skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I’m an engineer in the passenger rail industry who often reviews and has input into the HTL (hazard tracking log). Stopping the train is assumed 100% safe for passengers and crew.

(Edit: you might be able to find some of these online, as regulators sometimes publish them for comment if there is a waiver request… not going to dox myself though)

Your point about external grade crossing hazards is valid… but also completely avoidable unless the train is super long (IE: not a passenger train) or the train was already going slow (like just leaving a station or signal).

There are separate system safety plans to ensure that timely/safe evacuation is possible regardless of where the train stops.

In the absolutely worst case, this means coupling another train and waiting the ~30 mins for people to walk through the train to the new cars, then uncoupling.
You're still wrong. Here are 2 uses.

brown shirt (plural brown shirts)

1. Alternative form of Brownshirt

2. A worker whose role is identified by a uniform with a brown or khaki shirt.

> We really could use a brown shirt in the Park.
2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, page 36

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brown_shirt

digital brownshirt (plural digital brownshirts)

1. (slang, US, derogatory) A right-wing blogger.

> "They paid actors to make make phony video press releases and paid cash to some reporters who were willing to take it in return for positive stories. And every day they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President."
Al Gore (October 2005), “Al Gore Addresses We Media”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/digital_brownshirt#English
To save people looking it up, _aqua regia_ (wikipedia- 'literally "regal water" or "royal water"') is a mixture of nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a 1:3 ratio.

It was used by alchemists, as it can dissolve gold.
Somehow these ligatures trigger subvocalization in my brain, with the silent "author's voice" speaking with a lisp. Probably not what was intended.
It's more like 64kbs vs 128kbps than copper vs gold cables if you want to keep the analogy
An introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python
https://hastie.su.domains/ISLP/ISLP_website.pdf.download.htm...

Series: https://www.statlearning.com
I never gave it much thought until I started posting my 3d renders online. Began to find serious issues, especially around posterized backgrounds as the article mentions. A problem which is exacerbated by the vignettes that renderers offer.
Not yet active community notes:

> This feature has been available in Microsoft Word since at least 2020 and has to be turned on manually.

https://www.howtogeek.com/677694/how-to-check-for-inclusive-...
Sending an email absolutely involves IO.
I think you can run Leafnode if you want to host your own, small groups. Otherwise (my understanding) you need to peer with other providers and be able to consume something like 30-100TB/day if you want all groups on the network (unless you can find providers to peer with that let you limit groups)

Some discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/ziqdh2/become_my_ow...
https://www.youtube.com/@algorithmicsimplicity - that series cleared up the fundamental question about transformers I couldn't find an answer for in many recommended materials.

Here's also nice tour de building blocks, which could also double as transformers/tensorflow API reference documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXuk97NeSI&t=207s

The #1 visualization of architecture and size progression: https://bbycroft.net/llm
Another source of doctor supply-side issues is the number of doctors graduating each year not increasing with the population. Medical schools are highly regulated and love that exclusivity, limiting seats in schools means scarcity and higher prices.
The Magic of Dreams
Fine-tuning can also make RAG perform better. You can eliminate the need to waste prompt tokens on n-shot examples, and you can get a much more consistent output for your domain.
Why go for such a small number? Raise Graham's Number to the power of itself -- at the very least.

https://research.phys.cmu.edu/biophysics/2021/01/09/nobody-c...

I'm sure it can be entertaining to try and deal the largest possible finite amount of damage, which requires finding uncommonly large numbers.
I am hoping that ruff goes after type checking next to replace mypy which is pretty slow. One tool to rule them all
This. A "secure layer on top" would be something more like HTTPS over HTTP.
>It's funny how Cinebench is biased against Apple,

I dont see that. Cinebench still shows Apple is just about the same ahead of its competition.
I had similar results trying out Amazon Q. I fed it a copy of our employee handbook and had it scrape our corporate website. My idea is that this could be a good fit for an HR bot.

I asked it a few simple fact based questions, such as who our CEO is. It answered with our previous CEO based on an old press release. I asked it what year it is, and it couldn’t say. A few other specific fact based questions were either wrong or unanswered.

So I asked it higher level questions about what the corporation does. It was able to answer those.

Finally, I began asking questions about policies in the handbook. When I asked about harassment, it refused to provide any answers. It felt like I was filtered. Filtering will kill the utility of these products. Something like a legal practice is messy business that the filter won’t like.
Thanks for the inspiring discussion. I think the one`s output can be the other's input so I am still not sure if we can say that this can't become AGI
Comparing with Beyond Compare:

https://imgur.com/a/xatzZt7

--

Hoping the conversion doesn't add extra noise, I converted them (with ImageMagick: `convert image.webp image.png`) and compared them (Beyond Compare doesn't support WEBP).

