skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
21Tb of data, they might rate limit you! But might be possible via proxies. But only public repos.
Working with Time in Postgres
Compeltely depends on your threat matrix I guess. At the moment (encrypted) Twitter DMs requirements payment, so that's a risk in some kind to safety. It's reasonably trivial to get an anonymous prepaid phone number.
My grandfather, a photographer, told me this story:
20 years ago in a doctor's graduation ceremony held somewhere in Spain the old doctor who gave the speech told the graduates: "Now your job is to kill people. Along the years you'll learn, and if you are good, you'll kill less people and save some."
Yep, there's nothing in discussion here that isn't openly published academic research. Granted its a niche area of research, but that doesn't automatically mean it is sensitive.
It'll be a lot easier to feed everyone if we grow food for humans rather than cattle.
PHP is only "simple" and "proven" in that it has proven countless times that it is simply terrible at everything.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Acquiring the latest technology, such as an A100 GPU, individually from a store can indeed be quite expensive, with prices around $10,000 per unit. Additionally, setting up and maintaining a home lab to scale from one GPU to thousands can be a significant investment in terms of both cost and resources.

In contrast, our platform provides access to the latest GPU technology without the need for users to individually purchase and manage the hardware. We offer the scalability to deploy multiple GPUs as needed and scale back down when required, making it a more cost-effective and flexible solution compared to setting up and maintaining a personal lab.

Furthermore, it's important to note that our GPUs are directly dedicated to each virtual machine, ensuring that the power and performance are not compromised by sharing resources. This ensures that our GPUs provide the full capability and performance expected, making them just as powerful as individual units.
Its idea that people covet a rich person just because they're rich is bizzare.
An Introduction to Absinthe for Elixir
Twitter Reportedly Acquires Laskie in First Major Deal Under Musk
One spec to rule them all
Copilot was only trained on public repos. Id be surprised if you were throttled.
Is there a point for working programmer to learn these in 2023, rather than just treating them as abstract interfaces?
Working on a space opera romance novel that is part of a new series I've started. I'm currently in the stage of addressing developmental editor feedback and at the same time figuring out a launch plan.
Diffeqs precompilation is particularly heinous if you aren't on a serious machine. but I think I misspoke. I thought we were discussing package compilation. Unfortunately though, even if we are discussing precompilation theres a ton of cost there even if you go beyond packages. Time to first anything is often brutal. See the discussions on time to first gradient... This is often up to the developer to work out, but it's a challenge that's pretty unique to Julia itself.

When I see people describing viable alternatives to python and or C I personally look at C++ and Rust. Julia's GC is good for most academic embarrassingly parallel number crunching things, but is rough for large scale applications. I've only been able to use Julia in a vacuum for research. For product development, every effort I've seen has eroded insanely fast due to things other languages control much more easily. Those languages can often also do the math fast enough too, especially when the cost of failed experiments is accounted for. All those wait three hours to find out your first gradient descent iteration had a type error that propagated to 1000 compute nodes($) moments are gone. It just can't happen in other paradigms, and in some paradigms it's far less likely to happen and when it does the cost is minor because the cost of compilation was already amortized.
Java, COBOL, C#, JavaScript, etc... all tech that's not "sexy" but are the backbones.

Even dead languages like COBOL aren't dead.

These techs are the tech that'll be here in 40+ years - or atleast until Skynet rewrites them in binary and we're nuclear ash. I think COBOL will be driving the satellites that monitor the heat death of the universe.
There is a similar "seaflooding" plan for that sea, and it is mentioned in passing at the end of the list of possible global sites in the article.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-05/panel-re...
Minecraft is actually a really good example of the opposite. Maybe some might hate the Java edition of Minecraft because of its frequent GC pauses, but the new performant Minecraft Bedrock written in C++ isn’t really that popular because of lackluster mod support.

The reason Minecraft was able to have such a large mod ecosystem (even when it still doesn’t have an official modding API!) is that JVM bytecode is easily reverse-engineerable and extendable (…relatively, compared to fully compiled C++ code). Bedrock actually tried providing a modding API via JS scripting, but it was pretty lackluster in its flexibility and thus users mainly stayed in Java edition for the mods (using robust ecosystems like Spigot/Paper)
What's often missed when people get upset about this type of thing is how few distinct types of information you need to build up a pretty good picture of someone's life to the point of working out quite private details - it's more about getting a long time series. Simply tracking things like badge swipe times (in/out and within areas etc), time logged in/out of computers, and company email metadata could easily be enough to deduce quite a lot of private details about someone's personal life.

