skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You said X 3 years ago, but now you said, which is the opposite of X. How dare you?" is one class of problems. Another is that you can learn quite a bit more about a person than they wished to actually divulge to you if you're able to capture and study their exact behaviors over a long enough stretch of time.
Perlis Languages (2011)
EVs have a high pitched whine and our dog can hear the car from a long way out.
No they just follow the provided instructions, go into the BIOS setup, and fix the settings. These are $1k CPUs. Purchased by enthusiasts, not retards. If their CPU is unstable they will want to fix it.
This is briefly mentioned in the article, but from the report[1]:

> It should be noted that the scope of the code reviewed within this audit is relatively narrow. In particular, while we audited cURL’s use of the third-party libraries ngtcp2, nghttp3, quiche, and msh3 to implement HTTP/3 functionality, we did not investigate the internals of those libraries—which is where the majority of the low-level parsing and data transformation necessitated by the HTTP/3 protocol occurs.

the report goes on to concede

> [we] did not observe any coverage of the nghttp3 library code. We suspect that, as the HTTP/3 protocol itself is significantly intertwined with TLS, the encryption makes it hard for a fuzzer to progress to the point where data can be decoded and parsed meaningfully.

[1] https://curl.se/docs/audit/trail-of-bits-http3-report.pdf
> Every programmer can create the system from scratch

Every programmer believes he can create the system from scratch

FTFY

I'm one of the "every", too. If I knew how hard writing a C++ compiler from scratch would be, I'd have never tried it.
To my knowledge, in Spain you're not allowed to drink in public(?) Whether or not people/the police care seems to be an entirely different matter, though, and also depend on the city/region.
Did you read the article? Because learning things regularly is one of the author's major points. I don't think you disagree (airtight you do come across really obnoxious).
Yeah I’d agree at some depth. We don’t talk enough about integers, rationals and real numbers and what they imply for our “normative rationality” or “epistemological commitment”. But aside from the integers, everything else is totally suspicious.
Google likely knew of this issue, but you need to understand that DEI-related missteps are judged a lot more harshly by the society than other types of errors. So, for Google this was likely “choosing the lesser evil” type of scenario. Anticipating edge cases for LLM behavior is very difficult, but it’s hard to imagine that no-one at Google tested vikings and 1940s Germans before the release.
He is clearly unhealthily obsessed with race as much or more than the people he's complaining about. Somehow a guy very involved in many interesting fields is spending all day every day complaining about DEI, immigration, and this week he keeps highlighting instances of black people committing crimes
For a very long time neither did backblaze.
For a sufficiently large black hole tidal effects are weak near the horizon, but inwards from there the Weyl tensor (or the contraction to an appropriate curvature scalar; the Weyl tensor itself is a contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor essentially encoding body-deforming curvature which preserves the body's volume) grows to the point where there will be inevitable failure under the stretch-squash. Indeed the Kretschmann curvature scalar eventually diverges, and that fact is what indicates the presence of a singularity.

Roughly, the available paths for elements of a spherical cloud of noninteracting dust will tend to deform the sphere into a prolate ellipsoid like an American football, with the long axis aligned radially, i.e., with one end pointing to the strong curvature inside the black hole. The dust's overall volume is preserved, so there must be a squashing along the other two spatial axes. As infall proceeds, the prolation extremizes -- in due course the cloud resembles a piece of string with a slight bulge along its length.

A round football has internal interactions which try to keep it round, and so is different from a sphere or shell of non-interacting dust. However, it will still be stretch-squashed as it infalls and gravitation tries to make it look like an American football. Soon enough it will tear and burst. A human in free fall will probably end up firstly rotated feet-first or head first, and quickly will feel some discomfort from the stretch-squashing, eventual disarticulation of joints, tearing of the skin and other tissues, and so on. While it still works, the human's wristwatch will count of on the order of minutes between its crossing of the large black hole's horizon and its mechanical failure.

For stellar ("little") black holes, the Weyl tensor is large enough to cause this sort of bursting (and wristwatch failure) outside the horizon.
that is called crowd sourcing your last mile of delivery
I don't believe a DAC is going to do anything for you, with Spotify. I agree with you there... but saying Spotify is already hifi? Absolutely not.

My DAC plugged into Spotify does nothing for me, and I don't expect it to. Plug that DAC into Apple Music or Tidal, and put on a good pair of cans? Completely different world.
I work in a regulated industry (medical device software), and don't really think I generally do anything exceptional compared to others in my position, but maybe this is a form of imposter syndrome?

I'm a pretty decent developer with a good memory for project history and context, and I also have a pretty high tolerance for dealing with paperwork BS (I've been in this industry for 20 years). This doesn't seem like that tough of a skillset to replicate, but yet they still want to pay me what seems like ridiculous amounts of money to do work that really isn't that difficult. But it's annoying, and most people won't do it.