Of course I have a non-educated eye as the article puts it, but if still with machine help I cannot see a difference in light dithering, there must be something off.

The second photo (of a man) is more clear in proving the point. This should probably have been used as the first example in the article.
The support was never complete to begin with, so the removal wasn't due to nobody using it. Some rivalry between different teams inside Google is more likely.
That charitable interpretation would have been okay unless the Chrome team (yes, "Google" is not a single entity here) tried to publish a faulty benchmark [1] that has been thoroughly criticized [2] which never has been answered so far.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html

[2] https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons
I wiped my phone screen a few times until I accepted it is part of the text. Is that a toggle in the text editor? And if it is then should reader clients have a counter toggle for it? I'm thinking autocrlf style.
A close up section of the same zone in the images would make them visible. I could hardly see the artefacts in the first place as my attention was caught with the highly contrasted parts of the images.
I thought neural meant df/dx optimization applied to a giant function.
The KC85/2 (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc852.html) also only supported uppercase, AFAIK mainly because there wasn't enough room left in ROM for the lowercase characters.

The followup model KC85/3 (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc853.html) added the lowercase characters though, and the KC85/4 changed the font for better readability (but IMHO aesthetically less pleasing than the KC85/3 font): https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc854.html

...and when connecting such a machine to a TV via antenna input, reading the KC85/3 lowercase characters was indeed a bit of guesswork.
Others have noted you got the CD-R speeds wrong, but sometimes sending is indeed easier than receiving. I used to work on radio signal processing for phones, and we'd spend far more of both DSP cycles and engineering effort on the receive side. Transmission is basically just implementing a standardized algorithm, but on the receive side you can do all kinds of clever things to extract signal from the noise and distortions.

Video codecs like h264 or VP9 are the opposite: Decoding is just following an algorithm, but an encoder can save bits by spending more effort searching for patterns in the data.
> The idea that Google has some secret underhanded deal with Mozilla to sabotage Firefox comes up here repeatedly and makes no sense.

That idea is supported by recent disclosures revealing that Google paid or attempted to pay Activision, Aniplex, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Blizzard, Com2uS, EA, King, Mixl, Niantic, NCSoft, NetMarble, NetEase, Nexon, Nintendo, Pearl Abyss, The Pokemon Company, Riot, Square Enix, Supercell, Tencent, and Ubisoft to influence each company’s product roadmap. [1]

I think it makes sense that they would attempt to exert similar influence over an entity whose continued existence is entirely dependent on revenue received from Google and (ostensibly) competes with one of their of their strategic initiatives.

Sure, it’s speculation, but it’s not wild speculation.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23954107/here-is-the-full...
Did anyone notice? We now have 5 different ways to install this package.
I'm sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)

But I would LOVE to see this transformed into a game engine/game dev IDE. Imagine if anyone with a smartphone could create photorealistic character models in under a minute. Hell, players could even provide themselves as character models ad-hoc without involving any devs.

It would be a renaissance moment for game development speed and accessibility, and make things like 'asset store games' irrelevant.

Imagine an LLM built to understand a base game engine template code, and also able to perform gaussian splat transformation on frames of input video.

It also seems like it could be the missing link for AR/VR crossing the uncanny valley.
I think they have custom rules in the works, using `trustfall` query engine and yaml definitions

https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/tree/main/crates/oxc_quer...
I'm not sure there's a way around that.
Arc for windows is in private beta. I don’t know if they have a Linux version in the cards.
Point (2) provides a helpful framework for evaluating various assertions about the war. It doesn't exempt Israel from criticism. However, the original post extends far beyond mere criticism; it seems more aligned with a propaganda narrative, unfortunately.

Point (1) aims to highlight a counterpoint to a comparable yet opposing claim - the expulsion of Arabs in 1948. The claim from 1948 continues to fuel hostilities to this day.
I love the fact that one of them has launched radially and another tangentially, it will be interesting to look at the orbit of each Voyager when they finish a full rotation around the Sun.
Should be a few hundred years until the Borg upgrade it I think.
I guess I don't get the context?

WebP is barely supported. For decades the only choice in lossy compression is JPEG, which notoriously sucks for diagrams and basically anything that isn't a photograph. So the rest of the world finally gets a format they can use, and the photographers are angry that the world doesn't revolve around them anymore?

So what if it is worse for photography? Should we continue chasing our tails for another ten years before we find the perfect format? I'm sick of data visualizations drowning in JPEG artifacts.

