skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but there was a paper posted here yesterday: LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465357
Eaton makes much better UPSes at a close price point. I don't know why anyone buys APC or things like Cyberpower anymore.
I've found that too many constraints limit its creativity. Though no telling if it will continue to work with OpenAI updating models for "better performance and alignment"
That’s the same question as why JS is consistently much slower than Rust. They are not at all similar languages, there is absolutely zero reason to expect otherwise. Go is a managed language with a GC that will slow down threads at high allocation rates and have GC pause times. Also, the default compiler just spews out machine code with barely any optimization (hence the fast compile times).

Note: this doesn’t mean tracing GCs are slow, they are in fact faster than RC. But Rust just simply has more control over what actually happens, than a managed language.
In some countries legal alcohol is expensive so they buy cheap stuff from “moonshiners” or whatever they’re called in those places, every once in a while you hear about poisonings affecting hundreds of people.

So, I don’t know. I probably would pay the state premium over the guy who doesn’t have great quality control.
I wish I could say it's some lovely architecture, but it's just some glued together python scripts that get the data from the ebay API, categorise the GPUs (I initially tried local LLMs, but hard coded rules work far better), then generate a static site using jinja2 templating. My frontend "framework" is simple vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.

I suppose I'm living up to the username! I do know how to write decent programs and in other languages, but I'm just so much faster when bodging.

I'm thinking of making similar website for more things, in which case I'd clean up the architecture a bit, but my exams are in a few months and this hasn't been particularly successful so we'll see. I probably shouldn't be spending my weekends programming right now :)
"diversity" is only ever code for "the sensibilities of a certain set of Californians".
Enough to justify a $2tn valuation?
The latest Indiana Jones used AI to make Ford’s face young for a whole lengthy scene.
Go to https://www.bogleheads.org and read until you start to feel the ability to answer questions.
One of the dumbest things I've ever read on this site, impressive!
> The dating giant says it long term plan is to squeeze artificial intelligence into “literally everything” in its apps.

My guess is that this will be disastrous for the platform if it makes it into the actual chat. Profile writing may be useful. I feel like women would feel deeply uncomfortable with enshittified messaging, since they would no longer be able to tell who is genuine and who is a serial killer. The only way it could work is if there was disclosure "Bob is using AI for this conversation", which defeats the reason Bob likely wants to use AI to talk to Alice.

EDIT: I am aware people are already using ChatGPT to message their matches, but I feel like this would pour gasoline on the fire.
Knowing it's bad and punting on it for later are both things that can be possible at the same time.
Nice! I keep a tiny GM1 around just to use a couple nice m43 lenses that I can't depart with! :)
>That will be forgotten in a week; this will be relevant for months and years to come.

Or, you know, until next month or so, when OpenAI bumps their offer
Nvidia of today reminds me a lot of Cisco of thirty years ago. Back then when the Internet was starting to take off, Cisco was one of the few companies actually making any money from the Internet. The frenzy to buy Cisco was intense. Thirty years later, Cisco still exists but absolutely nobody is excited about them.
Pure Sine-wave UPSs are massive overkill and offer no advantage for any normal consumer.

If you have incredibly power-sensitive $100k equipment that needs protecting, maybe. But not for normal consumer electronics. None of them are that picky about the power.
>but the actual acts are the same in real world.

You mean the stealing for money for high priced black market drugs?

You mean the shootouts/high speed chases where people run from the cops because they have a bag on them?

Or do you mean lighting up a joint?

The thing is, it's very easy to look at the statistics of violent crimes before and after. Also the vast majority of law enforcement agencies classify their crimes so you get detailed statistics of what kinds of crimes occur on a monthly/yearly basis.
Embracing Efficiency with the Arc Browser
Suppose you could have the same argument with all the rest: growing your vegetables is super easy (and then add the chickens and fishes etc.).

Well, some people just prefer to go to the supermarket..
Is the title here implying users will be chatting with bots run by the companies? Why in the world would they do that?

