skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would put even more evidence that there really was something about right-hand staircases.

Probably there was. It might have also had nothing to do with making it easier to defend the staircase during combat. Maybe they just found that carry stuff up if the stairs go clockwise is easier. Maybe counterclockwise works better for those climbing down. But in most places you don’t really have enough space for two staircases so you just chose which (up/down) is more important to you
The argument is "it's not worth the trade-off, because the downsides are [X]".

This is a profoundly different argument than "we should never under any circumstances use any technology to prevent anything because 'it's not a tech a tech problem' and/or 'it predates tech'".

Merely "X predates Y" is a worthless argument that can be applied to almost everything (accidents predate cars, murder predates guns, war predates ICBMs, etc. etc.)
> Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.

So, AOSP team can obviously create Rust framework ontop of Skia(or tinyskia,femtovg,etc.), make Android APIs available in Rust, Create proper widget framework and let us create Android Applications written entirely in Rust.

> Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.

I know what I am talking about. This is exactly the freedom that I was talking about. I am able to choose any framework/toolkit I want. If i don't want any framework, that's fine too. You don't have that freedom in Android. Everything has to be routed via Java ecosystem that AOSP constructed.
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I could never run DSLinux, I was in eighth grade and couldn't afford the RAM pack (just used a pirate card for games). But I printed out all of the documentation at the school library and read it until I pretty much new it by heart, and that became my introduction to Linux.

I can't remember if this was before or after I managed to inadvertently install (!?) Knoppix on my sister's school laptop, but my passion for Linux was there well before I had the means to run it myself.
The journey from tiny atmospheric vibrations to perceiving something like speech or music is as improbable and absurd as any biological adaptation of the animal kingdom.

The basic, undifferentiated cell functions (including dna encoding etc), while extraordinary, still feel like robust and fairly close to physical-anorganic processes.

Once cells start differentiating and creating these long chains of bizarre mechano-electro-biological contraptions one wonders what sort of weird and wonderfull phase space has been tapped.

I wish there would be more detail about the final neuronal stages, perception of pitch (octaves), timbre, rhythm, direction, volume etc.
Awesome, that’s makes total sense. Am I right in thinking the practices described here at Facebook are more like progressive delivery?
As in, instead of adding code to call out to some external feature flag or configuration system, new changes are deployed automatically in isolation and requests are routed to them progressively for larger and larger cohorts? All while validating the health of the change automatically?
>Mail can be sent with just a postcode and door number

Oh, good grief. From this very article:

>The widely stated ‘fact’ that all you need to provide is a house number and postcode for your post to reach the right address is not always true. There are many instances of different buildings having the same number and postcode.
But these aren't really the successful models that further creativity. On the contrary, we see a buzzing community that create thousands of models and they specifically chose base models that are not lobotomized because they simply provide better results.

So you might not want to stifle that with corporate control.
His MBA is from Harvard Business School. Undergrad CS at Rice.
Nothing funny. It's similar to how YouTube was built on massive copyright infringement, on a scale unmatched by anything except perhaps LLMs now, and then turned around to become the Fully Automated Fanatic Copyright Enforcer we know it today. It's not hypocrisy - it's this, or getting sued out of existence. They pulled a fast one and got away with it, because MAFIAA figured it's more profitable to extract money from YouTube at legal gunpoint, instead of killing it and losing a distribution channel they can't maintain themselves. Here, OpenAI is trying to get ahead of the whole generative AI copyright kerfuffle, hoping to avoid getting sued if they demonstrate they're eager to work in the interest of copyright holders.
> it _has_ to use the system-provided Java APIs.

My original comment was against this. Why should this be the case?
And the ~dozen I've bought off of Amazon (Mostly Anker) can. shrug
> European security is national security via geopolitics.

If you consider “national security” to be a meaningless buzzword and not an actual concept, you can say that. It's as accurate as saying “US sports results at the Olympics is a national security issue via soft power”.

Pretty much everything is “national security” by that standards.

> Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.

Sure, but most of them don't have anything to do with national security.
This is obviously project-specific, but most rewrites that I've been a part of are usually not "re-implement everything from scratch", but rather "re-implement everything based on this new framework/library", which will usually be one more layer of software, on top of the few things to be salvaged from the original.

