skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what the difference is between LET and LET*. What you haven't provided is a motivation for forcing the programmer to worry about that. It seems there's no concrete example of where unstarred LET would be better. If a programmer ever falls in the habit of sometimes using unstarred LET, then it's likely he'll make a mistake by using it where starred LET* was the right thing.

Even Scheme gives this distinction an odd prominence that's not found outside the Lisp family. It seems reasonable that when I write code, I shouldn't have to stop and worry about which of the gazillion different LET forms is appropriate, especially in a high-level language which is supposed to help me write code (or read code) without worrying about irrelevant details like that.
I'm sorry if the police aren't taking car crime seriously where you live, but who else do you think should be investigating crime?

That said, a hit and run isn't the same as organised car thieves with tow trucks.
3 times as much in fact - but nobody wants to talk about that one, then again - both of these events are only a tiny, tiny fraction (like 1/3 of 1%) of the methane released in a typical year.
I don't know the statistics, but even if it happens only once, the authors of the policies in place should be prosecuted.

One stat that jumps out is that infant death rates are way up. Forcing women to complete their term anyway is sadistic and completely unnecessary.
Tell me what they mean by "safety controls" first. It's very vaguely worded.

DALL-E, for example, wrongly denied serveral request of mine.
> You get invited to some events and I got the hoody (which is a nice one) and that's about the extent of their appreciation or engagement

What were you expecting?
> The decision comes after officials found that the scores were the single best predictor of students’ academic performance and that not considering them could be a disadvantage for those who have already faced daunting challenges.

Neither half of this sentence is surprising. Some people love to hate on standardized testing, despite it having been repeatedly shown to have high predictive capability.
I agree that it’s not a complete solution, but this sort of characterization is still useful towards the goal of identifying regions of fitness within the model.

Maybe you can’t explore the entire forest, but maybe you can clear the area around your campsite sufficiently. Even if there are still bugs in the ground.
Why is this a problem for Common Lisp, and not for the dozens of Scheme implementations that allow you to (define ...) anywhere? (never mind what the RnRS standard says)

> And if it's executed conditionally, what does that mean? The var is declared on one branch but not the other?

Here is some C code:

if (cond()) {
preamble();
int a = 5;
do_stuff(a);
} else {
do_stuff(6);
}

And some Scheme code:

(if (cond)
(begin
(preamble)
(define a 5)
(do-stuff a))
(do-stuff 6))

So why can't Common Lisp have the equivalent?

(if (cond)
(progn
(preamble)
(var a 5)
(do-stuff a))
(do-stuff 6))

Instead, CL forces you to do this:

(if (cond)
(progn
(preamble)
(let ((a 5))
(do-stuff a)))
(do-stuff 6))

Do you see the problem? Common Lisp wants you to declare every set of intermediate variables in a nested scope, leading to super-deep nesting unless you start breaking you function into small pieces for no reason (which then hurts readability).

This is why languages die, when the old guard refuses to see that there are better ways of doing things than what they are used to.
This is the new pattern emerging... Linux is the trendsetter and Windows is following. Windows is becoming the underdog.
I think I’m going to learn software engineering and electronics.
I’ve been using VSCode + PlatformIO for ESP32 programming and I probably wouldn’t change this.

There are many software out there that requires configurations for better experience, so it’s an inevitable problem.
I don't quite track what you mean. I use personal leave for these events (often I don't provide much notice; my brain doesn't either). It's not been a problem so far as I have been told, nor is that a concern I have in my field generally. Being able to take care of things that inevitably fail to fit within the constraints of a weekend is quite beneficial and leads to a lot lower stress levels, which benefits everyone.
Hah! That was my exact example of its UI weirdness. It’s not that it’s different from Photoshop, but that it’s different from every other tool I’ve ever used to put a circle on the screen.

A friend gave me, erm, a backup copy of Deluxe Paint for Amiga way back when. If GIMP were half as approachable as DPaint, I’d still be using it.
The other issue you have (which confuses the situation) is there may be a 500k shortage in the Bay Area directly (e.g., people who work in the area and would like to live closer, etc, etc).

But if you solve that you may find that you have an additional five million families far from the area, out of state, even out of country that would also like to live there. At some point you can't satisfy everyone, or the Bay Area wouldn't be the Bay Area anymore and it would more resemble New York West.
Yes for now, it's 1000 song, which is already awesome if you think about it, no? As it's like 300 ms, one can increase the DB size by a few order of magnitude, certainly. It will scale to billions of songs thanks to hardware accelerators, which are coming. One can google and see that there is a bunch of companies (small or large) working on accelerating FHE computations.
Fun idea! Clear objectives and simple tools. It's also a remote control example.

