skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Idolatry is always the worship of something into which man has put his own creative powers, and to which he now submits, instead of experiencing himself in his creative act.

-- Erich Fromm, https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ch05.h...
I'm not sure it's fair to call it mass psychosis. But the connection to nuclear bombs was very clear to the public by then and the public backlash was also tainted by that association. Unfortunately, in the 70s/80s the problem of global warming was not obviously going to be a problem, if on the radar at all. Unfortunate timing.
Curious how it actually compares to LLaMa.

Last year Mistral was garbage compared to LLaMa. I needed a permissive license, so I was forced to use Mistral, but I had LLaMa that I could compare it to. I was always extremely jealous of LLaMa since the Berkley Sterling finetune was so amazing.

I ended up giving up on the project because Mistral was so unusable.

My conspiracy was that there was some European patriotism that gave Mistral a bit more hype than was merited.
I think it's more about the fact that the feds could have easily taken Koresh into custody when he left the compound to run errands. Instead they chose to send a message and it ended in tragedy.
That depends on the test, and the training surrounding it.

If I'm hiring for a job where there's a strict requirement to be 6 feet tall and there's nothing candidates can do to get taller - then once you've measured under 6 feet there's no point in re-testing you.

If I'm hiring for a job where there's a strict requirement that you be able to lift a 90 lbs weight, a lot of people will fail - but if they hit the gym, in a month or two they'll be able to pass easily.

If I'm hiring for a job where there's a strict requirement that you be able to lift a 90 lbs weight, but before the test every applicant goes through a 6 month strength training program, so we test them at absolute peak strength? Re-testing would be a waste of time, except in a few cases like if someone had a loved one die just before the final test.

If I'm hiring for a job with a written test, the test draws a random selection of questions from a question bank, and some questions are much easier than others? There might be a substantial random element to the results. If re-testing people produces substantially different scores, probably that indicates I need to improve the design of my test.
> However, while women did take up medical roles, they could undoubtedly face animosity and suspicion as a result.

> ... without hindrance or disturbance from those people who might regard her with contempt or otherwise mistrust her medical knowledge.

> Unfortunately, we do not know any further details about the kinds of resistance Joan faced as a physician or the medical treatments she performed, or even if Henry ever granted her request.

I appreciate the historical evidence and what it means to us today. I disagree with the wild conjecture why she wrote this request.

I believe this request by Joan du Lee is more about making medicine a profession like carpetry, masonry and similar which were supported through masters, journeymen and guilds, than about hindrance based on sex.

Midwifes and doulas have been around for millennia in all cultures. In my limited knowledge, I am not aware of a culture where most of these roles are not females.

Midwifery is a narrow field, but there were lot of fully acknowledged "doctors". Our first evidence was for Peseshet (c. 2600 BC, Ancient Egypt), the "Lady Overseer of the Female Physicians", meaning that she was not only the doc but there was an entire "school" of female "docs".

There are of course also Enheduanna (c. 2300 BC, Sumer), Mesopotamian Healing Women (c. 2000 BC and earlier), and of course Agnodice, from the Greek tradition (c. 5th century BC and earlier).
Ah - unfortunate. I'm a type 1 diabetic myself, maybe someday I'll get round to doing something like this. Looks pretty fun
Any takeaways from this? ATC not responding with separation but Blackhawk continuing anyway?
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky explores exactly this, though less lost and more accidental exalter.
DeepSeek's Latest Shocker: Who Needs CUDA Anyway?
What you call "Islamic Arabs" makes no sense. They are as native as the Jewish people. Mostly because they're nor more or less "Arab" than the Jewish people. Religion is what separates them, not race. Also, your argument ignores time. Even it it were true, for how many centuries have these "Islamic Arabs" been there? Why are they any less "from there" than Jewish people?
> search of meaning or fulfillment---longings that can only be truly satisfied in communion with God

This always annoyed me about religion. Such a lazy cop out no answer to such important question.
Maybe the VCs backing OpenAI invest in tiny violins.
You're correct, but what a depressing summary. I've got much younger siblings in law (GenZ) and they don't even know what computing was like/could have been. They grew up with iPads and walled gardens. My brother in law thought it was like magic when I showed him how to use boolean operators in Google. I don't know if that even works anymore--it's all SEO crap now.
He probably is wrong. Giving that statement a reality check, he's arguing that before the internet political and social influence was more spread out than it is now. In other words that social media, blogging, chat groups, websites ... all these things have actually increased the influence of pre-digital institutions and people.

