skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Special tokens are handled by the application, not the model. They are still output before then.
The idea that there existed diverse experiments throughout history of how people chose to organize is one of the main takeaways from reading Graeber.

I agree with his premise that we all seem to hold the assumption - and are taught rather intentionally so - that history is a linear march toward progress. Our modern constructs are therefore by definition the best that's existed and certainly better than what came before.

The point I took is that this neat line toward progress is just not the facts; mostly because we really can't know about history to this neat and clean degree. There were other things. Lots of other things going on!

So - the idea that survival of the fittest makes a strong argument to prove our modern constructs more fit - I think Graeber is really just trying to tell us hey we can't really know that, history is extremely lossy, to us. Careful not to throw out our entire civilization's experiments out with the bath water.
In case anyone else was wondering - yes, Darwin ships an old version because of the license:

> Beginning with 3.0.0, rsync is available under the GNU General Public License version 3. (Older releases were available under the GPL version 2.)

(https://rsync.samba.org/GPL.html)
I have seen something similar on TV to do with MSG. The room was split down the middle and I believe the participants were told half the room ate food with MSG and the other half without. They interviewed the participants after and the majority on the side with MSG had symptoms. The only problem was that no one had consumed MSG.

going off of memory from something I saw a decade ago
I understand what you mean and I agree with you that one cannot prepare for, and shouldn't worry about, every possible future scenario. But is the scenario I'm describing really that far fetched? I'm honestly not sure.
I worked on a state machine framework in another language, and have definitely have found less terse to be pretty good. Typing a few extra characters isn't that bad, especially if it makes some awful bit of evented code easier for someone to understand.

Of the things available open source, I think P-lang is pretty cool: https://github.com/p-org/P/blob/master/Tutorial/1_ClientServ...
First of all, there is no theory at all which explains the current progress of LLMs. It's not even a quantifiable progress - it's clearly there, but no one can say with any true precision whether GPT2 to GPT3 to GPT4 is following linear or exponential or whatever else precise function of progress in capabilities. We can clearly see that they are improving, but we have no idea how to accurately quantify this space.

Secondly, we can see that there are obvious quantifiable physical increases in the requirements of training and inference for GPT4 compared to GPT3 and to GPT2. So, we can absolutely make a physical argument: at some point, you'll need too much energy to keep scaling up GPTs for it to be feasible, even if capability would keep improving with model size.

Thirdly, the GPTs require ever more data to train, and there is a limited amount of text data in the world, of which they are already using a significant percent. So, there is also an argument that we might run out of data to improve even before we run out of physical resources.

And making an argument that Moore's law will stop at some point due to physical constraints was just as correct in 1978 as it is in 2024. Predicting when that is is obviously hard - and the same is true for LLM scaling. We may be at the peek, or there may be 100 more generations before we even approach the limits I'm contemplating. But the limits are certainly there.
That means it’s working as intended.
A gov agency or a known non-profit org coming up with it would have been better.
If you make a uniform flash of light in 3d space it spreads around you in a shape of a sphere of increasing radius. Energy gets distributed evenly across the sphere's surface which is growing with time proportional to a square of the radius. So energy density (think intensity) decreases as inverse square. In 4d space the sphere's surface grows with the cube of the radius.

This sort of intuition. Applies to electromagnetic waves, sound and gravity all alike.
The Griffin: The Coat-of-Arms of Perugia [pdf]
Why does virtualisation run some code far slower on Apple Silicon?
Agree. While I completely understand and respect anyone's reasons to not use any piece of tech, always we talk about .net I find funny that the main reason to not use it is that "it comes from M$$$$44". That's all the technical analysis.

