skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow, this BlueSky reminds me of Okuna(previously Open.social). It was invite only, very enthusiastic community iniviting only handful sane(non-arehle) people and everyone was suggesting good features. Founders were committed to non-ad revenue via various premium features etc… and then slowly community died down slowly, posts stopped, early users inactive for months and one day it just closed door with a small message that it is hard to build social network etc etc…

I hope BlueSky doesn’t go in the way of Okuna(and lot of similar ones before it).
I had this conversation with someone online. "X makes great cars! I bought one 15 years ago and it's been rock solid!" Yeah, well 15 years is a long time. The car you buy that was made this year could be a piece of crap. Who even knows? No one will know for at least the next 5 years. You just have to roll the dice and hope they care about the reputation - and check if the badge has been sold.

I also consider a few products disposable like that, but it's generally cheaper things. Non-stick pans are one of those, they work until they don't and I'm not going to baby them.
Typesafe database querying via code generation
The point of not wanting photos of you or your house spread around the internet isn't to make it physically impossible to see you, but to restrict that privilege to the people you actually (want to) physically interact with.
Stolen secrets is a weird one as Elon has said patents are for cowards and kept SpaceX tech out of patents for fear of nation-state actors stealing secrets.

He knows how to keep a secret from another countries' spies and then wants to also play legal hardball in murkey waters between Meta and Twitter?

His character is consistently inconsistent.
>People want protection, that's why this gets approved.

You're missing the most important detail: especially in Western/Northern Europe, people are taught from childhood on that the state is there to protect you, and protecting yourself is a risk. Europeans aren't just lazily asking for protection, they simply weren't raised to defend themselves from trespassers and assailants without the thought of potentially suffering consequences (even if it is just defamation).

Of course these people are going to beg the state to do it, handing over whatever privacy or independence they believe not needed. They don't know any better. They've been raised on 'knives will be used against you' from toddler age.
Afaik you still cannot uninstall:

* Internet Explorer

* Edge Legacy

* New Edge

so, yes there's now effectively three browsers that you can't get rid off.

You can install a different browser, and make that other browser your default browser - but certain Microsoft apps will ignore that default browser choice, and open links in Edge anyway.

Apart from that, depending on your region and version of Windows, you might get bugged about making Edge your default browser, or switching to Edge during some Windows Updates.

The login screen on Windows is still a veiled advertisement for Bing search, which too opens in Edge.
Let me explain why you are completely wrong....

Playing video games I use to joke about people getting angry about cheats, I argued the game must be really important to them if they get so emotional.

A thing I keep thinking: A culture isn't weird until compared or confronted with a different one.

You got the impression that people don't like nerds building ridiculous things but nothing could be further from the truth.

Normals absolutely love these things, they define their being more than anything. They love to see nerds fool around AND FAIL. It's the same with investors (who are grouped along with get rich quick schemes) they love to see investors lose everything. Bitcoin is twice as exciting! Cant wait to see the pyramid implode.

I see a picture one time of a street in China and mistakenly thought it was my city in the Netherlands. It was just the context that gave it away. All the houses in those streets are different they have tiles with round holes in the side walk, the same trees and even people cycling wearing the usual... the usual cloths everyone else around the world is wearing.

This is why people take vacations far away, if you don't go far enough everything looks exactly the same, an endless regurgitation of the same mindless replication.

The answer is to do public transport with rollercoasters or turn all streets into half pipes, replace the main road with 2 looooong wave pools, use the AI to make self driving pony carts, busses with 10 floors.

I know, I know, people didn't want running water or a sewage system. Sadly for them it didn't fail but there are plenty of failures for them to laugh at, get them though their day at their useless job.
Looking at the US system (gerrymandering, party politics, corruption etc), I actually think the governor "passing" legislation like this is an improvement for many places. It seems more democratic and more accountable to me...
>Hardware wise AMD it's pretty much up there or winning in a few cases.

Hard disagree as someone who's had two 7900 XTXs and is now looking to buy an Nvidia card. If I need to pay 1100€ for a product, I'd like it to work and AMD cannot deliver on that.

The lack of a recall for broken hardware also makes me distrust them from a customer support point of view.
But we don’t need Twitter for that do we?

We have 4chan, parts of the fediverse and so on for unfiltered. Threads is for mainstream.

I don’t see that as bad. As someone who was a moderator, sometimes you want that sandwich and not Joe Schmoe stupid verbal trash he thought less than 3 seconds about.
porn
it’s always porn
I read the rant. He is talking about Pentium 4.
do they have the cash money dollar? and the willingness to spend it on what is essentially a toy they will quickly grow bored of? I don't think this is the best path to profitability
The goal is ambiguity, so that lawyers and judges can argue about and decide each case individually based on their feelings and public sentiment of the parties involved.
That just means you don't have enough fetishes.
I've been seeing current pictures of my house (in Germany) and surrounding towns on Google Street View for at least four years now. They've been uploaded by some third party. No one cared in the slightest. I don't understand why this is news now.
I expect that Meta will filter out a lot more antivax, nazi, MAGA, and racist drivel that I don't want to see which is readily available just about anytime I read the comment on just about any news story.
Not every battle is mine to fight.

