skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Crockford 32. It has more letters than hex, but is resistant to swear words.

https://www.crockford.com/base32.html
I don't adhere to the Chinese room idea, and I don't think that there are any musical limitations on what an AI can do. I'm saying that audiences like music for more than its merits; they often fantasize about the singer/songwriter, in the case of popular music, or become invested in knowing about the composer in the case of more rarefied styles. A lot of people will just lose interest in a piece of music as soon as they find out it was generated. It's the same reason art forgers are treated as criminals rather than artistic geniuses in their own right.
N.B. I meant assets, not credits, in the first paragraph.
Right it’s unthinkable you’d find high profile targets on hacker news.

All you’ll find here are founders of highly funded startups and software developers at boring companies such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.

No point getting into these people’s phones if you’re a state actor for sure /shrug
> > Patents almost never describe processes and technology with sufficient detail to reproduce them (in fact many companies will purposefully not patent those things they consider central to their business, to keep them secret) and are instead written so broad as to just create a moat to prevent any newcomers from entering.

> That's pretty false. The requirement for a patent in the US is that it is detailed enough that an expert in the domain can reproduce the invention from the patent. Doing so efficiently and at scale is a different issues. Having dealt with patents personally, lawyers very much stress this point as a requirement for a patent that is not easy to overturn.

I have dealt with patents myself as well and in every instance the lawyers told me ok give me all the other ways of you can think of how to do things, no matter if it works or not. Also keep what you did sufficiently vague.

> You're confusing a patent being broad with it not being detailed. They are both. A patent is a detailed reproducible description that includes a ton of language to also cover other similar things. For example, "in one embodiment of this invention a silver coated aluminum substrate is used for part N." This is very specific in that it says what was used to make the invention (a silver coated aluminum substrate) but also broad enough to cover other substrates (one embodiment).

This is actually a great example. Often the implementation will only work with a specific thickness and quality of silver and the substrate has to be prepared in a specific way to get the correct properties. None of these would be mentioned in the patent, and would typically require large amount of experimenting (costly) to find out what actually works.
After reading this, my main question changed from "why did birds survive" to "why did crocodiles survive".
Someone hacked Justin Bieber's private data on THINKIN
Between stuff like this, state laws enforcing ID use for social media and pr0n, and the Twitter files, it seems an American Great Firewall is almost inevitable. Or, at least, the “powers that be” seem to want one. Regrettable.
We need more general purpose embedded modules to act as an abstraction/ middleware / API interface to diversity implemented but frequently utilised low-level hardware.
(and since this is a real world, with grades of environmental reliability like automotive, or specs like -45 C to 85 C.

edit * models-> modules (autoincorrect)
Not joking, not trolling, thought it was widely known that JavaScript is generally significantly faster than Python. Haven't had this debate in 15 years, but let me explain:

> What data structures?

Everything in JavaScript is an object, even Arrays. So even an Array lookup is O(1) in JavaScript - not true in Python where it has to search the Array. Only if you created key/val pairs in Python (via list/hash) could you exploit the O(1) lookup for accessing data, but I can't use Python list for a large model like an LLM without hitting memory errors (see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5537618/memory-errors-an...)

> Python is run-time

Both languages are dynamic (not compiled) lol, what are you trying to say here? The point is that the number of steps it takes to go from high-level dynamic code (scripts) to machine-readable instructions is 1 step in JS, but 2 steps in Python, that's literally why it's slower to RUN than JavaScript. Literally runs slower as in number of executions.

> Multi-process is an OS feature that has nothing to do with JS or Python

Not true in the slightest. It's a language feature. I'll use my favorite word of the day and say it's an "exploit" more than a feature, when you can run what would be blocking IO in parallel. Python on the other hand is "single flow" executing statements one-at-a-time.

What a toxic comment, I said thanks to everyone else but not you. I retract my thank you! I hope you learned something today at least. This made me LOL: "JS uses some heuristics to decide whether to use a hashmap or to make the object as a static struct" neither hashmap nor struct exists in JS, just funny. There's ES6 Map, but that is really just an Object, not the other way around lol
Layernorm
Out of necessity, ad-hoc metadata formats appeared quite soon.

Say, you're connecting to BBS with A LOT of files. Unless you already know that "SEX459W.ZIP" and "SEX454.ZIP" are Windows and DOS versions of (fictitious) “Super Extractor 4.5”, you'll spend a lot of time figuring it out. People who pay no attention to file categories can also get intrigued without a cause. Therefore, full names and descriptions were stored in sidecar files, and were processed to form complete file listings (to download and study offline). Sometimes operators personally reviewed the software, adding interesting opinions about users who had it on their computers, sometimes those were simple excerpts from release notes.

