skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A protein that has a critical role in embryonic cell morphogenesis was named after the video game character. The origin, and the issues the name caused are interesting.
'Hacking' /dataisbeautiful as growth channel for a startup
How the Rows team used the /dataisbeautiful subreddit as growth marketing channel, got to +15 Million post views, but ultimately stopped the experiment.
Ugh that's a bit frustrating. Indeed a little bit a prep could've gone a long way to making that a better experience.
Lack of app-based NFC support is another big one.
No, thank you.

"The goal of Gentoo is to design tools and systems that allow a user to do that work as pleasantly and efficiently as possible, as they see fit."
https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/

And this is what Torvalds had to say about LLM-enhanced submissions to the kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-gJicosyA
I haven't used Gentoo in a while but if I went back to it and had to manipulate ebuilds, LLMs would absolutely be involved. Even if it was enforceable, a no-LLM policy would deprive infrequent contributors from using one of the most powerful coding tools we've invented. It would be as inane as banning man pages or syntax highlighting. While I understand the goal of high quality input, the net result would just be gatekeep the process to experienced contributors and be detrimental to the project in the long run. LLMs are here to stay and are way too useful to be ruled out.
I don't disagree there.
https://archive.ph/EfuY8
This is the reason why on the employers I have worked for, usually the language choice goes on the opposite direction most language geeks would like.

"Product/Platform we are targeting" => set of allowed languages as per their SDKs, official support documents.

The approach "pick language" => "select problem" tends to only work at startup levels, or being very lucky with the IT department policies.
Creating PRs with suggested outputs is one thing. But automating it all the way to deployment seems a bit much
The author clarifies that there is no way to detect it. He only wants it explicitly stated in the policy: "don't bring that".
Linus Torvalds Talks About LLM [video]
I thought the same at first, but if you look at the discussion page linked at the end, there's an example of some package descriptions that were auto-generated but the result was very inaccurate -- claiming features that aren't even close to what the package offers. Not knowing the contents of the package, you might not notice. And it would definitely trip up any attempt at indexing these descriptions for search.

Then a bot responded to the discussion poster's concerns and it was humorous but also it offered no way to resolve the issue.

So there are one or two cases where a maintainer might notice something off and this policy would offer a clear-cut way to reject whatever submitted the inaccurate decisions or to take the AI out of the discussion forum.

But for the cases of copilot-authored code I don't think there's any reliable way to detect or reject it. This probably falls under their "but not upstream changes" caveat.
Wire harness docs: a creation process so painful that hand editing YAML is an improvement. XD

RapidHarness is a paid alternative that makes some pieces easier - particularly sourcing and 3D visualization. It’s the Altium to Wireviz’s Kicad.
>You seem to believe that one can only rigidly do “science” or “religion”.

No, in fact I wrote explicly the opposite about science: that it starts with experience, and should not be about accepting some rigid dogma.

And I wrote that it's bad that "many think" that science is something we should "take in as a holy scripture".

>For example, the comment about just taping your mouth shut is awful without even doing anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea.

That manages to be both wrong and unscientific.

- It's not true it's not "doing anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea"

- Mouth taping has been shown to be efficient in preliminary research (not to mention in many people's personal results).

- "Awful" is just a sentimental meaningless term standing for "I dislike it" in this context

- Saying it does not do "anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea" is just some personal opinion, since you haven't measured anything or pointed to any research. So the very thing you claim to condemn, pulling stuff out of one's ass.
That last point, combined with a few things others have said really has me thinking.

I'm not sure what it could be but some sort of physical element, setting or some 'toys' would be really interesting.
That's because you're only aware of the "popular" ones.

Lots of less known not PIE-languages (Proto Indo-European) out there that will make you reconsider your opinion.
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You mean to say that a Nigerian prince is responsible for the xz backdoor?
He's not helming javascript in any way or form or even contributing to the standard to my knowledge.

> Stop branding not willing to take a drug that did not go through standard vaccine approval process as anti-vaxx.

That's not why he's anti-vax, I never said that.
But DeepL is fine apparently (as it should be in my opinion) so I guess this is going to be a random dice roll what maintainers will allow or not.

I can understand the sentiment behind this proposal, but it is way too nuanced and complicated to just solve it with a few basic rules.
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The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
Data acquisition strategies for AI-first startups
> second guessing the artistic choices

This is the original sin of this process. They are tampering with the artistic object, it's no longer what the artists intended.

