skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modified cold virus could provide new weapon against cancer
I think this is a pro-Amazon piece disguised as an anti-Amazon piece. Like, the author comes across as so inept and unlikable, and Amazon so reasonable, that I strongly suspect that this is an Amazon-sponsored piece? If that makes sense?

Is that a concept that exists, where you write a shitty criticism of something in order to make people go "That actually sounds pretty good" and it ends up working as an endorsement or advertisement? Sort of an on-purpose Streisand effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
The protests are pro-Palestine. Calling them pro-Hamas is just the pretext for shutting them down.
A DT fusion reactor with iron in its structure would produce a small amount of Fe-60, by double neutron capture on Fe-58. The amount would be limited because the half life of Fe-59 is 44.5 days.
This is usually the easiest way to estimate these probabilities also. Thanks for elaborating!
There is also this (https://github.com/mbbill/Silverfir) and Wizard (https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine).

I wrote a paper about Wizard's in-place interpreter and benchmarked lots of runtimes in (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563311).

As there seem to be even more runtimes popping up (great job with wasmi, btw), it seems like a fun, maybe even full-time, job to keep up with them all.
No need to speculate. Other countries than the US do in fact exist and all these questions have already been answered.
My guess is the ROI is provided by people giving up before they actually get help from a human.
There's a difference between humor and pattern-matching memes like you see in Reddit threads.
Moonstone Sleet emerges as new North Korean threat actor with new bag of tricks
A token can also contain the roles themselves. Though, proper usage of roles as groups of permissions can also go interestingly wrong in practice by many.
>The main problem is that everybody understands that the chat bots are there to add more obstacles between you and an actual human who might be able to help.

Technically competent customers who have exhausted all means of self-solving the problem understand this. People that call or open a customer support chat for say, a routine return to Amazon instead of clicking a button might get upset at it but certainly don't realize they're why the bots exist.

>The punishment for violation would be jail time for the CEO.

Comments on this site read more like Reddit every day. :(
Perhaps you have never been in the situation where one package forces you into a particular version which in turn forces its dependencies to versions, etc., eventually pushing you into an impossible situation.

Anyway, I wish I had a Dev Team like you have to solve these problems for me ...
Using LEMP stack on Ubuntu to host a Laravel app
I used a bar until getting into vim, whose semantics are more box-like (with the cursed exception of the cursor moving one position back upon exiting insert mode, as if it were a bar)

Nowadays I like a box because it stands out on any color combination.
>> Unfortunately there is a segment of the population that is completely incapable of filling in a form.

I work in accessibility.

Most of the forms I've worked with are horrendously bad for accessibility. Chat bots are even worse. People with vision or cognitive issues are an afterthought these days. As we've forced more and more people to use these poorly coded or poorly designed applications and moved away from allowing people to talk to an actual person, we are creating an internet that is increasingly less accessible to people who really need it.

The sad thing is way too many devs I work with have no idea how to write semantic HTML any more. Just simple things like putting things in an unordered list seems beyond some of the frameworks and CMS they use.
Yes - there are other poisons as well hidden behind those particles, but it's very hard to measure the composition of those particles in real time. Particulate matter can be measured with a $20 sensor from Sparkfun, so it's an often-used proxy.

As for why the particles sizes are differentiated, I think it's because some sizes can cross barriers into the blood - and are therefore concerning regardless of the contents. pm 2.5 can reach the deepest parts of the lungs and just muck up that whole area regardless and cause all kinds of systemic inflammation. pm 10.0 generally doesn't reach that deep but still causes eye/ nose/ throat problems IIRC.

If there is near-zero or undetectable particulate matter, then that would preclude lead particles as well, obviously.
Thank you!

I appreciate the kind feedback. On Reddit the average comment is so thoughtless.

It does seem like people are missing that the title of the chart is "What languages do the people who build languages use?" and explicitly not "What languages do the people who build languages use to implement their algorithms?"
The Great AI Black Pope and Asian Nazi Debacle of 2024
NLNet is an NGO and has been funding a lot of cool stuff.
iOS/iPadOS (as well as macOS, tvOS, and visionOS though they’re not relevant in this discussion) also have shockingly good game controller support. All the major controllers (DualSense/DualShock, Xbox, Joycons, Switch Pro, etc) are supported over both USB and Bluetooth (the latter complete with battery status), and are fully configurable in Settings.

Meanwhile on Windows, the king of gaming, you don’t get a config UI or battery status even on Microsoft’s own Xbox controllers and have to install Steam for a reasonable controller experience. The situation is totally reverse to what one might expect.
This also goes back to dial-up days when your third party modem bank provider would also send accounting packets as well as authentication and authorization.
> Again, the practical example in real estate is Colorado mountain towns.

