skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, if you have a conversation with it. Tell it more of the things you’re considering. Some of the trades off you’re making—how the schema might grow over time, it’s kind of remarkable.

You're not wrong, but I would caution that it can get really confused when the code it produces exceeds the context length. This is less of a problem than it used to be as the maximum context length is increasing quite quickly, but by way of example: I'm occasionally using it for side projects to see how to best use it, one of which is a game engine, and it (with a shorter context length than we have now) started by creating a perfectly adequate Vector2D class with `subtract(…)` and `multiply(…)` functions, but when it came to using that class it was calling `sub(…)` and `mul(…)` — not absolutely stupid, and a totally understandable failure mode given how it works, but still objectively incorrect.
Is the article suggesting that it should be shut down entirely? I didn’t read that anywhere. I would actually think that its asking for basic accountability and due diligence.
This is kind of a tragedy of the commons situation that works for everyone. Because DMCA abuse is so rampant, it encourages lawmakers to come up with another system.
I think that's a fair description. While I have not yet found ChatGPT useful in my "real" day job (its understanding of aerospace systems is more than I would have guessed, but yet not enough to be super helpful to me), I have found it generally useful in more commonplace scripting tasks and what-not.

With the caveat of, I still need to understand what it's talking about. Copy-pasting whatever it says may or may not work.

Which is why I remain dubious that we're on the road to LLMs replacing software engineers. Assisting? Sure, absolutely.

Will we get there? I don't know. I mean, like, fundamentally, I do not trust LLMs. I am not going to say "hey ChatGPT, write me a flight management system suitable for a Citation X" and then just go install that on the plane and fly off into the sunset. I'm sure things will improve, and maybe improve enough to replace human programmers in some contexts, but I don't think we're going to see LLMs replacing all software engineers across the board.
That was a time of reasonable faith in science and a political era where one could get large agendas done.
It's horrible. Obnoxious loading, scolling and I couldn't see the product on my laptop until I scrolled, so it wasn't easy to even see what this "new species" of webcam looked like (page loads better on my desktop, so YMMV).

The product itself looks suspiciously like a regular web cam as well, so it wasn't even worth the wait ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a bit of a nightmare scenario and why when remote updating, you always test update to your own fleet first. Always.
I know that it takes a lot of effort to setup these things but I wonder about the long term benefit to buyers. They’re buying into the Launch Leopard Architectural Philosophy, which they may or may not appreciate and grow the way they hope. Today’s unproved framework or boilerplate is tomorrow’s tech debt liability.

Did you consider adding guaranteed support or consulting hours to help buyers launch and grow? That would de-risk the initial buy and provide ongoing value. “Buy the starter, get X hours of time, I’ll be there to help you as a partner on your journey.” Then a contract (hourly, quarterly, yearly?) for continued engagement. Boilerplates are everywhere, relationships and guidance are not. I imagine that anyone in the market for this would see that as a major value add and differentiator.
Bing is far and away worse than gpt4 through ChatGPT or the API, just FYI. Don't even consider it comparable, even if they say it is the same model under the hood. Their "optimizations" have crippled it's capabilities if that is the case.
Sure, but if he missed it you'd have never known he'd have missed it.

Get the timing wrong on Eurovision, despite having one every year, and 100 million+ people will know it.
How Should Developers Respond to AI?
Yes what's defined as intelligent is a fair bit arbitrary.
PingCAP Transformed TiDB into a Serverless DBaaS Using Amazon S3 and EBS
Conversely, I’ve had nothing but bad luck with WD the last few years, and my Seagates have been flawless.

My simple rule is that all drives suck, and always have good backups.
last time I checked the biggest players only did inference architectures, not training. presumably they shy away from implementing Hinton's forward forward architecture or something similar
> Civitai's enshittification potential is sky high.

I share these same concerns.

What this space desperately needs is to have models shared via torrent. As it is today Civit.ai has had problems with creators decided to take down their own models and suddenly people who were using them have no place to find them.

I suspect we'll see more and more lockdowns on what models are deemed "appropriate" and it would be nice to have a decentralized alternative.

Not to mention torrenting is the only rational way to sustainably host such large files at no cost.
Compared to putting a blanket on the house, cleaning gutters sounds trivial.
If it helps, he doesn't want to hurt your trans friends, it isn't a terminal value. If you could convince him that trans people and potentially-trans people will be better off with people respecting trans pronouns and teaching about transness in schools then he would change his behavior.
Cancer is funky. My dad had lung cancer that travelled to his brain and affected his vision. That's the only way he knew there was something wrong. Well, that and driving a truck and trailer over another truck and trailer.

He went the eye doctor and they said his eyes were healthy. Then they suggested more tests and they found the tumor in his head and the one in his lung.

