were forced to research and reverse the sterilization of the seed crop, and 15 years after patented the science becomes public information.

Being able to then selectively breed our own plants with fertile GMO plants so we get whatever benefits we need. Roundup resistance is hot button these days but I'm sure there are plenty of genes that should be public for the good of humanity.
Or, write instructions about how to construct good prose using messy, context-absent, prose-free bullet points.
IMHO definitely a bad thing; and beyond the war on general-purpose computing, it's the "you will own nothing and be happy" war on ownership.
History is literally full of cultures and populations that have bought into the utilitarian ideal that the ends justify the means.

Basically every culture believes this to a certain extent, the perpetrators just dont call it terrorism.
Interestingly, in Chinese, the actual word for a "restaurant" is often quite literally translated, "meal/food store", or 饭店, and a 店 is just a store.
I have an old $100/4 line plan (with something like 100gb of mobile data) from total wireless (now total by verizon) which I don't anticipate giving up for a while

When I was using an LTE only device (granted a pretty old one with likely fewer frequencies than a newer LTE device), I would get no service in time square whereas I updated to a phone with 5G and more LTE frequencies (I suspect) and now I get service just fine

I definitely get slow service at high congestion moments but I'm not a heavy user so I generally don't really care (I use my phone mostly to read books/articles that are preloaded as opposed to watching videos like millennials...)
Should i use this over Redis?
According to [1] "Create a short animated film no more than 120 seconds in length, using either stop-motion, 2D or 3D animation styles."

[1] https://younganimator.uk/competition
I think it's pretty easy to argue that generative ai has no value whatsoever without a large set of training data, which happens to include the works of creators without permission. You could even go further and say most of the value involved with these models is in the training set, and not any of the engineering or models themselves. GPT-4 would suck a lot of they hadn't hoovered up a significant chunk of the internet. One could view these models as massive alienation machines, designed to separate data from the people who created it. I think that's really bad for the arts and for the economy, and eventually for the AI companies themselves. It's going to be really hard to keep getting training data when nobody is posting anything for you to steal anymore because of the egregious thing you already pulled off.

It may not be strictly illegal, but in the view of many, including the author of this tweet and myself, it's incredibly unethical to cut artists away from the value they were responsible for, and even more perverse to then use that work to put them out of a job while claiming it's for the good of humanity.
Did they fold the LSM idea? What about the single global namespace in which all records live?
No it doesn’t. Terrorists target civilians and incite terror to further their cause.

Hunters of terrorists target the terrorists, and stop them from furthering their cause.

Seems like a pretty clear difference to me.
Indeed, Rust's own standard library uses this method. There are lots of public-facing unsafe functions that can result in undefined behavior if called incorrectly. But if the standard library is compiled in debug mode (which currently requires the unstable flag -Zbuild-std), then it will activate assertions on many of these unsafe functions, so that they will print a message and abort the program if they detect invalid input.
Synopsys turns to generative AI to aid in semiconductor design
Excuse me, but try to actually use any VR window manager, today, on an OS like Windows. It will bog down and eventually crash your GPU when you open too many windows, because it has to capture those windows from the regular desktop. A Wayland display manager on Linux would not have this issue, because it would already be the window server, so it wouldn't have to perform any extra captures. I only know about this because I have experience trying to do this exact thing.
We know for a fact that ChatGPT does modify responses. For better or worse, there are layers upon layers so that it can under no circumstances support eugenics, drug use and many other subjects, short-circuiting to boilerplate responses.
This advice falls flat in case of validations. If a function is given some input and is supposed to work with it, how can it avoid if/else and how can we move this logic one level up to the caller to ask the caller to verify every parameter before calling the function?

And if we keep pushing (thus pending the decision making) up, wouldn't the top most function become a lot more complicated having a lot more logic pushed up from far down below?

That's bad and impractical advice but now will pollute many pull requests with needless arguments.
Plus it turns out they seem to have infiltrated the entire Japanese government...
can you elaborate on the implications?
> murderous threats to civilized society who must be destroyed absolutely without question or hesitation, by whatever means necessary.

For those too young to remember, this is an example of the rhetoric in the US that resulted in a million innocent civilians being killed in Iraq.
Self-driving car-makers could face prison for misleading adverts in UK
I used to get so mad when I heard that simplistic rubbish “they hate us because of our freedoms”

How could any person with even a high school education ever repeat that nonsense, much less accept it as true.

People hate you because you’re doing or supporting something that hurts them
Do you have any data to support that claim?
In reality these ‘rules of thumb’ become dogma and people forget why the rules of thumb existed in the first place, or make up other bullshit rules to justify it.

