skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The court ruled that the museum’s revenue, business model, and supposed threats from competition and counterfeiting are irrelevant to the public’s right to access its scans, a dramatic rejection of the museum’s position

It would have helped the museum and government ministry if this had been clear before the government-funded scanning program was started. (Maybe it was, I don't know.)

I was initially sympathetic to the museum, as it's common for public funding to be tight, and revenue from the gift shop or commercial licencing of their objects can fill the gap. I don't know about France, but I expect the ministry has been heavily pushing public museums to increase their income in this way.

However, that doesn't justify the deception described by the article.
Is this really about untreated executive dysfunction (ADHD)?
I don’t want to see emoji in my database. The customer is only right in matters of taste, not engineering.
Neural Networks and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics – Sixty Symbols [video]
That’s an interesting observation, but I think your conclusions are wrong. The reasons for those names (apart from rebranding to change people’s perceptions of the companies) are documented.

Alphabet makes sense because Google has a ton of services with different names, many of them often represented by the first letter in their name.

Meta is for “Metaverse”. Zuckerberg was infamously all in on that idea at the time.

X is a name Musk has obsessed with and tried to push for years, at least since the Paypal days, even naming one of his children with the letter.

World is trying to hide the direct cryptocurrency affiliation (though the coin still exists) as it pivots.
The vst3 plugin 'RipChord' does similar...but your key presses aren't strictly random.
It's not up to Zuckerberg.

Expensing food is tax deductible. Allowing people to buy whatever they want is taxable income.

The only companies that would allow their employees to buy whatever they want are those that aren't worried about getting audited.
Genius, here comes the funding!
$2k is way way cheaper than a junior developer which, if I had to guess their thinking, is who the Thought Leaders think it'll replace.

Our Thought Leaders think like that at least. They also pretty much told us to use AI or get fired
Stay for the end and the hilarious idea that OpenAI’s board could declare one day that they’ve created AGI simply to weasel out of their contract with Microsoft.
It's possible that it's only one strong personality and some money away but my guess is that OpenAI-rosoft have the best stack for doing inference "seriously" at big, big, scale e.g. moving away from hacky research python code and so on.
Has anyone tried to mine LLM world model via sampling to extract all relations it's believes to be true (like 99%+ certain) into Prolog like clauses. I think this is way to achieve reliable world/domain models in logical sense (non-probabilistic). Probably brain doesn't do it but it could be cool anyway. Seems like good sampler could somehow mine this info by using stuff like I believe that X is true or false for all X imaginable. Then try go generate relations for these etc.
I think this is the wrong way to think about it.

It's more important to find a problem and see if this is a fit for the solution, not throw the technology at everything and see if it sticks.

I have had no needs where it's an appropriate solution myself. In some areas it represents a net risk.
ES6 Template Literals, the Handlebars killer? (2016)
Graphite has raster editing in their roadmap[1], but afaik it's not really there yet.

[1] https://graphite.rs/features/
Those are linq expressions. They are indeed wonderful. You get an abstract tree from which you can create SQL or API commands to access the data source. I remember in the early days (.NET 3.5?) there were multiple examples of LINQ2X like Linq2Csv, Linq2Rss Linq2Drobox (I'm paraphrasing, I don't remember actual examples, but it was wild).

There is also relinq library which transforms linq expressions into expressions which are easier to understand/use.
What are you asserting? Why?
Yeah, everywhere I worked there's usually two clusters of postgres databases

- whatever made it past the postgres 10 hump is on the most recent version and keeps getting migrated

- whatever is still on 9.x is scheduled to remain that way until the product using it will be EOL'd
Ironically I think international is almost easier because when the DEA finds the CIA's coke in your container you can just kinda shrug and say "well that container got tamper seals applied when they loaded it in Mongolia and we can prove it" and they just kinda stop chasing there because it's not tractable to dig further until they've established a pattern or something.

When everything is under one regulatory umbrella and it's actually tractable to pin it on someone then it turns into a giant bickering fest until someone takes it (this goes for all sorts of exceptions like damaged goods or whatever, not just crime).

That said, there are tons of places in the economy where make-work is done and BS jobs exist to divide responsibility because the current regulatory situation (private more so than public, i.e. insurers, lenders, etc) all but demands it because if you make things hyper efficient with low labor your concentrate responsibility into few parties and are more likely to get left holding the bag when there's a mishap.
This reporting style seems unusual. Haven't noticed it before...(listing the number of people):

- according to four people familiar with the talks ...
- according to interviews with 19 people familiar with the relationship ...
- according to five people with knowledge of his comments.
- according to two people familiar with Microsoft’s plans.
- according to five people familiar with the relationship ...
- according to two people familiar with the call.
- according to seven people familiar with the discussions.
- six people with knowledge of the change said...
- according to two people familiar with the company’s plan.
- according to two people familiar with the meeting...
- according to three people familiar with the relationship.
condition the move on ELO while training
The priests handling the shroud didn't stop handling it in the 14th century. The fire it survived by dousing with water was from the 16th century. There is no reason whatsoever that all 8 laboratories happened to find the same contaminants from the same century.
so it wouldn't be easy because these scans are highly detailed and so would require too many polygons to be loaded at once

would this remain true for modern higher end graphics cards?
Great in-depth article by collegue.
Yes. I’d love this.

