skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a matter of Linux or BSD "winning" in the 90s. It wasn't the kernel and base system that was super important but what you could run it on and what you could run on it. A Free Unix(like) was an important base component but went hand in hand with FOSS software running on top.

With the likes of Apache and Samba PCs running Linux (or a BSD) could replace many thousands of dollars in software licenses for server products for zero licensing dollars. It didn't really matter if the base OS was a BSD or Linux, as long as the services ran on top on relatively inexpensive hardware it was a massive win for a lot of organizations.
Akamai beefs up cloud storage offering with acquisition
How realistic is whole-home Thunderbolt for lighting and smaller appliances?
could this be used for 3D-printing?
As long it is technically solid, ugly is just fine in places where Java is used most. Even if it were most lovely syntax Python/JS devs are not gonna jump to code in Java.
And what's interesting, if the SCO lawsuit had gone any other way, Windows NT would probably have ended up completely dominating. Linux wouldn't be here and probably neither would SCO Linux either. What a dire state that would be.
Context matters here I think. Historically "the deaf community" was used to refer to people who used sign language to communicate and did not include people who didn't. It is possible to be deaf, and not part of the deaf community in this context if one is not a signer.
I can put an airtag in my suitcase and track it all over the world but railroad operators can't pit bearing temperature sensors on their tank cars full of methlamine?
Identity politics has been the bedrock of American politics since before the Mayflower Pilgrims[1] landed at Plymouth rock, and hasn't ever stopped for even a day. Any claims of recency says a lot about the speaker rather than reality.

1. That they were "pilgrims" is enough evidence. All the jey moments in American history are underpinned by "identity politics": the the 13 colonies, manifest destiny, expansinf west, the declaration of independence, slavery, civil war, reconstruction - all of it.
The UK wants to diverge from the GDPR:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/new-uk-governm...

It's one of the things that came up relatively early.

> The banners are not required at all

Yet every site disagrees with you.
Texas Is Trying to Scrub Abortion from Its Internet
I love the dedication! But I use my personal desktop for all sorts of personal/creative pursuits as well as gaming, which makes it harder to have just eschew the desk completely. Having separate machines helps somewhat, but then if I start on one, I tend not to switch to the other when it's time to switch
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...

> There is some truth to this insistence. But it is mostly disingenuous. The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule.

Forming the United States also took a lot of compromise. If nobody was willing to budge on these archaic issues we wouldn't be here today. It doesn't change the vision that all men are created equal and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Nope. There's no warning for bool->int conversion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28716391/gcc-forbid-impl...
> TypeScript->WASM

You could just use this project in a build pipeline:

1. Write TypeScript until compiler shows no errors
2a. Compile TypeScript
2b. Just strip out TypeScript types
3. Compile JavaScript to WASM

It would be a one-time change to your build config.
Well in their defense it appears a good percentage of the databases have been / are being restored

> March 3, 1:20am ET - We have restored a total of 388 indexes out of 515 that were deleted. We are continuing work to recover additional indexes and will share more updates here.
This guy the continuation of Nicholas Cage's character in Raising Arizona... After the movie ends he gets seriously into 3d printing and crazy inventions.
I experience my digestive processes as anxiety.

There's no reason for it, but for whatever reason it triggers anxiety.

I can't explain beyond that, and I'm very familiar with my own conscious anxieties and triggers outside this.

It just is that.
I mentioned it in a different comment, but my biggest reservation is that the difference between "Distorting the system" and "Improving the system" is more often than not in the eye of the beholder, and most metrics will incentivize a mixed bag of "good" behavior and "distorting" behavior.
I picture sliders like on an audio mixing desk haha. Always good to see you're not (the only one who is) crazy!
How I've Used ChatGPT and Midjourney
I bought a house in DC in 2006 and my home's value never really fell, it just went flat for a year or two. Very different from the overheated markets like Las Vegas that lost 30%+ and took years to recover. There were a lot of foreclosures in my neighborhood in 07/08, but that didn't crash prices, it just boosted the volume of sales.
Seven ways Russia’s war on Ukraine has changed the world
> There is no reason Emacs couldn't be the number one editor right now.

There is a simple reason for it not to be number one: The developers and users do not care for it to be.

I certainly don't. As long as Emacs has hit critical mass (which it trivially has), it is good enough for me.

The number one selling car is Toyota. You wouldn't go and say Porsche is an inferior product because they are not the number one selling car.
I listened to it and I want that hour of my life back...
How about giving him a punch in the face? Someone steals my car and I catch them for sure they are ain't getting a unicorn!
I don't know, they sound exactly like the real thing to me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-f7uBd8Gc
Canadian Tire doesn't have almost any clothing and it does have tools. It's definitely not as home-focussed as Sears. I mean I think Home Hardware competes more directly with Home Depot, but I'd say that Canadian Tire is the mid-point between Sears and Home Depot.
Nope, code was clean with -Wall on arm-9 compiler (i.e. gcc).

