skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to not have issues with Java or .net, but with npm it’s very painful; I need to pin everything as updates, even minor ones, break whole slews of things. And that’s with dependencies of dependencies of dependencies. If you are not a consulting outfit (I suspect consultancy outfits love the js ecosystem; every day something breaks so that’s another few $150/hr hours), but have a company with 100+ applications installed that actively make or help you make your bottom line, you want them to run in peace for years or decades. If no new features or security issues arrive, you don’t want to spend $0.01 on them as what’s the point of that?

And that’s where this new fangled crap falls down: we have Django and .net apps running that are 10 years old, php and java ones 15-20 years old that all survived without much or any work. We have apps in js/typescript from 1 year ago that have bucketloads of deprecated, no longer supported, mandatory update warnings. It’s a pita so we are looking to move back to php or/and Django.

I can see that in a startup with a dedicated team, this would be no issue; you are on top of all and working daily.

Note as well that for some products (the more regulated of our products; financial/health/gov) have strict dependencies we all have to vet; in our experience of the past 4 years, it’s not a hallucination that npms change so often without any useful new features or fixes; just some useless dep updates that sometimes break things and weren’t needed, at all (you do not always need the latest version of everything ya know); I suspect (but maybe someone here knows) is that npms often update because it gives the authors more kudos somehow (as in; if posting many videos on TikTok ups your engagement; does that work for npm updates and new useless npms too?).
I'd love to reinvent computing from scratch and fix this. There's no good reason it should take so (comparatively) long for modern PC's to boot. It's a symptom of all the complexity grafted on over the decades.
If both the host and guest have internet access you are network complete. To access the file systems of both computers you can use Samba shares or use a file sharing application like the one I am working on at https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

If the guest is does not have internet access then create a virtual switch and on the guest settings add a second nic set to host-based adapter.
The original comment said "mobile". That doesn't mean any specific single test case. I'm using a chrome derivative.

And to be really blunt, I don't care if it works for you. It doesn't for me.

I get a "larger than screen size", undismissable popup. No, it's not me. No, I don't care to debug it, nor why that one site out of thousands, is like that.

Their site is broken, and that's all I need to know. Off to another website I go!

(I detest things popping up whilst I am reading. If a stranger snuck up, and shoved something in between a paper book or magazine I was reading, in real life, I'd probably push them away and threaten them to stop. Or else. They'd get a punch in the nose of they kept it up.

It's just abusive.

So if this little scheme to pester me goes wrong, I have little sympathy for the buffoonery involved.)
While on that site I tried to open it in Netscape, to open it in another Netscape so I can create a feedback loop that would take the world back to 1998. Sadly, that version of Netscape can't open new websites.
Need more context for conversation. Could you elaborate a bit?
First of all being labeled an 'artist' has little relation to the tools used to create 'art'. 'Art' by 'artists' does inlude the Sistene Chapel amf the Matthew Passion, but also trowing a bucket of paint at a canvas, wrapping a bridge, having ice melt and dragging a urinal into a museum.

That does not make you an artist whenever you spill ketchup on your shirt, wrap a Chrismas gift or pour yourself a scotch on the rocks.

Second, while you can indeed just type a prompt into Midjourney and some images will be generated, there are 'artists' using diffusion models to meticulously craft 'art' using hundreds of itrrations combining dozens of models and loras with inpainting. outpainting, recomposing and fusing, dtawing and more to come to a unique piece of 'art'.

Third, didn't we have the same thing before? Are DJ's musicians? Some most definetly are. Creating new music by adapting, restructuring. remixing and extending existing tracks, while others use turntables as a real instrument. Others just put on some records at a wedding.

It's about intention and context, and yes,
creativity and skill, not about the tools used.
Amazing, thank you!

PS: where/what can I follow to know when it is published? Could you share your colleague github handle (I guess he'll have one :) )?
I see a lot of glowing comments here. I tried it but couldn’t finish. It’s very confusing. It constantly mentions things, places and events that have not been properly introduced.

Minor spoilers ahead.

One of the major characters is a vampire. The character is introduced as if everyone knows what a vampire is. And it’s kinda true. Readers probably have some idea what it is. So do characters in the world. But about it turns out vampires in the world are quite different to what a common reader might know. And this gets first explained about third way in the book.

Things get explained eventually but I just got tired being confused all the time. Do I need to remember this thing I’m told? Do I rely on my prior knowledge or do I get a different explanation later? Do I reread past parts when I get those explanations in case I took things wrong?

