skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally get that but the law doesn't care about that as I understand it. For the four-fold test it matters whether the use is going to affect the market for the original work (not the technicalities of how the model works). If people generate pseudo-Harry Potter via a model that was trained on Harry Potter then the court may well decide that the market for real Harry Potter is affected. That doesn't seem an unreasonable conclusion to me.

I'm pretty sure that's what the lawyers will argue in the Silverman case for example. It's going to be interesting to see how the courts decide.
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Thanks. Personally, I found that most efficient way to develop source generators was by utilizing in memory compilation in unit tests. That way, I was able to use debugger to understand AST provided by Roslyn and quickly iterate. Not sure how it works within VSCode but in Rider it was really fine. Also, sometimes Visual Studio and Rider doesn't regenerate code (likely because internally msbuild decides that dlls are up-to-date). Unit test + in memory compilation way described above assured that latest code was really used in test.
Certainly it is the equivalent of a kid yelling "I can play my music as loud as I want to!"

As I understand proposed legislation, it would apply to many websites and not be directed at TikTok or China specifically. I wonder if there is a larger strategic interest for China if the US enacts this type of law? Maybe the blowback is entirely expected and is the actual desired response?
So why is nobody doing this?
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Rack mount equioment is often more expensive. Also noisy.

I have mostly consumer (non-rack) equipment in a small Ikea closet. Looks less nerdy, which also improves the WAF.
>> For example, while I think microwave beamed power from space is a terrible idea, an orbital ring can also be used to transport power[0], and Starship makes such a structure somewhat more affordable...

You're obviously more familiar with this concept than I am...and your wording seems fairly unenthusiastic about the prospects for it. So spending billions to unlock the possibility of it...well, just does not sound like a rational business decision. And my "...isn't enough demand...to justify..." point was tagged "From a business PoV".
User testing disagrees. Most people find an instantly refreshing screen of text to be quite dazzling. Developers look at screens of text all day long-- they're much more tolerant to those sorts of transitions than most people are, and basing defaults on their usage styles is one of the reason most people find FOSS interfaces completely awful.
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When is a helicopter an "air taxi" now?

Don’t get me wrong, electric helicopter/glider hybrids are cool tech but this just seems like an existing product repackaged to sound futuristic.
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Imagine saying something this wrong this confidently.
Wonder if companies setting "Stretch" goals, and having people fail, is actually a form of control. Get results, but also keeps employees down. People may be less inclined to ask for raise if they miss goals, even if the results were 'good'.
That sounds amazing. Please stop before my wife finds out I'm even thinking about this.
And you seem to be one the few nut jobs and racists who has a problem with looking at people with a different skin color. So the problem was within you all the time.

Just out of couriosity, for as long as you are still with us, how exactly do you think you ramblings and BS will change your perceived problem of not enough "Whites" in London? And specifically London, are other places ok for you the way they are? Does the place change when you move? So many questions...
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> Meta is under US jurisdiction and Chinese owned companies are not.

Where does this meme come from? It's so prevalent despite being obviously and verifiably factually incorrect!
It boils down to: Google has an open culture, and that sometimes is at odds with the org at large. When one silo wants one thing but another silo wants something else, who wins? Google HR often contorts themselves into impossible positions to satisfy both. It is inevitable that HR makes bad decisions and recently they have had some particularly bad controversies, like union busting, sexual harassment, middle eastern and Sino policies that add fuel to the fire.
100ms is more than enough to break the joyful feeling of the computer becoming part of my own body, like a hand tool or a bicycle. Humans are adapted to tool use, and don't need to consciously think of the position of tools they're using. But this effect only works if the tool moves like an ordinary physical object. If you move a pencil, it just moves. It doesn't move and then move again because a designer wanted to play an additional animation after your movement. Until we have direct neural interfaces, all UI animation playback is unrealistic, because it's adding to the physical movement of your fingers, not replacing it.
TikTok isn't free software. It's at best an enormous social media company designed to profit off of manipulating naive users' attention, and at worst an arm of one of the largest world governments.

