skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The browser will be even less under our control than before, surveillance will go to the next level, and your private data will land in even more obscure places than before.

Ridiculous maybe, but by no means pointless. “AI” will be the end of ad blockers and a whole host of measures to secure a remnant of privacy on the net.
I'm not sure. The figures I've seen suggest that GPT3 required 10x more energy to train than GPT2 (e.g. https://www.nnlabs.org/power-requirements-of-large-language-....), so I think a roughly 1-2 order of magnitude increase in energy usage from GPT2 to GPT3.5 makes sense.
Someone, a single concrete specific individual, must actually sign off on it and/or authorize it with the SMS service provider.
No, it's not controversial at all, we're in complete agreement.

Tech has taken a lot of social problems and poured gas on them, it's not just this one.

In some of those cases it may make sense to place limits on the tech to try and curb that.

And yeah, if there is a tech way to solve this without negatively impacting passengers or commuters, it might be worth exploring.

But my point still stands. This is a social problem, it was not created by smartphones and it therefore cannot be fixed by changing smartphones. At best you can try and mitigate it.

And an effort to mitigate it will never fly if it has to affect every other person that may not even ever drive themselves.
If you look at the definition of CRDTS, it seems trivial that all distributed scms must satisfy CRDT properties. Some observations are trivial once you think about it, but worth saying to connect to different audiences with different interests or backgrounds. I wouldn't be surprised if they added this because they got the question many times. The rest of the paragraph makes clear that they did not develop fossil in the context of CRDTs, and nothing in the rest of the document depends on this observation.
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$5B is definitely a lot more realistic than the $15B valuation they were targeting in 2022, but IMO Reddit is still not a sustainable business as it stands today. So many investors have had their money tied up for over a decade will little to no growth and are going to be scrambling for an exit on IPO day. Revenues are barely growing, losses are increasing. I don't see a rosy future for this stock.
On one hand, I agree that just disagreeing with a guideline isn’t perjury. Especially in a case like this where lots of the industry still uses the old (bad, imo) plan.

On the other, an expert witness has specifically represented themselves to be an expert. Is there any level of incompetence that raises to the level of perjury in that case? IMO there ought to be.
Untangling polymorphism: generics, overloading, subtyping, variance
Agreed. I know they're the minority but I'm regularly astounded by how well researched, produced and informative the videos by many of the channels I follow are (e.g. the retro tech scene). They make it look easy and I'm sure it does get easier once you've got momentum and a process but as someone who has dabbled in such things ... it's anything but.
What's the rate of return that way? The 5% coming from the bank is pretty nice and is easily understood. I scrolled to the end of that BOXX page and even watched the video, and I still don't understand it.
Yes, strategic bombing had no meaningful impact, not on Germany nor on Japan. Or Britain.

By the time the nukes dropped, Japan had already lost everything they needed to continue fighting: ships, raw materials, supply lines, trained soldiers. Same for Germany, except the nukes.
People in EdTech are the least credible speakers on this topic.
I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
The US healthcare billing model’s total lack of authentication and disconnection from point of service means that it’s broadly plausible you do owe some random provider money at any time up to several years after your last doctor visit.

Send someone an official looking piece of paper telling them they received $394 worth of in office medical laboratory service from Tristate Medical Partners Inc in August last year, that insurance paid $374 and that they just owe you a $20 copay, and I think a lot of people will just go to the online bill pay site and hand over the money.
I've seen this sort of PR bullying happening before, it sucks. Also heard from colleagues.

It sucks even more when it's your manager that is suggesting you to analyze risks forever, or adding more process so you ship less.

I bet this is happening quite often in the latest layoff cycle.

