skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least Peter Thiel smartened up...

"Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings" - https://www.businessinsider.nl/billionaire-fbi-informant-pet...
Awesome!

That is a vastly more complex machine and action than I was expecting. Seems like there is more to the process than just flipping it over.
Essentially all modern machine learning techniques have internal mechanisms that are very closely aligned with certainty. For example, the output of a binary classifier is typically a floating point number in the range [0, 1], with 0 being one class, and 1 representing the other class. In this case, a value of 0.5 would essentially mean "I don't know," and answers in between give both an answer (round to the nearest int) as well as a sense of certainty (how close was the output to the int). LLMs offer an analogous set of statistics.

Speaking more abstractly or philosophically, why could a model never internalize something read between the lines? Humans do, and we're part of the same physical system — we're already our own kinds of computers that take away more from a text than what is explicitly there. It's possible.
If you want those things, you don't want C. Pick a reasonable higher level language you like that makes those decisions for you.

My comment was not to imply that somehow C is superior to X, Y, or Z, but rather to point out that the safety problem with C does have a practical solution.
Cheesemakers in shock as £300k of produce stolen in sophisticated scam
“Blessed are the cheesemakers.”
I have written (oversaw?) a few programs that we use in our production test systems using chatgpt and python. A program that sends actions to machines, queries them for results/errors/outputs, and then stores all that in a .csv which it later translates into a nicely formatted excel file. It also provides a start-up guide to show the technician how to hook-up things for a given test.

I am not a programmer. No one at my company is a programmer. It writes code that works and does exactly what we asked it to do. When the code choked while I was "developing" it, I just fed it back into chatgpt to figure out. And it eventually solved everything. Took a day or so, whereas it would probably take me a month or a contractor $10,000 and a week.

LLM's might be bad for high level salary grade programming projects. But for those of us who use computers to do stuff, but can't get past the language barrier preventing us from telling the computer what to do, it's a godsend.
I’ve had this debate a few times too. Personally I am in the camp that says you’re talking about two interfaces — your external UI or API, and your internal database schema — so even though you’ll often have a lot of overlap between types representing analogous entities in those two interfaces, they aren’t really the same concept and coding as if they will or should always have identical representations is a trap. I would almost always prefer to define distinct types and explicit conversion between them, even though it’s somewhat more verbose, and the password hashing here is a good example of why.

I wrote a more about this in a Reddit post a while back if anyone’s interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/16w97i6/flask_300_r...
Another excuse for Michael Palin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
You don't need their permission to make a portmanteau, all you need is to follow trademark law (which may or may not allow it). The policy page can go kick sand.
Thank you for the correction! I didn’t realize that there were multiple different plate emulsion methods.
I use NixOS in spite of the Nix Language. It's worth it.
What mechanism is this using?
I will try to find it. I would also point out they hold excess reserves in Bitcoin.

My guess is nobody can get them on not being 1:1 but this idea of AML violations as the attack vector makes a lot of sense.
What do you think this means? Companies shouldn't be able to reinvest money into themselves because every extra dollar needs to go to employees? Have you invented some way of determining the correct amount to grow each year as a business? I can't even begin to imagine how this would work in the real world. This makes no sense.

The comments on HN are turning into reddit comments with the massive drop in quality lately. The fact that you're on a throwaway reinforces my point quite a bit.
Is my deli sandwich going to kill me?
There's nothing wrong with the fundamentals of Nix.

But working with nixpkgs is quite difficult for most. Which is why I'm attempting to address those issues in a fork, Ekapkgs.

The repos will eventually expose optional flake entry points, so it will be compatible with flakes and non-flakes.

If you're curious, https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1gatci0/announcing_t....
No. Your game code is a new class, in whats called a module, which is fully supported by the engine. Your game code almost definetly relies on the same stable APIs that a GDExtension or GDScript itself uses. There will be no merge conflicts, no problems, almost certainly.

Note: We have a fork of godot that has some changes and fixes weve made and engine upgrades are still a breeze. Solving the odd merge conflict is not that hard, people do it all the time. Godot's code base isnt drastically changing from day to day. 3->4 only had significant impact if you were doing certain things with the 'visual server'... other than that even that was easy.
What makes you think it will actually taste exactly the same?
I’m all for AI—if it actually does something useful. But features like swiping to remove unwanted items or ensuring everyone smiles in a photo don’t count. For anything genuinely useful, I’d rather subscribe to an AI service separately than pay a premium to have it locked to my phone. I want access from my PC too.
A company with the size and financial resources of Geico ought to be able to handle on-prem just fine. I am a huge public cloud fan, but it is definitely not a great (or even good) fit for everyone.
MiniFB is another option: https://github.com/emoon/minifb
Top hats at that.
I love your project, Jon! I think the Nix ecosystem will be improved by having more, smaller things, where the boundaries are clear.
Please note that they're selling only few components specific to Galaksija - 2 eproms with OS and Basic, print board, keyboard mask (don't know what that is) and some plastic base for all that. You'll need CPU, case and other generic components and you'll have to order these elsewhere. They mention they might offer full set later with some partner but not for now.

