skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to live in Asia with a lot of street cats that never had an owner. I ended up adopting a lost kitten in my shed (mum didn't come back after 2 days, so didn't have much choice beyond letter her starve).

Because I now had food out for my cat I ended up with a lot of street cats come visit (i.e. steal food). My house was pretty open (tropical climate) so bit difficult to prevent, and I didn't really mind so it was all good. Can use a lot of adjectives for these cats, but "friendly" and "open to human interaction" are not among them.

At some point I left the bedroom door open and a kitten wandered in. My bedroom was closed off and I wanted to get him out as I wanted to close the door to leave for the evening. Had to get him from behind the wardrobe.

I had been feeding him for a few months already so I figured that should be fine. It wasn't. I found out that the answer to "how much pain can a small cute kitten inflict" is "surprisingly a lot". Then there were the two siblings that would miaow at me to get food, but then hiss at me for getting too close to the food bowl where they were waiting. Herp derp.

Cats that didn't grow up with humans are completely different animals then cats that grew up with humans. This is probably fairly close to your barn cats from 200 years ago.
Ah, you’re right. It says online that a generation is 20-30 years so I was actually looking over 2-3 generations. Thanks for the correction.
This is the part that fascinates me about Code Blocks so much.

Is it like an extra break or return statement at the end of it that bails out of the context of whatever method it's running in?

Or does it actually return back to the original all site after nested passes of the Code Block?
A reasonable concern here is that power is transfered from subject matter experts to technocrats with a poor track record of making technical decisions. Some recent examples of EU tech debacles include Quaero, Galileo, Gaia-X, Ariane 6.
Decompilation is an essential (although not mandatory for some cases) part of reverse-engineering.

As for decompilation projects that have only reconstructed source code and no game media assets, it's probably fair use.
There used to be a clear separation between gambling and other gaming. No one's going to get fooled by blackjack. On the 'video game' scene we're muddling the waters by allowing gambling (lootboxes) and other gacha to be called video games.

Take your least favorite politician. They probably say they're the saviour of the nation. Do you call them that just because that's what they call themselves?

Why accept that for free to play stuff?
To be fair, Altman separately alluded to a recent big discovery/breakthrough in a talk shortly before all the drama went down.
Yep, nope, these were “pressed” discs - quite puzzling.
I have a limited background in computing hardware, but I really appreciate the thought he puts into explaining both the why and how.

His 8-bit CPU videos are just amazing, and even at ~1 Hz, it’s incredible to think about what all happens. And then to think about going billions of times faster…
All these anti-aging posts make me cringe. Face it, you’re going to die one day. You want to be healthier? Eat a healthy diet and exercise instead of looking for shortcuts
You have the ability to remove the stdlib if needed...
When style guides recommend you to use "a historic" in formal writing, why should I not talk factually about what they recommend. You were the first to complain about the usage in this article.
The first story in this class that I read was Empires of the Deep - really amazed me on two fronts.

First, the way the economics of these endeavours are so flawed that even the most passionate creatives / sponsors can't viably get the finished or near-finished product out to paying customers.

Second, that this stuff doesn't get leaked more often - especially recent examples. Wikipedia also has a running list of abandoned films, though it looks to be US / Euro-centric. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empires_of_the_Deep (there's plenty of more interesting write-ups around the backstory)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abandoned_and_unfinish...
Metabolism is pretty conserved across organisms, so it’s not even that bad
Building RAG-Based LLM Applications for Production
I'm blind and I use a 13B LLaVA model locally. I haven't checked with a sighted person about how accurate the image descriptions are, but it seems to generally do okay (described some recent vacation photos pretty well, except sometimes it would list objects that I'm pretty sure aren't actually there in the images). Haven't tried GPT via Be My Eyes because I prefer using my laptop over my phone, but I imagine it'd be a lot better. For now I make regular use of the local model with a shell alias when I want something described, even solved a captcha that I couldn't OCR with it the other day. So yeah, this is one application of ML I'm really excited about, the other being Whisper (speech transcription), because I have profound hearing loss and can use it to transcribe things I can't hear in the audio.
I had to think about what that loop does for an embarrassingly long time.

I’ve never seen XOR used as an in-place alternation operator like that in a for loop. I’ve only ever seen it used as a swap function not an inline expression.

I’ve also never seen a for loop that uses a mutable string updated char-by-char like that.

