skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 in 5 is probably an overestimate, but even the lowest estimates of Long COVID prevalence are alarmingly high. Honestly, even if there wasn't a single new Long COVID case starting today, the fact that many still haven't recovered would make it a significant ongoing health issue.

I agree it's not over, but saying it's raging is not correct either. In the U.S. excess deaths are close to zero [0] and hospitalizations are also low [1]. Other countries largely seem to be seeing similar patterns, although I have not looked at their numbers as closely. We could see another wave, of course, but currently we are in a lull. For what it's worth, I think there are still precautions that make sense because they are are effective and relatively low-cost, like masking in crowded indoor spaces and testing before and after attending large events.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-hospitaliza...
"Newton conducted more than 100 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers, and suspects between June 1698 and Christmas 1699. He himself gathered much of the evidence he needed to successfully prosecute 28 coiners."

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

"Disguised as a habitué of bars and taverns, he gathered much of that evidence himself."

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

The Baroque Cycle has some memorable scenes with Newton!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
> Could you imagine the bot armies if every IOT device was NOT behind a NAT?

Why? Firewalls have been around since before 1994, when Cheswick and Bellovin literally published the book on firewalls:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalls_and_Internet_Securit...
It's been well know from the start that these LLMs aren't optimized for math. I remember reading discussions when it came out.

You weren't paying attention.
o18y = "observability" to save you a click.
looking at my teams interface right now. there are three separate "..." menus. Behind one of them is the settings, one is the installed apps, the third is to install more apps. Everyone involved in the decision making process that resulted in this UX should be banned from computers.
Generational wealth isn't capital though some fools mistake it for such.
I like the Hack font too, but I also like ligatures:

https://github.com/gaplo917/Ligatured-Hack
> good reason

I've been looking for these for years: the reasons that might justify the removal of basic functionality and interoperability with other tools. Got any sources?
Without the paywall or ads thru their partnership https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/fear-loathing-an...
no but maybe I should lol
> because I won't pay to be a beta tester in the first place.

Apparently you will, because you started this thread with "why am I paying for this beta software?".
Or you could use https://www.devuan.org/ (although Bookworm is still being worked on - https://www.devuan.org/os/releases)

"Init Freedom is about restoring a sane approach to PID1 that respects portability, diversity and freedom of choice."

https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom
Zig's async, like Lua's, lets people write libraries that are generic over async-ness by default. "dump my registers and jump to another stack" is also a legitimate move in assembly (though that's not how this implementation actually works).
I've never suffered data loss from systemd, but I certainly have encountered loss of functionality. There are a number of things that I just can't accomplish with systemd that I can accomplish without it.
I agree in part. But so does Safari on iOS. Probably most other web browsers on mobile as well.
Now they are forcing to register to their platform to continue using the collections for free. So most of the users will have to enter their data, or just leave the product (difficult, there's not that much alternative)
Sun had Self that was already incredibly fast. Instead of suffering threw 10+ years of terrible performance, we could have had a fast language back then.
I have never used Postman, but I am curious, how useful or good, if any, their product is? given the recent bashing it received for being over-valued and being just a wrapper around curl. If people like it and are willing to pay for it, isn't its valuation justified, which I think is true for any startup in general.
Federation is what keeps SMTP in place as the default electronic communications channel. Alternatives come and go but SMTP abides, there to cover your posterior when that fancy instant shout channel app flips over and goes the way of the dodo.

While many of the current proponents of federation are wont to explain the concept in line with their own ideologies - usually in the form of references to anti-Capitalism, Anarchism or some form of Marxism, often mixed in with a heavy dose of MDS when it comes to proposing alternatives to Twitter - this does not make the concept of federation ideological. It just makes it a widely applicable concept which has shown its usefulness for a very long time.
One good reason might be more data ownership than tracking. Centralized platforms seem to at some point realize how valuable their user’s contributions to the site are, and change the deal eventually to e.g. lock things behind a paywall when they grow bold and/or can get away with it. Reddit and Twitter are two high-profile examples of this, but there are numerous examples from the past as well for things like nutrition tracking and cd cataloging. A federated model might better reflect the idea of community ownership, and prevent site owners from betraying the community and cashing out on their contributions.
Don't worry, Tcl is also being proposed as the internet scripting language standard. I'm sure wiser heads will prevail.
Yes I'm a big fan :) I also like the "Why I like notebooks" counterpoint talk. I'm just not personally convinced.

While they make some great arguments about where notebooks can be really powerful for software development, I don't think the speaker makes entirely valid counterpoints to the original "I don't like notebooks" talk and most of the problems of notebooks still stand.

