skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't a matter of messaging. You can draw as many diagrams and explain "it's digital cash" as much as you want.

It's that table stakes have changed. Mainstream customers-- and the regulators who represent them-- expect reversibility as a built-in feature. The technology exists for it. Saying "we're building digital cash in 2023" is like saying "we're going to sell a 4K OLED television with seperate VHF and UHF knobs, because it was fine for Grandpa's 17" CRT."

Various players may desperately want a non-reversible transaction to save a few cents per transaction, or to immunize themselves against bad-faith chargebacks, but it's pretty much ignoring everything we've learned about fraud and user experience in the last 50 years of electronic payments.

At best, there might be a market for a seperate, parallel universe of nonreversible transfers, but it would likely be something tightly regulated and B2B, rather than something that you can misdirect ordinary customers into choosing (like, say, Zelle or PayPal's friends-and-family mode)
Obviously this is a Chinese car, but their 1044km claim is using the CLTC range tests, which are wildly optimistic. I’d expect this to be closer to 500-550mi of EPA range (vs 635 here).

Still impressive, but not exactly shocking for a sedan with a 150kWh battery to be capable of this range. I think the more impressive thing is cramming 150kWh of battery into a 4 door sedan.
No, it's a way to start a process that will run as root. The distinction matters.
Again, if you read carefully you’ll see that the phrase is “as strategic.”

I’ll have to take your word for it on his vision/strategy though. I worked for him at VMware and never saw him articulate one.
It's almost as though basing our society around profit maximization yields negative outcomes. But I'm sure this is just a blip that the Market will correct for.
It is a shame that it takes a seriously long time to properly replace 30+ years of hacks on hacks.

But I don’t think the answer is to not try; people use Waylands lack of support for things to justify not using it which then means there no testing or development of those things.

I am somewhat in favour of the wayland devs being a lot slower to the punch, because understanding the problem properly and creating a somewhat clean solution takes time by itself, and writing the software to do things the clean way (screen readers for example) also takes time and effort.

I am reminded that in the c64 days people would poke random memory addresses and it was normal. Protected mode in Windows was a huge step back for many developers who were used to just writing arbitrary bits to memory.

I’m not saying we should abandon everything for progress, it’s good to be critical. But in this case I think the critical eye is only really focused on preventing change, which as many people point out is sorely needed.
Oh my bad, that did not come across.
You can extract the timeout functionality into its own structure then and mock it out during testing.

There's usually a solution of some sort, it might just require a bit of rearranging and extraction of concerns.
Since I'm way out of step with what most people think, I'm not too concerned about that.
Thanks. LoftQ = Quantization + LoRA fine-tuning. What's the difference between LoftQ vs QLoRA then?
Some useful tips I can use, thanks
I've seen four hours mentioned fairly often, as long as you are taking real breaks. It's possible to occasionally go longer, but only if broken up into smaller consecutive blocks. I'd say six hours in three two-hour blocks with an hour for lunch in one of the breaks. Be deliberate about disconnecting and walking away from work when done, exercise daily. Get enough sleep.

https://maxfrenzel.medium.com/in-praise-of-deep-work-full-di...
I think one part of the trick is that you find high-functioning people but in less-overlapping domains.

In one of the more successful teams I was on back in the day, I was a JavaScript developer and was paired with some Flash developers on a project where we had a lot of back and forth calls crossing the boundary. I'd ask them to implement a way for me to call their logic and then they'd ask me for a way to call my logic. We were both super-responsive to the other because neither side had much interest in imposing our preferences in the other's very distinct domain.

On the flip side, we were both quite capable in our own right and thus able to agree on the overall architecture pretty quickly. With some people, you'd probe, "it seems like you should have a way to do X, right?" and they'd respond immediately, "that's definitely not possible, you'll have to work around that". So you'd push, "do you want to check?" but they'd decline so you'd take it upon yourself to dig in and point them to relevant documentation. With these guys, their response to the first question was, "Of course we can do that and you can do Y for us, right?".
Sure, but in the context of stocks “analysis” typically refers to “fundamental analysis” which means some sort of deep dive into the business model and financial statements of the company… the rules of the S&P are more like “it the market cap above X” and “did it make a profit in the last year”.
This is by design as far away from discretionary/traditional “fundamental analysis” as can be.
Inner ring was a good read and very thought provoking
> I always see references to free will when certain people start talking about > quantum mechanics. Why do people care if free will exists or not?

> It doesn't seem to affect anything I can think of.

Most of the time, we don't care actually. Only in philosophical discussions similar to this one, we talk about free will.

