skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would make sense, but I would like to know in which situations that happens. And can I manually reduce the alignment in a struct (say to an alignment of 8 with a struct that has other fields with alignment of 8) to reduce memory usage? Or ensure that a location uses an alignment of 16 in places I want the higher performance.
One of the hardest lessons I learned in tech, maybe in life, was that
if people don't want it you're done.

It doesn't matter that you think it's the coolest and most amazing
technology in history. It may be. So what?

It doesn't matter that experts from every part of industry are yelling
that "this is the future", that the march of this tech is
"inevitable". They need to believe that, for their own reasons.

It doesn't matter that academics from Yale, Harvard and MIT are
publishing a dozen new papers on it every week. For the mostpart their
horizon ends at the campus gate.

It doesn't matter that investors are clamouring to give you money and
inviting you to soirees to woo you because your project has the latest
buzzwords in the name. Investors have to invest in something.

And it doesn't matter if market research people are telling you that
the latent demand and growth opportunity is huge. People tell them
what they want to hear.

The real test - and I wish I had known this when I was twenty - is do
ordinary people on the London Omnibus want it? Not my inner ego
projection. Not my wishful thinking. Not what "the numbers" say. Go
and ask them.

My experience right now - from asking people (for a show I make) is
that people are shit scared of AI and if they don't hold a visceral
distaste for it they've an ambivalence that's about as stable
nitro-glycerine on a hot day. I know that may be a difficult thing to
hear as a business person.

If you are harbouring in your heart any remnant of the idea that you
can create demand, that they will "see the light" and once they have a
taste will be back for more, or that by will and power they can be
made, regulated and peer pressured into accepting your "vision",
then you'd be wise to gently let go of those thoughts.
My original, correct, message was perfectly short.

You don't like long full detailed explainations, and you ignore short explainations. Pick a lane!

A friend of mine a long time ago used to have a humorous classification system, that people fell into 3 groups: The clued, The clue-able, The clue-proof.

Some people already understand a thing. Some people do not understand a thing, but CAN understand it. Some people exist in a force bubble of their own intention that actively repels understanding.
Eh, who cares? I get money from my job and can save money entertaining myself with generative art. Even if I can’t copyright it, fine, because it’s an outdated political and economic cudgel used to expropriate and exploit more often than not

The past is so often proven wrong and was so much less civil, we can never actually ask James Madison if we did right by his notion the future owes the past. We can only decide for ourselves we align with the long dead’s philosophy.

Where is the value in so carefully conserving in such detail the past? I’m not saying we end history as a field of study but as an obligation of daily life.

The most important lesson of history, imo, is prevent nation states or whatever might take their place from having the ability to wage wars. Most of their philosophy is indecipherable given our life experience is vastly different than theirs. Would they see this world and come to the same conclusion they did?
I would say there is a lot wrong with microservices for small teams
Their statement is that it is required by their code of ethics. So they made an ethical statement whether they needed to or not.
Those connection attempts wouldn't ever reach the daemon though, let alone get to preauth. So how would an exploitation attempt even be distinguishable from, say, a harmless random password guess if neither ever gets to see the daemon?
Hit 5K Revenue in 16 Months with My No-Code Side Project
Hi all,

Diving straight into it: After 16 months of juggling a day job and pouring passion into a side project, my brother and I have hit a new milestone with our no-code tool, we’ve reached $5K in revenue. It’s all about making customer interaction simpler through AI-powered chatbots, minus the coding headache.

Here's a bit on our journey:

We kicked things off aiming to bridge a gap—enabling seamless business communication without the tech complexities. Our mantra? Keep it straightforward, yet impactful.

Our growth leaned heavily on the organic side, betting on SEO-optimized blog posts and to-the-point YouTube videos. It’s been a gradual climb, but the expanding user base through word-of-mouth and quality content has been truly rewarding.

16 months and $5K in, I’m reflecting on our pace. In the startup realm, it feels like a marathon. It’s a milestone for us, considering the work-life balance act, but I wonder, could we step on the gas with other growth strategies?

Moreover, this journey has been a tech boot camp for me. The next project seems less daunting, I've got a boilerplate ready, which feels like a secret weapon. XD Would any of you stick it out this long? Has anyone else found that persistence in one project paved the way for quicker launches down the road?

Would love to hear if you think it was worth the grind, or if there are other growth avenues we should explore. If you’ve got insights or advice on expanding beyond organic growth, I'm all ears.
I wonder if a better goal would be valid translation of the COBOL into X language. Obviously that has its own can of worms but it seems like our goal generally should be getting critical systems to more modern languages that can be maintained more easily.
This might explains a lot of human trafficking.
Nice paper. But my take is this: If this model of operation of the human mind is an emergent property of a simpler network architecture that's scaled up, nothing is stopping us from building a massive version of it and training it. This can be done in 10 years.

