skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most valuable thing here is the renormalization on multiply, but even that's not actually much.

Take the Analog Devices Blackfin range, if you want fixed point, which you're welcome to, they want you to use 1.15, so that's a 16-bit two's complement value between -32768/32768 and +32767/32768. Additions and subtractions are the same as integer maths, we're adding fractions but the adder doesn't care.

For the multiply, we're doing the same operation, 16-bit x 16-bit = 32-bit, but we can shift away the left bit and then snap off the bottom 16-bits to get another 1.15 fixed point value.

If you want this sort of fixed point type, lack of "hardware support" is not what's holding you back, nothing remotely modern would struggle to perform that shift operation on general purpose hardware.
The 'revelation' that's already debunked?
They must be using injectors, of course. No need for factories.

I more surprised by the absence of XXXManager, XXXStore, XXXProvider, and also AbstractXXX, not to mention XXXStoreProvider and XXXStoreManager, and maybe DefaultXXXManager too (which is the default implementation of XXXManager (which is an interface), and also the only implementation of XXXManager that will ever exist by virtue of XXXManager being incredibly specific anyway).
‘Compostable’ plastics no longer able to be composted in Boulder
Guess I should have read the entire article. Read first few paragraphs and thought it was talking about real humans. "Leadership Characteristics" and mirroring behaviors and such. Seems like simple computer models would be inaccurate, and this was some new insight on studying real humans.
I had to go to one to return a package. I couldn't get past the turnstiles because I don't use the app and don't know my password because I use a password manager. This meant I couldn't hand my parcel in at the counter.

The woman on the turnstile wouldn't let me in even when I explained the situation. So she went off and got a scanner to take my package. She didn't offer a receipt, and when I asked for one said it wasn't possible to give me one. I checked my email, and nothing there either. So I had no evidence I'd actually returned my item and she just said something like "It's in the system and never makes a mistake" or some similar rubbish.

While I was in there I saw several people walk just inside, faff around on their phones for 5 minutes then either give up or eventually get past the turnstiles. There's literally no benefit for customers unless you're shopping at busy times.

So all in all an unmitigated disaster.
Sounds like a cybersecurity and compliance nightmare.
Java and .NET are typically JIT compiled, so you'd need to use something like jitwatch (for JVM) to get the actual generated assembly for any such methods.

Analyzing the bytecode can give some insight into how the compiler is likely to treat the code (inlining, intrisics, etc.), of course, so it's not useless, just not the whole story.

And, as you mention, JVM (and .NET) languages can also be AOT compiled. In those cases you could use more standard analysis similar to that in the OP.
Do you mean education as in actually education? Then the cost has fallen to basically nothing. Or do you mean education as in credentialing, which is the way most people use the word? In that case it hasn't because, as the value of a credential rests entirely on other people not having it, it is in the interest of schools to restrict the supply.
It'll be painful for the entire world including US citizens which elect future presidents.
Thanks for sharing it! I'm using their "Always Free" tier to host an Ampere-accelerated GPT-J chatbot right now. Works like a charm, and best of all, it's free!
Be sure to check out the old Mind Candy DVDs, they did a phenomenal job capturing demos to DVD and a blu-ray: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
There is a substantial difference between being forced to block some sites, and choosing to block some. You know this, it's not disingenuous in the slightest.

Especially when this sets precedent and others will have to follow suit. I can choose not to use Quad9 if I don't like who they choose to block/what filters they use. That stops being a possibility when all DNS providers are forced to block anything that could be viewed as copyright infringement.
Were React Hooks a Mistake?
You don't need to register to read the guardian
I think these were some of the first, smaller stores from Amazon Go and probably very expensive to operate. It makes sense the the larger stores with newer hardware would be better financially.
The anecdote is almost certainly made up nonsense. Grocery stores are incredibly low-margin businesses.
Kinda funny how many people -- especially "curious" HN users -- will gladly write a comment wondering why anyone would use stablecoins rather than regular dollars, despite the ease of googling the answer or searching HN, and despite the litany of over-clever users asking the exact same question over the past three years.[A]

1) Stablecoins can interface with smartcontracts and the crypto blockchains, regular dollars can't.

2) More smartcontracts use Tether as their stablecoin than others.

... for the 1000th time.

It's almost like y'all don't want an answer, but just to sound clever and "above all of this".

[A] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Are you in the UK by any chance? Sounds just like my old commute before I started working from home, and my partner’s current one
A conservationist once told me that if I could just do one simple thing to help the planet, it would be to avoid buying bottled water whenever possible.
Pentagon Sees Giant Cargo Cranes as Possible Chinese Spying Tools
We are in the 4 Petaflops on a single card age currently, my friend: https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/nvidia-tensor...

