skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That was never an issue with iOS.

I'm pretty sure it was an issue before iOS 6.

>> there are still plenty of things you wouldn't want to provide apps access to that they get outside of your control.

> Such ss?

Well, sandbox escapes have already been talked about. But, I also believe accelerometer data isn't gated. Any app can talk to the Internet. But, I don't have a modern iPhone to corroborate that info.
Sometimes. Usually no. You can't even develop on the wrong mac - one that's too old for instance. It won't install the modern tools, which are supported on the latest versions.
This is the reality of every cellular provider. Everyone has a cell phone so growth is almost nonexistent. I worked at Verizon and they were claiming this over 8 years ago, trying to pivot, and failing big.
It's always politics. China has numerous nuclear power facilities alone the coastline releasing wastewater at a comparable, if not higher, radiation profile. And they always spin the point that the Fukushima has been in contact with the reactor core, but China's hasn't.

That being said, I am still travelling to Japan and enjoying their 'radioactive' seafood.
> Brominated flame retardants — the class of compounds that includes PBDEs and these new compounds — were first developed in the 1970s to prevent burning in household electronics and appliances.

While the article doesn't say explicitly, I'm guessing that these flame retardants are there to make plastic components behave less like accelerants in the case of fire. Would moving away from plastic and to more wood, metal, and glass be a solution in some cases? In addition to being less flammable (except for wood), these materials are much less nasty than plastics if they end up getting dumped in the environment.
China still allows street vendors to use gutter oil, so I’m not sure they’ve got their priorities straight.
I thought there were specific assembly instructions for this kind of thing, such as MAXSS in x86 [1], plus vector variants like SSE4 PMAXSD. Presumably it's possible the CPU can handle those with special branchless logic, depending on the compiler and CPU implementation. I guess you'd have to know about the CPU internals to know if the instruction is truly branchless, but it is branchless in the sense there is no conditional jump made in the assembly instructions.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40196817/what-is-the-ins...
Maybe, yes. Lose that piece of paper and you forfeit your right to enter that concert...

...but lose that piece of paper and you haven't also forfeited your right to access your hotel room, to catch the plane back home, to pay for your parking space where you left your car, to take public transport, to enter your gym...
Oh yay. Infinite captcha
There is the Simple Haskell initiative, which encourages what you're talking about, but no flag or pragma that says "this project uses simple Haskell". Obviously, simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. Fancy type features do have their use cases where they make types more expressive, the code safer and even simpler, so long as you've internalised how they work.
> And I don’t have to buy a new one for several $100 every few years.

You are free to go on Amazon and buy an unlocked cheap Android phone for $30.
Ummm, excuse me, but where the f&$k has this been hiding? I’ve been looking for ways to extend my go applications with scripting support. I started with Lua (worked ) then Python (worked but hacky) then javascript using otto [1]. However it lacks ES6 support so having pretty OOP js code is a non-starter. I would love to have Java as a runtime that can be executed from goroutines.

[1] https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto
I think, one issue is that Series had been hacked on since that paper, which had not been updated.

Anyway, I guess series::let is an unexported symbol? I.e. not series:let? There is a good reason for that.

If series:let were exported, then you would get a clash condition by doing (:use :cl :series). The CL package system detects and flags ambiguous situations in which different symbols would become visible under the same name. You would need to a shadowing import for all the clashing symbols.

It's probably a bad idea for any package to export symbols that have the same names as CL symbols. Other people say that using :use (other than for the CL package) is a bad idea. Either way, if you have clashing symbols, whether exported or not, you're going to be importing them individually if you also use CL, which is often the case.
Data Visualization with D3.js and PicoLisp (2022)
But it won't stop there. Why would it stop at some arbitrarily defined boundary? The savings associated with no longer having to pay programmers the amounts of money that they believe they are worth (high enough to result in collusion between employers) are just too tempting.
> These are very different economic constraints and therefore require different solutions.

This is often listed as the reason why it’s ok for human to learn from a prior art, but not for a LLM. The question is why? If the act of learning is stealing, then it is still stealing, no matter how small scale, and every single human on earth has committed it.

The LLM vendor may benefit more than a mere mortal pupil because of the scale and reach. At the same time the LLM may make the prior art more visible and popular and may benefit the original creator more, even if only indirectly.