To me, it seems that it's really an unnecessary assumption. In my everyday life I just don't care whether someone has free will or not. It's more about a meaningful interaction or to get something accomplished together.

I guess we need to separate simulations about the real world happening in our brains from the actual reality. Actual reality is based on quantum mechanics. Of course our brains developed as an organ that supports survival of the organism. So there's not really a reason to reflect an accurate picture of physical reality.
Why is it a privacy issue? How people look isn't secret. Having a security guard who won't allow people who look like people who've been banned from the store, or mugshots that have been circulated, is normal practice, no?
Element is the company that mostly drives Matrix development.

Webex is a Cisco chat product that I think is mostly used by bigcorps. (Supposedly they have upwards of 10,000 employees on it, which feels crazy to me.)
How can a LLM optimise on it's own processing speed?
Do what I do: have someone else spend their day surfing the web and then have them tell you about it.

I subscribe the the "Garbage Day" substack by author Ryan Broadrick.

Through this I recently discovered what many consider the first major Gen-Alpha meme: Skibidi toilet

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KrlkXOxlvCk

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet#Reception_and_i...

[3]:https://garbageday.email/about

He also had an event in NYC recently and I went in terrified that i'd be the only millennial in the room (vs Gen Z) but it turns out the majority of the people there were millennial which was a surprise. Thinking back on it,I guess millennials were unique in that they saw the "old internet" before capital took over and they remember a time when computers weren't just walled gardens serving up what others want you to see. As a result, events that talk about the internet, what it was like and where its going appeals to that generation I guess?
"[A]dequate testing": Woah, I love this term. It is judgmental right from the start. It's right up there with "convention over configuration" and "well, if you wear your face mask _correctly_..." I once saw a blog post from an embedded programmer talking about how difficult it is to write "adequate" unit tests for embedded code. If you are writing code that will run in a heart pace maker or aeroplane auto-pilot/lander, it needs to be insanely well tested.
So they can send up to 40 bananas in a pipe rover going 45mph... Hyperloop for lunch sounds like a good idea to me.
I agree with that interpretation.

I disagree with the parent comment.

I don't think they appreciate the scope of change over the last 20 years. From mobile, tablet and headset interfaces, to social media, to infrastructure (ADSL never mind fibre), WiFi, cell tech. Voice assistants, chatgpt, I could go on.

Crumbs, the Web didn't even have ajax back then.

We're not even close to duplicating that scale of change over the next 5 years.
I think it's a celebration that we can still play and run software from 40 years ago. Why shouldn't we push for backwards compatibility? We should demand it, as consumers.
Interesting; in a past life my school actually used AFS and had competent admins for it, and the experience was good (although I stayed very much “on the beaten path”).

It seems like a bit more of a lift to go with Kerberos than even using something like LDAP in my home network for user provisioning. My whole screed above comes from reluctance to set up freeIPA.
AI products lack emotion as mathematics or quantities have none . Human pornies even if they have shut off their emotions as much as possible are still capable of evoking titillating and exhilarating emotions and NOT just motions. Have no doubts ,have no fears ,AI porn-products will never replace emotivegen bio-porns.
Apple was running a model double the size of the available memory. Not sure if that was a sweet spot they found or if you could sacrifice response time to run even bigger models.

The paper is worth a read in full as what they are doing is pretty cool:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514

Highlight from the paper...

"Then, we introduce two complementary techniques to minimize data transfer and maximize flash memory throughput:

• Windowing: We load parameters for only the past few tokens, reusing activations from recently computed tokens. This sliding window approach reduces the number of IO requests to load weights.

• Row-column bundling: We store a concatenated row and column of the up-projection and down-projection layers to read bigger contiguous chunks from flash memory. This increases throughput by reading larger chunks."
If passed, Indians should share biometrics to WhatsApp etc. as per telecombill
Please, rewrite it in Rust. :D

For my personal single-html projects, I prefer a straightforward coding style that avoids external dependencies. I implement what I need in a simple, quick, and efficient manner using only native browser APIs, supplemented with a few helpers like those in 'Hn.js' to make the rest of the code shorter.
doas still uses the suid mechanism. The whole point of the article was how to escalate permissions without suid.
So this is actually an argument for using this new tool (cloudnative buildpacks) that generates a dockerfile(?). And not some sort of clever tirade on a devops industry that generates a constant flow of overly complex tools that seem to solve the same problems again and again?
I hope Windows remains backward compatible as long as humanly possible. I hope in 2050 I can load games from my childhood and they run just fine on modern Windows. Even if it means it isn’t as streamlined as macOS.
This article focuses on parallax in games, but parallax has a long history in animation.

