skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally have never used a debugger in Rust. Logging and printing has typically been enough.

For those use cases where it is tough to see the output (tests, windows services, etc.) I wrote the `rdbg` set of crates. It is essentially identical to `dbg!` and `println!` macros, but delivers messages via a TCP socket to a simple command-line viewer (which can be on the same machine or remote). The design is such that it can be enabled and used the first time within a minute or two for "quick and dirty debugging". It can just as quickly be removed or turned into a no-op with a Rust feature.

Dependency: https://crates.io/crates/rdbg

Viewer: https://crates.io/crates/rdbg-view

EDIT: Apparently I need to update the README as I added the 'msgf' and 'valsf' macros that include auto-flush which is handy for short running programs where explicit flush doesn't work due to failing program/etc.
They should've capitalized Lightning, probably referring to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
I had the same experience. It wasn't until I was around ~15 or so I discovered our tiny place actually had two whole other people who were into computers. At one point, I moved to a bigger area and discovered there were full groups of up to 20 people per group that also liked computers. Opened up a whole new world.
Linux Cluster-Aware Scheduling Being Extended to AMD Processors
There wasn't even an argument about Kirkegaard's historical reliability, so it's worse than a fallacy.
Yes thats it. I stopped listening because although the voice is good and has vocal variety and expression it still sounds boring. I would rather listen to a human but “boring” voice than this. Uncanny valley perhaps. It is probably what is being said that is the problem here. Maybe some prompt engineering could spice it up a little.
More as a hall of shame list than anything.

And of course it contains websites that themselves are all about users sharing content without regards to copyright or even attribution.
I think that goes in general. White collar crime pays, most if it goes uncovered and when it does, you might get few years of prison, while still ending up being rich for rest of your life.

Few years of 24/7 prison or 30+ years of 9-5 prison?
I never suspected Intel had a 24-core Atom...

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134793/...
"I approximate high-dimensional continuous probability distributions, and you?"

(which, BTW, is training neutral networks to predict float numbers)

I always thought it's a great question to ask because if someone is doing something for 8 hours a day, I'd assume (or hope?) that they'll at least enjoy parts of it. Or else they would have switched jobs a long time ago - or so I thought.
The OpenAI chat API lets you do this by putting the instructions in the system message and the data in the user message. IME this only works with GPT-4, GPT-3.5 basically ignores the system message.
Implying it was ever anything but childish slop
This is exactly what happened to my car - I fitted a reversing sensor (this was some time ago).

About a month later the battery was flat - but we didn't drive that often so I thought it might be that. Charged it and was fine for another month or so, but then it started to happen more and more frequently. I took to disconnecting the battery each time I parked up the car.

It was only when I came to scrap the car (for unrelated issues) and went to remove the reverse sensors to use on another car that I saw a single thread of wire that was running off the reverse light, was causing a short. Ah well - lesson learnt!
I think it would be more accurate to say the mainstream has appropriated nerd culture.
I'm sure there is someone out there with a fetish for six fingered hands that is having an absolute blast right now
Yeah, you have a much better understanding of this topic than me for sure :)
> Linux adoption at scale was only possible because of getting in bed with corporate.

Which doesn't really matter to people who already used Linux or BSD.
the point was that

Most "nerd" interests like SciFi have been neutered if not completely bent out of shape while going mainstream

So no, it's not nerd culture that is dying, it's mainstream "nerdism" that committed suicide.

Nerd culture was never mainstream, MCU wasn't nerd culture becoming mainstream, it was "squeeze the lemon and hope it sticks".

And it did for a while, but not understanding what's the appeal of nerd culture for nerds, they went back to producing blockbusters that kinda resembles marvel if you squint hard enough, but it's actually the same thing of watching independence day set in a World where they replaced Jeff Goldblum with a guy dressed like a superhero.

Nerd are still enjoying their nerdy stuff, while completely ignoring mainstream travesties from multi-billion-dollars corporations.

