skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt any of these is worth any $'s ...

as always with a legacy $anything the price is for those who really want it.

I have Psion 3 (with a damaged screen cablr, but with a whopping 1MB SSD), it costs nothing, but people selling the working ones for more than $100
I can't wait to see the movie!
Almost -- you're testing that given your mocking implementation perfectly mirrors what the dependency would do given the inputs tested with that your functions produce the correct outputs (and hopefully you also verified the side-effects).

The article is stating that almost nobody goes through the trouble of implementing a mock database perfectly, they just do something like make a single call return some hard-coded data. While this works a bit, it means that if the database ever changes its interface you have to remember to notice and implement that change as well.
I don't think end-to-end encryption prevents server backup. It means that decryption keys is in your mind and at most on your personal device.
This is related to a classic relational database problem called “bill of materials problem” - suggest you Google that. Also look for book on Graphs and networks in SQL by Joe Celko where he goes into modeling graphs in SQL tables.
Naive formulations will lead to deeply nested joins which balloon in computational cost.
> Right now they can't compete.

Why? Because they aren't good enough, and if they have no competition they'll have to actually do something?
Has there been any evidence this was pushed by lobbyists? If you look at what's happening in Ukraine It's pretty much a given that the US defense sector is looking at ways to improve the US small drone manufacturing capabilites, and have less potentially hostile drones flying over their own territory.
I don't think it's that simple. Plenty of people won't buy a Mac because it's "different", which of them is 'better' never factors into it.

While I don't use Photoshop I'd assume that logic holds even stronger - if you know how to use Photoshop you're going to ask for that rather than a tool you don't know how to use.
There are a couple functions that can be activated without the hey google phrase. You can enable or disable in the google assistant app by clicking your picture in top right then hit quick phrases.

Google Home app, click on the device to edit, then open the gear section, Audio, and you’ll see an option to adjust the “Hey Google” sensitivity.

I find it triggers a lot when people or shows speak languages other than English.
The weak derivative does not have much to do with any trend of a function at a point. The value of weak derivative at any given point is not even defined. The weak derivative of a quarterly earnings function is zero, regardless of what the earnings actually are. I hope you realize how silly you are being here.
To be fair, SDXL was really bad at launch too. Now people are comparing sd3 base model to fine tuned SDXL outputs... But yeah, I don't have much hope for stability now that the original diffusion team and even comfyanonymous all left. Long live Chinese OS models, I guess
I believe CS6 was the last version of Adobe Animate you could purchase outright. I don't know about their other products as much.

I even emailed Adobe sales representatives two years ago to see if I was missing something, and maybe there was a way to buy it that I wasn't seeing. They made it very clear that subscriptions are the only way now.
> The answer is simple. f strings are evaluated at run time.

You didn't understand the question. Everything in Python is evaluated at runtime. Bytecode is just a form of caching.

> The behaviour is correct.

Python doesn't have a standard. Nobody knows what behavior is correct. That's the only behavior Python has, so, again, calling it correct is just not saying anything.

> What's so interesting about the Elephant case?

This class, in principle, shouldn't be different from lambda from the previous example, yet it acts differently.

You don't need to lecture me on why things behave the way they are. Since I found these examples, you can trust me, I know why they behave like this. The idea is to drive your attention to the inconsistencies that a "naive" reader would discover.
Do you also plan on talking with the Mozilla people? And with Apple? Or will this be a kind of big daddy Google knows what's best for you, ads included?
It'll take me a while to digest today's changes, so I don't have an educated opinion about them as yet.

Yes, companies like Meta will no longer be able to open-source their models, once their compute reaches the threshold, if the bill goes through and if the "covered model" definition is interpreted to include base models (or is modified to make that clear).
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The darker side of being a doctor (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025261 - April 2024 (500 comments)
When one of the potential customers in this "extremely niche" space has an $800 billion annual budget, you don't lose sleep over it.
You vote for the side that's most favorable to reform and then vote for the people within that party most likely to bend things toward your goals, ideally slowly shifting one side's stance toward yours until there is a difference between the parties. You and everyone you can convince go do that work, and it is work, for 5-10 cycles and you might effect meaningful change.

