skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm working on AMD Epyc 7301 with QNX (real-time OS) and have SMI interruptions on all CPUs every 32 ms for ~400 us. This is not what we wanted to see in real-time OS.

This is interesting from an OS designer's perspective -- one would probably never see the latency overhead introduced by SMI interrupts on modern CPU's in most popular OS'es -- unless one was working with a real-time OS, like QNX (one that had to make hard, deterministic time guarantees with microsecond accuracy) -- or one was designing a similar real-time OS...
I mean, fair, but when even the Americans are saying to let the investors lose their shirts, you might want to at least think about it.
For your first thought - if we could capture the phase information of the incoming light, then yes. We actually already do this for radio waves- you may have heard of synthetic aperature radar, or AESA/PESA radars in a military context, or the event horizon telescope network (the thing that got us the 'first picture of a blackhole').

For your second thought - as literally described, such a thing would probably be badly impacted by solar wind.
Well people are still buying Tesla's so this behaviour is condoned.
> Do you have specific reasons for thinking that gpt-4 is near the end of this trend?

I haven’t said that. I pointed that you can’t simply put more data into it and expect improvements. There’s definitely a lot of engineering done on the models to make them capable of using all the data.

I can give you an example. You can’t simply add more convolutional layers to a CNN and feed more images. The architectures of image models include many tricks, like inception layers.

I suspect there’re similar challenges in LLMs. And I’m not sure whether current ChatGPT can use more data to become better at reasoning, or at some point they’d need to come up with different architectures.
Bankruptcy is something you get into when you can't pay debts to your creditors.

If you have no debts, and thus, no creditors, you can't go bankrupt by definition. Of course, if there are government fees or taxes to pay, the collector of those becomes a creditor. You would want to formally close the business so that it doesn't accrue annual fees and force you to do more paperwork.
nim,coffeescript|civet
And no way to contact Toolhub to ask where, if this is section 1, the rest of the sections are. I particularly like the github link, which tells you there is nothing to see for Toolhub.
Personally I'm not a big fan of the EU, but they got one thing right, and that is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Personal faith and religion, criminal history, and health related questions such as medication, drug and alcohol use, are all considered as highly sensitive personal data, which is protected under the regulation. Collecting and processing such data is subject to strict requirements and conditions under the GDPR, and requires a legal basis for processing sensitive personal data.

The other questions on the list may not necessarily conflict with GDPR on their own, though that depends on how they are collected, processed, and used. Specifically, since the questions are so broad, most if not all of those questions can be used to fish for secondary information, which can then be used for either illegal marketing, down right scams, or even provide third parties with means of discrimination, which are of course all completely illegal. As such, even otherwise "innocent" questions may also be regulated by the GDRP depending on how you handle them.

As a minimum, sensitive data should be securely encrypted in compliance with the regulation, and then stored only for the minimum required time for processing it. Excess personal data should not be stored at all, and even asking some questions — such as asking whether you're religious — might get you into a heap of trouble depending on how you handle or store that information, if at all.

I think you probably meant well, but as it looks now, I think you should look into the GDPR regulation and carefully consider how your implementation stacks up against it, and also carefully consider how you can build trust in the way you set up your site.

As of now, I wouldn't type anything into your site. But that's me. There might be people who do type stuff into your system, and then is made aware that it's something they should never have done. And that's where most serious legal problems may arise. It is thus in your best interest to carefully consider how such regulations might affects your site, and even if it might be considered to be outside of your jurisdiction.

There are also implications to consider when you send data to a third party's API that probably wasn't meant to handle such data, and that you yourself have no control over outside of the data you get back. You might thus be handing over sensitive data to a third party, where either you, or they, might be considered to handle or store it illegally. To me this represents a rabbit hole of legal problems, of which there are a ton of footguns for us small-time devs. So just make sure you thread carefully.
> That just restricts A to implement Allocator trait and will allow to pass any instance of Allocator when calling methods of MyVect.

No, that kind of rust generic requires monomorphization rather than dynamic dispatch. Any given Vec must have a specific A, just like it must have a specific T.

> To make this compile-time safe in Rust a typical approach is to embed the Allocator reference in MyVect

Yeah, that was implied by the "...". It won't compile otherwise, generics have to be used (including by PhantomData).

But I understand the problem better now. You're right, there's no good way in the type system to specify "you must always provide the same instance of this allocator when calling any method on this vec". (I'm ignoring branding because I think it's not practically convenient).
Interesting. It also notes that some code formatters add it anyway, like the one I'm using in VSCode. I got used to that back in the XHTML days so it would seem weird to me to just have a naked <input> or <img> by itself... but the spec says that's correct!
SetFit is a great framework for building a text classifier.