Small projects can be re-written; big projects like browsers, compilers, OSs require too much investment.
Yes and no. Let's take the closest analogy we have now, i.e. analog vs digital. The digital art technologies (photography, painting, music etc.) are much more common today than their analog ancestors. Yet, there is a part of the market that really appreciates the analog experience - they will buy vinyls and so on. My friends publishing house is commissioning only analog images for the cover. Another friend is a photographer and he is selling mostly analog photographs. So yes, you are right, but it's not really the sense of superiority, it's different things for different customers.
Tanks for the comment! I never looked at FreeAgent. From what I see from the landing: I do not have automatic bank feeds and I am also currently not able to OCR a pdf/image to create automatically an expense. I still have a lot of work ;-) 1 thing I won't do is showing the dashboard as the first screen of the app. As a freelancer, most of the time I log my time; on momo.coach it's the first screen you see!
> It is actually the opposite, it is currently considered a good practice to run stateful workloads outside of kubernetes and stateless workloads inside of kubernetes.

Is that still true?

I wouldn't call the parent comment charitable enough, because there definitely can be some reasons for running stateful workloads even outside of containers altogether (familiarity included), but at the same time it feels like a lot of effort has been invested into making that a non-issue.

For example, how many database Operators are now available for Kubernetes: https://operatorhub.io/?category=Database&capabilityLevel=%5...

Honestly, as long as you have storage and config setup correctly, it's not like you even need an Operator, that's for more advanced setups. I've been running databases in containers (even without Kubernetes) for years, haven't had that many issues at small/medium scale.
I doubt it's generated with an LLM. LLMs are much too easy to get to generate much higher quality text then the one you quoted.
Whoever posted it thought otherwise.
My dad was an audiologist and worked for many years with children with cochlear implants. I remember in the 90s him bringing a laptop home with software that tested otoacoustic emissions via a microphone/earbud combo. Later I met one of his colleagues from that time who, whilst working full time and with a large young family, obtained a phd in using this tech to test newborn hearing. That work has been the basis for the UK’s national newborn hearing screening service for decades now, helping to catch issues early where the most impact can be made. I’m really in awe of this profession - it’s pretty out of sight for many but makes a huge difference.
It was more than peering. I don't know what it's like now, but Google ran the entire starlink terrestrial network. Including providing CGNAT. Starlink addresses showed up as Google Fi.

As I said I don't know the current state
This also taps into Alan Kay old goals of producing the "smallest" desktop stack. 100k vs 100m Loc.

(And reducing accretion by having metalevel encoding of concepts)
Isn't it a bigger indictment of the "follower" investors who did no due diligence of their own because Sequoia was investing? Why would anyone trust their money with these investors instead of investing with Sequoia if that's all they do?
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true, but ORMs also make 2. harder
doesn't address the initial comment's concerns
The US postcode system includes three countries that aren't part of the US at all! <https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-US-Possessions-US-Territ...>
That seems to be linked to the spreading belief that this is a health issue instead of an aesthetic preference. Those who now believe this option somehow hurts their healthy eyes might already outnumber the actually colorblind.
As a data point, Hetzner has offered Ryzen 7000 CPU's with ECC ram for months:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax

The AX52 has optional ECC ram as an upgrade, while the AX102 comes with ECC by default.

It'd be surprising if they'd been offering ECC that didn't really work.
>Sonos waited until 2019 to pursue claims on the invention (and until 2020 to roll out the invention in its own product line).

What was the feature that Sonos introduced in 2020 that was being fought over?
I think this is a marketing push to sell false security. There are some believers in the supposed AI apocalypse though.
I jumped to read a bit about it, expecting from your comment a swift victory, but it's much more involved than that, the sequence of attack strategies and counterattacks are quite suspenseful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tyre_(332_BC)#The_sie...
Agreed, there are a number of accounts that do describe this happening as well
I understand why it sounded like that, but I really don't think people do it intended as shibboleth, but because it is more effective.

I mentioned what sounds like potentially a shibboleth aspect reluctantly, with a sense that might be misleading. I should've characterized it better.

Maybe less like a shibboleth, and my thought was more like "We can have this higher-bandwidth communication, if I don't drop the ball" or "This is a person from my hometown or who shares my native language, and it would be stupid to use a different language, or not fallback to my hometown accent".
probably generated with a 7B model
Recently got burnt by Microsoft deprecating Azure Media Services, so I can understand if the author doesn't want to use a cloud offering for encoding.
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Why does this need so many services? Is it meant to scale to enough users where you'd want postgres and Redis? Seems like everything but the machine learning on this could be pure Python if they wanted.

I'd probably still use it since there's awesome tools like this to set it all up, but it seems like a confusing architecture.
> To make it simpler - Karpathy said it in July, and the OpenAI CTO said it a few weeks ago - it’s easy to make PoCs but very hard to build production ready GenAI tools.

