skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried graphene for a while, and degoogled basically doesn’t work.

It almost works, but app developers don’t test with it, and also constantly push updates. The end result is that you never know which app is going to null pointer exception on startup this week (looking for unnecessary, but missing services), or which one will hellban your account for fraud false positives.

Also, for anything that wants google services, reading lat/long from the GPS is flaky at best. (Usually works, but sometimes puts you at a location from last week.)
Doesn't Phind already do this well? FWIW I keep "best model" (that should be GPT-4) off because I just find it too slow and it doesn't seem like that much of an improvement.
Sure. It's not a real news source. It's better to rate the underlyings.
> the price of lack of competition

What about the estimated future price of flying fighting vehicles at USD$300M each copy. Will Intel go there to lower the chip price and enhance power draw endurance?
More fact checkers. It's cool though, they tend to be spot on.
For "full fine tuning", mathematically there's no difference. Fine tuning is just extending the training on new data.

What you are suggesting is called "curriculum learning", and though it hasn't been applied to LLMs yet to the best of my knowledge, it has proven to improve learning and decrease training times in other areas of ML.
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
I'd guess well under 1%. It's at 15% extremely useful for the users - maybe 5% of those are willing to pay?

That still is huge though. 500k paying American users alone.

Fwiw, I think people's experiences may vary to be willing to pay. I find the slowness of GPT-4 to mostly offset the intelligence gains on net - hasn't been a game changer for most applications (and bing covers the rest)
One improvement would be to have their actions reflect their messaging. They claim their browser is about privacy, yet I am tweaking more and more settings as time goes on. Sometimes it is to enjoy the features where they are available. In other cases, it is to circumvent their actions which are contrary to my definition of privacy.
Greater Idaho measure clinches Wallowa County win
Let me put first and foremost that this is shitty.

What irks me about these comment threads is that people hold Mozilla to a standard that nobody holds Google to. The negativity spiral, deserved as it may be, seems to then tip a lot of people (self-proclaimed) towards going with Chrome when that is still the worse option. Looking at Firefox' market share, I feel bad for the shit it gets and what it has to pull to try and stay relevant (.: to pay the devs). At the same time, I would also not mind an unmozillad firefox, perhaps in exchange for a certain donation amount per year.

I currently don't donate much to Mozilla because they keep making the experience worse time and again (I'm still salty on a daily basis because the new mouse gestures "extension" is crap compared to the "add-on"-based one from before Firefox 57), because donating adds your email address to their spam list, and because I can't tell them to spend it on useful things like Thunderbird and Firefox rather than developing yet another VPN frontend or buying Pocket. Having a Firefox subscription that gets rid of their ads would not limit what they can spend it on, but it would send a clear message of what it is that I'm wanting to pay for. Wouldn't solve all problems but I wonder if this might help.
Wasn't aware System76 was pulling Rust chops and making a DE, thanks for sharing.
Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost
Archived Version: https://archive.ph/W7jUR.

Deleted blogpost: https://web.archive.org/web/20230525232713/https://www.about....

See also: Amazon fights to kill emissions bill in Oregon, despite climate pledge [1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35444181
Don't ebikes generate tire dust as well?

By "public transport" you mean shared ebikes? I don't think this can be a mainstream public transport solution if we want to move forward. Ebikes are unsafe, for starters. I expect a lot worse security issues than what's being reported with Teslas...
What county and state from a residency and employment perspective? If United States, are you a W2 employee or 1099 contractor?
Yeah, I haven't gone to great lengths to hide my identity. I just wanted an account for shitposting on YouTube comments. I'm sure the feds can find me if they don't like what I'm asking Chat GPT, but at least my conversations won't show up in the results of any JOIN queries for my phone number or email address.
yeah, 30% recycled material in the chassis only isn't that impressive. now, if they were reusing components. but its non of the sorts.
Does it drive you to work too?
Book Review: Flash Crash by Liam Vaughan
I've read Scientific American since I was a young kid, but this article makes me feel supremely inadequate in my knowledge of physics and maths.
this is like writing jsx but without compiler
Perhaps some of these? It says ‘10000 bugs found’.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&que...
I believe that all evidence points says that it helps.
Then someone discovers you can add a reed. Et voila, the woodwind section appears :-)

Alternate ending: "suddenly jazz appears"
Same here! May I ask which field of programming you went into? And how you feel about being a programmer?

I often wonder how it might have been if I just had stayed with math. Especially, after years of doing regular programming for the Web, recently I had to develop a computational geometry library. It had been years since I graduated but really made me feel nostalgic. I think I lost something when I left the field, but then again life is a lot easier now...
Don't Buy an Electric Kitchen Composter
Um, they appear to have orchestrated a change in management, then cozied up to Google to get a personal bonus (I read, I don't have a good source, sorry), then continued to leech money from Firefox whilst giving little in return.

