skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised how actually backwards and primitive are the tools used in HPC.

Take for instance the so-called workload managers, of which the most popular ones are Slurm, PBS, UGE, LSF. Only Slurm is really open-source, PBS has a community edition, the rest is proprietary stuff executed in the best traditions of enterprise software which locks you into using pathetically bad tools, ancient and backwards tech with crappy / nonexistent documentation and inept tech support.

The interface between WLMs and the user who wants to use some resources is through submitting "jobs". These jobs can be interactive, but most often they are the so-called "batch jobs". A batch job is usually defined as... a Unix Shell script, where the comments are parsed to interpret those as instructions to the WLM. In the world with dozens of configuration formats... they chose to do this: embed configuration into Shell comments.

Debugging job failures is a nightmare, mostly because WLM software has really poor quality of execution. Pathetic error reporting. Idiotic defaults. Everything is so fragile it falls apart if you just as much as look at it in the wrong way. Working with it reminds me the very early days of Linux, when sometimes things just won't build, or would segfault right after you've tried running them, and there wasn't much you could do beside spending days or weeks trying to debug it just to get some basic functionality going.

When I have to deal with it, I feel kind of like in a steam-punk movie. Some stuff is really advanced, and then you find out that this advanced stuff is propped by some DIY retro nonsense you thought have died off decades ago. The advanced stuff is usually more on the side of hardware, while software is not keeping up with it for the most part.
You can change the keyboard shortcut to the native R pipe in RStudio if you like.

I did it just to avoid the dependency because truth be told the native pipe seems a bit ugly to me (but that’s just me)
> It's demoralizing working on the subscription feature.

Agree. I loathe subscriptions and avoid them like Covid. But the code I write for the publishing industry is out there day and night, across continents, pitching subscriptions to readers thousands of times per minute. Begging them to renew for this limited time offer, prodding them through the checkout process.

It's not like a pacifist writing missile guidance software, but it's sad that this is where the money is.
Napster was for sharing mp3s.

Torrents are not better at sharing mp3s.
thanks for the tl;dr

moreutils and similar pops up every year but it's still easy to forget.. they should be part of core distributions nowadays..
Mind blown continuously by the lazy loading which I hoped to stop at the first 10 items. There's this much DAW software for Linux nonetheless? Makes me question what other niche software fields I'm completely oblivious of.
There's a lot of user interface issues in playing an older game. Not so much the graphics -- people like "pixel" styling in modern games, though generally at much higher resolutions and with better color palettes than in old games -- but rather in how you interact with the games.

There's a lot of experimentation in old games about how to approach certain concepts, where eventually something won out and became the way we do it. So it's very strange to go back to e.g. an old first-person game and realize that WASD controls aren't used.

I recently saw this YouTube video ("How System Shock's Reboot Wrestles With Adapting Its Legacy" by Errant Signal) that talks a bit about this take on the issue, which might interest you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQ24iAkh90
> OpenAI is the entity redistributing the work

It's difficult to say really.

If I essentially encode knowledge of something then can recall and remix at will, am I redistributing the exact work or the knowledge of it?

Yes, it is capable of producing a close to exact replica, if not the exact same input image byte-for-byte, but I find it difficult to say OpenAI is willfully redistributing copyrighted work in a whole like you would with torrenting a movie or right-click saving an image from Google where you are copying the intellectual property 1:1.

Opening this Pandora's box could have large implications on a lot of creative work that could cause artists to be unable to work if taken to the end conclusion: you cannot create any creative work that has a talking mouse if you have knowledge of Mickey Mouse existing because you have been tainted (similar to whiteroom re-creations but now any sufficiently large copyrighted figure causes a deadlock condition for all derivative ore even similar topics).

Is Ratatouille derative of Mickey Mouse? Ehhh, well they are both talking rodents. They both have cartoon faces. You can certainly draw parallels between them but they aren't the same character. Is Mickey with a chef hat infringing on Ratatouille?

The trademark law, to my knowledge, is asking would someone be tricked or misled into believing you are the other guys. I think that is applicable here where someone drawing a talking mouse isn't infringing as long as it cannot be mistaken for Mickey Mouse, which again would be the fault of the person inducing the creation and not the tool that allowed it to happen.

Where does "inspired by" / derived from the encoded knowledge turn into outright exploitation of copyrighted work? There's certainly _a_ line but I find it difficult to define it at it being encoded into knowledge of it existing.
But there are games like Rocket League who have never changed their controls or physics. They changed everything else except for those things so that people could predictably build and maintain skill. I think it’s not holding a car company to too high or a standard.
how does collapse work then?
Ask HN: Best AI News Hub?
Could you suggest a thorough and detailed news source or aggregator that focuses on AI developments?

