skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are able to entertain millions of people around the globe while doing it and some build incredible wealth at the same time.

I think you meant hoard incredible wealth?

There's a limit to how much wealth you can actually create with immaterial entertainment alone. Even a best seller book: it takes time to read, so while it provides value to millions of readers, it also removes value in the form of opportunity cost. No way around choosing what to do with your own time.

Other alternatives have more potential. Educational content could lift some people out of incompetence and help them build actual wealth (say a very good programming or sawing tutorial). Writing useful software could also create wealth, even more so if it's Free (and free). And of course, building stuff (while taking care not to deplete our resources or burning up our planet…).

We say that people "make" money, but that's a dangerously misleading idiom. They don't actually make money, they extract money. Hopefully this money is actually earned in proportion to the value they actually injected into society (make a chair, get paid for the chair, all fair and square). But never forget that the people who "make" the most money generally do so by taking it from other people. Employers, landlords, stakeholders… who get most of their "earnings" not from what they do, but from what they own.
Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution
A transformer-based method for zero and few-shot biomedical NER
The e-reader itself is slightly larger than A4, at 224mm×302.6mm. Since the front case of the device is white, zooming in slightly would give a reading experience similar to holding an A4-sized piece of paper, when reading documents with white margins.
> So why does the email to their investors say it will be in stock in just 8 weeks, whereas their website says 52 weeks?

That's simple - because the production batch that covers all the remaining backorders is already on its way: https://puri.sm/posts/where-is-my-librem-5-part-3/
And its more expensive than estimates for storage+renewables over its intended lifetime. With nuclear you pay extra to have to change the system less...
You aren’t understanding. They can’t change the old unpublished APIs because it will break the old devices. We use those to get the videos without the ads.
Feels more like a polemic against the Pakistan military. For example unlike how presented in the video there was majority public support for the first military coup of 1958 in Pakistan because that was a period of serious political turmoil. Pakistan went through 4 prime ministers in 2 years and the public was agitated by the unstable economy especially regarding water canal issues and it seemed like the military could come in and bring some stability.
Android launching ‘Find My Device network’ for tracker tags, headphones, more
That was a bad way to make the point, because you could serve five orders of magnitude higher with PHP, or node or go or python or pretty much any language right now.

On top of that, You don't need massive k8s infra for any other framework either, so it isn't really a selling point for PHP itself.
AI will now be generating advertisements on the fly. That's how Google works. This is basically start of a new era of marketing/advertising.
nbdkit memory 10G --filter=error error-rate=1%

... and then nbd-loop-mount that as a block device and create your filesystem on top.

Notes:

We're working on making a ublk interface to nbdkit plugins so the loop mount wouldn't be needed.

There are actually better ways to use the error filter, such as triggering it from a file, see the manual: https://www.libguestfs.org/nbdkit-error-filter.1.html

It's an interesting idea to have an "evil" filter that flips bits at random. I might write that!
I get a 403 Forbidden for all URLs under laphamsquarterly.org, maybe they reject readers from Europe.
I'm struggling to come up with examples where one man would consciously steer the mankind into some different direction - closest we have to such "steering committee" is probably UN. So I don't see Paul or any other individual significantly impacting the way AI is adopted (at least not in a way it is portrayed today - as a global game changer / new era enabler).
TikToker exposes how much people pay for rent
> Nobody Writes JavaScript Any More

This is how "delightful" it is, and is the reason I'm waiting for it to die.

Every couple of years we decide on the 'no no, definitely this time we have it all figured out, trust us, just use X' "solution" to the problem of JavaScript. We have the definative 'this is how you do it', until the next one.
This is another addition to a whole slew of tech / "hip "marketing videos inspired by the format of Apple's "iPhone 7 event in 108 seconds - Don't Blink" ad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6sz25OZgw&pp

I think the original was pretty interesting and worked in context, but doesn't work for every product.
Thanks, this looks promising
In Appalachia that's just called storytelling. :)
https://archive.ph/bGEXc
Yeah. Top-down vs. agile. Cathedral vs. bazaar. "The right thing" vs "worse is better". And, as you said, the agile/bazaar/worse-is-better camp totally out-executed the top-down/cathedral/do-it-right approach, to the point that OSI is only a theoretical model at this point, and TCP/IP is running in everything from supercomputers to washing machines.