I've spent plenty of time tilting at windmills. But there are limits to how much effort I'll put in for collective good.
It's only funny if you're not getting the short end of the stick. Most HN readers forget that b/c they profit from tech.
Unrelated to the article - it looks like railway offers a more managed, less complex end-to-end cloud hosting solution than the likes of AWS or Azure?
ChatGPT doesn't need to provide perfect AWS solutions for people without AWS experience; the onus is on the human to do the work necessary on their side to be sure of the solution it produces.

It should be thought of as a time saving tool for experts (and people willing to put the work in), not a magic button for lazy people.
> I guess the compiler's unrolling heuristics generally aren't as good as that blocking "mod then div" alternative to Duff's device? Obviously taking `s` out of the loop condition is part of the magic.

The magic in this case is the compiler autovectorizer. Making the length of the loop a loop invariant allows the autovectorizer to kick in.

The reason "blocking" by accumulating on uint8_t helps further is that it allows the compiler to accumulate on 8 bit SIMD lanes, instead 32 bit SIMD lanes.
The same operation on 8 bit SIMD lanes will, to a first approximation, do x4 the work per cycle.
I almost was hit by a Cruise car turning left at a busy intersection while I was in the crosswalk (with a walk signal). When I see a car attempting to turn left, I slow down or stop to make sure it sees me. Cruise car just kept going and got super close to hitting me. But there’s no way to complain or collect stats on it.

Doesn’t seem ready for real world use.
As someone who worked in e-commerce with high value brands, this is entirely true. If you even slightly infringe on a brand name, they will throw lawyers at you and the simple threat of bankruptcy will have you handing over the domain. I’ve seen it happen too many times to count.
I think GDPR is pretty clear there.

That companies like Facebook push fancy theories of what is and isn't legitimate interest is not the fault of the law. People will always try to push the limits to see what they can get away with, esp. when there is money to be made. That doesn't mean it will fly - like Facebook has just discovered (and others before them).

Law cannot enumerate every single possible existing and future use case. It outlines the intent - and if there is a grey area somewhere, it will be ultimately tested and decided in court.

That's how it has always worked.
Okay that’s hilarious!

Something nobody over here cares about (or nobody that matters cares about) scribbled down like a 4 year old just got the executives infinite social credit points and a $100 million dollars.

And Beijing doesn't even notice this is the most insulting way to cater to them, that’s so funny.

Reminds me of that time an American got the nearest nomads to watch some oil for a moment and then split the proceeds with them for the next 60 years while the nomads got to run a sovereign monarchy with all the money. Americans dgaf! Goated.
Or even better, let's not engage in hate at all and simply discuss and share research and facts. We can leave the campaigning to other, higher traffic, venues.
Thanks for posting this, I’m working on knowledge graphs today and this looks like it could help.

If anyone has recommendations for visualising knowledge graphs where nodes contain large sentences, I am all ears!
That's also true of a web search engine; but an LLM can (in principle, not saying it's there yet) be able to spot inconsistencies in the source data, to notice disagreement.
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
> Journalists are taking quotes out of context, inject all manner of spin for various pre existiing PoV's.

The RNZ article quotes science educators very strongly criticizing the draft. That’s the only pre-existing PV that matters.

> The core material is a DRAFT outlining notions of breaking down pure silos in favor of broader intergrated approaches in PRIMARY school education.

Drafts ought to approximate a final draft and apparently science educators are appalled at this draft. Rarely are drafts totally rewritten as they represent what the administration is pushing. That’s alarming given the criticism.
Similar rebooking: less than 24 hours before a flight from Seattle to Naples via Paris Air France says “lol flight canceled good luck as we aren’t rebooking you”

Had to scramble as flights were filling up. On hold for 45 minutes. Eventually cancel our refundable tickets and buy another pair of tickets on AF and have to make up the difference.

AF is now saying that we should have gone through the non working app to reschedule.

And to top it off the luggage didn’t make it to Naples, arriving 3 days (!) later even though there are multiple flights a day.

Plane and the staff were nice.
This is the first time to see useful OPML lists except export/import usage
Occasionally Uber is cheaper than a taxi. But sometimes it’s also not. Occasionally Uber is more convenient depending where you are. But Uber isn’t some super amazing thing. It’s a taxi service with an app.

