skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I ended up deciding to get a small, simple external Thunderbolt SSD enclosure.

See this is the problem with the whole minimalism/decluttering/etc. movements: half the time they are so entrenched in consumerism that they authentically believe that buying this new thing will solve their clutter problem. The author goes on to buy a new cloud storage service that is "a backup power tool for advanced users". And spends all this time doing all this migrating and reorganizing activity that seems an awful lot like work.

People in this trap will talk about how minimalism and decluttering are about making their lives easier and simpler, but that's not what I'm seeing happening. This seems harder and more complicated. I don't want to have to be an "advanced user".

I fell for this for a while myself, but no longer. I want to be a dumb user. There are other things I want, like security and privacy, and control of my own data, and to his credit the author does mention that, but if that's your goal be focused on that, not this not-quite-sensible form of decluttering I keep seeing popping up.
If the internet is good for one thing, it's for producing entirely trustworthy and accurate tales based on what a random poster's "friend once told me a while back".
This article doesn’t support your statement. It says “ Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.”

This data suggests they are working and the legal system is letting people go. Are you sure your mental model and generalizations of the police are based on accurate data overall
They absolutely belong in prison, I just don't think it should stop with the C suite.
This is not technically correct as best as I can ascertain.

When we think about AA, it is a representation of sub pixel occlusion. As such, using uniform tristimulus to sample the “in between” value is incorrect.

There is simply no “correct” approach because there are no known models that properly model visual cognition.

What we can say though, is that the intermediate subpixel should not sample RGB tristimulus, but a loose nonuniform representation that approximates the lower order visual signal representation.

When discarding signal, RGB tristimulus is more “correct”. When interpolating the signal, approximate lightness is more “correct”. Some solid analysis is available here: https://hhoppe.com/filtering.pdf
- Computer Shopper (US) was nearly 50% as thick as yellow pages.

- PC Magazine varied from 30-50% of Computer Shopper

- PC World was comparable to maybe slightly thinner

- BYTE preceded all of the above with homebrew computing

For software development, there were:

- C/C++ User's Journal

- Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) (dr. dobb's journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia)

In the unique department:

- Whole Earth Catalog (and Whole Earth Access stores, and The WELL)

Speaking of BBSes, tinyfugue (originated from D&D MUDs) was used in Stanford's IT department as a networked chat app like Slack or IRC for sometime. I wonder if they kept it going. Many shops are moving away from IRC and onto apps like Mattermost.
If you want to make that argument, you need a better foundation than "Idiots like the author need to shut up forever". That kind of comment simply doesn't belong here.
The Red Green Show did comedy segments on both these concepts:

Turkey in a dishwasher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y4RV8pcY0

Turkey in a car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niegc7QcilM
The fact that smartphones encourage video creating and not encourage programming is the essence of the topic.
Also smartphones discourage to have a "real talk" because of touchscreen is better to spam animated smiles instead of text.
Also smartphones discourage to use a "real software" because they are shaped to be an environment for spyware.
Also smartphones discourage to use a "real web-browser" because apps are just "more native" webpages without tabs, scale, ability to change fonts and all the nativeness is about to steal as much data as possible.

What can I do to stop the conception of "real work" to be nebulous?
> routinely opted to move from history-on rooms to history-off Chats to hold sensitive conversations

The way this is worded there's no record, so there's no "slated for deletion"?

I guess the question becomes, if it exists inside computer memory, is that legally equivalent to "writing down piece of paper" and thusly is considered destroying evidence?

If I write something in disappearing ink (let's say it perfectly disappears), it's not destroying evidence? is it?
When I look back through mine, it tends to be for projects I worked on ages ago or to find some obscure app or file I know I had a copy of at one point and has good chance of sitting somewhere in my labyrinth of old system backups.

Not strictly useful I guess, I think there's value in being able to engage in one's old projects more deeply than screenshots can allow. It can be a bit of a trip to look at code I wrote 5-10+ years ago.
Every year or so I make a folder in Downloads called “old” and put everything in there (including the “old” from the last time I did it).

When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.
I used to have some fear of flying, and listening to channel 9 helped me get over it, because I learned more about how safe and expected turbulence was, and how familiar everyone was with the various procedures and in-flight events.

I'm not sure everyone would have the same reaction, but I found it very calming. Maybe the fact that people like to listen to ATC conversations in order to relax is a good sign for the likely effects on many passengers.

It's true that you could occasionally learn about an error or a dangerous event that you wouldn't otherwise have been aware of at all, but I also think many passengers would be impressed by how professionally problems are usually handled. I've been on two flights that had to divert (for a bird strike and a passenger medical issue, respectively) and one flight that had a missed approach and go-around (in very high crosswinds), and, while none of them had channel 9, I'm quite confident that ATC was prepared to handle these situations and that many passengers would also have been impressed to have heard those conversations.