I was recently asked by a family member "Why would you want to work in an industry like that? Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work?" My answer is basically: if you want to make a difference in healthcare, you have to play by the rules of the game.
It's camel.

How do you do matrix vector attention without keeping the full matrix in cache, surely you don't just load unload it a million times
I'm ever happy to talk about many things and happy to listen to anyone. That's not the problem.

It's not talking, it's more in generalities of what I enjoy is what is the niche.

One story is that I was in Canada recently and was talking to a bloke on the bench listening to how he was kicked out and someone cheated on his wife.

Although, whether to believe these stories is another thing. Sometimes people just want to be herd.
The people who ultimately pay for you, couldn't give a crap about any of that. Only what they use from you.

I.e The companies customers.
Unless you are doing something truly stupid to your cast iron cookware, the amount of additional iron in your diet should be zero. Please learn about cast iron and the seasoning process before spreading FUD.
Fuck I hope so. Craftsman unit!
I would take it as a pretty strong signal that their growth is slowing. Except that their Q4 was apparently good. The stock is suddenly down 15% in the last week, but I doubt they could or would react so quickly to that. It's still well above the 1mo and 6mo levels. IOW the recent uptick was a reaction to their Q4 but now it's regressing to their business as usual.

TLDR: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My college had a credit union with an ATM in the cafeteria. It was in your interest to keep enough money in the credit union to pay for lunch etc. while you were a student there.

When I graduated, I pulled the money back out. Apparently they issued the final interest payment after I'd emptied the account. For at least a year after that, I got monthly statements informing me that I had an account with less money in it than the postage on the statement.
Almost no one can tell a difference with today's encoders (unless the track is particularly degenerate for the encoder) but I think there is an edge case: listening over Bluetooth.

When the already encoded audio is then encoded again into AptX or SBC or AAC, it starts to introduce audible artifacting - nothing most people would immediately notice but audible artifacting nonetheless.
I still can't believe a scrum master is an actual FT job - last company I worked for had one FT scrum master for each project - so they ran the meetings and as far as I can tell, did nothing else - what the heck do they pretend to do for the rest of the week?

I went to all the same meetings, and was still supposed to actually develop software in between them all.
Yes, this is the situation for my dell laptop's i7-1165G7. Alleged turbo boost to 4.7ghz! In reality, it will hit that for a sec and then throttle to ~1ghz. I had to disable the turbo boost AND two cores in bios to let it even achieve ~2.0ghz speeds consistently. It's a total scam. Turns out my 8th-Gen i5 laptop is almost the same speed on benchmarks, just because it's a few mm thicker with better cooling.
Have had several VR headsets, ranging from a Vuzix way back in the day to the Valve Index and Q3. This is the first one where I have actively OPTED to use for something other than gaming. The one thing I’ll knock is that other devices I’ve owned have been more comfortable (notably the Valve Index, which out of the box has had the best comfort of any device I’ve had, although I cannot use it lying down/on the couch because the head strap is so bulky).
One of my priors: "a group of people who look like a faith-based community, but claim not to be one, should not be trusted".
I think the thing that makes me totally think this is "Google institutional rot" is there were some reports (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39466135) that lots of people at Google knew this was a problem, but they felt powerless to say something less they be branded "anti-DEI" or some such.

To me the most fundamental symptom of institutional rot is when people stop caring: "Yeah, we know this is insane, but every time I've seen people stick their necks out in the past and say 'You know, that Emperor really looks naked to me', they've been beheaded, so better to just stay quiet. And did you hear there'll be sushi at lunch in the cafeteria today!"
There was a period of time where I thought I was the only one who remembered this show. I had the toy spacecraft as a kid and loved it.
my kingdom for a solution that makes fusion 360 work on linux without quirks.

everything out there either drops the render speed to nothing, breaks integrations, breaks anything to do with the browser (which includes login), or creates strange mouse/keyboard behaviors that have to be fixed with more layers of patchwork.

The only halfway decent way to get it done is with qemu/gpu-passthrough , but that's a whole different pain in the ass.
"5 creative malicious actors can out perform 5,000 Cyber analysts + Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) programs - it's not even a comparison."

Hi. I'm a Principal Security Consultant, former Red Teamer and Red Team Manager.

I completely sympathize with your position but I do think it's a resource issue. A really good defense (one that can detect and react quickly) only has to win once, just like the attackers. Sure, it'll take a while to clean up the mess afterwards, but one detection is the beginning of the end if it's a good one.