The software on tvs is awful. Plus many new tvs have ads baked in.

An open source OS would be a dream.
That's a subset of a larger emoji family, not a standalone.
> The split on “which relational database to use” in my career has almost always been perfectly split between SWE vehemently demanding pgsql for the feature set

I’ve seen this as well, but when pressed, none of them could articulate what part of its feature set they actually needed to use.

> One of the few things I’ve enjoyed with the move into devops and companies forcing previously “pure” developers into operational roles was their discovery that Postgres was utterly horrible to administer at a systems level.

Are you (or your devs, rather) actually running your own DBs? If so, respect. My experience has been that they spin up either a hideously under or over-provisioned RDS or Aurora instance, and then never touch it until it breaks, at which point they might ask for help, or they might just make it bigger.
Scientific papers that mention AI get a citation boost
We're really going far out into the unrelated weeds now, but this relied on a myriad of bugs that were since fixed (like MMAP_PAGE_ZERO overriding mmap_min_addr, and MMAP_PAGE_ZERO not being cleared when exec'ing a setuid/setgid binary) and would be thwarted by modern processor mitigations (like SMAP and SMEP) which make this entire class of exploit usually impossible. You have to work a lot harder to have an exploitable null pointer dereference these days, and when you do, it's usually not related to the null pointer dereference itself, but actually what happens after trapping.
If you'd read the article, you'd understand that the author was discussing the diminishing returns of reading yet one more book over spending time absorbing and putting the lessons to real-world use.

They give the example of reading many books about exercise vs reading one book and doing the exercises it describes. The latter will end up fitter than the former.

I can give another example: take 2 novice chess players. Have one of them read 40 books in a year without playing chess. Have the other read 1 book, then spend the rest of the year playing chess. Who do you think will be a better chess player?
Its pretty hard to ignore Google in any discussion on big scale
This article is confused about the obviousness standard and the meaning of the phrase "person having ordinary skill in the art" (PHOSITA). The phrase is a legal concept, kind of like the "reasonable person" standard in other areas of law.

Think about the number of things in your job that you use uncritically. Maybe they could be optimized with a lot of effort, but none have a specific, obviously busted thing worth stopping to fix. That's what "non-obvious" means in the patent sense. It's not that PHOSITA are less creative or intelligent, it's that the ordinary practice don't require applying that creativity and intelligence to the problem the patent solves. The whole idea behind patents is that it incentivizes people to invest time in improving workflows.

There's still subjectivity, but if there's an improvement over the state of the art that no one has made before and there's no hard evidence suggesting that everyone in practice was about to make the improvement, then most patent offices will consider that improvement non-obvious.

Or, stated in the European way: obviousness isn't about whether people of ordinary skill could come up with the invention, it's whether they would come up with the invention had it not been patented (this is the "could-would" standard).

The canonical cases—both of which the Supreme Court found to be obvious—are a 1999 patent application for replacing the hydrolics connected to a car's gas petal with a microcontroller, and a 1950 patent for adding shock absorbers to a plow (just as tractors hit the general market). In both cases, the Supreme Court said those patents were obvious, but the fact those cases made it so far suggests they're right on the line.
> It's pretty well put together but it was very hard to work out the patterns of what it was doing underneath e.g. I could not tell you now how to implement a custom IQueryable

There's a lot hidden in there, but basically they expect you to use EF. Writing an IQueryable is a similar amount of work to writing a SQL query planner. You get passed a tree of Expression objects.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/mattwar/linq...
Why do you write like this?
There is this:

https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io
It says towards the end of the abstract that righting this balance, increasing anticipation dopamine and lowering reward receiving dopamine, could help with adhd
The 6809 works great under the Vectrex. It's dumb easy to generate a game with vectors there, even more than a raster game with a 6502.
Folks, this is it. I have decided what I am getting my family for Christmas this year.
Sure! it uses the NEAR blockchain to get a chain signature based on the email address extracted from the token. The email is extracted from the unsigned token message that is sent to the smart contract along with a zero knowledge proof of the signature. The smart contract verifies the proof and then signs the user's payload using the email address and aud in the derivation path in the call to NEAR chain signatures.

