skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you recall wrong, and miss what's great about Bladerunner.

Who's human is a key overt point in the novel, with Deckard wondering about the indefatigable anti-android DJ, and a subtle point, with Deckard being incapable of emotionally connecting to some common 'human' things; he is not emotionally engaged with animal care, and doesn't like the weirdo emotional gestalt device I can't recall the name of. It's right in the title -- what is different about a human, an android, and an android that thinks it's a human?

To my eyes, launched the same year ET was launched, to the same audiences, Blade Runner is right at the edge of what could have been successful. And, it is full of these fundamental questions of humanity. Unfortunately the cinema release dumbed it down with Harrison Ford's narration -- a result of the studio thinking the movie was too arthouse to play widely.

Visually and narratively, the implications are strong that Deckard is a replicant, including the weird questions about what police station is real, his ability to match Roy Batty physically, Edward James Ulmos' uncanny ability to find Deckard, and know what he's dreaming about -- it's all there in the original.
For now it's more likely to do the opposite. Communities like HN do seem to like fringe and questionable languages like Ruby a lot to their own detriment. And that is, naturally, a part of dataset.
Does mining for batteries erase the climate benefits of EVs? No, and here's why
Making a Linux game from scratch using the Direct Rendering Manager
your account is only 62 days old... also what does that even mean lmao
May not be built in but many mainstream languages such as typescript have libraries or the tools to easily implement them.
"Six of the nine traits, including educational attainment, showed greater genetic variance among offspring, which is inconsistent with stable assortative mating over many generations."

Ok... maybe I'm not understanding. I don't think educational attainment is inconsistent with assortative mating. In fact, I think it is consistent with the theory as it applies to passing on traits. The theory only really applies to traits with high genetic influence (for passing on). Educational attainment is not genetic. Even if it's partially associated with IQ (not really), IQ is not all that strong of a heretical trait.
Never fun when you're about to land on an article and automatically hit a paywall. Do better, BI
Picotouch: A tiny touch MIDI keyboard controller from a Raspberry Pi Pico
What about that 20% tho'...
That's the not so subtle hint. The underhanded way would be "since you asked for a suboptimal form, this is the best I can do", thereby prompting you to ask what the "best" way is.
That's a much better rule!
The obsession with animals is also a mark of humanity - lack of compassion for animals is part of the anti-replicant test. It's also a mark of the current neuroses of Humanity: making mechanical imitations of life, including human life.
So we’re having an economic argument, what does racism or xenophobia have to do with that?
> So, are we too late?

If we're not too late, then surely we're waiting til the last possible moment. There's a Fermi Paradox hanging over our heads, and all we hear from the LLM crowd is "you're being silly, there's nothing to worry about here".
Sounds like the actions of a truly open ai company
Until OpenAI takes the blame, why would the Author's Guild not pursue their claim?
There's a ton of things to disagree with -- ex. as you said, they're being paid to tell lies.

I don't think it's respectful to you to pretend there's no content in the article.

I don't think you're foolish, and simultaneously believe A) nothing was said B) nothing disagreeable was said C) they were paid to say lies.

That'd be an incoherent rant, and you're perfectly legible.
Maybe they meant "food delivery app developers"?
You can also push a concession out of most normal people that it's unethical, in person. Only online do people act like it's not an elephant in everyone's room—just one that we don't think about unless scrolling past a documentary or something. It's just incredibly hard to red pill out of the comforts you were born into.
Caveman brains, mediaeval institutions, and godlike technology. What could possibly go wrong.

That is a quote I heard somewhere and paraphrased.
Well, see, if you show up at the wrong time, and you're a time traveler, you can fix it...
Like TCP keepalives?
Maybe trivial to “work around” but there is a difference, ay?

With this type you would have to check/match an extra case!

The type you use there also takes more memory than Option<T> or Maybe<T>. So it has some other downsides.
Never watched it. I imagine it has even less to do with the book than the first movie. It has a different director and writers.
"These datasets, created by former employees who are no longer with OpenAI, were last used in 2021 and deleted due to non-use in 2022." -

Deleting the dataset because of non-use sounds completely implausible. It says the dataset is 67B tokens, which is less than 1TB of data. Why would you bother to delete it given it would cost more or less nothing to keep?
So, does it just look like different green? Like still green, but you can tell it apart from "true" green? Like wearing them could you pass a colorblind test even though you still can't see red?
The digital invitations couldn't be opened in the future because nobody could understand the file format.
they’re making a (correct) point about causality and geographic gene variance
Gene therapy has been an extremely slow game. Part of that is ethics, and part of that is technology. A single death in a single trial slowed down gene therapy for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger
I dedicated much of my biology training to learning how to carry out gene therapy only to conclude that it will continue to be the underdog in disease therapy for a long time. I do not expect to see large-scale germline modification for non-disease purposes in my lifetime (another 20-30 years).
Apple to Power AI Features with M2 Ultra Servers
The words of President Zelenski apply to Israel's case too (with some re-wording)
"We need ammo, not apps"
Or just using Option since you would have Some<null> or None in that case.
War is great business for Palantir. But as a business do you ever question whether you are doing the right thing from a moral standpoint?