I'm happy to admit that getting more information about what's going on wouldn't always be comfortable or reassuring to everyone, though.
Combi-ovens are predominantly equipment that belongs in commercial kitchens, but nowadays, there are a few options (still not very many though) that can actually fit on a home kitchen countertop. The two notable ones are the Cuisinart steam oven (~$250-300) and the Anova Precision Oven (~$700); these are the low and high ends of the price range.
Again, by what criteria are you saying we're currently in a recession? Every period in https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 shows that we're not in a recession when our GDP is currently rising consecutively...

Your original comment was insinuating political figures are changing the definition. I'm assuming you mean if we just had 2 consecutive quarters of GDP decline then that definitively means we're in a recession... But that is objectively not the case by the figure you just told me to look up. We're in 2 quarters of real GDP increase.
> but maybe one day

There you go, summarised for you.

You can hand wave about quantised models til the end of time but specifically this model is a trivial toy model.

No amount of pondering about the future avoid the fundamental fact that small models (~7B) are inferior to larger models like GPT.

It’s dishonest to suggest otherwise. :( There’s no reason to do this other than selling snake oil.

Maybe. One day. In the future. Things might be different.

right now they are not.
Here is an annotated version of rustc's `--release --target aarch64-apple-darwin` assembly output, for the fast version of my code that runs in 500ms.

Annotated https://gist.github.com/cormacrelf/4b2b37d1d870377d548b3a32a... and full Godbolt https://rust.godbolt.org/z/aKK4TEs3x. You may be interested to see the LLVM Opt Pipeline, any of the green passes (non-zero diffs) that are called LoopUnrollPass or LoopVectorizePass.

You can see that it does a couple of LoopUnrollPasses and LoopVectorizePasses. In the end it results in a transformation from something like this:

for (uint32_t i = 0; i <= 0xffff; i++) {
if (in range) acc += 1;
}

to

u32x4 v1 = [1,2,3,4];
u32x4 v0 = [0,0,0,0], v5 = [0,0,0,0];
u32x4 v6, v7;
uint32_t w8 = 0xfff8;
do {
v6 = v1 + [4,4,4,4];
v7 = v1 >= 0 && v1 <= 1;
v6 = v6 >= 0 && v6 <= 1;
v0 -= v7; // add 1 to each lane if lane was true in v7
v5 -= v6; // add 1 to each lane if lane was true in v6
v1 += [8,8,8,8];
w8 -= 8;
} while (w8);
return element_sum(v0 + v5);

That is basically unrolled x8, and then the loop body is grouped into two groups of four vector ops. You also save a lot of time by vectorising the sum operation over 8 lanes. The only non-vector operations in the loop body are on the w8 counter. The ratio of real work to "increment checking" is 8x better, and because we unrolled multiple ops into the loop body, we were able to vectorise it and run it in parallel.

Re "how does it know when it's finished?": it counts like normal, as you can see there, it uses a register to count iteration. Unrolling does not mean "completely eliminate the termination check" unless your heuristic/supplied unroll threshold is larger than the (known) number of iterations. It generally just does the termination check fewer times by taking bigger strides. It's like walking up stairs two at a time.

The answer re compile-time-full-evaluation: compilers use heuristics and pattern matching, they don't automatically try compile time evaluation for things they don't recognise. Nobody would have bothered to write a heuristic to detect "count floating point values in range" and eval it. There is no compiler pass to arbitrarily try to execute eveything in your program at compile time that's remotely possible.
This reminds me "Uncle Roger Review CHEAPEST WOMAN EVER" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQ8_mX9juI
Raw fish served as sushi is generally frozen to -31 F for 15 hours to kill the bacteria before it is served raw. I would not eat grocery-bought salmon raw unless it is "sushi grade".
The photograph is unmistakably Donor/Schwarma like. Just pork instead of lamb or chicken. Pastor árabes must be the ultimate crossover food, chicken tikka marsala with mushy peas 0r Chinese take away chips and curry have nothing on this.
It would nice if you could somehow deprioritize folders so that the files within them don't show up in the top N results in Spotlight, because yeah it's probably not useful for it to present source files from that one sprawling project I forked and tinkered with a couple years ago.
> Imagine the world where you could trivially train a model entirely on the client side, without uploading all that data to the cloud.

You just rediscovered "Federated Learning", but FL also allows you to benefit from the training being executed in other edge nodes, all without disclosing any data.

