skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago a similar issue cropped up on macOS where when the device was extremely hot (at least on intel), you'll see kernel_task seemingly using a ton of CPU time. What was actually happening is that the kernel was scheduling an idle thread which just put the CPU to sleep in an effort to lower the temperature beyond what it could achieve with fans and DVFS.
... you are right. it will inevitably turn to shit, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

The only thing that makes me hopeful is that not all accounts can vote, and that the notes only show up with a vast majority of votes. Amazon on the other hand is easier to game just because you usually need to have purchased or received the product to review it (Meaning the seller can easily bribe buyers and even fake them).
I call it a maypole to relate to foreigners. What would you call the pole? It's actually called a midsommarstång, which means midsummerspole...
It seems like they self correct when you explain to the LLM something is incorrect. But in reality they take the original question, plus the “incorrect” statement and get the most likely responses from the model
Moreover, subsidies have an economic argument for certain technologies. Specifically, if the technology has good experience effects, current deployment causes future costs to decline, a positive externality. So it makes sense to subsidize technologies that have good experience effects.

Renewables have shown strong and sustained experience effects. Nuclear has not. So it would make sense to subsidize renewables more than nuclear.
There is debate over whether or not every person has an internal monologue, and a nontrivial number of people self-report that they don't experience conscious dialogs while they think: https://www.verywellmind.com/does-everyone-have-an-inner-mon...

It's certainly possible that they're wrong, but my suspicion is that at the very least the form their internal monologue is taking is not one of consciously simulating hypothetical conversations in their head.

Additionally, we know that human decisions can in some situations be influenced by stimuli that take effect before the brain has even consciously registered that a decision needs to be made. It seems pretty safe to say that those stimuli are not being processed using a language model.
The governments that establish the land (world countries' govs) will be enforcers monitoring from outside in to enforce the rules (not laws because violation is summary execution).
sadly this is indicative of the mindset of IT.

instead of fixing the problem (buy more 3COM PCMCIA cards), just develop a bureaucracy and inefficient culture built around preserving the broken system. complete with secret police and witch-hunts.

i'd have like to see how much company time (in $s) was wasted on the "investigation" (witch-hunt) and the extra service calls due to bad cards instead of buying proper working equipment.
I prefer "The company formerly known as Twitter" or "That wretched place". Xitter is a bit twee for my taste.
Not speaking for new23d but many corporations are required per their own compliance documentation to make a best effort to block access to known malware and sanctioned sites. If they are unable to do so via their corporate firewalls such as PAN and Fortigate and the like, then they will have to disable ECH and possibly DoH in their networks until other options are in place such as MiTM proxies and those are not always an option due to cost or other compliance conundrums. Intercepting personal traffic to banks, etc... varies by AUP and company/employee agreements, corporate risk acceptance, requirements.

Now speaking just for myself, the moment OpenSSL, HAProxy, NGinx and Apache support ECH I am turning it on everywhere. I have been waiting a long time for it.
the correct solution there is to manage your cables. yanking your monitor off the desk would not be an improvement
> nobody pays for anything?

We pay for almost everything in tech. Part of the digital hallucination that oppresses us is to have this self-flagellating view.

Nobody gets any free hardware of any kind. Nobody gets any free network infrastructure and bandwidth of any kind. Its all paid, by purchases, monthly subscriptions etc. With real, hard earned money by people from all walks of life and economic means. Not to mention that historically people happily paid for newspapers, TV licenses and they still do for streaming.

The deceit of big tech is propagating the idea that after you have shelled for the all the above, you really don't have to pay for certain very specific pieces of software and services - oh just pay with your reduced privacy and agency (which you don't even know is important).

What is happening is that the masses can't tell they are being ripped off (and the potential risks to individuals and society) and nobody in authority does warn them either.

In such a situation it is indeed impossible to have a normal economic model to compete. Bad business models repelled good business models.

But there is just the slightest glimmer of light at the end of this dark tunnel. While you are right, the volunteer open source enthusiasts can't substitute for the absence of healthy funding they achieved something very important: they showed that alternatives are possible, they don't require trillions, they just require a society with basic decency.
In France, I believe that distance from town hall is used to pick which end of a street is to be no. 1. But then numbers incrementally follow from there.

Distance is not used to rank each property.
It may be "plainly and obviously" different for you, but for me? I seem to have two components to my thinking process, one of which has ideas without needing words, another of which turns those ideas into words and gets (for lack of a better description) "annoyed" if I try to skip the word-generation part.