Would Palantir stop doing business with Israel if the ICJ found it was committing genocide or if the ICC issued warrants for the arrest of Israel's leaders?
Questions like these are so far below a level of reasonable discourse that they are detrimental.
> but some reaction videos were pretty heartwarming

shameful marketing campaign
I live in downtown Palo Alto, and it has a lot of mid-rise buildings and is walkable. Expanding the area that this is true for is not something completely different.
You may be interested in the history section of this Wikipedia article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)

The place where the (second) surrender document was signed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Berlin-Karlshorst
https://www.jobrunr.io//en/ seems to be popular at the moment.
That's overall a very, very good thread. Thanks for linking
We are currently in a trade war with China, they are enabling Russia to bypass sanctions, and they are a threat to allies in the region (e.g Taiwan). They are also known for devaluing their currency to harm trade partners and for stealing intellectual property. It may not be a shooting war but we are absolutely in an economic war.

This is one of the few issues with widespread bipartisan consensus (Biden has chosen to keep the China Tariffs that Trump enacted). And yes, China would be glad to take business away from Google. They don’t care about your ethics.
> The unsealed letter from OpenAI's lawyers, which is labeled "highly confidential - attorneys' eyes only," says that the use of "books1" and "books2" for model training was discontinued in late 2021 and that the datasets were deleted in mid-2022 because of their nonuse. The letter goes on to say that none of the other data used to train GPT-3 has been deleted and offers attorneys for the Authors Guild access to those other datasets.

That sounds like ass-covering, and maybe destruction of evidence. If the data is destroyed, won't it be much harder to prove which books they violated copyright on and to figure out the damages owed?
What boggles my mind a bit is that true colorblindness glasses don't seem that difficult to me. Standard red-blue 3d glasses almost do it, it's just you need red-green differentiating glasses. I don't think this would Open the World of Color!, but it would with a bit of practice probably allow you to at least perceive a difference.

But the glasses need to be visibly-differently (to a non-color-blind person) tinted. If they look the same, they're not going to work. Just like a "blue-reducing" pair of glasses needs to look visibly yellow, or it clearly (in all senses of the term) isn't doing anything.

A truly optimal pair would take some sciencing but bashing something prototype-quality with something like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0928YT83C would be a matter of holding up the cyan-ist of the films up to one eye and the magenta-ist of the films to the other, and looking at some red and green things, concentrating on which eye the object is bright in.
When it fails, it's DNS. When it just stops moving, it's either TCP_NODELAY or stream buffering.

Really complex systems (the Web) also fail because of caching.
well, its been a while, but I remember seeing a study that states with the death penalty actually had higher incidence of violent crime. From that, it was posited that the existence of harsher punishments don't seem to offer much deterrent value because criminals do not expect to be caught. Further, there was discussion that state-sponsored demonstrations of power/punishment play a role in normalizing that behavior in the first place.

Personally, I think both categories are likely true, but I couldn't comment on the effect size. One thing that law enforcement stats generally indicate is that a great deal of property crime is uninvestigated and unsolved. Maybe that is fine, but detailing, "we tried our literal best surveillance methods and have not managed to reduce convenience store robberies" gives an edge to those who would like to premeditate. Of course, if they think they won't get caught in the first place, it doesn't matter.
I saw a Huberman clip this morning where he said that because women under thirty have a 20% chance of getting pregnant after a single attempt that they should try five times before seeing an OBGYN because 20% x 5 = 100% and that six times would be 120% but "that's something totally different".

It blows my mind that a Professor at Stanford could have such a terrible understanding of statistics.
shouldn't autocorking help with even without nagle?
> Notice how we're not using the ruler for measuring anymore. Instead, we're using it to represent the sizes of different objects.

Viewed like this, the fact that it uses inches vs m isn't significant, because 'inches' translates as 'units'. Even as a Brit, I can't imagine 1000 inches either, but I can tell something about two objects that are respectively 1000 vs 1200 inches/units.
Baidu PR chief who sparked PR nightmare over workplace culture is out
I think you're right to point out that it's too strong a claim to say that sum types are a basic building block of thought, although I believe they are very useful in coding regardless of that claim.

There is the still the ongoing debate about how much human perception and human reason are shaped by cultural forces vs. universal forces (where the latter asserts humans reason in the same/similar ways).

