skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, we limited the registration to personal email because too many people were trying to scan APIs that didn't belong to them.

Mind you that you can also use your personal GitHub account to register because we noticed people are way less likely to do risky stuff with their Github account than with a personal email :)
Bacterium in intestines of stressed mice interfere with pathogen protection
https://tatsu-lab.github.io/alpaca_eval/

Such a leaderboard exists, AlpacaEval Leaderboard ranks LLMs on the ability to follow user instructions.
I often use the git blame feature in the IDE to understand what’s been going on. A good commit message will be appreciated, should I happen to find one.
i'm wondering the same thing it seemed to pop up out of nowhere and anecdotal doesn't seem much better to me.
Generating images of cats is like asking for a haiku. It's about the easiest possible task.

I tried "generate a photorealistic image of a polar bear riding on a skiing unicorn"

And it just keeps outputting a polar bear with various rainbow paints and sometimes a unicorn horn
I think the disadvantage with this style of documentation is you can't really alter the commit message after it's written.

(I mean you could obviously with "rebase" but are you really going to alter something written one year ago, already merged to "main", and cause a bunch of pain with everyone's feature branch etc.?)

Compare that with documentation stored in a .md file, or even a Wiki or even Confluence. My colleague can write something and if I see a way to improve it I can go ahead and do that, and other colleagues can improve on what I've written.

In this particular case I suppose the bug is fixed and won't come up again. But I also myself find it tempting to describing the design of a particular component when I commit that component, and that's something I now avoid. What about when that component needs to be changed by a future commit e.g. due to the business requirements changing? Will the commit documentation just describe the differences? Then in order for a new team member to find out how the system works by reading the documentation they've got to read multiple commit messages and "merge" them in their head.
the fact that this would reduce half of the world's net traffic if you're representative & as such eliminate the motivation for people to produce the content, makes me think some of the lawsuits will work
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Initiall the worry was probably:

A) If Google is found liable for copyright on each thing trained, that's more than their net assets by thousands fold at the mandatory minimum rates.

B) If OpenAI is found liable, they go bankrupt and creditors don't even get their non-transferable 70% margin (to Microsoft) cloud credits from Microsoft's investment.

Once Google released Bard though there is pretty much no excuse not to put out better stuff, they already made a legal determination that it is iron-clad fair use.
Thank you, yes, we originally supported GraphQL only and released REST scanning support a few months ago. We plan to support all types of APIs ultimately.
im sorry you had to find out this way, but there is already a very well-known, mercedes group-owned car brand called "smart car"
The computer I use most of the time is a 19 year old (2005) laptop. I run Debian with LXDE and Firefox on it and, although you have to be a little bit patient with some websites, I am generally still very satisfied with it.
openE57 is a modern C++ implementation of the libE57 for reading/writing 3D Models in the E57 format
Exactly. As Michael Pollan pointed out in The Omnivore's Dilemma, other primates spend up to a quarter of their day just chewing their food. Cooking led to smaller teeth and jaw muscles in hominids because we didn't need to chew quite so forcefully.
it looks like it's not: https://huggingface.co/collections/EleutherAI/pythia-scaling...
Mesa 24.0.0
They should cannibalize themselves just Apple did with the iPhone effectively killing the iPod. If they don’t do it someone else will. Kodak was in a similar situation with digital photos as they were scared that it would kill off their film business.
Consider this approach:

<form>
<button formaction="https://your/destination">Clicky!</button>
</form>
I'm working on something similar to build more case studies around it.

Trying to get some performance stats too so it can be better justified.
SSE 4.2 appeared in Nehalem, which was 2008.
great commits are great. This is fantastic

As an aside, I'm tired of documenting:

- in code

- in commits

- in jira

- in confluence

- in daily standups

- in release notes
When will it be integrated with google assistant?

That seems like a possible killer feature for bard.

(tbh I can't wait until I can just ask my AI to call my bank's AI when I need something)
I also had a poor experience, but image generation "worked". Just ask it to generate an image of something
Visual Studio Code January 2024
My takeaway from this is that China's GDP is being held up by government investments and subsidies.
Ask HN: Is there an NLNet equivalent in the United States?
That's exactly what happens, once the cost of providing service becomes higher than the expected revenue.

Now there is some pressure the state/city can provide (you can't serve ANYONE in LA until you serve EVERYONE at the same price points) but at some point the whole thing is unprofitable and the companies disappear.