If you try to measure if something is intelligent by trying to put it into a production ready workflow, then your measurement might be somewhat skewed...
I mean, I am not trying to judge the intelligence of toddlers by putting them into a production ready workflow.

If a pig could converse with me at the level of ChatGPT 4, I am not sure if I could eat it.

> Our bags of flesh may be machines, however those machines are not simply biological LLMs.

I don't think we are just machines, and if we were, I don't know if we function the same as LLMs. But whatever it is that LLMs do, they are clearly intelligent, so they demonstrate one way that intelligence works. Harnessing this intelligence for something else than mere chats is a challenge, of course. I am using them as well to build something, and their current limitations are obvious. But even with these limitations, they allow me to do stuff I would not have thought possible a year ago.
LLM works on token sequences and does not recognize any letters. It operates on token indices. The tokenizer establishes a vocabulary from the datasets, placing segments of text into a hash table for all frequently appearing parts of the text, which could be subwords or sentence fragments. LLMs learn the dependencies of token indices from each other. They learn the probabilities of one index following another. No actual words or letters are involved.

Most training data originate from English datasets. Some datasets contain aligned sequences of Dutch and English. The LLM learns the relationship between indices of Dutch and English phrases. The quality of translation depends on the size of the aligned dataset and the extent of the topics covered in this dataset. Therefore, most of the knowledge is derived from English data, with Dutch merely being another representation of the same data learned during training.
As an added bit of genius, it’s exactly the right width to fit snugly into an Ethernet port. (Which most laptops keep right next to the usb ports)

So on the rare occasion that you get it right by feel the first try, you’re not actually plugged in to anything and get to spend 10 minutes debugging your printer before noticing.
How about just bringing your cell phone close to the DIMMs to trigger errors? That would be easy to do.
I don't think that's even remotely true.
This may be philosophically one of the most important graphs regarding the current state of AI!
It shows that large language models already DO have an internal model of confidence in their statements, all that is needed is to train the models to output this confidence alongside their hallucinations if the confidence is low.
My take: round connectors are the best connectors — checking the plug orientation is a waste of bloody time. Every time you plug something in you waste a few seconds checking the orientation and flipping the plug over. Even reversible plugs are inferior to round ones.

USB-A has only 4 wires: they could have easily used a co-axial connector. Hell, they could have used a 3.5 mm TRRS phono cable and it would have been better.

Why do we put up with this shit?
I'm curious why the leg joints hinge towards the posterior, instead of away from the posterior like they do in dogs. Seems we would want to mimic the nature model as optimal, however does this imply the robot model performs better, in a way that somehow all quadrupeds didn't evolve to?

Or is it some nuance of metals vs carbon-based joints?
> evolutionary pressure

Wouldn’t you need the relevant event to not be extremely rare for that to matter?

I mean a sieges were once in a several decades or even once in 100-200 years events on average. Actual direct assaults with combat occurring on the stairs were significantly less frequent than that. The defender being able to turn the tide at that point? Even less.
The 32 million is pocket change. What's important is whether the import ban on infringing Google devices is related to this judgement, or if that was a separate case.
Top posting is so common that I often receive "you replied with an empty email" when I try to bottom post. I think some clients (maybe outlook?) will just automatically fold everything below a quote, resulting in my recipients not even notifying that there are replies below the quoted parts. I have given up.
Hmm if done respectfully, public deliberation on important social issues can be an important part of coming up with actual solutions that consider more elements of a problem rather than being totally polarised and taking only one view.
Perhaps this is difficult to achieve because people’s political views are strongly tied to their identity, but I personally think being open-minded is a strength and being able to understand something from someone else’s perspective is a good skill (in my opinion)
> IIRC AMD doesn't validate the ECC functionality on their ryzen chips? So you could theoretically end up with a defective ECC circuitry if unlucky.

This is not the case.

Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC use a unified memory controller that has fully validated/qualified/supported ECC capability. The only difference between the memory controllers in these CPUs is the number of them (Threadripper and EPYC will have multiple memory controller to support the extra memory channels).

When AMD claims that ECC on Ryzen isn't validated, they're talking about the platform as a whole, not the CPU specifically. ECC support on consumer CPUs depends on the motherboard supporting it. Unlike on Threadripper and EPYC (and also unlike Intel's approach), ECC is not a guaranteed feature of the Ryzen platform, so people who want that functionality need to explicitly looks for motherboards that have it (in the same way that you'd need to explicitly verify PCIe bifurcation support).

However, if the motherboard supports it, ECC on Ryzen is a fully supported, validated, you-can-RMA-if-it-doesn't-work feature.
There's also a critical difference in the causality flow. Time alone will teach nothing but cynicism. But a lot of things take a long time to learn. Age and time is not a useful predictor by itself, but it's often correlative.
What was the original tech?
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Sure, but I think we can safely say the Saturn V was hardly a mass market product.

