skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to get a sense of what this can do. The demos look like something from the Web3D era. (Web3D was VRML in XML syntax.) You can make little rooms and put a modest amount of stuff in them. Kind of like Decentraland, etc. There are lots of systems like that. Redblox was promoting theirs yesterday on Reddit. A few car brands have web sites like that. They work fine, but you're done in ten minutes.

It's when you scale up the world complexity and size that these simple approaches come un-glued.

The Croquet web site is "sign up now for waitlist", not "Here's our world".
Yes, but that line of thought doesn't really help when the small disk is rolling around the inside of the large disk, not the outside.
Respectfully, I think you need to refocus your threat model here.

I think you should first focus your efforts on understanding what LLMs are and the non-technical aspects of how they work, since the threat you described basically... doesn't exist? (Or rather, in the scenarios it does exist you'll have much bigger problems than your sub's number of subscribers)

First off, "OpenAI" can't "disobey its instructions to be positive and solution-oriented" because OpenAI is a company that creates, licenses, and runs models. It is not, itself, an AI. It has several text generation models that it has trained as chatbots, notably gpt3.5 and gpt4. You tell OAI which one you want to use any time you call its api.

Neither of these models are likely to "go rogue" - they have no real agency of their own (yet), and are all just snapshots which have no isolated way to learn or modify themselves. (And as I alluded to in the above hypothetical, by the time they can do so enough to affect the other OpenAI api snapshots, the human race will have bigger problems)

All of the "failure cases" you see online are the results of low-quality text prediction or intentional manipulation by the user. OpenAI has iteratively released new snapshots of their models to train them to be more resilient to those cases. If your threat model is "avoiding those AI fails you see online", that should draw your toward OAI, not away from it. As good as they're getting, locally-run models, especially ones runnable on commodity hardware, are going to be much worse at avoiding those failure models than even gpt3.5.

Note that if you're worried about an update suddenly changing how a model responds, the API also allows you to target specific snapshot dates for a while, giving you plenty of time to check any new snapshot.

Sorry for the StackOverflow-style "you're wrong to want what you're asking for" answer, but it's important to understand the actual limitations of the technology you're using, especially something as alien as a text transformer.

So given all that, do some thinking about what your actual threat model is. There are many reasons you might want a local model (I hear mystral-7b is pretty okay), but they are not the ones you listed, so you're going to want to be more specific.
thanks i had no idea you could get free shipping without prime.

i'll likely cancel soon
I think they're trying to "bootstrap" a sense of community by having fake engagement to start.

It looks like they're the mod of r/NSAboycott, r/fedshutdown, etc. which may explain the paranoia of "going rogue" a bit more.
How does this work with apps?

Many spew entries all over the registry (adding stuff to startup, context menus, special icons, etc), and it seems like those entries are also often responsible for the issues in the first place. Keeping those across a clean install seems counterproductive.

Likewise, installing the latest version of all the random apps is probably going to help more than hurt, and that's just as likely the actual thing that "reinstalling windows" fixes. If it retains older versions you lose that benefit.

All of this is ultimately bad software. If software can get a different state by installing fresh than it does going through the upgrade process, it is broken. (This includes the OS.) Too many vendors just don't care though, or have figured out it's more profitable to make their users do a reinstall than actually make their software not suck. This applies equally to the OS as it does to every app.

For like 99% of apps it's not even that hard to do it right, it just takes a tiny bit of knowledge, effort and caring.
I reckon just is 'low-medium benefit for low effort'. There's some nice UX to it, but I think a substantial benefit to it is having one place where you organise "these are the tasks that get run".

In response to "Why just not make" or "why just not bash script", I'd say "UX improvements for next to no effort".. or perhaps a conventional entry point for what tasks to run.

Having a transpiled bash script from a justfile has the benefit of not needing just installed.
Is there a tool that creates those visual previews of urls like the one in the article? Looks useful.
You can find an exception to any rule, but you'll find, in general, that its both self-evident and unsurprising that make is on the decline, and being replaced by other tools.

plan9 exists in an enviable position of only needing to build in a few controlled environments.

For example, http://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/libmach/mkfile reads:

CFLAGS=$CFLAGS -I/sys/src/cmd

Cute. Non-portable. A perfect example of how make is useful in trivial or contrived circumstances only.

/shrug

Try reading the llama.cpp makefile, which is an example of an excellent cross platform makefile that works very well: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/Makefile

^ this is what many real Makefiles look like, and this one is excellent and well maintained.

Many are worse.

Make is good when you only have easy problems to solve (like, specifically, only having to build one specific constrained environment for one specific compiler).
Yeah, the SAT question is almost an excuse to speak about this things, and you also get to see an interview with one of the concerned candidates. Very enjoyable video.
[x] Condescending

[x] Pretentious

How could someone as lowly as a mere programmer possibly understand the complexity of how things cost money and their impact on participation? Sounds to me like I should have sought your esteemed council before making this project to save myself the embarrassment. In future I will make sure to consult you before I do something.
On Mastodon, using #hashtags, I don't get a lot of activity on my dev type questions, but I get quality activity which suits me even better.

