skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 2GiB swap on my 32 GiB worksation, and swappiness set to the lowest level.
Why ?
Because if I ever reached that situation, things will crawl to a halt and I might as well reboot.
Also, 2G is so cheap I'm just paying the cargo-cult entity to not think about it.

On my 64 GiB server, I have 4GiB, same reason.

Kernel has actually swapped out some stuff, probably ubuntu bloat stuff that's never used anyway.
>It's theoretically impossible to compute with the general reals. Full stop.

While that is true. It is possible to make mathematical true statememts about results of real number arithmetic on a computer.

>you lose associative arithmetic.

People like to complain about this, but it is a mathematical consequence of the reuirements. You can not fix that problem.
Sounds like it would have been really cool in its original form, right up my street.

Shame big corp came in and destroyed it, I hope everyone was paid hansomly in the takeover at least.
I've been getting spammed with this crap for a couple weeks by ad networks weird to see it here frontpage. It's not even a product what's the game?
Just like they do with black cats, dark clothing, lack of lighting. Dark colors absorb light, light colors reflect light. It is the reflection of light on a surface that gives it definition. I had a black cat that was nearly impossible to get spontaneous pictures of and I take night photography. Darkness requires more exposure time which equates to standing still longer. Facial recognition grabs people moving around in whatever lighting is available. It will inherently do better on lighter colors and contrasts just like the human eye does. Why do burglars and stage hands wear all black? So that they are harder to see.
Are they random, though?

What does "random" even mean? How intelligent is evolution? Is it stupid and random? Does it have the same level of direction as a single-celled organism? As an insect? As a mammal? That's still an open question.

There's a spectrum of hypothesis. To give a few:

- They are guided by an intelligent creator

- They are random and stupid

- There is intelligence built into the system which results in mechanisms like changing mutation rates during periods of crisis, sexual selection / reproduction, genetic crosstalk, DNA encoding, etc.

It makes a big difference. We can compare different optimization algorithms we run on computers (various gradient descent, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, etc), as well as different encodings we run those over. The results aren't the same.

That has profound implication philosophically, theologically, and scientifically.

The oversimplified school version is not helpful in that it potentially leads to the wrong conclusions.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Red Green Show, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Corner Gas, Anne of Green Gables… That sort of stuff!
Well, I don't do particle physics as my day-job anymore, so basically that.
When pressing this link I get presented with a CAPTCHA and "verify that you're human". Quite ironic.
> Men are told they should be the proactive side and take the risk of being rejected.

Walking up to a woman takes courage, which is a desirable quality. Why should a woman wan't a man, that lacks the balls to talk to her? The mating dance of many species has rules they have to follow. Complaining about them does zero for your dating success. The female decides if his display is good enough for her.

The App Bumble has women message first and it is strange for them.
Google Maps has its pitfalls, but it's by far the most up to date in the cities I've used it.

OSM lacks a lot of details that completely change how you'd move from point A to point B (I was missing overpass bridges and crossable paths in residential neighboorhoods), and point to point navigation is also not great. Then it completely lacks all the more commercial features Google has built on top of Maps (store details, position sharing, timeline etc.)

On sheer readability I also prefer Google Maps, but I've been using it so long that that might be just familiarity.

I wish I'd like OSM a lot more, but every time I ended up back to Maps for a reason or another.
Mostly how to incorrectly spell bananana and do some bad logic.

When you realize LLM models are very broad statistical models with nearly 0 sense at all they become easy to manipulate with wrong information.

The annoying thing is going to be LLMs teaching people things they publish and feed back into the next training of LLMs which will become pervasive to the extent that verifiable information will be much more difficult to come by and highly prized. Will drive even further nostalia or just real valuation of analog methods and artifacts and glitch/lofi/noise which are the kinds of abberation which analog systems make especially those that ML has difficulty emulating.
The example in the article shows the San Francisco Hilton, with a big ad. They're going out of business.[1] (Hilton Hotels hasn't been a real hotel company in years, anyway. It's just a franchise name now, like RCA.)

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/park-hotels-leaving-san-francis...
With such height I would expect it to be almost invidible to cars (let's not even think of a collision).

Unless more regulation like the one discussed in the article are passed to stop the suv trends, I would never even consider riding something like this.
> One example that immediately comes to mind from Rust is a bug with O_PATH file descriptors I found a while ago[1], which would've made certain code we use in runc not work. [...] Neither of these issues exist in C programs.

This issue doesn't intrinsically affect Rust as a language (when compared to C), because you can just do exactly the same thing as you'd have done in C:

let fd = libc::open(b"/path\0".as_ptr().cast(), libc::libc::O_CLOEXEC | libc::O_PATH);

Or just make the syscall directly-ish:

let fd = libc::syscall(libc::SYS_open, b"/path\0".as_ptr(), libc::O_CLOEXEC | libc::O_PATH);

Or use rustix if you want more convenient idiomatic wrappers.

