skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
see also https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Ch... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism#:~:text=In%20acknowl...
Going with XTDB by default is an example of "what do I want for my own projects?" being the first priority as mentioned in the article--I agree that Biff would be easier for many people to pick up if it defaulted to Postgres/SQLite. My hunch is that building something I personally love is the best long-term strategy for Biff anyway. When XTDB2 is stable I'm planning to have SQL be the default, then those who want to (like myself) can switch easily to datalog. See also https://biffweb.com/p/xtdb-compared-to-other-databases/ for more of my thinking on XTDB.

The main reason I switched from Bash to Babashka for the project tasks (`bb dev`, `bb deploy` etc) is that it allows me to put the task implementations in a library and have Biff projects depend on it, as opposed to copying all the task implementations into new projects (which is what previously happened). This way people can upgrade the tasks by bumping the lib dependency. Some of the tasks also have somewhat complex logic and IMO benefit from being written in Clojure/Babashka.

The only bash script is `server-setup.sh`. I suppose I could rewrite that in Babashka for the sake of consistency, but it doesn't really seem like that big of a deal to me (?).

In response to "install a variety of tools without clear purpose" -- isn't it just one tool, Babashka? I believe that puts it on par with Luminus :).

Agreed that the docs could be better written for those new to Clojure. To really do a good job of this I'd want to do some actual user testing with people as they try out Biff for the first time. Main constraint here is just time. I'm always happy to get specific pieces of feedback and try to act on those (perhaps I could make the jacking-in section less prominent). I actually would love to make a course/series of guides for complete Clojure newbies, but until someone hires me full-time to work on Biff I think I'll have to rely on others to write the beginner resources.

In response to your three points:

1. There's a lot of stuff that goes into a web app :). It's also not clear to me that switching from Babashka to Lein templates + Bash scripts would improve this situation (if anything that sounds like it would involve more disjoint parts).

2. To act on this I'd need more specifics about how things are different in Rails / Django / Laravel.

3. Addressed above. There is a step-by-step tutorial at least (https://biffweb.com/docs/tutorial/build-a-chat-app/).
Have you reached out to the people mentioned in the Wikipedia article (directors, producers, etc)?
It’s called the slippery slope fallacy by people who don’t want to grapple with the slippery slope.
I don't want to quibble over a precise definition of "largely available in winter" but I'd say having access vegetables through the end of January, which is half way through the season, is pretty good eating considering their level of technology.
Yeah, I think about ordering sparkling water in South America “agua con gas” when I think of served gas. Not offering gasoline for purchase
30 minutes would require me to be paid very well. It’s also not just 30 min, but 30min with 5min being 2 standard deviations.

Being within 5min or even 10min of work/school/gym/grocery store and close family friends is such a game changer. Bonus if one or more is walking distance, especially close family/friends.
Yet another reason why boot logos are stupid and the good old text-output is the way to go.
Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies
EU Nears Deal to Regulate ChatGPT, Other AI Tech in Landmark Act
Probably due to pricing parity agreed upon by physical retailers. You're right in that they should be cheaper, but Walmart/Gamestop et al. were smart enough to negotiate that early on in digital distribution. For the same reason, many early Steam releases was not beholden to this and thus cheaper.

Nowadays, there's enough market capture that they can simply charge the same amount due to greed, though. But there are early reasons for that.
Gibraltar...
Anything in between is all the downsides of both approaches.

Once you have the flow for deploying always running hot application(s) with autoscaling the benefits of lambda are basically gone.

Low volume scale to zero is just another route. No 15 minute limit, no having to marshal data through other AWS services because that's all lambda talks to, no more eventbridge for cron, no more payload size limits and having to use S3 as buffer, no more network requests between different parts of the same logical app, code deploys are atomic you're either at v1.x or v1.x+1 but never some in-between state.