I take it as a life goal to not ever let this happen where I work.
Thing that have helped me:

* Flow Club, a virtual coworking space (it really help me realize how unrealistic I am with time). Lots of people with ADHD love this service
* Social Anxiety medication
* Journaling 750 words per day
* Using a todo list manager that only shows me the most important or relevant tasks (omnifocus). There is no perfect todolist manager though and I’ve gone through a lot
* This survey of productivity methods: https://todoist.com/productivity-methods (eat the frog was best for me, people are different)
* Trying to get more sleep
* Identify when I’m just asking too much and identifying better goals
* Switching medical providers if their advice isn’t working
* Getting a rigorous test diagnosis from a psychologist. People said I had ADHD but a battery of neurological tests showed high functioning autism.
* Reading books like learned optimism and when panic attacks from top psychology professors
* This youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2EEnJedcYU&t=22s It’s for students, but he’s right that many times procrastination is an emotion management problem

When I get stuck, i find that one of two methods really helps:
* Breaking my todo list into smaller tasks
* Filling out a daily mood log from when panic attacks to determine the negative thoughts

Things that haven’t helped much at all:
* Talk therapy - you generally have to find someone good and I felt we just spend time talking about nice things and never got into anything useful, they just don’t want to offend you. So hard to find a good provider and I saw quite a few and it was a big waste of time. They either used some modality that didn’t fit or weren’t very good.
* GTD and long todo lists. I find that I just end up doing the tasks that I’m not avoiding and get done everything but what I want to get done.
* Watching endless youtube videos or reading books about beating procrastination
For a detailed report on the mechanics behind the BOXX ETF, Bloomberg just published this article:
https://archive.is/8kq0G
It is not a perfect solution for everyone. You do need to take into account your income tax rate and your capital gains tax rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_on_delivery

There are also import duties in some places like the US that can be a surprise if you don't know where the seller is or how they're shipping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_duties_in_the_United_S...

I forget the name, but the USPS has a special service shippers at companies like Aliexpress often use to avoid stuff like this when shipping to the US.
K chips often came with higher default clocks and definitely have better resale value so they're often worth buying even if you don't overclock.
> "Basically nobody writes CUDA," wrote Keller in a follow-up post. "If you do write CUDA, it is probably not fast. […] There is a good reason there is Triton, Tensor RT, Neon, and Mojo."

> Even Nvidia itself has tools that do not exclusively rely on CUDA. For example, Triton Inference Server is an open-source tool by Nvidia that simplifies deploying AI models at scale, supporting frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX. Triton also provides features like model versioning, multi-model serving, and concurrent model execution to optimize the utilization of GPU and CPU resources.

> Nvidia's TensorRT is a high-performance deep learning inference optimizer and runtime library that accelerates deep learning inference on Nvidia GPUs. [...]

Keller was speaking of OpenAI's Triton (https://openai.com/research/triton), a Python-like language that is compiled to code for Nvidia GPUs, but Tom's Hardware mixed this up with Nvidia's Triton Inference Server, a higher level tool that's really not a replacement for CUDA and not directly related to the Triton language. Easy to confuse these if you are a writer in a hurry.
just deceptive
Great sleuthing, the missing piece of the puzzle is that the file contents are inside a <code> element while the line numbers are not, and <code> elements have a default font so they don't inherit the font from their parent element. Changing the selector to the following fixes the issue:

div#cgit pre, div#cgit code { ... }

(The buggy CSS is not present in the the official cgit repository, so I assume the owner of kernel.dk is running a patched version of cgit.)
Figuring out how to shit up outgoing transfers is a core competency of any financial institution, so I wouldn't count on fedNow to save us without additional standards forcing good behavior.
Looks great add more filters, sorting maybe even price alerts
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Awesome article. Keeping it as a future reference.
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Fascinating reading of the timeline. And it does sound a tad like justifying the bombing of civilians, nukes or fire bombing doesn't matter here, for something the leadership does.
At the end of this, the company is in tatters, folks are shells of their former selves, and $manager gets a promo. The f*cking psychopathy. I'm anxious for them, and in horror.
Just disappear the containers like the stevedores did in the Wire season 2 /s
Sometimes the arguers win and set a new precedent... so it definitely creates a new problem with everyone who subsequently encounters the issue.
You just reminded me of my cobol exams in the 90s.