There's no reason to presume we all think the same way; rather the opposite, given how many ways in which humans are already known to think unalike to each other.
I would really like for LLMs to reach a point where they can actually tell you if they're not quite sure about something, rather than confidently outputting their BS like it's fact. Too many people interpret LLM output as though it's guaranteed correct. Certainly there's some confidence value metric that they can understand internally and use when wording their response.
Actually, mimalloc and tcmalloc both show that across almost any workload they outperform glibc. It’s difficult to outperform everywhere of course, but in terms of “works best without knowing the workload a priori”, tcmalloc and mimalloc should handily trounce glibc. Know if you know your workload and start tuning glibc, maybe it can outperform? Not sure but I’d also be skeptical. Tcmalloc and mimalloc both apply really advanced techniques that also require newer kernel support to implement user side RCU iirc. Glibc’s allocator by comparison is much longer in the tooth and just can’t compete on that.

Most workloads don’t care of course, but glibc’s penchant for hanging onto RAM when not needed is one very user visible consequence of this.
No. It was my mistake. I didn't read the rider, so Dave would be stuck in a pod.
I make it clear that replying to just one email will trigger an hour of billing (or day, if we have a day rate). I also make it clear that this will never be more than one hour per day.

Thus, they get an hour per day of dedicated support, no more unless they want to pay for it (i.e., they want two hours, a single email triggers two billable hours even if it takes 5 mins to reply to a single email).

It works pretty well.
Works for me.

https://chat.openai.com/share/683a5a05-50d9-461e-872a-d16b71...
Non-instruct-tuned LLMs are far more likely to say "I don't know".
War of the Worlds (recent remake) is finally here!
If that's the level the fund should be at than that's how they should have written it (as a constant multiple). This implementation makes it possible for the "insurance" fund to be reduced by an unbounded amount on a day of record high trading volume (indeed, the higher the trading volume, the more likely it is you'll withdraw a large sum from the fund).

Creating the possibility that some rotten luck could wreck you when you're most vulnerable is bad risk management. It's thumbing your nose in the face of Murphy's Law.
Firebloom == `-fbounds-safety`
The worst connector for that problem is those ----ing antenna leads your laptop has for an M2 wifi card.
Linkedin lost a case questionably decided by a the single most reversed circuit which is binding in only that circuit, which is liable to be decided differently in another, which will provide impetus for the supreme court to take it up. That decision is in fact in the middle of being ripped up. It is the opposite of decided law.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/LinkedIn-Wins-Latest-C...

It's going to be ultimately decided that violating the TOS to scrape after being told not to is legally questionable and furthermore questionable acquisition further any already ridiculous claim to fair use.
You say we can, but history shows we can't.

If there was an easy way to reign in big oil then we would have found it by now. Whereas we (democracies) would have a fighting chance (literally) of seeing off a malevolant dictatorship.
Just don't say the bad word
My feedback as a freelancer.. change the struggles to questions. Instead of "Lost revenue from unaccounted hours" make me think: "Have you lost revenue due to unaccounted hours?" In my mind this makes it clear that this web app can help me solve that problem.

The "& More" needs to link to something.. like a list of all the features you provide beyond the ones mentioned on the home page. Maybe link to the blog page for now? There's tons of great content there.

Does the app support Canadian currency?
Bus Sniffing the IBM 5150 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789106 - Oct 2023 (13 comments)
USB A to Micro USB cables with reversible connectors on both ends have been available for a few years - much too late, but still useful. I bought some on AliExpress, and while probably violating some specs, they have been working nicely for me so far.
Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland
Over the last few years, I have appreciated reading about Scottish contributions to the world. Napier. Sir Walter Scott. John Muir. With that said, I haven't read about many technologists from Scotland, and have struggled to find a community thereof.

I was wondering if anyone in Scotland would be interested in a Hackers of NY-esque [1] short-form interview series to codify examples of Scottish programmers and technologists. I sure think having such a repository would be inspirational to young people; this same principle could be applied to other locations, too.

If you would be interested in reading or participating please share below!

[1]: https://hackersofny.tumblr.com/
Not quite production, but I was on a paid contract on a PoC. I would say back at 1.0, mobile was pretty painful and signing of any binary dependencies was up to you. It looks like they addressed signing in 1.5 and I haven't picked it back up to check out the mobile experience.
You'd prefer instead that there's a separate code point for every possible permutation of base characters and modifiers (like accents)?

So would you add z̃ as a character even though it isn't actually used in any known languages, because a tilde is used over 12 other letters already, so you might as well make characters for all of them?

Or would you skip it and only pick ones in known use...and then constantly update the tables every time you discover an obscure use of diacriticals?

My understanding is that there are some languages / writing systems where the problem is far more challenging - the possible combination of different modifiers could result in millions of possible characters, many of which are plausible even though most aren't known to be used in practice.

I think the reality is that human written language is extremely complex, and any attempt to simplify it too much will end up leaving out some languages.
> you clearly didn't read the rider.

