skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talent? Integrations? Ecosystem?

I don't know if this is going to emerge as a monopoly, and likely won't, but for whatever reason, openai and anthropic have been several months ahead of everyone else for quite some time.
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows
I just got back from a trip to India (I'm European), and it's a lot safer than you would expect. I'd say in general there is less crime and people are more honest than if you go to some tourist areas in Europe - say the center of Milan. Even taxi drivers gave us local prices (we stayed with locals so asked them).

The only thing to me that's a bit crazy is the roads. My friend offered me a newspaper to read and the headlines were about a bus crash that killed a bunch of people (we were getting a bus that night). From what I understand, if there is an accident where someone gets injured, it's quite common for the other party to just drive off and leave them - which as a European is basically unheard of, unless someone is DUI and doesn't realise.
Those would need to be very low-energy cats. You wouldn't be able to look at them for a very, very long time.

If my quick math is correct, for the de Broglie wavelength of a cat to be comparable to its width, it would need to be travelling no faster than about 10^-33 m/s.
Tesla FSD crashes in fog, sun glare–Feds open new safety investigation
> indexes aren't designed for that. They're meant for fast lookup of short identifiers. Things like people's names and product ID's. Not long URL's. It's not performant.

This is objectively false. If this was true, indexes wouldn't serve range queries. You couldn't index on dates. You couldn't sort numbers.

> But if you absolutely have to, then create a new integer column to be your sort key, and use a little bit of extra code to give it values that produce the same sort order.

This fails when you need to insert new values into the table. Then you not only need to figure out the new integer value (how, if you can't efficiently compare sorted string values???), you need to update all the integers to make room.
High-resolution outdoor videography of insects using Fast Lock-On tracking
People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
The reason for that is not just being alumni, but also that Go implementation started on top of Plan 9's compiler infrastructure that was later rewritten in pure Go
Turns out Big Taco's (/s) fingers were in the guac:

https://www.change.org/p/unicode-consortium-the-taco-emoji-n...
You don't even need to use hypothetical examples. Libya, Iraq, arguably Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia.

Though to be fair none of these had happened prior to apartheid.
The question is how rigorously defined is AGI in their contract? Given how much AGI is a nebulous concept of smartness and reasoning ability and thinking, how are they going to declare when it has or hasn't been achieved. What stops Microsoft from weaseling out of the contract by saying they never reach it.
.. and now the password is stored unencrypted in your bash history.
That's my point. Your top 50 are going to stay your top 50. If you've always wanted to see the Mona Lisa in person you're not going to change your plan because you saw an image of it.
They express behaviors, yes, but they do not express intent, or any broader context. I’ve been on more than one project where well-meaning developers forbid comments and additional documentation because they felt that the only documentation should be the tests, and the result was always a complete lack of understanding as to why anything worked the way it did.
This just seems like a bad idea.
Starting things and not finishing them is just... The default.
Whoever thinks that our society is too focused on commitment has really not been keeping up with social trends for the last few decades. Most people are cut loose from any kind of stability, community or enduring sense of identity.

I get that they're trying to go with "done does not need to mean perfect", but this way of putting it is too aggressive and I don't feel like it'll have good outcomes.
"Ya get high before ya actually get high, once ya know ya got it"
They get paid per verified kill:

https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program

No idea how it actually works but shooting them where they are has to be tough to verify.
I think a gene drive will be cheaper than all of this manual labor.

Release a male python that can only sire male pythons, and population collapse is inevitable.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6083257/
This is the exact reason why NIST, for the better part of a decade now, has strictly recommended against arbitrary password rotations. All it accomplishes is frustration for users with no tangible increase in security (because everyone just increments their password, or follows other simple patterns).

Some research suggests that arbitrary password rotations results in a real-world decrease in security, because as users get frustrated they make simpler and simpler passwords.
this is literally me irl
Is not Z3?
Ordinarily I'd agree with small companies not being informed enough on security best practices and agree with your point. Small companies shouldn't invent security on their own.

But there's something bigger here that stood out and that kind of makes me angry: Apple, a multi-trillion dollar company, is influencing people to stop using products by small companies and small teams.

It's stuff like this, stuff like requirements to "sign in / pay with Apple", and stuff like the green text boxes that make you have to fit everything to Apple and give them their dues.

I really wish we'd regulate or break up the big tech companies. Innovation has barriers to entry because of them.

Apple shouldn't be making their own password standard. They should work in an industry consortium to agree across the board, and they should put in the extra effort to tell users when websites may not comply with their new rules. It's not the website's fault that they didn't get the new and unannounced memo.

Add a new HTML password form property to indicate compliance with the standard before you go generating uncompliant passwords. Do a graceful migration. Stop beating up the little players.

