skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem is that an open web removes gatekeepers. The way the EU is making rules is ham fisted and technically limiting on development of ideas.

If the EU simply focused on the open web and privacy they could stay away from these weird rules regarding sizes of markets. I think the the article is disingenuous by equating a platform's popularity with a need for rules to hamper that platform's functionality.

The internet/web is our open resource for communication. I'm all for any all rules that maintain the individual rights to publish and subscribe on the internet. The EU should focus on open protocols and privacy.

I think it's a mistake to equate the internet with an App Store market place. The internet is a place for individual freedoms and app stores are for businesses.
Okay, I'll bite, although I'm afraid it's unlikely this will lead to much substantive discussion.

* "Trickle Down Economics": Large tax cuts for the wealthy while simultaneously dismantling social programs which benefit everyone else

* Arming authoritarian and far right militia in South America

* Environmental deregulation

* Giving a voice to the religious right and their anti-gay/anti-woman agenda
Microsoft webified the Windows desktop. That doesn't mean the desktop desktop is or was bad, as opposed to the web desktop.
you should try phoenix channels https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

they scale really really easily for millions of users.
I agree. Psychologists are almost always the most unbalanced people you can meet.

PS Apart from psychiatrists and priests. Probs they should all wear magic hats when pulling out their expert opinion in court.
Word 97 has sensible export to basic HTML. No specific web page editing tools, but allows conversion of text content of existing documents in bulk. Search for

<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97">

Later versions of Office use HTML as some kind of complete document serialization format. The website

http://mc-computing.com/HTML_Examples/html_Generators.htm

reminds that there exist Microsoft's own clean-up tool (without doubt, an internal pet project which became essential), “Office 2000 HTML Filter”.
are there any specific integrations that you want? (eg: which companies?)

we have a built-in CDN[0] and we have some existing integrations for transactional emails [1]

[0] Smart CDN: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/storage/cdn/smart-cdn

[1] Integrations: https://supabase.com/partners/integrations
Reword that, imo: although it has features like not having hidden, touch-sensitive door handles :)
They are a growth company that has stopped growing. Hence the stock. So the underpaid staff will start bailing as layoffs continue and their stock compensation is worthless.

Other than the cyber truck, which is stupid, the entire lineup is aging. The cars all look like the 2024 equivalent of 2004 Camrys. Nice cars, but the competition is much more robust than it had been. Market headwinds with rates is driving costs down.

Elon lost his mojo here. He’s busy fucking around on Twitter and took eyes off ball.
We had a good math teacher. There was a formula he just told us to memorize, the class asked how it worked but he just said we don't need to know why or how, just like we don't know how a calculator works. What he didn't know was that the class last week in electronics was about how calculators work.

He had to confess he didn't know why or how either of them works, he just uses them :-)
Is there any evidence that Tesla is committing fraud in its financial statements?

If not, what is the purpose of your comment?
Pocketbase [0] is a possibility. It offers a way to subscribe to collections, meaning the client will be notified if any of the records in that collection change. [1] Should be quite efficient too, the FAQ claims that 10k realtime connections on a small hetzner VPS is no problem [2]

[0] https://pocketbase.io/
[1] https://pocketbase.io/docs/api-realtime/
[2] https://pocketbase.io/faq
Eh, like many things, there were a lot of causes for The Texas Revolution, and, by extension, The Battle of the Alamo. It's pretty reductive, and from a 21st century POV, to say that it was about slavery first and foremost. There was a lot of unrest in Mexico around this time (Texas wasn't the only breakaway region), there were plenty of American settlers who didn't integrate with the Mexican culture (although there were plenty that did, and plenty Texians who fought for independence as well), and there was a significant geographical distance between Mexico City and the settlers. Slavery was a motivation for some, that is undeniable. But like much, it's more complicated than that.
In side by side duolingo usage and then somewhat interchangeably .. so no real "from" -> "to" was outlined.

FWiW, though, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) predates Space Cowboys (2000) by a good 0x10000 years; this ties in Hollywood, westerns, two chronological points and binary.
Remember Joe Travis!
This is one actual use of SPARK for me. Prove the absence of runtime errors (and if necessary add preconditions) then let the compile optimize to hell.

Another example on tweetnacl: https://blog.adacore.com/sparknacl-two-years-of-optimizing-c...
>...its server side is still written on Qt, which requires hundreds of megabytes of additional libraries to build it up.

See:

https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur
The dataset is 7 times bigger than the dataset used for Llama 2 as reported by Meta.
I get your point, but that's not exactly the case. Madrid is built there not by coincidence, there are a lot of underground rivers that cross the region, but then the city was built on top of them.

