skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of him as the last known native speaker of latin!

I made the pilgrimage to visit his study when I last visited your country. I had read about the quotations set into the rafters and was surprised to find so much greek!
A lot of people commented on the article with "I or a relative were involuntarily committed and it was necessary" or "there was a lot of suffering because a relative should have been involuntarily committed and wasn't".

That's like asking about what standards the police should use to arrest criminals, and answering "I was a victim of a crime because the police refused to arrest someone". It's not false, but it doesn't generalize. False positives and false negatives are both problems. Just ignoring false negatives is terrible because people suffer by not being involuntarily committed, but people suffer by being involuntarily committed too, and you need to balance that out, not just say "I know what was needed for me".
It would be suicidal for a commercial "non logging" VPN to keep track of IPs + timestamps. It also costs money to store this (best DB is no DB), and does not guarantee 1:1 mapping even if it was in place as exit IPs are shared by multiple users at any given moment.
Can anyone elaborate on how or why Turing completeness requires these sub optimal patterns?

I recall reading about avoiding Turing completeness for similar reasons to avoid the halting problem.

> Other times these programmers apply the rule of least power—they deliberately use a computer language that is not quite fully Turing-complete. Frequently, these are languages that guarantee all subroutines finish, such as Coq.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Twitter doesn't work well and isn't accessible so we needn't burden every product change with these additional concerns.
(quibble with the analogy,

> baseball batter will hit 4 out of every ten balls thrown at him

if you're talking about batting .400, that's 4 per 10 "at-bats", where each at-bat will on average consist of a multiple of balls thrown.

)
Keep in mind that the Covid-19 putative justification for QR codes was touchless interaction --- multiple people weren't handling the same menu.

Printing out single-use paper menus runs less than a dime an impression. Laminated menus which can be sanitised after each use would have a per-instance cost below that and can be reused 100s to 1,000s of times.
amazing how web pages look different than terminal output :)
They had Kelly Johnson in 1964. He is, quite literally, the godfather of high-speed aircraft including the U-2 and the A-12/SR-71. He was not only a highly skilled engineer, he was a manager of the first order. A former colleague of mine had the privilege of working for Johnson early in his career and said that he'd never worked for a better boss. I believe it.
Literally any social network, ad network or any of these https://whotracks.me/companies/reach-chart.html
I just can't imagine how a stochastic parrot could repeat back a correctly-sorted list that it hasn't seen in training, without actually implementing a sorting algorithm in the process. It seems (and, by calculation, is) phenomenally unlikely that it would just stochastically happen to pick every single number correctly.

When that is combined with the fact that transformers provably can implement proper deterministic sorting algorithms, it seems that the benefit of the doubt should go to the transformer having learned a sorting algorithm?

LLMs aren't plastic in the sense that they don't learn anything when they aren't being trained. But they can be trained to execute different programs depending on the contents of the context window, like if it contains "wrong, try again:" so maybe they can learn from their mistakes in that sense.

But if you could teach an LLM to sort by explaining it in the context window, the network would already have necessarily learned and stored a sorting algorithm somewhere; the text "here is how sorting is done: [...]" would just be serving as the trigger for that function call.
The salient point about old news about the Patriot system is not about technical capabilities, but about how, years ago, it was first reported as being effective and then as not so effective.

It could be completely different technology today, but still have the same lack of accurate reporting.

How would we know? "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say"
Ubuntu and mint support touch interfaces? Can you use a stylus for writing?
Your initial post seemed to be comparing the Push and the Linnstrument.

It would also be excellent if the Linnstrument supported VSTs at all.

They seem to be identical in this respect.
99% ChatGPT performance on a consumer GPU
Tina Turner, rock and roll icon, dead at 83
This is cool, but you should really understand what you're in for if you choose to do this. In particular, running your own VPN does not enhance your privacy posture, and in fact makes it much worse, because your little cloud VPS is uniquely yours and yours only. You become much more fingerprintable, and any sufficiently determined sysadmin can easily manually trace your cloud instance's IP back to you.
Or we could just cut straight to the chase and put a microchip in them.
If Russia actually had separation of powers etc, it would be the courts finding that the war is indeed a war of aggression, of which there is of course ample evidence.

As things are, if he's still alive by the time regime in Russia changes, that will probably be (one of) the law he will be prosecuted under.
Drop them with armored transport near a supply line and it could work if you have already done SEAD.
All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States along with other addictive digital platforms such as TikTok.
Baking has that kind of precision to it, but cooking mostly doesn't.
Part of the reason the Gentoo wiki/docs are so good is that they use color and links - both totally doable in text mode consoles, but both neglected.
as a beginner, how can i practice linux commands.
I've liked Input Director https://www.inputdirector.com/ a lot more than Mouse Without Borders on Windows systems. If you need multi-platform Input Leap (previously Barrier) is the best alternative I've tried https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap.
Without protectionism, what would they have?

