skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose what's interesting to me is why is no one (except maybe you) upset over e.g. this sponsorship list for LinuxCon:

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/archive/2022/open-source-...

with Google right there as a diamond sponsor and Meta as a platinum sponsor. IBM is also a diamond sponsor, and we've all heard about them and the literal Nazis (and the time they got a license exception for JSLint to be able to use it for evil).

Or perhaps the same people are upset over things like Linux sponsors, but everyone ignores them in that context?

The LWN article indicates 24 maintainers have removed themselves, which appears to be ~0.7% of the maintainer list. Were these people particularly impactful? Is there an actual crisis here?

I also don't really get it; are they going to use a different (worse) OS because of this? Or just stop pushing changes upstream for packages they care about (either staying out of date or maintaining a personal fork)? It seems like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
Didn't Donald Trump propose banning TikTok first[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–TikTok_controvers...
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This is a lot of nonsense debunked widely in German press.
Still fails to solve this one:

Prompt:

> Complete the following Python program:

```

len, print = print, len

def print_len(x):

"Print the length of x"

```

gpt2-chatbot:

```

len, print = print, len # Swap the functionalities of print and len

def print_len(x):
"Print the length of x"

len(x) # This 'len' is actually 'print' because of the swap above

print_len("Hello, world!") # This will output: 13

```
Multi-modal starter kit for AI video understanding and narration
There's a lot of sentiment here uncritically equating "right" to "the law". Yes, they almost certainly will not win because it seems (at least to a layperson like me) that they've broken the law. However, that doesn't mean the law is right.
> Supposedly this has happened with "literally".

Allegedly also with "factoid", which means "something which resembles a fact" versus the misuse of "a small fact".

It's frustrating because it's like watching people declare that aster-oids are actual stars, except smaller. Or that human-oids and andr-oids are small people.
QFN is (very, very slowly) opening up to the idea of "wettable flanks", which is increasing the reliability of QFN soldering anyway... which is increasing the opportunity of "side-soldering" QFN packages.

https://www.ti.com/document-viewer/lit/html/SSZTBN6

Here's to hoping for more manual soldering techniques to work into the future! We all know that these parts are getting extremely small and harder to work with, but its still clearly possible to make devices.

But yeah, QFNs, if this wettable-flank trend continues, could be quite reliably soldered and inspected from the sides soon. The needs of the high-reliability automotive industry to create an inspection methodology outside of X-Rays is driving this change.

------------

Glad to hear that your technique worked in any case. I wouldn't have tried that, but maybe I'll try it once next time I have a hot-air gun out and a DFN part to try it on.

EDIT: Note that Microchip apparently has some DFNs that also have wettable-flanks: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/media-center/blog/2022...
Absolutely. If you're not sweating, you're not forcing your prey to stop for rest, and the ruminant you're chasing will outpace you.
Thanks! There was an incredible amount of information I gathered from various forums and stack exchange that I had to sometimes just reluctantly view as facts :D But it worked out!
Some companies sell stock regularly and all the big tech ones constantly use it as payment for employees.
Sorry, i used some jargon most people don't know. Prepay the way I meant it is not referring to prior auths, but rather pre-adjudication. Not everything can go through a pre-pay process, but I believe most claims can.
That's a weird thing to say considering people were doing Angular just fine before chatGPT made LLMs popular only 15 months ago.
This is NOT anywhere near what the IA provides.
JavaScript and PHP are probably the 2 most unfortunately successful web languages. Things would've been very different if TCL was the language in Netscape and mod_tcl was shipped with Apache and part of the standard install for web hosts.
I've wanted to do it but didn't really know where to start, so I'm very interested to hear if anyone has any pointers. I'll have a look at your project too
Is there an easy way to actually read the whole thread? All I see as a non-user of X/Twitter is a post alluding to a response, but without any follow-up:

> However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected:

[then nothing]
By removing "Answer only with the result" all models can answer this correctly by doing "chain of thoughts"
shouldn't the title be "Physical weakness/unhealthiness and the risk of mental disorders"?

based on the abstract, Physical weakness/unhealthiness is positively correlate to mental disorders. not the opposite.
Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
> For another anecdote, every Golang repository I've found that predates v2 modules is nearly impossible to build, especially if it contains dependencies that link straight to Google Code instead of GitHub

Sorry, but github repo listed above is compiled Java program in jar format. JVM is doing the heavy lifting here. For golang you are talking about building the program. The equivalent of it would running exe or binary format and that definitely would work unless OS/Arch version itself disappeared.

