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Not to speak ill in any way of your guys’ works, I really enjoy these books for their nostalgic qualities - both LaMothe, yours, as well as a few other ones like the RTS Game Programming (1997?) from one of the AoE developers. I have a physical collection of majority of the “greatest hits” from 90s and early/mid 2000s - mostly Engine/Graphics type stuff. It’s nice to read and see how people solved issues having fewer abstractions and layers than we do now, potentially solving things “on the fly” as it were, not really knowing the One True Way but making things work one step at a time all the same. In hindsight, these books were written at a time where hardware acceleration was taking off, so it adds to the nostalgia somewhat.

The most recent holy grail of a book for me has been Luna’s D3D11 tome. I haven’t kept up since.
Vscode is designed to fracture https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Jury nullification is a bug of the jury system (Which is that the jury can decide to convict or acquit anyone for any reason, be it principled, good, biased, or otherwise), but it's not one that can be patched over without other incredibly negative consequences.

Everyone is all for jury nullification until you get a few closet Klansmen on a jury 'nullifying' a dead-to-rights-guilty lynching trial.

Also, if I'm putting my life in the hands of 12 randos, I must be really, really, really 'down bad' (as the kids these days say).
we want to help developers who need either on-premise or permissive code assistant, copilot has neither of this. We also wanted to lower the barriers for self-hosting, so that the model is available on most GPUs with just 3GB Ram. Plus making the code completions fast and efficient (understanding entire context, not just the previous tokens).
I mean, I've never heard of the term either but the context of the title alone was enough for me to figure it out.
I think with or without algorithmic advantages hardware will improve for local model running. There’s an immense amount of capital being invested in hardware improvement and that will absolutely trickle down.

My sincere belief is that local models is the way of the future, with flexible base models adapted via Lora and context to specific use cases. I think open source models and techniques are inexorable at this point barring some sort of regulatory moat and will rival commercial models in all but extreme cases.
DSLs aren't a waste of time. But when you create a DSL, you limit the size of the community that will interact with it. So if you create a DSL, make sure that the benefit in expressiveness is worth the down-side of a smaller community.
> As frugivorous apes we got enough vitamin C from our diet that that mutation was a survival advantage. Synthesizing nutrients you can get from your diet is a waste of energy.

This is speculative and honestly not the simplest explanation. Deleterious mutations will happen in the absence of selective pressure, and there was no selective pressure.

You don't have to cast everything as evolution playing 4D chess. Sometimes genes just break, and not for good reasons.
Sounds like a good opportunity for a pull request!
Did I say anything about John Deere or about capitalism being flawless? Though there is a recent trend of companies selling things at a loss, game consoles are probably the biggest example, and planning on making it up in later sales and indeed while John Deere’s profit margins are up, they aren’t dramatically so as far as I can tell and it seems to have more to do with the general post pandemic trends. I totally support making it obvious when your buying vs renting vs acquiring a right of use to something though. I hate that for example I can click a button that says buy on Amazon and receive an ebook that I don’t in a practical sense own. My understanding of the John Deere, right to repair situation is that it’s similar.
In my experience all extensions will work & will be installable right from the in-app marketplace, provided that you follow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382473

There was a ticket somewhere in the issue tracker with more information about this topic.
"Boston Brahmin" doesn't capture any of the subtleties of caste, nor is it long lasting. The salience of that group lasted at most two centuties, and most Americans wouldn't immediately place someone named Ted Brinley in that group on hearing the name. Exogamy was rampant. The same things are not at all true of a Brahmin.
Pretty sure they use "open source" in a fair way here. Others are able to grab their sources and legally publish builds that are pretty much identical (up to the telemetry...).

What you're looking for is the "anti-features" distinctions, like the F-Droid store does it. E.g. "This app depends on other non-free apps." or "Promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service."
So, the author considers platform specification languages a waste of time, and has no idea what DSLs are (except that he knows about plartform specification languages)...

Yes, platform specification languages are a mess. Making them without the "language" part keeps all of the mess (the language is absolutely not the source of it). There are people trying to fix this, although I'm not sure if I'd place Pulumi on that group.

And DSLs are still a great software architecture technique with all kinds of applications.
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Of course; but that’s a pretty big leap. It is very unlikely that some non-Indian bigot decides to study up on castes and begin discriminating on their basis. On the other hand, it is a very short leap that someone who is Indian might. Thus, in reality Indians are much more likely to break this law.
It's the open enshitification model
Since attribution isn't possible in ChatGPT, we'll never know. It's a great way to avoid all IP claims via plausible deniability.

