skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. I often got told "You don't compare with anything" when proposing something very new. That's true, because if you are literally the first one attempting a task, there isn't any benchmark. The trick then is to make up at least a straw man alternative to your method and to compare with that.

Since then, I have evolved my thinking, and I now use something that isn't just a straw man: Before I even conceive my own method or model or algorithm, I ask myself "What is the simplest non-trivial way to do this?".
For example, when tasked with developing a transformer based financial summarization system we pretrained a BERT model from scratch (several months worth of work), but I also implemented a 2-line grep based mini summarizer as a shell script, which defied the complexity of the BERT transformer yet proved to be a competitor tought to beat:
https://www.springerprofessional.de/extractive-summarization...

I'm inclined to organize a workshop on small models with few parameters, and to organize a shared task as part of it where no model can be larger than 65 kB, a sort of "small is beautiful" workshop in dedication of Occam.
> I took it as a speculation,

Ok but it's pretty groundless speculation then.
Still makes me uncomfortable even using the shower when I'm down in Shallotte for the same reason!
> There have always been people around who embrace anachronism,

TBH I love tech from the 1990s and before: CGI, terminals, sixels etc and I refuse to carry a cellphone (though it's ok to have one at home, plugged 24/7)

I didn't realize it before, but I now I can see how I embrace being anachronistic :)
Industrial design is not the same as hardware engineering.

Ive doesn't decide on the thermal characteristics of their products nor does he decide what features go into them. And it's ridiculous to think that he in some way forced Apple to build their own silicon.

And as someone who was at Apple during his reign he was an important voice but just one of many.
I rented one with the last year of that system, and they'd integrated it with Android Auto, and I was surprised with how well it worked. Someone at Google was clearly thinking about this modality.

However I doubt Google has done the work in the interim to keep the UX in Android Auto working well with dial controls. Esp if only Mazda is doing this.
- in context learning (simply put it into context)

- finetuning, as in restarting the models checkpoint and relearning it on the previous + new data

- adding extra neurons (e.g. LoRA adapters) at certain places and restarting learning

Oh, in classic machine learning there's also the "bagging/boosting classifiers" option, but I have no knowledge if that can be applied to a ANN.
Even if the official tool does shut down, a quick search shows several projects on GitHub to replace the official flashing utility. This seems to include a backup of the original site [1], an extended version [2] and a dump of the firmware [3].

[1] https://github.com/bestadamdagoat/stadiaupdatetool

[2] https://github.com/luigimannoni/stadia-controller-flasher

[3] https://github.com/Scyne/stadiaRawBtFw
> Even better, it happens to also be true.

Here is what actually happened:

> This report will provide greater detail about the multistep effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power. Building on the information presented in our hearings earlier this year, we will present new findings about Trump’s pressure campaign on officials from the local level all the way up to his Vice President, orchestrated and designed solely to throw out the will of the voters and keep him in office past the end of his elected term.

> As we’ve shown previously, this plan faltered at several points because of the courage of officials (nearly all of them Republicans) who refused to go along with it. Donald Trump appeared to believe that anyone who shared his partisan affiliation would also share the same callous disregard for his or her oath to uphold the rule of law. Fortunately, he was wrong.

> The failure of Trump’s plan was not assured. To the contrary, Trump’s plan was successful at several turns. When his scheme to stay in power through political pressure hit roadblocks, he relentlessly pushed ahead with a parallel plan: summoning a mob to gather in Washington, DC on January 6th, promising things “will be wild!”

> That mob showed up. They were armed. They were angry. They believed the “Big Lie” that the election had been stolen. And when Donald Trump pointed them toward the Capitol and told them to “fight like hell,” that’s exactly what they did.

> Donald Trump lit that fire. But in the weeks beforehand, the kindling he ultimately ignited was amassed in plain sight.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/html-submi...
You can run Docker on a Fly Machine, and run arbitrary numbers of containers inside of it. Or you can run lots of small Fly Machines. FKS is just one model for deploying things.
There is still lots of optimizations to make. On the JIT side, there is still no inlining, which opens the door to much more aggressive optimizations.

But also on memory as well. There was a lot of improvements done on the Ruby garbage collector for 3.3, but there's still a lot of room for improvement, and a few fine folks at Shopify are looking into making the GC swappable so we'd be able to use mttk GCs with MRI.

As for the community caring about memory usage, I wonder how much of that has to do with the default Heroku dynos. Because it's an issue for small scale deployment. Once you scale more, you recoup a lot with CoW etc, so it's much less of a worry.
I don't know the answer, but it's not required to emulate an optical drive.