This is not a practical example because Colorado mountain towns are not fungible or reproducible. This applies to much of the western US that features amenities in very limited supply that cannot be increased, such as low humidity, tall mountains, surfing, and vast expanses of public land. So the US west will always be expensive, especially if you have an airport/Costco/Apple/Trader Joes nearby.

NYC has a similar dynamic, since no other US city will come close to having a comparable subway transit system.

But this would not apply to places that are relatively fungible and in greater supply, which include many metros in the southeast/midwest/northeast.

Induced demand is a thing, but the population of people is limited hence total demand is limited.
It's also its strength and raison d'etre. What use is F-droid if it starts including proprietary software?
More evidence that we're losing our rights to general purpose computing!

(joking of course as that's not what is happening here. I am truly highly concerned about the loss of general purpose computing, but I also love poking fun at myself and group)
>I find it hard to believe that the diverging diamond interchange from the link is less scary than a roundabout.

a (good) diverging diamond is really not scary. my first time driving through one i didn't even realize i was driving through one. if you came up to this intersection, would you be able to tell you were entering a diverging diamond? or would you think it was just a normal instersection of two one-way roads?

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9043408,-114.0639993,3a,75y,...
I know of a better response…

List of ssids in some popular location and then duplicate it, place-shifted.

I’ve been meaning to run this experiment for a while now… Can I broadcast a set of ssids that make, for instance, the mall of America appear on the Golden Gate Bridge?

It surprises me that so much investment and dependency is built on leveraging lists of ssids When they are so easily spoofed…
VW to Build €20k EVs on Its Own, Forgoing Partnerships
From the article: “The German manufacturer plans to unveil its proposals for affordable compact EVs in 2027, it said Tuesday.”

If that article is correct, it is insane that the established Western companies are going to take 3 YEARS(!) to even UNVEIL their new low-cost EV efforts.
This podcast is for a later-stage competitor (Form Energy), but it explains a lot of the broad strokes around the size of the problem, and why iron-air is a good solution for multi-day grid-scale energy storage: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/the-cutti...
I recently learned that blue light is 50% stronger in interfering with melatonin generation in toddlers versus adults. I’m a lot more sensitive to noise than my father is and my daughter is even more sensitive, she’ll start screaming when people are too loud.

Not saying that is the reason, but your question is addressing something quite common in different scenarios.
Freud has been debunked. Where is the evidence of similarity in such states?
Would you still start at 4am in the morning? I was contemplating "retiring" to work at a local cooperative bakery that makes similar things, but their shifts were at horrible times that felt like it would ruin my health.
It was probably flagged because it's a dupe (both Vox stories were already covered on HN)
It's not worth the effort. The parent commenter is a bot, its comment history is nothing but spamming submissions with "[dupe]": https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
> The reality is that there is no reason why your iPhone when plugged into a keyboard, mouse, and display couldn't present a MacOS UI.

> If someone could exploit this weakness then Apple could be placed in an uncomfortable position.

Motorola Lapdock, Continuum, Samsung Dex.

It didn't catch the mainstream adoption. Sure, that's mobile OSes (and Google failed miserably (if it did even try) on Android desktop) but still it didn't catch enough.

The reason is simple, though, most users (not uber front-end l33t hax0r with a mech keyboard) are served by the phone itself more than enough. Those who needs a proper computer would take a proper computer anyway (along with a phone). There is no unfulfilled gap there what would bring in billions for anyone who would attempt to make it work.

Oh, and there was one attempt which actually tried to bridge both ecosystems. Microsoft is still ridiculed about Win8.
This [1] may interest you. It estimated Mars's atmospheric loss at 0.1-0.5kg/s, which amounts to about 3-16k tons/year but that's also with Mars's current almost nonexistent atmosphere. Losses would be higher with a thicker stmosphere that would be ~1 atmosphere of pressure at ground level.

[1]: https://sci.esa.int/documents/33745/35957/1567258799920-Weih...
> Oh and literally nobody is a free speech absolutist (including me, except arguably for Noam Chomsky) yet many pretend to be

The ACLU used to defend the 1A rights of neonazis and left wingers alike. Wouldn't that qualify them as free speech avsolutists? Or did they not count because they didn't lobby for the legalization of libel?

Either way, I think you're projecting a bit.
IIRC, the oft-repeated and rarely-cited 1/3 vacancy is a misunderstood statistic which showed that 1/3 of condos in BC are investor-owned[0]; where an investment property is any property where the owner is not the occupant.

0: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/02/03/bc-condos-investor-...
I don't know all places but I've implemented a chat system before. We basically had the current employee's answering calls make lists of their most common questions along with logs and recordings we reviewed. The overwhelming majority of calls consisted of 8-10 questions and the rest could be answered with another set of 35-40 questions. Very few calls actually needed a person. We ended up with I think 80 questions it could answer in total.

This was before LLM stuff.