Clearly the purpose here is to weed out fraud and abuse more easily by analyzing chats between users. I'd welcome it. I'm pretty sure some dating apps already do this, both with text and images, but ChatGPT is probably better at it.
Wow, I'm impressed. I pay for GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra, just to try to keep tabs on where the latest and greatest are.

I recently had a slack conversation with some friends, and someone introduced the made up acronym DILCOLTK, in the context of someone talking about being a DINK and mentioning how cheap things were where they lived. A clever human could infer it to be "Dual Income Low Cost of Living Two Kids", but out of curiosity I tried pasting a bit of the conversation into GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra and Groq, and asking what DILCOLTK referred to. I realize by the way these models tokenize the inputs, it might not be quite a fair question because they maybe can't "see" every letter.

GPT-4 gave "Dual Income Low Cost of Living LTK", Gemini Ultra gave "Dual Income Low Cost of Living One Tiny Kid" (lol), and Groq suggested "Dual Income Low Cost of Living One Kid Two Kid", so all were admirably close but none quite right.

But phind-70B just now got it right! Color me surprised and impressed.

I also asked it a SwiftUI question I'd struggled with, and which I asked the other models about, and it did I'd say a bit better there as well.

So I guess I'll have to add this to my list of models to try and keep tabs on!
How many times has the stock market seen major losses over the past 90 years?

How many times have FDIC-insured accounts seen major losses over the past 90 years?
It’s not tangential. Technologists seem to be equally drawn to any arbitrary dictionary word, which is why these problems come up again and again.

I thought the same thing until I remembered that there’s this concatenative something that is called Joy.

Some authors just shamelessly admit that they clickbaited. Then implicitly give themselves a well-played and ask you what you think about the submission.

But it’s a moot point anyway as long as the moderators don’t allow “editorializing”. (EDIT: editorializing makes sense since this title wouldn’t be clickbait on a conc. programming blog but on a news aggregator it gets confusing.)
Not publicly known. I think speculation is use of mamba technique but I haven't been following closely
> So you are saying, take no steps would logically reduce the chances of the next pandemic.

The fact that none of the (seemingly non-controversial) action items are being addressed should tell you something about how our leaders think.

Instead, they're proposing plans for the next pandemic which amount to more authoritarian surveillance and control.

> What poisoning caused all our ERs to overflow during the pandemic?

I suggest you look into it. ERs weren't all overflowing. https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/new-york-city-er-visits-plumme...
Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year
I love these ideas. One more: "He said xyz but we know he's lying. What would motivate him to do that?"
I live in a rural community that is a 20 minute commute from a major research university and another significant college. It's got plenty of "good old boys" as well as others for whom Caroline is basically a bedroom community.

Politics are quite fraught.

Donald Trump is so unpopular in our community that the Republicans have quit running candidates on their own line but instead run independent candidates and even ran a slate in a Democratic primary.

A coworker of mine from years ago has been active in the local Republican Party (successfully ran for town board, lost his race for town supervisor) is one of the leaders of a movement to opposing zoning in our town, something our town board is in the process of implementing. If you counted lawn signs you'd think zoning is unpopular because you see angry NO ZONING signs in front of many of the large properties close to Six-Mile creek where you'd expect Dollar General or another dollhouse village

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3881982,-76.3618039,3a,75y,9...

to come in. They lost their primary and they lost the general election pretty hard so they wound up giving the town board a mandate.

Over time I think the "bedroom community" population is going to increase but it is also possible that national Republicans normalize and their brand becomes less toxic in our town.
From your link

"A PDF can therefore meet the definition of a durable medium."
That's a good rule of thumb for anyone (but if you have a quarter million in cash equivalents you're probably a business or super-wealthy).

I wonder if anyone has done a correlation study with bank failures vs CD/HYSA rates. The ones I know of that "everyone" flowed into have survived.
> Also, how do you tell a illegal from a legal migrant?

