skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that given how hard this guy destroyed his benchmark over the last 16 years it is completely appropriate to be "amazed" at his performance, he is literally like top 1-0.5% in his field.
The funny thing is that on paper they are absolutely comparable to the UK. The UK monarch is still theoretically responsible for nominating the Prime Minister and most other high officials and judges, with Parliament typically "advising" or "suggesting". In practice, we all know Parliament is effectively commanding the King to do their bidding, but most of it is very much by convention. Elizabeth II was effectively one of the low points for the British monarchy in terms of direct power, but there are very few legal barriers for a more activist ruler to push the pendulum back.
As a data point, the author was interviewed on NPR's "The Indicator"[1], and the way this review summarizes it might not capture what her point was:

> CHENG: I'm not trying to answer whether math is real or not. I'm trying to show that considering the question at all leads us to interesting thoughts. And in the end, what I say is that, with all these questions, I don't think there are yes-or-no answers, and we shouldn't claim that there are. What we should do instead is say there is a sense in which - you know, what is the sense in which math is real, and what is the sense in which math isn't real?

> And the thing is, I think a lot of people who say math isn't real are using that to say, oh, so it's irrelevant and stupid. Why should we study it? It's made up. And what I want to say is that just because it is made up doesn't mean that it's irrelevant. And actually, the fact that it's kind of made up makes it really powerful because - well, it makes it really, in a way, more accessible because you don't need a lot of money to get it. All you need is an imagination. And I think that's a really amazing thing about it. And just like fiction isn't real, but fiction can give us insights about the world around us to highlight much more, specifically, things about society. And that's what I think is powerful about abstract math as well - because we're not constrained by reality.

I haven't read the book, but it seems like the title may be a throwaway question meant to pique the reader's interest and say "let's get philosophical about math".

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[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193035114
Do you think it's better than MinIO or SeaweedFS? If so, can you elaborate more on why? If you don't have experience with the others, I would be still happy about your experience on Ceph.
They're both declarative manifests describing how to run one or more images on your system.

You use .container for a single container, .kube for all-in-one pods, .network for networks, and .volume for volumes. It has all the stuff it's just broken down in a more (imho) sysadmin friendly way where all the pieces are independent and can be independently deployed.
The last two decades of anti-trust regulation failure can essentially be chalked up to a divide by zero bug.

"But we offer our product for free to consumers, so we can't be a monopoly" was used as a get-out-of-jail-free card, coupled with legislator and regulator ignorance on who the consumer was.

Hopefully, we'll look back at 2005-2025 as a silly period where government forgot its place in the market.
I suspect that kind of boycott would hurt the independent developers more than it hurts Unity.
Sunken ancient temples were found in a mysterious underwater city
Which password manager are you using? There shouldn’t be any sharing of a master password; each individual should have their own account and own master password.
Between countries, yes. Domestically, you invoice businesses with VAT, hold on to the VAT money and quarterly deposit it to the tax authorities (minus the VAT for deductible expenses).
Situations like this are very illustrative of the fact that, despite industry claims to the contrary, this kind of monetization is not "optional". It taints the whole game experience. Just like ad breaks imposed a specific format on television shows before streaming (e.g. plot cliffhangers that anticipated ad breaks), microtransactions fundamentally alter the design of most games that include them - whether you buy any of the microtransactions or not.
Well, the last one is a kind of surprise like... if you believe in real numbers, then there are some nonrepeating real numbers (pi is believed to be one of them) that embed all other real numbers. I mean, to someone unfamiliar with the concept it sound amazing and improbable that some number embeds all other numbers (all of which are infinite). But this is because we aren't used to dealing with infinite things.

Similarly, if mathematics is so powerful as to be able to describe any physical reality, it shouldn't be surprising that it can describe ours, no matter how complex and detailed.
Why would you use that benchmark? If you invested in an S&P 500 index fund you'd have about the same amount of money, without paying his (probably very large) fees.
Arguing over syntax is a bit sad. It mostly just doesn't matter. The author like so many is judging surface level matters more than anything else, and there's just not really big importance to it.

They try to stage a huge freak out over conditional rendering. This feels so low stakes. Personally the React solution of just using a ternary & passing null makes all the sense in the world, leverages the language well IMHO. But we get:

> Pardon my British, but what the schlocky-donkey rubbish is that? If-statements inside a view tree with fallback to null?

Without real explanation, just loaded unexplained opining.

And again, oh no, we made some system to handle dynamic cases, when talking about lists, but this time the author tries to scare us with it being invented, maybe gasp not stable!

> Fictitious syntax, templating, directives. And where is the guarantee that none of this will change in the future? There’s no such guarantee. And it has happened before, am I right mr. React and mr. Vue?