See here: https://www-canaldeisabelsegunda-es.translate.goog/-/madrid-...

Original: https://www.canaldeisabelsegunda.es/-/madrid-la-ciudad-edifi...

And about ruins, they are, but they are also hidden: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muralla_cristiana_de_Madrid

:)
An unregulated disaster on the road waiting to happen, if I'm reading your comment correctly
> if true, all those metrics ... are multiplied by 10^23

Considering the relation of radius to volume, shouldn't we add a meager 3 to make the exponent a total of 26? (Assuming of course that the universe is just a three dimensional volume. :D)
I wonder how did they get the 15T tokens for training.
I used to work for a company owned by Apollo - if its the one i'm thinking of...and if so then "corporate raider from the 80s" is putting things mildly. Those guys really were the type to squeeze every ounce of value of any org without remorse for the future or without thinking of the long-term value that an org could produce.
I'm learning OAuth right now and this is great!

It's simple with barebones implementations. I'm trying to now learn the server (OAuth provider) side aspect of things so if anyone has any good guides I'd highly appreciate! Alot of the stuff we see in the client side we take for granted e.g redirecting user back to the client? Generating Access tokens? Generating OAuth tokens, verification of identity etc etc.

Any help is appreciated!
Will you also accept that a word might have several roots? I mean, it's a simple word. It could have been created several times in different places. Also not an etymology expert but such things must have happened, more than twice.
I wondered about the same thing but at the same time only about 5% of the training data is non-English and I would be surprised if the total amount of published text from all non English languages combined was also just 5% of all published text. So my intuition tells me there is still heaps of data but what might be tricky is to properly access and asses it’s quality.

Also the redpyjama v2 dataset has 30T tokens and is based on common crawl. Now I don’t know too much about common crawl but I doubt it has in it all published scientific books in all the different languages as these are often not freely crawlable. I remember when I studied physics there were at least 20 different 200-800 page long books on particle physics in German alone in our campus library. That must amount to 5million token by itself, from just one niche of physics. The Hamburg public library hosts about 5 million books and 90 million scientific articles mostly in English and German. If the average length of a scientific article is 6000 tokens and the average book about 100000 then that alone is already 1 trillion token. I bet there are significantly larger libraries and this is before even crawling the internet and looking at other languages or even generating training data.
Legacy code base is abysmal to work in
> I wonder if there's even unused data out there?

One day someone is going to train on the contents of DM's/private conversations/emails. There has to be 50x or more the quantity of that compared to public text.

I suspect they'll do it via some 'prove-ably private training' regime, and therefore be able to claim it isn't a privacy violation.
This is one of those articles where you read the headline and think one thing (in this case, this being a frivolous suit) but when you read the actual article, you think the complete opposite (in this case, I agree with the doctors)
I really hate those "How dare you charge money for software" comments, when we’re talking about something that looks neat, comes from friendly people who respond to comments, and costs around two cocktails in Miami
Except housing costs don’t stop beyond the $5500 on the mortgage. Add all the utilities, property taxes, insurance, and the monthly average of maintenance fees and it’ll probably be closer to $8-9k/mo.
Sure, if you provide valid historical and linguistic evidence.
> I make a note every time I run into something that makes me go "wtf,"

I need that type of note in my life
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Are you claiming that slavery had nothing to do with it?

> The revolution began in October 1835, after a decade of political and cultural clashes between the Mexican government and the increasingly large population of Anglo-American settlers in Texas. The Mexican government had become increasingly centralized and the rights of its citizens had become increasingly curtailed, particularly regarding immigration from the United States. Mexico had officially abolished slavery in Texas in 1829, and the desire of Anglo Texans to maintain the institution of chattel slavery in Texas was also a major cause of secession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution
> Parquet. But, I'd also like to store PDFs, CSVs, images

yes, you can store all of these in Supabase Storage and it will probably "just work" with the tools that you already use (since most tools are s3-compatible)

Here is an example of one of our Data Engineers querying parquet with DuckDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diL00ZZ-q50

We're very open to feedback here - if you find any rough edges let us know and we can work on it (github issues are easiest)
And you think there will be an alternative that'll be strict on those things?
Certainly the onus to prove their claims lies with the authors of the article but the claim that they are engaging in "race baiting" is also very serious and as yet unsubstantiated.

Many words that were in print in the 18th Century have since been used in different contexts and taken on new associations.
From the owners manual:

Don't wash in direct sunlight.

Do not expose to bright lights.

Do not let it get wet.

No charging after midnight.
Illegally acquired content on the internet, like search engines do
I think risk zero, and it's mitigations, is poorly analyzed.

