skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does one even figure out which chip has gone haywire? If a board breaks and I don't see a bad cap, a cluster of moths, or other obvious problem, I bin it.

Last week I did resurrect my dualie 400GB DDR3 Supermicro beast.. it had been infested by moths. After cleaning them all out with tweezers, to my amazement, the thing works again.

Thank you, X9DRi-LN4F+.
This is not the case, as has been often explained in these debates.
Familiarity doesn't make Times New Roman's 'l' and '1' distinguishable.

I think sans serif fonts are preferred for most screen reading because it takes effort to perceive the tiny serif details, or just the really thin lines like the horizontal in the 'e', at typical font sizes.

But there are no absolutes so fonts that try to be more legible use some tails and such to make characters distinguishable.
oh thanks a lot for sharing - I was looking for something just like this! Something like this + hurl is the perfect combination to sketch out APIs imo
Yeah man you'll note I explicitly mentioned how things went to shit after the collapse.
The law is wrong and perverse. The current copyright system hands out a copyright length that's longer than the existence of many countries.

And the worst part is that certain governments have pushed it so far that it is pretty much ubiquitous across the globe. Nobody is allowed to not make absurd copyright laws.

Some guy being able to exclusively make money off of work that his great grandfather authored 120 years ago is not useful to society. It does not progress the useful arts or sciences.
The long tail of backwards compatibility, while impressive and amazing, is holding back windows, x86, and others.

As much as I would hate them breaking compatibility, eventually it has to give.

Imagine 50 years from now, never being able to improve things due to backwards compatibility…
To resolve it, did you really have to get a learners permit and retake your drivers test? Outrageous.
That’s one way of saying Intel has won on appeal and the €1.06 billion fine was thrown in the trash by CJEU.
Depends on your tools, I suppose. I'd just like to share this:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::TableReader::Decoder::IdiotCS...
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered. Fan-made modernization of the classic visual novel
Katawa Shoujo (translated "Disability Girls") is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box running on the Ren'Py visual novel engine. The game is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND.

Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered offers a battery of accessibility features to accommodate players with disabilities. Using the tools available in modern Ren'Py, we've added quick access to self-voicing, two dyslexic typefaces, a special high contrast text box, and various optimizations to improve functionality with common screenreaders- and that's just the beginning. We're already looking into other ways to make KS:RE even more accessible.
> Parquet is the opposite of simple. Even when good libraries are available (which it usually isn't), it is painful to read a Parquet file. Try reading a Parquet file using Java and Apache Parquet lib, for example.

I skimmed their docs a bit: https://parquet.apache.org/docs/

I would not look forward to implementing that.

It all seems rather complex, and even worse: not actually all that well described. I suppose all the information is technically there, but it's really not a well-design well-written specification that's easy to implement. The documentation seems like an afterthought.

This is probably why good libraries are rare.
"good" code is often in the eye of the beholder.

Some people love arcane method. Some people love linear simplicity. Some people impose "no more than a screenful" rules on the size/extent of a single procedure. Some people stack functioncalls, Some people live and die by recursion.

A young developer has to chart a course through rough seas.
This is not a Fisker story
I'm probably not the only person who misinterpreted "gig" in the title as "job", as in "side gig", instead of "gigabytes" as was intended.

(Makes sense considering LinkedIn is about jobs, but "half a side gig" makes no sense which should have been a clue.)
Not all fun and games. My buddy lost his luggage for three weeks because the airline routed it to the "real" city.
I've found Nicholas Wirths "call by name, call by value, call by reference" joke a very good model for FSD. It's called FSD, its not full, it's not "self" driving and it's referential value varies as a function of proximity to lawsuit.
>People get excited by claims to "go back to the Moon, then Mars, then who knows?", but the truth is that given our current understanding of the world, sending humans on another solar system is theoretically impossible. Just look at those distances: we just can't, period.

1. Colonizing and exploiting the resources of our star system is mostly separate from traveling to other star systems. We can do one and never do the other.

2. It's not impossible at all. It's just an engineering problem: we could build large "generation ships" and send those to other star systems if we really wanted to. No, this isn't the same as traveling to other systems in your lifetime and returning, but it is possible for humans to travel to other stars.

