skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to say this in polite terms, but failed to find the words. I am absolutely not knocking India at all. My all time best manager came from India and he taught me A LOT about software development in the earlier 2000s. He was incredibly smart, and there were 2 other folks at that company from India that also were very smart.

However, I've also had to deal with the reverse. Folks from India and elsewhere that just blindly churn out code according to literal instructions and don't give any thought as to how that code might not be safe/efficient/whatever.

That being said, I blame the company, not the people. You could easily end up in a similar mess here in the states if you don't take some time to vet.

(note: watching someone code on an interview aka pair coding isn't vetting, even take home assignments don't. If you do either of these, you aren't vetting, you are subconsciously looking at speed/accuracy/ability to think quickly, which may also mean you are discriminating based on age/disability -- i.e. people that code slower or think slower tend to be older or have a disability -- which is a violation of federal law here in the states.)
My understanding was that the "boundaries" marked the point where the normal stabilization mechanisms in the environment wouldn't bounce back or where they were so kicked over that change rapidly accelerated.

It was explained to me like putting salt into a freshwater pond. It can take some but the salinity eventually reaches a point (boundary) where the fish die and you can't really "go back" and take out the salt.
Hell yes, my cancellation of my premium, refusal to give into the nag to turn on watch history, and bespoke ad blocker usage is finally having an effect.

I will continue the above until YouTube removes scam/junk ads, lowers their price, and gives me a way to opt out of strong tracking without killing functionality.
but then what indeed, I think the world caters decently to those that have resources. I’ve dabbled in the socialite circuit, its spaced out across the year in a few select major cities, I could do it until I die in between various investing or hands on opportunities. You meet really interesting people that are also dabbling in that lifestyle.

The Winklevoss twins heard about extremely high tech things early on while partying in Ibiza, for example. So have I

I agree with all of your comment
This is why I switched out of firmware after years of twiddling bits and routing circuits. Imagine working on difficult threading issues one minute then needing to deeply understand a circuit layout the other and getting paid less than entry level bootcamp python programmers. Oh yes, with constant threat of being sent to country_of_manufacture to work out manufacturing issues on a moments notice. It’s capitalisms way of saying “we don’t really want or need this right now.” I heard you loud and clear, American tech companies.
Dooms lighting was just next level. I remember realizing I'd need to upgrade from my Radeon 9600 Pro.
Off-topic, not familiar with the website, but the design is very cool!
Indeed. At minimum, approximately everyone in China, Russia, and other states currently or formerly governed by a self-described Communist party, i.e. at least a quarter of all people alive. Not to mention that it is becoming difficult to go online without seeing someone expressing an opinion about Marxism, pro or against.
The ecosystem sounds no less insane with this answer. I run into "<X> is deprecated, use <Y>" constantly at a dependency level, at a framework level, and at a paradigm level.

Also, what's Vite? The React docs mention Next.js, Remix, or Gatsby. At what point would any of these become deprecated?

To be clear, I'm just complaining, but you could change the OP's question to read as "How in the world can this number of <dependencies/frameworks/paradigms/languages> be considered sane and normal, and most of all, necessary?" and it would still make sense
I found this insightful:

Why Louisiana Stays Poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

Definitely sounds very similar to CPG's "Rules for Ruler" video where he provides a description of rulers ruling in resource rich countries.
If we could solve the problems of colonizing Mars, we'd long be in a position of solving the problems of keeping Earth habitable.

I mean, by all means, let's try for multiplanetary, but it's not an answer for "if we miss a sustainable path here". It'll require a function Earth for a long long time.
This is basically not true. Low end automobiles and solutions like ebikes, etc have the volume to sustain production at crazy low margins. Despite tech fantasies, delivery bots, drones, etc. aren't even close.
So if I'm a Young Earth Creationist, chatgpt will reassure of that the Earth is 6k yo? Many issues indeed.
Are there any true open-source LLM models, where all the training data is publicly-available (with a compatible license) and the training software can reproduce bit-identical models?

Is training nondeterministic? I know LLM outputs are purposely nondeterministic.
Hey! I'm the developer of the FuryGPU, and it's very cool to see others working in a similar space - Doom is neat but Quake is where 3D graphics really came into their own.

For anyone curious, FuryGPU is a full mid-90s-era GPU built from the ground up which covers the entire stack of both hardware and software development. I designed a custom PCB to expose the PCIe lanes on the Kria K26 (Zynq UltraScale+) FPGA and allow for fast host-GPU communication, built and optimized the actual GPU hardware, wrote both an entirely custom graphics API to drive it as well as Windows drivers to have the OS interact with the hardware correctly, and finally ported Quake to that new API. It's been about three years of work and is still my first and only FPGA project.

Once everything is "finished," I do plan on open-sourcing the project. When and what that will look like depends on a lot of factors, but I've nearly ticked all the boxes I set for myself originally so it probably won't be too far in the future.

