skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re willing to cut ethical corners in one dimension there’s no reason to believe you won’t in other dimensions. Doing rigorous research with honesty, transparency, and ethically is interrelated. That’s why being a reputable journal is so important - presumably the standards are high and the research is more reliable, and citing it is more credible. While not consistently true or universally true, it’s at least true the less reputable journals are known to be … less reputable. So, yes, you could republish in less reputable journals, but other researchers will assume a low quality result intermixed with fraud, unethical practice, and lack of transparency. Fair or not Chinese journals don’t have a reputation for quality like mainstream journals, even among Chinese researchers. Finally a Chinese language journal has almost no readership outside of China, further diminishing the impact of your research. Even citing the research in an international journal would be problematic.
Anything reusable must be generic; that’s a cost of static typing.
I have the same attitude towards gym memberships - it really helps to know I can just go in for 30 minutes when I feel like it without worrying whether I’d be getting my money’s worth.
It's a weird field in that regard. I'm a CompE, but I started college as an EE and switched pretty late. My skillset is more closely aligned with the CS folks, but my formal education and training was by EEs, for EEs. I still do "hardware stuff" for fun.

The best firmware teams I've worked on have always had a mix of disciplines. Heck, I mentored a mechanical engineer for a while (he became a very good firmware dev). You have to have good programmers who manage to write modular, maintainable code even if the language and hardware limitations fight them the whole way. You need folks who understand Electrical Engineer-speak. Depending what you're doing, you might HDL people, and that stuff might as well be a completely separate discipline from regular software. You need people who are comfortable debugging with nothing more than log messages, and if you're lucky, a coredump. You need a manager who can wrangle the occasional "it's a hardware problem" vs "it's a firmware problem" debate.
I have little web culture, but I always love internet stories like that. It really is a contrast to social medias. Maybe it's because on such blogs and fragment of life, it's the human that "do the internet", instead of the internet doing the human( if that makes sense?).
“Into the Storm” is just brilliant. Punching intro, vocals come in for a little “soft” intro themselves, and then vocals go hard (“where can I run”) and we’re off to the races. I’m typically a guitar guy, but man I really enjoy Hansi’s talents to compose vocals…mixing moods, styles, speed, all in the span of a few verses. Reminds me of “Time Stands Still”. That second verse comes in real self-reflective and interior like (“I stand alone”) and then BOOM “I dare you!!!”.
That’s garbage PR from the campaign of the current city attorney, who loved yelling that the incumbent never prosecuted drug felonies. Unfortunately she and her voters were all so flat ignorant that they didn’t know the city attorney cannot prosecute felonies, only misdemeanors - so she hasn’t done so either. But she has cancelled drug court programs and cut options for rehab and services! And she claims to have caught up on a backlog of cases, without mentioning that she did so by throwing all of them out.
Neither would I. But if someone who can translate a French sentence into English preserving the meaning most of the time, I think it would be reasonable to say that this person understands French. And that is what we're talking about here - models do produce correct output much of the time, even when you give them input that was not present in their training data. The "stochastic parrot" argument is precisely the claim that this still does not prove understanding. The "Chinese room" argument takes it one notch further and claims that even if the translation is 100% correct 100% of the time, that still doesn't prove understanding.
Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions
Yes. Google Reader shut down, three years later Harambe is dead. The rest is history.

It all started there.
> The overdose rate is starting to really spike again

From 50 deaths skyrocketing up to 70 deaths. This is the kind of spike the US dreams about.

The stats you link to do a pretty good job of countering the pORtIgaL iS ON dRUg FIrE narrative.

When compared with the rest of Europe, Portugal has a fairly low incidence of drug deaths.

So thanks for posting them.
It is overwhelmingly likely the US will never have a draft again.

The nature of warfare has changed. You can't give someone a few weeks of basic and throw them on the battlefield anymore. They need to be experts on a variety of technical topics as well as how to do combined arms maneuver in large formations. You need trained professionals.

If the US is ever placed in a position so desperate that a draft is done again, rebuilding a new selective service administration overnight will be a trivial problem compared to everything else going on.
Long lasting neuronal plasticity sounds a bit scary. It might mean your personality could gradually change.
I feel like, if we are to obligate message boards to host all messages posted on them, then we should also obligate businesses to provide their service to any customer that walks in the door.

Yep, that means a bakery would be required by law to provide wedding cakes to people they don't like.