This topic has been beaten to death though, and it isn't changing. Companies have little incentive to have explainable AI since it would open them to infringement claims.
You can use it in practice, that was the goal of that particular model! It's fast, runs on your own hardware if you want it to.
That could also help tech giants build even larger/more capable models cheaply. Ideally there would be a hard ceiling of LLM capability that even massive amounts of hardware couldn't exceed, allowing inexpensive hardware to catch up.
The Block Center does high dose intravenous Vitamin C as part of their chemo+complementary regimen.
It’s actually worse. Why are we focusing on caste, which is very isolated, when class divide and class discrimination is a much worse problem. Probably because the upper class who would be adversely affected by any efforts to fix it are the ones in control of driving the agenda. We’re too focused on idealistic feel good politics and not focused enough issues that are affecting most of the nation
The key in that is models. Per the GPT4 leaked details, it’s not a a single model but 16 MOE mixture of experts. There’s probably quite a lot of complexity on the backend in sourcing the right model for the right query. In short, it’s probably better to focus on single models for specific tasks in the OS community as evidenced by Code Llama. Having a system like GPT4 is still difficult to replicate. Getting it to run on a consumer hardware for specific tasks like code gen at almost GPT4 level is doable.
Do you have any evidence to support this?

macOS @ M1 boot process looks similar to that of iOS devices: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secac71d5623/...

Under the assumption that SIP is not disabled, and computer doesn't have any 3rd party kernel extensions installed (both of which are safe to assume for most people), it's close to impossible to inject something in the boot chain.

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I think the best possible option might be to replace the keyboard with the one with a hardware keylogger, and record the actual password.
> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025

What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care system. What a tragedy and a blow to evidence based medicine.
Hundreds of academics call for 100% plant-based meals at UK universities
The bill is opposed by the Hindu American Foundation. They give their rationale for opposing the bill in:

https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAF...

They claim:

"We share the admirable goals of protecting civil rights and eliminating all forms of prejudice and discrimination, including based on caste. As such, the question is not whether we deal with allegations of caste discrimination, but how. If and when caste discrimination allegations emerge, they should be adjudicated under the existing protected class of ancestry, just as the state of
California did in California Department of Fair Employment Housing v. Cisco Systems, Inc."

In https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0jxQY_cLti2XP3nEw0d9OBa... they state:

"There is only one legal case on the issue of caste-discrimination in the United States to date. It involves an allegation of caste-based discrimination in the US."

and give some facts related to that case.

( from https://www.hinduamerican.org/press-statements )
> They have Modi, Sunak, Vivek is coming, and pretty much every executive team of every major tech company is dominated by people from the Indian subcontinent

I am curious if those people represent specific caste?..
> For the sake of not giving Microsoft and a few other tech giants immense power over the world

I agree with and appreciate the sentiment, but it feels way too late for that. These people do have and exert direct control over pretty much all of our digital devices. It's funny (or sad) that we only seem to care about this when shiny doodads like AI come around every so-often.
Having had a quick look through this workflow it seems to miss most opportunities to ensure a safe build.

- Downloads binaries for use in build with no hash/signing verification.

- Doesn't pin shared actions.

- Uses Yarn to install dependencies (which can involve downloading/executing arbitrary code from anywhere)

- Doesn't sign the final binary.

None of this is necessarily wrong, all would make maintenance harder in the long run, but it means this project is really about removing MS branding and some telemetry, and that there is a security trade-off to get those benefits.
There's this huge myth that people migrate for cultural reasons. To borrow some famous words, "it's the economy, stupid"
This reviews the details of the changes over time and has further links.
https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publ...

At either limit, the levels added to the environment from a single treatment of a farm will cause deposition higher than the limits.
I have linked the SEPA regulations for aquaculture
and a report for the modelling program (NewDEPOmod) used. On page 32 on the second link there are plots showing the observed and modelled concentrations, both of which are above the allowed limits.

https://www.sepa.org.uk/regulations/water/aquaculture/

https://www.sams.ac.uk/t4-media/sams/pdf/publications/REFINI...
> she received pushback even from fellow progressive Democrats. Newsom’s office would not say whether he supports the bill.

> In mid-July, about 250 people gathered at an events center in Fremont, an East Bay suburb in Wahab’s district, for “Caste Con,” a full day of programming against the bill… Fremont Mayor Lily Mei, who lost to Wahab in last year’s race for the local state Senate seat, was given a standing ovation when she was introduced.

It’s interesting to see politics swing side based on how it’s going to affect the votes they get.

In Newsom’s case I would think he wins on larger margins and does not have to worry about things like this.