MCU is not the same MCU nerds were crazy about when they were kids, in the same way kids today consider what we called nerd stuff back then as "old people garbage"
Plus it's a non-violent crime, so maybe she won't be in a super high security prison. With a bit of good behavior I could imagine it being not really 11 years of being away from the family, especially if they can visit.
It's easy to imagine that Naqādah the place was named by the Goa'uld because it had something to do with Naquadah processing or experiments. The expository dialogue writes itself there.

Kelowna is more of a stretch, but I'm betting that someone in the writers' room said "Hey, we already had a Salish episode; if anyone asks, we could just say that some native spirits influenced the names on both planets!" Apparently those people actually were the first inhabitants of that area. So all they'd need to do is connect them to Langara!
lol there's no way to move the window before logging in?
AI is already taking video game illustrators’ jobs in China
> Deferring on performance work

I'll be curious to see how this plays out. History seems to show that boosting performance later is a monumental challenge.

Early Chrome showed that Firefox was leaving a lot of performance on the table, and it took Firefox a long time to catch up.
If you make N copies of a model, train them independently for a little while on N machines, and average them back together, it sort of works. But not if you train for very long, as the internal structure diverges.

It becomes an empirical engineering question how many parallel nodes you can train on for how long before averaging them back together. It's an expensive question to answer, since you have to train many variations to get the data.
> I figured it would be 200 pages of “and that’s a result of Reagan’s drive to shut down public mental health”

Reagan hasn't been Governor of California for nearly 50 years.
Sleepy me was expecting something like "1000 thumbnails photos in Dolphin", and I almost opened Dolphin to start testing... but, whoah! Actual things turned different way :D
> 11 years is a great deal if she gets to live in a mansion afterwards.

I guess that's a matter of opinion. I'm happy to work till retirement in a modest house if it means I don't spend any time in prison. Even 1 year in prison doesn't seem worth it for the mansion retirement package. (1 month is borderline for me.)
Cross device federated learning(FL), Google's work on FL with differential privacy and the FedLab framework
Yes, but where would the world be if people didn't share things with each other?
It's almost as if they didn't want the toxic monetisation features to be mentioned in any reviews...

This is a game that costs money. The game has been designed to make purchasing these "time savers" appealing. That is, the game has been made to feel unenjoyable in order to push you to pay more money to play less of the game. This is a game that costs money.
Iteration speed with both Rust and C++ is abysmal. Builds take for fucking ever on large projects and it's just slightly less bad for small-to-medium and medium-sized projects.

With Rust, though, it's as if someone looked at C++ compilation times (not to mention resource requirements) and said, "I think we can find a way to make it worse."
> I know very little about [...] but, in theory,

You are assuming things you are unsure about :) Even if your assumption was correct things could change from one Windows update to another.

When I worked on a time sensitive java project, our test suite had benchmarks for JDK functions as simple as Arrays.copy() to make sure we are the first to notice if something changed under the hood.
We, the R-word foundation, hereby and publically do not endorse the online gathering under this comment, as it does not:

- follow local health guidelines

- may attract people wearing fireguns

These breaches of our big CoC are not appreciated and we will spend all of our sparse funding now to drag you to court.
After the recent (ongoing) chaos at Twitter, I got super excited for Mastodon and built an account analytics tool (for businesses, but also individuals) in hopes of finding similar success to the analytics suite I built for Twitter ten years ago.

Turns out, it's still way too quiet over there. At least my bubble seems to have quieted down massively again. A few selected groups seem to have made a home and built out their circles, but from what I can hear, it's mostly crickets in the night.

And, the API itself and some of the tech design around it reminds me of the same trouble Twitter went through at the very beginning. One major instance had to kill all their keys a while back (if I remember correctly), so over night, all my users were deauthenticated. The rate limits are quite tough and all designed for one specific use case, and unusable for another, etc. etc.