Here is an example execution plan of getting the signature on NEAR: https://testnet.nearblocks.io/txns/FzzzN1f3auTTM8yvxZpy8YdQm...

More documentation on chain signatures: https://docs.near.org/concepts/abstraction/chain-signatures#...

Smart contract source code:
https://github.com/esaminu/google-chain-signatures
It’s a relatively common way to provide journalistic bonafides when you can’t reveal the sources names.
Retraction of high-profile reproducibility study prompts soul-searching
I have always compiled from source so that I can have more than one version in place. The installation takes less than 1GB and is quite easy and fast to compile and I've never had any issues with upgrades. If you forget to compile an extension, you can do it later, copy the .so to the right folder, and you don't even have to restart the cluster.

If you don't want to use pg_upgrade, you can dump from one cluster and pipe directly into another, with no need for a temporary file. It couldn't be easier.

Can't say the same for Oracle. Even applying a patch can ruin several weekends.
So, what, maybe corporate greed will give us sustainable energy?
My 3 cats are all completely different in this regard.

Cat 1: Fairly timid, very cautious cat, is remarkably light-footed. If she jumps on my bed and starts wandering along my back while I'm trying to sleep you barely notice she's there... that is until she has started hitting me in the face with her paw.

Cat 2: Smaller more hardy cat is a bit more heavy footed, slightly less cautious, but she seems to make some attempt to be light footed.

Cat 3: By far our biggest cat - and also the offspring of Cat #2. Does not try to be light footed at all. He just stomps around. If he climbs on to me, will put all his weight on his front 2 paws, and causes immense discomfort, as he stands there figuring out what he wants to do.

I love them all the same
Understanding DNS Resolution on Linux and Kubernetes
I think the main point here is that while this style might make sense for a GUI framework it's not so great for a numerical library like this.

For example: my library is really slow.
If you want to jump into the ethics cesspool try taking a look into living donors.
FWIW attribution does not have to be big nor on the map, it is just less work to use the default than putting it elsewhere.
> "This whole system...puts U.S. citizens out of work." (Whether that's actually true or not, I'm not entirely certain, but the argument could definitely be made, and, in all likelihood, convincingly.)

If bringing people from outside the USA into the USA puts people out of work, doesn't having children also put people out of work?
How did you build it?

I can imagine an architecture where I throw everything into ArchiveBox, then run VectorDB as a plugin with Gradio or some such as the client.

https://vectordb.com/
how do we know that the Florida python bounty doesnt repeat the Cobra effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
The heart of the mainframe success was being first to make a real OS and real forward compatibility.

The heart of the mainframe's continued existence is as you say, combined with risk aversion to changing software that currently works, and a lack of people who understands how it even works to know how to change it.

But the heart of the mainframe's failure to expand is IBM's reluctance to join the modern world in pricing and availability.

There is no simple way to become a mainframe dev because there is no simple way to get access to modern zOS. There is an entry fee.
And it's hard to be excited about anything they do to the silicon when you know that you don't just buy the system, you're charged for consumption as if it were a cloud device. So, nobody with a wallet wants to run anything other than the essentials there, hence the platform never grows.
I never really got over the order-dependent and fairly slow compile times, but it's been like 10 years since I used it for anything even slightly complex. Is F# better in this regard now, or are there accessible patterns to help deal with that?
Cost tends to go down with time as compute becomes cheaper. And as long as there is competition in the AI space it's likely that other companies would step in and fill the void created by OpenAI going belly up.
Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination
WP Engine's motion for preliminary injunction [pdf]
LINQ is a veritable footgun in any large team I find. While it's extremely powerful and really nice, it's so so so easy to blow your toes off if you don't know what you are doing. Some of my favourite screw ups I saw:

* Not understanding when something is evaluated.

* Not understanding the computational complexity of multiple chained operations/aggregates.

* Not understanding the expectation that Single() requires exactly one of something.

* Not understanding how damn hard it is to test LINQ stuff.
Back when I used to run Chrome, I noticed one case that would do this (it was buried in Spotlight), but it didn't seem intentional (especially because web search results in Spotlight always respected the default browser setting, and showed the correct browser icon as well). I use Safari now though, so I won't be finding any more cases like that anytime soon.
Is this a general issue rather than unsloth specific. How wide is this problem? Sounds wild if it has been affecting everyones training.
Is the $140B Chocolate Market on the Brink of Extinction?
Rising cocoa prices and changes in consumer preference are pushing candy makers to introduce new, "chocolate-free" options.