I really do like Lambda but once you're at the spend where it's the same as some dedicated always-on compute the value drops off.
How can you tell any of these conclusions are valid and it’s not just pattern-matching on random events? Especially if you keep finding that whatever you theorized from some experience is disproven by what happens next.
You think they're trying to price themselves out of the market? The relentless consumer focus on price is part of the reason we have so much non-repairable rubbish these days.
Portugal as well, água com gás. Probably Brazil too.
What does respecting a law have to do with Python?

The venue is safe for the international Python community, or it is not.
> No one I know who wore a mask properly and kept a distance from others were infected with covid.

This is curious as masks don’t protect from contracting covid. They protect from transmitting covid to others.

So it’s quite possible that your observation is accurate. But very unlikely it has anything to do with their mask usage. But there may be other behaviors responsible. Or just fortune.
They do have a boot loader that speaks uart, but are also compatible with jtag and openocd. However, I haven’t needed to burn the pins on jtag because they’ve implemented a gdb stub over uart, including the ability to trap interrupts and dump into a paused gdb session. It’s not ideal, but it’s pretty impressive from a preexisting tools perspective.

This doesn’t really answer your question, but it feels like it’s worth mentioning.
Yeah having privacy protections for everyone really hurts us… Someone releases something shiny so we should just allow them to harvest personal data and manipulate markets so we get access to it… not really a society I think most giants want to live in. I prefer waiting a bit but knowing that Google needs to play on a bit more even field over here. Plus none of the GDPR or DMA are that bad. Just make sure you comply and get it over with. It’s not that hard to build a privacy centric product that doesn’t steal my data.

On 2 yeah it does. Seems like the UK keeps falling behind on everything now that it lives in the shadow of the continent and can’t seem to create any value and nobody cares about that market. So much for the MaSiVe TraDe DeALZ we were getting unlocked…
Smartphone use found to differ between urban and rural areas
The Overlooked Danger That's Massacring Wildlife
Let ads die! They have virtually no lift over organic search anyhow.
I get why not though tablets and phones are completely different mainboard than a laptop and completely different chipsets with their supporting setups and everything. Trying to have a laptop that works as a tablet or a tablet that works as a laptop is a land of tough compromises and that's not even getting into how tough it'd be to make a thin but repairable tablet.
That's interesting.

Does that mean the typical Ruby workload would be a better match for userspace preemptive threads like BEAM?
Yeah he’s living the dream. Truly, do people realise how messed up the situation is in the uk and how nearly all stats that show a positive outlook are fake? Take the nhs, and government ratings. Hospitals rate as good or outstanding but google reviews show 1-2.5 average ratings at most. People waiting in queues, patients begging to see doctors, wrong prescriptions. Schools riddled by drugs and gangs, roads filled with potholes, and the list goes on.

People ignoring these issues dont love the country. Something needs to change asap otherwise the uk will disintegrate.
So, very different from the Shazam/Abracadabra post from the other day. It's a different technique. It would be nice to get a comparison.
I don't get that, because we wait for people to do crimes before we punish them.
Thanks! I have started to do just that. Including the host, who is still alive.
Guro content, loli content, guro loli content. Stuff like "Unfortunate Girl 03". I can't imagine what else would cause such a reaction.
I didn't buy my license, no (or maybe I did in various misc. fees back then. But that's not the largest barrier to owning one). But I do need to purchase the ability to operate my car on my country's roads. Which effectively means my license costs money in some way or form to be usable.

And no, I've never heard anyone say they "bought a license". But I've never heard anyone say they "rented a movie in perpetualty" either. Real life conversation generally isn't that verbose.
Bah. Should've used PCX files for that extra steganographic space goodness. (JPG is too easy.)

If you can't create punchcards or hex blindfolded, there are always tools:

[pdf] https://www.pedramhayati.com/images/docs/survey_of_steganogr...

[zip] https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/archive/idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it...

[zip] https://web.archive.org/web/20230828124101/https://dl.packet...
Wikidata, Wiktionary, and Wiki Commons all heavily contribute to and compliment Wikipedia.

