skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was sure this was a parody of microservices, but reading the comments, I'm starting to think maybe it isn't?

As other's have said, this is just a bunch of small functions.

Write some Haskell, every function is just another another function with parameters. If you look at the definition of a function, you will find the function is defined as a single call to another function with some parameters. Most functions are 1 line, which is actually quite hard to wrap your head around at times.

Or learn some APL where every "microprogram" is a single letter.
Thank you for the clarification, that was not clear from what I had read about this
I'm a fan of the seemingly randomly chosen brand names on Amazon.
gen_random_uuid isn’t going to change either, the entire point is to generate a secure uuid4. At most it’ll get faster due to using platform-specific syscalls.
The efficiency tests are garbage. Notebookcheck are comparing whole system power draw and equating it with SOC power draw, when in reality the SOC may draw a fraction of total system power, especially under single core workloads. Take those numbers with a full truck of salt.
Consumer Reports, or what is left of it?
You're right. They will help you get your forms filled out so that you can get the insurance coverage to handle that. It would be a huge oversight to let people walk away who could be a major profit center for the hospital if they'd just fill out the paperwork. It was, of course, the hospital lobby who pushed for a ban on refusing coverage for preexisting conditions. And they did succeed.

That would delay treatment, sadly, same as it would everywhere else in the world. Filling out forms is a barrier to healthcare no matter where you go. That barrier does seem to be bigger in the US. No doubt.

But healthcare is available, it is partly socialized, and given enough effort, it does work for a large majority of cases, as is evidenced by life expectancy.

I think what's unique about the US is that the burden of cost for the average American is put on their employer, which for many is a rich cooperation.

It's a tax on the rich. It's not perfect. But it's far from bad when compared with most other countries. Maybe even all others. Not sure.
Are you unfamiliar with other open-source project’s trademark protections?

From Red Hat’s: “Nothing in these Guidelines is meant to limit your rights under the terms of a free and open source software license. Trademarks and copyright are different rights, so regardless of what rights or permissions you may or may not have to use the Red Hat Marks, you always have all your rights under any applicable free and open source software licenses.”

The Mozilla Foundation is not going to let you call your Softonic/CNET/SourceForge download site "The Most Trusted Firefox Tech Company" or your distribution "The most trusted Firefox download" and if you do (as WP Engine did in their marketing) the EFF is not going to work for free to defend you.
"I think that Copilot is the next Clippy": Benioff
Jupyter Kernel for Deno
You might find this interesting: https://www.rcsb.org/3d-view/4V60/1
Scroll down the menu on the sidebar (components->...), there are all kinds of "view modes" which allow you to look at different aspects of its substructure.
> I had to constantly cycle through masks

I'll grant they were a pain. I don't miss them. They didn't make my life miserable, though.

> got harassed by random strangers when going to the store

Why? Not my experience at all (unless you were refusing to wear a mask).

> had my medical appointments delayed for several months

I can see that being a major problem if you have medical conditions.

> people I knew were dying

Same here. It definitely sucked, but I didn't get depressed by it. I think it comes down to expectations in life. If you go through life thinking "people in their 30s aren't supposed to die", then yes, I can see it being depressing. If you go through life with "one can die any time - be it from disease or a car accident", then a pandemic isn't much of a shock.

To give a different perspective: Long before the pandemic, people I knew died in places like Palestine and Iraq due to conflicts. Yet the whole world lived a happy life despite it. Is this all that different?

And go back a century or more, and people around you dying from disease was the norm (think tuberculosis, etc). That didn't prevent people from having a happy life, and did not make them depressed. It's not (primarily) the circumstances that lead to the depression, but the narrative one has around them.

> there were shortages of basically everything

I got lucky. We happened to accidentally buy an extra set of Clorox wipes just prior to the pandemic. We were going to return them and then the pandemic hit. I was never short.

Hand sanitizer shortages sucked. We certainly conserved our use, and were fortunate never to run out.

As for everything else, I didn't deal with any serious shortages. Somehow always found paper towels, bathroom rolls, soap, etc. And things like cars/appliance shortages - these are not meaningful quality of life things for me.

> and the news cycle was full of panic and anger

If this caused you depression, I say this with the utmost sincerity: I hope you learned the lesson not to waste much time with the news. I was a news junkie for many years, and had cured myself of it years before the pandemic hit (and thankfully never jumped on the social media bandwagon). Video news is the worst, and has almost no redeeming value. You can get much, much more from text sources.

At the end of the day, it wasn't the pandemic but the news media that caused you problems.

> And the pre-existing problems with the Internet somehow got even worse.

I guess I'm fortunate in that my Internet never had problems.

