skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! That's exactly what I would like to see - come together as a working group, create a PR on git itself, and implement standard support for issues, PRs, discussions, projects, votings, project websites, what-have-you. The community will take it from there.

The alternative to that would be the git project itself coming up with an implementation. They have reasonable experience working with the Kernel, and the creation of git itself seems to have worked reasonably well -- although I'm not sure I would want to use something Linus considers ergonomic :)
It's all GPT, training the next generation of GPTs so it knows how to produce even more empty words and meaningless fluff.
No, but if someone made a knife that was unable to cut their owner I would expect it to have a competitive advantage in the marketplace against a normal knife.
> C is horrible for exploratory programming...

Completely opposite experience here. C is great for explorative coding because it's just structs and functions.

There's no agonizing about whether some piece of code should go here or better there, wrapped in this or that concept or high level abstraction.

Instead you start with an empty screen and incrementally build your ideas from small building blocks, much like in Lisp or Forth.
You're talking about it as if it was a weapon. An LLM is closer to an interactive book. Millennia ago humanity could only pass on information through oral traditions. Then scholars invented elaborate writing systems and information could be passed down from generation to generation, but it had to be curated and read, before that knowledge was available in the short term memory of a human. LLMs break this dependency. Now you don't need to read the book, you can just ask the book for the parts you need.

The present entirely depends on books and equivalent electronic media. The future will depend on AI. So anyone who has a monopoly is going to be able to extract massive monopoly rents from its customers and be a net negative to the society instead of the positive they were supposed to be.
You just modify the client to leak the data before it's encrypted symmetrically. Keys don't matter at that point.
Because AI researchers have been on the path to AGI several times before until the hype died down and the limitations became apparent. And because nobody knows what it would take to create AGI. But to put a little more behind that, evolution didn't start with language models. It evolved everything else until humans had the ability to invent language. Current AI is going about it completely backwards from how biology did it. Now maybe robotics is doing a little better on that front.
I mean sure, I could understand Figma's frontend or something having millions of lines but what does linkedin frontend do that would reasonably require this?
We have a saying:

There is always someone smarter than you.

There is always someone stronger than you.

There is always someone richer than you.

There is always someon X than Y.

This is applicable to anything, just because OpenAI has a lead now it doesn't mean they will stay X for long rather than Y.
Supabase is alpha testing column level security as a Feature Preview that you have to enable in your project. I’m using it now. Works well.
What is stopping you from only using functions and structures in any language?
> "I can't imagine us ever coming up with something to help us with the fact I'm ignoring"

That fact you are ignoring is the whole point about why engineered t-cells cant be a cure. No neoantigens means nothing to target. And your solution is to just wave your hands and say "deep learning will figure it out"...

You truly are a clown.
At one time their mission statement said:

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

That's obviously changed to "let's make lots of money", which should not be any "non-profit" organization's mission.
I was pretty skeptical about this too, but looking into it there is some basis in fact. They're using it to help translate and integrate the "Acquis communautaire" - the huge body of EU laws and regulations that need to be enshrined in national laws of candidate countries. This is one of the most time-consuming parts of the process, and usually takes many years. Leaving aside how risky this is (presumably they will have checks in place), I can see how this could save years of work. Saying 5.5 years is ridiculous false precision though.

It won't help with the toughest part though, which is the politics of the other member states.
Then when they grow up they can upgrade to Crack by CrackLabs.
That's always been how I've seen it.

As far as regulations go:

- Let Apple require that apps accept Apple Pay as one form of payment
- Let Apple take whatever cut they want for Apple Pay
- Let apps inform users about Apple's cut
- Let apps inform users about alternative, cheaper, ways to pay.

How could anyone be against transparency?

Let all the folks that allegedly love the "convenience" of Apple Pay so much continue to pay an extra 30%.
1. What exactly is "equal pay" in this context?

2. Is there any IT consultancy that ever does a job right and in budget?
> This raises the question of whether that extreme paranoia prevents critical errors in code. The fact that so many of the issues still persist suggests it does not.

> You can tell people to be careful drivers all you want, but what really saves lives is airbags, crumple zones, and seatbelts.

Could just be that the frequency of repeated accidents (and the related injuries) is too low to instill paranoia. The analogy is not the same as with programming in C, where the frequency is "multiple times a day", and not "less than once in a lifetime.