Another one of the "well-done in theory, but left in the dust by reality" approaches: X.25.
I’m sure they have plenty of funding but it must be pretty stressful to watch the cash and runway go up in flames like that.

First Bard starting to catchup and now the open source alternatives too.
Additionally with an ever improving grid in Europe local variables such as weather or seasons be can also partially balanced.
They can never win this war. Eventually you’ll just have an AI pre-loading videos as you browse and trimming them down to remove ads.
> It's the BMX of the languages.

How should I interpret this? The language is cool? Can perform cool tricks?
The Dark Side of Defamation Law
I would argue that broad collaboration requires the written word. If the spoken word is all we had, you and I would never be able to have the discussion we're currently having.
It doesn't there are millions of IPv6 only devices that can connect to IPv4 only sites. See US mobile carriers.
They also mention this:

> Moreover, there are several other considerations besides the optimal training loss,
such as training throughput and serving latency, which affect the decision regarding the optimal model size.

And they also mention, right before that, that "lower training loss" might not exactly mean "higher performance":

> However, the training loss is not a perfect proxy for downstream metrics. For example, the 8.95B model, which shows the lowest loss (Table 1) and is closest to the optimal model, slightly underperforms the 14.7B model on downstream tasks. This suggests that while scaling laws can be used to achieve optimal training loss for a given quantity of FLOPs, this does not necessarily transfer to achieving optimal performance for a given task.

That might be a random outlier, but ...

The Chinchilla scaling law describes how to balance parameters and training tokens to achieve minimal training loss for a given amount of compute. Low training loss is a good proxy for model performance (intelligence) but perhaps it is somewhat off?

For example, Chinchilla says that for optimal loss, we have to scale training tokens and parameters equally (50%/50%). But perhaps for optimal model "intelligence" we need something slightly different, e.g. 60% parameters and 40% training tokens.

Of course this seems somewhat unlikely, since it would mean such models are systematically smarter but systematically worse at predicting text compared to Chinchilla optimal models trained with the same amount of compute.
Same goal, different strengths / weaknesses.

GitHub has really focussed on preventing credential leaks. It's particularly good at scanning for highly identifiable patterns and preventing pushes that include them. That makes sense for GitHub: they're in the best position to prevent leaks (by rolling out push protection to all users) and they're big enough to influence the industry to switch to using highly identifiable patterns for API keys. However, it's at the expense of scanning for unstructured secrets (like passwords) where GitHub isn't as deep yet.

TruffleHog has focussed on scanning for credentials _after_ they've leaked. They scan for a broader range of things (including unstructured secrets like passwords). That naturally has a higher false positive rate, which they combat by automatically verifying some of their findings (by making requests to the corresponding services). GitHub does that too (for patterns it can't push protect) but it hasn't gone as deep on it yet. The delta is relatively small, though - as you can imagine, it's a long tail of patterns / credential types.

Right now there's space for both solutions - you want prevention when you can get it (without creating a bad developer experience with false positives), but you also want breadth. In the long run, though, GitHub is probably better positioned to offer both.
> "tree shaking" (the JS ecosystem's way of spelling "dead code removal")

