skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in a similar vein as, data engineers being people who USE things like Redshift/Snowflake/Spark/etc., but are distinct from the category of people who actually build those underlying frameworks or databases?

In some sense, the expansion of the role of data engineering as a discipline unto itself is largely enabled by the commoditization of cloud data warehouses and open source tooling supporting the function of data engineering. Likewise, the more foundational AI that gets created and eventually commoditized, the more an additional layer of "AI engineers" can build on top of those tools and apply them to real world business problems (many of which are unsexy... I wonder what the "AI engineer" equivalent unit of work will be, compared to the standard "load these CSVa into a data warehouse" base unit task of data engineers).
The number of Android phone models where one can unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM is fairly small. And among those models, there are plenty where no up-to-date custom ROM is available any more, so security vulnerabilities are piling up.
The Bond villain compliance strategy
That’s not a dichotomy. In virtually all of design function is a prerequisite to prioritizing form, otherwise what you’re building might not even be possible and so you might not even be creating design but just art.
Isn't the whole point of LTS to outsource all this nonsense to the maintainers of the distro?

Back when I was heavily involved in blender development I'd sometimes have to pause my hackery while waiting for fedora to catch up with whatever version of python blender was using because I didn't want to bork my system by upgrading python (again!). Well(...) I also wanted to ensure that it would run off libs from the repos and this was a little higher priority than being on the cutting edge so it was a sacrifice I was willing to make. The only time this caused any significant delay also coincided with one of the open movies and they didn't want to merge what I was working on until after production which meant it didn't matter either way.

I don't ruby but it seems like a nice way to do something like:

def apply(callable, ...):
callable(...)
As far as I know my country doesn't force me to download any certificate, and Firefox doesn't have a cert issued by my government.
> Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.g. AWS), this scale requires advanced coordination with the hyperscaler. They can't just spin up tens of thousands / hundreds of thousands of VM's on a whim, the underlying abstraction would leak and fail.

AWS uses predictors / models for this when you are on serverless and automatically allocates instances for you ahead of time.
Glad to hear that
"I never said that test-first was a testing technique. In fact, if I remember correctly, I explicitly stated that it wasn’t." -- Kent Beck, 2001 (https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~djanzen/setopics/testing/IEEE...)
Strange that the free tier has no documented limits. I always like it when I can see what I am working with, especially when refining an image will eat into that number.
No carbon has been removed from anywhere. It's just made up. It's as simple as that.
Show HN: Laberinto, a railway/mass transit map editor that uses BSIcons tiles
If you're interested in railway maps, public transport, mass transit, or if you simply enjoy maps, you will likely appreciate Laberinto. I would love for you to give it a try and hear your thoughts and suggestions.
I have issue with phrases like "for any reason at any time" and "without notice". If I lose my account, I want a clear reason, not just a general "you violated our Terms of Service" without any specifics.

If I am a terrorist, fine, do not notice me, but in all other cases, I expect you to notice me in advance.

For example, Dropbox seems reasonable:

"If we do so (discontinuing services), we’ll give you reasonable prior notice
so that you can export Your Stuff from our systems ..."

"We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services with
notice to you if Dropbox reasonably believes: ..."

https://www.dropbox.com/terms
This is one of my all time favourites- the sounds that end up being brought to the surface as the tape is recorded over itself are really haunting.

If anyone's interested but not enough to listen to the whole thing- listen to the first half a minute and then the last!
The game is far from lost. You need to be able to set PTR, which you can do by sending from a cheap VPS, otherwise basically everything will block you as spam. Other than that, it's not too exclusive, for lack of a better word.
Theme: "Anyone who wants to return just to normal life is now disgusting FAR-RIGHT. You have to support World War III, high taxes, end of lifestyle for climate change, and if you do not tell your son in 1st grade that maybe he is really a girl then you are guilty of child abuse, and your children should be taken from you by force."
>The only reason to prefer a unikernel is because you wrongly believe that hypervisors are a security boundary.

Thoughts on Qubes?
I feel like prompt injection is getting looked at the wrong way: with chain of thought attention starts being applied to the user input in a fundamentally different way than it normally is

If you use chain of thought and structured output it becomes much harder to successfully prompt inject, since any injection that completely breaks the prompt results in an invalid output.

Your original prompt becomes much harder if not impossible to leak in a valid output structure, and at some steps in the chain of thought user input is hardly being considered by the model assuming you've built a robust chain of thought for handling a wide range of valid (non-prompt injecting) inputs.

Overall if you focus on being robust to user inputs in general, you end up killing prompt injection pretty dead as a bonus
Has anything been done to winterize the Texas natural gas system?