IOW, I feel that

> The fact that so many of the issues still persist suggests it [extreme paranoia] does not.

is inaccurate.
Because you can't let a driver crash and have a fatal accident as a lesson. That's what this is about. Make it hard and cumbersome, by having students build something non-trivial. I think another benefit of doing it is the Ikea effect, after you've put some effort into the project and see it come together, you might start caring about it and are motivated to get it to work well. Hopefully then some of that mindset carries over when using high level languages and huge frameworks.
Having written a bit of Swift code on macOS and a bit for iOS, I agree. This language has a very nice flow to it which should appeal to developers. It's hard to explain, but somehow the language is a joy to work in (Xcode also helps with that experience, of course).

If I could use a minimized Swift on embedded, I'd be very happy. Right now I'm just doing C for ESP32 and that sort of thing.
Although it’s not always necessary to go through the middle - you can do the old switcheroo and build a parallel org in your image, emerge from the shadows and duke it out with the old structure.
I agree that the U.S. political tradition often regards our rights as recognized or discovered rather than granted, but the "inalienable" language is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Bill of Rights (and in the original it was "unalienable", which is now archaic).
I am creating a Social Media for E-commerce
I just decided to pivot my company to focus on building a social-media platform tailored for E-commerce and I wanted to know your thoughts on it.

Currently, with platforms like Instagram and Facebook, most sellers try to direct their audience to their websites, or mobile apps and sometimes let their buyers go through DMs to make a purchase.

I am creating a platform that lets sellers own actual mobile shop pages (which look like and feel like standalone mobile applications) so that sellers can create content and also allow users to simultaneously make a purchase.

Sellers Mobile Shops will also be able to send push notifications, have good cart systems, payment systems integrated, etc. Most of the good stuff mobile apps have.

One major feature I am also adding is live shopping.

Users or customers of sellers will be able to subscribe or follow a certain seller's "shop"/"profile", and get notified of discounts, etc.

There's so much more, but I think I'd end the post here
I don't see how I can easily input those glyphs. Selecting them by clicking on a symbol, as it seems is an option in one screenshot, is really out of the question. That's just clumsy. Special key combinations is also something I really dislike. It's too slow. I disable dead-keys, for example, I much prefer to be able to enter e.g. '~' directly, instead of dead-keying it (as is that "standard", apparently, for my national layout).
For me it's much faster and easier to enter a string, a keyword, instead of moving my hands, or, shudder, mouse, in strange ways to insert some symbol. I don't need symbols, I need names and words, those I can enter as fast as I can think.
Chris: There we go. Okay, those are running now. Crap. Did I screw up my ability to hear you?

Adam: Hello, hello, hello?

Chris: I did. Dang it. Hang on.

Adam: Hello, hello?

Chris: Yeah, yeah, we’re good now. Okay. Let’s try that again.

Truly fascinating dialog
Are you sure? Estonia still has compulsory defense forces draft of 8 or 11 months for young men.
One tip for beginning Jazz listeners that I’ve heard is to go through each of the musicians that played on Kind of Blue and listen to their own albums respectively, then recurse
I think the play is on "Helvetica" sounding a bit like "helluva".
Every pro-Palestine incident in the past few weeks would be a start. Vietnam protests.

Oh, and last I checked, Vietnam vets were still referred to as heroes. Not so different from those fighting in the Special Military Operation?
Spreadsheets play a huge role at early stages of any complex business. Almost no early stage business has a budget and competence for maintaining a dev team capable of producing working code at its rate of change. When it does, we call it “a software startup”. Success rate is still questionable, so people call these investments “venture”.

People create spreadsheet messes not because they are stupid or lazy. They do what everyone else itt would deem impossible: create and evolve a mostly working system as needed while doing their regular job.

I’ve helped to migrate both excel-based and software-based enterprises. Few factories on foxpro/clipper, a couple of realties and one leasing on excel. There’s no real difference in how much gray hair you get in the process.

Pretty sure if some company came to ours with what we see in TFA and asked us to help with migration, we’d laugh for a week straight.
Archive.is wants to know where your request is coming from, so they can serve content to you from a server that's in a legally offshore place to you, so they can continue operating. Cloudflare doesn't want to give them this information, so Archive.is blocked them.
The white house, the thought leaders in software engineering.
That's a really huge asterisk that wasn't present in your original claim ;-)

> In the sense of instilling a sense of paranoia, the relative frequency of crashing due to UB is high enough that it does develop the sense of paranoia.

