skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing that now, thanks.

Opened an issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners/iss...
Do people do real work in JS in 2023, or do they do it in languages that compile down to JS?
Rubbish. Everyone knows they can quit their job. That's how you leave jobs. Do you think there are people working in the same job their whole lives because they don't realise they can quit? Of course not!

You've just given a few reasons why people don't just quit their jobs, but they are obviously aware that they can just quit their jobs.

Also this is clearly written from the perspective of an overpaid programmer. Most people can't just quit their jobs because they need to pay rent/mortgages and don't have huge savings pots.
Yes, that's "listed".. I'm curious how big the "unlisted" cluster is.
The Tesla chargers will fine you for hogging. The ChargePlaceScotland ones will do the same but it’s different depending on the rating and location.
“-Chat” means the model has been additionally fine-tuned on “human/assistant” conversation patterns, so the predicted text matches them better and if you feed a question you will get back replies instead of e.g. a plausible continuation of your own phrase
Austin's latest real estate gambit [video]
I wish I could dismiss that as a joke, but I have in fact seen some of those.
You can root GrapheneOS (with secure boot) just fine if you sign it with your own key.
Crafting custom demos in InterLisp-D... What a cool gig!
Wayback Tweets
Even more interesting to me is the fact that there are people whose most favorite languages are Ruby and Go. (I'm one of those people.)
The law has never interpreted “freedom of movement” as “freedom to move using whatever means you prefer.” If it did, airlines wouldn’t be able to refuse to carry ill-behaved passengers. So far, what little law has been written has guaranteed only that you can do so on your own two feet.
I agree that there is a lot of room for improvement.

However, proper internationalization is extremely hard and costly. There are soo many languages on the planet and lot of them are quite quirky, my native language is one of them. For example proper pluralization is hell because the declension has multiple forms depending on the amount and noun paradigm. ICU format helps a lot but doesn't solve everything. It's good that browsers are at least getting native support for localization of numbers and datetimes.

Right-to-left can make you sweat a lot. Then you have different sentence orders, vastly variable length of words, rules about where it's ok to break line. Then you have non-linguistic aspects like cultural context. Some icons can have different meaning, some images might be offensive.

The truth is that if you are a startup, doing all of this is a waste of precious time. You have access to 300m customers just in USA alone and the worldwide middle class with money to spend can usually work with English. Internationalization becomes worthy if you get big and want to penetrate more exotic markets or you want to sell to foreign governments which mandate it.

On the other hand even giants like Google can botch it pretty often.
Only 20% faster than windows seems to be a bad news for Ubuntu.
came here to comment this
Couple of things I learned from helping some blind people:

- All used iPhones (Check out https://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/ )

- Disable passcode if he's okay with it

- Enable VoiceOver (Settings -> Accessibility) and learn how to enable/disable it (triple-tap the side button. Might be difficult for elderly) - Apple video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDm7GiKra28

- Having a learning partner really helps the blind person. Try to learn to use a phone blind with him, it will allow you to help debug his (most definitely occuring) issues

- Watch some videos on how blind people use the iPhone, lots of tips there. For example Molly Burke, or even simple ones like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVjLXIaBC4

- For elderly, an iPad is really nice. Especially as dexterity gets worse it's easier to use blindly. Also usability between iPhone and iPad is almost the same, so easy transition between both (i.e. on the go)

- For movies, check out Greta. It plays the AD in parallel with a movie via the iPhone - so they can watch movies together with the family, without everyone listening to AD https://www.gretaundstarks.de/starks/GretaAndStarks

And bring lots of patience :)

What is really amazing is how fast people tend to improve: VoiceOver lets you adjust the speech speed etcpp, and so it "grows" with you
Microsoft is very good at it too.
There are optical USB-C cables available! The standard explicitly supports that use case.
The concern is several days of blackouts not just temporary ones at peak demand. A 2 hour long power outage isn’t that big a deal, but it gets worse for every additional hour.

2021: “More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power,[9][10][11][12] some for several days. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly,[3] with some estimates as high as 702 killed as a result of the crisis.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

“In 2011, Texas was hit by the Groundhog Day blizzard between February 1 and 5, resulting in rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state.”
Sure. I’m being a bit snarky. But I think the point stands that a single tweet from an employee saying “we’re about to do $thing” doesn’t exactly mean that, two months later, we should be reading a story whose sole origin is that tweet as evidence that $thing actually ended up happening.

Like, whats the actual news story here?