See this gist I posted above https://gist.github.com/softwaredoug/d527a18643f29832b0f41af...
American Journalism Project partnership with OpenAI to support local news
Can the same speedup be obtained on a 3090?
Ars covers a specific type of e-bike, not the average commuter bike. If I look around the bike parking lot here, I see one VanMoof and few dozen bikes from various brands using Bosch or Bafang mid-motors. No app for those except for the dealership (for maintenance/repair). But that's in Europe, the market in the US is undoubtedly different.
> The deterministic way in which conventional computers operate is not well suited to dealing with the uncertainty and randomness found in many physical processes and complex systems.

Isn't this the point of overlaying statistical calculations on top of deterministic functions? What benefit is gained mathematically or performantly from having the basic unit of computing be fuzzy (I understand the 0's and 1's are a digital abstraction on top of analogue reality)?

> The attraction of using photonic components is that they operate much faster and are considerably more energy efficient, says Charles Roques-Carmes...

I am not a physicist. But the hangup for me seems to be not the components used, but the interactions between components. Don't photonic components have to interact with deterministic models or algorithms at some point? Or, if they themselves make up the model, doesn't the model interact with finite or deterministic elements when defining bounds?

> ...“The main advantage is that you could generate, in principle, very many random numbers per second...”

Generating very many random numbers isn't the problem. You can do that via a camera pointed at lava lamps [0]. It's getting the random numbers where they need to be, to interact with the models that use them. But maybe this is answered by answering my second point above.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...
4channel, a place where surprisingly good discussions are often held. I use it as s complement to hn, especially for topics that upset hn downvoters.

For people who want to have an honest discussion with a fun dose of rudeness and name-calling, it's great.
> Gambling tends to spur much greater ethical concern and regulatory scrutiny, yet overlap – in practice and even game design – is becoming increasingly evident.

This seems like the understatement of all understatements. These games are almost exactly like casino games in all ways, visually, game mechanics, incentives, except there's actually no monetary payout so suddenly it's not gambling and therefore not regulated by gambling laws? Lawmakers around the world are asleep at the wheel.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03268
They ought to be viewed no different than tobacco companies.
Thats why I don’t use Reddit and would never take any opinion on something from there seriously.
I think you misread my comment. What I meant is that I'm not only assuming Meta does not exist, but also assuming that no other company that fills the same niche exists. If there's another company which is essentially the same, just with another name and minor differences, it doesn't change much.
Rockets hate this! [1]

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/one-weird-trick-doctors-hate-...
Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
At what point does bundling become competitive vs non-competitive?

It does seem like Microsoft can crush any Saas startup by including a "good enough" competitive product in their bundle.
I'm neutral on systemd, just give me something that works and I'll be ok with it.
Anyway, if you're after a distro that doesn't use systemd and is a joy to use and tinker with, take a look at Alpine [0]. It is a lot more compact and faster compared to other distros for using Musl instead of Glibc, which means you may find software that has not been ported yet, however so far I've installed it also on mini PCs and laptops with great results.

0: https://alpinelinux.org/
Copyright law is a plague on contemporary free society. I'm a composer, I work on contemporary Western classical music, and finding written music published since 1923 is a full-time job in itself. It's relatively easy (still not easy) to find extremely famous composers (e.g. Philip Glass, Gyorg Ligeti, Jennifer Higdon etc), but if you're trying to find someone lesser known, or god forbid someone unknown published by some random European music publishing house, good fucking luck. They literally won't make the publication available to you if they decide. Some works are only available for performance (i.e. if you're allowed to play this music, they "rent" the sheet to you) and no option to study the written work for other authors. It's excruciatingly difficult and holds the entire field back multiple, multiple decades. People write about ideas that were already explored and in circulation almost 4 decades ago because it's likely impossible to read their works.

Let me not even begin to talk to you about finding papers (analyses of other artists' works, musicology etc) if you're not affiliated with a university. You need a fortune to keep up with the field, or be arrrg (and it's not easy to find musicology papers in SciHub compared to other fields).

In this aspect we're significantly worse than how things were back in 1800s, 1900s or early 2000s.
As long as they're approximately the only "enterprise" option, that's a moat all by itself. No comment on the valuation, but it makes for a very resilient business.
Lot of confusion in the discussion between chatgpt the large language model (aka gpt-35-turbo) and ChatGPT the consumer application (the website where you type questions and you get a response beginning a conversation, which can be configured to use either the chatgpt or GPT4 models). To be clear:

* This paper called the models directly via the API not the ChatGPT application. This means that changes to the ChatGPT system prompt and other changes to the application aren't a factor here.

