skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is no secret that high-value items/systems/services/etc. will inevitably find itself in the crosshairs of those that want to control it for their own ends. As shown by the Foundation, they have given themselves a wide berth to focus on narratives that they see fit, with no one being able to oppose such control without being labelled as The Enemy.

The fact that they can use funds of the Foundation for projects that:

- (a) aren't about keeping the servers/site up, and

- (b) are often times politically biased

shows the grown parasitism that now exists within the Foundation.

Backup however many copies you can. *When* the Foundation collapses in on itself, it'll be because the parasites have drained it of all of its resources, and they'll scurry off to their next host to begin the cycle anew. All that will be left for us is a hollow husk of biased writings & rose-tinted lenses, funded with our tax dollars & well-meaning donations.
I saw an airport running with stuff like this, too. A mixture of brilliant and insane engineering in that place…
Made up? From the GPT-2 announcement: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

"Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model."

OpenAI said specifically they didn't release it because they thought it was too dangerous to release. There was nothing about precedent setting in there. The idea that this "was and remains" a good thing is hard to understand, given there are dozens of companies that have made much more powerful models available to anyone who signs up and nothing bad has happened. But if you're willing to ascribe intentions to AI companies they never demonstrated having, of course you can argue anything you want. Doesn't mean it's real.
It's probably complaining about the relative path, try replacing `-v ./pg-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data` with `-v "$PWD/pg-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data"`
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, or to work-related trips

Technologies: Python, Power Bi , Excel, Microsoft 365, SPSS.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11lIjWevWhBW-9JZvh5GNQeoxeMd...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katia-berrios/

Email: katiaberriosmo@gmail.com
OpenAI themselves said that.

https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
Pleasantly surprised to see Illumos ...anywhere.
> What I meant is GET requests with query strings vs POST requests.

Oh, I see.
Yes, I would say that, conceptually, Spartan doesn't have GET requests with a query; it only has GET without a query and POST.
`=:` is like HTML `<form action="post">`.
If you wanted to add queries to Spartan, you would probably do it without breaking compatibility by parsing the query out of `path-absolute`.
For example:

example.com /weather?city=lisbon&time=tomorrow 0

The downside is that it would drag in part of URL parsing on the server, which the protocol currently avoids.

> However, there is also the consideration of, should you really need so many headers anyways?

I see it not as a matter of number but change over time.
Headers leave room for protocol evolution and extension.
You could also have evolution with protocol versions.
A caveat is that if you ever go from sequential versions like 1.2 to versions that enumerate features like 1.2+foo+bar,
you end up in a similar place to headers.
Compared to headers, you get more flexibility in protocol parsing and a more ad hoc design.
Most of your features probably don't need the flexibility, so you just pay the cost of an ad hoc design.
(For example, `+foo` and `+bar` may each add a field to the request line.
You'd have to make sure they didn't conflict.)

> I have added it to the list of mirrors at the bottom of the file.

Yay.
Nothing shady with that at all and extremely obvious what 3 LoC refers to.
Fun article, and it's true that there's uncertainity about the future of the AMOC and consequences that might flow.

The real meat is the undercurrent and framing .. from a PR standpoint this is advanced late stage fossil fuel advocacy from the Saudi Oil Machine; head to the end and the message is Yes! Climate Change (AGW) is Real and a threat .. but don't stop consuming fossil fuels!!

( brought to us by Robin M. Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy and author of 'The Myth of the Oil Crisis' and https://www.thenationalnews.com/about-us/ )

The advocacy here is for pumping sulfur into the stratosphere and burying CO2.

What's sidestepped is the band aid temporary nature (with side effects) of continuously emmitting sulfur and the fundementally not even break even state of CO2 sequestration .. the largest carbon removal project on the planet emits a good magnitude (and more) CO2 than it buries as it's literally an excuse to keep extracting a lot of gas while using a tiny amount for some back pressure in the field.
Similar but different issue. McDonald’s is fake industrialized non-nutritional food wearing the mask of classic Americana burger culture. Soylent is saying that culture doesn’t matter, only nutrients do. A bit like Brave New World vs. the goop in The Matrix.

I’m not sure which is worse…
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I was referring to the product formerly known as mathematica, but whatever.
Been using it for months on MacOS without a single crash.
Lots of moaning about cookie banners.

I dont have any issue with them because I do not see or have to deal with them.

Simply install ublock origin,

go to the filter lists:

enable everything in "Annoyances" and "cookie notices"

you could of course install "Ghostery" which does pretty much the same thing.

