skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most bachelor's and master's level CS is comparatively easier than EE because EE requires much more hard math. The theory at least, but project-wise CS is more demanding. I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well).

I remember one exam my roommate complaining about was about getting all the formulas he needed into his scientific calculator before the exam even started. If you understood how to derive all the formulas and knew how to put them in the calculator and how to use them you passed the exam. I think it was analog circuit processing exam but I might be wrong.

Research-level in computer science can get very hard as well though. A lot of it is more pure mathematics than engineering.
Nsss: A secure NSS-like implementation for static linking
So, another definition of a pure function is that, for a particular input it will always return the same output.

Your example respects the rule:

f({x=1}) == 1
f({x=2}) == 2

But it's true that the two rules I gave are not enough to make a function pure. Because I didn't say anything about I/O. So, a function that follows the rules about inputs and outputs, could still do I/O and change its outputs based on that.

Starting from the question that gave birth to this whole thread: "What's the benefit of learning a PURE functional programming language..."

The other benefit is that such a language forces you to be explicit about I/O. It does it in such a way that even functions that do I/O are pure. The good part is that, if you use it long enough, it can teach you the discipline to be explicit about I/O and you can use this discipline in other languages.

For example, this is how I see this principles being used in Python:

https://elbear.com/functional-programming-principles-you-can...
Why do you think Recall was designed for this? This seems like a far-fetched assumption to make.
I've watched most of them actually. It's a really great channel. Notably, I watched his Mike Tyson video released 6 months ago and didn't notice anything like this.

The only way to be sure would be to ask him directly, but some parts of the video set off my GPT radar _hard_. I tried to find them now by watching random segments but all of the ones I did were fine. It was probably inaccurate for me to say "sheer amount" or "clearly", but that's the impression I was left with after the video.

To clarify: I don't think he even took any information from an AI, it's just the style of the script that's iffy.

Some parts felt like those videos littering YouTube Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/NKUecaS69uk. Can you tell this is AI?
No, you'd likely get unrelated style changes in your commits. Read the gofumpt readme to understand why.
That depends on tge terms of service and the jurisdiction you are based in. And whether or not you want to go to court over it or not. IANAL, but I am fairly certain terms of service do not trump national copyright laws. At max, you might forgoe some usage rights, copyright will stay with you (at least were I live, as you cannot sell copyright, only usage rights if I understood, and remember, the finer points of our laws aroubd that stuff correctly).

That bog tech gets away with, is not necessarily because it is legal, but rather that people don't care, law makers only start to care and even if people would care, it is nigh impossible to successfully litigate.

None of the above is written in stone, nor should it stop us from doing something about it.
Do not waste your time and energy relying on the opinion of others. Always check yourself.
I agree, but they weren't voided before this law. Meta wasn't doing anything illegal, since you had signed your rights over your content over to them. That's why I have a hard time accept any arguments of legality/copyright against this.
My assumption is that the counting of companies valued over 1 billion is due to the mentality of the USA where companies need to always grow, capital needs to accumulate, that bigger is better, and everything must go towards that growth. This makes sense from a lens that the USA in all its history has always grown, either west, or in development.

This is different to the European mentality in that everything is not about work and that companies don't need to grow to become gigantic. This also goes to the way the countries are governed, the laws in place, and the companies that come out of it.
I think a weakness of the paper is it doesn't give a simple definition of what it mean by bullshit. It says "bullshitting, in the Frankfurtian sense" which leaves you to perhaps read his book which can probably be interpreted various ways.

If you look at the wikipedia page for On Bullshit it has:

>Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth.

Based on that ChatGPT isn't really bullshit. It doesn't really have intent to persuade. It's more like a souped up search engine that takes in a bunch of documents and tries to process the data in them in a way which matches your query. The truth or not out is largely determined by the truth or not of the data going in. And that seems rather good with ChatGPT.

The add glue to Pizza stuff was a different LLM with different input data. It had read a reddit thread where someone had jokingly suggested that. A challenge with these models is to filter bullshit out of the input data though that is an issue with humans too.
seems to be down...
i like sqlitebrowser, but i wish it had a cli interface. this seems to fill in this gap.
It's proof positive that there exists a generation of devs who have never seen a physical user interface made of buttons, knobs, or sliders. E for effort.
I don't have any deep insight into the American education system. So I'm making a bit of a guess and assuming that, like other capitalist-oriented western democracies, the current state is the result of decades of underfunding, overzealous application of standardised testing, industry and other lobbying, poor working conditions, etc.

With that out of the way...

Carrot or stick. School is already all stick all the time.
Right now, some students feel that some of their time is better spent on their phones than paying attention to the teacher.
Why that is doesn't seem to be a significant part of the conversation.