I'm interested in more than just surface-level information. I want to stay updated on the latest technologies, IT, models, research, business, industry & financial aspects, and products in the AI field.
Overview of dbt integration in Revefi Data Operations Cloud, providing zero-touch monitoring of data and model quality, spend, performance and usage.
I would say it's dependent on the motive. For example, I would imagine most artists hope that their work inspires other artists, but only to a degree outside of direct copying. They might not equate the automation of their style via a model against the work/process of a human, regardless if that human is either inspired by their style or is just performing direct copying.
My Nissan Leaf from 2014 has an AM radio, it seems to work fine.
This guy built a career around nonsensical and catastrophic endings.

Everything that he sees has mysterious flaws that never happen.
As for 1, pass an image to a multimodal LLM and simply ask 'what is going on in this image'. Robot LLM models are already turning this in to actionable data they of which they can interact with the world. As in you can send a Robot into a room it has not been before and tell it "bring back a sock, a blue one not a red one" and get an actionable response with a higher degree of success. This takes some degree of general intelligence (though maybe not human level).
It's not by any reputable exchange.

Only counting "everybody" as people on your side is common in cults, but is rarely indicative of the real world.
Same. I’ve had great luck with both the TS3+ and TS4. What few minor gripes I’ve had with them have been resolved by firmware updates.

It’s other brands, especially USB-C (rather than Thunderbolt) stuff that I find extraordinarily flaky.
They're still fun.
Well, technology has progressed quite far while humans are still humans with the same (but slightly better maintained) brain. I have a hard time watching old movies where the FX is crap
> They aren't encouraging people to misuse them and it is solely on the user's shoulders for their choice to use them in a way that would cause infringement if the result is used commercially.

I agree in principle, but that they can in the first place, especially when it accidentally happens, and at such massive scales more importantly, is the issue methinks.

And no one's talking about abolishing the AIs here, we're just talking about wanting M$/OAI to do their due diligence and get access to their training materials fairly. NYT wouldn't have sued if M$/OAI had approached them and struck a deal of some sort with them, but that's not what they did. They took in whatever data they could, from wherever they could baring no mind at all to where the data came from and what was being done with it.

There's a reason Getty images managed to strike a deal with Dall-E and why many of the image generation models now solely rely on data that is verifiably free of copyright (or where deals have been made in the case of Getty images). It's easier to see in pictures when a blatant copy is made (like watermarks) so it's obvious why Dall-E was the first to encounter this hurdle, but this was inevitable even for plain text that ChatGPT returns.
Well sure but why blame it on sci-fi?
Sounds to me like those people would create the torment nexus with or without sci-fi.
It’s not like it’s super hard to come up with the concept of e.g. colonising Mars.
Related:

How big can a a snowflake get?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797629

Earliest Snowflake Photos From 1885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816521
It is always overlooked, though, that a nuclear plant can deliver its rated output whenever needed, day in, day out.
While I don’t share the sentiment, I have an anecdote that might be relatable.

Some time around 2014 I finally got around to playing Castlevania: symphony of the Night. It was almost 20 years old, casykevania had long since moved to 3D graphics and stages. Even when it was released in the 90s it could have been considered outdated due to its small, sprite-based graphics.

It turns out, the game is a masterpiece. The control, the level design, the progression, the exploration, the freedom of item choice are all exceptional. Even the graphics are beautiful for what they are without needing a RTX 4090 and 4K display. I’ve replayed it several times since then and it opened up a new genre of games that I hadn’t previously considered liking.

Many of the Lucas Arts point and click adventures may or may not soar the same interest. They’re quirky, funny, clever games that can be played casually.

For kids who like games, the gameplay is enough. They might say how dopey it looks at the start, but if it hooks them, that reaction will fade away.
Yes and no. For example, a concealed handgun license (a state-issued government ID) is not acceptible for (e.g.) opening a PO Box.

I grew up in Central Texas (HOURS to get out-of-state), and many drinking establishments would ONLY accept a Texas ID/Passport for alcohol purchases — this isn't "legal" but "how it was."

I'll take your ProTip, though, and get myself an ID Passport Card (I presume this is not scannable).
I know the article didn’t intend to come across this way, but I couldn’t help feeling like this article is a little bit condescending to the customer.

Is it accusing the common person of being unable to evaluate whether something has value to them? I think all of us know the dynamics of subscriptions and are relatively clear-eyed about their value.

Just ask the average person how they feel about price increases at Netflix and Disney+ and you’ll hear very reasonable arguments being made.

The author seems to believe that the vendor wanting your money and getting it from you is a big trick and a scam. Or, we can call it an exchange of goods and services.