Instead of sending the data to the training server, they send the model to the users to train on a few batches of user data, then average the models from everyone.
It's surprising that AZ gets only 9% of its energy needs from Solar. Will installing batteries for storage bump this up to a significant percentage? If so, how much?
Every week I select all in my Downloads folder and delete.
It's possible to take a text only model and ground it with images. examples are

blip-2(https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS/tree/main/projects/blip2)

fromage(https://github.com/kohjingyu/fromage)

prismer(https://github.com/NVlabs/prismer)

palm-e(https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimodal...)

now assuming gpt-4 vision isn't just some variant of mm-react(ie what you're describing), that's what's happening here. https://github.com/microsoft/MM-REACT

images can be tokenized. so what happens usually is that extra parameters are added to a frozen model and those parameters are trained on an image embedding to text embedding task. the details vary of course but that's a fairly general overview of what happens.

the image to text task the models get trained to do has its issues. it's lossy and not very robust. gpt-4 on the other hand looked incredibly robust. they may not be doing that. idk
If it was possible to guarantee that only felony-level criminal activity is banned, you might have a point.

Realistically though and as we have seen with ChatGPT, if models can be censored they will be censored to the point where it affects normal people. Most people using chatbots have experienced "as an AI model, I can't do that" because of bullshit ethics.

So... sorry about your savings Grandma, but I'm still going to fight for uncensored AI models. Fraud is already illegal, and if it happens we can prosecute the offenders.
When you're too cheap to invest in vacuum sealing and sous vide.

Also not to be outshined by coffeemaker rice if you don't enjoy ingesting heavy metals from mostly American-grown rice (soil issue).

https://www.instructables.com/Cook-Rice-in-a-Coffee-Maker/
Add to that that our neurons are more complex to point neurons used in typical Artificial neural-nets.

A single pyramid neuron in the neocortex might be more comparable to a multilayer neural net.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.25.465651v1....
The advice you are getting so far sucks. The default security settings on macOS are easy to bypass: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/hacking-myself/

Unfortunately these are design weaknesses, so any "software stack" would just be a bandaid.
You have no idea of what you're typing about, nor about how content ID works online for music. Ai music generators are specifically designed to circumvent content ID.

Ai generators put music and other content in a blender and then scrambles the source samples until they are unrecognizable and then mashes the tiny cut pieces of source samples back together into a collage. Kind of like putting a strawberry into a smoothie... It's no longer a strawberry, but the smoothie now has the extracted taste of strawberry AND the other original materials used to source the end product. Content ID only recognizes strawberries and whole fruits, not smoothies.
You're explaining accuracy vs precision, which I get.

The answer actually was: Yes, there's only one instrument. So yes, you can't average out systemic biases. So yes, I guess you can say something about

"We measure eccentricity zero with 1 part in 1E+17, which is really precise, but you'll just have to trust us it's also accurate."

Anyway, we know what everyone meant.
Unless you're buying locally caught Salmon at a fish market, it was almost certainly flash frozen. Even if it's not frozen anymore when presented in the store.
I asked chat GPT-4 to write me a rust program that recurses all files in my external drives, generates a xxhash of each file, then inserts it into an RDF graph.

That way I can scan for any files I don't have centralized before wiping out each older drive, and query for specific cases.

It's also nice to recurse the old unimportant video files and re-encode them with ffmpeg vp9 or av1, opus, so they don't take up as much space. Get rid of those raw video recordings and xvid/divx codec videos.

Re-encode all your old 7z, .zip, bz2, .tar.gz into zstd compressed files. It can also save a ton of space.

Buy manufacturer recertified HDDs, you can get like 18TB for $190 or so. Buy a few and put them in a truenas server. Hoard all the data you want, forever.
Have you noticed any differences in your ability to form internal imagery while awake? There’s a post on Reddit where the subject appears to have had that ability affected by Lions Mane.
Privacy VPN providers are in a unique position to offer this as an add-on. NordVPN recently started offering Meshnet which effectively accomplishes the same thing as Tailscale, Zerotier etc. I vaguely recall another privacy VPN provider (maybe PIA) used to offer this as well.

Seems like a good value add-on for services that already require setting up encrypted tunnels.
4. We have all the in-house support staff we need and only want to use the self-support license, but since we're a service provider we were forced into the CCSP program where each license costs a lot more.
While the literal translation means "under vacuum", it is generally considered to refer to precise temperature control because that is the benefit of sous vide.

It is possible to sous vide without a vacuum bag in a steam oven, or in certain ovens with temperature probes.
Some of the comments in this thread are heartless.
Somebody else had listed elsewhere — but I did leave off laundry detergent!
I'm in the market for this. How do you get around scrape blockers? For example Target and Walmart are tricky to get the markup for even with services that specialize in this like scrapfly.

