skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monitoring surveillance-style software is already commonplace, just not on iOS.

For example Bossware has been common since covid and it's not a stretch to imagine a future where health and other types of insurers use similar software to ensure that you're not partaking in risk. Consumers need more than every developer to act in good faith.

Example data collected by bossware surveillance applications include: keylogging, email monitoring, productivity tracking, screen recording, audio recording, camera recording, presence detectors, social media monitoring, time tracking, web browsing activity, location tracking, file search etc

Such apps would never receive approval from the app store, nor would they receive the necessary permissions to even ask for such invasive access.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/27/remote-wo...
The complaint here is that someone cannot offer a comparable product for as low cost as their competitor?

For all of history we've known that this would lead the least competitive to liquidation.
This:

a = f((e(d(c(b))), 4), 5)

Seems not to make sense. Replacing c(b) with x we get:

a = f((e(d(x)), 4), 5)

Replacing d(x) with x we get:

a = f((e(x), 4), 5)

Replacing e(x) with x we get:

a = f((x, 4), 5)

What is that?
Yes, I understood that was what the author was looking for: 'bragging rights'.

The reality is that if you or he had been on the other side, you'd know that as a maintainer, you have enough to balance without worrying about everyone else's resume.
I encourage you to check the stats, driving is one of the most dangerous things people routinely do, and nearly always far more dangerous than taking public transit.
> Automating the printing press, building the cotton gin, widespread use of combines to harvest wheat (or whatever) - none of these led to mass unemployment.

All the automations you have mentioned all automate a very specific task.

AI on the other hand can potentially become the do-it-all automation. A universal automation.

> but people will always find new things to do

That’s no longer true if you have a machine that can do it all - that can match (or even surpass) humans in all (or even the vast majority of) activities.

Every “new thing” it would do too.
The same is in the current manpage on OpenBSD: <https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl>. The next line is more telling though:

> July 1, 2007

Although I'm running Monterey, so maybe it's updated in more recent versions of MacOS.
Oh I love this article. And I can totally relate. I have so many keyboards that I feel ashamed to have spent so much money on all of theses devices.

But the journey is amazing. Switching from flat to mechanical. From ergo to standard.

Down the road, after so many years, I like the option to be able to switch easily. I lile my Moonlander split (but hate that it moves) so I fallback on a flat Microsoft Sculpt. And sometimes use the MX Key MINI. Yeah, the mini is the way to go. The big one with the numpad is too big for me too.

My dream is a split, flat, keyboard with good build quality. Maybe something like the https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/naya-create/naya-create ? But that price and not built yet is stopping me from pulling the trigger...

What's your favorite dope keyboard out there?
I'm trouble by the example the review gives (about Norman Borlaug's green revolution having unanticipated side effects). I think they're tryting to make the point that in optimizing yield, Borlaug caused a whole bunch of secondary side effects (family farms going away, massive monoculture and pesticide). And the conclusion they want you to reach is that by optimizing yield, they left out variables like "social and other effects on the commons".

It wasn't Borlaug's job as an optimizer to consider those downstream effects. If he had, and hadn't done his research, billions of people would not be alive today (having starved to death or not being born in the first place). Good luck working out the utility function around that!

I'm sure there are better examples. Maybe antibiotics, whose discovery saved millions of lives, but also helped bacteria evolve defenses, thus making some antibiotics useless due to overprescription?
> there's one big problem.

Bombastic.

> It looks like they're creating distilled water.

"distilled water" can mean many similar things. It is not a binary property of water:

Consider a water still that has 3 ports: one intake port of seawater, an output port of brine and an output port of water with a lower salt concentration than seawater.

Distilled can in this case refer to the water exiting the third port, even though it still contains some salts.

Distillation and purification in general is a process with diminishing returns: to get ever lower ppm's of mineral content requires ever more patience or energy.

In the context of seawater desalination, "distilled water" typically means water with sufficient salt removed to be now potable. Either way even if the third port was effectively Sigma-Aldrich 100% pure H20, the simple fix would be to dilute a tiny amount of the brine into the distilled water to restore the mineral content to potable levels.

You did not reference the study or page of the supposed WHO conclusion.

When I was studying at university I recalled the concensus basically being that the adverse health effects are a myth, since 95% of our salt intake comes from food.

Remember sailors have been drinking distilled water for over a hundred years.

Steamboats needed the ability to desalinate water anyway.

It is quite conceivable, that this myth starts as a counter-myth for a prior myth.

Scientifically different types of desalinated, deionized and distilled waters are closer to pure H2O than normal waters.

Linguistically pure is the antonym of impure.