However if it's a combination of myriads of bespoke mechanisms that emerged evolutionarily then it's going to take a while, because we have to rediscover them through research or find a way to detect and copy them from our brains. For example if there are tons and tons of multi-scale mechanisms (network architectures+molecular dynamics+feedback systems+adaptive cell responses) for each function of the human brain then yeah it's going to take a long time. But if there's only a handful of bespoke systems related to cognition (memory, emotional regulation, motor skills, perception, motivation) then it's very much doable. Nobody thought that you could chat with a simple CNN 15 years ago, but here we are.
They were corrupt during Congress too.
Reminds me of Veratasium's visual representation of p-adic numbers.

https://youtu.be/tRaq4aYPzCc?t=1514
Yep they made the exact same claim about GPT-2. Back then language models talked like markov chains. I guess OpenAI's "fake it till you make it" strategy was so successful that they can't stop even after they've already made it
A Language for Humans and Computers
Potentially unpopular opinion- this may have been done in part with the objective of enforcing regulations or setting up AI laws. Given OpenAI’s position that comes across as regulatory capture.

Wiki article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I wouldn't be so sure. Throwing strength must be a factor.
Right after reading this thread, I happened to open YouTube and got a notification today about a price increase on YouTube Red from $12.99 to $18.99.
> consumed

90 meals per day.

> if he has enough money, will buy a house from someone in the first 90 who got there first

Which takes longer than waiting for the next day. You're making a distinction that doesn't really exist.

> The other 10 are priced out. Those 10 are not market participants, they are simply dreamers.

I can only laugh at this. If people give up, then it's not a shortage?

You claim my definition makes everything a shortage, because you ignore the other rules I would apply because you think they're too subjective. But your definition makes nothing a shortage.
Was impact something I missed that was already in this discussion?
Yes. Eleven Labs has convincing custom model and has been around for over a year.
That was my impression too. Maybe OpenAI’s model is impressively better than anything out there right now, or they’re just embarrassed cause it’s so much worse :P
That was what the 1970 crack was about.
Microsoft does this. eBay also. And steam. Once you install the app, any time there is a sign in, you get a pop up on your phone. Yes/no button. Very convenient.

Why don't more apps do that?
It is an Easter miracle, whom amongst us has not prayed for 500+ words on some software that may or may not exist but certainly has zero impact on anything in the world?
The rationale for continuing to use it is pretty flimsy as well, so it's not like we lose much by doing away with it. It's poorly sourced, being a low resolution 1970s vintage scan of a magazine print rather than the original film negatives, and the rights holders never really gave permission to redistribute it. Surely there are better test images to use even on purely technical and legal grounds.
Indeed, even the author wasn't aware of modern COBOL, with IDE tooling and OOP capabilities, focusing on the classical micros instead.
> Some architectures straight up do not allow unaligned reads and force the programmer to read two registers and then extract the unaligned data.

That's largely obsolete for architectures that still get used now that individual transistors are cheap, since it turns out that it's much more efficient to do it in silicon, even if such accesses are pretty rare.
I don't like John Oliver. Anyway, I would like to know how many near misses there have been over time. Not just deadly crashes. We could have seen a decline in already-rare fatal crashes as all other types of crashes increase, and planes literally keep falling apart. I think this blogger is trolling with a hot take and/or pushing propaganda.
My 8 year old boy loves Veloren! He'll be psyched about a new release.

Trying to keep him on open source games that run on his Manjaro MacBook Air (11", 2014?).

Other hits include Minecraft, SuperTux, and SuperTuxCart, 0ad, and he just loving OpenRA and OpenRA Combined Arms!
Critical race theory is not some made up Boogeyman. It's real, it's used to influence the curriculum being taught, and it's just as bad as described
I don't think the language hurts or hinders interop much? It has a wide range of tools that can adapt objects between different shapes, for when we do have two similar but different interfaces we are trying to bridge.

I struggle to see what more one could want. Do you have any specific features you think would help a massive ecosystem of packages be able to work together, when for example different packages have different Signal implementations?
Can it be configured to open OpenStreetMap instead?
Modern LATEX, Second edition [pdf]
Was there a reason not to use boost::multiprecision?
A new user account, just for some anti-trans nonsense. Nice editorializing, giripion

Current title on HN:
Dutch women's darts veterans quit over male team-mate

Actual title of the linked article:
Dutch women's darts veterans quit over transgender team-mate
The older I get the less magic and more alien things appear. We live on an alien planet. This place is a bloody zoo.
https://archive.fo/ftQy2
It feels like a flimsy justification but I'm not sure what kind of person would push back and insist on using that image against both her wishes and the wishes of the leadership of IEEE.
is it strange?

Vue reactivity isn't compatible with Svelte, nor Angular.