In my experience, is as great as any other backend stack for UNIX. But, hey! If anyone wants to ban a piece of software on their systems for whatever random reason, they're free to do that. Luckily they have tons of alternatives from companies with great sense of ethics (Go, Swift, Java, ...)
It was a great run for Foundry. I know a few of the early investors/members of it, and it was so refreshing to have an alternative to the Silicon Valley VCs, who believed that Colorado could be a nexus/hub for technology without all the crap that came with the valley.
It does, however, talk about restricting users exercising their rights, which it clearly the point of such behavior.
Hans, Nina, and their children lived in the Bay Area.
Before getting murdered, Nina was about to start a job with the City and County of San Francisco, involving the medical care of Russian speaking residents.

The Reiser children moved to Petersburg, Russia, because Nina's parents were awarded custody of the children, since Nina is dead and Hans will be in jail possibly forever.

You're really misinterpreting the timeline of events. What software industry are you involved in, so I can be very afraid of anything you may be involved in writing?
Cancer might not be generally curable, but it is curable in the sense that many people survive cancer with treatment. And the increase of people who do survive is improving all the time.

I think that the gap is for people (like me) who don't understand what creating a medical treatment based in research looks like. I see a study like this and I think "oh great, they can just do this on people and then cancer is solved".

There's obviously a lot more complexity in applying research in practice, so it isn't that simple. Still, this kind of research clearly is leading to improvements in cancer care, even if it isn't completely cured every time.
What3Words is an interesting idea, but the lack of locality and propriety nature of the codes makes me doubtful of using it for anything important.

I prefer the pluscodes introduced by Google as it is open source, useful offline, conveys locality between codes, and doesn’t hinge on the use of English.

https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/
Activitypub does have many very small nodes, very few very large nodes, and few medium sized ones. A lot of this is people wanting to be on the same server that their friends are on (even if there aren't that many advantages to it), and just that structurally, running a largeish server is more cost- and time-effective per user.

It'll be interesting to (if that ever happens) see whether bluesky, once it actually becomes a decentralized system instead of a closed one, shakes out differently due to protocol differences, or broadly follows the same patterns.
GPT4 turbo isn't fast as 3.5. Not even close by a mile.
With the same argument you couldn't upgrade the compiler at all.

Thankfully the Linux kernel development relies on testing instead.
2 years development and you call me clueless. Try to get a response for 4000 tokens.
Tietoevry, Finnish IT Giant, Hit by Cyberattack; Launches Probe
> The Telemetron is a unique mode of musical performance that takes advantage of the poetics of zero gravity, and opens a new field of musical creativity.

The article heavily implies it’s built deliberately for the purpose of music production and even goes so far as to discuss its ability to be recorded. I doubt it sounds good but the whole point is to produce music with it, and the whole point of music is to be listened to.
Makes me sad. None of these questions can ignite a passion for maths or connect maths to the real world.
CI Is Not CD
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066956
No worries. We faced some of the the same choices when we were designing the Windows 10 Delivery Optimization service. We initially based it off the Bittorrent protocol with a modified BEP30. I think MSDN just says "Cloud Managed". ;)
AI-Powered Computer Vision in the Automotive Industry
Besides the sad part of destroyed people's lives, this is a good example of how software quality matters to the society and liability is a must.
What was their point exactly? At-home charging is about doing it in the “23 hours” and the 24th hour thing applies to ICE vehicles too. Are they saying to not do public charging if you can? If so, I agree - at home charging is the way to go.

When I add up the 5 minutes I spent a week filling up my diesel I get over 4/hours a year. I’ve not used a public charger for months. I’ll probably save time this year. Plug in at night, unplug in the morning.

We also had a two week period of sun-zero temperatures with my neighbours standing and scraping their windscreen and windows. My car was automatically pre-heated and defrosted on a schedule. More time saved.