Multiplane cameras from Disney and their predecessors are almost 100 years old. You can do a lot of trickery with 2d images to construct scenes with depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera
Wait, they can literally send a Subway pork sandwidge in a pipeline pig... That's funny.
Was that worth watching at least?
I have an identical experience. What really made me understand dependency injection (in Java) was being forced to write 100% code coverage unit tests. To be clear: 100% code coverage was absolutely overkill for my domain, but it was a lesson about how to structure your code for dependency injection.
The massive battery is the point. It’s a much more dense chemistry. It’s not a more efficient car.
looks like it's blown is major load and its over pressure has scaled back. This looks much more promising in terms of being able to manage the occurrence
THey are fast and cheap WHEN YOU FIRST WRITE THE CODE. Or, if you are the original author of the code.

The problem is, and there will be people that disagree with me, is that unit tests make refactoring of other people's code a lot harder.

STAY WITH ME!

If the unit tests were "good" and helped document what the code does, then they don't. You won't believe this, but in dogmatic high-breadth-coverage (low depth coverage), there are tons of test code that is SO TIED TO IMPLEMENTATION rather than interface than any monkeying of the presumed encapsulated logic breaks the unit tests, so you have double the things to fix.

You'll never believe what happens next. Some developer in some Agile thing that got assigned 2 unicorn shits for the task panics because the unit tests are SERIOUSLY slowing down his "velocity". So what does he do? Delete tests, change tests to make them work at any costs.
I don’t think this makes much sense in the real world. Shit happens and plans change. What if an aircraft needs to do a go-around, do they suddenly face 45m of delay or immediately need to divert, because The Sequence is immutable?

No, they’d move things around a bit. SFO decided that this plane wasn’t going to land there as soon as they asked for ILS, instead of doing their job and making a gap.
I'm just waiting for this:
https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Hell Yeah! Fellow Garbage Day subscriber!! Ironically this was "recommended" to me by substack in the same manner that other internet sites dictate what you should see lol
These problems seem to be limited to people who are chronically online. People who live on Facebook and Twitter. I know this is a bold claim but I’m immune to cancellation since I simply don’t have accounts on social media, and don’t use it. I live in meatspace and all of my friends and acquaintances are in meatspace, so good luck taking me down. There could be someone on Twitter right now trash talking me and telling everyone how horrible I am and how I should be fired and look! it’s not affecting my life in the slightest. Quitting these online-outrage tools is the first step.
> now it's all balkanized

It was even more balkanized in the days before the Internet. It's much easier now for a meme to go viral (for good or for bad) because everyone on the Internet is potentially connected to everyone else. You didn't know how many kids were actually listening to that loud radio station in the past, any more than you know how many people are actually listening to what's trending on Spotify. But Spotify gives you access to the work of many, many more people than you could possibly get access to in the past.
>referring to those modern foam mattresses

I mean, I was referring to cheap mattresses winning prices, this year it's a pocket spring + foam mattress called myNap TFK for 300€(Stiftung Warentest Matratzentest 2023)

>foam mattresses which are made of horrid manmade materials
>Lord knows what you’re breathing in

Any science supporting that? Anything beeing man made is not an argument

Apart from that, testing for harmful chemicals included in the test report, and did not find a whole lot

>are too hot.

It is a tradeoff, some people like it, some don't...

>Wonder why the hospitality industry favours pocket sprung too…
>Was like sleeping on a cloud

To soft seams to be bad for you, to hard too.

I personally hate soft mattresses (and hotels for that reason) they are great for a night or two

But hotels are actually a good data point.

I would be interested to find some study's about it and would have thought manufacturers would plaster them all over there (expensive) products, but dead silence...

>very high end manufacturers use natural materials and pocket springs

I mean, they have to tell you something to justify the higher price. I would be more impressed if they could point to some data and say we have less from xx in the air and that's known bad for you.
you are correct that it is not symmetric, but i suspect they wanted to avoid weird situations where they find themselves publicly obligated to pull patents as a result of non-trivial non-patent ip disputes between third parties.
Meant to say The Martian - Solid new hard sci-fi, very different from the movie.
I was honestly kind of shocked to find out a coworker watched a couple of the same YouTubers I do.

It's probably just because my interests are obscure but my assumption has always been I live in my own bubble. Even my friends don't consume anything like the same media I do, going back to the early aughts.

