skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an industrial point of view, the entire point of AI (as opposed to "traditional" algorithms) is to transfer more agency from humans to machine than is feasible with current techniques. Trust and safety are currently the two main things blocking that, which is why all of these discussions are very often worded in a way to maximally appeal to the purse holders of these industries.
We were on the M2 shared tier and experienced 2+ hours of downtime with no access to our cluster/replicas, even while the status showed that Atlas clusters were not affected... just the "operations on the clusters." Anyways, time to upgrade to an M10 dedicated instances, I guess.
Brian Anderson (AKA brson, who as it happens used to head up the Rust project) wrote a good piece back in 2017 called "The Minimally-nice Open Source Software Maintainer" which has tips to reduce burnout/disillusionment in junior contributors. It's less geared toward preventing burnout at the top, but still well worth a read, and there's no reason much of it couldn't be applied in reverse.

https://brson.github.io/2017/04/05/minimally-nice-maintainer
Then I was the one confused. Thanks.
Everything about this site is sketchy... the customer quotes look 100% fake. Most of the footer links take you to a Privacy Policy page with dummy text. But the home page image generator does work.

"FigureToCartoon is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. FigureToCartoon has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing FigureToCartoon passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of FigureToCartoon."
Actually, this makes a lot of sense. I've really been struggling with my ADHD over the past couple of years.

And yeah, this time it was a much higher dosage than I had done in the past... like 2-3x. It had been a few years since my last trip and I had forgotten what dosage I was used to. The residual effects from this last one left the impression that the entire thing felt like a nightmare that you just can't shake. Either way, I may revisit in the future, but yeah there's a lot of healing that needs to happen first.
There is a lot of theft though, and since supermarkets typically have fairly small margins this is also really cutting in to profit margins. I'm not sure how it compares to the weigh-systems though.
It's just imessage. If imessage falls, so will the iPhone.

The courts don't take stuff like "social compliance" into account when evaluating something like the iPhone, so it all looks rosy. In reality, it's incredibly difficult to be a social young person in the US without an iPhone. Which naturally spreads to families becoming "iPhone families".

All of it just comes down to messaging though.
Being able to program in the context of computer science is like being able to build an airplane in the context of aeronautics.

If one is not interested in things that are foundational to the context they operate in, why are they there?
Hate to ask this, but, I've become jaded.

Who is behind this software and what's their motivation for it?

PiHole is very simple in that regard, it was created by some dude to fill a niche and has grown into a reasonably robust community which should be reasonably resilient to outside attacks (someone sneaking in a change which adds a "feature" which exfiltrates and sells my data).

AdGuard also is a very known company with an obvious motive, to sell you their software, but they've been around a long time and are widely used and seem relatively harmless.

I'm sure I'm a cynic at this point, but, I feel like I need to know who these guys are and why they are willing to invest in this.
Were you on M0 or M2 shared clusters? I think those were down, while other dedicated instances stayed up.
I agree with a lot of this. The software industry has so few lasting projects, and almost no lasting projects that pay the bills. It just doesn't provide value to the paying consumers in a way that encourages long term building. Which, no surprise, the name is software after all, the benefit being computations can be easily changed without re-wiring circuits.
"The author frames this as opposing open science"

...of course they do.
They do keep the heaters during charing, unlike other manufacturers like Renault
This is answered by the page. “Bokmål is dominant in the rest of the country, and is used in writing by close to 90 %”
A list of continuous benchmarking projects, articles, and tools
If people were enrolling in physics programs because they wanted to learn to cut hair, would it be prudent for the program to shift focus to hairdressing? Or, perhaps, it is the students that would be better off recognizing that if hair cutting is what they want to learn, they would be better off in a hairdressing program? It is not like there aren't countless schools that do offer programming programs. In fact, I suspect you will find that there are more schools offering programming programs than there are schools offering CS programs.
I remember back in the 80s thinking that a file system that was organized like a relational database¹ would be a really wonderful thing. Files could live in multiple places with little difficulty and any sort of metadata could be easily applied to files and queried against.

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1. I had read the original paper on database normalization over the summer and was on a database high at the time. I was young.
Good point thanks!
To learn a technology is to tell good story about it
And they cost $300 apiece! You have teachers buying just regular school supplies out of their own pocket in public schools.
The 3D model probably already exists because it was designed in CAD.

They probably have custom renderers for rendering the flat/cartoon illustrations for the assembly instructions, and PBR renders for rendering realistic views.

