skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally, I think open ai believes they will build an AGI and rule the world with importance before everyone realised they just steal and compress everyone’s stuff and sell it via hosted database.
I'm curious how this will play out for BlueSky with some fundamental human readability vs. decentralization tradeoffs such as the ICN naming tradeoff (http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/ICSI_naminginco...) and Zooko's triangle. Often folks point to biometric binding for DID's to get around Zooko's triangle, which is problematic from a privacy/trust standpoint.

Other systems such as Mastodon avoid running into these problems because of direct and implicit use of DNS for the namespace. (And use of DNS embedding in DIDs ends up undermining the value of flat naming.)
Culture has changed a lot since we were kids. Online communication is integral, disturbingly so since covid. They'll still hang out, but less than we did and they'll miss a lot since everyone except them was part of the online component.

Pre-social-media I grew up with no TV, only Christian music, limited movies and a whole host of other things that isolated me from my peers. It didn't do anything but build resentment towards my parents and make me thankful they have no say in my life anymore.

I don't now the best approach with kids these days since I don't have any. But I strongly doubt it's the "strict no" route.
I think you misinterpreted my comment. Calling the National Post "ring wing" is not some kind of slur. I would similarly call the Toronto Star "left wing". They all have their leanings, that's all.
Inflation literally doesn't hit everyone equally, prices are set in local markets, not fixed at a national scale.

Things like federal mortgage subsidies probably cause more inflation in less affluent regions where housing is less competitive than they do in affluent regions (where the competitors for housing aren't particularly pricing their offers to the largest payment they can afford).
This seems to be a rant against "them TikTok kids" and "tehno appropriation and commercialization", yet I'm not really sure. What is author complaining about?
Humans are the universe asking who made it.
With parking minimum and maximum laws in effect, on top of other regulations against building things (such as parking garages and housing), it's far from a free market.
Yeah, the poor parsing around "moved this turn" is a known issue that I'm going to look into fixing this week. (Someone actually mentioned it yesterday on our discord – they were attempting to make a card with the text "At the end of your turn, if this robot didn't move this turn, restore 2 health to this robot": https://discord.com/channels/301800217055985665/301800217055... )

"At the end of your turn, destroy this robot unless it moved this turn" or "At the end of your turn, destroy this robot if it didn't move this turn" are definitely phrases that ought to parse correctly, and there's already in-game support for these mechanics (it's purely a parser issue).
Yeah what is this?
And PM Modi and Home Minister Shah are busy in election campaign in Karnataka state. Dozens of tweets for Karnataka in last few days, not a single mention of Manipur violence on PM's twitter account. BJP is power in Manipur.

https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1654784919607070721
Interesting fact, although it also doesn't provide any information about latency.
Absolutely. Everyone knows that the colour is octagon, by international standard. (-:
Hey, thanks! I wonder how many years/decades that little feature's been there without me ever knowing it!
I built a toy neural network that runs in the browser[1] to model 2D functions with the goal of doing something similar to this research (in a much more limited manner, ofc). Since the input space is so much more limited than language models or similar, it's possible to examine the outputs for each neuron for all possible inputs, and in a continuous manner.

In some cases, you can clearly see neurons that specialize to different areas of the function being modeled, like this one: https://i.ameo.link/b0p.png

This OpenAI research seems to be feeding lots of varied input text into the models they're examining and keeping track of the activations of different neurons along the way. Another method I remember seeing used in the past involves using an optimizer to generate inputs that maximally activate particular neurons in vision models[2].

I'm sure that's much more difficult or even impossible for transformers which operate on sequences of tokens/embeddings rather than single static input vectors, but maybe there's a way to generate input embeddings and then use some method to convert them back into tokens.

[1] https://nn.ameo.dev/

[2] https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/deepdream
Nope. I'd rather there not be a thing called a stock market at all.
I'm suspicious of permaculture because I had a friend back in the early 2000s that got into it with a local group and it seemed almost like a cult and they didn't produce enough food to feed a couple of hamsters that I saw.

He did buy all the Mollison books and talked about how he was going to get land and hire people to do the work. I never figured out how he was intending to pay the people with the 20 gallons of persimmons he was optimistically going to get.

I'm an agronomist by training so it was especially irritating arguing with him having been around at-scale food production, and this went on for months as he was totally obsessed.

There are some interesting theories in it. Like catching water on a hill with terraces. Which people did in earlier times and maybe still do in certain parts of the world. A lot of things that people living a simpler life found out a long time ago presented as a "system".

My takeaway though is that (as practiced anyway) it's a bit of an culty scam, but there are worse ones and people being outside and around nature and growing things is in sum a good thing in my opinion so maybe I'm being a bit harsh.