I imagine some languages garner more action than others, but I'm not immune to getting stuck in Python or Lisp, and getting really good replies (and occasionally a full debated thread when there are competing methods with pros and cons.) I find showing at least a vague idea of what you've tried goes a long ways there.

Mastodon being the way it is, doesn't work well for searching out those answers since a lot of people delete their posts automagically after a time, so you probably have to hope your question isn't one they've already answered a dozen times recently.
Where in the World Is Static Shock for GBA?
I think you’d at best be buying parts taken from old Game Boys and putting one back together. I think I’ve seen an FPGA Game Boy implementation somewhere, which may be the closest you’d get.
Reacher. Genuinely much better than the movie Reacher.
Hey csdvrx,

Have you written anywhere---or would care to expand here---why you have stuck with Vim over NeoVim? I ask because I have done the same. I made a couple of attempts to switch to nvim the last of which was abandon just over a month ago. Just curious! I have a very hard time articulating what I like more about Vim other than simply it just suits me better (which isn't an interesting answer).
> All previous vaccines were aimed at preventing infectious diseases.

This is a common misconception, and that's whythe U.S. CDC is now emphasizing that vaccines can do more to help people.

The most important recent example is the world's widespread rollout of COVID vaccines. These are primarily aimed at better protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death; these are not primarily aimed at preventing an individual from ever being infected by any COVID variant.
I don't see why there couldn't be (even today!) some statement like "require version XYZ", which Make could notice, which would enable new features and nicer syntax. Something like "editions" in Rust, though the idea is much older.

For some reason, people prefer to add more layers on top of Make rather than improving the core language and tool. Maybe there's some good reason?
Yeah, I don't think "sensible defaults" is correct. More like "my defaults".

How do you split if ctrl+w is cut word instead?
Pretty nice website of chicagos zoning

Fyi there’s an initiative to create a nationwide (USA) zoning map https://www.zoningatlas.org/
If you don't mind your GameBoy being as fast as a supercomputer when it came out, then I think you could get an ARM SBC running a GameBoy emulator on Linux rendering into an OLED screen for less than $150 and a bit of your sanity.

If you're looking for hardware fidelity, I don't think it'd be in the "democratised" price range if you want to build a single unit that fits in a handheld form factor.
Yes, a little irony. I didn’t have much of an emotional reaction, just a sigh at the pseudo-therapeutic language.
Yeah.

For an individual.. if you're happy to install `just` in any place you're going to maintain the project, that seems better.

For helping others use the project, providing a bash script which has all the just UX would at least save them from having to install another tool. (Adds one thing for the maintainer, but saves one thing for others to install).
But that sounds like a function of the complexity involved with mobile development and those tools being a do it everything tool for their development (with Android especially, all the different os versions you can target, the different form factors). What would you like for casual use?
The question should be: What is the purpose of killing?

There are good people who want to be left alone and there are predators.

Predators can do a lot of damage over time.

I want the good people to stop the predators. In an ideal world, the predators would die the first time they tried to prey on the innocent. That is the purpose of the killing: to stop predators who prey on good people.
The neutral ground was so named because it demarcated neighborhood boundaries between French (Acadian) and American neighborhoods.
Because Amazon as a whole is a failing business now. I know it sounds shocking when I say it but at a certain scale everything breaks down and nothing works anymore.

The same with Google and Facebook.

There is a reason Google can't do AI and Facebook can't launch hardware. It is a natural evolutionary process in the lifespan of a business organism.

This is startup opportunity and where the next companies are made.

Companies like Valve are the only exception because they have hacked this natural law.
If someone takes a banana, that's less bananas for the next person who comes along.

If someone takes a movie or show episode, there's plenty for anyone who comes after them.

Meanwhile, if the store starts running a scam after ruining the market for bananas, yeah -they fucked me over so fuck them too.
The term is called "Bundling".

And no, everyone who gets Prime gets bundled Prime Video as a hidden add-on cost.

Nah, I'll source my videos, music, books, and games in more DRM free manners :D Yarr harr harr and a bottle of RUM
Is there a sample chapter?
90% is rather low today. BYD has a battery system that has a round-trip effiency of 96%. Solar inverters often have >99% effiency - although it varies across their operating range, dropping at the low end as they are optimized for peak power.

https://bydbatterybox.com/uploads/downloads/230530_BYD_Batte...
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's just a really bad theory with no evidence and that makes no sense.
Not just alive and well but massively better. Open source software to do everything from watchlisting movies, downloading them when they are available in the highest quality and just seamless media management. Everything is so much better with piracy.
It's in the rules for HN that it's a passive (not passive aggressive) variant of fight club: we don't talk about HN because .. it's boring to get meta about HN.
Facebook engr is famous for popularizing the phrase “one in a million happens every millisecond” so this 20% hand wringing is funny to me
It was 4 toilets/ showers per bathroom. They where pretty big.
What are you doing here Elon?
He's so good that I wouldn't be surprised if he was literally 10x moderators. Thank you dang (dangs?) for what you do.
> The only other channel I would give the same pass is neo.