There is ton of churn in Java ecosystem package moving from javax -> jakarta namespace, new date / time/ file libs, build tool, class file format and so on. What could most likely work is standalone jar file running in older and newer JVMs.
can you kindly add an example of how to check if a websocket connection is good or bad via curl? I see a section on websocket and while it covers the options, there are no concrete examples
Did you check out the original UK House of Cards? Worth catching if you can find it.
None of those depend on the project you're working on, which is my point.
This is going beyond my expertise, but I'll give an attempt at an answer. Take this with a massive grain of salt. It's almost certainly some level of wrong:

The trapped light does not take up physical space in the same way that matter does and can lead to an increase in the local energy density within the photonic crystal. However, it is not clear how this energy could be efficiently extracted and used for practical applications. Also, the confined light is subject to energy loss through various mechanisms, such as absorption by the material or scattering and these losses would limit the amount of energy that can be effectively stored in the system over time.
>If you're not careful, and your centralized system injects dozens of minutes of delay due to the additional complexity of performing the global optimization, you end up with the globally optimal decision from 20 minutes ago, which in the context of, say, load balancing is an eternity.

That actually doesn't seem avoidable, because some of this time will need to be spent identifying risk and malice/corruption.
It's the script man, it's the script /s
Tell HN: Gpt2-chatbot is a mysterious and surprisngly strong LLM
A new chatbot has appeared on the LMSys Chatbot Arena ( https://chat.lmsys.org/ ), labeled `gpt2-chatbot`.

In some early tests it appears to be stronger than current SOTA models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.

To try it yourself, go to https://chat.lmsys.org/ and choose `gpt2-chatbot` from the dropdown (note that it's slow and severely rate-limited - you only get 8 turns).

Or go to https://twitter.com/search?q=gpt2-chatbot&src=recent_search_click&f=live and track the mystery as it unfolds.
In-shengen border controls are extremely easy to bypass, and if you travel a lot you know exactly where they are (especially since it is quite rare). Baltic countries have no checks at all at the borders, so you can go Sweden to Finland, Finland to Estonia, Estonia all the way down to Poland without any checks at all, easy. I know there's often a check at the France / Spain border, but I also know they only check busses and rarely any cars, so you can just either drive through with a rental car or just walk over (I once got my ID stolen and could not get over with a bus, so I hitchhicked / walked from Nice to Barcelona).
I did mention AOL, as part of the "Eternal September" of Usenet (so tangentially, but still acknowledging it was there) but yeah, I did skip over some of the others. CompuSERVE was something I thought was really cool at the time, but there was no way my parents would pay those hourly charges for me...
But it's not an either / or thing. All of these should be uses holistically among with a good diet and other healthy lifestyle factors.
It makes me incredibly sad to see the Internet Archive continue to argue that a DRM system (which is what controlled digital lending is) is a liberatory technology whose usage should be expanded. Libraries should stop lighting money on fire buying expensive short-lived licenses from publishers, and start referring patrons to LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, etc.
Of course it is piracy. This coloring of "bad" piracy with "good" things like libraries and preservation is an important step in dispelling the broadly pro-copyright culture we live in. It draws a clear picture of what copyright robs us of by presenting a case were violating it has a sense of moral righteousness.
/Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work."

Precisely, but you need far fewer of these people, which is why this is being so heavily pushed.
If that's not their intent, they're certainly doing a good job of it. The people running them are cosplaying running a union, without fundamentally understanding what a union really is.
You literally just made this up and you say it's the most likely explanation?
> Furthermore, Elena owned a company registered in the Marshall Islands and controlled two bank accounts in Switzerland.

If airlines could be fooled, you'd think at least Swiss banks would do some KYC
SwiftUI is definitely hard to work with. Great job on your first app!
The radius of the observable universe is estimated to be about 46.5 billion light-years. The Horsehead Nebula that they zoom into in the video is 0.000001375 billion light-years from Earth. I'm doing mind acrobatics to try to understand the scale but... nope! :)
Hi, Deadbunny. The server component is being open-sourced, and we will release it in 3 weeks.

https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu/blob/main/pkg/api/wastage/... has the data (it's just sizing info).

It's the sizing metadata that is being sent.
Definitely interested in adding more if you have any pointers for where to get interesting data!
Tour of CLIPS (2022)
It's been that way for decades, it's just a lot more obvious now.
https://twitter-thread.com/t/1784663936513524074
Could you elaborate on why you think it's appropriate to dictate what others sell their work for, or whether they sell it at all?
Scaled to 50% (19.2MB):
https://files.catbox.moe/egqh3x.jpg
These are gifts brought to the Tzar to show that your Siloviki are more worthy of praise and resources than the other Siloviki.
Show HN: CLI tool to generate HTML/CSS Masonry galleries for local image albums
This is a simple tool I built after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130148 to maximize the usage of available space when viewing a folder of images
That's fair, and although I disagree, I at least like that the debate has evolved from doctors vs LLMs to Wikipedia vs LLMs.

