skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much unlocking of a more active intelligence from LLMs, will far larger context length provide?

Remarkably, foundation models can learn new tasks via a few examples (called few-shot learning). LLM answers also significantly improve when given relevant supplemental information. Boosting context length: grows its "working memory"; provides richer knowledge to inform its reasoning; and expands its capacity for new tasks, given germane examples.

> Would virtually unlimited context move us much closer to an LLM where training is continuous?

No. You can already continually train a context-limited LLM. Virtually unlimited context window schemes also exist. Training is separate concept from context length. In pre-training, we work backward from a model's incorrect answer, tweaking its parameters to more likely say the correct thing next time. Fine-tuning is the same, but focusing on specific tasks important to the user. After training, when running the model (called inference), you can change the context length to suit your needs and tradeoffs.
Pretty cool! The health insurance set would have been pretty useful when shopping for insurance.
More than the loans, publicly traded companies must be regulated when they are loosing money. A lot of promises about future monetization are made with zero accountability
Declarative moral statements like this are so vacuous. Of course there are intellectually honest people who believe both parties are the same. They may be evaluating or prioritizing the evidence differently, but that doesn't make one side or the other 'dishonest'. Casually impuning the morality of an entire swath of people is rhetoric that drives division and strife, not progress.

For example, yes Bidens FTC is a standout actor, but 'both sides' just voted to perpetuate overseas wars with more American tax dollars. In terms of the American war machine, it's 100% accurate to say both sides are the same.
In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade
HEH. Never heard of "The Financial Times", eh?

It's not clickbait.
While I have no particular beef with Rust deciding to call its sum types "enum", to refer to this as the actual enum is a bit much.

Enumerated types are simply named integers in most languages, exactly the sort you get with const / iota in Go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_type

Rather than the tagged union which the word represents in Rust, and only Rust. Java's enums are close, since they're classes and one can add arbitrary behaviors and extra data associated with the enum.
https://archive.ph/Njwr5
In all of the instances you mention, it is recommended that you use your brakes. NOT go faster. Who sees a toddler in the road and floors it? Are you avoiding rocket children?
All newer Subaru models now share a modular platform - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Global_Platform - except for the BRZ which is on Toyota’s analog. But yeah originally Forester was based on the Impreza.
Ongoing discussion [0](21 points 16 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215071
> A lot of packages have a transitive dependency on liblzma - for example everything that depends on libxml since that depends on liblzma https://packages.debian.org/sid/libxml2.

Sure. But security-critical software like SSH would certainly think twice before bringing in such a huge and complex dependency as an XML parser.

> I'm absolutely certain there's other juicy targets that depend on liblzma.

You could probably make a system package manager (which has obvious reasons to depend on a compression algorithm) do something nefarious. But that would be a more complex chain of exploitation with more chance for things to go wrong. Most security teams put more attention on security-critical parts like SSH, and I think most people would agree they're right to do so.
Entirely depends on your definition of utility. For some of us it's a simple binary function: "will it get me from home to work in less than X minutes"
Genuine question, I don't play very many video games anymore: does Square Enix make AAA games? And what does a AAA game cost these days?
Why are these junk patents, especially the Ozempic one? I want to believe! But I'm skeptical that it is a junk patent.
the fact that this argument is logical in the current economic systems says so much about the sad state of the way we structure our economy...
Oh, first time I see the name.

"Luan is a Lua-like language implemented in Java." (http://www.luan.software/)
Indeed, I haven't. I'm from rather farther north. I have driven reasonably long distances at reasonably high speeds though. If you ask me whether I'd have rather save 30 minutes on a 9 hour drive or have the speed limit top out at 85* I'm definitely picking the latter. If you ask me if I'd rather have people driving through a community I'm living in at 90 mph or 85 mph I'm definitely picking the latter.

* El Paso to Dallas is 635 miles, driving the whole way at 85 mph would take 25 more minutes than driving the whole way at 90mph. The reality is even further in 85 mph's favor because you aren't able to sustain 90mph the whole way and we're only going slower when we would be able to.
Novo Nordisk stock didn't fall so either this was already known or people don't think it will have any effect.
I wonder if this means more tracking of drug purchases.

Does alcohol consumption show up on credit card bills and filter back to insurance companies?
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
How many situations are there where going over 90mph is make or break? Unless you’re Keanu Reeves driving a bus improbably, that seems like a freakishly rare situation compared to the number of crashes caused by people incorrectly thinking they could safely drive that speed – and with so much energy involved, those are usually fatal.
I didn't form my question too well. I understand all that. What I am asking is, are these function compositions equivalent to equivalent/similar to functions in lambda calculus?

I guess my question, is what are the primitive functions here doing?
Yeah, but line must go up or there will be blood.