As a counter example to your question, what if we all had competing implementations of the object primitive. Libraries would barely work with one another and would need an interop layer between them (just as reactivity layers do today!)
Yeah I also have an AGI already, but I won't release it, it's too dangerous for you lot.
>Not the OP, but I program professionally in Python for the past 5 years and i have never set a breakpoint.

This means you are either one of the best or one of the worst programmers. People in the middle have bugs in their program and can use a debugger to find them.

>sounds like a tooling issue

The tool, in this case, being the interpreter. Which is exactly the point.
You drink alcohol? You have quite the risk tolerance.
> We believe that the history of the Lena image clashes with the extensive efforts to promote women undertaking higher education in science and engineering

This sounds pretty easy to understand to me, and like the main reason for the decision.
This hit brutally hard. I wasn't ready for this on an otherwise peaceful Sunday morning.
Makes me wonder about visualizing graph DBs
> To be blunt, male don't feel threatened by a poster of a manly topless macho. It won't incite inferiority complex, at least not by much.

Oh man, if only this were true.
you can use https://cdm-project.com/Android-Tools/dumper-diazole.git

it uses frida to make dumping l3 keys really easy (start frida, run the script, open firefox, visit a test DRM page, profit??)
Telegram has much better info, Reddit's is usually a few hours or days old
Election year for ~4.21% of the world population… Or that’s the part they are keeping in mind with this announcement anyway.
This seems to be a minor refocus rather than a new project. Is he set on the name, "Mini Fantasy Theater"?
Windows and Android only? Does this imply I can’t keymap this to use on a Mac, and does Android =? Linux?
I had a job about a month or two ago on Upwork which was supposedly going to be about a character.ai clone or something similar. After discussing it for weeks, on the last day they decided it wasn't about personas in general and absolutely had to be impersonation of Trump and Biden.

I told them it was a very questionable idea.
But I needed the money to be able to make rent. So I took the job hoping that they were still interested in other types of characters and would be reasonable.

I had a basic demo with Trump's voice up in about a week. I showed them the first demo and had a phone call suggesting that this might actually be illegal pretty soon.

They were sure there was no problem and said they had spoken to lawyers.

The next day, Eleven Labs sent out an email explaining that some voices were getting banned. The attempt to clone Biden's was blocked by Eleven Labs.

They had structured the contract as a single fixed fee, although what we had discussed was weekly payments. At the last minute without discussion they had thrown in a talking head requirement.

So I received the first 451 HTTP status code I have ever seen when requesting that D-ID do a lip sync animation of Trump's head.

I ended up using a different video model from replicate that was not a great lip sync but very engaging if you squint. I did not do Biden. Did about three weeks of work and collected around $630 after Upwork took their fee.

I'm proud to say I did make my rent payment though since I had another project at the same time which was a low hourly but still helped.
I would assume that beyond an amount of strength easily attainable by women, added brawn would make no difference, and might even be a disadvantage if it limits flexibility or accuracy.
NVIDIA and one step down the chain OpenAI are making lots of money, mostly by convincing people that LLMs solve all problems.

LLMs are perfect for this, super flashy, with a ton of hype. In reality, LLMs are really bad at most applications, they are a solution in search of a problem.
Feelings are subjective, but if 20% drop in usage feels like a massive victory to Musk too, that might explain a lot.
Remember when GPT-2 was deemed "too dangerous to release"? Spreading FUD appears to be OpenAI's viral growth strategy.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...
lol this marketing technique is getting very old. https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS is already amazing and open source.
> Also, unsafe is not meant to ease the borrow checker pains, that's like using void* everywhere in C because you don't know how to type a function pointer. Unsafe is meant for places where rust simply doesn't know better, like reading memory mapped registers.

Eh, one could argue that some of these "Rust simply doesn't know better" situations are often borrow checker pains. But in general, I'd agree that bypassing the borrow checker doesn't seem to be the point of `unsafe` in my limited experience.

But the bigger point I'm trying to make is that there doesn't appear to be any solution to some of the borrow checker issues I've run into. There are things you can do in C, which are strongly related to the reasons I'm using these low-level languages, that appear to be impossible in Rust.

Keep in mind the caveat that I'm new to Rust, so there may be some solution I'm just not aware of.
Reasoning vs being a completion engine (I could make a guess at how well that would work)
Jonathan blow talking about backdoors in open source [video]
Often the issue is where exactly those vacant dwellings are. Typically, booming metro areas will have a low vacancy rate, while the vacancy rate will be high in rural areas or declining cities, where economic prospects are more dubious.

Demand is local. If someone needs to live in Dublin for their work, it doesn't help them much if there's cheap housing a few hours away.
Passport checks for travellers lifted as Bulgaria and Romania join EU's Schengen
There's a story that an American football coach, after gathering the best players he could, would start each season just working on the fundamentals, saying you cannot do the simple easy you can't do complex.