>we should pay fundamental physicists to attempt to revolutionize our understanding of the world (wishing them luck) and spend those resources into something that is actually important for life: preserving life on Earth.

Fundamental physicists can't help you with this project. We already know the fundamental physics we really need for this. The problem is social and economic and governmental. If you want to preserve life on Earth, you have to get humans to live in a way that's more compatible with the biosphere, but humans don't want to do that.
>Which, to me, raises the question why you should even do this. There is no benefit. Just for the solace of knowing that there is a chance your species might survive the demise of your civilization? That's not much considering the immense cost.

For the people on the generation ship, it can be a good deal. If the ship is large enough and comfortable enough, it can be a better lifestyle than many people live today.
I would love to know how the Aurora knows to stop visibility at the state border.

The point of substance here is how far south Alabama is, and how many other places, sky glow aside, could experience this, if it can reach as far south as Alabama.

Alabama state tax is 4% so maybe the Aurora is attracted to low tax economies?
From the review linked to in the above link:

>There are three essential errors the author makes. The first error is using an incorrect statement of Gödel’s theorem. The second error is working in a meta-system that implicitly assumes its own consistency. Although non-obvious, it is well-know to mathematicians that such a system is inconsistent. Thus it is not surprising that the author is able to derive results that contradict Gödel’s results.

>The third error is his attempt to find a flaw in Gödel’s Proposition V. As the author notes, Gödel omits the details of this deduction, leaving it for the reader to fill in. Unfortunately, the author has not correctly filled in the details himself. Perhaps Gödel (and other writers) could have been more clear about the distinction between the sub-language of ‘number-theoretic relations’ and its interpretion as a relation in the meta-language by explicitly writing out the uses of the ‘evaluation’ function converting the sub-language into the meta-language. It is indeed tricky to get this part right. I refer the reader to any one of the formal computer-verified proofs to see the details about how this can be done properly.
This is precisely what we need. Real switches. Not a toggle on a screen. Something that disconnects the electrical circuit. Without this, they can be remotely turned back on. This is the issue in many cars also. I put in-line switches in my personal vehicles to disable the gps units. I also have a switch that turns off the entire lighting circuit.
I’d love to understand the economics of stock pump n dump bots
Personally: If the product is excellent and already being used by people who are happy then you don’t really need to spend money on marketing, you need to keep focused on making an excellent product. In fact, marketing can take resources away from excellence.

If I ever see a FireFox marketing campaign on YouTube I will worry about them.

The best “marketing” they can do in my opinion is something they already do: MDN.
Thanks didn't know that.
Because it is fun. It is challenging, and interesting. And nostalgic.
Fire suppression makes wildfires more accentuates cliamte change
Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained (2021)
Guilty as charged, because the emotional return is exponentially high. But we're still microscopic.
The Palm Pilot V had a dockable cell phone modem, but the connectivity wasn't integrated into the OS. It worked but only as a demonstration. Then Palm released a model with integrated data, but the BlackBerry came out the same year. You can be first and still if someone comes along with a much more compelling product, that's the end of you.

Google has a few years left as a search company, but their enshittification of results has doomed them to replacement by LLMs. They seem to have forgotten Google pushed out their predecessors by having the best search results. Targeted advertisements don't qualify.
They didn't? But thanks for putting words in people's mouths
Looks super interesting. Definitely going to play with this though it took me way too long to figure out what Salesforce Air Search was.. maybe that's a sign I should log off for the day.
It says:
tensors describe the relationship between high-d arrays

It does not say:
tensors “only” describe the relationship between high-d arrays

The term “tensor” is used because it covers all cases: scalars, vectors, matrices, and higher-dimensional arrays.

Tensors are still a generalization of vectors and matrices.

Note the context: In ML and computer science, they are considered a generalization. From a strict pure math standpoint they can be considered different.

As frustrating as it seems one is not really more right and context is the decider. There are lots of definitions across STEM fields that change based on the context or field they’re applied to.
It’s quite simple.

The EC is not the final arbiter in this. It’s just an executive body.

Apple complied with what they think will withstand adjudication by the CJEU and leaves the rest for the EC to act on so they can appeal it with the CJEU.

Given the EC’s poor track record in terms of getting their fines and decisions overturned by the CJEU, I too would do it this way, no matter how loud the EC likes to bark and show their teeth.

