skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize. I must say that my tone, as you rightly wrote, was inappropriate.
Indeed, I am the lead developer for Dragonfly. As such, I am deeply concerned with the performance aspects of our product. Dragonfly claims to be a drop-in, better performant replacement for Redis and Memcached. Every test & benchmark we've run on multiple cpus reinforced that. I've never faked or tweaked any of these benchmarks. That is, of course, not an excuse, and is why I opened by apologizing. I'd like to take this opportunity, if I can kindly ask so, to learn what made your results differ so much from ours. I'll personally try to reproduce what you described. If you could also reach out to me, I'd be happy to learn more about the environments in which you've conducted the aforementioned tests.
I adapted The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch for the stage many years ago, but was refused permission to perform it by P. K. Dick's estate.

It is truly a masterpiece!

We ended up using Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, since that was an existing adaption by a friend of Philip K. Dick's that they had no control over.
I take a pragmatic approach: the dozen logins in my life that actually matter get strong unique passwords, and everything I don't give a shit about gets the same password.
If your data is small enough to easily fit in ram, you kind of can't have that slow a query on it (or at least you no longer are talking about a database problem).
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5 are all costs of use of the property, not ownership of it. Either you're using it for yourself (In which case, you'd either be paying yourself for these things, or paying your landlord), or you're letting it out to someone (In which case, they are paying for use of the property).

If you just let the property rot without a tenant, then, yeah, this punishes you. I'd recommend against letting a property rot without a tenant, just like I'd recommend against buying 500 barrels of crude oil, and letting them rot away into worthless sludge in your cellar over twenty years. All things that we buy have a limited shelf life, you need to use and maintain them before they expire. Structures built on a property are no different.

#6-11 are real costs of investing into property, and I agree - they cost a hell of a lot more time and money than buying an index fund and sleeping on it for 40 years.
The converse story is all the people that complain about $enterprise_software saying things like, it hasn't had an update since 1996!
Sounds like some hardcore deep backend software dev jobs (I have similar for more than a decade), but actual creativity is scaled down to few %.

Accountants are extremely limited by rigid tools they use and laws they have to adgere to. Then comes given company's 'way we do things here' limit.

Take any modern programming language, you start with unique big problem/task, have to crack hundreds little and big problems, often with use of stackoverflow and other webs, but ie hard alghoritmic problems I solve mostly on my own since nobody faced those in exact mix of technologies, data and other constraints. There are sone further limits but my alghoritms are my solid creations, nobody ever questioned them nor made me refactor them for any reason.

To outsiders it may look exactly same weird nerd stuff of course. To me, accounting has very little room for creativity, its there but almost microscopic. And the joy you describe is also present, thats there in many jobs that actually create stuff, digital or not
> Are there papers that peruse what kind of concepts the model is actually building/learning in those heads and layers?

> There are large teams who spend months tuning those models. Do those teams have access to those internal concepts that the model built up and organized? Is any of this work public?

See: https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neur...

My understanding: Generally, the models are compressing their understanding of all text, and in doing so, they're learning high order concepts that allow their compression of all the text they were fed during pre-training to be a better compression - more compressed, and less loss.
Are you a professional accountant?
Russia says supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine would carry 'colossal' risks for West
There was a fairly famous article on the internet about a couple guys who modded their original XBox controller (I think) to deliver a significant electric shock every time they got hit.

As I recall, they rewired the rumble motor circuit to instead trigger a ~10,000V stun gun, the output of which was wired back to two metal contacts they added to the grips.

It's turning out to be impossible to search for, but always seemed like a fun idea.
Not even banned, one of the games I play just put out an announcement that Twitter login support might be dropped soon because of Twitter's API changes, so you better associate your account with email soon.
360 for websites (most of which I've only used once; the oldest are dated 2011, but those are probably import dates, as they all have the same timestamp), and 100 or so for more serious stuff (banking, routers, etc.) in KeePassXC.
I'm guessing that, when the paper's author mentioned "hundreds of thousands of cores", they didn't have 10GB of data in mind. That works out less than a typical L1 cache's worth of data per core.
gpg signatures are not, and have never been a meaningful "best practice". The only secure package signing schemes that have ever used gpg signatures, uses gpg as a mechanism to access crypto primitives and has built their own secure system on top of it.

They're using gpg in spite of its features, not because of them, and would almost certainly be better served by using something else.
I'm a full stack dev so I'm also using TS at the same time. While the flexibility is nice, it's too flexible for my taste. To give a one basic example, I want to go to the definition of a symbol with a single action. Not possible with the current TS tooling and all the crazy things you can do with it's type system.