This also points out why cancer is so dangerous, by the time you realize you have cancer it could have spread around your body. Especially cancer in parts with lots of blood supply or close to lymph nodes.
If he had said 15km long and 9 miles wide my head would've exploded
People can, and do sue for that successfully.

The fact that a small problem exists does not negate the existence of a larger problem.
I thought how can a hotdog be better.. its a hotdog.

They blew my mind, best hot dog i've ever had. Even ordered some directly from Iceland after coming back with all the toppings.
Interesting indeed, only one lagged feature for time series forecasting? I’d imagine that including more lagged inputs would increase performance.
Rolling the forecasts forward to get n-step-ahead forecasts is a common approach. I’d be interested in how they mitigated the problem of the errors accumulating/compounding.
Character assassination article and headline.

Being an investor for some company does not make one responsible for the company breaking the law. Even less so for allegedly breaking the law.

How was this not buried instantly?
The $550 figure came from the first search result (www.cleanorigin.com) for lab grown diamonds. No clue if this is a reputable site.
Lightning is the most common place I've seen it. Although I guess not everywhere has lightning.
Low-budget streamers or those who end up effectively 'streaming' their web conferences. People who are using Blue Yeti mics and Elgato keylights or (a directly competing product) Elgato Facecam:

https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/facecam

which is using a 1/1.8" sensor (8.8mm diagonal) at f/2.4 aperture, and this has a 1/1.2” sensor (13.33 mm diagonal) at f/1.2.

In this age of remote work, there are a lot of people who really value making a good impression - for whom the default webcam in their budget business laptop won't cut it - but don't want to have a whole DSLR-on-a-tripod streaming setup.
Tech Ingredients youtube channel made something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNs_kNilSjk
1m displacement is crazy, I can't imagine how much destruction it would cause inside a major city.
As a parent, my son and I are both mostly concerned with his ability to learn and that he has a good college experience.

Of the two of us, he's more concerned that I am about the indoctrination in some of his required courses. Then again, he's significantly more conservative than I am. And he's also the one who has to go through it.
He’s not alone.

You had to be there to endure his antics and reported malleable ethics from the moment he left UI.
"What if I had significantly increased barriers to doing this very inappropriate and deeply weird thing?"
Define "continuously". Does the data need to be mirrored immediately upon write?
There are a lot of porn models and Loras on the site.
Where are you going to go?

Who are you going to work with?

Is there some place off Earth away from all these lessers you have to slum it with?

What puts you above the other billions on the planet that they should validate your sensibilities and engage in vacuous rhetorical debate when we can all clearly see how day to day life works?

Really tired of the puerile role play output of Karens, Special Boys, “free thinkers”. This planet and day to day is it.

You’re not that smart or saying anything that novel.
Show HN: Python Environment Exploration Interface
Initial release of a project that addressed some of my own wants to navigate what is available quickly and to grasp how items are structured in python. Interested to see if others would find this useful.
Having something small to look forward to. Right now it is an Arnold Palmer (half ice-tea, half lemonade). I have one per day.
It uses era5 data which is reanalysis. These models will always need the numerical training data. What's impressive is how well the emulate the physics in those models so cheaply. But since the climate changes there will eventually be different weather in different places.

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/documentation-and-support
The fact remains that there is porn on Civitai.
The content reel was uploaded to their PeerTube[1]; I don't see the other two videos on there yet, though.

Edit: The node tool introduction is now also live[2]!

[1] https://video.blender.org/w/ni4S8WYzVG9kqQ6mDjnY1s
[2] https://video.blender.org/w/hyq7PB9uaUUKkjwSENxid5
This feels like a bit of an over-extrapolation. Blender succeeded in no small part because of investment.

As a commercial product, it failed. We shouldn't say that being commercial is a model for success, Blender tried being commercial and it didn't work. If it had stayed commercial and had not been Open Sourced, it likely wouldn't exist today.

As a side effect of its origins and what people saw as the opportunity behind the project, it then got a lot of investment, and it turns out that Open Source projects with heavy involvement from their userbase (and not just from programmers) and with heavy monetary investments and a positive community that gets excited about the project -- it turns out that yields exceptional tools. But it's not the commercial aspect that caused that, the investments caused that, and other Open Source projects could be given the same level of investment -- after all, many of them are as good or as competitive (if not more competitive) than Blender was when it was Open Sourced.