Interesting thought now you say that (no warning) - only found it because of seeing the pattern (apropos the article) and from that having a good idea what was causing it (knowing the int was assembled a byte at a time).

If I had a criticism of modern compilers, it's the blizzard of uninteresting warnings ("strncmp takes const char star, did you really mean to pass it unsigned char star") that make people want to not use -Wall.
This is wrong:

ChatGPT has an impressive set of capabilities, but it’s really simply a
massive database with an interface that effectively mimics human
communications. Think of it as a hyper-powered intranet.

It's not a database at all in that it doesn't contain facts, but rather it is a collection of statistics about language that can always make up something to say and sometimes gets things factually right.

There is a lot of research on systems that use similar technology that also use ideas from information retrieval. For instance, instead of making up answers off the cuff, it could go look up some sources in a search engine, match them against the query, then summarize them. See

https://sbert.net/
That's what numba [0] is for (can also help with the NumPy stuff in certain cases.)

[0] https://numba.pydata.org/
One thing to consider is that the compiler can't simply replace a division by just a right shift for signed variables (it will round towards -inf for negative numbers), so even today there's a tiny bit of benefit of explicitly using shifts if you know that the number can't be negative (and the compiler can't prove it) or you don't care about the rounding (https://godbolt.org/z/vTzYYxqz9).

Of course that tiny bit of extra work is usually negligible, but might explain why the idiom has stuck around longer than you might otherwise expect.
Can't disagree but The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR wasn't exactly driven by profit motive and we still got Chernobyl.
Wall-E humans are going to be reality. That last century has already proven that humans cannot be expected to responsibly indulge in Gluttony, Sloth or Lust. Now these models can skip the material desires and trigger permanent hormone releases through perfectly personalized content.

I genuinely fear that the breakdown of millennia old social structures that kept us human might lead to a temporary (century long) turmoil for individuals. The answers to the 'meaning of life' and 'what makes us human' are going to change. And we will never be the same again.

This isn't just about AI. External wombs, autonomous robots, genetic editing & widespread plastic surgery each fundamentally destroy individual aspects of 'what makes us human' or 'the meaning of life'.

Might be for the best. But such drastic change is really hard for the fragile human brain to process.
If people are serious about rooting out people who lie or cheat to appear on-target (beneath them in the management chain) they need employ anonymous whistleblowing straight up to them.

But I think many people in charge see the corruptness of the people below them as "headaches to deal with" and "if it's not squeaking it must be working" which I think is exactly backwards (it's the "if it compiles it's working" approach to management).
> Does anyone have good advice for those living inside the hard problem?

Keep speaking up. Make the problem evident, on an ongoing basis. Mention possibly solutions or alternatives when you think of them. People may not like complainers, but they'd probably have a more difficult time dismissing a sincere person who wants to make things better.

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With respect to education one of the main points of credentials is prestige (https://www.science20.com/quantum_gravity/blog/phd_octopus_w... ), from the point of view of the hirer. Particular demonstrable skills are also another point, but from the other end, from the education institute. Even in the case when the hirer is also an educational institute, the people in control of one set of reasons for choosing the measuring stick are not the ones in control of the other set of reasons.

Prestige requires a measuring stick, and the point of that measuring stick is exclusivity and marketing power. Neither of which particularly require a skill.

Basically fighting back against Goodhart's law is so difficult because no particular person or group has total control over all of the incentives for using a particular measure.

If people were more honest with themselves about why they are using a particular measuring stick then maybe we could tackle Goodhart's law.

Are you hiring Ph.D.s because on average they are more capable to the demands of the job (Extremal Goodhart)? Because you also have a Ph.D. and so identify with Ph.D. holders (affinity pseudo-Goodhart [my own creation])? Because you also have a Ph.D. and know a whole ton of Ph.D. holders who have difficulty getting good paying jobs (a form of Causal Goodhart, probably)? Because you have too many decent resumes to sort through (Regressive Goodhart)?

But they either aren't honest, or have too many differing goals for the use of a measure to justify to themselves minimizing the measure.
Well you could buy it but it is for 220v so... no use in US anyways
I used to do this with Apache Drill a few years ago. There is something beautiful about downloading 1 binary and being able to query your files (json/csv/parquet etc) right away
Articles like this make me happy the distribution I chose was Linux Mint, and nearly everything worked without me having to learn a bunch of things.

(My changes included installing KDE Plasma 5, and maybe trying a few different login managers, i.e. gddm3/lightdm. Not much else!)

