skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone actually use exFAT? I know it's a simple cross platform file system and all, but every phone, tablet, laptop and desktop OS supports NTFS these days. Especially for read only stuff.
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> they managing it though

Yes. Employment is growing, unemployment is steady, growth is positive and inflation has at least stabilised.

> The books are cooked to all hell

Which books? The Fed’s?
No, but that's fine, because Boeing needs to make money upselling carriers on redundancy.
"I am a highly desireable mail I had over a dozen women agree to go on a date with me."

"How many women did you ask?"

"Twelve hundred, obviously I just need to be more aggressive in pursuing a larger number of women as it will make me more desirable."
It was a question, as the other comment says, lock-in is probably one of the answers.
> We started out with the question: How does GPT-2 know when to use the word an over a? The choice depends on whether the word that comes after starts with a vowel or not, but GPT-2 is only capable of predicting one word at a time. We still don’t have a full answer...

I'm not sure I understand why this is an open question. While I get that GPT-2 is predicting only one word at a time, it doesn't seem that surprising that there might be cases where there is a dominant bigram (ie "an apple" in the case of their example prompt) that would trigger an "an" prediction, without actually predicting the following word first.

Am I missing something?
Yea, I get your point. I think part of the problem is many people first hear about "Zero Waste" from some corporation marketing their product/service as zero-waste. The term has been in-use environmentalists since the late 90's, and was really popularized by Bea Johnson's book "Zero Waste Home" in the 2000's. It's a bit of a bummer it's been coopted by the likes of Unilever and Proctor and Gamble as a way to green-wash and make money.
> This shows the acceleration of CO2

Thanks for the explanation of what I provided.
https://archive.ph/TvXXR
Early computers had many different word sizes. If you look at the 1955 Ballistic Research Laboratory document, A survey of domestic electronic digital computing systems, you find lengths from a low of 10 bits to a high of 42 decimal digits. (pp234-235; Text: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL.html Scan: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89037555299&view=1... )

The influential machine to look at here, then, would be the IBM 701.

Edit: The IBM 701 patent <https://patents.google.com/patent/US3197624A> says, “A binary number of a full word of 36 bits has a precision equal to that of about a 10 decimal digit number”. It doesn't mention characters, and the machine was designed for scientific (military) calculations, not text/data processing. The associated IBM 716 printer did not use a 6-bit code. However, this does not rule out a 6-bit character code as a design consideration, even if this machine didn't use one, since IBM did have a large business in pre-computer data processing, using punched-card character sets that would fit in no less than 6 bits. So that may have driven the design of shared peripherals like 7-track tape (6 bits plus parity) and led to a multiple-of-6 word size.

Edit 2: The paper, The logical organization of the new IBM scientific calculator <https://doi.org/10.1145/609784.609791> again mentions 10 decimal digits. It also describes card and printer I/O, and it is explicit that these work on binary card images, row by row, not character by character. The machine handles only 72 columns of an 80-column card, reading a row at a time into two 36-bit words. A 40-bit word would have let it use the whole card!
It's really funny how just a few years ago, making fun of those "idiots" back in the 1950s-60s for being paranoid about the red scare and of their toxic, almost ridiculous commie paranoia was common and mainstream. Yet we are back at almost exactly the same spot, with the exact same rhetoric and a similar public/media discourse. Just wild.
Consult an employment lawyer.
Before _that_ that, there was yellow journalism.

Before that, there were revolutionary pamphleteers.

The Trump hysteria was a reversion to the norm.
I'm glad you've never had a problem with it. But sometimes people do leave jobs rather than simply move to a new job on good terms. I couldn't imagine being forced to work in a job that I no longer wanted to work.

If something changes at work or in my personal life and I no longer want to work at my job, I have the right to say "goodbye", and leave immediately, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

If you've seen an American TV show where someone says "I quit!" and walks out the door, that isn't just a trope. I know people who have done that. As should be their right.
Aw, I was hoping this would be some weird AwesomeWM swarm.

I'm.. not exactly sure what that would be, to be honest. Some Plan9esque networked WM?
This report is for Autopilot, not FSD which everyone else is talking about on HN.
1. Fair, but I think it's reasonable to think people will contextualize it based on the submission like I did.

2. My biggest problem was with the level of reduction of terrestrial, not directionality.

3. That is a fair point, and I know you could have listed even more examples than just tetrapods. But the gills to lungs is also a much bigger step, and none of those examples have reacquired gills. So it comes back to the ocean, but with an asterisk.

My thanks for the stimulating discussion.
I’ve been talking to my five year old about weather balloons lately and he’s interested in launching one of his own to try to get a picture of the Earth’s curvature. Can anyone recommend resources on this topic? Surely there are hobby groups around but I must not be searching for the right combo of keywords - haven’t found anything.
A lot of Boulder homes are relatively small because they were built in the 40s-60s for a population with much more modest means. So it isn't rare to see millionaires living in a 1300 SQ ft ranch style home, and driving EVs or riding bakfiets style bikes around toting kids.

