skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the internet is not some auto-censoring regime that stops things from "being up" if they're offensive. You can go find some of the most reprehensible, bigoted and offensive media spanning hundreds of years on Internet Archive. Some of them are games too, and they may even espouse opinions you disagree with.

It will only drive you insane if you believe the internet has anything absolute about it. The internet is not dictated by hasbara, there's no impetus to stay in lockstep with the Israeli media's opinion.
The photo app redesign looks great on paper, but is terrible in practice.

Watching videos in full screen, with audio on, and without controls overlay (I hope I am not asking too much!) requires multiple taps and several frustrating attempts every-single-time.

Activity on your shared albums has been relegated to a small text-only link, and you only get to see small photos, and it doesn’t smartly tiles photos together anymore (photos are now randomly chopped to fit in the frame).

The photo app gets badges, but then you don’t know where to find the new activity inside the photo app.

There is no way changes like these were created, tested, and validated by a well-functioning team
Surprised Gandhi is on that list, was he generally someone known to assert his intellectual property rights?
In May 1998, before the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act went into effect, there was an amusing Tom the Dancing Bug comic regarding characters falling out of copyright. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/1998/05/17

In that vein, similar to the Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh horror movies that have been released in recent years, Popeye will be entering the public domain next year and people are working on a horror movie based on that.
This is going to be largely dependent on your needs, but a factor I would consider if you're using LLMs for coding is which models have been trained the most on which languages. The more a model has been trained on a particular language, the less it will hallucinate
This author published my favorite book on mental math, called Dead Reckoning, you might like it!
UN plastic treaty talks end without a deal
If it's anything like the recommendation engines Amazon et al currently use, you'll order General Tso's chicken once and then for the next year every recommendation will be slight variations of General Tso's chicken from restaurants with weird names you've never heard of.
So, should the UK be considered to be on the same level as Iraq for freedom of expression now, or?
Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar startup?
The “surprising gaps” are precisely because they’re not reasoning—or, at least, not “reasoning” about the things a human would be to solve the problems, but about some often-correlated but different set of facts about relationships between tokens in writing.

It’s the failure modes that make the distinction clearest.

LLM output is only meaningful, in the way we usually mean that, at the point we assigned external, human meaning to it, after the fact. The LLM wouldn’t stop operating or become “confused” if fed gibberish, because the meaning it’s extracting doesn’t depend on the meaning humans assign things, except by coincidence—which coincidence we foster by feeding them with things we do not regard as gibberish, but that’s beside the point so far as how they “really work” goes.
Well, he quoted Black Ops 6, where you play an American going to Iraq to kill Iraqis...
It is difficult to entirely avoid contamination by DNA. https://x.com/p_j_buckhaults/status/1861083163868672204
Climate change is going to have more of an impact on people who have little resources and are already suffering from a lack of infrastructure, healthcare and stability. If these populations get more resources and can afford more services, they can be better prepared. Should they continue to suffer today‘s very real problems only to prevent the predicted but not certain worse suffering later?
Using a KEM[1] to create a sealed_box[2] type construct would allow for privacy even in a situation where the camera hardware is physically seized. You could also use ML-KEM (aka Kyber), McEliece-KEM and ECDH or RSA-KEM together to provide post quantum resistance.

The traditional symmetric approach (which also has post quantum resistance) in such systems requires the camera hardware to possess the long-lived symmetric key which can be extracted after seizure. Using a ratcheting mechanism (hashing the key every t time) can help - but have no self healing and be vulnerable to recovery from persistent storage (past keys may not be securely erased).

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_encapsulation_mechanism>

[2] <https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/public-key_cryptography/sea...>
How do you think it compares to Vaadin?
They apparently have the numbers to back up that they actually make an impact though?
As long as those aren’t made up, but I didn’t check of course
This is what I am trying to solve for with https://github.com/claceio/clace.

Allow internal tools to be built with regular frameworks, while making it easy to add gitops, SSO, secrets management etc which are required for internal tools.
Unless you're required to use Microsoft products by your place of work (in which case, they'll just pay for it for you anyway) use LibreOffice. Free, open source, no Microsoft nonsense.
What is the point in doing a programming challenge if you aren't learning anything
> Drop a pin randomly on a point in Europe and it's overwhelmingly likely that you can't even get to that spot without a car.

Really makes you wonder how the Europeans coped for several millennia prior to the car.