There was never a "one election will fix everything" in the US and people who pretend that's the only path and use that to discount the possibility of change were never serious about change to begin with. Had they been serious, they'd have studied history enough to see you rarely get what you want with one election cycle.

It's the quitters that got us into this uniparty situation on so many issues. Don't be a quitter, get active and stay active until you see the change you want.
> it just leads to a mess of interdependency and tight coupling among functionalities

Disagree with that. Most UI frameworks, including ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF (Java based frameworks), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC. That's no accident. MVC works very well.
> it kicks the can down the road to how your original data was assembled

Well, it kicks it to a bias dataset, used in the tuning process. The raw data has no constraints, it can be the same huge corpus it is now.

> The bias dataset must be assembled with the knowledge of and usually in the belief in the usefulness of the characteristics that you're trying to extract.

Certainly, it is subjective, as I said. But that hasn't stopped research in this area, there are existing bias datasets and bias detection algorithms. Like https://huggingface.co/blog/evaluating-llm-bias#toxicity, it would be simple to complete those prompts and build a he/she dataset, and then the debiasing procedure could remove gender biases for those sorts of occupation-related prompts. It is certainly possible to argue over each data point and whether it actually reflects bias, but so far people have been more concerned with algorithms than data set quality, partly because with better algorithms you can algorithmically generate data sets.

> The idea that the good data is secretly encoded in uncorrupted form within the bad data I think is a bad idea. It reminds me of trying to make bad mortgages into good CDOs.

It is empirically true though? Like if you get the model to say something racist, and then ask it if that's racist, it will generally say yes. So the model "knows", it just is not using that knowledge effectively. Similarly with CDOs, there were people complaining about mortgage quality for years before the crisis.

> I don't think [the purpose of RLHF is to reduce toxicity] If some people think something is toxic, and other people think that not mentioning that thing is toxic, the winner is whoever improves the bottom line more or damages it less.

Well, it is true that toxicity is subjective too. But in practice it has a precise meaning, you build a dataset and score each item for toxicity. That's actually one of the things I find cool about LLMs, is that all these previously "vague" or "subjective" terms are now encoded in the model precisely. Arguably since nobody has the last say in what words mean, the LLM's opinions are as good as any, and given the amount of text the LLM has ingested I consider its opinions on language and word choice "first among equals".
Manufacturing capability and infrastructure would be my guess. I guess if the trend continues and factories keep moving to India and Mexico, it might be a different game in 10 years.
Assuming you're not just here to troll (doubtful given your comment history, but hey I'm feeling generous):

> lol AMD flogged its floundering foundry waaay before Intel ran into any problems.

Not wanting/being able to spend to compete on the leading edge nodes is an interesting definition of "floundering". Today there is exactly 1 foundry in the world that's on that leading edge, TSMC. We'll see how Intel Foundry works out, but they're years behind their revenue/ramp targets at this point.

It's fairly well known that Brian Krzanich proposed spinning out Intel's foundry operations, but the board said no.

The irony is that trailing edge fabs are wildly profitable, since the capex is fully amortized. GloFo made $1 billion in net income in FY2023.

> in fact most of your points about AMD's lack of dough can be traced back to that disaster. The company wasn't hit by some meteorite. It screwed up all by itself

Bulldozer through Excavator were terrible architectures. What does this have to do with what's now known as Global Foundries?

GloFo got spun out with Emirati money in March 2009. Bulldozer launched in Q4 2011. What's the connection?

AMD continued to lose market share (and was unprofitable) for years after the foundry was spun out. Bad architectural choices, and bad management, sure. Overpaying for ATI, yep. "Traced back" to GloFo? How?