Especially considering the DMA is poorly drafted and in Europe, unlike in the US, the courts aren’t ghostbusters that go seeking for “spirits” of the law.

Whether the EC thinks so or not, Apple is in compliance with the straightforward parts of the DMA as well as with the more vague parts on the basis of reasonable interpretation, to be adjudicated by the CJEU.

In law there’s very little that’s certain, as such it’s bad form to make predictions, but I’m pretty confident in saying that the CJEU isn’t going to open Pandora’s box by prohibiting Apple from charging a reasonable fee for their IP.
I went to my friends eecs graduation a long time ago at ucla and the founder of Qualcomm talked about how what drove him to get his phd was his curiosity and determination to understand truly how radios worked.

He said that he got his phd because that’s pretty much how long it took him before he felt like he really understood how his radio worked, and even then sometimes wasn’t sure.

Was a good speech that this article reminded me of.
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now they just need to train generative AI models by opting in all of their users to allow training in on their data and forcing them to opt-out if they want otherwise. To compete with adobe that is.
Who put you in charge of the discussion?
Every time you stream the creation of an object, you're doing a recent-object-realloc. This shows up all the time for serialization, strings, vectors, etc. If you don't think you're doing it, you're probably using a library that hides it from you - or else doing something completely inefficient (in some languages, repeated string concatenation is O(n²)).

If your allocator exposes a "give me an arbitrarily large buffer up front to use, and I will give back what I don't need" that can beat realloc but otherwise you really do need it. I suppose on platforms without `mremap` you might want ?

The other alternative of course is "keep a list of small fragments, and join them at the end", but that just moves the `realloc` up a level, and is likely to give you fragmentation (which in some cases might even prevent the final allocation from succeeding).
The hypocrisy is as good a reason as any to keep it real. But the real problem is people so brainwashed by green propaganda that they think no human activity is worthwhile. This AI stuff for example might appear wasteful, but it is very promising as a means to improve efficiency in many industries and improve people's quality of life, which may in fact reduce pollution. Even if it increased pollution somehow, that has to be weighed against all other outcomes. You can't just look at any old use of resources and declare that it isn't worth it and expect everyone to agree with you. Different people value different things in life, and that's ok.
The next version of Tailwind deals with the @apply and brings other major changes like using CSS instead of a js config file

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4-alpha
It's a premature optimization issue. If you don't have special requirements like IO throughput, or mission critical data accuracy guarantees, be biased towards picking the format that anyone can easily open in a spreadsheet.
I've never heard of Cuties. Is it related to feudal Japan?
I know nothing about Canva. As someone who has been a big fan of Affinity, their products and their pricing model, do I start freaking out now or can I just wait until the acquisition closes?
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MySpace has been wierd and useless for something like 20 years now..

Bought by News Corp, "In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, News Corporation purchased MySpace for US$580 million" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

A great example of how a traditional media outlet failed to 'get' the new social space.
If i came upon a random stranger who did not know how to play chess (but otherwise had heard of the game) and i put the board in front of him, made my move and told him to proceed, he will almost certainly move a piece to some other position on the board.

There is no difference between this exercise and the one you have given GPT-4. In fact, the results are manifested the exact same way.
By at most a few moves in, i will notice that both the stranger and GPT-4 are moving pieces to some general area of the board but woefully failing to adhere to the rules of the game. "The stranger can not reason" would be an absurd conclusion. Swapping out The stranger for GPT-4 does not make it any less so.

So really by this standard then Humans regularly only "appear to understand" a great number of things. I can get behind this, but I doubt this is your conclusion. It seems to me that you were using "appear to understand" and "understand" as something that separates Humans from LLMs.
Dang I was like 10 paragraphs into this thing and realized I couldn't even figure out who it's mad at. It seems like the kind of invective that's more about saying enough Arc Words that people are righteously indignant than talking about any actual concrete problem. Agitprop too pure and distilled to sully itself with things like examples or a coherent thesis
I don't know, products rarely get better with these acquisitions. I like my native app Affinity Designer, with a reasonable one time license very much as is.
excel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically
Welcome to the 'Great City of the West' – mankind's dead end
You are suggesting Facebook doesn't mind valuable information restrictions because they have found other sets/means of valuable information.

That just doesn't follow. Facebook wants everything.

