skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2/4 of those were in better conditions before the US invaded them for oil interests.

Venezuela's bloodiness is in part because of CIA funded violent opposition. Venezuela while a basket case now, is still a "what if" in a world without CIA interreference and unilateral sanctions.

China is odd. It is an autocratic repressive regime with their recent founder having the 2nd highest body count of any leader. But, it is also the most impressive story of raising an slice of humanity from poverty into a strong middle economy.

Western countries think about peace & human rights in isolation. What recent democratic nation has managed to elevate itself from abject poverty to being a strong middle economy, with no natural resources ride to infinity. India might have something to show over the next 30 years, but as of today, they started off richer than China at independence and find themselves miles behind. All of Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand & Japan had their growth occur under incredibly repressive govts. They might seem peaceful countries today, they certainly weren't that during their growth.

> moral equivalence

Moral equivalence can only exist when all other variables are the same. Norway might claim moral high ground on account of being an egalitarian nation, but its entire economy is oil. Remove the oil, and you might see their claimed unwavering morals waver.
The official budget for 2023 was $773 B with ~$350 B going to contractors.

There are multiple elements to issuing grants. It's not simply moving money around from one line item to another. If agencies have been gutted or don't have the budget, then can't write requests for grant proposals or can't offer what they don't have.
8 GB on a MacBook is kinda rough. I regret it.
You are confusing a digital signature for evidence of anything other than an attestation.

If you create a digital record, then sign it, then that signature is only an attestation of may claim you make, not evidence of that claim. That is the problem with relying on technology to establish trust - the moment you attach an economic benefit to a technology you incentivize people to circumvent it, or to leverage it to commit fraud.
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AMZN is actually not that good in much of the U.S.

If you live in a ZIP code full of congressional staffers, sitcom writers or stock market analysts you get 1 day shipping with Prime. If you’re not so lucky (say you live in the same ZIP code as the warehouse) it could be 5 days.

I just ordered the lens that I need to shoot volleyball games, a famous camera store can get it to me one day sooner than AMZN can despite being closed for a Jewish holiday. AMZN would sell me a ‘refreshed’ lens but the last one of those I bought from them failed in six months.

All the time I see something on the shelf at Target for $45 that is $65 on AMZN. The chattering classes who are bought off with 1 day shipping wax about AMZN’s logistics network (always seems to use USPS, UPS and FedEx to reach me, maybe they get a better deal because they threaten to leave…) or payments (hmmm… Visa, Mastercard, American Express, …) but it is gaslighting end-to-end.

Once a store gets one of those membership programs they quit thinking straight (how do I make money off sales?) and wind up thinking crooked (line goes up…)

The only thing harder than canceling your Prime is making an order without being signed up for a “trial” subscription which is one more reason to shop elsewhere.
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By the way, what language do you program in and what framework do you use?
It turns out you can, but it's not intuitive. You can create an account, rate some books, then request a rec with all of the fields blank.

E1: Well, it worked the first time. Now the "AI Librarian" API call 403's out on me, according to my browser's web inspector.

E2:
Oh, wait, you totally can do the "what to read after <X>" flow, you just have to click the "what to read after..." field in the top left.

This is the better URL to get there:https://whattoreadafter.xyz/
Kotlin is horrible in every IDE other than IntelliJ/AndroidStudio and JetBrains has little motivation to fix that.
Really? Anyone can go into a Home Depot and get many dangerous tools with no training.
Maybe 50% of science research being reproducible will be the high point.
At a high level yes? There is some representation of facts in the brain, and the same is true in a language model that uses a knowledge base. But if you look any closer the differences are pretty clear. We don’t store facts as a serialized list in our brains. We have a knowledge graph, and a lossy one at that.
The FTC takes the its_not_about_the_money.jpg meme very seriously.
I couldn’t get it to write a working B+tree implementation in Python. There was always some bug that would make it fail at some point.

It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but if you go deep it’s usually incorrect somewhere.
Same here. I was only able to select one overall attribute. Not leading to a very helpful result. Probably something my adblocker is blocking. Oh well.
Man, having spent waaaay too long troubleshooting errors where it's not remotely clear what part of the config the program is even consulting makes this hit home.
I like the Df better than the Zf. That aside, there's a certain satisfying feeling with using the film advance lever and the other mechanical sounds that it's hard to replicate with digital.
I don't believe you because I refuse to live in a world where that's true.

That kind of thinking is exactly what they want you to think, and, they can't call everyone a traitor and lock everyone up.
Looks pretty good, i'm wondering how are you planning on monetizing this?
Well, exactly.

It's just that NASA is a very long way down on the list of priorities. Close an overseas military base or two, (you can't tell me every single one of those nine-hundred or so bases is not redundant) and you could have NASA absolutely rolling in cash.
Stop voting for parties, vote for people instead.

