skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLVM's fast path (used by clang -O0) is fast. Rust's primary problem is that it can't use LLVM's fast path (because it implements only a subset of LLVM IR) and LLVM upstream is uninterested in extending it because it will slowdown clang -O0.
Google and newer tech companies have dual-class share structures so the board's boss is Sergey Brin, not "the shareholders".
> Theft and fraud aren't the same thing.

I never said they were.

> A DEX might preclude the need for trust relationships in order to prevent the circumstances that make fraud possible

So you agree?

You just admitted that DEXs would have prevented SBF from committing this fraud. That's what I'm trying to convince you of.

Those who do not distinguish self-custodied funds from non-self-custodied funds, like you refuse to do, will continue to be defrauded and stolen from.
When a bunch of important system functionality is done using them, I’m required to know they exist. /etc/crontab is no different.

It’s not that much different than systemd in that sense.

Especially since the /etc/cron.whatever special rules like files with dots in them get ignored (ugh)
so...
fooling an AI is easy then, yes? :D
Tiny Glade: castle doodling game in Rust
I was playing around with a similar kind of problem trying to get it to decode Caesar cipher encoded text. I asked it to start by doing a frequency analysis of the ciphertext and for the most part it was right, but counted an extra instance of a letter. From there I tried making it loop through different shift values and made the stop condition finding a real word.

It was able to shift by a constant number successfully and even tried shifting both forward (+2) and backward (-2) looking for valid words without additional prompting. But it did not loop through every possibility and stopped having found a word that wasn't real. The interesting thing was that asking the model if the word it found was real with a follow-up question, it correctly identified that it gave an incorrect answer.

Part of why it failed to find a word is that it did an incorrect step going from EXXEG... to TAAAT... as a poor attempt of applying the frequency analysis. It understood that E shouldn't substitute with E and moved on to E->T, but the actual substitution failed.

The limitations of context memory and error checking are interesting and not something I expected from this model. The unprompted test of both positive and negative shift values shows some sort of system 2 thinking, but it's doesn't seem consistent.

https://twitter.com/Knaikk/status/1600001061971849216
It might have been just Modern Physics (3rd semester in my university). The student should have had the prereqs at least.
it was a good 10 year run
For sure. The pace at which they've been making all these improvement is really impressive.
Persua: Intelligent system to improve persuasiveness in text
This heavily underestimates the influence of Ezra Pound through his disciple and biographer Eustace Mullins. Butz certainly upped the economic pressure on rural people, but the theory is regular old European conspiratorial antisemitism as revived through Dreyfus, then post-WWI central European "stabbed in the back" fantasies, and interpreted by the fascist Europhile Pound.

If the US government hadn't just completed a program of left-wing eradication in the early part of the 20c, the pressure probably would have turned rural people towards the populism that they had turned to throughout the 19c and very early 20c; the kind of populism that culminated in the 4-term FDR presidency and the New Deal.

"Populism" as you use it here (to refer to right-wing antisemitic groups), was intentionally turned into a slur that was used to attack the working-class left-wing:

> Most of the Progressives, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, were bitter enemies of the Populists. In American political rhetoric, "populist" was originally associated with the Populist Party and related left-wing movements, but beginning in the 1950s it began to take on a more generic meaning, describing any anti-establishment movement regardless of its position on the left–right political spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Party_(United_States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Mullins

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edit: as far as I can tell, the only two things that are characteristic across all European cultures are drinking cow's milk and conspiracist antisemitism. Although America further developed it and fed it back to Europe (note Ford's influence on Hitler), the framework is definitely European. And of course, a lot of fascism in Europe was financed by the US post-WWII.
Nix does have a single config that defines the entire OS though! Which seems to be what you want? It has imports I suppose but still.
Hi there! Engineer on the team here (and the one actually doing some of our auth and jobs stuff recently). We currently integrate with Google via oauth2 for social login, and plan to add more providers soon (GitHub coming next). The underlying mechanism is using Passport.js, which in turn uses oauth2 for most of their provider integrations, but that is abstracted so we can change in the future without breaking Wasp users. How would you envision Wasp itself being an oauth2 provider as beneficial vs integrating with other more popular providers?

As for username & password - correct, we do not do any email verification and reset right now. We actually changed the name from email & password to username & password to reflect the fact that we don't have tight email integration yet in Wasp. However, that will be coming soon, and once we do have first-class email support we plan to enrich that login method to have email verification with password reset, perhaps magic links, etc.

So long story short, we are trying to move quickly to add more auth options but be deliberate in how we integrate everything to ensure they all play together nicely. Please do check us out if it seems interesting and drop into Discord to let us know how we can improve to fit your use cases. Thanks!
TCI's letter says they own $6 billion worth of shares. According to [1], Alphabet's market cap is $1.216 trillion as of today.

