skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to the invention of the Internet and/or the WWW, I'm of the opinion that calling Google (the search engine) or PageRank (the algorithm) one of the Great Inventions in Human History (and capitalizing it) is too far-fetched. The first is an indexer for the former, and the latter is not so different from eigenvector centrality, with the added spice of directed random walks.

I do believe that the Internet/WWW is one of our greatest inventions, though, so this is just nit-picking. :)
Advertisers absolutely do care about placement quality for non-controversial content too. It's a waste of money to run ads for luxury watches on a website that hosts math games for kids.
don't sink, fun hackable sphere :(
That is how I meant it, yes.
I for one am not convinced.
> Your naivete is pretty stunning.

Yeah, you know, this is a professional forum. I may not be important to your career, but a hell of a lot of other people that are, hang out, here.

That's one reason I don't write stuff like that.
When building your next PC stick to a motherboard that uses Intel for everything (or as many things as possible).

When selecting a laptop choose one that provides Linux support out of the box, eg Dell XPS 13.

I've done the above and never once had a driver issue on Linux.
There's a lot of Protege tutorials out there, but here's what an ontology (in the OWL sense of the word, let's you do). The "pizza ontology" is the Hello World of the ontology world.

* imagine a graph of things you wanna organize ("model"), say world religions, or the plant and animal kingdom
* you can tell the system that anything that's a plant can never be an animal. or viruses can't be bacteria
* or lions and zebras are both mammals
* you can define what mammals are, vertebra, heart, brain, etc.

The interesting part is ontology _validation_ or querying.

Is it internally consistent? Maybe you specified viruses and bacteria and said they are never the same thing, but the way you modeled it, they are identical! Hmm, you'll have to update your definition of bacteria, or viruses, or both.

Next, you try to put fungi in the system, but there's an error because fungi do not belong to the plant or animal kingdom: they are their own thing.

So this is a fairly simplistic use case, but scale this up to hundreds if not thousands of entities and you can start to see the value.

Imagine sticking the human genome in there, and which drugs act on which chromosomes, etc.

It's a niche, for sure, if you need something like reasoning it's the way to go.
Intel bets big against ChatGPT's OpenAI, invests heavily in Stable Diffusion
The actual scam here didn't play out, so NYTimes does not have the full story.

What happens is they truck the load to a yard and open it up. The contents of the trailer are then stolen and dumped into the gray market. If it has no value the load gets dumped into a storage facility and because the goods are accounted for law enforcement won't get involved.

The load was coming from Japan and probably insured for a lot of money, which ticked all the boxes that it would be electronics or household goods of some sort. They were probably shocked when it was just a brunch of weird flavors of candy they couldn't sell.
don’t?
Again?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2016/09/transmission-...
Yes, you can. You can configure that through SoftwareUpdate in an MDM profile for macOS.
It makes sense that Finns love rally so much then, if all the roads are weaving around swamps!
Qualcomm's satellite texting plan is dead because phone makers aren't interested
What if the "line" you draw is that you only support technologies that shift labor from human to machine, and not human to another human that doesn't get paid. Would that work?
Judging from the anger of the second driver, the scam is to steal the load and resell it on the black market; the driver must not have known what he was picking up? Or maybe they just take an up-front payment and disappear.

Why Tristan bothered taking the loads to the storage facilities instead of just throwing them out the back is a mystery. Or why the storage facilities accepted them without some kind of payment.
Ah, I think i had the connectivity backwards. I thought the complaint was about hosts connecting to these services, not inbound connections to hosts.

Ultimately, they will probably want people to solve it with service endpoints, and give preferred pricing on that. But I kind of get why that is a bit wigged out. Because it locks more architecture into them as a vendor. I'm not really sure putting a public ip is a good solution to this, but it is kind of scary because suddenly we are deciding infrastructure decisions more based on how they are being priced. Needs regulation.
I'd recommend taking inspiration from Nim, which uses some really clever metaprogramming techniques to allow for very terse representation of code.