It is quite insane. Now, getting to use all of them is difficult, but certainly possible with some clever planning. Hopefully as the tech matures we'll see higher and higher utilization rates (I think we're moving as fast as we were in the 90's in some ways, but some parts of how big the industry is hides the absolutely insane rate of progress. Also, scale, I suppose).

I remember George Hotz nearly falling out of his chair for example at a project that was running some deep learning computations at 50% peak GPU efficiency (i.e. used flops vs possible flops) (locally, one GPU, with some other interesting constraints). I hadn't personally realized how hard that is apparently to hit, for some things, though I guess it makes sense as there are few efficient applications that _also_ use every single available computing unit on a GPU.

And FP8 should be very usable too in the right circumstances. I myself am very much looking forward to using it at some point in the future once proper support gets released for it. :)))) :3 :3 :3 :))))
Awesome, is this basically the "what should I buy for running Linux on it" list?
I don't have any solutions, unfortunately. I have written some thoughts here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3438

But I feel like we need a new model of economics to get the incentives right. Zero marginal cost goods are a new thing.
I’m not familiar with Payphone. Was it free to use or were the machines coin operated?
What can’t the EU just attack Google itself and for the 4% fine?

See, I get that it’s companies who shouldn’t put GA on their website, but it’s not a practically navigable response:

- As a startup,

- All marketing agencies start with nonchalantly setting up GA,

- All marketing agencies know nothing else and deny that GA is illegal. Even if I know better, GA is THE standard.

So, EU can attack every single company in Europe, as the data controller, and enforce law as it technically is, but that still doesn’t provide consumer protection. And in the end, it’s Google who’s sending the data to the US. Why can’t Google be attacked, not on behalf of being a data processor or data controller, but on the very initial crime of sending data to the US without permission?
You sound very anti-American.
There is no "back then". We still do slavery in the USA. Not only that, but the 13th amendment expressly provides an allowance for slavery to continue:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Removing the "get 12 angry white men to say guilty to enslave a human" would be a good start to reversing the historical wrongs this country continues to propagate.

And before the "Wellakshuallys": chattel slavery is illegal. Now it's just gatekept by a jury. And with extreme police harassment towards black people, along with black communities significantly in worse poverty, means that they are the primary target towards prison-slavery. And it's effectively the same result as chattel, but with a legal nod.

Edit: And here comes the -1's for citing facts.
Exactly. But now we are drowning in overhead
Thinking by Orders-of-Magnitude
Are you saying Hong Kong can't produce more vaccine than its own population? I mean, the US produced enough for 20x it's population.
You could also look at https://imitate.email

Similar idea to mailtrap but has a web widget so that you can embed it in the projects you’re building, improving the UX for devs and testers.

(Disclaimer: It’s mine!)
In some types a lithotrity machine can do wonders. Is basically being bombed with ultrasounds while taking a long bath, so could even be doable to DIY at home if you have some maker skills and for some reason can't go to a doctor.

The main concern should be to take serious care of not being electrocuted, put the speaker far and out of the water, protect your ears and assure that everything is well isolated. Using a 12 volt car battery as source of power could add a lot of safety.

Read a book for some time and then urinate into a piece of cloth in a strainer to see if it collects some sand. Rinse and repeat after some resting days for several weeks.

Or you can go to a discotheque
In typical stores (e.g. Walmart, Target, etc), most of those cameras housings don't contain cameras.

The main issue isn't that cameras are expensive, it is that monitoring that many cameras is expensive/impractical, and automated theft detection systems are still in their infancy. So they just target high value/common areas, and rely on deterrents (like people believing they have a lot of cameras, off-duty cops at the door, and PR around some super secret new technology).

Quite seriously: Stores really need to look into vending machines for certain items. In particular with how advanced Gift Card Theft-Clone-Return Activation fraud is. Thieves have message-boards not dissimilar to this where they can share "pro-tips," and things have become quite sophisticated.
Do you wanna write a blog post? Kicking off a blog-posting culture (2022)
What’s the name of design principle: “If you can’t name it, it shouldn’t exist”?
For screensharing it gives a certain peace of my mind having the call in the peripheral vision. But it's still worse to turn your head than switching workspaces.
Well, Microsoft kind of deceived sgi during Fahrenheit
“Intellectual property” is a catch-all for copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secrets. There isn’t really law that protects IP as a general concept, just those four.
fast is important, too

For instance, 1:30-2h by car takes 3h train + 1h cycling for me when the trains are on time.
"Poor test taker", without fail, is a bs excuse for people who are lesser academically talented but cannot bear to admit it. With a couple of exceptions that I list at the end.