Now, if Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, and all the pension funds got together, that might add up to something.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/market_cap
Glad to see Tim Dodd selected. He deserved it. Wondering about timelines, though. 2023 seems unrealistic.
This is great. The more self-contained (really self-hosted) a language is, the more implementation freedom and ability to evolve it gets.

Virgil version I&II were a Virgil->C compiler written in Java. Later, I wrote an interpreter for Virgil III in Java and then began writing a compiler in Virgil III. When that compiler could compile version III (including itself), I checked in the first "stable" compiler as a jar. Then periodically when enough new features and bugs were fixed, I checked in a new stable binary (jar). Later, I developed and eventually fully switched to native backends for 32- and 64-bit x86 on MacOS and Darwin. Today, 5 stable binaries are checked in: jar, x86-darwin, x86-64-darwin, x86-linux, and x86-64-linux. There is also a Wasm backend, which can bootstrap the compiler too, but I did not check in a stable binary for it.

Initially I was worried that a codegen bug would prevent bootstrapping from a compiler binary and that I'd need to fall back to running on an interpreter. So far, there's never been a codegen bug bad enough to break bootstrapping, so I am not worried about this. The compiler never needs to bootstrap from an interpreter.
Wild. I can't imagine that transition. I can't imagine that thought process. It seems goofy to me. It's not just that you abandoned the high-polish, high-usability world of Apple; it's that you also had to bail from high-quality, high-polish hardware from any vendor. I've seen the kinds of laptops you're talking about; they're kind of awful, miles away from the best that Apple or even Dell or Lenovo are bringing to market. But you do you.

Honestly, I suspect you just like having to tinker with your stack to get work done. (I mean, I've been there - I use OrgMode.)

Sure, being able to swap out parts is theoretically nice, but you'll do that maybe once in the useful life of a computer -- but I haven't needed or wanted to do either in easily a decade. How often does this really come up? On the other hand, you'll confront that lack of whole-package QA and general polish every time you turn your computer on.

And I'm really curious about anyone's privacy needs if they abandon APPLE for roll-your-own. Yes, it's all in your hands now, but most people don't have the time or inclination to be sure they're doing all the right things, security-wise and privacy-wise, to stay safe. There's a good chance your DIY approach is less secure than iCloud unless you literally do this sort of thing for a living. I mean, this is why I don't run my own mail server anymore (hello, Fastmail!).

So yeah, I think lots of people say "freedom" when they mean "I just want to tinker with my toolchain a lot and occasionally feel superior about it."
I think you would also be angry for not getting a small piece of that $2.5Bil pie.
Not being from the USA this has been an interesting and a bit shocking read. To me this approach to job interviewing seems overly paranoid, suspicious, and akin to harassment. Also asking random general riddles that are not specifically related to the specific job function in question seems so weird that if I was the Interviewee I would seriously reconsider if such a company would be worth working for at all as disrespect like this in the interview process would likely be reflected in overall company culture.

Disclosure: I do not even know if the title "Software Engineer" in the USA requires a formal education as such. I do not hold that title myself, I've just been working in IT for three-plus decades and provided net positive bottom line value to every firm I've worked for along the way.

Most, if not all, of the "idiot-filter questions" (note the tone?) in this thread, I've seen for the first time today.
Crypto's only real use case is economic freedom. Everything else is just garnishing.
It is as though its mathematical abilities are incomplete in their training, and wildly, incomprehensibly convoluted:

I tried many base64 strings and they all decoded correctly until:

It "decoded" the base64 string for "which actress is the best?" except that it replaced "actress" with "address"... there is no off-by-one error that brings you to that.

You may try 100 base64 strings and they all decode correctly... only to find, in fact, that it DOES NOT know how to decode base64 reliably.

This tool could be a 50x accelerator for an expert, but absolutely ruinous to a non-expert in any given field.

I also got it to draw an icosahedron whose points were correct but whose triangles were draw incorrectly, so if I create a convex hull over it, it's correct.

The kinds of mistakes it makes are so close but so far at the same time. It sometimes writes complete working programs that are off by a single variable assignment, or sometimes they're just perfect, other times, they're nonsensical and call magic pseudocode functions or misunderstand the appropriate algorithm for a context (e.g. audio vs text compression).

It can provide citations for legal opinions -- but decades old citations that don't reflect current precedent.

God help us all if they plug it into some robot arms or give it the ability to run arbitrary code it outputs on a network interface.

Let's say they dump another 10 billion dollars into it and dectuple the size of the network, will it suddenly become legitimately capable, and not just "wow that's close" but actually startlingly competent in many more fields?

