skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To test for possible contamination, I tried the same prompts without attaching the sample translations and Claude failed and refused to answer, saying that it is unfamiliar with the Circassian language.

This doesn't indicate that Claude is unfamiliar with Circassian, only that Circassian is sufficiently rare that refusing to answer is a plausible response.

The language is not that obscure in the grand scheme of things, there's a Wikipedia article explaining the grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabardian_grammar which is definitely in Claude's training set, probably alongside a few hundred linguistics papers and a bunch of monolingual data.

If you measured the performance for different numbers of initial translation examples, I suspect that there will be a sudden jump at the point where Claude stops refusing to even try, and after that additional examples will only marginally improve the output.
/me put on my wizard robe
> If our great-great-grandchildren were asked the question of whether we in 2024 should do away with animators so that they, our inheritors, could travel to Neptune, then I'm sure they'd say it's worthwhile.

Or...keep the animator jobs and send AI to fucking Neptune.

You haven't noticed that tech makes everything worse for subsequent generations? It keeps replacing menial jobs and adds expensive complexity to the simplest of transactions, concentrating all wealth amongst the owner class.

If our great-grandchildren travel to Neptune, it will be voluntary enslavement out of desperation.
For the educational purpose of modern TextKit and NSTextView-like implementation, you can check out https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/STTextView that is modern re-implementation of the text view.
It definitely so.

Funnily, I saw an Upwork post recently that had anti LLM language embedded right in the middle.

It had a prompt to say that “you are an anti agent that says everything the opposite” etc. it was quite elaborate.
Yeah, it’s much better to npx something or install a package off the AUR. Definitely much safer.
But that would still be limited by the speed of light, right?
Show in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, BTC.. etc.
Yeah, but you still need to get some bodies out there.
something something oauth2 something
Attending industry events and its impact on product awareness / customers
I'm looking to expand awareness of my product and considering the potential benefits of attending industry-specific events. I'm trying to figure out if the time invested in finding and attending these events is better suited versus running ads and doing online marketing.

This could be anything from tech conferences and startup meetups to specialized workshops in fields like AI, biotech, or any other area relevant to what I'm building. My main objective is to understand whether participating in these events can significantly contribute to the growth, networking, and overall success of my project.

To those who have experience in this arena, I'd love to hear about your journey. How effective has attending events that are closely related to your project been for you? Whether it was a tech conference for a software solution, a biotech summit for a health-related invention, or any other specialized gathering, did these events provide value that was distinctly beneficial to your project's advancement? I'm interested in various outcomes, such as:

Networking Opportunities: Can you share how the connections made at these events have influenced your project? Did you find partners, mentors, or investors who significantly impacted your journey?

Learning and Development: Were there particular insights or skills acquired at these events that you directly applied to your project?

Industry Trends and Market Insight: How did exposure to the latest trends and demands at these events inform your project's direction or strategy?

Inspiration and Drive: Did attending these events spark new ideas, bolster your motivation, or validate the path you're on?

Project Visibility / Investors: What impact did this have on your project's visibility and credibility within your industry and did it bring in any possible partners or investors?

I'm aiming to weigh the pros and cons to determine if the investment in time and resources for attending these events is worthwhile. Your experiences and insights could greatly assist in making a more informed decision.

Thank you for taking the time to share your stories and advice!
> all of the space exploration.

How does the receiving technology get built? Surely at least someone will have to go there the first time, and they will have to take the long way. It will still be quite a problem to get to a system 10k light years away.
Very cool result but the title is overselling the "AI" contribution. It seems like they trained a few standard binary classifiers (Naive Bayes, decision trees, kNN). The novelty is the independent variable coming from an attribute precomputed for many known elliptic curves in the LMFDB database, namely the Dirichlet coefficients of the associated L-function; and the dependent variable being whether or not the elliptic curve has complex multiplication (CM), an important theoretical property for which lots of flashy theorems begin with assuming whether or not the curve has CM. They go on to train another binary classifier (and a separate size k classifier) to determine a curve's Sato-Tate identity component using the Euler coefficients and group-theoretic information about the Sato-Tate group (constructed by randomly sampling elements and representing the two non-trivial coefficients of their characteristic polynomials as independent variables in the classifier). They also run a PCA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.01213.pdf

The cool part is that they then stepped back and scratched their heads wondering why the classifier was so good at achieving separation for these dependent variables in the first place, and plotting the points showed them to be (non-linearly) separable due to a visually clear pattern! The punchline and the reason it's so important to understand these data points, the Euler coefficients for elliptic curves, is because they contain all the relevant number-theoretic information about the curve. With some major handwaving, understanding them perfectly would lead to things like the Langlands program (and some analogues of the Riemann hypothesis) getting resolved. These wide reaching conjectures are ultimately structural assertions about L-functions, and L-functions are uniquely specified by their Euler coefficients (the a_p term in their Euler factors). Will murmurations help with that? Who knows, but the more patterns the better for forming precise conjectures.