For Lily, she has no choice, due to the demographic shift in the last 15 years for Fremont, it’s been primarily richer south East Asians. If she wants her reelection she has to support the Hindus.
Great, thanks. I'll keep an eye out.
Unless you oppose anti discrimination laws in general what possible reason could there be to not add caste to them? (not even a rhetorical there seem to be plenty of people who oppose this but I wasn't able to deduce their reasoning just from the article)
It indeed sounds like propaganda, Myanmar is China's ally in Asia, not something both the US and the UK like to see
The Statistics of Biodiversity Loss [2020 WWF Report]
I want to learn everything about LLMs from scratch. Best resources online?
I am an experienced Data Engineer (3 years experience). I am quite noob in LLMs and want to learn everything there is about them. The end goal that I have in mind is ability to read and understand any future research papers published on them and build and train my own LLMs. Can someone suggest me the best resources online to learn this knowledge in a structured way? Thanks!
Single-Electron Transistor
A single-electron transistor (SET) is a sensitive electronic device based on the Coulomb blockade effect. In this device the electrons flow through a tunnel junction between source/drain to a quantum dot (conductive island). Moreover, the electrical potential of the island can be tuned by a third electrode, known as the gate, which is capacitively coupled to the island. The conductive island is sandwiched between two tunnel junctions modeled by capacitors.
OC is arguing that Terraform is a suboptimal abstraction for infrastructure-as-code.

I have no dog in this fight. But I do have opinions about DSLs.

The declarative vs imperative, or some hybrid, debate is ongoing with build systems.

James Duncan Davidson, author of Ant build system for Java, famously wrote a post-mortem. Mostly wrt to choice of XML for Ant's syntax and semantics. TLDR: Wheels fall off a declarative model once imperative logic is added.

FWIW, Here's how I think about declarative DSLs. Such as a scenegraph.

You have an exquisite mental model for a scene. It's probably hierarchical.

You attempt to capture that mental model in code. The representation is probably a grove data structure. aka Directed Acyclic Graph where nodes can have key/value pairs for metadata.

You need to serialize that grove. So you pick a suitable syntax. Hopefully something that looks like VRML-97. Basically s-expressions (JSON without the syntactic vinegar), with some way to represent object prototyping (define/use), and don't forget identifiers ("id" field). Bonus points if you include path expressions in your syntax.

That (human readable) serialized grove is the declarative DSL.

In an future perfect world, your mental model, runtime representation, serialization format, AND the real world will be isomorphic.

Not isomorphic? Of course they're isomorphic. Why even mention it?

Funny you should ask.

In the Java world, dom4j for representing XML documents, and most of its progeny, is not isomorphic. Only JDOM2's class hierarchy design actually matches the serialization format. (As of the last time I checked, a few years ago.)

dom4j's mismatch, leaky abstraction, poor design, what have you, begat untold additional labor and heartache. Which is all completely mooted by JDOM2's correct design.

Ensuring correct isomorphism avoids errors in the same way that strong typing and garbage collection do.

To wrap this up...

In my experience, isomorphism is the exception.

I have no idea if Terraform is a good declarative DSL. But I do know that it should be isomorphic with the runtime representation AND the real world. And that should be settled before weaving in imperative functionality.
> Vitamin E is fat soluble, which means that you can definitely take too much

I think we're talking about different things here. You're talking about the risk of toxicity from taking high doses of fat-soluble vitamins. I'm talking about the risk of taking anti-inflammatory supplements / drugs generally (regardless of dose).

In general I agree with you on taking vitamins, however the reason I take a very low dose of Vit E is because I have a genetic predisposition to liver inflammation. Vit E is one of the few things which helps me reduce this inflammation which helps me mitigate against long-term damage, but reducing inflammation too much can increase risk of liver cancer, hence why I only take a low dose. This is also the reason patients with late-stage liver disease are typically not given Vit E because they're at a higher risk of developing liver cancer.

On taking Vitamins generally I think most people in the West would benefit from a high-quality low dose Vit D supplement. Something around 1,000 - 3,000 UIs daily is almost certainly safe and the majority of people would benefit. Higher doses are probably preferable in many cases, but you should be monitoring blood concentrations at that point to ensure you're not reaching toxic levels. Otherwise, yes, supplementing is silly unless you have a reason for it.