I feel like the business world feels the need to overhype any loses to justify whatever measure are about to come.
I googled it: https://www.caveday.org/
The exact same refrigerants that were used in US automotive air-conditioning, although now they moved on or are moving from R-134a to HFO-1234yf.

I still have a dozen vintage cans of R-12 but no vehicle that uses them.
Not the OP, but probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake

FF7 was huge in the late 90s, and they've recently remade that old game into a 3-part action RPG trilogy with enhanced graphics and different gameplay.
revolutionary! Does this work for all tech roles?
> And similar for things like DEBUG or TRACE. Usually you reach for those log levels when you want to see extremely verbose information, but... That's not practical to enable in production environments, because the volume of logs you produce would be way too high. And if you can't use it in production, you probably shouldn't use it elsewhere! That's what your local debugger is for.

Oh boy, where to start....

1. Staging/pre-prod environments do exist.

2. Debuggers are nice, but they're not everything. I have a loop and want to see the distribution of execution times. Should I really use a debugger, writing down the info from each iteration? Or maybe something a bit more automated (like a log...)?

3. Being able to enable debug logs (for a specific part of the system) is extremely helpful. Datadog makes this super easy to enable finer logging at runtime.*

* More precisely, the application always logs at a fine level. I have Datadog drop debug logs, but at any time I can enable them to help with a problem. https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/guide/getting-started-lwl/
To be fair, her first two years were bunk. She had management and morale issues, a series of court losses (including one glaringly incompetent one with Facebook) and then a retrenchment that looked like submission.

It wasn’t. She was re-working her game. It looks like it worked and I’ve gone from critic to fan. But the FTC was mockably awful 2020 - 2022, and a non-entity early 2023.
That's probably a separate and harder problem from this: The A and B antigens refer to the presence of carbohydrates extending from the cell membrane, whereas Rh factor + refers to the presence of a protein.

Since there are different classes of bio-molecules, proteins may need different techniques to remove, alter, or cover them up.

If we do find such techniques, they may have much broader applications in immunology.
I just browsed this far longer than I'd care to admit.
Here's an example of the backend code:

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon/blob...

It certainly looks like it does a lot with their DSL, but as a newcomer it's really hard to parse.
I think his idea is that there are times where the safest thing to do is to accelerate out of a dangerous situation on the road. Which is sort of true, but at those speeds most cars tend not to accelerate very quickly so I don't find it particularly convincing.
AI That Find Any Outfit Look from Image
Well, patents are only supposed to be granted if an idea is non-obvious to someone skilled in the field. Replacing an illegal propellant with a legal one should be obvious to anyone in the field, so this patent deserves to be challenged.
It is true, which implies your understanding of the situation is confused. I dislike bigPharma as well, but I at least point the blame canon at the right target and not just indiscriminately point it at the person I dislike the most in the fight.
Actually no, they are prefixed by the binary name and the PID number. Technically they are prefixed with: `<date> <host> <binary>[<pid>]`.

You can then use `systemctl status <pid>` to identify the unit if you need to.

I would imagine this is configurable, and this might be the configuration chosen by my distribution (since I have not changed it myself). It would actually be nice to show the unit name instead of the binary/PID combination, though not strictly necessary.

EDIT: Ooh, systemd 239 adds `journalctl -o with-unit` to do this exact thing. There are lots of other formats you can choose from as well.

EDIT 2: Unfortunately there's no way to set this as default, you must use `-o with-unit` each time or set up a shell alias :-\
> so tired of broadscale general refusenik attitudes

You can use whatever software you like on your computers, but you're not entitled to have everybody else follow your choices because everybody else has exactly the same freedom to choose as you do. And if you want to persuade people to follow your lead, name calling is a bad strategy (much less ethnically charged name calling...)
Real Python instead of templating (Jinja in YAML) would be nice.

In Ansible, it's fairly arduous to try to reshape data from command outputs into structures that can be used in loops in other tasks--especially if you want to merge output from multiple commands. Main usecase is more dynamic playbooks where you combine state from multiple systems to create a new piece of infrastructure.

I think templating yaml or templates inside yaml is a bit of an anti pattern.
And the pipe dream of having personalized AI-generated coooontent to enjoy means that it will be nigh impossible to have "common interests" with anyone else.
Ask HN: What is the best interactive graph framework for visualing traffic?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40196880
Legitimate crimes have a perpetrator and a victim. That's two parties in conflict. Drug possession only has 1 party, the person possessing or doing the drugs, and drug sales have two parties who aren't in conflict.
Previously [0] (39 points, 11 hours ago, 41 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209689
People don't want that. Butts are getting bigger and people don't want to drive slow.

As a matter of fact I think forcing people to drive slower seems to cause more accidents. I mean moving away from 85th percentile engineering criteria - I mean laws making people drive slower ignoring engineering design.