Modern UEFI BIOSes can natively boot from USB sticks, they can save settings and screenshots to the USB stick (thus they are not mounted read-only).
In my first car (1989 Ford Escort, 3-door) I could adjust both temperature and radio volume without loosing eye contact with the road. I felt under control and safe. Recently I've rented a Tesla Model 3 and man, how far did we come since then. If just the voice control did not keep telling me "Sorry, I can not do that yet".

My dad (65yo) just bought a new car with a mediocre central display. It makes me super uneasy to see him drive. The man used to slap me over my wrist for looking at my phone while driving. Now it takes him 1+ seconds JUST TO adjust his eye sight to be able to while switching from the road to the display and back! Then he has to navigate the touch menus...

I am really worried he is going to hurt himself or someone in 10 years time he will likely own this car.
As soon as I get a tenure, hopefully, Before I retire, I want to ditch every screen and live like it’s the nineties
This is good analysis. As the owner of a business, I often find myself bewildered at the valuation-centric, IPO-gazing startup culture that has developed especially in tech.

Most businesses in technology are nothing like the VC-funded, exit-oriented, and/or hyper-growth culture would have you think. Yet it seems like the glitz of a great IPO or being able to shell out for a $200 million annual corporate event blinds many to the reality of most businesses.

I have wondered how much of this naïveté contributes to the failure rate of technology startups.

I’m on my second business and I intend for it to be my last, though time will tell. The key thing I’ve learned is that hyper-growth, IPOs, and VCs aren’t really good for anyone other than the equity holders. Once you start selling ownership in your business, your customers are no longer your first North Star.
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"Good" modern visual design barely exists at all according to that definition. Most modern web design exists to jam marketing in your eyeballs while drip-feeding information at the minimum rate to keep you from closing the tab, which is basically the opposite of "delivering information in the most accessible way".

Also: The YouTube homepage uses twice the memory of the NicoNico homepage to show fewer thumbnails, and has basically been unchanged for years, while YouTube can barely resist keeping their layouts the same for a single month. Japanese web design has quite a few issues with being stuck in the 2000s but I'll take consistently bad over rolling the A/B testing dice every week to see what page I get.
> January 6 didn’t register for me at all, and I grew up in the area and work in DC.

YGBSM
The big change with iPhone was the lack of physical keyboard, wasn't it?

The form factor square with rounded edges in itself has been used for calculators and pocket PCs long long long before iPhone hasn't it?
It makes compliance more straightforward with less opportunity for strategic manipulation. It makes damages easier to quantify.
Generally, you train it again entirely from scratch.

It's possible to introduce new information by fine-tuning a new model on top of the existing model, but it's debatable how effective that is for introducing new information - most fine-tuning success stories I've seen focus on teaching a model how to perform new kinds of task as opposed to teaching it new "facts".

If you want a model to have access to updated information, the best way to do that is still via Retrieval Augmented Generation. That's the fancy name for the trick where you give the model the ability to run searches for information relevant to the user's questions and then invisibly paste that content into the prompt - effectively what Bing, Bard and ChatGPT do when they run searches against their attached search engines.
A surprising number of very smart people become incredibly dumb on the stand if/when it blows up. Being too dumb to understand it couldn’t actually work is a defense. Part of why it’s usually so important for them to not have anyone telling them so in writing inside their companies.
I see you are not a linguist. As the saying goes, a language is a dialect with an army.
https://archive.ph/xqtAj
The end-to-end response latency is around 1 second typically. It listens continuously, there are no buttons to press, and you can interrupt it while it's talking.
This applies only to small molecule PFAS, not PFAS polymers, which are about as inert as you can get. You need the small molecules to make the polymers, but there's no reason you need to release them into the environment. Strong regulation (e.g. Chinese style, with lengthy prison sentences or death penalty for CEOs of companies violating them) could enforce strict containment of the reactions and safe disposal of the waste with techniques such as supercritical water oxidation.

This would increase the cost, but there's no good substitute for PFAS polymers, so people who really needed them would be willing to pay.
> The public domain works like Snow White and Cinderella were hundreds of years old when Disney made their versions, and they have no issues with others making their own versions of these fairy tales (because there is only one "Disney's Snow White").

Actually, Disney is incredibly aggressive legally when it comes to other people trying to use Germanic fairy tales in their own works, even if it's completely independent from Disney and there's no risk of confusion.