I want the type system to be predictable, so it can support whatever I want to build on top of.

There are features I'm missing with C#, but still I'll choose it over TS any day.
> the computers brains got so big that they are now conscious like you and me.

I think this is the sort of gross misrepresentation that makes people convinced the computer is alive. I wouldn't really go there; they can produce text, but there's more to consciousness than convincing someone you're conscious. If I record a tape of myself saying "I am alive", the tape is not conscious. If I feed a markov chain texts on human consciousness, it will not become conscious. Now we train AI chatbots on replicating human responses, and people are willing to equate that to consciousness? It sounds like people lack context for what these models are in the first place.
> but lying on a form is a bridge too far for the yakuza?

It's not that it's too far compared to the other stuff, but they also have a hard time catching higher ups with this other stuff, since they don't do it themselves.

So it's actually a very common way to catch them. One from the Yamaguchi clan was caught recently for having subscribed for a point card in a supermarket.
I don’t understand how having multiple tools, each one needing audits and effort and time to make secure, each one needing porting to all the platforms that people use, each one breaking compatibility with legacy platforms and hardware, is better than an existing tool without any of these drawbacks.
I have used it to produce diagrams that represent various stages in the workflows of a content management system for video and mobile assets. Just because the underlying systems were complicated doesn't mean the diagrams needed to be, and I find its design decisions to be helpful. It hits the sweet spot between comprehensible to non-technical users and useful for technical users.
Towards more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
I've had the complete opposite experience. Neither YAML or TOML are very obvious to me. I always have to double and triple check that my syntax does what I assume it will do. I never have that problem with JSON.
I find Rich Hickey's talks to present interesting ideas, though I don't like how he presents his ideas. He promotes his ideas, not by arguing for them and pointing out their benefits, but by making fun of opposing viewpoints. Oftentimes, these rebuttals contain little or no actual argumentation, but are rather just full of rhetorical devices.

Take the above, for example. If were to change the metaphor and say: "you know what's true about every fatal car accident where everyone was wearing a seatbelt? Everyone was wearing a seatbelt!" This is the _identical_ rhetorical argument that was made above, but when phrased this way it becomes obvious that it makes no argument.
I prefer Mu4e and msmtp/lbsync.
10.75 W sustained heat removal at a constant 85C for the bigger version isn't that impressive.

Even the M2 could easily draw and produce 30+ W of heat at full load.

The best use case may be ultra thin devices without enough room for a fan, not as a fan replacement.
Is this truly necessary? I feel like it's not that hard to teach a regular model what jargon means.
True Names is excellent! A Fire Upon the Deep is also one of my favourite sci fi novels.
The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power
952, I store accounts user and passwords that I have since 2011, and I like to try new services. Especially to give feedback to makers.
How would you know? Harvard University got $6.5 million in 2003 from Epstein. He had assets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, when a few years before was just a college math professor on a meager salary. He presented himself as having made the money on Wall Street, but there is no single forensic track of anybody in Wall Street ever trading with him.
Not adding comments to a config file is recipe for complete disaster. You can kinda fake it but it’s just a silly headache. Which is recognized given there’s now “JSONC” but now you’ve got even more confusion determining what systems can actually accept comments or not. That’s always fun.

I’m curious what parts of TOML do people find confusing? It’s such a tiny markup language.
It is already many years ago since that I started to do certain jobs in Libre Office (back then it was still OpenOffice.org) even if I had MS Office. I mean, it was better at certain tasks and costed nothing.

In all fairness, back them I also had to use MS Office for certain other tasks, but luckily I don't need that anymore.

Now there is Confluence instead however to mangle our docs and waste our time.
software development cost divided per unit isn't listed
Sorry, so this seems to require physical access and the passcode for the device? It would seem at that point an attacker could do a lot of things. Setting up one app that allows stalking via a windows feature is not meaningfully different from any other app that allows forwarding the same data. Not sure what windows is doing wrong, and I’m not sure what any device - iOS or android - could do without simply breaking the ability of any product to receive forwarded messages and notifications.
I have plenty of 3d printed keycaps.Also tried to design some but after discovering some really nice keycap profiles like DES,Chicago Sterno,PBS just stopped trying to design.
When it comes to printing , I use JLCPCB 3d printing services which just gives me really nice resin keycaps also 3d printed mfj(nylon) keycaps are nice.
Come on. On what planet are you living? What other signing options are the best practices?