The mere existence of distilled or pure water in the scientific literature conceivably caused purity zealots to opt for drinking distilled waters, falsely claiming health benefits.

Just like taking 10x vitamin C doses will not make you 10x healthier, neither would drinking distilled water. But it "sounds" purer.

In order to counteract obsessions about drinking distilled water, and to counter the false and disinformative claims of health benefits, some started opting to use the same tactics and weapons to stop the "pure water zealots", and the countery-myth is born.

That was my interpretation at university. So it surprises me to learn that WHO would recommend against drinking distilled water.

Of course only drinking distilled water would not be healthy indeed: you also need to eat, breathe, etc.

So I first did the easy check: wikipedia.

On wikipedia the same vague statement of the WHO concluding something along the lines of it being unhealthy is reiterated, but with a [citation needed] appended. Recall anyone can edit wikipedia. Such citation was never provided.

So next I tried to find the source myself, and downloaded the 312 page Drinking Water and Health: Volume 4 1982.

What page am I supposed to be looking at?

As I said at the start, its a non problem, because adding back in some mineral salts to the desired ppm is easy to do.
This is one of the things being researched.
Yeah that was my take as well. Although it did come up with a plausible sounding answer. A less nerdy human might also not get it
Maybe 700GB is what ChatGPT uses to serve zillions of users concurrently. If you're running your own individual instance, you obviously don't need as many resources.
>Many developers these days don’t even know the difference between git and github, which is sad.

This is not sad in my opinion.

GitHub is a whole project management tool and git is just letters management tool.

And what developers need? a project management tool (which includes letters management tool).

GitHub is where the real value is, the git itself is just like 30% of it. Using Git without e.g GH or other "wrapper" kinda sucks.

Wikis, pull requests, code review, issues, roadmaps, CI/CD, community, etc, etc. All of this comes from GH.

_____________

You know what is actually sad? that GitHub doesn't allow to change backend (that letters management engine), so we can switch from e.g Git to other VCS

this makes hard to compete with Git because GitHub only uses Git (afaik)
1.5 hours of complete downtime for our apps now.

We're getting "App boot timeout" errors for every request and "One or more of these arguments were missing: uid, gid, gateway, somaxconn, event_fd, out_fd" for scheduled tasks. The incident report has been up for almost four hours and it's not getting better: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2590
I swear there was a study in this same vein a few years back that looked into the effects of having siblings in close proximity and the effect it had on your mental health, even if you never visited. I can't find it for the life of me now though.
Go find a lawyer and give them your money.

They have spent all of human history creating a cartel for solving problems. Never let the cartel know you tried to solve a problem without paying their toll, otherwise things will be made worse.
IMO Linux is significantly better than the *BSDs at this particular use case.

Check out https://blog.cloudflare.com/l4drop-xdp-ebpf-based-ddos-mitig...

and:

https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools
The song packs come out really slowly too. They've released just one song pack with 11 songs on it this year, the Queen one back in May, as well as added 10 songs to existing song packs. For a total of 21 songs total this year so far.

And 210 official songs since it first came out back in 2018.

Meanwhile the PCVR version has a ridiculous 65,000[1] custom songs made for it at this point.

Not sure why they can't get closer to the Rock Band model, where it released new songs all the time, and had 2,743 songs total (and 84 songs THIS YEAR according to Wikipedia[2]...had no idea there was even an actively supported Rock Band game out there still).

Beat Saber should be making them enough money to allow them to at least do double or triple what they're doing now.

[1]: https://bsaber.com/ultimate-guide-to-beat-saber-custom-songs...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_downloadable_songs_for...
Are you saying New Zealand ("said country") doesn't have a tradition for cooking mutton? You are dead wrong on that. It may be a little out of fashion today but mutton has been a kiwi staple for generations. You can still reliably find mutton in any given supermarket and mutton cookery goes well beyond "drop it in a pot with cabbage and boil for hours". Your post is incredibly ignorant.
PS: I have no relation with the Naya team building this new baby
How is the answer to this not obvious?

You bought services from people.

You have the money to pay them.

It’s a genuine question… who is it that looks at this situation and is unclear about whether to pay the people whose services you have already consumed?

If their invoices are due go pay them NOW.

Imagine you built some software for someone and when it comes time to pay they say “hey I’d really love to but I’m in a legal situation with my cofounder”.

That’s completely unacceptable. Pay your people.

And honestly if you don’t know the right answer to this question then you shouldn’t be in business.
Will it matter in a few years?

