skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice job with the error messages!!

I’m actually trying to learn clojure right now, and the error messages are a pretty big hurdle. Especially cause I only have passing familiarity with java. It’s crazy how much difference good error messages make. Like rust vs clojure is just wild.

Another hurdle is how much I miss static types. I know people love clojure (and so far I’ve found a lot to love too) but my brain feels so stunted when working without a good type system.

I’ve been looking at gleam for a while, and it really looks like an ergonomic language. Static types, functional, pattern matching. I’m surprised it’s not more popular, it looks awesome at least!!

As soon as I’m done with my clojure book and I’ve done a little clojure project, I’m going to get into gleam.

I saw codecrafters has a few gleam challenges. Maybe I’ll take the gleam tour and then dive in with one of those.
I have no clue what you're trying to say or add to the parent comment.
> the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with

Right. Which the general public figured out - accurately - about a month into the lockdowns.

People will self-isolate for a week or two the next time around, but it's going to have to be a very different disease before we permit ridiculous extended lockdowns again.
i tend to agree to an extent.

we can’t keep chasing the approval of the most paranoid, many of them quite literally will never ever be satisfied.

the number of times throughout our day we trust and rely on something done by another human numbers in the thousands.

too many people have this weird fantasy that we can somehow have (or even need) “zero trust”, and for almost anything this is a fantasy of the paranoid and not at all based in coherent reality.

and even more importantly, even if we could, for soooo many things “zero trust” wouldn’t solve the problems anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_deficiency
Django one of most popular Web Frameworks in Python does the same trick.
Tying it to swinging election results is political inflamation. That's so obvious that I think it's you who are not serious.
I find such claims dubious at best. The AI will create a snapshot of you at one point in time, but it’s not going to faithfully represent how you think and develop over time, where the growth is the basis for your personality.

I expect serious researchers to make more nuanced claims, and I expect them to be honest about the fact that some aspects of personality and human consciousness aren’t even understood on a biological level. For example, we don’t even have a way to fully capture the randomness of epigenetics on animal cognition and behavior, let alone that for humans.

What’s the usefulness of distilling science and research into inane marketing? Funding agencies and sources know their stuff, and aren’t reading these articles. So who is this article for, exactly? Student parents?
Having read the post, I disagree.
"Sixteen years old when I went to the war

To fight for a land fit for heroes

God on my side, and a gun in my hand

Chasing my days down to zero"--Motorhead, 1916

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTG6I3jxdnc
+1.

The article hints at a worry about college applications by the student. So perhaps this was an attempt to clean the student's slate of the cheating record. Still, I can't support the approach taken.
Wooden structures 476,000 BCE

Sailing 100,000 BCE

Drawing 73,000 BCE

Counting 60,000 BCE

Medicine 40,000 BCE

…

Writing 3,200 BCE

Alphabet 2,400 BCE

I find it hard to believe humans were building houses, painting pictures, making rope, and sailing for tens of thousands of years without inventing writing. I think we just haven’t found any of it that survived.
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I'd say expressionless is the way of the future, and this new language is right on the money here.

After all, what do you think AI is all about? It's about replacing tedious expressions with pre-built programmable components. Granted, it's more like a helper at this point, and maybe not a very good one, but that's where we're going.

So a Gliimly idea of an expressionless programming language where you can use "programmable" pre-built components in a way that lets you write web applications, that's very attractive.

I would say Gliimly would be great as a solid base for an AI-programming chatbot.
Except that for profit companies usually stay within the legal limits - or if they don't their smart and calculated about it.

This guy is just going nuts and most likely non of his actions would be looked at favourably in any legal dispute.

And if the most likely outcome of a legal dispute is loosing then that's not really a good way to try increasing revenue/profits.

On top of that if your business is founded on open source and you're behaving like this you're destroying that whole foundation - and burning the whole thing down likely won't increase and profits either
What do you mean "their own private use"? OpenAI isn't letting me download the material they train on.

If you mean because OpenAI is selling access to the LLMs then an artist is doing the same selling art which was painted using skills they gained from consuming pirated material

Of course some Copyright Fans want to give artists cuts of AI revenue if the material was used for training. Laws that will absolutely never be used on human artists of course...
Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.
Automattic is owned by a group of private investors worth trillions of dollars.

The "private equity" angle is a rhetorically meaningless point made by an out-of-touch bully trying to put a moralistic spin on his own greed.
Communication over a distance has inherited problems, people. Twitter or Bluesky or even these cute scientists won't change that.
The incoming administration notwithstanding, I'd expect it to go faster than the COVID vaccine.

