skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many different investment strategies are used, many of which do not "hedge" risk."

They're still not generally designed to beat the S&P 500, always.
If your planetary system offends the Empire, this is what happens.
Funding them would be better than funding Mozilla's CEO, they won't give Firefox much attention and we users donate to them for Firefox and they use our money to do boring (dead) projects ?
Stuttgart and Garching near Munich

This reads weird. It took me way too many seconds of wondering "wouldn't Stuttgart be nearer to... Stuttgart?" before I understood what you wrote. Sometimes the Oxford Comma has value, it seems.
This. My employer needs to supply every piece of equipment that I need to do my job. I am not here to subsidize my employer's business expenses.

As a matter of policy, I never use my personal machines/devices for work. This policy protects both myself and my employer.
> It’s always off-putting to me that claims written this way can be taken seriously as a technical criticism, but our industry is rather unserious.

It's not the industry. It's people.

> What these people advocate instead is an alternative architecture that they call “thread-per-core.” They promise that this architecture will be simultaneously more performant and easier to implement. In my view, the truth is that it may be one or the other, but not both.

Thread-per-core is hands-down better for performance. That's because you can't rely on storing application state smeared on a thread/co-routine stack, so you have to instead make all your state explicit, and in the process you'll effectively compress it by no longer smearing it on a very large data structure called the call stack. Smaller state == less cache thrashing.

The problem with thread-per-core is that you really need async/await or coding in continuation passing style in order to make it work. CPS is mostly not an option in most cases, so async/await it has to be.

Developers should understand the concepts of thread-per-core and thread-per-client and pick the best one for their case. IMO thread-per-core is always better because if your application explodes in popularity then you'll really care to make it more efficient, but rewrites are always hard or infeasible, so if you get it right from the beginning, then you win. What I mean by "pick the best one" then has to do with the developer's skills and productivity and time constraints. Sometimes "best" is about what you can manage, not what's "best" in an objective vacuum that ignores real-world constraints.
glibc's malloc doesn't work well for any workload. If your workload is anything other than trivial you should be using another one.

> FUD around switching to something like mimalloc or the most recent tcmalloc

Certainly, and the specific FUD about libc++ is unwarranted for tcmalloc, considering the developer of tcmalloc also uses libc++.
It was "free", but I rationalized that I'll have it for exercise and to hopefully reduce the amount of time I look at the gigantic screen. However, the way these purchases usually go is that you can't buy your way to a better lifestyle. So I'll find out eventually if it's just another gadget that collects dust on the shelf.

That being said I did want the better camera on the pro.
Those are all viable options for gangs that target individuals. But it is a whack-a-mole game that severely limits their potential profits.

The current scale and profitability is based on hitting companies for large amounts of money. And that very much depends on crypto.
I'm curious what the mitigate step entails and the lengths companies have gone to in the past to mitigate healthy behaviors for the sake of unhealthy consumption.
This comment is not addressing “only possible with crypto” - because only with the advent of unregulated crypto have we seen the rise in ransomware.

It provides no real benefit it and is a net negative to humanity imho
Everything about Distributed Training and Efficient Finetuning
Makes sense, thank you for clarifying.
>>simple authentication

This is my only gripe. Every time I do self assessment or complete my tax returns as a contractor I had to find some arcane combination of government gateway ID, password, authentication app etc etc. It's so secure it stops you paying the government money.
Only in the sense that no-one on earth knows how to get from here to true AGI. But they're making moves.
I see jvns.ca, I click. I am a simple person. I know that it'll probably be the best thing on HN that day.
Damning.
Yes, I am aware. I just think people here overestimate the reversibility and traceability of the traditional system. If you're a business and you're defrauded/hacked and don't realize within a week (usually even less time), five will get you ten that money's never coming back. It went to a mule who withdrew it as cash or wired it overseas. And there's no Reg E for businesses so your bank isn't going to help either.
First audio map of oohs, aahs and uh-ohs spans 24 emotions (2019)
Yes. The MicroVAX I and II were IC implementations of the original VAX. Vax on a chip. (Two different implementations. Low and high end.) They were designed and manufactured in-house by DEC, and were for sale in VAX minicomputer products by late 1984, early 1985 in volume.

In 1984, the only full 32-bit microprocessor that was actually available for a workstation or personal computer was the Motorola 68020. The Intel 386 wouldn't be out until late 1985.

> They were so worried about cannibalizing their own business that they forgot that they could get eaten by their new competitors instead.

There is perhaps an alternate history, where DEC started making 32-bit workstations and high-end personal computers around then as a major push, and not in the late 1980s as an afterthought. Though by 1984, IBM was starting to feel the pressure from competition in the low-end PC market. DEC would have felt that pressure! They were selling PC compatibles already. Margins were razor-thin, sales were impersonal. Exact opposite of how DEC usually operated. No surprise management saw it as a risky sector to further expand in.
> Is the formula legally binding?

