skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like it uses the same techniques as the ones described in the "LLM in a Flash" paper posted yesterday? If so, cool to see an implementation of these techniques running models on non-Apple GPUs.
That's what I was trying to say. Anecdotes are the seeds of hypotheses, and enough anecdotes with well-understood conditions make a study population.

> Science is expensive and moves slow.

I don't know if I agree that science is slow. Certainly scientific consensus is slow though. The churn of ideas at the forefronts of fields is rapid. In my field (machine learning/statistics) I'd say too rapid/short term incentive focused.

I really take umbrage at the idea that science is some purely objective, ideal process. It's messy, and scientists are opinionated and stubborn. Some of the most obstinate people I've met are tenured professors... They kind of have to be. It takes time for good ideas to weather the initial criticisms, persist through replication and testing, and to take hold.
Challenging the Guardians of the Paradigm
Is there a way for an end user to see which apps have this entitlement?
> easy access to drugs like fentanyl and no consequences to anyone involved in using or selling them.
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You can literally watch interviews with the homeless in SF and Seattle. They cite these facts straight-up as to why they live in SF and Seattle. You have to be actively lying to yourself to come to a different answer.
Don't you mean more than 10?

A meeting with more than 10 people tends to waste more people's time than a meeting with less than 10.
It's been pretty common knowledge for years that it doesn't work. That doesn't mean that common knowledge was right, but it certainly isn't a case of everybody only now claiming they knew it.
>I assume the art has progressed since then.

Not really, no. Even if you completely solved the issue of corrosion (which we absolutely haven't), you'd still have to deal with biofouling - anything you leave underwater will rapidly become covered in algae, seaweed and invertebrates. We have antifouling coatings, but a) they're quite toxic, for obvious reasons and b) they need to be regularly renewed.

That would be enough of a problem, but you've also got the cost and difficulty of maintaining underwater infrastructure. It's inherently dangerous, very slow and often made impossible by tidal or weather conditions.

Offshore wind turbines are already much more expensive to build and maintain than onshore, but tidal generators are on another level entirely.
https://app.copdb.org/incidents/2ea95420-2070-4c9d-8e72-f1c6...
Huh? Nvidia got lucky. First with crypto, then covid and then AI. I can give them credit for CUDA, because that was a true example of long term thinking, but to say they saw AI wave coming.. that is a stretch.
One of my previous offices had one. It was cool, but very small and uncomfortable. In terms of mobility and spaciousness, it's sort of like working out of a coach airplane seat.
> the pinephone

I even got one of these and all I did with it was install a couple of different distros, since then it's collecting dust as it's unbelievably slow and the battery lasts for about 2 hours.
>Isn't it more useful to think of code not as an asset but as a liability?

No, it is not. For consistency, you'd have to start thinking of everything you own as a liability, and only use "asset" to refer to a problem solved by something you own. This would be confusing to everyone you talk with about assets and liabilities. On a day when you didn't drive anywhere, you'd point at your car and say "I got no assets from this liability today." (There would be some truth in that statement, but your listeners would definitely be confused.)

EDIT: I should add, I believe Dijkstra was using hyperbole to make a point with the "lines spent" part of https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...
No, Nvidia just found themselves in a lucky situation.

They were already building GPUs mainly for gaming. Crypto then came along and swiped up a bunch of GPUs. When the self mining craze somewhat waned the AI craze started as the boundaries on its ethicality were broken down in an uncertain economic environment where corporations started racing to see who will get to the top.
some will pay for the half baked GM solution
Still seems like they were in the right place at the right time. When they first developed Cuda it was a hammer in search of a nail. Then they had the huge windfall from crypto-mining. That probably led to a lot of discussions on looking for GPGPU opportunities. Then AI came along and Cuda was just sitting there.

Then they put two and two together and started investing heavily as they saw momentum build.
Everything is about maximizing profit, and shuffling people around to optimize their consumption to make that happen.
Because you have kids a few years apart. So there is the transition to high school. Then some schools are single-sex.
>And I'd argue that Fahrenheit is actually a pretty decent system for day-to-day use. The degrees are smaller and it's not really that hard to remember 32 degrees is freezing.

Also, in Fahrenheit 0-100 degrees roughly demarcates the survival zone for humans without special precautions.
To be clear, the information shows a rogue employee how to create accounts in third-party apps (Slack, Zoom, etc.) that won't be automatically deleted when the employee is terminated. I'd love to hear why you think this information would be "much more valuable" than $1337 on the black market as that is not obvious to me.

Also, if anyone should be paying bounties, it's the third-party apps, since they're the ones which are vulnerable. I'm impressed Google is paying a bounty just for pointing out a footgun. I would probably not have bothered reporting this to Google if I had found it; $1337 would be more of a pleasant surprise to me than an "insult".
> But how can it be anything other than a zero-sum game? We are biomechanical units with a limited lifespan. We rent out this lifespan to the highest bidder we can access. And then we die.

