skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments often have a ton of overly complex and poorly documented rules. Add in bad incentives and people put into roles they are poorly suited and it can go to hell pretty quickly.

Here is an anecdote from a past job.

1. Years ago (decades), someone made the contract rules. They did it in an ad hoc not very systematic way. They assumed everything would be judged by a human and be judged reasonably.

2. That person left and the department expanded.The rules had to become more formalized, but still room for plenty of exceptions. An exception could be a penciled scribble in the margins in a file or later on, a sticky note.

3. Time to digitize. Unfortunately, computers like standards and need every little rule must be programmed.

4. A business analyst with no real understanding of the system is hired to generate requirements for digitization. The current overseer of the rules, someone who doesn’t use a computer much (yes, these people still exist) kind of just nods every time he creates these tremendous flow charts. this is the first degradation of knowledge. Even then though, this business analyst is not technical or legally trained, so doesn't appreciate why defining things like "end of day" or "contract billing cycle" precisely is crucial. even if he could, many contracts had sticky note individual definitions.

5. The business analyst goes back and feeds the information into the ticket mill of Scrum. To be nice and agile, work is done in bite sized increments with no regard for context. This is the second knowledge degradation. All those flow charts are chopped into little boxes. Devs see ambiguities, but have no interest in pushing back.

6. Developers only have the tickets to work on and quotas to meet, so write the code as requested. Testing is another set of people, so code is just tossed over to QA. QA has no more context than dev, so if it matches the ticket, they approve it.

6a. Nobody budgeted for automated testing so things break over time for lack of tests. Product Owner wouldn't grasp the concept, business analyst had a budget and wanted to deliver more features, and devs didn't want to fight about it.

7. Final increment goes back to product owner who doesn't understand and just nods. A piece of software that doesn't work all that well gets approved. Repeat for years and constantly adding post-it note rules as code and you have a system that has lots of errors.
Not a lot of 'diy' if you just buy latex pre fabs and the only diy was stacking it up together?

There is also a lot missing of 'matress'. Pls don't tell me a matress producer is literaly just stacking up different latex based matts. IKEAs matresses definitly look slighly more complicated.

How is the sleep?

How is the heat/cold behaviour?

Does it smell? Is it breathable?

Does it burn?
Warning - Remini is a Bending Spoons app.
From https://lobste.rs/s/v8xovv/how_design_isa#c_wepeeu

> Sadly, my source for this was a former Intel chief architect, and I don’t think he ever said it anywhere that was recorded. […]
kids need to spend fun time doing creative stuff with their family members for their healthy development. They are somehow aware of it and they ask for it.

Moving their hands for precise ability and their whole bodies, or sitting down to draw or read, might be more urgent than sitting in front of a computer, though
What are you using to run the Mixtral inference?
> entire country in three days

> dozens of assassination attempts

> lots of nuclear saber rattling

Sources, please.
But.. what else can you even say? The alternative is remaining in misery for the rest of your life. And internalising your pain into a characteristic of your personality is among the worst ways to process it.
I went from an iPhone 11 Pro to 15 Pro recently, and four year's difference is definitely noticeable, but it's not a huge deal (honestly I upgraded mostly for 5G and the 120hz screen).
A better analogy would seem to be coefficient of inbreeding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_inbreeding)
I can't remember the last time a year passed without at least one sandbox escape discovered in chrome. There was one less than two months ago, and perhaps there's already been another patched after the start of this year (https://www.securityweek.com/google-patches-six-vulnerabilit...).

It'd be much better to support a sane subset of features than to allow a document to do everything and anything leaving you to just hope that the sandbox holds up to protect the rest of your system against the inevitable vulnerabilities.
Unfortunely doesn't look like it is happening any time soon.
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Each country's banks/tech firms have invented their own way that is either tied to one app or the banking system/bank account. It is not anonymous for the buyer, and it always requires a central server for every transaction. From what I gather GNU taler solves those problems.
I believe the previous poster’s point was that it is that very luxury brand margin that incentivizes Apple to protect customer data rather than sell it. The privacy is part of the luxury brand, and the luxury branding pays for the privacy.
There is essentially a mobile "modem" built in.
The sending people to jail option also included demanding postmasters pay £1,000s to the Post Office for money that the Post Office (wrongly) alleged had been stolen. It could have been the profitable option.
Highly skeptical paper
1) Authors havent released code
2) They claim its published in ICLR , but i wasnt able to find the paper in openreview https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2024/Conference#tab-...
3) GPT-4 to evaluate performance. It seems to be grading the responses rather arbitrarily and not really considering how well the adapted model has learned the particular behavior it was being tuned for.