Some might say this is being pedantic, but the quality of the image has a huge impact on the feel of a movie. For some films, such as Blade Runner, the mood and feel created by the (dark, obscured) look of the film is easily half of the impact. Changing that film would be a crime against humanity, yet I imagine it's only a matter of time before it gets regraded so people can see the film "properly".
I always joke that I'm from an in-between generation in that I'm quite digital but still attached to stuff... I do genuinely cherish the bad AVI rips of the Simpsons and X-Files I got off Pirate Bay in 2008.
It would need to spend at least 80% of its time on activities where being in-person makes a difference. I don't want to spend 8 hours hearing a lecture that I could skim via YouTube in 30 minutes. Don't read presentations at us. Don't make us work through a curriculum that we could have done at home. If you are teaching a large group, odds are the individual attention is low enough that we could have just watched the course from home.

Instead, show us things hands-on, where being able to interact directly with each other and the instructor matters - let people ask questions, speed up the course if we are getting fast, slow down when questions come up, and don't let one slow person or one fast person ruin the pacing for the rest of the group.

I'm not sure exactly what that would look like, but I'd think hard about why being in-person matters, and construct the day accordingly.
I’ve seen a few papers on using electrostatic fusion (Farnsworth fusor type designs) for propulsion.

Electrostatic confinement is not a method that’s ever come close to overunity but that’s not the point. The power source would be fission or solar. The idea is to use a driven fusion reaction to accelerate propellant to achieve even higher iSP than pure ion drives.
Obligatory paste, looking so so good: https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/

Not what I need for todos, but a nice "book view".
> On the other hand, the state of HDR support is a mess right now in software players. Playing HDR content in common players like VLC, QuickTime, IINA, and Infuse will give you significantly different results between all of them.

This is the main thing that has kept me from adopting HDR in my media library. I'd expect a feature like HDR would be progressive (if that's the right term that I'm going for), i.e., in a non-supported player, it would look exactly like the non-HDR version of the content, and simply adds more dynamic range when in an environment that supports it. Without that, I'm not going to grab a version of a media file that might look worse if I'm playing it in a non-ideal context.

Does anyone know why this isn't the case? Is it not technically possible for some reason I'm not thinking of, or was it really just a fumble of standards design?
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It's integration functionalities are less advanced and comprehensive than those of Fricas. Interestingly, the latter is, like Maxima, implemented using Lisp and stems from an ancient software lineage. Both systems are free and open-source.

Fricas home page: http://fricas.github.io

Fricas Archlinux package page: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/fricas/

Some independent integration benchmarks, comparing multiple computer algebra systems: https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/index.h...
Well, design is not something that exists on its own sake. Just like with UI design in computers, product or architectural/interior design solves problems. Aesthetics is a component of it but, function and communication is too. People want big windows, designers figure it out. People want cheap places that can be reconfigured for function, designers figure it out, people want cheap sunglasses and designers figure it out, people want watches that makes them look serious and designers figure it out, - you get the idea. They do all that within the framework of technology and materials and as the tech and materials availability change they find new solutions.

BTW, this idea of "designers just make eye candy" is something I keep seeing in the AI Hype train folks. They enter a prompt and the AI generates an image of, let's say a chair that looks cool at first glance and they think that AI is ready to take away the design jobs. They are deeply mistaken because they have no idea what the designers actually do and what it takes to design a product and no, it's not about coming up with something to sit on and looks of a particular type, out of the blue.
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It's a shame, it feels like we're moving backwards in some ways. Like in Europe, Tesla sales are down and we are introducing huge tariffs on electric vehicles from China, meanwhile the German Greens are happy pushing for more coal and lignite burning (since they opposed nuclear power, and now Russian gas).

It's hard to believe that the self-driving tech will develop well at this rate.
How much memory does a graph take?
The best solution to reducing the problem of Hallucinations is first someone telling us what their Error rates in production are.
In addition to that, the physical experience works almost always. In the digital world, you might have a connection problem with your router, Spotify app (replace with your app of choice) freezes and so on. The reliability is what I miss most.
https://archive.is/bm7Zq
Why should the release GPT-5 if GPT-4 is still at the top of all benchmarks? 95% of the population who are not techies will probably use ChatGPT anyway for everything. I think they are pretty much the leading LLM company in most ways.