Idiomatic Python is the way it is due to having really good defaults, but in order to achieve the speed of Rust, you often have to go against them. Metaprogramming allows for optimization of code by having a function examine another function, and changing the defaults in use to suit its particular use-case.

See also Mojo, which adds some C or Rust-like concepts to Python.
Does this have to do anything at all with LoRAs?
Frankly, it's too powerful. We need much stronger protections for workers if we're going to continue down this route. Deportation threats undermine labor's bargaining power, driving down wages and working conditions.

How can we expect to operate a democracy when workers have this gun to their head?
That is what I am thinking too.
> That's survivor's bias. You can be ignorant about anything until it becomes a problem.

I choose to believe that if you could name a branch of physics that can't be done without philosophy, you would have named it. Therefore, I take your comment to mean that you can't name a branch of physics that can't be done without philosophy. That's consistent with the possibility that no such branch exists. Put another way, philosophy is utterly useless for physics, which is something I wrote elsewhere in this thread
I’ve had great luck with NOS 18v batteries from eBay. Had to pick up a pair for an 18v trim nailer that doesn’t support their 20v adapter. My neighbor did the same for his 18v collection. All going strong.
Good point. I am willing to stand corrected, but I've also seen what I've seen.
Mullvad is pretty much the #1 when you want privacy. They have a history of fighting away law enforcement requests, because they really don't have anything to give to them.

Everything runs on RAM and will disappear the second a server is shutdown, they really don't store anything.

And you can buy a Mullvad account by mailing cash to them or with crypto. No need to create an account with an email address or anything.
> Adult Sweetness

I'm sorry, what?
Problem solved: https://culoclean.com/ (a satisfied user)
Long file paths in windows are a wreck as it is. I have no idea why it is not enabled by default in this day and age.
Gateway was everyone’s computer at that time. All my friends and family had Gateway. Dell blossomed later.
Jeff is awesome! I met him at AnsibleFest 2022, and he was very friendly despite not feeling well (I did not take up much of his time when I realized that, FYI).

Nobody even mentioned his books! His Ansible for DevOps book I have used at 2 companies to teach Ansible.

He's an amazing guy and our industry is better off for having him in it.
I am referring more to the middle income trap, to be clear [0]. If a country fails to become at the level of prosperity of the first world, it will take some time for them to try again, as its level of prosperity is enough for many of its populace to not have children but not high enough to truly prosper.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap
You can train it directly. This is from the paper “An LCM demands merely 32 A100 GPUs Hours training for 2-step inference [...]”
Well, if X is working for a manager M for 3 years at Apple(for that matter, any company), M wants to make sure that wheoever applies to X's role during the PERM process (labor certification to ensure that no US citizens/perm residents are available to fill X's role) gets dinged 100%, no exceptions whatsoever. The way they can ding applicants takes shape in different forms: (a) make the job very very specific, thereby showing that other applicants don't have specific skills (b) make the job very generic, then ask for very very precise skills that X's role needs (c) make the interview really tough (d) add extra rounds of interviews (e) a combination of all of the foregoing.
Comment is about Dropbox back then. And yet criticism is very relevant today. Yes, you you could your own FTP looks definitely better that OndeDrive in this case.
From https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1720410479141487099 :

> GitHub Actions currently charges $0.16 *per minute* for the macOS M1 Runners. That comes out to $84,096 for 1 machine year

GitHub Runner is written in Go; it fetches tasks from GitHub Actions and posts the results back to the Pull Request that spawned the build.

nektos/act is how Gitea Actions builds GitHub Actions workflow YAML build definition documents. https://github.com/nektos/act

From https://twitter.com/MatthewCroughan/status/17200423527675700... :

> This is the macOS Ventura installer running in 30 VMs, in 30 #nix derivations at once. It gets the installer from Apple, automates the installation using Tesseract OCR and TCL Expect scripts. This is to test the repeatability. A single function call `makeDarwinImage`.

