skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess on "why optimization problems?": You can do self-play like AlphaZero against NP hard problems; easy to generate problems, easy to verify solutions, and they will be probably be feeding the best meta-prompts and best solutions back into the fine-tuning once it's genericized enough to not be fine-tuning directly on the non-public benchmarks themselves.

They also are trying to figure out what properties of prompts actually yield performance improvement/capabilities since that's still an open question. So far it's been highly subjective and qualitative and they've begun to systematize (via ablation) the effect of prompt structure.

My guess is that the ultimate goal for this project is another meta-level or two that can lead directly to relatively stable goal-oriented self-improvement when the LLMs reach human-level ML engineering ability.
What was the surprise bill of $100 for?

My god, at that rate you might as well just hire a private accountant.
The issue is that data disks and system disks get conflated. For the system disk (anything outside of /home) you generally only care about signing - which FDE does as a side-effect. Each user should have their own disk/partition/subvolume with a distinct key that is retrieved from the PAM.

This achieves two things: I know that I am typing my password into the OS that I or a trusted third party compiled (not one planted by a hacker), and my home directory gets decrypted as part of my normal login routine.
I can see them using it in a purely creative context, like generating a bunch of cards and then looking for novel and interesting cards you wouldn't have otherwise though of. But designing cards is fun for a human to do and not terribly hard, so I don't think we'll see entire sets generated by AI, or even an entire card generated by AI that a human doesn't go back and balance numbers on or fine tune a mechanic.
I dunno man, stuff like google collab is ubiquitous for students these days. I asked about building a pc on the AI/ML subs on reddit and people basically and the default advice was that few did that these days, and they're right, compute prices have been really low until recently even if you decided to go with premium offerings.
> Housewives are an inconvenient, varyingly expensive, politically incorrect solution to millennial burnout.

I think it was the non-PC part that got this flagged.

Personally, I prefer the term "homemaker", because that's a good description of the _job_.

Taking care of a home and a family is work. Sometimes, both adults have to be employed to pay for the bare necessities. Often, they don't -- they choose to, so they can have a more luxurious lifestyle. It's a _choice_. And not all of the consequences are good:

> Now, the home is a complicated site of production and consumption. Consumption - largely of food, but also of things like entertainment - has to be arranged, as most of the consumables are not produced on the premises.

The mention of entertainment struck me, because I've seen how rare it is for families to play games together -- child siblings might play video games together, but the adults rarely join in. The "family time" is passively watching something on a screen, and even that has been reduced now that each person has their own personal screen.

More than anything, I think folks should take away from the article that there's no shame in choosing to take care of the home and family. Even if you and your family don't want to do it, don't treat it as weird or creepy when another family does.
TL;dr:

Writing blog posts hyperbolically gets clicks, be it about climate change or climate change bloggers (the subject of this post)
I tried it with symengine as a GHC(Haskell) Type checker plugin. But it was just too limited to be worthwhile.
Tldr; aim to be the exception!
I'm doing basically the same thing in Java for an MMO and the JDK makes it so easy. Just move objects via concurrent queues from network to model creation to UI threads. It's actually quite boring, and fast!
Yeah, except this did not change in the '80s and '90s.

Also obesity and wealth are typically inversely correlated within developed countries.

There's more to the story.
My argument isn't that the TPM provides bulletproof security equivalent to a strong FDE passphrase, but that the TPM allows effortless, passwordless FDE with reasonable levels of security to users who otherwise wouldn't use FDE at all.
I will check this out. I currently use the excellent ToonSquid, but I really like Procreate for drawing.

ToonSquid does a really cool thing where their flashy marketing video turns out to be a demo project in the app you can look at and edit. Really good for getting underway quickly.
Trying to solve the problem by frequently invoking signal handlers will also show in your latency distribution!

I guess if someone wants to use futures as if they were goroutines then it's not a bug, but this sort of presupposes that an opinionated runtime is already shooting signals at itself. Fundamentally the language gives you a primitive for switching execution between one context and another, and the premise of the program is probably that execution will switch back pretty quickly from work related to any single task.

I read the blog about this situation at https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption which is equally baffling. The described problem cannot even happen in the "runtime" I'm currently using because io_uring won't just completely stop responding to other kinds of sqe's and only give you responses to a multishot accept when a lot of connections are coming in. I strongly suspect equivalent results are achievable with epoll.
Unless I'm missing something, this article claims without evidence that the primary reason is malaria affecting poorer regions of the world.

It's surprising that there's no mention of quick mutation of the virus, people have been trying to make vaccines for a few centuries now.

Coincidentally, this is also the reason we went from COVID vaccines "eradicating COVID" to just "slowing the spread".

