skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It makes building and testing arm64 versions of larger software a real pain. I do personal builds of llvm + clang + rust on a couple of 8GB RPi4s, but it takes many hours. I built a 1U 5900X build machine for about £1500 a couple of years ago. I'd happily spend similar on a 1U arm64 box, but as far as I can see, I can only buy something spectacularly higher spec with a spectacularly higher price tag, or an SBC which is an order of magnitude slower than a modern amd64.

Perhaps arm64 Macs running Linux will be one answer, but unless I'm badly misreading the documentation and status updates, you still can't blow away the MacOS and Recovery partitions because recovery MacOS is needed for some maintenance tasks such as updating the stage1 m1n1, which makes me very uncomfortable. (I'd be so happy to be corrected if that's no longer the case though!)
> We conclude, somewhat sadly, that there is no evidence to support meaningful observations of the Mpemba effect

Why do people keep bringing this "effect" up?

The article lists 11 different proposed hypotheses about how such an effect could work, which to me suggests nobody can reproduce it reliably enough to do more than making guesses without verifying them.
Statistical research based psychology is hardly a real science. It has no feedback from reality. It has nothing whose success in the real world depends on the accuracy of the research.

Clinical psychology is still useful in my opinion. It still helps people. There's a real feedback loop where understanding can change outcomes.

I dislike the falsifiability approach (if its falsifiable it's science) and the peer review attitude (the peer review process and scientific consensus is what defines science).

My approach is that you need to close a loop. You need to do something useful whose success depended on the truthfulness of the research, and only to the extent of this dependence was anything proved.
YouTube Won't Pay a Creator [video]
Unfortunately none of my users run IBM or Unisys mainframes (as far as I'm aware at least).
It's not a reasonable argument because the total printed volume is still going up. So this is not something easy to prove because the International statistics are very weird, but there are more book readers now than at any time in history, more schools and more libraries, so it's reasonable that there are more new books than at any time in history.

We also have the books of the last two centuries very well preserved, so yes some High Tech Processes are very hard to duplicate or even to archive. But these processes are hard to rebuild anyway as soon as organization and key people are lost.

Do I have a enough stuff in the local libraries to rebuild the civilization from scratch into the 80s? It's a university town, it shouldn't be a problem... and that's just one town.
That actually makes a lot of sense to improve performance on specific parts. Think about generating lookup tables at compile time for example. Instead of having a separate script generating them, you can keep the generation close to the place you use it, written in the same language and always up to date.
But how else will the site get clicks?
I believe they want to support Chrome extensions natively, but maybe that's not ready yet. Unclutter is not installable from the extension store right now.

I'm not sure what we can do, but let's track Orion support for Unclutter here: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/569
Also known as Makefile :P
What do you mean by "get more wrong answers faster"? Given that volatile / synchronized have largely gone the way of the dodo, ditto Object.wait etc.
, and that concurrency safe atomics and collections are de rigeur, how do green threads reverse that? (I understand your point that you need to use the good stuff to take advantage of it, and that the old bad stuff is still in the base language, but I feel that's true for pretty much every language that's 30ish years old.)

I spent years working on concurrent Java apps post JSR 166, and the only concurrency issues I met were PEBKAC, and some of the awful things people did with Vert.x and it's event bus.
Once again this does pose an interesting problem, though. The AI people claim no copyright issues with the generated issues because AI is different and the training data is not simply recreated. This would also imply that a model released by a paedophile generated out of illegal material would itself not be illegal, as the illegal data is not represented within the model.

I very much doubt the police will look at AI this way when such models do eventually hit the web (assuming they haven't already) but at some point someone will get caught through this stuff and the arrest itself may have damning consequences throughout the AI space.
What Cathie Wood gets right
Thanks for trying it! Is there anything that could work better?
After analyzing and selecting the data synchronization requirements of hundreds of billions of data, Chinese Churinga(CNCR) eventually decided to use DolphinScheduler for task scheduling and also needed to periodically schedule DataX, SparkSQL, and other methods for massive data migration. They use DolphinScheduler in daily big data jobs to reduce the daily operations and maintenance workload.
This is exactly what I thought, and this is of course fully intentional. You can really feel book-Socrates trying to break the 4th wall in that excerpt. Really amazing writing.
> Westinghouse looks to off-grid applications like remote communities and mine sites as the entry market for eVinci.

Yeah, install a nuclear reactor at a remote mining site, probably without sufficiently trained personnel to take care of it. What could go wrong?
What do you mean by 'real lambdas'?

The functions you can create with Python's lambda syntax are a bit limited, but that's a purely syntactical limitation: you can create named function just fine and pass them around.