Believe it or not but when you gang rape people in the middle of a public park you usually get arrested and prosecuted, then your identity and status are given to the public.

> The fable of linking illegal migrants to rape and drug trafficking when number show no such thing at scale.

Again, every country releasing data about it proves the contrary, take france, every single crime category has an over representation of foreigners:

https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/5763585?sommaire=576363...

https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/5763559?sommaire=576363...

And it's not even descendant of legal migrants &c. it's just people who don't have the nationality. In big cities it's even worse, in Paris public transports 65% of sexual assaults are committed by foreigners, 93% of thefts too.

I'm all for discussing the various causes but if your ideology is so strong you can't accept official stats I think it's pointless, continue to live in your imagined world and we'll continue to avoid our local park at night because we're racist.

Also for Berlin, 22% of foreigners, 50%+ of rapes committed by foreigners, https://rmx.news/crime/germany-nearly-300-gang-rapes-recorde...
I love this article; it's well written and accurate. But in my experience the bigger problem is that companies aren't using data at all.

Data-ignorant decision is a killer, too.
ATM's are still everywhere, so I would assume people use them.
there's room for excellence in the basics.
There Are Probably No Silver Bullets
PDF manipulation is IMHO a niche application. If one really has to do that at scale, it would be probably better to fix the problem upstream to generate it correctly in the first place, or to layer the changes on top of the existing PDF and sign it.
sysadmin right of passage #4
It would never occur to me to store the device connected to its battery inside the case — or outside the case, for that matter.

I don't like the idea of that dense, heavy battery potentially getting displaced from the holding strap in the case cover and banging around inside against the Vision Pro.

Since I got mine February 2 I've kept both my batteries attached to chargers when not in use.
It decreases their desire to keep me, if there are layoffs.
In general, a UPS is just supposed to buy you time to assess the situation and shut things down gracefully. Power density doesn't come into the equation at all. It's just supposed to give you an hour to figure out what you need to do. It's all about the lifetime of the battery. I go with Cyberpower.
Check out Cranky Geeks on YouTube, classic John C.
'Succession' was a documentary about the American oligarch class.
> Clearly the purpose here is to weed out fraud and abuse

<meme>Is it though?</meme>
> You originally said "Weird password issues don't count as broke." I think this might just be a case where we have to "agree to disagree".

I meant broke in the sense of "if it ain't broke, don't fix." If there are over 300 microservices running code, connected to mainframes running code that was originally from the 80s, but they occasionally have password issues - the risks caused by trying to fix it might be greater than it's worth.

That doesn't mean FedEx can't do a better job telling people not to use special characters - or detecting if their current password contains them and forces a password change.
I've seen scenes in movies where assistants of heads of state will discreetly whisper to them who the people in the room are.

With a service like this we could all live like Kings!
USB-A to USB-C adapter dongles are standard and only cost a few dollars. That's completely insignificant next to Apples other profit centers.

Of course the vision behind removing the 3,5mm port was of a wireless future (and after untangling my Earpods for the 100th time I agree). There was a simple dongle sold and you can still buy Earpods with Lightning or USB-C port if you want wired. It's not like you are forced in any way to wear Airpods, other Bluetooth or USB-C headphones work fine. Airpods just happened to be a succesful fashion item. Removing the port allows for a bit more battery (yeah, I know they didn't use the space on the iPhone 7) and simplifies the design a bit (no DA converter needed, one less port that can break, no support calls from people who plug in an old Nokia 3,5mm cable thats wired different). While the gains are mostly for Apple I don't see simplifying something so less things can go wrong as inherently evil. If they really wanted to be evil they would have supported only Airpods.