And for setting up containers you'll have to do this anyway because Rust's standard library doesn't expose all of the necessary functionality anyway.
What's the cheapest way to run e.g. LLaMa2-13B and have it served as an API?

I've tried Inference Endpoints and Replicate, but both would cost more than just using the OpenAI offering.
GPT 4 isn't free. On individual and human scale, Google search is virtually limitless. I've been sometimes presented with Captcha when frantically searching something but that too is in distant past like late 2000s

Hasn't happened in a long time.
I had a research advisor explain that the timesheets are a formality if you are productive: You might mentally write your abstract in the shower, think about the research problem in the bus, get distracted while you're in the lab, rehearse parts of a talk with a friend between classes... Which of these counts as work time?

One of my favorite professors came in only on Fridays (except when the department would meet). They met with the research group, taught, had office hours, and then went home. I don't think they did nothing the other 6 days, but they also never sacrificed mental health for the sake of appearing busy.
Most "cloud" services seem to have a short lifespan. Maybe 5 years.
The most recent Trump indictment is a clarifying moment
Need? No. I havent used a swap partition since I first got a machine with 16GB RAM. I write text files for a living and its been plenty.

Every year or so a program (usually firefox) would spring a leak and lock up the machine for a minute or two then the OOM killer would kill it. This would have happened with or without swap; I think it's faster without?

So haven't bothered with partitions for a while. But a couple of years ago, the dists starting adding swap files by default. Ok, I thought, I won't fight it.

I do keep it reasonable, one or two gig. No problems so far. NVME is pretty darn fast, though htop says I don't really use it.

Get enough RAM for your use case, double if on one of those soldered Macs. This served me well, we had a 2013 MBP in great working condition (because I disregarded the salesbot advice and got 16gb) still works great but the recipient wanted a new M2 this year.

Personaly went with the Framework so not worried.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was suggesting that Facebook has yet to comply to these kinds of rules directly and as you noted for Australia, they made their own deal.
> Science does not in fact prove only fruits and vegetables are good for you

I will agree with your objection to the “prove” claim about the science (if only because it’s an overstatement of what science does) but the negative associations between various adverse health outcomes and a plant-based diet are well-supported in the literature: lower risk of type 2 diabetes, lower systolic BP, lower risk of cardiovascular events, lower total cardiovascular mortality, lower rates of certain malignancies.
I run my RPI servers without a swap partition (but with a small amount of zram) to avoid horrible wear on the SD cards.
Fastcompany plays unrelated commercial over the article.

Not sure how they can peddle that headline without seeing their own efforts in the argument.
To each their own, and I mean that sincerely.

For me, I don't care about ultimate tone, or better access to the highest notes.

I simply want to enjoy playing as much as possible, and make my friends smile while we share the experience. Shorter-scaled guitars are, for me, part of what lets that happen.
Without donations OpenStreetMap would also lose money. But obviously people (and companies) are much more willing to donate to a project when it's a charity/non-profit, instead of the product of one of the biggest companies in the world.
I'm not interested in politics and I don't live in US.
I don't think it's so much about legality rather than maintaining incentives (both financial and immaterial) for people to publish high-qualicontent that's available publicly.
Yeah, I love EURKey, it even includes the capital ẞ. The only thing I’d like is an easier typographic apostrophe (’ instead of ') which is on Ctrl+Alt+Shift+0 (though I do use it almost automatically, nowadays).
C++23: More Small Pearls
> AI upstarts

You mean corporations that wield more power than most governments, and have revenues equivalent to the GDP of entire countries?

If Universal or 20th Century Fox were to ever become a serious obstacle, Google and Microsoft are simply going to buy them. This isn't the early 2000s anymore. The power balance has shifted dramatically.
What does this refer to? Is it available for example in Windows?
?? You can it would take a long time but you could.
I don’t think you can know that. He might be on campus on Tuesdays, work at home Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and enjoy a work-free weekend.

(Though he’s an academic, so “his work is his life” is not unlikely.)
Czech Republic is one of the few countries where Google has a meaningful local competitor, Seznam, for it's major services and maps is the service where I'm most glad for that. All the shortcomings from the article are so much more obvious and painful when you have an alternative that does it right. I wondered for a long time how Google can have such a bad product, like I literally can't recognize a place I know perfectly on the screen so I need to "search" for it so Google zooms into some indistinctive bland colored area for me. And I've realized that's exactly the point, that's the prime example of enshitification. Tool that works so bad that you think you need it more. I'm so glad for mapy.cz and that statement from the article, that I can choose only Google or Apple maps, is not true for me.
Chatgpt 4 provides pretty good citations on request.
I've been using Hue for a decade or so now, I can't fault it.