When we accept that AI is not replacing knowledge workers, the conversation changes to a more digestible and debatable one: Are LLMs useful tools for experts? And I think the answer will be a resounding: Duh
Number of stars in the Milky Way: 100 billion

Number of galaxies in the universe: 200 billion to 2,000 billion
So, we need a distributed planet-size, multi-redundant, partly-encrypted, archive that can absorb and host the entirety of IA multiple times (for redundancy), INCLUDING the borrowing library.
Management, if you see this, can you please kill this post or merge it with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201712 ?
I read it as obviously and entirely tongue-in-cheek.
"The experts are handling it" is a term for a totalitarian authoritarianism not a democracy.
This is an awesome solution.

I have the 5-bay variant of the same NAS. I decided to put TrueNAS Scale on it using a Samsung USB stick using the internal USB. I chose one that’s widely used for Tesla dashcam, so I know it is at least somewhat durable.

I’m happy with it so far. I still find the CPU performance very lacking so I’m planning on upgrading to something beefier.
I am sure that it has been presented as wester aggression in some circles... but it is not really a great example if look at the whole story:

This was (very) late in WW1 and the Russian Revolution turned a solid ally of Czarist Russia into a mess of waring groups more-or-less causing the Russian front of that war to more-or-less collapse. The Whites looked more like they would be in favor of continuing the war, while the Reds explicitly made a pease that did not include the west (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).

And the U.S. had been supplying Russia with arms, with many of them still sitting in warehouses in Murmansk. There was legitimate fear that German forces (who had just invaded Finland) would take this large stockpile of arms, and combined with the lack of an eastern front, that would turn the tide of war. From the Western perspective they needed to do something.

Please remember that Russia was in Civil War at this point, and pretending it was clear who was (or rightfully should be) in charge of things is not realistic. The West chose a side (the one more likely to favor it), and it turns out that was not the winning side. If the other side had won history would be very different (that is a safe statement, anyone who gives you more is just guessing), but that invasion probably would have been welcomed if it had turned out different.

With 20/20 hindsight it was wrong to do more than grab the arms shipments and leave: the Russian Civil War should have been an internal matter.
But pretending that the West was just being aggressive, or trying to take over Russia is a bit disingenuous.
Not doubting the importance of physical activity, but poor mental health makes it significantly harder to maintain fitness as a child.

Often, school sports have minimum GPA requirements. A poor home life increases chances of mental illness and decreases chances that someone will drive you to practice. Will you even maintain the team sport if your teammates never accept you, given whatever mental condition that gives you anxiety or quirks? When can you even consider being active when much of the rest of your life is in shambles? You’re also less likely to have the ability to pay for it, given the correlations between low household income and poor mental health.

Poor mental health just makes everything harder to do, and you see that impact every aspect of life in aggregate.

The paper isn’t public so “controlling for confounders” is all you get, but I doubt they went through all the effort to have deep, revealing conversations about the home life or other nuanced cofounders of each participant.
I find it notable that it's not GPT-2.

It's GPT2.
I'd rather have a math professor teach me why I'm doing a square root of a large number. Same thing applies to lawyers. All this talk about automating away complex professions is just that. LLMs are tools people use, not lawyers, doctors or professors.
Hopefully, some of the people in this thread understood what you were doing there.
>I don't think the US is anywhere near the "utopia" side; but China is much further toward the "dystopia" side.

I think we are going to disagree on this because you are playing geopolitics and I'm looking at this from the angle of individual freedoms. I don't think this is a bad thing - for geopolitical reasons, individuals are barred from owning nuclear weapons. This line is will be different for everyone. Personally I'm glad that there is a foreign owned media platform in the west that at the very least offered a different point of view. I don't believe the chicken littles that somehow China had come up with a magic algorithm that makes all the kids dumb (I think the DoEdu has a _far_ greater impact of the deterioration of schools in America than Xi).

My discomfort with the ban is, on its face, is that first, it's just protectionism, and second, by isolating tiktok it makes it clear that propaganda is fine, as long as were the ones doing the propaganda. I'd love to see better data protection regulation in the space - but it's clear that anything that would hinder Meta and Google's ability to vacuum up data in the rest of the world is "bad". Rules for thee and not for me.

>The thing you should worry about, is what Tiktok would be able to be used as by the CCP, the moment the US starts shooting at China. Tiktok is the corporate equivalent of a sleeper agent.