Natural gas comes out of the ground with water in it, and is piped around wet until it reaches a processing plant that removes water.[1] Everything upstream of water-removal is vulnerable to frozen water.[2] So, where freezing is a possibility, water removal needs to be near the wells, or it's possible to accept some freeze shutdowns and use more downstream storage. Texas used to have a climate where that wasn't a problem.

This is all well understood. There are plenty of natural gas operations in cold climates. So how is Texas doing on improving their system?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycol_dehydration

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287130/texas-natural-ga...
I been running my own mailserver for ~two decades.
Never had much deliverability problems and none at all with google.
Outlook sometimes is a problem but I always got it fixed.

Nowadays I user docker-mailserver which is a bit more low level than mail in a box but much easier to setup than everything from scratch
You can see C# or Java code as well. It doesn't make them visual programming languages.
The technology of landfills has massively improved over the years. It's not the old pile of garbage covered in birds forever; they turn them into parks and whatnot. It's probably worth looking up, because there's some cool scientific advancements behind it.

I'm pulling this next sentence completely out of my ass, but I also imagine it would be convenient, once we develop bacteria to break this stuff down in an environmentally friendly way, to just pour it over these contained blocks of waste.
This doesn't answer your question, but answers a superset of it...

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/pe...
Antifungals, too! That lethal highly-resistant C. Auris didn't happen naturally.
It constitutes a state of emergency in Texas because Texas is not ready to deal with this. There is no infrastructure at all. People do not know how to deal with cold. And most importantly, buildings are not designed to deal with it.

So normally, this wouldn't be a huge deal. People would just pull out space heaters they use once in a decade. Unfortunately Texas does not have that ability either because the grid has not been maintained and expanded to meet the demand. And here is the crux of the problem.
Will this happen before asteroid mining?
My personal website is incomplete, imperfect
It's still used to link audio interfaces with ADAT.
HSBC customers in UK unable to access online banking services
Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion
Definitely raster to svg conversion. The giveaway (besides complex SVG generation being too difficult, as you say) is the splotchiness of the images, since the vectorization doesn't work super well with gradients.
The point of generating data is so you can teach the model its distribution, not so it can memorize it.
3M does something like this, with a rule that 30% of the company's profit must come from products introduced within the last 4 years:

https://hbr.org/2013/08/the-innovation-mindset-in-acti-3
I don't see how catering to the latest UI fads would improve anything. Like, it has to be way better to justify learning a new UI.

I might be an outlier but I more or less can't relearn a new UI after it got into muscle memory. It is stuck for ever.
Games are already working on putting realtime ads in your game menus and signs. Most games are gatcha games and introduce children to gambling and financial transactions.

This is just what always on connectivity does to the media.
Thanks for mentioning it. Gimp is okay, except for the missing CMKY. There was once a CMKY support plug-in, wasn't there?

Do you know what I miss? The inkscape competitor Xara Xtreme (XL). Gone..
The rule of thumb used to be you could save about a kilowatt hour of electricity making a soda can from recycled aluminum versus mining and refining. I don’t know where things sit today

Aluminum was ridiculously expensive before the electrolysis method and municipal electricity.
if this catches up it might become a nice repository with more advanced prompts than they are right now.
My knee jerk reaction is that I wouldn't trust a mining operation to clean up after itself. While I'm sure that landfills could be cleaner, whatever level of cleanliness they achieve is based on the assumption that the sites won't be disturbed.
I wonder if it has some canned human-written responses when asking specific questions about itself. This would be pretty clever to silently implement, that will definitely help convince people that it's approaching "AGI".

It's possible that it's just hallucinating here too, I don't have any proof that the responses are canned, but they appear that way to me.
Why not? Would be cool with some new open source models.
Great advice so far in this thread. I would just add that the must have apps are Be My Eyes, as already mentioned. This allows him to snap a photo and have it described by ChatGPT4-vision for free. He can also ask for more info etc. And if that doesn't work out, he can call a volunteer for free, 24-7.

Another good one is Seeing AI. This one is from Microsoft, and it has all sorts of useful utilities inside it, including a way to tell how bright a room is (helps to know if you left lights on or not), a barcode scanner that gives you product info (it beeps at you faster or slower to let you know you're getting warmer), a color analyzer that kinda' works sometimes, a document reader with voice guidance to help you get the camera lined up, a currency reader, and I think a few more goodies.

Many countries also have a library service for the blind. In the United States, it's called the National Library Service for the Blind. Definitely get him setup with them, or your other country's library service. The one in the U.S. let's you download an app and download tens-of-thousands of audiobooks for free. They also have a few magazines that they record each month. It's pretty amazing, and all available from his phone. The app is called Bard Mobile in the U.S.