> Then lucky it had that duopolistic X86 licence to lean on or it would have gone the way of Zilog or Motorola. 'Cos it sure can't rely on its janky compute offering.

"Janky" when? "Rely" implies present tense. You're saying AMD compute offerings are janky today?
See adjacent reply
I just want to express how much I appreciate Meredith Whittaker. She helped organize the Google walkouts, She's been working on AI safety since at least 2016, She advised Lina Khan at the FTC, and new she's out here advocating for preserving E2EE. A lot of people online give her flak for her opinions, but she's been consistently very loud and occasionally influential.

She's done some cool uncontroversial tech work too (like helping start M-Lab), but her advocacy is what is most interesting to me. I don't agree with all of her positions, but I like that there are still people in the tech world who are willing to take strong and sometimes radical stances on moral issues against the current of capitalism. I feel like she's the closest thing we have to an rms-type figure today.
> It's disheartening to witness the US embracing protectionism for high-tech

The US is embracing protectionism because we lost the manufacturing advantage. We lost the advantage because we outsourced our manufacturing to China with the pipe dream that we could keep the "higher end" of the value chain. It's as if we can magically have senior engineers without training junior ones in factories. It's as if the equally ambitious and talented Chinese fellows wouldn't want to climb up the value chain. As a result, we have lost talent. We have lost know-how. We have lost the supply chain. We have lost the intuition of how to optimize or scale manufacturing.

What a shame.
I think people realized that they had ultimately reinvented PHP and sometimes a stateful app server is just fine for your 100 req/day app.
i havent used htmx yet, but it sounds like a breath of fresh air. no npm library with 1000 dependencies with slow build times. just plain simple js library like the good old days ^_^
agreed, but the chrome team is in communication w/the other browser makers and often drives new standards (e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...)

their latest features have started leaning into improving the hypermedia infrastructure of the web so i'm optimistic
The real question is how much talent you can replace with hard work, because it's a false dichotomy. Not everyone who works hard is talentless, and not everyone who's talented is completely lazy.
That's actually not the same model. The important part of BNPL is that it's offered on the purchase, not as part of your credit card bill. That means the lender can decide not to offer it on any transaction they don't feel safe about, which is a more flexible than your bank/CC who have to trust you'll pay your entire bill.
half-serious question:

What is the omnipresent "defined by a domain name" in the "claims"-section of the patent (see [1]) all about? To me it seems unfit as a defining criterion for a network.

[1] https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-7949785-...
The Spore team invented the term "TTP" (and Chaim made the tools to optimize Spore's TTP so much it was negative), which was referenced several times in the hilarious series that parodies a game development company, "Mythic Quest":

Mythic Quest - TTP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew

NSFW YouTube Search:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spore+penis+mon...

Overheard@GDC09: TTP = Time To Penis:

https://www.engadget.com/2009-03-24-overheard-gdc09-ttp-time...

(305) Margaret Robertson: SPORE's Wake: What Seriously Happened? TTP @ 38:00:

https://gdcvault.com/play/1317/(305)-SPORE-s-Wake-What

Know Your Meme: TTP:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-to-penis-ttp

About

Time to Penis, abbreviated to TTP, is a video game development metric and slang term for the time it takes players to generate a penis-shaped object via any available means. Coined by the Spore development team and popularized by a GDC 2009 panel, the term has been an inspiration for humorous posts online since.

Origin

During the development of the 2008 simulation real-time strategy video game Spore, developers working at Maxis came up with a metric to measure the amount of time in which a player was able to create a penis using in-game tools (excerpt seen below).[1]

>Mitch Zamara, 28 January 2011 at 00:01 | Permalink

>Fun little anecdote that came to mind when seeing the title image for this blog post:

>A friend of mine who worked at EA/Maxis told me of a coined term over there when working on spore:

>Time to Penis, or TTP for short. This basically is the amount of time it takes from release of your product before a player is able to create and distribute a representation of a penis inside your game/ editor:

>Clearly in games like Spore/LBP this time is nearly instant. I guess the rule is.. if you can give them something to build with, its only a matter of time until they li make a dick with it.