First, mRNA technology has now been proven for multiple vaccine types, and I think hundreds of millions of people have gotten the COVID mRNA vaccine, so the general safety profile of mRNA is fairly well understood.

Second, Moderna has already done a Phase 3 trial of a combination COVID/Flu mRNA vaccine, with supposedly positive results, although I don't think they have been formally published yet. For other types of flu vaccines, the FDA does not require a new clinical trial for the antigen update for the circulating strain.

Third, the infrastructure for producing mRNA vaccines at scale exists now, which it didn't in 2020.
COVID is an outlier mate… it wasn’t just that most people were working from home, it was that everything stopped. if that was sustainable long-term that we are all on lockdown globally sure - we’d get traction in climate change and fast. unfortunately though…
What really breaks me is that in this rules-oriented CoC world, "polite assholes" are allowed to do anything they want. Including ousting people who hold them back.
the world is always much different 26 years ago :)
In the 90s the US scuttled an EU plan to create an EU military force that would be relatively small--around 50,000 personnel--but would be the umbrella military organization under which national forces would come together if needed.

Trump and conservatives complain mightily about EU underspending on defence, but that's been by American design. While the EU was/is dependent on the American security umbrella, the US had a lot of leverage over Europe. The carrot was "you don't need to spend so much on defence, we've got you covered" and the stick was "shame if we didn't have you covered anymore, since you've been underspending for so many years.
how is docker open in any way?

https://i.imgur.com/2F0JmUw.png
Those are minuscule subsidies compared to the size of the industry.
This seems to assume that there is a tractable way to encode H efficiently, but this seems very difficult given a model that is focused on understanding the content. Ex: I can easily write a program that can do basic arithmetic, but given say a bitmap scan of elementary school math materials, such a program gives me no easy way to compress that; rather something generic like PNG (that does not know or understand the material) will far outperform.
you can probably use any AI generator to fix it in the same color
The news media and the copyright cartels are different evils. News media aren't the ones going after torrenters.
ChatGPT is not someone. It's a tool.
> the general public has gotten more ignorant, more conspiratorial, more belligerent, and more defiant

If the response to COVID was more appropriate we wouldn't be in this situation.

Which - by the way - was predicted countless times early on in the pandemic. That, if the public health response was too overboard, people will just ignore it the next time around. Crying wolf and all that.

So like, congratulations.
He clearly failed at doing any actual compression, but he did not fail at the challenge. He satisfied every single condition.

He obviously knows that. He knows exactly what compression is and that his solution is not it. He showed (successfully) that meeting the challenge as it was worded did not require compression, which the setter of the challenge didn't realize.
Yes kind of a hybrid, isn't it?
This looks good on theory, but as with many government plans, this is another tax.

It would be great if they can use this congestion fee to improve public transportation. Will it happen? Nope.
Of course we were optimistic when the internet was young:

• All the world's people will effortlessly be able to communicate and collaborate together? Surely this will bring about an age of open-mindedness and harmony!

• The bulk of the world's information will go digital, and become accessible to anyone? Surely this will relegate ignorance and superstition to problems of the past!

I've never considered myself an optimist, but if someone back then had predicted the internet we have today, I would have written them off as a hopeless cynic.
Is your toaster spying on you?
>that was not a promise from medical experts

What part of Fauci (and many others) being a member of the Coronavirus Task Force do you not understand?
I have a coworker that is terrified of elevators, claiming them unsafe and that they're death traps, and takes the stairs up three stories to the office multiple times per day. He couldn't explain why he trusted the stairs or building more than the elevator, but his gut just tells him the stairs are safer and elevators are death traps.

He's also a firm believer that ballots are all fraudulent and so he doesn't vote because it wouldn't matter, the new world order has decided who is going to win years ago.

He will never believe differently, and he's a very rational person in other areas of his life and is a very talented developer. We can build a cpu with billions of gates and yet we can't safely pull a box up on a cable. I will never understand.
I think early pc shooters (doom, quake, unreal, etc) had a whole legion of kids learn the basics of computing. typing commands in a console. Understanding latency, what servers meant. Installing mods and drivers. It was a fantastic, motivating introduction to system administration.
In this way: https://imgur.com/a/PIkm7Eb
We find lots of non-alphabetic writing from earlier periods that does survive, though. Surely if they had alphabetic writing, we'd find that when we find writing?
That Pentium is the 80502, so it's almost the same as the one in my article except that it is built with 600 nm technology instead of 800 nm and it has 200,000 more transistors. It's easy to knock the lid off the package with a chisel if you want to see the die inside.
Friends 85 year old mother didn't get the covid vax because as she said I never go anywhere. The loony ex sister in law visited her when she had a 'cold'. A week later my friends mom is found unconscious on the floor with covid. She probably already had the beginnings of dementia but it's a lot worse and she has to live in a nursing home.