Do you recall the spontaneous (yet short lived) concern everyone (well, right thinking people at least) had for the well-being of their fellow human (well, fellow countrymen at least) during the COVID phenomenon?

It seems to me that people can be nice to each other, provided you tell them an adequately persuasive story.
Remove zoning restrictions and community review processes and watch new construction shoot up.
I come from a completely different background but am about the same age as the author. It sounds like many other commenters are in this same general bracket too. So are the sentiments expressed truly a period (or, maybe, cohort, given the post-communist contrast) effect, as suggested, or just an age effect?

I suspect that the middle aged in every society feel some closing of the frontier as possibilities seem to collapse and family commitments multiply.
Research Shows That Gaming Can Help with Anxiety and Depression
Game balance in 3rd Edition was gone from the PHB onwards, out of like top 5-7 most broken classes in the game, 3 were in the PHB (Wizard, Cleric, Druid). A lot of stuff people consider broken (eg. Tome of Battle) isn't even really a power level boost for melee classes, just lets them in on the same move action + interesting option playstyle casters were doing since release (just at a much lower power level) vs. charge-> full attack full attack.

Not to say there wasn't broken shit in splats, but like half of broken nonsense was Core to begin with.
Neat feature. I assume is AWS Polly under the hood. This caught my eye though:

> Authors can set a list price between $3.99 and $14.99 and will receive a 40% royalty

Do they mean you get 40% of the work you created and they ran their model on? Oh lord. Let me run this through a TTS myself and publish it like that. Not sure if they even allow that though.
If this was my exposure to homeschooling I’d be alarmed too. I’ll just say there are also a lot of homeschoolers in NYC who do it for very different reasons - to give their kids individualized instruction, more freedom to learn in idiosyncratic ways, and even for some a chance to go deep on STEM stuff before it’s in the official curriculum yet (this obviously varies based on the kid and parent).

There are also people who do it for a 2-5 years and end up then putting their kid in public schools. I’m not sure 5, 6 and 7 year olds were meant to sit still indoors for 6-7 hours a day and there is a good argument for giving them more time for free play. Also the gap between specialized teacher knowledge vs motivated parent knowledge widens as the material gets more advanced. (Though with homework, you still end up needing to do remedial education on yourself in either context).
Government can build if private industry will not. If you argue "we can only fix this with the private sector and private investment", welp, we tried that and we're plain ol' fucked at the moment.

Vienna is a great example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY (Youtube: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DBKoWbtjE (Youtube: Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing?)
VRAM is king. If you have the VRAM to hold the model parameters, you can run it.
Tolkien estate wins court order to destroy fan's 'Lord of the Rings' sequel
Spotify's push to include more shit that will further crowd the UI and require spamming us outside the OS's native notification protocol sparks annoyance among users.
AFAIK entitlements are not necessarily exposed as toggles.
Hardware Kindles (and the app) used to support TTS for accessibility, but the functionality was removed at the request of publishers (who wanted to sell audiobooks).
The claim is "one of the most used CSS frameworks ever", not "a CSS framework that has more downloads on npm than bootstrap."
How long we expect to live affects how we live
>Credit: This article was written with the assistance of ChatGPT for the purpose of refining my English writing.

I appreciated this disclosure. The English was still a bit clunky - but it was a great use of the technology to open up the article to a wider audience. It felt sincere to me.
Decentralization doesn't mean much of anything on its own. There are "decentralized" setups that do moderation fairly well (e.g., Mastodon or most oldschool web forums, where there's ultimately someone accountable). This (Nostr), specifically [1], makes fun of such setups.

To moderate any system, there must be affordances for moderation and someone(s) accountable to the users of the system. As far as I can tell, like most blockchain projects, the Nostr project has effectively stripped (nearly) all affordances for doing moderation. Given that the Nostr audience seems to overlap considerably with crypto enthusiasts, I think their stance is basically the same: no moderation, no "censorship", etc. Given that there's literally child porn stored on the Bitcoin blockchain right now, I don't think your argument holds that "decentralization" can just Jeff Goldblum it and "find a way" without explicit affordances / accountability.

[1] https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon
I have this bookmarked. I'm not sure if any of them meet your criteria, but...

https://blog.reedsy.com/fantasy-map-generators/

15-year old me would probably fail out of school playing with these
Comparing "riding in a car" and "flying in a plane" to a "young woman staying with a male stranger she met on the internet" is bizarre. The risk involved in the latter example is way higher than the risks involved in the former two.