I'm sure most people on HN simply don't care about TikTok at all and don't comment, but among those who do care it's hardly surprising that it's harder to drum up support for TikTok than for the idea of encryption itself.
> Between TikTok and Facebook, one has already gone demonstrably further than the other, and it's not TikTok.

This is geopolitics, not criminal law. It's not about what was done, but about what could be done.

Whatever specific past actions of Facebook or TikTok that you're vaguely gesturing at don't matter.
Go to the nearest pond and skip rocks. Try to predict how many times a rock will skip.

This is a fundamental problem with chaotic probability.
For a given amount of lift, all things being equal, a single larger diameter propellor will be quieter than several smaller ones at higher speeds, as most of the noise is from turbulence and a function of the difference in velocity between the air accelerated through the rotors and the ‘static’ air surrounding it.
> That way, I was able to use debugger to understand AST provided by Roslyn and quickly iterate.

Interesting; would love to see a video of your workflow and process.

With VSC, I found that I had to do some "hacks" to drop output as comments into a generated file so I could see what was happening.
It's easier to turn an OptiPlex into NAS. Actually you could pass-through entire SATA stack as a PCI device into TruNAS running in Proxmox VM so it sees SATA ports natively, with all goodies such as SMART.
In addition to that, I don't think people should overthink the rack as an essential component. I like racks as much as the next guy and homelab racks look really cool but for usability and learning, just go with whatever you like.

I personally have 4 boxes stacked in a corner that are connected to a "rack", which is just two rack side panels bolted to the back of a workbench that I screw components into, connected to NAS and multiple Raspberry Pi's on a shelf and I really like the mess and have learned a lot.

Just use what you have and expand as you need. Racks are cool once you're into the hobby enough to care about style points.
Volt is another good example of solving this well. It's consistency guarantees are strong, and offers very high availability through it's replication which commits transactions to replicas simultaneously. In theory it's weaker on the partition side, but in practise with modern hardware and networks it's impact is not felt. It also offers multi data centre replication, with all sites being active.
I was surprised to learn that the formal name for forward slash (/) (or just slash) is virgule. And the word virgule brought back memories of studying French; apparently this is the French word for comma! Which makes me think the formal name for slash in French is NOT virgule. And then a Google search revealed that according to Collins dictionary, the following are also used in lieu of slash: "diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, slant, slash, solidus ; especially British, stroke".
Most developers look at old interfaces through rose colored glasses. If you separate nostalgia from what most people find usable, they just don't hold up.
This is a changing of the goalpost and regardless we’ve had doors fly off just in the last month.
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True. Ideally you put some "event received" indication across the whole trigger area, e.g. that little Android ripple animation. Certainly does not hurt to do the same (whole area clickable, and with visual feedback) even when your designer insisted on fashionable slider-toggles.

Subtle things like that greatly reduce the mental background load for the user, but that's impossible to quantify. Chances are you don't consciously notice when it's missing even when in theory you are fully aware of the concept.
It was mostly due to the market being very low the last year and beginning of the year :

- Interest rates rise cut cash flow to many startups
- NFT bubble burst
- And mostly: the FTX drama, which froze even more investments in the market

Now it's starting to get back to "normal" (actually a bit more than normal with the Bitcoin spot ETF being approved)
As someone who habitually has the inspector open all the time, let me just say Gmail’s console has been full of errors for over a decade.
Most people don't look at the dev console ever, else they'd know that Javascript errors are common.
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My dream is a mobile device/app that can analyze chemicals in fruits/vegetables, but we are too far from the StarTrek world.

I tried to build a vision system to at least identify wax on apples, but even that is too hard.
There was an Israeli startup couple of years ago that built some device but it looks like it was a flop.
You're living in a "move fast, break things" & "trust the science" world, posting on a forum filled with enginerds who subscribe to those philosophies with zealotry.

They think like this: as long as there is an absence of evidence of harm in the initial science, then that means evidence of absence. Long-term, higher-order effects & unknown unknowns are ignored in Scientism, and this ignorance is status quo.