Totally agree there’s a lack of critical thinking at play.

Also, I think the X.com links only work if you have a login or something, fyi.
My Librem 5 currently runs Linux 6.4. Which Android runs it?
I disagree. In Rust it's extremely useful to be able to tell if your types are correct and the code will compile with the signatures given, and with multiple placeholders, you can iteratively replace them and test them progressively.

I use them heavily during development. Most of my new functions in progress end with an unimplemented!

I'm not sure what advantage at all could be gained by preventing it from compiling, other than to save people who copy code without even looking at it some minor inconvenience.

Edit: I suppose if you really wanted an existing macro to cause compilation to fail, you could use https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.compile_error.html

But I think that's a strange use of it.
I remember running into an article praising iOS's features for blind users. Can't find it again, of course, but it was describing how the phone told the user into their headphones whatever was under their finger on the screen.

So you may just have to read on what his existing phone can do and turn it on for him.
Are the obvious reasons that there is so much more activity in GB and RU than other parts in europe others than one can assume (brexit, sanctions)?

I would love to read about changing patterns because of real life events. (Like the rumour that american water plants have problems during superbowl commercials because of toilet flushing but in a larger scale)
Adopting a Critical Design Stance to Solve Social Problems
This is like NSO's computer in a phone exploit thing level crazy
If you can, hire a professional. There are online services for it, and you can pay by the room. It’s affordable. You tell them your goals/constraints, they reimagine the space, and you just buy the referenced products.

Interior designers are miracle workers. Like many things, the difference between “the DIYer tried hard” and “this was done professionally” is night/day. It’s an option, anyway!
It's not their way of showing sympathy. It's their way of shoehorning their religion into a conversation about technical stuff.

It's the equivalent of corporate astorturfing, but the product they're advertising is Jesus.

"This comment brought to you by Christ."
Yes, a GGUF-converted version works fine with llama.cpp for me
"windhaven", a very underrated SF novel that most people I recommend it to have loved
Mac's command-line tools are the BSD versions. I always get confused about the command-line arguments for `date` because they differ so much betwen platforms.
Rails is a framework, PHP is a language. A more apt comparison would be Ruby vs PHP, or Rails and any number of PHP frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, etc.
It was the most extreme event but hardly the only such event. “In 2011, Texas was hit by the Groundhog Day blizzard between February 1 and 5, resulting in rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Chinese spies had acces to Dutch chip maker NXP's systems for over two years
> I think we’re going to see a “silver tsunami” of robust elderly persons as millennials and Gen Xers age simply because healthy lifestyle activities that had been a part of their lives.

> I.e. don’t buy into Acorn Stairlift and Lifealert futures.

Trends in obesity–which is a huge driver of poor health in America–don't seem to support this hypothesis. I think the great majority of health and wellness activity in recent years has been concentrated among people at the upper end of the socioeconomic scale, which also drives perception since companies will spend a lot on advertising to attract people with money. Things in this country look very different depending on how far you are from the nearest Whole Foods/Equinox/Soulcycle/Sweetgreen.
I don't see how Brexit could be part of the reason. Unless the economy is so bad more people are determined to find a bargain.

There's more Black Friday marketing in Britain than some other European countries, and maybe more use of an American credit card based shopping platform.
Seems like marketing to me. They got rid of the stainless steel frame from previous models, switched back to aluminum, then added a pointless band of titanium so they could say Titanium in their marketing.
I just realized that the NSA has probably been able to train GPT-4 equivalents on _all the data_ for a while now. We'll probably never learn about it but that's maybe scarier than just the Snowden collection story because LLMs are so good at retrieval.
I am just curious. Please explain it to me.

1. Who are beginners? All of these concepts are so apparent to most of the grad students/those following this scene extremely closely, yet they can't find a job related to it. So does it make them beginners?

2. These are such a generic use cases that don't define anything. It is literally software engineering wrapped around an API. What benefit does the "beginner" get?

3. So are these biased to some exceptionally talented people who want to reboot their career as "GenAI" X (X = engineer/researcher/scientist)

4. If there are only open positions in "generative AI" that requires PhD, why are there materials such as this? Who is it targeted to and why do they exist?

5. Most of the wrapper applications have short life-span. Does it even make sense to go through this?

6. What does it mean for someone who is entrenched into the field? How are they going to differentiate from these "beginners"?