And every single instance could be sticking to the recommended configuration and performance considerations, or not — it really depends on the person who runs it.
aVe did a great teardown[0] of a Dyson hairdryer. He was contemptuous in the beginning because of the ridiculous price, but totally nerded out over the motor.

[0]: https://youtu.be/j-vJxez9UF8
Exactly. A nerd is someone who implements emulators for extinct 70s minicomputers, or is deep into niche music. A "geek" (for lack of better word) is the target of this article.
What "bio"? So far I have only seen far left dominated opinion pieces, who obviously hate that he engages with taboo topics like race and IQ.
So, Skype circa 2011, but now with original pictures. I imagine these scams will fall apart once people realize they can send themselves fake pictures of fake women for free.
The True Dangers of Long Trains
> 1. Instead of being blocked or shadowbanned by Elon Musk, you can now be blocked or shadowbanned by the Mastodon instance admin

Don't pick random instances, get together with friends and family on a community-owned instance. Or run your own. The whole point of getting away from Twitter is to own the means of communication.

You can also get blocked or shadowbanned by nostr relays, and the incentives to run a relay are even worse than for Mastodon

> 2. Making connections with other Mastodon instances is non-trivial.

Lies, there is literally nothing to do to connect to other instances. Subscribe to an account there and you're plugged.

> 3. Exporting your data and connections is not supported on all Mastodon instances.

Goes back to point 1: don't go to a generic universal instance.

Why so much FUD ? Why the hate ? ActivityPub has real issues, but those are not it (in fact, it's a pretty good indication that you haven't used the network to know what you're talking about). Just like nostr has issues, but if we're going to ditch Twitter and centralized communications, why lie ?
That is the exactly the first thing that came to my mind as well, what is user CyberDildonics' take on this
Thanks for layoffs. Now i'm ready to build my own business with potential clients.

The keywords here is: If you're talent enough, you can be your own boss.

There's no way for business to hold talents anymore due to broken stupid HR process and "angry managers/team leaders".
I don't think this approach is formalized but I can give a few examples:

A) Prompt leak prevention: chunk and embed LLM responses, than compare against original prompt to filter out chunks that leak the prompt

B) Automatic prompt refinement: Prompt a cheap model, use an expensive model to judge the output and rewrite the prompt (this is in part how Vicuna[1] did eval for their LLaMa fine-tuning)

Basically using LLMs in the feedback loop.

[1] https://vicuna.lmsys.org
Although many blades are made from polyester, producing wind turbine blades manufactured with epoxy-based resin has increasingly become standard practice in the wind industry over the past decades. In the most mature wind markets, the first of these turbines are reaching the end of their operational life

Interesting, why polyester?
I just hope Rust won't end up being forked tho. We had such an amazing community around it...
You're not suggesting that you won't put this immediately into Production are you?
Just checked, an electric Mercedes SUV even weights 3T [1]. So maybe just ban vehicles above a certain tonnage?

[1]https://ev-database.org/car/1337/Mercedes-EQC-400-4MATIC
who is behind this shit
Good technique.

Also (aiming for helpfulness not pedantry),

> "if you peaked their curiosity"

you meant "piqued", a homophone (different word w/ same pronunciation).
I don't like the term 'fake images' - they absolutely are images? They're not photographs, sure: the images are fake photos.

Otherwise any kind of digital art, font, or iconography is a 'fake image'. Or why draw the line at digital, surely pictures too - the Mona Lisa is 'fake' because it was merely created to look like a person.
R's pretty serious about it, it's why for example length("abc") returns 1, which is a head-scratcher for people coming from Python.
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
> Makes it really hard to preemptively plan for this short of becoming a plumber

I’m not so sure about that. My outlandish prediction for what’s next: We no longer bother fixing household issues - if something goes wrong with the plumbing, we just throw away the whole house and 3D print a new one.
>> Why did I waste my career being honest?

