skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By this definition, mom telling you to clean your room is also a form of totalitarianism, and yet you somehow find the strength to manage.
My YouTube videos fall into two tracks:

1. technical track (all the GPT repro series)

2. general audience track

For (2), I had a 1hr video from 1 year ago, but I didn't actually expect that video to be some kind of authoritative introduction to LLMs. The history is that I was invited to give an LLM talk (to general audience), prepared some random slides for a day, gave the talk, and then re-recorded the talk in my hotel room later in a single take, and that become the video. It was quite random and haphazard. So I wanted to loop back around more formally and do a more comprehensive intro to LLMs for general audience; Something I could for example give to my parents, or a friend who uses ChatGPT all the time and is interested in it, but doesn't have the technical background to go through my videos in (1). That's this video.
Is your comment propaganda?
I've dealt with people who are new to git and the fact that "git checkout X" does one thing or another based on what X is, was confusing for them, even if I could find an explanation for it. If you didn't have the same experience, good for you!

But compare "git switch X" and "git restore X". This makes different things look different, and obvious, which is usually a valuable thing when learning a new tool.
The requirements for making a contract are minimal. If your friend says "I bet you a hundred dollars that you can't run over there and back in less than a minute" and you say nothing in response but start running, you've entered into a binding contract. Your other points still stand, but an email that makes an offer and makes it clear that you accept by responding "Resign" and a response to that email that says "Resign" is definitely sufficient to be subject to contract law.
So.. I don't know what you're talking about but I work in a corporate environment where we can't use JS but we can use SVG images... As a consequence I end up creating graphics in illustrator, exporting to SVG and then hand animating them with CSS animations.

I wouldn't recommend doing it my way, but for path animations they are likely animating the stroke length. Here is an example that might help, but use an animation tool if you can.

https://css-tricks.com/svg-line-animation-works/

One thing of note with stroke animations.. if you transition to/from negative numbers the animation breaks in Safari (negative numbers are out of spec aparently). There is a work around but I can't remember it at the moment, it results in the stroke animation playing in reverse though.

As mentioned above, if you can use a JS library, use one.
OK. What do they want?

Seriously, what do you claim they want?

A fascist dictatorship? You still need a functioning government for that. (It doesn't function for the people, but it still requires a large number of competent employees.)

Anarchy? Mad Max? Everybody dies, so no government employees are needed?

Takeover by Canada, Mexico, China, or Russia, so it becomes their problem?

Or do you just claim that they're so stupid that they haven't thought past "Hur, let's, like, destroy the government, man"?

Seriously, what do you actually claim that they actually want?
I've found the highest accuracy solution is to OCR with one of the dedicated models then feed that text and the original image into an LLM with a prompt like:

"Correct errors in this OCR transcription".
Wait, so is seeing the confetti at all mean you "won"? What does that amount to?
There are some pretty significant differences between Twitter employees and federal government employees, starting with the fact that a lot of latter group are part of a powerful union.
Interesting, I've never gotten annoyed by my Android-loving friends/family. Even when I tried switching to Android nobody gave me static.
>> Once you get past a few million, you quickly get into "can't possibly spend this money in several lifetimes" territory. And wealth divides like that come at the cost of massive societal wealth divides.

> It takes many billions to buy a Twitter, even when Saudi Arabia is footing most of the bill.

There's some nice article out there that clearly explains how money "changes" at different income levels. First it's security, then it's comfort, then it's power.

Buying Twitter isn't spending money, it's exercising power.
> The government needs to be downsized by millions

Curious about the reason for this. Is there math that shows the first- and second-order effects of specific roles being removed? I ask because I've seen so much talk about the need for this, seemingly without much being supplied in the way of reason.
not few shot, but prompt tuning via text generation via auto-differentiation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16673
I really wish that Google made an endpoint that's compatible with the OpenAI API. That'd make trying Gemini in existing flows so much easier.
The national dish of England is chicken tikka masala, last time I checked.
Walmart has massive, idle datacenters full of running machines doing nothing.
The greater powers control these platforms and want to keep us engaged so we believe what they want us to believe.
I highly doubt that the farmer down the street from me is testing for avian flu.

Their eggs are fantastic, though!
> Yes I exclude that,

So humans steering diffusion is off limits? No Krea, no Invoke, no articulated humans?

It's like you're taking away Premiere or Final Cut here. Text prompts are not the currency of AI film. Controllability levers are essential to this whole endeavor.

> I do not think something that augmenting that input data counts towards actually reducing production costs and speeding up the process of creating media.

You haven't spent much time on set, then. An animator can do a performance capture on their webcam and adjust the IK. That's way different than booking a sound stage, renting an Arri Alexa and lenses, and bringing out a whole cast and crew. Set dec, wardrobe, makeup, lighting versus the moral equivalent of a Kinect and a garage studio.