I happen to be blind myself, so feel free to ask anything else you would like. I've been doing this for a while, and there are several more of us here as well.
This happened to me, maybe it's a bug?
Rust needs some first class "best in the world" programs. Currently it has none.
Only use cookies to provide services that the user specifically asks you to provide. Never use the cookies to anything where the action wasn't initiated by the user. That way, nothing you do requires asking for consent and you don't need a stupid banner.
A bit more personal background:

We're primarily an android house, but have a couple of apple devices, use segregated wifis, run a pi-hole and iptables home firewall, and have some local (non-cloud, non-voice) home automation and security installed.

While I have past experience hacking together some in-house app solutions, it's been years since I've touched the stuff, and no longer even have my laptop set up with devtools (I'm an engineer, not a dev/programmer/etc).

I also used to keep up with android rooting and custom OS, but again, it's been years.
[Would like to cry in EU, but can't because Threads is blocked.]
I chuckle every time someone uses the "everyone in America is a foreigner" angle as if it helps their position on supporting mass immigration.

Mass immigration didn't work out for the Native Americans. Why use that as a model to replicate?
Ludwig Wittgenstein's no-private-language argument also applies here. He wrote that you can't make up your own words or concepts, absent any interaction with others, because there's nothing to stop you from changing your mind on what that word means the next day. (No "criterion for identity".)

Sounded controversial to me when I first encountered it, but apparently accepted by modern philosophers as a legit argument. (That language is necessarily a public/communal thing.)
Yet another attempt to pump fossil fuel propaganda. It gets so tiresome.
Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers
ZipLoRA: Any Subject in Any Style by Effectively Merging LoRAs
I wonder if laws could be passed demanding a certain uptime, with very hefty fines on failure. Want to be an electric company? Sure thing boss, but that entails obligations akin to taxi companies needing their cars to be safe to drive on public roads.
Has there been research on whether it's possible to similate human intelligence without also getting all of its flaws? Susceptibility to logical fallacies, random difficulty with factual recall, fading memory over time, biases, prejudice, etc.
Solar flares don't destroy electronics. They induce current in long conductors like power lines. I think the confusion comes from nearby nuclear EMP, which destroys electronics, and high-altitude EMP, which induces currents. Solar flares are basically larger-scale high-altitude EMP.

It is relatively easy to protect the electrical grid, grounding everything and putting surge protectors in front of transformers. The problem is that we aren't doing those protections. Also, the grid is not vulnerable when disconnected; it is possible to turn off the grid for predicted flare and then restart it.

Being lazy about protection is not a universal. Any aliens with more active star would have done the protection from the beginning. Aliens from more quiet stars don't need it.
It fools the same people who somehow think toslink audio quality is worse over a bitperfect link
Do you have ideas for how to test it and find out definitively in person? I haven't found a way to confirm one way or another.

The Graphics/Displays page in System Information unfortunately says nothing about colors, only resolution (https://github.com/shurcooL/home/assets/1924134/af4b19a3-b85...).

When looking at a 16-bit PNG of a white to black gradient, I'm not able to visually spot any banding even when zooming in. It's fairly easy to spot steps when looking at a 8-bit PNG version of the same gradient. But the same happens on the built-in display despite it supposedly having only 8-bit color ("support for millions of colors").
This is extremely similar to thread local, a feature in many languages including C#.
Sun's ZFS, now owned and maintained by Oracle. ZFS is actually a Sun project.
I've noticed the assistents api is a lot slower and the fact you need to "poll" for when a run is completed is annoying.

There a few good points though, you can tweat the system document on the dashboard without needing to re start the app and you can switch which model is being used too.
I am not saying those regions only have bad people. Lots of good people, just some bad apples.
But in USA you usually get whole families and not a bunch of young single men. That's one factor that de-risks the integration. The second factor is you get people that can afford plane ticket (likely more educated) and go through some form of border check.

I believe the vast majority of the Middle Eastern people in California are Persians. Again, that's a nationality that fares well in inclusion even in Europe.

I am all for immigration, we need it, we are an aging continent. But we should be a little bit more picky and cautious. And I am not saying we should not get any people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Horn of Africa, it's just often people coming from these countries have a risky mix of low education and culture that doesn't respect women or institutions.

And it's not islamophobia from me, that's why I specifically say culture, not religion. Persians are often muslims and fine, same for Indonesians or Turks.

Problem is we can't have meaningful and polite debate about it like I have with you - you get immediately labeled as racist or xenophobe. Thus the sad rise of far right groups in Europe.