As an Open Source program Blender has introduced architectural improvements and structural improvements that rival its origin, and it was able to do that without going commercial, which is evidence that this kind of investment and funding can exist for a non-commercial project if a significant portion of a community and businesses think the project is worth funding. It is arguable that starting out as a commercial project helped fuel that optimism. But to say Blender owes its success to being commercial feels backwards. Blender owes its success to the fact that it stopped being commercial, which was (and is) a contributing factor to why people and organizations feel so good donating to it. Like if we're going to take a lesson away from Blender, that lesson might be, "want to compete with Maya? Dissolve your company and give away your code."

I very much believe that Blender wouldn't have a community today if it had stuck with its commercial origins.
While I agree this is marketing stunts in general, sometime the difference between 99.5 and 99.6 reemission is 0.5 vs 0.4 percent absorption. so one way of seeing it the second one is 20% better than the first one at not heating the building.

This is often the case for percentages "close" to 100%, e.g: with LED efficiency, for powerful LEDs the problem is not the quantity of light emitted but dissipating the heat that may need active cooling, so what may look like a few percent improvement is luminosity may actually be a much stronger decrease of the size of active cooling,

Or semi-transparent mirrors in physics, where you really make a difference between 99.95 and 99.96% reflectance, because what you really look at the transmitance.
Google's New AI Weatherman Will Leave Forecasters in the Dust
I've been on both ends of this. People who aren't paying me for code are upset that I'm not providing an endless stream of useless stuff; and code I rely on is seemingly abandoned and I'm cautious before using it.

The polite thing to do is to check in on the status, in a public setting, and get an answer from the maintainer, which is what this person is doing. Yes, it's entirely possible that there's nothing new to add to it, and it's "done." But what if there is somehow some sort of major change to OpenAI's API, or they deprecate [current API version] and you're expected to migrate to a new one? Or, worse still, a major exploit is found? These are valid concerns that even free users would want to know, and the best way to do that is to check the pulse of the project.

The person in the screenshot made extra care to be polite about asking, and they're now being put on blast for it. Also worth mentioning is the user who commented saying there are "relevant and important" PRs and issues that haven't been addressed over the last year. Whether they're relevant and important, I don't know, based off my experience I'll say likely not... But the fact that you're allowing irrelevant and non-important things to go stale, without closing them, only lends credence to the possibility that the project is abandoned and, if something were to go wrong in the future, nobody would be around to fix it.

Also, your statement that they're offering to fork it as a "threat" against your project is not at all what is going on. If your project got forked with reason "original was abandoned," I think you'd be even more frustrated than you are now. They asked what the status was before putting in the work to fork it and attempt to move users away from your project. That is a courtesy notice, not a threat, designed to save everyone time and frustration.

It is a good thing for someone's open-source code to have interest by the community, and for users to want to use it. Getting angry at those same users for checking on the status won't do any good.
Map doesn't implement the Collection interface.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/sha...
I keep seeing 404 more and more these days, hate the name first of all but yeah I agree.
You misunderstood me, it wasn't OP's implication, it's Medium's. Medium implies that by clicking on their link I agreed with their ToS/cookies (so tracking). This is not just a wrong implication, it's an illegal one.

The person I was replying to above only referred to the paywall issue when I think the main basis for the initial plea to avoid Medium was the second point, Medium's objectionable or illegal practices (not just "terrible") against its users. It's sensible to plea not using it or at least not promoting it here.
I can't see any specific benefit to this for a corporation, my feeling is it's a political response to a general disquiet with the tech industry abusing people, along the lines of "something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done"

I'm sure some companies would make a fortune, but their lobbying power would be outweighed by other multinational companies like whatsapp and smaller companies like mullvad.
I think it’s very subjective as I personally find injected frames makes things look “odd”.

It’s also worth mentioning that Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit was shot at double FPS (48 if I recall correctly), and was regarded by many as looking “off”. Based on the fact Hollywood has not made any high FPS movies since, it seems that it was generally regarded as a failed experiment.
What’s incorrect about the headline?
Wow, very similar story here. In highschool, I think I messed up a week of exams because I was too busy modeling a Fellbeast/nazgul from LoTR in Blender. I still have the model somewhere, copied over in 20 years of USB sticks and external HDDs.

Learned python for use in blender, am a software dev in robotics now, using a lot of python.
The irony of course is that people are only able to create deepfakes of non-celebrities because social media has already gotten the average user very comfortable with letting go of their privacy.
You're drawing the wrong conclusion from the right numbers.

Sure, a heat pump with a COP of <2 is basically broken, but consider on how many hours of how many days it's actually going to perform at such a poor efficiency level.

Overall, your greenhouse gas emissions will be an order of magnitude below gas heating. Today, or at least until recently, it's about break-even at a COP of 3 iirc, but with solar and wind being the targets, it's going to be near zero by the time a heat pump bought today goes end-of-life.
What’s a Loras?
No, `< file command` is completely equivalent to `command < file`.
This is why I asked it that and was surprised with the questionable quality of the results. My goal wasn't even to break ChatGPT, it was to learn about new ways of interpolating that I hadn't thought about.
Neither is kate.

