skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They are meant to be simple booleans in code and short lived.

Simple? One "simple" boolean often doubles the number of code paths. 10 simple booleans can easily 1024x the number of code paths.

Short lived? There's nothing as permanent as a temporary measure.
I see it as the opposite in practice... I've now worked at 3 different companies (Windows/.Net shops) since WSL has been available where most dev work is actually in WSL, and deployed to Linux servers. And even grumblings about wanting to switch full dev to Linux and abandoning Windows altogether for at least dev work. Current job, the IT security guys are already dogfooding Linux...

It's an exfiltration path in practice, from what I've seen far more than an ingratiation path, despite what MS's intentions may have been. Once you get devs able to spin up a DB via Docker in under a minute vs. the desktop installs, refresh/update, etc... it's a path away from MS.
Telemetry, of any sort, is spying and evil when it is happening without the informed consent of the user. Period.

I'm heavily opposed to spying -- but even so, I do volunteer telemetry data when asked right. I'm not opposed to letting software manufacturers know about the environments the software runs in. I am opposed to them extracting that data from me without getting my consent, though, which seems to be how it's mostly done.

But the advertising industry can go pound sand. I consider them a malevolent force and want to give them as little data (or money) as possible.
German here, that name triggers PTSD. Merkel removed this clowness from domestic politics by surprise-inserting her in the European Commission. Merkel simply removed a political opponent from German domestic relevance and the rest of Europe has to suffer for it.

I am sorry. There is mostly vile hate and vitriol for her in the entire country. Her entire career was a show of the Peter Principle.
What is the aws cli stuff? I was thinking about writing a terraform agent tool.
https://archive.is/yEGqQ

This is literally the entire article:

Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao, were sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for allegedly breaking trading and derivatives rules.

The CFTC filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Chicago.
I'm in a hurry to buy a bunch of stuff before communist governments ban them so that my purchase is grandfathered in.

I guess I have to now add a Jeep Wrangler to my list.

The irony is that these extremists who claim that they want to protect the environment , they seldom leave the city. They read a bunch of numbers from meteo stations and decide that "number going up" is bad.

If they removed themselves from the screens every once in a while they'd understand that the sky is not falling and would also understand the utility that diesel boats/trucks/RVs have for those who are actually engaged in the process of enjoying the environment, for real and on location.
It's the backend of retrieval plugin basically
it's like a much more structured, and observable version of redux. observable in the sense that not only can you tell what has happened, you can also tell (and visualise) what can happen next
Looks like I can still comment on this thread. For future readers, this phenomena was mentioned in OpenAI's postmortem: https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
Gearless Magnet Bike
I feel people could circumvent political control if they banded together... Like imagine if thousands pooled money to build tiny home communities and then rent that out to people for like $140/month/family member. If you have a large family we just stack two tiny homes side-by-side.

Or imagine if a bunch of co-ops formed that built SaaS products/etc and used 100% of the money to expand the business, and build mutual aid networks and eventually buy up hospital assets like urgent cares etc... Then charged much more for insured because they can afford to pay, and gave it free to uninsured under certain income limits.

Basically a big union of worker co-ops pooling resources to build bigger and better systems that are all aligned. There may even be competitors between the co-ops but they're not competitive to the point of disrupting ecosystems and destroying the planet like unchecked corps like Dupont or something.
Interesting conclusion, but wrong nevertheless. You saw what you wanted to see.

Being a native speaker does not give you a final say in a discussion about language, that was the main point being made, with a bit of condiment.
Usually has to do w/ money. FTC eyeing new regulations I'm guessing. Doubt the "big three" will mind that much.
I believe you, but I haven't encountered anything like this in my work in a higher-level language, and this is my first push into manual memory management since I studied C in college many years ago.

Can you offer some examples of times when it has been indispensable, so that I can understand when this is useful?
Unfortunately those slides directly contradict the blog post I linked, whose thesis is basically that the installation relevant difference between GPLv2 and GPLv3 is only that GPLv3 requires the proprietary software to continue to run (for "User Products"), and GPLv3 specifically requires the keys, but that both still require that end users have the ability to run modified versions of the GPL software on the device, either by giving keys, or by offering the ability to disable secure boot, etc.

> [so], these words in GPLv3: “The information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with solely because modification has been made.” mean that the proprietary software that is not a combined work with the GPLv3'd work must also function?

> Stallman replied on 2012-05-06 with:

> Absolutely. And I wrote it specifically to do that!
What do you think about:“You don't learn software engineering at university”?
What do you think about the statement "You don't learn software engineering at university"?

Older developers have told me that:

1.Today we have very few actual senior developers

2.Reputed Universities don't teach their students software design/software engineering.