Anyway, I don't know everything, but it just doesn't seem practical at any scale to provide calories. I'd probably feel better about it had I not heard this guy's impractical cultish preaching for months. I hope he is doing fine wherever he is and got his land in the end.
1-2 years (longer for really obscure languages). But it's going to be ass on anything but animation because the speech won't sync to the words (although that too is probably fixable in about the same timeframe, maybe +1 year). I personally like subtitles, AI dubs will be better than recast ones but not that much better. I'd rather listen to more languages than hear everything in my own. Obviously this would be a godsend for blind people or those who struggle with reading in some contexts.
I still receive the occasional email from this bug report, about being able to force excluding undesired noise from search results:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844

It's been open for, I don't know, 5 or 6 years? (checks the link... yup, actually 11)

Another one I'm subscribed too, also related to search and discovery, is this one about using boolean operators:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297852

I commented in a recent thread about GitHub at last being able to search for "WORD" and finding "-DWORD" in results, they took somewhere around 6 years since I had the need, so it was a welcome improvement... so maybe 2023 will be "the year of search on the desktop" and Thunderbird will start improving its UX for searching emails? Who knows.

Meanwhile, it's been my go-to email client for ages, despite this shortcoming which I had to learn to live with. The UI for searching past emails is very bad, so ironically I ended up changing habits to avoid having to search at all (not the ideal outcome of using a tool, but here we are)
The interesting question —- I’d appreciate any links —- is how to change our programming patterns to get the most performance out of NVMe SSDs. I’ve seen before that it takes a lot of parallel requests to saturate a fast NVMe drive —- but how to change our application architectures to generate such a workload?
Sure but none of that should fall under "maintenance". Apple makes a new SoC and needs to optimize Logic for it? Fine, issue a paid upgrade but make it optional since it has 0 impact on my M1 Mac. They add a new feature like Dolby support? Again, make the update optional if it's paid since a lot of people (me incl) don't care about it. The entire point is to not cut off access to one's offline workflow if money is tight which is absolutely possible for tools like Logic and FinalCut.
They do leave invisible buffers, commonly referred to as over provisioning. The discrepancy between GB and GiB is ~7% hiding in plain sight, and then more expensive enterprise drives are commonly sold in (usable) capacities like 960GB and 7.68TB rather than 1TB and 8TB.
It's worth noting that, when iron first appeared, it was not superior to bronze on just about any metric other than cost. But you need to use iron at scale to figure out steel...
That's assuming you don't include a header that will somewhere have some

#if defined(__cpp_rtti)
Some ABI- or ODR- breaking code
#endif

Given how much of these ifdef I can find by grepping on the repos I have cloned on my hard drive, I would in practice really not be too confident about mixing -fno-rtti with -frtti code
same here, I can't justify upgrading for a few more years, but definitely planning on framework for my next laptop, what they're doing is really cool
FYI we are extremely lucky to have good audiobook versions of all three of Pynchon's big novels:

Gravity's Rainbow (George Guidal)
Against The Day (Dick Hill)
Mason & Dixon (Steven Crossley).

I highly recommend Pynchon, you have to relearn how read when reading one of his more dense works. It is a demanding experience in letting go of your expectations, need to understand and general framework for reading normal books you have probably relied on most of your adult life. The work of unlearning and relearning how to read is a reward in itself but additionally Pynchon is just so much smarter, more well rounded, and politically conscious than similar Big Dense Novel writers.

Take for example how Pynchon focuses so much on the Herero people and the genocide Germany inflicted on them (in 1904-1908) in a novel about WW2 (Gravity's Rainbow). It feels anachronistic and unrelated until you step back and see Pynchon's argument about war, colonialism and whiteness venting off the brutal inhumanity of Europe until one day it inevitably came home. This has become a much more popular way of framing WW1 and WW2 as time has gone by (because it is the right one) but Gravity's Rainbow was written in the 70s long before people were really talking about things this way.

Pynchon in my opinion diagnoses the sickness and violence at the heart of western society and tracks how it evolved into a globalist structure of business in the 20th century better than almost any other writer.
Likewise. I find that I regularly hit roadblocks with GPT3.5 and then switching the convo to 4 (in the Playground, so I can just change the toggle on the side), 4 often gets it right. Increasingly, I just start with 4.
Assuming you're an iOS user, that's a thread you really shouldn't pull.
Deeper than that! Such fundamentals as 'the stack is accessible by code' goes back to Fortran. C doesn't need that. The call stack and the 'display' stack could be different things and no C programmer need care.

This is the root of attacks that rewrite the return address of a kernel call. If the return address were managed/protected outside normal data operation this would not exist.
Interesting. I think that the connotations these phrases have to you are very different than the connotations they have to me.

