skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered if being forced to live near the plants would change regulators minds. There are plants throughout the country, so if you want any say in safety regulations you'd have to live within 1km of the start of the safety zone.
Hallucination? https://towardsdatascience.com/llm-hallucinations-ec831dcd77...
> It's one of those lessons from experience: "When I was younger, I used int and char because I didn't know any better. When I was older, I created this complex, elaborate type system because I knew better. Now that I'm wise, I just use int and char."

Right on, dude. I've gone full circle on that, too.

I also spent years wandering the desert being enamored with the power of the C preprocessor. Eventually, I just ripped it out as much as possible, replacing it with ordinary C code. C is actually a decent language if you eschew the damned preprocessor.
It certainly aligns with their interests-- this new development will absolutely divert western attention and resources from the defense of Ukraine.

Despite that, my money is on the Saudis stirring shit up again. Financing terrorists to fight against western interests is kinda their thing. Say what you will about Russia, but they clearly fight and die in their own battles.

If the US gets bogged down with a conflict in the Pacific, Ukraine and Israel are going to be in serious trouble...World War 3 will likely ensue.
systemd-oomd is also default since Ubuntu 22.04. I remember it vividly because it effectively kept killing X when RAM filled up instead of sanely killing the process that last filled up the RAM, which is either gcc or firefox in my case. Absolutely user-unfriendly default configuration. I removed it and reinstalled earlyoom, which I have been using for years with a suitable configuration. I can only concur, RAM behavior isn't user-friendly on Ubuntu.
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble to petition the governement for a redress of grievances

The founding fathers were documented as being MUCH more forward-thinking than most people assume. The thought bubbles you mention and mass-manipulation existed hundreds of years ago. "Capital compels thought" isn't new and the only saving grace is the anyone can voice anything they desire and we don't need any license to participate in the marketplace of ideas.
Yes very common. I’ve helped some projects relicense in the past (because the original developer didn’t actually understand the license they chose) and it’s arduous having to contact each individual (and sometimes companies) to relicense.

You can do license changes without that however as long as:

1. You license per file in the repository. This can be quite arduous but many projects will move the old licensed stuff into a sub project to make that easier to grok.

2. Your new license is compatible with the old license.
> And as an aside to the aside: Check out this race condition that Wouter Coekaerts found in the String(char[]) constructor as a result of this optimization.

Quite sure neither the char array nor the String constructor pretend to be thread safe and messing with the input of a constructor in parallel would break most java code in existence in weird and unexpected ways.
RAM compression is not magic.

It does allow you to save RAM and might prevent you from hitting swap for a while longer, but it won't save you if your working set is just too large and/or difficult to compress. Apps like web browsers with multiple tabs open might be easier to compress, a game with multiple different assets that are already in a variety of compressed formats, less so.

The Linux Kernel also has a bunch of optimizations (Kernel same-page merging, for example, among others) that do not require compression(although you could argue that same-page merging _is_ a form of compression).

The system is not supposed to 'lock up' when you run out of physical RAM. If it does, something is wrong. It might become slower as pages are flushed to disk but it shouldn't be terrible unless you are really constrained and thrashing. If the Kernel still can't allocate memory, you should expect the OOMKiller to start removing processes. It should not just 'lock up'. Something is wrong.

> which always takes minutes in my experience

It should not take minutes. Should happen really quickly once thresholds are reached and allocations are attempted. What is probably happening is that the system has not run out of memory just yet but it is very close and is busy thrashing the swap. If this is happening frequently you may need to adjust your settings (vm.overcommit, vm.admin_reserve_kbytes, etc). Or even deploy something like EarlyOOM (https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom). Or you might just need more RAM, honestly.

I have always found Linux to behave far more gracefully than Windows (OSX is debatable) in low memory conditions, and relatively easy to tune. Windows is a swapping psycho and there's little you can do. OSX mostly does the right thing, until it doesn't.
> I'm not sure that the 1A can scale properly for modernity, though.

I agree. I think the modern-day challenge is not that one cannot speak freely, but that their voice cannot compete with institution-sponsored propaganda machines --- after all, humans have limited attention. The situation is arguably worse because it suppresses free speech without being appear to suppress it.
There are distributions that enable it by default, Fedora comes to mind.
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself, though not "clockwise".

What's "clockwise"? It is nor hand, nor pen-

dulum, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a clock. O, be some other name!

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

So "Widdershins" would, were it not "Widdershins" call'd,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title. Widdershins, doff thy name,

And for that name which is no part of thee

Take all my turns.
I don’t think this argument holds any water. After Cambridge Analytica, basically the worst thing any social media has done to the US, I didn’t hear anyone calling for Facebook to be banned.
"Theft" is something which can't even exist in the absence of consensus on which objects you have the right to compel others to refraining from using.