In some cases, the metadata was automatically appended to archives (as standard comments). Later, in the era of Rich Formats, WinZip even allowed arbitrary HTML in ZIP comments, and automatically loaded them into IE frame instead of regular text box when opening such archive. Obviously, that novelty didn't last long.
two people I knew while growing up, have made a lifetime of upper middle class income by being part of making and enforcing systems of Hollywood IP. Movies cost a lot of money to make, and distribution is a business challenge. Meanwhile, stats show that massive network traffic is pirated movies, and more massive network traffic is Netflix. I don't see that either side of this debate is blameless, or obviously in the right. This is policy with economic tradeoffs.
I use README.org (emacs). Sadly, npmjs.com doesn’t consider it as a readme file.
Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
Done on a phone that is not rooted running Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU --> "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 v1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" and "mount /dev/mapper/v1 /root/1" where "/dev/sda1" is a partition on a USB flash drive ("dev/sda") plugged in the phone: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (cryptsetup is in Update-6 and Update-7, see also "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-usb, usbredirect")
Let's say you have a Black student and a white student that have the exact same everything on their application. I feel like it makes sense to admit the Black student, because it is very likely that they have persevered more.
I'm not familiar enough with the project to answer why specifically cold gas thrusters were chosen. What I can say : if old, proven technology will get the job done, there's a strong preference to use that.

When needed to achieve the mission, new technology will be developed - sometimes the whole point of a mission is specifically to develop new technology. In this case, one of the major goals of the mission is to develop formation flying technology. Learn what the pitfalls and the tricky bits are, and make the technology available for future missions.

But when the mission can be achieved with old technology - technology with a long record of being used in space, where the problems are known and understood, where we know what works and what causes problems - then the mission will use old technology.

If you use newer technology, there's always a risk that you'll hit a new issue, previously unknown. Maybe you can work around it, maybe you can't. But this isn't web development where you can refactor, switch to a new framework and continuous deploy your way out of it. For the hardware, you get one launch and that's it. Why run the risk if you can avoid it?
It'd be a shame if the mission can't achieve its primary objective (learning about formation flying) because it chose some new type of thruster, and encountered some new issue with it.
The Roman empire was built on plunder and after converting to Christianity, the old pagan temples got plundered too. Precious metals get recycled. Interesting that they were able to trace how it happened.
I agree with you to a point. The problem is that if most people turn it off, then developing the telemetry system was a huge waste of time and resources for not much gain. Valuable data that could have been used to improve the program without any extra work from others may be lost.

Similar to Windows forcing users to update because most of them keep putting it off forever, hurting their own security.
Movie industry can go fuck themselves. Provide reasonably priced single subscription access to ALL content and the piracy will be gone.
Low metabolism and they live in fresh water, shielding them from the heating impulse after the impact. Fresh water ecosystems fed by detritus from dead plants could survive the post-impact period of darkness as well.
> by pure luck

No, even that is not true. If all digital (and non-digital) storage media ever manufactured by humans - meaning all hard drives, tape drives, CDs, DVDs, BluRays etc. ever manufactured to date, and every book and word ever printed or written down. If those ALL were only filled in with UUIDv4s generated from a good random source .. you would still not see even one single collision!

UUID collisions are only possible with currently known human technology if your randomness source is not good enough. And it will remain so unless there are some astronomical leaps in digital information storage technology - at least 10 orders of magnitude more storage than currently exists.

EDIT: I thought of a way for programmers to mentally visualize how unlikely UUID collisions really are. Let's imagine that in some not-too-distant future, there are 10 billion people on Earth. Each of them are given one thousand CPUs. These CPUs have 1024 cores each, and they run at 10 GHz (clock cycles per second). The CPUs implement a hypothetical instruction that can generate a totally random UUID in one clock cycle.

As an experiment, all people on Earth one day decide to program all their thousand CPUs each to run a tight loop that will indefinitely generate UUIDs on all 1024 cores and then immediately discard them.

After continuing to run this experiment (whose electicity bill will make Bitcoin look like Earth Hour) all day, 24/7, for about 800 years, the likelihood of one UUID ever having been generated twice will have exceeded 50%.
This makes me think of so many possible industrial applications. I believe you are onto something great!
And, famously, Michael Lewis's first book, "Liar's Poker":

> Despite the book's quite unflattering depiction of Wall Street firms and many of the people who worked there, many younger readers were fascinated by the life depicted. Many read it as a "how-to manual" and asked the author for additional "secrets" that he might care to share.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker#Reception
Secure Dicom Transmission over TLS with Mirth Connect
Nobody calls it this, but cascading styles in CSS is just like inheritance and I think should be avoided for all the same reasons. I feel it's a big part of why CSS at scale becomes unmaintainable. There isn't even a built-in way to compose two classes together if you want to avoid cascading/inheritance.