Ps. I've used the 2019 MacBook pro that liked to spin up its fans but had no real issues with performance. Keyboard was okay too ;)
Thank you for telling me about the behind the scenes creation of your site, I will show it to my friends. It is a very lightweight, easy to use and mobile friendly site. I hope you will post it in it's own topic and it gets more interest.
Go’s error handling is definitely not better than exceptions, not even close. It is just “errno” from C with bad syntax sugar.

Exceptions don’t disappear randomly (no, an ‘if err’ is not error handling, and repetition just makes it prone to bugs) and they contain a stacktrace. You don’t have to grep for error messages like some caveman. It even lets you live in some Schrödinger error state where both a value and an error was returned.
I've always been concerned about security products redirecting it users to a bundled browser.

>Avast's stupid response “While we disagree with the FTC’s allegations and characterization of the facts, we are pleased to resolve this matter and look forward to continuing to serve our millions of customers around the world.”

My ass. You were deliberately deceiving your customers in believing that they were surfing the web privately then stealing data without consent. You should be shut down.
Yeah, at first I read that as it using 26.8% of the original steps, but reducing the number of steps by 26.8% is not that impressive. I wonder whether it actually reduces total search time as there is added overhead of running the neural network.
Does anyone outside the Go community call it a "RoundTripper"? I know what a retry is (and things like exponential backoff) and what GET and POST are, but not that, but I also hate Go, so...

EDIT: ah, followup replies elucidated me, it's just a goofy name for a Go-only thing
> when the other party of that agreement is doing it all can to avoid the spirit and letter of the agreement

I hear this claim often about China (particularly from Americans), but I think it's very far from being true.

China underwent massive, extremely painful reforms in order to join the WTO, on a scale that would be difficult for most Americans to imagine. For example, China basically built an entire intellectual property legal system from scratch. Or another example: China split up numerous large state-owned enterprises and forced the resulting companies to operate on a for-profit basis, which meant that tens of millions of workers lost their jobs and many more lost benefits.

I think most of the exaggerated statements about China not caring about WTO rules stem from a basic misunderstanding both of how the Chinese economy works and what WTO rules require.
No. They’re 100% useless in my experience, and literally never manage to deliver to me - everything ends up returned to sender. No other courier has this problem.

As for the SMSs - in Portugal, and I’d guess Australia too, they contract all of their local operations out to some random group of muppets who can’t organise their way out of a paper bag - the SMSs they send me come from a mobile number, are handwritten (they seem to literally have someone whose job it is to write messages, on a phone, and send them), as are the emails. When it comes to delivery, i’m inevitably the last delivery of the day as I live way out in the boonies, and they just go “it’s 5pm I’m going home”, and it goes back to the depot. They drive it back and forth for a week before declaring the parcel undeliverable.

These days, if I see someone has shipped something with FedEx, despite my instructions not to, I immediately request a refund, as I know it won’t arrive.

The whole thing beggars belief.
Does this kind of request give you paranoia?

Have you asked the management in your organization what the purpose of the documentation exercise is? Sometimes these exercises are done to see if documentation is outdated. Sometimes it is done to see if people understand the existing documentation. Sometimes it is done for a re-org. Without knowing the answer the paranoia will turn into unnecessary stress and that could create a self fulfilling prophecy. Regardless of the answer they give you, let them know without any emotion you will get it done and they can count on you for any other related tasks.
The real core of NT, the kernel team, could have been fed by two pizzas (if they could agree on the toppings). I didn’t work at Microsoft, but I had some occasions to meet with them (I was working on high performance media tools that squeezed a lot out of a little at the time). They kept a tight ship and designed systems that they genuinely had understanding of. Linux has had similar guidance, and my contact with the Fuchsia team in the early days showed signs of the core design tenets (e.g., object capability permissions model) having been well considered before broadening the effort and resourcing.

Different ecosystems have gone through phases of mass and focus, but times of concise clarity of vision from small groups (e.g., hardware rendering in Android 4.x, early days of CoreAudio, NTFS) move mountains that large teams never could.
It's forbidden in the US too. However I've noticed the intensity of weed smell makes it noticeable even where tobacco smell would not be.