We have that consensus, and relatively efficient enforcement of it, it just happens to disagree with you on what stuff's inalienably yours.
> (up to $1 million USD and 20 years in prison)

Is that really on the table? If yes, then it's bat-s*it insane, it's maybe rude to call it that but there's no better word to describe it.

To put it in perspective, throughout the '80s people were not getting sent to 20 years in prison for listening to Radio Free Europe here in Eastern Europe. There were still some political prisoners left, put in prison under different pretexts, but they had not gotten in there only for listening to Radio Free Europe.
The paper published by Xiao et al. (2023)[0] states that "a surprisingly large amount of attention score is allocated to the initial tokens, irrespective
of their relevance to the language modeling task" (p. 2). Does that mean that task prefixes used for LLM generation (e.g. "translate: [sentence]") are actually attention sinks? Or are they not? I don't really understand what they mean by "irrespective of their relevance to the language modeling task."

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.17453.pdf
That's exactly right, and I already have eliminated that option for myself, since ZSF is a non-profit that is legally operated by a board that protects the mission statement of the organization.
Because it slows down as you use more RAM compression, so you have time to respond and close some apps. Without it you are working at a thousand miles an hour and then suddenly, brick wall.
Something I would like to know: Do chirality statistics differ between castles and other buildings from the same era?
I see you're unfamiliar with higher education.

All joking aside, it seems to be the one area that only wants the elderly.
I have a similar (but less impressive) background, and I like to joke that I'm a "full spectrum" SWE.
Agreed! I like that there has to be an explanation. "Just because" or "it's the same either way" aren't acceptable. I suppose the internet loves to solve a puzzle (a sentiment I understand and share!).
Specifically a dialect called Firebloom (supposedly anyway)

https://saaramar.github.io/iBoot_firebloom/
I wish there was a bank that would offer a "programatic" checking account. I would open such a checking account and use it as a buffer:

* Have my CC be autopay-in-full from the buffer account.

* Have some CC hookup mechanism (similar to what mint or plaid use) so that whenever a CC charge lands, it moves exactly that amount of money from my real checking account to the buffer account.

* If at any point I make an expense where the amount is larger than what I have in my real checking account, send me all possible means of notifications. Immediately call me, text me, email me, and throw a batsignal with a dollar sign to the clouds for the sake of it. The purchase will still go through, but I have 30 ish days to fix the situation before I'm charged any late fees.

With this, I have the benefit of the CC rewards, but it acts as a debit card.
Fighting on the stairs would be kinda silly. Better to wait outside the doorway so that after your attackers are done running up the stairs with armor and weapons, you and your pals are waiting there at the choke point to layeth the smacketh down. The only real benefit to fighting on the stairs is that you still effectively impede progress if you're dead.
> Disk caching makes the system much faster and more responsive! There are no downsides, except for confusing newbies. It does not take memory away from applications in any way, ever!

No downsides except for massive data loss when the system suddenly loses power/a drive crashes and the massive theft of memory from host OSes (e.g., when using Windows Subsystem for Linux).
Realistically, no. You don't have access to the device that contains the decrypted content.

Of course, you could try to open up or bypass the DRM module (e.g., via the GPU driver during hardware accelerated decoding), but that won't work with a TPM module and signed kernel space.

If you look at the security technologies introduced into consumer decides over the last decades, it all serves the dual purpose of securing your hardware from ... you.
Laws obviously vary a lot, but most places that follow a similar definition of intellectual property rights to EU/NA do not forbid merely being in the presence of a work. Knowing of the details of an intellectual property isn't infringement. You wouldn't be able to monetize it if you were compelled to never let your book printer ever see your story to reproduce it for you, let alone the reading public.

The purpose of copyrights as a concept, is to allow artists to profit from a work that's otherwise easily to duplicate. Laws tend to be written with that in mind. This is normally codified as an exception called "private study" or similar.

You can ask the AI all day long to draw the batman symbol. But if you try to market that as "Chiroptera Guy", then you've taken the step that opens up litigation options for the holders of the original IP.
I quit using "long" because sometimes a long is 32 bits and sometimes 64, and I can never remember which compiler does which. But "int" is 32 bits and "long long" is always 64 bits, so that's what I stick with.

C's "long" should not be used in new code.
Somebody has to do it. We wouldn't have the civilization we have if we had no scientists. Similarly, we need teachers, caretakers, stay at home parents, and somebody has to repair the phone lines and pave the roads. If every person on the planet simply pursued the maximum pay career available to them, we wouldn't have much of a society at all.