It's the same mentality underpinning the approach to GMO foods & insects, dropping agent orange in Vietnam, and killing sparrows in Mao's China. It's the very spirit of modernity.
This machine is for Europeans.
how/where can a complete noob learn all these skills to set something like this at home?
> Another form of play that applies more accurately to chess is competition

In my personal experience in competition if you are only losing or only winning it's not fun. I think competition is variable reward dressed up.
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This article is very well written and super informative. One thing I didn't understand is:

> At Answer.AI our north star is making useful AI more accessible. $150,000 to create your own high-quality personalized model definitely doesn’t count as accessible!

Renting an A100 on RunPod is ~$1.89 / hour. So you'd need ~80,000 A100 hours to train a useful AI model?
Thank you for building it and sharing it!
Most of them have a rigid wing and can fly and land in full transition flight.

I’m sure they’re trying to distance themselves from helicopters as much as possible since they’re loud, expensive etc too
> Also, you missed the entire point of OPs message, as an educator, they were suggesting that perhaps the SAT doesn’t do all you suggested.

Except that it does, and there is data to back it. As an example, some elite schools have stated that they really like using the SAT since it predicts success at their respective schools.

One simple Google search (there are many more):

https://www.manhattanreview.com/sat-predictor-college-succes...

“On average, SAT scores added 15% more predictive power above high school grades alone when attempting to understand how students will perform in college. Within narrow high school GPAs, SAT scores further helped predict a student's future success in college.”

> I don’t know what we’re trying to finesse either, can you explain what you mean by finesse?

What do “granular tests” tell us that the SAT, SAT IIs, and AP tests do not already tell us?

The short answer is “not very much”.

The results of these tests are accurate enough to make meaningful predictions and decisions.

Note that there is some interesting work in learning portfolios (probably an optimal variation of “granular test”) that can be useful for structuring individual learning plans, but that sort of misses the point of broad-based standardized tests, which is normalizing widely varied experiences.

Note that standardized tests fail two types of people at the margins, but these are largely addressable, and the benefits outweigh the costs imho:

1. Folks who have test anxiety. Familiarization with the test reduces this substantially for most people affected by this.

2. High-performing folks (think top 5% or better) who don’t have high attention to detail on computer adaptive tests. Also addressed by test familiarity. I’ve seen folks who should be maxing a test get lower than the max because they were careless in some early questions.
Exactly right. I think some of my points got garbled in all this back and forth: that their conscious choice makes A LOT of sense when you take into account that they want their smaller chips to share supply chain with iPads, Vision Pro etc.
Much more likely that if camera manufacturers decided to do this, they would each offer a their own proprietary and incompatible image verification scheme, forcing implementations to integrate with many different services. Eventually recognizing the problem, they would form a Trusted Imagery Working Group™ to develop a patent-encumbered chip that would need to be licensed for use (available only to invited member organizations), and present in all devices that will create or validate image signatures. Keys from that chip will eventually be extracted, rendering it useless, but industry will be widely reliant on it, with too much inertia to change.
Nobody's giving Facebook a free pass, but this shouldn't be a hard concept to understand. Yes, the fact that TikTok is based on China and has very close ties to their government, one of our adversities,is the problem here. The amount & type data both Facebook & TikTok collect is egregious, but that's not the point of any of this.
I'm going to go ahead and say that the direct family, who was entrusted with the rights to the book, are in a better position to decide if this is ok or not than random person on the internet who only heard about this issue today.

Assuming they weren't estranged or anything, they obviously knew their father and understood his wishes better than any of us.
> While this in itself does not invalidate the actual math in the paper, which is fine

Actually, on going back and re-reading, I realized that even the math in the paper has an error. The formula for buoyancy force is wrong!

Rovelli's formula for buoyancy force is V rho (in the upwards vertical direction), where rho is the density of the fluid in which the object is immersed. But this is wrong; it doesn't even have the right units. This formula says that the buoyancy force is equal to the mass of the displaced fluid; but mass is not force. The correct formula is V rho g, where g is the acceleration due to gravity; in other words, the buoyancy force is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.

(To check against your intuition, you can plug in numbers and realize that, according to Rovelli's formula, an ordinary helium balloon of the kind you get for birthday parties would not rise in air!)