Yeah, I was a bit dissapointed with that, but it's understandable that they don't expect to sell a lot of those, it's not a business, just some nostalgia fueled fun project.
You don't, but Rust isnt the right fit for gamedev imo.
> they hold excess reserves in Bitcoin

We had precisely the same amount of information about FTX's Bitcoins as we do for Tether, for what it's worth.
The future is not what it used to be.
> when in reality this field is one of the strictest in terms of statistical procedures like pre registeration, blinding, multiple hypothesis testing etc

I'm not in HEP, but my graduate work had overlap with condensed matter physics. I worked with physics professors/students in a top 10 physics school (which had Nobel laureates, although I didn't work with them).

Things may have changed since then, but the majority of them had no idea what pre-registration meant, and none had taken a course on statistics. In most US universities, statistics is not required for a physics degree (although it is for an engineering one). When I probed them, the response was "Why should we take a whole course on it? We study what we need in quantum mechanics courses."

No, my friend. You studied probability. Not statistics.

Whatever you can say about reproducibility in the social sciences, a typical professor in those fields knew and understood an order of magnitude more statistics than physicists.
You’re right that it’s not ethanol alone. In a similar (semantic, not physiological) manner to the MAOI hypothesis for cigarettes shared in a sibling comment, the compound responsible for most of the negative health effects (not necessarily intoxication although it is involved IIRC) is acetaldehyde, the primary metabolite of ethanol.

As to additives, I’m sure certain ones contribute their own negative effects, sodium benzoate and tartrazine for example, but in that regard it’s the same situation as the food industry.
It's only 22 tons, we could probably polish that off over a weekend.
One Watt Initiative – Limiting Standby Power Usage
When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life
No. That puts the government in control of deciding who is, and is not, the press. Which is contrary to the letter and spirit of the First Amendment, which was, in fact, explicitly, written to preclude that possibility.

Your statement is also dead wrong on the face of it. https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com
If your data center isn't large enough to need at least 5 people full time admins then you should just go cloud. With a part time person you will see downtime when a machine fails. With 1 person that person will sometimes be on vacation when a zero day takes you down. With 2 people 1 will be on vacation when the second gets sick. You end up needing at least 5 people before you have enough people that you have redundancy for humans issues and the ability to train people in whatever is the latest needed.

Of course even in the cloud you still need to apply security patches to everything. However it still saves a lot of issues and thus money in all but the largest setups.
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At least in Firefox there is still a difference even if you don't have a separate search bar. Ctrl-K goes to the URL bar as a search in your default search engine while Ctrl-L goes to the URL bar in whatever mode it currently is in. This mostly matters if you disable searching by default in the URL bar but still search from the URL bar, although there is also a visual indication that you are searching with Ctrl-K in the default configuration.
GPT-o1, Claude-3.5 new,... those models are capable to write quite good code. I think it just need a workflow (make be Github Action) to make it possible.
You can compress in EXI, it's a format for XML and if it is informed by the schema can give a big boost in compression.
I think you responded to my point, but not in a way that is convincing to me at least. If God was willing to destroy the world in a flood before the covenant, and is no longer willing afterwards, then I would say that God has clearly changed. I accept that you could posit that God was always in the same state, one where he was willing to destroy the world before the flood, and not willing after.

But this can be done for any system just as well: instead of saying that the egg was broken to make an omlette, you could say that the egg has always been in the same state: the state where it is whole before the omlette, and broken afterwards. The egg itself is a timeless concept, but we just experience it differently as time passes for us. I don't see why this argument works for God and not for my egg.
Also, https://puzz.link/db/

You'll have to find the puzzles' rules by yourself tho.
You can't just say "squeeze between hydrophobic polymers", as if that's a single thing, and therefore any such "hydrophobic polymer" will be vulnerable to a phthalate.