You are correct, which is why I am not setting up metal stages.
Making someone's job more productive makes them more valuable in that job, not less.
Firebloom is more of a custom compiler/toolchain than a dialect of C—apart from annotations to relate pointer+length parameters, etc., it is still just C.
My experience is that it completes boilerplate very well. I don't generally ask it to do anything super complex, but what it does I'm very happy with.
This explanation has always seemed a bit daft to me.

> If it had been common knowledge among castle builders, then why are there still quite a lot (about 30%) of castles with counter-clockwise staircases?

AKA it's almost surely just a builder's preference probably stemming from their handedness.
> "The infringement only happens when you then try to claim it's your own work publicly."

Is a very different statement from

> do not forbid merely being in the presence of a work.
GNU Mes
This is what we did in pretty much all of our monitoring some time ago. We ripped out most memory graphs except for "Total Memory" and "Available Memory" as well as memory pressure from the PSI metrics. And we placed alerts on available memory growing low, as well as pages being swapped in. Newer kernel opportunistically swap-out idle pages, but that's fine as long as you never see the path from disk to memory (swap-in).

This has increased the quality of our memory monitoring by a lot.
What??? ANOTHER one?
Possibly, but it still be an indication of a change. My understanding is a lot of markets at a high amount of cash offers. Cash offers were more attractive since they didn’t tie the deal to financing the switch to financing based sales with indicate that deals are less competitive intern, that would likely indicate that less people are buying.
> But in an effort to keep it as cheap as possible, the decision was made to go with a design that, in theory, would give users a 50/50 chance of plugging it in correctly

They overlooked the statistically significant case where it takes more than two tries to plug it in correctly. Knowing you might have been wrong makes you prematurely abandon an attempt where you had it set the right way.
Here is a demo of the platform in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Min4ZksspjM
Fully offline means fully offline. It could have been an honest mistake the 1st time. Not after it was brought to your attention.

You said you would support disabling telemetry in the upcoming release several releases ago. And you could have disabled it temporarily or added a warning in less time than you spent trying to justify and deflect.

A fork bomb has minimal features. Is it lightweight?

Your reasons for using Electron are not reasons to make false claims.

People who know the stack can contribute code within a day. It is true for any stack.
Wow, so the decryption happens in the monitor? Can’t the capture card replicate that?
The confusion arises because we don't even know if our own consciousness is purely mathematical or not. We are missing an extremely fundamental link in our chain of understanding, such that it's an open question of whether or not it's even theoretically possible to artificially mimic a human experience.

We can see a big gap between the inner working of LLMs (which, unless I'm mistaken, are still not fully understood mechanically) and the inner workings of our brains. But many people assert that this is a qualitative difference, not a quantitative difference. (Probably this is true - we do things like math and spatial perception that seem independent of linguistic abilities. Meaning our brains are more like "LLMs, plus other types of AI mashed together with a central coordination layer")

However, nobody on Earth actually knows whether there is a qualitative or only quantitative gap between LLMs and human cognition.
Wow, having to stare at disassembly too often, I really like this.

Makes it much faster to follow branches and can easily see what instructions correspond to source code lines, even though it's not very exact at higher optimization levels.

This should be integrated in all IDEs.
Oh, right. There is a Black Mirror episode in which dog-like AI robots are hunting down humans [1]

If you watch it then those research legged robots will look rather more sinister... or maybe it's just me. That episode really stuck with me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.
If it doesn't work when the bombs go off what are you going to do about it? It's the perfect crime.
But is "that way" actually "Correct" or not...?

Technology Connections dig in to this in "Power outlets are topsy turvy - but does it matter?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNj75gJVxcE
LLMs definitely show signs of understanding, though they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed right now.
Stop arguing in bad faith.

It doesn't matter if Shell is worse it doesn't matter if a million other fucking things in the USA are worse. They are all accountable to the USA government. TikTok is not that is the issue.
Because if you say the "man" it implies that women fighters would not have the same advantage, when clearly they would.

As since men are people, I'd argue it's not an abuse of language.
We truly live in the universe with most boring set of physical laws.

Hard light speed cap, no anti-gravity, entanglement can’t be an information channel, no warp drives. It’s like we got stuck on the “no fun” setting hahaha.
Even mathematically it doesn’t make any sense: we would need to go to a causally disconnected region of spacetime to be able to go faster than the speed of light, but that’s just not feasible. Once you go to that causally disconnected region of spacetime, the only outcome is to go to a singular point in space (even though you can go back and forth in time, theoretically at least) : if that sounds familiar to you, it’s because it is well represented into the movie «interstellar» and indeed he goes to a region causally disconnected to ours: a black hole.
Alvis
VM warmup isn't consistently a thing, in fact for over a decade there has been plenty of observation of the reverse, that runtime optimization often slows performance. Systems languages (c/c++/rust) consistently outperform warmed up managed languages. And that is ok, it doesn't mean we shouldn't have managed languages, but they are slower.
the input is a data structure describing board state.

i don't think uncovering the internal representation of board state, after providing the board state, implies any kind of phenomenal understanding - it just implies the software may accept input.

side-channel editing of the internal state, and observation of the resulting effect, does not imply understanding. you can do the same thing to any traditional game algorithm.
Let's go further and get a hexagonal one.
I think the “open PR in Gitpod” button for quickly doing reviews in a full IDE was what I needed for my CDE “ahah!” moment.