This is a pretty straight forward problem and a good fit for a standard text classifier as well.

Here is an example of fine-tuning a model with txtai: https://colab.research.google.com/github/neuml/txtai/blob/ma...
I'll agree with you on Bitcoin mining specifically, but other aspects of cryptocurrencies I wouldn't. For example, the Lightning Network is a layer built on top of Bitcoin is all about increased speed and efficiency.

Then there's Ethereum, which just completed a major upgrade to convert its Proof of Work method to Proof of Stake and now uses a negligible amount of energy compared to other things, as shown in this article on their site[1].

And there are newer cryptocurrencies like Solana, that started as proof of stake to begin with and can handle at least 8500[2] transactions per second (compared to only 4 transactions per second with the much older bitcoin, and 30 transactions per second with Ethereum).

That's a hell of a lot more efficient as well, and also seems to be more efficient than ChatGPT is per query, as Solana's energy use per transaction is 3,290 Joules, or 0.00091 kWh[3], versus the conservative estimate of ChatGPT (3.5)'s estimated energy usage on this article [4] of 0.00198 kWh, or 7,128 Joules.

So I think that overall, crypto is still incentivized to become more efficient. Bitcoin is not, as more people care about the security provided by proof of work there than they do about energy efficiency, which is unfortunate.

[1]: https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/

[2]: https://crypto.news/solana-transactions-per-second-hit-an-al...

[3]: https://solana.com/news/solanas-energy-use-report-september-...

[4]: https://towardsdatascience.com/chatgpts-electricity-consumpt...
Here, there, everywhere. Maybe even on your local city council:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/03/11/accused-of-be...

Also this:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-denies-role-in-...

And those are just a couple of stories that blew up. There's countless others being underreported.
presumably regarding the string reversing: they probably wanted a reverse in place (then making sure you handle the even/odd edge condition). however, Python strings are immutable, so you'd have to use a bytearray, but if you have a huge string, converting it to a bytearray, reversing the array, and converting back to a string would likely take longer than having python's string reverse function allocate a new string and write the reverse into it (I would have written both implementations, a timer, and test with increasingly long strings, assuming coderpad).

For the 'e' question: I mean, we learned functions to approximate e in high school. There's a summing series you can do to approximate it- were they expecting you to remember that off the top of your head (if so, you probably dodged a bullet). Otherwise, e*x is its own differential, so i wonder if you could write some terrible routine iterating from a random value to the right one by computing finite differences of various values.
So a trade where things have no or little objective value but where items sell for millions, is full of scammers?

What, next they're gonna tell us that crypto is a scam?
> This release feels like a nice incremental improvement rather than a revolution.

Look at the big picture, not simply the delta from the prior .x.y release.

The Tidyverse feels like a product that evolves over time, rather than a traditional approach that jumps versions. Major changes sometimes come in seemingly minor releases. I feel that 2.0 simply means the evolution has gone on enough to put a retrospective marker in the sand.

For something geared more to data science and exploration, rather than production use, I’m good with the evolutionary approach.
Inflexibility of experts- Quantifying the Einstellung effect in chess masters
Equivalent to this in go ?
This is the most stupid thing I have read, and it makes me angry, becuase it's just the anti-electric car movement. As a person heavily affected with asthma, I get very sick whenever ICE vehicles are going nearbly, or somebody smokes a cigarette, or starts burning their furniture. I never felt sick from car tyres of electric cars.

Maybe the people who are not affected shouldn't try to guess, when many of as as we are getting older feel the difference and it affects our life.
Two types of software engineers
I wonder how many bn the EU economy would save every year if Big Four companies were banned everywhere.
When that's the case the kimchi is fine, though.

Here in Germany it's usually mediocre sushi and intolerable kimchi; instead if you go to a cheap sushi place you should often be ordering the pho or the bún.
Apple Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores From Unionizing
> This is needlessly pedantic, and you know it.

It isn’t anything of the sort. If they think the problem is CORS, they are going to put all their effort into trying to figure out how to disable CORS. This will not help them in the slightest. What they want, in effect, is to have a configuration that is as if CORS is on all the time, which they would never think to do if they think it’s CORS stopping them from doing what they want.

> What OP obviously meant was a way to disable same origin policy checks.

Yes, and they showed absolutely no knowledge of the fact that the SOP even exists. They think it’s CORS doing it. Pointing out this is backwards and pointing out what is actually causing their problem is helpful, not pedantic.
google is your friend I suppose? Not literature but the first hit https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre... which links to https://www.emissionsanalytics.com which has a page on tires https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/tyre-emissions that points at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a9400b37e3c3a8c47522...
If only gpt4 could tell people what to do in order to find meaning. Surely it understands the human condition at least as well as market forces.

