skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closely scrutinizing something, and noting that the null hypothesis explains those observations, is not absence of evidence. It is evidence of absence. Observation creates evidence, whether the observations were expected or not.
Sure. The difference is some voices, like David Attenborough or Samuel Jackson are instantly recognizable to a large audience while someone who isn't famous' voice is not.

Where to put the bar is a specific issue, but the exemplars in their category stand out as recognizable.
There's not much to discuss about this submission, but here's a twitch link to the talk from Andreas Fredriksson today at Handmade Seattle. It's about some of the approaches they took to make their absolutely incredible Eon demo for original Amiga 500 hardware.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1978214964?t=01h31m12s

"Who cares about features if it runs like ass" made my day.
> it's a community that embraces diversity and inclusion at its core. Through initiatives like PyCon Charlas, PSF breaks language barriers, providing a platform for Spanish-speaking contributors.

This is a comically US-centric "diversity initiative". Just goes to show how difficult it is to break out of that mindset. Then again, the US is both a vast and an isolated country, so I cut ya'll some slack.
I need wayland for correct 200% scaling on one screen. Firefox seems to work without issues. VSCode worked for some time until some update. I have no idea what changed :(.
Also its so weird that i have to launch it with some flags but they also show as errors...
How to enable VSCode wayland is mystery to me.
I don't mind it. Lots of acronyms have been names in the past like AOL and MSN. I speak English though - maybe it's not as good for non-english speakers.
I didn’t read this article, but I believe the switch to mail in ballots (at least) was made by the executive branch in many places where legally speaking it is supposed to be made by the legislative branch. I believe the process change was justified under the COVID related emergency orders. Kind of hard to tell whether it was above board or not.

I haven’t looked too much into it though, if someone can add more detail I would be interested too!
i feel you. thanks for sharing your working style. i'm sorry i misread your comment.
I don’t know a lot of people who are confident about presidential elections.
My anecdote from the US is that usually my primary care doctor will do a rapid streptococcus test if I come in with a sore throat, and only prescribe antibiotics if it comes back positive. That seems responsible enough for me.
While true, it's also nonsensical to ask people to believe in something without providing evidence of it.

Carl Sagan has a good short story to this effect about a dragon in his garage: http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf

> Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits
heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so. The only thing you've really learned from my insistence that there's a dragon in my garage is that something funny is going on inside my head.
This is a custom chip that they are making. I don't think that they should be required to sell it, but if others find it valuable you could expect to see hardware startups making their own RISC-V AI chips as well that you could buy.
Don't compilers, cpu branch prediction, etc all fix the performance issues behind the scenes for the most part?
My opinion.

The 2000 election was essentially decided by the courts based on mostly agreed upon facts. The outcome depended on interpretation of the law.

In the most recent election the facts themselves are not agreed upon and there are many many unsubstantiated allegations.
You've made your points, sure. But by doing so, you're also implicitly attributing the opposite of your opinion to me, which is not fair.

> Nobody would equate a watermelon for open source copilot for code analysis as being anti-Palestine or pro-Palestine or anti-Israel or pro-Israel.

How could you even know what other people would equate with what?
> they switched all Plus users to GPT-4 Turbo

Is that true? I'd expect the turbo version would reduce their workload, because it (probably) uses less gpus. AFAIK, it's still in preview, only available via api.
The government saw how docile the public was during the pandemic and now knows it can get away with just about anything in the name of safety. Some people will grumble but most will simply accept what they've been told they must do.
> Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
I unfortunately cannot read the full paper (I am not affiliated with university anymore), but from the abstract alone, "one of the masterpieces of science" seems a bit exaggerated. I do not want to argue that it is a bad paper without reading it, but from the abstract, it seems to say "two attempts were made at replicating the result that speed of counting seconds is linked to body temperature, and one of them failed to replicate the results", which on the face of it is important (see the debate about the replicability crisis) but not that exciting.

Am I missing or misinterpreting anything?
Sigh... Every man knows the mechanisms of the mind are yet unlike the cogs and pinions of clockwork. It remains the machinery, the relation of spring and escapement, that is most relevant. Hitherto in human history, I think, such structure has not been described.
If developers are going out of their way to forget about Microsoft that seems like Microsoft's failing.
Which is a really really weird limiting factor. The dictionary definition of "vegetable" is:

(according to oxford):

a plant or part of a plant used as food

(according to webster):

a usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal

(according to dictionary.com)

any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food

Which should include beans, chickpeas, peanuts, nuts, fruit, grains, etc.