Then the article turns toward time-productivity guilt tripping. “If you like watching TV you’re wasting your life.” Maybe we should be upskilling and side hustling instead! Or, perhaps now is the time to point out the vast selection of activities and hobbies that cost way more money than most subscription services.

And, yes, a lot of consumer subscriptions feel cheap because they are cheap. You can’t even get out of a grocery store one time for less than $50 these days, so spending $50-100 for an entire year of something does look petty darn good in comparison.
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The theory of electromagnetism had to be completely reworked in order to take quantum mechanics into account.

The modern theory, developed from the 1920s-40s, is called "Quantum Electrodynamics." The older theory of electromagnetism (Maxwell's Equations) is the classical limit of the modern quantum theory.

General Relativity is in the same situation now as Maxwell's Equations were before Quantum Electrodynamics was developed. Everyone knows that a quantum version of the theory is necessary, and that that theory will have a classical limit that is equivalent to the old theory. It's just that finding a quantum version of General Relativity is way more difficult than finding a quantum version of Maxwell's Equations. The tricks that worked for electromagnetism don't work for gravity.
Take a pill. And then look up what "return on investment" means.
That suggests to me connectivity issues up the stack.
I’d at least confirm the Ethernet drop is known working and your ISP isn’t doing any funny business.
It's classic rent seeking behavior where they want all their inputs to be free and all costs to be externalized
Doesn't appear to be. Wait for the cease-and-desist I guess. The company is https://www.anabrid.com and they also have a very aesthetically appealing "professional" analog computer for teaching and "research", sort of like the old Comdyna units.
I think in this case that problem even exists in their own code that they don't fully understand.
What are you really trying to compile? This seems like an X vs Y problem. You should throw out the whole Internet and try again.
Breaking down code in cells and asking chatGPT for help is quite easy and mostly foolproof, if you have enough will to learn things.
Agriculture mechanized in the 1920's, and by the 1960's US Federal ag policy was already "get big or get out".

If we are seeing problems in former farm country now, a century later, it suggests people are far less flexible than economists wish they were.

(Fwiw I was just reading a blurb at the feed store about autonomizing both tractors and their attached machinery)
Everyone keeps telling me to use switch statements
> Subscriptions are cheap on the face value.

I always evaluate subscriptions based on their cost over five years, since that's a reasonable amount of time to use services and products. In other words, the opportunity cost of a $5/month subscription is a $300 pressure washer or $300 worth of shirts. I don't get the subscription unless I'd be willing to pay the full $300 right now.
Sort of like BLAS, LAPACK is more than just one implementation. Dongarra described what everybody should do from Tennesse, but other places implemented it elsewhere.
For what it's worth, I am building a VCS that has close to what the article describes.

Every user will have a heavily encrypted key store. When they interact with remote repos, they can have that key store uploaded, so remotes also act like remote password managers.

When a key is compromised, the user just adds one, yo be signed by both the original and a key derived from the user's password.

Then that key is stored, along with the entire key history, including when keys were changed.

I might even be able to make the new key sign the latest commit (or one the user chooses) to mark which commit is the last good commit.
It might be worth noting that while ripgrep doesn't support in-place file editing, it's still possible to replace matches using the `-r` flag, couple that with a tool like `sponge` from moreutils[0] and you can effectively perform search and place like such:

$ rg --passthru search -r replace file.txt | sponge file.txt

And preview changes like this:

$ rg --passthru search -r replace file.txt | diff -u file.txt -

Of course, this is only practical when working with a single file. Though I'd imagine if one threw in the `--files-with-matches -0` flags together and piped that into `xargs`, something similar to `rep` could be be achieved. (Not that I'd encourage anyone to do this at all)

[0] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Or if you need dynamic arguments, you probably want:

N=9; for ((i=0; i<=N; ++i)); do echo "$i"; done
Sued by whom? The bash people seem like they have better things to do than sue Apple.
It's kind of a strange response when the author already explicitly said "people think they always need to formally encode parent-child relationships but sometimes they don't, sometimes nested display is all that's needed".

What's the response here? "No, that can't possibly be true"?

You Aren't Gonna Need It is a celebrated building heuristic for a reason. You Should Always Assume You Need It simply isn't true.
For anyone who still hasn't seen the new Indiana Jones movie, but is thinking about it some time: Go play Fate of Atlantis instead.
The post you're responding to didn't call them human. Nor alive. Just "intelligent", and just as intelligence isn't required of life so I have no reason to think intelligence itself requires life.

These things are indeed "a program on a machine and doesn’t have rights", but what I find scary is that rights aren't part of the rules of the universe, they're merely laws, created and enforced (to the extent that they are at all) by humans.
I guess so! Good point.
China launches test runs for plant that can convert coal to ethanol
What does that have to do with ketosis? You can eat a lot of carbs and not be fat...