I find that "algorithmic thinking" is too artificial for young kids. They are very versatile in a richer set of methods, which often are mutually conflicting yet lead to desired result.

Once we played with a programmable mouse that needs to find cheese. Very predictably, the most used button was "do a trick", which makes mouse make funny noise without moving further... Sweet times for the kid, doomed moments for the teacher.
And MIT: https://news.mit.edu/2022/stuart-schmill-sat-act-requirement...
The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
Lots of other advice is echoing portions of this -- just let Windows be Windows -- don't try to force it to be Linux. A pickup truck and an El Camino look kind of similar if you squint, but serve very different purposes.

Get an off-lease refurb laptop (Newegg has tons of these [0], $300 can get you a decent 15" Lenovo / HP / Dell with SSD, 32GB ram, i7, etc)

Wipe it and install Windows 10 LTSC [1], install all known required university software, Git for Windows, Chocolatey, text editor(s) of choice, etc.

Image the main drive as a fresh starting point for when the machine gets hosed.

If you NEED real Linux, install those to VMs on a secondary drive or partition (I like VirtualBox as host but there are others) -- better to virtualize the least-demanding OS rather than the most.

Sync your browser bookmarks/history to the cloud.

Keep all of your code in separate private repos so they're backed up and you can pull down if you need to.

While on Windows, if you're trying to do Linux things, just use Git Bash. I doubt you'll ever need to touch Powershell or anything like that in general usage.

I wouldn't waste my time with Docker either -- it's dreadfully slow when using WSL, usable if you go back to regular Hyper-V and crank the RAM, but try as I might, I just have never found a scenario where it felt like the right solution to a problem on Windows.

It's also never a bad idea to find ways to separate your concerns -- my daily setup is a Windows 10 desktop, a Mac mini and a Linux desktop all in a closet, Windows on the main monitor, MacOS on the monitor to the right, keyboard and mouse shared via Synergy, and I SSH into the Linux box from Windows. I do most things on Windows, Mac things on the Mac, Linux things on Linux, but it's ergonomic and feels like one system (to me).

And do pick up all the other tips in this discussion -- good advice in there on snapshots, what to back up, etc.

There's no "correct configuration" for any of this stuff, you'll find a combo that feels good to you. Keep it simple and lean and you'll be fine. I've been using Windows as my primary desktop OS since 3.11 for Workgroups, it can be a fickle lover, sure, but Windows is incredibly capable in 2024.

Links:

[0] https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=4131%204016%20600566986%201000...

[1] https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links.html
China bought a lot of ASML equipment before the sanctions + they can still buy the less state of the art equipment.
The trade secrets in question seem to be yield and inventory numbers according to the article. Certainly interesting, but not sure how this helps Intel with their foundry business?
19% of new marriages in 2019 (and likely to rise): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_...

Plus, it’s still a recent change: Loving v Virginia (legalized interracial marriage across US) was decided in 1967.
It requires custom machining rather than injecting plastic into whatever kind of molds you have.
As far as Stable Diffusion goes - when the released SD 2.1/XL/Stable Cascade, you couldn't even make a (woman's) nipple.

I don't use them for porn like a lot of people seem too, but it seems weird to me that something that's kind of made to generate art can't generate one of the most common subjects in all of art history - nude humans.
An immediate way to lower pandemic risk: Leave the bats alone
It'll be out soon, doing benchmark tests etc
Why C in particular?
The first Dune had an epic soundscape, it was the first movie I've watched where I thought the audio was doing a better job than the visuals in pulling viewers into the world. I'm going to see if I can pay a bit extra to see it in a cinema this time, and hopefully find one that has a good audio setup.
I don’t think you really understand the current trends in computer architecture. Even cpus are being moved to have on package ram for higher bandwidth. Everything is the opposite of what you said.
'It has gotten out of hand': wage theft rampant in US construction
> actual systemic racism

That's a bogeyman. There's racism for sure, especially since 44 greatly rejuvenated it during his term, but it's far from systematic.
> If you ask generative AI for a picture of a "nurse", it will produce a picture of a white woman 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

> If you ask a generative AI for a picture of a "software engineer", it will produce a picture of a white guy 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

These are invented problems. The default is irrelevant and doesn't convey some overarching meaning, it's not a teachable moment, it's a bare fact about the system. If I asked for a basketball player in an 1980s Harlem Globetrotters outfit, spinning a basketball, I would expect him to be male and black.

If what I wanted was a buxom redheaded girl with freckles, in a Harlem Globetrotters outfit, spinning a basketball, I'd expect to be able to get that by specifying.

