skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bret Devereaux of NC State has a good take on the activism part. From a pragmatic point of view, one can view activism as taking and spending from the account of 'good-will'. That's fine, but you also have to fill that account as well. Typically, this is via some sort of outreach effort and speanding time in the community helping with some thing or another.

The issue that Devereaux points out is that the income and outflow are asymmetric. You spend at a greater rate that you put in. So, for every hour/dollar/gadget/etc that you spend with activism, you must put in somewhere between 5-10X the outreach time/money/gadgets/etc.
Thanks for the clarification on last seen, I certainly misread it. About messages: hm, I was sure it existed before but maybe again my brain just lags.

As someone who for some time created and moderated fairly popular chat (200+ people) for anti-war Russians, I have very long and complicated history of relationship with this service and have a lot of different grey-zone stories where it is hard to understand whether it is a mistake from users and whether it is a leak from the service.

Hence I have a little low expectation and overreact on their recent changes
Just as a test I asked Gemini Advanced to "generate an image of four {race} people." It did just fine for every race/ethnicity, except for "white" people. To that it said:

"While I understand your request, I am unable to generate images of people based solely on their race or ethnicity. It is against my policy to create content that could be harmful or promote discrimination."
For me it very frequently loads good results, then reloads the results again but with much worse/completely irrelevant results, and I see the original results only for a split second.

It also doesn't do that second load when I f5/enter the url directly.
Worth remembering that only about 15% of Brits rent. Most (~65%) own their home, and most of the rest get subsidised social housing.
Nah; its groundspeed might have been more than the speed of sound, but "breaking the sound barrier" refers to your speed through an airmass (i.e. airspeed). It doesn't count if you're just getting a big tailwind.
Moot mean “open to discussion”.

We reverse the trial court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' wrongful death claims in both appeals (regarding the born/unborn). Because the plaintiffs' alternative negligence and wantonness claims are now moot (open for discussion), we affirm the trial court's dismissal of those claims on that basis.
Crazy when you think about the time and money wasted stupidly because of this, that could have been used to improve public services instead...
Given so many people with strong feelings about copyright law, has there been any widely publicized occurence of jury nullification on a case like this?
The new Sticky Notes app for Windows
Paul was mad that Gemini cannot correctly reproduce the racist world in 1800s and correctly draw Nazis. What's the big deal here?
That argument could, interestingly enough, technically apply to the power company or landlord as well. I mean people are renting a house and buying electricity to pirate right?
I'm going with hybrid:

- 2011 X-25E 64GB (2W write and almost nothing read/idle) at 100.000 writes per bit for OS

- 2021 PM897 3.7TB (2.3 Watt (read) ¦ 3 Watt (write) ¦ 1.4 Watt (idle) down from the PM983 (8.7 Watt (read) ¦ 10.6 Watt (write) ¦ 4 Watt (idle)) for DB.

This way I can get the most robust solution, with largest DB at lowest power. They are both in a 8-core Atom Mini-ITX board at 25W TDP.
UK High Court Hears Assange's Request for Appeal
A GPIO add-on with a case instead of the original exposed circuit board is cool, but the focus on gaming seems really bizarre to me. If I want to play games I could get a color handheld for a fraction of the price that will run a much larger variety of games.
Sorry, I don't quite understand this in the context of "friend code" vs "matchmaking". Are you saying that friend codes bypass their servers, allowing peer-to-peer play even when the servers are overloaded (the way direct IP addresses used to do in old PC games)?

I apologize for not asking a clearer question. I was actually just interested in buying the game, but only if it has public matchmaking built-in for finding anonymous pick-up groups, instead of needing an external Discord server to swap friend codes on.
indium gallium arsenide and gallium nitride probably have a much longer lifetime than oled and will probably withstand higher temperatures (though the encapsulating resin may not)
Nice.

But average latency is not the whole picture; tail latency is. For good tail latency and handling of spikes, you have to have a sizable "untapped" reserve of performance.
But it isn't impossible? A few friends already have. One did so in order to sell to move, since it makes selling much easier.

Genuinely, where did you get that idea?
Discord was (still is?) built on Elixir, which was a descendant of Erlang.

It seems Erlang is comfortable in the niche of "real-time messaging platforms"
We do these things not b/C they are easy but BC we thought they were going to be
Unless you're playing fruit ninja there's really quite little control over the speed and direction of swipes... many people swipe very little at all or with a different finger than they enroll in biometrics or type on the screen. Some even swipe with multiple fingers.