We ll be able to AI-generate photos of ourselves in the past, in any location.
okay so then go to church. or a book club. or a softball team. or a linux user group. or D&D/tabletop group.

plus bars skew by demographic and event. used to work at bars and restaraunts near hospitals -- 9am shift changes means people want beer at 10am -- and dated a couple of nurses because of it. find the punk rock bar, or nerd event at the bar, etc.

if you're only willing to do low effort interactions through an app then you're only going to get low effort partners, who will dismiss you based on one bad photo.
> Because a lot of active sports are compatible with "wearing glasses". Surfing, snowboarding, rock climbing, water skiing, mountain biking, etc.

I would not say any of those are compatible with wearing fashion-style sunglasses. I've lost pairs of glasses paddleboarding and kayaking before. I'm a mountain biker as well and crashes can be violent, I wouldn't trust glasses to stay on your face. All of those sports require firm attachment for a device worth more than say $100.
You underestimate how cheap tapwater is. I'm paying €1.21 for 1m³ and that includes taxes.
For any example we give you will just say "that's not novel, it's just a mix of existing ideas".
I’d be happy if I was significant enough for future generations to conclude I was secretly (or not so) an idiot.
Lamb is my favourite meat. I eat it weekly at least. I live (and was born and raised) in New Zealand, a country known for the best lamb in the world. So, no.
The interference tortoise, ha, thanks for this!
Baby-stealing is a deep drive.
Does it have an index pointing to each knot or categorizing them? It would be really nice to know which knot to use in each occasion. I couldn't find the index.
I'm glad you like it. I imagine you have plenty of services that people might want to receive from you, even I'm sitting here thinking I'd rather give money to someone like you to give me some feedback on my website UIs because I also want to support what you're working on, than a random person on TaskRabbit or fiverrr or any of those more impersonal websites.
Understood. Thanks for the explanation/clarification!
How can a knot be outdated?
Seems odd in a thread about 80 year old book.
I had no idea! This is really cool. Have you by chance a blog about it?
Their most recent scientific paper they published 3 months ago only says that scientific breakeven (Qsci > 1) is possible. Which has been claimed many times before pesky engineering challenges and unmodeled behavior starts to interfere. The paper actually mostly just rehashes their marketing so its impossible to judge how realistic their claims are. Regardless, they don't seem like they are close to any kind of actual prototype let alone one that can demonstrate scientific breakeven or the order of magnitude harder engineering breakeven.

Their claims seem very hard to believe to put it mildy.
Presumably they monetize by selling your real-time location and live video feed to your local surveillance authorities or political enemies.
They deliver ads to the people being filmed with the glasses, once they're identified and tracked by facebook.
Although I understand that point - the problem here is that reputable websites should be able to rely on Google to not serve such content.

As for website owners who are running unscrupulous ad networks, that's on them.
In my experience, HellaSwag seems to correlate highly enough with model performance for my use case (i.e., complex autocompletion of prose and code rather than rather than glorified chatbotting). MMLU and ARC aren't too bad, but TruthfulQA can sometimes be a straight-up countersignal.
True, but nowhere near the level that a game would. As an example, it'll be hard to find a productivity/office application that is bottlenecked by the GPU, while for games, it's relatively easy to find.
It's such an idiotic tactic. It completely undermines any legitimate concerns that the GOP has an extremism problem. If one truly believes those extremists are dangerous, then they should be defeated at any stage of the election process, not cynically advanced to a general election.

The smart example is crossover voters helping Georgia's Brad Raffensberger win over his Trump-backed primary opponent.
> Is there a reason projects seem to be standardizing on specific parameter sizes within larger buckets?

AFAICT, it is because science: most of them are research artifacts and intended to support further research, and the fewer of parameter count, model architecture, training set, etc., that change substantially between models, the easier it is to evaluate the effects each element changing.
I'm Korean and if I were to write an article titled "Program like the cowboys of old west" (I've no clue what that article will be about but), would Americans be offended?

Within Korean culture, Doh (도) is a same concept as Tao but I'm not offended.

I think you are being overly sensitive.
GitHub repos bombarded by info-stealing commits masked as Dependabot
First of all, you're off by an order of magnitude.

Second, I don't think it will be that long. There are already LLMs as good as GPT-3 running on average laptops and even phones.

In the next couple of years, you'll see:

- Ordinary PCs, tablets, and phones with dedicated AI chips, like TPUs - they'll be more tuned specifically for LLMs

- Mathematical and algorithmic optimizations will make existing LLMs faster on the same hardware

- Newer generations of LLMs will get even more useful with fewer parameters

The combination of all of these means that it's not at all unreasonable to expect that today's top-of-the-line LLM will be running locally on your device within just a couple of years.