I don't use any of the connected stuff and just manage it with the app and local API.

I decided to take the hub out of my network a couple of weeks ago and use the Home Assistant SkyConnect to manage by bulbs, switches, light strips etc, it's been a less than stellar experience. The hue hub works very well, it's signal strength is excellent, I had it sitting inside a closed rack and never had an issue, the SkyConnect loses signal to a bulb 2 feet away if you breath on it.

Would highly, highly recommend hue to anyone. That said, prices have gone up and bulb quality dropped since Signify took over (many of my bulbs are metal and glass) the newer ones are plastic and plastic for more money, and though none of the original bulbs have failed to date, one of the newer ones randomly cuts out.
I already know where I’m looking.

And the map TOS state it should be the business name.

I pointed this out as a UX problem, which it is.
The online library known as archive.org tried exactly this. They got sued, to no one’s surprise.
I find it very strange to think that you are entitled to anything in return when something views and processes content you have publicly shared.
S-wave pairing in a two-orbital t-J model: possible application to LK-99
Is anyone able to compare this story with dentistry situations in other countries? Perhaps EU countries?
Another one would be a very popular taste/smell: Vanilla, chemically close to human pheromones as well. Never used perfume, but my Ex loved my smell too.
>I'd love a schedule like this

We all would love a schedule like this. No agile, nu scrums, no meetings, no wiki page editing, no unit tests, no menial work, no code reviews, no context switching. Just work on what you deem important. It would project productivity through the roof.

It's achievable only if you are self employed.
In my experience (not with IBM), support contracts get you issues resolved. You get a certain number of incidents per contract, and each one gets resolved. You ask for a feature or bug fix, and they implement it. That’s what you are paying for.

Now Red Hat would have no obligation to upstream or maintain the patch, even to projects they own. But you ask for a big fix under a support contract, they should fix the bug. Even if it’s just a patch for that one customer only.

To be the provider of a support contract and then just turn around and say “nah, won’t fix” in response to an official customer service contract request… I’ve never, ever heard of that in my professional career.
> And it also doesn't break the ' and ` keys, which US international breaks on Windows, since you have to type them twice to get the regular character.

You can also hit the space key after those characters (or other modifiers like " or ~) to get just the character and without a space after. I find it a lot easier than the Mac-approach, but YMMV.
Yes it will, basically for the same reason you can cause a swirl of a liquid that fills a square container, but can’t rotate a solid inside a square container: in liquids and gases, molecules aren’t tightly packed, and aren’t (strongly) connected to each other, so even small forces can make them move.

What’s more, the liquid will move even if you don’t shake it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_diffusion, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
In my case mostly yes, though you have to be careful with classifiers too as you can pull out a lot of things with just yes/no answers.
Below the hood- a GPL violation + Configuration.. every time...
Decided to go back to office, there are so many humans I want to spend time with
I mean yes? Answer a bunch of stackoverflow questions and you'll hit that.
> She had taken the toughest classes, made the highest grades

> She was not admitted because her SAT score was 10 points below our threshold

> ...we admitted three other kids from that school who had slightly lower grades, less rigorous courses

> Instead it’s designed to be comprehensive and thorough, but fair….NO.

This looks like a lazy attempt to prop up a system that, instead of correcting flaws in its weighting and aspiring to be more fair, takes the easy option and just declares that they're not trying to be that. What does it mean to be "comprehensive and thorough" but not fair? "Comprehensive and thorough" describes the process and "fair" seems like what they should want to achieve with that process. If not fairness, what is it that they're trying to aim for by being thorough and comprehensive?
An unmaintained device was always going to be a security problem; at least with open code and a way to install it there's a way to patch problems after the vendor stops providing fixes.
I think there is a straight distinction that can be made. With humans, you can't determine if or how that information will be utilized. With any machine, you will. It's practically a copy. If it's only storing derivate information, if there is fuzziness, that's intended.

Far in the future - if ever - where we have biological grade artificial beings which you can't program, control and limit in the classical software development sense, this could be rethought.

Until then, we don't need to humanize machines.
Better analogy would be: I read your hobby website and start a photography section in my Q&A website based on what I've learned from your site. That leads to a 1% increase in my revenue.
I thought the Hollywood strike was about the entertainment industry planning on using AI to substitute extras? Sorry but they're all in bed together.
You frequently see this kind of reasoning in medical quackery:

> Butt-candling[1] must work, just look all these happy customers!

But history is replete with ineffective or downright harmful treatments being popular long after the evidence showed them to be ineffective or harmful. Homeopathy is a prime example of this, seeing as those concoctions contain either no active ingredients or (in cases of low dilutions still labeled "homeopathic") contain ingredients picked based on notions of sympathetic magic ("like cures like").