Relevant intersectional credentials: I have lead ML engineering teams in industry and also did my doctorate work in this area of math, including using the LMFDB database referenced in the article for my research (which was much smaller back then and has grown a lot, so very neat to see it's still a force for empirical findings!).
I pretty much only do it with low-power wallwarts, and only on extension cables (fused to 13A or less) since it's easier to bypass gates on those than a wall socket. My main concern is reduced contact area from putting a circular peg in a rectangular hole. Still, I should get and use an adapter since they're cheap even if standard compliance is a bit random.
One interesting thing to note is that all the high speed interconnect standards (GDDR, PCIE, USB, Ethernet) are moving (or have already moved) to RF-style non-binary communication (as opposed to bumping up clock speeds or increasing pin count).
I wonder what the next steps will be for interconnects - full-blown baseband style transceivers with QAM perhaps?
Something like $X million an hour.
Thanks for the feedback. We have a PR open to make it easier to register new interpreters (without needing to fallback to .sh or .exe); it’ll let you specify the interpreter associated with a given file extension (e.g., .kts for Kotlin). https://github.com/observablehq/framework/pull/935

As for inputs-driving-data-loaders, that does go against the grain a bit since Framework favors static data snapshots so that the built site is self-contained and performant. But a technique that works well is to generate Parquet files in data loaders representing the superset of data that you want to interact with, and then using DuckDB/SQL in the client to extract the subset you want to visualize. This tends to perform well, though obviously it’s dependent on the size of the superset you want to interact with.
Just tried installing it, that doesn’t happen (any more). How recent was it that the dark pattern existed?

After you agree to the disclaimer the checkbox disappears and there is no changed text that appears.
My colleagues and I in the SF Bay and Sacramento are using Comcast are unable to access AWS hosted sites.

AWS says:

External Network Connectivity

We are receiving reports of connectivity issues to the AWS network from customers on specific networks in California. Our initial investigations point to an issue with an external network provider outside of the AWS network. Connectivity to instances and services within the Regions and from other networks are not impacted at this time. All AWS Services are operating normally at this time.
I remember after Knuth finished designing fonts that he was happy with and people were starting to expect he'd get back to work on the next volume of TAoCP now that he was happy with typesetting and fonts one of the major computer magazines (Dr. Dobb's or Byte I think) published an article in the April issue that said TAoCP was again delayed because Knuth was not happy with the ink and was designing a program to develop better ink formulations.
> So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive.

I think I'd nuance it a bit. We see it as necessary. Necessary because otherwise powerful companies take advantage I think most can point to bad places in life for government regulations, but when the opposition is more powerful than most governments you need to fight with the most powerful thing you have.
It's poverty that sucks. The rural exodus to the cities occurred later in France and Ireland than, for example, Britain, so the memories of "true" peasant life were able to be more easily documented. You perhaps know the TV series "Jean Chalosse" which describes modernity arriving for a shepherd in the Landes region of France [0].

The other side to this, is that most who left the countryside for the cities did not see a marked improvement in living standards, they simply swapped poverty in the countryside for poverty in the city.

[0] https://madelen.ina.fr/serie/jean-chalosse-2720
> and they've never faced consequences that came remotely close to what they're putting Gary Bowser through.

His own actions and the legal system are why he is where he is today. Nintendo isn’t putting him anything, unless you now think that Nintendo controls legal decisions that are handed down.
this is already the case. most devs I speak with stear away from GCP for large integrated projects.
I put the picture of the hamburger and fries in GPT-4 chat and asked for the total carbs in it. With some caveats about double-checking, it gave:

>Typically, a standard cheeseburger with a bun, beef patty, cheese, lettuce, and tomato can contain around 30 to 40 grams of carbohydrates, primarily from the bun. A standard serving of fries could add an additional 30 to 50 grams, depending on the serving size. Hence, the meal in the image could contain somewhere between 60 to 90 grams of carbohydrates in total.