I don't care what weed smokers do as long as it doesn't negatively affect me. However quite often their stench does.

Yet another reason why I want to move to a supposedly eco-unfriendly single family home in the suburbs ASAP. Since weed became legalized, the stench in urban apartment buildings has been nauseating.
JCD is a much better writer than he is a podcaster.
Given the choice between garbage made by humans and garbage made by a machine, I'd still prefer the former over the latter, even when the AI stuff appears more technically polished.
APC's are good once you get to the 'PRO' line. I would not get anything cheaper than that - those ones are poorly made.
Ask HN: Is Python getting too complicated for its own good?
For example, the following are valid modern Python code:

var: str = "Haha"
print(f"{var:_>20}")
print(f"{var:*^20}")
print(f"{str.lower() = }")

def concatenate[T: (str, bytes)](first: T, second: T) -> T:
return first + second

items = [1, 2, 3]
items [:]=[]

items = [1, 2, 3]
items *=0

bowl = ['water']
drink ,= bowl

n = 3
['a', 'b', 'c', *n* ['.']] #> ['a', 'b', 'c', '.', '.', '.']

a, *_ = (1,2,3)
While I clearly generally do agree with you--this is why I have that second paragraph about pervasive DRM being the enemy here--and have spent much of my life fighting DRM in various ways, I will at least try to offer you a ray of hope: building functional DRM gets much harder as the analog loophole gets stronger, and now that we are nearly at (not quite, but so damned close to) being able to strap a "retina" screen over our eyes and implement real-time AR on our perceptions, to build DRM that functions is going to end up requiring AI detectives that suss out whether we are actually there or not... it will be ridiculous if we get to the point where instead of merely putting a piece of tape over our webcam we find ourselves having to hang a tiny screen in front of it designed to pretend to the computer that we are awake / present / not wearing a headset.
gmail still has the HTML view: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h?ui=html

They are saying since a while that they will shut it down in February. So it may only work for 1-2 days
> Dropbox is also harvesting your data for various purposes. I hope your code isn't valuable, because it could be leaked or stolen by employees of Dropbox.

I always thought the encrypted repositories was a neat feature but never really understood what a use case for it would be. I guess this might be one. https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/encryptedrepos...
Basically, Americans have become obsessed with "diversity", so now Hollywood tries to have an exact amount of races, sexuality , genders, etc in every movie.

So each scene must have at least 1 Asian, 1 African American, 1 Non-Binary and so on. This takes priority over story building, acting and all else and thus majority of these movies turn out to be a flop.

Additionally, it weaponizes the right (i.e conservatives) to mock the left and in turn people on left (i.e liberals) so we end up with with both sides calling each other nazis, extremists, wokes,.. all of this is amplified by social media.

It is both comical and sad and the same time.
Yeah but why should anyone care about earnings in this exact year? P/E might be useful for your thought experiment about the genie but it's completely useless as a tool to value companies.
Roam raises $24M to scale electric vehicle production in Kenya
Lotta words to answer no.

I also would challenge your "year and a half" timeline... Gen ai has been around.
The implication that the Palestinian cause must balance the State of Israel's governance is insulting and provocative, and sadly is exemplifies UN policy.
Im surprised we dont hear more about this, it seems like a huge motivator
Is that true?

I thought the entire premise of overclocking was that it's not officially supported and it may break things.

The whole point is that you're not paying for it and it's entirely at-risk.

Because if you do want a higher level of guaranteed performance, you do need to pay for a faster chip (if it exists).
I don’t think there’s a great car analogy because the ecosystems and stakes are different.

These chips require motherboards to function, and these unlocked chips get their configuration from the motherboard. There’s no analogous entity to Ferrari the company here, it is like you bought an engine from one company, a gearbox from another, and the gearbox had a “responsiveness enhancement” setting that always redlined your RPMs or something (I don’t know cars).
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