I'm starting to think that neither Google nor Apple should be allowed to have their own web browsers. They're only using them as a means to deepen their platform reach and hobble up more control.

Pretty soon Apple and Google won't generate passwords at all. They'll deprecate the password field and mark it dangerous. Then it'll be an Apple passkey where companies will have to negotiate payment rates and won't be privileged to know their own customer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrom
Granted, I am a conservative, but it strikes me that the social ills on the liberal/progressive side of the ledger are more tangible, more likely to be disruptive and damaging on a day-to-day basis than those of the right.

Is there a family member who refuses to show up to Thanksgiving dinner because of political differences? That person is more likely to be a partisan of the left.

Do you know someone who is supportive of using physical violence to achieve political ends? That person is also more likely to be a partisan of the left.

On the other hand, partisans of the right are more likely to be guilty of a rather amorphous "distrust" of the left. They are also more likely to support antidemocratic candidates, we are told. Presumably they have people like Donald Trump in mind. This is a fair critique, but there are safeguards in place in the form of Congress and the courts.
I too am interested to know if anyone has experimented with these ideas in a virtual environment.

It seems there would also be an opportunity for enriching procedurally generated worlds with these concepts of landscape (and shelter) patterning.

And not only Olmsted's ideas.
Though I'm not up on the state of the art, a couple other useful landscape and architectural theories come to mind:

-Jay Appleton's "Prospect and Refuge" theory of landscape painting analysis (and its extension into architecture by Grant Hildebrand) [1]

-Chris Alexander's "A Pattern Language" and other books.

I wonder how one would go about training a model using data from existing environments, paintings and photography that exhibit these patterns?

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286123657_Prospect_...
> [...] the light that was received [...]

> Anything that makes the image vary from reality [...]

I'd argue these are not equivalent definitions. Demosaicing, red eye removal, exposure/brightness/contrast adjustments, white balancing, distortion correction, stabilization, etc. diverge from the exact light received by the sensors, but generally produce better representations of reality.

Digital photos necessarily have at least some processing, and I think there's a gray area where it's hard to draw an exact line (e.g: how smart can you go with interpolation and noise reduction).
We looked at a decade of fanfic couples. See who gets shipped and why
There's probably a lot of overlap in those groups of people. But I think it's pretty remarkable how make people are willing to leak information. At least nineteen anonymous sources!
I went through a postgres 10 > 16 upgrade recently. What made it easier was just doing a test run of the upgrade process.

Did a restore to a stage environment, worked on my upgrade scripts until I was happy (deployed to VMs with ansible, so manual work to write the upgradeprocessfor me), restored again and ran the upgrade process fresh, and then tested my application, backup scripts, restores, etc. Had everything working entirely smoothly multiple times before pulling the trigger in production.

No stress at all when we did it in prod.
This.

Anecdotally, I lost 130lbs in 1 year, and have now lost 140lbs (1 year 4 months).

Initially, I was 330lbs and lost weight at a rate of 3.5lbs per week. Slowly decreasing weight per week to stabilize at around 1% of body weight per week.

During the entirety of this time, I had, and still maintain, a rigorous resistance training program. My muscle mass is significantly higher than it was when I was 330lbs.

The important part of losing weight is to know what your goals are, and to adjust all aspects of your life accordingly. Not just cutting calories, unless your goal is to lose weight, vs lose fat.

The biggest thing afterwards is, if your lifestyle doesn't support the maintenance of your new weight, and when you hit your goal you eat like you used to and revert activity to your old sedimentary ways, all of that weight will come back incredibly fast.

Whole life changes are needed. Going slow helps with these changes, as they become habits. This is why the success rate of achieving a healthy weight for someone who is morbidly obese is only 1-1266 (men) and 1-677 (women) [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK362452/#:~:text=In%20p....
Certainly, I just mean that we are hitting a point where there can be professional devs, with multiple years of experience at tech companies successfully building software, who have only ever known and worked with a PaaS to deploy an app.
Yes, to be commercialized and privatized by the author. Somehow all of the "open access projects" on the authors website seem to be concerned with releasing 3D models scanned by others, and not you know, his own projects. I don't see any commitments to publish derived work and such.

I know that the story of an independent artist fighting a big bureaucratic public institutions is something that would get a lot of sympathy here, but this really isn't that much of a "David and Goliath" kind of tale. French heritage and research entities are underfunded and understaffed, they don't have competent lawyers, or indeed funding to afford those, as we can clearly see from this case. One litigation-happy American can run circles around them and profit from it too.