That is pretty good! Good luck with your T1D, my got his diagnosis 5 years ago and it's pretty amazing technology we have for it now.
Fairly rich coming from an account where all it does is call others hacks.
Could the $6B legal fee in Musk's Tesla pay case be reasonable?
I can't operate without it (the Windows native version). Everything else pales in comparison from a productivity standpoint.
If that were true, then this would be false:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2019-01-31+to+2015-10-2... = 3 years 3 months 10 days

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2015-10-21+to+2019-01-3... = 3 years 3 months 10 days
Interesting, those are the two main apps I use for writing. Maybe I should check this out.
Well funded universities are putting up cubesats. I cannot imagine the operational costs are outside the scope of a serious organization.
agreed; you made me realize something i'd not connected before: NATS has a bit of similarity to Linda Tuplespaces and I think Javaspaces, when i think about its addressing.
My life experience has been that answering the question is almost always a matter of "easier ... for whom ... to do what?" I think CI/CD systems often run up against the same problem that programming language adoption runs into: trying to be all things to all people for all problem domains is incredibly hard

Even what I mentioned about static typing I'm sure caused a blood-pressure spike in some readers, since some folks value the type safety and others consider it "line noise". Some people enjoy the double-quote free experience of yaml, others pound on their desk about the 7 ways to encode scalars and "but muh norway!!11"

But, taking our ragingly dumbass buildspec friend <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build...> as a concrete example, how in the holy hell did they invent some build language without conditionals?! I'm sure the answer is "well, for our Amazon-centric use case, you're holding it wrong" but for someone coming from GitLab CI and GitHub Actions which both have "skip this job if today is Tuesday" it's a pretty glaring oversight
Ah! My bad for misunderstanding.
For starters, it (hopefully) delays when a bad actor knows about it, meaning they start their process of reverse engineering the vulnerability after customers have been notified.

There are always going to be situations where out of date software hangs around. This at least levels the playing field when compared to the idea of trying to silently patch something.
Does anyone affected have a copy of one of the affected certificates? I'd be interested in seeing more detail on what went wrong.

The most likely thing to me would be that it attempted to issue a 1-year-long certificate, but naively produced a date of Feb 29, 2025.

Dates in certificates are encoded as `YYMMDDhhmmssZ` so it would certainly be possible to produce a certificate with an invalid date.
Seems like calling it "Linux touchpad like MacBook" is a way to make sure that no one will be willing to help you other than people who use MacBooks, and people who use MacBooks have no need for this.

I'm into "Linux touchpad with more tweakable and accessible parameters," or "Linux touchpad with better gesture support," but described like this, it's the type of thing I would ignore or not even hear about until it was an abandoned/dead project. I simply wouldn't realize that it's something useful for me to support. I exclusively use touchpads and Linux desktops, and while I've been frustrated at not being able to get the touchpad to feel like I would ideally want, if it felt like a Mac touchpad I would hate it.

A bunch of parameters that you can tweak to imitate MacBooks? Yes, please. A switch to turn your touchpad into a Mac touchpad? Who cares other than people who are only forced to use Linux for development on the job because their preferred Mac is too nerfed to allow them to allow them to get their work done?

As a larger statement, it seems that the strain of "What will make Linux catch on is making it more like Macs" has largely died off, largely because the people who want Macs buy Macs. It's a tactic as likely to be as successful as the "making Firefox indistinguishable from Chrome will make Chrome users switch to Firefox" pretense, and gets as much development support as the "making GIMP exactly like Photoshop" projects. The Firefox thing wouldn't have happened if they weren't completely funded by Google, and people who like Photoshop prefer Photoshop and aren't going to work on GIMP.
And at a late stage, you’re not likely to see any more from your equity than working at a public BigTech company, your equity is not only locked up pre-IPO it’s also locked up post IPO.

When you work for a public company, you know exactly when your RSUs are going to vest, they appear in your brokerage account and you can (and should) sell the same day and diversify.
There is a question on the job listing for the EM role:

"Do you currently reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Washington, Wisconsin?"

Do you know why this question is being asked?
You can't put a nuke plant their either, until the treaty on the Antarctic runs out. The restrictions come from not wanting anyone to do mining or war down there.

Argentina has even stopped trying to make human settlement on the continent a thing a while back.
No more than using cloud services.
If you were dealing in a constant supply of cash you would have front organizations setup to launder it. A bunch of small businesses that normally do a lot of cash sales, then you get to deposit it in a bank (and pay taxes on it) like any other business.
>Should I be allowed to own C4 explosives and machine guns?

as someone who can do both...lol. You thought this was some gotcha? "Please sir can I have more" begging from the govt is really weird when many, many people already do.

Yes. Why not? You can already blow up Tannerite and own automatic firearms in many nations.

This is a disingenuous argument. People who willingly give up what should be their civil rights are a weird breed.

>Do we just allow people to have access to technology of arbitrary power as long as there exists >= 1 non-nefarious use-case of that power, and then hope for the best?

Yes, that's what we do with computers, phones etc. Scamming elderly people has become such a wide bad use case with computers, phones etc since their invention.

We should ban them all!
I'm always fascinated by moments in history this, since it feels so hard to believe it happened in the first place. Even though this was happening before germ theory, it makes intuitive sense to not crap into the same water supply that gets consumed?