Funny anecdote. The most common question was "what is the price/how much does it cost." Which always was strange to me since if they were on the website with the chatbot the price was right there.
I thought the error rate has stayed pretty exponential in terms of the number of physical qubits needed to express a logical qubit and it’s not actually known if we’re any closer on that metric vs other more easily achieved metrics.

Additionally, I was under the impression that not all QCs being built are able of executing Shor’s algorithm which added additional challenges that aren’t solved.

My final impression is that having the QC algorithm run faster than a classical computer doing the same operation has also not necessarily gotten better so we don’t even know if we are actually closer to Quantum supremacy in terms of actually useful more general computation instead of the limited supremacy that Google achieved in 2019 on specific problems, similar to the (still ongoing?) controversy whether DWave built a QC or a quantum annealer capable of accelerating simulations of very specific physical properties.

Is this impression outdated and/or misinformed? Would love to update my priors.
I wish their was a better option, but people can at least get the IEEE 754 standard by putting the DOI for it into sci-hub.
???

I have no interest in that at the moment.
The number of times I found myself wanting these features during dev... this is awesome news.

Any word on when they'll be implemented?
Thanks for mentioning this, guys. Pretty slick looking toolkit. I always wondered how everyone these days has such fancy looking CLIs.
Have a look at how "draconian" is used.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/draconian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Draconian

Now consider the thing that is happening: someone is being essentially pressured to agree a contract forcing them to stay functionally silent about anything bad they experienced or saw at OpenAI, on pain of losing things they've already earned.

For that individual's experience, "draconian" -- harsh, unusually severe, repressive -- seems like it would be a good fit, right?

And as it is not in the title or the subhead, it's not really being deployed to be clickbait, is it? The title is even more damning

(As an aside, why should this article not intentionally sound alarming? This whole situation is a pretty damning indictment of one of the most influential startups on earth right now. IMO it is alarming.)
That's a nice discussion-shutting argument. Person / country will never get perfect and thus can't ever discuss issues abroad.
See e.g. wonderfully named "A Simple, Possibly Correct LR Parser for C11" [0], specifically the opening discussion of the ambiguities in the C grammar. Never mind the semantics, which are quite divorced from the underlying hardware! I mean, PDP-11 had a carry flag, a double-wide multiplication instruction, a combined divide-with-remainder instruction (just as x86 does) yet those are unexposed in C.

[0] https://hal.science/hal-01633123/document
The reality today on the Internet is that IPv4 is still "the modern IP standard," and IPv6 is the next/future standard for early adopters.
Cautionary tale? Some excerpts from Toyota's press page[0]

- Toyota is projected to be the number one retail brand for the 12th consecutive year
- Electrified vehicle sales – battery, hybrids, plug-ins and fuel cells – surge 30 percent and make up nearly one-third of total sales volume
- Projected to be the number one seller of passenger vehicles for the 12th consecutive year, and 20 of the last 21 years
- 2023 electrified vehicles sales of 565,800 represent 29.3 percent of total sales volume
- Corolla projected to be the number one compact car in America
- RAV4 best-selling SUV in the U.S. for 7th consecutive year

You can also just look at Toyota stock killing it vs SPY[1] over the past year

[0] https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-motor-north-america-repo...
[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TM:NYSE?window=1Y&compa...
I mean, yes, toxins in the air are worse than non-toxins in the air. I don't think anyone will really debate that.

The banal answer to your question is you measure what is easy to measure. And it is easier to build a device that can measure size of particles than one that can enumerate all of the types. Especially since you will take the same actions regardless? Put up a filter and run it.
Your calculator is deterministic. Humans and AI are not.
shouting "speak to a fucking human" repeatedly seems to work, though i may be suffering from confirmation bias
I’m a realist who understands how the world really works and not some effete idealist.
More than "not bad", Textual is probably best in class for TUIs atm, but I wish Python had static builds! Even Javascript can build executables now with Bun!
I think parent means simple as in the language has very few facilities and the ones it gives you are very barebones (hence simple). C is simple in the sense that a screwdriver is simple compared to a power tool.

It doesn't mean that it is simple to use correctly. An expert might be able to accurately judge the torque achieved by hand, but a beginner can easily under- or over-torque things. Etc...
I love chatbots, especially the ones I create and integrate with whatsapp.

They provide a great user interface, probably the best for creating and maintaining workflows. I still believe the prime time for chatbots is yet to come.
> I have no trouble imagining scenarios in which I would prefer a chatbot

I'm baffled, which scenarios?
> Crazy that there would be so many unused buildings - I wonder if anyone is sitting on them waiting for the land-value to go up, or just setting a high sale-price and waiting for it to sell.

It's certainly a combination of various factors.

