skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
All the js asset sizes quoted in the article seem inflated compared to the figures I see when I try to verify the authors figures.
Ex HPC person here.

1) never cluster unless you have to.

2) never use distributed Filesystems unless you need a global namespace

3) distributed filesystems mean that you have a single point of failure, its just more complex and subtle form of failure.

4) You have to think about how partition works, and how you want to recover.

Sharding standard NFS fileservers is by far the easiest way to scale, have redundancy, and partition your failure zones. using autofs on a custom directory you can mount servers ondemand. /mnt/0 /mnt/1 /mnt/2 etc etc etc.

You then have the ability to chose your sharding scheme for speed, redundancy or some other constraint.

Nowadays the performance that distributed systems allowed are commodity. A single 4u storage server can saturate a 100gig network link with random disk IO.
It's so fast I question the quality of all other models that cost money.
The technique in restaurants is to track the number of items sold, add innovative special dishes every day or week, and at the end of every week or month, remove the worst selling items on the menu and replace it with one of the special dishes. This over time creates demand. Vending machines can do the same. Remove the worst selling item and replace it with anything. After a time, the vending machine will only sell items with demand for that location.
The direct, old-fashioned approach of;

- being real

- talking to customers

- actually listening to what people say

- using intuition

- cutting to the chase (big and meta problems first)

- doing risky exploration for abductive reasoning

is only as good as the nominal culture we're in. As the author says,

> I’m no longer a believer in decision-by-spreadsheet.

That's nice for you. Me neither. But every day we must interact with
dull-headed data crunchers who set the pace and policy.
result: TRPCClientError: Lyrics are inappropriate

data: Object { code: "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR", httpStatus: 500, path: "inference.singleTextToAudio", … }

I'm just amused there's a server out there that throws a 500 error when you POST the word "ass" to it.
It does. You can download playlists on Apple Music (or even use your own files with it, a rarity in the post-cloud world).

Maybe OP was talking specifically about the behaviour of Spotify?
I work in EdTech and here are my points:

While AI detection software can easily have a false negative, it's much less likely to have a false positive.

The instructor used 2 confirmations. Turnitin and the other tool. That makes the likely of false positive even lower.

The grammarly part is just a distraction from the main concern, which is whether the main portions of the paper were AI generated or not.

If I was the decision maker, I would count it against the student, HOWEVER, I would give a first warning, not academic probation.

I would also allow students to pass their papers through the exact same software (Turnitin) to pre screen their papers. Can this lead to students not being caught just by editng the parts which Turnitin thinks was generated? Yes, HOWEVER, it still makes the students work for that pass instead of them suddenly getting the axe.
Tony's Chocolonely sued by Milka over copycat campaign
2010 to 2020 went by in a flash. And 2020 to 2024 was almost instant. OH GOD IT'S 2035 ALREADY.
I tried

"zsh rename index.html.1 to image_1.png for many images"

Gemini

Here's a zsh script that will rename multiple files named index.html.1 to
image_1.png in your current directory and its subdirectories:

Bash

#!/bin/zsh

# Loop through all files in the current directory and subdirectories
for file in **/index.html.1; do
# Extract the base filename and extension
base_name="${file%.*}"
extension="${file##*.}"

# Rename the file with the new name and extension
mv "$file" "${base_name}_1.png"

# Print a message for each renamed file
echo "Renamed $file to ${base_name}_1.png"
done

ChatGPT3.5

To rename multiple files in zsh, you can use the zmv function. Assuming you
want to rename files from index.html.1 to image_1.png for many images, you
can create a pattern to match the filenames and then define the new names
using capturing groups. Here's an example:

zsh

autoload -U zmv

zmv -n '(*).html.(*)' 'image_$1_$2.png'

Not a great first impression of Gemini. ChatGPTs answer isn't perfect but its a lot closer to correct, only needing me to remove the extra 'index' capture of $1.

Curious if someone could commit some light copyright infringement and post what GPT4 says to the same prompt.

Edit: Also Phind-34B probably gives the best answer, with the correct capture.

To rename multiple files in zsh from index.html.1 to image_1.png for many
images, you can use the zmv command, which is a powerful batch renaming tool
available in zsh. If you encounter the error zsh: command not found: zmv, you
can load it using autoload -U zmv 1.

First, ensure zmv is available by adding autoload -U zmv to your ~/.zshrc file
or run it directly in your shell session 2.

Here's how you can use zmv to rename your files:

zmv -n 'index.html.(*)' 'image_$1.png'
publicly funded meaning that they will only report news that is favorable to whoever happens to be in power at the time and controls the purse strings?

no thanks. The USA does not need state sponsored media.
Makes me wonder if there's an offical "knot tyer" position at NASA.