Cutting to the chase; train, bus, bicycle, walking can get people pretty much every where in modern Europe, save those few places that require serious climbing skills.
Even what's referred to as a "monolith" is usually implemented as multiple services. Most Django and Rails apps have at least a database on the backend and an http server/reverse proxy on the frontend. And there are good, logical reasons why 3 tiers works - the data, logic, and network resources all have different operational and development cycles.

But 4 or 5 or 10 tiers might be just as appropriate for your problem domain. A data boundary may force a split. A different language or different hardware required (GPU) might force a split. Split services off for an actual reason, not because of fashion trends! It's not rocket science but it does require critical thinking.
https://archive.is/OlVy8
The Imminence of the Destruction of the Space Program
I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.
I can see this as a bleak future for AI, as it consumes its own output, but any bleak future for information writ large (as conflated here with the "misinformation" industry and the often intentionally deceptive output of the NYT) comes from the suppression of material due to copyright attacks and its locking away in archives.

I've spent a frustrating few hours recently discovering that I could find any number of interpretations and retrospectives on Francisco Ferrer. But the fact that his schools put out a newsletter, the Bolitín de la Escuela Moderna, which would be the best primary source for learning about it, and is completely inaccessible online, is an example of the way information is still locked away. I read about John R. Coryell's prosecution for obscenity for his six part serial published in Physical Culture beginning in 1906, "Wild Oats, or Growing to Manhood in a Civilized (?) Society", and I find that I can't read any issues of Physical Culture prior to 1910, because they're not online (looks like obscenity convictions in 1906 are still effective in 2024!) I find any number of books referring to the culture of Mexican photonovelas, and that they sold millions of copies a month during the 70s, and the best selling ones are only preserved by a blogger who is constantly fighting takedown notices, and who was grateful to get the scans that I got from a local garage sale.

We're failing to put in the minimal effort to preserve, organize and keep accessible our own culture, even when copyright is not an issue. We have endless legal debates and court cases about having our own laws and court cases available to the public without a rent-seeking intermediary given a trust by corrupt politicians in the past. Everything could be preserved and made accessible at lower cost than a few Marvel movies, or two weeks of Ukraine adventure, yet we don't do it. Where's the campaign for that? Nah, better to whine about "racist, sexist" LLMs. That's the opposite of preservation: our entire history is racist and sexist content. Wiping that clean is Year Zero talk.

Our governments prefer reality to be interpreted through intermediaries who will modify it for their sake, or in exchange for payment. Our institutions prefer to be the guardians of information rather than the spreaders of information. That's the problem.

The Conversation itself is a creepy Australian-based conjunction of shady government and nonprofit funding sources that is explicitly designed to push particular narratives into "mainstream" outlets (which is why all of its articles are Creative Commons licensed.) You'll see this article rewritten in six different ways in other outlets within the week, and it seems to be part of this desperate last push for "misinformation" before the US presidential transition, because Trump made a bunch of campaign promises to destroy the industry. It's all manipulation.
I am the author and was puzzling over how to respond to this, but yeah, this is basically it. I still have very little tolerance for a certain level of incompetence (don't work at a hospital if you're going to crash prod repeatedly, sorry, this isn't adult day care), but most of my readers are better software engineers than me, and every day I have to humble myself and ask one of them how to do something stupidly simple, like "Is there a better way to develop pipelines than watching GitHub Actions fail, tweak the code, repeat?"
Also, call of duty had and has ties with the army that sees is as a potential recruitment tool. [1]

Furthermore, in one call of duty a real event was narrated - although if in a fictional scenario - as if it was made by Russians [2], while in real life it was a us led attack on civilians, prisoners, and non fighting combatants. Google highway of death

Another article that has a broader view on the history of how defense and entertainment sector have ties [3]

[1] https://gamerant.com/call-duty-modern-warfare-recruitment-to...
[2] https://www.newsweek.com/call-duty-modern-warfare-highway-de...
[3] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/call-of-duty-penta...
The parent of any young child can tell you that they learn through lots of exploration and reinforcement - often to the worry and chagrin of caregivers. Indeed much of our job is to guide exploration away from excessively dangerous “research” activities (ex. locking away cleaning products).
Space tech is yet another cool industry. It is most certainly localized in a small number of locales and competition for jobs is fierce.