This is for want of a nail stuff.
People love to hate private equity

Somewhere between $1m and $102b you become the enemy
I feel like if the FAQ requires not using filename shenanigans then the slight of hand was illegal the whole way.
Decentralization is not itself the solution. Breaking up the control of servers, but still keeping everything as a global network but now with less moderation, is not the suggestion.

The article is arguing for spaces that are more loosely connected but still moderated, probably more moderated.
That specific duration, two weeks, was an official policy from the CDC and the White House https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-s.... Here's the US Surgeon General talking about it: https://youtu.be/HK2ypT2xweA?t=129

As we can see in the video, the experts knew from the get-go that 15 days wouldn't be enough. But they named the policy/slogan that way anyway in the hope that it would improve cooperation "oh it's just 15 days, we can all do it!".

I think it's fair to say that the population shouldn't take such slogan as being absolute during an evolving unprecedented situation. But it's also fair to say that the experts (or at least the politicians) were being deliberately misleading and, rightly or wrongly, some people felt duped/lied to once they realized that.

Calling them dumb for feeling duped by an official slogan isn't helping anyone. Let's agree that things could/should have been communicated better and let's all learn from it so that history doesn't repeat itself.
> Sounds like if you so much as use a data structure defined by WordPress, then by distributing your software you're really distributing a modified version of WordPress.

Given that reimplementing an API for interoperability is at least sometimes not a violation of copyright (see, e.g., Oracle v. Google), using a datastructure defined in a piece of software providing a plugin API to interoperate with it cannot make the resulting software exist only as a combination with the software providing the API, since it relies only on some software providing the same API, not necessarily the particular software that originally provided the API.
I doubt this, there are dozens of hosting options for WP out there.

I think he was threatened by WPEngine’s approach as a more popular offering than Wordpress.com and decided to go scorched-earth on them instead of trying compete on the merits of their product. He’s threatening anyone that tries to build bespoke hosting with extra tools like ACF.
I can't make a fair comparison between the object in TFA and Oumuamua, the presumed interstellar object that passed through our Solar System not long ago. For the latter, a "Project Lyra" study [1] posits a combination of Earth and Jupiter gravitational assists to catchup with Oumuamua. Could a similar approach work for this comet?

[1]. https://i4is.org/project-lyra-a-solar-oberth-at-10-solar-rad...
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The encryption part might actually be harmful: for (silly) example, if you encrypt using the Bacon cipher, which turns every letter into five letters all of which are either "a" or "b". :) You'd need to pick an encryption method that doesn't expand the text at all, not even via a header or footer block. Better to stick with bytes generated uniformly at random, in which case you are correct.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher
> likely files (eg. ASCII, obvious patterns, etc) become smaller

Likely files for a real human workload are like that, but if "most inputs" is talking about the set of all possible files, then that's a whole different ball game and "most inputs" will compress very badly.

> unlikely files become bigger

Yes, but when compressors can't find useful patterns they generally only increase size by a small fraction of a percent. There aren't files that get significantly bigger.
Did It New Virtual Try-On with Flux Framework
Super excited to share my latest virtual try-on project! Been working on this for the weekend and finally got some awesome results combining CatVTON/In-context LoRA with Flux1-dev-fill.
Check out these results! The wrinkles and textures look way more natural than I expected. Really happy with how the clothing details turned out.
Demo images below is in the github: https://github.com/nftblackmagic/catvton-flux
Would love to hear what you guys think! Happy to share more details if anyone's interested.
So is a textbook. Still not OK to copy homework from it.
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities don't matter
+1 on orbstack. near-perfect drop in
I dont think so, It requires an acknowledgement of a back-down... a de-escalation.

Without it your only two choices are to boot him out or let him stay and try to ignore him.
One is overly heavy handed the other just formulates escalating toxicity.
The reason is not strange or unknown. The text completion GPT-3 from 2020 often sounds more natural than 4. The reason is the post training processes. Models are more or less being trained to sound like that during RLHF. Stilted, robotic, like a good little assistant. Open AI, Anthropic have said as much. It's not a limitation of the loss function or even state of the art.
Reading through, appears this is mostly a manufacturing concern that goes away once the chip is actually active. Correct? The charge buildup goes away, and then there's no further need for the diode antenna.