(I agree with most of the rest of what you are saying.)
> I can’t tell what is there that make a region a key factor in determining light or dark ages of physical sciences.

My point is that regions have dark ages, if dark ages exist at all, and trying to disprove the existence of a regional dark age by pointing out that other regions weren't in a dark age is a non sequitur. For example, I think it's widely recognized that the Islamic Golden Age occurred during at least part of the time usually regarded as Western Europe's Dark Age.
This is what Firefox shows me:

> Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

> This site is blocked due to a phishing threat.

https://phish.opendns.com/main?url=www.onebigfluke.com%2F202...
Unix swap configuration used to be rather simple and brute force
Except if one is a developer burned with the whole rewrite in WinRT, in UAP, in UWP, in WinUI,...

Basically better to keep using Forms, WPF and Win32 for sanity, or the Web, thus Windows 11 doesn't matter at all.
This is great. I built https://phantasmagoria.me because I was excited about this and wanted to make image generation more accessible. I can't wait to see what kinds of images v2 will enable.
I've heard this request before, and it's also required for a web-based version of the extension. It requires a bit of code restructuring but hopefully it can get done!

https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/332
>>> So first off, you cannot run Emacs directly on an iPad as an app, but can certainly access something else which is running it

In comparison, I have been running Vim on iDevices (as native app) for over 7 years. Vim design of using letters insteads of Chords proved useful in the simple onscreen keyboards.
> Specifically, Wikimedia Commons images in the PD-Art-100 category, because the images will be public domain in the US and the labels CC-BY-SA.

Doesn't the "BY" part of the license mean you have to provide attribution along with your models' output[0]? I feel you'll have the equivalent of Github Copilot problem: it might be prohibitive to correctly attribute each output, and listing the entire dataset in attribution section won't fly either. And if you don't attribute, your model is no different than Stable Diffusion, Copilot and other hot models/tools: it's still a massive copyright violation and copyright laundering tool.

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[0] - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
What? Makefile doesn't cache anything
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To be clear to the original poster, the naming is terrible because of the nazi associations of the number 88, correct?
I'm not surprised. Google has knowingly hosted (and profited by) ads promoting software driver and tech support scams which target the most vulnerable customers of virtually every major hardware and software company out there, and has done so for the better part of the last two decades. This, despite the years-long protests of many of these companies.

Until there is a class action lawsuit with unprecedented punitive damages, or until regulators do their job and regulate it, nothing will change.

Anyone want to lay odds?
> Pp. 551-552 in Compete Works, edited by J. M. Cooper

Sigh. This is not how you cite Plato. Stephanus pagination exists for a reason.
Notepad used to really just be a Windows edit control.

And I could swear RaymondC owned it at some point.
> unless they believe law enforcement is acting outside of their authority

Not just "acting outside their authority". Law enforcement can ask for a lot of things where the answer can be no. There are lots of cases where caving is optional, and it's better when companies don't cave.

Responding to court orders is different from generically responding to law enforcement.

Also civil disobedience is a legitimate response to being forced to log browsing activity.

> or foreign to their resident jurisdiction

Which they are.
If you doing it locally only, I don't see the difference from make that will just keep your old .o files.

If you using it distributed between different developer, how do you make sure the cache result is secure? A shared cache where everyone can contribute to is really hard (impossible?) to make secure. Someone could add malicious code the cache that then everyone will use.
I am daily grateful because I survived an upbringing that still gives me nightmares. Lost lots of friends and family while young. Lost my thyroid to cancer so I’ll die without meds. Being alive and somewhat healthy doesn’t feel like ordinary bullshit to me. Not at all.
What about Windows/Linux/macOS with CLR, or Android with ART?
Gotta be one hell of a makefile.
On x86, you're quite a bit better off using fetch-and-add instead of CAS.
I'd say that Python is uniquely functional not because of features or authors intention, but by being somewhat flexible and having users interested in writing in this style. So despite its quirks, for many people it is as functional as they can get, and for some even as much as they need.
Maybe blown away at how terrible it is... like how many times do we need to correct it for it to show us the same shitty suggestions. I'm not sure I'd even notice if it were turned off.
Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott and Algebra by Michael Artin.
I do somewhat agree with the security aspects, though it seems to be in-process security measures are not the panacea.

> Overall JVM or CLR always seemed too heavyweight for many use cases.

The most common implementation may be; there are plenty of tiny jvms, some target embedded devices even.
Thank you Vladimir, this means a lot coming from you!

I definitely can, tracking this in https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/570
Google is involved because they operate the world's largest scam website checker, Safe Browsing, and their filter is baked into, and enabled by default in all of the modern mainstream browsers. Search results are one thing, going on this list would mean that the browser wouldn't open the page.

https://safebrowsing.google.com/
I can’t believe I’ve never considered analog TDM as a possible thing. I always associated it with digital signals.