Sort of. Traders have successfully sued when screwed on a formulaic bonus. If it's discretionary, and historically didn't follow a formula, an employee has much less to stand on.
I love this stuff, and while I consider myself informed, i'm not an expert.

However, I've bantered a bit with Scylla's CTO and others about how I would regularly run into issues with Scylla because they didn't use TPC, and I'd see hot keys that would suffer performance because they only let one core manager a subset of keys...

So, while I can't make an authoritative statement, I think TPC is better overall...
I'd say because I have a lot more agency and less emails than with a job prior where I definitely didn't want to get work email on my phone.
"Information Asymmetries. Because Google’s ad tech products face little or no
meaningful competition, Google has been able to operate its products within a black box,
affording publishers and advertisers limited visibility into how, why, and even at what price,
website advertising inventory is sold. One industry report suggests that approximately 15% of all
digital advertising spend is simply unaccounted for, with publishers and advertisers unable to
determine which intermediary may have siphoned this spend off for its own gain. Reduced
transparency diminishes the ability of publishers and advertisers to make informed choices in
selecting their ad tech products and hampers their ability (and rivals’ as well) to serve as a
competitive constraint."

You can read the full lawsuit here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/case-documents/attachments/2023/0...
In fairness that's a very valid point. Certainly have the financial clout to go through with this in terms of talent and the nuts and bolts.
Lessons from Google Trends about the American psyche
it really depends on the workload. as other posters have said, not everything can/should be ported to GPU. some scientific calculations are simply not parallelizable in that way.

typically at least in the US there's a mix of GPU-focused machines as well as traditional CPU-focused machines. the leadership class machines (i.e., the machines funded to push the FLOPS records) tend to be highly focused on GPU. one reason is fixed cooling/power availability. I assume these facilities are looking at ARM as a way to save 10-20% on power and thus cram that much more into the facility.
Maybe someday we'll actually be able to search the Web privately
Maybe you could take a look at a Bloom Filter datastructure, space efficiënt probalistic set for testing if something is present

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
They do nothing for me, because I want all my passwords to be unique. Which means I need a password manager no matter what.
because then you just pave the way for the other players from asia, and I don't think that would be good either
Did anyone call them by their numbers back in the day? I grew up the child of an IBMer and only recall hearing "PC", "XT", "AT". There were some big IBM machines and displays that would be referred to by numbers ("3090", "8514") but I never heard that for the PC system units.
Tesla raises prices in Europe hours after cuts in U.S.
From recent reviews on iOS it sounds like all the email addresses a user submits are sent to the company the user wants to opt out of, regardless of how many have been shared by the user with that company. A dev responded that they'll add to the list of features the ability to select email addresses when submitting these requests. Sounds like it's a work in progress, and I'm optimistic.

I plan to try with a low-stakes email address I don't use much and have been manually decoupling from online services already. That's one way to find out how much you can trust this, but it'll take time and attention.
> I'm also a bit sad to hear that Strange Loop is now finished? I only found them last year or so and it seemed like so many of the talks were exceptional quality.

You might want to watch Alex Miller's talk that has been uploaded recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv76aL0NrA

And yes, it's sad that it ended!

However he made a very good case for why sometimes it's good for things to end. If you watch the whole talk it all makes sense.
I can spend several (2-3x) as much for a computer that doesn't run the software most people need? From a company with no track record? Well, at least it's pretty.

You can always tell the replies from someone who only read about it on the interwebs.
It's a neat hack but I have to wonder whether the hole through which you pass through the pipes leaks more heat energy to the outside than the fans take to run on an all-indoor system.

Plus, in the winter, you get "free" heating by running the machine completely indoors. Not actually free of course, but free as a side-effect of using the machine for other tasks. Had a friend who tried splitting his electrical service off into a cheaper heat-rate branch to run his bitcoin mining rigs and claimed they were the same as a space heater. I don't think the power company bought it.
Yep, it seems pretty fair.
Course website (linked from the article): https://www.hum307.com/
The definition of non-recipients was never tied to violence. The examples given were Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, all peaceful activists or journalists.
I'm pretty sure there were people who cared in 1979, I wasn't one of them because I was in school. And I mean, I'm probably older than most people on HN. Probably a significant percentage of the community here didn't care in 1979 because they weren't alive.