Paranoia isn't a cure however. A good programmer will and arguably should develop an instinct to avoid C for most cases instead. I too have written tons of C codes, and yet I feel really uneasy about using C at all. I can't believe that C merely induces the sense of paranoia.
The world we live in is the result of a gray goo scenario causing a global genocide. (Google Oxygen Holocaust.) So it kinda makes a poor argument that sudden global ecosystem collapses are impossible. That said, everything we have in natural biotech, while advanced, are incremental improvements on the initial chemical replicators that arose in a hydrothermal vent billions of years ago. Evolution has massive path dependence; if there was a better way to build a cell from the ground up, but it required one too many incremental steps that were individually nonviable, evolution would never find it. (Example: 3.7 billion years of evolution, and zero animals with a wheel-and-axle!) So the biosphere we have isn't very strong evidence that there isn't an invasive species of non-DNA-based replicators waiting in our future.

That said, if I was an ASI and I wanted to kill every human, I wouldn't make nanotech, I'd mod a new Covid strain that waits a few months and then synthesizes botox. Humans are not safe in the presence of a sufficiently smart adversary. (As with playing against Magnus Carlsen, you don't know how you lose, but you know that you will.)
The article explicitly discusses both. Versions for low dimensions that have favorable properties, and those for high dimensions.

The method you propose is not used in high dimensions in practice as it would involve evaluating order n^2 trigonometric functions and is also far harder to implement than the methods discussed in the article.
Lol, what ended exactly?
>If you’re a right-winger who feels tempted to dismiss this response, imagine having to sit through a six-week diversity training workshop and give the answers the lecturer wants or else you’ll fail

If only bachelor's degrees could be gotten in six weeks
This is mostly only true for modern optimising C compilers. If you take a simple C compiler from the 90's, or disable optimisations in a modern compiler, there's a near 1:1 relationship between the C code and compiler output.
You cannot fathom how a government official may have told them that they've managed to accelerate their EU accession through the help of LLMs by a specific number of months?

Here's a speculative scenario that doesn't seem so insane:

Albania has a roadmap for EU accession. The roadmap is broken up into discrete tasks. The tasks have estimates for time to completion. They've been able to quickly hack away at 5.5 years worth of tasks using LLMs.

Your problem with the statement is that they didn't provide a source. Maybe express interest in the facts that might support that instead of freaking out over perceived insanity.
I saw through the Iraq war push at the time, and it's very obvious to me that the media has an overwhelming corporatist agenda. The problem with OP's comment is the insinuation that the criticism of Trump was all some fake media push. This gaslighting narrative gets put in ever more stark relief as that petulant con artist's influence continues to fade. What actually happened is that the interests of corporatists and individuals became more aligned when American institutions were under attack.
You could make it a matter of style discipline. In my non-trivial spreadsheets I typically have cell formatting conventions, e.g. light yellow background is input, light green is formula, etc. You do have do it manually but it's worth the effort in my case.
Contributions to the repo have to abide to both licenses, derivative work gets to choose only one.
> Not being able to see the of formulas is just a mode switch away

"Show formulas" is fine if it's "=A1-B1" but for real work, formulas get long with lots of filters and look-ups etc. I break them across multiple lines just to read them. If I toggle visible formulas, I only see the first few characters of such formulas that fit in the data cells. Even if it did work, reading every cell when you have 1000s of rows just sucks for spotting errors caused by a fill down error or a cat on keyboard or something.

The only way I can be confident with a spreadsheet is to have a validation sheet that performs a bunch of error-checking. For serious stuff, I think you almost need to keep an entire duplicate of the data and recreate the results with a different process because it's just so hard to catch everything e.g. heartbreaking to open an old important spreadsheet and see a line of data got duplicated somehow. Spreadsheets are just so damn mutable. A keyboard shortcut with the wrong application in focus and who knows what damage you might have just done to a spreadsheet.
In this situation, helicopter pilots have less than two seconds to perform a fully manual series of multiple control movements in a maneuver called an autorotation. Because of the complexity of current control systems, no helicopter has ever been able to automate this maneuver until now. Using proprietary redundant flight controls and a suite of sensors, the Skyryse system quickly recognizes a power failure and sets in motion multiple procedures, and with a push of a button, makes the landing uneventful. From entry to steady descent, it lowers the pitch, aligns the nose, manages aircraft stability, completes the flare, and lands gracefully at the desired landing location.

So, it can do all of the really complex stuff, and still needs a pilot to be awake, and responsive to … checks notes …

Push a button?!!
Most political prisoners in Russia get out after 15 days. There is even a colloquial term for it.