My 6 AM call times, early mornings climbing up to the top shelf of the prop house to grab random tubas and statues, and signing countless legal forms and insurance paperwork all beg to differ with your claims here.

> AI has eliminated or vastly eliminated the need for human actors.

I don't think it necessitates this at all. Kids are going to be flocking to the media to turn themselves into anime VTubers and Han Solos and furries and whatever they can dream up.

Artists want to art. They're going to flock to this. We're going to have to open up the tech for that reason alone.

I'm sure fast moving marketers and the cottage industry of corporate workplace training videos won't use humans, but the creative side will. ElevenLabs is great, but there's also a reason why they hired Chris Pratt, Anya-Taylor Joy, and Jack Black in the Mario movie.

> For example of what I'd accept, a 2 person team that creates a 20+ minute ensemble film in less than a month or 2 that meets the success criteria above.

I'll posit this: a two person team will make a better Star Wars, a better Lord of the Rings, a better Game of Thrones. An ensemble cast of actors piloting AI diffusion characters (or whatever future techniques emerge) will make a film as well acted as Glengarry Glen Ross. Perhaps even set in some fantasy or sci-fi landscape. I bet that we'll have a thousand Zach Hadels, Vivienne Medranos, and Joel Havers finding massive audiences with their small footprint studios, making anime, cartoons, lifelike fantasy, lifelike science fiction, period dramas, and more. And that AI tools will be the linchpin of this creative explosion.
I mean that's fine, but when mixed into a conversation on web standards and APIs it leads to a place where you don't care about any web-specific evolution including most progress on the DOM. You end up only caring about a future of WASM + WebGPU, etc. This is exactly where some of the original React core team said they wanted to go - they just wanted a network connected framebuffer.

Again, fine, but I personally prefer a vibrant web platform that evolves to meet the needs of web developers.
You’re judging “balance in a relationship” by how much money you both make?

You said earlier you are making $700K. Would you not date a teacher making $70K?
What the hell are you talking about? I never made any comparison between those.

(I sure hope you're not just complaining that I'm wasting words on it while more important things are happening in the world, because that's pure hypocrisy and applies to 99-100% of comments on this site. "Never do anything unimportant" is a terrible motto. So is "never complain about anything minor".)
Most of us in tech also get paid far, far more than anyone in the public sector. It’s always been my perception that the reliability of the job is a perk that makes up for the subpar salaries. I don’t think public sector workers are as spoiled as you make out.
For detailed guidance, yes, talk to a doctor. But as a layman I will say this is a noble aspiration of yours that could well end up advancing your well-being in the long term.
Not exactly. I'd say that is a self-serving quote to whitewash fascism.

The narrow definition of corporatism is basically just the public-private interweaving of government. Communism is just as much corporatist as fascism -- the main difference being that in communism the trade bodies are considered part of the government rather than part of the industry.

Fascism is more specific because it also encompasses fostering/breeding tribalistic tendencies (bigotry, nationalism, i.e. "othering") in society at large. In contrast, corporatism doesn't prescribe how the rest of society interacts.
Nothing is currently highly regulated.
Practically, this probably doesn't make a difference. FOIA relies on at least one person in the department to not be antagonistic towards the process. Otherwise they can just make up excuses. That's the standard experience for people sending requests.

I don't think anyone from the new DOGE would actually be helpful in responses anyway.
Perhaps this information will be helpful context for you and for anyone else who happens to land on this post:
- https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-orm-now-lets-you-choose-th...

- https://www.prisma.io/blog/database-vs-application-demystify...
Yes, the scandal is not over because the FAA continued to conflate diversity with performance.

In 2023, the FAA set several, major goals for DEIA initiatives and only one target for hiring more Air Traffic controllers. https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/FY23%20OSI-M%20and%2...

Or from 2021, where they wrote "Diversity + Inclusion = Better Performance" https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/office_org/hea...

Too many examples. Compared to 2016, the FAA of the 2020s was better at hiding their written bias. Nonetheless, they failed to attract the talent they needed.
Julia was a scientific computing language made by scientific computing experts. They did a great job on some things, but whiffed a few major decisions early on.
TL;DR: because they dont have a streaming service
> But these days half of it is outrage bait, ranging from "WOKE LIBTARD GETS DESTROYED" to "TRUMP LOSES HIS MIND", or malicious clickbait like "you won't believe what the cast if $tv_show looks like now" with some AI generated thing of one cast member being horribly maimed. Even on stuff that has nothing to do with any of that, like some music video.

