skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligent people paying close attention have almost never respected him, or they at least realised he was wildly overrated. Elon fell in love with the limelight and inevitably his true character is becoming exposed, very publicly.
The number of magic squares of order 6
Until July 17 we only knew the first five numbers of the sequence https://oeis.org/A006052. Now we know 6.

"Using hundreds of GPUs at cloud resource rental services, it took about six months to complete the counting"

Great work by Prof emeritus Hidetoshi Mino. He's inviting interested people to check for errors.
Ohh you're going to enjoy this when you get to it :-)
Now wouldn’t that make for a neat science fiction plot setup.
> This is idealism.

No, it's realism. The only one to blame for Hashicorp not adequately capitalizing on the two-way street that is multiple FOSS (well, formerly, in one case) IaC systems being compatible with one another... is Hashicorp. Instead of recognizing a case where "open source" is mutually beneficial, they'd rather take their ball and go home - and that's their right, but it ain't beyond criticism.

> The reality is Pulumi's providers have no value for Terraform, which already built and curated its own ecosystem after years of time and effort

The reality is that Hashicorp adopted Pulumi's strategy of autogenerating provider resources from API catalogs rather than maintaining handwritten bindings (i.e. what differentiates Pulumi's "native" v. "classic" providers). So yes, Pulumi's providers clearly have value. Hell, they can continue to have value even after Hashicorp's BUSL shenanigans thanks to Apache 2.0 being permissive.

> The answer is unequivocally "yes". Pulumi has.

The answer is hardly "unequivocal", per above and per the previous comments. Calling a collection of third-party-developed API shims a "product" is itself a massive stretch of the word, and calling bidirectional / mutually beneficial contribution to that collection "competition" is itself a massive stretch of the word.

IBM Cloud Secrets Manager is much better evidence in support of an unequivocal "yes" (though like most non-mainframe IBM-branded products these days I'd question whether or not it counts as "of any significance").
That's a strawman. Those 3 PR clowns and another British consultant weren't working for the US government and didn't do anything useful for Yeltsin anyway, Filatov basically carried the campaign on his own (not without the huge amount French/German loan money stolen by Yeltsin and paid to the Gusinsky and co). The actual US involvement was in lots of the NGO work, openly sold under the guise of the fight against the communist reaction, paid with US taxpayers money. Which it actually was! No argument against that, Zyuganov and the return of communism/nomenklatura were genuine threats. The only problem was that people now wanted Yeltsin out because he was even worse.

Clinton/Gore administration openly aligned themselves with Yeltsin/Chernomyrdin, their "friendship" with the autocrat was a big and visible thing. They ignored all the red flags and helped to create the problem they tried to "fight" later, despite of the existence of much more prominent politicians who were clean and principled enough (ex. Nemtsov, who was hugely popular before that campaign and publicly declined to run for the president when he heard about Clinton's support for Yeltsin).

Regardless of the extent of the actual involvement (it was probably not that strong), it was enough for many in Russia to despise them and call it a collusion, which it at least partly was - absolutely open and marketed as something noble, without any conspiracy. Denying that is silly.
Thank you for the encouragement. I don't have an idea I'm sufficiently excited about, but the longer I'm unemployed the more I begin considering them.
CNT on arm64 counts 8 or 16-bit elements too.
GRASE: Graphical syntax-directed editor for structured programming (1984) [PDF]
IMHO it displays intent to require a browser that has JS, which yt-dl has sort of implemented.
My dad just passed in a similar fashion from a different cancer. He was fairly sharp until the last month when spiraled out. I'm sorry you are going through it.
I just checked and my local dealer has a Corolla in stock for $28k. That seems consistent with other people in this thread.

In 2018 I bought a top end accord for $31k. So prices are definitely much worse now.
Links to the icons:

- https://github.com/mdwalters/redesigned-gnome-icons/blob/mai...

- https://github.com/mdwalters/redesigned-gnome-icons/blob/mai...