Wikinews is fine. It's not original but it's also not harmful to have more in that space.

Wikibooks and Wikiversity seem like they should be merged. Same for Wikisource and Wikiquote.

Wikivoyage is just not well made and there are other better projects out there

Wikispecies should just be a result of Wikidata, not a new project. Catalogue of Life (taxonomy) is much more thorough, rigorous, complete, and maintainable. No academic would use Wikispecies over COL. Misguided hobbyists might and that's a problem. And Open Tree of Life (phylogeny) already (thoroughly) serves the purpose of centralizing phylogenetic studies so there's really no unique thing Wikispecies provides and it gets outcompeted on the things it does provide.

Wikifunctions... I'm gonna be honest. I really think it's not well thought out and wish it didn't exist. I know a lot of people have already poured in a lot of effort into it and I always hate to shit on that, but as a long time Wikipedian I hate to see Wikimedia's name backing this up. Especially when I feel there are already other efforts out there that are more complete, better thought out, and better organized that would benefit from more contributors
Google Image Search: "Skyrmion"
... there's plenty of privacy-respecting Chromium-derivative browsers...
It's not obvious governments have more money than ever, at least not relative to costs. The age of the population is going up and that makes some services like healthcare far more expensive. If governments really wanted to they could find the money to keep quality constant, but it would actually involve both making a choice and getting more money than the government previously had.
I assume it's these:

https://youtu.be/fQGbXmkSArs

https://youtu.be/ZTidn2dBYbY

https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg
It's two 74 pin connectors that's way too many to physically switch. Also signal integrity through that many switches sounds like an absolute nightmare.
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_skyrmion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrmion
The vibe I was getting from the paper was that they think something's funny about GPT4's 5-shot MMLU (e.g. possibly leakage into the training set).
It is hard to quantify, but subjectively (and certainly in terms of public perception), each GPT release has been a massive leap over the previous model. Maybe GPT-2 to GPT-3 was the largest, but im not sure how you're judging that a field is stagnating based on one improvement in a series of revolutionary improvements being slightly more significant than the others. I think most would agree the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4 was not marginal, and I think i'll be borne right when the jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5 isn't either. There may be a wall, but i dont't see a good argument that we've hit it yet. If GPT-5 releases and is only marginally better that will be evidence in that direction, but i'm pretty confident that won't happen.

Your analogy is odd because you're just posing a situation that is analgous to what the situation would look like if you turned out to be right. From the rate of improvement recently, i'd say we're more at the first flight test stage. Yes, of course the jump from a vehicle that can't fly to one that can is in some sense a 'bigger leap' than others in the development cycle, but we still eventually got to the moon.
Armor-plating a cat feeder (2016)
We've studied human behavior enough to understand that there are differences between animals in the level of cognition and awareness they (outwardly) exhibit.

Are we not generally good at detecting when someone understands us? Perhaps it's because understanding has actual meaning. If you communicate to me that you hit your head and feel like shit, I not only understand that you experienced an unsatisfactory situation, I'm capable of empathy -- understanding not only WHAT happened, but HOW it feels -- and offering consolation or high fives or whatever.

A LLM has an understanding of what common responses were in the past, and repeats them. Statistical models may mimic a process we use in our thinking, but it is not the entirety of our thinking. Just like computers are limited to the programmers that code their behavior, LLMs are limited to the quality of the data corpus fed to them.

A human, you can correct in real time and they'll (try to) internalize that information in future interactions. Not so with LLMs.

By all means, tell us how statistically weighted answers to "what's the next word" correlates to understanding.
I find this interesting as we attempt to approach AGI. Good results may come from unexpected places.