Anything less than this is straight up hypocrisy. If you think that a business should have the right to refuse business to anyone... this is what that is lol.
Not defending them, but that would explain why they thought it was 2 years old.
Did you look a bit deeper? Qdrant is written in Rust from scratch. The project is over three years old and started long before the "gold rush." :)
Run it wherever you want, in your data center, locally, with no limitations.
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-helm
Google says Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple in 2018
> it’s really more a question of “how does my brain like to get to a solution and keep it functioning” and I find that fascinating

Sure, but this is largely a matter of training and experience. Plenty of fans of dynamically typed languages just haven't learnt how to make effective use of decent static type systems.
I agree with you that this law applies to any large organization.

But I disagree with the idea that the 50s/60s represent the end of an "early on" era of the US economy. Many large US corporations were already decades old the time WW2 started - John Deere was founded in 1843, GE in 1892, Castrol in 1899, Texaco in 1902, Ford in 1903, Chevrolet and IBM (under a different name) in 1911, Boeing in 1916. The biggest boom in the US economy happened during and just after the war, when much of the giants of today (except big tech, of course) were 30+ years old companies (and there were many .

I don't think bureaucracy was the problem with any slowdown, or if it was, it wasn't as inevitable as the law suggests.
Goosebumps reading that. On the back of dragons!
> Substitution only matters if you’re using inheritance, but if you’re inheriting, you likely have bigger problems as few real world problems are naturally represented by inheritance.

No, it matters when you implement interfaces (in the Java sense) too.

Tons of real world problems are naturally solved by having multiple implementations of interfaces. Also, Dependency Inversion doesn't even make sense without it.
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What has he built other than peddling his books and courses that we use on a daily basis? I don’t know if he meets the bar of an exemplary engineer by that standard.

Coders at work was a far better resource in that regard, every person that was interviewed has made significant impact in the world of computing and is discussing hard earned lessons about building software.
That seemed to work! RSS feed is now added to my Thunderbird client.
Speak for yourself, some of us have principles.
What’s the demonstrated effectiveness of calling a hotline vs attending a group?
Let the journal decide, it's their journal and their hosting costs and their ethical guidelines for papers they publish. The audience can get it from anywhere else.
I've noticed this happens with covers of other songs too and it angers me to no extent when they deviate from the original beyond changing the octave and such.
Interesting and useful work, keep it up.

However, I took a look at a few geospatial-nix packages:

- https://github.com/imincik/geospatial-nix/blob/master/pkgs/p...

- https://github.com/imincik/geospatial-nix/blob/master/pkgs/g...

But it seems like the packages are minimally tested.

Am I seeing this correctly?

For example, with postgis, I miss the 'make check';

"The above command will run through various checks and regression tests using the generated library against an actual PostgreSQL database."

https://postgis.net/docs/postgis_installation.html#idm738
I remember having both and the Amiga seemed 2 generations ahead honestly. Not surprisingly given the shear hardware differences. Amiga really was an everything and the kitchen sink system. High end 32bit CPU, graphics acceleration, amazing audio, literally 256 times the ram of the NES.

Even the SNES didn't come close. Wasn't until the Sega Saturn era that we saw something that could outperform it.
> I wonder if Google wants rights to what is developed in GSoC.

They don’t. I participated in GSoC working on something that competes directly with Google (LibreOffice) and was never asked to assign copyright or anything like that.

IMO GSoC is a relatively cheap way for Google to get some goodwill and boost their brand among college students; it’s not really a core part of their competitive business strategy.
I'd like to see something like [dep-tree](https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree) 's visualization augmented with a keyword or LLM vector search. Your query would highlight relevant files and clusters.
I love that this article uses the current event to talk about the larger issue.

> But Google’s attempt failed disastrously. Why? In my view, it was because the Google team tried to take a shortcut.

Rather than do the hard work of building a more integrated society, the attempt at superficial shortcuts leads to lazy things like the prompt injection seen in the Gemini release.

Another great comparison toward the end:

> Where Hamilton [the musical] challenges the viewer to imagine America’s founders as Latino, Black, and Asian, Gemini commands the user to forget that British monarchs were White. One invites you to suspend disbelief, while the other orders you to accept a lie.
But there has to be some statue of limitations here.

If a product that most probably most people use for 4-8 years develops a problem 9 years later, then as long as it wasn't an intentional defect, I think you just have to chalk that up to bad luck.

