skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, this is done in lieu of actually looking up extended details on what something means.

If they were capable of understanding the extended details, they would already have an academic background in the subject. Laymen aren't going to have a clue what MoE means even if they went to the trouble of digging up the paper.

> Many developers who are self taught utilize a similar method of learning, essentially using pattern recognition to make “educated guesses” that are then internalized as potential facts and tested at the earliest opportunity.

Using pattern recognition skills to make an educated guess that is internalized as a potential fact sounds an awful lot like what LLMs do. At least when humans do it, we bother with the verification step instead of just acting like we know what we're talking about.
"Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon."

This is the biggest difference between OpenAI and everyone else. OpenAI is available in Norway.

If someone from Claude is reading this then I would love to get in touch. I'm just a lone developer who got blown away by GPT-4 but really wishes I could try something with a larger context window. Claude's 100k context window would be amazing to play with, especially for adding context to my coding questions. I would also like to see how it handles large amounts of graph data. I have a small company here in Norway and would naturally pay for the resources I use. I can be reached at hmottestad[at]gmail[dot]com.
Super excited about WASM / WASI as a standardized way of running microservices. Like cloudflare workers.
I'm slowly working on one. The repo is a mess and the examples don't actually run (they're sketches of where I'm trying to go; the unit tests in the Zig source are a better idea of where I'm actually at so far), but I'm attempting to slap a "minimum viable "does this shape align with this other shape" type of type system" onto a loosely-FORTH-inspired stack machine with some modern amenities with Gale. https://sr.ht/~klardotsh/gale/ (or for the GitHub fans, https://github.com/klardotsh/gale)
In case you're not aware, and im not sure about the "economic outcome", but The City of Sydney pedestrianised the main street through the city about 6 years ago when they also installed light rail, and it looks like they're extending it even further.
https://community.sydneycivil.com/george-street-south-pedest...
>I have absolutely no desire to manage my own backup.

So you have no backup.
> ...or else what?

I'm not sure how to answer this without sounding rude. But you'll make a fool of yourself if you do, put people at risk, and probably lose money.

Considering the other context of your post, I'm not quite sure where your disagreement is. I specify _strong_ as a qualifier to indicate that the strength of the opinion/position (your confidence) should be proportional to your knowledge/understanding/evidence. I explicitly state that having opinions is perfectly fine and would go even further to say that it is impossible to be absolutely devoid of them. Human brains just make conclusions.

To clarify my point, I'm saying that being an armchair expert is not helping anyone. Having some armchair expertise is perfectly fine, but arguing from that position (especially passionately) is generally unhelpful and just adds noise. These are the common posts that you see where someone responds with a very simple explanation that is rather incomplete. You'll often see these highly upvoted as well and better answers buried simply due to their length. The laziness hurts us all! It is better to build habits and communal acceptability to just shut up a lot of times, as the problem with information retrieval is often about accessibility not availability; noise decreases accessibility due to the additional information we must sort through. If armchair comments are given (and they can be helpful, especially on vague topics or where no other level of expertise is present), then admission often helps the person receiving the information as well as creates the ability for better communication to determine higher quality information as well as better allow a more informed specialist to append or correct the basic answer.

The problem we see is not the existence of these armchair expert answers but rather that they are done so with high levels of confidence and the authors often feel the need to defend them, including against actual experts. Corrections or additions are not a critique to one's self, just the knowledge that was laid forth (which is often anonymous, so identity/self-value should play a lower role, but doesn't). Being wrong is not just okay, but should be welcomed as nerds we pride ourselves on being "smart" which means we pride ourselves on _gaining_ knowledge. Not everything needs to be a debate and honestly it is in general a terrible way to acquire or disseminate information.
This is like saying "California purchased enough flashlights for one sunlight beam". Nonsensical at best, but shows a lack of even a high-school level of physics education on Unit comparison and conversion.

5 "nukes" eh?

> The state now has enough large-scale batteries to supply 5,600 megawatts of electricity

Last I checked, batteries are measured in watt-hours. Ope, I just rechecked, they still are. Technically my car battery could produce 5,600 megawatts. Granted it might only do that for a femtosecond, but thats the whole point: 5,600 megawatts for _how long_? One minute, one hour?

Also last I checked, the Boobs by the Sea produced 2,200 megawatts of power. That [nearly] continuous power, not "until muh batteries run out". Yes yes, ramp up times, blah blah, refueling, ::hand waving::, xenon poisoning, ::more hand waving::

So congrats, 5.6gw of power storage _is_ awesome, but it's not "5 nukes" any more than 5 apples are the same as three lasers. I'm 100% behind these storage projects as they reduce the need for "peaker plants", but come on, lets at least a high schooler review these articles for scientific accuracy before going to press.
Classic action game Karateka is being turned into a playable documentary
And digital audio will never match analog. Can anybody tell the difference anymore?