With a Multi-Stage Dockerfile/Containerfild, you can have a dev environment like xcode or gcc+make in the first stage that builds the package, and then the second stage the package is installed and tested, and then the package is signed and published to a package repo / app store / OCI container image repository.

Continuous integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration

Is there a good way to do automated testing like pytest+Hypothesis+tox w/ e.g. the Swift programming language for computers? CloudFuzz is built upon OSS-Fuzz.

SLSA now specifies builders for signing things correctly in CI builds with keys in RAM on the build workers.

"Build your own SLSA 3+ provenance builder on GitHub Actions" https://slsa.dev/blog/2023/08/bring-your-own-builder-github
Getting on Intel was also really big. That allowed a developer to have 1 computer where the primary OS ran Unix, but could also run commercial apps like Photoshop, while at the same time allowing them to dual boot or run a Windows VM. It was the jack of all trades.

iTunes on Windows was also key, as that let the iPod blow up with Windows users (using Rhapsody before that was awful). Those iPod sales really allowed them to build up their cash hoard.
It might spur some sales of entry-level iPads as a result of people finding that these Amazon tablets don’t run much useful software. It’s more likely that competing Android tablets at Fire pricepoints will take that marketshare though.

Maybe Apple should launch a line of even cheaper iPads that are meant to better compete with Fire-like devices. Even if the SoCs used in this line are a generation older than what’s in the current $329 iPad I’m sure they’d perform better than whatever Amazon is putting in Fires.
The reality is that the regulations and restrictions in the other direction are much more severe. It's not that SpaceX cares about whom they hire; they'd hire anyone competent. The gov. will come down hard on export control and other issues if SpaceX slips up. So SpaceX essentially said fck it, just be a citizen or LPR. And this is more a sign of exasperation than anything else.
Sure, but that's the point. It's assigning credit/blame to the legislation in question.

Not some arbitrary lines on the ground that also have terrible anti-legislation.
We're talking about the website in this thread, and the website still uses Akamai. An nslookup on their domain will show you as much.
Oled means it will burn out one time...
CEO would get outsed if the shareholders feel he’s not acting in the best interest to make returns.

Capitalism is a best that needs insatiable ever growing revenue and profits.
These consultants have a sweet gig going on. They just interview everyone at the company, write down what the employees say needs to be fixed, then they put it in a report to upper management as expert recommendations.

Then they bill for their time and 'expertise'.
I agree with you about Amazon's leadership principals. It's clear that the retail side of Amazon regularly ignores them.

My favorite example of this was I was browsing the "top 50" computer science books on Amazon. This was about 10 years ago. In the top 50, they had basic how to books (like how to use Linux or Excel), books on getting coding jobs, etc. They had almost no actual computer science books and yet, the top 50 list software almost certainly created by people with a computer science degrees!! The list even listed the same title more than once in a few cases. It was obvious that the software which built the list was broken and either had not been tested or was deployed in a known broken state. Customer obsession does not mean shipping obviously broken software which does not help the customer.

As for trust, when I canceled Prime, Amazon used dark patterns to make the process as painful as possible. Not much to say other than I do not trust companies which try to trick me into not canceling a subscription I do not want.
"Discovered" is an abuse of language IMO.
Yes!

Pot is very nice for managing the jails — but I didn’t see anything that behaves similar to docker images as part of its feature set?
"I've only ever used a hammer so other tools should not exist."

Supporting remote-use CVS for a distributed multi-team development group was pure hell, and regularly had me going to lunch while waiting for simple command to finish. I'm glad git's features exist.
> I mean work done on it was steady evolution of knowledge started as philosophy. Newton himself called it philosophy.

I addressed this already when I wrote above, "Newton may have called himself a philosopher but we're not obliged to follow suit." I don't care what Newton called it. By today's standards, it would be called "physics" and if he was teaching at a university today Newton would be in that department, not the philosophy department.

