skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A machine from that generation is running DDR2 or 3. Likely running spinning rust. Has serious CPU vulnerabilities that will never be addressed. With an OS that isn't supported by any major browser and is not getting new root certs.

You could argue that a PII running Win 9x could equally do the job, if they can find a working web browser, but no one is going to say that's a great idea "because Microsoft stopped supporting PIIs!!!1111".

fTPM being a requirement (fTPM being common among Intel and AMD consumer CPUs for just a couple years short of a decade) in Windows 11 is a non-issue.
Very nice project! It would be great to have a separate url for each code (embed it in the url perhaps?) for easy sharing.
Spare us the conspiracy theories. Washing machines were invented because they're convenient, not because of "political propaganda". And we've already "centralized" clothes washing, it's called a laundromat.
Yes, you can do that quite trivially on WM.
right. we're already abstracting from English words and characters into tokens, piping code through half a compiler so the LSM is given the AST to train on doesn't seem all that far fetched.
I feel like anyone disagreeing with me that they won't swap to powershell every day from now on didn't really read my point and just clutched bash harder. I just said learn from it a bit, you don't have to live with it. It's not perfect, it won't replace your unix tools and bash because it never promised to, it's different. Python isn't trying really hard to be a better javascript.
Did you look at Server Sent Events (SSE)? It's a web technology, I would assume that there are client implementations in all major languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
What checked exception implementation do you have in mind then?
Snoo looks like he has a beard now:

https://www.redditinc.com/assets/images/site/_1440xAUTO_crop...
Yeah, if people commit to collecting enough eval and/or training data.
None of this has ever been applied, as proven by Facebook still being in business despite blatantly breaching the GDPR since 2018.

Even when they got close to actually getting a deterring fine, the corrupt Irish DPA bailed them out: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-data-protection-authority-gives-eu-...
This isn't a prediction, it's a joke. The context of the article makes it clear that he's making a joking comparison to the evolution of birds.
I like a lot of what Deno does, but I'm having some trouble understanding why this (along with Deno's KV and Queues offering) is part of the Deno runtime.

The blog post touts this as a feature to reduce the amount of code to get up and running, but a library would accomplish the same thing. A first-party library could even directly integrate with Deno Deploy in the same way that this appears to.

Why pollute the runtime with something unrelated?
Holy cow! I have driven a Tesla handful of times and found the UX both terrible and dangerous, but this is a new one to me. Even with all of the other issues those cars have I'm shocked to learn that they will refuse to shift direction. I literally can't imagine myself ever owning a vehicle that would refuse basic commands by design.
To what extent have the problems in The Unix-Haters Handbook been addressed since 1994?
Bummer that they don't support Linux.
I managed to score one and it gives me a new appreciation for the word "slow".
dont you already cut and paste your error message to google like everyone else?
Possibly because of this mention in the comments of a recent El Reg article about Wayland:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/11/29/rhel_10_...
A lot of companies are locked in from before the incompetence started showing. They're really pushing up against that line where it's worth it for people to move away, though.
I'm surprised to see a new brand font in nearly-2024 that doesn't have variable axes.*

* https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc...
It sounds like they just recently got weight streaming working well which was my point: if you bought a CS-2 when it first came out you couldn't really use the off-chip memory and the on-chip memory wasn't enough to run LLMs.
Comprehensive Rust V2
Ugh. I do...
Sharing my code & review assistant: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-6xMQF5fj4-a-s-coder
And also this piece I wrote recently on funny ways people have tried to "protect" their GPTs: https://andrei.fyi/blog/reverse-engineering-gpts
The methology used in these tests is utter nonsense.

Yes, there is something to be learned by his results but it has a the very least 50% to do with DAW internals and CPU vs the CPUs themselves.