Job done no more cookie banners to moan about.
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Tech: JS/TS/Node/Python/Ruby/Rails/PHP, React/Vue/Astro/Nextjs/etc. Devops, site reliability. ML, AI, Computer Vision. Cryptocurrency / Blockchain. Gamedev. Java / Spring.

I'm a member of the software engineering co-op 508.dev LLC. We're niche-specialized developers that as a team for previous clients have upgraded old builds to be serverless (jovono.com) and project managed, architected, and built from scratch an entire SASS frontend for a Ycombinator startup (cofactr.com). I'm posting on behalf of the team to avoid spam.

Our site is https://508.dev. Members can be viewed at https://508.dev/members

Several members have time for full time projects, but are also happy to take a look at smaller or short-term needs, including consultancy, upgrades, or filling a dev team's gaps. There's no minimum team or project size (for now) - if you just need one dev for a little bit, let us know! We're a group of engineers constantly teaching and upskilling eachother, and love to talk about how we can help clients solve problems :)

Happy to chat about work you need doing, joining our team, our somewhat unique structure as a co-op, or whatever else, at caleb@508.dev. I actually really like chatting so hit me on email about literally whatever.

If you're an engineer that is disciplined in personal time management and improving your abilities as an engineer, and enjoy working on FOSS projects with people as passionate as you, we're always considering new applicants! Check out our values, then email us :) https://508.dev/engineering.html#values

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Design Flaw Has Microsoft Authenticator Overwriting MFA Accounts
OpenAI is falling apart due to its non-profit root.

No sane founder would take a leave during a hyper growth.

If OpenAI wasn't non-profit, the founders would have been billionaires easily.

Greg and co. still have a chance to reach the billionaire status by leaving and founding a new company. Could easily be funded. They would also have much more fun building the tech without the non-profit craps.

The founders start realizing this. They get chastised and criticized without much benefit (e.g. billion dollar). People even thought Sam was a billionaire.

Once OpenAI's lead is squashed by competitors, the company will collapse.
Yes.. Haha thanks for the correction! Funny error.
The problem is that with covid, ongoing wars close home, and economics, goverments let all compromises fell down, additionally the way the fridays for future and other movements decided to protest with their infrastructure blocking actions, the regular population is starting to lose interest on their message, thus nothing really effective happens, as means to fix everything.
Next Apple Watch SE Could Be Made from Plastic
It’s died down a bit now, but 5-10 years ago there was a very vocal group of people that insisted on only having shakes and that food/cooking was outdated.
This has potential! Could be interesting to use type hints to output types of variables and functions when they exist.

How does the script deal with shadowed variables and variable names that occur different places?
From what I remember he used Deluxe Paint and the color cycle feature to change the color palette around.
I think most of the recent breakage has been server side changes and feature flags. Ie "whoops, people who were in this 1% experiment had their browser crash when we pushed an update to the spell check dictionary because we didn't test that combination".

Risks like that scale closer to the number of features/number of Devs, since Devs can be fiddling with server side config outside the release process.
No real science is discussed in this article, just hypotheticals. Read Michael Crichton if you want science fantasy that is actually entertaining.
System updates are not concerned. Here, we are talking about applications whose update mechanisms are completely flawed. As mentioned, these applications do not use TLS or cryptographic signatures to authenticate the connections or the downloaded software.
Optimizing for navigation is an interesting notion. Lack of navigation is also my main problem with class hierarchies. Importing a class is like import *: you do not see anymore in the module itself where some method is defined.
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Email: $"{MY_HN_USERNAME}@gmail.com"

A bit late to post here, my laptop died a few days ago.

I'm looking for remote work that includes anything programming-related: refactoring, fixing bugs, code review, Q&A, adding tests, writing documentation, or any low-level grunt work that no one else wants to do.

My list of small opensource contributions:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/94473

https://github.com/TolikPylypchuk/SharpHook/issues/112

https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/issues/1115

They aren't much, but I think they are at least proof that I can do work, much better indicator than my anemic resume. Though my pull requests looks trivial, I spent several days tracking down the root cause of the bug.
No mention of the environmental impact of this, which leads me to assume it would be bad. Any comments on this?
>that's a huge risk to take to stay

Are you advocating that people leave Norway based on a questionable idea regarding a hypothetical event that's not even remotely shown itself in actual measurements?
UK's Riverlane scores $75M to correct quantum errors
Google's deal for Character.AI is about fundraising fatigue
Germany (and probably some other European countries) have the problem of using the train network for freight at night and passengers by day. Together with underinvestment this has generated great problems but because infrastructure has been failing. It has been more politically opportune to invest in shared road infrastructure. Creating a healthy 'market' for infrastructure is extremely difficult.
Most designers on the game industry, sound composition, or electronics would be to differ, but maybe only having three industries that embraced visual programming is too niche. :)
DataChain: AI-dataframe to enrich, transform, analyze data from cloud storages
Looking how the docs for https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#ind...