Grab a bunch of of these resources and put them in a box and you have living room design without having to manufacture, assemble, light, and shoot it in the real world.
Getting some of the hardest answers look like decomposing the problems by applying easy but separate 'rules', kinda like programming in a REPL with functions/procedures. Or an SQL normalization of a database by appying a clear set of rules on querying tables.

Such as calculus rules on integration, series...

Lisp is great for this. if you like Scheme (Chicken Scheme or Racket have modules and settings for this) get SICP. If you prefer Common LISP, there's https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

If you read Macsyma's source code, you'll understand what's is Math trully about.

And, well, you have a modern Macsyma, FLOSS, called Maxima, which can run under SBCL or CLISP (two Common Lisp interpreters).
So you only use Obsidian for its vaults/syncing?
Science publications are a business. Most results can’t even be reproduced, are paid by taxpayers yet the researchers or university gets to patent it.

This is a joke. Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.

Having said that; peer reviewers and disproving older papers should earn more money than making claims that cannot be reproduced.

Also the practice of ranking scientists and universities by citations is moronic. I could in theory write a paper that claims the earth is square. Now a 1,000 friends and colleagues quote me, explaining I don’t make sense, but somehow both I and my university will RISE in ranking?!
I'm sure legacy C and C++ will be around for a long time, but their process for authoring new standards also seems somewhat unsustainable.

It seems like people making contributions to the C and C++ standards are also at risk of getting burnt out: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23

> It was all worth it.

> …

> Or. That’s what I keep telling myself. Because it doesn’t feel like it was worth it. It feels like I wasted a lot of my life achieving something so ridiculously basic that it’s almost laughable. How utterly worthless I must consider myself, that hearing someone complain about putting data in C++ 5 years ago put me on the track to decide to try to put something in a programming language standard. That I had to fight this hard for table scraps off the Great C Standard’s table.

> What a life, huh?
This isn’t about tricking people into using the wrong model. Training data can poison a model in ways that cannot be reasonably detected or trained out generically. So even if you are using the right model, it could be poisoned without anybody knowing.
It seems that everyone is in agreement that these changes would result in less money going to the ASA. That money is used for something. What is it? What would happen if the money stopped flowing? Is there another way that they can recoup the lost income?
Indeed. It looks to me more like some for-profit journals and other "gatekeepers" are worried that people could run academia just as well without them.
Partial Sums of Popcount
This is slightly incorrect.

Big businesses have a lot of employees. Even if just a small percentage of those employees contact their representatives and get on the news, it's still a much larger and more focused message then individuals doing it about individual problems. A big business failing becomes a very loud squeaky wheel.
There is also often a UEFI option for a "fast boot" as well, where it skips some steps in its initialization, doesn't wait for any user input or logging to the local console if its coming back from a successful boot/power off cycle. But that's separate from the Windows feature which is related to hibernation. You could have Windows Fast Boot enabled while having your UEFI set to a full boot cycle or vice versa.

The UEFI option should work fine with pretty much any OS the hardware should be able to boot.
I'm not saying universities are perfect. I'm just saying a university education is useful, or at least that it was to me and I think it will be to anyone who puts effort into it.

I have actually remarked to colleagues about this exact topic, I think it's strange that debugging was a topic I had to learn on my own and teach to struggling students when I was a TA.

The flip side of that is that debugging is easy. It is definitely a skill that you can develop over time but learning the basics and getting started debugging your code is something you can do in less than an hour.

This is a minor criticism, not a justification for declaring universities useless. I learned tons of other useful stuff. I learned multiple programming languages, math, DSA, databases, networking, all kinds of things I use on a frequent basis.

Whenever I hear people say they didn't learn anything useful in university i think that says a lot more about them than it does about the university.
FYI. This comes from Robin Hood: Men in Tights” by Mel Brooks.
Rural New Yorker here, we also have low intensity public transportation (contract taxis, bus lines). As a busy professional, it would be too inconvenient for me to use, but as a busy professional I can afford to drive.

Walkable cities sounds nice, but I like having space. At this point of my life, living in a suburban community is desirable.
> Now why do college turns out graduates who can't program? It's probably that college isn't churning out programmers, but people who are taught computer science. That's why they can't do FizzBuzz. They lack skills in the fundamentals.

The answer is that people study for the test and passing enough tests is all you need to graduate.

There is a correlation between graduating and being able to program, but it's not a perfect correlation.

> I believe most people are sufficiently intelligent to learn basically any skills and knowledge that they want.

It's easy to see this is untrue. replace intelligence with physical ability and it quickly becomes obvious that not everyone is going to be a great boxer or a great basketball player.