Using a clock to mux multiple digital bitstreams seems like a natural fit. Using one to mux analog signals seems strange to me, for no rational reason I can point to.
That’s a reputation PHP has been struggling to shake for a long time now, but it isn’t the case as of the more modern versions.
I remember Louis CK made a joke about this, in regards to pedophiles (who are also rapists), what are we doing to prevent this? Is anyone making very realistic sex dolls that look like children? "Ew no that's creepy" well I guess you would rather them fuck your children instead.
It's one of those issues that you have to be careful not get too close to, because you get accused by proximity, if you suggest something like what I said before people might think you're a pedophile. So in that way, nobody wants to do anything about it.
Incorrect. Some get a stipend, but some are also hired as part-time research assistants, on a salary that is equivalent to a stipend after deducting a few meagre pounds as tax. It depends on who provides funding (a research council, your supervisor from his grant etc).

In either case: It's low. Very low.
To combat this scenario, we only had build servers populate the cache. Clients were readonly to the cache, so they would benefit from anything that build servers had already built, which covered 95%+ of what clients usually had to rebuild.

Also release builds were excluded from caching, to prevent any form of poisoning there.
Yes to the first and no to the second seem the obvious answers here.
PHP is not inherently insecure—but some deprecated and now removed or disabled-by-default features were in the past. It all depends on the way apps are developed on it. You can create web apps with security vulnerabilities in any language/framework you use, whether it's PHP, Python, node.js or anything else.

Regarding scaling, node.js is probably faster because of the JIT compiler, but this doesn't mean that scaling is not possible. Wikipedia is PHP, Wordpress is PHP, and Facebook is also PHP (with HHVM).
Colloquially, "dark age" means an age when the people are unenlightened, backwards, etc
You Must Be 64-Bit to Ride This Ferry
Spoiler alert: if everyone stopped using it.
Meanwhile, over here in Japan, you can buy many different sizes of tiny neodymium magnets in the 110-yen stores.
Apologies for that. It was a bug I introduced that happens only in different timezones. Should be fixed now.
I believe what they do is take the released version of stable diffusion and then continue training from there with their own image sets. I came across their attempts when looking into how to train the model based on some images of my own; their data set so far reaches between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands images.

All the difficult parts (poses, backgrounds, art styles) has already been done by the SD researchers, the porn network only needs reference material for the NSFW description/tags/details. This is significantly cheaper.

A similar project, training SD to output images in the style of Arcane, is incredibly successful in replicating the animation style with what seems to be very little actual training data.

I don't think you need to start from scratch at all if you use the SD model as a base, all you need to do is to train it on specific concepts, styles and key words that the original doesn't have.
> that science either can't disprove, or hasn't been actively researching, for whatever reason

Most often the reason is lack of evidence in proportion to the claims.
This is like a more wholesome version of using git-blame to see what idiot wrote that crappy bit of code and seeing your own name on it.
It also sounds pretty strange to me to take the number of 5 previous mass extinctions as unshakable fact. I'm not a paleontologist, but in the several billions of years before living organisms evolved shells/skeletons that could be fossilized, there could have been any number of mass extinction events that we no longer have evidence of?
Is this the same extension as https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome?

I've been using the latter for years now too. It still doesn't work with hard paywalls like the ones on economist.com or wsj.com.
Threads and Messages with Rust and WebAssembly
I know what safebrowsing is, it has a proper reporting system and it is for Chrome users not Google search.
Many of the comments seems like variations on the article's subtitle:

"We know less about some periods than others, but the meaning of ‘Dark Age’ is multifarious and often loaded."
Maybe?

Does that mean it’s worthless to try to train an ethical art model?

Is it not helpful to show that you can train a model that can generate art without training it on copyrighted material?

Maybe it’s good. Maybe not. Who cares if people waste their money doing it? Why do you care?

It certainly feels awfully convenient for that there are no ethically trained models because it means no one can say “you should be using these; you have a choice to do the right thing, if you want to”.

I’m not judging; but what I will say is that there’s only one benefit in trying to avoid and discourage people training ethical models:

…and that is the benefit of people currently making and using unethically trained models.
The article is about how that isn't enough.
I _think_ it's better. For me, it's still a bit weird when you're scrolling past the first one, but I think you just need a hint or something that the region is scrollable (my confusion comes from the fact that there needs to be a card-length empty space for the card to come in).
I tried using Blink shell for a while and it was ok, but when my iPad screen broke I got a Thinkpad X280 as a replacement. For emacs, programming and a lot of other things it's way better. I've just spent some time in KiCAD this evening, I couldn't do that on an iPad. Plus if something breaks it's way easier to get parts, a new screen is under $100 and I can install it myself without any tools.
Well . . . forever ago, devs there managed their own installs. And maybe they had boxes that weren't up to snuff for joining ntdev and maybe they had something so old it was basically a network infection, so MSIT would deal with them.