* The paper compared two variants each of the chatgpt and GPT4 models. The later variants are obviously different from the earlier variants in some way (likely having been fine-tuned)

* Any given model variant has not changed. You may continue to select the older model variant when using the API if you so wish

Lastly, and this one's my opinion, problems involving arithmetic and mathematics are not a good test of large language models.
I'm not sure how an actor would solve that problem. You're describing the way a system call works, which is not relevant to how your userland asynchrony works. In either case you're always "leaking" (I'd say "holding") the resource while you wait for the kernel to give it back to you.
The world’s more peaceful during the era of American Hegemony than it’s ever been. Odd how having a gigantic military with hundreds of millions of people under it’s umbrella seems to have stemmed regional conflicts from erupting.

You can’t prove that regional conflicts would erupt should the US become more isolationist but any history book should quickly show you human’s propensity for war.

It also turns out that human’s tend not to outright attack foes that will immediately decimate them.

The USAF is the greatest stabilizer this world has as far as I can tell, missteps and outright awful moves like Iraq taken into account in this calculation.
Sam and Stable Diffusion for Text-to-Image Inpainting
It really just shows how Reddit often “doesn’t get it”. If you don’t want that stuff then just don’t look at it. But Reddit also due to the voting system just kind of tends towards this lowest common denominator malaise of mediocrity. /r/books, /r/literature or even something like /r/fantasy just tends towards talking about a few popular easily digestible books or meta topics.
This is very interesting, because we(at cheatlayer.com) can publish results of the exact opposite happening and we test a lot of code generation with thousands of actual customers live.

It's entirely possible the examples are cherry-picked or could be explained by fine tuning differences, but in terms of "proofs" in the mathematical sense the paper doesn't prove this since you can get the opposite results based on the test cases.

The frozen version GPT-4-0314 is not capable of supporting our new autonomous sales agents for example, and many automations just don't work at all in the older GPT4
I use /lit/. It definitely does have Nazism and patriarchy plastered over it. If you dig around, there are great posts there. But it is a valid complaint.

I'm wondering, do you take more issue with the Redditors saying they don't like the far-right stuff on /lit/ than you do with the actual far-right stuff on /lit/? Or are you commenting on the political nature of the entire (/lit/ + Reddit) system?
Neither? That setting is perhaps not a clear default among the ones I mentioned, especially because I personally wouldn't want to send my DNS requests to fucking Cloudflare or something based in the US. But I still stand by my comment that Firefox's defaults suck. At the very least they could have a useful one-time wizard that doesn't just ask you to import your bookmarks from Chrome.
You can tell a company is in decline when it’s doing everything it can to claw back value. Netflix has enough resources to recover, but it doesn’t seem like a given that it can or will.
No surprises here. The entire architecture is based on mass production. There is an immutable base model and the only mutable part is the chat context. There is fine tuning but it takes a long time and there is no temporal relation between the fine tuning prompts. Even then it costs a ton of money. This immutable model is shared among all the users of their services. There has to be a supercomputer version of this product that focuses on quality over quantity.
The fact that so much SicFi seems to have good reception but gets cancelled anyway seems to point to this audience being too tech savvy for their own good.

That already happened when the series where only on tv, so sorry, I don't buy it.

I was subscribed to five platforms. After noticing what they did to my favourite content, I cancelled them all. I still have Amazon because it was a yearly subscription.

I'd love to buy (not "rent") electronic hd versions, but apparently it's only possible to buy boxes of DVD/Blue-ray that consistently are reviewed as bad presentation and need special hardware with DRM.
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How is systemd a binary format for configuration?

I get the silliness of journald not being clear text, you can configure it to be, but it's not the default, which is really weird. If you have the scale where you need binary logs for performance, then you also have remote log hosts. The remote log hosts will frequently also store logs in a binary format, like logstash, Humio, Splunk and what have you, but they are shipped a text, so the binary is just an unnecessary extra step. Sure you can use journald as a log collector, but I've never seen anyone do that... Kinda cool, but not frequently used.

Systemd unit files though, those are much much better than any other init system I've ever used. They are easy to write, easy to understand and just overall nice to work with. Timers are awesome as well, same easy syntax as startup scripts, easy to test, easy to debug.
I've honestly never minded all the micro-transaction stuff myself.

It means I get to play tons of games now for free, subsidized by others.
Great. NeoPets was the best environment to hone hacking skills. Modern Infosec students can use the new site to test out XSS attacks. Nothing says early 00s nostalgia like executing code on peoples browsers and sql injection.
John Gregory Dunne long ago wrote a piece about his wife (Joan Didion) wrangling with the IRS to get back his shirts from a laundry the IRS had seized. With a good deal of persistence, she managed to do it. When handing back the goods, somebody from the IRS told him, Your wife is a grouch--which hardly seems fair.
You can also run PyTorch cu121 nightly builds,

These also allow `torch.compile` to function properly with dynamic input, which should net another 30%+ boost to SD.
Rules against bad tactics also prevent society from learning to cope with them. The internet connects the whole world. How do you balance legislature restricting known problems from exposing people to external and unrelated threats? It's impossible to measure, for instance, Zynga's impact on cons. Perhaps just wishful thinking.
> It’s an init system and a process manager. How exactly can it be fun?