That doesn't sound right at all. It's much easier now for random people to obtain social and political influence, regardless of affiliation. The left is experiencing global distress because they're so worried by the dispersal of social and political influence away from legacy institutions and towards anonymous "chaos actors", as they see it. This is a vast equalization of access to the means of social and political influence, but the Pope thinks it's the reverse. I don't understand that take at all.
Places like Europe/Paris or America/Los Angeles can participate in daylight savings, and if they do, they may have different schedules, and those schedules may change at different points in history due to the passing of laws. Europe and the us already have a different schedule for daylight savings, and the whole west coast is trying to opt into permanent daylight savings for the last several years. But that would require an act of congress.

Programmatically it mostly means you have to ship metadata about how the offsets change over time, which needs to be updated periodically. Browsers already ship that metadata, so it is really nice to finally have a way to access it from JavaScript without shipping the extra few tens of kilobytes.
You'd might like 17776 if you haven't already read it!

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
No, we don't.

Even if we had three years to move everyone from one side of the earth to the other and could handle the transportation, and then another three years to move them back, how are you going to keep them fed? We're just going to double our food infrastructure on half of the world?

Where do we house them for several years? We're going to double our housing?

How are we going to find all those people jobs to sustain them for the several years they're spending on the other side of the world?

All those things would have to be part of the logistics too. Energy usage. Health care. The list goes on.

It would be a logistical and economic upheaval the likes of which the world has never seen. It would lead to political chaos and massive wars over suddenly incredibly limited resources.

Humanity would survive, but a lot of people wouldn't. It wouldn't be a question of logistics, but a complete and increasingly violent reconfiguration of society in all spheres.
Wondering if any other language and framework that gets battle tested during development.

Also surprised no mentioning of Vitess for mySQL scaling.
I am not sure where "almost" came from. Data in Clojure is 100% immutable? You can pass around data between functions or between threads and never worry about anyone modifying it. I believe Clojure is less strict about I/O than what Haskell is(?), but once some data has been created it can not be modified. Any modification will return a new thing, never modify the original thing.

Java interop breaks things of course, much like unsafe Rust breaks guarantees of that language.
I'm not as much low-level development as the author seems to be, but the hyperbole made me think “you have a point, which is/can be valid, but aren't you stretching the reasons to fit in your sentiment/PoV?”

Being honest, plenty of times we throw “Ergonomics” as an argument, however, are ergonomics more a feeling of how good are the API usage instead of actually prove with examples and design choices?
Also there is a relatively new (5800 years ago) mutation somehow related to brain development, the ASPM gene. The mutation is somehow advantageous to the individual, but we don't yet know exactly why/how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPM_(gene)#Evolution
I've mentioned it before on here, but I will do it again, after a COVID infection in '22 (25yo), I was left with complete lung collapse, an infection of the heart, and pneumonia. The doctors were adamant that if I were five years older, I would have been dead before reaching the hospital. After numerous emergency surgeries, a month in the hospital while in the most pain I have ever been in, unable to eat or drink the entire time, and losing the ability to breath on my own for that entire duration - I can't stand the people who suggest to me that covid wasn't real, or didn't cause any problems. It took me six months to relearn _how to walk_ because of it. I was skateboarding just weeks prior to all this. I still can't run, skateboard, or go up a flight of stairs without really feeling it. Some days are better than others. My fatigue levels are astronomical.

As /u/tunn3l said at the end of their comment: To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!
Statements about Stateless
> The money comes from our government spending on credit. There are lots of people on here drinking the Kool-Aid on this topic.

And you're serving more Kool-Aid. Deficit spending is merely one form of monetary creation. The bigger one is cheap loans from the Federal Reserve to banks, which is responsible for the ongoing housing, stock, and other asset bubbles.

The Fed's technocratic mandate declares that price inflation must happen regardless. Myopically focusing on "deficit spending" merely hamstrings the Legislative/Executive's ability to spend money for directed deliberate purposes, leaving more for the Reserve to hand out to the financial industry and existing asset holders.
You Need Data to Write a Fair Engineering Performance Review
wifi uses more power than cell data?
It didn't sound awkward or weird to me at all. I think you took a very common word, and then extrapolated it out in a chess context when it's nothing to do with a chess context.
You just answered your own question
More realistic take: When billionaires brag about how no one with a mere-$millions budget could possibly match their technical achievements, then they are almost certainly bullsh*tting.
Also, you know, gerrymandering.

The US needs a constitutional amendment that just picks one of the mathematically-based methods for evaluating voting districts and makes it mandatory.
PyPI Now Supports Project Archival
There really was a bit flip at the time, though it was more of a return to form. It grew out of McCarthyism and the John Birch Society, which themselves were the phoenixes born of the ashes of paranoia about anarchists and communists from the early 20th century.