[1] A hopefully fictional example.
You’re going to pry my ISO Enter key and QWERTZ from my cold, dead hands.
Yes, for specific things.

On my gaming pc i have a small 256GiB SSD for Windows, and a 4 disk raid0 of spinners for my games library (I have a policy of keeping all of my library installed and updated, so when I want to play a game, no time will be spent installing it).

A few games will ignore the 64 GiB RAM in the machine, and insist on swapping random bits from disk at all times for no good reason (Diablo 2 Resurrected).
I then create a ramdisk for the game and play off of that instead.

This is on Windows by the way, I use "ImDisk"
Yes, however this article is sporting the idea that the only difference between the designer product and the downmarket product is the unjustified inflated pricing.
Could they measure the resistance in two direction, then subtract one from another to isolate the symmetric part?
Let's start by outlawing the vehicules that kill others before going after bikes ... Weight regulation is a start at least.
Misleading title. Bottom of article says it was originally published in 1997 edition of Reader's Digest.
If the cafe is a multi-billion corporation that can only exist because it can leech of content created by millions of other people without providing anything at all to them in return (and I'm not necessarily talking about financial compensation) then yeah.. maybe you should.
> I already know where I’m looking.

You do, because you're native to the area. The person you're talking to, possibly not.
Author here.

Have you got it working with PCI or PCIe? PCI devices attached to the top-level bus do not request I/O ports unless they need to, and if they do, they request only small slice.

QEMU also allows one to put 8 static PCIe devices into a single "multifunction PCIe device", so it requests 4K I/O ports per 8 devices, giving a bigger headroom. The downside, of course, is that all these 8 devices lose individual hotpluggability, and can only be added/removed en masse.

The biggest problem is hotplug slots, each taking 4K I/O ports unless told otherwise in a way libvirt does not support as I described in the article.
It should be treated as learing. If it truly stores and reproduces a photo (to some high accuracy), then there are already laws in place that handle this. Your client using the output may infringe on the photographer's rights, which may fall back on you depending on your contract.

If I watch a youtube video my browser is also in a way scraping youtube and storing a (temporary) copy of the video. Does it make sense to protect the protect the owner's right's at this point? Absolutely not. Instead we wait to see if I share that downloaded video or content from it again, or somehow reuse it in my own products. Only then does the law step in.
It would be so nice to combine some of that stuff with modern design.
> What do you think why writers and actors have included AI in the reasons of their strike?

Because they are about to become obsolete, and they believe that screaming as loudly as they can is going to stop that.

Their chances of success are roughly the same as if they were protesting against the law of gravity.
You can tax the products at the time of sale for expected externalities. Then you can still let people run reclamation/returns themselves and claim against tax and be responsible for overruns.

An example is the drinking container taxes in Norway, where single use containers are subjected to a graded tax depending on return rates. If the containers are part of approved returns schemes etc. and achieve 95%+ return rates you pay nothing. Below that the worse the return rates the higher the tax per unit (even if returned in other recycling). This gives an incentive to avoid containers that are not part of the recognised returns schemes. [Some returns schemes, like the bottle return scheme further applies a specific deposit amount per unit, so the amount added, or a portion of it, is recoverable for customers]

While ensuring payment for returns processing is important, getting the cost of externalities pushed to the point of sale is also important, because it punishes you with higher prices for products that are hard to get decent return rates for.
so now we are going to kill off the sea birds...
I’m an iPhone user and I’d pay good money for an OSM based app with these features:

- Hard focus on “general mapping” like Google Maps, so not outdoor trails or sailing or…

- Maps are streamed to my device, also when I zoom in to street level - no requirement to download offline maps first

- Search is working and good enough

- Routing is working and good enough

- Big plus if it does turn by turn navigation, or can kick me into Apple/Google Maps turn by turn with the address I found

- Big plus if I can choose from some map styles
The next phase is logically the profitable growth phase - honestly, it's one of the most exciting phases for both the PE firm and the employees of the companies. I don't see that happening to any company in tech or in the startup space these days. I do see that phase in a number of traditional family-owned enterprises employing hundreds or thousands of employees though, but VCs and PEs aren't looking there for the most part (regional PEs are looking at them and finding a lot of success though).
If it were possible to answer that with a simple yes or a no, it wouldn’t be such a perennial debate.

Clearly both systems have benefits and drawbacks.
No, that's an argument against any bot visiting any website for the purpose of repackaging and redistributing information regardless of motivation website was concieved for.

Public content is still mostly published with a reference to a certain or anonymous individual/organization and gains visibility based on a value and an effort to be seen. Individual/organization is still motivated by visibility, popularity, acceptance and approval of that content.

We can summarize that people are motivated by a reaction. What do you think will happen when you remove or decrease reaction to knowledge/content providers?
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