Also if content creators are entitled to some financial reward by LLM vendors, it is only appropriate that the creators should pay back to those that they learn from, and so on. I fail to see how such a scheme can be set up.
Epic’s new program lets developers keep revenue in exchange for exclusivity
This sounds like AT&T and Verizon, too.
Some years ago I really enjoyed Sparkfun’s Inventor’s Kit, which is Arduino-based and has a good starting supply of components and some fun projects.
Alienware releasing an AMD FreeSync Premium version of its 500Hz gaming monitor
Lol no, they arrested a lot of people for this.
Indeed. Whereas JavaScript and Python even allow a trailing comma in function parameters:

function foo(x,) {}

def foo(x,): pass

Before anyone questions why anyone would do this, it's for putting arguments (or array elements) on separate lines:

function foo(
a,
b,
c,
) {}
I suspect having a database of legislation and case law, and a good vector database, then feeding relevant context into a language model with a large context window will work best.
None of the controversy is about the radiation

China: We don't like Japan. Thanks for providing us cover for further sanctions.

Fisherman: This is going to hurt us because of China's reaction.

News media: Wow - look at all this controversy. Very newsworthy.
cool story bro. You must be wealthy
Show HN: Generate memorable passwords using AI
You're correct re: Apple Watch O2 sensor: it takes 15 seconds to generate a result AFTER you tap the icon. No continuous sensing. True, you can repeat the sequence ad infinitum but not only does that get old fast, but it also yields simply a graph of results reported every 15 seconds with inadvertent movement artifact hardwired in as opposed to a continuous trace.
But why not test? If we don't expect compatibility to break, then it will be little extra effort surely?
I let mine generate whatever it likes, then add a comment below such as "# Refactor the above to foo.."
Works fairly well at times.
that's still less secure, though. without a TPM you have no guarantee of the underlying state of firmware on the device. this enables a persistent backdoor.

TPM with no PIN is practically bitlocker with no password. A high entropy PIN happens to solve this entire attack.
There's an instruct model in there, you can definitely use it for this, that's one of the objectives.

An instruct model means that you can ask it to do what you want, including asking it to give you refactoring ideas from the code you will give it.
SourceGraph Cody is going in that direction, as is Copilot Chat. But it's still early days. I don't think there's anything robust here yet.
The article didn't discuss what exactly was still in the water being released. Presumably mostly cesium and strontium, along with some of the longer-lived fission products. How effectively can these elements be filtered from the "treated" water, or are they mostly relying on dilution?
Meh.

If you're using it commercially you're probably deploying it on a server where you're not limited by the 24GB and you can just run llama 2 70b.

The majority of people who want to run it locally on 24GB either want roleplay (so non commercial) or code (you have codellama)
We have the tools, but QR code menus override the most basic tool – keeping my phone in my pocket. When I have to take my phone out and haven't pre-planned by switching to DND, I'm likely to see notifications.

It's like complaining that the sun is too bright after deciding to stay indoors and consequently not bringing a hat, but then being forced to go outside.
Or it could be called "censoring critics via coercion"
Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
> Our joint endeavor has resulted in 46% (12.6 steps/s vs. 8.6 steps/s) speedup compared to stock PyTorch.

How about jax
I was tasked with a massive project over the last month and I'm not sure I could have done it as fast as I have without Cursor. Also check out the Warp terminal replacement. Together it's a winning combo!
> What are the actual downsides?

Surveillance. For those of us who still care, that is.
I like to try and guess people's ages. In real life, or on video, where their personalities influence my guess, I'm much worse than when looking at a still image.

With a still image often the quality of a person's skin is the only giveaway, and when that is the case I'm remarkably accurate most of the time. So I'm skeptical there's much one can do, and people's skin seems to age at roughly the same rate.
Well, problem solved then.
Looks like they aren't releasing a pretty interesting model too. In the paper they mention a "Unnatural Code Llama" which wipes the floor with every other model/finetune on every benchmark except for slightly losing to Code Llama Python on MBPP pass@100 and slightly losing to GPT-4 on HumanEval pass@1 which is insane.

Meta says later on that they aren't releasing it and give no explanation. I wonder why given how incredible it seems to be.
The error messages were the first thing that really impressed me, and not only have they improved a lot over the years but clippy is a thing to add even more guidance to writing better code. Really impressive stuff.
Beeper vs. Texts – Which one would you choose?
https://imgur.com/3bLoYgn

1985: Windows 1.0 - Gaudy colors, boxy design. Apps can either run as a small tile or fullscreen. no freely resizeable/movable windows.

1986-2011: A quarter century of fumbling around with UI design.