Never thought a job title could be both so wondrous and wholesome at the same time!
If Chinese cranes are an issue at all, then re-controllering extant cranes is just a half measure and the proper solution is to make sure we have a suitable source for cranes in the future. Might as well give that domestic crane source some business now, and work out any problems now rather than kicking the can down the road.
NASA Technical Standard NASA-STD-8739.4 -- Crimping, Interconnecting Cables, Harnesses, and Wiring moved to https://standards.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/standards/NAS...

Found via https://standards.nasa.gov/all-standards?check_logged_in=1&p...
A function? Yes. Realistically linked? No, absolutely not. Added caviat: expected financial success, current and past success are either irrelevant or already priced in.
TeslaBot will be using the same AI chip and system that Tesla's Autopilot uses to understand the vector space of the world around it.

They've already demoed teaching a robot to repeat-mimic the movements that a human dose with its arms-hands-fingers, and so training will be as simple as that. You could 1 single robot who could clean your whole house as well, say during a 10-hour period while you're out, getting every nook and cranny - and where speed isn't really an issue in that situation; other tasks like a delivery comes in, and the bot can immediately take that delivery and put the items in their proper places - whether that's fridge, freezer, cupboard, or left out on counter for cooking a meal later.

What'd it be worth to have 1 extra human worth of productivity at your command for 24/7? How much more value it creates compared to cost will depend on your circumstances of course. Having a small apartment it may not be that useful, but maybe if you have multiple properties and at once property you've cut down a tree for firewood - the bot can move the logs into a splitter and then stack them for you, etc.

Once you realize that a single robot that can switch between very different tasks in a chain of tasks is possible, the size of production required to reach the same efficiencies of economies of scale will be far lower than currently required for mass production ,e.g. where maybe the equipment needed beforehand required needing to be able to produce say at least 100,000 of something per month but now maybe only 10,000 of those units need to be created for the same margins; which makes the environment more competitive, the barriers to entry lower, derisking and distributing power-profits by allowing more decentralization, a reduction in how much large industrial complexes can capture production and sales.

The battle will be on 2-3 fronts: 1) making sure industrial complexes and bad actors don't try to try to prevent the general population from having access to these technologies, and 2) making sure bad actors don't try to capture and corrupt-takeover these systems to then weaponize them against society, and a possible 3) preventing the companies that produce these technologies, perhaps including AI, from trying to extra value from what "their" bots are capable of doing. E.g. they start trying to take a % off of every business type, depending on the added value the bots create for them, so instead of those values and gains being distributed to all of society - they try to capture and hoard as much of that value creation for themselves, reminding me of the rent-seeking behaviour of what I call the Landlord-Rental industrial complex; "leasing" the technology rather than selling it.
That is an argument for sourcing domestic cranes now instead of putting it off.

Anyway, if he's president again I think he's more likely to pardon himself, illegally perhaps, than to actually pay his debts (with bribe money or otherwise.)
Oh me too, but that's now quite a few years ago. These days we have IPMI, no?
This is so quick! The demo being publicly consumable is powerful, though SDXL is not immune to abuse or NSFW (and possibly illegal) generations. I wonder who ends up being held accountable for such generations.
This. We know this from the dumped System Prompt for Dall-e
Fwiw this was meant as an observation (it's useful to know how to work with paths), not as a justification for the current ux.
That same hardware bug will also result in other corruption in other places where it's not detected, which may then spiral into much more catastophic behaviour. Oodle is just special in that it detects the corruption and throws an error (which is the right thing to do in this situation IMHO).

The ball is in Intel's court, such faulty CPUs should never have made it out into the wild.
Holy shit I totally forgot yahoo answers was a thing. That was indeed a shame, even though most of it was complete garbage.
AB testing works well in B2C, but is much harder to make work in B2B.

You can do it, but you can generally only test really large changes, and often if you have good customer communication you can pick up on what the change means with some interviews and showing the customer(s) what the new thing looks like.

This is generally much faster and cheaper (and I say this as someone who adores designing, running and analysing AB tests).
I knew that someone would find something like this, they're not wearing the traditional Nazi uniform like in the photo.
An update on my endeavour: so, model switching is very costly under llama.cpp (I have to switch between Llama and Phi2 because my GPU has low amounts of VRAM). And this switch (reloading the weights into VRAM) defeats the whole purpose of the optimization. Having only Llama on GPU without reloading takes less time than if I'd use Llama+Phi2. And Phi2 alone is pretty bad as a general purpose LLM. So I'm quite disappointed.
Because it is. It can be very frustrating not to be able to fill a form on mobile with a 3G connection just because some random dev decided that downloading 150kb of JS to render a simple form is fine.