But anyplace that forces machine config on devs? They don't really want devs. Even Ballmer valued developers (developers . . . developers). And he was a tragically engineering-impaired human being.
There is a context menu entry ("Open link with Unclutter")! It might just be buried in the list if you have a lot of extensions?
No it's a fork that strips out tracking info like Google Analytics and adds new features on top of it. Works for all the sites I've tried it on.
When I did sports as a kid I constantly finished close to last. (Just had not one bit of talent and/or genetics)

I was very aware of that fact and nevertheless I went and participated.
Mainly because my parents encouraged my personal progress and celebrated small victories and effort.

The particular sport I did also provided small tokens (usually a slightly "fancy" certificate, sometimes a cap or shirt or sth)

Did that help me become good at that particular sport? No not at all.

But the mindset of curiosity and going for your personal best even if others are better did help me later in live.

Preservation goes a long way and encouraging kids to do their best is not a bad thing. Keep it grounded in reality though ("You did good today, great process . Others will make that their career but you showed up and put in the work which is good by itself")
Indeed. I was looking forward to reading about Mavra Chang, Nathan Brazil, and other familiar characters from a childhood long past. I'm glad I read your comment first.
I suppose the "novelty" is the existence of compilation to WASM target in more and more compiler toolchains, so you can use things. Though to your point GraalVM work is also progressing a lot! Nice to have a lot of energy in this space in general
Is it possible to port Emacs to iOS? Did anyone try this?
Dead horse. Google has more control everything web related (including wasm) than oracle does over Java.
Is the used interpreter built with computed goto?
This "if everyone did x" is always a fiction, since it is impossible to get everyone to do the same thing at the same time. It is I believe a useful thought experiment, for the reasons you mention.

What if someone had the potential but not the determination to follow through. Or they did not have a way to train, or got injured the day they had the first competition, or the first training, or they did not like the coach or the teacher, or they preferred dancing or music instead of running, etc.
Wow! Thanks for the great explanation!
Yeah, the intersection of "serious maths book" and "great read" is pretty small.

Since you've already got Jaynes: David Mackay's inference book is also a good: http://www.inference.org.uk/itila/ even if not quite pure maths.
Well this article sure as hell isn't by a researcher.

The quotes from experts say that "too much" and "undeserved" praise is bad.

A participation trophy is generally very minor in terms of praise.

Much more specific expert quotes are needed here.
There is no benefit to using it that way; if you try, the only thing that will happen is you'll be hopelessly confused by every historical period that is called a dark age, because they're all called that for the reason I gave above.
Nice! Interestingly I had the opposite goal -- uncluttered articles should still have the same URLs.

It makes total sense for sharing!
make recompiles source code files by detecting the last modified date on a file, hence it only recompiles source files as necessary. So if you have 10 source files with 5000 lines of C in them, and you only change one of them, it will not recompile everything, it will only recompile that source file which has changed.

Which makes me agree with the parent above, I don't see how exactly Ccache is supposed to be used. Maybe for a distributed source directory with many developers working on it?
https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbw
ThingsBase: A Free Low-Code Platform for AIoT
The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988
> an average of all humans likes, which will never fit your exact personal unique preferences

Well, it's not as if that's an unknown problem in machine learning. In all generative domains (and I suppose recommendations are a generative domain in a sense) there's a risk of "mode seeking", where the model produces bland/blurry/gray output in order to cover its bases, and not miss too badly. It's rarely what we want.

There's also the often quoted "Most of the volume of a high-dimensional orange is in the peel, and the average of two vectors is very unlikely" (Well, I like to quote it because it's fun to say. I forget where it originally came from.) In plain English, if you need more than two dimensions to characterize variation, then you need to use spherical interpolation to find a likely data point in between them, not regular interpolation.

It's surprising how many times this has been overlooked and rediscovered.
The main limitation for running these AIs is that you need tons of VRAM available for your GPU to get any good performance out of them. I don't have a video card with 12GiB of VRAM and I don't know anyone who does.

If you're willing to wait more (30 seconds per image, assuming limited image sizes) there are repositories that will run the model on the CPU instead, leveraging your much cheaper RAM.

In theory you could swap VRAM in and out in the middle of the rendering process, but this would make the entire process incredibly slow. I think you'll have more success just running the CPU version if you're willing to accept slowdowns.
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