Doesn't always work out but I think the odds are better.
function coloring is exactly the stackful/stackless division. Stackless functions can't be called from a stackful function without special ceremony
> Pytorch is just using Google's OpenXLA now

this is so far from accurate it should be considered libelous; from the link

> PyTorch/XLA is set to migrate to the open source OpenXLA

so PyTorch on the XLA backend is set to migrate to use OpenXLA instead of XLA. but basically everyone moved from XLA to OpenXLA because there is no more OSS XLA. so that's it. in general, PyTorch has several backends, including plenty of homegrown CUDA and CPU kernels. in fact the majority of your PyTorch code runs through PyTorch's own kernels.
> Rampant corruption and central government planning go hand-in-hand.

Yeah, but also seems to happen with big corporations. Power corrupts and all that. It's only human =/

> I for one would prefer essential services not to shutdown because of politics like what almost happened a week ago.

Me too. I'd prefer the government not just randomly shut down every time the Republicans (it's always them, isn't it?) feel the need to virtue signal about some pop culture thing or another. Somehow most governments in the developed world manage to operate day to day without this constant threat. American exceptionalism rearing its ugly head again...

> Canada and europeans have historically failed to keep up with US despite (some would say "because") more government-centric approach. Exercise for the reader - which NATO countries are meeting its declared 2% millitary spending target if you don't include things like pensions.

For real? Who cares about NATO spending? Meanwhile they have functional governments, holidays, healthcare, education... the things that every citizen can use every day, and that you can afford when you're not trying to build up a 100x military that nobody else wants to pay for.
I remember a Simpsons joke where Homer finds out the government has everyone's DNA on file and asks about it and they say "Yep everyone who's touched a penny since 1932" or something.

Turns out it didn't need to be that elaborate, you could just ask folks to mail it in ;)
Yeah that’s the ultimate interview question from Facebook: “explain why this component calls render() 46 times” and the answer is “it doesn’t, it renders 47 times” and they have to bring in one of the core developers to stop all the head scratching.
Can someone kindly explain to me the main barriers to entry for a small startup intent on creating a divine product in the music streaming space? We all certainly deserve the music player of the future.
Yes, hence the questioning.
23andMe uses a SNP array, or SNP chip, to look at SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or more generally, single nucleotides that vary within a population). Basically what it gives you is a diff against a reference genome. So yes, while not a full genome sequence you can still get a VCF file out of it, impute sites that are not on the chip, use it for genealogy analysis, look at someone's disease carrier status, genetic disease likelihood, etc.
I played Doom at work--I got a PC to run OS/2 and C compilers.
Intel won because of DOS. Once Compaq opened the market to clones, you could purchase an Intel PC from any number of manufacturers that could run DOS, and then later Windows. IBM tried to stop this with OS2, but thanks to its DOS compatibility layer, Microsoft convinced everyone to develop for DOS, since it wasn't going away in OS2.
I don't really see how this is different from the military-industrial complex + campaign finance + lobbying situation we have today. It's just as corrupt, by any other name.
I've had better luck posting pictures with the "bribe" coupon in the picture next to the item.
https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite hasn't gotten any flack and it's rewritten from the PC leak.
Rust used to use jemalloc, which was arguably the better default. For some reason they switched it to the system allocator when they added support for specifying the global allocator
I've had kernel panics that disappeared when I started using the on board intel graphics instead of the nvidia.

Your statement makes no sense. It's like a smoker claiming that since he didn't die of lung cancer, smoke is 100% safe.
I know one district that, as of a few years ago, had a superintendent and two assistant supers. Each had two secretaries. Was this some monster-sized district? Nah, like six or seven total schools.

I don’t think it’s possible they had nine people’s worth of work between them. Half that, maybe, in a busy week.
Literally nothing. America is armed to the teeth. If the government deputized and allowed citizen militias to patrol its borders, there would be very low risk of invasion. Any invasion force would face tremendous logistical problems and irregular warfare by a well armed populace. Simply put, nobody can invade and control America. We would see a repeat of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The hardware must, and does, ensure that the metadata (both addressable - bounds, permissions, etc - and non-addressable - the tag) is kept atomic with the address portion of the capability, as otherwise you would be able to forge capabilities via such races. That is, you will never see a torn capability write, and the tag is updated atomically with every write, capability or not. This is easy to do since capabilities are always within a single cache line.
so sad given that there was a 23andMe OAuth2 API for some time that had SNPs as OAuth scopes!
I don’t trust it. I just used it to scan a listing (a head-cleaning cassette) which has a lot of obviously fake reviews, and it returned an A.
I believe that’s how mammals started - small, opportunistic creatures living near dinosaurs.
Not the person you're replying to, but:

As of this moment, I can say that I've never received a penny for writing a review. I have a small number of Amazon affiliate links on my website, but they're all for products that I personally researched, bought at the advertised price, and now recommend. No one can credibly accuse me of conflict of interest. If I say I like a thing, it's because I genuinely like it.

