skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids, as well as screwing over our entire economy with shortsighted self-protectionism, so I definitely mean it in a derogatory way against people their age.

To be fair, I criticize them for the shit they did when they were my age too, so I'm criticizing them as a cohort, not because of their current age.
"San Franciscans spend more and get less from their police department than most major California cities" [0]

From the report:

> [SFPD have] by far the highest costs per square mile patrolled of California’s six major-city police departments (Table 2). Meanwhile, the SFPD has the lowest rate and biggest decline in arrests per reported crime and crimes solved by police over the 2010-2020 decade, even as reported Part I felony offense rates rose (up 19%).

> The SFPD’s low rate of clearing violent crimes compared to other police departments is especially worrisome. San Francisco’s reported rate of Part I “index” offenses (the four violent and three property felonies used as a standard measure of crime) is by far the highest of any major California city, yet SFPD arrests have dropped 41 percent by number and 60 percent per reported offense during this period. That crime rose and arrests fell while the SFPD’s budget and staffing expanded challenges conventional beliefs that more police mitigate crime.

[0]: https://www.cjcj.org/media/import/documents/san_franciscans_...
Thinking of languages as hammers or screwdrivers is too simplistic. Instead, think of languages as platforms.

Your productivity in any language is directly proportional to your time and effort investment in it. It's in your best interests to pick the language that's likely to thrive and spend time learning its ins and outs. On the flip side, betting on a horse that doesn't win could mean the loss of months or years of effort. This is why people evangelize the platforms they're invested in - convincing other people to join improves the health of the platform, increasing their return on investment. More adoption => more libraries => more projects => more jobs => more adoption. A virtuous cycle.

This evangelizing can sometimes become contentious if others perceive it as an attack on their platform. People defend their language mostly because they don't want to see it lose popularity. If it did, their language's viability is threatened and their investment is in jeopardy.

It's also partly because they've spent so working with this language that it's become a part of their identity. A critique of the tool is perceived as an attack on the person.
It's weird how 'Fix the problems that are being protested' is not an option on the table.

The answer to 'The police are indiscriminate and unaccountable in their use of violence against the public' always seems to be 'Employ even more indiscriminate and unaccountable violence against the public.' It's almost like that's the only response these institutions are capable of.
It's a subset of typescript : https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/language

Microsoft did something similar before (without a vm) called Static Typescript : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/static-...
Developers these days get paid 2-3x as much as lawyers (until the later stages of a lawyer's career), so your 2-man startups appear to be starting with significantly less funding.

If you mean the choice is between a team of 3x developers and 1x lawyer vs 3x developers a designer and a salesperson, the former will win. Design matters very little at the earliest stages, and there's nothing for the salesperson to sell so they are most likely going to make promises to potential customers the developer's can't meet. And if they get any traction, CA or the EU will crack down on them for any privacy violations, which will kill the startup. Meanwhile, the former will chug along until they have a viable product that satisfies regulatory constraints, and acquihire the latter.

The days of regulatory arbitrage as a viable business model are over. There will be no more Ubers and AirBnBs. Governments have caught up to that scam and are significantly more willing to crack down on that now.
Assembly3 workbench in the Realthunder fork seems like it will likely become the standard.
Wagner Chief’s Feud with Russian Military Cracks Putin’s Image of Control
It has wrapped range() with useless code. It has added no functionality, it has not improved testability in any way.

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Please, take the code it has produced and integrate it into the original function. All it does is replace the range call. That's it. It has absolutely and totally failed at the given task whilst outputting plausible garbage about why it has succeeded.
Why?

I think its perfectly OK for big companies to use FOSS tools without contributing anything. Why do you care? Authors gave it to the world for free or they would use more restrictive licence.

If the big company really wants some more stuff in it, they will probably contribute or donate anyway.

To me, it seems this is irrelevant methaphysical question that those that don't understand FOSS constantly try to empose. Once you accept money, its a different game, with money comes expectations... If you can't do something for free, and you expect to be payed for everything, you are probably not the one that will advance the field.

I admire people that passionatelly do stuff for nothing but pure passion and sence of accomplishment. That is the world I want to live in.

Yeah, there are predators, but if you really care about it you can probably create defensive strategy to minimize those chances.
Unfortunately the consequences aren't silly. No more scihub will be a problem.
This isn't true, there are different hammer manufacturers, and they market their products to steal market share from each other. There is a history of languages as locked in walled gardens with real competition. Java v .NET ring any bells?
This is exactly my thinking. In this context, I think the paper depends on an implied ambiguity of the word 'neighbor' and how it's used in the context of orbiting bodies.