This just makes the paper even more disappointing.
Those responsible people are welcome to do so, but they are statistically irrelevant and so have no place inarge scale planning.
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"Across all experiments, individuals with high self-control were seen as more powerful, and as better suited for powerful roles, than individuals with low self-control."

Part of me sees this research as "doing everything by the book" and consequently failing to capture important insights. For instance, every economic model of humans assumes that we're "rational agents", yet we know that people with poor impulse control (like ElMo, Trump, etc.) are perceived as powerful by a wide swath of the public.

Maybe their "turns down dessert" thought experiments are just that -- thought experiments -- and do not reflect what humans actually do, IRL.
The article itself says:

>Note this is rootless, we don't need to re-create the filesystem tree locally or use fakeroot to create special file in the archive.
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Start by actually writing code. Use gcc command to compile. Put the command in a shell script or make file when you start to get more than a few arguments. Done.
From the guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
A good tool for creating images, also initrd images: http://mkosi.systemd.io/
but not in thousands
I agree, actually, but "wife-acceptance-factor"[0] (or; "wife approved") is useful terminology; I would love if there was some colloquially acceptable gender neutral term for that.

Some have suggested some truly cumbersome terminology to replace it which is unfortunate because you very quickly run into the same problem the vegans have: If your choices are too unpalatable then reasonable people (who don't care or share your values 100%) will avoid them.

You need to make the choice easier. (hence why a lot of Vegan focus right now is on having enjoyable alternative meals).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor

EDIT: I'm not going to argue this because if you're reading my comment you've already decided whether you agree or not and you will not be productive to talk to.

I will answer some common suggestions and why they're not reasonably sufficient and you can argue amongst yourselves about it. I'm not a sociologist or psychologist but I am human so take it with that lens.

* Partner as a replacement for "wife" is unfortunately more syllables making it just a smidge more annoying to speak, so people won't; but it's the closest to what is intended and mentally equivalent for most people. As a bonus it even encompasses the unmarried! Partner is also (commonly) said lovingly so it doesn't create distance in the mind of the speaker.

* Spouse is an uncommon enough word that it doesn't come to mind quickly enough; it also unfortunately comes across as unfamiliar (IE: not from a place of warm affection) and clinical.

A good replacement term should be something endearing because it's important to point out that this isn't a term of derision, the true meaning behind the phrase is that they love their partner and want them to be happy. It's just a boomer-humour type joke to hide behind "because I dont want a divorce" or "I fear my wife", which is part of the supposed humour -- so it needs to feel familial and affectionate.
I sense a false dichotomy/dilemma approaching:

> The Dilemma: David has two choices
I don't think it being free software is necessary. There is plenty of anger when Apple blocks some non-free software from the App Store, like the whole Epic/Fortnite situation, or many other cases with smaller indie developers. It seems much, much worse for the government to be doing that, doesn't it? With the Apple situation, you can choose to use Android or Linux instead, if it's the government, you... need to emigrate to use the software?
There was an interesting paper about a year ago that talked about synthesizing voices with minimal training data, iirc on the order of 30 seconds. The results were imperfect but wholly impressive given the input.

"Think of what will be possible just two more papers down the line."
Most users only see animated scrolling at work (not genuine "smooth scrolling" tied to continuous touchscreen or touchpad input, which is unobjectionable, but playback of canned animations following completed input events). They have an obvious incentive to like it: they're getting paid for doing nothing.
Good question. In Canada it’s something you’d have to pay for (or have private benefits for) because it was seen as only necessary for international travel. If you ask for it, no doctor is going to say no (if you’re willing to pay for the drug).

Maybe US recommends more because the people making the recommendations know they won’t have to pay for it and take the lowest-risk approach regardless of cost.

Largely you didn’t need it if your food handling/hygiene standards are good, but when you flash freeze foods from anywhere, you dial up the freshness and risk.
Because it’s not a helicopter! It’s a fixed wing aircraft, making it very much not a helicopter.

It would also be reasonable to rename an aircraft class if it was significantly different from other aircraft. For example, an electric, vertical takeoff fixed wing aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot could be reasonably different from airplanes and helicopters to warrant a new name.