Science is hard, even without social issues potentially being a compounding factor.
I'm a bit sad of myself that I am much more comfortable in written communication than speech communication.
Charlie Stross had an essay about that ten years ago. (I wanted to submit it to HN for a few month now, so thanks for the reminder.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37438398
Thanks all. When I reload the page that new entry is showing up for me now too.

Guessing they're using a CDN or something and I just got an old version of the site first time around. :smile:
Are you implying that SpaceX purposefully failed in order to give the FCC something to critique?
You find this "Women don't have this problem! They can have a relationship whenever they want" sentiment in so many conversations on Hacker News, and it's so unempathetic.

The premise is not true for many women. And even if it were, it's not necessarily any easier to get attention from someone you are interested in yourself. And women have to deal with social anxiety, fears of making themselves vulnerable, self-confidence, body image, etc. around pursuing or initiating relationships just as anyone.

I think this is based in people misreading dating app metrics or something, and completely neglects trying to imagine what life is like for the person.
> why does app store have ads

Because it's useful.

It helps users discover apps that the developer believes is relevant to that keyword.

I can't think of a better mechanism for doing this without an auction style system.
I had an internship at Fog Creek and would add that it was probably the most friendly and harmonious place I worked, which made it very reality-show-incompatible (and very 21-year-old-me incompatible, I wasn't asked back lol). Certainly the representation of you as an asshole was ridiculous IMO.

(Since you're answering arbitrary Fog Creek questions) In retrospect, do you think it was a mistake to make kiln hg-centric at first?
> People can be indoctrinated into science, I suppose, but more often it's something rational minds arrive at.

Come on. That's myth that beggars belief. Did you somehow independently arrive at science by yourself as a rational mind? Of course not. It's a set of values and habits of mind that you absorbed and where explicitly taught from childhood (e.g. were indoctrinated into).

> A rational adherence to science isn't a worship of "gods" it's the understanding that it's a rational approach to gaining knowledge and understanding the universe.

And religion is (frequently) the understanding that gods should be worshiped in a certain way, which is also totally rational within that understanding.

> 'gods' don't enter into it unless they are the subject of a hypothesis/theory/experiment.

You're taking my statement too literally.

It's very hard to get out of one's own mindset to see it for what it is .
So like... only a portion of women. How is this any different from men? Again, this doesn't at all explain why this is so heavily heterosexual male skewed. It's not like a significant portion of women are hot 20somethings-- if anything, the proportion is skewed older compared to men simply because women live longer. I bet grandma would spend hella social security to be doted on by a hot shirtless lawyer.
>From what I understand, the C64 product requires one to use BASIC to kick something off, just like everyone does for the disk drives.

Yes, this is what I was alluding to. I know it's no big deal to type `LOAD "*",8,1` or whatever to start the FujiNet main menu, but there is still a qualitative difference between that and being able to turn the Atari 8-bit on and have the functionality automatically be available. That's possible on C64, too, but not if the hardware is connected only via the Commodore serial port; it would require the cartridge port, or a ROM change. As mentioned, I am also unsure of how the throughput would compare.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the lack of functionality with telecom software. Commodore modems don't connect to the serial port, so terminal emulators and such won't work out of the box with FujiNet the way they can on Atari.
If a drop-in replacement isn't almost assuredly 1:1 compatible then _what the heck is it_? The nodejs compat page for Bun notes that base64 encoding is still incomplete. Where do you draw the line?
A quick search didn't suggest they've ever raised VC funding. A 2019 interview[1] says they'd never (at that time) taken any.

[1] https://thedesignest.net/interview-james-cuda-procreate/
> very little of it is desirable attention

that doesn't contradict what he said - just that the "undesirable" attention is still more desirable than an AI boyfriend could offer. Whereas an AI girlfriend can tautologically offer more desirable attention than the zero attention a significant percentage of men are able to achieve.
Alternating Updates for Transformers
You can look at the data on NDE. The aware studies are interesting. Then there's remote viewing and CIA notes on those things that point to interesting research.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...

And the missing page in the above doc:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e4g3/found-page-25-of-the-...

Going out of body is fairly easy to do as well.
As a Zig programmer I also get to enjoy this, but from the angle of language implementors not caring about type theory
okay, and Librewolf is a fork of Firefox. even if I was worried, I'm not exactly reassured that Librewolf would be peachy if Mozilla got hit hard by something.