> had almost none of the diseases we have that are all really metabolic dysfunction/diabetes at their root

True. Unless you were rich. Even heard of gout? But yeah probably somewhat accurate for the whole population. But again, not much to do with ketosis.

I mean is there any evidence even today that someone whose diet is primarily (~80%) grain and other plant products with a lot of carbohydrates can enter ketosis even when practicing "intermittent fasting" while consuming ~2000-3000 calories per day (e.g. the estimate for standard Roman soldier daily rations is 3,000-4,000)? Seems impossible...
Exactly my thought, if the only way generative AI works is to break copyright I can see people choosing generative AI.
The `run` function is actually quite optimized in Koka. At the point of the call to an effect function there is a O(1) lookup, due to this paper (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/general...).

After that depends on whether a continuation actually needs to be captured or not. Many useful effects can be implemented as `val` or `fun` clauses which can be called / accessed in place without any unwinding of the stack. Only in cases where a continuation is required is the continuation built up.
They inlined the code here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bash/commit/9817a...
Really interesting to read about the history of the tractor, but the relevance to AI is a short almost throw-away para at the end of the article.

One massive difference between tractors and AI - not addressed in TFA - is that unlike tractors, using AI doesn't impose a massive upfront cost on the adopters. Many of the major software platforms are rolling out AI without even being asked to. People using Photoshop, MS Word, etc, suddenly find that AI-based functionality is appearing in their next product release. This is radically faster than the decades it took for tractors to achieve dominance.
LLM-written content has a certain gestalt to it that’s pretty easy to sniff out once you’ve seen it a few times, just look at Quora and LinkedIn these days.

While I think it’s probably fair for people with English as a second language to use LLMs as a writing assistant (for example), there definitely needs to be some kind of author disclosure statement at the very least. This could be similar to how more papers are now including contribution statements when there are many coauthors.
If you'd like to back this claim up with ... anything, go for it. Otherwise, this is meaningless FUD.
Currency from one country doesn’t enable any crime or scam that any other currency from any other country doesn’t also enable.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies allow new crimes and scams.

I maintain that cryptocurrency in general is a borderline scam in and of itself. Prices are easily manipulated and once you convince enough people that cryptocurrency is good, people start exchanging it for actual money, and then it crosses from borderline scam into actual scam.
And many of us who like practical effects feel the opposite. If a movie hasn’t engaged you enough to see past the puppet, makeup, and rigging, there’s probably something else missing.
Edit: I think this is fascinating. If you use words, like dog, electric, life, and human, all of them appear in one mass however, the words like greet, chicken, and “a“ appear in a different mass density section. I think it’s interesting that the words have diverged in location, with some seeming relationship in the way, the words are used. If this were truly random, I would expect those words to be mixed into the other ones.

I have this except you can see every single word in any dictionary at once in space, it renders individual glyphs. It can show an entire dictionary of words - definitions and roots - and let you fly around in them. It’s fun. I built a sample that “plays” a sentence and its definitions. GitHub.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
The more I see stuff like this, the more i want to complete it. It’s heartening to see so many people fancied with seeing words… I just wish I knew where to find these people to like.. befriend and get better. Im getting the feeling I just kinda exist between worlds of lofty ideas and people that are incredibly smart sticking around other people that are incredibly smart.
You can always ask GPT to give terse results to greatly reduce the noise.
You could probably run lynx under iSH.app
I think if you were to comply with all the branding guidelines, you would need to say something along the lines of“Blocks are like LEGO™ bricks…”.

Since there’s little chance of the product getting confused with official LEGO products, you’re probably okay… though IANAL.
Physical Review X is open access so you can get the original paper for no charge at https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.04...

Though I have a physics background, this is niche stuff.
How I try to approach any new subscription or habit: what would it cost (within an order of magnitude) to fund this expense for the rest of my life - how much would I need in savings to keep this up? I multiply annual amount by 25, any monthly amount by 300 (12 months times 25, assuming 4% long term investment returns). I know that’s only a very rough approximation, but it gives me a longer term way to think about that “oh, it’s just two fancy coffees each month!”

10 EUR/month? 3000 EUR purchase.

Given how subscription prices have increased well beyond inflation, I should perhaps change that multiplier to 400 or 500…
Interesting that "cromulent" and "hentai" seem to map right next to each other, as well as the words "decorate" and "spare".
I gave a couple of physics talks where I used the "fasten seatbelt" sign on a series of slides introducing a controversial topic (weak value amplification). I told the audiences beforehand that they just needed to stay in their seats for these slides and we'd discuss once I'd laid everything out.
So many words... so little actually said.

Sci-fi is inspirational, especially for people who use STEM to change the world. However, contrary to this opinion, this isn't inherently negative or bad.