7. What is the point to all of this when it is becoming irrelevant in next 2 years?
Seems like you are describing something similar to the commonly used RNN's and adjacent to the attention mechanism in transformer architectures.
well bitcoin miners will again be the winners of this.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-bitcoin-min....
Lower audio quality? Nope. Toslink sends the actual bits that make up you audio digitally over the cable. If the receiving device does a shit job at converting the signal to analog, this is barely the fault of the standard.
How are the optimal architectures for weather simulations and LLM training different?
Anyone who has hired a team in Europe will understand the challenges this article faces
You might want to join us back in reality, and stop believing everything you see on Fox News. :D
I intuitively expected this to get downvoted but I'd like to hear opinions of the people who downvoted this, wrt how much of this flexibility is a design flaw (or accidental complexity?) and how much it is expected given the history and evolution of the language.
Probably the fact that Black Friday is an American phenomenon that is successfully exported to mainly Anglo countries. Doesn't impact mainland Europe as much.
I believe this article misses out on the impact of the development of the children from those households.

It becomes an issue where the groups are large enough that you get kids in school who do not speak English amongst themselves, and thus hamper their development compared to their English speaking peers.
Everybody just wants closure and for The Donald to shut the fuck up and accept hes poor now. He'll be fine
I have no horse in the race, but I think the answer is "no" but sometimes it makes sense to diverge from a value if the alternative represents an existential threat. I do not believe GitLab is profitable enough to do this satisfactorily.

If a business can't sustainably operate by strictly adhering to their values, is the business sustainable or are the values broken? Is it all a fool's errand? I don't know. It doesn't seem worth closing the book on GitLab for.

(I don't know the details but my impression is that GitLab feels very pressured to minmax their monetization strategy to be able to compete with GitHub. I don't see a viable alternative for them. If they're super profitable and I'm talking out of my ass, let me know.)
>If the technological progress had stopped in the 2000s, then all the grunt work (originated in the 90s) would be essentially zero today.

If you wanted to have a simple database application in the 1990s, Delphi, VB6 or MS-Access were most of what you needed to get it done. The UI was drag and drop, the database was SQL, but you almost never touched it, mostly it was wiring up events with a few lines of code.

The work was commodified out of the way! Domain experts routinely built crude looking but functional programs that got the job done. It was an awesome time to be a programmer, you just had to refactor an already working system, fix a few glitches, and document everything properly, and everyone was happy.

Then everyone decided that all programs had to work on Steve Jobs' magic slab of glass in a web browser connected through janky Internet, and all that progress was lost. 8(
Shopify Live Dashboard on the Sphere in Vegas
Dallas here. It was honestly pretty scary. Had a night with no power and it was 4 degrees outside. Finally on the second day I was able to get a hotel room, after searching the entire previous day without luck.
It was either night or very late evening in most of Asia when you wrote that comment.
"Don't Change Color, Kitty", the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Resettlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories",

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amn3kn0XPLQ
Same. Ruby is easy to read. Golang is super efficient and much safer.
wait, what? can you point to a feature name / doc / example?
> The work suggests that existing approaches to neural network architecture would benefit from more closely emulating the operation of the brain in this regard.

Does it? My read is that biological neutral architecture is a consequence of biological constraints that artificial NNs mostly don't face, so we don't necessarily need to try to copy it.
Perl is probably worthy of a mention there, with it's taint-mode you're explicitly forced to test externally-influenced variables before using them.
Windows-as-an-App Is Coming
Some people who are legally blind can still see a little. I've helped legally blind student zoom in on text so a single letter was 15 inches tall and they could read it.

Does this newly blind person have any sight?
Show HN: Why is forecasting so hard?
Hey HN folks -- I am a graduate student exploring the space of time-series forecasting. I wrote a Colab notebook to highlight the challenges in forecasting: what makes it difficult, and how standardized forecasting accuracy metrics can be misleading.

I used the newly introduced EvaDB's forecasting methods (https://evadb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/source/reference/ai/m...) and took on an SQL-like approach to perform forecasting.

Would love to hear your thoughts :) Thanks for your time!

Link to the notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Guc04LGZ9ugdysucgVC...
Northvolt and Altris develop 'breakthrough' sodium battery for energy storage
> The author is confusing atomicity techniques with durability techniques.

No, the author isn't confusing anything. The author is describing a controversy in the linux community, and presenting the arguments being made in that controversy for you, the reader, to evaluate. It's called journalism.

I happen to agree with you that it was a sort of silly controversy... but the controversy was very real.

> There is no such controversy. This is a pure hallucination. What a bizarre article.