You should certainly be aware of the financial sacrifice you're making to do socially impactful work and consider this in the decision calculus, but I don't think you can say zero people should ever make that decision.
Plenty of people happily would...

I personally would do it in return for the electricity cost of the GPU's and machine. That's my marginal price to do so.

However, that offer is only valid if a project can guarantee my computer experience won't be degraded. So it needs to reliably run only during idle time, or, if it wants to run while I'm using the machine it can't make any application laggy or throw errors about not having enough GPU RAM.

I think there are probably millions of GPU's available out there with similar terms to mine.
I do. But my old laptop 2060 and (sometimes) my 3090 are running on the AI Horde instead:

https://lite.koboldai.net/#

I don't really see the point in hosting a tiny fraction of raw Falcon 180B or whatever when I can fully host a small finetune, of my choosing, that will perform better for what users actually want (which is mostly RP/Chat at the moment). And I can serve dozens of users on a single 2060 with a Mistral finetune.

Now, if it was a finetuning cluster, I would throw my 3090 at it without even blinking, but my understanding is that Petals doesn't finetune yet.
This argument always strikes me as weird given that we know domestic social networks are doing precisely this, adjusting their algorithms to promote or suppress things for political reasons, but I have yet to see any claim that TikTok has ever done this, only that they could.
> An oil leak doesn't mean the system will not function.

If oil runs out, then the generator will very much stop functioning, in an ugly and hard to fix manner. Something you very much don't want in an emergency.

> It's something to pay attention and repair, but not something critical.

Sure, the thing making sure the reactor doesn't suffer catastrophic damage is not critical. Right.

I also must have forgotten that disasters politely add themselves to the schedule with plenty warning time.

> Even if the generator fails, passive system will cool down the reactor for a couple of hours, enough for a mobile generator on a truck to arrive and be connected, without any damage.

Didn't quite work that way for Fukushima.

> There were only one case where generators and all external power supplies had failed, that is of course Fukushima. Even in that context, if the passive systems where not damaged by the tzunami, there wouldn't have been any release of radioactivity.

Sure, it only took lots of people working around the clock to keep things contained (so it seems it wasn't something one could just ignore, it needed urgent work), and it cost a huge amount of $$$ to deal with it, and it destroyed those reactors, which is more $$$.

That it didn't blow up Chernobyl style is absolutely a great thing, but it probably cost more than it ever made money, and that's not exactly something that encourages anyone to build more.
If TikTok is a rouge agent, but hasn't faced any actual prosecution, where does that leave Facebook, which has been fined the largest amount in FTC history for privacy breaches?
>Theoretical warp physics -- the real kind, like Alcubierre, not the Wesley Crusher kind -- proposes that a source of negative mass would be critical to the creation of a warp field.

Well, yes, that's always been the crucial missing component from Alcubierre's design, but I've never seen anyone suggest antimatter would have negative mass or energy before now. The talk has always been about some hypothetical exotic matter
The sad part is that nobody really prevents us from seizing the network. It is intrinsically decentralized by design. It takes hard work to subvert this.

Yet we don't do it. A sort of digital rigor mortis has descended upon the land. A comatose capitulation, complete lack of vital signs, let alone the lust for life that characterized the early period of the Web when everything seemed possible.

The "network effect" is really a psychological and economic mind game. Once a sufficient number of people were conditioned (tricked by novelty and lack of education and regulation) to consider it a "reality" it became a runaway self-financing monopoly.

A collective digital hallucination that is actually against the self-interest of the vast majorities, based on rather dodgy foundations and atypical of how societies are generally organized. It was never a perfect world but it never flirted so closely with a surveillance dystopia.

This state of affairs becomes very puzzling when it is now almost a point-and-click exercise to setup the equivalent of the early facebook or twitter or skype etc (#fediverse, #matrix, you name it). Either this is the darkest hour before dawn or it is the darkest hour, period.
Even with perfect control over allocation, I still disagree with the philosophical concept of taxation because it is done nonconsensually under threat of force.

There is no use of tax money that justifies institutionalized armed robbery, it is morally indefensible to violate consent using the threat of violence.

You could tax everyone only $1 and use it exclusively for neonatal care and it would still be morally repugnant.

If taxes truly represent the will of the people, and people truly believe they are good, they would pay them even if not placed at gunpoint.