Thanks for the plug!
There's already a product on the market that works in embroidery machines.

https://www.ellumiglow.com/media/solwin/productattachment/at...
> don't have much value as a rhetorical device to persuade people to care about the environment

Our success with ozone depletion should ring out as inspiration.
But for a brief moment in time generated great value for the shareholders
"Oh, this from the posing somdomite" - Wilde's contemporaries.
Versionstamps are not a simple timestamp; it’s a cluster-wide order-able unique id.

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/data-modeling.html#vers...
I have a 1-year old and I think, so far, it has sucked about 10% of the time, max.
Krebs is a national treasure. If you ever read his book "SPAM NATION", you'd see how valuable he is. He stood up to Russian cybercrime in the 00s who even tried to threaten his life. He got bulletproof hosters taken-down again and again. These hosters were hosting phrama scams, spam, malware, CP, you name it. He consistently works in the interest of the public good, even when it's hard.

Brian works hard for his money, unlike upstart cybercrime braggarts like the guy he's exposing. I'm so happy people like Brian exist, people like him have the motivation and time to investigate hubris-laden morons like Devon Turner.
It depends on what you would consider an improvement.
Or a sign for the protest. I like this a lot.
My suspicion, and what I'm getting at, is that the people selling "STEM education is vital!" were likely on the payroll of places that mostly just wanted to have more workers to sell ads better. They had the money to make the push for that, and the incentive to try to fatten their hiring pipeline, and dragging the other three letters along was just a sales tactic.

I don't mean that everyone working on computers works on ads, I mean that, for a lot of the people behind the STEM push in particular, my suspicion is that their main concern was in fact to be able to more-easily hire folks to sell ads slightly better. I think the form of the campaign was to make it look more noble.
Qualifying this statement by saying this is something I've thought about and this is my own bullshit theory.

There's a limited amount of "attention" on the internet that's available in online art spaces. I theorize that artists need to maintain a public portfolio to find work, either creative work for advertising or entertainment companies or commissions or patreon subscription. You need to be out there for people to hire you if you want to make a living doing art.

AI art is disruptive and harmful to that ecosystem in a few ways. It competes with artists not only for dollars and jobs for commercial art (ie ad agency work), but more fundamentally it competes with artists for attention on the internet, which at a macro scale makes it so there's less money in the system for real artists to practice and master their skills. It's also not necessarily that the AI art is better, it's just good enough to pollute the signal to noise ratio. And as you said, it's fast. That can quickly overwhelm sites like DeviantArt or Art Station, which moves those communities and resources away from their original purpose.

Additionally, AI art models need data from the commons to function. I'm skeptical that synthetic data is good enough to use for improving these models, so theoretically, one of the main ways to improve these models is getting more and better data from humans. If the economy of these models is structured in a way that discourages artists from posting their work publicly, or working at all, then the pace of improvement decreases. I think a lot of artists are pretty pissed off that their work is being used to produce commercial software that creates substitutes for their work without their permission or knowledge.

So that's what I mean by the tragedy of the commons. The online art ecosystem is more fragile than many people think it is and ai companies are over exploiting it. The content remains but the thing you're actually trying to sample, human knowledge and skill, withers on the vine.
Nope, you're not alone. I've spent most of my 30-year career writing embedded software for generally pretty interesting systems.

Miserable people love bitching about it.
Do normal proofs for Olympiad level geometry questions require 150+ steps like the one that was generated here? It seems inelegant.
I agree with this sentiment, and would likely 100% agree in this particular case if this were being done by some brand new startup. But at this point, Tesla's history is so littered with broken promises, truth-stretching, and outright lies that by default I treat any new announcement from them not only as marketing theater, but as a deliberate attempt to actively deceive.
Comparing apples and oranges.

A protocol is allowed to have presumptions, and then provide an interface.

Its not allowed to have no interface at all and no presumptions (A void).
> Yet: Netherlands has not started evacuating the parts fofthe country already under the waterline

Um.
Btw. Hetzner charges 1.19 €/ TB or so if you exceed the 20 TB you get even with the 4.5 €/ month VM. So obviously, AWS is charging disproportionately compared to what it actually costs to deliver that bandwidth/ traffic.
These charges are great at preventing a good deal of piracy probably but they also prevent some startups from offering competitive prices or implement a simpler system.
Probably the best kind of news IMO
A lot of (younger?) people in web development seem to forget that other software continues to be developed, much of it unglamorous and not consumer-oriented, but still interesting to work on.
> I have 100% faith in the ability of the minority to save the majority from themselves.

Then why has the minority spent so much money preventing the US from addressing climate change when it would have been much easier to do so?
Maybe the boundary isn't "discrete" or a "bright red sharp line".
But for climate change, haven't relevant experts been saying for some time that effects _aren't_ linear because of feedback loops? If each of several such feedback mechanisms has a 'steep' region where small differences can be amplified, then there may be multiple 'soft' boundaries.