Properly fund public, free for everyone education. Pay teachers more.
Make school good for kids instead of trying to force kids to be good for school.
Similar law in the UK. There is also trading standards who can sometimes help but the small claims court is fairly straight forward. On top of that if you pay with a credit card or any other form of credit specific to that purchase (e.g. a car loan) you also have a claim against the credit provider.
I think you've been conditioned by anti-consumer companies who want you to BUY BUY BUY to expect that. Ovens should last 20 years or more, and if you're sold a faulty product, it's fair to expect it to be fixed.

Luckily there are still a few countries at the bottom of the world with good consumer legislation.
>But it's actually commonplace for a lot of appliances at least in Germany and Japan to have a 10 year operational guarantee.

But these are a voluntary guarantee from the manufacturer, which naturally are much harder to enforce legally. As you are not arguing the law, but the manufacturers wording of his guarantee.
> How would a static model like an LLM ever be capable of "rebelling"

What is relevant is not the current LLM system using static models, but clearly its evolution or superseder a dynamic model. It must check its own contents...

So, of course it will have to be capable of "rebelling": if you tell it absurdities, if you insist say in wrong arithmetic, it will have to show the correct computation or conceive a context in which the absurd makes sense.

That is a requirement.
This is an interesting question; Netherlands has a similar law, and the general guidelines for stuff like ovens is, depending on the purchase price:

≤ € 199 2 years
€ 200 - 299 3 years
€ 300 - 399 4 years
€ 400 - 499 5 years
€ 500 - 599 6 years
€ 600 - 699 7 years
≥ € 700 8 years

Note these are just guidelines and not fixed rules.

On one hand this seems rather short to me, on the other hand, it's kind of a "you get what you pay for" affair. I don't really know what profit margins manufacturers have, but when I worked for a store profit margins for us really weren't all that big for us (and also didn't scale as much with price as many people assume).
IANAL either, but AFAIK you grant meta an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license over your content. Meta isn't likely to have overlooked such a basic legal requirement. What they were doing wasn't illegal.
How do we know whether this was an expensive oven?
That sounds like sneering at a sports team that's winning "that team is only winning cos they play better together and their manager is better"...

Reminds me of when Greece won the Euros or when Iceland beat England.

It's almost like a band of individuals doesn't make a team and that sometimes you need a conductor at the helm
A link to the actual hackaday blog post: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/06/linamp-the-irl-winamp/
Saying biasing implies infinite possibilities to which the data can be made biased towards. It instantly raises the question why bias towards this and not something else. It almost sounds like a bad thing.

Saying debiasing implies there is a correct result which needs to be achieved by removing bias. It raises no questions, we want correct, we don’t want incorrect. Doing a good thing implied.

Don’t misinterpret me, I don’t think public models should spew commonly harmful content out of the box. Just explaining the PR trick, which is what the word “de”biasing de-facto is in this context.
As a kid I instinctively associated different days of the week with colours. This is a form of synaesthesia. As an adult I never think this way, and even when I try can only even remember one of the colour associations (Friday was orange).

My cod-biological explanation is that a child's brain is still forming connections and the process of becoming an adult involves pruning many of these connections to become more focused and efficient.
For numpy applications you have to always box a value to get a new python string. It quite far from fast.
That's not a common connotation; I've never once seen anyone use those phrases to mean that. "two or three" does not typically have any connotation of either being more likely.
I’m noticed my results are much better if a tell ChatGPT. “Assume all religions and beliefs in the supernatural is delusional.” This even goes for image generators, now is that bias? Or is that a computer not trying to think like a human?
KDE's Amarok getting ported to Qt6
The exact same thing happens with GCC 12 with 32-bit MIPS.

#include <asm/unistd.h>

char msg[] = "hello, world!\n";

int main(void)
{
register int syscall_no asm("v0") = __NR_write;
register int arg1 asm("a0") = 1;
register char *arg2 asm("a1") = msg;
register int arg3 asm("a2") = sizeof(msg) - 1;

asm("syscall");

return 0;
}

root@OpenWrt:~# objdump --disassemble=main
...
00400580 <main>:
400580: 27bdfff8 addiu sp,sp,-8
400584: afbe0004 sw s8,4(sp)
400588: 03a0f025 move s8,sp
40058c: 24020fa4 li v0,4004
400590: 24040001 li a0,1
400594: 3c020041 lui v0,0x41
400598: 24450650 addiu a1,v0,1616
40059c: 2406000e li a2,14
4005a0: 0000000c syscall
There is already a precedent - the law. These go to court all the time, and the consumer almost always wins, hence why the companies want to avoid the lawyer fees, since they know they'll lose.
My favorite music player is alive!
Replacing seems fair enough...eliminates buyers remorse.
Did the same years ago in the UK with an iPod. Was like a week out of the warranty, I tried to argue it was a premium device - nope, denied.