The other obvious difference between you and me: You seem to have experience with remote work prior to the pandemic, so your baseline was clearly different. For people like me, the pandemic was the cause of my appreciating remote work.

BTW, I'm not claiming it was great for the majority. Merely pointing out that for many - albeit a minority - it was an improvement on life.

Being able to go for walks on days of nice weather in nice neighborhoods during work hours can be a major improvement on one's mood.
> Trump wants a peace deal in ukraine that could involve land concessions.

This would only be temporary until Putin decides what to invade next. He has his country weapons production running at full swing, why stop when he knows he can get what he wants. Granted having all of Europe fully under Putin's control would probably reduce the risk of MAD since the crazy guy got all his wishes. I just hope I won't have to live in such a Europe.
Just because he calls himself a "reviewer" doesn't make him that. Also people can enjoy his high production marketing videos. But just because people like his content does not make him a good reviewer OR unsuccessful.

I also didn't say he was a failure, but enjoy your baseless assertions.

For reference - you think this [0] is a good review? Give me a break. Also a great breakdown of his grift [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/gfC8Y66tR6o
[1] https://youtu.be/Z0DF-MOkotA
Being forced to used an ISPs fiber router can be frustrating, I hope we can get regulations to force BYO
Fundamentally, most educators would say that cheating students are only hurting themselves. If they invested in the class, but didn't learn or achieve goals in it, then someday that will boomerang on them.

Conversely, institutions which award grades, certificates and degrees must protect their brands and good names. If cheating students have the same credentials as honest ones, those credentials are devalued!

But let's go deeper and consider incentives. It's a sickness among students, if they are so driven, so determined to achieve high marks at any cost. The ones who are willing to use LLMs and cheat are hurting the innocent ones, as we see here, because now educators have a hair-trigger, and these false-positive tools are hurting EVERYONE. It's sad and dismaying that education is some sort of adversarial, low-trust, dog-eat-dog world.

I went back to college to earn certifications and just prove, "hey, I know this stuff, I'm current, here's my seal of approval." Maximal effort really wasn't necessary to pass or graduate, yet I went into full overachiever mode. Sad to say, in my calculus course, I feared incompetence, which led me to leverage every advantage and exploit the grading methods to get that "A"; yet I forgot almost everything as soon as I put my pencil down in the final exam. I succeeded alright, but I didn't really learn, but I didn't cheat either.

So let's question what motivates students to cheat, and why it's become so widespread to the detriment of ethics and codes of honor. Let's question why teachers need to be on high alert for cheaters, so much that they're embarking on AI-witch-hunts now. Is it public education? Is it high costs, tuitions and debts? Is it a ferocious job market? Immigrants and globalization? All of the above, yeah?

Just another reason that I support home-schoolers, and school choice, because perhaps more segregated and tailored environments are more conducive to high-trust, ethical graduates.
Sorry but this take is just ridiculous. A city is not "ideal" if you never want to leave? What about visiting friends, or traveling, or seeing family?
The latter.

As in, I don't actually need credit that lasts longer than a month.
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People saying helping Ukraine should be avoided.
That would also explain why Linus is on board with it, A thousand rust compiler instances is way more efficient than one Linus instance yelling at people, plus eventually he won't be there anymore.
I think that's a little harsh. Imo the reason for difference in popularity/github-stars is just different user bases- an order of magnitude more people use LLM APIs (and can leverage Dspy) vs those who finetune an LLM.

Agree about the abstractions btw. I found Dspy very convoluted for what it does, couldn't make sense of Textgrad at all.
Look, I get it, the app is silly. I’m clearly not the target audience as I know how to google for wallpapers.

But publishing this repo is not OK. Write a small article, let them know and get a potential bug bounty, sure. But don’t just release something that avoids the artists getting paid.
This is fun. At a fractal level, it's what's going on in graph RAG, where you're doing hierarchical similarity modeling and using that structure in different ways for smarter summarization, indexing, & retrieval.
Retrieval Augmented Generation. Fancy way of saying, retrieve chunks from your document corpus similar to your input using a similarity (mostly cosine) of embedding vectors of the chunks and input vectors, then inject those relevant chunks into your prompt to the LLM. Useful for Document Intelligence.
I think it's getting lost that this isn't a one-way street. For trolls, putting additional barriers in their way is a good thing.

But not all blockees are trolls, and not all blockers are using the block to fight trolls. Some may even be using it as a form of trolling themselves.

There isn't an easy way to differentiate an abusive blockee from an abusive blocker. If there were, it would make sense to provide additional incentivize against both anti-social behaviors. But there isn't.

Invisible posts are not a good thing for the health of the platform. It's not just blocker and blockee—everything is connected.

