skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't use the word "blockchain" as that is primarily a tool for generating consensus. Macaroons are each independent and can be "forked" freely.

So while I agree that the data structure itself is very similar the actual algorithms that are applied on top are wildly different.
It's quite common in Kubernetes deployments, where each server in a separate Pod binds to a separate IP address.

And, as I said before, with DSR, there's a broad diversity of client IPs, so a single server address doesn't typically cause concerns with 4-tuple exhaustion.
I assume so, at least it worked that way when I took it 30 years ago.
I explained in a different comment, and I'm very, very far from indignant about any of this. You seem to be taking offense, and I don't know why.
It's also worth looking at the conditions the law worked under. Up through til the 90s your semiconductors where coming almost exclusively from the West (+Japan, in this case counting the same though) - also the only place you could get all the different high performance products you needed designed at. If you want to avoid both sides of that coin you've got decades of catching up to do.

Of these gaps one is already eroded and the other is significantly smaller in that China already has domestic 32 GB 10+ TFLOP GPUs and supercomputers made of domestic CPUs. Will export restrictions slow things more than doing nothing? Sure, but it may not be particularly meaningful just because it worked well when we had the same idea in the 70s. It may, for example, instead be the kind of thing to put enough market pressure to move the tasks to happen somewhere else.
I've used Alpine Linux also but I found it very unintuitive for a general Linux distro (I used to like configuring things like Alpine but I've lost the spark for it and now I just want something light that works. DSL used to be like that.)
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* https://lexiplay.com/ | https://riddler.game – word games that use agentic AI systems and meta-prompting to create and moderate their own content. Still needs some work. I used to manage the backend team at Dots and explored puzzle generation there with GANs: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/two-dots-brain-puzzle-games/id...

* real-time audio synthesis, streaming, and manipulation with SuperCollider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC6-pBFj2Q

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Or the prepper in his bunker without a can opener.
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I had to choose a groupchat option for an event I run and the choice ended up being XMPP because the Matrix mobile apps we tried were all crashy. I wish everyone working on Matrix the very best, and will continue to run a demo for myself once a year.
They are an especially useful tool right now, that might become less valuable as we get better at building LLMs. In principle the inner working of an LLM can be anything from a Markov-chain-like predictor to a beyond-human intelligence. Token prediction is the input/output format we chose, but you could communicate with a human in the same format and the human would show human-level intelligence.

What makes Markov chains such a great pedagogic tool right now is that they share (approximately) the same interface, being a token predictor, and that current LLMs are much closer to the capabilities of a fantastically good Markov chain than those of an above-human intelligence.
Seems like you are overly concerned with the devil you know while ignoring the threat of the devil you don’t. If you think the US government isn’t your friend, well… you are right. But if you are an American, the PRC is your enemy. They actually want bad things to happen to the citizens of the US. And they have the leverage to cause some of those things to happen.
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Not necessarily if the model is trained with an appropriate adversarial loss. The reason that VAEs are blurry isn’t directly because of the KL divergence loss term but because of the L1/L2 loss. Since VAEs sample from a Gaussian distribution, a high KL weight will make the latent of different images overlap (towards a -1 to 1.0 with a variance of 1 and a mean of 0), and the output of the decoder will tend towards the mean of possible values to try and minimise the pixel-wise loss.

With the appropriate GAN loss, you will instead get a plausible sharp image that differs more and more from the original the more you weigh the KL loss term. A classic GAN that samples from the normal distribution in fact has the best possible KL divergence loss and none of the blurriness from a VAE’s pixel based loss.
Bard will soon be renamed to Gemini

source:
[1] - https://twitter.com/bedros_p/status/1752935390208528780

[2] - https://twitter.com/evowizz/status/1753123550712488302
Damn Small Linux here again after 12 years
One of the major takeaways from this video is how there is a major conflict of interest when a browser's predominant income is from the search engine. The browser cannot _truly_ be the User's Agent if innovation can mean killing funding.
How mathematics built the modern world
"quote unification'':

most typefaces: “Hello” „Hallo“

Verdana: “Hello” „Hallo“
Or it would be nice if the regulatory body would fuck off
Lazyvim runs fine
ChatGPT is really good at giving me the git invocation I need for weird complex stuff that doesn't come up everyday.
> my most used individual key

I'll clarify that for you: this is still a big ergonomic issue typing notwithstanding

> You asked for a way to bind the keys, you got one.

No, I asked for a specific way to bind keys, and got nothing ("except for holding a key") and another JK nothing you yourself don't like

>Now all of a sudden your problem is that the default keybindings not being ergonomical.