We had to write (with our hands) the program on paper during a 3 hour exam where we couldn't leave the room and teacher checked them all manually.

I guess this guy had been a cobol teacher for so long that his brain was part human, part compiler.

He was wise enough to know that a few missing ; or . weren't a big deal and that the core logic was the most important stuff.

And during our exercises session before the exam, any editor outside of the dos edit was prohibited.

No wonder I always have a feeling of cheating whenever copilot finishes half of my code.
That, and you can ask it to translate literally or colloquially, to summarize or explain about acronyms, cultural references, names, code, syntax, diagrams, graphics, or anything else.

GP: If you're going to play a curmudgeon, at least get some first hand experience with what you choose to complain about, otherwise your curmudgeoning isn't very effective, and you complain about things that aren't actually problems, and miss out on complaining about real problems.

I love to hate and complain about Unix and X-Windows and C++ and GCS, but that's because I've used them, not because I succeeded in avoiding them.
I flip tables when people make offhand requests like this. Infra teams are not keyboard monkeys with admin creds.
I'm one of the persons who blocks the bridge, not because of privacy concerns but because it bluesky, specifically. I do not like the idea of for-profit, vc-backed entities being given data, or any kind of decision. We all know exactly where that leads, a term has been coined, mountains have been wrtten about it and yet it still happens.

It's the same situation with Threads.

As for privacy I disagree with you. There's nothing because nothing has been discussed, but the technical feasability should never dictate what we want as a society. When a family member dies, even though the news is known you know how to behave, who to share that information with, what to say. Would you be okay with a company coring up to you and saying "hey we learned your mother died, would you like to tweet it ? It is free !"
https://bankaccountsavings.co.uk/
I'd imagine anyone who can even figure out the various forms needed and what to fill out wouldn't even get far enough to accidentally give the impression of criminal intent. It's less about the money and more about the time cost of login back and forth with the IRS. Three years ago I started a business and my taxes were very complex. LLC filing, HSA and partial savings liquidation, investments, contractors, payroll, and so on. My tax return was 4 months late over $40-something dollars, and they knew exactly what it was they just refused to tell my accountant. So we did the whole "here's what I have, is this what you want" dance. Such a complete waste of resources.
Who is gonna tell George Lucas?
https://fastsdxl.ai/share/o8d16q87qkbt
That's wild you can still say black there. That's been a no go in the US for a while.
I don't get that. To truly predict the next token you have to understand everything in the universe. Maybe people haven't thought enough about what a powerful learning objective that is. The fact that its simply defined is deceptive because as a heuristic people associate complex definitions with powerful tools.
> I’m fairly sure there’s no legal requirement for a company to put shareholders first.

You're likely correct that there is no explicit legal requirement.

However (as I understand it), it stems from the implied requirement that derives from the fact that a company's directors have a fiduciary duty to act in good faith in the interests of the company.

People who agree with the implied requirement argue that "in the interests of the company" equates to "for the benefit of its members". And so you then ask yourself who are "its members" and that's where you end up at "its shareholders".

I believe in the jargon, this is referred to as "the common law approach of shareholder primacy".

Going back to the "legal requirement" front, there is, for example s172(1) of the Companies Act 2006[1], which starts by saying:

"A director of a company must act in the way he considers, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole, and in doing so have regard (amongst other matters) to—"

So "must" is in the context of "benefit of its members as a whole", and a director is "only" required to "have regard" for other stakeholders that the legislation lists in (a)–(f). Its a bit of a word-salad, but effectively appears to re-enforce shareholder primacy.

[1]https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/172
The universe has come full circle.

For those of us who cannot resolve archive link.

Article
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-22/this-exch...

Matt Levine's
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-22/put-th...
What Is Function Calling for LLMs?
Yeah noticed, just pointing out that it's not 2x faster (still faster though and that's impressive!).

I implemented an basic DFA based engine like re2 once as an exercise and there was a performance cost (and building it cost a bit) so I wonder if they JIT non backtracking variant also?
Technically not FDIC insured.