The ham-handed prompt injection these companies are using to try and solve this made-up problem people like you insist on having, is standing directly in the path of a system which can reliably fulfill requests like that. Unlike your neurotic insistence that default output match your completely arbitrary and meaningless criteria, that reliability is actually important, at least if what you want is a useful generative art program.
Almost certainly NASA.
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/

His whole blog is fantastic. If you want more background (e.g. how transformers work) he's got all the posts you need
No actually I'm road tripping to experience the event with my friends instead of cramming it into an instagrammable tokenized experience in a cabin full of strangers
And it ignores male gendering. People were posting pictures of women when the prompt asked for a "king".
I edited my post so if two candidates get 43% or more then restart. Thanks for the correction. Or it not restart but something else, am open to changing my mind. (see ChatGPT reply below)
I agree with the part where you said our collective intelligence is embedded in language. Intelligence is a social process, none of us are too great alone. We like to forget that and assume it's all in our heads or in the models
I suspect that Google's solution to this mess will be to retain said racecrafting except in negative contexts. That is, `swedish couples from the 1840s` will continue to produce hordes of DEI-compliant images, but `ku klux klansmen` or `nazi stormtroopers` will adhere to the highest standard of historical accuracy.
If we trained it with videos yes but need more GPUs for that.
While that thoughtpiece makes me not like him as a person, your point is correct; the comment you're replying to is a low effort ad hominem, attacking the person and something they said about a different subject instead of addressing the actual remark about models.
There's a fast new code editor in town [video]
OTOH, this output is a demonstration of a very good steerable Gemini model.
Yes, we have an API and a way of accessing it with a generated API key which you can find in the admin panel.

Two things to note though.

The APIs are intended for serving the Danswer frontend. The functionality is generally complete for similar use cases but it's not documented so you have to look at the code.

If you're overusing the API on the cloud without providing your own OpenAI key, we will likely have to shut down the instance to prevent losing too much on inference fees.
It seems to me that the linked post gives several not-too-weird data sources that Person would miss.
> What was an American problem has become an Anglophone problem.

Memetic virulence.

But maybe it is also puncturaing through the language and cultural membranes, as evidenced by things like this material from a Dutch university: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclu...
its pretty difficult to dig up any solid evidence plastic pollution has effects on health beyond banned plasticisers, and even then. whereas plastic mitigation efforts often result in exacerbating actual issues like leading to more carbon emissions

sure, plastic waste should be responsibly handled. but plastics have major benefits to solving many other problems. in this case it's compounded by readers that have nothing to do with farming (or who have a garden and think they could live off of it) thinking farmers are trying to kill them

also, the article railing against landfills is part of the issue to me. plastic that is landfilled is absolutely responsibly managed plastic. we /want/ our waste to become part of geology, not keep circulating, if possible
This is the tragedy of plastic. It's so complicated and the benefits are so invisible that people can't weigh the pros and cons.

Plastic is incredibly complex, and the foundation of so many aspects of modern life that it's very difficult to take it all in.
Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer
> Why? Do you consider Apple to generally be some sort of force of good?

No, but I don't presume they are purely guilty/cynical if there also might be good reasons for the changes they are making.
Also, presuming Apple as a company has perfect knowledge and will not ever make a mistake is not realistic. There are things like unintended consequences, of which they also fixed a lot.
The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet – Now with Videos
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Cheers,
MrLA
Alaska: 134 per 100k, The Netherlands: 7.1 per 100k.

Something is very wrong in the USA.
the extreme excess and total neglect of the end of the lifecycle / negative externalities that every god damn company on earth likes to push onto people and the environment is the problem. Nobody said plastics aren't useful, why is that so hard to understand?
Not sure if it affects the older ones, but I've burned out the motor on a few KitchenAid mixers when using the dough hook.
Ambiguous parses aren't even the worst of it -- the worst are the ones that require real world knowledge.

"I couldn't fit the trophy in my suitcase because it was too big."

"I couldn't fit the trophy in my suitcase because it was too small."
I'm not sure, how many women a year should we say is acceptable?
AMD really isn’t as good at the high end (by quite a decent percentage depending on the tasks) and in perf per watt term they are far ahead.
Even on the gaming side the only thing somewhat saving AMD is their lower prices for traditional game rendering (without the AI utilities on top) ; they don’t even have competitive ray tracing yet.

I don’t what are you on about…
Note:

> without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

That tuning has been done for all major current models, I think? Certainly, early image generation models _did_ have issues in this direction.

EDIT: If you think about it, it's clear that this is necessary; a model which only ever produces the average/most likely thing based on its training dataset will produce extremely boring and misleading output (and the problem will compound as its output gets fed into other models...).
Super statement! Thank you.