To me, the meaningful part of "walled garden" isn't the "garden" part, it's the "walled" part. It's like "gilded cage" -- the important part of that is "cage", not "covered in gold". "Gilded", like "garden", in these contexts, implies deception to me.

But even so, "ecosystem" has very positive connotations to me, no less positive than "garden".
This is really interesting. Could this lead to eventually being able to deconstruct these "black-boxes" to remove proprietary data or enforce legal issues?
Implement jmap then!
Or a magazine named “Sky and Telescope” may understand, being fairly niche, that its readers don’t need the obvious ones answered.
Maybe you should give Decker a spin: https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

It runs on all popular operating systems as well as the web, uses a novel multi-paradigm scripting language, and includes a powerful mechanism for defining re-usable "contraptions" which behave like smaller nested cards.
>The WASPs of a generation ago didn't need to cheat; as long as they could graduate they were almost assured of a good job.

Do you have data to back this up, or is it just lazy racial basis? Also Jared Kushner isn't a WASP.
Agree. What's your primary DAW? Ableton here.
Companies astroturffing bad news is the rule on every aspect of their business, not just sec fillings. An example: down here in Brazil, and pretty much in all of Latin America, CocaCola changed their formula on the classic Coke, reducing the ammount of sugar and mixing it with artificial sweeteners. They started rolling out this change mid 2021, and for someone that absolutely hates the after taste of artificial sweeteners like me, it was an obvious change. I haven't had a Coke since, to me it's dead. But anyways, if you try to find any mention about the change in the formulation of CocaCola on the brazilian version of Google, you only find articles about the new "Zero Sugar Coke" formula, and no news AT ALL about the change to the original Coke. Even in Facebook and Twitter, any search for "coke changed formula" always retrieves posts about the new formula of Coke Zero on the first results. These companies have gaslighting departments, that's part of being a corporation in 2023.
> If your concern is that the researchers failed at picking confederates whose race, judged by appearance, would be interpreted the way the researchers expected it to be, close enough to 100% of the time to not have affected the outcome… I very much doubt they failed in that way.

That’s a legitimate concern since the methodology on how “racial phenotypes” of “Black” and “non-Hispanic White” were identified for the confederate pairs is not identified. We know their assessment of the race of the subjects whose behavior is studied is measurably lower than 100%, because they actually have reliability data on that by comparison with a second rater.
I find it so strange that IEEE-754 SQRT(-0.) is -0., even though (-0.)*(-0.) is +0.
Of course, all is well for government shills. Dismiss every negative news as one of the following:

- Western propaganda
- Anti India forces
- Foreign hand
- Pakistan
- Anti-nationals
What about this makes it a pain point? Is it the amount of time that it takes to deal with cheating, the inability to effectively punish the behavior, the impact it has on the professors' (and perhaps some students') morale, or something else?
And faster, safer and future proof. I wouldn't be surprised at all if most 30+ years old software ran better on modern machines under a VM than say on 15 years old hardware without emulation.
A three year old article was discussed yesterday (from the Washington Post, 2020 - referenced in this article) - there were even comments in thread about the article being dated (perhaps OP used the wrong URL). This is the result of 11th circuit appeal of that 2020 judgement (which upholds it), opened in 2021 and closed.. yesterday.

Maybe the Bloomberg Law article is a bit clearer ["Apple Fails to Fully Reboot iOS Simulator Copyright Case"](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-fails-to-revive-c...)
I was about to make the same comment. It was a remarkable machine. I remember buying it in 1995. It was so small that it could fit into a shirt pocket. I was in college at the time, and I remember that I had an old Radio Shack dot matrix printer that I could hook it up to. It was a real step up from the TI-85.
Cold-Resistant Trees
> or that it's mostly common sense to tell what you do with other people's personal information

We had a very restrictive privacy policy. We never shared or sold any information with third parties. We contractually stated this.

But that’s not enough for GDPR.
Why is it "pilfering" when the computer program does it, but "learning" when a human does it?
Elon Musk Flirts with Conspiracy Theories About Texas Mall Shooting
> Responding to a tweet that referred to this fact as a “psyop” — short for a psychological operation, usually employed by counterintelligence military personnel — Musk said it was indeed “the weirdest story ever or a very bad psyop!”
OmniPaxos handles partial connectivity when other protocols can’t
Electrical Characteristics of Telephone Lines (2023)
I do not think it is feasible to store all of YouTube videos on SSD. Google must be using spinning rust for the long tail of videos.
It’s important to remember that this was a specific policy decision. Earl Butz[1] famously said to our farmers “Get big or get out”.

I don’t have the background or inclination to prove it but my conviction is the death of the small town, and the ancillary costs like the meth and opioid epidemics can be traced directly to the “fence row to fence row” approach he pushed forward and still exists today.