I'm less familiar with the others but Reacts solution has been the for-loop we see here for forever. These tools are respectably stable. Yes they invent ways of doing things but the author is freaking out because that's insufficient for them; the idea seemingly has to be agreed to by everyone then encased in concrete such that it will forever be exactly the same. Personally I love that the web can progress, that it's not a singular fixed platform like that.

And then a lot of their DOM solution looks like a more componentful React might, with some renderprops.

> Because you need to have a lot of time to experiment and be able to accept new realities and the failure of current approaches.

Agreed. And I do think the frameworks are stuck. But it's not the question of hacking out some html; anything will do for that. The real question is architecture. It's what do our data stores or signal lling systems look like, how do we figure out what to render well (or do we just vdom forever, and even that was greatly speed up & shaped by redux & other stores)? These at least also have good pokers in the fire.

But most web frameworks work almost totally on the main thread. Most don't do a good job with incremental loading. These are the real structural matters, are the depth we need to be exploring. But which this debate over how-do-we-rasterize-some-DOM debates, which have been going for so long, gloss over. We keep rehashing something that doesn't matter much, that hasn't changed all that significantly since mod_perl. The real question of how web UIs work, how they are made fast, off main, has barely been delved into.
Precedents are the law (if the decision is considered "precedential").
> presumably

This is a big presumption. Yes, it could happen. In practice, doing this isn't even the first tool you'd reach for in this circumstance; the compiler can and will eliminate duplicate bounds checks, so if you've hoisted it early, you shouldn't be using unchecked accesses, even if you care about performance, until you've demonstrated why the compiler isn't okay with removing them. The extra ceremony ("unsafe { foo.get_unchecked(n) {" vs "foo[n]") makes this even simpler to catch in code review.
I work at Vectara and I'm curious -- are folks here using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? What's your stack and what kind of improvements have you seen in answer quality?
> "Can anyone prove that numbers exist outside of our imagination?"

What do you mean by "exist" here?
“You silly kids and your 16GB of RAM! Back in my day, we got by with 32KB!”

The reality is that software is increasingly more complex and even simple tasks require more and more resources as the cruft builds up.
>Are people tiktoking that much to require an upgrade?

Yes. Total global wireless data traffic went from 58 exabytes per month in 2019 to 154 exabytes per month in 2022 and is predicted to surpass 326 exabytes per month by 2025.

4G cannot handle this. 5G probably cannot handle this rate of growth for much longer.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-repo...
FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly
> we'd need a lot of infrastructure to track all the data recorded, where it goes, how it is processed, etc. etc..

You just need to punish the people using the data. If you can then track down where they got the data from, that's a bonus. And if you can track down where those second ones got their data from, that's an extra bonus. But everything after the people using it is optional.
I don’t want a complicated setup. I appreciate apples simple new phone onboarding process and their opinionated ecosystem.
Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind
Interestingly, there appears to be some localization with that page. I'm in Canada and see:

hello :maple leaf: -> bonjour :fleur-de-lis:
Great to see another company join the LLM-builder tier. Good luck Vectara!
I haven't, but I probably should. I just found it straightforward to type bing.com when blocked by Google and it was the first thing that came to mind.

And after seeing I wasn't blocked it has become my go-to in the last few weeks; I've ended up using it about 10 times in the last month.
I had to scrape a thick layer of calcium dust off of screen and furniture after using an ultrasonic humidifier all winter.
I've got a home server that runs docker compose as a service in systemd at startup.

I'm naive, whats the difference between doing that and using these "quadlets"?
How so? I use docker pretty frequently, but I’m sure that my user is part of the docker group before I do, so I don’t sudo anything.

Is there anything else I should be doing security wise?

I’ve been hearing podman is more secure, but I think it’s still containerd under the hood, so idk how true that is.
You missed the point. Smoke from a burning couch isn’t the issue, the burning couch is.
Rubber tires, too.
Searching for it now there's also a Reddit post mentioning it, but that might also be from you/your friends. I like that rule, but I can see it being hard to convince people to use it despite it obviously making the game more fair.
Betting on all possible outcomes doesn't really make a statement...
This has already been discussed but under a less click bait title (“… begs forgiveness” — lol)

Trust already violated which took years to build. 1 C-level executive decision ruined and betrayed that trust. There is no going back.

Open source game engine or bust. Individually, I support GoDot with donations and time (contributions to codebase). If I ever become a game studio, would definitely have a team to continue to contribute to godot as well as monthly monetary contributions for other maintainers.
Though he’d spent tens of thousands of hours watching his old customers hope for the break that might alter their fortunes, he knew better than to believe the lottery was ruled by chance. “People have been conditioned to think it is luck,” he would later reflect. “They don’t look at the structure of games.”

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...