Also I'm not arguing for avoidance of all risk. If people want to do risky things, fine. Heroin, BASE jumping, staying overnight at a stranger's house -- have at it. What I'm objecting to is the idea that there's something wrong with giving people advice about the potential danger in certain situations. There isn't!
Make Storybook 2-4x faster
Hmmm.... I may have self-signed. I distributed the game on Steam but my handful of sales may have all been Windows, ha ha. My own downloading and testing didn't show any prompt - but would it on my own devices? I don't know.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318420/Glypha_Vintage/
I can't respond to OP since his comment has been flagged. Your comment seems to align slightly with his/hers. I have no problem with that whether it is informed opinion or not.

I was just wondering overall whether you noticed their username since unschooling is another form of home schooling but with fewer restrictions on how children learn and what they learn. I have a relative who unschooled their kids though I did not take that same path with mine.

Anyway, I know locally that a lot of the kids who are home schooled are outside the public school system for exactly the reasons you describe and I run into them all the time as they work their jobs locally. It's truly a mixed bag kinda like the old saying that the preacher's kids were the most fun at parties.
> off putting since has a tone with an agenda

completely agree, I read 2 sentences and closed it.
I think even my generation, and I’m not that young, has the expectation that at least an approximate balance would be expected as an outcome, absent any enforcement.

I have no particular desire to return to old fashion gender roles, and lots of people who want single income households might, so I want to be very explicit about the fact that I don’t care to defend that position. Which I think is a losing position.
Spokane metro is 579k. Geneva metro population is 633k. So Geneva metro has slightly more people than Spokane metro. Of course, the metro areas are wall to wall (so Geneva metro is adjacent to Lausanne metro) but they both have their own healthcare systems and aren’t gaining much more from scale than American metros.

And Spokane is a small case. There is nothing comparable to the Seattle metro in Switzerland. The closest you get is Paris in France or Milan in Italy.
> I remember being surprised to learn that Microsoft would send Email claims that were not created or validated by Microsoft, and that the email claim in general was not considered reliable.

> This was counter-intuitive to me, because I had thought the entire purpose of OIDC was to establish reliable identity via a 3rd party like Microsoft.

That might have been the original intent, but I find it very useful that OIDC can be more flexible. For example, I run a free login provider[0], and it works by validating an identity with a 4th party identity provider (IdP) either with upstream OIDC or direct email, and creating a privacy screen between the app and that IdP (ie so Google can't track every app you're logging into). The fact that you can bring your own email to Google means you can get the security and UX of Google OIDC with the privacy of email + password, with the huge caveat that now you have to trust LastLogin instead of Google. But we're working on protocols to reduce that dependence.

> Google’s documentation in fact warned against using Email as an identifier

I completely disagree with Google on this. Email is the only truly federated identity that people actually use. Until we have something better widely deployed (and there are some promising alternatives in the works), I believe email addresses should be treated as identities.

[0]: https://lastlogin.io
I'm sorry! The files exist, but my upload didn't grab them.

Fixed now.
It’s both.

A lot of bottlers use reusable bottles, thick walled bottles (15ct deposit) that are sold in crates. For a lot of soft drinks and water they tend to be made from PET (because it’s lighter than Glass).

Don’t get me started on the German habit of buying water in crates rather than using perfectly fine tap water

Then you also have thin-walled PET bottles which are 25 ct deposit and one-use. Return rates are rather high because of the high deposit.

The crates are often a PITA to deal with because you need to return them to a shop that sells the same bottles (there are some standards, but some bottlers think a non-standard bottle is a USP). Whereas the 25ct bottles must be taken back from any store that sells 25ct bottles themselves.
Honestly, who would have ever thought that a shitty, squashed, artifact laden, completely fake frames that don’t mean anything architecture would win?

Personally, I didn’t think it would, but the power of a small number in the top of your screen beats facts for most people. And here we are I guess.

But there’s also the problem that AMD drivers are STILL shit. This is 20 straight years of poor drivers. Something tells me that if AMD would just get their software act together, the DLSS train may not have taken off the way it did. You do see a lot of comments that the drivers haven’t been bad for a while, but anecdotally, they definitely are.
I should mention that I did a study about 6 months ago for a government client, and successfully convinced them to migrate away from Bootstrap 4, Font Awesome, and an in-house patchwork of 10 years of different css styles, to Tailwind CSS and Hero Icons in their mission critical app.

It took many long brain dump sessions, and some help from the U.S. Digital Service and Tailwind themselves.

At the end of the day, Tailwind solved more problems for them than it created.