That said, I'll bet even if emergency braking fails to prevent a collision, even slowing down a modest amount will pay off with significant crash energy reduction.

(energy goes up with square of velocity, so e = 1/2mv^2)
I tried filling up a Tesla at a gas station.

And now I don't like electric cars anymore.
This is extraordinary. While JavaScript is needed now, I’d encourage the author to see what needs to be added to CSS to allow a CSS-only solution, and promote it in the CSS community. For example, repeating the clef when wrapping is akin to a sticky table header, and would have more applications than only music.

Some CSS notation is wholly new to me:

> .stave > [data-pitch^="A"][data-pitch$="5"] { grid-row-start: A5; }

I’ve never seen CSS selectors with square brackets before. Apparently it’s an attribute selector: https://css-tricks.com/attribute-selectors/
These are questions you can paste into your browser search bar and get perfectly good answers.
This was a core design feature of reiserfsv4, but Linux ultimately refused to merge it, probably not helped by the whole murdering-his-wife thing.
Are all those towns on the way a joke to you?
I don't think you can reasonably be taken aback by the suggestion that that's what you're doing.

To my eyes it does read as a misattribution on your part (especially given that my commentary was explicitly timeboxxed, and unlike the other commenter's posts on the matter, didn't make reference to the current situation at all). I wasn't so much taken aback, as simply declining your invitation to pursue the matter further.

"You are aware of this history, right?"

Even though I've been somewhat puzzled by some of the things you've been saying (given that they just don't seem historically grounded) -- I acknowledge that the above statement of mine was lame and inappropriate.

So I do apologize (and I did proactively remove it before I saw your response to that post).
Interesting excerpt from the article:

excludeGeoTargeting contains codes of countries where the malware shouldn’t be installed

"excludeGeoTargeting": [
"RU",
"AZ",
"AM",
"BY",
]
Not a watchmaker, but I would expect those complications to just use average values to show the current lunation[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase#Calculating_phase
Excellent essay!

> If your model is "it's okay to lie if I've been lied to" then we're all knee deep in bullshit forever and can never escape Transaction Cost Hell.

Not only that, but people who do this are allowing others to strip them of something important and valuable. It's letting others set your ethical boundaries. As my mother used to say, it's letting others drag you down to their level.

That bad people exist cannot be an excuse to become a bad person yourself.
I've wondered for a while now, how difficult is sustainable farming now if you incorporated all the modern technologies?

It should be ridiculously easy to self sustain with all this stuff we've built! Instead we just work just as long to produce ton of crap that does nothing for our happiness.
Nice try, but you've decoded ze alias incorrectly. Jia Cheong Tan is distinctly a anagram from Tanga Jochen I, which shows to a German operation.
It is. They make far more money than they lose in penalties when officials bother enforcing on any technical violations. It's such a huge pain in the ass to try enforcing these little violations and there's so much corruption and bureaucracy preventing effective enforcement of the big ones that any action against these companies at all is a noteworthy accomplishment for a regulatory agency.

Lina Khan is punching way above her weight and using the FTC to do the job it's ostensibly designed for. She's aggressively poking some very ornery and obnoxious bears, hopefully some precedents will be set and corruption repaired. Most regulators are incentivized to play within the whole wink-wink-nod-nod government revolving door system of crony capitalism, but Khan doesn't seem to be playing that game, which is nice.
We have a 2017 Highlander, and the automatic emergency breaking has avoided accidents at least 3 times. One time, my wife was at an intersection turning right. She was looking left for an opening, and a teenager saw the same opening and tried to run across the street as she accelerated into the right turn. The automatic breaking saved him and my wife from a sad situation.
Don't be so sure. Kava is regulated by the FDA as a food, but many banks and payment processors refuse to work with businesses that sell it.
Yeah, I’m really skeptical just because at that speed human reaction times are so limited. It seems like the guys who said they should have to pay for seatbelts because if they crashed into a lake it might be hard to get out without drowning - true at least once, somewhere, but orders of magnitude less common than the times where a seatbelt kept someone alive.
I could see them carrying CBD in pill / gelcap form. (It pretty much snuffs out my migraines.)

I don't think they'll carry intoxicating forms of marijuana, though. (I've never seen a CVS with alcohol, but that could be because of how my state handles liquor licenses.)
You can wimp out and just use MutationObserver as a way to get a callback whenever anything changes, ignoring all of the mutation records. Then in the callback, look up all of the elements you care about. The API is pretty simple then. It may be less efficient, but usually when you're mucking about with existing web pages, you're not all that performance sensitive. (And MO batches up updates reasonably well, so it's not like you're running the callback once per change.)