Now a direct-to-streaming motion picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large
> until we eschewed Docker from our dev iteration loop entirely

Can you say anything more about what you did instead, and how it ended up working out?
FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
A very precise estimation of which direction gravity is pulling down towards. Which is almost, but not exactly, the vector towards the center of the earth. And it also needs to be disentangled from the suborbital centrifugal/centripetal forces experienced by the movement of the Blackbird.
It's just another reminder that Apple, like all other big tech companies, is full of mediocre software teams working on unreasonable deadlines.
Technically 9%... As it is 10% tax, so it is not from 1, but 0.9091
>>Dont they have a EULA

Most EULA's say "we can change this when ever we want... " so likely they were banking on that.

Most EULA's in a sane legal system would be considered unconscionable contracts and thus unenforceable, unfortunately the US Legal system is far from sane,

That said, I am sure they heard from lawyers at major studios who said "yea try to retro active bill us and we will bankrupt you in legal fees" so they changed their tune.
I remember feeling pretty normal until I had a strep throat infection when I was 7, after which I got really introverted and twitchy/compulsive ever since. Maybe a coincidence but I sometimes wonder if that did something to me.

edit: I swear I made this comment this before reading the article. It starts off with a boy at 7 with strep that got twitchy, which is 100% in line with my experience. Crazy.
There's a supreme irony in the propaganda machine using all of their typical disgusting tricks to call someone else a propaganda outlet
What my dream is that the User Mode Linux is made into a cross-platform userspace binary that translates syscalls transparently between itself and the host. So you might get "drivers" that talk to Windows, Linux, *BSDs, Darwin, it manages memory in an efficient (for the host) way, and enables you to run any kinds of wild experiments with, say, virtualized and passed-through serial devices, USB devices, networking, bind-mounting from the host and image mounts. And yes, containers. All of that without needing host root in most cases.

Of course the drawback would be that the host would see just a fat Linux process and its child processes, much like you can see qemu, but it could be an interesting thing nonetheless, if even for shits and giggles of it.
thanks Tarun
So you are just couching your dishonest argument on semantics. Glad to clear that out.

Still dishonest.
Please read again, and try to understand!

The points do not imply Newtonian physics, or any kind of physics at all, because they assert only a ordering relation on events. They put no measure on those things, and certainly no absolute measure.

You clearly also did not understand the problem of trying to do experiments, or even to learn from experience at all without assuming these things.

Really, how much clearer could I have made those things?
Show HN: Hotseat AI – Collaborative FAQ for the EU AI Act
Hi HN,

Today, we launch Hotseat AI: an AI-powered Q&A service for the 226-pages-long EU AI Act[0][1]. We launch Hotseat AI as a collaborative FAQ where anyone[2] can ask a question, and the bot will answer. The questions and answers will be public to build a high-quality community reference on AI regulation.

Hotseat is not your typical "chat-with-document". It started as such, and the earlier iteration of this project relied on embedding-based retrieval. We quickly found embeddings fall short of connecting a user question to relevant chunks of the regulation. Today's version doesn't use embeddings at all and is built on a bespoke pipeline of models. GPT4 is at the heart of Hotseat, and we heavily rely on function calling. We also use chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning to increase the working memory of LLM. We're performing whole-document reasoning first to make a plan for answering the question and proceed with the execution of that multi-step plan. All combined, Hotseat gets nuanced questions right.

My overarching lesson from this project is that to squeeze the most out of current LLMs, you need to focus on the retrieval and build upon that.

Our answers include a "legal trace": a series of AI Act quotes and explanatory comments. We're "pinning down" an LLM to reduce hallucinations by forcing direct quotes. This response format also reduced the chance of LLM taking a wrong turn when reasoning.

AI regulation is a hotly debated topic, and Hotseat can help folks poke at it with questions without plunging into legalese - plain language works great!

To wrap up, I'm wondering if this is a seed of a viable business. Would you find ‘directly ask the regulation’ useful, especially as a non-lawyer, like a startup founder or engineer. We had to cut a few corners to get Hotseat AI out, but it's unclear how much these matter in practice. Let me know if you find Hotseat useful to you or try to poke holes in it.

[0]: we're on the far end of "focus on one thing"

[1]: the latest AI Act version

[2]: I'll be doing light moderation to prevent spam and keep the quality high
They have taken the FB approach. Backpeddle on changes. Wait for heat to cool off. Then back to fucking you over.
Book “Thinking in SwiftUI”, updated for iOS 17
This is pretty exciting... I've used them all libraries at this point in my career: CGLib, ASM, BCEL, ByteBuddy, Javassist, etc... each has its pluses and minuses. I've designed everything from profiling agents, to systems that pack decimals into EBCDIC and invoke COBOL programs on big IBM iron, to lightweight JIT compilers, all using these libraries.

> In 2002, the visitor approach used by ASM seemed clever

I couldn't agree more. The visitor pattern was very hard to explain/justify back then, and still difficult to explain to newbie programmers just entering the profession.