Then there's the fact that there are more than 20 minutia per finger so when referring to orientation, this means the angles and what portion of the finger is in contact with the touch surface... and thus which of those minutia (swirl, end, fork, etc) are in generating any sound.
git bikesect
So honestly if that's true I might have to try Azure, thanks. However, when the claim was "This can be done with almost all cloud providers" I feel comfortable wanting an answer for the other two of the big three.
Damn you and your amazing insight. Have a star *
I know it's not what you're referring to, but I just watched something even more on the nose![0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879
Is there any quick summary about how exactly (architecturally) these LPUs differ from GPUs or TPUs? Intuitively where does the speedup come from, or what tradeoffs are being made in order to achieve them?
> Central banks are the government

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is, despite the misleading name, a private corporation. [1] This is true I believe of many central banks. Nevertheless, and perhaps this is what you really meant, central banks can _act as an instrument of government_, or, more cynically, serve to enrich the political class and politically well-connected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank#Legal_sta...
And Tom is a genius. Made his money and now he just travels the world doing photography, living life.
Does anyone know of any "decompilation"/bytecode lessons or online resources to learn more and become more comfortable with dealing with bytecode, obfuscation, etc. in Java? Keep in mind it doesn't need to teach the very basics, but just be a full in depth learning.
That's the first video I think of when I hear Reverse Graffiti. Alexandre Orion.
Well, I would say social sciences arent exact, economics might be a hard science of rules, but the outcomes are subject to too many factors to predict precisely, but it is still a science. Though, well, I am not really qualified to speak on such things, but I would imagine we are fairly precise in the field you guys are talking about.
TV? FM Radio?
A quick comparison of marketing slides lands you with 0.5 MOPS for FC-NVMe for Qlogic 2770 and 0.7 MOPS for PCIe Micron 9100 PRO, so the better speeds are not quite there, although spending quite a lot on server gear lands you near the performance of a workstation-grade drive from 2017.

Which is still not bad, when I was shopping around in 2018 no money could buy performance comparable to a locally-attached NVMe in a more professional/datacenter-ready form.

[1] https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents...

[2] https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collat...
Maybe quotient filters?
I'm a republican, but this is an infinitesimally small drop in the ocean of public finances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
I very much expect AWS SSD / NVMe upgrades to be well thought-out ahead of time, and optimized for both upfront cost and for longevity / durability. Speed may be a third consideration.
There is an entire page dedicated to screenshots:

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/screenshots/

I do agree though that their webpage does not make it plain and clear what they do or who they are.

It's clearly made for people who already know what they are there for and not to draw new people into the fold, but to be fair, LibreOffice is not designed to be pretty and flashy, it's to get work done and to work with just about anything you can throw at it, so it makes sense that the webpage is the same.
More to this “lucky coincidence” it was unbanned exactly when Durov failed in trouble with SEC and raised Russian-state money to solve his problems. Around same time almost all official Russian institutions open TG accounts and Russian Parliament (if we can call that silly thing like this) representatives was saying like “we solved all problems with them”.

When war started, and Russia banned a lot of services like FB, they created list of communication platforms they have questions about loyalty and cooperation with Russian government. TG was not on that list and through the whole war the only issue was about Telegraph — supplementary platform to publish long notes. AFAIK there was 0 questions or criticisms to TG in those 2 years.

As for me, it says a lot
Elgg is pretty close...

https://elgg.org
As an aside, Enderman gets up to wild Windows shenanigans on his YouTube channel – things like getting Windows 11 to run on a P4, jailbreaking Windows S mode, etc. It's some fun light entertainment if you're into that sort of tinkering.
AFAICT Picat is a direct descendant of B-Prolog and shares a lot of idioms (like tabling) with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Prolog
Take up cocaine:

Holmes’s cocaine use is uniquely framed not as an addiction, but as a defiance of addiction. Holmes masters the drug as he masters the demands of his work.

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/152748/

It seems you can't use the same excuse for the strippers, pity.
That's not what they're referring to. It will show videos completely unrelated to your search query.

A few moments ago I searched for "Porter Robinson Ludwig" to continue watching a 2 hour stream where Porter Robinson guides Ludwig through making a beat. The 6th result in my search list is a video I've watched before, "Pro Players Play 50€ decks" from a Magic The Gathering channel. Nothing to do with Porter Robinson or Ludwig or music. It's just there's because I've watched it once before.