- https://github.com/mdwalters/redesigned-gnome-icons/blob/mai...

- https://github.com/mdwalters/redesigned-gnome-icons/blob/mai...
What I find hilarious is people's inability to grasp probability and sample sizes.

I don't think he won 50 dice rolls in a row, not remotely close actually. The first win was the time and place he was born into, his father had a stake at an emerald mine and he was right on cue for the dot com era, he had Canadian citizenship by birth, and his immigration to the US was trivial, he had the connections and the money.

One does not need 50 dice rolls to get there; a single roll of the dice has insane consequences, ask all the people from China or India playing the visa and green-card lottery because they happened to be born in China or India.

I never said he's just a crypto-bro either, you are just in denial. I said he's some guy who played crypto-bros and investment bros like a fiddle. He sold a brand, is currently facing market manipulation and insider trading investigations [1], and pumped a crypto coin (ie something totally unregulated). He had the money in the first place in there, and he had the influence. If you have no morality, you need to be a moron not to do that given that you can do it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/03/marke...
It's been a while, but I remember many experiments being presented in Gleick's book ( The double pendulum being a chaotic system, or the paper showing how it was impossible to predict the distance between two points in a structure after steching and folding it)

The gist being that some systems are much more sensitive than others to initial variables - and these are what we call chaotic.

For the double pendulum, for example, you try to release the pendulum from the same point, with 0 force - no matter how precise you are, there will be variability in the position, air pressure, temperature, turbulence and whatnot that will induce a small variability. This is unavoidable - but in chaotic systems, the effects are impossible to predict i.e. the pendulum always swings differently.

The pretty pictures come from what are called "strange attractors" which are all dependent on the system you are studying because they flow from the systems attributes. It's not black magic - a simple example from the book is that heat distribution can be chaotic in liquid systems like coffee cups - so it's impossible to predict the precise temperature inside any cup given it's initial state, but we all know it's cold after an hour. This is not the best explanation for this concept, I believe the last third of the book is on the subject.

Hopefully this could help out.

Edit: if you were to plot position of the pendulum for many thousands of drops, some patterns will emerge - the pendulum moves in a "finite" set of positions, because it physically can't go in some positions after some others, for example. Or it will have the same period in rising and falling in all graphs from having close to the same initial energy but not orientation.

So it'll look neat - but it doesn't necessarily mean much.
I’ve found Inkscape to work very well for editing most PDFs in any way I’ve wanted to so far. If you just want to add or alter text the interface is reasonably simple while retaining the power to change mostly anything in the document, and in my experience it’s well supported and easy to set up on Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Most definitely. The b-tree implementation was the first motivation for starting the project. Especially, all the details around node rebalancing and splitting. And the fact that it was an on-disk structure, added another wrinkle to the thinking about the impl
That Musk success is luck is just beyond fucking stupid. Like at some point one has to be able to look beyond personal dislike. But I guess some people just can't get over that.

What you assert his success to is just complete nonsense. Like, i cant even fatherm how somebody can believe that crap.

Do you honestly 2 million Teslas will be sold this year and its all to cult followers and crypto bros? Do you have any clue how the car market work?

Currently the DoD, NASA and ESA relies on SpaceX. Literally the 2 of the 3 largest space agencies on relay on him. But I guess those are all crypto bros too.

You seriously sound about as deranged as the most pro-Musk crypyo bro.
>Most people end up saving TOO much for retirement

I have a bridge to sell to you.
The system wasn't even close to the Western one. On the opposite, it was raise of lawlessness and crime. Yes, people had connections, connections with mafia. Either for paying racket, or even participating in their business. It was extremely hard to be a fair player (western style) that time.
Mitigating serverless cold starts by predicting computational resource demand
Me and my bachelor thesis partner have developed a software artefact that is able to decrease the cold start duration for serverless functions.