It is a near certainty that yesterday's restricted information is even more valuable today, since they can also increase its value via machine learning systems.

And high profits today don't dampen the need for growth, they accelerate the need by iteratively raising the baseline for next year. The year after. And onward. For the shareholders. For Zuckerberg.
TL;DR: There're few global incentives for a LinkedIn app developer to make an overall good app, as opposed to making their PM happy.

In detail: This is how death by a thousand papercuts looks like.

I've had the (dubious) pleasure of observing a roughly similar BigTech app project.

There are likely 100s-1000s of app developers involved in the LinkedIn app, and they are likely under immense pressure to Just Ship Already (tm). Some of them consider it conscionable to do weird things like statically linking to an asset library - whether through unawareness/incompetence or just by wanting to make it through the next performance review.

In smaller projects, there's some kind of a feedback that can make it through the system to make sure local and global incentives are aligned, but at the LinkedIn scale that would have required the people in charge to be engineers and not suit types.

One interesting solution to this very problem that I actually saw in action was employing a team of top-tier systems hackers (in this case: people with a security research background) to hack through the build process. This solution naturally premises on such individuals wanting to work for an app project, incentivizing them along the right global metrics and giving them the go ahead to push back on egregious violations.
Choosing beggers and all that, but the LOTSA dataset could really benefit from a Readme on HuggingFace. Even just a citation back to the original paper would be good.
Beware AI Euphoria
Books could be replicated for films. Sometimes the books are better (from someone's standpoint), sometimes the books are worse, sometimes books and films are just different, and may be both good in different ways.

The https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4547948/ version seems to be closer to the book, but Netflix's version is good even though seem to deviate more from the book.
It didn’t really get the Lovecraftian horror element of the books.

The terrifying idea of the book was the helplessness of knowing the final battle won’t happen for 300.

So for 300 years all of history is on pause. Nothing important can happen.

It’s really a terrifying idea. But one mostly absent from the show.
https://archive.ph/GHm8d

"Even if you believe AI will be today’s equivalent of electricity or the internet, we are at the very early stages of a highly complex multi-decade transformation that is by no means a done deal. Yet valuations are pricing in the entire sea change, and then some. A February report by Currency Research Associates pointed out that it would take 4,500 years for Nvidia’s future dividends to equal its current price. Talk about a long tail."

"While Nvidia isn’t Pets.com — it has tangible revenues from selling real things — the overall AI narrative depends on many uncertain assumptions. For example, AI requires huge amounts of water and energy. There’s a push in both the US and EU to get companies to disclose their usage. Whether via carbon pricing, or a tax on resource usage, it’s quite likely that those input costs will rise significantly in the future.

Likewise, AI developers don’t now have to own the copyright to content on which the models are trained. They don’t have to make profits on AI itself, of course; the assumption of future gains is enough to fuel the froth. Relentless techno-optimism and the illusion of inevitability is how Silicon Valley creates paper wealth. But remember, many of the proponents of “AI everywhere” were touting web3, crypto, the metaverse and the benefits of the gig economy not so long ago."
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I find it interesting that you just take at face value the claims that IA will materially impact republishing and revenue streams and harm creators. No skepticism, no reasonable demand for a shred of evidence that this has taken place or will take place, just believe what certain vested interests claim and destroy a valuable public resource for no factually established reason.
> I understand there aren't financial incentives around that so it's probably difficult for you to agree with.
Weren’t these insults honed years ago at Xerox PARC?
Infill development means everyone eventually gets to be a high-rise.
I see. Right; I'm vaguely aware of those things through passive exposure to ads. I've mostly written off inkjets, so my attention has been minimal. Refillable, big tanks do make a difference. If that's the deal breaker for someone, they may be worth another look.
All Teslas in the US get a one month trial of FSD starting this week
Gasp. Big news. I do not recall ever seeing this, so I wonder if $JOB is running some hilariously outdated version for compatibility with a load bearing VBA script.
This "conversational knowledge" stuff is probably just a primitive and inefficient form of AI that may be superceded by other innovations. It need not have any real impact on new knowledge, any more than billions of ordinary people babbeling for hundreds of years. The service provider concern is understandable, but I think competition may keep this tech available to everyone who can reasonably afford it. We still have private computers and software despite the possibility for everything to be run from data centers and using proprietary subscription-based software.