Looking at the examples, I think this is going to be an official replacement for ASM, meaning it's going to be pretty low level. The use of streams pretty straightforward.

If anyone from the JEP is reading this: I have two pieces of feedback!

First, take some inspiration from the way CDI Portable Extensions work. This is probably the most delightful extension API I've ever used. The @Observe callbacks are super simple to explain to people and it's really easy to write extensions for the framework.

Next, I wouldn't ignore the need for a higher-level API akin to ByteBuddy or Javassist. Sometimes I just want to write an interpreter or intercept a method call and thats it.

For example in my Junit/Mockito extension https://github.com/exabrial/mockito-object-injection I need to intercept a call to the class under test in order to lazily inject dependencies at the last possible moment. While I certainly could do this with ASM, Javassist makes this fairly simple with it's MethodHandler api.

Side note, it's a damn shame we don't have a mobile operating system that is JVM native :/ All this cool APIs simply never reach a huge number of devices.
I honestly find it suprising that photo's and video's taken with a smart phone are not signed in some way to ensure they are not modified.. Would love to see it become more mainstream, since editing is so easy.
> If you play indie PC games you can’t boycott Unity without missing a ton of really good games.

The naivete involved in expecting to boycott a product without having any inconveniences never ceases to amuse me.

The very nature of boycotting necessitates that you will miss out on things.
If you never used the product/byproduct, what effect would your boycott have? It's like a bald person boycotting a hair cuttery, who cares?
It’s not very user friendly on mobile.
I don't know how that would be relevant at all. If anything, booking further out probably has a better success rate, as you have more time to research the right location and property.
Hours are affected. Since hours are not really related to productivity, a family is not impacting it.

Feel free to look up yourself why measuring hours is the worst way to estimate productivity.
https://archive.ph/ORIoG
That doesn't follow. A monarchy can be constitutional and still be absolute. In Qatar for example, the monarch appoints the cabinet and 1/3 of the parliament, which needs 2/3+1 vote to overrule the prime minister...

No need to dissolve or dominate the legislature, it's both a constitutional and absolute monarchy. It's theoretically but not practically possible for the parliament to limit the king. It's a similar story in Morocco and Kuwait.
In general if you can `docker run` without sudo then that means you have a trivial privesc path since you can do `docker run` with the various flags that run it without any sandboxing, get a shell, and just ask to be let out of the namespace.

The way that podman and newer versions of docker get around this is using unprivileged user namespaces. Unprivileged user namespaces are not a free lunch - in fact, they're a bit of a security disaster in their own right.
As I said elsewhere, betting on whether mergers will go through has a long, long history.

Ivan Boesky sought his edge with insider information, which of course is illegal. If Lina Khan gives you a legal edge by making spurious objections, the smart trader takes it.

Eventually everyone figures out that an FTC objection doesn't mean much, and the edge goes away.
> And what if that person gets fired or decides to become a malevolent actor

Some of that is covered from a legal angle; they might be able to technically pull it off, but they'd also go to jail for doing so
I wonder if these findings may partially explain the often derided theory that childhood vaccines can cause autism. The article directly mentions that an autism misdiagnosis can result from psychiatric symptoms resulting from an autoimmune response after certain infections.
As one of the people behind the development of Boomerang, I would love to add that we've tried to be as objective with the evaluation of our model as possible.
And have reported results on datasets where we do better as well as worse than other commercial offerings as well as models available on HuggingFace.
This is a really weird takeaway for an end-user. This is punishing game developers for using a certain tool. Unless Unity is doing something adverse to the end user I don't see why that should be a factor in your game purchases. I've played plenty of great games made with Unity.
What you describing is only possible for hobby game developers with extremely small scale of a game or development time of 4-5 years. Majority of game developers simply dont have skillset to work with audio, graphics APIs and cross platform support.
I guess that's why Apple's being called to witness - Google also throws a significant amount of cash at Apple over search, and Apple has not developed a search engine.
The amount of mental gymnastics on display here (not to mention bloodthirstiness) to not acknowledge that the new terms are genuinely a huge improvement and likely palatable to the majority of game actual developers in crazy.

I have a few friends who work on relatively medium-scale game development operations and every one of them is basically saying “oh thank god, we can work with this”. But reading this thread you’d think it was still a catastrophe, just a slightly smaller one.
These guys have been teaching and writing about iOS for quite a long time. After doing various streams on YouTube, they have now updated their latest book.
Every standard mainstream app maybe, but not every app. FDroid is the best source of finding ones without, but also in the normal play store you will find big ones without. But yes, google is in the ads buisness, otherwise there would be a easy option to search apps without ads.
I had a similar experience! I can’t recall if it was strep or what, but I do remember a particularly nasty illness from which I never really feel I recovered from neurologically.