If the question was about something else, maybe they should have used the words that mean what they want to ask instead?
It depends on what you value in art. Some value the only artifact per se; others the story around it. Unfortunately, I don't see too many complaints that image generators have no human artist behind them.
> You never have too much basil

If you harvest the tips then harvests grow with geometric progression.
Because Zuckerberg et al are addicted to ad revenue and some model shows that this drives usage. Fuck Facebook and every single one of its corrupt employees.
"Guess what this 'genius for a day' did..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudnMLzZjTg
Tell me more, like a brand and model where I can do that!

BTW if you already explored that, would you know how to alter the SLC/MLC ratio by any chance?

Modern QLC drive often have a SLC area for buffering. With the right firmware tools, it should be possible to take a 4 TB QLC drive and convert it to a 1 SLC drive to get more performance.
Yeah! Did/do you work on it? The original publications were good timing; I was working as a consultant on an FPGA-based ML accelerator at the time the original stuff was talked about, and I really enjoyed reading everything I could about Brainwave! Really neat project from both a system design perspective (e.g. heterogeneous compiler) to the choice of using and interconnecting FPGAs and integrating the network/software/ML stack (IIRC, there was a good paper on the overlay network they used to make those custom functions available on the global network fabric.)

I'm guessing at this point the ASICs make a lot more economic sense, though. :)
> they switched all Plus users to GPT-4 Turbo

Is that true? I'd expect the turbo version would reduce their workload, because it (probably) uses less gpus. AFAIK, it's still in preview, only available via api.

More likely the publicity around their dev day has increased signups beyond their capacity.
Same here, but for me using launch options to force chromium apps to use wayland with ozone has fixed most of the issues. Pretty convinced its the combination of NVIDIA/XWayland/Electron that is particularly cursed.
be sure to look at the archives, too, as there's some great stuff in there: https://gergelykalman.com/archives.html
Sooo...the TLDR would be...it takes a village to decompose a body?!
Because you are creating times for events you don't know what the UTC will be. if you are lucky your guesses will be right.

If you created an event in 2004 for 10AM New York in 2008, you may well have created it for 1500 UTC based on predicted time in 2008. When the Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed that event would have had to change to 1400 UTC. As you didn't store the timezone you had no idea whether to change it or not.

Chances are your users just ignored the problem, blamed the government rather than your poor code, or you didn't exist then, and you as an american-centric company has no idea that unpredicted unscheduled DST time changes occur all the time.
I have an analog circuits and a bit of an analog computing background and I will tell you this: analog computers have been around for awhile in commercial applications, still to this day theyre used to great success in some niche applications. They're limited by their flexibility as they are not really reprogrammable. Analog circuits need to be designed for each specific application. There are papers and prototypes built to create "reconfigurable" analog versions of FPGAs but they are limited by physical scalability issues, noise, routing, etc.
Platform Engineering Comes from Complexity
This democracy is an illusion anyways
I can't find it right now, but one of my pilot books had an amusing anecdote about a cargo goat that chewed through his rope.

A less amusing anecdote about weight and balance was this improperly secured MRAP, although it also involved damaged hydraulics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/15/crash-of-boein...
API-Driven Program Synthesis for Testing Static Typing Implementations
There Are Nine Million Autonomous Bicycles in Beijing (Fiction)
There’s a difference between private domain and privately regulated.
You're confusing two Internets. It's understandable, because they have the same name.

In one, search engines are advertising platforms, and list reams of content, which is also an advertising platform, designed to solicit revenue in one way or another.

In the other, search engines are for finding information, and they list sites that publish helpful/interesting/weird/fun/whatever information for free, in case someone other than the author might like it.

Confusing the two leads to disappointment.
Show HN: Decentralized Tamper-Proof Time-Series Database – The Log Store Network
Plenty of violations of the law (e.g. illegal campaign overspending) happened in the open and are publicly acknowledged to have happened. (Also things like abuse of state-of-emergency laws that were legal but could be argued to be "rigging" - many of the regimes we think of as despotic are maintained through legal means)
> Have we completely given up on making a good counter argument instead of disallowing things to be said in the first place?

In short: yes. I haven't given up, nor has everyone. But my experience has been that a shockingly large number of people (possibly even a majority) in the US simply assume bad faith from those with whom they disagree. They aren't even trying to discuss, because they believe that their ideological opponents are unable or unwilling to have a civil discussion. So they are trying to use tools like control of the public square (Facebook in this case) to suppress ideas they believe are dangerous.