And more controversially, I'd trace that to the same arguments as the Civil War and going back before the Revolution.

We seem to have had periods of calm prosperity (post Civil War, post WW II) against a base of xenophobia and internal dissension that goes beyond just ordinary differences of opinion. The late 60s were the end of one of those periods, and it has been an exponential curve ever since. It's all inflection points for over half a century.
Happy to seem them back to releasing OSS models, we used a lot of their OSS models early last year before they were eclipsed by better models and never bothered to try any of their large models which IMO weren't great value.
Tesla's profits slide over 70 percent in the fourth quarter
Yeah, feels like we've largely lost touch with the Wisdom of a reciprocal existence within this ecosystem, the "Garden of Eden" through a Christian lens, or the way the Haudenosaunee Confederacy lived pre-Columbus.
Man, that took some time to find in the docs:

Temporal.ZonedDateTime.prototype.withTimeZone() [0], which allows to convert from one timezone to another

const meetingTime = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from(
"2021-08-01T12:00[America/New_York]",
);

const meetingTimeInParis = meetingTime.withTimeZone("Europe/Paris");

console.log(meetingTimeInParis.toString()); // 2021-08-01T18:00:00+02:00[Europe/Paris]

To me, timezone translations as well as durations are such an essential thing which libraries must handle, and it's nice to see that Temporal handles both. But it looks like Temporal.Duration doesn't offer a custom `format` function, for example `duration.format('H\hmm\m')` or something like that to format a duration into 1h03m.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
While I hope the HuggingFace is successful here, a plan for building a model is a long way from releasing a model. Mistral has models out there - they allow you to modify them. Yeah, it’s now like what we’re used to. It probably needs something else, but people are doing some great things with them.
We already have billions of AGIs running all over the planet. The wealthy seem to do a pretty good job of keeping them all in line. I don't see any reason that would change in the future.

If you want something the wealthy can't control, you'll need to look a good deal further afield than AGI. Think gamma ray bursts, asteroid strikes, or solar flares. But anything built by man, they'll have a pretty good grip on.
Why did you group Meta with OpenAI here?
I guess since they're not ahead anymore they decide to go back to open source.
Arguably we have that with the current US executive branch.

We had a hubub about the right way to power an aircraft carrier catapult for a while the first go around with these fools ...
OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on nuclear weapons security
Technology works well for decentralized religions, like Protestantism and Judaism, where there is no overarching authority on scripture, or where there are multiple entities competing for believers' attention that the majority choose to focus on scientific dogma instead.

Once there's a central authority at risk from technology eroding at their base, they will be undermined. Like Catholicism, Islam, the Orthodox Church, etc. all of which were practically sidelined when print and media became more prevalent.

Interestingly all 3 of the above examples maintain strict conditions that their respective holy books must not be translated into the local languages.
Ask HN: Review our bootstrapped project Limbar – Cloud for Android emulators
Here is my quick elevator pitch: Android Emulator requires virtualization, GPU support and consumes quite a bit of CPU & memory to run well. While these are acceptable for developer laptops, they're hard to provide in restricted environments such as Github Actions, inside of another VM or generic servers where you don't have GPU.

Limbar runs the emulator for you in the cloud and lets you control remotely as well as provides adb tunnel so that all tools in Android ecosystem can utilize it as a device. It's a true cloud; as opposed to competitors, we don't charge for concurrency so you can scale as much as you need and not worry about unused capacity.

I guess I'd need a skyscraper elevator for this pitch but bear with me please, thanks!

Here is the website https://limbar.io

(Technically, we're running our own distribution of Android without relying on qemu, hence very low usage on idle and dynamic cpu & memory dedication allowing us to provide concurrency at a low cost)
Well it is objectively true that it can't be perfect.
Really? There were 3 aircraft involved. Game AI in the 1980s was good enough to handle the amount of "conflicting traffic" involved here. You're arguing in favor of automation, not against it.

For that matter, next time you visit the Bay Area, drop by the CHM in Mountain View and take a look at what SAGE could already do in the 1960s.
It reads like a romance language grammar (prob. spanish) with words translated into English without changing structure.

Source: I'm spanish speaker.
“Feudalism” is not data/numbers either.
AI-assisted works can get copyright if human creativity,says US copyright office
Correct. Our present wasn't inevitable. People in power, both running big tech and in government, actively chose or allowed for the current state of digital technologies.
Humans are beyond evolution. There's no meaningful selection pressure in our environment that kills people before reproductive age, so there's no reward for adaptations.
Microsoft makes OpenAI's o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users
Yes exactly.