So, probably still more carbon intensive than city dwellers, but not necessarily as bad as other forms of suburban lifestyles, and that doesn't mean their efforts are for naught.
Thanks. I’ll check out the two you mentioned. And no worries. I know it was kind of an odd question.
I've been researching this and it's too bad that only a few companies produce these, and the pricing is outrageous! I understand they want to make sure only 222nm UVC is produced, but still, come on!
Some countries have a very interesting way to frame the requirements: "any device through which you can listen/view broadcasts produced by the national radio/television". When they stream national video/radio online it automatically qualifies every computer or smartphone or car radio as a device that makes you required to pay the tv fee
Docker stacks are essentially docker compose files with some extra Features.

Docker compose is a developer tool for use on a single computer.

Docker Swarm is a container orchestrator like Kubernetes or Nomad
Is there science to support the vertical arrangement of server-pizza-boxes as books on a bookshelf as being passively cooler? The horizontal orientation makes sense for servicing which would be possible by a hinge mechanism like those hidden tables in the arm rest of a fancy design chair.
The actual runtime is

deno_core::JsRuntime

So it's not really fair to call this "your own runtime." quickjs is another alternative here, and you can use it anywhere that supports the C FFI.
…by covering the nonsense of the Trump show, they lessened the impact of the news of the real evil of the attempted overthrow. Instead of being presented as the danger it was, it was reduced to the season finale of the Trump show.
I spent 6 months driving a 2019 Hyundai with lane assist and radar cruise control. Personally it's almost perfect. If you added some smart road features - to improve lane assist and better sign readability (to drop the speed as I enter town or curve and increase when I leave one). I don't need full self driving, just an improvement on speed control and some lane assist.

Would smart roads be expensive? RFID responders seem super cheap compared to how much actual asphalt costs. Authorities are currently unable to remotely control flows, speeds and safety which is completely bonkers.
I don't think there's an option to even pay for one year right now. It at least was the case last year when they pulled the plug on free tier and I had reluctantly give them credit card information for essentially a one person company.
Shouldn't e-waste be highly profitable to recycle with that high concentration of metals? Urban mining at our doorstep and not halfway across the globe and a mile underground. Is the separation of all the materials inherently unprofitable or aren't the upfront investments to get things going just never made?
Yeah, but the reason why they used the word "recall" is that "recall" was already a word that means to officially demand that something (or someone) be returned to a previous location. Of course, before over the air software updates, essentially anything on an automobile that needed to be replaced/repaired/modified would need to be returned to a dealer/mechanic to do so. So now it sounds a little weird to some people to refer to an over the air software update as a recall.
Autopilot is not FSD, this report is clearly about Autopilot, they haven't mentioned anything about FSD in it.
Just in case you or someone else didn’t know; “Bootcamp” is a tool that allows anyone to set up dual-boot on their Mac without having to touch the bootloader or hunt for drivers. It’s not an emulation or virtualization solution, which is why it wouldn’t work with x86 Windows.
One reason: Because 10 was enough to accurately calculate the differences in atomic masses, which was essential for atomic weapons design. (Source: my mother worked on 36-bit machines back in the 1950s. This was her explanation of the reason for the word size.)
There doesn't exist an addressable transparent LCD yet in mass quantities. But I'm working on a dimmed piece of plastic moving around on a stage. The computer vision is sorta straightforward actually.
The lock-in is true. But it's still worrying.
FYI, you can disable the ability for Chromium-based browsers to even ask the user if they want to allow notifications - on my Android phone in Chrome, it's under Settings, Site settings. There you can set "Notifications" to "Blocked" (and if you're paranoid like me, turn most others off as well).
I was thinking about doing something similar on a smaller scale to dump the heat concentrated by an air conditioning system. I was thinking that it might be useful for heating in the winter.
The reality is, if you have to ask for this info, they won't sell to you. These companies gatekeep the data because making it hard to see just how fucked up things are helps keep calls for regulation down.

We are a single small company that delivered our product through emails. Even with just that data set, the amount I can find out about hundreds of thousands of individuals and connect them and essentially analyze the metadata for lots of fun things is absurd. I'm not even looking at google analytics for this kind of stuff.
Reinforcement training can clearly make huge improvements to the accuracy of the models, but they don’t fundamentally change what it is, how it works or what it’s doing. I’m no experts so I could be wrong, but I suspect the failure modes we’ve seen are indicative of the basic limitations of the technology. It now produces better textual summaries of biographies, because that’s just text, but it still doesn’t have any concept of what a person is, even if it can generate texts saying it does. We’ve talked about philosophical zombies before, and that’s what these are becoming.