Also without protectionism, they'd be back to burning coal like germany.. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1124448463/germany-coal-energ...

Without protectionism, ESA wouldn't be able to have their own space missions

Without protectionism, germany wouldn't have his car industry

Calling out "protectionism", is often a weapon used by foreign countries to weaken competition, so they can have their chance without much effort

Without protectionism, what's the alternative?

Also TGV is just the 1st step, hydrogen comming next

You gotta have to keep innovating, otherwise you'll depend on others (germany refused Nuclear because they had a 'cheap' dependency on Russia ;))

Protectionism is great, protecting your interests is great, they should do it, the US is doing it, China is doing it, and it works great for them

Long live ESA, long live the nuclear industry and long live the TGV
Now they just need to port something like oneKpaq to 16 bit or maybe something from the extremely tiny decompressor thread [1], just to test compression level to get an idea kpaq on its quickest setting(taking minutes instead of what could be days on its highest) reduced SectorC to 82.81% of its size, of course adding the 128 bit stub knocked it to 677 bytes. It would be interesting to try it on the slowest takes day to bruteforce setting, but I'm not going to attempt that.

Some of the compressors in that forum thread since they are 32 bytes and such, might find it easier to get net gains.

[0] https://github.com/temisu/oneKpaq

[1] https://encode.su/threads/3387-(Extremely)-tiny-decompressor...
It's just my theory as a retired combat officer. I could be 100% wrong but this is 100% what I would do in Putin's situation. I watched the videos of the outbursts and it's on the outrageous side. It seemed silly to me to be honest.

One thing is for sure; we will find out the truth together.
If your use case is to access home content/services while abroad, spinning up a WG server at home, or even using Tailscale "exit node feature" (https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/) would accomplish what you need.

On a commercial side, we take reports from users. If someone tells us bank X doesn't work from VPN country location Y, we can fix that in minutes.
Firstly: this is rad AF. Second, I'd love to see more details about putting a modern MC into an old bus in general, if you've got any pointers.
Was it pg who said it? Not sure but basically - middle class get about one shot. Upper class can keep shooting their whole lives. Of course lower class usually doesn’t get one.

I took my one shot! Any more is too risky for quite a while.
Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals
I dont think its a good idea but … facial recognition.

Or microchip.
I actually want an open source superhuman. Not for all the tricks but because of the low latency.
Many, many hundreds.
He must have known that, so props to him for giving an honest answer.
“This is going to be difficult for all of us, we’re going to need to learn to do more with less” - quote from the CEO mantras chapter 4 verse 8
The scale of investment is wildly different. $5.57M in actual revenue vs $18.1M raised isn’t that far from a viable product and positive ROI for their investors.

Cruse and Waymo have invested billions, they need 10’s of billions in annual sales or their project is a failure.
Waymo removed it's backup drivers years ago...

https://spectrumnews1.com/ap-top-news/2020/10/08/waymo-remov...

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/29/waymo-launches-its-self-...

There was also a waymo press released this year that stated all rides in Arizona are now backup driver free, although I can't find it.
Do you use this as a daily driver?

I got addicted to evil-mode at some point and haven’t squared the circle of modal s-expression editing that this inevitably surfaces.

At least readline respecting programs reward my early emacs years.
This is a phenomenal showcase for the utter failure of the war on drugs. Regulate it, tax it, ensure folks can safely use, and help them stop using when they're ready.
I have been through the math thanks to the youtube videos by A. Karpathy. Deriving some of the differentials, e.g. for batchnorm seems fairly hard (hard as in slogging through something with many steps where you can't make a mistake at any step). But the principles are quite simple - I think by design. If they were hard to compute or reason about then the neural net wouldn't work very well!
Jepsen is more like a fuzzer than a unit test suite. It outputs "I did this and I got back this unexpected result". All of those outputs need to be analyzed by hand.

You don't audit a fuzzer to say "what if it runs the thing wrong". That's not the point of the fuzzer. The point is to do lots of weird stuff and check that the output of the system matches the expectation of what's produced. If the fuzzer outputs a result that's actually expected, then that's easily determined because you have to critically analyze what comes out of the tool in the first place.
AirTag!
Got it. But the $4/month isn't just DNS, right? It also proxies traffic so you can spoof geolocation?
I came to recommend this, so glad to see your comment.

I thought it was great, although I knew little more than that Montaigne was a philosopher before reading it. A really fascinating man.
BTM is very promising, but it is unclear how much it scales, let alone "massively". The paper scaled it to 64 domains and it worked, but you probably want more than 64 nodes.