To view the PDF report, click the filename below the "Open Access in DiVA" heading on the right side of the page.

Check it out!

Abstract [en]
Serverless functions have emerged as a prominent paradigm in software deployment, providing automated resource scaling, resulting in demand-based operational expenses. One of the most significant challenges associated with serverless functions is the cold start delay, preventing organisations with latency-critical web applications from adopting a serverless technology.

Existing research on the cold start problem primarily focuses on mitigating the delay by modifying and optimising serverless platform technologies. However, these solutions have predominantly yielded modest reductions in time delay. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to establish conditions and circumstances under which the cold start issue can be addressed through the type of approach presented in this study.

Through a design science research methodology, a software artefact named AdaptiveServerless Invocation Predictor (ASIP) was developed to mitigate the cold start issue through monitoring web application user traffic in real-time. Based on the user traffic, ASIP preemptively pre-initialises serverless functions likely to be invoked, to avoid cold start occurrences. ASIP was tested against a realistic workload generated by test participants.

Evaluation of ASIP was performed through analysing the reduction in time delay achieved and comparing this against existing cold start mitigation strategies. The results indicate that predicting serverless function invocations based on real-time traffic analysis is a viable approach, as a tangible reduction in response time was achieved. Conclusively, the cold start mitigation strategy assessed and presented in this study may not provide a sufficiently significant mitigation effect relative to the required implementation effort and operational expenses. However, the study has generated valuable insights regarding circumstantial factors concerning cold start mitigation. Consequently, this study provides a proof of concept for a more sophisticated version of the mitigation strategy developed in this study, with greater potential to provide a significant delay reduction without requiring substantial computational resources.
To compare, how is Chrome or Chromium's attention to Linux Desktop, in terms of features and fixes?
perhaps you aren’t familiar with the idea that Jews are the nefarious bankers

It’s likely that was at the heart of Ford’s statement
That's okay if you're just writing for yourself. But the next person reading your code might never have used traverse and won't get it.

Then this becomes a question of what sort of common language we should expect of programmers. That's always going to depend on context.

Here are some people trying and mostly failing to explain what 'traverse' does:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7460809/can-someone-expl...
My maternal grandfather was a pipe fitter for the railroad. He suffered many years from lung cancer. I remember when they brought in the hospital bed and oxygen tanks so he could suffer and die at home, with my grandmother always by his side.

My father worked in asbestos abatement projects, along with cleaning up other kinds of HAZMAT. I doubt that this is a mere coincidence.
It certainly solves the ethical debate, but sadly the data storage extortion is nothing more than a means to make you pay for your content multiple times.

I would support a political party that intends to change this, but I don't think any party I vote for actually cares about it.
Couldn't memoryless neural networks still possibly learn the Next-State function of a Finite-State machine? Depending on the training algorithm. Especially if the eventual usage of such networks is to be called over and over again to generate the next token; conceptually this to me seems analogous to the process of finitely unrolling a while loop or a computer pipeline.
Are you perhaps mis-applying how we say that photons carry the electromagnetic force?

If so, for now we believe that gravity is simply the result of the warping of spacetime, with no known carrying particle. That's kind of the hurdle between uniting gravity with the quantum world.

If say, it turns out that there is such a thing as a graviton - which carries gravity, then gravitational waves would be a bunch of gravitons.
That's seems to be completely missing validation. Typescript types are at their worst when they are lies, and the actual shape of the data is something completely different.
Visual Introduction to HAMTs (Hash Array Mapped Tries)
I'd expect a company like IKEA to have the expertise to create interfaces specific to their workflows so hallucinations aren't an issue.

Imo if you're making an open ended chat interface for a business, you're doing it wrong.
> your antipathy toward the Islamic conquests of Europe

While I'm certainly not a fan of them, I'm not particularly outraged about them either. Wars of naked conquest were simply the way back then, and the Islamic world was not exceptionally brutal compared to others, including Europe.