The execs are still competing, they're winning, and getting exactly what they aim for, personal wealth.
I wanted to do a custom keyboard, at one point I tried to write some PHP code to parse a JSON definition of the layout, and generate a disposable Python script to feed into the KiCAD console to position the switches and diodes to order. (Mostly because I far comfier with PHP tooling) It sort of fell apart because I couldn't quite get the diodes to lay out where I wanted them.
Isn’t that exactly what happened to Emma Goldman and Charles Chaplin?
Most roots of the war cause were removed. Entire military was destroyed so some bad systems are also destroyed: Old constitution that defines emperor as top of mils formally (rather than prime minister) so mils did some thing without cabinet's order. Gunbu Daijin Geneki Bukan sei system so mil had control for cabinet.

People think the existence of emperor (thousand years long) itself wasn't the root cause (or at least think it's better than changing everything), unlike Hitler.
> write a florid virtuous editorial

Frankly, it's much less problematic than Google writing a blog post bragging to it's advertising customers that it has started buying a copy of everyone's credit/debit card transaction data so they can spy on potential customers more than ever.

> as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

So, if you buy stuff with a card, there’s a less than one-in-three chance that Google doesn’t know about it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...
Right. I did a prototype digital edition of one of the Essays for my master's thesis 20 years ago, and it was surprising how much interesting stuff was just plain missing from the standard editions. I would have expected some Montaigne scholar to have published at least a partial digital edition by now. If it's not been done by the time I retire, I'll be tempted to do it myself.
This is something I've noticed lately. (About 5 years)

On my own phone, I want to turn off certain full screen/lockscreen features of Spotify. But I cannot do that without turning off all Spotify notifications, which includes the ability to change songs on the fly.

I thought that was bad enough, until I took a look at my mother's phone.

My mother's Android phone is... well it's a nightmare. She has so many ridiculous notifications that the notification bar is completely unusable. It took me nearly 15 seconds to actually scroll to the bottom of the list as quickly as possible.

The majority of them are from online payment or coupon/companion apps for certain stores. (Digital and Physical) They appear to be automated, and sent on 4hr ~ 8hr intervals, endlessly spamming the user.

She isn't very tech savvy, being in her 60s, so I had to give her a step by step example of how to turn them off. But here's the thing, you have to turn them off one by one. And there are something upwards of 60 of these offending apps.

It was bad enough that she had gotten used to using the phone without the "pull down" menu at all. All frivolous changes to settings, she would do through the settings menu.
I've been through 8mm Exabyte tape, 4mm DAT tape, Sony AIT tape, and a couple of generations of LTO. I kept a pair of drives for each format, all using SCSI, and had suitable SCSI adaptors to drive them, and formated the recorded data using standard Open Source software with no compression or encryption. Every year, I'd read each tape, just to re-tension it, and try to avoid print-through, etc.

It was a massive effort. So, I no longer do that.

I now just keep everything on my NAS. The volumes are mirrored. I have a removable HDD onto which I snapshot the entire NAS volume every night. I swap that drive out every month and send it off-site (and replace it with the one previously off-site). So I have live, local snapshot (up to 24 hours out-of-date), and off-site snapshot (up to 1 month out of date).

Everything I care about is rsync-ed daily to the NAS: home directories, photos, music, Time Machine laptop backups, machine configs, IMAP sync, CalDAV sync, CardDAV, Git repo clones, etc.

Every few years, I double the size of the NAS volume.

There's no monthly cost, and there's no concern about degradation of the media. The storage format is always current, as are the OS and tools required to read it. The only effort is the monthly off-site drive swap.

It won't outlive me, unless my heirs decide to continue to maintain it, but ... at that point I no longer care.
So, is Firefox effectively on life-support, and functioning purely as a corpse from which the MBA-type vultures who encircle it can pluck morsels of resumé-fluff at the browser's expense?
Jsx is one of the best things about react
As a recent addition, I've been impressed with Kevin P. Murphy's Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (2022)[1] and Advanced Topics (2023)[2].

[1] https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

[2] https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html
>Elons point on cars being worth 5x as much .... all of a sudden can be driven 40-50 hours a week ...

Look at it this way, assume humans drive, or need to be driven/travel, X miles per year.

Today, assuming a car drives Y miles per year, the market needs X/Y cars.

Given your argument, with self driving, a car runs nY miles per year, the demand for car will drop to X/nY, basically 1/n of before or maybe a little more, since after all the humans won't suddenly need to drive/travel nX miles per year.

So, if a car were to become worth 5x more, but we need 1/5x cars, the total market would remain the same.
ChatGPT can map one situation over another, like when you ask it to tell a story in the style of x or y.