When I think of 'neighbors' in the context of the solar system, I am generally thinking of neighboring orbits. It would be hard to argue that Venus's orbit is not the closest orbit to Earth's. Or at least it would seem silly to do so.

Maybe I'm being overly pedantic here, but my view is that orbits have neighbors, and planets have orbits, but planets don't necessarily have neighbors. Something in the word 'neighbor' implies persistence to me, so I don't really consider average-closest planet to be a neighbor when exactly which planet is closest to any other changes constantly.
It'll only be a matter of time before some manager figures out planned obsolescence.
As much as I think the ACLU is right on this, I am very annoyed at their one sided, emotionally charged presentation of the situation. What is the legal argument that this doesn't require a warrant? What were the rationales of the judges on the circuit court in this case? You can't get a clear understanding of the issue from this organization.

The supreme court has a very important power, which is to decline to hear and review cases. I think it was probably the right call in this case, even though I disagree with lower courts ruling that it is constitutional. If the supreme court were compelled to hear cases, it would result in a lot of bad precedent, and the court reserves ruling on things and changing/solidifying the status quo unless it approaches a crisis that needs their resolution.
If the dudes suffered society’s prescribed punishment he should be free from judgement.

That’s kind of the entire point of justice.

And he’s applying for a job in literally one of the two types of jobs that you can set up total informational and access control.

How many decades before he should be considered normal again, or is he tainted for the rest of his life because of your “dishonesty conviction speaking to character”?
How is the implementation of errors "laughable"? An error is just another result of calling a function. Seems reasonable enough.
Sitting all day is just one of many things that likely cause it. Sitting pushed organs around in a different way from standing or laying down.
Sure. A long time ago, I had a gut feeling that 3rd party password management across the board was a bad idea. Three parties having secrets is objectively worse than two. I quieted that notion in my head owing to "experts" giving bad ideas (like yours above.)

The fallouts are happening andI was right. Ledger, was it 1Password? Whoever.

"Hygiene" and "User experience" and whatnot are dangerous weaselly ideas used by "security" companies to convince themselves that what they're doing isn't inherently a bad idea.

"No brainer" should never be used because security is inherently hard. As we have fully seen, you can't "easy user experience" it away. It's difficult.

Right now - every old person that y'all make fun of with their passwords in a little notebook? They're doing better than most.

Now. I do believe there is room for companies. But with the following example I'm going to prove how absolutely full of crap most of these security companies are and it's REALLY simple.

Indemnify me.

I will pay for your product that saves passwords if you IDEMNIFY me. You can have 10? 30? bucks a month if and only if when I get breached you pay me $100,000.

No one's going to take this deal, proving that they're mostly worthless.
Oh man... that brings back memories.
What word would you like to use for a gathering of a dozen or so adults, meeting for one or two nights (colloquially known as Friday and Saturday, because adults have jobs) where there is zero damage to the property? Because most people I know would call that a party.

Most people I know also don't own ridiculous mansions, so have been using AirBNB to rent locations for these events (again, causing no property damage). They are fine switching to VRBO/whatever but these are expensive locations so it seems strange that Airbnb wouldn't want the revenue.
Okay - do we have relevant examples where the creepy spy-on-everyone technology came before the nasty authoritarian regime? East Germany, North Korea, Soviet Russia, etc. were dire places (for human rights) back when their State Security Ministries had not yet heard of transistors.
Yeah, if you could make a suitable bracelet it would be even better because it could be fitted with something akin to an AirTag.
Wow, this makes running LLMs locally significantly more approachable. Very cool!
> Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can't do that any more legally than the police can.

If your neighbor's Ring camera is pointed at your front door or living room, the police can legally acquire the footage without a warrant.
"Anonymous Authors" is typical for a pre-print that might be sent out for blind peer review.
A cursory look at the history of the planets temperature [1] makes this sentiment seems ridiculous.

We're still in below average temperatures. Considering our dummy ancestors were around 50 million years ago, when averages were 30 degrees hotter, I don't see why man, as we are now, wouldn't survive. The poles will be nice tropics, once again [2].

Society as is, is doomed, but man is probably fairly permanent.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_widt...

from

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-north-pole-once-was-tropi...
I appreciate your input on bfloat. I've always been under the impression that precision matters a lot when attempting to avoid local min/maxima if the landscape of the error function is jagged, but I suppose there's a good argument to be made that any floating point format can be used if the data, learning rate, network structure, etc are molded to match. Perhaps it's my perspective or maybe there actually isn't enough discourse on FP format being equally or more important factor to consider than just its affect on compute and memory requirements.