There is nothing sudden about it, it was you who asked what's wrong with the defaults.

> I use vim keys EVERYWHERE to help my RSI, but to each their own.

That's not true since the vast majority of those aren't supported everywhere, but also irrelevant - I use better keys everywhere, so?

> This makes zero sense. My point is that there is no native way to bind hold.

That's why you don't get it. Binding hold/modtaps is what allows avoiding the latency etc.

> The latency comes from vim waiting for either a second keypress to run the binding, or typing the character

Even in this case of two taps (not what I mentioned) there is no need for a wait, you can type right away and perfectly clean up later if the 2nd key is a combo. Neovintageous plugin for Sublime does this

> You can natively set the delay lower and I do in :termdebug, but when typing it's very noticeable at my typing speeds.

I don't want just the delays, that's a failed branch of key chord evolution, delays can't be perfect. I've described what I want in the very first comment

> But please, explain how a GUI would solve that in a way a TUI can't. Very curious to hear what you come up with.

By having access to all keyboard event info, not being limited by the terminal, and handling that properly. Check out kanata or google modtaps and home row mods, don't remember a link with a great description.
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I know what you mean, but I had a the cylindrical aluminum trashcan Mac Pro and that was a beast. I sort of which I hadn't traded it in a few years ago when upgrading. the machining of the case somehow was fascinatingly cool, i thought.
Whoa, what a treasure trove! https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/
Thanks for continuing to give Matrix a try! There are rough edges, for sure. I'm excited to hear what you think the next time you give it a spin – your experience is valuable feedback for us.
Well, if Wikipedia's anything to go by, it seems to be the first in-mem column-oriented DB written in Zig
It's not clear how user privacy is handled, Brave is doing some interesting things with their hosting of mixtral => https://brave.com/leo-mixtral/#privacy-always-comes-first
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Will you pay for it? Odds are that you'll get better returns if you invest the money instead.
> their reasoning was: Microsoft and Google are Billion dollar companies.

Did you ever see that written down. Or was it an assumption or rumour?

I ask because I specifically advise against that thinking and debunk
the "big company = trustworthy" fallacy. But what I find is that
actually there is appropriate low trust of US big-tech amongst the C
level, but they are compelled to use Microsoft or whatever for
non-technical/non-security reasons.
Terminals do have a concept of a cursor (there are dedicated control sequences for cursor management). There's no fundamental reason a terminal emulator couldn't implement an animated cursor like this, my guess as to why no one has done it is simply that it's not a very commonly requested feature.
Genuine question: what do you mean by many orders of magnitude more complex?
SI Units for Request Rate
The "two wrongs" hostname is apt. Hertz is for periodic phenomena; becquerel is for radioactive decay. The SI brochure discourages the use of counting units such as 'request'. The number of requests is regarded as just a number, or at best a quantity that is referred to the unit one. The applicable SI unit therefore is just the reciprocal second, s^(-1).

In practice, counting units are used everywhere (e.g., in MB/s, the byte is a counting unit), but I am relaying what the SI brochure actually says on this question.

Ref: https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/
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I am not affiliated with this project however I was pleasantly surprised when I tested it. It seems a very good replacement for cron!
This is the reason I dislike automatic squashing branches with rebase. Squashing discourages thoughtful and meaningful commit messages. What is the point of making a meaningful commit message for some specific change when it is just going to all be smashed together as a single commit on merge. I feel like rebasing is something that should be intentional to clean things up by the dev, but not as a default pattern on merge.
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Writing good commit messages is part of your job in the sense that no reviewer should be approving anything without them, knowing that you may or may not be available if it breaks next year at 3 AM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067512
Monopolies are not illegal per se.

Misusing monopoly power is illegal.

Nvidia has monopoly in the market, but unless they use their position illeagally, that's OK. GPU market is competitive and Nvidia has put in the work others like AMD or Intel never bothered to do.
I've always said that GUIs are better than terminal programs because having the functions visible grants discoverability.

Clearly UI designers are fighting to prove me wrong.
don't underestimate how many customers don't know this and prefer convenience instead.
It would be nice if AMD got their act together a couple of years ago and wrote good software and drivers, you mean?

This lead won't last forever. Everyone in the industry has a vested interest in this collapsing, and there are ongoing assaults from all angles.

George Hotz' new company is working to undo this, and there are lots of others. All potential AMD acquisition targets, too.

There are lots of little OpenCL-like projects, and consensus is starting to form.