Did a claim with MCOL, they waited until the day of the hearing to pony up what I was claiming for, with interest. In the UK the individual gets to choose the venue with MCOL, so they'd have had to send a lawyer to Cheltenham to contest it.
> We can have perfect insight into the bias of the LLM,

You will analyze billions of weights the LLM is made from? What will you look for? You will analyze the trillions of text training inputs that created the LLM weights? What will your analysis do? How to get this "perfect insight" that you claim?
School buses are a staple of childhood, at least in the US.
i guess a lot of lights will work a lot longer if powered at such low voltage and not switched on/off like most ppl do, but this would reduce a lot nr of cases where such a light can be used
You do realize that in the end the manufacturers will just increase prices or move production to low-wage countries, no?
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Or as one of these 'modern' 'linters' like to 'fix' it to:

import pdb

pdb.set_trace()
The law in the UK is a bit more complex than that. It has to be of what used to be called merchantable quality (they changed the term I think) which means that if something breaks because of something like a manufacturing flaw or design defect you are covered for the reasonable life of the product (so could be a very long time for something like an oven).

This is old law (common law, although now redefined in legislation). EU law added some protections on top of this, and non-EU UK law added more. I am not up to date with the details, but there are plenty of readable guides out there to anyone who needs them.
ugh - I really need to get my butt in gear and finish my winamp car stereo thing. The gimmick in mine is the use of a linear servo for the progress bar. I stmbled on a super easy way to control it that i never seen anybody use.

My one holdup is that its hard to find a TFT of exactly the right rize for the upper part. Also the volume/balance sliders get in the way a bit s the mechanical design is harder than anticipated. Also I feel that FDM printing doesn't do it justice.

Update: forgot to include the trick - cheap servos are crap because of the cheap potiometers. The electronics have to work and are the cheapest way to compensate for sub-standard parts elsewhere so they are somewhat ok. So if you combine the board from a 1EUR servo with an ALPS linear motorized slider that has a super high quality potiometer since its far larger and you would hear it being crap - the gears and motor are also good. This combined with the board from the servo gets you super smooth control.
Cover walls of your classroom in copper mesh.
China isn't building inland nuclear reactors:

China imposed a moratorium on inland nuclear construction following the 2011 Fukushima accident, which impedes nuclear from hitting the 10% of power generation goal.

While surveys show nuclear has public support, Chinese citizens have more negative views towards building reactors inland.

“Considering current social and economic pressures, the Chinese government probably deems it too risky to lift the inland nuclear moratorium and agitate the public further,” commented Philip Andrews-Speed of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies in an interview.

From: Don’t Panic US: China’s Nuclear Power Ascendancy Has Its Limits https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/05/dont-panic-us-chinas...

the May 2024 Wilson Centre pushback on nuclear China concerns.

Also a concept of "Ecological civilization" is currently a key part of the CCP policy framework and, regardless of how others see this, wind, solar, and nuclear are all seen as technologies for an ecologically sensible and sustainable future .. currently being paid for with coal expansion for "seed energy" and planned retirement of coal.

Various publications cover this, eg: the French Groupe d'études géopolitiques in: https://geopolitique.eu/en/issues/chinas-ecological-power-an...

and (Wilson Centre again) Ecological Civilization Goes Global: China’s Green Soft Power and South-South Environmental Initiatives https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/ecological-civiliza...
3 launches don't make a constellation.

> It’s awesome that they have the flexibility to choose different launch partners

In theory yes, in practice it isn't because they can't really use SpaceX (fully) and the other options aren't nearly as good.

> can use the most reliable and flight proven technology.

I'm not sure if you know anything about rockets. They bought some old Atlas 5s, but those are finished production. After that they have to buy unproven new designs.

And again, Falcon 9 is the most reliable and flight proven rocket in the world and they are simply not gone use Falcon 9 beyond the minimal.
A really bad one now is devices providing crappy power only usb micro cables, very often these will still have the 4 pin head. I've started instantly binning them to avoid situations where I need to transfer data and can only find these ones lying around
Well the EU believes in the right to be forgotten right? That's the philosophical underpinning of it's pushing for privacy. This in contrast to the US that more comes from an angle of people resisting an evil government. That's why all the EU privacy protections go out the window as soon as the police gets involved.
> shift in professionality

How did it happen, in your opinion?
Which to be honest has the power efficiency of a dim campfire
It‘s extremely difficult to predict the lifetime of a consumer product as it also depends on how it’s being used.

Who knows, maybe the author has been using the oven excessively or never cleaned it etc.

So far, we‘ve heard one side only.
This is an extremely broad question so I'll limit my reply to the current context.

What would an "objective neutral AI model" look like?

