skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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“Israel Has Bought a Mass Online Influence System to Counter Antisemitism, Hamas Atrocity Denial”
He’d be in so much less trouble if he just……never bought Twitter
For Apple, since the court found that they have a right to collect their fee.
Almost all of the issues mentioned in this post were during 1.8 -> 1.9 transition.

At that time odd release numbers where development versions, until this policy changed a bit later and 1.9 became an actual "GA" release.

The 1.8 -> 1.9 is really Ruby's "Python 3" moment, as it similarly improved String encoding handling, but the breakages were much more limited and it also came with pretty significant performance improvements, so the community didn't split like Python 2 and Python 3.

If you follow Ruby's development, or watch Matz talks, you see that avoiding a Python like split is really his number 1 concern.
What are your thoughts on a Farthest Deadline Scheduler?
> Spherical cows

You’re using theoretical physics as your basis for criticising academia?
This reeks of being an outside observer. WA has no income tax, but has a sales taxes which homeless people are subjected to. The only taxes are from property which renters also don't pay. When people complain about the rent seekers it's from a place of empathy, not envy. The extraction of wealth done by them always has and always will be more negatively impactful than homeless folks.
I believe a similar approach could be achieved using toxiproxy and configuration.
The documentation at https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy#2-populating-toxiproxy provides insights into the process.
While it may not be as straightforward as with speedbump, the flexibility of toxiproxy makes it a viable option.

Toxiproxy primarily serves the purpose of integration into tests.
It proves particularly useful when testing features like the progress bar directly from code.
Notably, for Go applications, integration is seamless, eliminating the need for an additional application.
Instead, you can run the Toxiproxy server part directly from the codebase.
An illustrative example can be found at https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy/blob/main/_examples/tes....
I'm really surprised TF lite is being used. Do they train models or is this (my assumption) just inference? Do they have a talent constraint? I would have expected handwritten C inference in order to make these as small and efficient as possible.
A lot of rules have been broken in Musk's relationship with shareholders, but this one is truly interesting.

He has shown that he can have some impact in robotics/AI (if you see the Tesla robotics work and Grok via X to be some indication) and wants to be heavily compensated for developing that tech within the Tesla umbrella (and thereby delivering additional value to Tesla shareholders).

I personally think it isn't worth the insane price tag as if he does become successful in those fields in say some separate company, he would still bring that value to Tesla in the form of favorable contracts etc. It just wouldn't be as big a smash homerun to have it all in-house. Regardless, Elon gets paid (through Tesla value going up or the other company making a profit) and shareholders see SOME growth just not all of it.
The demographic is 15-25, by the way. It's not unusual for younger crowds to find themselves in sole-online groups - there's a lot more elasticity and cultural acceptance for that kind of behavior in those groups.
I've rebuilt a 40s-era Lionel train track system (mostly replaced the power plug to the control box), and ordered an AFX track from ebay just yesterday. The sizes don't mesh, but both are going on a plywood layout in the garage.
This demo video from the Github site shows the smoother user interface with BORE: https://youtu.be/vbs4zj79tfo?si=p6jqVqIHehuOO1Il
I don't think this demographic is as common as you'd expect - it feels very niche and internet-culture-y.

That said, I've always been amazed at some of these groups I've been a part of. There is a long-lasting group of game developers I was a part of when I was very, very young. Somehow, someway, the site has stayed alive, and I have logged in probably once a year to say hi to old friends. I've never met them in person. We exchange emails maybe... at a half-year, year, or even longer basis. But we always respond to each other eventually. And we've managed to somehow maintain contact in this super strange way.

It's really incredible.
>You could say that about any decision about anything, so it's pretty meaningless.

OK I'll say it.

I accept the meaninglessness of why most people are where they are to begin with, because most of the time

>>their choices are not objective decisions.
I loved these so much that I created my own Mad Scientist's Club with my neighbor friends which held meetings in our (very hot) shed loft during the summer.

I just finished reading some of them to my pre-teen girls, and they enjoyed them quite a bit despite the fact that very few girl characters are part of the plot. A few quotes made us chuckle ("Shut up and stop rocking the boat!" was one). We even figured out which boy was the narrator, even though he never mentions his name.

I guess it speaks to their universal appeal to kids of curious minds who like hearing of scrappy, madcap adventures attempted by smart but hair-brained individuals of their age. The books always gave me the sense of unbridled freedom to invent, explore, and maybe pull one over your knucklehead neighbor or unsuspecting parents.
You Shouldn't Use Git LFS
We have both an EV and a gasoline car. The EV is by far the superior winter car.

1. The EV always starts. If it's below -20, our gasoline car may not.

2. The battery is always charged in the morning. OTOH the gasoline car is only filled sporadically. In the winter I try and ensure there's at least half a tank for safety reasons, but sometimes it does get as low as a quarter tank. Even with cold loss, an EV with a full battery has far more range than a gasoline car with a quarter tank.