I don't know what I'm doing differently than you, but I don't see ANY of that. The worst, most clickbaity Youtube content I see is poorly done rip-offs of Primitive Technology.
> while megacorps aren't fundamentally "evil" (for some definitions of evil)

A couple years ago, my state banned single use plastic bags. The very moment they did, all of my local Walmarts switched to heavier plastic bags that technically weren't single use. They still gave them away for free just as they did with the first ones. (These we're good quality bags and I was frustrated that Walmart didn't just give them away by default). Eventually my state banned those too, and like clockwork, Walmart was giving away paper bag bags -- decent quality ones, too. Though I still really liked the thicker plastic ones since I could use them for other things.

This made me realize that no corporation would do anything slightly better for the environment unless forced. I think this is the case for anything a corporation would do, including evil things. I think they just follow the money, no ethics, and it's up to the government to provide those ethics.
Good article, although it stresses the need to have trusted friends to protest with but doesn’t explain how to find, make, keep these friends. To be fair, I’ve been trying to figure that part put for like 10 years but it would be cool to have advice in that area as well.

Keep up the good fight!
One unfortunate aspect of this phenomena is that as reddit "evaporatively cools" (ala https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ... ) as the more level headed people leave reddit gets even more radical.

It's even possible the places that people then move to (such as HN) also get more radical if the leavers have higher levels of radicalism than the place they join.
How many of you all are running bare metal hooked right up to the internet? Is DDoS or any of that actually a super common problem?

I know it happens, but also I've run plenty of servers hooked directly to the internet (with standard *nix security precautions and hosting provider DDoS protection) and haven't had it actually be an issue.

So why run absolutely everything through Cloudflare?
That particular subreddit isn't shut down, it was temporarily suspended as the moderators simply got overwhelmed. There's no indication of bad faith from either the mod team nor the reddit admins, the floodgate was just too much for them to handle. It pretty much says so in the ban message, admins are gonna help them take back control and it will be up within a couple of days.
The game beeps if you get a guess incorrect.
I'm not proposing anything, let alone that specific thing. And I'm not even writing about health, this is about taste.

If you want to surprise the entire world by having your government do anything like that, entirely your choice.

But it would be a surprise, especially as the people your electorate just voted in appear to be against all regulation and federal agencies.

Americans voting for that would be as much of a surprise as the President demanding transfer of ownership of an ally's territory and refusing to rule out use of military force to get that.
> you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs"

i think the opposite, i would like to hear a good argument why you can't.
Also have they considered diversity? Have they tried to include LBGT beavers?
Yes, that is the most probable outcome.
lol "taxation is just like the mafia". 12 year olds and libertarians are so alike
> Films are going to look more like fanfiction.net, Bandcamp, ArtStation, and Steam. That's a good thing.

It is already starting too. Click on some random 'read a sci-fi story' and your YT feed will be full of AI pictures with moderate coherency (depending on what AI tools they are using). Sometimes it will be very short videos with moderate in scene and poor inter scene coherency. It was utterly garbage a year ago with most of them sticking to static pictures. Voice clone is like 98% there and hard to tell at this point. If you listen to the story structure you can tell an AI probably wrote the story too.

There are services out there were you can say 'write me the lyrics to a metal song about ducks and chickens' and then take that paste it into another service and say 'make a metal song with these lyrics' then paste the results into another service and put an AI voice of darth vader over it using the lyrics. That this is coming to video is not that big of a leap. That has gone from random limbs popping out of peoples foreheads to weird little janky things.

I can today just use chatgpt and say 'write me a SCP memo on a man eating couch that stalks elephants of keter class' It will. I can add some small details and it will be an acceptable waste of my time. Written form is today being consumed quickly by the likes of chatgpt. The other types are next in line.

People are already doing this. It is all over YT and tiktok.
This is so fascinating. I believe you, but I am one month from a newborn so I can't perform the experiment. It's like how for years on end I'd read explanations on Hacker News for why Japan's traffic lights were blue instead of green and I went there and they were identical to US lights. So I'm sceptical of these folk explanations that always go around. One day, years from now, I shall test it myself.
Good call, thanks for linking the research paper directly here.
I love Zig and I love that it’s getting attention, but can someone convince me of its memory safety? One thing that surprised me is that returning pointers to stack-allocated memory doesn’t cause a compiler error — it just segfaults at runtime. This has been an open issue since 2019 [#1].

That, along with the number of memory-related issues in one of Zig’s most popular project, Bun.js [#2], gives me pause.

[#1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2646

[#2]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue+segfault
here is a recent news story about exactly this: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vt-farm-takes-steps-to-preven...
Generally a small cadre of extremists within the ruling party holds the entire government hostage for a few days over performative nonsense for future campaign purposes.
Politico Propped Up by Millions of Dollars from US Government
> Feltman: Yeah, and what is it about outrage that helps misinformation spread?

