skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone clarify: wasn't it Oracle that open sourced Java? Was this person's job to just do that? Why exactly she regrets it?? Because her daughter is learning Java now, but how is that regretful??
Vim is a code editor for me and my entire OS is my IDE.

The thing though is that I can pipe stuff other applications are doing into my vim terminal and have it effectively behave like an IDE.

There’s very little (nothing?) an IDE does that cannot also be exposed and manipulated within VIM (and the same goes for Emacs obviously).
Well, UNIX is the IDE ("The UNIX Programming Environment") and vi/vim is just the editor component of that. This is only half serious but I'm not fully joking either. The combination of tools and the ability to make pipes and custom scripts does, over a while result in a decent "development environment".
I think it's more like being annoyed at OTA television programs which are interrupted by ads put there by the broadcasters, because none of the funding comes from viewers/subscribers, it's all from ads

...so people who don't want ads are marketed to by cable TV companies, and invited to pay a subscription for TV with no ads, because _all_ the program's funding comes from subscribers

...and then either the cable TV people get greedy and start adding ads to programs already 100% funded by subscribers

...or the program makers get greedy and cut product-placement deals to get extra money on top of their 100% funding from subscribers

In either of these situations, subscribers can rightly ask: why the fuck did I agree to fund these people? They promised me no ads if I pay, and they've added ads.

The answer is: don't pay, make them lose revenue, and either they will respect the promises they made to subscribers, or they will abandon it completely and go back to free-to-air with ads, or they'll go bankrupt (or they'll keep conning people, and some portion of suckers will always fall for the "no ads! oh hey, i started adding ads to your no ads subscription, hope you like it! ka-ching!" approach, and they'll get by on duplicity)
Yes, editor proficiency is something that beats these things any day.

In fact if you are familiar with keyboard macros, in both vim and emacs you can do a lot of text heavy lifting tasks.

I don't see these as opposing traits. One can use both the goodness of vim AND LLMs at the same time. Why pick one, when you can pick both?
Uhhhh, just use Elixir? This is a solved problem.
You may be interested in https://github.com/aceinnolab/Inkycal, it looks like it's out of stock at the moment but they have pre-made devices or you can make your own with a list of parts.
Coins in Movies
George and Jonathan Audio and Visual Website
Laser welding has quite different challenges from electrical welding as the heat-affected zone is so much smaller, much less energy is delivered to the metal to perform the weld. I'd like to read more about the research in the article to see what they've done to address this or if it was even an issue for them! It probably depends on the thickness and orientation of the metal and fixturing.
When it's their money Azure manage to have a spending limit...

> The spending limit in Azure prevents spending over your credit amount. [1]

Once it's your money miraculously the spending limit is no longer available...

> The spending limit isn’t available for subscriptions with commitment plans or with pay-as-you-go pricing. [1]

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-bill...
Browser debugger is my #1 resource. There is almost always a way to get stuff by replaying network requests. No matter how much they obfuscate (I'm looking at you, quora) it is still possible to replicate the requests and use the site like an API. Some real estate businesses and shadier data providers use browser detection to get around automation, but it is usually a minor inconvenience since you can run browsers headless or on xvfb if they have to render.
Eh. Maybe. Who knows?

It's more the attitude that I'm mocking: "I've seen that this company performed very well, perhaps better than any company in history. I, a random person with absolutely no idea what metrics / etc... they've used to make these decisions, insist that they should do it a totally different way."
Also be aware it's not all roses with Hetzner.

There are stories online of folks getting their accounts deactivated or not even getting approved.

https://x.com/theo/status/1827480999305118135

https://x.com/heyandras/status/1856747621962191126
Understanding that the condition is rare enough that most of us really don't have a need to prepare for it, I wonder if there are any habits one could cultivate that would make it easier to live with amnesia. Learning new things is my favorite past time and strongest coping mechanism, so the though of not being able to do that anymore is up there with locked-in syndrome on my list of greatest living fears.

For example, I am already in the habit of logging every phone call to any doctor's offices or important contacts as they're happening. Being able to refer back to all the notes has helped me manage a number of complex errors. I know the name of the person I spoke to, the date, and what we discussed. Any time I need to make a call about a topic or to a company, I have an easy way to pull up all the past notes.

I'd like to think if I ever got amnesia, already having this system in place would serve me really well if I couldn't learn new things. I have the old things, and the habit of referring to and adding new things to the list.