If you do lots of long journeys I could definitely see public charging being an issue, especially for non-Teslas. We need lots more fast chargers but in my country they seem hell-bent in building lots of slow ones.
I remember doing some coding on VxWorks during my engineering school. From my then limited experience it was an oddball but also as my first exposure to hard real time programming it sure was approachable and reliable as fuck. Definitely not surprised it was picked for space stuff. Comparatively, toying with RT Linux was obscure and full of duct-tape and footguns. I wish I had a chance to try and code on QNX beyond merely booting that magical 3.5" floppy.
> Would it really have been 3 years if he'd accepted? That seems far too low.

The prosecution offered the deal because historically convicting someone of murder when you can't find the body is nearly impossible. But Hans found a way!
Admirable, but be aware that you are choosing to play 'co-operate' in a multi-agent prisoner's dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Thanks! So not only preservation of soft tissue was confirmed, although the exact mechanism is not fully understood. But also there are "multiple lines of evidence for material consistent with DNA in dinosaur" found in fossils https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S87563...
Show HN: Svelte-polaroids, a swipeable component for sequential images
Beautiful article and explanation. I have been in this career for almost 2 decades and this is the first time I hear about Datalog and triples, and it is such an elegant, interesting idea!

Thanks for teaching an old dog new tricks :) Where to do from here? Any other triple-based databases out there?

EDIT: please ignore the absolutely rude and entitled sibling comment.
How long does it take you to plug in and plug out? 30 seconds each? That is minute a day, or 7 minutes a week... So 20% more than ICE filling.
What I like about Bluesky is that your identity is a hostname.

So you can just use your own domain for example.

What I don't understand is why the bsky.social service (which holds most user accounts at the moment) doesn't redirect http requests to ones profile. Then you could just say "I'm https://gnod.bsky.social on bluesky". Instead of "I'm https://bsky.app/profile/gnod.bsky.social on bluesky".

Maybe they don't want to make bsky.social very convenient so people have more incentive to use their own domain. Or there is some other thought behind it. I don't know.
I agree that that would be good, however I do think this is the kind of thing where if you have use for it then you'll probably recognize it on sight.
> With extra sauce of numerous mergers and rebrandings

That's actually a good hypothesis that hasn't been examined before, I believe.
Rather than long/lat, I love the concept of using Zooko’s triangle for a geospatial problem, such as:

- human meaningful
- decentralized
- secure

However, w3w's isn't that. It is a centralized system which is actively enforced and it isn't secure.

There is actually quite a lot of critics of w3w, such as:
https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...
Undoubtedly retronymized from Super Hitachi as in the successor to Hitachi H8... So if it weren't supposed to stand for hot, it'll still have had to be something with H.
The federal government pays Comcast to provide internet to low income households. And you can actually access this data on any old brand of laptop, or the desktop computers provided for use in most jurisdictions, and do not have to pay for any development tools to do so.
I'm sorry my comment landed that harshly. It certainly wasn't what I wanted.

I was hoping to come back and give a more detailed explanation but there just hasn't been time.
We can reuse X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
To young engineers reading this, note that his early sales experience taught him how to deliver value to customers, not just checkins to git. If someone tries to promote you into sales engineer and you shy away because of wearing a tie or whatever, you are losing out on a huge opportunity to improve your engineering career.
The distributed web works (worked?) because search engines had economic incentives to help users discover content, thanks to ads and they invested a lot of resources, which culminated in Google.

I still have to see a distributed social network which works well enough for end users. It's not simple if you're centralising everything, no wonder distributed alternatives are hard to come by.
I guess duplicate check didn't catch the submission as OP used archive link originally and bypassed your earlier submission. Dang changed the link later.
But there are forces even in our 3d world that do not follow inverse square law (strong/weak nuclear forces). That kind of proves that all forces do not need to follow this intuition?
'Well-known in his field'
I helped my high-rise neighbors remotely control their smart apartments for free
Bullshit

Between 2011 support was 70, 53, 39 for 18-34, 35-54, 55+ age groups. 2021 was 84, 72, 60. So that's ~20 points on 35-54 and 21 on 55+. That's 10 years. The 45+ transition into the 55 and the 25+ into the 35-54, but that doesn't explain the change. Why? Because the 2011 difference between 55+ and 35-54 is 14 points while 2021 it is 12. Even more importantly, the 55+ group in 2021 has a 7 point lead from the 35-55 age group from 2012.