Of course, if you like learning how to customize and tinker, then these kinds of distributions probably make a whole lot more sense to you!
When I over trained and under ate, it caused such existential doom ... words can't explain.
If I were teaching someone Python, or pretty much any programming language, the first place I would start is the debugger. I would have them write a program as simple as this:

x = 1
print(x)
y = 2
print(x, y)

And then instead of just running it, I'd have them step through the code, line by line, and observe both the console output and the debugger variable display.

Some developers seem to think that using a debugger is a sign of weakness, or that it leads you to write bad code. I see it differently: the debugger is one of the best tools not only for debugging, but also to help you understand a complex codebase that you are jumping into.
breathwork and meditation is very powerful
It's also very googleable which means when you casually drop it into conversation they can just look it up without you having to explain it.
If it's tabular, self-describing formats have way too much overhead. I ran a query with a tabular result in the neighborhood of 100 columns by 215k rows, and exported it in multiple formats:

- CSV: 166mb
- JSON: 795mb

That said, not all data is tabular.

DuckDB already supports Parquet, which supports structs and is a very good format for storing data for reporting workloads. But JSON is a standard interchange format, so a lot of people are going to want to do something with JSON payloads they receive from API calls.

I could definitely imagine a workload where you receive JSON from an API call, load it into DuckDB or similar to help with ETL, then store results in Parquet.
BRB, grabbing a hammer.
I unfortunately had a less than stellar experience with Render.

The actual services worked great, but their pricing changes at short notice left me in an awkward spot that made me not trust Render going forwards.

tl;dr is that they introduced a charge of an additional $20/mo per person on top of compute. Even if it's just to maintain billing info.

This may be trivial if you're a business spending hundreds or thousands on compute every month, but for bootstrappers, hobbyists and freelancers this is horrible. A $7 instance easily becomes $67/m if a couple of other people need access.

I had just moved a bunch of services over from Heroku when this price change was announced, and it was a very sore experience. Poorly communicated with very short notice.

Jumped ship again to DigitalOcean, which has a near identical product but without the wonky pricing.

More discussion: https://community.render.com/t/pricing-update-nov-2022-reque...
I don't know how it would work with the account currently being hacked, but this is what the verified paid offering that is rolling out should help with. Have you reached out through that channel? Is there one? (Not a user of their products, just keep abreast of the news where it was announced.) Sorry I can't be more helpful, sounds like a really big hassle.
> My claim is that the current system seems more than sufficient to reset any mistaken expectations due to marketing. You don't seem to disagree, so I rest my case.

I do disagree, I just don't know the solution, this not being my job nor my field.

As for the first part of your message, if you cannot see a gigantic differences between a matter of minutes, and just a few seconds, when talking about emergencies and the need to figure out what's happening to react in one or two seconds, then this is not a productive conversation.
If something can go out of spec 99 times out of 100 and nothing "bad" happens, you may not want a thing that makes you stop when it's out of spec.

It's not a good look, but that's often why it is done.

Same reason that militaries have strict non wartime limits on lots of their equipment, they know it can run past the norm but they also know there are risks involved, and you don't want to risk it until it's necessary.
I would like to add that you are not just "turning the handlebars" - you need to apply a lot of force to get the forward action to take place.

Pumping is fun skill, easy to get the hang of with a little dedicated practice, and a prerequisite for BMX racing or any advanced MTB riding. Its also extremely inefficient for forward motion. You don't see any TDF guys using pump motion unless they're saving a crash.
It's funny too because the Scala ecosystem has had safe string interpolation for years. e.g. with Slick sql"SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = $lastName" will produce a parameterized query/prepared statement that you can run, and it does this at compile time so runtime injection like log4shell is impossible.
Same happens whenever it dips too, and if it stops completely you get a feeling of "impending doom" (infinite anxiety haha). For example using adenosine to turn the heart off and on again if it's acting wonky.

Maybe just messing with the heart causes anxiety lol. Brain there like "wait, I didn't tell you to do that.. red alert!"
Hehe. The linguist has identified a distinction. Whatever works for you: maybe some stimulation, maybe some relaxation. :)

We calm it and maybe it isn't active. We stimulate it and then it's relaxing us. I see what you're saying.

Is there another side to it? Isn't calm and soothed a form of stimulation? An active, easy coherence?

Maybe we don't want to be over-stimulated. Stimulated in the right way creates coherence, in the wrong way, chaos. We can be calm--and active. Or we can be stimulated--and uneasy.

You don't have to worry that it won't be stimulated in the right way when it's calmed and soothed: it will be. And that's what you want.

So, I don't think you can go wrong with a calm and soothed parasympathetic nervous system. That's the way to go. For me, soothes and calms is coherence. And that's good for your body, and good for you, it's what you'll feel when you do yoga.
There's a question of motivation.

A public service ought to be motivated to deliver a good service. It won't be motivated by taking shortcuts. A private company seeks profit and cannot afford to lose money, contrary to a public service which can be not profitable. Offering a good service it a means to be profitable but that's not the end goal, even if many people actually want to do good work.