But I wonder what else would or wouldn't be useful to try to practice now?
From that paper it seems the sampling method (SAP) is also slower, so that it beats larger models seems expected.
I was once blindfolded for a team activity and led from a small hallway to an empty basketball gymnasium. With no training or prior awareness, I could instantly tell not only that I was in a gymnasium, but also (very) approximately how far I was away from the walls. after that, I started paying attention to how often I use audio cues to spatially locate myself.
Fiber lasers can be quite efficient and the weld process itself is very efficient as less energy is delivered to the metal to perform the weld. Good beam control ensures a minimum of metal is melted to perform the weld and also doesn't get too hot to vaporize and sputter. I don't know about overall efficiency but laser welding continues to displace electrical welding due to a much higher level of process variable control.
That comment is just a fanciful flight of whimsy.

> Gwern was the first patient to successfully complete a medical transition to the gender he was originally assigned at birth... his older brother died of a Nuvigil overdose in 2001... his (rather tasteful) neck tattoo of the modafinil molecule

The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation.

He does have a neck tattoo, but it's actually a QR code containing the minimal weights to label MNIST at 99% accuracy.
It was Sun Microsystems. She worked there. Her regret is about her husband being a bit annoying about it.
>Musk can have a preferred candidate and political stance. And he can run Twitter accordingly

Except he'll be going up against Musk 2022 and his tweet below:

>For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally
It's tongue-in-cheek. Her greatest pain of it is watching her husband and daughter hate on it through homework. ;) So the joke is that she "hates" it now because of that. (but she doesn't really hate it, she loves it.)
You can do very slow yet smooth scrolling for games by using the subpixels - at least on platforms like e.g. the Game Boy Color where you know the pixel geometry. Of course you need to use 'whole' pixels (composed of RGB) so the perceived color doesn't change.
OK, not general problem-solving ability, but subject-specific problem-solving ability. And I don't mean more tedious problems, but rather those that require self-discovery of non-standard approaches while not relying on any knowledge from further grades. E.g. for maths Olympiad problems exist for at least as early as 3rd grade, it might be possible to figure out something for younger children too.
The pain and cost very much depend on one’s jurisdiction (hey, once upon a time it literally required an act of Parliament!). And there are levels to it, too. Absolutely, the first time one sets up a company one needs to hire a lawyer. But after that it’s more of a judgment call.

$5k/month is $60k/year — I am not myself comfortable with the unlimited personal liability risk that brings without a company.
I was able to buy a 8 vCPU instance right now - do you know how frequent this problem may be?
Hierarchy aside, I am surprised the literal author and maintainer of the project, on Google’s payroll no less, was not consulted on such a decision. Seems borderline arrogant.
Economists know this definition, yes. But, as the parent hints, this is separate from the phenomenon that the use of epistemic language that does not match the common use of a term undermines legitimacy/trust in the institution.

> There is no misuse or twisting of definition.

The denial of such perceptions in the general population will presumably have little influence on the perceptions of the general population. At worst, it will merely lead to further polarisation.

I can fully understand the desire to defend the definitions of one's own discipline, but it doesn't help with the question of how third parties perceive it.

We need to remember that outside the epistemic community of economists, giving something to someone (a subsidy) is not the same as not taking something from someone (not taxing) - and I'd guess that no amount of academic writing or passionate insisting is going to change that in the near future.
Unless my memory is completely off, I don't recall Polymarket giving "Trump will win" vibes in the general lead up to the election. When they did, it was probably in the last few days.

If that's the case, I would've expected to the statement to be something like, "From our understanding, our only crime is to have presented an analysis that the outgoing administration also understood to be valid."
Nobody gets your points. HN is like this far too often, take minor points and that's all the discussion is about.

I'm doing what you're talking about 100%. I've found that established and popular FOSS web software that has normal people users and their support forums, plural, for their normal users (as any popular software has) - this type of "established and non-sexy probably used for office work software" is fully known and understood by LLMs. It's very simple to put a support AI Agent inside the interface to that software, and because the LLM has both the user support forums and the source code itself in the training, that AI Agent can do things against the software's API and data structures by request - it knows them!

Yeah, "boring software" is no longer boring when it can be integrated with characters that know that software as good as the lead developer who wrote it and have the knowledge of a dozen PhDs too.
> Almost no level of accidental spend is worth creating downtime or data loss in a critical application

But not all applications are critical, and the company deploying those applications should be able to differentiate between what's critical and what's not. If they're unable to, that's their fault. If there's no option to set hard limits, that's AWS' fault.
I made an AI agent to cut your videos into interesting clips
A week ago, I had zero users, and today, over 20 people are using my software I feel like I'm on top of the world – I might just celebrate with a coffee alongside Elon Musk.

I spent three months building Cyclips, and it was tough, especially working alone. Many times, I wanted to quit, but I pushed through—I didn’t want my project to become just another unfinished idea. Even when family and friends doubted me, I stayed strong.