2012: Windows 8 (Metro UI) - Gaudy colors, boxy design. Apps can either run as a small tile or fullscreen. no freely resizeable/movable windows.
> filter job offerings based on social utility rather than language stacks

Any pointers on how to do this? A person that close to me is thinking about entering the High Frequency Trading world, and I would like to give them some alternatives.
So, what's the value of the economic activity enabled per minute?
Why wouldn’t they provide a hosted version? Seems like a no brainer… they have the money, the hardware, the bandwidth, the people to build support for it, and they could design the experience and gather more learning data about usage in the initial stages, while putting a dent in ChatGPT commercial prospects, and all while still letting others host and use it elsewhere. I don’t get it. Maybe it was just the fastest option?
Thanks so much for this recommendation, I've wanted something similar to this on Windows after falling in love with Spotlight on Mac, and the built-in Windows search function is just awful.
Gradle can be quite good, but it's also really easy to make a completely unmaintainable Gradle file.
And once these devices become required for participation in society, is the government going to issue free phones and watches to everyone who can't afford them, or are they going to become yet another burden suffered disproportionately by the poor, just like car ownership?
> total parts cost of under £20 or $25

Yet the link to have a board made is $99 for just the board.

Would love to team up with folks interested in snagging one of these... maybe we could do a group buy somewhere?
> also improve the user experience

It doesn't. Most users don't actually notice.
You might be interested in https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/computing-accurat...

Disclaimer: I work there/built the TypeScript implementation of the library
To a certain extent, I think it's just IBM disease. A company the size of Meta is expected to have an AI research department like Microsoft or Google, even if their core business (social media) derives relatively less benefit from the technology.

Pretend you're an uncreative PM on an AI team; what part of Facebook or VR could you feasibly improve by iterating on LLMs? Perhaps the content moderation system... but that would require wrangling with the company ethics comittee and someone else at the company probably already took ownership that idea. You've gotta do something compelling or else your ML engineers are going to run off somewhere else.

If I were to ask my ML engineers about what they wanted to work on, they're going to avoid areas where their model is outgunned (i.e.: chat) and instead prefer lower hanging fruit which generalizes well on a resume (i.e.: "Pioneered and published key innovations in LLM code-generation").

Of course, the alternative answer is that Meta wants to replace all of their jr. developers with GPUs, but I think their leadership is a little too preoccupied with VR to be actively pushing for such a transformative initiative in anything more than a very uninvested capacity (e.g.: "Sure I'll greenlight this. Even if it doesn't pay off I don't have any better ideas")
It's just a matter of time that Microsoft will integrate it into VSCode.
In times like these Facebook/Zuck probably wonders how things would have turned out had they not killed Parse.

Had they continued with it, they'd have likely had some semblance of a public cloud today and would be able to sell these models.
I see the need for gas for driving somewhere or money to pay something. But I don't see the need for a phone when I want to pay for entering a museum (or a plane for that matter)
In Java, it's src array, src offset, dest array, dest offset, length. It's a natural order of from, to.

It's C memcpy() that's the odd one out by putting the destination before the source.
It is pronounced differently to the English "Turkey". For once, it has three syllables. Anatolia is the name of the large peninsula encapsulating most of Turkey, not the country itself.
I would add that having open source gen AI will enable the creation of content for metaverse / AR / VR, which will improve the chances that all of that will take off.
I just do it in the car or whatever so it's more like a quick scan and enter once you're there.

Taken to the extreme, you have membership based check ins like Clear at airports or the Amazon grocery store stuff or any gym that scans your barcode when you go in.

I don't think it's fair to say it's only for the company's benefit. On my own device, autofilling saved info, I'm often faster than the person behind the desk.
> Why should the world bend to your desires?

Why should the world bend to your desires?

Why should we accept a smartphone-dependent society ? Because it pleases you or because this is imposed by the top and you just accept it, then find all the other just being morons ? :)
> I capture only a fraction of the value I generate for my employer.

I think this is a misunderstanding of how companies perceive value. You could be making your company a billion dollars a year, but if any schmuck off the street could do the same you're not actually providing much value at all. Your value is the difference between what you provide and what a similar replacement worker would provide.
Is there a reason why an LLM can't learn these nuances the same as a human?
As if by magic... https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-13B-fp16. Empty so still uploading right now, at a guess.
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similar to what we have had in the UK for a good while too, there is one with a sad limp looking cigarette and SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCE which I find very effective, more so than the ones of tumours even.
Ah, but anecdotes don't mean reality:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/ookla-starlinks-...

Starlink's median download speeds in the US dropped from 90.6Mbps to 62.5Mbps between the first and second quarters of 2022, according to Ookla speed tests.

Satellite broadband has been able to hit 200Mbps to a single terminal for over a decade, but it makes no business sense to do that. This is why Starlink speeds are slowly degrading to where legacy satellite companies are. So having an anecdote from 4 years ago where the first Starlink terminals hit those speeds has really no basis in reality today as the system fills up.
Would you prefer "loses over $100m a year, and has yet to make a profit" instead?
agree soon everyone will use sdxl to generate high resolution images instead of the old models
People are right to be cautious, skeptical, and conservative.