/s

Wait, no actually from what I've seen gpt4 might be more empathetic to the idea that people deserve to find their own meaning in life without their betters giving them a purpose.

"Idle young men", oof. So, so patronizing, like people who think fast food jobs are only for high school kids.
Better understand what happened, and if/how you can fix it.
While this is true, I don't understand how it supports or detracts the parent comment.
“Tidier.jl is a 100% Julia implementation of the R tidyverse mini-language in Julia.”

https://github.com/TidierOrg/Tidier.jl
> A pivot into AI and spinning off the VR

yeah but that would require a vision of something new and AI-based that is actually relevant to the users, and they seem to have trouble in that department.
Seems like the trick is to use the LLM to produce a query - then the data you get back is simply the result of the query, and you can examine the query to check that it's appropriate.
>The total death toll for American service men in Afghanistan was lower than the murder rate in many American cities.
Well that's good to hear. I was worried more people in the military at war were dying over civilians. /s
On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking (2021)
> According to Z-Library, users will be able to send books by mail. These can then be loaned by others and/or sent by mail when requested.

Like the old e-tree where they would send someone a CD, they’d make a copy and send it on to the next person.

Never actually used it because by the time I got into the jam bands I already had good enough internets to just download stuff but it was still operational circa 1999 — guessing for folks without broadband.
Banks failing and CDOs exploding would be two good examples; they’re rare if not nonexistent but if they start they may all flare up.

Also natural distribution assumes you don’t have someone trying to game the extremes to make money. If being seven feet tall resulted in billions we’d have people researching how to grow taller people.

You can see stuff like this in distributions of tax returns - many people will be unexpectedly clustered right below certain cut-off amounts.
Probably bullet dodged
That seems silly. I certainly don't think of archive.org as having adult content. If they do, perhaps the easy thing to do is to have archive.org and adult.archive.org that way it is easy to distinguish for people and entities that want to know/filter. Also, what is adult content to one person is nothing of consequence to the next person. So, yes I disagree with the censoring like that; glag you found a ISP that is not censoring. Also, one can use a VPN or tor; so they are not stopping one unless they also disable VPN and tor traffic.
One time for Nassim Nicholas Taleb who's ALL OVER this in a deeply interesting and entertaining way. "The Black Swan" is great at going in on such a weirdly obvious-but-not point.
So people (other people, of course) intentionally paying too much for their food is what's causing 9,5% year-over-year[0] inflation?

I wish I had a witty comeback but I'm honestly just stunned...

0. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
> I set my email clients to use RTF as it’s simpler, more consistent, and one doesn’t send huge email messages full of utterly useless crap (otherwise known as html tags and stuff)

Having written an RTF WYSIWYG editor back in the late 90s, I very much disagree that RTF is any better than HTML for any reasons you’ve cited.

It’s still an ASCII encoded format with font tags and alike. It just opts for curly braces instead of triangle brackets.

The problem with HTML emails isn’t the HTML specification. It’s that

1. Half of email clients don’t support that specification correctly.

2. People abused HTML in emails

However those two points could be just as equally relevant had RTF became the dominant document mark up for the web.
The GH says it’s still under construction.
TBH, I don’t understand why anyone would be naive enough to hire EY and then actually trust them.
> Kids get naked sometimes. Nobody (including them) cares.

"When she returned, she saw the 5-year-old "crouched over" a 3-year-old who later told Lovato that the boy had tried to pull her pants down and touch her butt.

"The next day, when Lovato went into the center's bathroom, she found three kids there, including a girl with her pants down and the same boy. He was touching her butt."

This was a massive overreaction by the state, but that child's behavior shouldn't be handwaved away -- it may be that the child just needs a firm conversation about keeping his hands to himself, but he may need a lot more, and we don't know.

It's possible that the 5 year old was being sexually abused, or witnessed another child being sexually abused, and was mimicking the action. (Most victims of sexual abuse do not abuse others, but a 5 year old is developmentally at a monkey-see-monkey-do phase.)

There can be a massive overreaction by the government _and_ still be genuine issues we need to look for and address.
The app's UI and the reality of what the human in the loop does is often inconsistent. In general I would prefer to delegate and give the worker freedom to choose the best option given the unknown constraints. I believe people generally perform better when given more autonomy rather than less. The level of over-specification required to use grocery delivery services at the moment just makes it more stressful than going to the store myself. We've been ordering groceries a lot due to my wife's broken leg, and there's really stupid stuff in every order, like rotten broccoli.