In that sense, 1984/Orwell gives a false sense of security because you don't need some all-seeing "big brother" style panopticon to lose a lot of privacy you think you have.
The book is much better than the show, but both examine what living in a Christian-facist state would look like. The graphic depictions serve as a warning: “this won’t be fun.” It’s kind of scary how prescient the book is.
Not sure I'd call it clickbait, and they do mention it right away. It'd be like putting a mathematical expression in the headline of an article about neural networks.
But it might well give you the exact same code with a variable name changed (for example), which would be unlikely to hold up in court if a human had done it to bypass the license.
A Deep Dive into a Chinese Apt Group's TP-Link Router Implant
Definitely a great idea, we will do it in the near future. Thank you once again!
I've been focusing lately on stepping off the new and shiny treadmill. While the kids and startups are chasing that new hotness, I can be incredibly productive in less fashionable tools that I already know.
It's a trade off.

With ImGui you can definitely have a GUI that is:

1. Very complex
2. Able to use custom, complex widgets
3. High performance
4. Written very quickly with a very simple API

Those are significant pros.

There are a few serious downsides as well:

1. It is not remotely conforming to the platform's standard UI (a bit less a problem for a DAW since they all have custom GUIs and widgets anyway)
2. The font rendering is done by the GPU using cached textures, so it's more limited in terms of what you can achieve there (not so much a problem for DAWs because you don't have much text to display)
3. Power usage can be high unless you use tricks to adjust the frame rate dynamically
4. It's in C++, which can be a con for some people (although it's written in old-school C-like style)

If you can live with those, it's a great solution.

People do crazy stuff with Dear ImGui:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/5886

(And keep in mind that many of those are week-end / hobby projects, by people who prefer to focus on other things than the GUI of their projects.)
The original assertion ("no uncensored models") is untrue. However, were it true, a better phrasing would be:

"There are no un-representative models." and "Models by design represent opinions in the ratios they have seen."

That rephrasing matters when thinking about, for instance, what Pixar films should or should not be shown to fifth graders and why.

That which is regulated to be unrepresentative is likely suppressive.
As far as i remember most did not get much done in a practial sense as the computer was mostly occupied by the kids. My uncle was using word perfect which was a bit of an improvement to the typewriter though but then again he did not have kids. :)
At the end of the day, it's power that stratifies life experience.

Wealth is just the most obvious summary of power in capitalist societies.

Controlling the means of production (or, say, housing) is also power.

Historically, the worst excesses were prevented by labor having its own inherent power: farms didn't get harvested without labor. As we've moved further away from inherent power in every human (i.e. to industrialization, then knowledge work), that leaves a lot of people with little to no power.

And when you have none, people can exploit the hell out of you.

Personally, that's why I think UBI is going to be a required bandaid on the system -- you're going to have to afford people some level of "I will not willfully enslave myself to you, even if I don't have any skills / education."

Otherwise Amazon warehouses are going to seem free and quaint.
Games used to shy away from AVX support for various reasons. Tbh even SSE4.2 was in bad shape due to AMD chips that were before Ryzen.

But not anymore. With hardware requirements of "new generation only" games are going to require AVX and many even AVX2. This is the only practical way to have consistency between platforms. Especially when crossplay is the norm. Idea that software should be 'portable everywhere' is impractical for games.
> The IDE that's written in Java most likely shares nothing with Java ecosystem parts they "hate"

Most vocal java haters I had met were JavaScript programmers who knew basically nothing about Java. Their hate was purely cultural - they learned on discussion forums that they should hate java. But, they had literally zero knowledge whatsoever.
Definitely submit a PR to add Oblivus to https://cloud-gpus.com/
>which objectives are defined by the owners, represented by the board, not the CEO

You'd be surprised how non-involved the board could be.

>At the end of the day, the CEO is just another employee.

In many cases they can also have a controlling share of the company, and most of their board and C-level be their pals and picks, so there's that.
In the tests I’ve done, retail GPUs are much faster than data center GPUs.
On the other hand the Reaper DAW has colour and theme layouts and also has a very performant UI just like Winamp.

I guess you just need to be as good as Justin Frankel ;)
A nice spin disguised as science.

In addition to the points raised below, I suspect the claims made regarding recommender systems. Who has the time to prompt engineer a complex and long question in order to watch some short garbage in YouTube?
The distinction matters in many countries.

In the US, Alaska, Hawaii and dozens of other states have the age of consent at 16 [0] and many countries [1] (Germany at 14, holy smokes. China at 15. And South Korea st 20, good on them).

So while you don’t think the distinction matters, billions of people do think it matters. If you have such beliefs in this matter then you hold the majority of the world as perverts who think “child sex” is appropriate and legal. That’s a rough way to go through the world thinking that you are superior to so many people who are egregiously wrong.

[0] https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/statutory-rape-guide-state-laws...
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/age-of-co...
Court Affirms That “Transformative” Has Boundaries
It’s a hard problem, and I don’t think there is a single solution for a DAW UI. On the one hand there are a lot of UI elements that can be built with traditional widget kits, like the toolbars, panels, even knobs and sliders just custom widgets, you can even build a channel strip that way.