Since domain is actually important to its performance, you can't randomly split to 64 pieces, see Table 4 of the paper, "Domain expert ensemble outperforms random split ensemble". Performance difference is large.

So if you want to begin, I would start by researching how to scale domain split.
Please fix bugs, search and slowness. Pour time and money into that.
I actually like WiX[1] — it has a bit of a learning curve, but, so long as I'm building on Windows and don't stray far from the default UI flows, I haven't found an easier tool for creating Windows installers as part of a product build process, especially those that require Windows-specific bits like COM component registration, Windows service management, setting restrictive ACLs on installed components, etc.

And while I'm not aware of any way to sandbox Windows Installer itself, I'm curious if AppContainer isolation can be applied to applications and services installed via MSI, which would still be quite useful even if the installation process itself is unrestricted.

Alternatively, now that MSIX supports service installation[2], I wonder whether an MSIX including a Windows service and a collection of client applications can be configured so everything runs within one AppContainer, isolated from the rest of the system, and whether permission to access specific external directories chosen by users in a configuration GUI can be transparently (to the user) delegated to the related service.

Alas, none of this is useful to me unless it's compatible with at least the most recent version of Windows 10: very few of my customers are running Windows 11, and I suspect many won't upgrade until Windows 10 is no longer supported (optimistically; as of last year, I was still getting occasional support requests from customers running older versions of our software on Windows Server 2003 R2).

[1] https://wixtoolset.org

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/supported-pla...
LTO tape
Heat sensor I would guess
Costs are higher for businesses that require high touch sales or support. Small businesses in general, are challenging for both.
Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing
Yes I use it daily.

I never squared the circle of modal editing and use mostly vanilla Emacs bindings (and paredit) :)

Would love to hear feedback from evil-mode user. Just in case I port it to vim in the future.
I know this one.

They have electronic signs set up by major highways that flash the message "Missing Adult" followed by a description of their car.

I forget if there's an alert "color" for it.

What I think would make a more interesting article is - a nursing home full of elderly people with dementia might have one much younger person, and a hospital psych ward might have one elderly person with dementia among younger people.

What are their stories?
Thank you, and you raise some great points.

Re-"developer as the customer", the mismatch between who makes the buying decisions for this kind of tech (CMO's etc.), and the devs who do much of the heavy lifting to make it work, is a real challenge.

Also, your point re the economies of scale of self-hosting vs using saas is valid. For small to mid sized orgs, using a cloud offering can be more economical.

However, we've observed that larger orgs often migrate off of saas to use open-source or build software in-house. This occurs for a number of reasons:

- They will have more engineering resources to allocate, in this case to marketing / growth.

- At their scale, the fixed costs of allocating engineers to implementing solutions are often exceeded by the variable costs of saas products, which commonly have volume based pricing.

- They often have more unique requirements that are not served by any particular saas product, and closed source saas is not extensible.

Some recent examples of this:

- Several large orgs are migrating off datadog in favor of open source observability tooling.

- Airbnb recently implemented the equivalent of Dittofeed internally (they responded in this thread).

Still, you raise legitimate concerns, and we're still figuring things out. Would love to get in touch, to better understand your perspective if you have time!
A QR code to a website that has information about you would be pretty useful should you ever be incapacitated and need assistance.
Realistically the layoffs usually come with a set of projects/features that will also be getting the boot to allow the remaining employees to regroup under specific initiatives that are deemed more important. Since the layoffs are top down there is a delay between them and the actual projects getting shuttered for lack of resources.
Don’t forget, half these stupid things require you to give personal info to order, plus they can fingerprint your browser. It’s not great for privacy.
I have tried Helix a couple of times but got stuck every time I used Visual Studio Code. There isn't a plugin to match the keyboard shortcuts. Once that's out there I'll give it another shot.

I would love to ditch VS Code completely but NeoVIM nor Helix are as extensive in debugging.
This is how SMT solvers deal with bounded quantifiers.
If it’s within the next century or so, the only issue will be whether we do as we’re told.
As someone who bought a deep learning rig for about $12k from lambdalabs years ago, I can't recommend them strongly enough. The support (and not having to deal with building it out myself) was well worth the markup. They're also just really great to deal with.
The next question is why didn’t the high end shops spending a ton of money and recruiting effort on crypto and state malware like NSA .. or Russia(?) figure this out already or did they
Black surfaces are good at absorbing AND radiating heat. I think that’s why the SR-71 was painted black. The amount of heat it got from absorbing the sun’s rays probably paled in comparison to the heat it radiated from all the friction as it flew.
"The Patriot missile is proven to defeat Scud missiles in real combat" - no it isn't. It quite notoriously mostly failed to intercept Scud missiles in real combat. It has been heavily upgraded since and modern Patriot batteries would likely succeed at intercepting Scud missiles, but this hasn't been proven in real combat.
To force the analogy into a slightly more accurate mold, it's more like if John actually moved away every morning and moved back every afternoon.
Pineapple: 32-bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home
Also why do it in JavaScript in a web page? So much waste for something that literally didn’t require a CPU at all back when they were first created. (Terminals were originally implemented via state machines with pure logic.)
I have some experience in this area, having both worked on machine learning frameworks, trained large models on datacenters, and have my own personal machine for tinkering around with.