3. The EV can be preheated in the garage without killing people.

4. An EV battery has enough capacity to run the seat warmers for a month, keeping people alive in an emergency. A gasoline car can only idle for about 24 hours.

5. That's if you keep your exhaust clear. I know people who didn't, and died.

6. A EV that's plugged in, but not inside can be kept warm.

7. Our EV handles a lot better on snow and ice than the gasoline car. Perhaps it's because of weight, perhaps it's because it can do traction control with the motor rather than using the brakes.
It's the Google Authenticator app's fault. The most popular TOTP app probably, and for a long time, they were saying it's intentionally designed not to let you copy the codes. Now you can, but there are lots of pitfalls and vague documentation. I'm not convinced that TOTP is a user-friendly design to begin with, but it didn't have to be this bad.

I don't fw TOTP now. There are other apps, but I'm done. I'll only use it if the iPhone Keychain has built-in support some day.
The Supreme Court does not decide cases: it decides questions. Whether or not the case is interesting, the legal questions the parties asked the Court to resolve were evidently not worth its time.
TensorFlow-metal on Apple Mac is junk for training
My wife met one of her first boyfriends on the Religions discussion chat on AOL. IRC dates back to 1988.

I met some people on both Compuserve and Prodigy, although I'm no longer in contact with any of them.

Still friends with some people from the WWIV BBS days in SoCal.
BCG consultants. Not average people.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134972

Has anything changed?
If I remap CapsLock to Escape, then how will I enable cruise control for awesome mode?

But seriously, I have hitting escape muscle memory engrained, I cannot remap it to any key because I won't ever think to hit capslock even if it's ergonomically "better"
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We propose FlashAttention, an IO-aware exact attention algorithm that uses tiling to reduce the number of memory reads/writes between GPU high bandwidth memory (HBM) and GPU on-chip SRAM. We analyze the IO complexity of FlashAttention, showing that it requires fewer HBM accesses than standard attention, and is optimal for a range of SRAM sizes. We also extend FlashAttention to block-sparse attention, yielding an approximate attention algorithm that is faster than any existing approximate attention method.
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Provides you with a neat document that states what you wanted to do is the right thing to do.
Then what good is it?
The ones I had in mind are the EDB Postgres v16 Essentials and then Advanced certifications.
I use GNOME: the gsconnect extension on my laptop, the kdeconnect app on my mobile devices. They can even share data and files between themselves without going through the laptop, ring another one when I lost it somewhere at home, control the media playing on another device or my laptop.
When I was a younger developer I thought tooling solved all problems. As I grew more experience I slowly changed my mind that some problem spaces require not only tooling but process change. I am firmly in the camp that you don't need yet another documentation tool. The problem is a human/process one, documentation/knowledge bases need to be part of the process. As long as you can search it and its easy to update/create, I don't think the tool is solving much for you.
That's not to say that racism played no role - of course there were racists at the time, and it probably played a role in influencing the decision to move. But without the rising crime rates in the 1960s and 1970s, I don't that wouldn't have been enough to lead to large-scale abandonment of neighborhoods these racists had lived in for generations.
It seems easy to kind of shrug at this, but this does seem quite significant because of many mobile apps are 'free to play.' Apple pocketing 30% of all of these transactions, and forcing users/devs to go through Apple, is a major part of its revenue. And all of those apps now have the option to direct users to alternative payment methods, where they can both charge users substantially less and make more profit doing so. Should be interesting to see what happens!
I don’t think any of the proposals by AI x-risk people are actionable or even desirable.
Comparing AI to nukes is a bad analogy for a few reasons. Nukes are pretty useless unless you’re a nation state wanting to deter other nations from invading you. AI on the other hand has theoretically infinite potential benefits for whatever your goals are (as a corporation, an individual, a nation, etc.) which incentives basically any individual or organization to develop it. Nukes also require difficult to obtain raw materials, advanced material processing, and all the other industrial and technological requirements, whereas AI requires compute, which exists in abundance and which seems to improve near exponentially year over year, which means individuals can develop AI systems without involving hundreds of people or leaving massive evidence of what they’re doing (maybe not currently due to computing requirements but this will likely change with increasing compute power and improved architectures and training methods). Testing AI systems also doesn’t result in globally measurable signals like nukes.
Realistically making AI illegal and actually being able to enforce that would require upending personal computing and the internet, halting semiconductor development, and large scale military intervention to try to prevent non-compliant countries from attempting to develop their own AI infrastructure and systems. I don’t think it’s realistic to try to control the information on how to build AI, that is far more ephemeral than what it takes to make advanced computing devices. This is all for a hypothetical risk of AI doom, when it’s possible this technology could also end scarcity or have potentially infinite upside (as well as infinite down side, not discounting that, but you have to weigh the hypothetical risks/benefit in addition to the obvious consequences of all the measures required to prevent AI development for said hypothetical risk).
I’ve watched several interviews with Yudkowsky and read some of his writing, and while I think he makes good points on why we should be concerned about unaligned AI systems, he doesn’t give any realistic solutions to the problem and it comes off more as fear mongering than anything. His suggestion of military enforced global prevention of AI development is as likely to work as solving the alignment problem on the first try (which he seems to have little hope for).