Say you have a very large account that blocks on a whim, accumulating many thousands of blocks, and regularly interacts with posts from other large accounts. That account has hurt the capacity to have meaningful interactions, not with it but with other accounts it interacts with, by eliding chunks of context from conversations for some portion of the community that was blocked on a whim.

Obviously, if that sort of attitude were to spread wide enough, then eventually having posts hidden would make the platform become noticeably worse.

It seems that some of the most vocal opponents of post visibility for blockees are precisely from accounts that block maliciously.

Worth mentioning that having a hair trigger is not necessarily malicious. But if a hair trigger blocker really cares that their posts are hidden, then they are most likely a malicious actor—Why else would they care if their posts are visible to the non-trolls they've blocked?
I don't usually ask for citations on comment threads, but assserting that 'exploitation' is Marxist propaganda is gonna need some citations for me to take even remotely seriously. Otherwise, talk about room temperature IQs...

> Economic transactions only happen if there is a mutual benefit.

There are all sorts of coercive circumstances that may appear mutually beneficial on a superficial level, but may actually not be the case, whether due to contract details, opportunity costs, strategic mistakes, or otherwise. Perhaps this is true given perfect information and execution, but the real world is much more messy.

As an example, consider Spotify or Adobe's transition to a subscription model. There are a lot of people for whom those models are a very bad deal compared to what was.
Anyone able to contact the original author of the program?
Retrieval Augmented Generation - using search (usually with some kind of semantic component) to find relevant context and provide it to the language model to help it respond, give it knowledge about a specific document, etc.
The secret here is in preparation. I had a local place, never asked them how but their anchovies were dry and almost crunchy, and it made the pizza delicious.

If you just take a canned in oil one and throw it on top a pizza before cooking, it permeates everything and can get fishy. I tend to at minimum press them in paper towels to get the oil out, then cut them into smaller bits. It's decent, but still can't match the pizza places's secret.
I have seen it. Take a good look at the Australian government funding central Australian communities and the crime and abuse outcomes in that area.

It will break your heart.
How does your chunker actually work? The gist only shows an API call. Or is that secret?
Why? I would look at Occam’s razor, believing there must be an outer layer (or a creator of god) just leads to an infinite regress. It’s much more likely that the thing is just eternal according to that logic
Thanks! This is the kind of thing I was interested in - some inspiration for naming/tagging or some novel approaches to organizing data. I came across this blog post which I thought was interesting: https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/

Regarding family members, these are just some important docs and such of family members that are not tech savvy/don't use my computer.
There's a book called Longitude by Dava Sobel which is about how the problem of determining longitude was solved. The Galiilean moons approach is discussed in the book.

I'm busy reading the book so this article caught my eye. It's been really good so far.
ByteDance unveils video-generation AI models to narrow gap with OpenAI's Sora
Let's actually approach this from good faith, shall we?

The point is to try to remove car travel as much as is possible, even if that isn't 100%. You can build a city where everything you need on a day to day basis is within walking or cycling distance, and nearly everything else can be got to easily with public transport. There will almost certainly be some edge cases though. Replacing everyones commute with walking or cycling or public transport gets rid of something like 50% of cars on the road. Doing the same with shopping trips is probably another 80% of what remains, so just doing that is already a significant improvement (numbers pulled out of my ass but they seem realistic). If you only need to use a car once a _month_ then suddenly the economy of owning one yourself becomes very questionable next to just getting a taxi on those rare occasions, or hiring one if you need to drive somewhere not so ideal.

So there would still be cars on the road, but it would be very far from the same number of cars.
This game of repeating my argument back to me but worse has gotten old.
If I didn't misunderstand completely, he managed to hide a sneaky prompt in an image. If a user then instructed the LLM to view the image, it would insert the malicious memories into that users data.

I imagine there will be some humour posts in the future telling people to ask gpt to describe an image for them, it's extra hilarious I promise! As a way to infect victims.
wow. I can only guess that the massive downvotes is because she has a lot of support here...

The woman was absolutely complicit in the theft of a huge amount of money in the crypto bro world.

Very surprised that would see any support here.
Curious to know what you mean by "early phase" here.
It can and does in my experience. I suppose my question is me basically asking for a reminder of why rational poor people are using credit cards. I've always assumed they were a tax on people with no impulse control and/or poor mathematical understanding.

It is easy to see how someone with no money would take out a loan via a credit card and be unable to pay it back at all. But if they can pay it back, then outside of very rare instances why can't they arrange their affairs so they have the equivalent amount of savings up front? Their income is at least equal to their expenses on average in the short term, they can't be using credits cards to cover long-term imbalances because the interest is too punishing. If their expenses are experiencing variances then there must be opportunities to put aside an emergency fund.

