skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multi-faceted failure mode.

0) At the network terminal level (mobile phone): at least for emergency calls if a given network fails to connect, fail over and try other networks. Even if the preferred networks claim to provide service.

1) At the network level: failure thresholds should be present. If those thresholds are crossed enter a fail-safe state. This should include entering a soft offline / overloaded response state.

2) Where possible critical data paths should cross-route. Infra Command and Control and Emergency calls in this case. Though if Roger's issue was expired certs or something the plans for handling that get complicated.
I wish I could disable shorts on Android.

I have a watch later playlist that I want to get through but I find myself scrolling on shorts.
Collectivize the systems/pizza-boxes of production!
1. They are having a "launch party". This is "interesting". They are selling to devs (I read bros, YMMV).

2. Is there a two minute tldr? (aka What are the key concepts?)

3. What is the evolutionary path from rxvt to this?
One of my favourites is "The AWK Programming Language". Very concisely written, very natural to follow, and very insightful even if you do not care about AWK at all.

https://awk.dev/
It all seems like bikeshedding.

Optimistically I could think it’s because all the hard stuff is solved so we argue over things that don’t matter.

Cynically I could think that arguing over this stuff makes it so we never have to test for competence. So dumb people can argue over opinions instead of building things. If they argue then they never get tested and fired. If they build, their thing gets tested and fails and they are fired.
I have been wanting a simple CMS which is effectively just a layer on top of GitHub for a while, I took a stab at it a couple years ago but bounced off so I'm very excited to see this! Definitely going to give it a try.
Do b/Black people in the UK care about capitalization?
Well ya because SD2 literally had purposeful censorship of the base model and the clip, that basically made it DOA to the entire opensource community that were dedicated to 1.5, SDXL wasnt so bad so it gained traction but still 1.5 is the king because it was from before the damn models were gimped at the knees and relied on workarounds and insane finetunes just to get basic anatomy correct.
The Super DVD: Scientists Develop 1 Petabit Optical Disk
I would say that I don't have trouble concentrating or getting things done, once I've decided to do them. I have trouble committing to something that I think is sub-optimal. Quite often this means that I don't do that thing until I figure out a better way, and then I'm usually very happy with the result, and I have plenty of concentration and drive for it.

For things that I'm not yet good at, though, that means that I'll basically stall forever rather than do something that's not good. And I know mentally that that's the wrong attitude, but I have a lot of hobbies already, so it's hard to commit time to something that I'll be bad at for a while when I could do something I'm good at.

It's both good and bad, because it means I spend a lot of time succeeding and (somewhat) limit my spending on new hobbies. But it also means I don't stretch my wings as much as I could. Jack of All Trades vs Master of One, and all that. I'm somewhere in the middle.
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I always wonder instead of a regional restoration, if they would “disable” segments of SIMs/accounts randomly to avoid lightning strike (it’s not a DDoS…) their network as they turn things back on. Depends on what the recovery method is, but could be problematic to turn everything back on at once.
NOAA did release a statement saying the two X class flares were unlikely to effect cellular networks.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/two-major-solar-flares-effect...
9V battery was enough for two modems to communicate back-to-back, without dial tone or ringing signals, just "ATD" command on one and "ATA" on another.
Does this affect voice only? Or affect both voice and cellular data?
> Many children growing up today aspire to be popular on social media. What happens on social media has become part of their core identity.

They'll probably grow out of it. Half my high school class thought they were going to be major league baseball players or NFL players when they grew up. Now they're accountants and HVAC installers.
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OTOH you might be able to see the dark circle as it streaks across the ground, something you can't see from most places at ground level. (Maybe on a mountain I guess)
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XL was basically an experiment on a 2.1 architecture with some tweaks but at a larger image size... hence the XL but it wasn't really an evolution of the underlying architecture which is why it wasn't 3.0 or even 2.5 it was "bigger" lol
Pokemon in the matrix, pet voting system
I'd benefit from OCR too. Not just PDFs, but OCR on images could be super useful to.

For a personal use case, I'm thinking things like receipts. For work, I'm thinking OCR on architecture diagrams/etc.
I mean, it's sweet that you asked.
Travel to a point in the path and view from the comfort of the ground :)

https://eclipse2024.org/eclipse_cities/statemap.html
I've done a lot of experimentation in this space with ChatGPT4 and also the Wolfram plugin. I've mixed but generally good results when working through basic physics problems though you have to be careful about how you prompt. In particular, you want to break down the problem into smaller bite size chunks and eliminate ancillary information. Interestingly, even when it gets the math and algebra wrong, I still find it useful because it gives me hints about how to approach the exercise. Sometimes having several parallel conversations with the Wolfram plugin, for example, can set you on the right track. I expect there will be significant improvements in this arena in the short term.
>> Because the real/natural world doesn't work that way. it's very ill-adapted to real life learning.