Anyone old enough to vote in 1979 is probably pretty close to retirement now. Almost everyone in a position of power in 1979 is probably dead. Obviously Biden was a young senator, but that's about it.
Hah, and use some scripting magic (for example AutoHotkey) inside the VM to bring up an appropriate window before the screenshot is taken. E.g. if working on task PHB-5461 (which is a task involving webapp StupidApp with code in repository git:dumbcompany/stupidapp.git), then randomly show the browser with the webapp, or open the IDE with a random file out the repository, and let the tracking app take the screenshot.
> Such collisions produce a kilonova – an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than a standard supernova. However, one very speculative theory is that if one of the neutron stars is highly magnetized – a magnetar – it could greatly amplify the power of the explosion even further to 100 times the brightness of a normal supernova.

Uh… maybe my reading comprehension is bad, but are “1,000” and “100” switched in this paragraph?
How Will A.I. Learn Next?
And articles

And comments

I predict that by 2030, probably 99.9% of all content and published discoveries will be AI-assisted, and outcompete manual stuff for grants and money. Manual content will be as niche as knitted sweaters on etsy.
Afaik US funding went to the afghan mujahideen not arab volunteers. Do you have evidence suggesting otherwise?
I disagree. With sufficient buy-in and money, you can make your systems extremely difficult and costly to attack, making the economics of an attack not worth it.

I’m willing to bet that a place like MGM has utterly abysmal security. You don’t see regular attacks against top-tier companies because a lot of them invest a reasonable amount.
Casting to a void pointer is perfectly fine though, so maybe that should be the preferred way to pass the pointer to the allocation. (I would also be interested to know how casting the void pointer returned from generic allocation routines to some typed pointer is justified).
It takes the piss that you have to pay to park outside your own house anyway.

I mean, a nominal fee enough to correlate car registration with owners address, but not £210 like google told me it costs in Wandsworth. I bet about £10 of that goes to the council.
Well, of course changing a statement around 100% would change the fact if it's correct or not :)

The initial claim was "Laundering USD is significantly harder than laundering Bitcoin", not about transferring currency between two countries.
Universal childcare is low-hanging fruit for America. Unfortunately, there is a vocal section (mostly married men) who want a stay-at-home mom and believe this will, similar to women entering the workforce following the advent of contraception and the civil rights movement, "force" their wives into the workplace.
I'm not a vet, I have a few marksmanship certifications and have participated on and off in combat sports. I'm a better shot than the average cop, statically speaking, the marksmanship standards are fairly low for police.

The issue is, I don't have a great deal of faith in society generally or the people who inhabit it.

We couldn't even manage sharing the plentiful toilet paper resources available during the pandemic. The idea that the, to be frank, mostly obese often self proclaimed mentally ill masses are going to put forward a meaningful defence seems optimistic.

Think of it this way; If you are right, I won't have needed any of this training or equipment. If I'm right, you'll wish you were as prepared as I am. The price of being wrong from my position is much lower than from yours.
I'm usually surprised when no-nonsense economic incentives fly under the radar nowadays. You'd expect this, much like subsidized education or any other workforce support utility, to just be a hot topic in a media landscape that looks to shame these incentives, but I guess the state it comes from is complicated to put in narrative.
Based on your bullet points here, I'm not sure what you find misleading?

The headline doesn't specifically say outside of games, but I don't think that makes it misleading, especially because the "for all" makes it clear that it's only about some cases. And people generally know that games pay.

Being announced in advance, not affecting previous versions... none of that is implied otherwise by the headline.
As pron always says.. that's a risk of staying on an LTS release. You're choosing to not receive updates.
Yup, the ffi cost is extremely painful. I work on a Go product that is performance sensitive and this exact problem is a constant source of aggravation
>Enlighten us then how a generative AI model behaves when confronted with data outside its training space?

It behaves just fine.

>I think confusion comes from the idea that you can take a regression or expectation and extend it into the future and is that extrapolation.

Congratulations, you've just defined extrapolation. Someone is definitely confused here but it isn't me.

Of course you can make any claim about what something can or can't do when you make up your definitions.

There are many many clear examples of a language model extrapolating. Rather than accept this, you've opted to conjuring up vague and meaningless definitions and distinctions on the fly.

This is so simple to see. Untestable Definitions are meaningless. Please give us a test of "extrapolation" that all humans can perform and let's see how the Language Model does. You won't be able to but by all means, give it a go.

>Extrapolation takes the new regime and data and your existing training and adapts a new behavior.

Great and Language Models do this.
> Who is at fault?

Nobody? What does "fault" mean here? Are we going to court?

The employer and employee both had strict but mutually exclusive requirements. I empathize with the employee, but this still feels like at-will employment operating as intended.
You will own nothing...
WebAssembly Isn’t Software: It’s a Computer
Hmm, I think the effect would be more localized, and involve a lot of strange forms of matter. My guess is it would be similar to what happened to Anatoli Bugorski when he stuck his head into a proton beam.
I bet the pension would help as well.
Will email you.
In fairness, there are standardised protocols for a lot of these things already, even if they're not all part of one giant meta-protocol. Cameras in particular have mostly appeared as a folder full of files, with no need for special drivers, for something like 20 years.