This makes very little sense. Even if he was able to achieve his goals, consumer GPU hardware is bounded by network and memory, so it's a bad target to optimize. Fast device-to-device communication is only available on datacenter GPUs, and is essential for models training like LLaMA, Stable Diffusion, etc. Amdahl's law strikes again.
When did virtual private network come to be conflated with pseudo-anonymous Internet access? The sponsorships and ad campaigns all over the internet?
Max Will Change Film Credit Listings After Backlash over ‘Creators’ Heading
The point is that the real world is not a thriller movie. No, the FBI doesn't do that.
When I was an undergrad learning linked lists I discovered its possible to remove a node from a singly linked list with only a reference to the node to delete. This is cool because much of the point of a doubly-linked list is to enable this but it takes another pointer on every node to allow it. My idea was instead of deleting the node itself, just delete the next one and fix up the data pointers.

Like:

remove(node)
{
next = node->next;
node->data = next->data;
node->next = next->next;
free(next);
}

You need to handle the case of deleting the last element in the list but that can be done by keeping an EOL element at the end just for this purpose. It's surprising the me that this solution is not very well known.
Neeva was the first search engine to have an LLM assistant that annotated where the result came from.
Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11
Driving to DTLA also stands out as one of the most soul-sucking commutes out there, so I'm not surprised.

Here, sit in traffic for an hour, pay $40 worth of parking, $15 for your lunch, gas, car depreciation to drive over the I-10 through what looks like humanitarian camps without the humanitarian help.
There are a very large number of quantization schemes in existence, definitely not just one, & they all have potentially very different ideas and schemes.

LLM8 was introduced before https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07339 of the same first and last author as QLora
& is still what can be used in Huggingface Transformers with the `load_in_8bits` parameter.

The idea was just to quantize all weights to 8 bits except a few outliers, which are kept in original precision. This scheme kept the computations extremely accurate, and was really fast to do.

I haven't read the new paper, but I assume they came up with a more advanced fast distributional setup.
That’s awesome though I haven’t received confirmation.

To me, it still seems less advantageous to try something that seemed as stable as Neeva with a 1 year subscription, month to month is okay. That’s what I’ll likely do for a Kagi subscription…
This is the answer to a clue on a classic radio show, The Ricky Gervais Show.

"The Scottish fellas cannot get into their emails. Initials: KL."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKM3lJCM9T4#t=42m50s has the three clues.

Good memories!
Why does this request to sdasdbjasdbkakdb.online to generate the password?

I know nothing about webdev
Yeah, it’s yet another webshit forcing things into their preferred tech stack no matter whether it meets the needs of the problem domain or even whether the tech stack itself is sensible.

JavaScript doesn’t belong anywhere in anyone’s tech stack, and unless you’re making a web page neither do HTML or CSS.
The same way you track if someone is in house arrest? (Ankle monitor?)
Same reason. Money.
Let the dead bury their own dead, soooo zombies ?
Guess I should pay attention to urls more. I was all excited that this was a new logo for the Thunderbirds, as in Thunderbirds are Go! Again!

With JMS hyping the B5 logo update just before announcing the new animated series, it makes one hopeful for other franchises
It's unclear whether they have any in operational service right now, but the Zircon is certainly a true hypersonic maneuvering cruise missile, rather than merely a ballistic missile or even glide vehicle.
The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!
I learned by trying to get my window manager to have flame effects on my windows... I also started on Linux when I was 12 probably at least two decades after the author started on Unix. I still use man pages and/or -h today though. More as swap memory for my brain than as something I would read top to bottom:

*What was the flag to flash firmware over the network? <types -h> Crap, too much text. <types -h | less> Ah, I remember now even though I used that flag five minutes ago. <types -d 0.0.0.0>*
Not sure why your comment got downvoted. There were several articles before COVID that covered a few low-profile drug lords from China that were smuggling fentanyl in the US.

EDIT: Found the specific article I was thinking about: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-22/deadly-ch...
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/110425261495458917
Many small-to-medium sized companies do no background checks, especially if you have a referral from a friend.
And may be this is less insane if interest rate were still zero. But we are now at ~4%. And the market doesn’t seems to be taking these into account.
I think the tinybox is meant to be a training/inference server meant for tinygrad and filled with those AMD cards. Very likely it will run Linux.