It is all financially-driven. All of the AI companies are working on models constantly are are purposely putting out releases so they can be ahead of the game or have some nice news for investors in order to make sure their stocks grow.

OpenAI probably know they are ahead with GPT-5 as well and they are planning to drop it Q3/Q4 after Llama3 (which will maybe trump GPT-4), so they can be ahead again for the EOY earnings.
I imagine an "Inference Backpack" with a generator and 2 gpu rig for some kind of heavy handed realtime AI use case, like tactical, security, gaming, AR/VR, or communications
Japan's New Draft Guidelines on AI and Copyright
Thanks for your thorough answer!

What's been your favourite item that you've picked up at an event?
Yeah 89k sounds very low actually.

Once you consider apartments in between leases, apartments in Reno, and anything else without a certificate of occupancy, that sounds like the right amount for a hot market with low vacancies
Albino Redwood
Is QNX 8 seL4 based?
Or indeed into a container which you then empty
> I fully understand Israel is not our concern, but should we leave it to have a second holocaust?

Well a second holocaust would definitely be everyone's concern because it will be a nuclear war with millions dead on both sides and big chunks of the world's energy resources basically gone. There are 80 million people in Iran, where the hell are they supposed to go after a nuclear war - to Europe? How will Europe deal with that when energy prices go up 2x/3x?
This is becoming a global problem, not a regional problem.
The coming Chinese EV storm will cause Tesla to struggle. All car manufacturers will struggle.

I wonder if the Chinese will pull a Toyota (high quality, and cheap) or if they’ll end up being a different flavor
”Some might say this is being pedantic, but the quality of the image has a huge impact on the feel of a movie.”

Hardly pedantic, the quality of the image is one of the key variables in cinema.
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I actually just asked a question on the physics stack exchange that is semi relevant to this. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/810429/functiona...

In my question I was asking about a hypothetical time-evolution operator that includes an analog of a light cone that you could think of as a context window. If you had a quantum state that was evolved through time by this operator then I think you could think of the speed of light being a byproduct of the width of the context window of some operator that progresses the quantum state forward by some time interval.

Note I am very much hobbyist-tier with physics so I could also be way off base and this could all be nonsense.
It's frustrating that the article doesn't mention this relatively simple, well understood, and very relevant principle. (Unless I just missed it somewhere, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
Le Rôle de l'IA dans l'Évolution de l'Enseignement du Développement
Also the definition of "usury", also that the plural of anecdote is not "data".
Torvalds is cautiously optimistic, hopes that AI will be able to spot bugs in the code. That kind of AI I did not see yet.
All the concerning issues from the Gentoo post I can see on a regular basis. For example, plausibly looking BS or AI spam. It is all delivered to my doorstep, so to say.
That is the issue.
Many are aware of ; in C but fewer of ,
> A liquidity event wouldn't change your number of options in general. If you had 200k options before the liquidity event and you didn't sell any when the event happened, you still have 200k options after and their strike price doesn't change.

It did change. A new higher strike price was set and the share count was reduced so the $ value was the same in the end.

> Your stuff about the multiplier effect is not really how stock trading works. Market professionals think in terms of percentages in general, so having a stock go from $3 to $60 is exactly the same as having it go from $0.05 to $1.

Sure, the percentage is the same but isn't it "easier" for a stock to go from $1 to $3 vs $100 to $300? The 2nd one means the stock's value needs to jump by $200 but the first one is only $2.

It seemed like a mechanism to control the multiplier effect from producing a very high return.
Yes, if the programmer maintains certain invariants, the C's flavour of UB allows the compiler to take advantage of those invariants for performance gains, by omitting run-time checking for those invariants.

The problem with this flavour of UB being a programmer's promise "this is fine, trust me, no run-time checks needed" to the compiler is that a) it's made by the programmer by omitting said run-time checks ― and that often happens accidentally, not intentionally; b) the compilers are really bad at pointing out to the programmer places where they took advantage of such promises, which really complicates the task of writing conforming programs. Every time I add two int's, I promise to the compiler that an overflow won't happen: and of course, the moment an UB happens, all invariants cease to hold, so trying to find the initial bug where you've accidentally broke one of invariants turns into a nightmare.
This article was published in 2022.
Yess! All these things. My goal is to make it hands on as possible. Numbers will be capped so I can get around everyone. If more people sign up I'll have an assistant.