If I type in the search query of "games that think more gameplay mechanics equals more fun" after just a few videos, the videos in search switch to being completely unrelated and are labeled either "You might also like this", or "Previously Watched". Hilariously, "Porter Robinson (Teaches Ludwig How to Produce Music)" is video is #6. #7 is "Streamer Fakes Blindfold Speedrun for Clout". The video by ProZD with that exact title does not appear in the first 30 results, and that's when I quit counting.
US has the constitution. Gov does not make "the law", it is not UK!
Smart that they force users to add 2 numbers to the end of the username to avoid “high end” usernames. I wanted to grab my first name but ended up with firstname.01
Is it all the water on Earth or all the water on Earth's oceans? I'm pretty sure those aren't the same... I seem to remember reading that there's a very large amount of water chemically locked up in the Earth's crust.
No, that's really not good enough. I don't want to need to be "highly motivated" in order to set a limit, I want to say this thing cannot use more than this many dollars each month, no conditions no exceptions no questions. If I make a fun little side project and it hits the front page of HN, I don't want to quibble about whether I cut it off in time or some hacked together little script turns things off correctly, I want it capped.
As far as I'm aware - yes they are (my brother-in-law is a tech recruiter and mentions them fairly often). I just asked for one with a startup company and it was approved.

I'd just ask and see what they say?
Causality goes the opposite direction: constructing a high rise is very expensive, therefore you will only see them built where housing cost is already high enough to justify luxury condos; otherwise, such a project would not be profitable.
Yeah I've yet to try that. I know I get a similar lack of performance with Bhyve (FreeBSD) using VirtIO, so it's not a given it's fast.

I have no idea how AWS run their VMs, was just saying a slow storage driver could give such results.
And then people demanding free text fields be removed from various forms/b2b/market systems on the basis that they are rarely used… those easily contain all of the most valuable information in the system.

The world is highly cursed. The information system which accommodates this is highly blessed.
No matter how technically correct that may be people just don't like doing work for some theoretical future benefit that may never materialize. Supporting 32-bit imposes a cost I have to pay right now today for the benefit of very few people (and a shrinking pool at that). Why not spend the effort on something more productive?

It is also likely that general purpose CPUs will use 64-bit integer registers and address spaces for the rest of our lifetimes. Computing has already (for the most part) converged on a standard: Von Neumann architecture, 8-bit bytes, two's complement integers, IEEE floating point, little-endian. The number of oddballs has dramatically decreased over the past few decades and the non-conforming CPUs manufactured every year are already a rounding error.

FWIW If a transition is ever made to 128-bit that will be the last. There aren't 128-bits worth of atoms in the visible universe.
Tokenization is my pet peeve with LLMs as I suspect it makes it much harder for them to learn coding, but it's difficult to do anything about because doing better requires you to train a model from scratch. In turn that's so expensive that it hardly happens and the people who do it tend to focus on higher priorities, leaving tokenization alone. I guess at some point we'll see some progress here.

Things I'd like to see tweaked:

• All code being reformatted as part of the cleaning process to use a canonical style designed for LLMs. For example, reindenting to use tabs instead of spaces, unwrapping lines. Way too many tokens in the GPT4 token list have random bits of whitespace prepended to them meaning they can only be used in certain nesting levels, which must make it harder for the model to learn.

• Forcing language keywords to be a single token. GPT4 has tokens like " public", " public", " Public" etc.

• Special tokens being used to indicate start/end of identifiers, then decompounding and decasing words during tokenization, i.e. "void flipTheSwitch(" -> "void <id-start> flip the switch <id-end> (". This avoids tokens that are compound words which forces the model to relearn their meaning from scratch. The renderer would then need to do the reverse during inferencing.

• Decompounding dereference operators like "." or "->". The GPT4 token list is full of tokens like ".square", ".attribute" etc.

• Clearing away all the tokens that are just punctuation compounds like "))));\n"

The above changes would slow down inference by requiring more tokens to be generated, and would require renderers to be taught how to reformat code on the fly to a form better suited for humans (e.g. shorter lines), but intuitively should make it far easier for smaller models to learn coding and that in turn might make things faster again. More speculative ideas include:

• Reserve some special tokens for bracketing IDE-style features like inlining invisible JavaDocs, so inference can be rolled forward and backwards when the logprob distribution is too flat.

• Ditto for inferred types if the cleaning process can be tightly integrated with an IDE or language server (e.g. "val a = b.c.d()" -> "val a /String/ = /Foo/b./Bar/c./String/d()")

There's just so much that can be done here, the amount of low hanging fruit is enormous. But right now I suspect the industry is stuck in a kind of local minima where if you're willing and able to train an LLM from scratch you also aren't terribly price sensitive and would rather bitter-lesson your way to better results, or focus on core algorithmic improvements that affect more than just coding, rather than spend time improving tokenization schemes.

I also suspect that the Python focus of the AI community means they just aren't thinking very hard about ways to help LLMs with strongly typed languages.
I would say: develop a meditation habit. Learning to see your thoughts leads to learning to see your life, and see the life of the people around you.