I'm not opposed to AVIF or whatever, but I don't care about the author's complaints. JPEG is still there. If you want to use it, go ahead.
This site made me add my first-ever global Stylus sheet:

* {
font-variant-ligatures:unset!important;
}

I'm pretty infuriated that this is necessary, why would someone abuse readability so much for their own personal satisfaction about how "cool and unique" they are? Usability. Comes. First.
Mixtral Expert Parallelism
Even when going multi-cloud you can employ different strategies. Vault is definitely one of them, but you can also use federation to exchange one cloud's credentials for another's, giving you the ability to centralize secrets in one of them. You can use a layer of abstraction like GoCloud [0]. You can also build for each cloud separately and decide either not to centralize secrets at all, or build some trivial bespoke tooling to synchronize some of them. I'm not endorsing any of the options, nor am I trying to argue that Vault is never the right choice, I'm just pointing out that Vault isn't the only viable alternative.

https://github.com/google/go-cloud
they've successfully replace pylama and black so yeah I really hope it's their next target (though handling types is a whole different beast altogether)
His claim is too broad. Why not serve RAW files? For the real enthusiasts
Considering all of the shit that goes on with routers, maybe it's time to say that OpenWRT is the (only)
safe-ish option at this point?
Good luck!
Consul, Terraform and Nomad were pivotal for my carrier.
Went from a server unboxer to a container wizard during the last decade.
Thanks a lot!
Not sure about the rest, but these are a few tools that can help with the community parity part: https://opensauced.pizza, https://www.crowd.dev, and https://bitergia.com
Good for you. Once you noticed the banding issue, you're cursed to see it everywhere.
Yeah, that got on my nerves too. Ligatures (like kerning) are supposed to help make reading more fluent and otherwise blend in, not stand out like a sore thumb. Really not sure what those ligatures are supposed to say - "wow, look how cool this font is, it has ligatures!!!"?!
Another big one on top of my head is Coinbase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664
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There is a truly gigantic demand for this - I expect you won't be waiting too long.
Quick reaction: Start a rumor that C-suite is looking to axe the deadwood in their middle management, and sees "managers not aligned with the company's priorities" as obvious targets.
I think saying its US only is oversimplifying, its at least also true in some european markets.
This can only be good news. Normally I, like anyone else experienced with the JS ecosystem, despair when new tools come out like this. However, consider:

- setting up eslint isn't actually that simple

- if you're using typescript you need eslint-typescript too

- there are sets of rules in both eslint and eslint-typescript that conflict with each other, so I have countless rules in my config like this:

'comma-dangle': 'off',
'@typescript-eslint/comma-dangle': ['error', 'always-multiline'],

- then if you're doing React there's another set of JS and TS rules to apply, I still never figured out how to correctly apply airbnb rules

- this is a pretty garbage developer experience

- you can quite literally spend hours or days getting a "good" linting/formatting configuration setup, and you often can only use pieces of the configs you wrote for other repos because over time the rules and settings seem to change

- I hope this will eventually support things such as .astro files which is actually a combination of TypeScript and TSX blocks

> At this stage, oxlint is not intended to fully replace ESLint; it serves as an enhancement when ESLint's slowness becomes a bottleneck in your workflow.

I also hope that eventually it does become a full replacement. I like eslint, but holy shit, I cannot bring myself to create a new config from scratch that wrestles all the required extras and the frequently changing dependencies.

Also, wanted to give a sort of shout out to Deno here. Deno comes with a linter/formatter built in that is barely configurable (just double vs single quote, 2 or 4 space indentation, minor things) and it too is very fast and simply "just works".

---

Update: I just gave it a quick try and I am immediately impressed by it. Not only was it incredibly fast like it claims, it appears to already have all of the rules I was complaining about built in.

eslint-plugin-react(jsx-no-useless-fragment): Fragments should contain more than one child.
╭─[src/design/site/preact/MobileNavigationMenu.tsx:18:1]
18 │ return (
19 │ <>
· ──
20 │ <MenuButton isOpen={isOpen} onChange={setIsOpen} />

Finished in 17ms on 90 files with 70 rules using 16 threads.
Found 13 warnings and 0 errors.
Calling the European conquest of the Americas 'immigration' is kind of like calling operation Barbarossa 'tourism'.

I also think the anecdote is kind of ridiculous. There was no India when the Parsis arrived. There was no India for a millennia after the Parsis arrived. The whole concept of assimilation to 'Indian culture' is even more ridiculous than it is to vastly more uniform (and vastly smaller) european cultures, because India, to its credit, is composed of hundreds of distinct cultures. Especially if you are going to backproject India (a country founded in 1947) to 700 ad.
> 50-100 Times Faster than ESLint

> Our previous linting setup took 75 minutes to run, so we were fanning it out across 40+ workers in CI. By comparison, oxlint takes around 10 seconds to lint the same codebase on a single worker[…]

So it's in fact 18000 times faster on this embarrassingly parallel problem (but doing less for now).
As an aside, I think your product site could be a bit more precise on some of the language; your homepage states "Harriet never trains on your data.", but your FAQ states "She is powered by LLMs [...] but trained on your company info" and "Harriet is trained on your documents" :)

I assume what you're meaning is that the generic model itself is not trained on company data, but is using retrieval techniques with the actual company data when used.
This is all trivial (in fact much, much easier) to do with a handful of tiny custom APIs instead of what HTML5 provides (there are plenty of native window system glue library examples which have much saner APIs for window and input handling: GLFW, a subset of SDL, winit...).