This difference __cannot__ be explained from just people dying and the support "aging in" to the next age bracket. Literally 50% (7 points out of 14) is impossible to explain through an aging process.

Something more is going on, and thus, my claim is unequivocally supported by the data. (Note my claim isn't that specific, it is just that there is more than aging) Yes, culture wars are long, but they are shorter than can be explained from generations alone.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same...
I have a hard time seeing how Bluesky/ATProto is more pragmatic than Nostr. Can you elaborate?
Depends on the country I suppose. In Scotland we have lots of wind excess at night. https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/

(Note it was a wind storm last night for the whole of the UK)

The electricity company charge my car overnight on a schedule that they set. They charge in 30 minute chunks, stopping and starting the charge multiple times to optimise the network.
> algorithms governing that were closely-guarded secrets

[citation needed]

I am not sure how you derived that conclusion from the article. The passage seems to imply little else than a company spokesman declined to divulge proprietary information to some random dude who cold-called them.
it's a way to configure and generate your apps dotfiles declaratively using nix (expression) language
Default nullable types weren't a good practice even when Go was published.
> He sounds very humble.

psychopaths work very hard at this.
I love nix and use it for my configs and builds at work, but it is definitely hard to get going compared to other tools. I appreciate what you did going through and making some good docs, bookmarked!
Similar system already exists as a product. Wireless microchip that is powered by energy harvesting
https://www.onio.com/
Also doesn't "blink" nor have what's inside it "disappear" from perception.
This is one of those things I will bookmark and hope I never have to come back to.
Definitely not in a Lamborghini
> commercial merch is dystopian

We're all digital serfs anyway, enslaved by subscriptions and work for hire - might as well get something back for it.
Solar and wind are among the most predictable large scale projects. Almost certainly coming in on time and budget.
Just use the classic "this statement is false"
Sure, but how would you say that out loud in a hurry when the terminators are hunting you in the desolate ruins of <insert your city name here>?

Needs to be something easy to say, like: "And dreadfully distinct, against the dark, a tall white fountain played."
Only together can Google and Samsung hope to beat Apple
Prior post: "Citing crime, In-N-Out announces closure of Oakland restaurant" [0] (18 points). The SF Chronicle post (cited by this article) seems like the... best(ish) source[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086519
[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-in-n-out-1...
But nobody is more turned off. You have 3 people all disliking boring grey, and 2 grey properties for sale, you have more demand than supply and price rises

Build something pink and now you only have 1 person liking it and 2 strongly disliking it, demand now equals supply so price doesn’t rise.

Is it worth the risk?

There’s a reason rented properties are co feed in magnolia, not just because it’s cheaper to get the same paint in bulk, but because if turns off the fewest people, and those it does don’t have any choice anyway as everywhere is magnolia.
> Individually targeted political advertising where content is tailored should be banned.

What's the problem with telling people the truth they want to hear?
Phones unfortunately disallow setting the NFC UID on the hardware level (it's random each time), Flipper allows you to do anything.
Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next
Reiser stored his email on disks in NTFS format, not ReiserFS. Strange.
Runtime access to read and redefine namespaces and their contents at whim.

Similarly powerful to having the compiler available at runtime, another thing trickling very slowly into mainstream languages.

"But why would you want this?! That sounds dangerous!"

It's quite dangerous, but so is a 700cc dirt bike.

"Can you give me any practical reason you'd want this?"

Aside from the freedom to redefine other folks' code (see: the derogatory term "monkeypatching"), you can leverage runtime namespace access and manipulation to, when loading a "fasl" into a running Lisp image, identify all classes that you care about and then upgrade them to new definitions without restarting the Lisp process.