Describing deep problems as if the AI has empathy is a very effective way to gain insight into those problems. It responds the way a caring person would respond if you had self disclosed a complex situation - often suggesting effective solutions.

Without the self disclosure and empathic context, those solutions don't appear.

Am I aware that I'm disclosing sensitive information to a company?

Yeah, of course.

Do I have another choice?

Yes, let the problem languish without any external assistance, usually to my detriment.

Is it a reasonable mitigation to not use AI to solve problems that require empathy and disclosure of sensitive info?

Not for me. I am too mentally marginal and economically poor to have people that relate well to me, or to afford advocates. For me, self advocating with the help of AI is, at times, the only thing keeping me from being homeless.

This has led to an incredible increase to my Independence and quality of life as an autistic person. It helped me get sober, and find stable housing. And it has helped me reconnect with social life, family, and friends.

I can't mitigate by not disclosing or not acting as if it has effective empathy. My personal issues and interpersonal conflicts just don't get resolved that way.

Instead, I believe it's important to recognize that some users, like me, actually depend on AI anthropomorphism. And we must be honest - the main risk of anthropomorphism is that we'll disclose secrets to companies.

That means users like me could mitigate the anthro risk by building confidential models which are safe to confide in.

There's nothing wrong with acting like an AI can hear you and give you empathic and effective responses. It is a huge loss of AI usage efficacy when we act otherwise. There are people with real problems they could solve easily by treating AI like a caring person, but those people will continue to suffer because they think AI is just a useless parrot.

Thus the way to mitigate anthro risk is not to make people cold and unfeeling in conversations with AI. The real mitigation is trustworthy AI that won't tell secrets to third parties.

And until we have that, we have to accept that for some people, the benefit of using untrusted commercial AI for personal problems far outweighs the risks of not using AI, which can include things like homelessness and inability to send advocate or solve critical quality of life issues.
just means you havnt read much about trucks https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1370PE/#:~:text=(Reut....
I’ve been teaching mathematics for over 30 years at the community college level. Most people at the time of taking a course don’t have a sophisticated enough understanding of math to really appreciate “intuitive explanations” because they don’t have intuition.

Take parametric curves. I explain that they generalize the concept of a function. Every function can be parametrized in a trivial way. They don’t really understand this concept. They have a hard time parametrizing a function and do so only becuase of a formula.

The fact is most people need to go through the mechanical process of doin g before they can get to a point of understanding. It takes almost the entire semester for me to convince beginning algebra students that the reason that 2x + 3x is 5x is because of the distributive property. And when they do understand it they don’t understand why that is important.

Later on when things click for someone they will often say things like, “Why didn’t they just tell this when we took the course?” Usually we did. You just didn’t have a sophisticated enough understanding of things to grok it at the time you took the course.
Company policy and old habits
Very cool and very good timing. We just released better support to directly query S3[0] in Definite[1]. It's powered by duckdb.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrCQnfKEig

1 - https://www.definite.app/
Nobody is claiming that practice needs to be boring. “Practice” is just a name for the time you spend playing around at the edge of your ability.
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply acuut the accessibility of tables here.
I cannot provide a criticism against their theory of origin as they did not provide any evidence.

Judging from the theme and tones of their articles and their lack of evidence in their claims it is of my opinion they are race-baiting.

That is a subjective view so feel free to interpret their motives as you wish, I will interpret them how I view them based on my evaluations.
> I had a film professor who told us that he thought Casablanca should be #1 on AFIs list of the best films.

I'm surprised that the professor never saw The Godfather :)
How many models do they have? Is model availability becoming the bottleneck?
While i do understand that a larger surface area of the spoon will "flap" the liquid around better, but assuming similar motion with a fork might mean a more heterogeneous mix.

Of course we haven't mentioned the intensity of mixing. A food mixer's blades appear more closer to a fork than a spoon.
Can Emotion Regulation Make You a 10x Engineeer? – With Rachel Nabors [video]
Maybe in isolation when only considering a single fine tune. But if you look at it in aggregate I am not so sure.
I just wish they could make electric cars with our all the touch sensitive glossy dogshit. Just a decent make's mid-spec car circa 2010 with cruise/limit, central locking with a keyfob, Bluetooth, A/C, a decent sound system, the old button/knob console controls and maybe adaptive cruise if that's your thing. This was all a completely solved problem 15 years ago.

Just swap (yes i know it's not a straight swap, the chassis and other bits are basically completely different) the engine for battery, motors and regenerative brakes. That's the only change that needs making to the visible function of the car.

Leave out the touch screens, proprietary nav running on an underpowered shit SoC, media player junk, app control, LED strip lighting, Street sign sensitive limiters that downshift in traffic because the think they saw a sign that said 30, subscription this and integration that and anything that expects an internet connection. It's all utter dogshit.
Because Nimbus makes lots of money.
And how does a stampeding herd coordinate to move around a fence?

