skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking a lot since writing this. The thing is my house is low rent because it's far off, my car is old and has over 300k km. It's was a very consciously decision to get here.

Nothing is of value, the actual value is the conscious decision of going against the main stream, taking some risks to get to place we actually can enjoy.

It's materialistic in a obvious way, but it's not about materialistic value.
ThePhD is project editor for WG14, the C language standards committee. The other poster is probably referring to them as "the sheep dev" because ThePhD is prolific on GitHub and have an anthropomorphic sheep as their profile image.
Could probably fall under the guise of false advertising. AI companies are commonly guilty of that. But I haven't seen an AI company go after legal professionals yet...
Kinda disappointed that the instruction video doesn't show the plane flying.

Yeah, I know, the internet made me lazy.
If we're going to be pedantic about language use (and it appears that we are): "cf" is short for the Latin for "compare [with]". To me, that only makes sense when the reference is something very analogous, e.g. you're talking about caramelising onions and you cite an article about caramelising carrots. Most of the time it's used, including this time, it would be more appropriate to just say "see also".
>What is the motive for that?

Isn't that obvious? Create enough smoke to make people believe there's a fire.
> Use a SIP Application Layer Gateway. This is a horrible feature offered by some routers. Basically, it deep-packet-inspects your SIP traffic, rewrites the headers, and creates port forwards on-the-fly to make sure the inbound audio stream makes its way to your device. SIP ALGs are a total hack and notoriously buggy.

Yes, these hacky ALG features also allowed internet users to access internal IPs on arbitrary services (!); named “remote arbitrary firewall pinhole control”. The attack was published in 2020 and named NAT slipstreaming [1].

[1] https://samy.pl/slipstream/
One of the places Inworked at was so good at cutting corners, they had to resort to cutting corner of a perfect sphere after no corners were left anymore. In a sense, the culture / leadership principle of "no corner cutting" was 100% accurate... Horrible place, and all engineering driven...
It's fair use if the work is "transformative". GPT-4 isn't publishing the content of the books, it's publishing a model derived from the entire corpus. I'm not a lawyer, but I think there's an argument that it is transformative.
Very cool! Although seems to have no memory to speak of so many use cases like LLM goes away because of that I guess?
But is it really piracy if there is no way to buy and play the original game except for completely overpriced second-hand stuff?

I now it is legally, but morally I don't think people are doing something wrong here.
If users want something functionally impossible then that’s an education thing not a product thing.

I fully expect that when I send text to a service that the provider can read all of it. Like of course they can, they have to process it.
„Using ChatGPT is like talking to a journalist who has interviewed an expert. Knoll's law of media accuracy: "everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge".“

https://twitter.com/edsaperia/status/1599707598780964864
As things are now, anything that needs to be factual or reasoning seems like a bad match for LLMs. Where I find them very useful is at rewording things, or at continuing something repetitive enough along a given pattern (eg in programming).
There is another phenomenon at play here imo.

If it gives you what you want, or something that looks like what you want or need, it gets harder and harder to say no and not use it.

A few times I was tempted to just go it blindly and I’m glad I didn’t.

TL;DR: verifying LLM output gets tiring.
By the time these games enter the public domain, there'll be no way to play them except via an emulator and no way to develop an emulator if there's not one already - the flash holding the OS on all the Wiis out there will have long bitrotted away. Hell, a lot of the newer Wii Us are already dying due to flash failure just from being switched off for a few years. Strict copyright and DRM enforcement would most likely lead to this era of games being lost forever, just like many older films from a century or more ago have been lost.
Due to a history of dishonest promotional contests, contest law in the US is actually pretty strict. It doesn’t surprise me at all that if you put on a contest and misrepresent some aspect of it, the court will not be happy.

> his witnesses gave conflicting answers to critical questions like “What exactly was in the data you provided to the experts and how was it related to the November 2020 U.S. presidential election?”

(As to “his lawyers must have really screwed up”, given what I know about Lindell, my priors on that are high)
Yes but why would you? Radioactivity means you can't reoccupy the land yourself.