Nor vim nor emacs for that matter.
Only if its published, or commercialized, right?

Yeah, widely publishing or making money off of someone's likeness is a whole different can of worms. I was thinking for strictly personal use.
While it's not really the same thing, I do enjoy meeting somewhat-random people on https://lunchclub.com. It's biased towards technical people and, unfortunately, I think there's a large gender / diversity gap, but I still get value out of talking with 3 complete strangers each week during 45 minute video calls. I'd love to see such a platform become more mainstream and popular in the city where I'm based, so I could meet them in person.
and to squash a little further:

perl -ne '/^(?=([abc].*){3})(?!.*([abc]).*\2).{8}k.$/&&print' /usr/share/dict/words
That’s like saying it’s best to run everything on AWS, because there’s only one place to monitor for outages.

That’s the exact opposite of how supply chain mitigation works.
> politicians (and civil servants) are not all equally good at determining when they are targeted and might be across the line before they realize it (and then it gets much harder to go back than to have never crossed it before).

I don't think many people would get such a pass. The whole point of paying them from money taken from people's incomes is so they can be impartial. There's no point having them if they don't add value.
In case someone is looking for historical weather data for ML training and prediction, I created an open-source weather API which continuously archives weather data.

Using past and forecast data from multiple numerical weather models can be combined using ML to achieve better forecast skill than any individual model. Because each model is physically bound, the resulting ML model should be stable.

See: https://open-meteo.com
I use JustDecompile. It's free, last I checked, and it works great.
So the choice was not screening for it. Regardless, without moralizing, a choice was made. This is a shocked pikachu situation.

[edit] The fact is we've had this kind of content for a long time, and we've developed techniques for identifying and removing it. There's great nudity detecting ML models. I suspect the choice was made in part ideologically, and in part to drive sensationalist coverage, and it looks like it's working.
This is a very dystopian approach to living.

Plenty of us live with a bit of nature nearby without destroying each other.
I think there’s room for, allowing people to control their own likeness while not fully banning AI content generation.

I mean, do people have a right to privacy? Is there some line between having privacy and infringing on someone’s freedom of expression through AI content generators that you would accept?
It would be useful to mention what's your country.
Windows constantly nags me to "back up my files to OneDrive". There does not appear to be a way to turn off this nag, just silence it for 30 days at a time. This is just one of the many annoyances that mean I rarely boot windows anymore.
> So on my iPhone, I feel that Apple protects us from bad programmers for the most part, because if you look at Android and the lower quality of many of their apps

NGO group would like a word with you. /s

I got an Iphone for work. Although i was excited to see how good it is, my excitement died when it said that it can connect to Wifi or data anytime, even when Wifi or data is turned off.
I agree that "throw everything in a hashmap" should be straightforward and is a good interview test. However, his further steps to "optimize" it by saying "Poor candidates load the contents of both files into memory." are terrible. Yes, that might optimize resources, but first it hardcodes the requirement that there are exactly two days breaking the solution if the requirement changes, and second it adds a bunch of finicky fragile code about "if there are two pages or more from day one or if the first page from day one is different from the page from day two".

Great candidates treat software like a business with changing requirements and code that is read by multiple people, poor candidates treat software like a math challenge where the only goal is to use as few resources as possible.
Often the damage from fraudulent takedowns is relative to timing.

For example (and this is just an example): Let's say I put up an expose of bad behavior by a politician two days before an election. Something awful that will get coverage in the media and social media, too. The campaign fake DMCAs it, the content is gone, and the election is won before the content is re-posted after the reply is processed.

There are situations where the notice/counter notice does not work and causes almost irreparable harm.
Actually most wcf code does run on .net 7+ they open sourced it into corewcf. (At least a lot of the things)
Webforms however is dead.
Yes, public goods should not be run by private interests. They are a service and a cost, both get cut by private interests trying to make a buck and shirking their responsibility. Power is no different than roads, almost all are public goods and supported like that. If you want your own road, you can.

Shit like Enron and PG&E fires shouldn't have been possible, but private interests buy off governments.
I agree, politicians can be hard to follow at times and Joe is no exception.

He's notorious for confusing and incoherent ramblings like this:

"I looked at them and said, ‘if the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'. Well son of a bitch, he got fired".

We will never know what he meant, but I'm confident it was just a parable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXjLqhtnIRI
It's been a while since I was a grad student but I think the raw station/radiosonde data is interpolated into a grid format before it's put into the standard models.
I assure you it's quite precise and there are people working to time it down to the portion of a second, and they're all on radio.