If as soon as the heritage work gets 3D scanned with French public funds, it will immediately get scooped and monetized by private sector, wouldn't the ultimate outcome be that less objects get scanned? Why would the museums even bother fighting for the digitization grant funds?
I mean, maybe? They experience that life is completely unpredictable, sure. They learn whatever they are taught along with it.

Consider, life was far more unpredictable just a few hundred years ago. Literally stubbing your toe in the forest could go septic and then you were dead. Violently so. Bad harvests could happen with no forewarning at all.
In other words, somebody made an error somewhere.
You have to be licensed/hired for it
Why Write Engineering Blogs?
One difference among many: the Cour de Cassation does not issue decisions, exactly; it can only hold or break a decision from a lower court. If it chooses to break the lower court's decision (casser=to break) then the case is sent back to said court to be decided again, with new guidance from the upper court.
"Aside from missing his head, the patient appears to be in fine shape."
Let's discuss this example:

https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/blob/e70dd159f1881d86a...

The code is buggy. Where is the bug?
The thing I like best about character.ai is their TTS. Does anyone have an idea what engine they use? I don't suppose they invented their own system from scratch.
How is openrouter working out?
Proportionality is what makes self-defense defense, and not an excuse to kill people.

The vast majority of the people who are killed in those strikes are not Hamas.
100%. Test names should include the word "should" and "when". Then you get a description of the expected behavior.
The conversational metrics seem much more important to our users than the audio metrics. This was surprising to me. But it makes sense given that Voice AI devs are just trying to make the Voice AI do what they expect it to do.

Thank you for the feedback. We'll move the metrics explanations up!
Pager Plays MindPong (2021)
I know we're not supposed to comment on downvotes but I really question the logic of anyone who thinks that a thing that cannot reason can write a prolog program that is really going to be much more successful.

Prolog is actually pretty difficult to do right, even if you are skilled. It actually requires reasoning. You don't just write out facts and have the system do the work. And many of the examples in the training set will be wrong, naturally simplistic or be full of backtracking that is itself difficult for a person to comprehend at a glance; why should an LLM be better at it? There can't even be that much data in the training set.

Ultimately, though: stop believing in magical solutions to fundamental problems. This is nuts.
LayerSkip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative Decoding
That makes sense. With (strong) steel maxxing out at around 1Gpa, that's 4 orders of magnitude less. The rotation frequency gets squared, so... 10Khz? Huh: "The fastest rotation achievable by standard motors is of the order of 10 kHz". (How does a "standard motor" achieve 10 KHz without ripping apart, then? I don't think many standard motors are 5mm or smaller.)

Thinking about this makes me imagine a potter's wheel for shaping a ductile metal. It spins really fast, but you can only reshape in the outwards direction, and the resistance goes up dramatically towards the center. Oh, and if anything flakes off, you're dead. But before you die, you could probably make some pretty artwork.
Legislators are human beings. "Future-proof" is one thing, guessing all possible cases is quite another and perhaps their aim simply wasn't things like 3D scans at all, as mentioned, because freedom of information laws came about to tackle a completely different issue (which was indeed transparency, not scans of sculptures...)

That's how it is and key to this case, and not really discussed in any comments. I am not commenting on the museum's actions to defend against this, which they must think is in their interest. So I don't understand the hate... it's getting difficult to discuss on more and more topics.
Is there any censorship in this space which you think is acceptable, or is all censorship inappropriate, in your opinion.

Obviously, the public gets no benefit when you censor some guy from doing his business in private.

But you're also in danger of providing sexualised child characters for people to jerk off to.

How do you square all of this, I'm interested in hearing how you approached this problem
The article is stating the exact opposite: They're trying to dump their FPGA business.

Funny they're valuing it at $17B. It's virtually the same amount they bought it for 8 years ago.
Understanding and memorizing shortcomings and quirks takes time and effort.

Most devs just go with whatever the influencer du jour says is good.

"Nobody ever got fired for choosing insert_currently_hyped_tech_here"
Dolphin Swimming – A Review (1991) [pdf]
Exactly, if the clock is ticking for them to bid on it, to buy it off the small business, it gives the small business power, and should also make it easier for the small business to get decent loans/investments.

Btw, if I'm not mistaken, I first read about this proposal in the book "Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society" by Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...
That sounds to me like saying "there's no reason to put out this kitchen fire I accidentally started in my house, since lighting sometimes starts fires naturally."