It is conceivable these things will become more than that. There are indications they might be generating simple models of processes and systems like games. Maybe those will develop into more elaborate and sophisticated complex models of the world analogous to an animal or human consciousness. Maybe they are just very limited optimisation strategies for specific tasks that will remain completely disconnected from each other, never forming anything comparable to a mind.
You must live in a nice, gentrified neighborhood where the rich white people live. My house has never been broken into either; definitely not while I'm inside, so thankfully I do too. Not everyone is so lucky, unfortunately, so I would caution against assuming that everyone lives in such a neighborhood.
Making technology two key presses away
I agree, but you can’t just let a drug addicted person have tax-payer subsidized housing without also requiring that addicted person to attend drug addiction therapy.

I live in Portland, where the overwhelming majority of homeless people deny housing because of this fact. Because they are required to get help.

I absolutely do not think providing more “free” housing is the answer.
You can usually edit the title to fix this, otherwise send an email to the contact address at the bottom of the page.
The call to the Georgia Sec. of State asking to find 11,809 more votes was far closer to the genuine overthrow attempt.
I know this is getting downvoted for being an ad but this is exactly what I was talking about, so thank you I will look into it!
When traveling on an airplane, we don't come to know what serious situation could be playing out in the cockpit. This above post is a conversation by the flying crew of Air India with the control tower at JFK. The aircraft is experiencing multiple instruments failure and the pilots are having difficulty landing the aircraft. Worth a watch on how the crew has to be calm and composed in a crisis situation.
The obvious follow-up then is do you care about homelessness or do you just care about problematic homelessness? Because most people here using "homeless" as a shorthand for "problematic homelessness". This just goes to support majormajor's comment that people are not upset by homelessness in general. They are upset they have to see and interact with problematic homeless people.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34826714
Can a game state be encoded as a set of weights? Sure. These can be in the MLP part after the LLM. Sure. You could train this directly with fine-tuning and then have text prompts to move things. That is pretty standard I think and that would be supervised learning. In terms of unsupervised learning, I don't find it completely surprising that you could get some probabilistic map of how tokens interact (game pieces) and what the next likely token is just from training it as an LLM. After all tokens are just placeholders and the relationships between them are encoded in the text. That patterns of activation are akin to remembering the 8k tokens in the prompt or what not.
Being an intern is really cool and fun, and you need to be one again.
Thanks! I spent a few days reading it in my breaks!
Quite lovely experience.

So thanks again fellow internet surfer.
There's no lock in here. People are free to switch to one of the many competing services. It's not a monopoly under any reasonable definition of the term. Of course switching is going to have inertia, but that's not lock in. Lock in is when you are contractually obligated not to change, or if the monopoly is shutting down all competing services (perhaps by acquisition) so that there are no alternatives. For a good example of this type of lock in, just look at Ticketmaster.
> Assange

This is a bad comparison. Assange is being extradited. Guantanamo Bay would be a closer analog to what China is doing. The difference is the breadth and scale.
What I miss most in macOS is the raw graphics performance of Windows, even for day-to-day computing. Probably a combo of available graphics cards, drivers, and how the OS treats graphics performance. Finder is def getting a bit creaky, but I've never hit limitations using it.

As for PSH: use fish and don't look back. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403174 I have!!
And because of this HN thread I will now be looking into Zoho to see if it's viable for me to migrate to.
Used in that way, I hate it almost as much as people writing Micro$oft and similar. It just feels so darn childish, it makes me dismiss their opinion altogether.
Nobody has perfect opsec, and if you screw something up ONE TIME, like leave your phone's bluetooth on ONE TIME, now that super simple email address is added to the profile that these groups have on you.
Something about that turn of phrase makes me smile. Intellectual humility while making a strong statement.
Yes, macOS is a BSD - UNIX Certification and POSIX compliance is nice, but macOS does not behave the same way as Linux, which famously is not a Unix (it's even in the name), and POSIX compliance doesn't mean much today: even Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 were POSIX compliant with SFU.

From what I gather from people with far more experience than me: if you need a "Linux-compliant" environment you're better-off with WSL2 than macOS.
I admittedly rolled my eyes at the WP link. To atone for this, I’ve copy and pasted the relevant references from that line in the History section:

[1] Baldassari, Erin; Solomon, Molly (October 5, 2020). "The Racist History of Single-Family Home Zoning". NPR. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201114004918/https://www.kqed....

[3] Hansen, Louis (March 1, 2021). "Is this the end of single-family zoning in the Bay Area? San Jose, Berkeley, other cities consider sweeping changes". San Jose Mercury News.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/01/is-this-the-end-of-si...

[4] Ruggiero, Angela (February 24, 2021). "Berkeley to end single-family residential zoning, citing racist ties". San Jose Mercury News.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/24/berkeley-to-end-singl...

