skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't trust what sama says. Period. He's shown his willingness to deceive for gain. He deleted the codex model because it was better than the text model and only way to explain it is that by training on code instead of just text of human interactions the model develops stronger reasoning abilities (because of higher clarity around logic and higher signal to noise overall in the training data.) So he removed that so researchers don't catch on. Also, why 1 Trillion params is the limit? Why not 2 Trillion. He's been begging for regulations and trying to pull up the ladder behind him. Just really "street smart" thinking but I have not seen any elevated humanity serving thinking coming form him. He would not have taken $100M for a non-profit to do open source research only to bait-and-switch into for profit closed source sold to the highest bidder. Give me a break. Don't believe anything he says (well, use your brain, as he may mix truths and deceptions with the goal of deceiving his competitors... he's not out there to do a service for humanity... if he was, he would have kept it open and non-profit, not basically steal the funds of the non-profit to pocket $29B from it.) It's ridiclous.
I've always thought about the fact how it used to be super common to ask a stranger for directions somewhere, something that would be completely ridiculous today given the ability to find anything yourself. So now when I happens I recognize that they aren't strictly just looking to get somewhere, but to talk to someone.
They'll give it the premium tier at least
Nowadays, we have both. Use GraalVM if you care about smaller memory footprint and faster startup time.

For the immediate, REPL-based development flow, a VM is a great host platform.
Fabrice Bellard is also the original author of QEMU.
> By prioritizing and cutting flights severely (about 7,000), and even adopting methods of air traffic management that PATCO had previously lobbied for, the government was initially able to have 50% of flights available

It does a bit further down.
I'm guessing context here is a pointer or a handle?
That's how life was before smartphones.
How? My eight year old daughter gets to roam free and has seven or eight different kids she plays with on a weekly basis. A few of them daily. We’re not worried about her getting carried off because the area is super safe. We lived in the city before and it was dangerous and the neighbor had a crazy pitbull chained up that’d break out all the time so we couldn’t let her out of the house. It’s also very diverse, her friends parents are from Ukraine, India, Jordan, Vietnam, China, and those are just the people I’ve met. The American suburbs are an excellent place to raise children.
>For decades, affirmative action has served as an essential tool for colleges to increase diversity on campus. Now, with the Supreme Court seemingly poised to ban the practice, higher education leaders are scrambling to mitigate the fallout and come up with strategies to accomplish diversity goals.

It sounds like they're preparing for it by coming up with strategies to completely ignore the spirit of the ruling and continue with business as usual.
> Is it an OS or an advertisement platform.

OS for enterprise customers and Windows Pro users who know how to use Group Policy.

Advertisement platform for everyone else.

Sad times.
The stack exchange article seems to ascribe the risk to using MD5. While adding a (global or appended data) hash as you suggest cannot hurt, I wonder if the suggested weakness exist for sha-512.
But this is a benign papercut that you fix once per a few years here and there, but Linux would have many more and deeper cuts (and your sad truth is not true, there is a limit)
In what way is it not?

The movement of water molecules is typically much slower than the wave speed of water.

When you turn on flow to a filled pipe, the water is reluctant to enter the pipe faster than other water is leaving the opposite end (mediated by pressure waves).
Strikes me more as self reflection and critique than hatred. The former could be pretty handy if the goal is to live more sustainably than less aware predators.
I want to thank you for the advice to “use the right tool for the job” because it’s certainly not banal, prosaic advice that is invoked in every technology discussion.
I tend to lose friends every time I start talking about Emacs.
We have neighbours like that. Some people are just super introverted.
Interestingly, Google themselves seem to be at least somewhat aware of this - though it may just be an accidental side effect of trying to drive user engagement on YouTube.

I’ve been noticing an occasional “Show me something new to me” prompt showing up in my YT feed. It has literally never provided anything I was interested in watching, but I appreciate that they’re trying to burst bubbles.
That "opinion" sounds nothing more than parroting the marketing BS.
No, cherry picking would be relatively easy to spot. What's actually hard is to determine what you actually measure.
I think there's unsettled legal issues for companies wanting to use these.

And of course, releasing non-commercial open source software with commercial support contracts is a perfectly fine business structure, though obviously not Facebook's.
I appreciate you replying, and my sympathies for the posting weirdness - I was worried that I had inadvertently caused a karma trap.

From what I recall (it's been ~ 5 years), at least on OpenJ9, the potential SIGSEGV's for null references occurred in code generated by our JIT compiler, or in hand-rolled assembly, and not in code generated by any C translation unit. This may well not satisfy the standard, but honestly, at that point, I'm not sure any FFI-linked code will.