This study explores jumping spiders, which exhibit relatively high signs of cognition, while they do not share many of the paths to high cognition which have been traditionally believed to be required.
Here's an article about about a NEWAG train that got derailed while evacuating Ukrainian refugees. There were 250 people onboard. It's the same Impuls model.
https://esanok.pl/2022/ustjanowa-wykoleil-sie-pociag-z-uchod...
The details page for each function seems to let you look at the implementations of that function. I expect more interesting ones to show up in the coming months or years.
Hmm, I see your point. Couldn't such CPU bugs be patched / mitigated in software (which would then incur some performance penalties) ?
I'm still getting:

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
Subject: *.safezone.mcafee.com

Issuer: McAfee OV SSL CA 2
I’ve actually found that ESPHome is sufficient for most basic use cases
Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
> .lgbt is a sponsored top-level domain for the LGBT community, sponsored by Identity Digital.

I cannot say I'm familiar with the domain name business. My experience of being lured into buying "non-standard" gTLD with single digit registration price, only to be hit with renewal that is at least ten-times as expensive, prompted me to stick to .org, .net.

Seeing this domain name not being owned by non-profit org would make me look at the renewal term twice before being potentially taken advantage of.

Edit: I got curious and took a look at namecheap:

- .org: $8.98 register, $14.98 renewal

- .net: $11.98 register, $14.98 renewal

- .gay: $12.98 register, $30.98 renewal

- .lgbt: $11.98 register, $56.98 renewal

I wouldn't say this is unaffordably high, although personally it would leave a bad taste in my mouth.

source: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/gtld/lgbt

(replace "lgbt" with any other TLD you wanna check)
Thoughts from 2023
Yes and no. In the paper, they do compare apples to apples with GPT4 (they directly test GPT4's CoT@32 but state its 5-shot as "reported"). GPT4 wins 5-shot and Gemini wins CoT@32. It also came off to me like they were implying something is off about GPT4's MMLU.
This is a particular implementation of the QUIC protocol (which is now fixed). Do you think there haven't been vulnerabilities against TCP? Certainly TCP is battle-hardened, but QUIC will get there too.
Y-axis in those charts doing a shitload of work.
> Is this a tool for computer scientists to use in mapping the standard functions in various languages, rather than a reference resource for the working coder?

Neither of these. The video on https://www.wikifunctions.org/ gives a better explanation. If I understand it correctly, the project seems to be aimed at providing building blocks to more complex functions. Once the basic functions are defined in programming languages and described using natural language, you'll then be able to create new functions without writing any code, just by using existing blocks. Because each function is supposed to be described in multiple natural languages, you will be able to utilize them even if you don't speak English. Whatever you create you'll be able to embed on Wikipedia pages to perform calculations (e.g. automatic unit conversions) or string transformations.
That's your opinion. Smartphones have already brought about the trusted computing only world you fear, for non-technical users. The biggest distinction of general computing then, is the ability to run untrusted executables. Hardware is cheap enough these days that having a secure device dedicated to banking/whatever isn't out of the question. And with Google making virtual machines basically a primitive on Android, having an unlocked system but with trusted VMs inside seems to be the next step in allowing users to have local admistrative access, if they so choose. I don't doubt that ChromeBooks and iPadOS devices will. continue to be popular, but at the very least, there will always be a need for developers to have unrestricted systems to develop on, which, I believe, means that they'll exist until all software ever needed has been written.
This is accurate. Many people claim to be “bad” at art or music, but both can be learned by almost anyone up to a certain functional level in the same way you would learn a vocation. You won’t be Picasso or Hendrix, but you’ll have a level of competency to accomplish most tasks.

As an adult I learned to draw and to write legibly because—-to me—-those are valuable “intrinsic tools”.

I made sure my daughter received a foundational music education from a young age, and she can play several instruments with a high level of proficiency based on hours invested, not natural talent.

We often don’t value the arts the same way we do other practical skills, and to me, that’s a shame.
> In Visual Studio Code, there is an extension called Hex Editor, which lets you view and edit the binary file.

I'll take this opportunity to bring up a method to patch binary data in True Scots^H^H^H^H^HHackerman fashion, using nothing more than vim and xxd, which are already installed everywhere (for some definition of "everywhere").