I could see this thing causing a war by all manner of means, whether its putting many out of work, making beguiling suggestions, outputting dangerous code, or, I'm sure, a million things that don't spring immediately to my small mind.
I don't think we are close to AGI but I dread what tools like this mean for bad actors. The internet is going to become more polluted with garbage.
D has steadily moved towards full memory safety. The one remaining thing is dealing with manual storage allocation, and D has a prototype borrow checker to address that.
This is a method of ensuring that future builds do not depend on the existence of a Zig compiler; it's not a way to go from 0 to Zig without a Zig compiler ever having existed. Technically this already existed in the form of a Zig compiler written in C++; the point of this exercise was to stop using C++.

So:

Presume the existence of a compiler that can compile Zig. Use that compiler to compile the written-in-Zig Zig compiler to WASM. Now you have a big chunk of WASM, so you also need a WASI interpreter. Write that in 4,000 lines of highly portable C. Then use that WASI interpreter to run your big chunk of WASM code and give it your written-in-Zig Zig compiler, and tell it to output C. Then compile that C code with your system compiler, and then use that native executable to recompile the written-in-Zig Zig compiler. At this point you should be at a fixed point and further recompilations of the Zig compiler will yield the same binary.
Google is full of people that for a want of a better word are simply arrogant. They think that the purpose of AI is for them to show off their skills and... that's it. At best they'd use it internally for selling you more ads, they don't seem to think other people are worthy of using the output of their efforts in any shape, way, or form.

I don't think the papers they put out are to "show off." It's for advancing the entire field. Imagine if they had kept the Transformer paper in house which everyone uses and is basically the standard in AI now. AI wouldn't be anywhere close to where it is today. Also, I think it's a little ridiculous to think Google would spend $100B over the past 10 years on AI research and not think this stuff will be seen in important products.
I believe the internal server error is because of server load, unrelated to the query itself. I've been using chatgpt since it came out, as it got more viral, it started becoming slower and slower and now, it just randomly gives server errors, hopefully it'll be solved as they scale their systems.
Richard? Is that you?

I lol'd at "prison that is iOS."
The purpose of a retro is to identify a process that will keep some bad thing from happening again; a process that keeps the bad thing from happening for any reason is strictly better than a process that keeps the bad thing from happening due to malice. If your infra engineers can't expose your PII on accident, they can't expose it on purpose either. To extend your analogy, it's the difference between locking your house (which protects your valuables from thieves, but not your garden hose and wheelbarrow from your drunken neighbor) vs. locking your shed as well.
A vaccine that adjusts every year to target a mutating virus is completely normal.

It's been done for ages for the flu. The flu vaccines are also only mitigations not immunities.

Do you have the same feelings towards the flu vaccine?
how do you compile the Zig self-hosted compiler to wasm?
> In practice because the `Int` type is a signed, fixed-size integer it would break the laws for all integers.

No. `Sum Int` (unlike, pedantically, `Sum Integer` or `[a]`) is a valid (non-leaky-abstraction) monoid. It adds `Int`s, which is a monoidal operation that satisfies `(a<>b)<>c==a<>(b<>c)` for all (2^(3*MACHINE_BIT_WIDTH) distinct triplets (a,b,c) of) Ints, due to 2s-complement truncation on overflow.

> your `Int` will wrap around for large values

Yes, that's what `Int` means.

> `Integer`

will fail to terminate when adding sufficiently large values (in theory with a out of memory error, although in practice operations just get slower and slower until you abort them with ^C or a timeout), a property not shared by addition of `Int`.
Apple, being a "functional organization"[0], would never have had two entirely separate maps apps in the first place.

It is quite good at routing though. Of course this very strongly depends on where you live.

[0] as opposed to a "department" organization, not a "dysfunctional" organization
Stroustrup's law applies here: there are two types of languages: languages people complain about and languages nobody uses.
All the glass, all Gorilla Glass in fact, is made in Kentucky.

This page is a bit out of date, but I don’t think that the sourcing of parts has changed all that much. https://u.osu.edu/iphone/fsdfsdff/
What's funny is that most of this ground breaking LLMs you see now are based on Google published research about transformers, and they have better performing models in house than anything publicly available on the market.
On almost any C/C++ or Zig related discussion happening on HN or Twitter you'll find some random Rust evangelist asking why people are still using a "memory unsafe" language to build things.

Implying, basically, that any non-Rust system programming language is obsolete. (and should maybe even be considered harmful)

I find that deeply annoying.

I don't have predictions about the future; the Zig community is not toxic for now.
I mean you say that, but I keep getting impressed responses to chatGPT, hearing stories of people integrating it into their work flow, etc
In both senses: "food that is added to a plate for decoration," as well as "material applied to an object to achieve or assist camouflage."

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/garnishing
I guess Bethesda? Maybe that’s yet to be seen.
I have huge respect for PG as an engineer but I often disagree with him politically. Moral desert is a complicated concept and I'm not sure that arguing the people who created Instagram, possibly a net negative for society, deserve be worth hundreds of millions just because they could sell their company for a billion is the best argument. Some founders by some reasonable (subjective, ik) definitions of "deserve" probably do deserve to be worth a lot of money.