The first public mention of the metric occurred during the "Spore's Wake: What Seriously Happened?" at Game Developers Conference 2009. Participants of the panel defined the metric as the amount of time it will take children to make something rude out of a set of tools they've been given. On March 24th, 2009, the day when the panel took place, video game developer Evan Berman[2] and Engadget[3] contributor Kevin Kelly made the earliest public posts about the metric (shown below, left and right).

>Evan Berman @Scapes

>New acronym: TTP, "time to penis", a metric of the time it takes for a penis to be made as user-created content (from #GDC Spore talk).

>2:05 PM - Mar 24, 2009 • Twitter Web Client

>During the "Spore's Wake: What Seriously Happened?" panel at GDC, we learned a fantastic new meme that we have to share with you. "Time To Penis" (or just "TTP" in the streetz) is defined as the amount of time it will take children to make something rude out of a set of tools they've been given --typically, that object is a penis. Apparently, TTP can be measured down to the near-second. In Spore's case, TTP was actually a negative factor since "children" were making penis monsters before the Creature Creator was even officially released!
Auction sites are amazing for stuff like this. IT departments are always trying to get rid of old cables.

An example I found in like 2 minutes: https://www.govdeals.com/asset/22/22839
There's a whole bunch of laser cooling science/applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
I don't think that's true. You just need some new firmware or something, no?
When you said "It’s awesome that they have the flexibility to choose different launch partners and can use the most reliable and flight proven technology." I thought you were listing that as an advantage they have compared to Starlink. If every competitor has the same flexibility, then why bring it up?
And in fact the copyright holder has no power about its product, when published, not being acquired by key libraries. It was so for example under Ptolemy III Euergetes (who mandated that every found book be copied for the Museum in Alexandria), and it is so today. Libraries are there for collection of and access to recorded knowledge.

The modalities of accession had a form with the physical book, and may lose meaning with current new formats (there is no natural exclusive access to a single token). So, labelling "piracy" simultaneous access may easily be just vacuous technicality.
Hmmm.

There used to be a huge population of stray dogs in Balkan cities after 1990. (Contraception and culling reduced the numbers quite a bit since then.)

Most of the time, they just went out of people's way, individually or in loose packs. Attacks on humans did happen, but weren't a daily occurrence.

That said, a stray dog in a big city will always find food, so they weren't hungry.
38% in the Toyota atkinson cycle engines, which are the top of the industry. Typical is more like 28% for gasoline engines. Then you have automatic transmission efficiency, which is at best ~%80, so now you're down to 30% at best.

More typical: 28% engine thermal efficiency, 75% transmission efficiency means 21% overall efficiency.

So yes, gasoline energy equivalency is pretty meaningless unless you multiply it by 0.2 first.

Gas mileage figures from the EPA and others don't account at all for the time a vehicle spends idling before/after a trip - or even in heavy traffic, just waiting at traffic lights. For example, time parents spend sitting in their cars idling waiting to pick up their kids, time spend idling in coffee and fast food drive-through lines, etc. Start-stop systems help, but a lot of people disable them.
Yeah I looked it up shortly after posting that comment.

I wish they'd release a Mac version, because that was actually my favorite video editor on Windows. It would be really great if they made a Linux version but I'm not holding my breath for that.
Plastics will get more expensive as we use less and less oil.

Plastics are basically a waste byproduct from the energy industry. As we use less oil, there will be less plastic trying to find a use and flooding the supply of plastics.