3.Modern day software is at best mediocre

What I have said above has came from old developers
Give me your honest opinion
It takes a while to understand allocations in Go. There are obvious ones like `make()` and `new()` and `append()` (though this one doesn't always allocate depending on the capacity of the thing you pass to append, I think). There are less obvious ones (if you don't have experience thinking about it) like string appending and "casting" between `string` and `[]byte`. I think it's also tricky to figure out when escape analysis goes wrong and you're accidentally heap allocating things you didn't need to.

You develop an awareness of these aspects if you do performance-sensitive code in Go. But in Zig all allocations are explicit so you can't really accidentally have allocations.

On the other hand, you have to manually manage memory in Zig. Unlike Rust, Zig has no builtin atomic reference counting. So memory management in Rust and Go are "easier" if you don't want to be aware of memory allocations. Memory management in Zig is "easier" if you need to be aware of memory allocations.

And neither Zig nor Go are as strict as Rust about ownership so it's "easier" to express internally-mutable datastructures in Zig or Go (see "Entirely Way Too Many Linked Lists" [0]). Whereas it's easier to be sure you haven't screwed up ownership in Rust compared to Zig. In Go you don't have to worry since the GC will not let ownership be a problem.

[0] https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
I've noticed when I begin to feel anxious (which for me is basically "health anxiety" that spirals) I get back into RuneScape (old school version), and it really helps get me back to a good place IRL.
Time to embrace contradiction.

Plugins do suck. But the entire recording industry uses plugins.

Both are true. Loading arbitrary blobs of 3rd party code into your plugin host is a nightmare; adding arbitrary blobs of amazing new functionality into your plugin host is amazing.
The context is friendship
Does the avg person hage at least $250,060 in the bank?

Obviously a system-wide crash would hurt, but a handful of weak regional banks failing wouldn't hurt the average person.
i did this with air disasters. i'd been terrified of flying for many years so i immersed myself in every kinds of media i could find on the topic. i found it oddly comforting (though i definitely overthink things whilst in the air at times). geeking out has helped me navigate some tense moments.
Top user on StackOverflow: unlikely I'll ever write anything there again
Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance
wait, gpt-4... that means they feed your notes to openai? whats end to end encryption and all the privacy claims good for then?
The assets aren’t “troubled” in the same way. Indeed they actually have very low default risk because they have such low rates.
Ternary Funding and Joint Tokens: A Trustless Approach to Public Goods Funding [pdf]
Not spam. This is a completely not-for-profit project that I had been working on for several years.

Unfortunately, I’m in very poor health now. Can no longer continue it. It’s posted here only as a resource for others. Take anything that you find useful from it.

Here’s also an overview from several years back:

https://ajesiroo.github.io/ternary-funding-deeper-dive
A DRAM cache generally doesn't matter for sequential transfers. A DRAM cache will most noticeably help with random reads over the whole drive (random reads from a small range of the drive can be handled well with just a few MB of SRAM on the controller).
> from what I gathered the new BluRay made the drive install some new DRM stuff or something??

IIUC, the drives authenticate the player applications by keys, and the discs include a list of blacklisted keys to update in the drive rom. But I'm surprised the PS3 player would have gotten blacklisted? Did it work again after a ps3 system update?
Yeah "discount" here means "sell less than par" not "choose to lower my price." I think we're all talking about the same thing from slightly different angles.
Building Ghostwriter Chat
OpenSPOT4 Pro: battery-powered portable radio Internet gateway
Frankly, my reason for using Rust is not memory semantics (I'd be happy for most applications with a Gc), it's the type system.

I could be writing in Haskell for an even more powerful type system, of course, (especially now that Haskell has gained linear types) but the language never took hold outside of academia.
No, sorry, I've still not been able to find it.
Are you learning ML and DL in 2023?
As this year is year of AI and they will be future mostly after GPT4 came out. So are you learning about ML and DL, and the new concepts of LLMs, transformers and RLHF or just using the tools?
The 440BX chipset supports two CPUs, so it is organised so that the northbridge is shared between the CPUs[1]. I found a datasheet[2] and from a skim and it looks like the front side bus is also shared between the CPUs.

[1] This is from the era before the memory controller / northbridge was integrated with the CPU.

[2] https://datasheet.octopart.com/FW82443BX-Intel-datasheet-533... - page 12 has the basic system diagram
I assumed it had something to do with the color and tried to find patterns. Turns out you need knowledge of the London Metro system. It would be nice if the title reflected that.
Kinda rings a bell; just don't make it a hobbit.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-26/skid-row...

