skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes one big assumption - that the packaged code in Debian is better because it has been reviewed and vetted by someone competent. If this was true, it would make this approach worthwhile, but I don't think it is. The author could have pointed to some data that demonstrates this, but didn't. I remain unconvinced.

As far as I can tell, this is more about the feeling of security because of familiarity. I can completely understand why they would feel more comfortable using something they've successfully used for many years, but that feeling doesn't actually translate to improvements in security. There is a feeble attempt to suggest that slowing down the rate of change improves security, but I would prefer to have the latest versions of the language toolchain and libraries available immediately, so I can make a decision on what to use myself.

If security actually needs to be addressed, it's going to be by paying maintainers and paying people to review dependencies. And that would likely be in the framework of PyPI/crates.io/npm, because none of them place constraints on where the code can be used, unlike using a single Linux distro's package manager.
Writing this much seems to take significant mental energy, so if you are already prone to depression you need to be extremely prepared. It's also true depending on your intentions for all creative things, particularly if you have low self confidence. For example you might feel bad about yourself because you don't do enough art so you enter some kind of art competition, but then you immediately feel shitty about yourself and so you can't bring yourself to do it, leading to even worse self confidence about it.

My therapist told me that in Germany there is an idiom that in English translates to "if you want to prove that you will fail you will always succeed". If I did NaNoWriMo, I would have the full expectation that I will fail, even if I try to tell myself that I have hope it would go well, and so I will just naturally make myself fail.
> And if we do implement UBI to such a degree that people are allowed to live a life completely without any physical need for traditional income.

I think you're forgetting the B in UBI. The idea is to guarantee basic necessities, not to maintain a high quality of life.
They do: https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/191758964889...

I remember there being a group out there that had the same competition but trying to tweak a good LLM to write a novel in a month, but I couldn't find it again and it was before the ChatGPT heyday.
The discussion around operating systems really is tiring.

A lot of the comments here are no better than what we are seeing on that reddit post, which is sad.

Like you I use all 3 operating systems for different things. However Mac is my preferred OS for just general computing.

Linux I have installed on quite a few VM's and Raspberry PI's.

Windows I use for gaming, pretty much just gaming.

If we leave our tech bubble there is something to be said for the average user to use an operating system that the vast majority of software just works with. Yes Windows has its problems, but for the most part if you have an issue you can get support instead of needing to post to reddit (like this person with linux did if you check their post history).
Never lived somewhere with a really bad outdoors situation, I take it?

To use your analogy, it’s more like living in a city where the most-attractive person once came in 3rd in an ugliness competition, and also everyone has unpleasant personalities. It’s less that you don’t have any of the best options available, and more that you don’t have any that are better than “still fairly bad”. You visit a buddy few couple states over, rave about how wonderful and pretty all the locals are, and your buddy’s like “dude wtf we’re infamously the ugliest town in this state, and the reputation is deserved, I need you to say these things to some of my local pals so they can have a good laugh”.

Why bother, indeed.
Zim wiki or just text files in a folder. Nothing special. Don't get special with it. Waste of time.

I use zim-wiki for simple searchable lists. I also journal, but hand-write everything. Keep a few pages blank in the back for an index. Then when I fill a journal, I go back and read it, and write out an index on those last few pages. Keeps things as searchable as is possible for a dead-tree diary, at least the important bits and keywords.

Creating an index like this forces you to revisit, evaluate things. Forces you to think through what's important, what to take away from what you've written. You may take away very little (and that's okay).
> I'm super confused why you think the comparatively young private space industry, which has accomplished putting satellites and a car in low earth orbit, is somehow more capable?

i would say the appetite for risk and prioritization in the private space industry makes them more capable. Don't forget the Apollo program and the space race was in response to a real existential threat. Once the threat lessoned the appetite for risk went down and other priorities took center stage.