If you take away the requirement for success, then sure, anyone can do anything. But lets not take that requirement away as that makes your statement unuseful.
There's no "full stop", that's entirely a negotiated between the researches and the state, as is happening here. You can strong arm researchers into accepting worse terms, but that just means you'll get less research done, unless funding is increased.
That simply isn't true. You have tons of examples in either direction. Lot of countries that didnt plunder are rich, and lots that did, arent. Plus the timing is wrong.
Unusual basis types in programming languages
Please tell me about it!
I don't know much about it but I'd be more upset if the Pentagon freely released all their research.
I was frustrated with jumping to frecent directories, so I "reverted" back to jumping back to bookmarked directories [0] (which I find much more predictable).

0: https://github.com/techwizrd/fishmarks
As a high school student, I also use Obsidian over more mainstream alternatives such as Notion or OneNote. I find it primarily useful because of the no-internet feature and I find the linking ability to be extremely useful since most ideas are related to other ideas, and in totality this creates a concept.
Perhaps sociology researchers should find larger sources of private funding and rely less on state patronage.
It's not just you, Google Search has gotten worse
I doubt many people are using local setups for serious work.

Even fine tuning Mixtral is 4xH100 for 4 days. Which is a ~$200k server currently.

To fully train, not just fine tune a small model, say Llama 2 7b you need over 128GiB of vram, so still multiple GPU territory, likely A100s or H100s.

This is all dependent upon the settings you use, increase the batch size and you will see even more memory utilization.

I believe a lot of people see these models running locally and assume training is similar, but it isn't.
Yeah, thats been my experience with it also. It works great for small things and getting going, but eventually the project starts to grow and you want to embed something that would be straightforward if you used a JS framework and then the spaghetti code starts as you bolt on a JS component inside of HTMX. After the 10th time you do this the project gets pretty messy and you want to just start from scratch with a conventional framework.
This is about safety, not security as such.

Also, security through obscurity should not be relied upon alone, but obscurity can help raise the bar for an attacker. It doesn't mean obscurity can't help, just that it is not sufficient.
Elon Threatens to 'Build Products Outside of Tesla' Unless He Gets More Control
There should be a lot of power available if you're at a charger.
I love this stupid thing
Such conspiracies are hard to hide, so it seems quite unlikely to me (and GH was sort of like this before the MS acquisition, no?)
As I mentioned, we're already being recorded, so that's not much of an objection.

On PI, I agree that there is a qualitative difference between a cashier and a machine if you assume, as most people do, that the cashier will not remember private details. This can be fixed with industry-wide agreements to not store such data, in the same way as merchants don't store your full credit card details. You could even allow people to bypass the check if a valid identity is registered against their store-issued fidelity card.

Honestly, the only hard problem is localization. At the moment you can sell more or less the same automated till to UK supermarkets, US supermarkets, or EU supermarkets; but document-checking code will have to be heavily localized. Still, EU driving licenses are already similar on the entire continent, and that's quite a critical mass one could hit. I would be surprised if manufacturers weren't already developing this feature.
Nowhere did I say or suggest it was OK. I don't find looking at the past through a moralistic lens helps me understand it.

> People seem to be reacting pretty favourably to Ukraine's response to the current russian "migration".

The colonization of America much more closely resembled mass migration and then subsequent cultural conflicts than it did Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It didn't really resemble the latter at all.

> An assertion borne by absolutely nothing at best, and made as the US had just conquered the state and were looking to "pacify" it and fill it with settlers, made by the then holder of ultimate power in the state.

If you mean "conquering" California, you mean taking it from Mexico after the Mexican-American wars, California had already been subject to colonization efforts for almost a hundred years, but even so, I don't think speaking of the US federal government or the state government as "the holder of ultimate power" makes sense. Most people for a long time lived effectively free from any state control.

I mentioned the Comanche - it might be interesting to note that Comanche peaked in power just a decade prior to his term as governor, and they were in every meaningful sense militarily superior to the Americans, Mexicans, and surrounding native groups. They did not have a presence in California, but they're a good counterexample to the idea that natives just couldn't resist settlers - they rapidly acquired guns, horses, and often frankly superior skill in using them, which was frequently exercised. There's no doubt that settler encroachment and fundamentally incompatible ideas of civilization resulted in the pushing out and near-extinction of independent native communities, but it was by no means a sure, given thing. If native groups had united against the settlers and decided to get rid of them, they would have been wiped out.
I don't see why schools really need to provide access to the open internet. Providing computer access is fine, but the network should be internal. Wikipedia PR Britannica can me mirrored, as well as any videos that teachers decide to have cached.
I built a branching conversational LLM chat utility using streamlit in a weekend having never used it before.