Doing well on these tests is absolutely as important as all of the other ways that these candidates are amazing.

It is as irrational to highlight amazing performance in other areas while discounting sub-par performance in standardized testing. Just as much as it would be the inverse.

These tests lend insight into, and serve to balance, the "amazing" or "underperforming" metrics in these other areas that may be in fact be more a measure of the relative quality or relative competition within these other areas.

In my opinion, the only two factors that are likely to truly affect test scores beyond innate / developed talent are: time management and the timeline of natural cognitive development.

If time management is an issue, then it will be an issue in college as well. If it is an issue because of uncontrollable factors, then the student should seek help to have other arrangements made that will enable them to eventually do well on the test.

Some people truly don't cognitively bloom until their early to mid twenties. One indication of this might be signs of talent with underperforming grades. Other strategies are more appropriate than having them flounder at an elite University at eighteen years old.
OK, what percentage cocoa solids and milk solids do you think Toblerone should have? Because they're already at 28% and 14% respectively. Which seems like plenty, they're not skimping.

For comparison, for example, Cailler is 28% and 20% respectively, which is a little bit more milk but that's all. [1]

Toblerone doesn't seem like "cheap chocolate". It's just slightly less milky than another premium brand, and has other ingredients like almonds and honey.

[1] https://swissmade.direct/shop/swiss-food-and-drink/chocolate...
Even if I am of the same type: boosted macbook pro with ssd and memory beyond what is officially supported, I think integration of almost everything on one board skipping connectors, sockets, is more cost effective and more "green" overall.

Dies of silicons are packaged, socketed, etc instead every part of silicon will get closer in a package and will handle everything.

Faster, cheaper, more energy efficient.
There’s a thin line between “puffery” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery) and deceit. Your example strikes me as crossing the line.
To stock more than 20 products?
What could realistically happen if Quad9 just ignores this?

If I am not mistaking you are based in Switzerland, while Sony sued in Germany. For me the legal system is honestly a little bit of a mystery when multiple countries are involved, and it is hard to follow due to how many different rules can apply.
Where are they from?
Who wears it best? Midjourney reimagines all US presidents with mullets
What a shame that world didn't realize. Maybe in the next fourth years.
This may or may not be helpful depending on your business/user-base but one option would be to have a different URL for your site that customers can opt-in to beta-test early features, changes, etc... Give them some perk for doing this. Some free thing(s), extra features, etc... On that beta/release-candidate URL require their accounts flagged by the end-user to have double-opted-in to advanced analytics. Some people love to try out new features early. In the event a change breaks something ensure those that opted in can still go back to the main URL of your site.

Tell your legal team you want the opt-in legal language to be easily readable and understandable by the average person and make the font big so nobody can say there was fine print.

Advantages:

- People that opt-in to such things are far less likely to make a stink when something breaks. Again, reward them for finding bugs even if its something trivial. Maybe even set up a private community forum for these people to discuss the bugs they find.

- These people will also go out of their way to find bugs for you. Real-world traffic meets a free Quality Assurance team.

- Your Beta/RC URL can be excluded from any service level agreements in an updated AUP/ToS. Finance people like such risk mitigations.

Disadvantages:

- More work and cost up front to set this all up even if it pays for itself in the long run.

- Requires a bit of humility and discipline to openly share your errors with a handful of your user base.
> Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR.

yes, websites do this. they block EU users because of GDPR. in some regards GDPR managed to create another internet split.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

> The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.[2] 451 provides more information than HTTP 403, which is often used for the same purpose.[3] This status code is currently a proposed standard in RFC 7725 but is not yet formally a part of HTTP, as of RFC 9110.

> Examples of situations where an HTTP 451 error code could be displayed include web pages deemed a danger to national security, or web pages deemed to violate copyright, privacy, blasphemy laws, or any other law or court order.
> regulation will be the major inhibitor to how far it goes.

This likely won't be true if China also has the technology. Regulation would give serious disadvantage to western countries while China keep improving their AI without giving two fucks about copyright of western content. The choice will be either to let China take all the software engineering, writing, creative etc. jobs, or to deregulate to not cripple the country.
SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain
I've always wondered: Do we really need to put people in shops?

We have had vending machines for centuries, most kinds of shops (that don't need a social aspect) could easily just be sealed warehouses with product dispensers dotted outside the walls.
It looks like something you could actually write, and it would work passably.