Hint: "best" doesn't mean "ideal", it simply means "better than anything else".
Mockingbird is awesome and not widely known.
Glad to be of help!

>> kamikaze explosives

(A couple of years ago these were called loitering munitions, with the meaning of a smallish UAV that could, well, loiter until a target presented itself. Personally I never liked the term 'kamikaze' because destroying yourself is true of shells, cruise missiles, etc etc.)
Indeed, although it would not be that hard to parse all replies and plot it.
I don't know, but I have feeling that copying stacks and rewriting pointers gets expensive if stacks grow to heap sized (~gigabytes)
How many Go programs are bottlenecked by growable stacks? What share of real world programs need precisely deterministic memory management?(and if they do, why not just “design for analysis” like you would with a fixed size stack language).
https://csound.com/

Have fun.
> too risky due to the city’s high fees and its low-income housing requirement

let's jack up the low-income housing requirement so that nobody builds any housing at all :facepalm:
My keychain has 54 items in it. I think at least 5 of them belong to things I've shut down.
I believe they get at why it's 10 minutes in this video but there are also some practical tips for how to think about the interview.

Good luck!

https://youtu.be/tVnglV-HcJU
CA is centralized and suffers from all the drawbacks of being such, including but not limited to censorship, lack of privacy, and centralization itself.

I don’t understand how it can be even seen as an alternative to something like pgp
The guarantee is worthless, HN could generate a new key with the same "Anonymous" name on it, and use it to sign whatever they wanted to sign, and modify your comment to post that.

I have no way of finding out whether this already happened or not.

Signing messages with a new key untrusted by anyone is worthless security-wise. In general posting GPG signed messages in forums is of dubious utility, unless you're a celebrity of some sort and have a key with a decent amount of signatures on it.

Even then, GPG makes path finding extremely inconvenient, so even though I'm very well connected on the PGP WoT, it'd take me a serious amount of work to verify a signature unless it belongs to one of the few hundred people whose keys I've actually signed (yup, I used to be quite serious about this).
Because the existing tool does a bad job at all of them, and those tools do reasonably good jobs at each of their respective tasks.

Fundamentally the things you want from a secure crypto system differ depending on the context in which you're applying it. Email needs different things than package signing does than file encryption does. It's silly to pretend that the same tool can provide a good and secure experience for all of them.
It's been solid for years and does everything that I need. I wish it would never change.
How well do humans reason about 7-dimensional objects?

I'm already impressed if a computer can reason flexibly about 3-dimensional objects.
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I take the same approach with the extra precaution that those logins also get a separate email address (with a different pseudo-strong password). Makes it really easy to share nonsense logins with my wife/family.
Signal is controlled by one entity and supports 3.5 of the biggest platforms and does not provide libraries for third-party code.

Most people who use Signal are getting a closed-source binary.

I don’t see how it can even be compared to pgp.
about 750 in my personal 'pass' store, and about a 1000 in the shared password store for work. Bitwarden probably has a significant subset, but I prefer to keep 'pass' as authoritative source.
Bitwarden lowers the mental burden for secure (which includes unique) passwords, precisely because we have a crap ton of accounts.
600 in Chrome. 800 in iCloud Keychain. I assume there's a % of duplication between the two, since I don't really use Chrome anymore outside of Windows.
There's a case for that even if you just have 5 important accounts. If the account matters, give it a long random password.
The sony screen sounds totally custom, if it's actually 2160p, then that would be an incredibly high PPI.
You must be Gen Z because the prevailing attitude towards video games of all kinds was mostly negative in the 20th century. They even tried to blame Doom for school shootings.
Given that the most well-known use case for optimization algorithms is training machine learning models, it seems to me like a perfectly reasonable, if buzzword-oriented, thing to say.
Your claim is closer to “there’s no difference between a good and bad barista.” Of course there is. And of course closing the gap between a good and bad barista is much easier than closing the gap between a good and bad teacher.

If you take any person off the street and have them make you a cappuccino, you will absolutely regret it. But apparently you don’t believe this is true of teaching children?

All your evidence points to a much, much simpler explanation: most teachers are just average, and even exceptionally good or bad teachers can have their own exceptionalism overpowered by other factors.