Buffalo will run off a cliff in the hundreds because those in the back can’t see what’s in the front.
I would suggest checking out PowerSync (https://www.powersync.com/) for this.

I've built various React apps (and iOS apps before that) in the past on a bunch of stacks.

My experience with the following tools were as follows:

- Pusher: love the tool, but required lots of layers on top of it to be used for keeping DB's in sync. It does make sockets trivially easy to get going and use.

- MeteorJS: lots of cool "realtime magic", but hard to break out (it's too opinionated and constrained). We ended up breaking out and running ExpressJS + React + Pusher and ditching MeteorJS.

- Firebase: used it for two projects. Platform lock-in, like weird Firebase-specific nuances to workaround and solve for, felt like quite a lot. You basically have to park your experience with other stacks and databases and become an expert in Firebase. A big one here was around access policies for the data in the database → limiting what data a user can access.

My current stack is now mostly Cloudflare and keeping real-time requirements in the product design to a minimum, to reduce the overhead.
I think you might be over-estimating the skills of the bottom 10% (or under-estimating the skills needed to be a plumber).

The US Army currently rejects applicants who score lower than 31 on the ASVAB (roughly 92 on the IQ scale, about 30th percentile). I’m pretty sure there are Army jobs that can be done with less need for intellect than that needed to be a plumber.

I don’t think that the lowest 10% of the population is generally capable of being a plumber. They are capable of doing some of the work done by plumbing companies, but the plumbing code is lengthy, in large part because people’s lives are literally at stake and the actual plumber (the license-holder) has to keep that straight in their head, apply the relevant parts to the varied job site requirements, turn blueprints into working plumbing systems, etc.

Plumbing is a lot more than remembering “shit flows downhill, don’t lick your fingers, Friday is payday.”

Sample plumber exam: https://www.tests.com/practice/plumbing-practice-test
Seems like a yapper. And it makes some wrong(?) assumptions?

>>> hi
Hi! It's nice to meet you. Is there something I can help you with, or would you like to chat?

>>> if tilt my head upwards so my face is looking at the sky and I spit, what will happen?
That's an interesting question!

If you tilt your head upwards so your face is looking at the sky and then spit, a few things might happen:

1. **Spit will go flying upwards**: Since your face is now pointing towards the sky, the trajectory of your spit
will be upward too. It might even reach the clouds (if there are any nearby) or disperse in mid-air.
2. **Some spittle might fall back down**: Depending on air currents, wind direction, and the distance between
you and the ground, some of the spittle might fall back down towards the earth.
3. **You might get a bit of a face-full**: If you're not careful, some of that spit might splash back onto your
own face, which could be... interesting.

Remember to be mindful of where you are and who's around when doing this experiment. It's always good to clean
up after yourself and respect those nearby!

Now, I'm curious – what inspired this question?

EDIT:

>>> How would the spit reach the clouds?
I was getting a bit carried away with the imagination there. In reality, it's highly unlikely that your spit would actually reach the clouds.

Clouds are typically several thousand feet (or meters) above ground level, and even if you were to tilt your head at an extreme angle,
the spittle would likely be deflected or absorbed by air currents before reaching such heights.

In practice, the spittle would probably fall back down towards the earth due to gravity, and might land on the ground, a nearby surface, or even get blown away by the wind.
... and fast food companies test weird products in the Midwest here at home

The amount of toying with this stuff is both fascinating and terrifying
> The question is which is a greater societal power, Apple's desire to minimize lawyer costs or the US government's desire to be able to surveil everyone who owns an Apple device?

For sure. But to broaden the picture, this isn't the only for coming from governments. While right hand might be pushing for surveillance, the left hand might mandate that companies put reasonable effort into protecting the privacy (and other constitutional rights) of its users; be transparent about data handling etc. Companies don't want to be caught in the middle, especially if doing that right gets prohibitively expensive. See also WhatsApp adopting OWS' Signal protocol and Telegram moving from Russia to UAE to escape "the hassle".

I think what Apple intends to do with end-to-end encryption is hide their responsibility behind unbreakable math that say: look, don't ask us because we're not in the loop. Ultimately, that cannot be true unless Apple's soft- and hardware were completely open and transparent — which they won't do for commercial reasons. So some level of trust is always involved. So trust is what Apple sells to end users — warranted or not — but the profit margins are mostly in not needing to be involved in moderation between users mutually or between customers and law enforcement. I think "hassle" and IP are Apple's primary motive for security, selling trust is a second and doing good to the world is an afterthought.