If dispensing misery is the goal, we have more effective chemical and biological weapons which are less militarily useful for the same reasons as a high-fallout nuclear bomb would be.
I’m confused. The AI does not process input in-browser.
wow I never had a chance to know what pipeline was used. p-II/450 DELL feels so "average". I wonder what renderer they used ... bmrt ? renderman ? mentalray ?
Of course, since software errors are inevitable there is no other way than to test extensive and systematically. In Europe adaptions of the V-Model [1] are in wide spread use. Even for smallish projects, expensive simulation of substantial cost is completely normal [2].
Hence there should have been a test software component, that can simulate realistic landing data. This component failed to identify the error, which is nothing more than a big blunder of the testing team.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-model
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_simulatio...
Common law is guided by precedent. Apparently, a US attorney is expected to “Shepardize” the cases he cites, which means checking how often they have been used successfully and whether they have been affirmed or overturned (the name comes from the author of an early database). This should put citing a case that never existed beyond the pale, no matter whether you realize ChatGPT is not a search engine.
Yes I was thinking the same thing, use whisper.cpp for better performance and simply grep it.
it's more than that, digitalization means 'objects' taking space are a problem, macbookair/tablets and soon VR is the floor.
Using F* to Formally Verify Programs
Terminals are ridiculously insecure (1989)
An interesting tidbit from https://jdebp.uk/FGA/TIOCSTI-is-a-kernel-problem.html that I thought might be of interest standalone.
Also by the time US loses its privileged position it will already be too late to reinvest elsewhere without losses. So many funds are already moving money to China and elsewhere. Having said that China etc have their own economic and demographic problems so nowhere seems safe at the moment.
> simplified, vendor agnostic

I just don't see this being true. Being "cloud agnostic" likely means it's an incredibly leaky abstraction where at the first sign of trouble, you're going to have to understand winglang + the specific provider API. Any IaC product requires you intimiately understand what it's actually doing if you care about security and performance. Just because it's a managed service doesn't mean you get to ignore all it's implementation detail, right?

All the cloud providers give you a function as a service, or a nosql database, or a file bucket: ignoring all the nuance as an agnostic is at a minimum leaving optimisation on the table and more likely dangerous and expensive, surely?
I’ll never understand “no complain” argument.

Person has a valid complaint, goddamnit, they have all the rights to complain.
I think just a lot of the open source community and even ARM itself assumed there would be some inflection point at which point everyone would jump ship to RISC-V. I could be wrong, but at this point it seems more likely to be a gradual change unless there is some key gamechanger piece of hardware like the M1 chip

Most of the big moves in the RISC-V space seem to be coming from the low-end and from China. They might have trouble making the jump to a true x64 M1-like competitor given the geopolitics with cutting edge chip manufacturing (TSMC etc.)

I think other players are going to have funding issues to take on the big players as the open nature of RISC-V seems to mean it's harder to build an IP moat. I've noticed a lot of the Chinese chips come with stuff like NPUs to set themselves apart and presumably get some lock in on their "platforms". But that's just my naiive impression reading some blogs and looking at releases. (ie. I have no idea what I'm talking about)
It’s a must, published source code or not it doesn’t help.

First there is no forward compatibility guarantee for compiling and based on current history it always breaks.

Secondly even if the code is available a design that breaks software on other users machine is stupid and anti user.

Plenty of projects could import libraries and then themselves be upstream dependencies for other projects, many of which may not be supported.

CUDA is king because people can and still do run 15 year old compiles CUDA code on a daily basis and they know that what they produced today is guaranteed to work on all current and future hardware.

With ROCm you have no guarantee that it would work on even the hardware from the same generation and you pretty much have a guarantee that the next update will break your stuff.

This was a problem with all AMD compilers for GPGPU and ROCm should’ve tried to solve it from day 1 but it still adopted a poor design and that has nothing to do with how many people are working on it.
I think their point still stands. We have people and bots shilling chatgpt on a minutely cadence all over the internet right now talking about how "it is the same thing as a person" "look at how it is always correct in these complicated cases" then whenever something doesn't work there's mass gas lighting..."you didn't use the latest version!" "You probably engineered a fake prompt so it would fail!" "You just don't know how to use it"

To people who understand the technology your reply is fair. But it doesn't account for the millions of people who don't and are spewing manic sentiment about it's capabilities on the regular.

A lot of companies adopt this strategy for broken technology because it fosters a cult like group of zealots for a short period of time while they go off and try to fix everything. In my experience it usually doesn't last long.
Given how this site looks on mobile, I'm not sure I can trust their opinion on barrier-free reading
It's an interesting question. I must take that General Relativity course some day. Meanwhile, I have to guess ...

I guess you are correct and with small amplitudes the apparent speed is equal to the speed of light. For big amplitudes, I'm not sure.
That's missing some levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

How can people be happy without self-actualization? Happy and (making things) happen are related words.
Cynical prediction: by the time this project is finished, the entire rendering of browsers happens in the GPU.
Encryption keys are not an expression, they are more like technological utility. I don’t think they are copyrighted. The DMCA could apply because of the anti-circumvention rules but that’s also kind of doubtful because emulation is fair use.

Nevertheless making an emulator for a current console so easily available so anyone can pirate games on release day is unfair to Nintendo and it should surprise no one that they would act.
It's way easier, and more common, to be wrong than to be right.
dire-ix
If you mix up wayland with user interfaces, you are not even in the ballpark of getting the deal — pretty pretentious to have such a strong opinion on something you know jackshit about.