It turns out that housing is not the solution for the frequent flyers. Hospitalization is. (TLDR: drug addicted and mentally ill residents trashed up many of the Skid Row Housing Trust's units and buildings, rendering them uninhabitable, ultimately leading to the organization's demise.)
Yeah totally agree with this, right now in CA we say "the homeless" as one homogenous group. The reality is there are a bunch who could probably get back on their feet for just a few a thousand dollars. There are others who will never find stability no matter how much help they get. Helping those two groups requires totally different solutions.
Can't you create an other class and get it to learn to classify it as other?
Right. Now go work for a f500. Ask if you can post your source code on GitHub to improve security? There isn’t some magic thing that posting your source does, except in the short term make 0 days 10000x easier.

Doesn't seem to stop Microsoft, IBM, Chase, and others.
But chess is not a sport. Think about it, how many calories do I burn sitting in a chair and moving my hands occasionally?!

And no, the brain consumes mostly sugars.
That pastebin is mindboggling.
Neural Network Modulation of Ayahuasca
California will spend $30M to build 1,200 tiny homes to combat homelessness
It depends how powerful and effective you think government interventions can be; and what level of government intervention is moral.

Could the government reverse the export of manufacturing jobs to the far east? If you believe they can, you might think that would improve the lot of the working class. Or is that beyond the power of the state?

Could the government rebrand pink collar jobs like nursing, where demand is rising due to our ageing population, to be more gender-neutral and higher status? Or is that beyond the power of the state?

Are there social organisations like sports clubs which the government could make easier to set up and operate? Or has the state already done all it can in that area?

Should the government be providing venues like town halls, sports facilities and libraries in every town? Or is that better left to the private sector anyway?

How far should the government go in regulating tobacco and alcohol? America has gone as far as prohibition in the past. Or should adults have as few limits on freedom of choice as possible?

The government is more than happy to support films that glorify the American military. And other countries have far more heavy-handed media controls. Given the government is willing to support films and TV that advance certain values, why not advance pro-having-grit and anti-domestic-abuse messages as well as pro-military messages?

What about getting more people into church? I'm not religious myself, but I know it's important to a lot of people and loads of people get married in churches. But some would say the separation of church and state is more important than other concerns.

Some people think the mighty and powerful state could deliver all those things, given the will to do so. Others would expect a lot less.
Interesting to see how Dolly has improved/leveraged an off-the-shelf older model (https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B) with dramatic results.
"Non-profit" just encourages padding expenses along the way.

City of LA had access to government-owned land, fairly large pool of labor and probably some bulk discounts on building materials. Yet after you add consultants, construction unions and other well-connected entities jumping onto the gravy train, average unit ended up above $600k, way above an average "for-profit" luxury condo in LA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-23/la-paying...
If you don't want to tinker with your UI, would suggest PopOS (System76 distro).
If you like to tinker, I really like Ubuntu Budgie, which lets me have some bits of config based on Windows, Mac and just different from either. I took a few days to get it how I liked, and over a year since without much issue. Alternatively, there's always Mint or other Ubuntu or Fedora options out there.

All said, I really liked PopOS, it has some very sane defaults, good out of the box support for hardware as well. Most of the support is upstream via Ubuntu, but a lot of UI tweaks and custom additions are coming from System76, and they have been doing very well. Will likely switch back for the next LTS release.
why not let streaming software just stream? equalizing audio should have happened before it got to the streaming software
The details of the lawsuit can be found here: https://www.docdroid.net/60YAbCz/cftc-binance-pdf
Despite all the people in the comments here dragging this. I think its useful for both early career employees or investors to read lists like this. This gives people frameworks and lenses through which to better assess the companies they are presented with. Lots of founders need to ask themselves these types of questions too. Are some of them overly simplistic, sure. Are some of the questions hard or impossible to answer from outside? Absolutely. But do the majority of them give you better critical thinking abilities about companies? yes.
> Zig feels like a good match for replacing C on microcontrollers because it permits “hold my beer” shenanigans

People who have used Zig to do embedded work have reported the opposite: they like Zig because it helps keep simple things simple and not more unsafe than they have to be.

https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/
Also an example of one of those techniques that only works if the other person is unaware of it - if you realize you’re being ‘yes-setted’ you’re going to clam up real quick.
"The way one might phrase a question might be very different content wise from how the document describes the answer."

You have late-interaction models, which replace the dot product with a few transformer layers and are able to learn complex semantics.