Getting a few bucks from a scammer isn't worth the reputational risk to me.
> Pretty sure these Docks and Task Bars with icons, that we all have at the bottom of our screens now, was an idea first seen in RISC OS

No way. Windows 1.0 had it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Windows_1.0_s...) . The RISC OS workflow of click on bottom to create new instance paradigm is probably from Xerox Star 8010 although might be earlier

https://interface-experience.org/site/wp-content/uploads/201...

The GUI unification theory is fine but we're talking RISC OS 2023 being still like this. All the weird quirks are still there.

Other systems have merged. Even ArcaOS, the successor to OS/2 has dropped all those strange tab systems that OS/2 Warp 3 took from PenpointOS. It's fairly hard to find something that's notably different that's ostensibly still being worked on.
During this entire period there was an explosion in microprocessor designs. Let's say most of them better than the x86 generation for each of them. That would still not be enough to compete with the IBM PC-Compatible in rough price-performance and in amount and ease of procuring "personal computer" types of software. A superior technical solution is NOT sufficient to win.
If you look at California, where we haven't had a separate tipped minimum wage since at least 2016, people still tip the nationwide norm between 15% and 25%.
Apple really shouldn't sell Macs with less than 16GiB of RAM. The first set of M1s got some bad press because so many folks were plagued by pop-ups saying they were out of memory -- from heavy browser usage not even intense workloads.
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You won't get it built in but there are plenty of biased sampling projects out there that can enforce responses as JSON. It's actually going to be more reliable with a local model since you can mess with logits before sampling.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#constrained-output-wi...

[2] https://github.com/gsuuon/ad-llama (mine)
CHERI can provide heap temporal safety to protect against use-after-free (really, use-after-reallocation; use-after-free is harmless until the point at which the memory is being used for something else, and deferring lets you batch revocation sweeps), it's just not on by default yet as it's a bit too experimental, but we're working to stabilise it more for our next CheriBSD release.
Oh, right, on the readme! That's so weird, because it kinda contradicts the "general conditions for use" document. I guess they mean the source code is ok to use but you must alter the design first? The UK's doesn't have such a dumb limitation.
LLMs are notoriously RAM-hungry. It’s not fair to judge what a MacBook comes with against what LLaMa2 needs. That is not normal use of a MacBook.
https://github.com/continue-revolution/sd-webui-animatediff
8gb on a Mac is better than 8gb on Windows, but 16gb is a whole lot better
The examples they give on how this worked for them in practice are also great to follow.
morals
Yup, I can see how they might not want to become a consumer product maker. Yet they could have parlayed the LSI-11 and successors into the position of Intel, IBM, and Microsoft combined, and flat-out owned a big chunk of personal computing, even if they stayed behind the scenes selling chipsets and software. Indeed it could be said that the PDP-1 was one of the world's first personal computers, but it was still a school/enterprise machine at a school/enterprise price.
Someone suggestions diverting some wasteful spending from the military and you jump to winding down the military and giving all of its money to something else?
The amount of random wrong stuff about pytorch in this thread is pretty funny.
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There is huge demand for AMD cards that can efficiently multiply matrices together. The issue is that while there are currently isolated cases where people can make them do that, it doesn't seem to be possible at the scale that it needs to happen at.

AMD are being dragged along by the market. Willingly, they aren't fighting it, but their focus has been on other areas.
The kettle I bought off of Amazon… the first one was obviously used (hard water deposits inside). The second one was presumably counterfeit as it stank of organic solvents. I ended up buying the same kettle directly from the manufacturer for a few bucks more and all was well.

More recently I succumbed to the temptation of fast shipping. Unfortunately the delivery wasn't so fast when the delivery driver decided to text me maniacally while I wasn't home instead of ringing the door buzzer for someone to let him in. So I bought elsewhere and now I had two of these shower knobs to look at. The Amazon one was indeed counterfeit. More flashing, text was a completely different typeface.

At that point I was down to buying an occasional small item when Amazon dangled a free prime membership in front of me. I've had reason to return every one of those orders I've placed in the past four years.

Lesson learned. Stop buying from Amazon.
I read that Shodan was running NTP servers to figure out active IPv6 addresses :)
Are you both from the US? If so, you need to take a refresher course in US history/government.