I mean it’s a form; we already have all the HTML elements already; why do you need React for? This is why nowadays we end up with Electron apps that take 6GB of RAM to display a chat.
To put things into perspective: the distance from us to the nearest star is 4.3 lightyears.
With a 7-years wide accretion disk, I guess it will catch a lot of stars.

Also we see it 12 billion years in the past. The universe was a lot more dense at that time so it could catch even more.
It would be much more interesting to analyse one of the sites in detail and consider what could be done to reduce the code size, looking at where it's coming from and what it does. Or to find out why it might be that some landing pages are shipping a lot of JS (could be because they are landing pages for web apps?). Or consider performance more holistically (are pages shipping a lot of code, but lazy loading or otherwise optimising it so that pages still perform well?). Or maybe compare these web application sizes to mobile or desktop equivalents too (where it's surely easier to optimise amount of code shipped).

The article is just a lot of vague pointing at sites and insinuating (not even asserting) that they're too bloated or not. I don't get a sense of whether it's worse that Medium ships 3mb of code or Soundcloud ships 12. There's a lot of bad faith "this is just a text box" for sites which clearly do much more than that too.
> What cannot be trained, and certainly at the behest of the employer is interpersonal skills.

I think that those can be trained as well. The fact is that just acknowledging the issue requires a level of self-awareness that not everyone has, and training THAT as well requires being aware of it. External input and help from a specialist or a dear friend can get the ball rolling.
Australian media has been publishing AI-manipulated Barnaby Joyce images
All of the above needs some basis in reality, aka numbers. Otherwise it is just guess work.
Not everything on Vice was great but I will always be grateful for them introducing me to the Joel Golby and his London Rental Opportunity of the Week column[0].

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/joel-golby
Meanwhile US housing is politically a zero-risk alternative with costs guaranteed by government subsidy for 30 years. Why innovate when you can own capital?
hmm, yeah all sites in the future that find themselves unprofitable take content offline to maintain license to AI potential.
Haha yeah you're right
I fail to understand how digital content distribution has stopped being efficient. It would probably be more accurate to say "This is not the goldmine we need to feed all our shareholders and the mountain of bureaucracy and inefficiency that we have turned into as a media outlet".

Also, the loss of content that should have been trivial to archive is nearly criminal. Almost like book burning.
Well, if it "just works," then it wasn't that hard to do anyway. No raise for you.
Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Certain mental health conditions are recognised as disabilities in the UK, and the people affected are entitled to support at work [1].

Still, I agree that it doesn't exempt one for their actions. I just don't think it's always binary like that, especially for chronic conditions that can be improved but not solved.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/when-mental-health-condition-becomes-disa...
Just open enough issues on the parent libraries that they give up and conform to the hallucinations.
What I mean is: where is the website other than bsky.app where I can see content from the network?
> Education was once broader than just some kind of ladder that led to a cubicle, it was about creating people with a penchant for lifelong learning, a challenge that tested people and improved them, a means to share information and discoveries.

Yes. However, when it was like that, college was pretty much the domain of the wealthy. If your family was already wealthy, there was really no need for college to provide skills for a job.

In addition, when it was like that, the assumption was that high school would provide the needed job skills, and there was also a very robust apprenticeship system. A person with a high school degree could support a family and own a home.

Theology and medicine were basically the only careers other than academia that required college. Even for law, you could apprentice under a lawyer and sit for the boards without law school.

Once college became a universal expectation and was supported by taxes (via government backed loans, GI Bill, etc), it became far more oriented to a jobs ladder.
It takes continuous effort/money to keep metaphorical company lights on. There is things you need to file periodically, legalities you need to comply with, also when they change in the future, just to exist.

So if the website shutdown coincides with the shutdown of a company or a division within the company, that might be why. And since a website will usually not shut down if it's turning a considerable profit to begin with, just deleting everything can often look like the best option.
The ellipse can be also encoded by just the lengths along each axis and then by a rotation in R^n (which is just a unitary matrix multiplication). So in essence, for the problem in the original post there are three pieces of information needed: a translation, a rotation, and the deformations of the unit ball along the axes.
1. Does the template have to look like that, or can I have almost any template I want ?
2. does the repo have to be public?
"Why is my execution 3x faster with a `log.Printf()`?"
Came across this interesting thread in /r/golang. No one managed to provide a satisfying answer in the thread.
newCTFE was actually hitting 50x on some things I benchmarked — locality again, to a good approximation.