That is an interesting outcome of our current wealth inequalities. The amount of money raked in by top earners is so high that it is well worth the risk of a jail term. Most people (ie poor people) would probably happily serve a 10-year jail term if, after that, they had a few million dollars in the bank. Even more so as few fraudsters are ever caught yet alone jailed. It is a rational choice. Our current system of punishments is not adapted to dissuade wrongdoing in the face of such wealth.

And that's just the official system. The unofficial systems such as the inability of convicted felons to get jobs also fail when dealing with rich people. A poor convict will have trouble renting an apartment or getting a loan. Marth Stewart won't ever suffer from being a convicted felon. She will never apply for a job nor have to "rent" an apartment. A hundred years ago she would have been an outcast from high society. No bank would want to give her an account. Not today. Money cures all.
It’s well documented from last year that Walgreens similarly used crime as their reasoning for closing stores but it didn’t at all hold up to real scrutiny

Walgreens’ CFO has said outright that the crime stuff was overblown , 2 years later [0]

[1] has a breakdown of the arguments for why this stuff doesn’t align with reality (“biased” of course, as it’s a media critique podcast, but I find their arguments convincing. I admit they confirm my priors)

“Safety” and “shoplifting” are of course not the same. And many people here talk about feeling unsafe going there. But people also mention it being empty! And there’s a Safeway across the street.

Companies like making money. Something tells me you don’t close down a massive store if it were making money. “Large supermarket without a parking lot in an area without much foot traffic” just seems like an expensive proposition.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...

[1] https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crim...
There is already more pornography in the world then one person could consume in a lifetime. Why would this change anything?
Can he protect himself from civil actions against her?

...I guess even if he could, presumably, he can't against her future endeavours!
Unfortunately, as things like irreligion, tolerance for sexual minorities, or left-wing economics became more mainstream, it is now, among the youth, incredible as it may sound, counter-culture to be reactionary. A reverse 1960s of sorts.
FWIW I consider myself an "actual nerd", but I also find "arcane programming languages and obscure political doctrines" to be extremely boring. No offense, but I would definitely snub you at one of those parties where you're looking for nerds. To me programming languages are just a means to an end and political doctrines are for nontechnical people. I'm more interested in building stuff.

Eg I wanted to benchmark the CPU inside my Apple Watch last week and I couldn't find any off-the-shelf apps that do this, so I had to learn enough Swift to create a basic UI with a start button and a multiply-and-add loop that pegs a CPU core. I would never learn a new language if I didn't have to.

Another example: I couldn't find any reasonably priced tool chests so I bought a table saw with the intention of building my own tool chests out of plywood next week. When I mentioned this to nerdy/technical friends, they were all interested because they also had a metric fuckton of tools, computer hardware, solvents, etc that they wanted to store efficiently. I think if you worked on more practical projects like this you'd be a lot more popular at parties where most attendees are engineers.
At least Ferris can be used freely according to that document. That's good news.
> Few years of 24/7 prison

If you could just mind your own business and do your time while in prison this would seem plausible but from what I understand, once you're in there you have a good chance of getting charged with further crimes that you end up involved in. Maybe not so much as a female.
I've actually coded something like this. The trick is to split it in a smart way. What I did is the following:

1. Download the video
2. Split it in max length for whisper
3. Used whisper for transcription on the chunks
4. Used gpt for cleaning the transcription
5. Unioned the cleaned transcribed chunks
5. Used the langchain "refine" function of the summary chain

It is quite slow and expensive because the refine summary is doing a lot of calls, but the result is amazing. And you don't need a vector DB for that because the summary is serial.

For Q&A tho, an embeddings DB is a must
White collar criminals usually have the proceeds seized by authorities.
The objects of nerd culture went mainstream, but the nerds themselves did IMHO not. And because of the change that mainstream brought on their objects, nerds are losing their culture. People can like the same thing, but for different reasons. And this becomes a problem when people are not aware of other people's reason and just start changing them, making them more matching their own reasons. So at some point, the traits that the original fans like are disappearing, getting replaces by the preferred traits of the new fans.