One of his Hall of Fame players said that he woukd begin with "Gentlemen, this is a football"
Language design is really about what you could do, but about how to efficiently express certain things.
"I have become Death, destroyer of worlds"

It's an age old question. Do you not build the thing that will destroy the world while hoping nobody else does as well, or do you build it first so that you can "control" it?
Have you tried using Fluent? It uses Everything as the back-end search and then adds steroids to it.
One thing I've noticed is that the admins are super ready to ghost/delete/dead people who respond to companies with harsh critique.

It's the similar way Ycombinator-sponsored crap has no commenting at all. A good portion of them are basically 'clone Uber and cut out bureaucracy illegally', 'we scan your eyeballs for shitcoin', and similar grift.... But you can never say anything about those.
Oh please. I stated a position that isn't even controversial, noting that these sorts of discussions are not really what folks tend to want on hackernews. Responses have been from agreement to claims of trolling. Feel free to give more compassion to folks with religious trauma as you join us all in being better folks.
It's okay, the Cargo Lords promise me that because they require a git-hub account and agreeing to the git-hub terms of service before contributing, everything will be okay.

They pinky-swear.
The better question is: is the "value" worth the enormous environmental cost from the massive amounts of power used in training datasets, storing them, and running the GPUs/TPUs?

NVIDIA estimates they'll ship up to 2M H100 GPUs. They have a TDP of about 300-400W each. Assume that because of their high cost, their utilization is very high. Assume another 2/3rds of that is used for cooling, which would be another 200W. Be generous and throw out all the overhead from the host computers, storage, power distribution, UPS systems, and networking.

2M * 600W = 1.2GW.

Let's say you only operated them during the daytime and wanted to do so from solar power. You'd need between ten and twenty square miles worth of solar panels to do so.
4.21% of the population that wield closer to 30% of the world's political, military, and economic power. It's a valid concern.
Happy 4/20 everyone!
Hey everyone! Dubai has excellent schools!

Do not look any further into it, there are no other reasons one might not want to bring their family there or live there onesself.

Probably clean streets too.
Bullshit:

"Opposition to what was purported to be critical race theory has been adopted as a major theme by several conservative think tanks and pressure groups, including The Heritage Foundation, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and organizations funded by the Koch brothers. [...] In 2021 [Christopher Rufo] wrote on Twitter, 'The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory'' and 'We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.'"

"The Economist and Reuters have conducted polls on how much the general public understands CRT, a 'once-obscure academic concept', and they found that most people are unfamiliar with CRT and misunderstand it."

(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_controversies_around_cri....)

It is absolutely a conservative boogeyman and (for the most part) has never been a taught subject outside of college.
In 2009, 4 million lines of COBOL were migrated to Java using an automatic translator.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/cobol-to-java/
Yep, I've seen the same phenomenon.

Another example being of X to the fediverse. So many people switched over, made not being on X their entire identity, freaked out when the place wasn't as sanitized as X and eventually just went back.
I discovered Core Wars through his Computer Recreations column and enjoyed playing it for years. I still love his line about “programs doing battle in the dark and noiseless corridors of core”.

RIP
If you need to do multiplication of 64-bit values of unknown ranges you have no choice but to store the result in 128 bits, even if it's only an intermediate result.
I'll admit I don't use JavaScript very often, but surely the state of polymorphism could be improved? For example, C++ recently added concepts, and most (modern) languages have some way to describe interfaces.

As to your counterexample, I agree with current JavaScript that would be a problem, but with good language support it would certainly be possible. For example, Rust (and C++?) have competing implementations of the global allocator, and must users will never notice.
When I was technical blogging on how to learn from open-source code [1], I used it quite frequently to get unstuck and/or to figure out how to tease apart a large question into multiple smaller functions. For example, I had no idea how to break up this long `sed` command [2] into its constituent parts, so I plugged it into ChatGPT and asked it to break down the code for me. I then Googled the different parts to confirm that ChatGPT wasn't leading me astray.

If I had asked StackOverflow the same question, it would have been quickly closed as being not broadly applicable enough (since this `sed` command is quite specific to its use case). After ChatGPT broke the code apart for me, I was able to ask StackOverflow a series of more discrete, more broadly-applicable questions and get a human answer.

TL;DR- I quite like ChatGPT as a search engine when "you don't know what you don't know", and getting unblocked means being pointed in the right direction.

1. https://www.richie.codes/shell

2. https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv/blob/e8b7a27ee67a5751b899215b...
This is not interesting anymore. I am too busy looking at the spicy xz backdoor
> Has anyone had similar or shared experience like these?

Personally, I haven't encountered any bad actors. Aside from maybe 1-2 companies that seem to have evergreen postings on Who's Hiring.

If there are bad actors, I'm guessing they're so few in number that only a fraction of us will notice.