I see why people are excited about all the ideas in the book but it’s an extremely hard read. I wonder whether people are attached to it mostly because they had to work hard to get through it.
From the report:

> A total of 12 successful prosecutions have been reported since 2021,
with many related to the uncontrolled processing (dry cutting) of engineered stone materials

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/202...
Honestly, that happened to me. Was making some UI elements for a game, and tried to generate some. After a while, I was so tired of getting results that weren't quite what I wanted that I just drew them.

It certainly has its place, but the "its taking people's jobs" argument kinda fell apart for me after that moment
Bezos got a tax credit for his kids.

These things are for people to deliver. Not people who don't have money to deliver.

That's why the billionaires kid working at the grocery counter gets paid the same even though he's chauffeured to work in a Bentley
I remember them because that's where I gave up reading it.
GBIF is recruiting a software developer
The GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen is looking for a staff software developer to work in a small team responsible for the GBIF.org infrastructure. This role will focus on back-end systems and all aspects related to the GBIF API and data services. The post is a full-time position located in Copenhagen for a period of three (3) years with possibility of renewal.
I may not have made it clear enough, but my first line was meant to be absurd and obviously wrong.

I think a service should focus on how it provides value to users, not the other way around. People use it because of what it provides to them, not because they desire to support the company's bottom line.

GitHub built a remarkably valuable product, which attracted 100M users and $1B in revenue. It has tons of public features that never required login. They could have put search, or any number of other things, behind a login at any point in the last 15 year. But they didn't, because that's not actually a good thing to do. Doing that can only ever make the feature less usable.

What drives them to do it now is unclear. Perhaps just wanting to juice their login numbers or whatever. But, performing little bait-and-switches on random features isn't going to make people use them more or spend more money. It's going to make them seek hedges against the destruction of the features they enjoy.

As for my link, the search result speed for users is directly related to cost per query, unless you believe that all of this is fake and the new search system is secretly just a bunch of expensive new hardware.
> more details about the "geometric XOR filter"?

I know we don’t typically say this here but, you have a very relevant username for your question xoranth :D
Thank you for providing the correct link. I just read through it, and I guess you could stretch the first paragraph very, very far to make it compatible with "the feds punishing Musk for not participating in their well documented censorship operations", but unless Mr. Carr has brought something like this up more explicitly, it seems like you're trying to read something into it that he didn't write. There are many ways to interpret his initial paragraph without asserting some "well documented censorship operations" (which I do not believe exist).
Not at all, that is Microsoft appealing to the UNIX culture, that everything should be headless on a server.

Hence Windows Nano Server, and everything configuration setting being available via scripting.

I thought HN would appreciate that.
we probably will be a 555
Ppe is available and the dangers known and in a short time there was a huge spike in sick workers starting shortly after it’s introduction . It’s clearly more dangerous stuff to work with then other materials that were in use.

It’s not short sighted to save lives
Google exists, you know.
The opposite. The trade unions pushed this through.
From the report (page 56):

Exposure to RCS from engineered stone causes silicosis typified by a faster onset and more rapid progression than that caused by RCS [Respirable crystalline silica] from other sources, including natural stone.

When engineered stone is processed, the dust generated contains higher levels of RCS, and that RCS has different physical and chemical properties that likely contribute to the more rapid and severe disease. There is also evidence to suggest that other components of engineered stone may contribute to the toxic effects of engineered stone dust, either alone or by exacerbating the effects of RCS.

...

The increased risks posed by RCS from engineered stone, increased rate of silicosis diagnosis amongst
engineered stone workers, and the faster and more severe disease progression amongst this group,
combined with a multi-faceted failure of this industry to comply with the model WHS laws means that
continued work with engineered stone poses an unacceptable risk to workers. The use of all engineered
stone should be prohibited.

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/202...
What prevents literally anybody from continuing to support Chromium? Has Microsoft ran out of competent engineers?
>But this doesn't mean that Azure and AWS also had to wait

The article says they didn't wait, but got informed.
What are you suggesting? They shouldn't secure their services before public disclosure?
Edlin, of course.
>pouch-style N95 mask

No profession experience, yet the pouch style I found both uncomfortable at higher temperatures and unreliable. So for a normally hobby/around-the-house work I use only half mask respirator Pretty much, it requires proper shaving to ensure it actually does something.
Those people are literally North Koreas elite.
Lead is used in brass for corrosion resistance even in handling drinkable water. It does not markedly leach into the water and increases the usability of the plumbing from less than 5 years to more than 30 years.

Gas welding the material results in lead fumes. There is a big quarrel about the usage of lead in water pipe connector brass parts going on in the EU.
UnRAID Pro license.
Yes, there was such feature and I would be surprised if it would be still there; it was probably killed shortly after they introduced Messenger in place of Chat
Everything is available via CLI for ages, on the Windows NT linage.