I personally believe that this view is quite mistaken. I've had plenty of discussions with people I disagree with, and while we may not have changed each others' minds we at least could walk away with respect for each other at the end of it. But I certainly seem to be in the minority, and that troubles me deeply. Sidestepping discussion in favor of other, more heavy handed, approaches is imo far more dangerous to a democratic society than the ideas that people are trying to suppress in the first place.
Stripping out debug info is usually good enough unless you're hiding a name check or something.

Sometimes you just don't want someone to be able to easily iterate on your script (grab a script, modify and resell)
Would they allow a Coca Cola run an ad that claims Pepsi donates to the KKK? How about an ad that claims "our competitors" donate to the KKK?

If you claim an election is "rigged" or "stolen", those scenarios require a culprit. Who rigged the election? Who stole it? A very serious smear is being made that has no basis in reality, and I don't think that kind of defamation is generally allowed just because the parties being defamed are ill-defined.
Lol. The opposite is true. We live in time when lying to the population has never been more difficult.

Before the internet, information control and media capture by the state was near total, and lying to the entire population was the default practice.
It is arguably the entire purpose of the managerial class to take responsibility for the times when organizational policy results in illegal actions. Wage theft is a well-documented (and well-litigated) example of management being held personally liable.

Obviously the way the law is applied is that none of these executives will be held accountable. I often wonder where the line is.
If your meeting is 10AM Eastern, that's all you need.

If your meeting is 10AM Dublin, that's all you need

None of those timezones are half hour times. If you had a time at 10AM Delhi that would be fine too. Or 10AM Nepal.
Techdirt has a good series outlining the clowinsh nature of the 5th circuit - https://www.techdirt.com/tag/5th-circuit/ - they often make just very problematic rulings not backed by law or precedent. In the ruling you linked, they make repeated references to "demands" that were supposedly problematic but when the full context is provided, they're completely benign. Just really bad faith efforts from the Court for political purposes.

Techdirt / Mike Masnick's post about this ruling, the district court's insane prior one, and trying to square the circle of free speech and government coercion:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/11/5th-circuit-cleans-up-di...
Afaik you edit your .desktop file and pass flags to tell it to use ozone.

--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
> Have we completely given up on making a good counter argument instead of disallowing things to be said in the first place?

Kinda depends upon the subject. I assume you've never argued with a flat earther or a pizzagate believer. It's a waste of time. You can ignore them or silence them, bringing good counter arguments is gonna be a waste of your time.
Lots of games won't ever be converted to Wayland (maybe some unofficially by replacing libraries with updated ones that still work with the game), we'll need some nested X server like xwayland in rootful mode once wayland compositors remove their xwm.
You can almost think Sagan was taking a jab at religion there
Master-slave in distributed systems has as much to do with slavery as "click the mouse" has to do with animal torture. Get a grip. Language is full of words that have different meanings in different contexts, and computing especially so due to its reliance on metaphors.
The rule of thumb is put ifs and fors where they belong -- no higher or lower. And if you're not sure, think about a little more.

I don't think these rules are really that useful. I think this is a better variation: as you write ifs, fors and other control flow logic, consider why you're putting it where you are and whether you should move it to a higher or lower level. You want to think about the levels in terms of the responsibility each has. If you can't think of what the demarcations of responsibility are, or they are tangled, then think about it some more and see if you can clarify, simplify, or organize it better.

OK, that's not a simple rule of thumb, but at least you'll be writing code with some thought behind it.
Elephants give each other names – first non-human animals to do so, study claims
Corporations censor speech and any content in their platforms that they deem undesirable or threatening to their profits. That’s totalitarianism by definition, and yet private.

Public discourse squarely belongs to the public, and hosting it must be perceived and intended to be a kind of public service; otherwise we can just go back to the good old days of gathering and debating in public squares.
Admitted by who, exactly? And unfair in what ways?
Loving it.

Time: Coding, taking walks, reading, hanging with friends

Friction: Not that I can see. My lifestyle hasn't changed.

Miss work: Nope. I keep in touch with the coworkers I liked to socialize with. I can do the best part of work -- making things -- without the worst part: meetings, perf reviews, political BS, etc.

If you are a creative person, it's the best. Become your own patron.

Note: People who are "doing FIRE right" spend less time online so you won't see their replies. I specifically made an effort to comment on this, if it helps motivate you to pursue it. Best thing I've done for myself.
Qi2 wireless charging spec is here, offering speed boosts and magnets
Our recent all hands company meeting:

Senior manager 1: we are increasing the number of days in office per week for everyone.