I hang out in a lot of liver health communities one of the most common reasons I find people have unexplained elevated liver enzymes is because they're taking low quality (often herbal) supplements.
IIRC there was a ticket somewhere in the issue tracker where someone explained in the comments how to get Pylance to work. Wasn't particularly difficult.
I propose "argumentum ab automato" for this type of fallacy.
Has california tried to ban discrimination against asian men?
Followup question, do we want to talk to whales, given what we're currently doing to the oceans?
These are interesting developments. We are seeing much interest in codec representations utilized in Generative AI applications. My specific exposure to EnCodec comes from MusicGen, and my initial response is that some combination of the perceptual tuning of the codec itself, or the chosen quantization seriously limits the perceptual audio quality of MusicGen outputs. I have yet to use EnCodec in isolation, but its utilization in MusicGen does not showcase a perceptually lossless codec.
Yeah in this case I think it's a bit of creative titling. It's "inoperable" in the sense "no one wanted to do it by hand"
Where is the fraud?
Depending on the actions his coworkers took when they were “offended”, you can have a discrimination case without actually losing your job.
Why don't you just come out and say that you want cast discrimination to exists instead of hiding behind all that rhetoric about colonialism?
This isn't the only solution to this problem. We shouldn't be jumping to this end immediately.
We stop calling the useful ones “DSLs” so this is a truism.

Is SQL a “waste of time?” Regular expressions, HTML, Makefiles, CSS (and CSS selectors aka jquery selectors)?

It’s the bad ones that are a waste of time. The ones still called “dsl” instead of just “language, “format,” or “syntax.”
Hey, I have a genuine question:

What is the point of a new model that isn’t better than the best possible model (example: OpenAI GPT-4)?

What’s the point in having a smaller model? Who cares?

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This is a real, genuine question that I don’t have a clear answer to. Excuse my ignorance, plz enlighten your boi.
"Permissive" usually refers to Free Software or Open Source licenses without copyleft requirements. OpenRAIL is a proprietary license because it imposes usage restrictions, contrary to both the Free Software and Open Source definitions.
Chinchilla predicts that you could get lower loss by training a larger model with that amount of data. But the model size in this case was chosen for other reasons, mostly speed of inference and cost of fine-tuning. So it's just irrelevant here.
There is a trade-off between mobility and ergonomics. For some people mobility is more important for various reasons.
As an outsider: perhaps there is some harm in producing laws for every specific situation and there should be some generic non-discrimination rule that should also cover this case.

For example, I would find it silly if there were specific laws against stealing bread, stealing a doughnut, stealing a flower, etc.
Unfortunately it does exist here, in Indian subculture. Workers are absolutely discriminated against by Indians of other castes.
Do you mean in India? If you don't mind can you tell me what years those were? I just want to see if I happen to live in a bubble or it was a different time (as in, sufficiently long ago for me to not see it).
> there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
It is bad. Only one species destroying ecosystem all other species, does not matter if only one species got benefit. Period.

Humans thinking, they own Earth and can do whatever they want even if it kills everything else can never be regarded as good.
Trusting "big companies" because we presume they have guard rails seems like a bad idea, it is how we got the solar winds supply chain attack.

When I worked for one of the largest voting machine companies I was astounded how the final build process for the software was done just before it was sent to the customer. It was built on a Jenkins server that several people had access to change and update with minimal oversight and the devops person had freedom to do anything to with no oversight. For the year I worked there this one man could have changed dozens of elections if he chose to and figuring it out would have been very hard. I am sure a large enough investigation could could have figured out such a thing, but by then the damage would already be done. If he changed only municipal elections that couldn't affors such an investigation it might never have been done. I have no reason to claim this happened, but we certainly can't prove it didn't and this is in one of the most paranoid and regulated spaces in software development.
It's not really clear what their actual problem is. There are two points being mentioned, collecting phone numbers (which is false, can be done without), and a misunderstanding of the whole protecting consumers motivation.
I broadly agree with the lots-of-pitfalls nature, but regarding the enum case specifically, which version of C++ are you talking about, and in what syntactic context? The later-introduced “enum class” makes things somewhat tighter than C-style enums.
You mean those extensions can still be downloaded for older-Gnome users?

Kinda pointless, really. Disclaimer: if it means Gnome 45+ users can download both legacy & ported extensions (and use them on Gnome 45+), then I didn't write this.

But if I read correctly, upgrading Gnome to v45+ will break older extensions. So users will have to pick from those that are ported (not all). Or distro's will make an effort to port some that are popular / relied upon (again: not all).

So one way or the other, that means enduser functionality is reduced as a result of 'upgrading' Gnome.

That is stupid. At least support older & new for a while to ease the pain for endusers. Or even through a system-wide setting (use all older, or all newer extensions).
Yes. Below is the first live example of possible AI SEO bait I have seen, sent to me unbeknownst by an investor friend (visit at your own risk):

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The paraphrase may be done by hand but my (naïf) sense it is not. You judge. The copy goes:

(Bloomberg) — Corewave, a cloud computing provider that is becoming one of the hottest startups in the artificial intelligence race, is exploring a minority stake sale that could value the company at $8, according to people with knowledge of the matter. billion or more. Case.

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