If a machine produces highly similar output does it matter? LLM's clearly exhibit behavior of having implicitly learned systems, which is the valuable part of intelligence. Humans infer systems through text too, by the way.
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C++ doesn't have extension methods, so you wouldn't be able to add custom algos to the set of chainable algos.

Overloading operator| is a crude way to get the equivalent of extension methods without having to change the language.
Breaks some plugins like TBsync and more... Why does mozilla always try to break addons?
I’ve got YOShInOn which is similar to that, it ingests about 2000 articles a day and picks 300 to show me and uses a BERT-based classifier and clustering system.

It looks like TikTok for text or the old Stumbleupon (Somehow completely forgotten in a very short time) but it uses content-based filtering instead of collaborative filtering. I’ve thought about applying bandits, sequential recommendation and such but stuck with what I know because I know my scheme is producing a more-or-less valid sample for evaluation.

I worked on a text classification project in 2005 that made me wonder why RSS readers kept failing with the same failing interfaces that were always failing. It took the insanity at twitter for me to pull the trigger on it this december.
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Linux has preempt_rt pretty conveniently accessible, and Pipewire has some useful tuning knobs, but my Steinberg UR44 can't seem to keep up.
"AI regulation increases AI risk" is not the same as "Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways".

The first refers to all regulation, while the second is talking about a specific attempt to regulate.

This is like saying "I don't like beef" and "we should ban all meat" are the same statements. They're clearly not, the scope is vastly different.
"can i copy your homework"
"yeah but change it a bit"
(compared to the other comment that looks nearly identical, looks lik yugabyte sent some people in here)
On one hand, the climate is definitely out of whack this year, the ocean's temperature is also hitting record levels for this time of year.

On the other hand, no, we don't have temperature measurements from the last 100k years to compare to so that's kinda BS. We have models. All models are wrong (some are useful).
> You see so many stories about new cancer treatments or prevention strategies all the time, and it’s so easy to discount it as just more spam, but we’re getting extremely good at making people better, even in comparison to as recently as a decade ago.

IF we catch the cancer early, we are much better at treatments.

What we are getting good at is treatment with early detection because we can just cut it out with surgery. What we are only marginally better at is treatment with late detection.

For cancers that we don't have early detection, the success rates are far, far lower and the treatments are far more limited.

For example, a significant fraction of women get diagnose with lobular breast cancer--it doesn't form lumps. So by the time you detect it, you are almost always already Stage 3 or worse.

Radiation, in particular, is much better thanks to computing. The only advance in surgery I have seen since the 1970s is that they use a radioctive marker to trace where the lymph nodes are--it helps with lympedema but not the cancer. Chemotherapy is only marginally better than 20 years ago--they're a little better at managing side effects but chemo is still horrible.

Medicine does well on things that can be fixed by physical means--cutting things out or sewing things together. Medicine still doesn't do all that well from a chemical standpoint.
Unused variables just generate warnings. It will still compile.
> I think OP was envisaging the attack being done by the person whose root CA private key it is.

Still very convoluted. I cannot see the problem, beyond some very special cases.
Yeah, if I'm going to be honest, if you can't afford $100/yr you can't afford to host, so you're not going to be a contributor to their community. Looks like the filter is working.
You just proposed a great filter, short lived civilizations.

If civilizations lasted for billions of years or their AGIs did the same, we’d have a lot higher chance of them expanding to fill the galaxy and converting the surface of all 8 planets and major asteroids into AGI probes and compute.
Yes - 100%. There is zero excuse for not knowing/abiding by local rules/regulations. The USFS, BLM, and others have troves of information posted online.

A local area has gone to great lengths to put up signage stating that unlicensed off-highway vehicles are NOT ALLOWED to travel the main stretch of USFS fire road. So what are people doing? Screaming up and down that very road on unlicensed off-highway vehicles at 2/3x the posted speed limit. Shooting is supposed to be confined to specific areas with backstops - instead you've got dingbats firing off hundreds of rounds into valleys with NO BACKSTOP and they aren't even cleaning up their brass.

It's a goddamn shit show.
HDMI's marketshare has nothing to do with its headstart: HDMI is backed by the entire entertainment industry and was designed for televisions, while DisplayPort is backed by VESA and other computer hardware manufacturers and was designed for computer monitors.

For every computer monitor there are hundreds if not probably thousands of televisions.

HDMI's marketshare has everything to do with who the players involved are and just how much weight they have to throw around. Even computer hardware generally have more HDMI ports than DisplayPort ports.
Empty frames are just seizure generators.
Keeping it real, when Weird Al says "I edit Wikipedia", he is editing Wikipedia: https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=109
Oh, nice find! TIL. I'd love to know why they're no longer pursuing it
Hilarious marketing/blog post on how to overengineer this so it works on gsheets - https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2019/01/23/how-to-send-sms...