There's definitely no need to invoke a conspiracy for the lack of 'one protocol to rule them all'. It's often hard agreeing on a standard even for a relatively limited topic - trying to agree on one for all electronic communications for all devices is probably impossible.
Downvote garbage most hated video on the platform - YouTube Rewind 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_... Youtube CEO removes downvote count to hide it.

Like Vatnik Soup exposing twitters overlord for what he is https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/201 https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/203 Like numbers goes away.

I sense a pattern here.
> The farthest I'm willing to do is installing Slack and Outlook on my phone

You're willing to go much further than me! If I need a phone for my job, my employer needs to supply the phone to me. I'm not using my phone for work, let alone installing any software for work purposes on it.
I both agree and disagree with her sentiments here. Not in a right/wrong sense, but just what I found works for me.

I agree with having helpers to understand how tooling works. Any resources that increase understanding of how to use a tool to it's full capability is productively beneficial. (Hat-tip to anything that unpacks all the `curl` switches.)

Here's where I have disagreement: an old boss of mine once said "don't worry about the tricks of the trade; learn the trade." That's very contextual, but sometimes understanding the core first makes the rest of it easy. And understanding the core takes both effort and increases cognitive load, so I understand why one might not go that route.

So, for me, I always try to keep a balance between trying to back my way into execution via those helpers, and recognizing when I need to take a step back and learn at a bit more core level.

Her down-to-earth approach is refreshing, that's for sure.
Haha I wish I could say that was intentional
It is clearly a reference to Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators. The explosion location is a mystery that will require the investigative power of three spunky teenagers working out of a junkyard to solve.
Note that to get a transcript you have to scroll down and click the relevant bit of UI, at which point it loads in.

I was going to post https://www.latent.space/p/llamaindex#transcription as a shortcut to it but apparently that just confuses the on-page JS and it resets to #details instead.
Hi, I'm an engineer at Store.app. Thanks so much for the feedback, love the listings (and nice lighthouse score!). We're definitely planning to surface more developer information on the listings, this is a great idea. Your profile page does currently highlight the apps you own with some of their metrics and a feature of our verified plan is you get an "About the developer" card on your listing that links to your profile. More on the way!
Show HN: A poor man’s VR (front camera and tensorflow.js)
Using the front camera and tensorflow.js, the smartphone becomes a “window” into the real world. Video and image content appear as if they were seen through this window. To do this, the viewer’s position is determined using a neural network. The viewed content is then moved according to the viewer’s position. This makes it seem like the content is physically behind the smartphone and is viewed through the smartphone’s screen. This effect is especially useful for content captured using an ultra-wide lens.
Totally agree and I thought about that example. But cropping is an inevitable part of photography (or painting) and was done in camera or in the darkroom before digital tools with identical power and results (albeit, cropping digitally is a lot, lot, lot faster). To push this analogy to its breaking point, cropping digitally is like using a keyboard to write instead of a pen.
Ok, but it's not Send that's doing it, and causing you problems. It's using async.

You were always sending crap across concurrent execution contexts. But the language syntactically kinda-hid it from you and you got away with not worrying about it. And now it bit you in the ass.

In general, this is the problem with implicit/masqueraded behaviour. Why back in the day we moaned about REST vs RPC (stop trying to hide that there's a network there!). Or why it's a bad idea to have languages where "+" is a string append operator. Etc. In systems design: surprises suck.

Tokio is sending your stuff around, passing it around. So of course it has to be Send. Yeah, you can avoid that by doing thread per-core and just never having things send. But I swear, it's going to bite you in the ass in the end anyways. It's your control flow that's confusing (because it's hidden), not the Send.

In the end, C++ or etc would just let you hang yourself here, and you'd be puzzling over a segfault or deadlock later, at 3am.

(There are some things that piss me off tho. AtomicPtr<T> being Send+Sync while *T/*const T is not makes no sense. Both are equally unsafe, and there's no difference in how they behave across thread boundaries, really.)
The problem is, people love making easy thing harder.
> If they just manufacture their own and use their own, but don't sell them, then nVidia and ARM are just losing a client, not getting competition.

That's competition. Apple Silicon completes with Intel at an ecosystem level.
My biggest problem is that yak shaving kills my motivation. I tend to choose tasks that will teach me something, so I don’t already know what will be entailed in building the thing. I do expect a certain amount of peripheral work, but when those peripheral tasks start getting deep and wide, it starts to feel like my goal is out of reach.
Head of CIA OSINT emphasizes centrality of Twitter and Telegram surveillance