They've been able to shut down a lot of stuff that's almost certainly legal under the law, simply because nobody is able to take on a protracted legal fight with the megacorp.
I absolutely believe it when the vast majority of the employees for the company in question were compensated with stock options.
Discussion is taking place, although it hasn't gone into great detail yet. https://huggingface.co/upstage/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0/dis...
I had to look it up, but yup, that looks the "default" bike model from the Netherlands; you can still get newly made ones, although I'm not convinced the build quality will be the same, the manufacturers will be cutting costs left right and center. That said, if you get them from known brands like Batavus they'll be grand.
Directories died because

a) Websites change hands frequently and enshittify rapidly.

b) Nobody was getting paid to check in on websites and make sure they were still on-topic

c) Most 'good' websites don't update every day, and people hate RSS and email signups. So activity and engagement on those sites are completely overshadowed by the bottomless pit of content that is social media.
The Anarchist Cookbook contains famously bad advice. Just a bunch of ways to get yourself killed or caught, and a terrible introduction to anarchist philosophy.

I recommend the following alternative (and reliable) resources:

- For the drugs, browse Erowid[1]

- For the explosives, read the US Army's TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook[2]

- For the introduction to anarchy, read Malatesta[3] and Life Without Law[4]

Links:

- [1]: https://www.erowid.org/

- [2]: https://archive.org/details/usa-tm-31-210-improvised-munitio...

- [3]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-ana...

- [4]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangl...

Stay safe folks. Don't commit accidental suicide. And don't make explosives anyways unless you're a professional, in which case you'd already know what kind of bad advice the cookbook is.
This has been covered extensively elsewhere, even in 101 level macroecon courses. Literally the worst method of protecting “strategic” supplies is to subsidize the industry producing them.
December's Windows 11 KB5033375 update breaks Wi-Fi connectivity
It's interesting to note that extrinsic typing is not limited to retrospectively-designed typecheckers. One of the big philosophical differences between Haskell and OCaml is that Haskell permits (encourages) type-directed compilation, while OCaml's type annotations don't affect the program semantics (although they affect whether the program compiles). But both are far away from modern-day retrofitted gradual type systems.
In defence of the efficient market theory, retail investors can be just the wisdom of the crowd. Meme stocks are a rare exception.
What settings would you ever want to change there? The settings in the settings menu are something you setup when you buy the car and generally never touch again.
That comment was in reference to this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-allows-6-billion-transfer-p...
Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to act as a parent to their own parent or sibling.

Two distinct types of parentification have been identified technically: instrumental parentification and emotional parentification. For instance, instrumental parentification involves the child completing physical tasks for the family, such as looking after a sick relative, paying bills, or providing assistance to younger siblings that would normally be provided by a parent. On the other hand, emotional parentification occurs when a child or adolescent must take on the role of a confidante or mediator for (or between) parents or family members.
Have you seen LoRA adapters actually work for this kind of thing?

The leaked Google "We have no moat" memo was very excited about LoRA style techniques, but it's not clear to me that it's been proven as a technique yet.
The easiest way is to let it do web searches with a tool former/plugin framework.

For specifically knowledge you want it to be able to recall (like knowledge base articles or blog posts) vector database embeddings are best.

For knowledge you want it to operationalize, like being able to program in a new language the last resort is finetuning but this is not easy, requires massive amounts of high quality data, and is not generally effective for things which do not have a large amount of data to fine tune on (tens of thousands of pages worth of content).
This is touched on in the article, but I never understood why billionaires think that they’ll be able to ride this out.

They’ll likely be the number one targets of armed mobs or other looters (or even sovereign nations armed with nuclear weapons themselves), since it’s no secret where most of these well-stocked self-sustaining bases are (since they won’t stop talking about how they _have_ them).

But more importantly: why would their hired security forces, farmhands, maids, etc serve them when their money and status is worthless?

Unless the Thiels, Zuckerbergs, etc. have something else of tangible value, the rest of the compound is going to define their own hierarchy real quickly, and it likely won’t end up with the billionaire sleeping in the master bedroom.
Few dozens of modern tanks, few dozens of short range missiles. A dozen of aircrafts made in USSR.

Doesn't sound "all the ammo in the world" for me.

Yes, they received a lot of close range defensive weapons, but almost nothing offensive.

Regarding invasion to one country in NATO - why not? Other armies are extremely weak, with ammo depots for few weeks of active operation. And everybody are terrified to do any offensive because "crazy Russians have nukes and we need their oil and natural gas"
Did you have a specific reason to replace mosquitto?

I do not like mosquitto for several reasons, but I never really looked for a replacement (though I wild be happy to find one, and I see that rumqtt is bundled with docker so this could be it)
Who's having a monopoly except the companies being whapped with regulation? ;)
That's good. Hopefully soon we institutionalize people who wear funny hats OR drive old cars, and not just the people who do both.
Is it eschewing technology? He uses 1930s-50s tech.

Or is it an escape to some "better" time? And if so, escape from what?