Of course this would adversely affect latency and embedding size, so you might want to compress and cache the answers, hence (shameless plug):

https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.457/
It seems to be too simplistic. Just sketch & pull. No Surface/Mesh modeling, no advanced mirroring/etc. tools and no CAM (I can use something else for CAM but would be nice to have)
And most of all: it doesn't run in wine
"If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism"
World Images (MIT/GNU Scheme) – Save REPL States to Disk
Thank you. I navigated through the modals, came back here for the non-paywalled version, STILL clicked on your link, THEN read your comment just to realize this is something that was filed to be "first!"

We'll have to wait for a more detailed analysis. Though Matt Levine did write about this on Thursday so I look forward to his email this afternoon.
>Our intelligent and ambitious don't aim for public office. (It even feels trite to call it public service.)

No, they become lobbyists instead. They have more power as they are the ones controlling the elected officials.

>That's a problem.
You aren't wrong, per se, but until the incitive for the insurance company stops being "maximize profit", they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions about how health care dollars are allocated.
>> It’s just overly reductive. LLMs do not work like Bayesian or Markov models that fail to scale.

Yes, they do. That's how language modelling works. It's the same principle whether it's a small or large language model. Scale only improves predictive accuracy, but it doesn't change what is predicted.

In fact, you don't need a large language model to model the use of a/an correctly. An n-gram model will do that just fine.

Edit:

See Equation 1, page 3, for the pre-training objective in the original GPT; see Equation 4, same page, for the fine-tuning objective:

https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised...

The same objective is used throughout the GPT line.

Is that more clear?
Does that include the cost of land?
1. You can do anything you want in Rust, you can make your own collections do whatever you want at any time.

2. These changes are about two things,

2a. the first of which is a trait that represents the concept of an allocator, in case users' code would like to be generic over ones that exist in the ecosystem. You can of course still paper over this yourself but the whole point of a vocabulary trait is so that you don't have to do all the work yourself.

2b. the second of which is how the collections in the standard library are customized by allocators.

So, in your own code, absolutely you could do that if you wanted to. With this proposal, and trying to do that with a standard library provided data structure? I'm not an expert on the API that it gives, so I can't really speak to its viability here. I would imagine it's not super simple, given what I do know.
Back when they were using live operators, I found that asking for the company represented and the state of incorporation would lead to a prompt hang-up.
Most places don't have an automated status page because of the issues with automation showing outages when they don't exist. Someone manually goes and clicks something on the status page.
My general understanding is that Zig was made to make video games and Rust was made to make system software, and everything falls out from there.
"For the children", let us make them grow up in a world of lunacy, /S
Its the classic 'perfect is the enemy of good enough' derailer.
We are actively working on migrating away from Ubuntu minimized images towards Alpine, because Ubuntu makes significant changes every major release that break basic expectations on the system around packaging, networking, service management and other aspects that affect lower-level system software.

If your app is run inside of an app server proxied through a web server, you probably don't care that much about the underlying OS changes. If your app is system-level, underlying OS changes are a significant maintenance cost that greatly increases friction and reduces feature velocity.

Alpine's environmental stability and tiny security footprint make it ideal for system software that is being containerized.
This is a bit off topic, but does anyone know how the mechanism that triggers the web page prompt from an ssh connection actually works? Is it some kind of alternate ssh authentication method (like password/publickey) or something entirely out-of-band coming directly from the VPN app intercepting the connection?

Ever since I saw it in action with Tailscale I've always wondered how it actually works, and I guess if anyone would know they'd be on HN
See also Telstar Logistics: https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/0...
Not a Python guy at all, but a couple of my coworkers use Jupyter notebooks a lot, and it's definitely very cool.
by mining bitcoin of course!
Someone called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736675

> Maybe decoding Herculaneum scrolls?
> 1. Put all your stuff in boxes 2. Pick items out when you need them 3. After a year, throw everything you don't use

That method is normally known as "moving", plenty of people practice it once in a while but it's more popular for people that rent a home.
That's not clear. The last line I get there is:

> That didn’t make us fire-breathing conservatives. It made us human.

Which doesn't seem like a sensical ending for this piece.
As is commonly the case, Caitlin Johnstone has the most insightful analysis:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/27/the-new-york-times-i...
> Little Ice Age is on graph and is labeled.

Yes, then look 3 cm down and see a massive fucking swing with 20 times more amplitude than both of the mentioned events...

I stand by what I said, without the labels you wouldn't see these two events, meanwhile even without the label you can see the current trend is absolutely nowhere close to any other past changes
>and they both later retracted their stories

Did they? Just a few 2-3 years ago there was a documentary in Sweden and one of the women was interviewed extensivley.
Most dialects of Common Lisp have this feature.

I wonder what other Scheme dialects have this feature?

I found some more interesting discussion about Edwin & MIT-Scheme over here:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/x9puwq/the_sad_stat...