skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully in a technical forum such as this there can be some discussion about how the US was born as a distributed, federalist system,

had drifted into a monolithic architecture over the last century,

and craves a refactoring to re-distribute the load amongst the several states.
Didn't know it was from Philly. I used to pick one up ever time I was in whole foods.
When I was at amazon I interacted with twitch teams several times for projects and they legitimately didn't seem to understand that twitch and adult streaming sites are pretty much the exact same setup with different branding so being completely out of touch isn't out of the question, some of it willfully so.
I put together a reading list for Andrej Karpathy's intro to LLMs that would be helpful for all of the latest LLM and multi-modal architectures:

https://blog.oxen.ai/reading-list-for-andrej-karpathys-intro...
Basically, it retains all revisions. Furthermore, the main document index is a keyed trie, much like hash array mapped tries. That is storing an array as a tree and using compact page layouts (bitmaps, 4 references pages, full pages) to reduce the page sizes if they are not full. However, Sirix assigns monotonically increasing, immutable, unique node identifiers, thus most inner pages are full with references to the next level pages (also checksums of the child pages are stored along with the references as in ZFS). The height of the tree increases dynamically. Currently every inner page stores at most 1024 references, thus it's a very wide tree, but we should experiment with other sizes.

The leaf pages of the trie store either the data itself/the nodes or nodes of the path summary, nodes of the secondary indexes...

Thus, we have the main document index, but a RevisionRootPage also has references to the tries, which store the secondary indexes. The secondary indexes are read into main memory / are reconstructed from the leaf pages of the tries (usually small), also a small path summary.

The data pages are not simply copied... only nodes, which changed or fall out of a sliding window. Thus, a page may have to be reconstructed in-memory from at most a small number N of page fragments in the worst case. Thus, it needs a device, which is suitable for fast random, small sized parallel reads and sequential writes.

Currently you have to copy a resource starting from a given revision and applying all updates up to the most recent revision with intermediate commits in order to get rid of old revisions, as it only uses one data file per resource (a resource is equivalent to a table in a relational system). Thus, the data files are basically logs. Another file simply stores offsets and timestamps read into memory to retrieve a given revision.

https://sirix.io/docs/concepts.html

and

https://sirix.io/docs/jsoniq-tutorial.html

Should probably help to get a further understanding.

HTH and let me know if you're interested in more details :-)

Thanks for asking
It's kinda wild how a franchise built around a milkshake machine now cannot bother with milkshakes.
YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users
Not surprising to me - is she actually notable? as far as I can tell she is no more (or less) notable than any of the millions of people that contributed to the war effort - so along the lines of an army grunt following orders to shoot at the enemy, or an assembly line worker in the USA putting together B27's.

She took coded messages, fed them into a device that someone else invented, and then delivered the output for someone to (possibly) act on. As far as I can tell she was a cog in the huge war machine.

Do all of the millions of people, or 100's of thousands of americans who gave their lives, get or deserve a wikipedia page as well?

Nothing against this woman, or anyone that contributed to the war effort, but millions upon millions of people did - and they are all equally worthy of remembrance.
Would suggest our weekly paper club called Arxiv Dive - https://lu.ma/oxenbookclub. You can see past ones on our blog (https://blog.oxen.ai/) - have covered papers like Mamba, CLIP, Attention is all you need, and more. We also do a "hands on" session with live code, models, and real world data on Fridays!
That's interesting, so the numbers on the extension site are wrong?
> since the passcode is not (necessarily) evidence in itself

Unless the passcode is a decryption key, in which case the evidence simply does not exist without the passcode. It is indistinguishable from random noise. It’s less like “unlocking a safe,” and more like “instructing nanobots to reassemble a pile of dirt into evidence.”
Wanting to kill the president is not in and of itself a crime.
Even if I don't necessarily agree with this piece, I really like his photography. Michael Kenna and to a lesser extent New Topographics influences. It shows he put a lot of work he put into it. Lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Yes. All these are "supposed" to work the way they are and they are given good reasons, but it still doesn't negate the facts that the same CSS style has different effects on different tags.

The <span> tag is a good example. As a user of CSS, when I apply a width to a span, I want its width set. I don't care it spans items. If I want span to have no width, I would just leave it alone. The fact that setting the width spells my intention clearly to restrict its width.

In regarding to the selective application of colors and font-size on <a>text</a>, both the colors and font-size are styles that affect the text of the link. Why does one go through and the other doesn't? Don't you want consistent appearance of the link both in colors and font-size, in the name of affordance?
And know imagine you use passkeys secured by Faceid or other biometric procedures.
I don't think that type of streaming should be prohibited, but that's a huge oversight for Twitch to not hide those 18+ streams from under 18s
But I'm both cases XMPP is still around, if you care for it. Neither Google nor Facebook extended it in a way that broke the protocol when they stopped supporting it.