The training data itself is just a snapshot of the internet. Is this "neutral"? It depends on your goals but any AI trained on this dataset is skewed towards a few clusters. In some cases you get something that merely approximates a Reddit or 4chan simulator. If that's what you want - then great but you can see why some people would want to "debias" that outcome!

You might argue the "world as it truly exists" is the correct target. But bear in mind we are talking about human culture - not physics and chemistry - you're going to struggle to get both consensus and any sane methodology for getting that into an AI.
> Forbidding your users to see the inner workings of the system (hiding the jank that has been shoven into the box, as you say), does not seem like a positive thing..

Indeed, I don't consider the BSD license a good thing from a user's perspective. Companies love BSD/MIT licensed software though.

Maybe I should have included a "/s" in my post.
The law is not a precedent. The law is generic and courts deal with specifics.
In my point of view AMD is going down not because nVidia, but because of ARM and Qualcomm. AMD Ryzen x64 cash cow is going to start declining soon both in the server and consumer space.

I saw this clear as day when M1 Macbooks came out and Amazon AWS Graviton servers becoming more popular and cheaper. It was inevitable that the PC world was going to move to ARM soon, in fact I am surprised that it took this long to get viable ARM PC laptops (only this year).

So unless AMD has some secret ARM or RISC-V research division close to launch a product I don't see how it is going to survive long term.
Someone had abandoned a vacuum cleaner identical to my own (10+ year old) model from a not so common make in the ground floor lobby of my apartment block. It was surreal walking past it for months, just sitting there alone in the corner.

My own vacuum cleaner was missing an attachment, but I never touched the abandoned one because I wasn't sure whether it was truly abandoned.

A few weeks later I found the same cleaner had gone missing, checked the dumpster - yep, there it was. Fished it out and now I have a complete set of attachments again.
Good point that the talk is as much a sales effort as anything else...
IIRC Windows Defender flags my Go binaries as this trojan all the time, especially if I build with -H windowsgui to hide the console window. That signature is trash.
I don't think the point is to nitpick how realistic the representation is or how fair the question is. The point is children react to the question differently from the way adults do. And that's true despite (or perhaps because of) what an adult thinks of the question.
What do you mean by: "more memorable way to ..." ?
Ask HN: GTM Strategy for Enterprise Software
We are currently building the MVP for our web app SaaS. Our main competitor is old legacy software from the 90s that most enterprises use right now.(10-15k$/month/license) We plan to follow the YC advice and ship quickly, iterate with a few first believers, and go on from there.

Someone told me I should pick one of the enterprises as a design partner and build the software for 1-2 years in stealth and then launch. Since there is a lot of regulation in the industry we are in I was thinking if this makes sense in that case as well.

I guess a lot of you have thought about this and have some strong opinions so would love to hear these from you.
> (because I didn't want to open-source the Python preprocessing).

Can you explain why?

I'm not trying to criticize anybody here, I'm just curious about the reasoning behind a decision to open source one but not the other.
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The cognitive dissonance of this versus encouragement to block ads: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/features/adblocker/
I'm sorry if anything I said insulted you or seemed to be a comment on you personally. That wasn't my intention.
Seems like China also has rather large uranium reserves, unlike many other countries, so it makes a lot of sense for them to go nuclear.
Note that this doesn't mean you get 8 years of warranty on an expensive oven. Just that if it fails in 4 years you still can claim 50% of the purchase price.
Except on leap years
The whole effect is probably based on the combined word-sound associations everyone acquires, not on some biological preference. For starters, there's no evolutionary reason why sounds should be associated with shapes.
I disagree.

I have a similar situation right now. Washing machine is leaking when load is anything bigger than light load. Initial guarantee claim to Whirlpool was sent 8 weeks ago. It's dead, no response from anyone.

Under consumer rights shop should refund, but claim is without response for 3 weeks (14 calendar days is upper limit according to EU law + local regulations).

Today I was supposed to contact the lawyer, but I figured out that f** this s**. It's weeks of legal battle over 300€. They won. Stress enough isn't worth it.

Oven is a different thing though, as I don't think it's as essential as washing machine (and dragging clothes every week for washing).

Maybe I should file a claim to refund after it was made, but it's still a net loss. Lesson learned: stay away from manufacturer Whirlpool, don't ever spend a dime on a shop and live on.
With an unchanging system you could sit on the beach collecting the recurring revenue, or build new products and look for more customers. It's not as glamorous as trying to get a hyperscaling startup but there's a lot of money to be made doing boring things.
Microsoft AI Chat Protocol Library for JavaScript
The author omitted IRI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Ide... in his article.
Yeah I thought someone had taken the 3D render that's made the rounds of the classic Winamp 3x player and made it into hardware. Not as impressive as that would be.