Uber eats is barely worth it in Sydney. I don’t save any time using it. So unless I get a coupon I never use it.
You have to wonder about Elon Musk's "first principle" thinking if he lashes out in such basic ways that defy basic engineering intuition.

Twitter's source code is valuable to Twitter, much like Twitter's engineers and their institutional knowhow were valuable to Twitter (before Musk fired them by the thousands).

But outside Twitter, taking their code and assets and trying to awkwardly graft them onto Meta/Instagram's stacks would not only not help, but actually slow them down and cause the product's functionality and stability to suffer.

Twitter's layoffs represent pure loss to Twitter, and much less gain to anyone else. Trying to spin it as if the nature of Twitter's operation is some big valuable secret is such cringe coming from leadership that supposedly prides itself on being technical and hands-on.
Does not resolve for me
No it doesn't.

EU is a large union of 27 countries. France is having a big authoritarian turn that started after the 2015 terror attacks, and it accelerated under Macron.

That law would certainly not pass in the majority of EU countries.

Additionally, even though I believe this law is terrible, you can't compare a for profit company collecting information on ALL its users, and a police service collecting information on a few thousands people after a judge allowed them to.
I wonder how it works with condos and other places where multiple unrelated people live. I assume privacy wins and if one neighbour wants it blurred then it will be blurred even if others would prefer it visible.
Delta isn’t any better. They rebooked me while I was in the air and I only found out when I went to my connecting flight gate to be told I wasn’t on that flight. Still waiting to hear back from them…
Archive link: https://archive.is/lGyix
There was a pretty awesome CBDC proposal from the Canadian Mint way back before CBDCs were even a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip

Of course it was cancelled as soon as stakeholders (banks, law enforcement) got wind of it.
Can someone explain this to me, I'm in the UK. What's going on? I thought you paid for college in the USA, but these students are getting money from the university?
AES has a key length and a round count. The speed of the cipher depend only on the round count. This suggestion takes a large key, but a moderate round count, making it only slightly slower than AES128-GCM.
> OpenAI has no moat, unless you give them money to write legislation.

Their moat is that they had access to data sources which have since been clamped down on, eg reddit and twitter apis.
CUDA and close to metal happened at the same time.

One is a framework, language extensions etc., the other is “heyy here’s an assembler for this year’s GPUs”

Also in ~2008 nVidia already made dedicated hardware for GPU compute like this thing: https://www.nvidia.com/docs/io/43395/d870-systemspec-sp-0371...
I guess the question is whether the compiler should optimize a function containing a loop for a single null terminator, or for more data.

I would suggest the latter is what you want most of the time.

There's also the option of running a quick check for the null terminator before the loop, and then optimizing the loop for the other options.

But in any case, I think the demonstration of the technique of rearranging branches is interesting, and I needed a program to apply it to.
why are you going so far though?

it's right there: "Meta"
Brave News
Musk was an effective CEO for Tesla and SpaceX because he didn’t care that people thought he couldn’t succeed in doing what he was trying to do. Based on his personality, I suspect his success is in no small part due to those people saying he would fail. He’s a total failure as Twitter’s pretend not-CEO because he’s allowed his mind to be infected with culture war politics.
I wouldn't trust them with my life, but out of curiosity I did put some of my own medical notes into 3.5 a few weeks back.

It said basically the same thing as the actual doctor.
https://blog.skz.dev

Various topics.
is that a riff of that crazy guy monologue in life of brian?
Interesting, I had a comp case with BA but it was very easy. Likely because they were clearly at fault (mechanical failure) but all I had to do was fill in one form and I had my money 3 months later.

I think the experience is circumstantial and definitely depends on how 'obviously' in fault the airlines is. All in all I came out with a profit of £200 but can't say 24 hours at an airport is worth it honestly.
Anecdotally, in Berlin almost all street view pics are from 2008. It's actually kinda nice to take a tour of the past that way sometimes!
I’m from southamerica and I can access the article. They must be explicitly blocking Europe
Whilst this is all true, I'm not sure what's specific to EU privacy law here.

Any modern western jurisdiction has practically indecipherable layers of legal complexity affecting nearly every facet of life.
I don't understand why many people are upset about their building's facade being photographed, but are totally fine with satellite images. Or cameras getting installed everywhere and the European Union trying to get into people's phones for "security". At one point there was a debate against encryption because bad guys could benefit from it...
politicians and other shady individuals know how to use this to their advantage
They seem to use Instagram handles, so just register an Instagram account?
Any guide on how a person who uses Python or JavaScript can learn such things? I mean knowing which assembly code would be better, which algorithm makes better usage of processor etc.? :)

Also, how is such optimization carried out in a large scale software? Like, do you tweak the generated assembly code manually? (Sorry I'm a very very very beginner to low-level code)
Indeed. We flew from Stockholm to Hawaii and the SAS flight was late out of Stockholm, which cascaded to us being a full 24h late (same flight next day) to our destination in Hawaii. We got reimbursed without a problem and since we were traveling with an infant it was actually kind of nice to get a free full nights sleep in a hotel near LAX...
> Sam tells Congress that AI is so dangerous it will extinct humanity. Why? So Congress can license him and only his buddies.