According to Nielsen IQ, the average unit price for chocolate has jumped 40% since 2020. Meanwhile, fruit and sour candies are cheaper to make and experiment with.
Exactly. Level x (whatever scalar thing the user meant by that) doesn't quite work out for the reason you outlined. X Level Players have different tactics and someone that can use all of them will likely be better than most if not all those those players. I got downvoted for saying that. Maybe I didn't phrase it as well as you did
Show HN: Shell script for AI-powered code reviews using local LLMs
Here is a shell script that performs automated code reviews using locally hosted Large Language Models (LLMs). This tool to address the need for privacy-conscious, customizable, and efficient code review processes.

Key features:
- Uses locally hosted LLMs (compatible with models like GPT-J, BLOOM, etc.)
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The script is designed to be easily integrated into existing workflows and can be customized based on team preferences and project requirements.
If you are in US hire local developers. Don't outsource to other countries and don't use H1B visas.
The correct answer is "bleeder resistor."

The other answer is "pliers."

(Make a connection across the terminals that have a voltage difference)
Prompting Considered Harmful – Communications of the ACM
> but you have to compress the scan

A bit simplified but yeah. In the industry I think it's commonly referred to as "cleaning up the topology" or "simplifying the topology" where "topology" is the structure of the mesh essentially. You'd put the scan/model through something like this: https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/retopologise-3d-scans-...

> is this true with top spec machines too?

Games frequently feature 100s (sometimes 1000s) of models at the same time, so the optimization of each model is important. Take a look at the launch of Cities Skylines 2 for an example of a game that launched without properly optimized 3D models, the performance was absolutely abysmal because the human/resident models were way more detailed than justified for a city simulation game.
Skills that will atrophy? People learnt those skills the hard way the first time around, do you really think they can't be sharpened again?

This perspective makes zero sense.

What makes sense is to extract as much value as possible as soon as possible and for as long as possible.
A Mystery $30M Wave of Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market
No Slowdown at TSMC, Thanks to the AI Gold Rush
No it isn't easy to find similar capabitites in java, go, python, ruby.

Maybe you do simulate some of this using meta programming in ruby but its certainly not 'easy to find'.
Completely right. Was basically only thinking about OpenAI versus Anthropic. Oops
For rendering an individual piece, maybe not; but as part of much larger scene with many objects, animation, and rendering effects, it would place an unnecessary burden on the GPU.

It would be much easier to simply have a 3D artist create the object anew from scratch, in a format and resolution that best fits the game.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/tree

will list your directory tree as a html file..helpful?
Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer
yes but usually not every other paragraph, I count 16 instances!!

It really made it hard for me to read the article without being continuously distracted by those
We need a new interface for writing
In the previous story over the Nefertiti bust, the German museum tried to use this gift shop defense, but then when pressed, you could see that they made almost no money from it.
Cats cannot be defined as liquid, as liquid is a scientific classification based in the laws of physics, and cats are widely known for not particularly caring about obeying the laws of physics.
By now, most people have probably heard that Tesla's attempt at "Full Self Driving" is really anything but --- after a decade of promises. The vehicle owners manual spells this out.

As I understand it, the contentious issue is the fact that unlike most others, their attempt works mostly from visual feedback.

In low visibility situations, their FSD has limited feedback and is essentially driving blind.

It appears that Musk may be seeking a political solution to this technical problem.
Rather quick search, as I am more of a myBatis person,

Java: https://www.jooq.org/

Kotlin: https://www.ktorm.org
Any exit tool just becomes the latest focus of phishers and credential stealing malware.
> D made a great leap forward

> and a big chunk of wasted time trying to abstract these away and getting it wrong anyway was saved. Millions of people cried out in relief!

Nah. It is actually pretty bad. Type names with explicit sizes (u8, i32, etc) are way better in every way.
> potentially life changing (i.e. incarceration) risks

Not talking about the even more life changing risk of involuntarily smuggling a bomb on the very aircraft you yourself are flying on.
What if your competition is willing to give up autonomy to companies like Microsoft/Open AI a bet to race head of you and it comes off?
While LINQ does include a library of extension methods for functional programming with .NET collections (which is great), it also includes "Expression Classes". In a nutshell, this allows a user to pass a single expression lambda to a function, and the function implementor receives the abstract syntax tree for the lambda, not the lambda itself. You can then not only receive and analyze these trees, you can also manually build and compile them. This effectively allows a limited set of runtime macros within .NET.
The marginal cost of inference per token is lower than what OpenAI charges you (IIRC about 2x cheaper), they make a loss because of the enormous costs of R&D and training new models.
The tiniest of impact craters
I tend to think along the same lines. If they were the only player in town it would be different. I am also not convinced $5billion is that big of a deal for them, would be interesting to see their modeling but it would be a lot more suspect if they were raising money and increasing the price of the product. Also curious how much of that spend is R&D compared to running the system.