On the other hand there are the “contents” or “views” like track view, clips, automation, piano roll, eq etc. I believe those are best to be handled as 2D scene graphs with direct GPU rendering. Even then, each of those DAW specific views presents their own set of challenges which are very involved to address.

So I would definitely choose a toolkit that allows both traditional widget trees as well as scene graph style rendering (for eg Egui + wgpu in rust, or Qml in C++).

There are other challenges too, I’ve always found synchronizing the ui, the rendering and the audio thread so that everything feels responsive is very hard.
> The only solution O see is to habe a global forestly fund, so developing countries can get paid but dont have to destroy forests.

That just incentivizes scammers and fraud, just like many of the "CO2 offset certificates" based on paying people not destroying forests they wouldn't have destroyed anyway [1].

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2023-01/co2-certificates-frau...
> All of it could have been avoided if cities actually let housing be built.

Perhaps to some extent, but the type of housing in cities is mostly restricted to apartments, which is not satisfying for everyone, especially those that prefer living outside the city.
The ship for "maybe we should not do something lest we disrupt the ecosystem with unintended consequences" has sailed.
I recently spent about a month total in Cambridge and Oxford, just as a remote worker / tourist. Having previously visited Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc. it was my impression that American universities have an order of magnitude more resources than UK ones. Even an average state school campus in the US appears larger and better funded.

Of course, Oxford and Cambridge have a centuries-old historical legacy (and are both absolutely worth visiting, although I much preferred Cambridge) but they seemed more dependent on that traditional reputation. So if the “brand” of the UK goes down, it will have a direct effect on the top universities in a way that I don’t think would happen in the US.
>You already said "only by training on far more data", which is different than "more parameters" being the only option.

I never said more parameters was the only way to increase performance. I said the training data required to reach any arbitrary performance x reduces with parameter size.

It's literally right there in what I wrote.

>a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one TRAINED ON THE SAME DATA.
I often wonder how valuable/prized such traits are if you are a coder working for a company ? In another life I was employed as coder (at senior level, if that makes a difference). But I never felt ideas or "product-guys" skills was something to look out for or hire for.

Background: I've been freelancing and have one or two micro-SaaS on the side for the last few years.

Nothing makes you sit up and take notice of the value of shipping code and iterate as fast as you can than working for yourself. It's definitely business-first and zen-perfect-code later.

Now I should stress it's not like I do my code with a crayon while drunk, but definitely not "oh wow this is elegant" vibes. I can also say from the 101(obv made up number) things I have tried business and SaaS wise. I can't think of anyone that failed because of my code wasn't "fantastic" and "the right way" the ones that failed usually failed because of product-market-fit and the reverse is of course also true.

Since working for myself, gone are the endless debates about "doing it the right way". Sure I am happy to do it "the right way" as soon as someone can exactly point-out to me what is "the right way to code xyz" and there are 100 people that agrees. Until then I'd be here shipping code and trying 101 things (product wise).

While working as a coder for a company, I had way to much value caught up in "trying to write the perfect code", good-enough code works 9/10 just as well as almost perfect code.

TL;DR:
Product-Thinking pays the bills right now, Perfect-Code is like studying on the job, Useful for yourself and maybe later, but doesn't pay the bills right now

My2Cents / YmmV
Regulatory capture and monopolies are now as American as apple pie.
Valve Corporation, the owner of Steam, is currently facing the community backlash as several groups were found on the platform named after the Wagner Group, an internationally-recognized and banned terrorist organization rooted in Russia. However, the company doesn’t seem to care about countless terrorist sympathizers on its platform, as no actions were taken and no official comments were made. It is not the first case of Steam tolerating Russia’s sympathizers and supporters of the war Russians have launched.
>> If you're reading this and thinking "aw damn, my idea is cliche, I'll never get something published!" or similar, don't worry too much.

I don't. I'm thinking "damn, my stories are too weird and nobody will understand what's going on, or why".

There is something to be said bout a good, old-fashioned, cliché (pronounced "clee-chaeye", not "clitch"). I think the best story I ever wrote was about... dragons.

Dragons.

Cliche me now.
Java is not slow.
I would love to see your update to this comment after you and your family starves for a while and waiting for something to fill your niche.
It was heavily contaminated water that they all consumed, of the 279 veterans there were 0.33% cases vs the statistically expected 0.21%. Which means they found 9 people with Parkinson, instead of the expected 6.

[edit] ignore the comment, read it wrong, its 279 cases
It is, though, at least extrapolated from some real things, like non-trivial analysis of badge scans, fairly deep tracking of Citrix, Teams, O365 activity, and so on. Probably embellished to drive more interest, outrage, press coverage, and so on. Some attempt at a bit of bad PR revenge in exchange for being monitored in this way.
> Upper management wants to see everyone at all levels back in the office five days a week. They have invested millions into the WADU system, and they want to get a return on that investment. That only happens whenever people are in the office as much as possible.