Fastmail does also have contacts within their portfolio and you can manage own (static) websites with their service. They do really have a great feature set.

They're the developers of JMAP (with great features for now and in future), they do have Masked Mails built-in and much more.

Overall a great service!
So is the agenda for tokenizing experiences into expensive roller coaster rides suitable for social media
DEI isn't systemic? It's racism as part of a system.
I think once you know what you're doing, they are actually great for the boilerplate stuff.
This is conspiratorial thinking.

If I'm looking for stock photos, the default "couple" is probably going to be a white couple. They'll just label images with "black couple" so people can be more specific.
Ansible is a nice tradeoff to allow sysadmins with no programming experience to work with it, and someday hopefully graduate to something else. For that, I think it's a net-positive.

But yes, trying to work with even mildly complex data structures in Ansible is a nightmare compared to raw Python.
It's really unfortunate that Silicon Valley ended up in an area that's so far left - and to be clear, it'd be just as bad if it was in a far right area too. Purple would have been nice, to keep people in check. 'Safety' seems to be actively making AI advances worse.
And why is it desirable to have a population of 8 billion that needs such farms for survival, instead of having a stable population of 1 billion that could be sustained by more future-proof agricultural techniques?
The transformer (Gemini) predicts text with image and text in the context window. That's it.

OCR, Object detection etc all come from the transformer predicting text. Read the Flamingo paper.
I think you hit on an another important issue:

Do people want the generated images to be representative, or aspirational?
From the original "experiment" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/worlds-biggest-4-day-workwee...

The experiment uses a 100-80-100 model: workers get 100% of the pay for working 80% of the time in exchange for delivering 100% of their usual output.

Would only be assuming, however, given the success it would appear that it was achieved.

fwiw I do not think that I have encountered a "knowledge worker" who couldnt do 100% of their job in 80% of the time with minimal effort. Manual jobs / service jobs obviously different of course.
But it seems simpler in some ways than injection molding. You make a single die that's a 2D cross section, extrude as much aluminum as you want, cut it into pieces.
To which they reply "well you weren't actually there and this is art so there are no rules." It's all so tiresome.
Why? These organisations only purport to be acting for 'the people' whilst actually working for the pharmaceutical organisations. They are there to provide the illusion of safeguards.
https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/0t3fy4dr6sd...

Pipelines stuck in pending state
As a counter anecdote I can tell you that all of the ops-people I worked with, they gladly switched from Puppet and Chef to Ansible, specifically because it was less programming and more shell-like.

Not that this is good or bad, but I think that's why Ansible took off with the traditional operations-teams.
idiv is not constant-time on any ISA anyway ;)
That's not even necessarily a bad thing (as a whole - individually it can be). Now, any leaked nudes can be claimed to be AI. That'll probably save far more grief than it causes.
no that is completely absurd. What we need is a government mandated but business operated consortium of ISPs and other industry players. They should agree upon a list of terrorist IPs and block those multilaterally on their networks.

For example, BitTorrent is only used for piracy. Piracy is used exclusively to fund terrorists like the Taliban and ISIS. So BitTorrent users should be blocked from all known ISPs.
Grade inflation and bonus points for honors or AP classes has long made GPA a useless metric. One persons 4.0 is another school’s 4.27 (on a 4 point scale). Standardized testing isn’t perfect but it is one datapoint on how everyone did against the same task. Yes there can be differences in prep and training, but that’s life. Some folks will have more advantages than you. Those that work past that will succeed in life. That’s that don’t won’t.
I guess we should count our blessings and be grateful that literacy, the printing press, computers and the internet became normalised before this notion of "harm" and harm prevention was. Going forward, it's hard to imagine how any new technology that is unconditionally intellectually empowering to the individual will be tolerated; after all, just think of the harms someone thus empowered could be enabled to perpetrate.

Perhaps eventually, once every forum has been assigned a trust-and-safety team and word processor has been aligned and most normal people have no need for communication outside the Metaverse (TM) in their daily lives, we will also come around to reviewing the necessity of teaching kids to write, considering the epidemic of hateful graffiti and children being caught with handwritten sexualised depictions of their classmates.
you can download the book on libgen fyi
I'm Dutch, an additional 5k per month would not buy me the feeling of safety I enjoy in the Netherlands. It's not just medical bills. It's also the crime and rape rates. You don't cover death and trauma with insurance.
>It's not about fairness otherwise your complain would be about how all student debt should be forgiven.

"If you don't believe what I believe you don't care about justice."
To be clear here, you think that Microsoft has more AI compute than Google?
US nears attempt at first moon landing in 50 years with private robot spacecraft