Of course there's a big if. IF the government throws enough money at it.

This IF is unfortunately too often "IF only". If not, we are back to shortcuts.
So this is like mind reading?
Thanks for the tip. I tried this on the 7B parameter model and got an error.

$ fickling --check-safety consolidated.00.pth

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pickletools.py", line 359, in read_stringnl
data = codecs.escape_decode(data)[0].decode("ascii")

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 63: ordinal not in range(128)
Good find, when I read it I called bullshit but I got lost trying to understand the diagrams.
Another gotcha is the semantic decoder, they are just looping the model on itself "A cozy teddy bear" + fMRI random input => A teddy bear!!!
No turn signal!
I think only good thoughts so I'm not worried. Plus anyone with control of this technology is sure to have our best interests in mind.
My understanding is that we won’t get a “mind reader” model out of this, because visual stimulus vs your imagination happen in separate parts of the brain. In other words we won’t be reading the minds of suspected criminals anytime soon. Maybe someone with neurology experience can chime in here? Is it even theoretically possible to see what’s happening in the imagination?
I mean in 2011, they were already able to do some basic reconstruction: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

I could imagine improvements since then,especially with advances in image networks.
Good. I don't see a need for an outside authority to define whether I'm a man or a woman. I am my own person and I can make my own decisions.

Is my gender identity invalid if I'm not someone who fits into the gender norms? Am I a woman if Customer Support thinks my voice is feminine?
So many people learn that there is subtitles through the comments section after many years of watching all his videos, probably because the videos are so enjoyable even without the explanations.
ChatGPT opines on IPv6 procastination, waxes lyrical over OpenBSD
If you don't have existing healthy networks, you're going to have to bootstrap your network. Have you brainstormed ideas about what value you can deliver to them in the conversation? Not promises of future products, but actual insight and ways of thinking about their problems that yield value to them.
And then you'd have the first court case and prison sentence for a non-human consciousness.

Which is just one step closer to the simulated hell for uploaded consciousnesses that get naughty, from Surface Detail by Ian Banks.
Plus there's a lot of highly specialized engineers required to keep all those GPUs up and running during training and the ML engineers who are skilled in deep learning + hardware, plus the systems for gathering/cleaning/labelling data. Gather enough engineers and now you need managers, PMs, etc.

At least $10 million/yr just for the talent.
Very much so. I saw that, and I was happy for a second to think that the thing clearly runs a common Linux under the hood.
I don't know if it matters but the 7B parameter checkpoint is 13.5GB in size. Someone with 24GB VRAM struggled to run it:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/issues/55
Google Project Starline
What’s wrong with the model S?
Frankly, you don’t anything about what it’s like to work with me.

But to answer more genuinely, it’s a fact that most developers have never and will never work at web scale. Also, if you have ever worked at a FAANG, you would know that a majority of the topics that are involved in these hazing loops aren’t directly used in the dad work of most developers.

Rather than focusing on me, focus on the point I was making about the deficiencies in the hiring loops of tech companies.

It’s not ego it’s the reality of working in tech.
Fantastic and long awaited feature. Little bit clunky/ugly choice of chars, but I guess we will get used to it
Mark comes to your house and applies thick layer of sunscreen all over your face.
I vaguely remember a poll about that, I think the majority didn't even know the term, then the next largest group hated it.
If you don't have a spare BMW lying around, you can print an H shifter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5pWZvCl2iY, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3881165
Anxiety is only ever created by the body. I understand the experiment, but I don't understand what this headline is supposed to mean. I think somebody is letting their liberal arts leak into their science.

External things don't cause anxiety. Anxiety often occurs as a reaction to external things. Of course anxiety might be caused by a faster heartbeat; one of the symptoms of anxiety is a faster heartbeat. You can also cause it with injections of adrenaline, or amphetamines. Lack of oxygen works, too.

Maybe this seems profound because the mice can't explain their feelings?
You'll have tiered processing, just like today. You can slum it out with limited simulation capabilities, or if you have a job you can afford the premium processor hours.
From what I hear, it's hard to reduce rents significantly as they're part of the financing arrangements with banks. Rents in general seems to be really sticky.
Now they can str working on keeping their real airplanes in the air
yeah like an example from centuries ago a world away is relevant. Situation in Syria or "democratic" Iraq is probably more illustrative of what's in store for them.
> Linux distros were still toys at that point.

I had Slackware 1.1 running in 1Q94. It had X11 and you could run Mosaic on it plus all of the shell userland. It was pretty usable.
Is it common to have calculations behind reparations?

What were the calculations for the reparations to the Japanese Americans interned during WWII?

What were the calculations for the reparations to the survivors and their descendants for the Rosewood massacre in Florida?

Or for when California set aside $7.5 million in reparations for survivors of the state's (ex-) eugenics laws?