When I've done this before it works well. The only snag is where people are at different levels and want to go different speeds. But this is where bonus exercises/stretch goals can set challenge for those racing ahead.
After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta
This seems insane and totally unenforceable.

Even when I wrote very single line of code myself, I use AI to ask it about questions regarding the programming language or the library that I use. Banning that is just handicapping yourself.

I do like the sentiment. You absolutely do not want people to commit code they don't understand themselves, but the solution isn't to outright ban AI. The solution is to have trusted, knowledgeable developers who are aware of the limits of AI and use it appropriately.
This comes down to perspective. For example, the state would argue they're violating your privacy to give you safety.
It should just be banning the use of AI in code reviews
Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)
Article Frequency is low. I understand they are a small team but the attention economy is eating them alive with distraction. I would either triple the monthly articles or create more interactive articles with more rich content to keep the readers engaged longer.
Why don't evaluate contributions based on how well the code/documentation is written? What does it matter who wrote it, if it's good? Assuming no spamming by bots.
Am I the only one who finds the term Practitioners both overused and offensive?
AI generated contents are just low quality stuff, reviewing them is a huge sink of time. You are better off in terms of manpower/time by banning AI contributors and doing the work yourself.
So in reality it would probably end up as a faster way to reject unhelpful or harmful uses of AI. If you manage to auto-generate correct package descriptions (maybe through human review) nobody has a reason to complain, even if you overuse the word "delve" a bit.
You said, and I quote:

> needs to be upheld both at compile time and run time for Rust code to function.

That is not correct, in general, even if in some cases, it causes a crash via panic or segfault.

/shrug

If you want to argue a different point with someone, do it with someone else.

I’m simply pointing out that you are categorically wrong in your statement.
I’m not in the car biz and I’ve seen this coming with clarity for over a decade.

If I can see it then how is it that every car company hasn’t been preparing low cost EV offerings of their own?

A few are but most seem in denial. Ford is the only US one I’ve heard rumors about having something in the works.

Tesla meanwhile spent tons of capital and time on ridiculous microniche products like the cybertruck.
This is known as rule-based integration. Here's a powerful system of such rules: https://rulebasedintegration.org/integrationRules.html
"Information" in terms of, what does this thing look like -- could maybe be determined from other shots -- yes, sure.

But I think "information" in the context of film here refers to the indexical mark of light upon the image sensor, and in that case no. If it's not recorded, you can't extract it. And whatever you do put there is of little interest to the film buff to whom "image quality" means a more faithful reproduction of the negative that was seen in theaters.
Generative AI is coming for healthcare, and not everyone's thrilled
Thank you for the tip! I will try calling them and see if they can resolve the issue.
Thermal batteries are heating up energy storage
The purge of German science in 1933
Airships won't work very well in Mars' atmosphere.
I loved working with org mode - but I would occasionally hit some accidental key sequence which would totally blow up my entire document (I am not an eMacs expert so it was probably some vim mode problem)! I also probably tried to over organize things. Maybe with a simpler setup things would work better.
Milky Way's supermassive black hole has a surprising magnetic personality
We once detected a DDOS because all our office phones went down. Silly attackers didn’t realise that our (money-making) APIs weren’t colocated with our public website and phone system.
> If you're buying a generator, why bother spending 1500€ more?

You can use a battery pack not just for emergency storage but also to store energy in cheap times (i.e. at noon) and draw from it at expensive rate times. Of course that requires a variable-rate tariff, but these are getting rolled out even in Europe.

> Plus you are ignoring the cost of a charger and inverter.

Indeed, you're right (my bad, mis-read an offer), but even then - a full system, including battery pack, controller and an inverter that can additionally be fed from a solar panel is just 2.500€.

> I don't consider nearly a months earnings to be "cheap". Maybe you are just wealthy?

Distribute the 2500€ across 20 years of lifetime and it's 10€ a month, and that's before the potential for savings you can get by attaching a solar panel. Yes, a (relatively) large upfront investment if you are in remote places like NZ where everything is expensive, but in Europe or the US? Almost a no-brainer, assuming you have a place to install it.

[1] https://www.fm-solar.de/batteriespeicher/batteriespeicher-pv...
As a Gentoo cultist… no thanks!