I’m not altogether against giving it a different name. It’s very limited compared to what proper ahead-of-time compilers manage. I’d really like to see some actual effort put into partial evaluation and symbolic-execution-guided code simplification and dead code removal. Google tried something a little like it in Closure Compiler’s advanced optimisations mode, many years ago, but hasn’t really kept it up; and Facebook tried some five years ago with Prepack, but quickly gave up on it for unclear reasons.
PG jumps the shark.
I've been building on Laravel for some years now and I'm always delighted how you can just ctrl+click and see the internals (and the magic). They're pretty modular and extensible/overridable.
It's only a half-informed thought. I work on a project that compiles a domain specific language to C and C++. When I think about JavaScript as a codegen target, all I can see is all the problems I wouldn't have.
If you don't know what a lockfile is: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/lockfile.htm
Length for me. Being able to reach the top of the screen with one hand and also having it poke out the top of trousers with smaller pockets are both problems that don't always happen with the same diagonal.
Given that I have no clue what a multi-user story is I am guessing not.
> one cup has ~120mg of caffeine. This is 600 mg of caffeine. That's not a small dose

That's a fairly generous estimate, but that depends on which coffee you're drinking and how it's made. I usually make a cup of coffee by using at most a teaspoon of instant coffee powder, which contains ~50mg of caffeine. So 6 cups for me would be ~300mg of caffeine. That's a small dose when compared to my >1000mg caffeine pill habit in college, which caused the amphetamine-like burnout.

Though, it's good that you've brought this up - "a cup" is not a well-defined measurement of caffeine, and this elaboration resolves the ambiguity of my original post.
The Engineer’s Predicament
Trees are net neutral.

Tree starts as a seed. Grows up and sequesters X tons of carbon.
Tree is burned, releases X tons of carbon.
Tree is re-planted, grows up, sequesters X tons of carbon.
Tree is burned, releases X tons of carbon.

If everything in the world right now was wood powered, we would not have a global warming problem. We would have massive tree farms sequestering the same amount of carbon we are releasing. (We might have a soot and particle problem, but that's another story).

The problem with oil and coal, is we have no way to make more. We burn oil and release carbon.. how are we making more oil and pumping back underground to sequester that carbon?
Reproducibility and Research Integrity top UK research agenda
Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?
https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw
Ah yes, let me tell my manager (who barely handles Excel formulas) that he can just whip out vscode with Copilot and ask ChatGPT to set up an API with SPA frontend in local Docker environment. We're doomed.
At that point, how big is the win in a binary protocol versus compression? Wouldn't a binary version be just a mapping between the HTML tags and a bit representation which a Huffman compression directory can just recreate on the fly but better?
Its called a fruit?
When I was a digital nomad I enjoyed meeting folks from Europe everywhere I went that were on Erasmus. They always had created a little pocket of community and were welcoming to strangers.
(Talk) Kalai Transpiler from Clojure to Rust / Java
repo: https://github.com/kalai-transpiler/kalai
Still on my trusty Vive due to third-world-itis, but would upgrade to another PC-tethered device like the Index or some other SteamVR-compatible (since I'm on Linux), as to be less at the mercy of the manufacturer.

Stern look at requiring a FB account to enable developer mode on the Quest
Sounds like it's time for a fine then.

What's 4% of the turnover of the EU?
For completion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Good point, but I think if he was serious he would be looking to Serena Butler for inspiration not nuclear non-proliferation treaties
Rust has a far more powerful and widely used macro system then JS but I don’t think that means rust devs are trying to avoid writing rust at all costs
Can you please share references? I'm interested in "temporal" topics.
Yeah, another story covering this had interconnects as just below gas in rank order of usage. Also, despite that large import, UK was a net exporter for the first time in a while last year since France was having issues with its nuclear fleet.
Yeah, I've had good experience with bypassing fs layer in the past, especially on a HDD the gains can be insane. But it won't help as I still need a more-or-less posixy read/write API.

P.S. I'm fairly certain that /dev/null would lose my data a bit more often than once a week.
Many of the "long-term memory" services focus on vector search over a corpus of documents to offer the LLM domain context. Where Zep is different, is we focus on the conversation history, offering the stateless LLM a long-term state component (alongside enriching the message history with summaries, metadata, token counts etc).
You'd think she would have been more sympathetic to trans people and understanding of the anger underlying a lot of the response, given all that.