Sadly I can’t seem to find any documentation on the nokia spreadsheet program to see what we could with it.
Yes, there are monitoring tools for detecting attacks by looking for things like outgoing transmissions for control
#vanlife at least aspires to some level of tidy and conscientious housekeeping. Motivational speaker Matt Foley doesn’t have a string of solar-powered faerie lights adorning his collapsible breakfast nook. He has a clattering drift of beer cans that he can gather up around him for warmth.
>We should focus more on the making infrastructure safe from abuse

Humans are too fucking lazy to actually accomplish this. We hook more and more internet connected systems to things with a digitally controlled motor every day with things like "#disable in production, set for testing, disabling 2FA to..." that then get pushed to the customer.
And yet, how the hell does so much serious crime still remain in the world?
Great conceptual explanation of the different primitives in LangChain. Some possible inspiration for your upcoming piece involving vector stores with LangChain - https://milvus.io/blog/conversational-memory-in-langchain.md
> Visually, the region looks unremarkable. ... The region has nonetheless fascinated scientists for a couple of decades.

> To produce that much heat and the thorium gamma-rays, Dr. Siegler, Dr. Feng and the other researchers concluded that...

...the buried fission reactor was about 3.5 billion years old...

/j? The Oklo Reactor (in Gabon, Africa) is real, and was "operational" ~1.7 billion years ago. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine )
> I realize that broken encryption is considered an effective access control in this context despite it being broken, but apps like Newpipe aren't even breaking encryption, right?

Encryption isn't the only access control. "Access control" is a pretty loose term. I think of it as being similar to what (in the US) counts as "breaking" in a breaking-and-entering charge: you've "broken into" a place if you had to move anything in order to enter. Even a door that is partially ajar and you had to slightly move it to slip by.
> “regular people use”.

For quite some years I just said "buy a notebook and (if you really need it) monitor with keyboard/ mouse".

With an SSD and a decent amount of RAM any notebook is fine for 95% of what people want from the home computer, with a small exception of gaming with a better settings than low/middle.

At this point nor Mini, nor any other SFF 'desktop' doesn't make sense, because you can't take it with you if you need.
Hi, as a former employee of Couchsurfing, I just want to say: it’s great that you’re thinking about revenue and reciprocity upfront.
Considering no human object has yet to leave the solar system (meaningfully), and we’ve nearly wiped ourselves out several times just in recent memory - that’s still in the realm of pure fantasy.

There is no evidence yet that anything we can construct (or a near peer) could make it to another system intact enough to know it had arrived, let alone DO anything regardless of the form any intelligence takes or how it is packaged.

Hell, as a species we still struggle to land probes on mars and Venus. And they don’t have to do anything but send data back.

Getting a toehold on a random solar system, or even arriving and taking pictures and sending them back is so many orders of magnitudes harder to do based on what we know now it’s essentially impossible. Even if we had a ‘fast forward’ button.

Hopefully we’ll find something out that we’re currently missing, but as of yet we have no reason to believe it exists.
Sure, but I'm trying to grok the essence of the technological measure being used by YouTube.

I have to imagine that merely offering terms of service doesn't constitute a technological measure, and nor would merely slicing up the response in a DASH-like manner [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove...
The Apple Studio Display autodetects rotation and lets the connected computer know so it can adjust the picture accordingly, but it connects over Thunderbolt. It should be possible for monitors to do this over USB-C too, but I’m not sure about plain DisplayPort or HDMI.
Yeah, there should be more than one level of incident severity, this would be on the lower end.
Apple worked hard to make cooling work in the Mac Mini, and now the M series of CPUs.

Intel just slapped a chip in a generic case.
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I've been using Qubes for the past 2 years while going to school, and I found it really fun and helpful. A lot of professors had me download random closed source software from random websites during the pandemic, and it was easier to download it to a VM than to convince them about Free Software. More than that though it's been really helpful just for my own workflow. I can hit a keybind and start working from essentially a fresh linux install. It's easier to stay on task when each VM is designed to only do one kind of task. It's also nice having debian, fedora, windows, kali, and whonix all easily accessible on the same machine.

The main sticking point for me is that Qubes is reasonably secure from _myself_. I make mistakes. I first started using linux with an Ubuntu install that I broke a year later because I accidentally added in a space when typing `rm -rf ~/Arduino` which made it `rm -rf ~ /Arduino`. On Qubes I can `sudo rm -rf /` on the VM I'm using right now and not break a sweat. I have a keybind to spawn a disposable "airgapped" VM to deal with sensitive or untrusted data, and it helps knowing that even if I mess up with whatever I'm doing, the VM will keep everything reasonably contained.

