skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way.

The problem with binary floating point is that it is input and output as decimal floating point.

Every floating point number is really a fraction of the form

M
-------
b^E

When you write

x = 0.1

you are really asking for 1/10. If b=2, however, you can only get a denominator of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 or something like that. 1/10 just doesn't exist in that number system, but there is a number A that you get when you ask for 0.1 that round-trips back to 0.1, and the same is true for 0.2 (B) and 0.3 (C). The trouble is those substitute numbers aren't the real numbers and

A != B + C

This has nothing to do with numeric precision, it's always going to be off a bit even if you are using 1024-bit floats or 1048576-bit floats.

The problem punches above its weight because it is targeted right at two fault lines of the mind: (1) people flinch at inconsistencies, 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 is an identity and when basic identities are wrong people feel uncomfortable and don't want to proceed; if you are working with an accountant, for instance, and they see something that is not consistent in a way they've been trained has to be consistent, they will just stop until it is consistent. (2) A certain kind of laziness leads people to not get to the root of a problem like this and instead waste a huge amount of time and energy into non-solutions (rounding!) that are just like pushing a bubble around under a rug.

Note that decimal floating point does not require that you use BCD. That is, the mantissa and the exponent of a floating point number are just integers, and unlike the floats, base 7 and base 192 integers are the same numbers.

An obvious idea is to use base 2 for the mantissa and exponent, just have the exponent be base 10. One difficulty is the cost of sliding two numbers so they have the same exponent before you add them, for instance to add

43
723
---
766

you have to express the 723 and 43 in the same base to add them (multiply/add by ten) and multiplication by powers of ten is a lot hard with base 2 math than with base 10 math. You also can represent decimal floating point numbers with a decimal mantissa and face the tradeoff of BCD numbers being wasteful of bits but the factors of 10 being easy to deal with. There is an efficiency gap between hardware binary floating point and hardware decimal floating point but it's not as bad as you might think.
I'd actually argue the other way around - London is a great place to live in a shoebox, because while housing is more expensive here, everything else is similar to the rest of the country, and there's a tonne of cheap/free stuff to go to. Moving to London and staying at home is like living in Sydney and never going to the beach, or to Vancouver and never going to the mountains. You're just not doing what the city is great at.
I can't speak to other professions, but I know for mechanical engineering if you asked 50 engineers what they thought the best solution to a problem was they'ed give you 50 different answers. Of course if you got them all together in a room, probably 40 of them would say "oh that's a much better idea" right away, and a few more would as well after a bit of back and forth. Still, you'd probably be left with three or four proposals, each with a few die hard proponents and detractors.

I'm sure any profession that it takes years of training to practice probably comes with enough complexity that broad consensus becomes generally unachievable.
Why would anyone pay for your biometric data?

Only one answer makes any real sense --- they plan to sell verification as a service.

Good idea, poor implementation.

1) Flat out paying people raises suspicions.

2) That orb looking thingy is kinda creepy and cumbersome to use.

Better implementation.

1) Use their palm instead. A cheap infrared camera can see the vein pattern under the skin. This combined with hand geometry makes for a highly accurate ID that is easier to use and less suspicious.

2) Sell this to retailers and banks as a convenience feature. No need for a card, just hold out your hand.

Like what Amazon is doing at Whole Foods ... and probably coming to other stores soon ... Amazon Checkout.

Next time, consult with me first. My fees are very reasonable.
That would make any site using mixpanel/google analytics/sentry/etc. illegal. Not so easy to enforce.
True. I'm surprised this doesn't go against GDPR.
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Exactly, using phrases is so much nicer and better in every way.
It annoys me when sites demand a password should have a special character or upper case letter in it. Or even worse: a max length.
Question for security experts: Is this really that much more secure than a local only password manager, like KeePass? It is fun, but the inconvenience of it feels like its not worth the benefits.
What if the website doesn't allow the characters that you used in the table?

What if there are multiple websites with the same 2nd and 3rd characters?
It's annoying, but if you are serious about taking public transit, you really do need to use the apps for whatever city you are in to get accurate information in my experience. Yes, Google Maps will tell you when a bus or metro is coming, but they often get it wrong, claiming that buses that run only on weekdays run on Saturday and so on.
There already is an LK-99 subreddit
I'm not a chemist so this may be a dumb question, but is it possible that polymorphs are coming into play here, and the less official labs are better at contaminating the sample with the correct polymorph?
Agreed on the dodge action, that's also a great default to have around too when you can't find something useful to do.

As far as readying an action, at minimum it could work like XCOM's "Overwatch" action, targeting the first enemy you see within range.