> Lewis: So I think part of it is the fact that it’s more engaging. It, you know, activates your emotions, and so people are more primed to respond to that.

This is why upvote-style forums, like Hacker News, need to be treated with heavy scrutiny. They are hard-wired to bubble out of control when an opinion is the right combination of popular and passionate.

One way we can improve this situation, as contributors, is to try to stick to more logical, dispassionate responses. This is difficult to do because we all feel like what we are writing is the most important thing in the world and everyone else needs to read it.
The article you linked discusses how problematic the other non-blind parts of the audition are: leaving people out ahead of the blind audition, pre-advancing people, and so on. One of the conclusions was that if the whole process was actually blind, the outcome would be better.
When to Use `Git Bisect`: Key Scenarios for Finding Bad Commits
Twilio is very much still on the FCC's radar.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-robocall-cease-and-d...
And Trump's decades of refusing to pay people.
Maybe you’re too focused on “rival[ing] what Rust can express” and aren’t looking for “better than plain C in a way that improves security and analyzability and would also improve Rust import of C APIs.”

As an example, there are annotation schemes for pairing a size with a buffer pointer, and for indicating a pointer’s ownership transfer. These can then be statically checked, reducing bug risk.

These can also _improve_ interoperability with higher level languages that have such semantics, even if they don’t offer the _complete_ range of semantics possible in those higher level languages.

I don’t have links to share at the moment, but this is ongoing work in places like the clang community.
The question is whether if the deal gets voided by the court, the employee has to still quit or whether they can then return. Especially since the employee wouldn't be formally terminated until the end of the twelve months.
I wasn't speaking metaphorically. Fire set to pole. Site went down.
These topics are being routinely taken down by the mod team.
Looking at the source, I don't think there's an actual need for the constructor to take a `Class<T>` type. It's used internally to initialize an array [1]:

this.entries = (T[]) Array.newInstance(type, capacity);

However, I think this alternative would work equally well, and would not require a `Class<T>` parameter:

this.entries = (T[]) new Object[capacity];

There are some other choices in the library that I don't understand, such as the choice to have a static constructor with this signature:

public static RingBuffer<Object> create(final int capacity) {
return create(capacity, false);
}

This returns the type `RingBuffer<Object>`, which isn't as useful as it could be; with appropriate idiomatic use of generics it could return a `RingBuffer<T>`:

public static <T> RingBuffer<T> create(final int capacity, final boolean orderedReads) {
return new RingBuffer<>(capacity, orderedReads);
}

It's possible that this code was written by someone who is still learning idiomatic Java style, or effective use of generics.

I'm also curious about the choice to have `get()` return `null`. I think I'd rather have seen this modeled with `Optional`. My preferred style when writing Java code is to employ non-nullable references wherever possible (though the return from `get()` is marked `@Nullable` at least).

[1] https://github.com/evolvedbinary/j8cu/blob/94d64cfc0ec49a340...
You forgot the mother of all: QWest.
DOGE is not acting as an oversight agency, they are locking people out of systems and modifying code, so they can't be an oversight agency.

Congress needs to do their job here.
It's a general purpose language made by experts in a myriad of subjects.
Wouldn't it be the AGs who recently got 'let go'?

And why did you go straight to whataboutism? Just because one person does bad things it doesn't excuse other people from doing the same bad things. You don't see serial killers lawyers arguing, "I know my client killed 17 people, but what about that Jeffrey Dahmer, eh?"
bug report:

on the right there are some fields with improbable numers, 116 (first picture) and 200 and 112 (second picture) seem in conflict with other numbers.

https://imgur.com/a/PCHEcI4
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Is it me, or is the US a little bit obsessed with China?

Am I too naive, or what's the big deal about it? What does it mean for the US to loose or to win?

Is the US trying actively trying to replace/control the CCP? Is the CCP actively trying to replace/control the US govt? Both?

Are the people from these countries at risk, or just their governments?
microeconomics holds up amazingly well.

things get complicated of course as the situation under analysis gets further and further from the ideal setup, as data gets more scarce, and so on.

but the job market is pretty darn close to the simple model, and this question is also close to the ideal (how much more price need to rise for supply to meet demand, we draw the graph based on data from other professions, and boom, there's our answer, if we want to get very fancy we can do various models to try to estimate the curves.)
> You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom feed.

I still use old.reddit and this is the only way I've ever used Reddit. My homepage only shows me posts from Reddits I follow and nothing else. I don't see all the craziness people here are talking about.
oh, so we're doing politics on HN now?
DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
A cathartic read - thank you.