As for FPGAs, the skills in that area are most in demand by companies producing advanced electronics, e.g. video, networking, some industrial and scientific processes.

I see BioTech / MedTech as being two very high potential areas. Of course, the manufacturers of such equipment are generally located in already highly industrialized areas.
Pedantry: Cyprus is in the levant, and the UK has two sovereign areas there.
It's input parsing with a fun story
Steam is not the Internet really though. It’s a community store run by a large corporation which profits from everything that is sold. The internet just happens to be the delivery channel.

This is like going to the supermarket and buying a product which is called “killing jews, the best of” and then when someone comes along and gets pissy telling them you’re anti censorship.

It’s just tasteless morally questionable shite. If it was the other way around then people would be defending it similarly. It would still just be tasteless morally questionable shite.
COD famously did this for the airport scene. I see these Steam indie games like standup comedy, a lot of smaller/younger devs try hard to push boundaries to get attention in a sea of thousands of generic games coming out every month. It is sometimes where good ideas come from. Or maybe another analogy is porn where there's a million niche things for everybody's perverse interests.
AI will be used to benefit us in the same way that social media is used to benefit us.
> Nothing real ever "is" a Markov chain.

What do you mean? Quantum states over time are very much markov chains as well.

> It's simply a (slightly unusual) modelling choice which you can use whenever you've listed all possible inputs that can affect a transition probability

That has nothing to do with markov chains, do you mean a specific implementation? Markov chains is a probability theory concept and has nothing to do with any implementation.
Yes, I've always read the story this way as well. Borges may have not been interested in politics, but politics was interested in him, and he clashed with the Peronists (who fired him from the library) and repeatedly criticizes fascism and anti-semites in his nonfiction especially, and when he was writing this in 1939/1940, obviously all of this was quite imminent and topical.

So what I take TUOT as being is an exploration of the Idealism idea, where Borges puts a twist on it: the (dialectical) beliefs of the communalistic idealists of Tlön turn out to be true, on a certain level, because sufficiently compelling ideas and totalizing ideologies make their claims true. In that way, 'perception' becomes 'reality'. Only that which the ideology or state can perceive is real, and everyone is required to see like a state. (As much as he loved Idealism & Platonism, Borges always seemed to accept them only on a literary level, as applying to fiction and literature - there is indeed 'Man' in fiction, but there is not an actual Man in a Platonic region of forms, there is only a term 'man' we nominalistically apply to entities as convenient.)

That is, idealism is correct, in a sense, and the artifacts of Tlön become real because the savants of the conspiracy 'perceive' them (in their minds) and create them. And as Tlön takes over the world and gains power, it gains more realness and more of its artifacts come into existence - or people just lie about them or pretend they exist and falsify documents to accord with the new party line, and doublethink their way to 'seeing' the new labyrinthine reality forged by their fellow humans.

One might say that _hrönir_, especially, are a savage Orwellian parody of how things go in totalitarian dictatorships: the description of the experiments with the prisoners could as easily be set in Stalinist Russia or Maoist China, where the real story is that on the fourth try, after turning up only the equivalent of fishing for a muddy boot, everyone has figured out that, to satisfy the decrees from above, they need to buy or forge some ancient artifacts of unconvincing antiquity (and so no counter-revolutionary skeptics can be permitted near) and that is how _hrönir_ are discovered. The same way Lysenko manufactured agricultural miracles or innumerable falsifications like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_from_Dazhai_in_agricultu... became official policy, doubted only on pain of death.

Those who disagree and wish to maintain their integrity, can only retreat into quietism or 'internal exile', and spend their time on topics with as little political relevance as possible and avoid even publishing (except as samizdat), and let "a scattered dynasty of recluses take over", as it is too late to stop the Tlön revolution, and "the [whole] world [will] be Tlön".
Even as someone who isn't really into horror much as a genre, it's hard not to appreciate how one of the first instincts we have as a society when freeing some IP is "We should make a creepy version of this!".
I don't see the long term vision for Uber rides. Waymo and their ilk are already here, with three primary friction points

1) building trust & abundance of caution - this will continue to compound and at some point it will reach a tipping point
2) scale - Waymo doesn't have enough cars on the road yet. pickup times are long.
3) high price - Waymo in my area is slightly more expensive (and takes longer) than Uber/Lyft.