On this note, I am sad that someone is downvoting/flagging you.
> once we develop bacteria to break this stuff down in an environmentally friendly way

Sounds as mythical as plastic recycling to me to be honest.
What? The defining trend of the last 5 or so years is the victory of the scaling hypothesis. More scale = more intelligence. GPT-4 is way smarter than 3.5, this trend is ongoing.

You need more data to utilize more parameters, but folks at the forefront are confident that they are not going to run out of data any time soon.

If you mean “solution to AGI” maybe. But perhaps in-context scratchpads and agent loops will be sufficient to get this architecture to human-level performance, with enough data/parameters. (Sutskever and Hinton have both expressed credulity that the current architectures might get us there.)

All that said, it’s also possible that new architectures will be needed at some point, I’m just pushing back on your claim that we already hit the cliff.
I have. that is why i say the game is lost.
Mosaic Pallette: 1 3D printer extruder, multi-color/multi-material (2016)
Bard can read images and, being made by the same company as YouTube, probably has access to high quality video embeddings they use for YouTube search, maybe the most sophisticated video search engine on the planet. I don’t know from the article but it could definitely be using the video content directly without a text representation.

For an open source project that actually “sees” videos you can check out https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Video-LLaVA
According to the article, blackouts are _forecasted_ for December and January. I don't get the sense that this is about the weather today
They are forecasting a 14% chance of needing to use them in December and 16% in January, not actively doing them right this second.
Great perspective here, I appreciate it!

I am very much still an optimist on the future of the app and my ability to monetize it.

As I synthesize much of this post and these comments, it's increasingly clear to me that I've just been operating too much in isolation, leaning more into what I know well (development) -vs- what I don't know as well (marketing in all its forms)

Now it's time to do some overcorrection and then step back and find the balance.

I very much intend to have a success story to post here one day as a new comment on this post about "how my startup barely dodged death but now I'm writing this update from the beach watching the monies flow" :)
Fixed, thanks for reporting.
I didn't downvote it, but I don't like the swipe of ruby not being a well-designed language.

One thing to consider: Ruby is old. Ruby stems from a time when "Everything is an object" and "You can pass a code block to a function" are borderline revolutionary. Ruby comes from a time of very imperative PHP, C and such. Python was another language during these early days, as was perl.

And ruby has strayed into a few paths of ambiguities. Like, hash as an arg vs kw-args, blocks, references to blocks. Quite a few things are weird there. Tolerable, moving into better spaces, but certainly weird.

But at the same time, have you looked closely at Java Generics? Or, Pythons multiple inheritance? Or, Perls Object Orientation. Or, PHPs types, until recent versions. If three of us get together, we can start making fun of every language for taking a wrong step, I'm sure.
Javascript and Ruby are of an age, both first released in 1995. Javascript has always supported all of the use cases described here for Ruby, until very recently with exactly one syntactic convention for argument passing. If you want keyword arguments, pass an object; if you want to pass a function, pass a function.

That's simpler to understand because there is less to understand, with these capabilities composed from extant syntax rather than having been invented as one-offs that require being learned and understood as such, each hedged around with its own special cases and failures to generalize - if that were not the case, the article here under discussion and all others like it would never have needed writing in the first place.

I realize describing Javascript as "well designed" will be controversial, and certainly it has not been without its share of flaws: loose equality and IEEE 754 float behavior come most quickly to mind, along with the lack of a general conditional expression. I am comfortable with describing Javascript as better designed than Ruby, though. Certainly it is far more ergonomic.

Good engineering above all else is, as much as possible, simple: it can't help being about as complex as the domain it addresses, but any complication beyond that represents an error of design. Programming a general-purpose computer is an arbitrarily complex domain, which gives all the more point to the need for simplicity in design: the user of the tool has enough to think about already, and should insofar as possible not also be forced to manage unnecessary complexity in tooling. Under such a metric, that Ruby needs three kinds of calling conventions to accomplish what Javascript does with one is already enough to demonstrate that Ruby's design is lacking.
3D print two colors in one file [video]
It’s 100% false consciousness. The Black Friday consumption is a significant carbon pollution event, but ‘conscious consumers’ (and engineers) appreciate the carbon offset trick.
Those are features but not descriptions of good uses. Running a small laptop or steam deck fulfills all of that and much more and I've yet to see an instance where it's a good use. Again it sounds like a plaything to tinker with, with no real world use as a phone or computer.

Can you name any good real world uses?
> How did we users allow this to happen?

Divide and Conquer.

Millions of users against •one• company.

Resistance is futile. Users adapt.
the Ottoman empire is also known as the Turkish empire. it was Turkeys land that was "stolen". Partitioning post empires can get messy.
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