However, second question, does any chip actually use these for anything afterward? Or are these ever built so they actually do something other than simple provide manufacturing protection?

Example, they build up charge. So then the charge build up itself is effectively used as some form of remote communication method or channel between various portions of the chip. The diode discharges and in discharging effectively acts as some form of communication transfer.

Others, or it serves multiple purposes. One during manufacturing, one after manufacturing? Safety mechanism during manufacturing, and then the charge buildup location is oscillated, purposely charged, or used as a charge outlet for some other reason?

Others, Light Emitting Diode is, kind of by the name, a diode. Any of these that basically do blinking communication or something similar? Emits light when the charge breaks down, then that is picked up and used as data transfer?

Others, not going into extensively. Tune radio and TV receivers (varactor diodes). Generate radio-frequency oscillations (like actual antennas) (tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes).

Basically, anything other than a safety mechanism for manufacturing?
Can you spot the chengyu
https://699pic.com/tupian-402429317.html

9-tails makes an appearance when I search for "mongoose-fox"
https://699pic.com/tupian/chahua-humeng.html

Edit: worth trying out some of the Chinese genai for your uscases

There's also 黄仙 (the antisocial and weaseley but starkly nonginger southern cousin?)
Docker for Mac does run on Linux. Just a striped down lightweight vm. It's why file Io is complete shit. It's a network share.
It's very hard to know what to do here, because that's also detecting contaminated milk dumped into the wastewater system, which is a massive signal but also not human.
One rule I try to remember with leaders is to speak for impact and not impressing them.

Dealing with senior leaders (VP/Director, not C-suite) can be different too.

Managing up and influencing others may work well, or not at all.

Working one's way up in different workplaces, industries and regions can vary wildly and I would probably caution from my own experience in a lot of verticals that it's best to get to know the scenario and see if you can recognize what might help.
Clear, correct, and unbiased information is what is needed. The CDC failed when they said it wasn’t airborne despite the evidence, they failed when they said masks were not needed initially, because they were afraid of panic buying.

The FDA screwed the pooch with testing. Many institutions could do tests, but the FDA wanted to maintain control and there process was flawed.

Operation Warp speed got a vaccine, but it went from Sterilizing vaccine, to lessen symptoms and hospitalization.

They failed to explain the difference between vaccine side effects and disease effects. Myocarditis? Could be a side effect of either. Perhaps they should have developed a test to determine which?

They let an idiot spout nonsense on TV and no one on stage correct him or clarified, letting the issue become political.

And have they really clarified what we are dealing with. A supposed respiratory virus that causes, myocarditis, neurological issues, stroke , blood clots , and multiple organ failures - is that really a respiratory virus.

Then we’ve declared victory too soon. And everything has left a bad taste in our mouths, such that no one will accept a lockdown again unless the disease has a 20% mortality rate. Ebola could break out and some people would compare the bleeding to lots of paper cuts.
> That rubric only works until sufficiently advanced LLM-generated HN posts are indistinguishable from human-generated HN posts.

if a comment made by a LLM is indistinguishable from a normal one, it'd be impossible to moderate anyway unless one starts tracking people across comments and see the consistency of their replies and overall stance so I don't particularly think it is useful to worry about people who will go the extra length to go undetected
You enter the field with youthful exuberance, but long years fighting the war leaves you jaded.
Destroying your company's brand is not the end game for most profit-driven companies. It's usually the end state, to be fair, but an end game is something you're trying to achieve, not something you're bungling you way into like this.
Really cool! The sprite style reminds me of bit of old school 2D GTA.

One suggestion, some info at the start on the controls would be helpful. I didn't realize it was mouse controls and spent a while hitting different keys trying to figure out how to get moving.
That's my definition of better. Masking and unnecessary quarantining was foisted on us, and did nothing to help anyone.

If anything, it highlighted the mental health crisis going on from the lack of actual community due to a lack of family and religious connections that have decimated by no longer being just down the street and now require a 15+ minute drive, thanks to the isolating nature of the car.

And on top of that, thanks to the mobile phone, there's no spontaneous visits from what community is left.
Maybe it is sometimes okay that people get what they deserve based on their actions? Whatever the result here will be.

Otherwise they will never learn. Is it more okay to do questionable things first and then later hide behind lawyer than just keeping doing it openly?
From the perspective of someone who works in public health: We are less prepared as a society, and have fewer tools at our disposal.