skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The candy offering is absolutely distinct. You can find some of it at standard stores, but not all of it, and not necessarily next to a theater. The popcorn is of course an iconic part of the experience. And if you want your Twizzlers and popcorn, why not just buy the $6 soda to make life simple?

But all that aside, the process of going to the theater and standing in line and getting your overpriced junk food does add to the experience for many people, even if just due to nostalgia. Waiting in line to buy an overpriced sandwich at the airport is not an experience many people crave or are nostalgic for.

EDIT: I don't know what to tell you all. The specific set of junk food at movie theaters in the US is a culturally significant phenomenon. Like most cultural phenomena, it is not universal, but it is universally known (or close to it by anyone who grew up in the US). And for some people, sneaking food into theaters, in response to those high prices, is a culturally meaningful experience! The point being, food and theaters have a cultural history that is meaningful and nostalgic for many Americans. Not so with airports - where hungry people buy shitty food at outrageous prices because they have no choice.
33TB of text data for a 1T-parameter model
> Paperback and ebook versions out now in the UK, US, and Canada. Audiobook available in US and Canada.

Hopefully, as an Australian, some time soon I'll be able to buy this work created by an Australian...
All those domains can still be pointed at the same deployment. The only extra cost is registrar and DNS, which is not much.

Usually the reason for this kind of setup is better SEO.
The problem is that for-profit businesses like OpenAI have more money and compute than even millions of volunteers. I definitely believe we'll get an open GPT-4 eventually, but by then OpenAI will have GPT-5, and so on.

It's a shame really: the ultimate cause is the massive amount of wealth inequality we have today. If private entities and governments didn't have so much resources compared to individuals, I'm certain an open-source AI would be the biggest, because open-source has intrinsic benefits over closed-source: you have many people all working on the same project vs. multiple siloed groups, and anyone not affiliated with the private service is biased to use and support the open one. This is why the best operating systems, programming languages, and other software are all open-source: more money != better software, you don't need money to build software as much as you need intelligence and work ethic. But with AI, the #1 limiting factor is web-scraping required to get all of the data, and GPUs to train a model with it (maybe also money to pay Mechanical-Turk workers for simple classification; but perhaps enough volunteers could beat this, plus it seems like unskilled classification is becoming less important since the models can do this on their own).

That's not to say open-source AI won't be great, and I also think most places will use it. Especially if OpenAI is too expensive and/or disallows what they are trying to do. It does put pressure on OpenAI to be more lenient with pricing and acceptable use, and also to keep improving. But unless we address the massive wealth inequality, which is why LAION has substantially less funding than not just OpenAI but also some of the other startups, it's going to always lag behind.
Why do Google employees get public IPv4 addresses for their dev machines? Aren’t we running out of IP addresses?
Maybe "toilets" was meant more in the sense of "bathrooms"?
Botting can't be prevented anyway due to the analog hole. People are already making HDMI-capture + USB HID emulation devices for that purpose.

Outright manipulation of game-state is a classic computer security issue. Just don't trust the client, calculate that on the server. I believe many games are doing this properly already but especially mobile games still suffer from it because they trust the client more to paper over intermittent connectivity problems.

The information-disclosure kind of cheat, wallhacks and such, can be addressed by game design that minimizes the amount of information exposed to the client.
Germany begins powering down its last three nuclear plants
DOMiNATIVE – Bring Front end Frameworks to Native app development
The format of the fediverse is anti-virality and anti-discovery. It's also anti-index. It's a joke that anyone thinks it could ever compete with Twitter. It's not for a lack of interest or advertising.
Feature Storage for Real-Time Recommendation Systems with Nvidia Merlin
Whisper.cpp now has CoreML suppprt
Turmeric glows???
This is different specifically because many people do not want to prohibit their children from accessing online content or a government and GateKeeper.
I would say that they seem to recognize that they need to appeal to the users of their products and not just those users’ managers

Some of them recognize it, but not everyone. The company also seems to be pretty heavily invested into monetizing users to the hilt with telemetry and advertising. This is the sort of approach that will slowly drive people away from the platform, as users gradually tire of the ever-increasing intrusiveness of the ads.
just to avoid any misunderstanding: by "you don't even get decent dual-band GNSS receivers that output raw data but don't have integrated RTK like in ublox M8 times" I meant… "like in ublox M8 times" for single band.
Anki would benefit so much if it were handed off to a new author. AnkiDroid (the third party Android client) is arguably the best Anki client, because the official ones are held back by the author's incredibly poor taste in UX.
To clarify, running this WebLLM demo doesn't need a 3.5k MacBook Pro which costs $3.5k :-)

WebGPU supports multiple backends, besides Metal on Apple Silicon, it offloads to Vulkan, DirectX, etc. It means a windows laptop with Vulkan support should work. My 2019 Intel MacBook with AMDGPU works as well. And of course, NVIDIA GPUs too!