The private space industry has taken all that innovation, adding to it, and moving forward where the governments don't because they have other fish to fry. To mangle a quote, "If [private space industry] have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants [government science/engineering]". I think the private space industry is further validation the public investment in space is worth it.
PyPI Packages Found to Expose Thousands of Secrets
It's amazing how much "optimization" you can achieve on modern systems by simply fencing process(es) to run within a cache region, or within a NUMA node. Even my homelab server with a P-core cluster and two E-cores clusters benefits massively from some simple cpusets to keep each process running within a cluster to mitigate context switching. Each P-cores has its own L2 cache, but E-core clusters share L2. Unfortunately all three clusters share a LLC, so there's only so much you can do.
The pay is rubbish :)
Oh I believe that they actually tried Linux, I just don't believe that they ever switched to it. I've seen this one before: they tried to switch to Linux, it ran/worked like shit (not really surprising, desktop Linux is a perpetual mess) and then they probably made this troll-ish post. That's my guess. I doubt they "switched" from Linux, though. I bet (without having done much research) that they tried to switch TO Linux, and it didn't go very well. That's my guess. Could be wrong, but there are several aspects of the post that make me suspect it's spiteful. If you're going to troll Linux communities these days, you absolutely have to use the term "distro-hopping" in your dissertation.
Job interviews like this are terrible. It's a shame he's put so many people through it.
Not for a while. The first revamp was 2.5, then another big one with 2.8, which was the starting point for the current UI, in 2019.
I have 3 Linux PCs, including a Steam Deck, and 2 out of 3 basically require zero specialized knowledge and just work. One of them has been that way for like a decade and circa every 3 years I just install a new OS to update things and it takes all of like 10 minutes. Steam Deck takes care of itself so far. Leaving the one PITA early model Ryzen, which doesn't really take intricate technical knowledge, but has an annoying bug or issue with boot where sometimes you have to boot it a couple times for the graphics output to initialize cleanly. I also have a laptop with Linux, and it has a swollen battery, which is probably my biggest gripe, but I'm not sure of the degree I can or can't blame Linux for that - it seems like it started when the laptop fell about 3 feet to a hard floor.

But yeah, no special technical knowledge required.
Windows 11 could be great but Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with bad decisions, ads, and other user-hostile actions.

I’m curious who at Microsoft is blowing this opportunity by making these bad decisions and burning the credit they earned with developers?

Brandon Leblanc? Someone higher up? Satya?
There's just not enough here to justify the price.
AI is doing nothing but raising expectations, and so it should. Stop crying and adapt!
The premise of "gatekeepers" is strange. They try to sell what they have available, understand and know their margins on the sale and long-term on services.
If they could get more money selling EVs they'd do that, but any car dealership with money blocked in inventory would try to sell this first.
This don't look like an "anti EV evil trust", just basic market forces at work.
> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling. I made some false starts using what I could gather,

If this is the skill level of the coder then I’m not surprised that they are worried about GPT. However they should be stoked GPT can help them code at a much higher level
All of them, as statistics show how they spend hours of their leisure time on TV and their phone.
They reversed this stance, after people, rightfully, voiced negative opinions about this decision.

While I never heard the pop, apparently, someone pulled on their ears hard enough to get their heads out of their asses.
The control scheme in Blender is so foreign to me.

When they support rmb + WASD to fly around maybe I'll be able to use it heh
Yes you're right, some of this can be easily installed with a few commands!

However, the boilerplate also has a lot of other api routes, components and demo pages to setup an app.

If you're capable of easily setting that up yourself then this might not be for you, that's totally fine of course!
You don't have to take Elon's word to know that it'll be cheap. It's being built in the open air under dozens of cameras streaming 24/7 on Youtube. Calculating the time & materials cost for Starship is straightforward.
This - to me prudently is something like prioritising: health care, infrastructure, social security, education, defence and policing.

I know that many people (even just across the UK), would either disagree with this list, or with the various % that should be attributed to each. One persons 'prudent' would be another persons too much/little etc.
Would you give the critical public safety system bit to ChatGPT?

This scenario reminds me of:

If a job's worth doing, do it yourself.
If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer.

Except now it's "give it to ChatGPT"
I agree with you in principle but there's no difference between that and what's allowed in other American platforms. Degenerate content is everywhere in all platforms.

For tiktok to be special in this regard they would have to allow something different that went way beyond what American platforms allow, and that's thus far not happening.
Google wants governments to form a 'global AI corps'
It's legit and common.

> Much publicity has surrounded the use of gag clauses in contracts between insurance companies or their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmacies. These clauses prohibit pharmacists from voluntarily informing patients that their prescription medication may cost less if paid for directly by them instead of through their insurance.

> How often an insurance copayment exceeds the cash price for a prescription is not definitively known; however, Van Nuys and colleagues reported that such overpayments affected 2.2 million (23%) of 9.5 million prescription insurance claims from a single large insurer. Additionally, in a 2016 survey involving over 600 pharmacies, approximately 39% of respondents stated that a gag clause prevented them from informing patients about other payment options between 10 and 50 times in the last month.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293384/

Antitrust action when?
Thanks for the details on your benchmarks. I would like sometime to extend BLP to a more generic setting; as I said I think any trick used with RH would also work with BLP. I just used an integer set because that's all I needed for my use case and it was easy to implement several different approaches for benchmarking. As you note, it favors use cases where the hash function is cheap (or invertible) and elements are cheap to move around.