If you find this distinction insufficient, and still require the use of a JVM, if my memory serves correctly, -Xrs on OpenJ9 will avoid using those trap handlers. I don't believe this is true of Hotspot.
meh. i just bought a punkt mp02. i'm tired of this smart-phone BS.
Just the wording in that particular post made it seem like a lot of work. I have had 'friends' like that in the past, and if you need things to 'pile up' so you can hold a conversation, and you find it hard to motivate yourself to do the logistics and make time, maybe they're not the most compatible people for you.

However I can't judge, because I personally dislike group hangouts, so I can understand if conversely someone finds arranging 1:1 meetings difficult.
From the amount of people confused here, I'm doubting this.

It is very interesting. But that doesn't make it good at teaching.
> But I suppose when you try to stick with it and use the system there is a part of the brain that really tries to look past this stuff, and then one day you look at what it is with clear eyes and find yourself so disgusted you have to write about it.

Maybe a combination, plus, like any OS user, you learn what you like and don't like, and you customize it to get rid of the stuff you don't like. I'm using Windows 10 and there are very, very few things to complain about 99% of the time. But sure when I do a fresh install, I'm reminded of things I don't like for roughly 5 minutes, and then I don't think about them again for like 2 years straight. So you can see why it wouldn't matter?

On the other hand, if you use Windows 11, and you don't disable the News and Weather widget, you will be reminded constantly how horrible it is. (I tried Windows 11 on a laptop for a few hours, and it a trash party.)

Now, I tried Linux Mint for just over 2 months, and lots of things were awesome, but there were things that sucked, and I could not for the life of me fix them, including losing brightness controls in situations, very frequent hangs on boot, and some games playing much, much worse than they do in Windows. (There were also a ton of games that played just as well as they do in Windows!)

It's the problems that are in your face, especially if you cannot configure around them that will eat at you over time.
Google recently said transformers wouldn't work ...
He's finally catching up with me. I wrote an article about that a few months ago.

https://twitter.com/igorcosta/status/1612704076315389952
Yea, I think I feel this from the other direction. I'm not that much older than a lot of my friends, but I've lost many of them over the years to marriages and children. Many of them moved across the country or at least a large distance away to facilitate that, but even the ones who stayed nearby justifiably made their life about their spouse or children over their friends, and there was often little to be done to keep myself involved in their life.

On the other end, I've also dealt with many long-term couples without kids who have gone through messy breakups after 5-15 years of relationship, which often left all of their friendships in tatters, if if they didn't move away entirely and cut all contact.

Add to that that many of the single folks I'm friends with are increasingly desperately trying to find a partner and sacrificing time with their friends to make that happen.

I'm not sure what the answer is. I'm now in a zone where I don't want to move because I don't have somewhere to move to that has more than a couple people I know, and I wouldn't want to lean on them so hard to be my social connection, but increasingly the folks I know where I live now are leaving, physically or emotionally, to make their own life without me.

It's understandable but consistently brutal how fast you can go from someone's best friend to someone they haven't remembered to respond to in months as soon as they have a family of their own.
Between Rest and Overdrive: Are Great Investors Lazy?
Active Desktop and MS DHTML was awesome. Insecure as hell for "consumers", but awesome. VBscript/Wscript on/in the desktop as an application was really useful.
Thank you Vipul, you and the others are really doing god’s work and have the full support of myself and my academic research team, who are eager to push the boundaries with data, prompts, and investigations of whatever you release (in fact, we have spent the last couple of months working to produce multi-lingual prompts and enriching the few open models we had so far). Just a very quick point of feedback.

While I am not a lawyer and Apache 2.0 is likely to be unproblematic, I always find it puzzling as to why people recently are opting to license non-software using software licenses (Apache 2.0 in particular). Hopefully you have access to sensible lawyers, but I was always under the expectation that model weights would fall under a license such as CC-BY rather than Apache 2.0. Sadly it has been too long since I read the recommendations and justifications for this, so I can not find a good reference, but seem to recall the advice came out of FSF.
Oh, man, if you don't think the difference is important it's because you never had the wrong bird on your hands.
Transactions and joins are the parts that are tricky to implement in a performant way in distributed systems. No SQL systems generally scale well by leaving those features out. Or at least heavily restricting them.
The first time, you're presented with a prompt to choose your default search engine.
Dropbear is also very portable to lots of architectures and OSes, and runs well on small systems. I endorse it highly.
Show HN: Govscent.org
Hey HN! Govscent is a project to do topic extraction and summarization for all bills going through the US congress, via ChatGPT, provided to the public for free. The name means "gov-scent", like, smelling the government. :)

We just passed 130k bills analyzed.