Especially that the people on Wayland are literally the ex-maintainers of X.
My 'holy shit' moment in understanding non-equilibrium dynamics was reading about Ilya Prigogine's dissipative structures. His work, and Ashby's for that matter, are conspicuously absent from this article.
> and then

And then some years later you get arrested for money laundering :)

OR

> and then

The Texan's billionaire's relatives sue you for the inheritance.

i.e. not really that free. Always caveats.
I always thought money is only useful insofar you do things with it
> I’d rather be on the hook for a modern RDBMS than a modern browser.

I've worked on both a RDBMS and a browser, and yes, I'm inclined to agree. In particular, it is largely acceptable for an RDBMS to pick a niche where you perform well, and do worse in others—and you're (silently) allowed to support only a given subset and have your own incompatibilities. Nobody would ever use a browser that performs well on NYT but could hardly run YouTube (or the other way around).

Interestingly, there are very small teams who have written usable instances of both.
> I’d like build a small community where food, stay etc will be free.

Could anyone come live there?
> Even the US says there was 'minimal damage'. [0]

Yes, minimal damage from flying debris from something, but it's clear from that satellite imagery nothing hit any part of an actual patriot.

> There is no evidence to the number of Kinzhals launched and to the number of Kinzhals intercepted.

Exactly, no evidence of anything but minimal damage to a patriot either. Kinda pathetic given the size of the attack that Russia cannot even take out one air defense system that they clear know where is.
How much would he have got with a typically four-year vesting schedule plan with a one-year cliff?
I'd keep working on my current website. I genuinely love what I'm doing and the impact it has.

However I would no longer have to think about business and monetisation. I could open up the code and the content to pull requests and focus on creating a public good.

More specifically, I could focus on tools to help immigrants against greedy landlords, not the finance/insurance content that pays the bills. I would not have to split my time between both.
Plug for my Constraint Solver if anyone wants a simple example https://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Decider
It has 8 MB of memory. It also supports live streaming the neural network to the chip, although that is slower than when it is cached in the memory.
Completely unrelated, but as a non native speaker of English I was completely lost in the "their"s, not knowing who they refer to.

Then I realized that JT may prefer to be addressed this way, which is indeed the case according to their Twitter handle.

It is a shame that better pronouns were not promoted in English to simplify the understanding of sentences where they both refer to a single person and a group.
Level up your GPT game with prompt engineering – .NET Blog
Hey, I understand where you're coming from, but I still think there is room abstraction when done right. I wrote about it here: https://docs.winglang.io/faq/why-cloud-abstraction
Whoever's been trying to wipe the game Cookie's Bustle off the internet clearly hasn't been punished at all, even when they pretended to be Nintendo.
That's totally orthogonal to desktop composition, or rather almost in contrast with it...
Yep, if its a hairy one..
most of my possessions are tools to accomplish something. eg. i got a DSLR camera (the cheapest model, but that's still quite more expensive than other cameras) not because i want a nice possession, but because i prefer a fast camera to take photos of my always moving kids. if the camera breaks and i have to get a new one then it's not the loss of a possession that i'll lament over, but how much it cost over its lifetime. (500$ over 5 years doesn't feel so bad in the end). same goes for any other valuable/expensive item i get.
Wondering about this, too?
Is this for Letter or A4 (series) paper sizes?
While a given generation of accelerator can only target model architectures that are comparatively proven out, and there’s a lag time, it’s measured in years not decades.

I remember when NVIDIA didn’t have hardware for ReLU.

The fact of the matter on Moore’s law is that we’ve got transistors, but not TDP to burn and have for years. These stupid big L3 caches are just: “fuck it, I’ve got die to burn”.

This is an old story, things migrate in and out of the “CPU”, but the current outlook is that we’ll be targeting specialized hardware more rather than less for the foreseeable future.
Interesting theory ;)
Right at this moment, yes, but after infecting a billion fruit flies, evolution would have given it a billion chances to jump species. Seems enormously irresponsible to release a fungus like this.
I am sure you are happy with old software from 1999 but have you tried more modern software?

The technology has improved a lot even for basic operations such as resizing or fixing colours.
This approach is a step up from enigma-reloaded[1] which had some copy+paste friction to use. Genius to put it in the android keyboard itself like an enigma machine.

[1]: https://enigma-reloaded.github.io/enigma-reloaded/#/
If anything, it’s an encouraging tale for the “let’s invent a new language for our rewrite of a complex application” camp.

The rewrite failed but the language lives on because the problem was general enough.
Failing to understand that you can't reduce everything to a single vector and claim "this is the worse it's ever gonna be... it's only gonna get better... when it this reaches 10x or 100x what it is now you'll see what it's really capable of" is a perfect analogy in fact for the hype around LLMs.