Rendering an UI that even remotely looks "native" is harder with HTML+CSS than a handful of straightforward rendering primitives which can be implemented on top of WebGPU.

High quality text rendering is a bit non-trivial of course, but that's also only an issue if you want to do a native-looking UI (but mostly irrelevant for games).
Exactly. It's not a faceless corporation or say, its IT systems doing good or evil. It's the (groups of) people running that corporation & wielding its resources as tools.

That said: what systems you encounter & how they behave, may tell you something about the ethics of the people that put them in place.

As a consequence: if corporation / system / product behaves 'evil', don't direct your anger at those. Instead, direct your anger (or praise!) at the people who created & manage them.

For convenience, "company Y did Z" remains a valid phrase. As long as you're aware that "company Y" is just a placeholder meaning "people working for company Y".
> And method calls aren't magical function calls

Precisely, unlike C++/Java/Python/Go, Ruby and Smalltalk methods are invoked through message passing†; ObjC as well.

Superficially it looks the same but the farther you go into the rabbit hole, the more you see each paradigm has deep consequences that end up surfacing here or there when you compare one language to the other.

> you do have blocks, but they're invoked by calling a method on them

Again, same in Ruby: an implicit block can only be called directly by `yield` inside the binding the block is internally tied to, or if it has been reified into a Proc, to which one sends the `call` message.

† Hence `respond_to?` and `send` in Ruby, often used to circumvent privacy checks done by syntactic `.method` invocation. This is also what enables invoking methods that don't actually exist with `method_missing` (to be paired with `respond_to_missing?`).
> You can pass –stack if you want the snow to pile up

The flag is --stack of course (I checked), but somewhere a helpful formatting engine replaced two hyphens with an en dash.
Only if you have another iOS/macOS device receiving them at home.

If you don't receive iMessages it will automatically fall back to SMS (unless the sender specifically turned that feature off).
BingChat is providing misinformation about elections, can they fix it?
I am reading recent reports about the functioning of Bing Chat, the integration between GPT4 and Bing search engine. It seems that this "new generation of search engines" is polluting trustworthy sources introducing factual errors when summarizing articles about sensitive topics like elections.

The most concerning thing is that Microsoft is aware of the problem, and it seems to not be able to fix it.

Can someone point me some good arguments saying why this Generative Search Engines can be a step forward in accessing information on the web and not a (very costly and energy consuming) step back for the information ecosystem?

I don't understand if I am too pessimistic or if they are actually selling something that is not going to work for such tasks, because of its stochastic structure, and there is nothing they can do to fix it.
Unfortunately, this is not at all the case.

Collabora "pressure-vessel" (used by valve) is limited as it does not follow the ELF ABI for all ELF binaries, and does take of lot of shortcuts for provider software packages it must import (datafile locations, critical environment variables, etc), and if you don't have "ubuntu", you are done for: I have often arguments with one "pressure-vessel" devs because it is breaking my distro even though it is very vanilla and simple, but not "ubuntu" breaking many of their "shortcuts".

And games would like to run en elf/linux distros without "pressure-vessel" (as far as I know, is not open source), as a set of clean ELF binaries.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel: engines, like godot, unity, UE5 (I think) seems very carefull about ABI issues on elf/linux and the game devs don't need to worry about cherry picking backward symbol version, avoid symbol collision with system ones as it is done for them by engine devs.

But you have engines which expect too much from the user system, that beyond video game core libs/interface: like electron (google blink), which expects a specific version of GTK+ on the user system... so the end of the tunnel is still far away for them.
I never used Yahoo Pipes. Was it primarily for automating for manipulating stuff grabbed from the web. Or could you also usefully use it to wrangle/ETL local data files and databases?
Yeah, it’s unconscionable that that such a small percentage of the population have access to clean, drinking water, given its triviality and creating

So yes 100% of the population having clean water seems like the low bar

As to flying, it’s probably good there aren’t more flyers
> In general, the closer the name is to either end of the author list, the more significant their contributions likely were.

In ML, NLP, and many Humanities too, the supervisor (supervising professor/postdoc, lab head, PI) is put last regardless of contribution. The rest of the author list is ranked in descending order for contribution. Often the last author's contributions are very limited to obtaining funding or proof-reading.

Now this practice is controversial with many venues stating that obtaining funding and only supervising is not a valid reason for authorship, but in my experience this practice doesn't die out.