Lol. Millions to JP Morgan would be like dollars to the average person. Upper management there is not making any big decisions over anything involving less than 9, and maybe 10 zeros.
Sums this comment up perfectly: zero-content and basically pissing on other people.
Oh, how I hate our management for forcing SharePoint on us.
Fortunately it's a big increase in relative risk and not absolute risk:

By 2021, 279 of the Camp Lejeune veterans, or 0.33%, had developed Parkinson’s versus 151 of those at Camp Pendleton, or 0.21%. After adjusting for differences in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, the scientists found veterans from Camp Lejeune had a 70% higher rate of Parkinson’s disease than the Camp Pendleton group.

I guess it can be encouraging news for some people. My mom died with Parkinson's and I've almost certainly had less exposure to TCE than she did. I'm aware that there isn't really a known genetic link, it's just nice to occasionally see evidence that it can be exposure related. The increase in prevalence mentioned in the article isn't good, but that can be due to better techniques for diagnosing it.
This is a silly rule as a 40 year old marrying a 20 year old breaks the rule and there are many situations where this can be explained. And it’s legal everywhere. This rule isn’t a rule at all as a heuristic to use at dinner parties to be snooty about rich people and trophy wives (they are almost always rich old men with young women exchanging their youth and beauty for wealth. It’s icky, but I think everyone understands Anna Nicole Smith’s reasons).
Considered fair use? Google settled with the Authors Guild.

Displaying book excerpts also:

- Leaves the attribution and copyright intact.

- Is not intended to use excerpts verbatim or slightly modified, unless quoting them with attribution.

- May increase the sales of the book.

I agree with the OP of the submission that this case is entirely irrelevant for the CoPilot situation.
Then I'd only have one. Instead, I can borrow a dozen of them and use them in parallel and I'll return them when I'm done. I don't know how many I'll need, or for how long, and cloud enables my bad habit of not planning.
I was going to comment on the same passage. There's definitely something Rorschach about Curtis's work.

But the author's focus on ambience, Eno and what he calls "texture" I think misses the point. I appreciate Curtis's eschewing of an explicit "voice of God" narration, like you get in most PBS documentaries. The Rorschach Test forces you to peer into the murk; you can't consume these documentaries passively.

That is, they make you think. That different viewers can come away with different takes on a film is a good thing, not a criticism. I think the author is unduly dismissive.
Privacy already is a luxury product and has been. The very wealthy can afford massive private properties to separate themselves from others, can hire people to do things for them as proxies through an array of mechanisms, etc.

Traditionally wealth in the case it draws fame made it a little less obvious. Famous people walking in public seem to have less privacy. To be realistic though it's not that fame lead instrinicly to less privacy, it's that fame drew attention and attention is what reduced privacy. The reason I can walk around the grocery store down the street and Joe Biden can't isn't privacy related, we ultimately have the same levels of privacy, it's that no one is interested that I'm picking up donuts unlike if it's Joe Biden, they will care. They have the same level of information access really.

This changes in a surveillance economy. Ultimately people who want to extract wealth from me, be it marketers, advertisers, or employers have always had some degree of attention towards me (the royal me, all of us consumers and workers). The issue is their attention was too costly to be worth looking at me. As surveillance technology grows more affordable and ubiquitous, that changes a bit and giving attention and even monitoring me becomes economically feasible. Suddenly, the privacy I thought I had (privacy through obscurity) has disappeared.

The difference between me and Joe Biden or some other famous or perhaps wealthy person is that they tend to have some degree of options of buying back or controlling privacy. Their body guards, private estates, proxies and so on. In a world where everyone has attention, the financial ability to hide one's self makes it clear that as with most things, wealth let's you buy more of these things we often considered rights before.
Not clickbait when they tell you right away and give you a detailed story of the context and evidence behind what they learned
“Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”
I find the article actually refreshingly dry. The author acknowledges and breaks down a large series of interface requirements for a music production tool and approaches it from a pure development point of view.

I wonder what are the "many incorrect assumptions" you see. I didn't notice any attempt to judge or discredit any of the requirements, he merely described them in a very sober way.

For someone very familiar with audio equipment it was a nice read for me. It's like reading a summary of user expectations to switches and knobs in a car, from a pure GUI development point of view.
The 279 is identified cases of Parkinson's, the study included tens of thousands of people.
"After adjusting for differences in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, the scientists found veterans from Camp Lejeune had a 70% higher rate of Parkinson’s disease than the Camp Pendleton group."

Why didn't they adjust for socioeconomic status? Wealthier people tend to be able to afford better medical care, live in healthier environments, eat healthier foods, etc.

These could all be confounding factors, and a study like this should take them in to account.