There's little upside to accepting some technocrat's "Just trust me bro! I know what's good you for!" sales pitch, and there's unknown, potentially unlimited downsides. The people prepping your avocado toast and sanitizing your wastewater have bigger priorities than learning about all the details and dangers of all of today's novel technologies, nuclear or otherwise, and you haven't earned their trust, so they're understandably not going to risk theirs or their family's lives.

That's my rant in the general case of techno- and nuclear- skepticism. In this particular case, it's simply a political move by China.
Mysterious Malware Uses Wi-Fi Scanning to Get Location of Infected Device
How Consumer reports destroyed Suzuki on North America
There's maybe 3 fantastic indie games per year and millions of garbage ones. It's also full of clones of the popular games that aren't quite as good or downright terrible. The reason indie games seem to be better is the massive work other people have put in to actually find the good ones in a sea of crap, and most "indie" games that are popular are borderline mainstream production companies.
This is a good point that revenge porn has been a thing, and harassment - with no need for these tools. And we are going to see more creative and probably more damaging uses of the new tools. I can see in particular people getting fired before any thought is put in trying to authenticate a bunch of images or a video.
Actors can trademark their likeness and defamation is already a thing. If you try to sell art or photography of other people there is already settled law relating to that as well.

AI just makes these disputes more common as the barrier to creating unauthorized works is lowered.
Something I bring up every time this comes up, because it remains true: requiring the use of an app that's only in the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store means you're implicitly requiring everyone to agree to either Google's or Apple's terms of service. Don't want to, or got your account terminated for some inscrutable reason? Well I guess you're not buying tickets/parking your car/renting a bike then!
It's clearly written in the Onion's style.

This is the guy who wrote the "dread pirate Bezos" post about AWS right? Glad I found his blog again (now on Medium).
I'm not the author, but I have contributed a few things to the project over the past year. The performance isn't anywhere close to the vanilla JVM - several times slower at best. It is entirely interpreted and there aren't any of the optimizations that have made their way into the JVM over the decades it has been around.

It has been a fun project to play around with for someone like me who thinks this kind of stuff is fun and interesting but will probably never get a chance to work on it full time. Cool to see it noticed, though!
Never work for a company which is large enough for you to be a statistical acceptable loss.
While they're incentivizing me to learn the ropes and be more
efficient, I'm secretly incentivizing them either to respect my
privacy by accepting cash payments or to compensate me with a discount
for giving up some of my personal information. I wonder which of us
will learn the ropes sooner.

On a more general note, I prefer to tell people that I'm too old for
newfangled stuff like smartphones, because I prefer the reaction of
condescending reassurance to the alternative of hostility evoked by
saying I've made an informed decision not to own one.
Have you had a look at Starlark? Its a python-like scripting language built specifically for embedding into applications. Originally it was written in Java to be used in Bazel but its been re-implemented in go and rust and has found use in a bunch of other places.

https://github.com/google/starlark-go
The other big part of this press release is the local availability of Mojo:

We are also excited to announce the next major step forward for Mojo – the ability to download Mojo and a whole developer toolset locally to your desktop machine. The ability to run Mojo locally is the most requested feature from Mojo developers so far and will lead to increased innovation and collaboration in the Mojo developer ecosystem. We are shipping a preview of the Mojo SDK to hundreds of early adopters today, and we will release it generally to everyone in early September. Sign up to download [0].

[0] https://www.modular.com/
This is very naive.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

- Matthew 10:16
The rate of transmission fell 11% for each booster........ Great. So basically 90% of transmission were still going on. So all you have to explain is a 11% fall over a decently large span of time, during which most transmission of covid were still happening.

Sounds like a clear example of natural immunity building due to the vaccinated crowd still transmitting anyway.

This stuff is getting comical.

Your second graph.. "cases OR deaths". Quality science.
I had to stop using Verizon because their fantastically incompetent management start pushing merging "Fios" and "phone accounts" together.

Except my phone was on my parent's plan (since single people get scammed by the carriers) and my home internet was my own fios subscription. It kept trying to merge my personal home plan, located 300 miles from my parents home into my parents cellular plan account.
Their Git LFS based hosting is used by a lot of AI tools. Huggingface level data storage and transfer would also be VERY costly to accomplish for a small party. Some of these models are several gigabytes in size and downloaded hundreds or thousands of time per day.

What they do isn't too hard to replicate, but the price for which they do it is impossible to compete with.
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Plastic, because its so cheap is pervasive in society. I think that it will be seen as archaic and unthinkable in 100 years for how much we use plastic. Some plastics made out of plant fibers or something might be better. But there are so many things that just being made out of metal, wood, rubber or glass it would be a health improvement.
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