Even the woman mentioned in this article was taken to the police station, yelled at, intimidated, and released. Not saying that's great, but there was no jail time.
yeah i'm hoping it was just an auth server outage and browser sessions werent invalidated because this basically described my situation, but i wont have access to the only device i own that still (hopefully) has a an active login session until the weekend to find out
> In response to the points made in this article, Birmingham city council said: “The implementation of Oracle has been the subject of extensive discussion in the public domain.”

Well, all is forgiven.
Who is stressing you to refactor when doing exploratory programming? Yourself? OOP languages? Society?
Yes, but I don't think you necessarily argue for using those simpler compilers today.
E-mail has *not* been killed long ago (aside some issues trying to run your own server and not getting blocked by gmail/hotmail).

It is under threat now, due to the increased sophistication of spam.
Finally ! So glad, it may move forwards.

Norms are usually not free, but the funny thing is that each country's norm agency sets their price. So for example, EN 1991-1-1 (structural concrete load) costs 230€ at Afnor (France), 82€ at NSAI (ireland), and 28€ in EVS (Estonia). Same PDF
>Fair warning though, you'll lose all hope that companies like Microsoft will ever manage to produce anything that they don't then ruin.

you are implying that we still had any hope left in such endeavors.
A real designer can use just one font his entire career and produce amazing results. See Massimo Vignelli.
As an author, I'm happy to see this work here.

For those curious about what we have been up to on the topic of tabular learning, we have found a setting where deep learning does seem to bring sizable benefits (spoiler alert, it's about being able to pre-train, and transferring to new data works best when there are some strings to be recognized): https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16785

In the above work, pre-trained tabular models markedly outperform tree-based models (including catboost, which is a very strong baseline).

As someone who has been banging on tabular data for years, I'm really excited about this development.
I disagree. The early adopters are usually exceptional. When adoption grows the average level decreases. This is a well known phenomenon which is larger than just programmers. It was even on HN recently, as applied to IQs in high schools over time: as more kids reach high school, the average decreases.

So yes. C programmers were better.
Arial = A Real
Love it. Super easy to self host and use. Now I have a personal Google!
Quantum Computing Will Be Bigger Than AI - What You Need to Know [video]
Java or C# required me to wrap every piece of code into class boilerplate (I think that has changed in the meantime, but just as an example).

In C++, Visual Studio will bombard you with all sorts of silly C++ Core Guideline advice if you try to write simple and straightforward code.

Finally, the standard libraries and 3rd party libraries might also get in the way if 'simple and straightforward' clashes with the idiomatic style of the language.
It's not just the volume of original data that matters here. From empirics we know performance scales roughly like (model parameters)*(training data)*(epochs). If you increase any one of those, you can be certain to improve your model. In the short term, training data volume and quality has given a lot of improvements (especially recently), but in the long run it was always model size and total time spent training that saw improvements. In other words: It doesn't matter how you allocate your extra compute budget as long as you spend it.
For language models, spam creation/detection is kinda a GAN even when it isn't specifically designed to be: a faker and a discriminator each training on the other.

But when that GAN passes the human threshold, suddenly you can use the faker to create interesting things and not just use the discriminator to reject fakes.
Russian deals don't look like what reasonable people think they should look like. They are only ever made to serve propaganda needs, you have fallen for it.
These aren’t the rates Amazon charges for user hitting their servers right? How do they even get away with charging more for data transfers of a certain type?
Its interesting because, although I don't know the linkedin codebases nor worked at linkedin, I've seen a few codebases that sound scarily similar and am familiar with a few companies that sound organisationally and politically scarily similar.

And I generally advocate 'finger gun' approaches.

Finger gun rewrites can be implemented in a good way. Often when you have n clients trying to do the same thing, one of those can be used as a basis for serving the other platforms. Or if you start over, you can do it in a good clean quick concise way.

The general success ingredient is putting a small team of veterans on making the new system. Success always comes from a small team of engineers who are both domain experts and technical experts rolled into one. (Controversially, I think that generalises; all success comes from this, even for mundane keep-the-lights-on problems. And everyone else is just slowing them down.)

The big problem most tech management everywhere keeps repeating is that the next big system will be built the least-experienced.

Would be really nice to hear the symmetrical interview from a finger-gunner.
> Of those who find the first page of this satire, a shockingly high percentage (yourself included?) immediately click on "The Story of O", skipping the other books. What do you think it means?

Were we to arrange our bookshelves, not by title nor by author, but by principle of composition, DEK's 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated and ACD's Histoire d'O would wind up adjacent, for they are both collections of "per verse" chapters.
Download it or don't. Trust the maintainer or don't. Whether you trust the maintainer or not shouldn't be a matter of the installation method, not even with curl-bash.