About once a month I'll be watching a YouTube Short and my wife will yell out "Hey, I saw that on Tiktok"
The bonds between people are diminishing while the bonds between people and the institutions / technology is strengthening. The normal course of technological progress. This will and is already leading to widespread unhappiness and mental illness, as bonding with others is a biological need.
This seems like it takes something simple and makes it much more complicated with the aim of making it simple and then fails on all counts. For example, how is this different/better than simply using version controlled docker-compose files instead of flat single image dockerfiles?

This is adding yet another abstraction layer on top of docker which is already a convoluted space with numerous options available. Additionally, the "Balanced control between App Devs and Operators" tagline makes me wonder how "operators" would have a better awareness of how a deployment should operate versus the developers themselves. The developers should be creating their solutions based on previously defined security constraints and compliance requirements, so what "balanced control" is being shifted around here?
The linked paper also includes performance of a second PC configuration. The 'high' configuration is a 4090 (24GB) with a 24-core cpu (iirc), 192 GB ram, pci 4. The 'low' configuration is a 2080ti (11GB) with an 8-core cpu, 64 GB ram, pci 3. The low configuration still averaged a 5x speedup over llama.cpp, so yeah, this is exciting. They noted that for particularly large models (60B+) the hot neurons don't all fit into the gpu's vram and performance falls off. Similarly, for small models with small context sizes enough fits into the gpu to begin with that the performance gains are less pronounced. So there's going to be a sweet spot with regard to the combination of model and context size for a particular configuration, but yes, this still gives a huge speedup compared to llama.cpp.

Image of the PC-low configuration's results: https://i.imgur.com/X5reGkd.png showing speedups ranging from 2x-13x.
I wonder what's their plan when a vehicle gets stuck?
This is true, but the military spends a tremendous amount to maintain the manufacturing they need within the US.
I'll tell you what this actually is: the overclass has lost the ability to determine what is popular. It was always forced on us by whoever could pay the most and get a bit lucky. Now we have something resembling a democracy where people have some input of their own.

> “One reason why there’s so much consternation is that if you can’t see what’s going on, you can’t rig the game anymore,” he said.

Exactly. This is part of it, but the other part is that it's become extremely expensive to rig the game on a regular basis because of how fragmented and distributed everything is.
This is neat. I recently needed to run host/docker commands within a container (an automated test framework that I was deploying via container for simplicity) and struggled to think of a way to do it at first, until realizing that I could of course just SSH to localhost . I’ll have to dig through this to clean up my setup.
About the problems of TDD: Cedric Beust has a legendary blog post about it here: https://www.beust.com/weblog/the-pitfalls-of-test-driven-dev...
well, Hugh Laurie's always good. But I didn't find it compelling.
So much talk of who's at fault here, but what strikes me is that it ever got to this point. I feel like competence is at an all-time low in recorded history. Maybe we need to take a step back and go back to horse-drawn carriages until we've re-learned how to be responsible. I have a flight this week and this isn't helping my anxiety.
3) Preventing reintroducing known bugs

When I was learning unit testing, my mentor taught me this strategy when fixing production bugs. First, write the unit test to demonstrate the bug. Second, fix the bug.
Creating a new class in Python at run time is pretty easy with the three-argument form of the type function:

>>> NewClass = type('NewClass', (), {'foo':42})
>>> x = NewClass()
>>> x.foo
42
I assume they are planning to have some kind of rescue vehicle. But the problem with this will be the traffic jam the stuck vehicle will cause. Not only will all the vehicles behind it need to stop as well, they also need to be rerouted in order to let the rescue vehicle pass.

The main difference of pumping water or gas through pipes is that the consumer does not care which part of the pumped product he gets. It's all the same. Delivering customer specific goods through pipes requires a very good management of the vehicle flow.
They go into a bit more detail on how they built their product here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQPOrRhRws
Pretty happy with the advanced of windows, with windows terminal and vms, I have WSL running ubuntu, I have cuda running local LLM's and Stable Diffusion. The demo of GTA 6 looks photo realistic. Microsoft Code is pretty nice. I have access to instant streaming music and videos.

Think we came pretty far actually.
I've read many books by activists, and by serious historians. After a while, you notice that the style of writing is different. The activist writers use noticeably more emotional language, draw sweeping conclusions based on flimsy evidence, have fewer cites, and no counterexamples are ever mentioned.

For a couple activist products, Showtime recently ran a miniseries documentary on Reagan, and HBO one on Kennedy. The 6 hour Reagan documentary was about everything that was wrong about Reagan (it even criticized Reagan for recovering rapidly from the assassination attempt), and Reagan did nothing right. The Kennedy documentary was the other way, Kennedy was a god among men and never put a foot wrong.
Yup, this is the way. Coop in Switzerland has had it since 2010.