VBScript, JScript and nowadays Poweshell.
On a scale of 1-10, how nuanced is an Israeli Extermination Force executing a holocaust upon the prisoners of the Gaza concentration camp?
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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
webassembly may be useable in many javascript environments
I had a business account that was told they were cancelling the service. We were given 3 months or so notice.

What I believe happened (as happened to many other people as can see from rclone forum) is that some people decided that they were going to simply go into "overage" mode, as that assumed that google would keep their data around when over quota, just it be locked into read only mode (so the data would remain, but just be readable, they couldn't add anything to it).

Google decided that this wasn't something they were going to support, so people who went into read only mode, have now been getting the letters that their data is going to be deleted.

i.e. they have been for months paying google for an account that they knew is over quota.

200TB is fairly easily extractable over 3 months from google drive if one plans correctly. You have a 10TB download quota a day, which one would need a gigabit/s connection to hit. If you have only 250megabit connection, it will take 80 days. Bumping up on the 3 month warning I had, but still doable especially if one filters out unnecessary things.
It's not really that hard to understand PPE requirements.

Is it dusty? Wear a mask.

Is it loud? Hearing protection.

And everyone should wear shoes with steel caps.

If you see someone with a bandana over their mouth in sandals you know they are unsafe. They know it too. This is not something that is difficult to understand.
That's how propaganda works, they are trained to project that image of NK abroad
Mother wrongly jailed for 20 years has convictions quashed
The first day of forever in the infinite garden?
Google may not be gone, because it is trying hard to have their own AI, and eat it too.

Google originally had a better page-ranking algorithm than other search-engines of the time. But currently all the big players have and are developing basically the same kind of large-language models.

I can see that Google's dominance is over because others can easily do as good or better with AI, it will not disappear like Alta Vista.
> The difference between a lot of downed trees and a town wiped out is a couple hundred yards and random chance.

... and the fact that American houses tend to be built out of wood and drywall and without a basement to use as an improptu bunker to hide in.
The Terms page goes to "Jaggi Enterprises", "A Modern Investment Fund. We buy, build, and invest in software companies with recurring revenue.".

So maybe this is not really something a guy built for his wife, but some anonymous startup that googled "Which terms rank best on Hacker News" and then wrote the "I did ... my wife .." story?
This has happened before. A white guy originally from South Africa rightly qualified for an "African American" scholarship and got a ton of backlash for it.
You and me think we are but we can't be sure, and many before us have raised a doubt.

As for the prompt(s), to use such a limiting term, they could as well come from a self-reinforcing loop that starts when we're born and is influenced by external stimuli.
Fine, we are agreed then.

I’m just talking about the name because that’s what this thread was about.
So exactly like this package and ninja? Except instead of writing un typed drf serializers you get to write small, concise pydantic models.
We'll definitely blog about it (https://github.blog/). His handle is https://github.com/aneubeck (it's on the thank you slide of my talk btw)
This seems like great advice.

You say don't write your own neural net and backprop implementation. That makes sense to me. What do you suggest using instead, for your suggested projects? I'm guessing tensorflow, based on your suggestions on profiling and debugging tools? Do the papers / projects you suggest map straightforwardly onto a tensorflow implementation, rather than a custom one?
For comfort you'd probably want to get a positive air pressure mask. Those things are wildly underrated. Can even stick on a volatiles filter when relevant.
https://archive.ph/8ITiv
What? No latest windows drivers give full cuda support in wsl out of the box. I am running all kinds of models without any issues at all.
Love the suggestions, especially the one about implementing papers.

Do you have any starters on how one selects papers in the early days, to implement?

Also - any great papers you recommend beginners expose themselves to?
"google product experts" aren't generally google employees and aren't speaking for google.

i.e. that support site is mostly user to user help, which is perhaps an indictment on google in general, but sadly in this case can't be used for saying "where google says".
Thanks for sharing, that's good feedback.
Yes, I got a notification in-app that I could now sign up for Plus two days ago. The notification was only in the web app while using ChatGPT. I didn't get an email. Made me wonder if they chose this (pretty small) in-app-only notice so they can gate signups more easily.
>This is unworkable. You can't penalize a company because their employees did not follow the safety guidelines they promised they would or are legally obliged to follow.

If companies can't be penalized for that, then they'll pull a walmart and "forbid" their workers from taking shortcuts and then set quotas that are impossible to complete without said shortcuts.

If workers don't follow safety guidelines once, there's a simple solution: warning/firing them. If workers don't follow safety guidelines constantly, then the company is complicit in it.
On the page where you show details about the product, I would like to have it include the same product from other Shopify stores by doing an image similarly comparison.