My antipathy is towards those that seek to erase or twist this history. I realize the main point is architectural influences, but that only makes the lie more insidious - a casual statement most won't pay much attention to, and simply assume it accurate, like the presence of kilts in Braveheart.
>The US economy had zero net inflation from 1800 to 1914. No death spiral.

I've heard that £1 was worth the same in 1914 as in 1614.
I'm experiencing the same thing in Firefox too.

Anyone knows why? I was thinking about giving Astro a try but this looks like a deal breaker
I really hate how people always try to put programming labels on brain activity

"This is a state machine", "this is a natural net", "it's running a coroutine", "it's garbage collection"...
As a Firefox and Linux user, I do see that problem.

Hardware video acceleration is fine now, and apparently has been for some time.

But e.g. Google Meet plainly refuses to blur the video call background when run on Firefox. It happily does that when running in Chromium.
The claim that he was managed by layers of people is simply false. Talk to any journalist who interacted with him. Musk has always been incredibly public and incredibly outspoken on anything he cared about.
Eh, kinda. It was more that they overextended themselves and could no longer defend their borders with their citizen-soldiery that expected to be home in time for harvest. Multiyear campaigns and distant conquest required a professional army. Because of that, Marius reformed the army to allow the proletarii in, pay them from the treasury and outfit them from state arsenals and armories. Prior to the reforms, soldiers were patricians and wealthy plebeians who could afford to outfit themselves with equipment and supplies.

The wealthy of Rome were not willing to pay for all of this, so the practice was for generals to pay their soldiers out of taxes and loot. Thus the legions became loyal to their generals instead of to the Republic, which essentially made them warlords. There were plenty of places left to conquer - Augustus would somewhat famously and disastrously try to conquer Germania east of the Rhine, Egypt was assimilated after Pompey's defeat, etc.
You can use unfetch.com to make API calls via LLMs and build automations. (I'm building it)
I think it's completely fine to be extremely skeptical of, and yes even outright mock, the idea that sitting for 6 hours a day does permanent, irreparable damage to the body until proven otherwise. It's also probably fine to be skeptical-bordering-on-mocking of people who use sources that sound authoritative to push something controversial. It's really hard to become a cardiologist. They know a great deal about a lot of things, but you know what they typically don't know anything about? Exercise. They're not physical therapists, they're not exercise physiologists, they don't have PhDs in kinesiology.

Sitting is bad for you, sure. But some random guy's random cardiologist friend likely knows less about exercise science than a $50/hr personal trainer at your local Gold's.
So they're unboxed in certain situations, but otherwise boxed.

With NaN-boxing you would do this for Int64s. They would need boxing when you need a single value, but you can have one or more tags for vectors of them, in which case the elements can be stored unboxed.

My argument is you would probably use FP64 more frequently than Int64s. For most common operations involving int, Int48 would suffice. In the cases where you need full Int64 (cryptography, serialization, etc), you commonly need vectors of Int64 anyway.
Did he somewhere defend KYC? I haven’t heard anyone who defends KYC except a bank teller and a scammy car salesman.
well, I have 2x the capacity of guys in office with the same hours...
> In an ideal world, the major stakeholders of the Linux desktop – KDE, GNOME, the various major distributions – would get together and seriously consider a plan of action. The best possible solution, in my view, would be to fork one of the major browser engines (or pick one and significantly invest in it), and modify this engine and tailor it specifically for the Linux desktop.

Is it really the best solution to create a fork?

Why not invest in people to directly work on Firefox?

The author even mentions a few paragraphs before that sentence that maintaining a browser is hard:

> The problem here is that making a capable browser is actually incredibly hard, as the browser has become a hugely capable platform all of its own. Undertaking the mammoth task of building a browser from scratch is not something a lot of people are interested in [...]

And who guarantees that the fork will further exist without weird funding?