LiveOverflow describes it between 5:02-7:46 in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNyf3UM9Yc&t=302s

It is the `:%!xxd` and `:%!xxd -r` trick.

(Trying it out again before commenting here, it seems like one might need to `:set nofixeol` beforehand so as not to append any nonexistent newline at the end of file).

My mind is blown by this trick, and I've still never got around to understanding wtf is happening here. (ETA: Upon some thought, I reckon `xxd -r` can just chug along happily by completely ignoring the ascii rendering columns.)
Very cool. How long until someone writes PyPi/npm packages to import/use these functions by Z number?

Speaking of which, are there already packages to access wikidata by objects' Q numbers? The two could work together quite well, with a bit of caching.
I'm having trouble getting Paste to work into the Import text box in Firefox.
As a software developer?
Verbally || Literally

Mate. It doesn't matter how we can blame others' estimation.
It only matters that we do blame others' estimation.

Besides, in this case, it's the hardware guy's fault. He's <waves hands> over there somewhere.
I am seeing this much more frequently in services I use. Rarely, they have a small option that says "use password instead".

I agree that it's pretty frustrating, since I have strong passwords in my password manager. Like another poster, I assume its used because it provides better security for the majority.
First principles and curiosity > blithe unconcern about the "magic box". Likewise, coders who don't have enough understanding all the way down the stack including hardware are merely engineer posers in it for a paycheck.
By all means, tell us how statistically weighted answers to "what's the next word" correlates to understanding.

By all means, tell me what makes you so certain you're not arguing with an LLM right now. And if you were, what would you do about it, except type a series of words that depend on the previous ones you typed, and the ones that you read just prior to that?

A human, you can correct in real time and they'll (try to) internalize that information in future interactions. Not so with LLMs.

Not so with version 1.0, anyway. This is like whining that your Commodore 64 doesn't run Crysis.
Summary: "In 1968, thousands of sheep died mysteriously in Skull Valley, Utah. The cause was traced back to a nerve agent test conducted by the US Army at the Dugway Proving Grounds. The test involved an airplane spraying a potent nerve agent called VX over a remote section of the Utah desert. However, due to a malfunction, the chemical continued to leak from the plane as it climbed to a higher altitude. Strong winds carried the nerve agent to Skull Valley, causing the death of the sheep. Despite evidence pointing to the nerve agent as the cause of the deaths, the Army has not officially taken responsibility for the incident."
The main real world impacts I've seen from twitter are people being canceled after social media outrage and twitter as a backdoor to getting customer service.

Twitter doesn't really "make news". People talk about news on twitter and lazy news orgs (desperate for free, zero-effort content) post commentary from rando twitter users about the non-twitter news that sometimes actually matters.

Occasionally companies do announce things on Twitter, although most of the time they have a press release or blog post on their own websites that say the exact same thing. That said, there are a few extremely cheap/lazy government officials/offices that use twitter to announce things while failing to provide that information elsewhere and that should really change.

Twitter is a whole lot of advertising. The PR teams of celebrities, advertisers that call themselves influencers, and bots drive the platform.

Twitter isn't usually where things happen, it's where random people talk about things that are happening elsewhere. The vast majority of twitter is as totally worthless and unnecessary as the hot takes found on facebook or the selfies posted to instagram. If twitter were shut down tomorrow and all that content were wiped off the face of the Earth little, if anything at all, of any consequence would change beyond people wasting more of their time on other social media platforms.
The ask was for examples to niche content.

The world of doujinshis is a subculture, and therefore a niche. No value judgment made, but it's kinda similar to asking for a niche art style and getting upset when someone says "pixel art" in a world of live action and photorealistic CGI.

I'm just like, "do you want niche, or taboo? It's already niche."
Oracle were present at the event today and said it themselves. Also, it has been widely reported for months now that this is happening.
I assumed it was to rapidly clarify that it was Portland, Oregon and not Portland, Maine

Of course Portland, OR would be quick enough to type too