The low borrowing costs of the 2010s combined with high inflation make it a no-brainer to hang onto these properties. Figure, someone bought one of these properties for US$500k at 4% interest in 2015, after 10 years, that property is probably worth US$1.3-1.4MM and is growing at well over US$100k each year, while the 15 year mortgage payments amount to amount to only US$45k a year, plus property taxes.

So yeah, these buildings make serious money even left empty.

It's unlikely that taxing these properties is going to force people to sell. Housing inflation is so high that taxes would have to be oppressive (six figures a year) and that's a hard to get legislators behind (most of whom are participants in this problem).

For foreign investors, these properties are basically insurance policies. If they are forced to flee their home country, they'll land in a somewhat stable western democracy with enough capital to land comfortably on their feet. So there is a proportion of people who would make this investment even if it lost them money.

There's also the problem of shell games obscuring ownership to the point that nobody really knows who owns the property. So long as the taxes are paid out of an anonymous escrow account, the government isn't going to care about them.
I'm sure this is what happened to google search
Ah yeah we need to shut down the protests to stop the inconvenience. It would be better for them to go to a park on a Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4:30, permit in hand, and let their voices be heard by the pigeons and fountains.
Probably a smart idea to be suspicious of new apps, though I will say I am someone who care deeply about privacy. You can take a look at my previous project Boop ( https://boop.okat.best/ ), which is open source and has been on the App Store for 6 years, yet I still don't have any analytics or data collection in it. I have no clue how many people use it beyond download figures I get from Apple.

I have considered making this app open source, and it may still happen in the future, but I do want to release the Android version first. I'm worried that somebody will see my code, repackage it with a new name, beat me with better SEO (which would be easy considering how dumb the copy is on my website) and sell it for profit before I have a chance to reach a wider audience. This is something that did happen with Boop, not a hypothetical.

The reality is that this app cannot collect anything valuable either way. It's a simple serving app that only uses your microphone for a couple of seconds at a time, and I assume most people will delete it once it serves its purpose. If I wanted to monetize it, the best way would be to add a "Pro" version with a subscription or to add ads, but I have no interest in doing either. This is a fun side project/portfolio piece, and I'd rather collect internet love distributing a ton of free copies, rather than sell a small fraction of that number of paid copies for $0.99 and have to deal with things like marketing, taxes, and customer support.
This is a weird title. "Freak of Nature" do not appear in the linked information.
I recall a pretty long period of fiery but mostly peaceful protests that were simply allowed to happen. the police would stand down, and even social distancing / self-isolation / masking / etc did not apply - I vividly remember something among the lines of "stay at home (unless you're out there to protest)" being said unironically.

for some reason, the same media, politicians and twitter checkmarks who giddily encouraged those ones are very upset about these ones.

it's a mystery.
authn -> ident

authz -> perm

So much clearer.
For the purpose of generalization, I think that's more treating a symptom than the root cause.

The better approach IMO would be finding architectures that heavily penalize the formation of memorizing and interpolating circuits. E.g much stronger weight decay than used today.
Ask HN: The correct prompt/response format to fine-tune LLM for function call
Hi, we’re working on deploying llama3 models on a private server for a corporate, however we found that llama3 does not support function calling. And now we try to fine-tune it on our own.

After checking on the internet we found few datasets that were available for this specific purpose. However after reviewing the dataset we have some questions regarding the format for prompt and response. And we want to ask for your help before we start the training.

1. Should we include more than one function metadata in the prompt, or just the single one?

We found that the dataset one has one function metadata for each sample, however my intuition is that 2 or 3 might be better, with only one relevant to the query. This way the model might learn to pick the correct function.

2. What should be the correct format for the response?

I know that we should include the function name and the input arguments in the response as the labels, however I’m suggesting to design a proper format that’s easy to parser after the inference call, as we want to implement an openAI API compatible system (we already have the chat API endpoint implemented which works with the openAI client)

Any suggestions and ideas would be appreciated, thanks!

This is the example dataset we’ve looking at right now
https://huggingface.co/datasets/glaiveai/glaive-function-calling-v2
IIRC there was one called ILOG. It was bought by IBM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOG
They are separated by size because that determines which airways they migrate to, and which can enter the bloodstream. Yes, what they're made of matters - the latter is also measured in specific studies, but the former is a lot easier/cheaper to systematically measure.
"Getting through chat bots to get to a human" is the new "getting through tech support to get to an engineer".

https://xkcd.com/806/
https://archive.ph/LOUmX

Website seems to be really slow for some reason. Hence providing this.
Those people must be stupid. First of all, CS does have programming classes to get you started, but they expect you to just be able to do it past the fourth semester. The classes without any programming are just as relevant as before. Finally, you also get to build the thing that is supposedly taking your job away, so you are just replacing one thing to do with another.

There are management and business focused CS degrees in Germany with significant overlap in the courses.
Not sure that's a safe assumption, if the Cold War hadn't happened would we have even gone to the moon?
I was expecting a different kind of Black Pope.