Rockets following the aircraft approach of 3rd party engines is fairly common. Many Atlas rockets using the RD-180 engines comes to mind.
If you want freedom for app development buy a Pinephone or Librem 5 device.

Android Brillo demise already proved that isn't what Google cares about.
And if you’re at the bottom you could just start a fire instead of risking your life by try to climb up
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Really insightful and from all accounts Chuck was a rare combination of both shrewd and immensely kind…
> In this case, Google can now clone Sonos' hardware and synchronized play algorithms and block Sonos from accessing YouTube Music.

how did you come to this outcome, that Google could and would do this?
I appreciate these thoughts being written down and these points definitely need to be addressed.

I think one of the big problems is not that phones etc are appliances but that everything company is trying to turn their offerings into an appliance (and alternatives becoming more and more niche), and at the same time alternatives are just not allowed to be on the same footing.

In some places you need either an Android (Google Android that is) or an iPhone to partake in some services (commercial or otherwise). Very often it feels penalizing to refuse to use either of those, or you lose out in quality of life or available services as a result. This isn’t good.
You good LLMs, that's probably not what worked on this.
I thought ucLinux was dead, I had no idea it was mainlined.

Does this mean we can finally have app-capable IoT devices, which for some reason are very uncommon even though it would be rather useful?
> Would removing all instances of CSAM from the internet be a good thing if it would lead to an increase in CSA?

Yes.

Even if CSAM would reduce actual abuse (which is a big "IF", last time I looked researched leaned weakly towards that it increased abuse), the argument is essentially a variant of the trolley problem: "we'll let one kid be abused to make the CSAM to save n others". I'm not comfterable with that, especially since alternatives such as cartoons, AI-generated, or just old-fashioned photoshop exist (but whether that's a good thing is debatable, and is rather off-topic here).
nice. now send them to Ukraine so they can clear out Russian trenches
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In your print statement ... (berkshire_return/100)*(1/10)-1:.4f ... gives the annualised return (assuming start with 100 and 10 years).

That brings you into alignment with the article.
I don't have a horse in this race, but I am curious: who did he give to, and in what way do those donations not align with effective altruism?
Heinlein had a discussion about the "place a large mass just over a particular point on the Earth's surface" approach in "- We Also Walk Dogs" at https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739410516/page/306/mode... .

How big as mass? After some calculations on a slide rule:

> “I’m almost afraid to answer. You would need a good sized asteroid, of lead, to get anywhere at all.”

> “Asteroids have been moved before this.“

> “Yes, but what is to hold it up? No, Chief, there is no conceivable source of power, or means of applying it, that would enable you to hang a big planetoid over a particular spot on the Earth’s surface and keep it there.”

But wait, what about something dense, like core material from a dwarf star?

> “All we would need for that would be a ship capable of going light-years in a few days, some way to mine the interior of a star, and a new space-time theory.”

> “Oh, well, skip it."

Oh, yeah. In this space-age future where people can travel across the Solar System, they also use punched cards.
a lot of esoteric words here. is there some documentation to this setup? I'm not sure where to even start, but don't want Govee relentlessly forcing me to give them my location to use smart bulbs
There's for example non-voting stock where you only participate in a potential exit or dividends.
Not argueing against ECC, but some of your scenarios seem to be outdated due to crypto. I.e software you download from the internet is often signed and hashes are validated (Linux package managers, macOS developer certs). Same for DNS requests (dnssec) etc. Yes, there is still wiggle room for bitflips to cause problems, but less so than in the past.
And yet, search-and-replace on big files takes seconds.
We use quite a lot of tech to mitigate the theft and murder problem. Including stuff like having lamps on the streets in the night.

> The police do ordinary policework, arrest the criminals and they're convicted of their crimes.

Only around 54% of murders are solved by police. Other crimes have lower clearance rates.
Depending on the company bylaws you typically need at least a simple majority of the votes / stocks to issue new stocks. The company can also have a rule that says that existing share owners must have the right to purchase before everyone else, to "defend" their stake.

In general companies typically raise money because they think the cash infusion will benefit the existing shareholders in the long run, either by not going into ≈bankruptcy or having the cash to do investments / move into new markets etc.
> Distance is not used to rank each property.

Here's a counter-example: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.5909519,7.1060244/43.5939...
Individual happiness in the United States was much higher by most objective measures. In the 1950s, crime was lower, inflation-adjusted income was higher, people got married and had kids.