Gotta second your shout to Webcontainer tech too. Being able to run Sveltekit in the online REPL with a full virtual filesystem / Vite env is pretty incredible. Lots of exciting possibilities there.
Is it just me or was I unimpressed that it can't long jump further than 2x its body length?
> If Hacker News charged me $1/year to post and comment, I would leave.

If nothing else changed at all, except all users had to pay $1 a year, I'm not sure if I would flat-out reject that immediately.

If, however, that $1/yr created a tier of inequality- say, the Orange Checks vs the Not Checked- yeah. Sayonara for sure.
I imagine that it would be more difficult to gain entry to an upper floor (at the top of a narrow staircase so single-file attackers) and a sturdy door with a couple of guards outside, than it would be to gain entry to rooms on the same level. Perhaps the women were tucked away on the upper floors, in relative safety.
> There are only tokens being generated.

Yes, I know how it works. I don't know why it works, though. Until LLMs I had a hard time understanding how humans work, too, but I think LLMs give us great insight into the mechanisms of intelligence. Are they the whole story of intelligence? Hopefully not. Do LLMs teach us anything about consciousness? Certainly that something can appear conscious without being conscious. It could be that I am the only conscious entity here, and you are all just LLMs.

If this token generation mechanism is put into a body of flesh, blood, electrons, neurons, will that be a conscious entity? I don't know. If the mechanism has a facility to reason about itself, along, let's say, 3 levels of nested awareness, will that make it conscious? I don't know.

I am sure you don't know either.
The other commenter mentioning Firebloom is correct that some firmware (iBoot family) has been using C w/ Firebloom extensions for a while. Parts of SEPOS also use Swift, which would make more sense as a non-C language than Rust, from Apple's perspective at least.
I think it's important to distinguish "LLM Self-Correction" (a prompt engineering technique) from lowercase "self-correction," a behavioral property of complex systems and/or sentient beings.

A PID controller is self-correcting (to some degree). A person is self-correcting (to some degree).

"LLM Self-correction" refers to an iterative approach to reaching some final output. This term is used in research/industry literature to mean a very specific implementation.

This allows researchers to compare "LLM Self-correction" to other prompting techniques like "LLM Chain-of-thought" in order to study the model's behavior in a laboratory setting, and in the wild.

Does that distinction make sense?
It's Past Time to Ban Right-on-Red
Additionally, Powerwall installation can be contracted out to multiple local residential electricians around the state, whereas high voltage line work requires more specialized, therefore, more expensive contractors.
My understanding is that an in-spec USB-C power supply will supply 5V by default - then, upon negotiation with the client, can go up to a higher voltage.

In the case of the Zimaboard, this is basically a 12V barrel jack with a different shape. It just dumps 12V out on the pins with no negotiation or considerations of the client device.

I suspect if the downstream device was already 12V compliant, it might survive, but I wouldn't count on that nor would I be willing to test it.
Yes, I am aware of that

In the Black Swan he talks about his endeavor with the stock market and how lucky he got by chance, and not by using some pseudo scientific formulas and whatnot to "predict" how his stocks would do. He also gave some pretty good advice when it comes to the stock market

The whole book is just awesome, I'd recommend giving it a read
Thank you, interesting stuff!
> There will be warlords but they can't import arms

Sure they can. Who's gonna stop them?

But yes, it'll be a utopia for the warlords and their upper level cronies. A nightmare for common folk, including anyone born there.
Sometimes I solve maths problems by visualising: perhaps I want to differentiate something, so I imagine the graph of the function, and then the slope of the graph, and then try to compare that to various simple functions that I could give as a guess of the answer, which I only then feed into a symbolic process of "assume this is true and work backwards".
> What is the equivalent to the endocrine system for an LLM

Are you suggesting that the brain is the only implementation that can “think”? Or that an endocrine system is required?

The difference isn’t the interesting, or necessarily useful, part; the practical similarities of the output are. If we can make a system that appears to "think", I can’t understand how it can be so easily dismissed when we don’t know what’s going on in it or us.
I would argue those hubs do not work
The event has to occur relatively frequently for that slight advantage to become statistically noticeable. Direct assaults on castles with hand-to-hand combat occurring in stairwells were extremely rare as far as we know.