And then highlight how the price compares.

For example, here are some pretty crazy red shoes. But they are too expensive for me. Would be interesting to see if this is the only store selling these shoes, or if someone else has the same shoes much cheaper.

https://www.searchagora.com/products/vasco-4-47fb0f87-5b89-4...
>State actors definitely have these resources. USA, China, Russia at a minimum

Do they? Amazon and Google level knowledge, both from live systems with data like all of Google and Amazon, but also the developers and analysts to look through data from it and to comb through source code? I very much doubt Russia has this at least, but it is a widespread American point of view that Russia has, well, basically everything one day and nothing at all the next (IE. Ukraine war). I doubt anyone -except maybe the US- has this.
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You're right.

But you will note that the point of my response had one objective to prove this statement:

"All innovation is composition plus random generation."

The poster asked for "evidence" behind this statement and I explained to him why what I said is true. There's still "magic" involved with human intelligence but it still has basis in reality and I can use that basis to prove certain statements. That's all I was doing.
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The Geometry of Transistors
A really nice sweet spot between playable and excessive graphics, and the music is great too!
> life begins _before_ conception

In other words reincarnation.

In a way we were set up before birth as said by Jeremiah above, because our DNA existed before we became the fertilized egg. Our DNA was in two parts which were then combined by the act of conception.
ML is so much more than just neural networks.

I would start by taking a free university level course in statistics. Then I would continue with the basics: SVM, linear regression, naive Bayes, gradient boosting, neural nets etc. I would not only train and fine tune them, but I would also build simple ones myself instead of just using libraries. Then I would continue to what you said, participate in Kaggle competitions, try to solve real world problems.

I think that understanding the field from bottom up is priceless. Many people fine tune and train models, but they don't understand how that model works, nor do they know if the model they've chosen is the best fit for the problem they are trying to solve.

It's a rather long path if you really want to get good at it. Like in music: you can learn to play a tune by ear or you can learn to have a good, deep and thorough understanding of music.
So there's no point in disabling frame pointers for 32-bit code running on a 64-bit processor then?
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I use it on a 4GB PI in combination with XSuspender.
It has its drawbacks, but works surprisingly well.

XSuspender - Automatically suspend inactive X11 applications
When an application window loses focus, XSuspender tries to match it to one of the rules in its configuration. If a match is found, the application is sent a SIGSTOP signal (preventing the process from obtaining further CPU time). Upon windows regaining focus, the process is seamlessly continued where it had left off.
No. Still WFH, as usual since the 20th century.
Yes. You can think of it as: If you’re surrounded by an equal amount of mass in every direction (because you’re at the center of a set of spherical mass shells), then the gravitational force in every direction will cancel out.
I think I permanently trained myself out of that by looking at some arc welding when I was about 8 years old. Looked pretty, and brighter than anything I had seen before. (sun, lightning, lasers, etc) Didn't seem to hurt or cause any immediate issues.

Realized how wrong I was when I woke up the next morning, felt like I had gritty sand in my eyes for two or three days.
Hmm. This is either the most sarcastic or misinformed comment I have read in a long time on HN.
But if his ideas, when applied, don't work, or offer at best mild improvements, why would you take them seriously as philosophy or even mysticism?
Try this https://www.bishopbook.com/ and solve the exercises.

I would not recommend doing many things at once.
where is the tool?
The lifetime sales of the Vita and 3DS combined don't even beat out the sales of the Nintendo DS. The dedicated handheld market was killed by the same killer of portable media players and point-and-shoot cameras: the smartphone. Like the other markets, not by the smartphone being better, but by being good enough and always in your pocket.
Also compsci master w/ only ML courses here. I actually enjoyed it and learned tons of stuff which I'd never have learned on my own. Who learns boltzmann machines, self organizing maps (and such) or fourier transformation/wavelets and stuff like that. I've never seen any of those in most ML books or courses and I really enjoyed learning all of these (and these are only the things I can think of right now, it's been a while).
It doesn't support everything. No driver likely does.

An example of one thing missing is the pointer passing interface which limits the ability to create complex extensions. If support was added, the way function creation and virtual tables where wrapped would make it hard to use.

But even more trivial things like a decent interface to incremental blob IO have been left unaddressed.

https://www.sqlite.org/bindptr.html

https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/239
What are really painful if i may ask?
We have some very old node express servers running. I think 20 years old. They still work after so many years. Occasionally I update them. But never really run into issues. For those old php/puthon projects. Do you really have package manager used for those? Most of those old projects are just folders with scripts without any managers.
Release the information to the rest of Google in the same timeframe and in the same way as Amazon, Intel, Linux, BSD, Microsoft, etc.