This does not mean it would be wise or yield just-as-good or better results by throwing any person off the street into this role, which would be the natural implication of “it doesn’t matter which individuals you put in front of the classroom.”
It does have a lot of "shallow wells" where if you ask it to make a random list of something or pick a random example of something it will give similar answers every time. For example, whenever it has to come up with some sort of enemy or attacker or opponent it's very drawn to skeletons and giant spiders regardless of context.
Many enterprises "produce" objectively horrifically negative value for humans. It's not a rule that putting money in a gambling machine produces worse outcomes than if it was placed into a company.
Voicemail Refuses to Die
No, because to iterate in Python, you have run the program and get it into the right state. For many things in Rust, I can just use `cargo check`.
There's a danger in classifying education as an investment. If I look at how my investments are performing, and I see a broad group that isn't doing well, I don't shrug and say "thems the breaks", I move my money where it will do better. To bring this back to the topic, if we look at the outcomes from "investing" in majority-minority school districts, are we going to decide that it's yielding appropriate returns? If not, what happens next?
Would it be in the ballpark of 10x more or 100x more expensive?
Soldiers, Marines test new technologies at Fort Leonard Wood
I don’t think it’s that silly, and I don’t think email is that different from packages is that different from files. They’re all data with some attributes, and pgp handles them nicely, if you can write the interface for it.
Looks phenomenal, especially regarding robustness around union types
> I think a similar example of this is the RTX 4090.

I’m not sure. With video cards those gamer whales can crush all the lesser card owners after they buy some power via MTX. Then they can convince themselves it’s skill based, not money based. With a $3k headset in a closed ecosystem they’ll be playing amongst themselves and they won’t get the same level of reward (aka crushing “noobs”) that they’re able to buy in a more mainstream market.

I don’t know a single person, including friends of friends, that would buy any VR headset let alone one that costs $3k. The price point needs to come down a ton and typically adoption of tech like that comes from younger generations that have exactly zero money these days, so I predict massive flops from everyone because I don’t think the economics are going to work.
There's a local government website that requires eight or fewer characters, and the eighth character has to be a digit.

They've tried to change the requirement, but it comes from vendor software. The vendor just waves around a middle finger and points to the contract.
Expectations of a Macroeconomist
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Good thing TOML was never intended to be a JSON replacement.
Geist's boards are amazing. I own both KLOR and TOTEM but still want to build a KLOTZ and use it as travel keyboard.
Custom keyboard rabbit hole is so deep
They introduce “height” as another architectural dimension, alongside the usual width and depth. If you imagine the usual diagram of a neural network, the difference when a neural net is of height 2 is that in the middle layers, each individual node contains another network inside it, and that inner network has the same structure as the top-level network. For height 3, each node has an inner network, and each of those inner networks is composed of nodes that have their own inner networks as well. And so on, recursively, for greater heights. There’s a diagram on page 3.
I may switch to it eventually, but at this point in my career 16 years in, I try to avoid seemingly niche things when I just want to get stuff done. "Boring" is good. I know it's the same platform under the hood but I decided to spend my "innovation tokens"[0] on the stuff I'm buildin.

[0]: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Worm by Wildbow is a pretty good tale. It was written as a web serial and follows a young girl in a world where "capes" (people with supernatural powers) are normal to a point they are regulated and entwined with education, government and crime.

It can be a little hard to get into initially, first few chapters are necessary set up, but once the ball starts rolling its a real page turner. There are a lot of entangled plot lines that almost all add major substance to the larger plot. I'm actually re-reading it again just because I remember it so fondly. With all the superhero/game-lore shows and movies out now, it would be a fan dream to see the Worm-verse come to life as a live-action or anime series. The serial nature of it would adapt naturally I'd imagine.
I don't see them as meaningful competitors either, but not for the reasons you're giving.
PrivateGPT
I moved to Canada from the US for 5 years. TBF it was in a big city, but I had the novel experience of having a physician "follow" me. if I missed an blood test, they called. if they saw something suspicious, they made a decision on whether to dig deeper based on my age. I returned to the US and the contrast was stark. if you showed, you showed, if not, "oh well".
It's possible to use Go's pprof to find leaks. Also, if it's important enough then runtime.SetFinalizer(fd, any) will allow the programmer to do something appropriate.
Briton Admits to Twitter Hack That Hijacked Celebrity Accounts
Scott Aaronson (who is temporarily working for OpenAI) proposed a cryptographic scheme where the generated text can be watermarked without any decrease in quality.

It has most of the same problems you list, except it is much more robust against small changes to the text.

As of a few weeks ago, he mentioned that OpenAI had a working implementation and were discussing whether to start using it. I assume they'd tell people before they turn it on in prod, I see no advantage in secrecy.