It's true that not enough space is given to de-transitioners, but much of the discourse focuses on the very, very, very tiny number of people who did it because they didn't have dysphoria rather than the vast majority who did it because the social stigma and difficulty with employment turned out to be worse than the dysphoria. Detransition is turned into a weapon against trans people when it should be something that exists at peace with the majority who transition and are happy with it.
The creator of an uncensored local LLM is being threatened and harassed
I didn't know that! Thanks for educating me.
I can only recall a few songs in my lifetime that was instrumentals that were hits.

Apache by The Shadows
The good the bad and the ugly from the same movie
Ballade for Adeline - Richard Clayderman
and lastly Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice.

Also Kenny G was big in my days but then they started with using guest vocalists on their music.
When I saw this pop up on TikTok my initial reaction was there is a survivorship bias: we are only seeing the most absurd places.

That being said, Manhattan has to be one of the prime examples as to why you should not be able to write a rental property off as a loss unless there is a complete catastrophe that isn't your fault. Many people are just sitting on their rentals refusing to renovate them or abide by rent control, then writing off them as a 'loss' on their taxes.
This probably varies quite a lot, but whenever I fail such tests[1], the first person they contact has always been the employer/school/team, not me. Usually, the business is discrete enough to privately reach out and allow me to explain myself. More than once, however, I would only find out about my failure and imminent expulsion after-the-fact via letter/email -- I've always been able to fight my way out of these situations, but often without my personal reputation intact.

[1]: Which I always do, as a person who has been prescribed Adderall since childhood[2]

[2]: Yes, the diagnosis is legitimate. It was diagnosed by a trusted family pediatrician during a regular check-up and was not solicited by my parents[3]

[3]: Yes, it is exhausting to explain myself, my parents, and my medical history like this whenever the topic comes up. Woe is me, woe is me, etc.
In the UK it was a vast increase in monthly expenses (still is) and yes it was partially subsidised. What nobody did was the obvious step of insulating houses, despite years of protest from Insulate Britain, who were dismissed as weirdos.
We're bad at onshore wind, not due to lack of possible sites, but because of a government ban on building it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/onshore-...
It is literally a normal distribution, not linear. This means that the higher you go, the number of people above a threshold drop off in a non-linear way.
I've had ZFS pools survive (at different times over the span of years):

- A RAIDz1 (RAID5) pool with a second disk start failing while rebuilding from an earlier disk failure (data was fine)

- A water to air CPU cooler leaking, CPU overheated and the water shorted and killed the HBA running a pool (data was fine)

- An SFF-8088 cable half plugged in for months, pool would sometimes hiccup, throw off errors, take a while to list files, but worked fine after plugging it in properly (data was fine after)

Then the usual disk failures which are a non-event with ZFS.
> IP + UA gets transmitted to the first-party server already. They already have it. The question becomes – is it OK to anonymize this PII we already received for one purpose (serving the web page), to use it for another purpose also (counting unique visitors).

Maybe I'm missing your point, but in the situation we're talking about (so-called "GDPR compliant" analytics), if I set up one of these services on my website, the user's IP+UA are transmitted to a 3rd party, for the sole purpose of analytics including counting unique visitors. My understanding is that this is quite different in the eyes of the GDPR from the question you posed, and is almost always not going to be compliant.
That may be true but that's not the type of plumber people think about when you just say "plumber".
I carried one of these when I was at Google (needed it for my job there). When I was using it by myself casually I almost never unfolded it. But when I wanted to see more detail in a photo or wanted to show someone a YouTube video it was invaluable to be able to unfold it for the temporary larger screen.
SOPS applying as CNCF sanbox project
The way developers are encouraged to structure PHP projects (mainly due to autoloader semantics) always felt more like Java or .NET to me than it did like python. The resource consumption comparison between a Symfony web app vs the same thing written in ASP.NET or Spring Boot has a pretty clear winner, and it's not PHP.
Very pretty, but not accurate. Most of the world is not authored, but a best-guess by an AI with procedural models.