Senior manager 2: our new remote collaboration solution is brilliant, you can even work on an airplane.

Everyone else: sitting at desk in front of a video call listening to people in different locations, as usual.
Yes, a quick google turned up these:

Antibiotic Resistance from the Farm to the Table. September 11, 2014. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/from-farm-to-table.html. Accessed September 14, 2015.

https://www.who.int/news/item/07-11-2017-stop-using-antibiot...

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE—LINKING HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK114485/

Much of modern medicine depends on antibiotics. The above resources give clear and compelling evidence that overuse of antibiotics in livestock is associated with increases in drug-resistant infections in humans.
Hardware for Linux
So why are you still there? Just the money, or it takes time to find a new job, or something else? There's plenty of smaller companies hiring still, but not at those salaries. What is it that DOES retain the staff there?
Isn't part of the actors' strike about maintaining rights on AI-reproductions of actor likeliness?

This is a brilliant and effective demo of why that's important.
> Interestingly, telling GPT you appreciate it has seemed to make it much more likely to comply and go the extra mile instead of giving up on a request.

This is not as absurd as it sounds, even though it isn't clear that it ought to work under ordinary Internet-text prompt engineering or under RLHF incentives, but it does seem that you can 'coerce' or 'incentivize' the model to 'work harder': in addition to the anecdotal evidence (I too have noticed that it seems to work a bit better if I'm polite), recently there was https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760#microsoft https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590#apollo
Did courts not review this? I'm curious which states are alleged to have done this illegally (and how that would've affected the outcome) because for example I thought I saw it was upheld in Pennsylvania:
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-mail-voting-ballots-...
This (usually) fails and hallucinates when using few-shot example prompting.
Unfortunately, very few people opt-in for organ donation. Thousands of people die a year waiting for transplants.
Wow, it really seems a trend that people are unable to understand/contemplate reality outside of an internet meme.

Beleive it or not, reality exists outside of anything you ever read in a whitepaper...
Absence of evidence in 60 court cases is evidence of absence. If one side had enormous benefit from showing it happened, and they can't show it, then...
https://archive.is/AUOPt
1280 pages. Yeah.
"Rigged" can mean lots of things, including something being illegally stolen. Such as a rigged boxing match.
Perhaps this is a naive question, but why is PostgreSQL so incredibly dominant in these rankings?
GPUs (and AI chips) are highly parallel, containing thousands upon thousands of the same compute units. The performance of these chips is very much dependent on having a sheer number of transistors to form into as many compute units as possible.

If we assume that Microsoft is roughly able to architect compute units of a similar performance-to-number-of-transistors ratio as nVidia is, then having twice the number of transistors should roughly result in twice the performance.

That is very different than it is with typical software. If you give a programmer who needs to write 100 lines of code to solve a given problem 100 more lines to fill, he won't simply be able to copy-paste his 100 lines another time and by that action be twice as fast at solving whatever problem you tasked him with. With GPU compute units, such copy-pasting of compute units is exactly what's being done (at least until you hit the limits of other resources such as management units, memory bandwidth etc.).
Currently the distillation happens automatically in the background for all functions but we're aiming to implement ways for the user to be able to turn it off if they wish to keep using the teacher models. Good to know that this'd be a wanted feature!
Being cynical, conspiracy, or half joking (or maybe all of the above? :) ): this means that the big tech bets on the orange guy coming back.

Let's entertain this idea:
They have much better behavioral and sentiment analysis tools than anyone else (this is why they are so much better at ad targeting! Their ads work and everyone in marketing says are worth this extra cost). And if they knew he will (obviously not certain, just with a high enough probability), wouldn't they try to play a bit safer for him to avoid an immediate retaliation?
You wouldn't want the one with a bite out of it either?

My version was 40 broccoli vs thousands of slugs. Apparently they smell it from as far as they can travel in a life time.
Welch actually said 20 years. And when confronted about that performance he refuses to discuss it. That should tell you something.

DUBNER: Let me ask you this: in 1999, not long before you retired from G.E., you said that your ultimate success would be determined by how well your successor grows the company over the next 20 years. When you said that, G.E.’s market cap was up north of $450 billion. Now it’s almost 20 years later, it’s just north of $200 billion. So talk to me about that. I know that you —

WELCH: I don’t talk about that.

Now maybe Welch doesn't want to seem like he's bad-mouthing the performance of those who came after him, but he does have at least some responsibility for ensuring a good continuity of leadership.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/extra-jack-welch-full-inter...