There are some written guides now but I actually just learned from the original demonstration videos. Copied what happened there and started tinkering around

Most of the times if something didn't work for me that was mostly because my lack of knowledge about Krita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDPEcVmdLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2VyqSApjA
Does "substituting x for y" mean "getting rid of x and using y instead", or does it mean "getting rid of y and using x instead"? To me, it means "getting rid of y and using x instead".
Could we stick an rtg-powered tracking beacon on it during its next flyby so that we can better calculate its orbit?
Microsoft announces Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7
> Voluntary coordination and shared purpose are great things.

To an extent. We can never have 100% agreement. For example, we would still have Polio if the anti-science squad hadn't been forced to go along with the plan.

At the risk of sounding "elitist", fifty-four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level. We should not let their inability to function in the modern world keep our entire society functioning at or below the sixth grade level.
AV Herald has a great summary and discussion:
https://avherald.com/h?article=52374362&opt=0
Yeah, exactly.

Just in terms of software models and consumer uptake, I think it’s abundantly clear that the way Twitter and Instagram work “won” and RSS “failed.”

Like, just forget about "push/pull" for a minute, what about feed discoverability? A couple years ago my father asked me how I read news, and I told him to install Reeder on his iPad, then he could just start filling in feeds from The Atlantic or whatever. “Okay how do I find those?” “Well, you could install a browser extension — wait you're not going to do that — or view the web page source and look for an RSS link — wait what am I saying —”

RSS depends on website designers making their feeds discoverable, and as a career web dev I can assure you that’s simply not on their radar. Only alpha geeks care. The only reason RSS is still around is that it’s built into enough CMS's so most web devs don't have to do any work, and they still can't be bothered to put a little radar icon in the footer.

Discoverability is intrinsic to social though. No, I don't know how someone on Bluesky will search accounts on other networks in "the atmosphere," but I’m positive this will get solved. RSS fans deny that discoverability is a problem to this day, because the only people who use it are the same alpha geeks who don’t care about UX at all.
I believe this happened in DC SFRA, which is a 30-mile radius specially controlled airspace due to the level of traffic and national security interests.
gimp is an adobe photoshop replacement.

krita is an adobe illustrator replacement, something else entirely.
Agree that it's not exactly the same, all analogies have holes, they're simplifications after all.

I guess I'm vary of the messaging because I'm a developer 99% thanks to FOSS, and being able to learn from FOSS projects how to build similar stuff myself. Without FOSS, I probably wouldn't have been able to "escape" the working-class my family was "stuck in" when I grew up.

I want to do whatever I can to make sure others have the same opportunity, and it doesn't matter if the weights themselves are FOSS or not, others cannot learn how to create their own models based on just looking at the weights. You need to be able to learn the model architecture, training and what datasets models are using too, otherwise you won't get very far.

> This kind of purity test mindset doesn't help anyone. They are shipping the most modifiable form of their model.

It does help others who might be stuck in the same situation I was stuck in, that's not nothing nor is it about "purity". They're not shipping the most open model they can, they could have done something like OLMo (https://github.com/allenai/OLMo) which can teach people how to build their own models from scratch.
Can you unplug the entire Internet?
Watching IBM talk about AI ...is more like watching MySpace give a TED Talk on social media innovation....
> The ATF was raiding for their purview, firearms/explosives.

Well not really. That's what they had warrants for. Obviously they knew about and didn't like the whole child sex slavery thing.

> As for the fires, they happened [six hours] after incendiary tear gas was deployed by the government... That's not overruled by some sketchy milk carton audio of [militant religious nutjobs inside the compound talking about spreading fuel throughout the compound]

Idk
> How could they know?

I can’t speak for any religious leader but in terms of Catholic leadership: because in many matters God spoke through the Prophets and then He came down and told us directly which is preserved in Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15-17), and the Holy Spirit guides the Church (John 14:26) and does so through the prime ministerial office of the Pope the successor of Peter (Mathew 16:13-19) and through the Bishops the successors of the Apostles (Acts 1:12-26)(Acts 15)
It's not the same as slapping an open source license on a binary, because unencumbered weights are so much more generally useful than your typical program binary. Weights are fine-tunable and embeddable into a wide range of software.

To consider just the power of fine tuning: all of the press DeepSeek have received is over their R1 model, a relatively tiny fine-tune on their open source V3 model. The vast majority of the compute and data pipeline work to build R1 was complete in V3, while that final fine-tuning step to R1 is possible even by an enthusiastic dedicated individual. (And there are many interesting ways of doing it.)

The insistence every time open sourced model weights come up that it is not "truly" open source is tiring. There is enormous value in open source weights compared to closed APIs. Let us call them open source weights. What you want can be "open source data" or somesuch.