It’s just… special.
I frequently travel to the EU and the amount of cookie banners is decidedly higher.
Q* – Clues to the Puzzle?
I think that's why there is a bathtub curve. New rockets are more risky because they could have manufacturing flaws and old ones may be worn to the point they fail. The middle is the safest because they have been thoroughly tested but not worn. We seek to find how many times is the limit.
Would you be so kind so as to share why did you move from ActixWeb to Axum?
Calling Haskell from Swift(UI)
In the same sense as a startup founder is the one with the money who hires people. Usually it’s somebody else’s money who is keeping a distance, and the producer/founder is making decisions on how to use it.
Minosoft: Open-source Minecraft client, written from scratch
The default in science is that the side arguing a point has the burden of proving it correct. Not asking the other side to prove them wrong.
Unfortunately, I'm on Gentoo and tend to update regularly.

And within the last two weeks, I destroyed many of my oldest snapshots.

So yeah, I'm screwed.

I guess I should just hope for the best.
The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions
These days BCAAs have the reputation of being pretty useless anyway, unless your diet is very poor. You get enough BCAAs from complete protein sources.
Remain In Light
Ie bendy busses. We've had a multi year argument running on reddit here in Brisbane about a very expensive trackless "metro" which is just.. articulated buses with wheel covers
Gpt summary:

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Absolutely - PR firms, lobbyists, astroturfers, troll farms - I'm in full agreement, and there's a lot of them around.

Also a problem are those who label the undecided or free thinking among us as not being good faith actors. And unfortunately it's a tough position to be in, as you get attacked from all sides for not choosing a side.
Astrophysics center achieved gender parity – Science – AAAS
Strange comment. In terms of snowfall, Buffalo is an extreme example. A bad, but not necessarily record setting, lake effect snowstorm like Buffalo gets seems like the sort of thing Texas probably won't experience until the next ice age. Texas could aim for a happy medium when it comes to snowplowing ability.

Being able to navigate the roads isn't a magical cure for a power grid that can't handle low temperatures, of course. It would make it easier for emergency vehicles and utility vehicles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331200
> healthy diet

Easy to say that phrase, much harder to elucidate exactly what it means. And how will we find out what it means without studying it?
Peloton CEO apologizes after Thanksgiving ride struggles with demand
Same, ran very (technically speaking) clean MiAB setup for local business and after 2 years we had to drop it due to delivery issues with MS business accounts. Invoices missed, etc. - a royal pain in the arse. Only a full migration to gmail biz domain fixed things fully. Email. Yikes.
Yes but longevity isn't.
Examples of Stigler's Law
Well for starters people do this all the time. But I’m not talking about immigrating to avoid high local taxes or anything that onerous.

If a jurisdiction is hostile to capital, then the capital will just move somewhere else. That’s a simple as transferring an account balance to a brokerage account in another country. If an advanced economy decided to do away with the concept of LLCs, then yes, I’d assert very confidently that almost nobody would want to do any business there at all, and all of the capital in that economy would migrate to basically any other advanced economy in the world.
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I believe that switch is the cause for the subset of rumours that GPT5 was primed for superhuman persuasion skills.
That's a reductive argument, and won't work with me. What we have is tantamount to an arms race, and trying to suppress another country's development of tech that could be used against them is a thing. We have already restricted access to our microchips to China specifically and Russia through broad sanctions. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/business/economy/ai-chips... Russia isn't poised for the current crop of AI tech anyway.
We already have multimodal models that take both images and text as input. The bulk of the training for these models was in text, not images. This shouldn’t be surprising. Text is a great way of abstractly and efficiently representing reality. Of course those patterns are useful for making sense of other modalities.

Beyond modeling the world, text is also a great way to model human thought and reason. People like to explain their thought process in writing. LLMs already pick up on and mimic chain of thought well.

Contained within large datasets is crystallized thought, and efficient descriptions of reality that have proven useful for processing modalities beyond text. To me that seems like a great foundation for AGI.
Any reasonable person might.

It's more secure, generally, than Google, or Microsoft, or Yahoo, if you know what you're doing, for all of not having the possibility of getting locked out of your own email for no discernible reason and with no real recourse, for not allowing intrusion through other mechanisms of their massive infrastructure, or for not allowing access to your email at rest. Also, many large cloud providers still have issues where one customer can masquerade as another. They don't learn.

Since there's no way to ever know with any certainty whether employees at any large provider is looking at your email (we already know they're scanning it), then you can never have any certainty at all about how private it is. If you set up an email server that uses SSL / TLS for SMTP delivery and reception, then you'll have logs showing whether email you sent or received communicated with the sender's / recipient's email server directly, using encryption, without anyone in the middle being able to intercept.