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just come out with the racism and Islamophobia instead of the subtle malevolent insinuation
> freedom of speech .. is nowhere near a universal moral value

It depends on the basis form which you derive your (universal) moral values. Maximalist liberty as a universal moral value can be derived from the dual axioms of universal moral equality and a lack of moral oracle. If you accept these axioms, it follows that there is no source of moral authority that can legitimately constrain the non-infringing actions of another (eg. your right to wave your fists around ends where my nose begins). These ideas were first laid out in The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and expanded on in the Declaration of Independence.

> What are you actually trying to say?

That the causal chain of an action is completely interrupted at the first agent/actor in the system, who bears full responsibility for their actions.

> justice systems almost universally

It very much depends on the justice system. If you look at US/British/Roman law, a guilty mind (mens rea) and a guilty action (actus reus) are core facts that must be established in order to prove a crime has been committed. These still apply in cases of eg. criminal negligence, where a reasonable person ought to have known that their actions will result in harm. Mens rea is quite challenging to prove in cases of incitement, and legal precedents vary.

In combination with the above causal thesis, I hold that restricting incitement is in all cases an overstep of federal authority and an infringement of fundamental liberty. Incitement as a crime seems to have been established to make policing easier, not because telling someone to do something makes you responsible for their actions.

> you were negligent in your creation and distribution of propaganda

People are not inanimate objects. They are decision-making agents. The world is not a Rube-Goldberg machine. The soldiers who do the killing are responsible for their own moral attitude, and their own actions. You cannot be reasonably expected to know how your ideas will impact the minds of others, since every mind is a black box. Everything that contradicts this does so with generalizations too broad to be predictively useful.

> You can similarly take a small next step

This is where everything goes insane. Where does the responsibility end? You're trying to piece the butterfly effect back together.

Are people who make and sell bullets responsible for shootings? What about those that refine brass and lead? What about those that mine for ore? Creating economic demand, or promoting an idea, are morally neutral actions. People buying goods are in no way responsible for the conditions of their manufacture. People promoting ideas are in no way responsible for the actions a listener may take. Responsibility is zero-sum. Don't allow slavers and murderers to dispense with even a tiny portion of the sum responsibility for their actions. They must bear it all.
> People who have your number saved in their phone’s contacts will still see your phone number since they already know it.

I know this is great and groundbreaking seemingly. And that it was and more was already there in Telegram, for years.

This is just unfortunate if it has been implemented like Telegram and it seems it has.

I should be able to dictate that “if I initiated communication” to “username” or “from my username” my phone number should not be linked to it even though the other person has my phone number in their address book saved, because that doesn’t mean they are a friend or even if they are I might not want to know that or chat outside the username.

I will try to access the beta (pretty sure it’d be full by now) and test how it goes but I hope it has not been implemented like Telegram after taking all these years.

Though I like that they have essentially nuked vanity username rush and grab in the bud. Kudos.
What Was Literary Fiction?
There have probably been a few we haven't seen. A better title might be 'first recorded footage.'
I'm defending neither the institution of the monarchy nor Charles as a person, but this particular exercise is standard, not a whim of his. Each monarch has their own personal cypher, and has had for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZL7H7WCzM

And reflecting that cypher in the gov.uk branding was not Charles's choice.
I've never seen a [stub for offtopicness] - so I'm just here for the experience.
Central banks are also great, though.
The New City in California
> I work for OCI

Ah: Oracle cloud infra

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/announcin...

I keep forgetting Oracle is in the cloud business too.

"Make it rain", I guess :)
> Edit: I would also add that medical trials also have well established methods of determining effective and dangerous exposure levels, and these are used in almost every Phase 1 trail.

Yeah, so the scientist I heard this from didn't say it would be impossible to find the right dose, just that we didn't know the dose yet and we'd have to find it before running a challenge trial.

He thought this erased the time savings of a challenge trial versus the normal process.
Never had a problem with a content from "High Seas Entertainment(r)(tm)"
Honeywell 345 MHz Protocol
Both switched to digital broadcast format years ago. Looks like FM might be simulcast. And I am definitely not an expert so I can’t speak to the contents but I would assume encoded but not encrypted.
> You can't underscale part of your app with a monolith. Your pipe has to be big enough for all of it.

Not necessarily. I owned one of Amazon’s most traffic-heavy services (3 million TPS). It was a monolith with roughly 20 APIs, all extremely high volume. To keep the monolith simple and be able to scale it up or down independently, the thousands of EC2 instances running it were separated in fleets, which serving a specific use case. Then we could for example scale the website fleet while keeping the payment fleet stable. The only catch is that teams needed to be allowed to call only the APIs representing the use case of that fleet (no calling payment-related APIs on the website fleet). Given the low number of APIs and basic ACL control, it was not a challenge.
probably a trafficked person in Cambodia

theyre put in labor camps and do cryptocurrency scams over social media
If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.