Literally just happened with home insurance.
ChatGPT 4 usage cap reduced to 20 message per 3 hours
It is 40 messages total, so 20 from you to ChatGPT and 20 back.
Quite damn limiting :/
[meta comment]: Perhaps we should distinguish between "seeking contributors" and "seeking volunteers." I opened this thread hoping to see non-profits that need IT or software engineering support, but instead found a bunch of open-source projects looking for new contributors.
And you chose to react to it by publishing something about it. It wasn't inevitable. You can always ignore irrelevant issues.
IIRC TextEdit.app has options like smart quotes, auto capitalize, and spell check turned on (in addition to being rich text by default), so you have to change all those to be a dumb plain text editor.
Ancient Greeks have not been acknowledged about the one.
Have you been watching midjourney 6? It doesn't. Its output is crazy. It's crossed uncanny valley
Yes, the deployment cost will vary if you draw enough lines. But higher charges in poor neighborhoods doesn’t mean that’s where the highest costs are. Wealthy neighborhoods with large property and low density could have a higher per-home infrastructure cost. All that trenching adds up.

LA is drawing one line at the city limit so there’s only one cost. All customers will pay an equal share of the total cost.

This allocation is a matter of perspective but neighborhood boundaries are a classic tool of oppression. Similar to toll roads and bus fares. It costs a lot to be poor.

Famously AT&T was required to offer local service at a loss to maintain their monopoly. This seems consistent.

Society benefits when everyone has access to basic services.
Flawed Climate Models Predict More Warming Than Actually Occurs

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/01/flawed-climate-models-...

dont editorialize titles,

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not really; the 3 browsers are dillo, links2, and badwolf. Of those, dillo and links2 are <10MB each including dependencies, while badwolf uses webkit which AFAICT is on the order of ~100MB. It's not practical to only have dillo or links2, so what it "could" take is >100MB for one browser, or >120MB for 3, and 120 is less than 3x100.
Used it for years, but the options are out of control, labyrinthine. I gave up trying to keep everything behaving like I wanted.
Interesting for a country that is also building more coal power plants than the rest of the world combined and also at the fastest pace in 7 years: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Stop using old closures in modern PHP. There are 4* ways to replace them
The Steam Deck OLED is absolutely fantastic. But yeah I'm almost at that point too. Windows is abysmal.
Also 4.1.13, 4.0.13, and 3.5.17 (despite the fact the latter two branches are end-of-life)
Congratulations on a great product! I've played with it quite a bit and we finally have a great version of Java in the browser!
Overall agree with the sentiment, but I would add a more specific Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) such as:
"Fix test issues caused by non-breaking space character \xa0".

Tells me exactly what the problem was straight away, but I'm still free to choose to read more if I want to know more.
Wasn't kyber-512 intentionally weakened by the NSA members of NIST?
decades of work in number theory

Centuries of work. To Galois and at least all the way back to the Chinese Remainder Theorem, and to Euclid as well! Mathematicians have been fascinated by this stuff for a very, very long time.
I tried both and ended up using AstroNvim
i like how you express yourself
VS Code adds "Hey Code" voice command
In 2000 i was using FloppyFW for same reason.
Yeah, sorry for my lack of awe at 20 year olds wasting time with crypto and being seen as wunderkind. Now that my skepticism is through the roof with this blog, what exactly is anyone doing with synthetic biology that he mentions that’s interesting at the 20 year old hacker house level?
As the person below states, you sound bitter.

There is nothing about your questions that wouldn't apply to any system.

Literally all of your questions are answered in the rather well written documentation. I could go through them and answer them for you, but I don't think you'd really appreciate that.
That's assuming a lot of things that are shockingly poor choices to assume. Like that the only reason children are exploited is for photographs.
Because it is in my DNA to be proud of it.
So then crypto, as a financial asset, is a greater fool’s game.

OP said it’s inherently not, which is what I was arguing against.
> while keeping a constant state size for generating the output

Isn't Mamba's attention mechanism linear relative to the input? The innovation as I understand it is that attention in Mamba *isn't* quadratic (like transformers).
Upcoming Chances to Influence NIH
>and no one should be charged more based on their neighborhood

Then the city should be obligated to lock up vandals and refined materials thieves. It's bullshit to tell a network provider they have to provide the same service at the same cost to an area where they have to re-lay hundreds of meters of copper every week.