I mean, what would the compensation even be? In theory, it would be capped at the resale value of a 9-year-old MacBook. Which is essentially nothing. Apple products hold their resale value far better than other electronics brands, but that's really talking about devices 2-5 years old.

At some point you just have to say you got your money's worth out of the product in the time you used it. Nothing lasts forever, and in laptop terms, 9 years is pretty close to forever.

(Obviously it depends on the product category -- things like washing machines are meant to last far longer, and come with things like 10 year guarantees on their motors.)
> I simply believe this type of article with data to back it up.

(don't?)
When the V project started out the creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they've gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website (https://vlang.io), a beer-money level Patreon following and some corporate partnerships/sponsors. However they have experienced some pretty brutal takedowns over the years, with some of the bolder claims about the language/compiler often being exposed as untrue and some functionality being broken.

A word I keep seeing in relation to V is "aspirational" - the project aspires to be a serious language and it aspires to have some serious features, so I think it's fair to approach it with a more critical eye than one would a kid's side-project. I think HN would have been pretty understanding if they were open about the state of the various features and were a little less defensive when they encounter articles that review it like a Real Language.

If the authors don't want this kind of feedback they can just say front-and-centre (or on their FAQ @ https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/FAQ) "this is a toy" or "this is pre-alpha" or "this is for research purposes". There are plenty of projects like this which are open about their intent and which don't have posts like this written about them. But I don't think that'll happen, so as it stands the pattern will continue - someone revisits the language every year or so, finds some things that doesn't meet expectations, writes about it and we discuss it on HN again.
This is what my team usually does. We just make a poll on Slack if we want changes to the process. Works like a charm for the most part.
Byju's investors vote to fire CEO, but company says it's 'Invalid'
Just started using it last month. Used Mint until a year or two after Intuit bought it, then basically did no real budgeting until my recent GnuCash use.

A few YouTube vids made the interface less daunting and I read a few Reddit comments on how people use it themselves, and I'm applying what I can to my own setup.

If there's anything a new GnuCash user should read or learn, please let me know!
Counter-Strike, One of the Most Successful Videogames, Is a Gateway to Gambling
Yup good points. I now rememeber "dorchester" and "chobham" armours. I must say that I too am at a loss to imagine how they are fabricated into solid hulls!
Just checking - you are aware this is a new game under development?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SB20aFHc08
Control D is a DNS service that improves your privacy and productivity
Previously a 'Show HN' with no traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846542 (2021)

I just happened across it (mentioned by some NextDNS forum users upset with the latter's lack of progress) and searched HN hoping to find a thread with some reviews/critiques/recommendations.

@yegor wrote at the link above:

> ControlD is similar to NextDNS in many ways, but has a distinctive difference - it hooks into a network of transparent proxy servers and allows not just blocking, but also unblocking of all kinds of geo-restricted content. We're also working on global ECH support, which we hope to release in a month or 2. This will effectively make it a "light VPN", for HTTP traffic, provided you use a browser that supports ECH.

> We entered open beta [15 April 2021], after being in closed beta for about 5 months with ~2000 users.
I remember reading an MIT admissions article mentioning him: “A few years ago, we did not admit a student who had created a fully-functional nuclear reactor in his garage.”

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways/
The US doesn't allow for manufacturer of hard drugs. Any drug can be laced with fentanyl these days and lead to an OD.
supportive services are fairly minimal here. for instance the article opens with an interview at a safe consumption site, which is one of the most necessary and effective features of portugese policy that prevents overdose deaths - but such facilities are illegal in america
> The most recent incident was in May 2021, where Google announced they're working on an update to Google Chrome that brings back RSS support. But there has been no word on an official launch since it was announced years ago. It's unclear of what the implications of this feature will be.

The feature is launched. Base don my experience: Any site you "follow" will appear in the "Following" tab of the new tab page, and I have seen these sites also pop up in the feed of my Pixel phone (Google Now?)
Related: I recently wrote an SQL query to generate podcast RSS:

https://taylor.town/xml-sql

Postgres XML functions are ugly, but make this kind of stuff very easy
I assume its the garbage collection but this jumps around a lot and seems to chuck the lander into different orientations when it does it. Its very hard to play in that state.
So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game
Try to come on Matrix; you'll be able to get much better traction there.