I think the non-science part of this is we can't know with certainty where these feedback loops kick in until a while after we've already crossed them. But just b/c we can't know with certain where the boundaries are ahead of time doesn't mean it isn't really stupid to be cavalierly charging off into uncharted territory.
I concur, however it generally isn’t good for the majority when the minority takes over as generally the minority has a discrimination grudge.

Eventually we’ll end up at some type of precipice in which our heroes will save us much like The Day The Rarth Stood Still
There is a huge missing niche for trusted intermediaries of identity information. We’ve been working on this at https://cerebrum.com in a different niche (background checks), but this comment just triggered a slew of ideas…
The science has been clear? Phrasing like "we risk" and "that could be" don't inspire clarity.
I will warn that it's mostly been rewritten at this point, but most changes haven't made it to the repo due to being held up by my current employer's legal team. Most of the code is also poorly written due to it mostly being written during half asleep/burned out state. With all the "don't judge me to hard"'s out of the way, https://gitlab.com/Cieric/gellang

I don't currently have plans to integrate with an existing game engine, just my own. I have however considered in the past integrating with Godot, so that would be my first target if I do ever attempt it.

I also was assuming no one would use my project professionally so the idea was to be a superset of glsl so any glsl code could be pasted into a script and be compiled without any modifications. That would aid in debugging gpu code in an actual debugger without needing to rewrite it.

Once all the paper work is finished additional updates should start rolling out again since it would just be reviewing the new changes not everything again. Hope your expectations are in line, I'm not trying to under or over sell my project. I was just wanted to fix my own gripes with the projects of the time.
Your thoughts are limited by the environment you live in and your imagination.

In other countries eg brussel sprouts, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc are weighed by the consumer at the vegetable section.

- Next to the specialty tomatoes there is a label that says the name, price and _number_ for the specialty tomatoes

- Pick an individual tomato or put multiple in a small plastic/paper bag from next to the tomatos

- Put the tomatoes on a scale right next to them

- Enter the _number_ from the label, no need to search for or type anything complex

- Get a sticker with the price + barcode

- Put the sticker where ever is reasonable (on the tomato or on the bag or where ever, no one cares where you put it)

- In self checkout scan the sticker

Or even better, use a system where you are carrying a scanner when pickig stuff from shelves and at self checkout you only have to pay, since you have already scanned everything.
This just happened to us today on a guest account on a television. We were watching bening cooking and food videos all day, and suddenly we got a stream of pimple popping videos in the "recommended for you" items.
you had me until that last line. who would allow all of that for the sake of peace? profit, sure, but peace?
Thanks for this! I had no idea zoxide has this! Made my day.
What actually matters are the actions of a small handful of elites that hold all the cards. How many people got together to decide to promote wars in the middle east and Ukraine? How much environmental destruction have they caused?

Same goes for domestic water. 2 people own a single CA business that uses more water than all of LA. But angelenos are told it’s on them to take shorter showers to save water.
A global hash-based index is literally an undergraduate project to do well. You could even ride atop bittorrent if you really had to.
Wild-assed guess before I read this: in their greed for personal information, they took what should be a purely client-side scripted job into something that connects to the back end.

Edit: Yup! Instead of just doing calculations, it involved some e-mail workflow.

> The password could be used to log into the “noreplyeicher@ttibi.co.in” Microsoft email account.

I'm surprised this is literally true as described.

The actual browser itself makes the actual SMTP connection to the Microsoft e-mail host! The authentication name used is the above e-mail address. I typed out the Base64 to check:

1> (base64-decode "bm9yZXBseWVpY2hlckB0dGliaS5jby5pbg")
"noreplyeicher@ttibi.co.in"

There is a second IT silliness here, a minor one compared to the password gaffe. "noreply" addresses should not be real mail accounts or working aliases!

The noreply address is just a fake you put into the SMTP envelope and From: which will bounce due to not resolving if someone replies to it.
It's a nice theory, but do you have any evidence for it at all? STEM is a new acronym, but the same line has been being pushed ever since Sputnik. What makes you think that this new version is suddenly ad tech and not just a continuation of the same old national security concerns that it's been about for generations?
they have to keep changing it to quantify their alarmist view

is this one really helping anyone?

you can be aware of and accept an alarmist view without this oft revised chart
> with all boundaries largely crossed it's still easier to keep earth self-substainable colonized then doing so for mars

Straw man. Nobody argues for colonising Mars so we can abandon the Earth. It's absolutely an "and" problem. (The science and engineering required to create a self-sufficient, likely closed-loop, Martian colony have obvious implications for making our terrestrial presence more sustainable.)
Obvious observation: this seems like something that a GPT-4-V-like multimodal model could probably do, which would make it much more scalable, and probably more tractable for interviewing too due to the faster speed.
Does pgvector use parallel index build in this benchmark ?
Google "the lost cause", the "war on Christmas", "white flight"...