But it would be nice to give you a choice of targeting options so that you can designate a smaller area, just in case that's useful. But fine leave it as "first enemy in this area" instead of trying to give you full pencil and paper D&D flexibility. There is a UI for picking between options in an action, such as Enhance Ability needing you to pick an ability.
Interesting, what other openly licensed models are better at codegen? Or perhaps there is a version of llama 2 already fine tuned for codegen? There is starcoder but I had also not had great results with that one in my brief experiments
I don't think the author made any crazy claims about Bernie. He did have a diverse coalition that was maligned as Bernie bros. He also didn't have the election stolen in sc or super tuesday, he simply wasn't that popular and could only get wins when 6 moderate candidates were splitting the vote. RFK is an entirely different phenomenon.
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honestly kind of. I have (multiple) varied layout keyboards as swapping between them changes finger/arm/wrist levels. My finger/wrist pain (almost) went away when I started moving to a different layout every few weeks. I was worried about needing surgery before 30; now since splurging on (many) keebs my hands feel in a better shape than a decade ago.
ShadowPlay is not just for uploading recordings to the cloud. ShadowPlay also allows you to capture the output of your GPU without having to insert an external capture card in between. It essentially uses NVENC to generate a video stream before it even leaves the graphics card, so the CPU doesn't have to do nearly as much work.
Fisker's been around for a while! I didn't know they were back.

Here's an article from 2012 about a $100,000 model they made:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/justin-bieber-birthday-got-fiske...
Not that I have to communicate a lot on a day-to-day basis today, but I worked for someone for a number of years where he traveled a lot, I traveled a lot, and I worked more or less independently. I'd be in contact with various people related to whatever I was doing at the time but I might not really be in touch with my manager or other people on his direct team (who were mostly doing things largely unrelated to what I was doing) for a few weeks at a time.
We talk about have consistent desktop experience everywhere. This provides exactly that. Your desktop is everywhere you go.

What sucks is, you need a whole browser for it. What sucks is, I think that's the only way to do it. A full on VM to make it real.

I would use this if the browser stack had more promise of not changing for 50 years and not owned by Google. Unfortunately our last place of freedom is native execution.
The x87 ISA was an absolutely boondoggle which took 3 decades to recover from. It was so clearly not designed by CPU architects. What a disaster.
As far as I know, it is required.
That's your problem then, you're not doing in London the things people move to London for. I don't blame you for disliking London if you're not doing the things London excels at!
I haven't seen recent numbers but I expect if you look at phone marketshare for households over $100k, it will indeed be 90%+ iPhone, maybe more like 95%.

Saying Apple doesn't have a phone monopoly because of cheap Android devices is like saying Microsoft didn't have one because doing work on a piece of paper was still a thing.
From the NYT source linked on the Wikipedia article:

> The name of the material comes from the initials of the surnames of two of the scientists — Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim — and the year 1999, when they say they first synthesized LK-99.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/science/lk-99-superconduc...
> This is also all work that doesn't benefit the scientists replicating the paper. It only costs them money and time

If you build upon a result, you almost have to replicate it.

An acquaintance spent years building upon a result that turned out to be fraudulent/p-hacked.
Or just copy my mother and write them all on a post-in note stuck to the side of your monitor!
I find it surprising this article doesn't mention password managers, though some comments do. They were already in widespread use in 2010.
It's a great idea! Lobby for it, contact a lawmaker and get a bill passed.
> Admittedly I only spent about ten minutes looking, but I was unable to find any documentation of any Ukrainian losses at all on their website.

Here's the URL for the Russian losses.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

Here's the URL for the Ukrainian losses.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

> They're founded by Bellingcat alumni, which in turn is made up of CIA alumni. That's not saying either is a "CIA front" (while the CIA does have fronts, I certainly don't know what they are), but rather that they are definitely part of the extended family of the US "Intelligence Community."

If they are a part of the US "Intelligence Community" they are surely getting a raw deal as they are stopping the work because it never led to a job.
There are 14 hardware based PCIe devices (mixture of NVME drives and NIC VFs) along with various other emulated PCI devices (virtio block, serial, etc.).

I have not tried to hot [un]plug devices with this configuration. It looks as though I’m likely to be disappointed if I try. Thanks for the explanation.
It's like a competition from the VCs to find and fund the shadiest people possible.
I am interested in that as well. Can LLaMa2 models be deployed to VPS? (Preferable the 70B model).
Why would you still need to pay tips if you are already paying service charges? That doesn’t make sense. Service charges are pretty common in Europe and there is no expectation to also tip. Of course, you can stil tip if you thought the service or food was worth a tip.

If I understand it correctly they mention the service charge in the menus? And 10-18% service charges is madness, though.