In particular, DNA is not hydrophobic -- it's an extremely polar environment. The known DNA/RNA intercalating chemicals are also very polar (at least, in critical selected locations). For example, Ethidium Bromide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethidium_bromide

Point being: assuming that the paper in the headline is true (which I do not assume, but I digress), your theory of the mechanism is probably wrong, and therefore misleading.

Edit: having now looked at the paper, they're discussing one specific chemical (bezyl butyl phthalate) which is actually quite polar. It's also an ester, and trivially broken down by common enzymes into a number of different child compounds, any of which could be individually responsible for the claimed effects. Biochemistry is complex.
We've forgotten the reason that linux/unix has been such a flexible platform for decades: small, single purpose tools that are composable.

Keep your app simple. If there is a need to slice and dice the data, make it easy to spit out the data in a standard way to some other application that is good at doing that. As soon as you start doing more than that, you run into the problem of "not exactly fits their use case" because every business is different and has different processes that evolved into what they are for unique reasons.

It's a fool's errand to think that you will ever cover even a fraction of a customer's complete needs in one application.
Oh I understand and agree.
Wow, even worse!
While true, using someone else's trademark as a prefix of your name when you are actively intending it to reference the protected use seems egregious.
As anthropomorphic as calling hallucinations to inaccuracies of the model.

I feel anthropomorphism is part of the marketing strategy for LLMs
What is cyanotype and how to start taking photos in Prussian Blue
There are plenty of people with motor issues where a straw really does mean having the freedom to drink on your own. Also, in the US, ice is more popular to add to your drink and a straw means not getting blasted with a bunch of ice.
Especially considering the fifth amendment was specifically intended to allow for a militia to defend against the government, not to enable students to carry an automatic rifle into school—but here we are
Curiosity killed the listenship.
A phased array can have its phase altered to be steerable. That doesn't work if you overwhelm the receiver to the point it becomes a non-linear device.
You don't seem to understand what "thought experiment" is. It is not when you pull some contrived nonsense out of your ass and make conclusions from it.

You also don't really seem to understand how scientists view science. When something that nobody expects DOES happen, and similarly, when scientists expect very very much to see something and clearly do not, both of those outcomes are exciting for scientists.

Predicting something from a model or theory and then having it be confirmed very successfully sure is great for that theory or model, but is the most BORING outcome for the scientists working on it.

Confirming someone else's fairly successful and well developed model is rarely how you gain money or fame in science.
Take a look at https://epsilla.com/ ?
So when they are setting up config files for the cloud they don't cut corners? It is insane amount of work to follow safe practices to configure your cloud.

I don't see that much difference compared to doing actual admin tasks.
FWIW, the post looks more like a startup pitch from its founder than a more technical article.

My take as of now is that I like what Nix achieves, but I don't feel the complexity is worth it. Docker and similar container tech have issues, yes, but I'd have way way less trouble onboarding a dev on it than Nix.

I hope that changes in the future, though.
Of course they are. I'm sure there are many companies who's business model relies on uncanceled subscriptions.
Where? Definitely nowhere in the Western Hemisphere (excepting Chukotka and whatever else is floating out in the Pacific west of the IDL), and in maybe only half of the Eastern Hemisphere as of this very moment.

And that's 'ugh' in English. ;)
> With a part time person you will see downtime when a machine fails.

Many data centers offer remote hands services. And I don't believe this is at all true.

I worked at a place that managed thousands of boxes in dozens of pops with 1.5 fulltime people. If you design it for this from the beginning, with cattle not pets and netboot everywhere, this is very doable. And a large cost savings vs cloud.
Imagine if right to repair became an ADA issue. That would be awesome.
It also means nothing in English, though that's somewhat obscure from my perspective. (Looking it up, it sounds like English borrowed it from German a while back.)

In English I think it's most often used as a verb that means basically to cancel. Like, "We're running out of time, we should nix feature X."
Two different considerations for when you'd want to deny memory to other processes:

Protecting against outside attackers

Digital Rights Management

Faking "mseal" is something you might intentionally do if you are trying to break DRM, and something you would not want to do if you are trying to defend against outside attackers.
> Our data shows that of all the (OSS) repositories created every day, almost 90% of them start with a flake.nix

90% of OSS repositories that use Nix I suppose?
For the example Parmesan cheese vs PDO (Protected Designation of Origin, under European law) Parmesan Reggiano cheese, the differences are in flavour and texture. It is absolutely possible to make Parmesan that matches PDO Parmesan Reggiano cheese outside of that region, but if you don't have the stamp (or counterfeit the stamp), you can't charge a premium price.