You need talented senior people who are good at working together on a purple basis to build the defense to that point. Lots of people say the cybersecurity skills gap isn't real, but at that level, it is. Even Fortune 500s struggle to meet that maturity level, let alone smaller orgs.

Is it realistic to try to lift smaller orgs above that security poverty line? I dunno. I'm sort of agnostic on the future of AI, but if that works out, I think the current pain will ease significantly.
The food doesn't even come into contact with the iron. There's a layer of natural polymers that coat the inside of a properly seasoned pan.
Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
It's not a warranty, It's that the seller is responsible for any manufacturing defects, and in the first 12 months(6 months in the UK) any defect is presumed to be a manufacturing defect automatically unless the seller can prove otherwise.

After that time the seller is actually responsible for 6 years after the original sale, but the responsibility is on the buyer to demonstrate that a fault is a manufacturing defect.
Post-judgement interest remains at the discretion of the court, and applies "when a creditor has a security interest in an amount greater than his or her claim, that 'oversecured' creditor is entitled to interest on the claim as well as repayment of principal" [1].

Whether the claim is on cash or collateral doesn't seem to have figured into the law.

[1] https://bbklaw.com/resources/best-in-law-which-interest-rate...
what a weird demand to make
The groups of armed military personnel stomping through train stations in Brussels was definitely a culture shock for me. Not even the US is like that.
Don't forget that Rust's Arc is not Swift's ARC.
I didn't go to art school but that's hard to take. things like the blair witch project, Napoleon dynamite, the original mad max, and rocky were made on shoe string budgets and were the result of, yes, art skills, but also camcorders. not to mention that there is, actually, good stuff on YouTube. some of it the product of artists with art school degrees. there's gonna be a ton of ai generated shit out there,
no doubt about that, but it also makes it more accessible. But okay, what I'm hearing is that it's going to be cheaper for Hollywood to pump out really good ones, putting people out of a job until they can retrain, from carpenters who were set builders to vfx artists, and Sora is just gonna let the low end pump out bad stuff and the high end will maybe use it to still pump out good stuff. in today's attention economy, I don't know what that means. there's a whole lot of SoundCloud out there and a lot of it's bad but some of it's good, and, like you said, it's a skill not a trick, so theres still going to be cream that rises to the top, even in a morass of ai generated dreck.
You ought to be able to find a pen without a scratching feeling. The nib, the ink, and the paper can all contribute to a scratchy feeling. If you have been trying with an old pen, the nib could be damaged, or the ink too dried out.

If you are writing with a new pen the you might need a wider writing nib, a medium or above is your best bet. In pen reviews, look for how "wet" the pen writes.

I like writing very tiny letters and use a Pilot extra-fine, an it is can be scratchy, but I replaced the medium nib my Pilot Metro was sold with. It was not scratchy with the medium.

Jetpens has some 5 pen sampler pack if you're are $25 curious.
https://www.jetpens.com/JetPens-Beginner-Fountain-Pen-Sample...
*Montenegro
Advancements are marginal and need to build on prior work, we need more people to work those problems to make any progress
I was objecting to comments like these:

i += 2; // add 2 to i
const(int)* p; // p will not change what it points to

No value is added by such comments. Hence, the more expressive a language is, the fewer comments are needed.

Of course, a precondition is that the person reading the code knows the language reasonably well, and I'm not writing a language tutorial.
I have automatic1111 working on my 7900xtx and it does alright.

Took some finagling to get it working with ROCM 6 and the newest pytorch which I couldnt seem to coax invoke or comfy to do
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-regains-1-position-o...

Coinbase became the most downloaded app on the app store on OCT 28, 2021.
The entire Crypto Market Crashed within 10 days.

Same exact thing around May 2021. i.e the first bull market peak.
Same exact thing around late 2017.

Regardless of FTX it would still have crashed in the same way that it did every cycle.
Look most people are kind. I'll chitchat for a moment... but yeah- if I could avoid gawkers... I mean FWIW much of my work is about people living on the fringe, on the road, or end of society. I spent years touring just living with people like that. You become one of them and "gawkers" are just that.

Im being reminded there was a name for this, Gonzo Journalism. But I see why in todays world people would confuse it with voyeurism.
Which Google claims Gemini is the best at so far
> I hear about various "work from home" jobs actually being scams, but what's going on there? Not just scamming the workers out of their personal money

Often the scam here is that the workers have to pay for their own training, pay the company for supplies, whatever... And then just the work never materializes.

"Once you've done the training we'll set you up with clients" and then ooops, there's just no clients available anymore sorry.
The cool thing is that there are solutions to all of these problems, if the more basic problems can be solved more reliably to prove the underlying technology works.
All the criticisms of Bitcoin scalability are completely warranted and have played out.
As noted in the article, OneDrive acts as a file sync. It does have version history, but if the file is deleted locally, it will eventually be deleted from OneDrive (after a period of time).