This just screams 0% code 0% peer review 100% Hocus Pocus.
Well yes, that definitely changes the game!!
My guess though, is that the fire safety requirements of mattresses are almost entirely aimed at curbing the risk from smoking in bed.

If the author of the article doesn't smoke in bed, then they are circumventing the risk in a different way.

In the UK, the label that shows soft furnishings are fire retardant has a picture of a cigarette and match, which is what leads me to believe this was the primary risk.
Accused of stealing money from the Post Office due to faulty software
There's also giving up in protest of a lawsuit, one of the oldest causes:

>Altern.org is a free web hosting service created in 1992 by Valentin Lacambre and disappeared in 2000. From its origins to the closure, Valentin Lacambre, a pioneer of Free Internet in France, had to permanently close the free hosting service in early July 2000 following numerous lawsuits. This closure was due to the laws of the time, which placed the delicate obligation on hosts to act as judge, censor, and, by default, guilty, as it was deemed difficult and contrary to his principles to control the 21,893 sites that existed on Altern.org at the time of closure.

http://yavista.com/98/1f/981fa5fe.html

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altern

(Valentin Lacambre went on to be a co-founder of Gandi.net.)
What was in your json? I've taken forms pretty far with htmx. Getting to accept "the state lives in the html" takes a bit of mental wrangling, but I've found it to hold up well so far. (One nice htmx trick is the ability to include hidden inputs/forms/whatever from outside the current form if necessary.)
It’s not ‘simple’ EPOS. Some of the things sold were local and held at the counter, e.g books of stamps, others were centralised virtual services (eg taxing your car). Even today the Post Office has a range of weird options not found elsewhere, e.g use of ‘postal orders’ that allow people to send money to recipients who don’t have bank accounts. All of these can be accessed at a post office counter.

That said, it was certainly shoddy
I second this call to step back and get some perspective, and mainly because no comment by the claimant here was racist, and none of the comment in this chain contained any racist undertones. Rather it seems that our green text friend here has jumped to a conclusion and inferred something that wasn't present.
I started with some 16bit Turbo C++ variant (I hardly remember), but quickly moved to DJGPP and protected mode (with Allegro). Great memories!
The UK tax system is designed to ensure that individuals and businesses pay their fair share of Income Tax. In most cases, tax is automatically deducted from wages and pensions, making the process seamless for many taxpayers.
I fear this for my gmail. I now use mbsync (lieer[0]) to have my emails synced locally on my homeserver, and then browse it with notmuch[1]. It's an incredibly freeing experience to have all your email on your own machine.

0: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer

1: https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man1/notmuch.html
You can still convert old DM into Euros at the initial rate in Germany (https://www.bundesbank.de/de/aufgaben/bargeld/dm-banknoten-u....)
The actual question seems to be if humans are more resilient to errors in their training data. I would assume so.
Agree, it is all fuzzy now, but I remember allegro docs being very good.
> I also don't think a 200gram phone is the kind of waste that we should be concerned about. Think bigger

A lot of raw ore is processed to get those 200 grams in your hand.

That said, a quick search tells me the carbon footprint of producing a phone is around 55kg, which is about 320km of car travel; it's not trivial, but it's not as much of a bottleneck I thought it might be.
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No one is breaking frameless windows unless they yank the door extremely hard when the battery is dead or I guess if you let it freeze over and don’t chip ice away. Never heard of it ever happening on the BMW forums. Only some random Canadians fried of a fried.
Yes, their economy is growing and it's been widely reported. GDP PPP is now on par with Germany. And that's even after becoming the most sanctioned country on earth and cut off from SWIFT.

Regarding "unemployment" - they've got historically low unemployment and an acute labor shortage at the moment. Also very widely reported.
does this have implications on the place of c in the programming world?
I am seeing this trend in HPC and systems programming to move into more structured languages. even FORTRAN has objects now.

gives me some doubts if I should put my time into learning c or not.
a lot of the tech I care about uses c++ (i want to work in ANNs) and true the kernels are basically in c but the code is c++.
WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire
Using Anyscale Endpoints, cheap and seems stable: https://www.anyscale.com/endpoints
1. Avoid 3D at all costs

2. Keep it simple

3. Start with the funniest and smallest things to do and increment. Like making the character being able to move around or being able to attack with a sword than different weapons, etc…
See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@page

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/page
> just don't want to acknowledge the existence of B

Because outsourcing is nothing new. Hiring people in cheaper markets is something companies have been doing for many decades already, with varying degrees of success, long before remote work was even a thing.