When I do see a worker, they always genuinely seem to be trying their best to find the right thing. I was at a Walgreens at 10pm a couple nights ago, and a poor guy who barely spoke english desperately asked me whether the bag of charcoal briquettes he was holding matched the listing on his phone.
EY, Mckinsey, Accenture, BCG all of them should be banned.

They were the big proponent of the the just in time management principles in the hospitals in the Netherlands.

Then when covid came they were the first the market on twitter & linkedin for advice how to improve your health inventory & deal with covid challenges.

Serious impact with zero skin in the game. These consultants are parasites.

They are mainly used as proxies to make decisions managers dont want to be responsible for.
> Adding another language significantly increases complexity in general.

True, but no language -- not even Lisp -- sparks joy the way Rust does. Developers are more than willing to endure the additional complexity for the benefits Rust provides: fearless performance or low-level capability. Unlike C or C++, safe Rust is within grasp of the average Python developer.
I think looking back to the 1960’s from the digital age is distorting history. Comic books were low art, cheaply printed, cheap, and tossed away in the trash.

Copying from a comic book and not giving credit is a sneaky rotten thing at best, but comics were childish and low-brow. Lichtenstein is like making a joke.

I read Warhol by Gopnick and you get an idea about the pop art movement. Low-brow references were the material of their work just as much as their paint and canvases.
I would expect that the primary use is for those debugging the library. Though this could be users, it would also be developers of the library.

Though, even as a library user, knowing the source of an error can be useful for working around the issue, temporarily, or maybe even figuring out that I was using the library incorrectly.
At least where I live, they're also a place to use the public 3D printers and laser cutters, a place for tutors to meet with students, or a place where you can be left alone and enjoy some peace and quiet. They're a cultural asset with and without the books.
As a publicly traded company, you have to hire auditors. If you don’t like EY you can go to PwC, KPMG or Deloitte, but what’s the difference?
The owners of the copyrights have to sue for that to happen. I assume they are owned by the comic publishers, whoever they are.
> Really? 5 years? That seems really harsh.

Bankruptcy is not a mild consequence. People can and often are ruined by a bankruptcy, not to mention the harsh impact that it has on employees who are suddenly forced out of a job. Declaring bankruptcy should not be considered as something mundane or yet another run-of-the-mill managerial decision.

Also, not being able to found a company is not what I would call "harsh". Even in a purely capitalist view of society, a entrepreneur needs to focus on ventures to ensure they are successful, and "failing fast" does not mean it's ok to file for bankruptcies.
Oh and don't forget to write about it. Self reflection is an incredible learning tool.
Ask HN: How will people know when they’re interacting with real people online?
AI powered chats, image and deepfake video generation apps are getting so good so quickly, it’s not hard to imagine a time in the very near future when people don’t feel they’re able to trust whoever they’re chatting with or speaking to is who they say they are unless they’re actually seeing them in person. I’m curious what technology or product(s) is/are being developed to help ordinary people address this coming crisis of trust
PyDPainter – Open-Source Deluxe Paint Clone Written in Python
Well, we don't have to think about that counterfactual, because that's the world we already live in.

Copyright functionally does not protect the rights of all artists. It only protects artists that are large and well-known enough to retain ownership over their work. The vast majority of artists are not that large. The vast majority of publishers know this, and thus they demand ownership up-front as a policy. Any contractual obligations to return ownership at the end of a publishing period will be subverted in a way that most benefits them and harms the author.

If copyright were inalienable - i.e. there were legal maximums on how much you could transfer to a publisher at once, or the rights reversion regime were stronger - then maybe I'd be on the other side of this debate. As it stands copyright is just lunch money being given to bullied kids.

The IA did not want unlimited distribution[0], they wanted digital first sale. Publishers have been adament that first sale ends where the bits start, and courts have almost unanimously agreed with them. Normalizing Controlled Digital Lending would not do any more "damage" to writers than physical libraries already do.

Which, BTW, is not actually damage. Writers absolutely love librarians because they bring more readers into their back catalogue; publishers hate them because they represent a loss of control. Writers and publishers have different business models: a writer makes money when they sell copies of their work, but a publisher makes money when they control that work. So libraries benefit the writers at the expense of publishers.

Totally agree with you on AI; the discoverability problems that self-published writers already face are getting worse with the ability to generate "genuine fake[1]" spam books.

[0] The National Emergency Library stunt notwithstanding.

[1] "Genuine fake" is a term for "counterfeit goods that look and function similarly to the real thing".
And there is also an alternative implementation to Rust std that blocks, among others, filesystem access via std::fs https://github.com/tcdi/postgrestd
Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103
Cybercrime: Be careful what you tell your chatbot helper