We've seen this many times. Star Trek being probably a very notable example, where the fancy new original Series was a great disappointment for many fans, while the (semi)comedy-version from a fan became the preferred love of this fans.
Nickname? There's one guy in my friends group and everyone calls him by his LARP character name. He probably mentioned his real name years ago, but why bother remembering it?
One of my good friends and I clicked immediately, but I think we went a week or three before we thought “oh, what’s this guy’s name?” It could even have been my wife asking me, and me not knowing that triggered finding out.

Every class together, bike trails, considerable conversation.

Never came up, neither of us thought to ask. We laugh about it now. We both are better at it now, but it is probably a great example of social inept people finding one another and being just fine.
robots.txt

that will stop any kind of robot, AI powered or not, from scraping your site /s
It died when it became mainstream.

Nerd culture nowadays is horribly lame. When I was a kid I loved being a nerd and finding people who shared my hobbies. Now I avoid talking about them.
Dont you find bilion dollar level white collar crime evil witch slightly attractive?
Yes and good riddance.

There was never such a thing as "nerd culture". It was always exclusionary and toxic, pretending to exist in rebellion against the mainstream while perpetuating the same stereotypes. It was also always defined by consumerism and consumption, just as a "niche" (but still fed by the same large corporations as the mainstream) no different from "artisanal" hipster goods or "underground" grunge merchandise.

Nerds have always existed and will continue to exist. "Nerd culture" isn't necessary for that. The Marvel movies weren't a turning point, the rise of the Internet was. Widespread access to the Internet allowed various fandoms to expand, mutate and merge (especially in fanfic and on sites like Tumblr), it also allowed people to find peers in their specific special interest communities rather than having to vaguely seek out "other nerds" and hope they're compatible.

People like to posture about "real nerds" versus "geek chic poseurs" but the distinction is arbitrary. Yes, someone wearing a Nirvana shirt who never even heard of the band but likes the grunge aesthetic can easily be dismissed as a "poseur" but most often that distinction just exists to arbitrarily exclude people just as passionate who don't fit your biases. Heck, for most of the 80s and 90s you could have believed women were biologically incapable of being nerds as even that girl wearing glasses and a nerd shirt who could recite every Ferengi rule of acquisition and speak fluent Klingon was clearly just a "poseur", especially if she was conventionally attractive.

On a related note I think we've also simply culturally come to understand that the "jock vs nerd" binary is really more of a spectrum and not even a good fit for most people. At least in programming the idea was on its last breath when people ironically (and then unironically) adopted the gymrat "brogrammer" aesthetic, which was luckily shortlived but clearly an act of rebellion against and recuperation of "jock" culture. We've also become more aware that neurodivergence is not simply a lifestyle choice even when it may manifest as such, whereas nerd culture would often ("ironically") replicate the same ableism neurodivergent nerds were subjected to in the mainstream.

So in another way, no, nerd "culture" isn't dying, you're just getting old and out of touch.
I started watching [3]. I have no stakes in this, but a lot of stuff I should be enraged about... I'm just not? Doesn't look fundamentally different to Debian or Firefox trademark policies.

I guess it is an abrupt change in trademark enforcement for Rust.
In Spain it’s the King… anachronic af, I know.
Slightly off topic, but am I the only one that dislikes the GUI-based method for adding and reviewing anki cards? Anyone find a decent terminal-based plugin for anki? I've actively looked in the past, and surprisingly there are some partial solutions (can review on terminal but can't add), or hacks, but no complete terminal based SRS...
I checked out other articles on the site. It seems like they're all AI-generated, with a few human edits. Behold, the spam revolution is upon us.
Incredibly bizarre - I literally have zero idea what any of my friends or acquaintances parents did for work when I was a teenager. Parental occupation is simply not a topic of conversation among teenagers. Full stop.
Exactly, it's like a person comparing the subtle taste of poly-saturated trans fats in a big mac and a quarterpounder with cheese. It's all slop, that's the point.