I look forward to being able to follow my friends who are on threads from my Mastodon account. If in a couple years meta stops supporting it, alas, we had two years.
Not necessarily .. We worship fearless idiots who jump in wingsuits into rocks. Death cult lifestyle defiantly is not selected for via social hierarchy.
If you were seen the video I think you’d very easily understand what “stolen” means.
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Again, so safety issue. Let's quit struggling so hard to slander what was essentially a monitoring device.
Lego is so simple, and yet so genius.
I'm not sure. That does seem strange.
I switched away from AdBlock Plus when they started not removing ads that paid ABP for that service.

It’s just less good.

Has a great name, though.
The real division between games and games will, as it always has been, be if the game is fun or not. Nothing else matters. If it's not fun, it'll flop and disappear, some quicker than others. But if it's fun, people will continue to play it.
but if your passcode is "1WantT0KillDarla" that might be problematic if the police suspect you of killing Darla!

on edit: huh, what do you know, everybody had the same idea!
I think a novel defense could be never admitting the phone is 'yours' in the first place. Divulging the password is tantamount to admitting you have access to the particular device in question.

You might argue, well the police will have ways to prove it's your phone. Okay, so let them prove it, don't assist them. Well, then they can force you to produce your password, whether you admit it's your phone or not. But by divulging a password, you're admitting you own a phone somewhere, and part of your defense might be (however implausible) that you don't own/use a phone.
>The same code base passed down though generations.

>Legacy code.

Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human society thousands of years in the future, in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it. So programmer-archaeologists search archives and run code on emulators in emulators in emulators as far back as needed. <https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/>

(Heck, recently I migrated a VM to its third hypervisor. It has been a VM for 15 years, and began as a physical machine more than two decades ago.)
Thanks, that's a much more substantive response!
It's called retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and there's no extra training. The data (e.g. web search result) is given as input to the LLM.

If you search for "retrieval augmented generation" you'll find papers, tutorials, videos etc about it.
I can't rule it out
You don't need to have unfair labor practices to oppose a union from forming at your company
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Linking to a Mirror article about the issue seems kinda shitty. I wouldn't be surprised if they had also hacked the phones of every one of the people mentioned in that story.
Not when acting in the capacity of the CEO of a company
> You can intentionally choose to keep your community small, but you have to admit that’s exclusionary.

I think there's another option here. Namely, that the intended "vibe" or usual experience for individual users is such that their experiences have that level of person-to-person familiarity.

Also I feel like, in this passage you moved ambiguously from talking about protocols as a whole to a sense of "community" within the protocol, and its not clear to me whether its the protocol itself or a particular community that is confronting the issue of scaling or not scaling.

The aspiration for an "old internet" vibe, that you might find in usenet, email, bulletin boards, or various forms of chat, or webrings, makes sense as an aspired-to "vibe" without committing oneself to a side on scaling or not scaling.
I have to wonder how much of this goes on without a warrant, just pressuring people into it.

News articles suggests this happens a lot at the borders or during customs.
Nowadays it doesn't really matter when people replace passcode by biometrics and passkeys.

These aren't protected.
But not twelve... :(
Bull crap. I personally was on probation as a juvenile for a petty offense. One day the PO asks my parents to take me to talk with her to see how I'm doing. She then asked me for a facebook password and I refused. After which she put me in a court house cell for 8 hours and made me miss an entire day of school.

I eventually gave this psychopath my password because I had nothing incriminating and I hadn't eaten all day.

Nice to know USA is literally Nazi Germany but better at hiding their dirty secrets.
Without unions, the logic of supply and demand favors larger businesses because they have greater purchasing power - they are already operating as a collective!
Exactly! Our ice cream machines were well made and always worked as they should. They'd be down for a couple hours a month to clean but that's it.

The machine would flash and beep when the ice cream mix was low so we were always eager to shut it up.
I saw your user name. Wink, wink

I knew about HTML/CSS around 2004, and knew about C++ in late 2005 - so kind of about the same time, almost 20 years ago.