I don’t do much with UI’s so I can’t compare, but it was fairly simple and nice to work with. I wish there was a similar toolkit for Go.
The research is funded by tax payers - is the peer review?
> I don't want to learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts for simple things like expand/collapse the sidebars. You can customize lots of things but at that point, why not stay in your IDE (e.g., VSCode) and simply add Vim Wiki extenions?

This is what I used to do with Vim, but I had two problems: (1) I would often forget to `git push`, (2) I wanted to easily access notes on my phone.

Importing into Obsidian and paying for Sync made both issues go away.
As a layman in terms of LLMs and the latest AI developments, the problem you bring up inevitably evokes for me the question of why would we ever want these tools to replace search engines or similar technologies. For me, the beauty of the internet and search engines is that you get 'directions' to a multiplicity of answers instead of a single one that summarizes them for me and implicitly takes all the decision power on what's relevant or accurate from me. Obviously censorship and bias is undeniably a factor for what we have right now. But I think that's a very different problem.
FTA: "This means that Chicago's climate site spent about 35-36 hours below 0°F."

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/68697/2023/Historical-Weather-d... https://weatherspark.com/h/y/68746/2023/Historical-Weather-d... show the daily highs didn’t get below 0°F in Oslo or Trondheim in 2023.

So, it’s colder in Chicago now than is typical in those cities. They are in the south of Norway, but that’s also where most Norwegians live.

Narvik is further north, and also didn’t have days below 0°F (https://weatherspark.com/h/y/82944/2023/Historical-Weather-d...)

In general, land climates beat sea climates in extreme temperatures.

Norway also benefits from the North Atlantic Current (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current)
But I'm saying it should be possible to view the source of the password, not the password itself. Which is what his site already shows for individual breaches.
honestly they probably have the 3d model made already as part of the design process.

eta: ope, I see someone beat me to the same comment.
At what point do researchers benefit from the cartel?

Never.

Reviewers and paper judges don’t get paid.

Arxiv and OR have done more for researchers than the scientific publishing cartel ever has

The field of ML moves as quickly as it does because doing closed access ML separates you from the community
ooooh, you're not talking about retirement communities.

One wonders how the hay gets baled if most of the population is elderly people.

you don't actually understand what a rural community is.
Would be safer to just change your passwords. If they are old, even better to change them right now.
> EVs heat their cabin more efficiently than ICEs.

Given that ICEs take advantage of waste heat - which they will have in abundance as long as the engine is running - I disagree. Especially since many EVs still use resistive heating (the F150 Lightning and some Tesla models, for example).

And even vehicles with heat pumps will have to use backup resistive heating on really cold days, since they have a lower limit where they can operate.
The case has been about whether preventing others from competing on pricing is anticompetitive not whether having pricing should be illegal in itself. Whether that's about the App Store or the SDK it would be extremely odd to suddenly expect Epic to instead try to argue it's the payment model that's the problem not the anti-competitiveness of only allowing 1 option.
It's a common joke in Mathematics that the way to get lots of citations is to publish a paper with a subtle error - then every "someone was wrong on ~the internet~ _a paper_" type will cite you with suggested corrections.
I work for a big UK supermarket as a developer working on their self checkout software. The tills have better specs than you would expect, as they are running 30 or so containers using Docker. They are not cheap!
Apples behaviour vis a vis the App Store is the textbook definition of monopolistic practices. It’s beyond the pale these stories. The only reason I can think it continues is because there are a lot of AAPL holders in Congress.
Take bullet point, and move it to new page. Or extract all mentions of tag into single page. There are some basic hotkeys and commands.

Refactoring is perhaps strong word, more like mouse dragging and copy&paste. It just feels like refactoring code. I can move things around without worrying something disappears or gets forgotten. I can also leave things half finished, without negative effects on readability and discoverability.
Prince has been doing this for 20 years and is in my opinion the gold standard, with good support for footnotes, endnotes, page headers and other little extensions that are only relevant for printing. https://www.princexml.com/

But I'll be giving this a try!
What about their customers? Am I allowed to speak up for their freedom to engage in consensual commerce? Or is that craven of me as well?
So something like https://syncthing.net/ ?
Another day another episode of the “Legacy Media vs Billionaires”. Today: Media strikes back. Quite the hit job, too: light on facts but quite strong in name calling, insinuations and quick judgements. Journalism has adapted quite well to our modern times.
The light phone mentioned in this article can still make calls and send texts

This seems to be more of a ban on social media apps in school, which I 100% support and honestly wouldn’t mind it being nationwide.
There's a simple git-sync plugin plus you can just stick your vault in a cloud service
Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
They don’t pay reviewers.