Do you guys have indie friendly pricing? I don't have $500/month to spend but could do $20/month.
Sponsored content from cleantech.

https://www.canarymedia.com/our-sponsors
> How about someone who’s been sentenced for stealing, which they did in order to feed their kids?

Current valid defenses against a charge of larceny include amking an honest mistake, being mentally incapacitated, and having the intention to restore. If you believe that "immediate physical need even without an intention to restore" should be a valid defense against this criminal charge as well, I'm with you. I don't think we disagree on that. The law does, but it's much easier to convince people that certain specific acts should not be considered criminal than to convince them of the justness of rehabilitating actual criminals.

So, as far as I can tell, such examples have no bearing on the question of rehabilitation at all: why would we need to rehabilitate somebody who's not guilty in the first place?!

If somebody is guilty of a crime, however, how could eventually letting a perpetrator return to society, get a job and do something productive _not_ be a further unjust act against the victim?

Almost everybody agrees that the state helping perpetrators of a crime to get revenge on their victims would be twisted and heinous. I'm sure you agree too.

But living well is the best revenge, and that's exactly what rehabilitation is: preparing an incarcerated offender to live well (function as a law-abiding member of the society) after their release, and by that further torment their victims.
The bottom edge of the door usually isn't a tight seal.
My theory is that when the thinking mind acts on what is being seen, that is what triggers the awakening in the dream.
> In the enterprise though, where security is tight, no one is going to build containers based on Alpine

:shockedpikachuface:
Yes but security is done at each individual gate which makes a massive difference. And the staff is nice and polite. I don't remember ever queing for anything at Changi and I've used it so much. It's about the only airport I don't hate these days.
Also that statement is kinda silly "everyone would switch", very broad and sweeping.

That's way easier said than done to convince our clients that "oh yeah, we're using not-RHEL now". We'd have to guarantee some self support to them in that case, in order to alleviate their fears.
If you write it as an SQL query in ClickHouse, it will take only 0.170 seconds:

SELECT sum(reinterpretAsFloat32(number) BETWEEN 0.0 AND 1.0) FROM numbers_mt(0x100000000)

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.170 sec. Processed 2.39 billion rows, 19.08 GB (14.02 billion rows/s., 112.13 GB/s.)
Ironically at google's scale(size and global timezone footprint) the inefficiency this default setting creates likely burns millions every day from work that gets blocked or knowledge that isn't discoverable.

Organize the world's information, except if it might make us look bad.

This is the pennywise pound foolish leadership that has taken over.
Yes.

Also just in general convincing employees that it's ok for them to act against the employee's interests but the employee acting against the company's interests is a fireable offense.

The balance of power has skewed towards employers for far too long and they have gotten really comfy in their spots.
I don't think it's wordplay. I think they are saying it's like sous vide but not.
A lot of us have been waiting for a Python project to contribute to because we don't know .net.

Other than that I predict a lot of growing pains. Media management seems simple until you run into a new use case every day.
Show HN: pliron – An extensible compiler IR infrastructure written in Rust
I have attempted to write an MLIR like extensible compiler framework in Rust.

The project is still nascent. I have just gotten a simple "hello world" (introductory) code constructed.

My write-up explaining some design decisions: https://github.com/vaivaswatha/pliron/wiki/Introducing-pliro...

tags: compilers, intermediate representation, MLIR, programming languages.
Almost no corporations pay for RHEL in any meaningful quantity. It's corp IT who pays for support and subscriptions, not production webops.

Cell phone manufacturers and social media companies run collectively around 100M CentOS servers that I know if directly.
Until you have an unlocked wheel, you don’t know what you’re missing out on.

On the other hand, gestures in Firefox, specifically “Scroll to Bottom”, have made me miss mine less. Also, unlocked scroll wheels get you banned within seconds on Counter Strike servers for input lag.
I remember them, and I have to tell you the Commodore and Atari 68k machines were not obvious winners. Ugly software, ugly hardware. I know this isn’t what fans of those machines want to hear, but Apple’s design aesthetic blew them and the PC away; Apple was simply in another league.

Late 80’s Macs had the best user experience available. Again, this isn’t a popular take, but it is absolutely true. “Apple’s marketing prowess is what sold them” is bullshit; Apple was better at selling, but not so much better that it could overcome perceivably middle of the road products. Apple’s industrial and UI design led the industry. Everybody else followed.
Could it solve NYT’s Spelling Bee efficiently?
The IRS Got Audited
This is 100% the most effective way to do it for anybody interested in trying. It doesn't even take all that much practice. I got it on my second attempt.

I'd disagree slightly about how awake you want to get though. Obviously don't turn on any lights or stand up. But force yourself to be awake for enough time to get your bearings or you are going to lose consciousness too early.