He used large numbers of tracks to test which isn't a valid measure of CPU optimization across different DAW platforms. There is widely varying CPU overhead issues among the different DAWs. Running 300 tracks in Ableton is going to cause a bunch of different bottlenecks and inefficiencies to be pushed... not just CPU.

Clickbait. I'm not saying that the M3Pro is better or worse or trying to defend Apple, I'm just pointing out as someone with a lot of experience in DAW-land that this testing methology is bunk as a CPU test and as a DAW performance test.
There's nothing stopping an asset of increasing scarcity becoming a currency, providing the government isn't able to suppress it.

In fact, it would have an extremely strong chance of doing so due to it's better store-of-value qualities that would cause weaker currencies to flood the market and go to zero as people transferred their wealth into the harder money.
I hope for the sake of my former colleagues at Weta that those transferred to Unity can simply be transferred back to Weta.

The point of production pipelines being bespoke (at least past a certain company size) is a relevant one. The main workhorses of large scale production (Maya, Houdini, Nuke, etc.) are extremely customizable and extensible. Over years (decades in the case of Weta) companies develop highly complex workflows and associated tools based on these applications.

That is why the Unity deal never really made sense to me. The idea that Weta's tools could somehow be packaged up and delivered as essentially shrink-wrapped consumer-level add-ons to Unity was a naive one at best. I'm not entirely surprised to see it fall apart.
s%/u/spez.%/user/spez .%
Thanks, fixed now, it was the result of a botched cut/paste from a comment I made yesterday which happened to fit this situation.
The "plethora of incomplete, incompatible shells" has narrowed down a fair amount if you only include ones in wide use.

And "The push for a unified Unix" sort of happened, we're down to 2 or 3 that get any broad attention.
Well, if we're talking about the problem of it still existing, that one has almost been solved.
> On Windows, that usually means you need to open up the MSVC x64 native command prompt and run llamafile there, for the first invocation, so it can build a DLL with native GPU support. After that, $CUDA_PATH/bin still usually needs to be on the $PATH so the GGML DLL can find its other CUDA dependencies.

Yeah, I think the setup lost most users there.

A separate model/app approach (like Koboldcpp) seems way easier TBH.

Also, GPU support is assumed to be CUDA or Metal.
Okay, Thomas - lots of dispute about when it was written, and the anthology style makes timing even harder to determine, while increasing the chance it was modified over the centuries.

I recalled something about the intrigue over some parchments from this collection, and found this recent story [0] about the alleged illegal sale, recovery, translation efforts, and (this year) publication of some fragments.

One of the researchers is quoted in that article with a 'This is not Q' statement.

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/scholars-publish-new-papyrus-w...
Reddit has always had a ton of stupid irrelevant side projects. Remember "creddits"/ReddCoin, the "social cryptocurrency" they were developing? Hard to believe that was a decade ago. Harder to believe that in retrospect, they should have just done it, been ready when the crypto hype wave came and exited/IPO'd as billionaires.
Looks like snoo is working through the night but hasn't stopped hitting the whisky bottle prepping for that IPO.
Wait until all vehicles can charge at the working Tesla network which includes a fee for charging past 90% charge on a $1 per minute basis. Then another charge of a full charging station per minute fee.

https://electrek.co/2023/11/21/tesla-launches-supercharger-c...
Strange Loops: journeys in declarative logic programming in genomics [video]
The Python one that currently exists can use Pandas, but then you're using Python and not R. Other language support must be on their roadmap, only question is how far down the list it is.
This is a problem with many dimensions and few equilibrium points. Libertarianism and nationalism are certainly incompatible, but that doesn't mean everybody needs to make their mind an pick one. They can accept both as valid equilibria, and rally for a gradient-descent into the closest one according to local politics.

Right now we find ourselves far from any equilibrium points: just an awkward heavily polarized in-between. I hope we can find the next equilibrium without a global civil war.

PS: Not sure if "you guys" goes for me, I'm merely an observer. I'm not even Italian.
> you are asserting fundamental physics prevents it from happening?