No, he says it because its true and concerning.

However, just because AGI has a good chance of making humanity extinct does not mean we're anywhere close to making AIs that capable. LLMs seem like a dead end.
Likewise! Those housing stipends seemed sorely needed. Nice work on organizing around them and thanks for sharing your perspective on it! :)
You're asking too much of it, it has its own existential crisis followed by a mental breakdown
Or what if your name is John Smith? do you long for the days of being permanently known as JohnSmith21048
Exactly my thoughts. These censors have much more imaginations than we have. The best I could see is actually a 8 (not 9) dash line right of "Asia" and below a hashtag (whatever that is)
Next, they should make it unlawful to not carry a smartphone with you.
Whole UBI idea is just for make citizens more dependent on state rather than free market. Capitalism vs socialism.
worth mentioning: https://github.com/stealthrocket/timecraft

full disclosure: I don't work on it, but the devs are committers/contributors to https://wazero.io (I am a wazero committer) :)
Can you please ping me once this is up? We'd love to expose this feed in search results inside Kagi.
I think people forgot what legitimization means a few generations ago...
In this day and age a motivated 18+ year old adult has more than enough tools to actively pursue education outside a college setting while having a day job that pays. And this learning does not need to end after four years. So for most students college is just a transaction: a bachelor’s degree in exchange for some money and four years of their life. No point in passively receiving education (i.e. being indoctrinated) at college, when there are better learning tools outside.
I'm running TheBlokes wizard-vicuna-13b-superhot-8k.ggmlv3 with 4-bit quantization on a Ryzen 5 that's probably older than OPs laptop.

I get around 5 tokens a second using the webui that comes with oogabooga using default settings. If I understand correctly, this does not get me 8k context length yet, because oogabooga doesn't have NTK-aware scaled RoPE implemented yet.

Using the same model with the newest kobold.cpp release should provide 8k context, but runs significantly slower.

Note that this model is great at creative writing, and sounding smart when talking about tech stuff, but it sucks horribly at stuff like logic puzzles or (re-)producing factually correct in-depth answers about any topic I'm an expert in. Still at least an order of magnitude below GPT4.

The model is also uncensored, which is amusing after using GPT4. It will happily elaborate on how to mix explosives and it has a dirty mouth.

Interestingly, the model speaks at least half a dozen languages much better than I do, and is proficient at translating between them (far worse than deepL, of course). Which is mindblowing for a 8GByte binary. It's actual black magic.
It's not a published draft, it's leaked portions of an unfinished work.

It's being treated as though the parts leaked are the complete near polished position rather than notions for comment about better integrated STEM approaches Vs more rigid pasr siloed approaches.
The web version works as read only e.g. https://www.threads.net/@crumbler
Yes me too. But in a big transit hub like London, with thousands of hotels, and a continuous stream of flight movements, I would expect them to be prepared for such scenarios with relief/standby crew.
For EU-based business: The DPA of your country is responsible for you.

For non-EU-based business: Appoint a representative in the EU. The DPA of that representative's country is responsible for you.

So where do the other 20+ DPAs come in? They might be responsible for your customers - in which case, they'll contact your DPA and sort it out among themselves. You still won't have to become an expert in the nuances of Bulgarian, Swedish and Portuguese privacy law.
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Another shared hosting service with some preloaded software. $5 a month is comparable to DreamHost, HostGator, etc. That's nice, but not novel.
I had no issues with sfeed, you can get it from https://codemadness.org
This is some nonsense. It's not an overestimate at all.

Grad students do have health issues. I know plenty who do. Actually. I have never had a PhD student who did not have some major health issue in their 5-6 years.

Many grad students have families. They can't live with 6 other people in a unit. They have childcare.

Rent is extremely expensive around MIT. Even a room in a larger unit will easily run you 1.5k or more per month plus utilities.

With 47k in Cambridge even if I shared an apartment and cut expenses I could just scrape by if I didn't have a child. I have no idea how I would make it with one.
> The generally accepted theory is that progress is driven by small, continuously occurring changes (mutations), which happen solely due to DNA/RNA transcription errors (random = not influenced by external factors), and this gradually leads to the formation of new capabilities/species.

First thing - Darwin did not knew about DNA. So new discoveries how DNA changes does cannot be used to disprove his work.

To prove that Darwin was wrong you need to find that some stress condition in some population will result in genetic changes that "counter" that condition. So "correct" (not random) DNA change is triggered by some condition.
https://blog.christoolivier.com

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