Occasionally it might even be faster, since you're not iterating through the mutation
records and testing for stuff you care about.
Apple banned Delta for years. It's now America's Number 1 iPhone app.
Block (fka Square) pays them for the redirect, IIRC.
> * Passed the first Federal privacy law to stop data brokers from selling sensitive information to China and Russia

At the risk of sounding dismissive, I'd much rather they banned the selling of sensitive information. Full stop. China and Russia have much less reach into my day-to-day than any of the other buyers much closer to home like a local gov't bodies let alone private corps.
https://archive.ph/o3lYJ
Well stdlib normally doesn't have stuff like Oracle drivers and such. I think one of the reasons why PHP tends to need so few external dependencies is because it has so many extensions to cover basically anything that you don't need PHP libraries all that much. I don't personally see it as a bad thing but it's something worth considering.
I for one love to type out 13 extra characters to a 4 character command to disable dumb choices by the developer.

On a more serious note, I wonder what random ASCII escape sequences we can send.
Baldur's Gate 3 had a budget of $100 million.
"Sounds like" doesn't mean that.
This would actually be a very nice complication, as it would never need to be reset, as long as the watch stays wound. I’m surprised it’s not something I’ve seen, or even thought of.

I ended up settling on no-date watches, as I find setting the date to be annoying, and it’s not something I need that often. When I do need it, I have my phone. I think I’d ultimately feel the same way about a day of the week complication.
A good strategy: treating people more and more like idiots make them for sure less idiotic.
If you have a turbocharged v4 I a light vehicle it’s pretty dang easy to drive 100+ mph. If you’re paying attention, the road conditions are good, and you’re not aggressively tailgating or passing people, it’s relatively safe.

The problem is it doesn’t take much to become unsafe and physics is not very forgiving of bad judgement.
This article repeats the same thing 5 times or so. The headline is almost the whole article.
Haxe also has Enums which are Generalized Algebraic Data Types, and they are called "enums" there as well: https://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-using.html
How does it download yhr image, do you provision the server upfront with some private image hosting key?

What image hosting service do you use?
You get to use unreleased models for free and compare them to others, you are gaining some benefit from this. Why be annoyed about it? They aren't making you do anything, you're choosing to play around with these models in a "gamified evaluation" for whatever reason. If you want to use any of the released models without participating in crowdsourced training then there are tons of options out there to run many of them locally or to pay for private hosting or pay for a chatbot as a service. I don't get what the problem is, they're footing the bill for you after all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203558
libc has multiple independent implementations, if you don't like one you can switch to another. Software that hard-depends on a specific libc is indeed to be despised.
it does matter how empty the road is. 90, in a modern car, on an actually empty road, is totally fine.
I had a simple one on a Kubernetes cluster in AWS.

What happened is we'd have a queue processor that normally needed a couple of pods to handle events. Except that once a day another process would drop in 5 million requests into the queue.

So I just had a simple keda autoscaler based on the length of the queue. One pod for every 10,000 items in the queue with a minimum of 2 pods and a maximum of 50 pods.

It would scale up after the big queue dumps, chew threw the backlog and then scale back down again.
In Canada pharmacists will generally just ignore brand names written by MDs and fill with generics unless there’s a known difference or the patient specifically asks (and is willing to pay more).
Needless to say, but unclear from the headline: this refers to all new cars sold.
That's just your bias.

> Several inhaler manufacturers formed the International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium, a lobbying group dedicated to, among other goals, persuading lawmakers and regulators to ban inhalers with CFCs. The group spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and in 2005, the FDA ruled that CFC inhalers would be phased out beginning in 2009. As a result of the ban, newer albuterol products — including Proventil HFA (which was approved in 1996), Ventolin HFA (approved in 2001), and ProAir HFA (approved in 2004) — would be free from competition from inexpensive CFC-containing generics. HFA inhalers were protected by new patents on both the HFA propellants and the devices themselves, and they generally cost much more than generic CFC inhalers.

"Product Hopping in the Drug Industry - Lessons from Albuterol"

N Engl J Med. 2022 Sep 29;387(13):1153-1156. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2208613. Epub 2022 Sep 24.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36155425/

[pdf] https://wvpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tu-2022-Wout...
life is the art of good enough.
Usually when I use these types of tools I'm building immutable infrastructure where a golden image gets built and an existing app data volume gets attached to a new OS image (same workflow as Docker containers but more access to kernel/hardware)

Puppet doesn't work well for that. I've seen it come up in auditing scenarios since the agent can effectively report if the instance is still in the correct config state.
Thank you. If you don't mind...

> tweaking its parameters to more likely say the correct thing next time.

Is this entirely, or just partially done via human feedback on models like GPT-4 and LLama-3, for example?
There will always be carry over from one administration to the next at the bureaucratic level within the various agencies. It takes time to figure out how to get them aligned to make progress with the new administration's agenda.
I’ll guess :) The snappy non-React but WinUI one is by Apple?