There's evidence that certain optical illusions don't work across cultures for example (I seem to remember those in Western countries have a tendency to mentally group things in rectangular boxes). The exact balance between cultural and universal forces isn't known and I doubt we could say anything about sum types in that regard.
Now that’s setting a high bar. If AI could reliably invent calculus, then I’d be briefly impressed and then terrified.
just an ad means this was an artistic expression inof itself

theres nothing inherently wrong with destruction as an artform
pgmq.archive() gives us an API to retain messages on your queue, its an alternative to pgmq.delete(). For me as a long-time Redis user, message retention was always important and was always extra work to implement.

DLQ isn't a built-in feature to PGMQ yet. We run PGMQ our SaaS at Tembo.io, and the way we implement the DLQ is by checking the message's read_ct value. When it exceeds some value, we send the message to another queue rather than processing it. Successfully processed messages end up getting pgmq.archive()'d.

Soon, we will be integrating https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_tier into pgmq so that the archive table is put directly into cloud storage/S3.
I wonder how much of a persons impression of this is formed by their browsing habits.

As a parent comment mentions big threads can be a bit of a mess but usually only for the first couple of hours. Comments made in the spirit of HN tend to bubble up and off-topic, rude comments and bad jokes tend to percolate down over the course of hours. Also a number of threads that tend to spiral get manually detached which takes time to go clean up.

Someone who isn't somewhat familiar with how HN works that is consistently early to stories that attract a lot of comments is reading an almost entirely different site than someone who just catches up at the end of the day.
I don't think that's actually super common anymore when you consider that doing asynchronous I/O, the only sane way to do that is put it into a buffer rather than blocking at every small write(2).

Then you consider that asynchronous I/O is usually necessary both on server (otherwise you don't scale well) and client (because blocking on network calls is terrible experience, especially in today's world of frequent network changes, falling out of network range, etc.)
That's not a problem of this perspective, that's an entirely separate issue: The still evolving debate between what takes precedence: Federal powers or State powers?

Sometimes state, sometimes federal. This is why all parties are trying to pack the courts with ideologues of various leanings.
Kinda. Did a dummy project in a few languages to see what I wanted to use for the big project.

Looked at Go, Swift, Kotlin MP, and Rust.

I liked Kotlin tools, and small binary size. If I knew I wasn't going to need more libraries in the future I might pick it.

Go is great, although binaries a bit large with the runtime packed in, and TinyGo too limiting.

Rust: I couldn't find a good multi-language binding package so I skipped it... then later found https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs It could be a top contender.
I just saw the clip your mentioning[0], I don't think he understands statistics.

[0] https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1788605009535655951
The article isn't particularly about Parquet or S3. They are both great technologies and I use them all the time.

I mentioned CSV because it is the only format supported by Postgres for ingest (besides their binary protocol) but that is only an instance of the general problem of interoperability.

I'm not sure I agree that "reading a ton of data is not meant to be easy." I'd say it is not easy today, and there is a constellation of tools and programming techniques that can let you perform the task, but it is often a distraction from the end result you want to achieve.

The essence of my rant is that there are many steps distracting steps between "a data dump" and "the thing I want to build" in a way that has been solved in many other parts of the stack.
I guess I will just have to stay sour with my sub-second compile times, actual compile-time type checks, stable naming of built-ins, single-binary deployments, and uniform error handling.
That's just pushes up the cost of licensing.
https://archive.is/qMDjT

https://web.archive.org/web/20240509001604/https://www.theat...
Was the second part of that statement ("so if you have sex 5 times") what he said or what you inferred from what he said? If he said that exactly, that's pretty bad.
As much as I dislike the title of the article, really agreed with the contents of the article
`T | null` is equivalent to T. You can assign null to `T`>

It's like saying `string | "foo"` it is simply `string` due to subtyping.
Does it really matter if there are many minds or one? That just shifts the question to whether this "universe mind" is fundamentally mechanistic or not.
They've seen how some artificial dyes can affect hyperactivity and attention. I wonder if there's any affect on glucose metabolism from them?
The Folly of Modern Architecture (1974) [pdf]
Minor correction, because this is often misunderstood:

> The famous monologue was improvised by Rutger Hauer

It wasn't improvised. Hauer rewrote the monologue by cutting a few words from the original script, and adding the "like tears in the rain", which he showed to Scott and Peoples, who liked it.

The original line in the script was: "I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone."

Source: "Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner", great documentary about the film.
Actually, everyone.

Even stereotypical food snobs like the French https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/the-french-have-fallen-in-lo...

The world would be much better if fast food were a US-only phenomenon but that's trivially untrue.
BP looking to buy Tesla's Supercharger sites in US
> Assuming they train newer models using output from older versions, isn't that data they collected from "books1" and "books2" still encoded in the weights of their current models?