When prices rise, a lot of single use plastics, like water bottles, will be uneconomical.
Process Monitor v4.0 and Sysmon 1.3.3 for Linux
Billionaires making more money sure helps pay my hospital bills.
I remember getting burnt a while ago when attempting to flash a couple off-the-shelf routers with Tomato USB and then some other distro that I can't remember now. Both routers ended up getting bricked, with only one that I was able to flash again. I splurged last year and got a Protectli VP2420 that's been happily running every new release of OPNsense.

Is there a cheaper < $200 open source Wi-Fi alternative that I could recommend to friends and family? Not just OpenWRT, but preferably hardware and software that's developed more in tandem.
Joules (energy), not watts (power.)
Ahaha, as opposed to the US where... 3-letter agencies don't bring evidence to a judge, they just go to google/meta to get it.
Those giant touchscreens are a petri dish for every germ imaginable. McDonald's are open 24 hours with all kinds of people tapping away on them. There's no way the screens are cleaned more than a couple of times a day.
If I lie about you or your company in my newspaper causing you financial or other harm should I not face consequences such as a lawsuit or should I be allowed to destroy your life consequence free because I feel like it?

What about if I lie about my product and you use it and it fails to deliver, or causes you direct harm? Should I be allowed to do that?
If I'm not mistaken, isn't Nathan Myhrvold the founder of Intellectual Ventures?

I used to drive by one of their offices on 132nd in Bellevue fairly often. Now that I've Googled it, I'm quite surprised to see what Intellectual Ventures engages in quite a lot of patent litigation. I thought he was a venture capitalist or something.

The last thing I remember from him was a series of elaborate cookbooks.
It sometimes is, but it also includes cable thieves, people trying to collect a ball they've lost (as the article mentions), anti-social behavior from the kind of people who think it's fun to set a signalling cabinet on fire, and potential terrorists/saboteurs.
> Entity formation time; time and capital required to hire the first N employees; number, cost and time of licensing required before first sale can be made. Each are higher in Europe.

Which Europe? All of those can be done online with minimal effort or upfront investment in many EU countries. Do you mean Belarus?

> Combine that with the multiple languages and regulators which inhibits scale and you get the present situation.

This is true, because the EU is composed of 20+ different countries, each with different languages, cultures, histories, priorities. It's impossible to remove that boundary.
> we are temporarily banning [...] all models or LoRAs trained on content created with outputs from SD3 based models.

Again we see this bizarre standard where the licensing of AI model output is taken more seriously than the licensing of any other type of training data. CivitAI is absolutely filled with LoRAs trained on the work of artists who refuse to license it for that purpose, but only LoRAs based on the output of an AI model with a restrictive license are over the line apparently?

It's a similar story with LLMs, e.g. OpenAI scooping up unlicensed data to train their models, but then turning around and proclaiming that the license of ChatGPTs output forbids using it to train a competing model. The license of data used for training either matters or it doesn't, you can't have it both ways.
The unfortunate part of this is that a large percentage of that small percentage is library maintainers, so it matters a lot more overall because of their role in the React space, even if users aren't necessarily using those features.
I don't have contacts in those groups, but chrome is in contact w/them and has pushed forward hypermedia-friendly features e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

i have told my chrome team contacts about bugs in other browsers (e.g. safari not properly updating completion results when datalist elements are replaced asynchronously) and they have communicated these issues to those teams and gotten them fixed

if anyone reading this from other browser teams is interested in getting in contact w/me they can email me at carson at bigsky dot software
You cannot increase the number of wits by multiplying half-wits.
I don't think it's a matter of understanding, unfortunately.
TIL about pebble-bed reactors - they're pretty cool! Obviously not without their trade offs, but they nullify a lot of the issues with PWRs.
You could combine it with another IMU using a Kalman filter and improve accuracy that way.
Google street view isn't going to be driving around sensitive government facilites or electrical infrastructure though - and you really can't guarantee no curious citizens will try to fly their dji drone over said facilities. So all DJI needs to do is put in an if(location == government_facility) and sit back and wait for the camera feed from some idiot american.