The use of FP64 could aid against vanishing gradients and just general information loss in deep networks, but that's probably comparable to using an atomic bomb to power a wind turbine. It certainly works, but is it the best way to go about it?

I personally think the use of mixed precision in deep networks will become more common as time goes on. I'm doubtful that all of a network really benefits from having large amounts of precision.
Did he win the lottery though? There's a lot of MRR, but I didn't see anything about profit. He could be losing money.
I'm still surprised that it can impart that much velocity, though.
MPEG-DASH adds support for redundant encoding and packaging – MPEG Meeting 142
there is literally a "how to" in the open AI api docs for the exact use case. I need to be more shameless the next go around.
it’s important to note that memory safety is only one kind of bug. Plenty of go and java programs are memory safe with a litany of bugs - and are probably directly protecting an order or two magnitude more of your personal data than Rust and C++ - even without discussing relatively safe languages (interpreted but with various implementations) like Python, PHP, and Ruby.
TSA gates at most large airports that I've been at use backscatter and can detect objects that you carry. A rod anywhere on you would be seen.
I don't know, do they? I'm still waiting for someone to reply with concrete examples of systemic abuse, not this kind of emotive nonsense.
Surfing Gemini, Gopher, and the Web on a Raspberry Pi 3B Computer
How does one get full CJK Input Method Editing working for a project like this?

I've sort of been looking into it and it doesn't seem there are cross platform libraries for handling IMEs and not many people talk about even the platform-specific APIs.
Meta still has the Portal line of products - which were competitors to the Alexa, Siri and similar Google audio assistant product lines. I just searched and it looks like Meta are currently partnering with Amazon to license Alexa on these devices, but I could imagine they might want to replace it with their own LLM eventually.

I am a bit surprised that no one is talking about how these new LLM models will disrupt Alexa, Siri, etc. since that seems to be the most applicable market I can imagine.
Stack allocation is still allocation.
I would be surprised if hammers didn't succumb to exactly the same type of competitions. Here are a few hammer review pieces, pitting metal against metal

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-hammer/

https://www.gearhungry.com/best-hammers/

https://www.thespruce.com/best-hammers-4150485
I wish I could be a musician. I have the necessary talent but haven't put in the work. To be honest, I'd rather be a musician and eat Ramen noodles than keep writing accounting software and live in a mansion. Hell, even if it meant being alone forever and being poor as dirt vs having a relationship and living in luxury, I'd still take rather be a musician in a heartbeat. Every time I do a job interview it gets harder to smile and say this is my dream job when I know I will spend every moment in misery feeling like I was wasting my life. I got into programming as a creative outlet, and now I'm competent at it, and I have to survive. I bet a lot of other people are in a similar boat.
Unlimited scroll buffer + compiling something large with verbose logs non-stop?
Broadway – support for displaying GTK applications in a web browser
its been a few days but thanks for response. My concern was not a random attacker but the stuff I run after git clone from github, without much thought, I might add. it is possible for hacker to hide malicious code in a innocent looking git repo for some hot new project. wait for some people to give root access inside their home or better yet office lan & add a cronjob to steal stuff nightly with a LLMs help?

In any case safest route is to always do a new shell (or a docker vm) for fun activities.
I think it probably won't fizzle, but one reason it could is if competition drives down margins to the point where LLMs become a commodity while technical progress stagnates and their abilities saturate. Another possibility is that they could get banned or heavily regulated.
Nice, reminds me of the eating habits of some leeches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fGGz6d3vC4
Answer: Bing provides GPT4 for free with integrated search to ground the response. It’s a totally different experience than free ChatGPT that some people would prefer.
RISC-V ecosystem looks like it will be ready the moment the hardware is.

Exciting.
Hmm. I seem to recall discussion here on HN, just yesterday, about the FBI misusing their surveillance power 280,000 times in a year. Is that enough non-hypothetical for you?
And telling IT to support a new operating system company wide could be an expensive decision.
Good questions.

The first one: transformers are "permutation invariant" by nature, so if you permute the input and apply the opposite permutation to the output you get the exact same thing. The transformer itself has no positional information. RNNs by comparison have positional information by design, they go token by token, but the transformer is parallel and all tokens are just independent "channels". So what can be done? You put positional embeddings in it - either by adding them to the tokens (concatenation was also ok, but less efficient) or by inserting relative distance biases in the attention matrix. It's a fix to make it understand time. It's still puzzling this works, because mixing text tokens with position tokens seems to cause a conflict, but it doesn't in practice. The model will learn to use the embedding vector for both, maybe specialising a part for semantics and another for position.