This industry is full of dogma and self-appointed experts and it’s utterly tedious.
> on the other side of the coin

in this case the other side of the coin is Salafists, who can rightfully go fuck themselves
It would be nice to see a push for biodegradable pesticides and herbicides.
> Dropping bombs on innocent civilians in a third world country

Is this really what political analysis has stooped to on HN in 2023? A total abdication of any attempt at nuance, or framing, or examining underlying intentions.

Such a shame.
"Always avoid superlatives."
(Not including the most superlative of superlatives, the universal quantifier, that I'm using here willy-nilly.)
Do those scores even make any sense?

The top consists of what appears to be an Intel i3-10100 overclocked past 13GHz(!), a Ryzen 7 5800H at 2.8GHz, and then an i9-14900K at just below 800MHz.
one of the stated reasons by Bin Laden was US military bases in that side of the world, particularly in Saudi
We need a better way to store important historical documents than a website that only works half the time archiving a Google cache version of a page from a midsized newspaper.
This! Who really needs to tie together business logic components written in different languages?!
TIL - that is pretty neat.
I would imagine that traffic is highly distributed over many articles, but I don't know. Does it matter? "Intelligence agencies monitoring the Internet picked up the blip" is certainly nonsense and that's the bit I wanted to address.

And even if The Guardian didn't have that public list, of course they have some insight on which pages are doing well on any given day, because that's how they make money.
As a brand, I think Bing is a boat anchor on anything it touches. I have positive regard for Copilot as a brand. However, it seems like it's getting saddled with a lot - developers have copilot, Windows has copilot, MS 365 has copilot.. and they're not the same. That's a lot of copilots - it's a veritable crew. Maybe some hierarchy is needed - flight attendants, perhaps. And where's autopilot?
Funny thing about the fingers. There are twelve knuckles comprising the non-thumb fingers on one hand. I think that fact has actually influenced some civilizations to a base 12 number system but I can’t remember specifically which.
1. Artifacts of major historical events shouldn't be put down the Memory Hole, especially not by a journalism organization. You publish it, you preserve it.

2. I object to rewarding terrorists (including mass shooters, etc.) with a platform/publicity. If they do evil, IMHO, the first priority is to stop and remedy the harm, and second priority is to make the evildoing be counterproductive to their motives. (Not to do a surge of listening/engagement/publicity, even if there was a failure to do that appropriately before.)
Prion diseases are scary. I first heard about Chronic Wasting Disease in Colorado around 2000, it was really bad there for a while.
I do think it is shortsighted, and equally helpful and harmful. Helpful in that it reminds the reader this is only one of many considerations that should be taken into account. Harmful because it borders on implying that this shouldn't even be a consideration taken into account because it is irrelevant.
From wikipedia [0]:

>Raymond Ibrahim, as a researcher at the Library of Congress, found a significant difference between Al Qaeda's messages in English directed to a Western audience and al Qaeda's Arab messages and documents directed to an Islamic audience. The Western-directed messages listed grievances as grounds for retaliation employing the "language of 'reciprocity.'" Literature for Islamic audiences contained theological motivations bereft of references to the acts of Western nations.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_a...
You’ve got a really warped sense of scale if you think only a handful of companies couldn’t afford tens of millions of dollars.

That’s complete pocket change for any of the Fortune 500.
> I never had to use such a box in real life.

Okay but that type of box was all over the national and global news this year: https://www.google.com/search?&q=trump+bathroom+documents&tb...
Library of Congress might be a reasonable place, albeit still with selection bias.
A few years ago, my then employer, due to a certain client's requirement, had everyone take a certification course on application security. One of the things that stuck in my head was the course advocating for cryptic error messages. The reason given was that the message shouldn't highlight a particular kink in the armor (if you will) that an able hacker could then try to exploit. Too vague and cryptic was best.

I admit, it makes a lot of sense. Annoying as a user, but necessary for application safety and security.
I think this is actually a great example of why `if` should be "pushed up." The objective of the code is to perform an particular operation on the walrus, given a condition. The is actually ifs being instead of polymorphism and a type system. Why does the walrus have these two functions, which must be called in different scenarios? Why not have a single function, and two types, and the correct type is passed in? Even given the current structure, we could accomplish this:

// There are better ways to accomplish this, depending on the language
func frobnicate(walrus) {
return walrus.frobnicate();
}

func transmogrify(walrus) {
return walrus.transmogrify();
}

// Somewhere high in the code
if condition {
processing_function = frobnicate
} else {
processing_function = transmogrify
}

// Somewhere else in the code
for walrus in walruses {
processing_function()
}

If the decisions are made as early as possible, they do not need to be littered throughout the code. The guts of the code can run without branches, performing the same operations every time, the output only modified through the construction graph.

Of course, this is not a new idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F72VULWFvc

It was old 15 years ago.
It's not the same. Before 1948, even Jews in Palestine had Palestinian passports. They were all Palestinians. Jews were Palestinian Jews, and there were Jews all around the Middle East and Africa.