As for a "steady evolution of knowledge", however steady it was (I don't think it was steady at all), surely it was less steady than it would have been had there not been an eclipsing of classical antiquity and a thousand years of stunted progress in Western Europe. If it was more steady than it was, we would need more than two hands to count the important individuals punctuating scientific advancement. No, Isaac Newton was a towering giant. His Wikipedia page has this to say on the subject:

"It is held by European philosophers of the Enlightenment and by historians of the Enlightenment that Newton's publication of the Principia was a turning point in the Scientific Revolution and started the Enlightenment. It was Newton's conception of the universe based upon natural and rationally understandable laws that became one of the seeds for Enlightenment ideology"

Evidently the philosophers THEMSELVES have spoken and assigned Newton an outsized role in history. As for "Whither philosophy?" itself? However important it was in history and in the progress of civilization, I think now it's a museum piece that's outlived its usefulness. We've long since moved on from any need for philosophy.

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

If you want to continue the matter, you can find me here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCitvgwzEn5__bR6qIeMSZ0g

comment on any video, I'll reply, and we can take it from there
>> at McDonalds. It takes 22 finger clicks on the screen to order a medium iced coffee and approximately 140 seconds

The self-checkouts at Target where I live are hilariously bad if you are paying with cash. Up to the point where you pay everything is fine, but then if you indicate that you are paying with cash, it says that it is preparing to accept the payment. It takes 20 seconds before it will let you put money in, like there is some sort of data processing it needs to do first. And every third or fourth bill that you put in gets jammed up and you have to pull it back out and re-insert it.

After you put in enough money to cover the amount due, it prints the receipt right away, but it takes another 20 seconds before it gives you the paper money change, like it has to do some more hard-core processing to figure out that 40 dollars minus 37 dollars equals 3 dollars.

The coin change takes even longer, like there is some advanced algorithm it uses to make change that takes it half a minute. Then, as a final "fuck you" to the customer for daring to pay with cash, the receptacle where the change comes out is set up so that unless you put your hand in front of it, it spits half the change out onto the floor.

It's so bad that it doesn't even make me angry any more, it just makes me laugh.
Zoomer moment. That line predates you.
While the differentiation aspect is real, for pricing I did some calculation for self hosting and even with small models, you are likely to loose money unless you have very high rps with users could tolerate some random delay. It's very hard to even get 7B model to be cheaper than ChatGPT API. And that was pre price reduction.
Please tell me how you would go about reading something that happened two weeks ago from RAM?
Huh, on a linux desktop the "own voice" example just seems to change height and weight and nothing else. (Still horrible, but it just looks like it's "breathing".) On mobile (android chrome), it looked like it was changing in more dimensions, I'd almost call it "writhing". I hope "reduced animation" turns this kind of thing off (but I couldn't find the setting in chrome at a quick look...)
By "people" do you mean all people or just a few here on this forum? I would never use OneDrive, and I can tell you why people would use it: it's easy, and for the most part it just works. Most people don't care or consider it "adversarial". There are over a billion Windows computers.
MoltenVK might work though that only does up to Vulkan 1.2, while DXVK requires 1.3. There is a legacy version of DXVK that only requires 1.1. Or maybe MoltenVK can be improved.
> what if you desire 7 figure income?

Then your priorities are probably fucked. Assuming this isn't just a devil's advocate hypothetical.
I don't understand your question. It was suggested upthread that Japanese internment of Europeans during the war implied that racism didn't animate the policy, based on a premise that the Japanese aren't racist. But the Japanese were, at the time, luridly, profoundly racist; they were during the war racist in the mold of Nazi Germany.
> It doesn't need to be in space, the earth will look like Mars soon enough

You're disregarding how well humans are adapted to earth-conditions. An earth ravaged by draughts, flooding, wildfires, volcano eruptions and superstorms is still more hospitable to humans than Mars - by several orders of magnitude.
> Does that mean it is no longer a great work of art?