>Plenty of room there to include people who choose to protect their security and morals but are discriminated against for those choices.

Society should not be obligated to adapt to a crazy person who is only willing to communicate by passing notes via dumbwaiter and only using pseudonyms.
Tata, Pegatron in partnership talks for iPhone assembly in India's Tamil Nadu
What about flipping it on its head? The problem with being a designer is you want people to notice your buttons. You can't just let them disappear into the background.

20 years ago, the complaints were that everything was dumbed down, and the "power users" were being hung out to dry.

Well, now everyone is a power user. The average iOS user has at least 5 years experience with the UI. People don't need as much hand-holding.
Possibly due to: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Illegal-Instru...

tl;dr is that an SSE4.2 instruction was introduced into an optional but commonly used runtime library that ships with the Visual C++ compiler. There's no runtime checking for whether the CPU supports this instruction, so it crashes on older CPUs.
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https://github.com/sixarm/assertables-rust-crate

Assertables is a Rust crate that provides assert macros for strings, sets, streams, and more. This helps Rust coders write better clearer tests, and get better clearer error messages.

The aim is to encourage more developers to try Assertables. If you're a coder, want to write more macros? If you're a writer, want to improve the docs? If you're a testing advocate, want to reach out to developers to ask them to try Assertables?

The project is 100% free open source pro bono.
Exactly. The mostly likely outcome is providers just pulling out of poorer neighborhoods or even the whole city (if forced).
That's horrific! I had no idea that was even a feature of PDFs!
It all hinges on "reasonable", which is a lot different than making sure a product is "safe" or that advertising isn't "fraudulent" and so on.
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-- company

Endress + Hauser is a process and laboratory instrumentation and automation supplier. We offer world class instrumentation and all the services around them in almost all industries. Our products are used e.g. in potable water metering, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing contexts.
The company is still owned by the founders and takes pride in its social core values.

-- we

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While we ingest measurements of connected instruments (the classic IoT). We also provide a digital mirror of the customers manufacturing plant including all documentation that occurs over the lifetime of the instruments and health-monitoring.

Our tech stack includes a large Ruby on Rails monolith handling the api part, but also time series databases, storage backends and some Amazon Lambdas.

-- job

We are looking for experienced (ruby) engineers that help us foster and build our platform team and api offering.

Feel free to mail me at oliver[point]wisler[at]endress.com
(I'm a software engineer)
Wow, that's all? I was expecting Google to be pumping much more AI upgrades this year to survive.

Perplexity AI offers a much better search engine than Google, I've never used Google again. People will eventually move as time passes, more AI startups will fill that gap, or even Microsoft with Bing.

By now Google should be at least beating GPT-4, which Pro doesn't. Once GPT-5 comes, I bet Google will throw in the towel.

Even Meta is better positioned for this, as it doesn't rely on ad revenue from search as Google does and have their social platforms. Also LLAMA is quite nice for being "open".
How does this compare to Google Sheets or Excel on o365?
It's against the rules and if you scroll down https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html you'll notice it's in bold text—for a reason! Unfortunately it's hard to get the message across, because people who aren't avid HN users have no idea of the conventions here, and there are other platforms where it's considered fine.

I've emailed the founders to tell their friends/teammates/etc. not to do this.
Most of the expenses around kids revolve around the space they need. Bigger apartment, bigger car, more food are the bare necessities. Then come the expenses for additional flight tickets for vacations, bigger or more hotel rooms, needing to go on vacation during high season or not at all, extra-curricular activities, and so on. One kid can easily double your expenses from a couple's level.
The latest cold war is already being fought in the supply chain trenches
Is not it similar in the west as well? If governments start cutting their budget deficits and subsidies, I assume we are going to have a lot of problems.
If you like Markov Chains, Mamba is the architecture you should be looking into today.
Take it fairly seriously. Using the wrong elements and markup messes with screen readers, which makes the web harder to use for people with visual impairments and makes your websites vulnerable to ADA lawsuits. If you need CSS help, there's a lot of free resources for that. Some pitfalls you might run into when styling links and buttons to look alike are font faces, display properties, widths, borders/outlines, and paddings, so check those as your first culprits. You can use aria-roles in a pinch, but really you should use the right tool for the right job.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: https://www.blacksheepwall.tv

It's a 2.5D Starcraft 1 viewer in TypeScript, Three.JS, GLSL and WASM.

https://github.com/alexpineda/titan-reactor

I will spend this weekend adding issues and cleaning up dev documentation. I still need help with water shader, plugin version and migration handling, and a few other topics.
As a presumably technical poster, I have a hard time understanding your comparison between

- the internet, through which most of all civil life and beyond flows

- grocery stores and gas stations.