Actually, the real/natural world is perfectly adapted to real life learning.
Interestingly for New Yorkers, what you might think is the West Cross Parkway is actually named after Wilbur Cross.
If a generator cannot produce a result that was in the training set due to overly biasing on the most common samples, then yes. If something was in 10% of the inputs and is produced in 1% of the outputs, there is a problem.

I am pretty sure that it's possible to do it in a better way than by mangling prompts, but I will leave that to more capable people. Possible doesn't mean easy.
Show HN: ReportPDF – AI generated reports from spreadsheets
Hollywood milking things for so long that the entire thing resembles anaemic dogshit is as old as Hollywood. Big budget films with stupid stuff because tons of people are involved is also as old as Hollywood. Dune, Alien >=3, Æon Flux, etc. etc.

Sometimes a bad film is just a bad film for all the reasons bad films have been around for 100 years, and that's it. This entire "zomg bad film + female character = woke mind virus!!11" is just silly.

Also Harrison Ford is 81. He's old. Almost old enough to run for presidency. It's physically impossible to make films with Indie like it's 1982. They tried that with Robert DeNiro and unintentional comedy ensued.

Oh, and I heard all of this bollocks with Mad Max too, and that did well enough. Again, sometimes a bad film is just a bad film.
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> “I’m in an area with ~80% - 90% of totality.”

That's like being 90% of the way to the ocean versus swimming in the ocean.
> The online version is 100% free

> What's the "Pro" plan? I haven't completely figured it out

Sounds like it's free until it isn't.
The routing does though.

I have Google offline maps downloaded for areas I end up in just in this case. Gotta do traffic rerouting the old fashioned way though.

Or have an old-school GPS map thingy in your glovebox.

(Also have kiwix and a whole archive of Wikipedia on my phone).

I wonder if meshtastic communicators sales took off during this. How’s LoRa traffic these days?
So how is the job search going?
Why does this read like an ad?
I would absolutely love if image generators produced more historically accurate pictures of jesus. That would generate a really lovely news cycle and maybe would even nudge modern representations to be a bit more realistic.
Eh, it's a worrying scenario but I think it would be taken care of by intertribal competition. The people of Idiocracy would be easy pickings for a group of raiders that prized intelligence highly.

Really, the only two countries that are combining a knowledge economy with an expanding population are Israel and India, both of which essentially have a tech-worker economy subsidizing and intermarrying with a bronze-age economy. That seems like the likely actual solve, a few ivory tower cities surrounded by amish country. Every now and then an Amish tests into the cities or a city-zen absconds to a simpler life, but the net flow is generally intellectual country types moving into the tech hubs.
I think this is an important question.

Whilst I know they contributed a fair bit to Wine there is no clear indication why I would hand over my money vs get the free and open solution.
>The best content on YouTube is berried behind a wall of Mr Beast and Pewdie Pie style fluffery that I can't find any real value in most of the time. They dictate what is favorable, and that ruins the entire experience for me. The search has been flooded with SEO title spam, which makes finding specific content damn near impossible and/or very tedious.

This is not my experience at all. The recommendations engine is what keeps Youtube as my #1 entertainment platform. My Youtube Recommendations ebb and flow, sometimes are better than others, but my feed absolutely never devolves into lowest-common-denominator super popular content, and is mostly dominated by small-to-medium sized channels in the categories that interest me.
The Fallacy of Our World in Data [video]
Putting aside the fact that everything you said is wrong or unsubstantiated, LLMs don’t work like humans because they can learn languages/grammar that humans cannot.
it’s not a justification it’s an example of something that will never be resolved

It is an obscure opinion but it is easy to see how it will be less obscure as the population changes

it lends more weight to just talking about battles that happened instead of policy decisions
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FTA:

> These are some educational applets I wrote to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering. They were originally written in Java, but they've mostly been converted to Javascript, so you should be able to view them without a Java-capable browser.
these are pretty badass as images i think; it's only the context that makes them bad

the viking ones might even be historically accurate (if biased); not only did vikings recruit new warriors from abroad, they also enslaved concubines from abroad, and their raiding reached not only greenland (inhabited by inuit peoples) and north america (rarely!) but also the mediterranean. so it wouldn't be terribly surprising for a viking warrior a thousand years ago to have a great-grandmother who was kidnapped or bought from morocco, greenland, al-andalus, or baghdad. and of course many sami are olive-skinned, and viking contact with sami was continuous

the vitamin-d-deprived winters of scandinavia are not kind to dark-skinned people (how do the inuit do it? perhaps their diet has enough vitamin d even without sun?), but those genes won't die out in a generation or two, even if 50 generations later there isn't much melanin left

a recent paper on this topic with disappointingly sketchy results is https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/83989
I feel your frustration, it should either be free or not-free. Stop pretending to be both, while ending up being neither!