Cyclips uses AI to turn long videos into short clips, adding viral captions and auto-reframing. I share updates on my Discord every three days. This is software I personally use—building something you'd use yourself is key.

Alright, back to the present! Building the software was one thing, but getting users? That’s a whole other game. As a full-time coding boy, I had to crack open my brain and dig deep to find my inner marketing self. Through a lot of outreaching to potential users, I figured that the best wat to promote my app is to use it myself and post those clips on social media. I will update you guys on how it goes and if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I am planning to launch on ProductHunt soon as well.

Regarding the UI of my software, I know for a fact I did a pretty good damn job. I didn’t know building a video editor was that complicated, but hello? I made it happen I wanted to say thank you to those who checked out my software and provided feedback, they are all valuable. I still have a long way to go.

Thanks for reading my story. I woke up today, thinking I want to share my story to people that did not ask. So yeah, I will be posting more often.
> I love the example of Isaac Newton looking at the rates of progress in Newton's time and going, “Wow, there's something strange here. Stuff is being invented now. We're making progress. How is that possible?” And then coming up with the answer, “Well, progress is possible now because civilization gets destroyed every couple of thousand years, and all we're doing is we're rediscovering the old stuff.”

The link in this paragraph goes to a post on gwern website. This post contains various links, both internal and external. But I still failed to find one that supports claims about Newton's views on "progress".

> This offers a little twist on the “Singularity” idea: apparently people have always been able to see progress as rapid in the right time periods, and they are not wrong to! We would not be too impressed at several centuries with merely some shipbuilding improvements or a long philosophy poem written in Latin, and we are only modestly impressed by needles or printing presses.

We absolutely _are_ impressed. The concept of "rapid progress" is relative. There was rapid progress then, and there is even more rapid progress now. There is no contradiction.

Anyway, I have no idea how this interview got that many upvotes. I just wasted my time.
Europe's Stocks Lag Behind US Rally by Most Since 1995
Probably.

Output for the example I got on opening the website:

char (*(*x())[5])()

cdecl.org: declare x as function returning pointer to array 5 of pointer to function returning char

ChatGPT: x is a function that, when called, gives us access to 5 functions that each return a character. (TL;DR, it gave a full explanation too)

Like mentioned before the error rate of LLMs is probably much higher on complex expressions.
Yes I believe that is the equivalent to ACA. I use ECS in prod and its incredibly cheap and efficient. Like all things it requires a little legwork to make sure its the best fit. They just charge for the underlying machines not the deployment itself.
https://archive.is/gpCmC
It’s in the article:

> But Kroll believes tech advances have made affordable indexing more possible, and new EU regulations limiting the power of gatekeepers such as Google are making it a worthwhile pursuit.

Which links to another Wired story:

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-dma-breaking-open-big-tec...

They’re talking about the Digital Markets Act.

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

Which is also what you’d get inundated by when doing the search I mentioned above. None of this is hard to find. If you want to discuss the article, it’s expected you make a minimum of effort to check what it says.
Yes, but sadly only 8 or 9% of people in tech companies in the UK are from a lower socio-economic background, so you're really just making some middle class people richer.
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I hate to have to agree. Also, I signed up for a Pro account but then found out that using the API is an entirely different service that seemed almost completely disconnected from the main one with separate billing. It was so confusing and felt like it was built by a company the size of SAP or something.
Establishing linkages between ML and Differential Geometry is intriguing (to say the least). But I have this nagging sense that "data manifolds" are too rigidly tied to numerical representations for this program to flourish. Differential geometry is all about invariance. Geometric objects have a life of their own so to speak, irrespective of any particular representation. In the broader data science world such an internal structure is not accessible in general. The systems modeled are too complex and their capture in data too superficial to be a reflection of the "true state". In a sense this is analogous to the "blind men touching a elephant in different parts and disagreeing about what it is".
I've been always using -r for grep so it never occured to me that such a thing could happen

Looks like user error to me tbh, similar to `rm -rf /`. Should `rm` give a warning when / is the argument?
This is awesome.

I used to run a Jungle night, and once we booked Paradox to play. He brought his entire Amiga set up and we had to replace the decks with it for his set. He had to load each track from a floppy disk and it took like 2-3 mins whilst the beat of the previous track would play out and the crowd waited for the next track to load. Crazy seeing a whole dancefloor chilling waiting for a floppy disk to load up!
I am opposed to the government regulating speech, so you got that part wrong; I fully support freedom of speech as it is defined in the US Constitution. Here, I/we are talking about something else, free reach, which no one has a right to and which absolutely should be regulated.

Here's an article with more detailed information if you'd like to educate yourself on the topic: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-is-not-the-same-as-f...
It's not at all expected. T5 models are not generative models by default and they were not thought to be able to perform generation, let alone in-context learning. Remember these models were released before any of the existing LLMs and in-context learning/prompting as a technique became popularized with GPT-3.