[later] thanks nickt for pointing out I left off the footnote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz
Funny that we never quite understood how intelligence worked and yet it appears that we're pretty damn close to recreating it - still without knowing how it works.

I wonder how often this happens in the universe...
Interesting. An odd rabbit hole. I've never heard of this kind of thing existing before Ubuntu wubi, (though I don't know why that surprises me, it's not like they're was no need for such a thing before that):

> DragonLinux was a distribution of Linux that had the ability to be installed on a loopback file on an existing FAT16 or FAT32 partition.

https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/dragonlinux/

In the readme linked there, it says something different:

> DragonLinux is a Linux distribution which runs on top of windows with no partitioning needed as long as the Windows OS is sitting on a FAT32 partition. DragonLinux is fully supported on Windows ME and below. Work for support with Windows 2000 and Windows XP is in the works.
>
> DragonLinux is a UMSDOS distribution, compared to a Loopback filesystem of vr2r1... That change was made to eliminate the 2GB disk space boundary with the previous version, and to simplify installation and expansion (ie the file system grows as needed).
>
> The Full Version is a fully loaded version with GNome and several other smaller window managers, and the full line of tools for GNome. The lite version is a full console version with everything from the full version excluding the X environment, therefore being able to be run on older machines.

Looking this up more brings me to umsdos project, a filesystem that apparently runs on top of another filesystem

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_filesystem_and_Linux

This brings me to loadlin:

> loadlin is a Linux boot loader that runs under 16-bit real-mode DOS (including the MS-DOS mode of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me startup disk). It allows the Linux system to load and replace the running DOS without altering existing DOS system files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin

And then there's also grub4dos

https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos
I would suggest that aging endurance athletes who are struggling with injury and recovery look into cycling. In my local community there are a lot of guys in their 60s and even 70s who enter 100k and 200k races and touring events
Speech recognition is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was in 2001/2010, driven by a combination of deep learning and massive datasets. I'm actually working on a similar concept (speech recognition for Mandarin language learning) and even accented speech is becoming less of a problem.

I haven't tried differentiating tones for discrete words with the recent batch of generic models but I think it might still struggle. I suspect a fine-tuned task-specific classifier might be needed for decent results.
That didn't address what I wrote even if I was American, which I'm not.

While we're off on this wild tangent though, do you feel the same way about the hypocrisy of the ruling class. Do you think Barack Obama, Al Gore, Bill Gates, et al have "no right to complain" about emissions generated by us commoners?

Would that be a reasonable response for everybody, whenever a politician or elite says emissions need to be reduced? Stamp their feet and say no, because we deserve to emit as much as you do?
You know how you already know that you don't want to eat chocolate pudding with chopsticks? It's kind of like that. Wrong tool for the job.
Is there any app on iOS that can start using a microphone in the background without you explicitly starting it?
Probably the biggest ground-up rethink of SSDs that I've seen is the Samsung SSDs with a key-value store mode.

Like, think about it, a filesystem is really a database, right? Copy-on-write even makes the "transactionality" explicit. And a lot of high-performance databases will go farther and skip the filesystem and treat the device as block storage... which it is. The filesystem is a leaky abstraction with filesystem blocks and flash pages and flash block erasure, etc.

Well, what if the SSD was just an object store? In that model you slice away a bunch of layers of abstraction and just let the SSD worry about all that. SSD says it's committed? Alright then, guess it is.

Obviously you are very much at the mercy of the SSD to implement ACID correctly however...
Yes.. legally
Depends on what you want to emulate (do you want access to phone capabilities), but this is the first link I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuUnjO8eUEw
In system/process design, you generally need feedback in a system to operate optimally. Rather than try and create a system that can be set up and left alone - which will eventually get gamed or otherwise become unfit over time - we should aim to have feedback to continuously adjust and improve our systems.

For the highest level functions of our society, this feedback is humans and politics. We need a politics that allows issues in the financial system (and all other societal systems) to be assessed and changed over time, responsive to the needs of the people.
> It turns out using Git, which is almost always used with a centralized 'remote', to do federation, which needs to be weakly consistent, IS A BAD IDEA!!!!!

Given that a user owns their feed, I'm not sure why this is a bad idea?

I want to take this critiques here seriously but there's not a ton to grasp onto. It definitely didn't feel great that AtProto built from bare ground, reinvented json-schema & OpenAPI for no reason. But ultimately this is one of a number of grievances that feels like doesn't really matter. It's stupid & dumb but in the end it doesn't matter. It's hard to tell which of these points really have hard & real impact. And which are just bias.

The general feeling is an unencumbered letting out of biases, which makes it harder to trust.
The ISO standard for Ada 2022 has been published
So you have no real argument.
A kevlar jacket isn't going to help stop your shoulder from dislocating as your flail around tumbling end over end at 100mph.. which is what dislocated the shoulder in the first place.