EDIT: sorry, after reading my comment again, I think it sounds a bit snarky. English is not my native language, and I don't know how to phrase these questions better, so they don't sound that way.
To be fair, its still got plenty of warts on OS X too. After all this time, putting Firefox in full screen mode results in seriously wonky & intolerable behavior. Its the only app I have that shifts all its chrome (toolbars, tabs) when you bang the top of the screen. Compare this to Safari (only the menu shifts). No, hiding all of it is not the solution.
I use kubuntu as my daily driver for work for a little over 2 years now. I still run into daily issues that just make me not want to use it for my personal desktop os.

I fret Everytime I update, yet I must update due to work. but I have to schedule and plan those updates so that when the whole thing takes a shit, I can spend 2 or 3 hours fixing it. Just using the built in update utility, or apt upgrade, or really anything runs about a 10-20% chance of shit breaking. (I didn't do the math)

audio experience is terrible all around, and Bluetooth and wifi use out the box, is meh at best for range and stability.

I've tried a dozen distros to see if the grass is greener somewhere else, it isn't, and I have to work, I don't have an hour every day to fiddle, I have to bill clients.

good support is almost non existent, IF you get help, it's from some greater than thou righteous asshole who suggests you just rewrite the drivers yourself and create a pull request.

while I agree it is close, there is a still a LOT of 'polish' that needs to come where I will feel confident that hitting update doesn't ruin my day, and that when I'm done with a stress filled day of work, I'll be able to boot up and play my games without having to troubleshoot for an hour first.
Yeah because it doesn't really match with the state of the art.
Are exams all written online now? Were they okay with students googling answers and sharing them with each other, but getting customized answers from a robot is where they draw the line?
What is an office? I joke obviously but I don't really have an office to go into any longer, I still need to print things out from time to time, and taking a 20 minute drive to Staples is pretty suboptimal for something I can otherwise take care of for not much money or effort at home.
> But work hard on stupid things? No one cares and you'll be overlooked and even hated on at times.

You clearly have no experience in multinational corporations, this quality is enough, with a bit of luck (ie don't get fired by chance in some broad firing rounds, your direct manager is not psycho, your whole location is closed etc.) to get quite far.

Corps need people who are willing to wade through bureaucracy, cumbersome rules and processes, chase people across globe and tick checklists. Hard work can get all that done, no real brilliance needed. Also there are tons of stupid things that are required by various regulations and laws for example.

I mean of course within limits. You are not going to move 10 levels higher to c-suite just by working hard for 2 decades, but having non-trivial career jumps is not unheard of.
I think that assumption is wrong. For me I have had my printer since 2011 and have printed less than 4,000 pages. I often go months between print jobs. Sometimes I print, sometimes I scan, and sometimes I photocopy.
I thought the Fed only counted the carried balance. So folks who pay in full every month are not counted. I did a quick search but couldn't find anything definitive.
That's unfortunate. Sites used to not need JS to show static content.
... I thought I was one of the few Linux users left using Firefox. All of my coworkers are using Chromium.
This is exactly the same
I can’t really blame you, it’s a perfectly reasonable concatenation imo. Pretty sure I’ve at least rarely seen it over the years as well.

That said, he is correct that now “nix” is going to likely be popularly associated (especially with tech types that love excessive things) with the Nix language, package manager, and NixOS, which has really been gaining steam. Especially these past few years.

It was what I first thought of as well, given I use them.
Does it matter if it’s fair use if the copyright law can’t be enforced on a person by person basis?
Germany is debating whether to ban AfD as the party surges to 21% in the polls
I'm confused. If this is just a front-end for the OpenAI API then how does it remove the data privacy concern? Your data still ends up with Azure/OpenAI, right? It doesn't stay localized to your instance; it's not your GPU running the transformations. You have no way of knowing whether your data is being used to train models. If customer data is sensitive, I'm pretty sure running a 70B llama (or similar) on a bunch of A100s is the only way?
Languages that include Option, Promise, and Result other than Haskell beg to differ
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