Our model is int4 quantized, and it is 4G in size, so it doesn't need 64GB memory either. Somewhere around 6G should suffice.
Damn smurfs, good point. I would be defenseless. In reality you would go with a multiple angle approach but you are certainly correct. Behavior modeling would suggest you’re the GOAT. 100% of the time.
I remember a few years ago, when the big internet was talking about censoring the fringe (and calling it not censorship) that there were people talking about how the discussion follows the fringe and you can't silence the fringe, you can only push them elsewhere. And now, the government, still mostly monitoring the big internet, predictably misses the very impactful information exchange happening where it was driven to.

Will they learn their lesson? Well, that requires a genuine desire for self reflection and improvement, so I doubt it.
Only if the product has completely inelastic demand? Also, that'd depend on the goal of the tax in question?
Sometimes I start edge when something does not work in firefox. Everyone knows you want your browser to be quick, snappy and use few resources.

What does Edge do? It shows you a unskippable, un-closable "how-to" (as if I've never used a browser), and a make-an-account-and-sync nag. It takes a minute to click though, what a turn off!

It hasn't popped up for me in a while, but it definitively happens sometimes.
It's the same thing for electron that freely propagates as for the one bound, for example inside atom or a molecule. It's just that the shape is different.

I think it's worth mentioning it's not exactly a probability understood as a theoretical chance of something being somewhere. This wave function is what actually is the physical reality. But we can't measure this reality without interacting with it and when we do interact multiple times and interpret those interactions as if they were caused by pointlike particle being in particular spot then we see that results of those interactions have distribution matching this "probability" "cloud" (square of a wave function).
Or you can be angry at an exploitative situation and try to change it for the better, rather than just resigning yourself to expect better treatment that is not conditional on price gouging.
That's fine for a small number of computers, but it doesn't scale.
The parent commenter said this:

> People [..] freak out about this because [..] in 99.9% of companies, running code on an engineer's workstation would immediately be the highest possible level of breach.

So it's not selection bias, it's a counterargument. The poster also said engineer not "VP-level".

So, your comment is not really relevant.
It's a perfect way for an APT to get a foothold in your environment. Imagine if you could check in a unit test that "downloads updates" from somewhere and executes them. Now you've got 30 devs on that floor running your arbitrary code without any paper trail. And since we (generalizing here, I know) have this culture of thinking test code is junk anyway, is anyone going to scrutinize it or just click "approve" and move onto the stuff they think is important?
I've been burnt out for the last 5 years.
it's not hysteria to report people for crossing the line and blatantly breaking computer security law.
On my last trip, I noticed that a cup of coffee in an airport is now $4. And that's just for a paper cup with black coffee in it -- not any kind of special latte, etc.
I've previously written an algorithm that generates random floats in any [a,b], which can generate all possible floating point values, including subnormals, with the proper probability, and does so quickly for any choice of a and b. [0]

[0] https://github.com/camel-cdr/cauldron/blob/main/cauldron/ran...
If you're reading this and thinking "damn, I wish this was in a two column format like a scientific journal paper", you're in luck! https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/blog/2023/autom...
You're assuming that the push will follow reasonable conclusions. That's now how government works. They will try to come after encryption, they will use an event like this to do it if not this one, and I believe they will fail.
Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet
Polish Army Uses Matrix
Many places don't allow the transfer of uninspected fruit and vegetables to prevent the spread of disease.
There are plenty of models and workflows now for getting the hands right now and there has been for a few months.
Also note that Copernicus' heliocentric model retained the geocentric model's epicycles on circular orbits. It really took Kepler to make a better model. And it was better because it was explanatory to boot, and not only predictive.

At some point, the metaphor of "loss minimisation" starts to break down. When we're talking about science, there's much more we want to do than minimise some loss function- that nobody has ever written down anyway. We want to be able to say "this is how the world works". The language of function optimisation is simply not the right language to do anything like that.

Even Vladimir Vapnik turned to poetry to try and increase the information available to statistical learners. Let me see if I can find that paper...
> better yet if you use Clear.

Fuck you very much for normalizing automated tyranny.
I can offer some insight onto this, as I used to be in close proximity to a friend who worked in the concession group at the LAX version monitoring this policy.

It was called the 18% price protection policy program where concessionaires had to quarterly list 3 comparable vendors for each item sold showing how their item offered was only less than 18% above that of those found within a 10 mile radius of the airport. In reality, it was too much asked of low skilled and low margin vendors with power to enforce not being exercised due to managements prioritization of more pressing matters.

