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carom··on Ketogenic Diet Shows Promise Treating Serious Mental Illness in Stanford Study
There have been other studies that show positive heath outcomes for gluten free diets in patients with epilepsy and schizophrenia. So I do not think any cleaner diet will have positive heath outcomes. For example, vegans still eat gluten and if that is the mechanism here then nothing will change.
carom··on Trailer Faces HQ Dataset
Datasets and curations are copyrightable. I would think of it as a right to use the curation, not a right to use the actors' likeness.
carom··on Python’s Preprocessor
Pydong is the blog name.
carom··on I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs
Ansel Adams Wilderness allows off leash dogs.
carom··on I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs
I go to campsites and wilderness areas where dogs are allowed off leash. It is pretty much the best thing I can do for my dog. She mostly sleeps in the dirt all day after a morning hike when we are camping. I have a radio collar and a directional antenna so I can find her if she runs off, but she never has. Even on long backpacking trips she has always been within a few hundred feet. Obviously, make sure your dog's temperament is correct for the situation, but camping and hiking with a dog off leash is a joy.
carom··on Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
Far fewer, to the point of another student asking me what I even did for the project because I didn't have to implement any of the algorithms.
carom··on Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
I took a compilers course in university and the course culminated in having a compiler for C Minus (a subset of C). The professor noted how each year the line count of the compilers was dropping as students found ways libraries or languages that made it easier. I think the evolution was Java -> Antlr -> Python. I used OCaml and emitted LLVM and blew that metric out of the water.
carom··on Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students
Very much this. The USA has a jobs program and it is the defense industry. You just have to not do drugs to participate.
carom··on RLHF is just barely RL
I think the difference is that with a human you can say something ambiguous like "handle error cases" and they are going to put thought into the errors that come up. The LLM will just translate those tokens into if statements that do some validation and check return values after calls. The depth of thought is very different.
carom··on IRC Will Never Die (2021)
I visit a /g/ adjacent channel regularly on Rizon. I've also interacted with two software projects on Libera in the last 6 months. So yes, it is still active.
carom··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
What industry, what software, and what is your budget? If it is profitable to build and more than one customer, I am sure numerous people here would jump on the idea.
carom··on Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit
Ceramic, it is as close as you can get to non stick without forever chemicals. I cook every day and that is the best I've found. Anything else requires more maintenance and cleaning. Cast iron has been a disappointment and I have made an honest effort with it multiple times.
carom··on Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe
I think about this a lot. It should be really beneficial to have a progressive legal system for corporations where laws become more strict based on size or revenue.
carom··on Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping
While I don't use Organic Maps as my daily driver because there is no traffic data, it has been invaluable to have on my phone. It is one of the best offline and trail maps I've used.
carom··on Every company should be owned by its employees
There are plenty of successful companies that did not take outside investment, why are none of them cooperatives?
carom··on How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL
I've been developing on Windows the last year and a half. I came from a Linux background and wanted to learn how to use Windows in the same way I used Linux, that is to say, I wanted to avoid finding "bash on Windows" solutions and calling it a day.

My advice, install Visual Studio (or just the build tools), fire up the developer command prompt for your architecture, then learn the cl (compiler) and ml (the assembler) command line invocations. Many common Unix commands have an equivalent command prompt command you can learn. It just takes some repetition to remember them.

I will be the first to admit, it's very funky. Copy and move have some quirks (use xcopy or robocopy). Batch scripts execute in a really uninituitive way. There are a lot of rough edges but you can develop C and C++ like you would on Linux with a terminal and text editor, it just takes some getting used to.

carom··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
Building a class of undocumented workers who are outside the normal legal system is simply a gift to corporations. I am staunchly against illegal immigration while being very pro legal immigration. If we need workers, bring them in legally instead of allowing them to exist in a legal grey area as exploitable labor.
carom··on USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Tangentially related, the government publishing my address whatsoever really upsets me. Voter records, property records, the DMV, and the USPS all in some way publish or sell citizens' addresses to private companies. I do not know why this is legal. I do not want anyone outside of the government knowing my address.
carom··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)
The weights are not created by scraping. Sure, you can scrape it, but what you do with it matters.
carom··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)
What about compiler outputs? Those were initially not copyrightable then it was legislated that they were. So there is some precedent there and I would not be surprised if we saw copyrightable weights in the future (as a "compilation" of the dataset).
carom··on Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
Not doubting you, but do you have a source where I could read about this? I feel that would create some wild problems if the original repository was deleted.

Edit: I guess they would just not delete the data if there were more references to it.

carom··on Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
My understanding is that it accepts arbitrary keys.
carom··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)
The frequency count is not a function. The trained model is. Arguably, they at deriving a new function from ones covered by copyright. It is up to the courts for an official decision though.
carom··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)
This is missing the largest argument in my opinion. The weights are the derivative work of the GPL licensed code and should therefore be released under the GPL. I would say these companies release their weights or simply not train on copyleft code.

It is truly amazing how many people will shill for these massive corporations that claim they love open source or that their AI is open while they profit off of the violation of licenses and contribute very little back.

carom··on Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
The public is not learning from it. A person or corporation is creating a derivative work of it. Training a model is deriving a function from the training data. It is not "a human learning something by reading it".
carom··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
I wrote a desktop client for an IPTV service. They have a mobile app and Apple TV app that are good, but there was not a good way to watch on the computer.

I threw together a Python QT app that parses the show listings, displays them, allows filtering, and has some short cuts for searching IMDB and trailers on Youtube. The best part is that the media opens in VLC instead of some custom player.

Anyway, I will never publish it because of the whole facilitating copyright infringement thing.

carom··on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?
This is one of my favorite aspects. I love learning new things. I love being in a field where there are new things to learn every decade or so.
carom··on Netflix wants managers to ask whether they would rehire their employees
Former Googler. I did not make it past the Netflix recruiter phone screen because they had me read the culture memo before the first call and when asked what I thought about it I said "kind of culty but I can deal with it". Apparently that is not the correct answer.
carom··on Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z
Given how they hijack paths with the WindowsApps\Python.exe, I am not hopeful. I have to handhold people setting up Python on Windows so they don't end up with the app store version, and they don't get their paths crossed and end up pip installing things in a version they don't use. It's seriously awful and the only solution is to delete the whole WindowsApps folders (safe to do, it just contains stubs).
carom··on Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy
If anyone is facing a problem like this today, check out or-tools [1]. Bin packing is one of their exemplar problems.

1. https://developers.google.com/optimization/introduction

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