Yes. The chemistry of burning fuel vs batteries is very different. Even though engines are much less efficient, that doesn't make up for how much more dense fuel that you burn is. (you could perhaps burn the battery, but that would be a very different thing, and probably too toxic to consider in the real world)

> I expect to see my local GA manufacturer start pumping out battery electric planes.

Since GA airplanes are currently being made at a rate of about 3000/year you could be right and yet not make any dent in total airplanes.

>Within 10 years it will be reasonably possible to get yourself on an electric plane.

Maybe, but those airplanes will have a very limited range. For most aviation uses range is important - by the time you get to the airport, run all the preflight checklists: you could have driven the same distance as the range of an electric plane, and the electric plane hasn't even got off the ground yet! There are short range niches where this is acceptable, and they will switch to electric planes for sure.

> Regional electric planes will start replacing older planes. The like 20-seater type size.

RANGE RANGE RANGE. Most people who get in a 20 seat plane are going far enough that electric can't make the trip. Batteries are too heavy, and this is the physics of the chemistry that innovation cannot work around no matter how much you want to ignore the laws of physics and chemistry.
Unlike LastPass, Bitwarden has the advantage of being open source and self hostable.
Hmm no reference to the OpenBSD port.
https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html
If more celebs get sued when they do stuff related to NFTs (scams) or crypto in general (probably a scam), then maybe we'll see less celebrity endorsements, and less of this crap overall. Good luck plaintiffs! Though only the lawyers (on all sides) will really profit from this...
Mayan is also doing a good job but I think geared more towards businesses/enterprises and at least for the older versions long term support is an issue. It’s also just one guy, or at least it was when I last checked.

For home I’d go with paperless-ngx no contest, especially if you can run it in a docker container.
I was thinking the same thing; so many of their original complaints have been addressed.

However, one has not: unix still uses the NJ-style (vs the MIT style), which is, if you can't figure out how to handle an error -- then don't. Also, put the burden on the programmer. Lovely stuff like that, which is core to the "unix philosophy".
I understand this isn't exactly what you meant, but The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon[1] series is one interpretation of that idea. Basically a Pokemon roguelike.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Mystery_Dungeon
Seems like a great idea, but a heads up from https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
It's easy enough for them to say $X plus sales tax for your county. The sales tax is easy to calculate for anyone, it's the $X that matters.
Civilian flights get recorded from takeoff to landing. If you start pulling this stunt a lot, you'll get caught really quickly.
Show HN: Two Minute Papers Clone
It's terrible.

L != I
I feel like the work on using CFGs with LLMs should be low-hanging fruit for improving code assistants, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable could chime in[1], [2], [3].

At lot of the confabulations we see today - non-existent variables, imports and APIs, out-of-scope variables, etc - would seem (to me) to be meaningfully addressable with these techniques.

Relatedly, I have gotten surprisingly great mileage out of treating confabulations, in the first instance, as a user (ie, my own) failure to adequately contextualise, rather than error.

In a sense, CFGs give you sharper tools to do that contextualisation. I wonder how far the “sharper tools” approach will carry us. It seems, to this interested layman, consistent with Shannon’s work in statistical language modelling.[4]

The term “prompt engineering” implies, to me, a focus on the instructive aspects of prompting, which is a bit unfortunate but also wholly consistent with the way I see colleagues and friends trying to interact with LLMs. Perhaps we should instead call it “context composition” or something, to emphasise the constructive nature.

[1] https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/156gu8c/d_const...

[4] https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/markets-and-the-good/artic...
Towards Higher-Level Abstractions for Molecular Programming [video]
Be the change you want to see.

I personally don't understand why people aren't willing to learn instead. It's not hard to sit down and pick up a new skill and it's good to step out of one's comfort zone. I personally hate Powershell syntax, brevity is the soul of wit and PS could learn a thing or two from bash and "the linux way".