In reality, there was little by way of enforcement, it was too much regulation to pass down to those vendors even, with that being only 1 of 5-10 policies an excel sheets they had to provide quarterly data on, entered manually. They vendors had so much turnover themselves and employees who didn't specialize in providing that sort of data, they would always fall behind with all the policies and regulation they had to comply with that enforcing it on them was hollow and without power. And when they did provide data, it was poorly formatted, required man hours to read and research and in the end might not even have been a valid "comparable" data that was provided, but, to verify their data provided would require manual audits of physically inspecting 10-100 individual comparables that were given that it was a nightmare, and thus, never got done. There wasn't enough staff at either the vendor nor the airport authority to properly see the implementation of the price protection policy.

The city could technically use its power to make it a priority, but, there were always much more urgent matters at same position that it was a on the back burner, it seemed.
My only difference to that is that the positrons and electrons went in opposite directions on the time axis from the initial big bang event. I love the idea of a single electron being the scan line of the universe (to make an analogy to CRTs)

Assume you take the normal x,y,z we “know” from reality and separate them out into 3 distinct 1 dimensional lines.

Add another 1d line for time.

We can see you can’t simultaneously move both “forwards” and “backwards” on any of these lines.

Postulate: for time, matter (from our point of view) can only move in a singular direction from t=0 onwards (we’ll call this positive), antimatter can only move in the opposite from t=0 (negative).

And, unless there is momentum in any of the spatial dimensions the particles travel on the t axis at C. I.e v=C on the t axis for matter And v=-C for antimatter.

Second Postulate: the cumulative velocity of all particles must equal the speed of light

Any momentum in the spatial (x,y,z) dimensions subtracts from t: explains time dilation (as an adjunct)

v(t) = C-(v(x)+v(y)+v(z)) (very very simplified for this)

Finally matter / antimatter annihilation is the equivalent vv, as is the case for any direct impact of two masses of equal mass and velocity. Giving us e=m(cc), in a general sense without all the pesky gravitational warping of space and time.

Btw: I’m not a particle physicist (can you tell) but I did have this thought while developing code for a physics engine in a simulation game I was briefly involved in, so far I’ve not invested heavily in all the mathematics, but since I’ve just retired I might actually do so.
Or the comment was written by a dog
VB6 was a fantastic tool that managers with really bad programming skills could make useful fully functional products.

I don’t know of a good equivalent replacement that people can use today with such a low entry level.

Excel covers a lot for many people.
Those replies from Google are infuriating. I hate that kind of condescending, overly polite corp-speak. It's like talking to an LLM.
Fresh fruit is usually subject to customs restrictions for international travel due to concerns about agricultural pests, I don’t think this particular case was collusion with the airport vendors (but these days you never know).
While N95 masks actually work, most of the cloth masks do very little.
But there was a huge shortage of good masks for the first year, and WHO was terrified of fights over masks if they recommended N95.

(The trick of N95 masks is that they have a charged electret layer in the middle. That will capture particles smaller than the holes in the mask. It's not like an HEPA filter, which is purely mechanical.)
Because they signed a contract with some Web3 firm back in 2021 and it's just now finished, most likely.
Sir a Ferrari 296GTB is a supercar
More like a hundred years of obvious capitalist propaganda. Marxist theory is taught in normal economics courses in China, a country projected to be the largest economy by the end of this decade, largest economy by GDP PPP, largest number of people who escaped poverty in the last x decades, etc etc. Argue it's because of capitalism sure but LTV or Marxist theory are not "debunked" lol.
It’s a multi-million dollar business now. Make a cheat, add a paywall, charge people. Lookup “The Wiggle That Killed Tarkov” on YT [1] (nvm, here is link). This is an epidemic not some leet hacker proving he’s master over his domain. It’s kids and young adults paying Mr.X $9.99/mo to see thru walls and auto shoot your dome.

[1] https://youtu.be/p5LfGcDB7Ek
Homophones are aggravatingly common. Can a bear bear it? It was just a fluke I caught a fluke using a fluke on a fluke while a fluke waved nearby. I took a bow on the bow. etc.
> Really does feel like a pre-9/11 world.

Says the person opting into a biometric surveillance dystopia.

Are you for real?
> I absolutely despise writing documentation

You really should learn that skill because it's very important in most software companies, and mandatory for some fields like the healthcare industry. It is, like unit-tests or code coverage, a skill that makes a difference between a developer and a senior developer.

Also my pain point is when documentation is not written when it's so easy to use nowadays with files in a docs/ directory, wikis, or comments like Doxygen. We don't need more tools, we need discipline. I'm still trying to understand what your service could bring me, and why I would pay for this.

Last but not least, in the comparison page (https://documentationlab.com/blog/best-software-documentatio...), you describe Read the docs as a tool when it's only a web site to store user-generated content (from Sphinx or any other tool). That's why it's more confusing.
Personally I just find it easier to push everything to the cloud and not deal with RAIDZ and failing disk drives. Maybe I’m just old.
IMO one of the killer use cases of GPT is reformatting information from any format X to any other format Y, and we're using this superpower in the relatively "boring" space of data extraction:
https://kadoa.com can turn any website into an API.
> I’m declaring the demise of these two dead-tree publications as the end of computer magazines in this country.