EDIT:
Also, I’m not even sure that solving the alignment problem would solve the issue of AI doom, it would only ensure that the kind of doom we receive is directed by a human. I can’t imagine that giving (potentially) god-like powers to any individual or organization would not eventually result in abuse and horrible consequences even if we were able to make use of its benefits momentarily.
All of you complaining about space, you just need to move to the country. I hear real estate in Missouri, Alabama, etc. is pretty reasonable.
Wow... do you mind sharing which company(ies) this is commonplace?
Personally (as someone who was high-school aged in the early 90s):

1. FidoNet BBSes were one early pre-Internet form ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet ). Even once the early Internet was up and running for some, some of us lived in countries/places where there was no access, and so the loosely-interconnected FidoNet BBS system was the first form of online group communications I was exposed to. There were even some gateways passing email and usenet newsgroups between FidoNet and the Internet towards the end. I had several local friends, we all ran FidoNet nodes, and we did use it for interpersonal communications at times.

2. Usenet - I used this a little bit in the mid-90s for true communication, but mostly that was highly technical in nature, e.g. IETF discussions on protocol development issues, etc. Also lots of using it to download binaries of course, but that's not really chat. I mostly didn't "know" the people I was interacting with, other than by online reputation.

3. IRC - From around 1994 onwards for me (when I finally had real access to the real Internet), on the EFNet IRC network (and a couple others, to a lesser degree). I spent many hours of every day lurking on EFNet's "#hack" channel and several others. There was a real sense of an online-first community, and then there were smaller and often private channels of people you knew from your real life (the other local hackers in your immediate community, or people you met at conferences, etc). I won't defend the culture as necessarily stellar, especially by today's standards, but at the same time, there was a sort of sense of community where it didn't seem to matter much who or what you were in real life, a sort of "if you're here, you're one of us" vibe. I think at least around 1994-1997-ish, IRC was pretty central to my social life (not all of it of course, but still!). Some of it was more anonymous in nature, but a lot of it was people I had met in real life or were even local friends of mine.
Not to forget using the stuff that is beyond acceptance by everyone. Animal fats can keep, but there is always some limit. At point it is so rancid that no one wants it. Either you burn or dump it.
I also suspect that many of the young people who can afford and are interested in many of these sorts of hobbies have, at least incrementally, tended to shift more urban which makes them impractical absent some shared club/store space. When I first got an apartment after school--and pre-digital photography--I tried doing home processing in a half-bathroom and rapidly concluded that was for the birds. (Even after I got a house, there really wasn't a suitable space and then digital photography came in.)
It's not entirely unlike Therac-25, including the deaths (albeit more indirectly caused in this case.). There was a certain element of operator error, but that doesn't excuse the faulty programming.
This sounds good but not the kind of coffee cake I’m used to
These numbers are impressive. Do you have data on the split od these reductions? What percentage moved to the suburbs of the same city, nie mamy moved away and do long?
These books were formative for me as a kid, I lost them to my mom's garage sale obsession years ago, but found that the author's son, Sheridan Brinley, worked with the publisher to not only release them as a compendium, but include an unpublished story in the volume as well. I bought it as soon as I found it on Amazon and have read it at least 4 times since... It's like a trip back to my childhood and candy for my brain. Still in love with these stories after all these years.
Appears to only be useful for inference. During training, it seems like it is simply just broken.
Well, there's nothing preventing it from happening if that's what you mean. It's just a difficult thing to do, and requires effort (and expertise.)

I might take a crack at porting the KMS/DRM drivers from Linux eventually, but it's not near the top of my TODO list.
Also (3) that AGI in practice will necessarily pose any danger to humans is doubtful. After all Earth has billions of human level intelligence and nearly all of them are useless and if they are even mildly dangerous it's rather due to their numbers and disgusting biology than intelligence.
What does "interesting" have to do with it? Millions of people talk about all sorts of stupid shit that happens in current pop culture (including me!).

I am very interested in the outcome of this case. I also absolutely do not care for the idea of the Supreme Court wasting one hour on it.
But also everything feels "on-the-record" in a way that WhatsApp, Signal etc. don't, both in that new joiners don't get to see the previous group chat history (a bug in some scenarios, a feature in others!) and that it's not end-to-end encrypted.