When MAGA folks want to live like it's 1950, that's bad, but this is good?
Zig borrows some ideas from go. Probably defer is the big one, but if you watch "the road to zig 1.0" you will understand that zig is not really a go derivate. Most things in zig are directly addressing issues in c.

If you squint zig's error return fusion looks a bit like go's tuple error return but it actually is more "first-classing certain c conventions" than "adopting a go pattern". Same goes for slices.
Kind of horrified at how upset the HN crowd is about this kid, as if he is a horrible sight to behold
One wild dream of me is to start living my life from the beginning of micro computers (Altair) and pretending that I'm in the 80s.
Rigor here doesn't have to mean mathematical rigor, it includes qualitative rigor. It's unrigorous to include meaningless comparisons to prior work (which is a credible issue the reviewers raised in this case) and it's also poor writing.
we were definitely a bit too young to have thought of that :)
LLVM saw growth for a number of reasons, but nothing to do because it was actually beneficial for the C++ ecosystem:

* A C++ codebase. At the time GCC was written in C which slowed development (it’s now a C++ codebase adopting the lessons LLVM provided)

* It had a friendlier license than GCC which switched to GPLv3 and thus Google & Apple moved their compiler teams to work on LLVM over time.

* Libc++ is a combination of friendlier license + avoiding the hot garbage that was (maybe still is?) libstdc++ (e.g. there were incompatible design decisions in libstdc++ that inhibited implementing the C++ spec like SSO). There were also build time improvements if I recall correctly.

* LLVM provided a fresher architecture which made it more convenient as a research platform (indeed most compiler academics target LLVM rather than GCC for new research ideas).

Basically, the reason LLVM was invested in instead of DragonEgg was a mixture of license & the GCC community being quite difficult to work with causing huge amounts of investments by industry and academia into LLVM. Once those projects took off, even after GCC fixed their community issues they still had the license problem and the LLVM community was strongly independent.

Compilers don’t typically generate security issues so that’s not a problem. There are questions of governance but due to the permissive license that Rust uses governance problems can be rectified by forking without building a new compiler from the ground up (e.g. what happened with NodeJS until the governance issues were resolved and the fork reabsorbed).

It’s funny you mention the different C++ compilers consider that Clang is well on its way of becoming the dominant compiler. It’s already targeting to be a full drop-in replacement for MSVC and it’s fully capable of replacing GCC on Linux unless you’re on a rarer platform where GCC has a bit richer history in the embedded space). I think over the long term GCC is likely to die and it’s entirely possible that MSVC will abandon their in-house and instead use clang (same as they did abandoning IE & adopting Blink). It will be interesting to see if ICC starts porting their optimizations to LLVM and making them freely available - I can’t imagine ICC licenses really bring in enough money to justify things.
That depends on the country. In Spain ice with your soft drinks is the default, even in winter.
In the case where a private company has issued options or shares as a part of compensation, another way to pay back employees would be to do a stock buyback program. E.g. if I was an early employee and got options with a $1/share strike price, but the current going rate for new-employee options is $5/share, the company could offer to buy back my options from me at $4 each (or if I'd exercised those options, they could buy the shares back at the full $5 price).

If the general understanding was that the founders (well, board) weren't chasing an acquisition or IPO, this might be a good deal for employees. Of course, if the company is VC-backed (and the founders don't have majority control anymore), the VCs probably wouldn't go for this sort of thing.

I do actually wonder if the current trend of consolidation is driven in part by the standard VC-backed startup formula. Getting acquired is usually a lot easier than going public. Instead of startups fueling long-term competition, they just end up getting gobbled up by larger players most of the time, fueling consolidation and monopolistic behavior.
So you're equating a few outliers trying to get attention, with an armed mob of thousands — summoned, dispatched, and then egged on by the sitting POTUS.

JFC.
My mom used to say, "We didn't have any money, but we had fun."

She went dancing a lot. That's how she met my dad.
Journal articles/conference papers are not the only outlet, you can still write technical monographs if you feel review cycles are holding you back.
Ukraine is eating through ammo (mainly 155mm howitzer shells from what I understand) because the war is in a WWI-style stalemate due to the lack of air superiority at the front from either side. All they can do is pound each other over and over again along the front line. There's no way to advance.

Likely if the west provided jets, this would change drastically.

I actually agree Russia is not stupid enough to engage in a direct attack on a NATO nation. They would likely move next against in Transnistria, Georgia, etc. And I don't see what would stop them, if they have success in Ukraine.

But they will engage in hybrid warfare against the west (already were), and they will be twice as emboldened if they are given Ukraine.

This is a country that felt free to unleash radioactive poisons against persons on UK soil, shoot down a civilian airliner, etc. Why do you want to appease them?