A backup is a binary equivalent of all the source data. True backups cannot be modified, and exist as a point-in-time reference snapshot.
Used to love him on This Week In Tech back in the day, as well. They were trailblazers of the medium who just fell off for whatever reason.
Well, he still does a lot of other things. DEI is indeed something he is obsessed about, and I guess there are good reasons he sees. I definitely see them too.
You don't need to transmit anything over the wire, someone has to restock the things. Unclear what the relationship is there.
The idea that you're going to be absorbing a measurable amount of extra iron from cooking in cast iron is silly; the entire cooking surface is coated in natural polymers created with oil/wax during the seasoning process.
Also adding that "Caucasian" was somehow the politically-correct version of "white" here, then it reversed.
It seems rather difficult to believe Scott took up that much shelf space unless there were multiple copies of Ivanhoe, as there would tend to be. Also the article isn't really about Scott, in fact he's hardly even mentioned.
Every Revenue Stream Possible
I was. But people are always missing a point.

There's a range of options between "can render millions of objects with complex animation and logic" in a few milliseconds and "we will warn you when you have 800 dom nodes on a static page, you shouldn't do many updates or any useful animations"

Somehow people assume that what HTML does is so insanely hard that the problem of 2D layout should not just be relevant to modern day supercomputers, but to be so slow as to be seen with the naked eye.

The 2D layout in HTML is slow because the DOM (with the millions of conflicting hacks on top of it) is slow, not the other way around.

We could do most of the frankly laughable HTML layouts at least in early 2000s, perhaps earlier.

Well, definitely earlier, as Xerox that influenced the Mac is from 1970s
These announcements on business limits have caused a lot of chaos at my workplace. People would abuse these unlimited plans and have terabytes of data on these services; IT put out an email to everyone to cut down to like 150gb. Even our own internal server is having issues with the filesystem filling up and people having to clear their directories or have their project be billed for more rack storage. It might be time to buy some stocks related to storage media, considering how much purchasing is probably about to happen this year from all these departments in all these businesses in the world today in need of storage space, although I guess I'm late on that looking at Hitachi's 5 year chart.
> training up an army of people that poorly review websites and collateral by hand and make some determinations with a very low precision and recall, and a very high expense profile including training, benefits, HR, etc, with high attrition. Building these operations is complex, time consuming, and often fails to produce meaningfully useful results for years.

followed by

> GPT4 level ability and a modest investment in scraping

oh yeah, these speech patterns are those of someone who isn't unnecessarily hyped while trying to downplay other approaches.

no bias here at all folks...
What exactly has played out?
> For any employee, the soul-stealing complexity of office machinery such as fax machines, copiers, PCs, voicemail and even coffee makers gives everyone ample cover to studiously never learn how to use them. But the same blank stare accompanies nonmechanical tasks, too. Claire Wexler, an accountant who used to work at a law firm, says lawyers "pretend to be completely flummoxed" by all of those machines as well as "everything related to accounting except for billing." Their message: "I have so many lofty matters on my mind I can't be bothered with mastering this small task," she says.

Which is a good thing. The point of having lawyers or accountants is to not waste their time on small tasks. If you want your lawyers spending their time fixing coffee machines, that suggests you shouldn't have lawyers in the first place.

One of the worst parts of computers has been loading up everyone with outsourced bureaucracy and paperwork, externalizing the subtle costs. And maybe this is why computerization has done so little for total productivity? https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/writing/1992-sassone.pdf (excerpts: https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/writing/index#sassone-1992-... )
I heard about it when it was about $30 and it looked expensive to me back then and even if I bought some, I wold have sold them long time ago at 2,3,5x as I much prefer the stock market (and even real estate) for investing...
> FWIW I don't think either of them are any sort of bigots

I just poked around at some recent transcripts and there was plenty of anti-trans stuff.
It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away…during a more civilized age…
I find it pretty incredible how critical the responses regarding the technical feasibility were and how Satoshi Nakamoto had thought of every one of them already when writing the whitepaper, as it's visible from his answers.
That's a decline. It was 6 instructions per hour when Brooks wrote "The Mythical Man-Month" in 1975.
Why do we need to know about progress if concerned about big problems?
(I had to truncate the title a bit)
The article is originally form 2021 but the data was updated in Feb 2024.
Oh yeah I didn’t even think about the raised numbers thing! Cash is still king.
> and also includes prompt templates

That sounds very convenient. What software makes use of the built-in prompt template?
I, for one, am glad that a nuclear waste dump on the moon didn't detonate and drive it out of orbit.

I don't think Space 1999 ever spared a thought about what happened to the Earth after the disaster.
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