Then there's the growing TPU market...

Give it two years.
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I feel like I’m the coming years the organ harvesting business will only grow and spread as the population ages and the need for replacements grows.
You should look up Wynne Godley and Sectoral Balances.
This is infuriating.

Also I can zoom in to some strip mall and ask to see all the restaurants and I'll only be presented with a subset that Google decided were worth highlighting. No easy way to see the others.
Feel free to use it. It's supposed to be pervasive.

License will be published soon, but we're deciding on things. That takes time and thought.

Love to hear your opinions.

Thanks!
I love this. The graphics on the box alone make me happy.
I believe the problem "anti-imperialists" believe they are facing is that if they don't relativize Russian and potential Chinese wars, they feel that people get worked up into a war frency.

They believe we need a reminder that our elite are not much better and that the alleged ethnical cleansing of Gaza is such a timely reminder. As a way to not get us dragged into yet more wars.

I guess.
Maybe I've missed it (very likely), is there an enterprise-grade product that allows easy management of WireGuard or OpenVPN for say 20-30k users/endpoints and that integrates easily with Active Directory and a centralized MFA provider? Do these products provide support agreements?

To be fair, I have no love for Ivanti or Zscaler, but I do understand why companies choose them over some standalone, open source products.
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Yeah, raw strength is a limiting factor for amateurs (like me). You need to put the work and that requires dedication.

If I wanted to get to the next level relatively quickly I would need to start doing more specific strength training. I'm much more focused on technique at the moment, I find weightlifting training relaxing.

Since it's a hobby for me, I just slowly go increasing my PRs by every once in a while (once or twice a year) slightly bumping the reference weight for training.
Kind of like an aspirational PR. Once it feels and looks right across the whole range of training, I try a new PR, if successful, slightly move the target for the next time.
[dupe]

More discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218367
My rule for any developer doc is: don't tell me what, tell me WHY
IIRC, Intel peaked at 98% of the Data Center CPU Market. AMD released an arguably superior CPU almost 7 years ago, but Intel still has 70%.

You might be able to argue that MI300 is competitive, but it is certainly hard to argue it's superior, so we're not yet at the GPU equivalent of the 2017 release of EPYC.
Actually... I use my own keybindings which are more ergonomic twist of Emacs bindings. For example for moving char left I use C-d and to move word left I use C-S-d (control+shift+d). Convenient to press using both hands (using right shift with pinky). Of course Control is swapped with Caps lock.
I agree, in so far as its the other way around.

The key difference in opinion that may be surfacing here, is that other nations are willing to co-operate and push interests that also further US interests because they get tangible benefits from the US being the dominate superpower (IE, the western worlds military, de facto).

This is a strong incentive for countries to look the other way in times of crisis. Arguably, because congress is inept at proper budgeting and such, we should already have trouble selling in the debt markets, but treasures still sell just fine and at an ultra low cost to the government, despite some notion of "downgrade" by one of the bond rating agencies (I think Moodys?).

If I was looking at the US right now, and all the political in-fighting problems we are having, I wouldn't have nearly as much faith in the US government and buying its debt. This should have made debt more expensive to sell, and it hasn't.

I posit, one reason is, keep the US propped up to a certain extent (IE, not raising the cost of the US government bonds by refusing to buy at current value) would be that we are the worlds de facto military, and western nations are increasingly leaning on us with the turmoil that has bubbled up recently, and they have every incentive to keep the machine going right now because of it.

US consumers are also a great market, currently, and I doubt anyone wants to see that crumble, and that plays a big role here too.
Totally agree with you.

We already know what changed: it's the diff! We need to know why you're making the what.

The message should address why the diff is necessary. Was it a bug fix? Ok, what's the bug you're fixing? What's the evidence that you think they diff addresses it? Is it a new feature? What's the requirement? I can already tell what you did by the diff, but I can't tell from the diff alone if it actually matches the requirement!
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I was mind blown reading this also - are we not programmers for the sake of laziness in the face of these kinds of "problems"? I have to hail Tim Pope for Fugitive.vim also. HAIL TIM POPE!
This. CYA by ticking the boxes.

We once had a city IT guy block our deployment because we were vulnerable to CVE-whatever - turned out to be a minir vulnerability in the DuckDuckGo browser
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Eliminating all laws banning smoking and drinking up until a certain age would not make one single person safer. Are you in favor of parents moderating access to drugs and alcohol for their kids at any age?
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Biden's Western solar plan sounds scary. But it's better than climate change
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