Both of them have evolved and have had substantial additions since then, but I can't imagine that I'd say "C++ is easy!" if I kept putting my nose on it all this years - even back then the pointers thing (and pointers to pointers, to be more specific... won't even think about all its new stuff) was absurdly difficult to understand for me. Whereas the concepts behind CSS were much easier to understand, the difficulty I found about it (and what I suspect people say it's "difficult") was in its implementation - styling for IE was a living hell, and after that all the gibberish we had to do to support -moz, -webkit, -o, -ms and co, and now all the platforms, modes, layers, medias and all of that we have to take care of. But I repeat - it's not that the core of what CSS does or how it works is the difficult part.
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yep, surprised it doesn't exist already - one password to get you in, one password to wipe or hide everything you want and then let the police in to a completely sanitized version of what you want them to see.
The Preposterous Tactics of the Loot Train Battle (Game of Thrones, S7E4) (2019)
Right, but that doesn't cover "and I booby trapped it". Why wouldn't you be open to charges in that case? Obstruction, destruction of evidence, contempt of court - such mechanisms exist in part to cover such cases.
A recent paper [1] shows that what you're describing is possible to some degree - you can reproduce text from its embeddings. The paper provides the code implementing the reversal process, so you could quickly hack together a prototype :)

I also recommend a video by Yannic Kilcher [2], explaining the paper.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5j3P9tCeA
I spent some time with IBM: Worked on the inside in an AI (artificial intelligence) project at their research lab and also outside -- sometimes a happy customer and sometimes fighting with IBM and being happy with other computer vendors.

Here is how IBM worked when their approach worked well: They would have polished sales representatives (reps) who would get the confidence of a relatively high decision maker, commonly a CEO, also with contacts with the BOD, in an organization that had some serious data processing problems. The IBM rep would talk with the CEO (decision maker) about the problems and claim that IBM could implement a good solution. Commonly that was music to the ears of the CEO -- just give the leadership, design work, technical work and products of the solution to IBM.

Generally we would regard IBM's charges as high, but in the target companies (1) IBM didn't have serious competition and (2) the company and their problem was so big that the IBM charges were worth it.

With the business at a target customer, IBM worked hard, made sure the hard/software was highly reliable, and delivered good results.

E.g., one customer was a medical insurance company. They had staffs in three time zones keying in medical claims applications. For this they had a mainframe computer, with their usual operating system, their network equipment ending with their 3270 terminals, COBOL-based (right, maybe PL/I, etc.) applications software, DB2 relational data base, etc.

The system worked very well: A significant outage meant that to keep up with the work staff would have to be called back after hours and paid overtime.

Soooo, it was important that the whole system had almost no downtime. Part of the approach was to have a test system and for any hard/software update, run it on the test system for some days before using the update for the real work.

Both IBM and the customer were very serious. Uh, having to pay some overtime could cost the System Manager his bonus.

Now, there are lots of options for data entry. PCs and even laptops can play a major role. The mainframes IBM was selling as computers were tiny and slow compared with nearly any desktop or laptop PC now. Having one PC out of hundreds+ quit does not have to be serious problem.

Now lots of people and companies can set up serious, reliable, powerful computing installations, and IBM is no longer the only option.

And the IBM target customer is no longer such a big part of computing.
Faceid isn't protected and the passkeys get unlocked by Faceid
Why do you think they stopped designing sets for creative play? They still sell bulk lego. They still sell non-licensed play sets like space, city, castle, etc. And even the licensed sets are great for creativity because I doubt a kid's not going to shatter their set and start making their own damn spaceship because it has "Star Wars" on the box. None of that has stopped just because they also sell display pieces that are wildly popular and intended for adults.

Like seriously go to any store that sells Lego and you'll see that a good 80% of it is bulk or play sets. There are a lot of things to be critical of lego for...the pricing, the over-reliance on licensed sets, too many god-damned stickers, etc. But this really isn't one of them at all.
I mean that any competent CEO would oppose a union forming at their company because it will objectively be bad for the shareholders of that company. Any CEO who encouraged or did nothing to resist a union forming because of their own moral convictions would be breaching their duty to do what is best for their company. I would argue it would be grounds for firing them
Apparently if the ice cream machine is broken, the franchise can move more product in other higher-margin categories.

So no, it doesn't mean less gross sales.
It's fascinating how different minds can process information. I myself have a photographic memory - only one of my kids has it as well. The two of us are constantly being asked where this and that is lying around, and we can always tell while the others in the family wouldn't be able to guess even if they just saw whatever they were looking for. It's simply amazing.
The linked video makes a pretty strong case for it being a "show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome" situation...
I can't see a judge swallowing that logic, you do have something similar to a metal safe's key and you've refused to provide it
Noteable.io is shutting down
> If it's locked with a key, not a keypad or combination lock, they can force you to give the key. The distinction is that the former is a product of the mind, while the latter is a physical object. Furthermore, what if you forgot the combination?

Sounds a bit silly. The location of the key is "a product of the mind." What if you forgot the location of the key?
> Other, smaller chunks in the Bennu sample have light-coloured reflective coatings, making them seem brighter than the darker pebbles. But, under a scanning electron microscope, they were found to be covered in a highly brittle layer that broke easily, revealing a dark interior. Chemical analysis showed that this light-coloured surface skin contained magnesium, sodium and phosphate. This combination is rarely if ever seen in meteorites, Lauretta said. “It’s a head-scratcher right now.”