At the moment we only have bills going back to 1993, but soon we'll be adding all bills and amendments going back to the 1st congress.

Right now there is only text search of the topics, but soon you'll be able to jump to a specific bill, etc.

It's something I've been building off-and-on for the past few weeks. Only about an hour or so a week so it's still rough around the edges. My partner has helped too, as her first frontend-ish project. Contributions welcome! The parsing code to handle the responses from the LLM is very naughty, if you can stand it.

The data is also available for free, read-only via the API: https://govscent.org/api/

It all runs on a single Linode today so be kind. :)
Isn't that article / researcher saying the same opinion the submission article is responding to? JetBrains about 9-10 years ago made those arguments and claimed to work on providing the tools to solve those challenges.

I'm kind of curious what actually happened in that time. I've actually seen a few of these research projects over the years, i.e. providing tools to build languages with automated IDE and debugging support. Ultimately, I think (like the submission article's author) that it's something else holding adoption back. It may simply be lack of a convincing use case, e.g. industry adoption by one large company could make the overall approach (DSLs) more convincing.

Now DSLs or DSL-like languages are of course in use in many orgs but they very often aren't more than configuration languages and often embedded in something else. Very rarely do they get complex enough to warrant debuggers. So I think we a) still lack good examples of DSLs being worth it, or b) a more convincing argument why today's methods would benefit from building a whole new language (incl. tooling).
Presumably you are able to understand that your preferences and your sweet spot is not the same as everybody else's, and would be open to considering that you might be significantly far from the middle of the spectrum. So I don't see the "however".
They can go ahead and put an extra gig of basic apps on there as long as they keep making models with microsd slots.
All the basic electric circuit theory is just based on a bunch of simplifications that only apply under certain conditions. You get anywhere outside of assumptions for those simplifications, and all kinds of "weird" things start happening. And they're weird just because you're failing to abandon the simplifications, and start looking at Maxwell equations which are a bit more fundamental.
I think 1:1 is best for close friends who you have a strong connection with, and groups are better for more casual friends. You can have a group hangout with people who in 1:1 format you'd struggle to converse with. Personally I don't have any of those friends anymore so I don't do group hangouts.
You consider 10 "good"? Maybe compared to 8, but not anything before. It's gotten consistently worse with each new version since ~XP. 8 was a massive nosedive, 8.1 a slight improvement over 8, and 10 roughly the same, and 11 another nosedive.
Yea, I also definitely feel this. I was roommates in a large house with 3 good friends for a few years and I definitely feel like I'm better friends with all of them now that we don't live together.
If containers had been a thing, many of the wild MS ideas of the early 2000s wouldn't have been actually crazy.
The most negative thing I see in that article:

> At some point, the costs associated with conserving an additional drop of water exceed the benefits,” she says. But, she notes, if solar expansion is inevitable, then maybe hanging the panels over canals could tack on some extra benefits that might not come from building elsewhere.

Which is only counting part of a positive, and excluding the value of the electricity.

> cheap land elsewhere

Not really sure where that's going to be in California, what are you thinking?

And then if you use distant land, you have to pay for new transmission, which dwarfs the costs of solar panels and inverters.

Solar hardware is incredibly cheap these days, and getting cheaper by the day. Putting solar panels instead of non-generating materials will miss out on all the benefits of how cheap solar PV has become. We should think about PV panels a lot like microcontrollers: so cheap that they can be thrown into all sorts of applications that would have been shocking 20-30 years ago.
> I spoke to my 16 year old about this the other day. He's pretty laid back, and in a fairly responsible friend group. They all hate Nintendo. Love their products, but hate the company, precisely because of this sort of thing. A lot of this gains them nothing other than resentment.

The hate is worthless in Nintendo's eyes: All that matters is whether or not they'll keep buying <Insert Nintendo product here>. And for most people, they'll continue to buy 'em.

Unless their revenue significantly suffers, it will be business as usual.
Ask HN: What is a good book about how computers work?
Monitor, hard drive, RAM, CPU, etc.
Because they can't do it "in a swirly." It took them many years and a tremendous amount of money for Apple Maps to not be laughably bad.

They can absolutely build a solid search engine with enough money and time, but what would be gained? It's better to just collect Google's checks.
I listened to that podcast but didn't catch the part where he says he isn't that excited. When was that?
War never changes.
I’ll admit I only skimmed it for a few minutes but I found the code really nice to read through! I highly doubt it is compiled output. When the entire code base essentially just consists of a single data structure I think that a single file, even if it is long, is perfectly appropriate. What I’d suggest for reviewing it is to code fold all the methods in your editor and then expand each one as you get to it. Props to the author for such an elegant implementation.
>The sad thing is that you'd think the revenue coming from license sales to OEMs would be enough for Microsoft to not resort to these blatant attempts to make Windows an advertising platform, but I guess it's not.