I'd rather Google does pull that trigger so we can get some anti-trust going. They've been overdue for years on that front.
Musk says he limited Ukraine’s Starlink to prevent attack on Russia
Do the DRM schemes interact with HDCP at the hardware level? I know HDCP is necessary, but my understanding has always been that the decrypted video data is always available to the OS (at the kernel level) and the "requirement" of it being outputted only to an HDCP-enabled sink was purely done in software through layers of obfuscation?
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness/But it's better than drinkin' alone

I’m cautiously optimistic. We are currently living through a crisis of loneliness. People have fewer and fewer friends. My opinion is that human friends are obviously far better, but if done right an AI “buddy” has the potential to be ok.
Another thing which has only just started working for me on wayland is "flameshot" for screen grabs -- very handy.
IPv6 Extension headers are a nightmare. There are likely lots of bugs lurking in lots of places due to extension headers stacked in unusual ways. A lot of hardware and drivers simply give up on packets with more than a single extension header for this reason.
Well, none that I've seen. Some of them make perfect sense (e.g., image processing libraries, etc), while others show up as recursive dependencies.

In my experience, people don't write up lists of dependencies, especially since some are recursive. Instead, they look at the available tools and libraries, determining which are useful for their purposes.

I'm not picking on Emacs (though its earlier icon as an overflowing kitchen sink gives a clue). This is a phenomenon of lots of software. If I want to use Asciidoctor-pdf, I must install Ruby, for example. The very fact that we have a wide variety of tools, languages, and libraries guarantees this sort of explosion. I'm as guilty as anyone of this, as my preferred language is Scheme. So if you want my programs, you have to install a compatible Scheme system.

My real point here is that, given our understanding of dependencies, this sort of explosion is inevitable. So if I had a perfect, svelte Linux system, it would start picking up cruft almost from the moment it was created. That's just where we're at.
How is this a “just”? This is illegal in many places and costs money. And you have to get out of your home and risk exposing the fact that you are doing tAbOo stuff.

> I am just struggling to see the draw to an AI chat bot knowing it is just fake.

Unlike
That's awesome man. I've heard some really positive things about Ozempic.

Have you had any side effects?

Also if you could have lost the weight with diet and exercise, do you think you would have still wanted the drug knowing what you know now? I suppose there is a risk here that people will turn to the drug instead of sorting diet / amount of exercise. I think an argument could be made that now we have the drugs we "over prescribe" drugs like SSRIs and stimulants because it's often easier to "fix" the symptoms with drugs rather than address the root cause.
I lol'ed pretty hard when I read the appendix. What an amateur job. All this time I was sure someone thought of the possibility of attaching a logic analyzer, or an $80 FPGA, to one of the pins.
> In a previous statement, a spokesperson said [BNSF] “does not retaliate against employees.”

Oh! Well then, case closed
Some say "bureaucracy" some say "balance of priorities between the environment, local residents, and private enterprise". Elon's envisioned a dozen+ starship launches per day -- there are tens of thousands of people (and a wildlife refuge) near the Boca Chica site that rightly have a say in whether that's a good idea.
Administrative law "judges" are unconstitutional.
Every psychiatric drug I take contributes to weight gain.

And my doc gets so disappointed when I refuse/quit a drug because of shitty side effects like that.

Now she's all up in my grill about HBP and obesity, well girl, what did you really expect now?
I find that there's no use case for a constexpr std::string. Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough. If I want a string literal constant, I use string_view which can be constexpr. If somehow I need an actual std::string object, I use a regular const not constexpr. What would be a use case that prompts the author to explore using constexpr with std::string?
Would love to see a study comparing taking ozempic to a (healthy) ketogenic intermittent fasting diet with no change in exercise.
That wasn't a telemetry service.

It was the service that validates the application certificates which is fundamental to the security of the platform.
What exactly is unethical about any of the industries you enumerated?
Artificial intelligence may influence whether you can get pain medication
Just because no one has a gun to their head, we shouldn't point out that
they're being exploited? We shouldn't try to change the system?

What's even the logic behind that? It's okay to mistreat people because they want to be an athlete over working at McDonald's?
That's exactly what gatekeeper means: entities that control access to something (in this case financial capital on terms suitable to buy property, but equally it can be social capital to access in-group acceptance, etc).

This control of access to resources is where the name comes from, and its broader use (rather than the highly specific social use we see online) is recently exemplified in the EUs Digital Markets Bill describing large search providers (like google) and social media (facebook) as gatekeepers.
I think a lot of people (be they men or women) might feel more comfortable with being vulnerable and less afraid of being judged, or their secrets and thoughts being exposed or somehow used against them, with AIs than with real people, whether those real people are accessible/attainable for them or not. Perhaps, knowing deep down that it's not real and doesn't have a motive is a feature.

Whether they should be more comfortable (given the privacy problems with these services) is a different matter.
Because you are sexist.
- Not consider changing the root username and password?

I would bake it in the bios or similar, and print it on the bottom of the device.

- Not consider shutting off the SSH server?

I would keep sshd running, precisely for the fact that the person who bought this could modify it I'm a reasonable and sane manner, like any Linux peripheral. It also allows for more extensibility past what I thought of.

- Not consider writing the most delicate parts in a memory-safe language?