[5] Yelimeli, Supriya (February 24, 2021). "Berkeley denounces racist history of single-family zoning, begins 2-year process to change general plan - Council unanimously approved a resolution that will work toward banning single-family zoning". Berkeleyside.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210301140957/https://www.berke...

[8] Baldassari, Erin (March 13, 2021). "Facing Housing Crunch, California Cities Rethink Single-Family Neighborhoods". NPR. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210331194917/https://www.npr.o...
We have a pretty low rate of disappearing people, compared to China, Russia, etc. which might explain the prison situation.
_the_ oil company.
So I, a perfectly adequately fit of mind and body individual, should give up my constitutional rights because some people can't control themselves?
Sydney and the Bard
The news headlines coming out are also interesting. 'Tesla Recalls' vs 'Tesla Voluntary Recalls' are technically both true, however the former is a much more popular headline while being less precise.
Seems like just a swear word is enough.
> The builder’s remedy says that noncompliant cities must allow housing at any density and any height, anywhere in the city, as long as at least 20% of the new homes are affordable.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/builde...

For most places in the Bay Area, is there an existing affordability percentage requirement? How much of an increase is this? I'm not a development/construction insider, but a quick search pulls up a claim that builders often are in the range of 10-20% gross profit. Does a 20% affordable unit requirement swing a normal project to being unprofitable, even if cities can't block it for zoning reasons?

https://buildbook.co/blog/home-builders-profit-margin
The bombardment had a funny effect, though: instead of outraged, most of the audience is just desensitized to unchecked bias, fake news, twisted citations and the like. It becomes case of "believing this lie until someone i like with more viewers says a different lie".

Feels very demoralizing.
Could you describe odd? Looks fine on our unit tests (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) on Mac/Ubuntu/Windows.
Did CIA Director William Casey really say, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"?

https://www.quora.com/Did-CIA-Director-William-Casey-really-...
Right - but that part of residential zoning still stays, right?

It's just that you can build a duplex on a "single-family residential lot".

But you still can't teach piano lessons out of your house without one of your neighbors constantly calling the city and complaining about how you're causing traffic problems, right?

And you definitely can't wash other people's clothes or dishes in your house, right??
> reducing the number of cars on the road seem to be the best solution.

No actually its actually not. Less concession in a system that depends on concession for safety will lead to more accident not less.

That is what was shown during Covid, less driving, but accidents per mile went up.

So yes, of course public transport, bikes are great, but if you don't fix the underlying problem in the road system, you are gone have a whole lot of accidents.

> But hey, Elon’s hyper loop was a publicity stunt to discourage investment in that.

This is a claim some guy has made, not the truth. What is more likely is that Musk actually thinks Hyperloop is great (its his idea after all) and would have wanted investment in it.

> shit on Elon

I prefer not to shit on people most of the time.

Musk is the outcome of a South Africa/American way of thought that is more in line with the US avg then most people who advocate for public transport. That is the sad reality.

And the problem in the US road system or the US bad public transport can 100% not be blamed on him. There are many people with far more responsibility that deserve to be shit on far more.
> Half of what I do at work is point out to engineers when they have coupled independent concerns that are not actually coupled.

Honestly, this is kind of an applicable point to raise about New Bing in general.

Some of the fundamentally hard problems around LLMs feel like they exist because we're trying to couple everything to the AI. Facebook is trying to teach their system how to make API calls, Microsoft is also blue-skying about Bing's AI being able to set calendar appointments. Well congrats, now prompt injection actually matters, and it's an extremely difficult problem to solve if it's solveable at all.

Does the LLM need to do literally everything? Could it interpret input and then have that input sent to a (specifically non-AI) sanitizer and then manipulated using normal algorithms that can be debugged and tested? There are scenarios that GPT is brilliant at, and it seems like the response to that has been to mash everything together and say "the LLM will be all the systems now." But the LLM isn't good at all the systems, it's good at a very limited subset of systems.

This was my contention when Bing AI was first announced: even if it's perfect, having a conversation in paragraph form is very often not at all what I want from a search engine. To me, those are orthogonal tasks; they're not connected. I really don't want an AI or a human giving me an answer and a couple of sources, I don't want the information summarized at all. To me, asking a question and searching for information are two separate user actions, and it's not clear to me why they're being coupled together.

"But you could do X/Y/whatever, you could ask it simple questions, you could ask it to summarize."

Okay, that's fine. But... does that need to be coupled to search? You could do all of that anyway. You could do a normal search and then you could separately go to the AI and ask it to summarize something. Similarly, great, Bing AI will theoretically be able to schedule a calendar appointment in the future. Is that a thing that needed to be done through an LLM specifically? Couldn't there have been some level of separation between them so that the LLM going off-script is less of a critical problem to solve?