I don't see how the math checks out that they need and can afford a credit card if they can afford to pay some sort of "poor tax". If you can afford the extra cost of credit card interest, you can afford not to have one. Otherwise where are the bank's profits going to come from?
Everything around the topic of condensates, liquid-liquid phase separation, stress granules, etc. is quite interesting. And it seems like the importance of condensates and related phenomena has only been really understood within the past decade or so.

Protein condensates also play a role in several neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. See e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/a....
I don't like having my data in the cloud. I just use syncthing for now for backups, but setting up a proper NAS and improving my backup strategy is on my todo list.
Thank you for the explanation, I remember hearing about this now
I'm pretty sure that Google's main business is cancelling products. Things like search and ads are just side gigs.
I don't think its just moderation - but also that fact that most people don't have opinions worth listening too.

When you think about the town square, anyone could set up a soap box, say anything and be heard by anyone... anyone within a 50m radius depending on background noise. Standing in the town square didn't give you the ability (or right) to be heard by anyone in any town square.

But nowdays, you can (and sometimes are obligated to) have an opinion on anything. Local politics in a country on the otherside of the planet - go right ahead. Opinions on the mid-east that most people are not qualified to provide, sure thing!

And worse, if the echo chamber deems that "silence is violence" not only can you not refrain from expressing your opinion, silence means you have out-group-think, so either agree or be removed.

Twitter was fun... for a bit. But its quite obvious that this idea that anyone can have an idea, and everyone can hear it is just plain bad for society.

In most of the world you have free speech - go outside and use it. But online for the world to hear... maybe thats just overrated.
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Oh right, I remember now. Thank you for explaining it
Huh, I was under the impression that particle entanglement was a binary: either it's entangled or it's not. From this article, I have learned that is not the case. Is the degree of entanglement itself a quantum property? Anyways, very cool.
not to mention that its probably jail time in the USA if they want to go after you. All they have to do is to show a judge that you "hacked" their device with some hacker "jtags" to extract the very well protected passwords.
which side of the "claims denial" process are you on? Clinics and healthcare providers try to prevent them and Insurance carriers create them. Which side or the war are you on?
> You can just take money from the rich and give it to the poor. That doesn't have anything to do with UBI.

The reason to write that first sentence is because I pointed out that UBI helps those making less than UBI. Of course then it is pertinent to UBI in so far as it is a mechanism to achieve that goal.

Your original claim that UBI would cause laziness and depression is not further supported by making more claims that UBI is there solely to seem fair.

An argument that I have heard for UBI is: UBI is more effective than social safety nets that are doled out by merit, decided by committee. If you recall the so-called "death panels", government committees who decide who gets what healthcare, there is essentially that with various social programs. UBI has the virtue of simplicity, and uniformity helps ensure reach and therefore efficacy.

I am personally unsure whether UBI is the most effective way to build a supportive society, or if it is as good as its proponents claim. Though, neither do I think (respectfully) that your claims about UBI are well supported either
No, it is not important to get something merged in 30 minutes, other than a revert of a bad change that broke everyone.

A pipeline build and test "proves" the change "technically correct"? What? At least that's the one place in the article where it's on the right track except for this remark.
With rustup? Why do you need the distro to be the be and end all of package management when it's more concerned with user space and not real development?
Link to the actual site is at the top of the GitHub page.
If you're in the Bay Area, I'd like to encourage you to visit the Santa Cruz Wharf (also the Pacifica Pier, to lesser degree) in August through October (like, right now).

The anchovies are ridiculously present right now: millions of them, visible from the surface, swimming in a vast school that parts when sea lions swim by.

They're tasty when fried fresh. They're not salty like a canned anchovy filet, and less fishy than you expect. Delicious! I guess I'm a "rough person" as the article states.
Thank you very much for your review. I didn't know about https://news.pub/. It's a great place!

By default, expr's make compiles tests and examples. Among them is calc, a basic little tool that allows you to test expressions.
This is pretty crazy - even the ZX Spectrum beeper is supported. Is there some Z80 player code allowing the music to be played on real hardware?
We automatically register your phone number for every supported free rewards program offered by a grocery, gas, retail, pharmacy, and convenience chain so that you can save money anywhere you go by entering your phone number on the pin pad at checkout or at the pump so that you can get cents off the gallon, member only discounts in store, and more.
This is why observability is so important, regardless of whether it's am LLM or your WordPress installation. Ironically, prompts themselves must be treated as untrusted input and must be sanitized.
Ah the memories! I remember in my starting years. I was migrating a WordPress to new server. The db backup got corrupted in the process. Google cache helped me restore the blog entries. Crazy days!
What is the "open-source version" you mentioned? All I can find is an Elastic Licensed one, and that license isn't open source.
Yes, that much I was able to parse.
Beware of developers who want their change merged, now!