You wouldn’t think that moving from loading icons via css versus loading them via inline svg’s would make a huge difference; but I found that it can actually reduce a second or two of render time from a legacy and bloated code base.
I'm sorry! It's fixed now, but for some reason, those images were not uploaded even though they existed.
Sure, entitlements need approval from Apple. But clearly, apps are able to get it for undisclosed reasons and use it for tracking. Obviously, this goes against Apple’s guidelines and should be dealt with swiftly, especially now that it is public knowledge.
Google discovers another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild
Cynical thoughts along these lines occurred to me after I posted my comment, so no, I'm not surprised, just disappointed. Especially not after watching Intel slowly rot from the inside (good luck with your renovations, Mr. Gelsinger). My workmate at my last job (pre-COVID) knew someone who worked at Intel, and our discussions about the company tended to contain the phrase "Intel is fucked" an awful lot. This was around the time I bought a nice chunk of TSMC stock...
In CA you can literally build a house in a backyard now with a max wait of 60 days for approval. No one can literally stop it.
Yeah acetone is innocuous (at reasonable doses) and even present (and produced) naturally in our body.
Thought the same thing.

I, however, have not written any containerization code.
Person A using the couch for its intended function (a place to sleep over) vs B who is using it also for social function with possible slight degradation in faculties (drunk), lowering of social barrier (socializing).

What you say is true: it is cool and positive social experience on travels are fantastic. However, objectively, A has a lower risk profile. B is creating doors to possible negative outcomes. These doors may never open for B, but for A’s risk profile, some of these doors (paths to potential negative outcomes) do not even exist.

Additionally, for the potential predator, A’s behavior raises risk for the predator and B’s lowers it. So B type behavior raises possibility of negative outcome at both levels: vulnerability is raised for victim, and control over the situation and outcome (i.e. assault) is increased for the predator.
> we have a supply shortage, not a pricing problem

You think those are different things?
I apologize! Those plots are there now. My upload did not grab those images even though I had them.

And I didn't check because it was past midnight.
Teeth are liability in a similar way. Once we get the permanent set, they need to be maintained in various expensive and painful ways. On the plus side, they do provide value.

Software rots too, if for no other reason then due to Lehman's 1st law [1]. Difference is that with code we have more choices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...
Am I imagining this ,or somebody making a newer and faster one of these every day?

I'm expecting Overwhelming Fast Splatter by January.
Yet another side-effect of increased wealth inequality. You can call it a homelessness, housing, socioeconomic, or political crisis, but it's all a manifestation of one central problem. I worry this skew will only be further exacerbated by the asymmetric yields of ML-driven market capture, since we have no cohesive plans to smooth this transition in the United States.
I’ve known this for a long time. Put me on a watchlist and give me my meth, my sinuses are clogged.
That's the standard payment when publishing your audiobook using ACX (how independents get their books on Audible) - and then only if you go exclusive with Audible. If you're not exclusive, you get 25%.

Audible's market share is like 60%, so you loose out on a lot if you don't publish there.
I thought we also tried government housing and got "the projects" instead.
Most of the arsenal nowadays is fairly low-yield compared to the heyday of the 1960s.

The largest deployed US weapon was the B41 with a yield of at least 25MT. The closest contemporary is the B83 at 1.2MT.
Oozing into 2025,

- I predict Trump will say the quiet part out loud: these elections are annoying and won’t you be relieved that 2024 is the last one?

- The plan to purge the Executive branch is well-defined for Heritage Foundation causes, too boring and preachy for Trump. He enacts some of it, but mostly offends true conservatives by irrationally attacking things like Federal accounting standards and postal carrier pensions.

- The biggest disagreement between the Heritage Foundation and Trump’s followers will be the single statute they fear most: the Hatch Act. Trump himself won’t care, and the battle to neuter the Hatch Act will elevate an insider to be his successor, because:

- Among his loyalists, the spoils system: identify a civil servant whose job you want, hound them and demand in social media your immediate appointment. I predict Trump delegates this not to underlings but to social media itself.

- The value of spoils here is the delusional interpretation of Federal statutes criminalizing interference of Federal employees. It is not a bold prediction to say these people are immune to shame. An IRS appointee just walks onto flights for free. A Department of Agriculture appointee takes his cameraphone into the women’s locker room. An immigration and naturalization appointee runs a beauty contest of immigrants. The point of Republicans tolerating this will be that it’s the fastest, dramatic solution to prove we need to shrink the evil government.
Teenage Engineering Updater Using Web MIDI and USB
ReactStrap is npm though.

That was the last time I used bootstrap about 2-3 years ago before going all in on Hero Icons, Headless-UI, and css design tokens and utility classes (Tailwind)
> Mobile games are only harmful to a relatively tiny group of addicted gamers, while internet ads have very serious consequences acting on society as a whole

It is still unethical to even play "free"-to-play games. You are entertained at the expense of a small group of addicts that are often spending more money than what they can afford, and, at least in many games, just being logged in helps create a nicer environment that lures in those people. If you are not there to be a whale you are there to be lure for them. It might not be harmful to you to play, but you are being harmful to the addicts.