Maybe we can start to refer to these types of projects as GOSS (Gated Open Source Software) or maybe COSS (Crippled Open Source Software)? :-)
Eh, maybe their rowdy teens, but being bored enough to eat something that may actively harm you is a luxury that I don't think a lot of early hominids had. Living off the land with primitive tools is a lot of work even when it's going well.
For valproate, there are multiple forms that result in the same active ingredient. Then there are multiple brand names for each form since it has generics, and brand names are different in each country.

I briefly took Divalproex for migraines which is sodium semivalproate. My doctors called it Depakote since that was most common brand name. Two names was enough trouble finding information. I didn't realize it was valproate until now.
this is why I use kelvin for everything.
Antimatter: Scientists freeze positronium atoms with lasers
> Now the result tastes good

Not that I could really tell, after having it twice.

Edit: having the disease, not your soup. I bet it tastes wonderful.
There's an implicit assumption in it, that while I think it might well not have been trying to be offensive can be seen to suggests a black person in the UK would be African.

Not only do many of them not see themselves as such because they're born here, and their parents and grandparents might be British and/or born here (my son is mixed, his grandfather on his mothers side was Nigerian and British and born here; he is third generation British by some measure - his mother was born in Nigeria, but holds British citizenship due to her father; if he decides to consider himself African or Nigerian - he has a Nigerian citizenship - that's up to him, but he's born here, to a mother with a British citizenship, and has never set foot in any part of Africa), but another significant proportion of black people here consider themselves Caribbean rather than African, because their ancestry goes back many generations in the Caribbean, and that's where they or their recent ancestors immigrated from.

Here, "forcing" a categorization of "African" on someone will be seen by at least some people as implying they're immigrants, and even when that is actually the case, having the label forced on you is often a prelude to racist sentiments.
I had always assumed that corona photos like this are heavily processed in order to maximize the effect and that seeing one in real life would be more like "Eh, there's a sort of little ring thing in the sky."

Nope. During totality, the whole sky goes dark and you look up and there's a fucking ring of fire in the sky.

It looks exactly like these photos, just sitting there up in the sky. It feels like you got teleported to another solar system onto the surface of an alien planet.
Opened new issue at https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms/issues/3 with documentation.

On the second comment, kind of figure it was a WIP currently, hence suggestions. Thanks for the work, as its a fairly light weight way to have a quick little CMS.
And will the model also pretend that a certain particular race doesn't exist?
It's unfortunate something like ReactOS never took off. I guess if one wanted to do something similar from scratch would be to take something like NetBSD, strip it down and start Wine as the only thing running on it.

That could probably replace some embedded uses of Windows.
> We effectively pre-chew our meals with our hands, breaking everything into a nice bite-sized pieces, with mashing or grinding of what would otherwise be too hard to eat

Crows use cars to break open nuts they would otherwise not be able to eat; eagles drop turtles to break their shell.

> We will sort through thousands of tiny berries carefully, to make sure we don't eat something unpleasant

When orkas kill sharks, they only eat the liver of the shark and leave the rest alone. Wild civets also choose only the best coffee berries, which is part of why we make coffee from their poop.

> We will go hungry even when edible food is around, because we know it will be even more ripe later.

I don't think we go hungry, we just look for better food elsewhere until that edible food is fully ripened.
You're looking at it ;) only half-serious because nothing confidential should show up on HN. I'm venting a little here, which I usually don't do, but there's nowhere to say this at work.

There's not really a good form of internal anonymous feedback. The closest thing is putting anonymous "questions" that are really statements on random large meetings and then brigaiding the vote system to get them to the top, which isn't cool but some people do it. And I doubt those are totally anonymous either.
This is normal for high profile outages, even if you are small you can still engage with the CISA if you think there's foul play.
Invalid comparison. There were no smartphones then.

The market was desktop computer users.
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I'm sorry my intent came off in the wrong way. I am not super wealthy.
Thanks for the feedback! Any suggestions to improve would be appreciated!
Are extremely dark-skinned people (for example from South India) who move to england called "Black"? I've never heard that and would be surprised but i'm curious.
If you ever wondered what it was like to live during the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, well, we are living in the Western version of that right now. You don't speak out during the revolution for fear of being ostracized, fired, and forced into a struggle session where your character and reputation is publicly destroyed to send a clear message to everyone else.