They could easily halve the price tomorrow and blow Uber/Lyft out of the water. There's no way to compete because Waymo variable costs are so much lower. Waymo is growing smart - they're building the trust, scaling slowly, and when it's time, they'll cut prices & go for the jugular and it won't be pretty for Uber/Lyft.
We're not just talking about academia—Google's AlphaChip has the potential to disrupt the balance of the EDA industry's duopoly. It seems unlikely that Google could easily secure the policy or license changes necessary to publish direct comparisons in this context.

If publicizing comparisons of CMPs is as permissible as you suggest, have you seen a publication that directly compares a Cadence macro placement tool with a Synopsys tool? If I were the technically superior party, I’d be eager to showcase the fairest possible comparison, complete with transparent benchmarks and tools. In the CPU design space, we often see standardized benchmarking tools like SPEC microbenchmarks and gaming benchmarks. (And IMO that's part of why AMD could disrupt the PC market.) Does the EDA ecosystem support a similarly open culture of benchmarking for commercial tools?
Yeah I’m not queuing up to buy that either.

What happened to killing demons on Phobos?
Research by UNMS
The finest contribution of AIX to Unix, copied (with varying attempts at improvements) by its 90s competitors and eventually into Linux, was its jounal filesystem.

The order of magnitude improvements to fsck on bootup and overall filesytem reliability were non trivial.

SMIT was abit too non-unixy to catch on but I've always wondered in the back of my mind whether it influenced systemd...
I love AoC! Did it the last 2-3 years in Rust, hanging out in a discord where we all try to make the absolute fastest solutions. Learnt all kinds of crazy performance hacks and some advanced algorithms & SIMD that way.

This time I'm trying to do them in Rust and Golang in an effort to either learn to like/tolerate Golang (because we use it at work) or prove my hypothesis that it sucks and never use it unless I have to.
From what I can tell in the screenshots all the targets in this game are military. I'd be curious if that's indeed the case.
I mean Jeff Dean is probably more ML researcher than probably 90% of the ML researchers out there. Sure, he may not be working on state of the art stuff himself; but he's too up the chain to do that.
Pretty wild guess but maybe to prevent radicalization and recruitment? If you have a game like this and get the players onto your discord, you might move over some of them to do something in real life.
And if you can't read base64, a base16 encoded version below.

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I think GP was probably referring to "Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models" (2305.16264) from NeurIPS 2023, which looked first at how to optimally scale LLMs when training data is limited. There is a short section on mixing code (Python) into the training data and the effect this has on performance on e.g. natural language tasks. One of their findings was that training data can be up to 50% code without actually degrading performance, and in some cases (benchmarks like bAbI and WebNLG) with improvements (probably because these tasks have an emphasis on what they call "long-range state tracking capabilities").

For reference: In the Llama 3 technical report (2407.21783), they mention that they ended up using 17% code tokens in their training data.
So do you realize the absurdity of your original statement or do you want to keep going?
Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics
Have you taken a look at some of the draconian speech laws that the UK has passed? They are definitely on the same level as Iraq or even Iran.
How does that follow? The main problem with freedom of expression in Iraq isn’t the censorship of video games that include actions against Iraq. If that was the only censorship in Iraq, the UK and Iraq would be on the same level.
The joy of not having many clients yet, haha. Also sorry that I haven't responded to the email. :( I currently have 451 from readers and have had to accept that I can't get to all of them.
Wouldn’t the logical value when dividing by zero be infinity, because zero can go into any number an infinite number of times?
I think we can probably make do without a game that glorifies the 7th of October massacre. Or any as a matter of fact.

I mean I pretty much made my mind up about that one already. It didn’t take a lot of effort.
> it's hard not to appreciate how one of the first instincts we have as a society when freeing some IP is "We should make a creepy version of this!"

Almost certainly rule 34 happens first and just gets less attention in public. There were “bear” posters of Pooh all over SOMA (in SF) almost immediately after the copyright ended.
When you did this, I am assuming you cut the audio off around 5 mins?

https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/269...
UK is turning into Oceania. Police are knocking on people's doors for tweets. And in a way in Iraq chances are you will have greater freedom of expression because the state capacity is low. UK can enforce shit.
> i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you do with a buidling?

I guess maybe the design of the building, if anything? If that will become public domain, expect it to appear in Macau in a year or less, and probably other places :)
Lovely! I try to strive for readability first and foremost, which is a challenge in itself.