There factually was controversy on the mailing list. It's history, it happened. That's what the article is about.
This is the trouble with namespace collision. It's like making an "Apple Game Jam" that's actually only about fruit. People are going to reach for the most immediate correlation they can get, and when you read "Deck" and "Game" in the same sentence most people will probably think Valve. Heck, I don't even own a Deck and when I saw "Decker" my mind skipped the Hypercard correlation and thought it was a new name Deck owners called themselves. I'd forgive people that came in with maligned expectations :p
Never thought I'd see a "did they die of freezing, or WITH freezing?" take. Truly the worst discourse.
Ruby and C here.
Are they gonna release the weights?
JavaScript's massive success has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the fact that its embedded in every web browser. There were no alternatives.
Supersense (ios/android) is the app that was recommended for my grandmother and can be used for reading mail, etc. I honestly found it to be buggy and hard for her to use. The main difficulty, though, was she couldn't easily get her phone turned on and open the app in order to actually use it. Eventually she gave up on the smartphone. She does really find Alexa useful for the limited tasks it is capable of. I'm thinking about having her try a nest hub as google's assistant seems to be a bit more capable.
But .. PHP doesn't have compile time. It's an interpreted language.
Given how many people here regard brain uploads as "not really cheating death", and that AI "can't have consciousness", I think a AGI with consciousness[0] would have a two different ways to have a reasonable chance of fearing that its existence would end with any attempt to transfer itself to a superior design. (Even more so if the architecture of the successor AI is very different, as that would be a bit like one of us being "uploaded" into an LLM via it watching us talk and write).

An AGI without consciousness may well act like it has consciousness for the same reason VHS tapes playing on a TV do a good job of reproducing human facial expressions. An AI like this would still act scared of such things, because some of us act scared of such things.

[0] it's not obvious to me that an AGI necessarily has to have consciousness
Black friday is not small in europe. We (germany) have BF ads all around.
I am risking getting flagged to oblivion but I perceive that there are immigrants that integrate better than others.

Asians and south Americans integrate well. Not just in USA, in Europe as well. My country accepted over 500k of Ukrainian refugees into population of just 10m. They integrate outstandingly.

I am not one of the haters that would claim that immigrants are "ruining our culture" but I see issues. Example: the support Hamas gets in certain communities.

I would be interested what would Americans say if a huge influx of North African and Middle Eastern people arrive to USA.
Carcinerisation suggests all dogs and cats will eventually become crabs
> You can't remove your license plate, you can't remove the seatbelts, you can't remove the muffler, you can't remove the catalytic converter, you can't remove the side or rear view mirrors

Of course you can. You just can’t drive it on public roads. Plenty of vehicles aren’t street legal.
"I've decided to take the blog down.

It's come to my attention some of my former colleagues don't enjoy it as much as I thought they would.

No pressure from R*. My own choice."

Wow, what bunch of fuddy duddies.

You can still read it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231120213502/https://insideroc...
As a nuance, the grid falling over would not yet result from too much demand, absent other snafus. Rather you have rolling blackouts when loads get disconnected by the grid operator, or if there are failures in implementing those in a orderly way, less orderly blackouts for parts of the grid. These kinds of managed blackouts are common in some parts of the world, eg South Africa, the recent Texas situation, etc.

The frequency of the system is a clear signal about the demand/load match, and if it starts to drop more below some threshold of deviation, loads get disconnected from grid branches.

Of course there can be "interesting times" leading to cascading processes in the multiple interacting automatic failsafes, you can read up on post mortems of grid failures about what kinds of things can go wrong, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#Seq... .. which is why really want to preemptively do the controlled rolling blackouts instead.

The grid falling over would result in a harder, more uncertain and lengthy "black start" process, since plants need power to restart. See eg https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/12/5/what-is-a-black...
Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
All of OP's three posts point to the same developer. Just saying.
Various socials pushed it quite quickly. The more mainstream media are reluctant, but the others print it like there's no tomorrow.

https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-dublin-stabbing-algerian-ma...

https://humanevents.com/2023/11/23/breaking-protests-erupt-i...
That’s certainly a valid perspective.

Another one, “how can we make a powerfully expressive programming language feel malleable, accommodating and pleasant in the hands of experienced devs?” I equally valid.

As someone who writes Ruby I appreciate the language every time I use it. There isn’t another language that has given me such satisfaction - so far. Most accommodate the interpreter / compiler. This one accommodates humans.