(They do have legitimate 3D-scanned areas, and even hand-authored content for specific landmarks and well-known cities, though)
You can tell that they’ve started using AI to generate the “people also search for” section in search results. Recently there’s been an uptick in complete nonsense like “how to cook a coffee grinder on the barbecue” and other such things that… quite frankly I have a hard time believing anyone on earth has ever searched.
You mean embedded native stuff? No, but SponsorBlock does and I use both. YT Premium pays creators for YT views and the analytics don't appreciably differentiate whether you watched an ad or skipped it, so I'm pretty comfortable with the two.

(The apps don't work with SponsorBlock and that does drag, but I mostly don't watch native-advertising videos on my TV so whatever.)
Good enough that I just updated the article to mention it. However, the email sent to prospective investors specifically says In stock by July which is still questionable. Either that's wrong, or the claim of a 52-week lead time is wrong, or a 52-week lead time qualifies as "In Stock." Even if that is addressed in that blog post.
Looks great, could anyone further condense this list into the 1 or 2 most essential learning materials?
Don't you want a RAM disk for this? It'll lose all your data (reliably!) when you reboot.

You could also look at this: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/new-nbdkit-remote-tmpf... We use it for Koji builds, where we actually don't care about keeping the build tree around (we persist only the built objects and artifacts elsewhere). This plugin is pretty fast for this use case because it ignores FUA requests from the filesystem. Obviously don't use it where you care about your data.
It is for enriching web ecosystem with other programming languages: C, C++, Rust, Python…
What was the working/creative environment back at your PARC tour-of-duty?
The usual office politics or a special environment where everyone got along and collaborated?
While I enjoy the act of writing, I dislike the amount of time it takes to do it well.
I’m sorry I’m pretty pro WFH but AirBnB directly benefits from remote workers setting up seasonal offices from vacation destinations. Part of why their business dropped is they went from nearly seasonal residence rentals for digital nomads to mostly vacation bookings.
The Range of Human Intelligence
But is it delicious? Until we get dessert batteries, meh.
not really. The average monthly stipend (that only 15% even get) is 579€, which is arguable not enough for rent in most bigger Cities (and that is ignoring that you also need to eat).
The vast majority of students are either financed by their parents (the stipend is dependent on their income and if they earn more than a certain amount they a legally obligated to help their child) or by themselves. In Germany the university is mostly free (a couple hundred euros a semester), but most definitely don't live for "free".
Why not?

https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_uk/pricing.html
ChatGPT-4 does this with too, even with things as popular as ‘jq’
The better predictor would be the parents' wealth.
Looking at the report that that was based on (page xiv on https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... ), it looks like the efficient stoves are at about 1/15-1/10 the open fire amount. Those “450x” numbers are compared to methane, which is close to zero particulate, so it’s a little misleading. But burning methane means you’re adding prehistoric carbon to the atmosphere.

I’m guessing that if all the open fires were instead “low particulate” stoves, then it wouldn’t be a concern compared to PM2.5 generation from vehicles.

I don’t see a perfect here until we all have heat pumps driven by nuclear.
This is excellent news. Unfortunately I think the UK's public understanding of energy production as a whole (let alone clean energy) is far far worse than people online might realise. I'm from the UK.

A few years ago I was on a train as it went past a wind farm within a very short distance. One person in a group of teenagers sat near me said something like "I can't believe they make the wind with them, how did they make wind before?".

They were not joking. I can't remember how the rest of the group reacted but I think I remember none of them seemed particularly aware of what an absurd question that was.
I’m an enterprise architect. I’ve got a pretty wide set of projects I need to keep up to date on, a lot of industry developments and just following general tech trends. Lots of my role focuses on documenting our designs and projects.