While the technique requires multiple samples to coax generations from this particular model, other LLM training schemes have incorporated both unidirectional and bidirectional objectives in their training now. However, this exploration hasn't been fully resolved as most models are still trained only on the causal objective by standard practice. There's still a a lot of exploration that can be done on pre-training objectives.
Hello, Francois! My question isn't related directly to the big news, but to a lecture you gave recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_NlkBwdj8&ab_channel=Machi...
At 20:45 you say "So you cannot prepare in advance for ARC. You cannot just solve ARC by memorizing the solutions in advance."
And at 24:45 "There's a chance that you could achieve this score by purely memorizing patterns and reciting them."
Isn't that a contradiction? The way I understand it on one hand you are saying ARC can't be memorized on the other you are saying it can?
got a real mad scientist here, haha.

could it be possible though that prolonged exposure to chemicals excacerbated his preexisting conditions?
I think I know what's going on. Google's Gemini searches your Google Workspace (incl. Google Docs) for its RAG system.

These questions are almost certainly verbatim copied from some Google Document Gemini already has access to. I think the first few questions are designed to prime it to keep responding from that doc. So, this response is actually already in the doc Gemini is answering off of.
Any new jungle in guy?
> evolutionary algorithms, updates are by natural selection, diffusion models, updates by denoising

but are they not both fitness functions? couldn't an EA use something akin to denoising as its fitness function and still be an EA?

(genuine question, complete layman here).
Gifting dollars on gift cards today is only supported by 99.9% of retailers. How many retailers accept USD II?
In Street Fighter 3rd Strike (1999) Akuma's stage music titled Killing Moon is one my favorites, I still listen to it
Page is plagued with "Contact Sales". So that's not for individuals who are seeking replacement for Google Translate / Live Transcribe.

When I saw the title I was kinda expecting a voice-to-voice translator with voice synth (interpreter), which is something I'm painstakingly building as a side project. I can just drop my project and use a more mature one.
> the rest of the world and the United States in particular on the other hand respect good products that shake the markets

Especially when the politicians are well paid by the makers of those products. /s
Likely because it is not a good time to be a gardener (professionally) right now either. The tech job market and agriculture prosperity seem to track each other.
If a company chooses to be run by accounting rather than by tech, that's fine; they should get the good and the bad outcomes that come from that choice.
Using modern tools and standards? So build with node.js, runs like a pig, only supports the three models made by the sponsoring company?
I'm not going to fine or send somebody to jail with my computer jargon... that is a huge difference. I'm not agains jargon, in other disciplines, even internally between lawyers in procedures for example. But the law that applies to ME, I have to be able to parse it.
My go-to DL stack is Keras 3 + JAX. W&B is a great tool as well. I think JAX is generally under-appreciated compared to how powerful it is.
Actually, you can easily try it without an account: it stores everything locally with a nag/warning that your local browser data can be lost if you don't create an account.

- https://app.affine.pro

- OR click "Get Started" from https://affine.pro
> "scores": [85, 90, 78.5] :\a

You mean `\ad` , obviously. (You see where I'm going with this?)
Some people call this phenomenon "the enshitification of services and web".

I try to see it as an opportunity for creators and entrepreneurs.
Charting Your AI Native Journey
Coffeeshop Mode
I'm a heavy Zwift user myself and I saw think this is genius and now I want to replicate it. I even ride a Cannondale and use a ZSA keyboard haha
It is obviously convenient for nvidia, but does that mean it's false?
SoftBank returns to profit as Indian IPOs boost Vision Fund gains
Is the big business of scientific publishing bad for science?
That is super cool! I might need to build one of those. My family needs a way to keep the fridge calendar up to date with our digital calendar.
So we agree that there is more than one way to interpret 5/2+3 (a correct and an incorrect way) and therefore that the GP statement below is wrong.

“Which is a question that can be interpreted in only one way. And done only one way.”

The question for calculators is then the same as the question for LLMs: can you trust the calculator? How do you know if it’s correct when you never learned the “correct” way and you’re just blindly believing the tool?
Eating (good) ramen is being used here as evidence that he's doing poorly, or something? I don't get it. Ramen is delicious, and can be very healthy. I hereby politely demand that you explain what exactly you are insinuating about the wonder that is ramen.

A floor collapsing and not bothering to replace it sounds more serious, sure, but that can mean a lot of different things in different circumstances. Imagine, for example, someone who's an expert in DIY but also a devoted procrastinator. That person could leave a roof in the state described for months or years, planning to eventually do it up, and I wouldn't consider anything terribly revelatory about the person's financial or mental status to have occurred.