I don't know about fun, but different people find different things fun.

I find systemd to be often irritating, and sometimes infuriating. It has not made my life easier at all. Just the opposite. So, in that sense anyway, I'd say systemd is much less fun.
Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
I enjoyed this one, from their homepage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYMii3Sypg
> "we have access to the following email metadata: sender and recipient email addresses, the IP address incoming messages originated from, attachment name, message subject, and message sent and received times"

Is there any of that that’s not basically required by the fact that they’re running an _email_ service?
Then just don't go back to eating as much

> The reason checking the scale is useful is because they can clue you in on where a given caloric input is taking you, up or down.

you could just grab your stomach fat to get a more accurate progress measurement
> Unfortunately losing the weight can come with permanent metabolic adaptations that bias you towards regain, and you'll be fighting them for years.

my intuition is that if you add some intense exercises into the mix, they will boost your metabolism.
KPH is licensed as a commercial coastal radiotelegraph station. (It may be the last one in the US; it is operated by volunteers in the Pt. Reyes National Seashore, part of the US National Park Service.) Encrypted communications are just fine.
The promise with a good architecture is that the doom part is more infrequent though.

And that when the Go/Java doom scenario bites you you'll have a whole lot of technical debt to pay back.
I've actually seen more of her name than Akita itself. In a way, that's great marketing.
Nope, you're the one missing the point, just because a language has some kind of automatic memory management, it doesn't mean C like features for deterministic manual memory management, or any other kind of manual resource management aren't available.

Learn to use them, and then you'll get the point.
What would be the easiest way to migrate my book lists from Goodreads to this (or anything else?)
>"Just not immediately" is a big fucking deal for people in Amsterdam who use their bicycles as their primary means of transportation. Imagine you lived in Phoenix right now and the same thing happened with your car. You dropped off your Rivian or Lucid for repairs and -- surprise! -- they were actually on the brink of bankruptcy, so now the only way for you to get to work, pick up kids, etc. is to try walking, biking, or busing for miles in 110F+ degree heat until the courts figure out how to get your vehicle back to you.

It's not remotely the same. You can buy a used €100 bike in Amsterdam easily (which should be no big deal to people riding around on €2300 bikes). You're not walking miles in 110F heat to the store in Amsterdam, more like a 1 km (max) walk in 22c weather.
I don't think you realize how common actual bike theft is in the Netherlands. It is in no way a big deal.
I run an agency, it was tough managing all the templates. So I am creating a new tool for this.

Need insights on the clarity of messaging and USP.

Thanks
Netflix Shakes Up Pricing: ‘Basic’ Tier Axed in UK, US – Cord Busters
It has been ultra-reliable for me on 3 systems, over the course of a couple of years.

I can't say that about any of the other init systems you just mentioned.

> They had a low bar to clear to improve on the reliability of sysvinit systems, and yet they failed to clear it

systemd hasn't just cleared it, it has leapfrogged it.
Most home routers don't even implement it, which is a shame since Prefix Delegation really has a use case in the home network.
Finland is thought to house the happiest people in the world which I always found an interesting contrast to their more grim and hardened reputation!

In 2023 too, no less than six years in a row!

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166180048/finland-is-the-wor...
There's nothing to ignore. Some evolved monkeys have vivid imagination, which they mistake for reality. Phenomenon noted, time to move on to important things.
To be fair, with libraries the API layer can be essentially zero code, and with type checking. That's how it worked when I was at my previous gig.
There are more languages to chose from with automatic memory management than Go and Java.

Chose the one that provides the right set of tools for high performance code.
hate to be a prick but is there a difference between o11y and observability? or is the word observability just too long to type out
Nah it’s definitely gotten worse in my experience. I played with an early access version late last year/early this year and there’s been a strong correlation between how hard they restrict it and how good it is.

Queries it used to blow away it now struggles with.
def read_portfolio(filename):
record = lambda r: {
'name': r[0],
'shares': int(r[1]),
'price': float(r[2]),
}
with open(filename) as f:
rows = csv.reader(f)
headers = next(rows)
return [record(r) for r in rows]
Is Netflix using Canada as a test case for how larger markets will react to that change?
Akita has been around awhile. I remember talking to them around the time docker was still winning the container wars
Tenebra – a neat puzzle game for the BBC Micro