If not, I’ll just say that it was set up this way on purpose, and it’s very, very far down the list of “top things about the US government that are dysfunctional”
100% - automation assists us to stay on top of it. But, human connection is the key! (In hindsight, our subhead text "automation with a human touch" got it the wrong way around.)
Related:

Perl One-Liners Cookbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006829 - Nov 2020 (47 comments)
I remember a technical presentation by Intel on the microarchitecture of their latest generation. And thinking "Wow, they threw everything and the kitchen sink in there - each piece to gain ~1% performance." And the thing is, it was enough. That chip was arguably a mess - and it was sufficient to keep their market going.
> ...it offloads parts of model to SSD or main memory on both forward/backward passes

So... does this murder SSDs?
* as a percentage of US GDP, not in terms of actual dollars
While we're talking about the privacy implications of sending your DNA to be sequenced 'for fun'. 23andMe already work with law enforcement, and the data science is getting good enough that they can figure out your identity if one of your third cousins turned in a DNA sample and you never did.

The average person has around 200 3rd cousins.
Since IP addresses are PII, how can I use this and still respect GDPR? It's not like I can use consent for processing.
Caught a workmate in my team out as well. We can't create accounts and keep it all in the cloud at our job, so we had to find an installer for an older version.

Absolutely scummy behaviour
On a target, Strange Loop seems to have some of the best presentations I've seen over the years.

It's really unfortunate that this will be the last one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity#/media/File:Restauran...

Which bit do you not understand? End point taxes are not ubiquitos, and at least other countires have decent laws so people can see what they actually pay.
Not only that, you have to make sure all of your extended family members don't take the test too.
The PS3 PSN version still works with CDs at least. Kinda better because you don't need to swap discs. PS4/PS5 (and obviously Vita) can't read CDs.
Fair enough about plug-compatible mainframes. Though that probably was able to happen to at least some degree because IBM was acutely aware of anti-trust scrutiny.
Got a second-hand X100T, it was fairly cheap and it’s a great camera (https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0v55Z2WMHbI4K), can recommend.
Oh that's a neat trick I'd never encountered.
That’s the same issue. Apple was selling less than 2 million Macs then. Why invest in a low volume business?

We are seeing the same issue now with Macs. Apple would never have the resources to invest in the M series if they weren’t also selling 150 million A series iPhones and iPads, a few million M series iPads, 20-30 million S series Watches and miscellaneous other A series devices like AppleTVs and monitors.

The issue now is that even Apple is not willing to invest the resources needed to make high end ARM chips to compete with Intel on the very high end.
> It blows my mind the idea of people in California getting to tell the people in Texas how to live (or vice versa) is in any way desirable.

I don't understand how you can have a union including California and Texas where that isn't true bith ways unless you abandon popular sovereignty entirely.
Looking at the CPU market, competition did lead to lower prices: AMD are the best, but their CPUs are very reasonably priced because Intel is close behind.

In the gaming market for GPUs, Nvidia has no competition except in some niche areas. Overall, their lead in upscaling software is too commanding so they can price how they want. Customers are paying 15-20% premiums for the same raw hardware performance, all to access Nvidia's DLSS, because there's no good competition.
It would be awesome to connect to Goodreads to see what a user has read and rated so as to not recommend things already read and to take those ratings into account
Better than being stripped of their human agency and choice.

Better to be fat and happy than skinny with someone controlling your life
A close relative has an iPhone 8, so, absolutely, I believe there are probably millions of them in the wild and they'd be child's play to compromise.

If you are in the business of compromising, why would you not?
The essay defines the concept of psychogeography then explores how people have historically engaged with that concept.

As a small example of what this essay is pointing to: suppose your neighborhood could be 100% walkable and that you could easily walk to work, the doctor, your friends' houses, etc. What is desirable about that kind of environment? What would it take to make it possible? What kinds of systemic forces counteract it?

> Many of the issues we face [...] are deeply connected to the physical world and our interactions with our immediate surroundings. [...] As we emerge into post-pandemic public spheres, we have the opportunity to imagine new versions of the public sphere[.]

> Guy Debord, a founding member of both bodies, defined psychogeography as an environment’s impact, whether mindful or not, on an individual’s behaviors or emotions.

> These sorts of actions, even on the smallest scale, carry significant meaning when practitioners assert how they wish to inhabit a space, and when they are able to convince others to likewise undertake this reflective process of questioning the status quo.
Glad you are enjoying Steampipe and thanks for the kind words :-). If you have any suggestions for where you'd like to see the platform go please let us know!
I get where you're coming from, but it's a real problem that we have const-async-fallible-panicking-allocating combinatorial explosion. An effects system could abstract all of this away except for the base libraries and the application developers. A big goal of Rust is to be accessible, and all these sorts of "function colors" are a hindrance to that goal.

> You have static enforcement of blocking code (aka function coloring) in your language without even having any kind of coroutines.

And now it's annoying to write sync and async Rust.
This is an AMAZING article and you should feel very proud of making it