Basically that means that in the training of predicting the next token, gpt HAD to come up with some internal way of “modeling” such situation and “render” it.

This ability to model and apply the model to something else could very well be the core building block of general thinking.

Additionally, the progresses in AI have been shockingly higher than expected. That computers would beat go and the turing test was completely unrealistic ten years ago. We can’t rule out that AGI isn’t around the corner.
Is your data also in the Tesla files? (German)
“Debt” isn’t an ambiguous term that requires creative interpretation. The Magna Carta from 1215 has several provisions addressing “debt,” “interest,” “sureties,” etc.
Is your sample of Chinese and Russians limited to those who have had reason to leave their homes and move to the US? Because if it is, I suspect there's an element of selection bias there.
Sorry that was really badly phrased.

GCC and Clang have a standard syntax for attributes, which is what this feature uses. Moreover the position semantics of the __attribute__ syntax matches the positional semantics of the standardized C++ attribute syntax, which is (fingers crossed) finally being picked up in C23.

So with that mea culpa let's address the rest.

__counted_by is obviously not standardized - this is an RFC for clang, let alone a spec proposal.

__counted_by is a macro that expands to:

__attribute__((__counted_by__(T)))

Which is the standard syntax for all attributes in clang and gcc.

So the question is why the position is different from under SAL. SAL considers the bounds of a pointer to be a feature of the declaration, not the type. This RFC consider pointer bounds to be an attribute of the type itself. Because of that, the syntax of the attribute needs to be in the location for type attributes. You might reasonably respond with "a one off match of this other syntax would have been ok", but the SAL syntax also means that you can only specify one set of bounds per declaration. By having bounds be an attribute of the type you can specify the bounds at each level of indirection in a declaration, so you can have something like:

void dump_string_list(int N, const char * __null_terminated * __counted_by(N) thing);

The other part is that this RFC also allows for opt in wide pointers so you can do

void something_else(int N, int * __indexable * __counted_by(N) thing);

Which would presumably not be usable for an existing API, but for internal logic that isn't subject to ABI constraints would allow the adoption of bounds safety without significant source changes. It also highlights the impact on syntactic consistency of having this be an attribute of the type.

Now, given the necessary positional difference, reusing the same token as used for MS's SAL would make these incompatible, so code bases would need to use different macro names for each anyway.

Finally, if it was considered really valuable, then someone could implement the same implicit adoption that occurs when SAL attributes are present, as already occurs if you do something like

void f(int N, int buffer[N])

while retaining the significantly more powerful and flexible attributes provided by this RFC.
In the nuclear industry we call this "Rickover's paper reactor memo"

https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
Deal breaker for us, since alternatives exist that aren't so hobbled.
> It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously?

Yep. It lets people anonymously download apps from Google Play. It provides privacy and usability.

> I've gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked

Is there any reason why users shouldn't be able to download apps anonymously?

> and would be wildly outside of Google's terms.

Unfortunately Google does prohibit this. I wish Google would allow people to download no-cost apps without an account.

> How does this thingy work?

Unfortunately, it only works when few people know about it.
And TCP/IP was one of many potential standard protocols

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars
Every few months I go to check out prices for Ultrium Tape Drives and I've had a super hard time finding affordable ones (everything is almost $1K).

Any tips? Particularly on finding something I can interface with SATA?
sudo is that monitor process, it's the same with how containerd and podman work, it's much much easier to babysit a process when you're its parent.
WebLLM NPM Package
Thread about things I've learned in my progress building a computer so far
I just bought a house in Longmont a few weeks ago! You like it?
For sake of argument let's say the US military is a fine institution & let's say corporations making a profit supporting it is fine.

But my god, the inefficiency & fleecing being done by corporations is ghastly. It's an absurd detriment that the system is robustly categorically fucked, incapable of getting effective help to aid/drive/support the cause. The US taxpayer pays out the nose, when we could be bettering ourselves greatly, because of this systematic incompetence that we suffer.

I don't see your comment as replying to anything whatsoever topical here. You've paved over concerns with jingoism. We can debate that jingoism, but - at a minimum - I don't feel like America should suffer itself to keep getting fleeced by an ineffective & ghastly expensive defense industry. We could do this without it being such a racket.
I'm not sure about their user experience either. The website for it has zero concrete information and you can't even see that there is no windows support until you give it an email address.
WOW! first. I know because we had it, and for that reason alone. Before WOW! we would do the X hour free trials of ISPs and that's all the internet we had. AOL followed less than a year later, and we switched to AOL only then because of AIM and their walled garden (talking pre-Netscape) was better.