I wouldn't reinvent the wheel. Use Linux, QNX, or Tron. Probably not Tron, but it IS open source.

- Not consider enabling Secure Boot or tamper detection?

Are we assuming the person who buys this as the enemy, or are we trying to evade Mission Impossible level national spies from looking how some IoT shit works?

- Not consider building a system for easy and automatic security updates, perhaps with an opt-out for those interested?

Most "security" updates are just malware in disguise. I've seen enough de-featurization and others in the name of security.
But it can still be illegal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...
There’s also a big difference in having faith to find aspiration, direction, and strength versus using it to abrogate responsibility or rationalize bad behavior.

For example, praying for god to fix your problems rather than using the gifts they ostensibly gave you to solve them yourself, or not stopping doing the thing that is causing the problem to begin with. Or evading responsibility for things you do that cause suffering, misery, and harm because it’s somehow god’s will.
I think of history for men as being inherently lonely and that civilizations conquer each other partially because there are surplus men domestically as a result of polygamy. This is supported through relatively low variation in y chromosome DNA. Extra men are a problem but, as you say, people losing interest in future generations is also a problem.
Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains
I've had some success using vast.ai[0] with the Oobabooga LLM WebUI (LLaMA2) instances. One click to start up, minimal editing in the interface settings to enable OpenAI compatible interface.

[0] https://cloud.vast.ai/
let's keep it that way, we don't need more rocket attacks
Clear todo lists are making a comeback
You can use impl Borrow<T> for that if the choice is static.

If it's dynamic, you can use Cow or the supercow/bos/... crates if you want Arc/Rc to be options as well.
Wow, I've been using tokio for years and never knew about this. Thanks!
I've edited my comment to hopefully clarify that I am talking about the piece and not accusing the author himself.

My problem with the piece is that it reads like the usual knee-jerk pro-Linux FUD that typically originates around scare words like "Microsoft", "secure boot" and "UEFI".
async/await actually originated in C#, not Javascript. C#'s author, Anders Hejlsberg also authored Typescript. Typescript's additional features like classes, arrow functions and async/await eventually crept into ES6+.

I actually think it was a great solution in JS/TS given it's a single threaded event loop. The lower level the language the worse of an abstraction it is though. So I think most of the complaints here about async Rust are valid.
Possibly; some true statements sound pretentious.

But what's really pretentious is the author of this article, who cites their silly anecdote to "prove" that AI can't possibly be as good as a doctor's intuition.

"""The basic defect of artificial intelligence follows from this principle. Using descriptive sketches of mental status drawn from reference books, journal articles, and tests, AI would have got my elderly Lebanese patient all wrong. She knew the French kings and their mistresses, something she learned decades ago perusing her family’s library, but not the name of the recently elected American president. Since knowing the president’s name is standard on most tests of mental status, AI would have mistakenly judged her to have an “intact long-term memory with a loss of short-term memory,” and awarded her the ridiculous diagnosis of “altered mental status,” or even senile dementia. It is why AI cannot replace doctors or other professionals who rely to some degree on intuition. Doing so courts ridiculous outcomes. Indeed, AI is becoming known for its stupid mistakes as much as for its triumphs. Even researchers admit that AI lacks “common sense.”"""

My guess is any true machine learning model for mental status would not make a classification based on a single, absolute data point (inability to state the current, or past president). I would also say that a patient who is unable to state the current president but can list all the French kings and their mistresses is not drawn from a typical distribution- and that may indeed indicate something about their mental status.
I've used FreeTaxUSA for the past two years as well, and have been very happy with it. I'll put all my info into turboTax, and let it calculate my refund, then put the same data into FreeTax and verify it's the same. It's saved me a LOT of money.
A big one that has bitten my team a lot is syncing files between local and container. There are even whole separate tools like https://docker-sync.readthedocs.io designed to try to mitigate the problem. The most annoying thing is it almost works almost all the time and then all of a sudden stop working for some people for no obvious reason. We gave up on Docker for development because we couldn't trust it to work consistently.
i've been seeing this pattern on so many posts on hn that criticize basically anything. i'm not trying to have a stab at you specifically btw, this is more meta

> x is bad because of this obvious reason that it is bad

> "but y and z are also bad!"

what is that supposed to be a rebuttal to? is the implication that we should.. do nothing because everything else is also shit? i don't see why turbotax in this instance shouldn't be punished. that would set a nice precedent at least
It can't be done locally since Apple needs the ability to revoke certificates at will.
I thought it was the short stories "Sunken Gardens" and "Cicada Queen" by Bruce Sterling from his Shaper/Mechanist universe.

Oh well.
The problem is getting people to actually agree to plug in their car and let the power company run it. That's a huge ask to get people to agree to, it's going to take serious compensation that power companies won't want to do.