EDIT: found another way in which you're illustrating my point - yeah propellers and LLMs are great for flying under a hard ceiling. We need something entirely different to reach orbit. You can't just tell people to bolt on rockets to propeller driven aircraft, you need to invent something entirely different, like spacecraft.
If databases are in play, instead of trying to understand the business logic, have a go at understanding the database structure first.

What are your tables, how they are related etc.

Then look at the modules that interact with the data layer directly and move up.

This is a language agnostic approach though, but it has worked out well for me.
then again, who decides if it is a (very) good reason?
I've been doing an informal survey of Rust packages for RISC-V. A lot of the basic RT crates are broken. But the SBI integrated crates are top-notch.

I wonder what would have happened if the other ecosystems had invested in QEMU development and other boot systems during the chip supply shortage.

Or is there just something wrong with them?

Sorry, sick question. I don't need to pursue this avenue.
Unethical because it can get the devs into legal trouble and the Chinese government is known to be aggressive in their choice of "solutions".
I think this future seems very clear, and just because ChatGPT won’t put thousands of attorneys or paralegals out of work tomorrow doesn’t mean it’s not on the horizon. OpenAI’s model was created for general purpose use so it’s not surprising that it fails in very specific and nuanced areas.

If we use the same principals but fine tune the (or create a new) model with the appropriate legal information, I think we’ll see far better results. If not now, then in the very near future. Companies like LexisNexis[1] have a strong incentive to make this happen.

1. https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/home.page
The first few times I tried chat gpt I tried asking it goofy questions to try to break it. Then I asked it questions across various fields I have information on. It answered each question incorrectly in a way that bothered me. The. I tried asking it about a field I didn't know about, and googled for the answer. Wrong again. I literally never had it give me an answer that mattered.

I have a colleague who is gungho chat bot coding. The guy is smart, but ever since he started using it, he's adopted some weird ideas about what code should look like which are based on easily googleable chatgpt lies and he refuses to hear anyone else out. It's kinda sad how confidently wrong chatbots can infect people and stunt their growth...
What some people claim to want is irrelevant to how the technology executes. We may want little strings, HTML, or whatever. The end state is a DOM object in memory irrespective of what some developers enjoy. If you want a different end state your choices at the moment are either fully abandon web technologies or use WASM.
>What is "ugly" or "beautiful" is really subjective. See brutalist architecture for example: opinions are (strongly) divided

Strongly divided, as to the strength of like or dislike, yes.

But as for the split, it's pretentious architects and a handful of laymen outliers on one side, and billions of people on the other. And whenever people vote with their wallets (as tourists, or picking where to live, etc) they shit all over brutalist monstrocities.
That's fair, it wasn't exactly secure on the OS level, fun stuff like the help function allowing a backdoor to a user account. But to be fair to SGI this was exactly the era when the internet went from 'small village' to 'megapolis' and that brought the vermin right along with the funding.
I'm eagerly awaiting jmp.chat to branch out into Europe (they have plans, but no concrete timeline).

I'm curious why not sipgate, which I currently use, or Twilio which I half-use (it mostly forwarded to my own Asterisk server, which needs some attention).
How exactly does that work? I get the sending part, but how does any keyboard app read received messages to decrypt them?

Edit: nevermind: found the „use clipboard to read messages“ line
With all the disasters I've been through, one of the things that makes me happy is the knowledge that at least other people on the average are doing much better in many ways, especially financially than myself.

That's one of the things that inspires hope the most.

Quite the opposite of Envy and others among the "Seven Vices".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me passing the access token in the GET URL is not a good security practice. This increases the probability of unintentionally exposing the token. The URLs can be logged by proxy servers, application logs. Simply, user can accidentally send the link with token in chat, etc.

Usually in REST APIs the auth token is passed via some HTTP header.
The world might be served well if these historical events had more pop culture treatments. The age of the participants when these milestones of human understanding gain traction are one of the more interesting aspects, considering how we value older philosophical perspectives today more than youthful philosophies one might devise during their teens or 20's.
How are you finding mypy for your project?

I find that I waste a lot of time telling mypy to ignore some library that it doesn't understand, much more than I'm saving by catching type errors (which is never). People add it to projects because it seems like a best practice and the proper thing to do, but I'm kind of unconviced that it's making things better.
True problem is not technical and it is right there in the article. Non-academics "speak less and worry more". So their knowledge is likely scattered and not distilled. Building these devices is probably quite simple in the end, it is just the story is not being told.
Treasury expects to run out of cash by June 5
Anything after 5.3 I missed because I had already seen the writing on the wall by then, so it may well be that both of these are true, but that we're talking about different times. Mine: 1995 until 2002 or so. Right about when they got VR crazy (a bit like what is happening with Facebook right now).
https://archive.md/8hdF5
It’s quite a career that includes both! Congratulations on an interesting professional life!

Are you at liberty to share any inside baseball about the small teams you mentioned?