WOW! was fairly poorly advertised. We originally got it via a free CD at a store (Barnes and Noble or Office Max?), and they started doing TV advertisements a few months later. Though almost immediately thereafter AOL started their giant Unlimited Hours advertising blitz. Marketing truly won in that scenario. CompuServe had a shot, but no one knew about WOW! so it died in obscurity and under the weight of AOL's genuinely gargantuan marketing efforts.
That is an absolutely massive number. I wonder if openAI or anyone has published their retention rate.
Adding the index may be physically hard because it takes a while and steals resources from your server. But cognitively, it is easy - find the query that is slow and add the index to make it fast. It's usually very obvious from the query what index you need to add

Deleting an index might be physically easy to do. But figuring out if it's safe to do is hard. You have to inspect every query you make and make sure none need that index. Once the index is there, in practice it's usually there forever.
It dates to not long after the printing press was invented, but it was a much shorter period. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/mon...
Paper if their site isn't loading https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15334.pdf
Oh how I long for the older, simpler and unobtrusive systems like that.

I have so many things where I just want the old non-electric style back.
I would potentially pay for this in Mandarin, although I'd be wary of the quality vs human-produced sources.

I often practice by reading sites like https://cn.wsj.com/, https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad, https://cn.nytimes.com/, or https://big5.ftchinese.com/. These are all text news sites so they help with reading comprehension and grammar but not at all with listening. I'm not aware of any similar audio sources, especially not ones that use professional-level language but slow it down so it's accessible to language learners. So you'd be in a unique niche.
There are chains that don't have such fees.

Also, a wire transfer fee on a million bucks is like $20-$40. That's pretty comparable to ETH and BTC fees.
Pleroma via Nostr Relay Attack
It's quite possible to build and use sudo without PAM support even on Linux, most distributions just tend to build everything in "kitchen sink" mode. If I remember right on Alpine it's PAM-free by default so it doesn't need to fork. On Gentoo it's behind a USE flag.
I don't think the only alternative is "replace the US with a different (evil) power". An alternative is that the UN plays more of a policing role and we move away from power and justice being applied unilaterally and capriciously.
In no way am I suggesting that this is an easy thing to do, or even neccessarily to be desired, but the idea that the world being run by China-Russia is the only alternative to US hegemony is a false dichotomy.
Probably.

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/raptor-steel-...
As others have said, it is the outbound that was really killing it. Sure, we could watch multiple Netflix, but streaming our camera video and audio and it'd get flaky. ISTR I had 250Mbps inbound at the beginning and outbound was ~25Mbps. Upgrading to gigabit got us the fastest outbound they offered at the time, I think it was 40 or 50Mbps. Also, as others have said, Comcast really doesn't like talking about the upstream speed. When I got the upgrade to gigabit, I did their chat support to ask them and even when their support people were directly asked they were reluctant to say. ISTR they kept asking why I wanted to know.
In 2017 I was on a late running DB train and was given a form to complete to get a refund. Problem was I live in
New Zealand and have my bank account here. I fill out the form using my NZ account details anyway and posted the form from New Zelanad thinking I would never see a cent. I was shocked a few weeks later when I found out DB had managed to process my refund to my bank account on the other side of the world. I can tell you no train operator in New Zealand would do this if it was a German claiming a refund. Refunds for delays is definitely not a thing here.
Take a look at the photos of known puncture holes in bones in the research paper in the root comment.

Lots of perfect holes without otherwise crushing the bone. You seem to be taking something ordinary and treating it as extraordinary (I don't know why you're inventing the requirement of a "perfect hyena", lots of hyena will do). I'll copy for you some of the intro text of the paper (emphasis mine):

> Ice Age spotted hyenas of Europe occupied mainly cave entrances as dens... but went deeper for scavenging into cave bear dens... In most of those dens, about 20% of adult to 80% of bear cub remains have large carnivore damage. Hyenas left bones in repeating similar tooth mark and crush damage stages, demonstrating a butchering/bone cracking strategy. The femora of subadult cave bears are intermediate in damage patterns, compared to the adult ones, which were fully crushed to pieces. Hyenas produced round–oval puncture marks in cub femora only by the bone-crushing premolar teeth of both upper and lower jaw. The punctures/tooth impact marks are often present on both sides of the shaft of cave bear cub femora and are simply a result of non-breakage of the slightly calciﬁed shaft compacta. All stages of femur puncturing to crushing are demonstrated herein, especially on a large cave bear population from a German cave bear den.

Suddenly seems pretty plausible, no? Again, I'm not saying that's what happened, but that science does need to disprove that's what happened in a particular case. Just regular common-sense skepticism is all that's needed here. Unless you think all of science is "withering"?
Feel free to post a source for your claims that the party with 5+ decades of majority control is excused from its failures to alleviate the problems of its most desperate citizens because of spoiler votes.

In any case, the fact that that situation is even possible is support enough for folks to move to lower density areas.