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to buy something he does not want simply because you think it would be good for him.” —Heinlein

It seems to me that most of your arguments bring up wealth inequality. At that point, why bother with income taxes? Wouldn’t a simple wealth tax on assets over some threshold address the inequality more directly? If wealth redistribution is the goal, why should non-wealthy people pay any taxes?
My own no-basis 30 second gun theory - what if they are all the same way because one guy who was really good at making them passed the knowledge down that way. Then everyone else followed from that one teaching and never bothered flipping it. It wasn’t better, it just won the coin flip
That would be your own browser resizing the video incorrectly. Open up the mp4 directly to see the full size and anti-aliased video.
How the Ear Works: Nature's solutions for listening (1997)
Are you a "free speech absolutist" with all the connotations that has? The users of TikTok seem to be learning from the same group you intend to avoid. If controlling narrative through disinfo and agitprop have no effect, why is advertising so profitable? Do you not think social media can be tuned to optimize viewing time?

Why would you want people learning that censorship or misinformation from an authoritarian foreign power is good? What fraction of total media time do you think 12-18yo spend on TikTok? Should the goal be to create a repressive dictatorship here?

In any case, comparing the level of control of "major commercial actors often work in conjecture with their government" sounds awfully stretched.
Noob-ish here:

It looks like this playground requires a server connection instead of being purely front-end, which makes sense being Java.

But I'm familiar with SWC's playground (https://swc.rs/playground) and I believe it uses WASM and therefore doesn't require a back-end component.

Is it possible to do something similar with the Rust playground and Java playground?
Didn't say it was magic. System slows down more as you use more RAM compression, so you have time to respond and close some apps. Without it I find I often am working at a thousand miles an hour, not noticing anything amiss, and then suddenly, brick wall, out of memory and I can't do anything at all.
They found cracks in fuel oil lines. Last time I checked, generators need fuel to operate. In fact, the article even states:

> the problem grew to a point where the diesel generator system did not work during testing.

You have backups because things unexpectedly fail. It's the Swiss Cheese model: more than one system can fail at the same time so you should be able to handle multiple failures at once. Especially because failures often cause other failures to happen.

Fukushima also had multiple grid connections. They had 13 emergency generators which could be cross-connected between reactors. They could also bring in mobile generators. It still wasn't enough, because they shared a huge unknown common failure mode.

Fukushima is exactly the reason why ignoring defects on one of your two emergency generators for twenty years is such a big deal. When the potential impact is as large as it is with nuclear power, you simply cannot afford slacking off like this.
I guess people around here are Too Young.

This is a reference to a legitimate piece of Internet history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls

> "Ate my balls" is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme. It was widely shared in the late 1990s when adherents created web pages to depict a particular celebrity, fictional character, or other subject's zeal for eating testicles. Often, the site would consist of a humorous fictitious story or comic featuring edited photos about the titular individual; the photo editing was often crude and featured the character next to comic-book style speech in a thought balloon.

> The fad was started in 1996 by Nehal Patel, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a "Mr. T Ate My Balls" web page.
> cambridge analytica level style access to American social data.

Have you read/seen any of the follow up[1] on the CA scandal? Basically CA couldn't do most of the things they promised they could do with the data they collected. Their supposed ability to manipulate the public was effectively a "fake it till you make it" startup pitch. I find it funny that it keeps getting brought up as a worst case scenario when it seems like it was a nothingburger.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-213-rewriting-...
Lemmy wasn't ready for all of Reddit's users to switch, and I suspect it still isn't. But enough of them switched that it got critical mass, and the develops can focus on some pain points for a while.

I've kept both my accounts, and I look at both... And I'm quite happy with Lemmy in comparison. Reddit does tend to both have more content and more comments, but they're generally lower-value to me than Lemmy's comments.

I now check Lemmy first, and if I have more time to waste, check Reddit.
Yeah, I am not saying you're wrong, I am honestly just confused by it.

Perhaps it's that few pols are willing to roll back restrictions and then be "responsible" next time there's a terrorist attack. Kinda like how Dukakis was big into rehabilition and forgiveness for prisoners, which was great until a released prisoner committed violent crimes and of course then the blame is laid on Dukakis.
If you click through, you can see there's no 'evidence' there. He simply offhandedly, in a sentence or two, makes the same speculation about fighting, with no sources, and the whole discussion of staircases in general is based on only 2 named examples. Chesterton's fence is satisfied: he knew no more than we did.
> hinge on the left or right.

Not "left" or "right", which is different on roomside and stairside, but inside or outside of the spiral.
I remember Linux on a floppy in the 2.4 era. You generally needed to do some interesting formatting to the disks to get much of a user land, but you could have a router running from floppy/ram in 1.4->1.7 mb of disk.
With aerosolized fentanyl, the lungs would be the primary mechanism.
I think they do care. People thinking the U.S. government doesn't care may as well be an indication that their efforts on propaganda are highly effective and successful.
We would need to assume that each of those events was spread out over the entirety of the 20 years. All 5 occasions could have happened between 2003 and 2007, and fifteen years passed before the next. Each time the cracks were repaired.

Without a true timeline of events, its hard to say for sure.