Natural ecological events can certainly be difficult for humans to deal with, and even cause mass famine, etc. - but we have many more recent cases of ecological catastrophe caused by humans.
I wonder if this means the “podcast sponsored by Squarespace gravy train” for the last decade might end? I hope not as they sponsored a few I like but I think Linode stopped sponsoring podcasts when they got acquired.
It’s almost like a contractual stipulation of requiring proof that one party is not a philosophical zombie.
That's not an insult, it's a criticism. The criticism is: your thing is not very good. What you're requesting here is that you should never be told that your thing is not very good. I know the feeling, you're not alone, I, too, hate it when people piss on my strawberries, and sometimes I feel like I have a right to request that they be less negative and more supportive. This is why we have privacy instead of everybody being overbearing and constantly back-seat driving and interfering in other people's business. We need room to breathe, including believing in stuff.

However. It would not be a really great world without criticism. It would be a world even more full of conspiracy theories and wacky viral social media posts about the government engineering hurricanes or archeologists digging up giants. Being right matters because indulgently anti-reason people don't limit it to what "works" for them, they go around pressuring other people to be similarly stupid. By the way, what does "works" really mean here? It's something like a need to have non-critical thought processes. That's fine, I think, even vital, but only in private. Bring those weird-ass thought processes out into the light, and then they should be criticized, otherwise we're heading toward folie à deux territory.
In addition to data, having the infra to scale up training robustly is very very non-trivial.
>Working in the woodshop, he crafted mockups of the large keys that could unlock the prison doors.

I got to here before realising this is the same guy portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe in Escape From Pretoria. Great film.
I think I'm taking the Twitter approach. As long as it is not illegal it's fine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

> Board states s are encoded as FEN strings which we convert to fixed-length strings of 77 characters where the ASCII-code of each character is one token. A FEN string is a description of all pieces on the board, whose turn it is, the castling availability for both players, a potential en passant target, a half-move clock and a full-move counter. We essentially take any variable-length field in the FEN string, and convert it into a fixed-length sub-string by padding with ‘.’ if needed. We never flip the board; the FEN string always starts at rank 1, even when it is the black’s turn. We store the actions in UCI notation (e.g., ‘e2e4’ for the well-known white opening move). To tokenize them we determine all possible legal actions across games, which is 1968, sort them alphanumerically (case-sensitive), and take the action’s index as the token, meaning actions are always described by a single token (all details in Section A.1).

I am starting to notice a pattern in these papers - Writing hyper-specific tokenizers for the target problem.

How would this model perform if we made a small change to the rules of chess and continued using the same tokenizer? If we find we need to rewrite the tokenizer for every problem variant, then I argue this is just ordinary programming in a very expensive disguise.
I just went through this and they will make the process be as slow as legally possible.

Also if you were using google workspace, that also got transferred to them as a reseller. You have to do this somewhat confusing process of deleting your workspace account at squarespace to get it to transfer back to google. The remainder of the month you paid for at squarespace is just lost, and you’ll need to set things up again with google. I didn’t explicitly reenable Gmail and started to have all my mail bounce.
> We already have a profit-oriented market. And we have empirical evidence that profit-oriented markets do not like open source (for their primary products).

That's a given. If you open source your code, other developers will steal it and sell your software. Just like billion dollar tech companies are the main benefiters of open source today, that some guy made for free. Excuse me, I meant for $42 in donations.
An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags
Can we please not have the HN front page be weird porn?
I can't seem to find it on the web. I don't think it's published online yet.
This is incompatible with cultures where lunch is bigger than dinner.
Meaningful test names are unimportant compared to sensible test organization and understandable test content: meaningful test fixtures, helper functions etc. to reduce repetitions; no dependencies on test execution order and other capital sins; straightforward and concise patterns like invoking the ordinary validation of object results instead of inspecting them ad-hoc or tables of simple inputs and expected outputs.

Simple tests don't really need descriptive names because what they test should be obvious, while special tests need more than a good name to be documented enough: comments (e.g. why can crazy cases actually occur), links, extra effort to write them clearly, etc.
Im demarcating what science is and what math is.

- In science nothing can be proven.
- In math things can be proven.

From those two points above we know this:

- computer science is not a science because you can prove things
- computer science is a kind of math because you can prove things

This goes fully against the ops main point that computer science isn’t math when it is. There’s a big nomenclature issue that confuses everyone, him and you, and it just throws everyone off in terms of clear categorical thinking. Namely, Computer science is not actually a science.

You guys don’t understand what math is and you don’t understand what science is and thus you guys are classifying incorrectly that computer science isn’t a math and they are making a completely invalid comparison with physics which is actually a science.
One place where this has saved me is trying to type in my VRChat password, on a standalone Quest 3 headset. The tedium of trying to type in a password in VR with a virtual keyboard, while having the headset slid up onto my forehead juuuust enough so I can see my phone with my password manager on it, is by far the worst modern login process I've ever experienced. Just having pronounceable syllables is enough to speed that process up significantly.