I'm not defending Microsoft here, but just about everyone else is doing that same thing (and not just tech companies, auto, appliance, consumer electronics manufacturers and many others are doing this), so why wouldn't Microsoft do so as well?

Microsoft isn't the problem per se. Rather it's the lack of effective privacy regulations. GDPR (sadly, I'm not in the EU) is a start, but is still far too weak to reverse the perverse incentives that lead to your coffee maker[0][1] spying on you.

Yes, that example is (I think) an outlier, but I used it to point up just how widespread this sort of thing is.

But we shouldn't let Microsoft off the hook for that reason. We should bash them (and everyone else who does this kind of thing) and do our best to vote with our wallets/feet.

Failing that (for whatever reasons), as others have pointed out, Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows allow you to turn this garbage off.

[0] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/14/chinese-sma...

[1] I'd note that the article linked in [0] has some pretty blatant China bashing^W^W jingoistic undertones. That said, concern over this sort of thing out of China is definitely a concern, but less so (at least to me) than the US/Western corporations that are doing at least as much of this disgusting stuff.

Edit: Clarified prose.
That’s because you should switch to Vim, then you would have more friends.
Premium won't save you from Raid Shadow Legends. I don't know how but they'll put ads in your dreams if you're not careful.
One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang.

The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists.

It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me.
You're not some kind of exception, either. 12% of Americans have no close friends. Another 7% only have one.

https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-a...
> Windows really should just rebase on to Linux

No, it should not. The NT kernel architecture is drastically superior to the Linux monorepo.
Yeah I didn't mind 10, it was reasonably consistent and, at least in my experience, fine in terms of perfs
> How do you feel about going to a restaurant in your own country and not seeing any English? How do you feel about going to a restaurant and the server not speaking any English?

There was a Ranch Market down the street from where I used to live in Phoenix where they didn’t even pretend they were located in the US — everything, and I mean everything, was in Spanish.

Which I didn’t mind too much as they had pretty good prices and I know enough Spanish to not starve to death. The deli was actually really good.

There was another Ranch Market that specialized in Chinese food. Never ventured into that one because I knew if they had Lucky Cats I’d have a Lucky Cat. Talked to one random guy who’s wife (think he said she was Vietnamese) would go there to buy live fish and other Asian delectables.
> I've never wanted that feature

Same for the obligatory stocks feature every OS is obsessed to put when (certainly outside the US) only a tiny minority of people trade stocks.
You're hyperfocused on the school part. The point is that there exist places for the government to widely distributed hallucinogenics. We don't do it because spiritual awakening has absolutely nothing to do with understanding reality and is utterly useless.
You're no longer the customer. You don't pay for the operating system, so you're the product.
Pushing the Limit of 1-Minimality of Language-Agnostic Program Reduction
There's a concerted disinformation campaign out there to try to insinuate that solar panels break and then poison the ground. Here's a podcast covering some of it and the funding mechanisms that help push it:

https://overcast.fm/+0-PqLPM34

People will believe anything with the right confusing language. Throw in "rare earth minerals" and everybody gets as scared as if you call water "dihydrogen monoxide."

https://dhmo.org/facts.html
And that was earth, so are we asking the right questions?
Building Syntax Trees in Prolog with DCGs [video]
By that logic the sun's rays should be causing buildings to topple randomly. You say a lot of words that sound right but are 100% batshit.
**ing Microsoft. I was trying to compare editions of Windows, and ended up on this page (don't click it) which commandeers your back button for exactly zero (valid) reason: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/compare

Anyway, at least officially[0] omitting the News and Weather widget is not a feature of the Pro version to my knowledge, but perhaps you found better options for disabling it? Can you enable the weather widget without the news feed? I would love to learn how to do it if I ever end up on Windows 11 again for some reason!

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compare-windows-11-h...
But How Do It Know?

J. Clark Scott
Or too low, and you mentally check out.
> Sprawl exists because it’s nice.

I think the vast swaths of single family homes have much more to do with restrictive single-family zoning rather than just because there's demand for it. In many areas, there is clearly demand for more high density housing as well, but often mixed use developments are not available under restrictive zoning laws.

I hope someone more qualified than I could expand on how the FHA influenced the development of single family homes, along with the history of redlining.
I have a recent Samsung Galaxy and haven't once accidentally triggered Bixby. Long press on home button is google assistant. I'm sure I disabled some Bixby settings when I set up the phone but at this point I don't know how to open it even if I tried.