Some community members are also working on a merge-bot[1] with the goal of allowing package maintainers to self-service their PRs. This will allow nixpkgs to scale much better. For now, it's limited to package upgrades submitted by the ryantm-updater bot.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-merge-bot
Sorry, my bad. Was partially copied from Linkedin, where I post most of the content. No idea behind. The emojis are from here https://qdrant.to/gsoc24
This is neat! How much is reading one PDF costing you? I saw in your previous post you were using OpenAI to process the text to speech.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494331
The current issues with Boeing are largely blamed on a merger with
McDonnell Douglas that was forced upon Boeing by the US government. Now the US government gives many favorable conditions to Boing with regards to lucrative defence contracts as well as the US govt goes after Boeing would be competitors on their behalf (see Embraer). At this point it may make more sense to consider Boeing a for profit arm of the US government than any kind of normal business.
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Some feedback: Did you consider what happens if the blog post contains the string "]]>"? I think that probably needs to be escaped to avoid problems?
Who elected the leadership?
Strip-mining is exactly the word that popped into my mind.
It's extremely rare that you can compel a company to provide a service. The main exceptions are public services (e.g., libraries), utilities (e.g., power), and protected classes (e.g., you can't legally make a business that only serves white people in the US). While I could definitely understand the argument that many tech companies provide services central to our lives and the scope of what is considered a utility today should be vastly expanded, saying this should include access to a particular LLM seems like one hell of a stretch to me.
the way I've heard it described, faced with the ills of the world, heroin/opiate users just wanna crawl back into the womb. methamphetamine/stimulant users want to fix the world/their world.
And all we have to show for it is a 1600% increase in GDP.
You do get opiods after surgery so, if you want. Only for limited periods of time so.
Arguably, Soviets were prioritizing military production (up to 14% GDP going to military in the 80s), and everything else was an afterthought. They didn't need to give population quality cars, as they could just send them to Gulags if they bitched about the quality too much.
Great. I would love to be proven wrong. My partial blindness from myopia related diseases will likely progress to full blindness as I age. I would love to be shown my worldview is wrong. For example, I didn't know anything about relative light color refractive differences until this HN post. I hope that science discovers a previously unknown mechanism or method for reducing axial elongation.

I also wish that eye doctors knew about the existing evidence. I wish that all opthamologists knew how emmetropization worked, I wish all lenses were peripheral defocused, and I wish more eye doctors prescribed low dose atropine to children, because the evidence is clear. And I sincerely hope that more eye doctors get sued for not using these tools in their practice. Ignoring science based evidence of myopia control in a field where you only need to know about 20 things is negligence.

Proving axial elongation is reversible is not done by a n=1 pet theory forum post measured in a home lab by someone who doesn't know what their choroid is. These forums are filled with people with mild myopia, not high myopes, who are "just starting my journey!" or "I had a small correction and I plateaued!" but are still zealously telling everyone else how to reduce their myopia. n=1 is fine for Reddit tier evidence, but without studies, it doesn't matter.
Fair enough.

> was offering a framework within which the details can be fleshed out

So the framework is revoking § 230 for large websites that moderate user content. Except providing a safe harbor for removing illegal stuff. Also off topic. Presumably also spam.

What does that actually do except buy every lawyer a ranch? We haven’t actually drawn the line between censorship and moderation. And I’m arguing we can’t; there isn’t one. Where we draw the line we do so by identity; who is speaking or doing the moderating/censorship.

The act of censorship or moderation is the expression of an opinion. I haven’t seen a way to remove one without the other; that’s the error drawing up a list of examples doesn’t solve. There is always another example, and at that point, we aren’t drawing a line anymore, we’re back to putting content in a good and bad bin, just a little more centralised.
Poverty Inc[1] makes the case that NGOs helping developing countries become incentivized to keep them in poverty.

[1]: https://www.povertyinc.org
Your experience of the lyrics might benefit from learning about literary devices. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(figure_of_speech)?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiperspectivity?wprov=sfti1
The complete opposite of Raspberry Pi, but I predict that one result of generative AI models is we will end up with over 1 million concurrent players on MUDs.

#1 Dramatic simplification of navigation and actions, making them accessible for new users

#2 Significantly better role-playing enabled through NPC characters

#3 Access & visualization medium by choice: text, narration/voice, image, video, 3D

If I had the free time this is what I would work on now. I've messed around with LLM RPGs, but the big piece is there needs to be a stored structure to get around the context model issues, or at minimum reduce costs and speed up use since we now have huge context models.
Another one or two that I feel are very important; 1. Be invested and show you give a damn, 2. (Related to 1) ask good questions that show you care and are invested