We seem obsessed with molding the machine to our individual preferences. Perhaps we should obsess over the opposite: molding our mind to think more like the machine. This keeps a lot of things simple, uncomplicated, and flexible.

Does a painter wish for paints that were more like how he wanted them to be? Sure, but at the end of the day he buys the same paint everyone else does and learns to work with his medium.
2d, maybe. 3D, I haven't seen anything close to a game ready asset.
XPRIZE Launches $101M Prize for Age-Reversing Therapeutic
New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy
The x was rather the transition away from a single maintainer to the org. Iirc that guy still sticks around
Yeah, looks like there's a couple of differences. If you look at the top left there are a few examples that are shadertoy examples.
Example 5 (Smiley face) shows some differences:

* the void main() declaration difference

* the inclusion of iTime vs time

* gl_FragColor vs fragcolor

Also, the demo adds:

uniform float time;

varying vec2 vUv;

varying vec3 vNormal;

I think those are the biggest differences.
And before the web existed, people would distribute software packaged inside executable shell scripts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar).

It looks like that practice goes back at least 40 years.
They were already entrenched with their first game, and used that opportunity to buy into the DOTS hype.

DOTS had a much troubled development cycle; most of what was promised was eventually abandoned, and the key people were laid off. Anyone that bought into it is now stuck in the hybrid-DOTS limbo, where they have to invest substantial amount of time into making the engine features work.
I was pleasantly surprised to see this, but it seems that the JS context in each run of the cron script is cloned so cron jobs are actually run in a separate "process".

Namely, I ran this example.

let s = 0, r = 0;
Deno.cron("Add second", "* * * * *", async () => {
console.log(`Add second ${s++}`);
});
Deno.serve(async (_req) => {
return new Response(`Seconds Running: ${s} / Number of requests: ${r++}`);
})

Example deployed here: https://weak-stoat-26.deno.dev

So, effectively, it seems that Deno.Cron clones the JS context but any changes done to that context will not be reflected in the Deno.serve. And, if that's the case, why don't handle Cron jobs in a different flow rather than mixing them with Deno.serve? (I think it can lead to unintended side-effects)

I'd love if someone from the Deno team could provide more context here, maybe I missed something?
Look man, if you want to have a conversation about this I am down, but you need to stop saying that I am lying. I am happy to accept that I could be wrong about this, but that is not the same as lying. Just ease off the gas a little here.
So, the "Big Thinks" assertion here is that sometimes people are wrong and as a result incorrectly predict the future and that this pattern continues today. This is all so obvious and leads to no specific conclusion so I have to wonder, who is this article actually _for_? People who just don't like hearing the word "no?"

The Navy general was partly right. The government was the wrong entity to pursue flight and it was best left in private hands.

The New York Times was partly right. It took a lot of work to develop commercial and military flight to the level it is now. They were also on the verge of a worldwide communications upgrade, so those 10m person years came together faster than imagined.

The other article is also partly right. Flight is not so cheap that it is widely available, there are billions of living people on this planet who will never fly because they will never have enough money to afford it before they die.

The British astronomer just wanted a telescope instead of individual space travel. He was arguing about the best way to use a limited amount of money and specifically disclaimed any ability to predict the future.

Finally.. the original idea of the Apollo program was incredibly ambitious and was put forward in a top down fashion by the president. This was unprecedented for peace time America. Even then, they have to acknowledge that half the country was on board, and a vast majority actually sat down and watched the spectacle.