How does that affect code generation? It reads as only effecting debug information and binary size to my untrained eyes.
Do you have a source for that claim? Preferably a study that shows that the USA uses fewer trucks and more trains for the transport of goods than Europe.
Lots of discussions about this in the thread already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164580
No one is really talking about connecting tiny places really faraway from each other. But cities in 1-6 hours drive of each other and sensible locations inside them clearly make very much sense to connect with public transit.
I bet that " in Japan " (not the slashdot meme!) played a big part in this.

They really take their queues and queue order (FIFO) seriously.
This is something you can say before the moment, at least where I live. Read it as "when times come I wish you will RIP"
'Dark oxygen' discovered on the seafloor raises stakes for deep-sea mining
DDG have done very well with their marketing.

It may have a lot to do with them not having to develop a search engine from scratch though, since they use the Bing API for their results. Mojeek predates them by some years but does their own crawling/indexing/ranking.

Even Ecosia who are essentially identical on the back-end (Bing results) market themselves on planting trees for every search and I see them mentioned a bunch. Interestingly they don't seem to factor in the energy consumed on Bing's side of the search - where the heavy lifting of data is done.

Also that US investors have a much bigger risk appetite means the likes of Neeva (who IIRC were also using other's results) can spring into existence and seemingly get a love in from the press because of their big tech connection.
Hence the decades of inaction and even subterfuge to prevent action.
Would they be more willing to bring Starliner back with one crew member aboard, instead of two?

That is how bad this situation is becoming.
You just don’t understand the powerful impact of a gas…that occupies…0.04% of our atmosphere.
Driving cars increases the number of cars on the streets. I just realized that :)
Meanwhile, by next summer I need to have my european home (northern romania, at about the same latitude as austria and the south of germany) fully covered by air conditioning.

I absolutely didn't need it until, say, last year. And since last year repeated this year, I'm not waiting any more.

I would get it installed now but everyone is out of stock :)

And yes, this article is subtly selling something.
I hope they manage to win this, I have seen too many offshoring colleages across various companies, to be handled in a kind of modern slavery, given how project deadlines, work hours, or restrictions to access to work laws on the country of deployment (with menaces of being sent home and everything else related to it).
I haven't looked into latent diffusion yet. But what are you saying the output is converted to images/audio using GANs?
that was the point. a car is much easier to make, and they couldn't even do that after 10 years.
Well, that’s a confusing name to give your project.
SeaORM 1.0
The absence of a web presence is not a sufficient indicator that a business might hide something from you. There are multiple reasons which can lead to the decision to not participate in this playing field.
I'm pretty sure I could see a roughly 10% binary size decrease in my C++ projcts just by setting -fno-exceptions, and that was for C++ code that didn't use exceptions in the first place, so there must be more to it then just forbidding throw. Last time I tinkered with this stuff was around 2017 though.
For many key types and access patterns, storing the hash is faster anyway. I assume people who care about performance are already not using std::unordered_map though.
> assuming all Christians believe in one of the two forms of the Nicene creed

I guess this is where we part ways somewhat—I'm a devout Christian who does not accept the output of the First Council of Nicea as authoritative. I understand it to be a good faith effort to standardize what had already become a very diverse religion, but I don't hold it in higher regard than any other post-apostolic interpretation of divinity.

That said, I'm not sure that Nicea is relevant when it comes to cremation—the Creed itself doesn't have much to say about death and resurrection except that there will be one, which I accept wholeheartedly, but which at the same time doesn't persuade me that the mortal body sown in corruption is something God expects us to feel attached to or to attempt to keep intact after death.
Then allow me to clarify:

- Very few high schools in America offer these classes. Even fewer people take them. The lie to yourself is not recognizing your bubble. You might think you're encouraging others, but you're doing the opposite. People who had those opportunities are likely not the ones that feel like ML is beyond their capabilities.

- While you can be successful in ML without math, this does not mean you should discourage its pursuit (just as you shouldn't place it as a gate keeping requirement. Even Calc and LA aren't required!).