In any case this current wave of AI depends on a monumental amount of labor from mostly uncredited artists, programmers, authors, etc. To say that someone does all the work in prompting an AI to "create company" seems ridiculous.
Why would it care about stracing? It was never too slow for me. A "bad" performance might be caused by ex. consistency checking. Benchmarks like these don't tell much - you can't reduce software performance to one number.

> It's DB implementation is utter garbage. It doesn't even organize files by time or really anything useful.

That sounds interesting, can you please elaborate on the internal structure of journald files or link to further documentation? And why would I care if journald handles it for me?
Kahneman's book has been debunked, it is unfortunate that that hasn't reached mainstream audiences yet.
What if fun is not 'anything'?

i.e. if it were just electrical impulses going back and forth?
Exclusion (and intersection as well) provide for some very powerful computation primitives, with only a slight overhead in performance.

In addition, there is `tupleset_to_userset` [0], which can be thought of as an arrow (which is also how its defined in SpiceDB [1]).

[0]: https://zanzibar.tech/2D0HKhvxH0:0.IoJK1g_7i:4L~ses~0~1
[1]: https://docs.authzed.com/reference/schema-lang#--arrow
In January, the director of the CDC said:

"...what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission. So if you're going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, somebody who can't get vaccinated... I would suggest you wear a mask in a public indoor setting"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-director-covid-...
Why Don’t More Men Take Their Wives’ Last Names?
Ship from 1800s uncovered on Florida beach after hurricane erosion
He seems to use the hour estimate of 1:30am being a time when very few satellites are likely overhead as a sort of confirming factor. (I guess because many satellites are sun-synchronous around noon, and the USAF would purposely time the photo to not expose the aircraft to observation).

But is that a very strong confirming factor? Is it likely that NG / USAF would be actively avoiding the potential for satellite imagery? Does it mean all the time it was being built, they avoided having it outside during the daytime?
How many people have died to the vaccine vs how many people died to COVID who might have been saved by the vaccine?

Look at the COVID death rates of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated.

Can you bridge that gap with vaccine deaths?
I can understand why OpenAI were initially hesitant to be true to their name — it made sense whilst these models were in their infancy.

But as we enter 2023, OpenAI no longer require approval before using GPT3, and DALLE2 is publicly accessible.

Google has yet to release anything publicly… In light of Midjourney’s comments, it’s hard not to be a little suspicious.
In the article Scott anticipates this response and writes

>Governments can take lots of actions against crypto. They can ban it. They can prevent banks from accepting it. They can search the blockchain to hunt down users. But governments take lots of actions against protests, tax evasion, and drugs, and those things still often succeed. The point isn’t that governments can’t ban a thing and send police after anyone who does it. The point is that there are only so many officers and detectives. If you make something too annoying to crush, the government will put in a half-hearted effort but mostly redirect resources elsewhere.
I was disappointed when Postscript was initially released, as they were at pains to port the constraints of paper to the computer, which I considered (and still consider) a gross step backwards. Display postscript (Sun and NeXT mostly) was an improvement but documents were still stuck in a paperish mode. Few PDF are truly editable.

This was made much worse when displays migrated from portait by default to landscape by default.

Even today my heart sinks when I see that I've been given a pdf
ive often wondered toungue in cheek if google data centers are fullof dust,cobwebs,mummified remains, and a rackfarm humming away keeping the [lights] on, according to a cost-benefit curve analysis, labour efficiency algorithm. /s
At the moment, if someone wants to store information on a blockchain using proof of work, proof of stake etc., arguably the best implementation that humans have invented is Ethereum (Bitcoin is arguably the best for slow stable $ preservation, think what you want..). The gas price of Ethereum is not fixed, but at the moment far too expensive to store large images. The purpose of Crypto technology is not specifically to store images, that will probably come in the future. It does work to store financial transactions, and to perform smart contracts that don't require large amounts of data. NFTs don't have to be used for images. They could be used for tickets, proof of membership, to run small algorithms etc. The value is always going to be subjective. But saying there is something 'wrong' I don't think is correct. There is definitely something wrong with many people's intentions obviously, but that is sociology, not technology.
With 3-12 month CDs now offering much higher interest than my fixed-rate mortgage I'm just happy to dump my extra cash there (after having maxed out on ibonds I guess).

I guess I don't see the need to "beat inflation" when my consumption on things exposed to inflation are mostly fixed. E.g. I still eat the same amount of food each month
Check https://logconference.org/schedule-tutorials/#neural-algorit... for a tutorial happening in less than 24 hours.

LoG conference is free to attend and online :)