Sure, in much the same way if you save a JPEG at 75% quality the data in the image is still encoded. But if you repeat a lossy encoding over and over without saving the original, well... wikipedia has a nice visualization of what happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss
Was anyone expecting anything else?

It's the logical thing but no everyone is going to be thinking that far ahead.
The ads don't need to be conversational, they could be just references at the end of the answer.
I can see running a local less resource intensive LLM trained to strip out marketing spiel from the text delivered by the more powerful cloud service LLM being a possibility.
I am in favor of AI companies trying to source material responsibly, and if I'm reading this right OpenAI will actually be compensating the publishes to use their content. So this isn't adspace yet.

That said, giving publishers "richer brand expression" certainly injects financial incentives into the outputs people trust coming from ChatGPT.
For whatever it's worth, the NNUE training dataset contains positions from Leela games and several generations of self-play. Stockfish wouldn't be where it is if not for Google's impact. AlphaFold will likely have a similar impact on our understanding of protein structure. I don't know why everyone is so offended by them puffing their chests out a little bit here, the paper's linked in the article.
Tesla lost $2.5 Billion in cash flow in Q1 2024, likely due to increasing inventory (aka: they can't sell their cars fast enough despite all the price cuts).

The knee-jerk reaction to just start laying off huge swaths of the company to compensate is... understandable. Clearly a dumb move but understandable. I think you're underselling the clear problems of Tesla the company that go far above and beyond Elon Musk.

Was firing the whole Supercharging team the right move? Probably not. In fact, I'm certain that this move will only make fewer people buy Tesla, now that the charging situation is complete chaos. But given the numbers, Tesla doesn't have many quarters of runway left (even with Tesla's $26 Billion in cash and short-term investments, there's over $15 Billion in various liabilities. So Tesla only has ~4 more quarters at this cash-burn rate before it runs out of cash).

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Tesla sales in China, Germany, and USA are all down for April 2024 as well. Meaning there's even larger inventory glut and even more cash-flow losses.

Supercharging is already fired. There's no way that team can likely ever be recovered, and the goodwill between Supercharger and all of their installers has been destroyed. (Its risky for a company to invest $10,000+ per supercharger on their property, only for them to be Ghosted on an Elon whim). That's permanent damage to the brand, I don't think anyone would want to build superchargers after hearing the horror stories of these ghosted businesses.

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Remember: bankruptcy is a cash-flow issue. Not a profitability issue. If you run out of cash, that's it. You can't pay suppliers and thus they'll force you into bankruptcy (eventually).
Zoning was definitely a thing since time immemorial (and 5000 years before that). Zoning was enforced by the Count or Lord or Guildhall, and you can bet your bottom dollar that nobody was allowed to run a tannery right next to the ducal palace or Market Square.

Zoning laws are a more recent invention, and zoning laws combined with financial leverage and green belts/density limits for maximum real estate price pain only cropped up as an innovation in the 20th century.
It's unlikely open source matters to most of your target market. Any open source advice is typically geared towards developers as users.

Look at competitors products and what people say about them, then see how your project measures up.

I can say from experience, at this early stage, one or two users can give immeasurable feedback. Keep working on the product you want and a few will come along.

Writing posts can help. You want content that can be indexed by a search engine for the permanence. Forum / social / chat posts fade quickly into oblivion
I am honestly surprised that anyone, particularly here in startup / VC land, thought this was going to go any differently. Is the Chief Inspector really shocked to learn that gambling happens at this establishment?
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Can UK Law Save Online-Only Video Games from Being Shut Down?
Hey HN community,

I've been following this "Stop Killing Games" movement/campaign by the Freeman's Mind series guy, that's been trying to preserve online-only video games after their servers shut down. The latest video updates us on the movement that it could leverage UK consumer protection laws. The video argues that consumers should be informed about the lifespan of games with online dependencies before purchase. This is based on Section 61 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, which requires clear and correct information for consumers to make informed choices.

The campaign has unearthed potential violations by game publishers who fail to disclose when online-dependent games will cease to function. This could compel companies to either provide an end-of-life plan for games or start labeling their expiration dates to avoid misleading consumers. Imagine that?

However, the path forward is murky, with numerous legal questions about reporting violations, potential penalties, and how to enforce these regulations effectively, especially considering the different legal frameworks in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK.

Does anyone here have expertise in UK consumer law, or insights into how we might support this campaign? Any advice on navigating these legal waters would be incredibly helpful.

This could be a turning point in how digital goods are sold and maintained, and it might set a precedent for other regions too. What do you think?
Is "I was just following orders" a viable defense here?