Can anyone expound on which part of this is rare or what would be more expected?

I'm guessing that if most meteorite samples are collected after impact on earth such a brittle crust would be destroyed before observation.
This is really cool stuff. The "eavesdrop-proof" modulation scheme is particularly interesting - I'm curious as to why they didn't also frame that bit as also reducing interference, as it seems like it would allow a base station to steer more beams without "stepping on its own feet".
> people that "refuse low impact work" end up being terrible teammates a lot of the time.

yes, but there's a high chance they'll climb the corporate ladder way faster, while not caring about being great teammates because this is not a requirement for advancement. Actually, dumping this on someone else's lap [0] should be on the list of things to do if you want to move up from loser to sociopath [1].

[0] https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-...

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
"It's called hentai and it's art!"

Obviously nobody in Twitch have ever seen The Office...
What does “taking newspapers seriously” mean? Does it mean limiting free press to “serious” news, or does it mean convincing people that celebrity gossip is boring and they should read investment news instead?
Even the P and M of the classic LAMP stack already form a distributed system.
Great outcome for La Colombe! The quality of their cafes in Philly have been going downhill for a while and this move won't halt that. But if there's one thing we have enough of here it's coffee shops.
"Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre, For Madmen Only, Price of Admission Your Mind" - Hermann Hesse
Not as worrisome as iJustKilledDarlaLastnightusing_ahammerthat_I_threwInthe_Trashat123appleblvd
> I sometimes wonder if the Nix stdenv does too much.

Yeah, NixOS is a Linux-based OS, and historically most of the system stuff is C/C++. So `stdenv` is just that - an abstraction for "a standard Linux environment with a working C toolchain to build system packages". I also tend to just use `runCommand` when I can, but even when building things like Rust, Python or JS, quite often there's some little plugin/package that needs to be built with a C compiler, and then `stdenv` comes handy.
I have personally yet to see something that got better by fb/meta being "on it" (for an of course also very personal definition of "better")
Mixtral 8x7B actually has 46.7B total parameters, not 8*7B = 56B. The reason being that not all parameters are multiplied 8x.

Also it uses 12.9B parameters per token, not quite comparable to 7B models.
Effective immediately is surprising. Why such a sudden shutdown?
FT is a 90 degree rotation not a 180, the FT of the FT of a function is the mirror image about the origin, not the function itself.
shoot the messenger.

since you have stocks of the billion dollar message
I disagree pretty strongly with this. Who gets excited about data entry, invoices, warehouses and shipments, documentation, sanitation, etc.?

Games designed purely for excitement hold my attention for a month or two before I need a break. After about 8 years of playing more Factorio than anything else I am at 1800 hours. How on earth can anybody maintain excitement on a single thing for 2000 hours a year, every year? Don't get me wrong, I'm excited by things my company does, but my day job involves a lot of boring necessities. I strongly suspect this is true of most jobs.

I obsessively chase my curiosity and excitement in my spare time, and I have a pile of unfinished projects to show for it.

I love the sentiment, I just feel it's not reality for most.
Reminds me of a short story from 30 years ago that centered around fast food workers who were micromanaged by an AI directing every daily activity.
But they have to watch you enter id.

Your face and fingers are always with you and it's easy to force you to open your phone.

You can "forget" a password but not your face.
This seems like a highly questionable metaphysical argument. The decryption key does exist and, therefore, so does the information. The question is just who has access to that passcode.
288 Cores or Threads? Cuz to my knowledge AMD already has a 128 Core, 256 Thread Processor with the Epyc 9754
> every instance operator can make their own decisions on this matter.

Not entirely. "The fediverse" has this concept of "fediblocking". If a large enough group of admins decides they are very much against this, they will not only block Threads, but block anyone who does not block Threads.

Basically strong-arming every admin who does not follow suit, to do as "the hivemind wants it to".

This has some positive sides to it, but it's also a weak point in the idea of decentralization.
We quantize models and get nearly the same performance and we keep seeing new 'small' models performing on par with older larger models. Additionally, people don't need nearly the amount of data that models do in order to learn the same tasks. This implies a lot about how fast it may be possible to learn and how far models currently are from that optimum. Because of this I think the authors conclusions about scaling data up really only apply to current models and training techniques. Based on how fast people can learn, I believe we are likely missing a few things that will allow models to learn vastly faster and deeper with fewer total parameters. My own work, as an example, (github jmward01/lmplay) may show how simple changes to embedding training may make drastic improvements to model training.
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