Also tips sounds like such a hassle when you need to report your taxes. Every year. Do you get as a restaurant employee a list every month of how much tips you received?
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I heard you can fix that with Alt+F4. Seriously though, this is my biggest gripe with building for the web. You are limited in interactions to what the browser allows and at the end of the day it’s an app inside a sandbox-ish container with an app inside a shadow-dom. WASM full-screen, full-hardware, experiences have yet to take root. It’s getting there.
what if the password needs to be changed and previous ones can't be reused (You then must remember that)?
Max lengths are so sketchy because this makes it more likely the crazy guys are actually storing your password rather than the fixed size hash.
Better write a script that takes a master-password and site-name, and produces a hash that you can use as a password.
I designed and made a 'cheapscope' out of PVC pipe, 3d printed parts, and cheap aliexpress 76mm mirror, mounted on a camera tripod.

It works well enough for the moon etc, and, as I'm based in a developing country, many people have never seen the sky except with the naked eye, so the gasps and oohs, etc are priceless.

I had intended to document and open-source the whole thing, but was busy at the time, and the PLA prints have since completely disintegrated in the hot humidity, lol. Maybe I'll get back to it again, with PET or nylon this time.
I think this is a problem specific to your library. A very quick check shows the average age of our collection to be about 6 years (at my small to midsized urban library). That's extremely rough because new editions of classics will show a much more recent copyright date than an average person would consider them, so a collection can still be seen to skew much older than the data suggests. However, it's still dominated by recent titles, especially of popular literature. Technical books are harder for me to comment on because at a public library, that's generally out of our domain. We try to keep up on the popular series for tech stuff like "Learn Visually" or "Dummies", but the circulation or those dwindles as either fewer people need them or are more likely to use the internet for solving their problems. Depending on your needs, you might see if your library has a subscription to O'Reilly books or similar platform for your area of interest.
You are equivocating with the use of “record” in two different senses if that word. A person may very reasonably accept one of them without the other.
Algorithmically generated passwords for different sites was a mind-blower. There are so many differentiation algorithms that are trivially runnable in your head.

If most sites are salting and hashing passwords correctly (this is 2023...), then that drastically decreases your compromised credential blast radius.

--

And it makes me sad that "store your passwords on dead-tree paper" became GOTO. It has serious weaknesses, but also serious strengths... especially in a post ~2005 always-on, networked-everything world.

It turns the security requirement from electronic security into physical security (and appropriate recovery and disposal procedures).

I'm not sure that's a bad trade-off these days. I don't hear about too many people having their password pickpocketed off them...

Full disclosure: Never hopped on the password manager train, because I couldn't find a combination of (a) easy to use multi-device/OS/program, (b) open source, (c) secure from host / corporate ownership. If anyone has recommendations today, would love to revisit...
A 7 years old has normally tiny hands (and usually also small pockets), a "full size" phone might be not much handy, if it is an emergency only phone you can get any of the "feature phones" (not iOS, nor Android) that just make calls and sms.

There are el-cheapo Nokia models, as an example.

If you are going the smartphone way, there are just a handful of "right" (small) sized phones, Unihertz and Cubot come to mind.
Looks like Windows - it mentions a setup/installation wizard, which isn't a thing on Linux for GPU drivers. And Intel has separate GPU drivers for Windows and Linux (the drivers for the latter being open-source), so it's likely just Windows. Especially since I doubt Mesa would accept a patch for a telemetry feature.
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Found this via Fedi and thought it could be of interest to the HN crowd.

“MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles.

I [Jason Scott] have ’ported’ these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy”

https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/110848606613977786
Indeed, many tools in this space don't maximize resource utilization at runtime. Even the quantized models are massive resource hogs.. so you need all the performance you can get!

Ollama on macOS will use both the GPU and the Accelerator framework. It's build with the (amazing) llama.cpp project.

To run the 70B model you can try:

ollama run llama2:70b

Note you'll most likely need a Mac with 64GB of shared memory and there's still a bit of work to do to make sure 70B works like a charm
Perhaps they meant locally installed software.

And EU has tried making sites classify and ask for permission for cookie storage.

And maybe mixpanel and Google and cross site tracking should be opt-in for users.
Do not write your real password. Instead modify it in certain way which is easy to remember:

E.g real password is "xB6fqmd$a90". Apply algo: swap 2nd and last char. So store it as: "x06fqmd$a9B"

This algo should be easy to remember and there infinite ways to come up with your own algo.

Even if your passwords are exposed there is additional protection.

In other words you have your own simple symetric encryption with algo being the secret.
I haven't had time to shop around in a number of years, so I probably don't have the most competitive deal. I've carried this cell phone plan since around 2014-2015.
this method fails hard for a couple reasons
1. password changes when previous can't be reused
2. restricted characters in password
Ridiculous, Nvidia cards are expensive and on top of that they collect the data for free.
Just use that kind of passphrase for your password manager master password, and let it generate valid passwords for you.
1500 miles/yr, are you sure buying a car is the best financial decision?
While Livebook will mostly have an appeal for people already working with erlang/elixir, it does have a few features that are pretty nice.