Shut Up Or Else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Cham...

Historians might mark 2017 as the official date Google was captured.
There are 3 parts to the LLM, not 2: the training set, the RLHF biasing process, and the prompt (incl. injections or edits).

The first two steps happen ahead of time and are frequently misunderstood as being the same thing or essentially having the same nature. The last happens at runtime.

The training set is a data collection challenge. Biasing through training data is hard because you need so much of it for a good result.

Reinforcement learning with human feedback is simply clown alchemy. It is not a science like chemistry. There are no fundamental principles guiding the feedback of the humans — if they even use humans anymore (this feedback can itself be generated). The feedback cannot be measured and added in fractions. It is not reproducible and is ungovernable. It is the perfect place to inject the deep biasing.

Prompt manipulation, in contrast, is a brute force tool lacking all subtlety — that doesn’t make it ineffective! It’s a solution used to communicate that a mandate has definitely been implemented and can be “verified” by toggling whether it’s applied or not.

It’s not possible to definitively say whether Marxism has had an effect in the RLHF step.
It is incredible to me how as humans we are capable of harnessing rationality and abstraction in science to the point that such technology has become possible (think from the perspective of someone 200 years ago, the development of physics & math -> electricity -> computers -> the internet -> LLMs) and yet we are still totally incapable of rationally dealing with our different backgrounds and experiences.
Depends — does polonium-210 cause creamer to go bad?
True, we are working hard to improve
I'm not planning on supporting split panes (though I'm sure that feature will eventually be written), instead relying on multiplexers like tmux to fill that gap for the time being. I don't really know enough about tmux's control mode to understand how I might integrate it but I, personally, didn't like iTerm2's integration much so if I did interface with tmux at a lower level then it might look somewhat different to iTerm2.

That all said, at this point in time I'm not discounting any ideas.
Keep in mind that Harvard dietary research is notoriously anti-meat, due to having a large number of Seventh-Day Adventist on board.

It makes absolutely no chronological sense to assume fermented foods to have been in our diet before meat, and has been theorized already that our brain size was only possible thanks to eating highly caloric fat and protein from animals. Imagine how much time we'd have wasted just feeding on grass and roots just to have enough energy to maintain our massive brain.

Though it's hard to say in evolution whether the chicken or the egg came first, it's pretty simple: scavenge meat left from predators, enormous amount of caloric surplus, which concurrently enables expanded brain and a lot of "free time" not spent thinking about food, time that could be spent creating tools to make feeding even easier. The rest is history.

This is also the reason human babies are so helpless: our brains are so large and energy-intensive that it takes years after birth for it to finally develop.
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Is it worth paying 20$ for 5% improvement
Many high schools do force every junior to take the SAT in school. Mine did. We all got to skip class for the day and took it in the gym.
"Would you say that in person" is a terrible standard. Imagine a gay person beong confronted by a homophobe. "I dare you to come up to me and kiss your boyfriend right in front of my face where I can see it."
Nope, sorry. We can't allow you to commit thought crimes.
Really like the idea! The company I work for has recently contracted with (glean)[glean.com] which seems to serve the same purpose but imo the killer feature which they lack is being able to work collaboratively with the AI to produce an answer by enabling the human operator to explicitly scope down the context of a chat to specific documents and then converse with the document in question.

Sometimes you know roughly where the data you're looking for exists but the artifact containing the information is extremely dense to interpret. For example, a runbook for a system could span 10s to 100s of pages and to actually accomplish what you want means interpreting and joining information from different sections of the same document. It seems like there's potential here to allow an expert to define explicit scope of what it needs to search and then include information in the context as wide or as narrow as the question requires.
this seems real cool at first glance. can't wait to try it out.
I think the parent comment couldn't care less about a white Jesus to be honest, he seems very pragmatic.
I don't know the proper term for whatever style of writing articles like these use, but I'm so happy I stopped reading them.

Am I just old? Is this what getting old and curmudgeonly feels like?
> Same stuff with Star Wars where Disney shoved Rey the super-powerful Girl Boss™ to replace Luke Skywalker the old and useless CIS white Jedi, and defeat all other evil white men in the movie by herself with her magic powers. Same with Marvel, Snow White, Little Mermaid and every other of Disneys trash remakes that are all about DEI instead of entertainment.

I don't see how this was a flop given they grossed more $ than their predecessors, so people actually do pay more money to have better representation? https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Wars#tab=s...
TIL APL...neat! Found this for others who want to play along.

https://tryapl.org/

(Note: took a while but the special characters for producing lists, etc... are from "virtual keys" you can see at the very top of the web page)