We can't control the fact that if the NSA really wanted, they could likely make a certificate for any domain that appears legitimate to our servers and do a MITM. Therefore, while I'd assert that my servers are much, much more secure than Google's, I'd never be so naive to say it's "NSA-proof" because of limitations of the Internet that don't necessarily apply to the NSA.
The impact of 25 people on Congressional voting
This is the story of how Minnesota was just 25 people away from losing a representative.
QR Code why it works so well in China (2015)
Looks like they're having problems authorizing online credit card payments. Telephone support indicated that their Point of Sale auth systems are flooded with requests and they're struggling to resolve the issue.

There's going to be a lot of lost sales today.
My guess is we'll find F9 boosters good for between 20 and 25 launches before refurb becomes expensive enough that it's better to weld up some new tanks and build another batch of Merlins. There will be a pretty big range I think. We already see they've got favorites that are far outpacing the rest of the fleet presumably because they're easier to refurb and refly. So, I think some will retire around 15 flights, and some around 30, with the low 20s being the top of the bell curve.
Could you please give a link to the Zig's comptime feature for generics?
Just as a side note, the BARD eligibility was expanded recently to include more than pure blindness: people with low vision, dyslexia, and even motor impairments – basically anyone who can’t read a regular book should discuss it with their doctor (e.g. a person with limited use of their hands might have fine vision but still wouldn’t be able to read a book).
Yes, why not? They run the water and sewage "business" too. They are totally self funded as far as I understand. Private we have to pay through profits and rent seeking even more.

Also public ownership doesn't mean the enterprise can't be self funding or even profitable. E.g. my city's electrical plants and distribution are run by municipally owned company that pays dividends of the profit to the city.
I guess the argument is we shouldn't be endangering people who desperately need to be able to drive "erratically" for good reasons, in order to protect drunk-drivers from themselves.

I suppose have some sympathy with that argument, which is why I said a minimum of 1:1 (a lower bound on the ratio).

Drunk drivers kill innocent people as well of course.
> But I haven't much in regards to customer facing things.

How about ChatGPT? It’s a game changer. It has allowed me to learn Rust extremely quickly since I can just ask it direct questions about my code. And I don’t worry about hallucinations since the compiler is always there to “fact check”.

I’m pretty bearish on OpenAI wrappers. Low effort, zero moat. But that’s largely irrelevant to the value of OpenAI products themselves.
thanks for the link! I do a lot of hand decompilation and I wonder if AI could be helpful...
Ah, Lonely Island ... been years since anything that good/hilarious came out!
Yes, that’s an issue and it’s affecting countries all over the world.

Sub-Saharan Africa and some Middle Eastern countries are pretty much the only places left with high fertility rates:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_f...

But we may need to consider more solutions than simply using Africa and the Middle East as a breeding ground to populate the rest of the world?
I don't think 2.8T market cap company combining with 1.1T market cap company can be called an "acquisition", nor three letter agencies would ever approve such a deal.
> I just don't understand why we have to veil common sense practices (like continuous improvement, good communication, shared goals, etc) in this vaguely culty, vague Japanese kind of dev ops propaganda.

I enjoyed the book personally. I think the key point it was trying to get across is that of all the things that look like "common sense" to people, the combination of these particular things is what is actually effective. it was never about blindly following some magic recipe, simply "here is a way of thinking about the overall task of project management that may be helpful, and here are some specific techniques that support it".

note that "if the project is behind we should make the engineers work 12 hours a day instead of 8" is common sense to a very large percentage of managers.
It does seem to work 99.9% of the time, but when you have a dozen programs with more dependencies than you can count, some are not in the official repos, and you want more up to date stuff, being able to reproduce the whole environment of a package seems like the best option to me.

Deb packages are rock solid for the most part if you use standard distro packages, but the moment you want something newer or third party, there's no guarantee it will work well with some other random third party thing you also have.

Especially when sometimes apps might even depend on bugs and break when they get fixed.

Snaps mostly solve the reduced integration issues(Or at least try to, some stuff isn't perfect yet?) with all their plugs and interfaces and whatnot.
We need the performance, and are frequently at least testing if not running in production on bleeding edge hardware, which almost always supports c/c++ first. That doesn’t make it for everyone though, and honestly I normally tell people to avoid exceptions as much as possible. The big issue is that C++ as a language was designed with exceptions in mind. There is no other way to exit with failure from any constructor that the caller can deal with, so every non-exception class has to use a two-step setup to avoid throwing in the constructor. If you’re doing exception free for real, meaning you can still recover rather than turning them off and just letting the program abort whenever a throw would have occurred, it’s actually a much harder language to write for.