I have definitely observed myself communicating more freely there. In a way, it's "anti-social media", in that it solves one of the biggest (in my view) bugs of Twitter, Facebook etc.: Nobody will pin you down with a direct link to a post about an idea you entertained years ago that you've long since distanced yourself from.

Ephemeral communications to me seem like an antidote to the incredible and unprecedented pressure of having to appear 100% consistent across time and social circles.
I dabble, but much like RC cars, video games have choked out another physical hobby.
> In theory, its functions could be replicated in silicon, enhanced for speed, parallel processing, internetworked, and with near-instant access to information. Therefore, AGI could emerge, if not from current AI research, then perhaps from another scientific branch.

Let's be clear, we have very little idea about how the human brain gives rise to human-level intelligence, so replicating it in silicon is non-trivial.
> Around / after the fall of the USSR, things took a serious nosedive all at once.

That may be when the effect was felt, but the seeds were planted much earlier than this - at least 20 years.
it's all inference
Meanwhile in Hamburg, Germany: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com
You don’t have to give Apple your data. It uses information stored on device.
I love group chats and have muted most of them. They still work even if someone responds an hour or a day later.
CSV and 1 Video = personalized videos for cold email
"I think the fastest I got the FreeBSD kernel booting in Firecracker was 21 ms. NetBSD is now at 18 ms... I need to go back and address some more of the issues I noticed but didn't get around to fixing.

Anyone know what the current record for Linux is? Last I heard was ~50 ms."

- @cperciva at https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1747270461095043532
Vaporetto!
Elon Musk just escalated his war on workers
While I agree homelessness is a problem, it's a small financial burden compared to the unsustainable growth of infrastructure. Maybe it's time to finally get serious about treating mental health? Whenever I see comments like this, I always note there doesn't seem to be any broader solution than 'ship them somewhere else and make them someone else's problem'
How long until we have model networking?

tiny racks filled with tiny Cisco routers. with tiny cables management and tiny blinking LEDs everywhere.

You can even add buttons to simulate solar storms on your tiny microwave antena model which would change how the blinking lights work on the tiny routers.

And if you want to splurge like some train modelers do with fake grass and such you can maybe even go for the middle manager model as if it's walking around the server room as he tries to avoid the CEO that day.
Over COVID I couldn't wargame with friends in person, so I started an N scale railroad to fill the hobby void as they share a lot. Also it was fun doing all the automation etc as mentioned in other comments there. I've sold the railroad off since as I started wargaming again though.
Spy craft goes way back. You can read about it in Herodotus and the Old Testament.

George Washington was a spy master and much of what we think we know about his operations is dot connecting. This is true of most historical accounts of spying.

A good fictional account of true to life spy craft in the 19th century is Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Some of the characters are based on historical persons in the business.

The OG does well to point out the misconception this is somehow a modern invention. It's interesting to read well-researched accounts of spy craft in different historical eras. Its secrecy at the time makes it hard to find source material. They knew how to keep secrets in olden days and there were not many whistle blowers. A lot of what you come across is just speculation. From the article it appears there is quite a lot of source material for Venice.
Nice overview. They didn't get to the hideous self-referential (and largely undocumented) trie that is used for the symbol name mappings in mach-o. Not fun to implement. And frustrating because there is so much wasted space in typical mach-o binaries that it seems very much not worth the compression effort, at least by I don't know 2005?
Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers
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we introduce sparse factorizations of the attention matrix which reduce this to O(nn‾√). We also introduce a) a variation on architecture and initialization to train deeper networks, b) the recomputation of attention matrices to save memory, and c) fast attention kernels for training. We call networks with these changes Sparse Transformers, and show they can model sequences tens of thousands of timesteps long using hundreds of layers.
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Housing costs have been growing at 2x wages for 50 years. If space was a constraint then, imagine how it is now.

How many times did boomers look at the two buttons before them, "make housing affordable" and "make housing a good investment," and which button did they press every singe time?
They're counting on most purchasers not preordering, and thus not getting the preorder discount.

Which is a reasonable assumption to make. SG2380 will surprise many as it launches and gets reviewed and talked about.
And they get $100k/year of services. Their life is still not particularly good, but mismanagement can burn even the largest resource pile.
The age check is actually a legal requirement - the bigger challenge was actually getting the delivery person to consistently do it!
"Better" is a very relative or personal term. What's important is to not forget the other side of the coin no matter what you ask. There's almost always a compromise, don't let your decision be guided by knowing only half of it.

If you can have thin and cool why not? But make sure you don't only consider the former and forget about the latter until you burn your lap.
I made a visual node system for GitHub Actions workflows in order to ditch YAML
It's comical, some site only allowed auth via Twitter, and I signed up for Twitter via a burner Google account. I get redirected like 30 times logging in and asked about my favorite celebrities along the way.
Gitlab's AI Generating ASCII Art?