The internet is a public utility at this point. You’re arguing that poor neighborhoods should pricier or worse water and sewage hah.
>But the hare is the person who never bothers to train or improve beyond their natural talents

That wasn't may point. My point was that if everyone applied themselves, not everyone would even reach Ronaldo's level. Otherwise every hardworking person in Namibia or Zimbabwe would be Elon Musk wealthy by now.

But they aren't. Why is that? is it because they didn't apply themselves as hard as Musk? Or is it because opportunities in life are limited, no matter how hard you work, and getting them is a lottery of birth and of chance.
"Species" is an artificial categorization created by humans to make it easier to talk about population groups, but as you note, the real world is more complex than that, so the lines are indeed blurry since both Neanderthals and homo sapiens share a relatively recent common ancestor and could apparently interbreed.

But over the decades of research into this field, scientists have had exactly this discussion about where to draw the line between "species" of Homo and have various standards for making this distinction, though certainly some of them disagree with the general consensus, and things change over time.

But there's plenty of genetic evidence and research that have gone into these findings, and plenty of Neanderthal genes that don't appear in modern humans. Just because it goes against your gut intuition doesn't mean they are wrong to make this distinction. There are decades of literature on the topic if you are actually interested in learning about it.
"SUVs" include crossovers, and they're by far more popular than truck based SUVs. The best selling SUVs (and crossovers) is the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V, and Nissan Rogue, all of which top out at around 3500 lb.

https://www.kbb.com/best-cars/most-popular-suvs/
The article is confusing. There is a small island nation called Malta, which is a sovereign state. There is also a sovereign entity called the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which is not the same as Malta and is not a state insofar as it has no territory (except for some buildings in Rome, which were granted similar status to embassies).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta
The original person said that this is standard for any organization. So that's false then?

Now you're saying that it's normal for any organization in a war zone to include 0.1% terrorists in it?

That means that the UNCHR, which operates in the same environments, has had 20 ISIS members among their ranks that participated in terrorist attacks? Nope.

That UN peacekeeping missions like the one in Kosovo just went around murdering a few people here and there? Nope.

It's not true that to operate in these environments you need to include terrorists among your ranks. No one else does.

The UNRWA decided a long time ago that it was easier to work with Hamas. That's just unacceptable for an international organization.

Also, accusing Israel, who literally left Gaza to the locals and forcefully displaced its own people to do so, of genocide is absurd. Israel gave Gazans what they wanted: autonomy. They then elected a genocidal organization.
A lot of people writing in the 1950s thought Eisenhower was a lightweight because he spoke to people at an basic level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP7WaUPACuY

though a many people who met him thought he was pretty sharp.
Awesome! Nothing wrong with self-hosting if that's what you like to do, or want to learn.

It might not be the best option for small businesses with limited time, since webpages are so cheap these days. Paying a vendor $20/mo is much less cost than paying an employee for even an hour. I've seen too many "orphaned" sites to recommend DIY webpages to regular small businesses by default anymore, where simpler vendor solutions exist. But that's just one use case.

On the other hand, many people here, myself included, got started in our careers by setting up similar self-hosted options and learning about the technologies. Plus, as you said, for certain use cases (documentation) there are certainly more specialized options available than what Squarespace would give you.

Choosing the right tools for the job is half the fun!
That's another option, sure!

Personally, I tend to make chains of small commits as I'm working, so keeping things in normal commits makes more sense to me. I like having everything clearly linked to the branch I'm working on. It's easier for me to forget what's in a stash and what it relates to.

To me, stash just seems like a weird non-standard version of a normal commit without any major benefits.
Yeah, and Markov chains aren't much smarter than... matrix multiplication. A lot of stuff have been built with it, but these pesky c++ libs like lapack — such a bother to use! Imagine a world where a good infrastructure have been built around it — matrix multiplication certainly would be a blast!
> Veerhoven's

I stopped talking to people about the film because I discovered that most of them didn't see it as satire or think the book (which they read as teens) was proto-fascist.
Tesla and spacex would go under.

I think the corn subsidies ended a few years ago, but I’m not in that industry enough to know what the fallout was.

Would be interesting to know.