I hate articles like this, they try to wash away all nuance to end up with a self serving conclusion designed to mollify the "move fast and break things" crowd. The "Big Think" does some of the smallest thinking I've ever seen.
Yah, though it's annoying you have to hack them into the UI again with composer instead of having a plugin system in the app that can just add them.
> spoof a valid "friend" IFF

Tricking an enemy plane to respond seems "fair", but would a plane disguising itself as friendly count as perfidy?
He is testing by running many many tracks at once -- different DAWs have very different performance profiles when running more than 50 tracks... and some DAWs (I'm looking at you, Ableton) have utterly bizarre performance, CPU-wise, most of the time that doesn't directly correlate to the CPU's performance but to do with their really old and idiosyncratic code base.
Wouldn't it be rather simple for OpenAI to fix this?

if output[-10:] in training_data:
increase_temperature()
First LLM diagnosed as sociopathic. First identified as bigoted. First as just being a jerk. First to be denied a government permit. First refused entry at a national border. First not to be invited back to the Oscars. There are plenty of interesting hurdles yet to come
> Of course, this entails the risk of occasional breakage. But for 99% of modules, this has no impact at runtime.

Right so most projects end up with 100's (random one I have is 700+) modules. Which would mean multiple breakages.

The worst part isn't the breakage - it's not knowing where or when it breaks, and because it could be missed when it's being bundled it can happen in production.

The bundling step should effectively be doing the file pruning for you (or even parts of files) and you can be a lot more confident that won't miss things.

node_modules are generally big (580MB in my case), but I don't know why you'd trade 580MB of storage for reliability. For us the 580MB will get bundled under 1MB for our web application, essentially all dev machines will be 512GB+ at this point anyway.
"The winning team of the $101M XPRIZE Healthspan must demonstrate that their therapeutic treatment restores muscle, cognitive, and immune function by a minimum of 10 years ... in persons aged 65-80 years. The therapeutic treatment must take 1 year or less."
“Or is it proof that they don’t want you to know about crypto? Uhuh?”
It is a toy. It is not efficient in first place and how it works doesn't actually produce much torque. Or likely power either.

Water power with something like Egyptian screws might have been better solution.
Not supporting operator overloading is not a “strange decision” it’s widely hated feature outside of very specific domains (like maths and graphics) and every shop i worked at which bothered with a c++ guideline banned it
is that a vi repeat? lol
Today I Learned about the world Ignosticism! Thank you, I love it!
To me, it looks like creating a font isn't terribly difficult based on https://kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_font.html.

That said, I'm a no-talent hack and I'm sure any font I created would look like I ate and subsequently vomited off-brand crayons onto the screen.
>self updating function of nextcloud works very well

Then that's a new development. I've been using it since about v9 and it was a complete trainwreck that might have had a 25% success rate until I gave it up and moved to the docker around v17.
Curious whether this works on Windows? Symlinks are strange there (though hard links work fine on NTFS).
Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Edition 2023
I'd like to add my issue with the specific DSL approach isn't the learning curve, but the curve is a saw tooth pattern. If you don't keep using those DSL's weekly, in 2 years I dare you to write a valid one from memory.

pwsh reinforces pretty much the same* thing every time it's used, the more you learn the more you can do with every command, even ones you haven't used yet.

same subject to some base-level provided by the module. i.e. the active directory cmdlets have their own dsl inside -filter because it is a different thing. It's very analogous to `a = sql.cmd('SELECT ...').map(etc...)`. you can, you shouldn't, but maybe its fine. It's up to you.
It's hard to ignore when it takes up my entire screen and I have to scroll to see anything else. AI artwork is popping up everywhere and I don't think it looks as cool as people seem to think. It comes off incredibly tacky.
DOTS isn't ECS. DOTS was supposed to be, a Data Oriented Tech Stack. Currently it only has ECS with some extra bits. Ergo, DOTS is an unfinished mess. And that unfinished mess --along with a mandate to release for Gamepass-- culminated into CSII suffering from utterly ridiculous issues.
Which foundry produces Loongson CPUs?
We don't want any private information, so currently we are manually going over every new demo to make sure private data (face, hands, any other identifying information) doesn't get included in the dataset. Pretty hard to "blitzscale" this way, but I personally think doing it right is more important.
Shouldn't the comparison use distance as the denominator?