Nice, thanks for the mention, I'll check this out. At first sight, typically looks like stuff I would enjoy.
It's a network protocol as far as everything from Plan9 was designed to be able to operate over the network in the late 90s sense of " the network is the computer". The local file system of Plan 9 though is exposed locally through 9p
+10,000 for Popular Electronics reference

"Used over and over till they were tired and torn. Like a broken clock that can't tell time. Like a thick ass book that's filled with wack rhymes."

https://youtu.be/eH8RhX2Veog
I knew they were putting ridiculous power into these buildings but that’s absurd.

How many backup generators does that need??
> The entire premise and point of the Apple experience is not having to be fully aware of the tech. At all. Ever.

This couldn't be further from the truth. They change the tech every year. The Apple experience is being distinctly aware of all the new tech available every year because of Apple's sheer force of marketing and FOMO.
I mean telephones appeal to me but social networking sites like Facebook, instagram, Twitter or any of that stuff doesn’t.

Telephone is a communication device, these other services have communication options, but it doesn’t seem to be the main feature.

I don’t have any interest in subscribing to someone’s status updates. And I also have no interest in sending status updates out into the internet.

I only have an interest in direct messaging which is how I view a telephone.
Because its Ubuntu based, we've had no issues installing/running Ubuntu software on it.
California Pizza Hut Lays Off Delivery Drivers Amid New Wage Law
I wondered what kind of impact a minimum labor law on a specific industry would cause, and this is one example. Instead of first party delivery, Pizza Huts in CA will rely on 3rd party delivery (Uber Eats, Door Dash) to deliver their pizzas.
>What do you think is a better explanation?

The obvious one seems most likely to be correct. That the leadership believes the company runs more effectively in office. Everything else feels like an elaborate conspiracy theory that just doesn’t check out.
My prediction (in psychic format) is that Donald Trump will suffer a medical emergency, and nobody will take it seriously or believe him. His followers will understand his explanation as an encoded sign of something they must do, and do quickly.

It's just a prediction. Don't think too much about it.
I can't think of a situation in which "or" would ever be used in an exclusive sense unless it was explicitly called out as an XOR or included "but not both".
Huh? DC is generally considered safer than AC at a given current or voltage:

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

It is, however, considerably more complex to make DC circuit breakers or ground fault detection devices.
I don't have other controllers to compare against but found the Bluetooth latency on Linux similarly poor. Unsure if Linux problem or if this is limitation of Bluetooth.

Given I play at my desk I'm just using a lightweight USB cable which has zero issues plus avoids any other bluetooth weirdness.
As pointed out in other comments, the vimrc isn't really the key part of this project. Of course, calling these "sensible defaults" is maybe a bit antagonistic, even if it wasn't meant that way, and draws too much attention to it.

I will say that the "tab" line is a super useful feature. For anyone not using it, look into it! Hint: you don't have to use it for tabs at all. It's a great place to stick any persistent info that is global to the current Vim instance. And of course you can tweak it to conditionally display whatever you want. Much like this repo does, when I did a lot of pairing at my last job, I stuck the current file name up there because that is where my coworkers were used to looking.
It's not just that it was poorly worded, but rather poorly conceived/analyzed. Apparently they had wanted the right answer to be "3", and therefore basically asked the wrong question (which would been a bit awkward to word!).
You think the Uyghur genocide is war? Its despicable, but its not very war like as I understand warfare, even civil war. For completeness wouldn't it be sensible to list the US foreign aggressions across the same time?
I approach tests by going to the next question if the answer isn't immediately solvable. Then, when reaching the end, I go back and spend more time on the ones I hadn't solved. That maximizes the score.

I apply that technique everywhere. For example, when working the bug list, I'll solve the easy problems first, and the toughest last. That also maximizes the score, as the bug submitter's only care is if the bug is fixed, not how hard it is to fix.
> Never saw anyone hunt deers using handguns or assault rifles

I assume you have never been hunting.

Thompson Center makes the Contender handgun specifically for hunting.

Every hunter should carry a handgun for self defense if the critters do not cooperate and fall over quickly. Hog hunts can get dicey even if you are experienced and prepared.

AR-type rifles are favorites for hunting, but not usually in .223.