Most mainstream languages completely punt on "deployment" (PHP [accidentally] aside, where you can joyfully edit production all day, a paradigm too many folks sneer at in the name of cargo cult professionalism), forcing the system operator to restart the process with new binaries (or pycs, whatever, I'm sure you can generalize the point).

A CL system supports that model, of course, but one can also precompile binaries to be loaded into the running system, redefining system behavior without downtime. Binaries, we should note, that don't include the entire Lisp runtime.

It's not that this provides some sort of day-to-day omg ergonomic bonus over the popular Algol families, but that I feel respected as a software author in a Lisp context in a way that I really don't in many other contexts ("nobody needs generics", to pick on some old low-hanging fruit), and the language providing interfaces to itself in itself is a delightfully low-friction cognitive model.

To return to the dirt bike analogy, I could prattle all day about this, but unless you're the kind of person inclined to spend five hours a week learning to enjoy riding dirtbikes, I don't know that I can spill enough ink to convey the fun of managing a few hundred cc's around the track at speed. Countersteering, inertia management, traction, all of these things are going to go over your head if your idea of a fun time with motive power is a Rivian.
Did you look at the data? Because I don't think you did. I lay it out here[0]. In short, what we can see is that in 2021 the 55+ age group has higher support than the 35-54 group did in 2012. This is not people aging into the new bins and bringing their support with them. If that were what was happening, then the 2021 55+ group could not have greater support than the 2012 35-54 group. There is missing growth from your model. We're literally talking about 50% of the growth being unexplainable by your model.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087434
Patents were reportedly filed after Apple Watch already had the feature, specifically to target Apple, and that ITC acknowledged Apple’s invention was entirely independent of Massimo and this is considered patent abuse by notable Apple critic:

https://ipfray.com/u-s-trade-agency-itc-incredibly-portrays-...

There’s an allegation the real reason for the patents/suite is retaliation; that Apple pissed off billionaire owner by not partnering with him and instead hiring away top employees.
Is What3Words a for profit company? Is it a good idea to base solutions on it? What value does this company brings in long run?
Nurosym sends patented electrical signals to the brain via the vagus nerve
Nobody needs a Lamborghini. But everyone _wants_ a Lamborghini
> picking a subject that the AI can’t compete on

Isn’t that the point? If there are no more such subjects then the AI reached humans level cognition.
Was Unilad really the best source available for this piece of news?
You can’t guarentee that. The system can be dossed as it’s not a 1:1 mapping, thus there is a queue. That queue may never be used, although sometimes it is, and sometimes it just overflows

https://www.insideedition.com/shortage-of-911-operators-is-d...
Fujitsu UK is run and staffed entirely by (overpaid, entitled, often incompetent) British people.
I doubt many C devs would be doing fine coding under the same level of quality expected by NASA / JPL programming standards and security validation.
If you want cool math generating clouds on the web your best bet is WebGL:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XslGRr

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3l23Rh
Actually it isn't susceptible to C's security flaws, and is a compiled language, with relatively good performance. :)
Then to spice it up, add a member of Yakuza as President...

"Another Ouster at Top Deepens Fujitsu Mystery" - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/business/global/11fujitsu...
It's more like an integer with a textual name.
Not important. I'm working off of US polling data. See sister comments for reasoning. Everyone that is calling me laughable and "haven't looked at the data" has clearly not themselves.
No, one big purpose of a rug is to keep your place warmer and give you a softer and warmer place to walk or put your feet. So in front of your sofa, for instance, where your feet are usually on the floor, is better covered with a rug, so your feet don't get cold from the floor.

They also help reduce the noise caused by walking around, so your neighbors don't complain.
Oh no that's a solid idea. It's just on the TODOs.
NASA got what they deserve. The could just ask every single aircraft mechanic about this one. Especially bloody torq-set. With budget they had. They could machine any head the wanted, and yet they've chosen stupidest one out there.