According to TFA, 2600 and the various computer magazines in one of the photos featured in the article don’t count since their publishers are based overseas. 2600 is from NYC, but it has characteristics that disqualify it as a proper magazine.
> Do you own a TV? Did you buy a Sceptre? Why not?

I do, I did not, because my TV is old enough to not yet be "smart", and because Sceptres are literally not available anywhere in my country. Am I now virtuous enough by your standards to point out how hostile manufacturers are to users?

> The fact that people buy smart TVs in large numbers is proof

Hey I wonder if you asked ten random people if they knew their smart TV was reporting the contents of their USB sticks and their viewing habits to 3rd parties, how many would answer yes? This is the same revealed preference tortured logic that concludes people don't care about child labor because they still buy chocolate. Out of sight out of mind.

> If you are happy setting that bit, then the problem you are complaining about doesn't exist

Then this is a recent development, because in 2017 even Google was unable to get rid of IME: As of 2017, Google was attempting to eliminate proprietary firmware from its servers and found that the ME was a hurdle to that. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#By_Goo...
The Mental Health Industrial Complex
What about McDonald's? They sell a chicken sandwich for about $5, and I'm sure there is a McDonald's in every city you've been in.
CS 1.6 required it when Valve shutdown the WON servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network
Strange that if package exists in both local and remote repos, the remote takes precedence.

Downloading from local is more natural, imho.
Modern OSes practically require an SSD. The difference in performance is particularly noticeable on Windows. HDDs are great for local backups still.
I feel like this is a major design flaw in the package managers being used. If people have to squat package names to mitigate the chances of a dependency confusion attack, then the package manager/package repository needs to find a better solution.

I think this is something GoLang does a great job at. To use a package, you have to specify the exact URL of the repo. This mitigates the risk of dependency confusion since an attacker would need control over the domain to upload a conflicting package.
I’ve avoided flying like the plague for several years now.

But I don’t remember having trouble doing this in Europe or Canada.

It’s not publicly advertised because airports prefer you go to the overpriced airside concessions they can charge obscene rents for, and airport workers just know where it is; they don’t look it up.

Next time you fly, ask a janitor or other airport employee (the ones in the shops don’t always know and/or eat at the concessions because they have discounts) and see for yourself. It was typically ground staff, janitors, security guards, baggage throwers, public transit employees eating there.
> Not to mention the Microsoft Zune was definitely a dud.

Can't comment on the ecosystem since back then my only option was piracy, but the second and third generation players were very good. The HD is still one of the sleekest pieces of hardware that I used. But Apple couldn't be beat at that point.
The growth-hacking folks around here should realize that from the perspective of the Fediverse there is no such "contest". This is probably the biggest difference why Twitter is by no means an alternative to Mastodon. There's no need to grow at all costs, move fast and break things, do crazy things to get engagement levels up, no commercial incentives, valuations, VC and shareholders to satisfy. The Fediverse is a network created by people, for people, and it is noticeable in the culture.. if you stop the frantic growth-hacking and take the time to discover it.
What law does it break if you publish a package that displays a popup and somebody else voluntarily downloads and executes it? There's no maliciousness, no harm done, yet somebody would find a way to get you prosecuted for it because the legislation is vague and 30 years behind.

Meanwhile the actual bad guys are getting away with draining bank accounts and dumping databases with millions of peoples' personal information.
i have read many studies that claimed a gene had no function in a pathway after performing knockout and observing no effect.

there are many great research papers, but there are also many flawed ones.
Boston College's FM station WZBC has a program No Commercial Potential, which plays lots of experimental sounds, some of it sounds like MyNoise Flying Fortress. Everything depends on the DJ and their mood, but some of it has this vibe.

https://www.wzbc.org/after-hours-ncp
Yeah, I know that, but the import restrictions for Canada should apply, and they're different from the ones in the US. (I'm not trying to imply collusion so much as overreach.)
> While nothing has happened at Rust events yet, that may very well happen.

You know what, you make a good point. It's only a matter of time before there's a mass shooting at a technical conference in America. I mean, we have them in schools, theatres, churches, malls, grocery stores, sports events, parades, concerts, parks, banks... why not a technical conference? Best avoid them altogether in America unless you're carrying.

> It would be stupid if anyone to accept that a business's existence can depend on the mood of an entity that has shown it to be adversarial to people or companies that it disagrees with

In that case, I guess we can't use any languages made by corporations. As an independent language developer, I appreciate that your point of view can work out in my favor, so I can't really disagree with it!