Of course, LLMs in the cloud will advance even further, so there will always be a tradeoff, and there will always be demand for cloud AI, depending on the application.
Musk companies have a proven track record of handling private data inappropriately. For example Tesla employees were caught sharing footage from vehicles on private property with their friends. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
I think we're basically in agreement though.

Everyone agrees setting timers in the kitchen via voice is great precisely because your hands are occupied. It's a special case. (And often used as the example of the only thing people end up consistently using their voice assistant for.)

And asking an AI where a feature is in an app -- that's exactly what I was describing. The app still has its UX though. But this is exactly the learning assistance I was describing.

And as for searching with Alexa, of course -- but that's just voice dictation instead of typing. Nothing to do with LLM's or interfaces.
foo times boo ...means you are adding foo, boo times... see[1]@[2] so it's a kinda shortcut.

[1] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e12e...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication

Similar relation between exponentiation (power) and multiplication... see[3]@[4]

[3] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/dcb8...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation
You're right that there are some loans included in that number, but it looks like it is not even half of it:

"27% of students received Federal Student Loans averaging $4,835 and 10% of undergrads took out private student loans averaging $11,058."
The illiterate are customers, of course they will be included.
yeah pretty much everyone I've seen in a 3 series is basically trying to hard; the painfully middle class Persian guy with overpriced sunglasses. Meanwhile the actually rich folks I know are driving F150 Raptors or Teslas.
Yep.

Generally, ClickHouse Keeper provides the coordination system for data replication and distributed DDL query execution for ClickHouse clusters.
Page with all the formatting this page removed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010208180818/http://misspiggy....
Are there security issues with not zeroing out the previously used memory when "releasing" a buffer (moving the offset)? I'm not a systems programmer, so I guess I just assumed that most malloc implementations also zeroed out memory when freeing it, but a quick Google suggests that's not actually the case (with typical malloc implementations "getting their pages from /dev/zero" [0], effectively zeroing memory at allocation time rather than when freeing it).

[0] https://superuser.com/a/894508
How about the inverse - making friends where you live?
I'm puzzled by the early-morning delivery.

If it's being sent through ordinary delivery means, such as a post office, do they ordinarily deliver at 4 AM?

If it's being sent through some drug-dealer courier system, is it necessary to go through the charade of dropping it off at a customer's house?
> It will be able to do it even faster, better and more cheaply than a human can.

Take what you did in the past year. Write down every product decision taken, every interaction with other teams figuring out APIs you had, all the infra where your code is running and how it was setup and changed, all the design iterations and changes that had to be implemented (especially if you have external partners demanding it).

Yes. All that you'd have to input into the AI, and hope it outputs something decent given all that. And yes, you'll have to feed all that into AI all the time because it has no knowledge or memory of "on Monday the new company bet was announced in the all hands"

You will be fine.
My recent exposure to array programming languages came via a podcast called The Array Cast[1]

Not affiliated, just recommending. The regular co-hosts appear to each be experienced with various array languages such as J, APL, etc. They don't get deeply technical, but it's a nice introduction, especially on explaining the appeal.

A recent episode had Rob Pike (UTF-8, Go, etc.) on to talk about his array based calculator, Ivy[2]

[1] https://www.arraycast.com/

[2] https://github.com/robpike/ivy
Your second paragraph doesn't make sense because the whole point of this type of allocation is to guarantee that you will reuse the same address space you just freed.
Ironically the exact processors need to run GPT-4V in the first place.....
Unless that person is you... but in that case you would just complain to your coworkers so nothing really changes I guess
But don’t have to cobble together a bunch of arcane iptables commands and then combine bpf and other userland tools … when one can just use the clean syntax of PF especially for home use that’s a clear win.
Never used a X220 but am extremely happy with both my X240 and later the X270, which I'm using right now to write this post. I chose those models because for years I used my motorcycle and scooter most of the time and needed something with more beer than the usual netbook, yet very compact, and after adding a bigger external battery I could reach 10+ hours easily. Linux support also is complete, which is common with Thinkpads.

I would be interested in upgrading them one day, but the lack of external batteries in newer models worries me; I want something with serious battery life and would happily add one centimeter thickness for a few hours more.
“What nature intended” seems a bit ambiguous!
You can always easily add the Linux environment to ChromeOS.
it was supposed to be a straight-people version of Grindr, but dating and sexual dynamics don't work that way for the heteros.
In any field, there's always an additive inverse, not so for multiplication.
Thank you, I've heard of {e,}BPF but not so much applications - thank you again!

Makes sense why I haven't seen it, came out around the time I joined $CurrentEmployer, and we're stuck a couple decades behind.
I love the HHKB - it’s compact and looks/feels nice.

I’m either using a variation of one of those or the macOS boards.