And my initial post did mention doing too much work in the first place.
I feel like this is one of the things where you can find an ancient Greek philosopher complaining about the same stuff.
You are not making a copy - because you are not able to identically reproduce it.

And, if you are and you do, that's likely an infringement. Most jurisdictions say that, for example, you can't perform an in-copyright creative work without compensating the owner. Look at the lawsuit around George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" for an example.
> Are they "defective" or merely not capable of running the out of spec settings used by many motherboards?

I'd wager good money on the latter. Why would Intel validate their CPUs against power and current limits that are outside of spec? The users reporting issues probably have CPUs that just made it in to the performance envelope to be binned as a 13900K, so running out of spec settings on these weaker chips results in instability.

It's cases like this where I wish Intel didn't exit the motherboard space, they were known to be reliable but typically at the cost of having a more limited feature set.
Putin flies Russian supersonic nuclear bomber in Kazan [video]
Even if that's a mere 0.1% willing to pay a dollar per year, that's still enough to pay a few freelancers
You get way better result by practicing on old standardized tests before the real one.

Preparation for those is the most value you can get from your time studying.

I.e. study for the exam, not for what the SATs try to measure.
> proof is in the pudding. The pudding is that NASA of 2024 has no human space flight capability

Stupidity and ignorance sometimes tread into troll territory.

Nobody has gone back to the Moon since America. That’s not because of a simultaneous global coma. It’s because nobody bothered. If your understanding of aeronautics and mechanics is so base as to propose that we, America, cannot lap what we did in the 60s today, there might be better reading material available than anecdotes [1].

If your complaint is literally a private v public one, that’s beyond me and my cat.

[1] https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Aerospace_Engineering...
High performance systems are where these kinds of optimisations make the most difference.

If most of your overhead is due to the low performance of the language/runtime you're using, these kinds of optimisations won't make as much of a difference. That is, if you can even implement them at all. I mean, good luck trying to use memory pools and manual memory management in Python or Javascript.
Fossil is really nice. I still have some projects (from the pre-Dropbox days) that use it--and that are now archived on it, with 100% fidelity.

Having a single file repository is just amazing.
You can put the bucket behind Cloudfront and only give access to the bucket to Cloudfront.
Recent and related:

Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35B stock deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437387 - Feb 2024 (122 comments)

Capital One Is Buying Discover Financial - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433109 - Feb 2024 (35 comments)
This is also a symptom of a corporation not having dedicated QA people. Sure, developers and product owners can check stuff, they can even read code and find bugs there. Amazing, we don't need QA then, right? Well, that's what we can sometimes get without QAs - an amazing code which actually works and works better than competitors. It just sometimes break in the areas not tested sufficiently or at all.
I had one of those - not that exact one, it was great but I forgot it on the train one day.
Absolutely. I turned off Copilot at work for this reason: it disrupts my state of flow in a way that regular contextual suggestions do not.
Supermassive blackholes reside in the center of galaxies which have higher density of matter / stars. Quasars are very distant and thus very old images of those galaxies from the time they were "cleaning" the area from surrounding matter. Milky way center was likely a quasar a long time ago as well, but it already passed this "cleaning" phase and there isn't much floating matter in the center anymore.
Not to say, miscommunication/misunderstanding happens between people all the time. And software has already killed/injured people without any AI involved. Nothing specific to AI here. It's more about a lack of adequate QA.
Before switching to React in 2015 I worked with ExtJS and Backbone, and both of them were much harder to reason about. Oh, and GWT too, that was a nightmare.
These are not programming languages per se, but give VDM-SL or Alloy Analyzer a look. I know that particularly in the latter, anything can be joined or composed against anything since all values are relations.
Except now it's a vector if anyone gets access to this internal tool.

I would be fine with this for one off scripts but absolutely can not consider anything less than full sql parsing or something equally robust if it is exposed over the network, even if only internally and behind authn and authz.
We have been working on bytebase (https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase) for 3+ years to address this. With a change review workflow, environment propagations, and try not to disturb the dev flow if possible.
Honestly, as a European some American racist tropes are truly baffling to me. Stereotypically Black people apparently enjoy watermelons, deep fried chicken and grape soda. In other words Black people allegedly like food humans often like and Americans managed to take than and make it racist.

I'm not saying it's not used as a racist trope. I'm saying it's amazing how Americans managed to be racist enough to make such a non-issue racist.
It is graded on a curve. Raising the student body score on a synthetic measure is pointless. (Edit: You could argue "exam technique" is a good skill though, maybe?)

But ye, since rich families buy prep courses it becomes an arms race, and poor kids need them too.