It looks like composition over inheritance has caught on as the better default in other languages, but in the CSS world people still cling to the cascade as a best practice for some reason.
They only count as HN dupes if they've received some attention so this is not a dupe under HN dupe law.
Excited to see what kind of agents can be built given an execution framework.
This is a great take.

I am a big fan of the Old Testament (bible). Mind you I am at best a "reformed catholic" and at worst an atheist and hedonist.

But the Old Testament is great, for the very reason you're using here. It was the summer block buster of its time. Special effects: parting seas (a Hollywood classic), people turning to salt, city walls crumbling under the might of trumpets. So. Much. Sex. (The Old Testament is getting an nc-17 before we get out of the garden.) The power of god as "magic"....

To your point, I would assume that being raised on "Troy" would give it a certain reverence. Out side religious texts do we still raise kids this way? I think of the reverent childhood stories and "thing one and thing two" spring to mind... Im not sure if I want that sort of wall art.
Baltimore City schools are just another few thousand per student away from producing a student body GPA above 2.0!
Is there an unambiguous, accepted, monosyllabic way to verbally speak the _ character?
Thanks for the kind response. My thought was creating a QR code using shapes in the image. Say a QR code is made up of 1000 shapes. A common theme in art is to draw using shapes. Take the 1000 largest 'shapes' in an image and create the QR code out of that instead of the type of QR codes we have now. On the other end there could be a catalog of what shapes match the video and it narrows down until it matches perfectly. I suppose you could use the QR code not just to link to videos, but to places in space on a maps or other things using a photo instead of a QR code. Again, thanks for your response.
"The engineering challenges, especially in the design and construction of an acceptable primary memory unit, were more difficult than originally anticipated."

Right. This is, again, the memory hardware problem. Eckert had been building computing machines since the 1930s, and his programs were on cams. In 1949, IBM started selling a "memory unit" the IBM 941, that stored 16 10-digit numbers, using about a cubic meter of relays.[1]
Multiple memory units could be plugged into an IBM Card Programmed Calculator.
It was possible to store short programs in the relays.[1] So it was a very limited "stored program" machine.

It was recognized by workers in the field for years before the IAS machine that stored program computers were desirable, if only someone could build something to store the programs. Something with an affordable cost per bit. That was the limitation.

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/cpc.html
You're right that corruption is not exclusive to capitalism. All systems will have that in one way or another. That was something the person I was replying to brought up. I don't think it matters for capitalism specifically. Any system worth considering should accept that corruption is unavoidable.

As for a solution... I don't know. I truly wish I had a ready answer to something as big as this, but I don't. The best I can come up with are multiple systems with checks, and we have some governments that attempt this, but inevitably someone ends up with unchecked power.

Today the power that goes unchecked is capital. It can corrupt other systems that don't account for it. Lobbying, donations, media time, etc. It's all affected by it, as systems like democracy were not designed to deal with external influence that is then used to consolidate itself.

That's why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
> The acquisition stood to give iRobot a competitive boost against rivals, Jassy said, but regulators blocked the deal “because they worry that we’re going to feature our vacuum cleaner, the Roomba, vs. others, which of course is not our model.”

Right.

Also, there's no benefit and a bit of worry in Amazon hoovering up floor maps of customer's houses to connect with Alexa audio.
It's not bad. People like to feel smug by saying OO is bad and hence inheritance, meanwhile using some construct in their FP that is really the same thing.
> I'm seriously considering changing to Apple after this.

Ironically that may be worse for you. iMessage is probably a critical step in 60% (or more) of these exploits, and the various unicode/pdf etc rendering engines are responsible in many exploits. Android's open-source nature likely means that a lot of these things are found by security researchers first. Don't forget that zerodium still pays more for an android 0-day than an iOS 0-day.

Plus, the huge variability between Samsung/Google/Moto/Huawei etc makes it triply hard for a single exploit to be successful.
Have you been to Gabon recently?
There is an recently abandoned building down the street from me that has been taken over by rats(and people legally dumping outside of it). Those rats then sometimes nest in the vehicles parked on the street next to the building. Rats tend to chew through wiring harness. I am about to file a complaint on 311 about it.
Yahoo.com will rise from the ashes.
if i were writing an intro to programming book, i would introduce OO as a means of building encapsulation. i'd only get into inheritance in later chapters.
"Always" implies not sloppy; sloppy playing would be sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, but unpredictable amounts.