About your question on load factors: no, the benchmarks are measuring exactly what they claim to be. The hash table constructor divides max data size by load factor to get the table size (https://github.com/senderista/hashtable-benchmarks/blob/mast...), and the benchmark code instantiates each hash table for exactly the measured data set size and load factor (https://github.com/senderista/hashtable-benchmarks/blob/mast...).

I can't explain the peaks around 1M in many of the plots; I didn't investigate them at the time and I don't have time now. It could be a JVM artifact, but I did try to use JMH "best practices", and there's no dynamic memory allocation or GC happening during the benchmark at all. It would be interesting to port these tables to Rust and repeat the measurements with Criterion. For more informative graphs I might try a log-linear approach: divide the intervals between the logarithmically spaced data sizes into a fixed number of subintervals (say 4).
Starship has a slightly larger internal volume than the ISS, so yeah, a single starship is directly comparable to the current largest space station we've got
Obviously the ramcharger is asinine, but gas range extenders are a proven approach to "bridging the gap" in EV practicality.
I'm using Windows 10 right now as my main machine. I never experienced any crashes/blue screens except when my GPU started failing, but I can't count that against the OS. It is the most stable system I have ever used. Windows 11 on the other hand seems absolutely horrible to me. The privacy issues and anti user patterns keep piling on.

I'm open to switch to a Linux distro (and use it on all my servers anyway), but they all seem horrible on desktop. A few weeks ago I installed Ubuntu for testing, set a light background and wanted to change the text colors of the desktop. Not possible, except if you want to start messing with some CSS files. I also wanted to add an app shortcut to the desktop, also not possible without some extension and then the icons sometimes don't match and not all apps were supported.

If they would just create feature parity with the Windows Explorer, Windows might be toast in a few years, but it seems there is just no interest in that.
That'd be a great subject to study then. You've got the whole, open internet as a resource to learn (the irony of that statement will make sense to you later; something to look forward to)
The article discusses the impact of high absolute temperature on the longevity of drives, however from my amateur knowledge the range of temperature during a day is also an important factor.

I always assumed that having a stable 40°C is better than a drive constantly swinging between 20°C and 40°C, so I am surprised that the article only mentions alerts on reaching a high threshold.
The Bing AI which uses GPT-4 on Edge browser sometimes does brilliantly and sometimes throws temper tantrums. Not sure why this is the case, though.
I don't know if this is correct, but recently read it was a decline of 2 million+ horses in 1900 to about 238,000 in the UK.
You aren't really suffering because the group policy manager or whatever isn't written in the latest winui framework. I'd rather continuity than apple style shenanigans in the name of an annual rebrand and spitshine.
I can understand that!
What would you like to see included that would justify the price for you?
Surely they'd allot and distribute a fixed percentage of their revenue among however many accounts are eligible, along some weighting scheme...?

Any other type of model would be unpredictable at best and more than likely an extreme business risk.
MATLAB is a mess that's in use solely due to history, network effects, stockholm syndrome and vendor lock-in. Octave is doing laudable job in the latter, but I fully expect it to die out after MATLAB whimpers away. And I don't think the GUI is much of a priority for Octave.
Let me know how you get on with a disposable financial system, safety system or electoral voting system.
You'd do great in prison.
This article is written as if it's only bad for this collection of people. Watch me weep tears for them falling victim world they have wrought.
I see this is using Graphviz. The first time I used DOT, I was writing a parser and wanted to visualize my AST. It was fantastic and so easy to write, especially if you have a wrapper library. It's such a great tool for being able to visualize your graphs.
They do do "something" about it.
The killer feature for me is not being an Electron app.
This is why you can't use X (or facebook or any other social media) for news.
The article links to their huggingface page[0], which offers both chat and non-chat models, and it appears that they come with the code necessary to be run, but I have not actually tried to run them.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/normalcomputing
> So they should ban instagram too.

A great start!
Also not a bad thing to remain childlike in some ways.
However most functionalities of the OS are ridiculous. File management is the worst. On Android you could do whatever you want exactly with the particular file, not so much on iOS. iOS despite being smooth and consistent only works the way that apple wants.
>how did horses feel when cars were invented? They didn't complain or go on strike'

Guaranteed though, more of them were eaten or sent to the glue factory.
With causal masking and autoregressive token generation, it’s not clear to me that it is inherently different.

My original expectation was the same as the way instructor software implemented it. But I found the prompt in the article confusing toward that perspective. I’m sure it can work either way, but it should be a lot more performant (and less expensive) as a single pass.
Ah, but I've heard from Reliable Sources that CMMC will fix everything.
> Linux requires a vast amount of intricate knowledge, constant troubleshooting, just to keep your system running.