- it’s collaborative (think Google docs for code) when several people are working on the same instance of a livebook;

- it’s easy to extend with so-called smart cells (which are essentially pieces of gui you can inject in your document https://news.livebook.dev/v0.6-automate-and-learn-with-smart... ). Smart cells are available for various tasks (db connection/ interaction, data frame exploration, ML tasks, maps), and building your own is relatively easy;

- you can turn a notebook into a web app ( https://news.livebook.dev/deploy-notebooks-as-apps-quality-o... )

- you can run your code an a remote elixir node by attaching to it (although this requires some knowledge of distributed elixir/erlang )
Also it seems like these titles came from the libraries they made partnerships with and the authors who agreed to OA. Not sure any individual or committee curated the list.
Windows and its ecosystem have already become a telemetry monster; if you're fine with everything else, you ought to be fine with this. The linked Intel support page shows the simple instructions for opting out of the telemetry.

Having said that, 2022 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Everything works. KDE gets better every week. Be the owner of your technology. Join us!
And wouldn't that be a terrible shame.
IMO, all "smart" devices should be open hardware. Or at least, the electronics should be. A literal toaster being vendor-locked is deranged.
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I don't think it is. I recommend using a password manager that supports hardware 2fa. One of the main issues with the proposed paper mechanism are that it doesn't support rotating passwords individually. Another is sites that share second and third characters would share a password.
Surely you can just firewall off Nvidia's telemetry servers.
the sad state of software today shows that 'premature optimizations' aren't.
Also, wallets are commonly lost and stolen. And houses burn down and are burglarized.

Unless you plan on keeping your passwords in a fireproof safe, which isn’t exactly convenient—especially in our modern mobile world. In 2010, when this article was written, far fewer people did this much computing from a smartphone.
> In that context, yes, you’ll get ads and influencers shilling sponsored stuff, but you can swipe them away instantly.

I'd note that this isn't even good at the UX/technical level.

I very rarely use FB, but opened it the other day and noticed that that the promo card for reels is always showing up despite me having clicked "Hide" on it several times before. I spent a minute or two clicking "Hide" on it probably 20 more times, and as far as I can tell, it has zero effect. Not good UX. Furthermore, if you click "Report this post" in the dialog after "Hide", you get a consistent "Sorry, something went wrong" popup. Not good technically.
Google maps doesn't do this, it's done by lower levels of software, specifically Google Location Service which is built into Google Play Services. You can tinker with maps settings all you want, but the data is coming from the rootkit they bundle on nearly all devices. Many android apps use GLS APIs and won't work without it.
Cool! I have built Hadley, a 114mm Newtonian that is mostly 3d printed.

https://miscdotgeek.com/3d-printing-the-hadley-114mm-newtoni...

It's done now, and has produced some nice images, but I need to spend more time with it to get planetary images etc.
No Shadowplay, no Gamestream (so, if you bought an Nvidia Shield for that, you're screwed. No, Sunshine isn't currently at feature parity with Gamestream), no automatic driver updates (which, in this day and age, are quite important for newer games), no Ansel.

Nothing critical no, but all things that, if you don't have and need, have no real alternative.
I took a look at my profile the other day and realized that I'd somehow inadvertently flagged a bunch of posts and comments. Guessing it was a UI thing, trying to hit 'context' instead of flag.
Could get the results at home with a see through dish filled with cooking oil, embedded with tiny flakes of aluminium foil.
You don't understand the GDPR then. The focus is on controlling where data goes (not out of the EU), but your point is about telemetry in general. If you keep the data inside the EU and manage it in a way that's compliant with the GDPR then then that telemetry doesn't put you in jeopardy.

If you want to be protected for telemetry then you need to advocate for better legislation. Stating that something is covered by the GDPR ultimately masks the issue because it's not against the GDPR and you lose an opportunity to advocate for better legislation to reduce, or kill telemetry.
Revealing secrets is kind of the entire point of the patent: you tell everyone how it's done, in return you get 20 years monopoly. US patents even have a "best mode" requirement where you have to describe the best way known to you right now, where many other countries allow you to describe an inferior version and still get full protection.

In reality you can get patents granted that are somewhat vague. It's not like the patent office actually tests if the patent text is sufficient to replicate your invention.
Is it considered weird to drop into combat grid and initiative order to handle action strategy like trying to dodge around a guard patrol, even if nobody's been stabbed yet and nobody might get stabbed at all?

Speaking of delay, I know that's not part of 5e (it was in 3.5), but if we can't have ready action could we at least have the delay option? A lot simpler to implement and it'd at least help with the situations where you would have been better off at worse initiative.
I hope you find something better to do with your day than putting people down.