I should know, I'm a sloppy drummer ;)
It may be pretty random but the top players are able to amass winstreaks on A20 and have a lot of decks go infinite. Monster train may be a more fun casual game but the really serious players figured it out and abandoned it rather quickly for being too easy.
No.

There also isn't one for "w", yet we get by with that as a letter.
Maybe I'm dumb, but couldn't they just use an umbrella instead of a separate sattelite?
> You claimed:

> >...and detailed enough that an expert in the domain can reproduce the invention from the description. I can assure you that in practice they are neither.

> I provided a counter-example. I'm going to take the the fact you're not responding to the counter-example but rather changing the argument as acceptable that you were wrong.

You ignored the fact that the "innovation" is really embodied in the claims not the rest, because that is what will be covered in the end.

Apart from the fact that even this somewhat better written example makes claims much broader than what was actually done, giving one example does not invalidate the fact that many (and I argue most by a large margin) patents are much more vague.
Thanks! It never occurred to me that I can just tweak the system prompt to make sure the LL model never outputs symbols and initialisms as is.
Chessformer: More Than Meets e5 [video]
Didn't crocodiles evolved two time separately?
The CTO isn't even aware of where the data is coming from (allegedly).
KernelEx isn't available for Windows 95, unfortunately. It's mentioned in the video
The only way out of this is robots that can go out in the world and collect data. Write in natural language what they observed which can then be used to train better LLMs.
>Of course, if indeed AWS came to a very similar implementation themselves, as the jury found, then that further suggests that the idea is not that novel.

That wouldn't matter if AWS came to the very similar implementation on their own, after the Plaintiff's patent was issued (and became public information). Patent, unlike copyright, does not allow for independent invention/creation. If you come to, on your own, something already covered in a patent during its term, then you infringe.
That makes sense, considering that "Amerindians" came from Asia via the Bering land bridge thousands of years ago[1].

1.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874220
The 2018 crack that one can foil by picking a decent passphrase instead of a 4-digit number?
Well dang I work in a research lab and I didn’t get an email.

I’m just going to assume my research is so interesting that they sent the real badasses after me, somebody that Apple can’t catch. The truth is too ego-shattering.
It's very much a thing.

It's common for people to look down upon NIMBY protests concerning stuff others would have to put up with.

"I, myself would totally welcome it, see" - never mind that the things that they scold others for not accepting, are things planned for nowhere near their backyard, so their openess conveniently wont be put to the test.

Most of the talk down of NIMBY protesting comes from such types, not from people local to the projects/changes that do welcome them.
I did not put the title of the article as title of the post, but what I thought is worth pointing out as described in my comment, there is no coverage on the big picture. While there has been coverage on OpenAI/Speak and Netflix/Thinkin and Duolingo/music, there is no comment (at least that I could come across) that puts these three into context.
what happened to him? quick google-fu doesn't seem to answer the question...
Homelessness is literally trivial to fix. It is shameful that our society decides not to.
It would be absolutely fascinating to talk to the LLMs of the various government spy agencies around the world.
Likely. I haven't used GraphQL in anger yet, but it would be a very reasonable use
I am no longer attending vintage computer festivals
Or realists that think that encryption-by-default needs to be designed very differently from PGP, and that forcing people into something brittle will not win any sympathy.
I really want to see some benchmarks with performance weighted by energy use. I think Mistral 7B performance to watt would be the leader by a huge margin. On many tasks I get equal performance on zero shot classification tasks on Mistral than in bigger models.
DAOs Beware: Neo-Imperialism Is on the Rise in Crypto-Land
Direct link to its robots.txt:

https://www.web.sp.am/robots.txt
Simple clean tables like whats shown in the page are underrated. I see this on Wikipedia often when comparing specs for iPhone or computers. They are so much better than many manufacturers pages. Wish I could get one of these for the N64.

I have actually been using ChatGPT to convert tables from car manufacturers spec pages to Wikipedia style HTML tables. Its my way of rebelling against the design of so many sites that seem to want to confuse rather than inform.
This is much less true for modern Java than it used to be, with records, pattern matching, sealed classes, etc.

The trick though is you actually have to use modern Java, which means you need to both be on the right version of Java, and have developers that understand the value/power of these newer constructs. Which is surprisingly rare for a programmer that self-identifiers as a Java programmer.
README is the only file that was both included with everything then, and is still now
I've come to believe that there's something about the practice of software development that causes, or can cause mental illness. I've seen a few colleagues over the decades have some very serious issues. It's really quite a serious problem in our industry, imho.
They can say they don't know, and have been trained to in at least some cases; I think the deeper problem — which we don't know how to fix in humans, the closest we have is the scientific method — is they can be confidently wrong.
Not nearly long enough, but I'll take what I can get.