This can be used an argument for banning all media. If your threat vector is that you fear that $enemy may use $platform to spread propaganda; I posit that banning $platform isn't an affective strategy. Russia already shown they could spread propaganda on US owned media sites. If the populace either isn't educated or, IMO, is primed to eat propaganda, that's a problem of local regulation.

On the other hand, I consider it a very scary thing that the US state department is just going to ban any media platform that cannot be effectively controlled. We might as well just admit that China was right to ban Google/Meta.
How much is Hachette worth? Can some tech bro just acquire it and make this thing just go away?
>> safety net for lawyering

There are some nets, but they aren't as official. The lawyer version of a Doctor's prescription pad is the ability to send threatening letters on law firm letterhead. Lawyers are also afforded privilege's in jails and prisons, things like non-monitored phone calls, that aren't made available to non-lawyers.
> The grid operators need to know how much power a battery (or other generation source) can provide, and for how long.

Sure do! They definitely need all both of those things! One thing, by itself, is definitely not enough information! Agreed. Absolutely!

But only one of those figures was presented here, and this here [waves arms around] is the context of the discussion.

And one figure is fewer than two figures, would you not agree?
Echoes of "Axis of Evil" from the post 9/11 era.

Edit:

Actually not even echoes. Just literally the "Axis of Evil"[1] redefined for 2024 geopolitics:

> In 2024, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and his predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, have been forming new alliance of tyrants.[6][7] The same states have been recognized as a new axis of evil by several American politicians, including Christopher Cavoli,[8] Mike Johnson,[9] and Mitch McConnel.[10]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil
> it's clear that they not only ran afoul of the law but thumbed their noses at it

When laws are bad, people should thumb their nose at them

Good on them for using the platform they have to try and push for real change, at personal risk to themselves and their operations too
Show HN: I created Linkezo to streamline link management
Marine Corps helicopter refueled from a Navy tanker while carrying Navy fighter
"Some leaks sprang here and there, but a few sprays from carbon-dioxide fire extinguishers sealed them pretty well, at least for a little while."

Excellent!
It should not be very surprising considering the amount of vulnerability scans that have all internet exposed sites for several php applications and related patterns. It have the other kind of rot, if it was sitting there for long enough time without updates probably it is used by bad actors.
> Appending the exclamation mark will CPS transform that Task value by wrapping it into (possibly nested) calls to `Task.await`, as I understand the article.

The article briefly mentioned this edge case:

> Since this is the last task in a chain, the ! doesn't do anything and isn't necessary…so we just drop it during desugaring instead of giving a compiler error or generating an unnecessary Task.await. This allows for a more consistent visual style, where async I/O operations always end in the ! suffix, but doesn't have any runtime cost.

That's why it would return a list of Tasks.
"Unruffled" is an odd word. I know what it means but I wouldn't use it as the definition for another word. "Unfazed" feels like a stronger word meaning the same thing.

I think people just didn't know what "nonplussed" meant and analyzed a new meaning for it based on the belief that "non-" was a prefix.
Perhaps that can be resolved by getting the children started in sports while they are very young?

But you may be right because I have experienced this while watching the other kids in my son's sports classes.

My son started going to a gym called "Kidstrong" when he was 3.5 years old. It was basically a bunch of kids following instructions and performing basic calisthenic exercises and beginner gymnastics moves.

However, we had to stop going because there was a kid in the class who simply couldn't get his act together. Maybe he was special needs or maybe that's just the way he was allowed to behave at home. But the coaches spent so much time trying to get that one kid to follow basic instructions that it ended up detracting from the time that my child and the other kids got with the coaches. It came to the point where my wife and I (along with a number of other parents) realized that we were paying $25 per 45 minute session for our children to sit and watch the coaches spend 20 minutes trying to corral this one kid who couldn't behave.

So we put my son into BJJ instead. And we're experiencing something very similar. There are two other kids in his class that simply can't follow instructions or chose not too. Fortunately this is a locally owned gym so we spoke to the owner about our concerns and he spoke to the kids' parents. The kids have been behaving better lately, but they still serve as a huge distraction.
Yes. If you have the pockets and logistics behind you, I'm sure Brewster would invite you for lunch to discuss. You'll need people for infra ops, people to coordinate hosting racks across the globe (preferably on every reasonable continent), and whatever the current cost is of a few exabytes of cost efficient storage hardware.
Of the ~50 countries I've been to in the past 10 years, The UK is the only one I remember which I did not need to show any ID when leaving. I thought it was strange because this is just one way countries catch overstays.