The second question. Neural nets find a way to differentiate the keys from queries by simply doing gradient descent. If we tell the model it should generate a specific token here, then it needs to fix the keys and queries to make it happen. The architecture is pretty dumb, the secret is the training data - everything the transformer learns comes from the training set. We should think about the training data when we marvel at what transformers can do. The architecture doesn't tell us why they work so well.
I don't understand, why would they do that, and why shouldn't we ban them from contributing to global warming for wasting fuel.

They are better ways for the ultra rich to blow their cash.
hopefully soon!
birth rates are going down and if current trends continue total population should start decreasing at some point. But everything comes down to that. Human societies existed and even slowly grew in much worse conditions. So I’m sure what could happen because of climate change to offset modern medicine/agriculture/transportation/etc.
What about electric airplanes for short-haul flights?
with this method you get the same score for A-minor and C-major, right? Do you have a strategy to choose between those?
n 3 n 2
Sum (k ) = (Sum k)
k=1 k=1

(Hoping the formatting comes out right...)

That is, for the natural numbers from 1 to n, the sum of the cubes of those numbers is equal to the square of the sum of those numbers.
Imagine you only have a rock. A rock can be used for many things. You can use it to open a can, you can use it to smash things, you can use it to drive a nail.

Then someone invents a hammer. You no longer use a rock for driving nails.

Then someone invents a can opener. You no longer use a rock for opening cans.

Then someone invents gigantic sledge hammers. You no longer use a rock to smash things.

Languages definitely have competitors. Java took a lot of projects that would have otherwise been written in C++. Rust will take a lot of projects that would have otherwise been written in C or C++, but languages like Java weren't suitable for. Eventually, those two languages might be completely supplanted (but it would take a very long time). Because they lost to competitors in each space.
Game theory would be to leverage to max with student loans and then invest the money you would have spend on tuition... Sounds like an other transfer to wealthy from poor.
The first Astranis (YC W16) satellite is working on orbit
I don't see any ads outside of the app store on Android (and obviously the web browser). Microsoft puts them in the start menu which seems very different to me (I would be very angry if Android put them in the launcher). I do customise my set up a great deal so I am curious to know if your experience matches mine.
It only takes the first time someone types in `lisaann` in their address bar instead of `lisaann.local`.

Fwiw, I believe they're either making this up or they work for a company that's too small to have an HR department.
I'm sure someone would build you one for a few hundred grand if you really don't care about the cost.
In the case of systemd, I think most of the thorns have been ironed out and I don't see a competitor taking over anytime soon. With pulseaudio you're right though, thank goodness for pipewire.
Fascinating link thanks.

I had a small hunch that it could also be related to how thoroughly we chew. I've noticed over the years that I chewed less and less while eating and started swallowing most pieces whole. Since a few months ago I started to make an effort to really chew on my food until it's properly minced.

According to the link that seems to be part of the problem.
The authors don't seem to understand memory safety or FFI and wrote a contrived article about it.

Hell, the first example isn't equivalent code. You can't share references across an FFI boundary with C.
Agreed! I highly recommend The Mom Test for anyone doing product work.
because when you default a loan there's collateral that generally exists. what collateral is there here? the result would be simply denying people who couldn't afford it outright, which may or may not be the solution.
It makes sense to reset seats when you change flight, it's domain logic, not interface logic.
I believe Moddable's XS was the first to compile JavaScript to bytecode on a computer for embedded deployment: https://www.moddable.com/faq#xs-in-c

(XS is a complete ECMAScript 2020 implementation, though.)
I'm just happy to have CAD at all. My point of reference is pencil and paper, Blender, or OpenSCAD. It could use some improvements, but by FOSS standards it's amazing.

You actually can save to kinda VCSable folders of XML, but it will spam the history with UI changes mixed in with actual changes.
My point was that, looking from the outside in, it can be hard to guess what leads to status in the UK. Your comment in a sense reinforces that: to an outsider, why would one specific humanities undergraduate in one specific university be the "gold standard" of status? It doesn't make sense unless you know about status in the UK, IMO.

As opposed to the US where status is simpler IMO and more strongly correlated with money.
If I'd notice that thing I would probably just silently judge you and file you into the "immature edgy teenager"-category and avoid giving you any meaningful decisions from now on.
I'd also add that in the places I work, laptops were already the norm pre-COVID. I realize this isn't the same at every business though.

I'd expect a WFH bump in sales, but not necessarily as large of a jump as it would seem.
I’m very excited to see how this progresses and how A.I. can help solve medical issues that have up to now stumped us.

One really interesting thing they’ve reported about this is that it requires a head set to connect the brain implants to the spine electrodes, but after a while the patient was able to walk using a stroller without the headset because the body regrew nerve tissue and Reenabled some connection to the brain.
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