Don’t get me wrong, maintaining exception guarantees and ensuring exceptions are appropriately caught is terrible. I much prefer working with optional and outcome and similar personally, but the assumption of exceptions is very deeply baked in, and avoiding them safely is a lot harder than one might guess.

Also, remember that while exceptions cost code size, they cost literally nothing in instructions executed unless an exception is actually thrown. That’s why the common nix implementation is called “zero cost exceptions”. In the happy path case they are faster than returning a discriminant. It’s not having exceptions available that makes code slow, it’s using them for things that are expected rather than unexpected or for control flow.
Would you rather fly on an airplain's maiden flight or its second flight. For me, the wear is far less a concern than a quality control failure at manufacture. I want flight proven but I also don't want the flight leader in the fleet. There's a sweet spot between, "they're still working out bugs from the factory" and "the core, non-replaceable systems are starting to wear out." My guess is that's around 20 or so flights for an F9 booster, maybe a bit more.
Try MagicEarth, let me know what you think
That would be cool. I suspect I would be unhappy with the size of the cut Google takes.
You're naively ignoring the simplest solution: smarthost through a provider with a good reputation.

You still get to control your incoming email, your filtering, you get logs of everything, you control your email at rest, and you'll still get good logs for outgoing, but deliverability simply is no longer an issue.

So, what other objections do you have for email self-hosters?
the people you're supposed to be eliciting requirements from are just regurgitating what ChatGPT told them are the requirements hehehe
Yeah unfortunately differentiable SVG rendering is still something that is very difficult to accomplish with diffusion models. I looked into this last year and found VectorFusion [0][1], which appears to be using a similar technique to this app - generate the raster image and then apply a vectorization tracer. This leads to the blobbiness you see, given the way the diffusion model generates the image and the tracer applies to the output.

There have been a few attempts (i.e. this recent one [2][3]) to attempt to fine-tune the parameters of the SVG with image segmentation, before comparing rendered outputs with a CLIP model. This is promising but the search space for vector images is just so huge that so far you really need to start with an existing image as a basis rather than starting from scratch. Interesting area of research!

0. https://ajayj.com/vectorfusion/
1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11319
2. https://intchous.github.io/SVGCustomization/
3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12302
Blackbox is already for Linux. Also there is a Linux 64-bit version of a limited console compiler.
fun idea but "perfect pitch" is a little off the mark imo, as other people have mentioned. i think this sort of exercise would be good for training transcription skills and relative pitch if you weren't able to hear your guesses and the grading factored out global transposition i.e. by always considering the first note correct and applying the offset to the remaining notes
A Different Way to Think About Recursion
You can easily try it by making one and trying it out.

I mean, certainly you can use the handle of a screwdriver as a hammer (we've all been there), but just by attempting it for a bit you quickly realize the purpose of the tool you've been handed.

What's more interesting is the insistence of modern folks that ancient warriors were very happy standing around and being stabbed to death, and that anyone with a bit of sense wouldn't avail themselves of a standoff weapon. As the author points out, the "highland charge" of the gunpowder era exploited the fact that lines of infantry tend to not want to get stabbed, and tend to rout rather quickly at the prospect.

Having your lines disordered or broken when the enemy has already closed in probably would induce panic the requiste panic quite quickly.
thank you, the replies to your comment are far better than this marketroid rubbish that doesn't even tell you how to run a generative ai, much less write one
No reason it has to be. You could have the data interface accept plugins which preprocess data in different formats and expose it as something else, like an object, document, stream of documents, etc.
I believe it is well understood by now that users tend to ignore security warnings; anyone serious about computer security will not accept this as a solution. We don't even apply security-critical patches reliably.
Sounds like a 2070 paradigm shift.
I love how you're being called out for how wrong you are on this thread, but somehow manage to double down and always ask "but what about?..."
SNW works imo because it's a throw back to the episodic nature of the earlier shows.

Discovery did not work for me in the same way despite me usually liking those less episodic plotlines.
I had the same thing happen twice. Casual smoker, daily smoker, highs turned into like schizophrenic paranoid and anxiety and I stopped.

But I think there's something else going on besides just strength. The first time this happened to me was when it was illegal, about 15 years ago in my 20s. I was a daily smoker and and flower vape user.

About 7 or 8 years I moved to California, started smoking again. It was fun, turned into a daily smoker and started getting anxious about life. And just drifted away from it. I was taking dabs, and used a bong pretty regularly, all fairly strong. I'd take a few hits from a bowl and not enjoy it. The change was in the last few months and pretty sudden.
List of animals awarded human credentials