This makes me think browsers are a fine example of Gall's Law
Nice yes, but...

Part of the reason why the 49€ ticket is that cheap (compared to a lot of other monthy more limited local tickets) is because you commit to it for a month.

This ticket is meant to make abandoning cars easier for Germans and be also a nice pressure reduction for some of the people hit hardest by inflation (low income, can't afford a car anyway(1), but not (nearly) no income in which case the state pays your ticker anyway (oversimplified)).

Providing a hour, day or week ticket would defeat that purpose. It's explicitly not meant to reduce cost for people which have a car and just from time to time buy a ticker or tourists (through it's still grate for tourists which tour multiple cities in Germany if they stay ~2 weeks even through they "lose" 2 weeks).
"As a reference, in the West, child births exploded in COVID."

Did they really? Looks to me like they've remained static at extremely low levels. The decline since 2009 has been arrested, but that actually happened around 2018, and they haven't really recovered even to replacement rate.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/fer...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/fertility-...
https://rpilocator.com

Seems like >30 EUR

If the original Raspberry Pi isn't available, the various "alternatives" still exist: for example OrangePi.
>I generally thought it was best practice to always update to the latest patch release. I mean, that's what `apt` is doing for the system-installed version.

Well, if it's publicly accessible, yes. Though even there you don't just "update to the latest patch release" you need to check it first (at least with your test suite), it might break your functionality and even introduce security issues due to that, regardless of what the upstream "semantic" versioning implies.
I have the beta cds here.. Fahrenheit / XSG. One disk died though
I would bet my net worth that Pascal was a dork.
Thanks for the chuckle :D And of course you use nixos :]
Dunno. IBM has solid isolation at the hardware level on their P-series frames. It can be yours for more money than non-bigCorp entities would even joke about spending on hardware to back their project.

The attempts to emulate their success in consumer systems is laudable but, at the same time, laughable. VTx came on the scene as the Solution, but it's riding on the same silicon as the parts that need to be protected.

Cgroups targeted job isolation to help resolve binpacking vs dependency stacks vs unhelpful (in this context) dynamic linking conundrums. Docker came on the scene with all of its dev-experience cheer leading.

(royal) We know how to solve the problem. We just will never fork over the kind of money that makes having the solution currently requires.

Use the tools that are available to do the job in front of you. There efforts to bubble up redhat's pod an ecosystem (point being they don't require root privs to run) but its interface still feels like configuring middleware.
Mondelez wants to stay on good terms with the Swiss government.
This is a heartwarming story that's given me a lot to think about.
> That's not enough if

Oh, it's enough. If a server is in your jurisdiction, you just mandate that there is to be no foreign access to any data concerning your citizens. Just like that.

The international network we know and love will one day be fractured into many regional networks as governments seek to impose their laws on it. This is inevitable.
Choosing an escape key for screen and tmux (2020)
Precision, aiming those names refer to standard binary numeric types. IEEE754 16-bit floats carry 11 significant digits with absolute precision so by coverting to 8-bit integers you lose some of that. Depending on the distribution of the values in those floats you could be loosing a lot more detail then this would imply, which is the reason we use floating point numbers for anything in the first place (rather than using an int16 where you have greater precision at you maximum scale but much less at lower scales).

So if the model is computed using float16s, distribute as-is and let the end user choose to user it like that or compromise for faster processing of there system can deal with many billions of int8s more effectively.
> But back then it seemed like a distant and improbable scenario

I am trying to understand this perspective. I was there and nothing seemed improbable or remote. The remoteness was merely a function of technical & economic conditions. Historic precedents, domestic and foreign, past or near present, all pointed the same direction, underlining high probabilities.

Pessimism is rarely the correct inclination, with the exception of questions concerning freedom, power, security, and control. It is appropriately rational to question and highlight worst case outcomes in such cases.

This same pattern is happening yet again ('surprise!') with generative AI. Maybe it is necessary to assure that 'yes, this technology is very cool' as red flags are raised.

It is a very simple thought, backed by unassailable historic evidence: Humans enjoy lording it over other human beings. We should never create systems that permit a tiny tiny subset to realize such base desires. A very simple idea, truly.
I hesitate to say this because I'm certainly not in favour of crushing any democracy movements. But it is hard not to think that a different alternate timeline could resemble what has happened in Russia after Gorbachev did not crush the democracy movement.
Oh I agree, true strong AI that's actually beyond human cognitive capabilities, will by definition be beyond human control. You can't control something that is comprehensively beyond your own limitations, in the long term anyway. That's why the alignment problem in AI is an existential issue for us.