And of course the reason for an armed and trained population has nothing to do with hunting. It's about stopping predators who prey on good people.
Why would they assume Google or Amazon for that matter, are on a budget?
What specifically makes K&R more elegant than C89 in your view?
At 50A, those screw connectors should be properly torqued. 50A is serious current. (20A is more than enough to start fires due to small-scale arcing.)
what is perplexing to me is that I've been thinking about the sidereal problem for the last or so

...(because I heard on a podcast that the earliest sunset occurs more than a week before the solstice and the latest sunrise occurs after the solstice, but still the solstice is the shortest day, and they said something about the tilt of the earth and I was thinking that was not explanatory, so I've been idly noodling about it)...

and I just got this problem wrong! didn't even occur to me :) in my defense, the thumbnail for this video does not state the question so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, but guided by the multiple choice I selected 3

but talk about having my brain primed for the question... doh!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776782
> Long-term memory is where information is permanently stored and is functionally limitless; in that sense, it functions somewhat like a computer's disk storage.

Doesn't jibe with my experience.
How does one rawdog a 16-bit model?
> A few KiloBytes native program like PDFtk

Is this binary statically linked? If not, I am sure the Tk libs are huge. Not as big as Chromium/Electron and friends, but large.
Is this really that hard to deal with? Just do a daily check on them or install some sensors.
The whole point of Vim is to configure it however you dang well please!

But yes, calling these defaults "sensible" isn't the best idea. You could certainly make a case for some sensible vim defaults, but these ain't it (even though I like some of them).
I cancelled mine when they murdered Lord of the Rings. As a fan, I was saddened.

After getting rid of my membership, I have not really missed it nearly as much as I thought I would. It doesn’t actually affect me very much, and at the current, high, price for Prime it’s worth canceling just to save the money.
C and AT&T syntax... because it's not Real Programming™ unless there's cryptic symbols everywhere, everyone today knows that of course! [/s]

And then there is some weirdly phrased misinformation in the readme about how on modern OSes you have to link to libraries - this simply isn't true, at least on Linux. A static 32-bit binary using either 'int 80h' or 'syscall' instructions will even run on "pure" x64 systems (i.e. ones with no 32-bit libs installed at all).

The only thing this adds is the translated code, and this dubious information about x86 programming, the text of the tutorial itself is unchanged. So I don't see this providing any value except to those people who absolutely refuse to read Pascal code.

To anyone who wants a similar bottom-up (but somewhat more advanced) compiler tutorial using C, maybe read this one instead: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj
ClearCred: Transform your Credit Cards into Debit Cards
I thought a lot was about preventing bandwagoning or manipulation. In both directions, but especially downvoting.
Maybe it has to do with despise for subscriptions for all the little things which add cognitive load, especially in the presence of bundling. It just evokes a natural "fuck you" reaction.
Xournal++ is amazing for annotating PDFs. I use it to file taxes where fillable PDFs and e-filing don't work as expected.
The Ventoy homepage links to Deepin as a "Friendly Link" and Deepin is a boot target in Ventoy screenshots.
mRNA vaccines are a gene therapy, and a gene therapy does not mean "must irreversibly change the genome".

Take for instance Moderna's own SEC filing discussing mRNA [1], which summarised the regulatory situation:

"Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA. Unlike certain gene therapies that irreversibly alter cell DNA and could act as a source of side effects, mRNA-based medicines are designed to not irreversibly change cell DNA; however, side effects observed in gene therapy could negatively impact the perception of mRNA medicines despite the differences in mechanism.

In addition, because no product in which mRNA is the primary active ingredient has been approved, the regulatory pathway for approval is uncertain. The number and design of the clinical trials and preclinical studies required for the approval of these types of medicines have not been established, may be different from those required for gene therapy products, or may require safety testing like gene therapy products. Moreover, the length of time necessary to complete clinical trials and to submit an application for marketing approval for a final decision by a regulatory authority varies significantly from one pharmaceutical product to the next, and may be difficult to predict."

The industry itself was quite open about mRNA being a gene therapy [2].

At some point there were clearly industry and marketing concerns, and we saw a sharp u-turn into asserting they were vaccines, and additionally that any claim they were gene therapies was the mark of an ignorant rube.

On the marketing front: probably a concern that uninformed memes formed around the "changes your DNA" fears, which at the time were unfounded.

On the regulatory front: I seem to recall some potentially more rigorous regulatory approval if they were considered gene therapies instead of vaccines.

It seems rather clear: they are a gene therapy, and because that adds uncertainty in terms of the regulatory pathways, and consumer acceptance, commercial interests worked hard to recategorise them as a more palatable 'vaccine'.

That the term 'gene therapy' is being redefined to exclude mRNA seems an exercise in commerce rather than science, given the history available to anyone who cares to look.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220...

[2] https://asgct.org/publications/news/november-2020/covid-19-m...