Some cool things that Qubes has outside of just VMs are its features enabled by the communication between VMs. Notable ones are Split GPG (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/split-gpg/) which let you use a VM as if it were a smartcard for GPG and Split SSH (https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs...) which let you isolate your private SSH keys from your VM running your SSH client.

There are some sticking points around Qubes. For instance, I use Tailscale to connect my computers to each other from anywhere. Tailscale's install scripts add their keys to my VM's package manager for updates and installs. The proper way to do this in Qubes is to clone a TemplateVM, run Tailscale's install script, update, install, and then base an AppVM off of it. But that creates an entire new OS taking up storage and requiring updates. You can hack a way around this in an AppVM which saves a considerable amount of space, but it takes a lot of upfront time to do and requires you to manually update it.

Another sticking point is hardware acceleration. The desktop environment has access to hardware acceleration, so it runs fine, but opening videos in AppVMs is all software decoded. I'm on a Thinkpad T580 and it can run 1080p videos, but the fans turn on and can't do 4K. When I want to game or do something GPU heavy I either stream from my tower or completely switch over.

Overall, I'm really happy with Qubes and I'm planning to stick with it on my laptops.
Sometimes the print statement is in untested sanity-checking error-case branches that don't have test coverage ("json parsing failed" or whatever). It's pretty annoying when those things throw, and not too uncommon.

Another case in C++ is if the value is templated. You don't always get test coverage for all the types, and a compile error is nice if the thing can't be handled.

"Type coverage" is pretty useful. Not a huge deal here I agree, but nice nonetheless.
It's not exactly a debloater, but https://www.bcuninstaller.com/ will help you to get rid of majority of bloatware. It's not automatic unfortunately, you need to know what you're doing.
Boo, sounds like an email harvest
I read the article, and I understand that the cause of that size is an absurd amount of redundancy.

However, I still can't conceive how it could be that big. A petabyte is a million gigabytes. Wikipedia, uncompressed, is about 42 gigabytes. So, every month there is the equivalent of about 24,000 Wikipedias generated just from pricing data? And it's all just text. Wow.
It sounds like too little to avoid hosting people who don't have a place where host. Someone could pretend another non-host user is hosting them and both could use the credits to stay with actual hosts. Or they could host someone in the same place where they're staying that they don't own or rent.
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Well done in integrating things at such a low level. Looks awesome.

For a SaaS that lets you use ChatGPT over SMS (and even iMessage), you could use https://jarvis.tel/. (Plug, I’m the author)
Intel did it because, for 10 years now, integrators refused to.
What ducks are poisonous?
But I guess you can make a lot of methanol in summer and burn it in winter, storing it cheaply for months. Batteries so far seem maybe ok at balancing diurnal power generation / use patterns but not seasonal storage.
Why bother? Western countries doubled down on climate change as their immigration policy. There won't be a labor shortage in the future. The only shortage will be the number of guardsmen patrolling the border and the problem with those is that they need to be loyal and swiftly execute "permanent" orders or else their backlog will grow like that of a college student who constantly has to correct his homework and resubmit it.
I think this is reasonable, but there’s a couple important points:

Aerospace quality is largely driven by reducing false negatives. You’re generally more ok throwing out something good than accepting something bad. Reducing false negative is what becomes costly.

Hiding quality issues by increasing throughout is a classic fallacy in the process control world because it increases waste. Sorry if I misinterpreted your point here.

What are you thinking on trends of revamping QA processes? Maybe I’m not imaginative enough, but I’m not sure what kings of different prices controls would bring down costs dramatically. Is there some specific new NDT you’re thinking?
What do you mean with "area left"?
There's no way to peacefully convince like 20 countries whose budgets all rely on selling fossil fuels to stop selling them, and the same goes for the countless buyers whose livelihoods depend on using them. Are you going to mandate they endure mass starvation and economic collapse?

So what is the point of going on about deniers and anti climate XYZ? Even if they all agreed with you, what would change? It seems like pointless scapegoating and divisiveness.
Is it me, or do most software jobs cause burnout?
Been a dev for about 10 years. I’ve had no issues advancing in my career or leveling up my skillset and I’ve generally gotten great feedback from my boss and peers.

But I’ve worked for several companies and every single one burned me out, i feel like I don’t have the capacity to grind the way my peers do. Things are usually good for a few months and then management asks for some huge delivery on a tight deadline and it completely burns me out. This has happened so many times in my career. Does anyone else struggle with this consistently?
We're under no moral obligation to play by their rules. Read Rules for Radicals.
I agree. But what is the thing being moved here, in technical (rather than legal) terms?
It's actually annoying NixOS doesn't offer good default sandboxing. Sandboxing should appeal to the Nix crowd, but somehow it's not been integrated yet. AFAIK, GuixSD is working on sandboxing.

In general, sandboxing is pretty important and an area were Linux distributions are falling behind macOS and mobile.