Yes.

I hate to sound cynical, but those who determine what a "great work of art" is are kinda snobby. The origin matters... A Van Gogh style painting isn't the same as an original Van Gogh. A perfect classic GT40 racecar replica, down to every part, is not a GT40. And there's a lot of passionate AI hate out there.

That doesn't mean the novel's fandom would go away though. Tons of people can still love it even if publishers and the press call it an abomination.

And I've personally thought that kind of attitude was stupid even before GenAI. People worship and speculate on a tiny fraction of the abundance of excellent art we are surrounded by these days.
The $203B is the total program cost. It includes the 30 years of operating costs which are more than development and acquisition. The unit cost is currently estimated to be $700 million.

The B-2 $2B is 1992 unit cost. Inflation means more like $4B. Plus, the B-2 are pretty expensive to operate which is why the B-21 will replace the B-2 first.
So your saying a container salvage company would be more profitable? :-)
Live feed with earthquake updates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
Not convenient enough, given the claim was denied.
Uh what? Every Android phone lets you install apps via .apk files.
to my defense, if you look at the original paper

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01469.pdf

the exact neural network used for the prediction method is omitted. apparently many neural networks can be used for this prediction method as long as they fulfill certain requirements.

> why was diffusion necessary in the past?

in the paper, one way to train a consistency model is distilling an existing diffusion model. But it can be trained from scratch too.

"why was it necessary in the past " doesn't bother me that much. Before people know to use molding to make candles, they did it by dipping threads into wax. Why was thread dipping necessary? it's just a stepping stone of technology development.
You just need to install the Native Debugging Support plugin into IntelliJ. I recently switched from having all the language specific apps installed to centralizing on IntelliJ IDEA. As far as I can tell, that plugin gives you all the same debugging features as CLion and RustRover.
They ruined it when they moved it to Java. I get why (no one wanted to learn Objective-C before the iPhone), but it decimated so much of what was great.
indeed; we're able to make it work with SDXL thanks to a new technique that got released yesterday called LCM-LoRA.

with LCM-LoRA you can turn models like SDXL into LCMs without need for training and you can add other style LoRAs like the ones you find on civit.ai

in case you're interested, here's the technical report about LCM-LoRA: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05556
> OS reinstall due to something being broken, or twiddling with buggy display or wireless settings

Odd, my only windows laptop somehow got its partitions wrong the other day for whatever reason, when i connect my oled display it flickers (same cable works just fine on linux), wireless and ethernet are slower and i lose a couple fps in games.

Also my high end 2023 laptop’s touchpad, wireless, ethernet are not supported without drivers, so when i installed windows i had to plugin an external mouse and a usb stick with drivers. Naturally these all work in linux (mint, pop, manjaro, kubuntu, old and new kernels).

The linux experience has really improved (heck i am on nvidia and both hdmi and thunderbolt work flawlessly in kde).
People who are intelligent but can entertain contradictory ideas, respect differences of opinions and aren't very power hungry or status-oriented. Also they need to be highly self-aware and altruistic.

There probably needs to be a mix of different people but I suspect there should be a lot more of the kinds of people I described.
I think this is exactly the kind of issue that the startup Klu [0] is trying to solve. Not everybody should be building their own custom toolchains for finetuning/prompting AI models and there is really quite a lot of work involved in data management/evaluation.

There's definitely a lot of value in adding some AI features into your applications, but if it's not your core business you shouldn't be spending a lot of your time building a toolchain to do so.

[0] https://klu.ai
Audis are still luxury vehicles.
System Transparency: a security architecture for bare-metal servers
More info about stboot is available here: https://www.system-transparency.org/

and here:https://git.glasklar.is/system-transparency/core/system-tran...

The second link talks about network boot mode and signature validation.
The new Outlook also uses the Edge browser rather than a stand alone application. I did not like that Outlook was made into a web application, and wish to hell I could remove the Edge browser permanently. I prefer a local mail client.