The same applies to a laundry list of food ingredients and products, including wines, cheeses, teas, produce, and meat. PDO isn't the only such scheme, several countries have their own appelation programs.

From a counterfeiting perspective there are three major concerns - misleading the consumer, economic harm to the cheesemakers in the region of origin, and potential food safety.

In terms of misleading the consumer, mass market parmesan cheese is usually produced with pasteurized milk vs raw milk and cured for 10 months vs 24 months. It is often sold ground into a fine powder to conceal the lower quality texture, and the flavour profile is substantially different. When cooking with 10 month cured cheese vs 24 month cured cheese, there is a noticeable difference in how the cheese melts and incorporates into different foods which can result in downstream lower quality foods (in terms of presentation and flavour, nutritionally the differences are negligable).

In terms of economic harm, parmesan cheese is substantially cheaper to produce, and has a retail price as low as $~0.50/ounce. PDO Parmesan ranges in price from $~1.50/ounce for 2 year aged, and as high as $~10/ounce (note my prices are converted from CAD to USD, and based on prices from the cheese market near me, prices may vary by market). If a counterfeiter can sell parmesan as PDO Parmesan Reggiano, they command a significant margin, even if they sell it much cheaper than the retail price).

In terms of health risks, PDO and other Appelation designations often require audits or reviews of production process to ensure compliance and quality control. Fake PDO Parm made with unpasteurized milk and not handled properly can bring the risks of using raw milk to the consumer - properly made PDO Parm results in a cured and extremely low moisture product that should destroy most of the bacteria and molds. Even minor changes in the production process can make the resulting product unsafe or higher risk for consumption.
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Something I have never understood is why the hard-on with Nix, and Guix is not heard of even a tenth of the times. Is GPL really so repulsive to the masses? Or the libre kernel default?
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Co-incidentally, Palin kept an office in Neal's Yard!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal%27s_Yard
Russia sentences REvil ransomware members to over 4 years in prison
Uhm are they serious!? Jammers are forbidden by most countries and they find it okay to put that into space as a satellite. Honestly if the scenario they describe when it comes to use it will be a target immediately and shot down just causing more debris. Space should be kept weapon free for the sake of humanity.
The same could be said about anything. Clothes, watches, cars, hell even medicine.

If it is indistinguishable, is it different? It starts to get a bit philosophical from there on in.

I think though fakes tend to be significantly worse quality because they want to make loads of profit. I can't see cheese fraudsters going to the same lengths of maturation and all that because why bother.
Yeah, there might be one more combinatorial explosion, so they can choose one of 16 combinations with each of those 35960 combinations... breaks one's brain.
Of course -- as do I. But I've become unwilling to accept that the failure of the Nix language is just a skill issue.
- "Memory Sealing "Mseal" System Call Merged for Linux 6.10" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474510#40474551 :

> How should CPython support the mseal() syscall?
The comment about "running legacy applications in the cloud was not any cheaper" stood out to me. Just moving the same legacy design into the cloud is not the optimal way to gain cost and availability improvements.

If you have ever seen a data center from Azure, GCP or AWS, you will realize how difficult it will be for any company to compete in the long run. Those companies develop new generations of data center infrastructure with power efficiency improvements every single year. They negotiate network and power contracts at a scale that exceeds any typical Fortune 500 company. I'm skeptical that running your own data center will end up a cost saver in the long run.
> Kill the language and replace it with configuration

No. Hard no. Please don't tell me you are going to kill a fine (even though awkward) configuration language and replace it with (potentially text-templated) yaml.
> how does a local learn which new restaurants are truly exceptional?

Do you really live in a small town?

In my experience, someone goes there, then tells other people. The news spreads in like weeks in small towns. It is known weeks in advance if a new place will open.

There is zero chance an exceptional restaurant would evade my discovery. I can name almost all about twenty resturants that operate in total. Of which 2 are 'exceptional'.

People just tell me without me asking.

Edit:
By 'name' I also meant 'the place by X'.
How to Improve Code Completion LLMs with Repo-Specific Finetuning
Hey everyone! We've been working on helping eng teams finetune custom code LLMs for their specific internal code repos for different tasks across the SDLC.

We wrote a blog post about how we're doing it for code completions. We essentially fine-tune the model as a developer going from a blank slate to the full repo, one diff at a time. Instead of treating codebases as a static, raw list of files, we treat them as time-series of diffs on graphs of code objects (functions, classes, etc.).

The results are very encouraging.

Would love to answer questions and hear any cool ideas y'all might have!