Anyway, the kicker is that we're doing something similar today! Climate change aside, we spew tons of noxious gasses and particulate from diesel/gas/ships right into the air we breathe in.
I feel like you're grasping at use cases here... I also feel like people would find a low quality profile picture to be terrible.
According to the internet, everything's dead. Until it isn't ...
Thank you for the update.

> I have been posting since 2018 how untenable is running Linux as a daily driver which is when I stopped.

User experiences vary, so to see. I've been running Linux as a daily driver at home and at work since 2012, and I haven't looked back. I've cursed the battery life on my laptop recently, but two weeks back the self-diagnostic pre-boot software on my Dell informed me that the battery was dead. So the culprit might not have been Linux after all.

Oh, and count on an Nvidia update to randomly and regularly break your system. But that blame lays squarely on Nvidia.
These comparisons always bring up the fact in my mind that the lowest class people today have so much better sanitation, like toilets compared to kings back then
Aside from the VP9 support and switch checkboxes, which others have mentioned, I'm particularly interested in the "Align content everywhere" feature, allowing you to use

div { align-content: center; }

to get nice center-aligned content without having to use flexbox or grid.
Reminds me of Bandle (bandle.app) where you are guessing the song by listening to parts of a song (drums, then drums+base etc)
On some yoga models the IPU6 webcam doesn't work even on the pre-installed Ubuntu.
Microsoft Announces Privacy-Preserving Ads API for Microsoft Edge
Seeing similar issues here with GCP and Comcast, seems to be the common link and not AWS.
Would love if I could self-host this with Docker.
Last time I tried to use the built-in zip extraction was in XP, perhaps Win7. It was awful.

It was slow. Unzipping archived source with thousands of files could take an hour or more... or 15 seconds via pkunzip.

It didn't warn of corruption. Windows-unzip a corrupted file, and it will just stop at the point of corruption with no feedback, as though complete. Using pkunzip you'd get a warning about a corrupted file.

Being that slow, and not reporting errors are two things that really aren't acceptable. I have no idea if it's improved since then.
> Note: The JetBrains release blog for 2023.11.4 appears to display different publication dates based on the time zone of the reader. Some readers see that it was released March 3, while others see March 4. We've modified our language above to note that Rapid7 saw the release blog on March 4, regardless of what time it was released.

If the contention is when to release details, then should agree on UTC for all parties, with appropriate time precision. Anything else is adding obscurity to an already difficult-to-follow plot.
Yep.

The TouchPads from Apple are good. Their keyboards are bad. There are two important I/O devices in a laptop, the keyboard and the display.
The keyboards from ThinkPads are near perfect and don’t fall apart. Lenovo decided to remove the 7th row to acquire more space for the TouchPad. Which is a design mistake because TouchPads don’t get better by becoming just bigger.

I never use the TouchPad in my ThinkPad. I mean it is there and works nice. Libinput improved a lot. But there is a TrackPoint in the keyboard. Never leave the home row. That is where HJKL is :)
Being "defence friendly" means also cultivating the mentality that lying in the trenches for your country/culture/values might be necessary.

Forget arms industry or military budget as a percent of GDP. The main problem is that Europe lacks the fighting spirit (with some exceptions like Poland). Countries like Germany will fold / capitulate to any demands if they suffer thousands of casualties.
I mention this in another reply but tl;dr the DS role is maturing and getting cleaved into different specialist skillsets. Research, ML Engineering, MLOps, Data Engineering, Analytics are what I see as the main ones. In 2016 you could get hired as a Data Scientist knowing some SQL, XGBoost, and how to use git (I know I did). That's not really the case in 2024, you are expected to be an expert in at least one of those areas and job titles are starting to reflect the specialization. Companies that are still hiring for generic "Data Scientist" positions with scikit-learn in the job description are not places you want to work.
I've been using site:reddit.com for ages now on ddg.
You can have a global stylesheet and @import it inside Shadow DOM or use ::part() from outside of it.
Or is it the ratio of your lifespan to the age of the universe? The universe is only about 3x bigger instantaneously than it is when transversed at lightspeed. The ratio of the age of the universe to your expected lifespan is about 8 orders of magnitude.
Nice, appreciate the suggestion.
Classic failure casdcade.
> the question is still whether that carbon came from a fossil source or was part of the cycle to begin with.

I don't think that matters anymore. At some point, we wanted to reduce atmospheric CO2 to a tolerable level and an obvious approach was to not add to natural emissions.

Now we just need to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. It doesn't do different things based on its source. If we can reduce it by cutting gas production or by cutting some natural source, we should do it.
Doesn't run on some hardware where Bluestacks does.