- Math is about a way of thinking and approaching problems. These skills generalize beyond the ability to solve mathematical functions.

- The mathematical knowledge compounds and will make your models better. This may be nonobvious, especially given your suggested background, you've lived with this knowledge for quite some time. But if you haven't gone into things like statistical theory (more than ISLR), probability, metric theory, optimization, and so on, it is quite difficult to see how these help you in the same way it's hard to see what's on a shelf above you. It can also be difficult to explain how these help if you lack the language. But if you want to build good products (that work in the real world and not just in a demo), you'll find this knowledge is invaluable. If you don't understand why, let this be a signal of your overconfidence. Models aren't worth shit if they don't generalize (I'm not talking about AGI, I'm talking about generalizing to customer data)[0].

[0] Being an ML researcher, I specifically have a horse in this race. The more half assed scam products (e.g. Rabbit, Devin, etc) that get out there, the more the public turns to believing ML is another Silicon Valley hype scam. Hype is (unfortunately) essential and allows for bootstrapping, but the game is to replace the bubble before it pops. The more you put into that bubble the more money comes, but also the more ground you have to make up, and the less time you have to do so. Success is the bubble popping without anyone noticing, not how loud it pops.
Note for anyone in the UK or Europe: summer lilac (a type of butterfly bush) is highly invasive and spreads easily. In the UK consider planting native alternatives such as gorse which flower for most of the year. When gorse doesn’t flower, lavender will. For butterflies consider cow parsley.
Maybe browsers don't need to be free (or we could have the freedom to pay to avoid potential conflicts of interest).
> what do you use instead?

Beli has been surprisingly good [1].

[1] https://beliapp.com
But reproducibility is as important as performance for the vast majority of use cases, if these implementation-defined bits start to affect the observable outcomes. (That's why we define the required time complexity for many container-related functions but do not actually specify the exact algorithm; difference in Big-O time complexity is just large enough to be "observed".)

A common solution is to provide two versions of such features, one for the less reproducible but maximally performant version and another for common middle grounds that can be reproduced reasonably efficiently across many common platforms. In fact I believe `std::chrono` was designed in that way to sidestep many uncertainties in platform clock implementations.
Absolutely yes. Families with children would want it. People with erratic schedules and demands for travel would want it. The aged would want it. People who highly value their and their children’s personal safety and security would want it. People living in harsh climates would want it. People with last-mile issues would want it. People with certain disabilities would want it. People who value their personal time highly would want it. People whose jobs require carrying equipment, but don’t need a company truck, would want it. People who want personal space while traveling would want it. People who need to get to places reliably, and thus want the freedom to reroute their trip in the event of an infrastructure failure, would want it. People who don’t want to be at the mercy of work stoppages when trying to get from A to B would want it. People providing Meals on Wheels would want it. People whose trips involve several intermediate destinations would want it. People who enjoy day-trips and vacations to off-the-beaten-track domestic locations would want it. And, blessedly, almost all Americans can satisfy those needs with their personal automobile on well-maintained public roadways.

Now it is true that age 18-45 healthy childless commuters living in small apartments in safe neighborhoods who go to the same few locations all their lives (should we call them the privileged ones, the boring ones?)…they may get by comfortably without a car. But they’d still want one.
That's the longest 3 lines of code I've ever seen.
> I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away

This made me physically cringe with sadness. I’d love to even find one and people are just tossing them.
Extropic thermodynamic computing substrate reveal
I enjoyed "state of fear" but it's important to read the takedown on his bad science.

Great airport adventure thriller. Terrible footnotes. The man was a cooker. He bought a lot of bad chart interpretation to the table and the idea of a Mafioso green movement using as yet uninvented ground shakers and carbon fibre lightning conductors is pure james bond.

What is it with pot boilers and poison? Dan Brown had anaphylactic nut liquor, Crichton has blue ring octopi.
I've found iPhones get real wonky <-5C. I think the safe storage temp is like -20C because it can damage the battery.
I don't like the banners but it's a small pain compared to being tracked, lied to and sold.

People, use adblockers and always decline cookies. It's the only weapon left for us.
Reparations as Philanthropy: Rethinking 'Giving' in Africa (2022)
If you enjoy the goal, but not the process, there's a term for it - it's called a grind. It's no different from weight loss or any other unpleasant chores. You choose to temporarily suffer in order to accomplish the goal. Incidentally, after reading a bunch of biographies, I think many high-achievers are into suffering, they get a kick out of it. Someone like Goggins makes it explicit, but I think it's fairly prevalent.
wow <3