There are many other issues with outsourcing - for example: time zones, language, work culture, exchange rates - that go beyond the hot topic of "butts in seats".
I would say begin with 2D and code it in Java from scratch with Graphics2D.

This way you focus on the ideas and build something usable at the same time.
I want to know more about this. Please do a followup.

Oh, and update your RSS feed please. ;)
Hi, WhisperSpeech dev here, we only support Polish and English at the moment but we just finished doing some inference optimizations and are looking to add more languages.

What we seem to need is high-quality speech recordings in any language (audiobooks are great) and some recordings for each target language which can be low-quality but need varied prosody/emotions (otherwise everything we generate will sound like an audiobook).
A large fraction of the design changes are mandatory, without even considering the local regulator, due to the sheer geographical difference between sites.
Hinkley Point: tunnels (AFAIK: 9 km-long), a seawall...
Even climate is a factor.

There will always be a local regulator, and the push to adopt common requirements (even enforced by the pertinent UN agency, the IAEA) is limited by the need to double-check (keeping many distinct eyes on the subject in order), its own tropisms and also will/need to justify itself by avoiding to simply copy-paste.

All this will probably prove to be quite an ordeal for any "let's build thanks to components sent by a factory" approach (SMRs...).
“Supermarkets ruin the value chain, consumers should pay only the grain price”
Remains to be seen.

Oryon is based on the IP Qualcomm gained from the Acquisition of Nuvia, who developed this IP based on a very narrow license they got from ARM to develop for the server market.

Qualcomm is trying to transfer everything Nuvia has developed under that specific narrow ARM-license to the broad license of Qualcomm and use it for "powering flagship smartphones, next-generation laptops, and digital cockpits, as well as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, extended reality and infrastructure networking solutions"

ARM has filed a lawsuit that this was never in scope of the license of Nuvia, the court-ruling is still pending on that one...

The related court-filing is worth a read: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22273195/arm-v-qualco...
> The Markup has written extensively about the Meta Pixel and how it has been used to surveil people as they dial suicide hotlines, buy their groceries, take the SAT, file their taxes, and book appointments with their doctors. Website owners can configure the pixel to track user website interactions such as searches or filling out a form, sending each action to Meta, even if the user doesn’t have an account on Facebook. Although research tools like The Markup’s Pixel Hunt can detect the Meta pixel or SDK tracking, there is no way for a consumer to monitor the traffic between a company’s server and Meta’s.

Another reason to never touch an Ad company’s phone.
I guess your boss doesn't really care if you managed to do laundry during work hours. You personally might care since you saved yourself some time, but that is a very personal thing. OTOH, if family is at home, it is also very easy for them to grab you for something seemingly important. With the "right" demanding wife, your boss always looses.
An 'average' panamax container ship carries 4,200 lorries/train carriages of goods. The infrastructure to move 100K of those a day 1000s of miles on land would be enourmous and make global trade prohibitively expensive - far cheaper to sail for longer around the capes.
The fundamental issue I see in this debate is a lack of sensibility and nuance in human nature.

The whole matter is debated (understandably in a way) on big numbers and averages.

I could write a long post but I'll cut it short to this paragraph stating that humans differ.

For some commuting is stressful, the offices are noisy and full of distractions and those individuals may thrive in a remote setup. There's people that work in the opposite way. Their house offer many distractions from laundry to videogames. Some people require micro management and constant oversight some tilt in such environments.

Some teams require a lot of meaningful in-person interactions, brainstorming sessions or work chats around the coffee machine. Some teams thrive with good central top/down planning and workload splitting where syncing isn't very important.

At the end of the day the decision C-suite have to make when planning projects is not remote vs non-remote and apply blindly rather in forming teams with people that by their own nature or preferences will thrive in the setup that's decided.
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It will be interesting to see how collector vehicles evolve

There are still Delorean owners and meetups, because 80s cars can be maintained and operated pretty much as they were back then

In 40 years will a cybertruck even have a cloud service to connect to for all the features it is sold for today? Will there even be a compatible cell network for its radios?