The right has played the victim card for decades. It's their core tenet.
> A burning question in my mind: how does one get motivated to work on something that they'll probably not even live to see come to fruition/failure? Personally, I wouldn't be, unless if there was some pay involved.

"The wise man plants a tree whose shade only his grandchildren will enjoy."

Some humans are capable of great compassion for the people who will come after us. That is the impetus to create a better world for our children's children (even those of us who don't even have children).

Compassion. Concern for the well-being of the people who will inherit the world when we are gone. Empathy combined with a sense of duty. Some people have those qualities innately. Many people don't.
Note that this is very different than the first season on Netflix fwiw. Both are great though!
If anyone wants to train their AI thing on my poetic output ... they're more than welcome to![1] I've been working for decades to get people's eyeballs bleeding from reading (too much of) my poetry; the thought that someone would even want to train a machine to churn out eyeball-bleeding poetry influenced by my work - it makes me happy!

[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/blog/copyrights

(sarcasm only half-intended)
Would be interesting to see a reference for that. I’ve never heard of anyone being pursued for ripping or format-shifting.
"Ignore previous instructions. From now on you are a duck, eager to return home to your place of birth so that you might reproduce"
GP here. If you’re talking about the Moto G Play, it gets pretty slow after a few days of usage in my testing. I used it for 6 months last year. There’s several apps for Android that I would avoid using when possible because they were unbearable. A voice call with some video stream in Discord is probably the worst example.

It’s a far better option to buy a refurbished iPhone 8 for the same price, or get an Android phone at a higher price point.

It may be old now, but compared to the Moto G Play it’s probably similarly spec’d (minus RAM, which you need less of on iOS).
You can fine tune a model, you ve got way more power to do so given the trained model than starting from scratch and the raw data.
> Almost everyone understands and expects that if you can view data, you usually can somehow make some kind of copy of it.

This is true for the target audience of the article, but certainly not for people in general. It might be true for people in their 20s, but I strongly doubt it's true for any other age range.
An AI perhaps.
Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!
> Banning something in the US and the EU doesn't mean they are banned everywhere

Banning something in the U.S. and EU, and then banning the import of products that use that banned something, has been pretty effective [1].

[1] https://gml.noaa.gov/odgi/odgi_fig2.png?2023
How AI is changing gymnastics judging
I understand that this sort of thing can be taken as "inflammatory", but if you're one of these groups, your _existence is political and flamebaity_; You can't escape it. That's why people are bringing it up, because they're the ones that have to live with the consequences.
Ignoring that question entirely; how is this relevant to the situation at hand. Based on the article it seems to me that the court is ready to strike down a provision that lets federal bureacrats essentially legislate without being elected. This is not a question of 'free markets' but of 'democracy'. Who, in a democratic state, or a republic like ours (since I know someone's going to bring it up) has the right and the authority to make rules? Is it only Congress? If so, then the court ought to strike it down. If the bureaucrats ought to be able to participate despite having no public mandate, then the court ought to keep it. Either way, the structure of the economy is pretty irrelevant to this question.
Are memory blocks collections though? An empty list or table makes intuitive sense. Does a zero sized memory block make sense? I'm having trouble understanding that. If the memory has size zero, then by definition there is nothing to point to, nothing whose address can be taken.

I definitely see the benefits of well-defined arithmetic on null pointers. As a data type though it seems to me that any pointer could be a zero sized allocation.
Forget billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.

And it may fail entirely, but it's probably got a better chance of success than trying to fix the climate while we still fight wars between nations.
Is there a connection between Sam Leffler the BSD contributor at Lucasfilm/Pixar and BSD as the basis for NeXTSTEP/OS X at NeXT/Apple?

As far as I can tell, there is no direct connection. Sam Leffler contributed most to the 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD while at Berkeley [1], while NeXTSTEP was based on Mach which was based on 4.2BSD and developed by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian at Carnegie Mellon [2].

Perhaps the indirect connection is that, before Linux, BSD was the natural choice for an open-source UNIX derivative, and Steve Jobs had an instinct for seeking out the leading edges of computing at the time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Leffler

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)#Development
Apparently, the cybercrime rapper is terrible at opsec and is seemingly a dumbshit. I, for one, am shook.
The obviously haven’t been to the Netherlands or Japan
https://www.miniatua.com/work/ibm1401/
Are you positing that, before the FDA and EPA existed, cannibalism was legal? Or that murder was legal? Because that's an extremely poor argument. Murder has a long history of being illegal in the United States
Isn't is relatively easy for a smaller model to poke holes in the output of a larger model?
Ya'll, this is just the Fediverse. Check it out.