This is tangibly false.

I installed Ubuntu Mate on a really old laptop and gave it to my mom that needed a computer for email/YouTube/browsing.

It worked like a charm for years until the machine finally stopped working beyond repair that was economically viable.

> My games run the best they can on my hardware, I don't have to worry about tinkering with stuff.

Funny you say that - for some older games, I find it easier to run on Linux nowadays that it was to run on Windows and I needed to do some trial-and-error with compatibility modes.
I think one possibility is that the increase in technology is enough to cover our needs.
For example forget money, but instead we just handed out a certain amount of food to everybody. We can get 1 person with an advance combine to collect enough grain for maybe 1000 people. If we can automate that, then 0 people collect enough grain for infinite people. The only limit is the area that we are farming.

It would be reasonable to assume for ubi to work, we would need a reasonable amount of land to be farmed.

Now apply the same concept to other things as well.
What researchers found when they tested Fiji Water against tap water
"Bottled water manufacturers are not required to disclose as much information as municipal water utilities because of gaps in federal oversight authority. Bottom line: The Food and Drug Administration oversees bottled water, and U.S. EPA is in charge of tap water. FDA lacks the regulatory authority of EPA."
Carr Opposes Biden's Internet Plan
From the release:

But do not take my word for it. The text of the order expressly provides that the FCC would be
empowered, for the first time, to regulate each and every ISP’s:
● “network infrastructure deployment, network reliability, network upgrades, network
maintenance, customer-premises equipment, and installation”;
● “speeds, capacities, latency, data caps, throttling, pricing, promotional rates, imposition of late
fees, opportunity for equipment rental, installation time, contract renewal terms, service
termination terms, and use of customer credit and account history”;
● “mandatory arbitration clauses, pricing, deposits, discounts, customer service, language
options, credit checks, marketing or advertising, contract renewal, upgrades, account termination,
transfers to another covered entity, and service suspension.”
The problem is that most people just fundamentally don't want to make art. NaNoWriMo is in many ways just an excuse to force themselves to do so "because they know they should".
When you compare it to GIMP, it's night and day. Not only is Blender open source, it is professional software.
Use a different laptop for each job?

Seriously though... this is ridiculous but it's 100% the fault of the employer for over-hiring and bad management.
A ball went in a hole, and a camera was recording it.
SETI Institute gets $200M to seek out evidence of alien life
Single transactions are easy to do. Extremely hard when your trading volume is substantial.
These countries aren’t fully westernized, but it’s impossible to deny they’ve been heavily influenced by the west. For example, traditional diets are being replaced by unhealthy western diets: https://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/health/article/Pacific-C.... Or in another example, Japanese people are increasingly giving “unique” names to children: https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20220913_823...
Statutory law defines what limitations corporations may apply to you. Ergo it's more complicated than an arbitrary restriction.
Personally, I have used it on Intel macs and on my wife's M1 Pro about a year ago.

But we recently had a couple of new folks join our team who opted for M2 laptops and they've been having more or less the same pains I had a year ago, so have to run images with emulation (and those sometimes have nasty segfaults).
Iceland has had active volcanoes all the time it has been inhabited.

Does anyone know what the "traditional" response to these sorts of ground movements was?
Well... they're certainly tackling debt.
Making payroll.
A SLS launch costs about 2 billion dollars. A Starship launch is estimated to cost around 40 million. It'll probably end up costing more than that, but it would need to cost a whole lot more to make the SLS a better option
the new Outlook also steals your imap credentials.
I don't know, it actually feels quite similar to something that seems to happen in my head. In a certain context, my brain resurfaces a bunch of memories and thoughts of things that are similar, even if they are not necessarily valuable to the current situation. I am not saying that the how is equivalent, but the what certainly seems at least related.
Their experiment seems to handle less than 100,000 tokens of text. I wonder if this method could scale to more than 1,000,000 or 10,000,000 tokens.

It seems like it's limited to context length? So with 512 token chunks at 4096 context length that is 2 million tokens. Which could be good for some things but is not going to help for a really large knowledgebase.

Edit: I see the source code is in the Files section on the Hugging Face page.
Please solve some harder problems for me. I don't need this - there's so many tools that do this already. Boilerplate SaaS code is a commodity. Help me find customers, please
I'm very sorry to hear that! That f*cking sucks! And thank you for sharing. That's something every man should be cautious of. But you say "chest", so checking your balls wouldn't make a difference, right?
It's incumbent on us not to consume it. Who will save us from our addiction to plastic crap?
It makes Ryzen 9 processers great for budget VFIO workstations because you can run an OS (either host and guest or two guests) on each CCD.