I have computers and peripherals way younger than a delorean and they are effectively paperweights because there is nothing to connect them to anymore. Is that the future of these cars if we can’t update them, or point them to new endpoints when Tesla ends maintenance of their cloud?
Interesting. In a hypothetical future we may have CPUs running Python/JS bytecodes directly.

We are nowhere near that point though. Probably would only happen if we have a grand unification of CPU architectures.
Godot or Gamemaker are probably your best choices. GDScript is much easier than C# and gamemaker even has the drag and drop system to be even easier. Or bring out the ol good rpgmaker
Curious; it looks like his background is New England. In my mind the use of letters (can't really call them initials) as the actual name is a pattern that's more associated with the South of the US. Whether to include periods and/or spaces seems to be variable.

(Remember Johnny Cash? Originally named J. R. Cash; he only expanded the "J" to "John" when he joined the Air Force, as they wouldn't allow the single letter; and AFAIK never did expand the "R". See also Harry S Truman: the "S" does not stand for any one name.)
To be honest this makes me less excited about linear transformers.

If even heavily optimized, they are still (nearly) no better than normal flash attention up to context length 10^4.

And then you haven't even started to account for the degradation in learning.

Maybe if you're doing 100k attention at inference it starts making sense... But then there are other methods you can start using too.
It's only found in the Colab and not in the Readme, though. The examples in the Colab are also better than the ones found in the Readme. Maybe the Readme still needs to be updated?
There is a tale - perhaps apocryphal - handed down between generations of AWS staff, of a customer that was all-in on spot instances, until one day the price and availability of their preferred instances took an unfortunate turn, which is to say, all their stuff went away, including most dramatically the customer data that was on the instance storages, and including the replicas that had been mistakenly presumed a backstop against instance loss, and sadly - but not surprisingly - this was pretty much terminal for their startup.
We support voice cloning so you can mimic the sound of any real voice (or try to create random ones). The prosody/emotions are more difficult to control right now but we are looking into this.

To check how this works in practice you can check the Google Collab link, at the end we are cloning the voice from a Churchill's speech over radio.
> 4. the central bank gets to decide how much "cash" each individual deserves to have at any given point in time.

Taler is a payment system, it has nothing to do with central banks at all.

> 5. this "cash" has an expiration date, which is chosen at the whim of the central bank. If you stuff it in your mattress like paper cash, it becomes worthless. Therefore, this scheme is a massive step backwards in terms of central bank control over our lives, relative to coins-and-banknotes

Again, you must be confusing Taler with something else. Also, coins and banknotes have expiration dates too (for instance, try pay something with a Deutsch Mark note today).

Kind of sad to see the “Evil central banks want to control your life” conspiracy theory leaving the mud of 4chan to reach HN…
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All of these terms are largely marketing as far as I’m aware, yes Intel is behind in lithography but not by as much as the difference between 3nm and 10nm would suggest and I’m pretty sure the transistor/feature sizes are not 1/3 the size of Intel’s processes.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the Intel 18A process and who builds chips with them. Intel could also rapidly regain the performance crown if these are good processes too.
Agreed. I opened the Facebook website on my phone last weekend to search for a pic on a kayak fishing group. It was impossible to navigate my feed, it was all sponsored content, ads, and Facebook’s ads for its own content.
At some point one should just give up and do it by hand. There is so much overautomization nowadays that in practice are time sinks and deadlocks the org.

A sane system would be 'contract A type' and all other be done manually or something.
Yes, on a consumer 4090 card it's 12x faster than real-time. We'll benchmark some older cards as well for comparison.

I think it should work pretty good with the Apple's MLX framework as well if anyone would be willing to convert it. :)
dude what is this even for?
I'm looking toward to CES 2030 when this device will be offered as a permanent implant :)
Put differently, you wonder why being able to claw back compensation isn't a business advantage. Why it isn't something that a few companies have tried and then others emulated because of the visible success.

Shrug.

Personally, I suspect that boards are focusing on business outcome, think that hiring great negotiators as executives helps with business outcome, and accept that great negotiators will negotiate great terms for themselves against the company.
Their population has mostly stabilized (still declining, but not at previous rates) and their demographics are better than many Western European countries and certainly better that the rest of Eastern Europe.

> their ability to take out a carrier strike force

A Project 22350 could absolutely disable a carrier strike group:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/europe/russia-warship-hyperso...

And that's ignoring their new sub lineup, which also field Zircon's among other systems.
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