I personally like CDs since the rate is locked and everyday someone is calling for a rate cut.
I'm fine with that. That's a fair exchange of value.

I'm not fine with them using that intellectual labor for any purpose whatsoever, indefinitely, forever. The only way to win at this point will be not to play; the downstream consequences will be the death of the open internet.
"Financialization" means vampire capitalism.

Case in point: Greyhound. Asset stripping (real estate). Slow death of service.

Find a lever for extracting cash. Lean on it. Pry out cash til there's only a husk. Rinse. Repeat.

"Private equity" - bah humbug.
Indeed - Keller is a low level hardware guy, and isn't going to have much interest in model versioning...
Drew Houstons[0][1][2] response is problematic. If they wanted to get to the bottom of this being true or not, they have the resources to do it on effectively a whim by asking their team to look into its veracity.

Rubs me the wrong way that they aren't proactively saying "we will look into the veracity of these claims", instead their response puts the impetus on the person / people most affected and thus may feel they be in worse circumstances if they say anything in the first place.

[0]: CEO of Dropbox

[1]: https://x.com/drewhouston/status/1760813498819568012?s=20

[2]: Screenshot in case of deletion https://imgur.com/a/VVldAwQ
If I ever encounter a CPU bug causing problems in my production code, I will consider my life complete. I will be satisfied that I've practiced my profession to a high degree of completeness.
This comes down to the usual boring semantic argument over what the term "garbage collection" means.

Instead, I'll use the term "automatic dynamic lifetime determination".

In a Java-style GC, there exists code that runs at runtime to determine whether or not the lifetime of a piece of memory can be determined to have expired.

In a reference-counted system, there exists code that runs at runtime to determine whether or not the lifetime of a piece of memory can be determined to have expired.

Of course, in the latter case the "code" is just checking a single counter rather than doing fancy concurrent root-tracing, but the similarity is established, and the alternatives are clearly delineable:

1) "Automatic static lifetime determination": this is what Rust does with ownership, by statically analyzing your code and automatically inserting code to free memory at statically-determined points.

2) "Manual static lifetime determination": this is the classic C-style memory management, where the author manually inserts code to free memory at statically-determined points.
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> I'm wondering what is most commonly used for tipping websites/content?

Probably something like ko-fi.com. I have it on my sites, but no one has ever tipped (besides my girlfriend, haha). I imagine other people do get tips via kofi, though.
Maybe the title makes more sense in the context where it's published?

But yeah, I think the HN title should be clearer.
No, they don't help if you're referring to "productivity hack" content.

Procrastination imo is far more related to your neurology – most of which is beyond your control.

I can't speak for others here but in my own life depression isn't really a demotivator unless I feel my circumstances are out of my control (which is rare), otherwise feeling crap about something is probably one of my single largest motivators to fix it.

I don't have ADHD so can't speak to that.

What works to some degree for me personally is just considering my brain's reward system. This will sound weird, but personally I find taking a bunch of caffeine exclusively when I'm do things I want to be motivated to do works very well at keeping me motivated to do that activity.

Caffeine is an easy way to give you a boost of dopamine so if you can associate that with an activity you'll just find you're just naturally drawn to that activity. I'd also recommend L-Tyrosine and L-Dopa if you want to get a bit more experimentative, however you'll need to be careful about how regularly you use these. Artificially boosting your dopamine levels can demotivate if it's not done in a targeted and infrequent way.

The other thing I try to avoid is negative emotions during activities I want to be motivated to do. If I associate a person / thing / place with a lot of negative emotions I find I disengage with time. Specifically stress is probably my biggest negative demotivating emotion.

The effects are subtle and take time, but they definitely work. I hear nicotine gum is amazing for productive too if you use it very infrequently. I've not tried it myself though because I'm not sure I'd be able to regulate myself.

I doubt any of this is going to help much if you're naturally a lazy person though. It just helps me a bit, although I've never had much of issue with procrastination anyway.
People tend to like thinking their particular area of expertise is the acme of human pursuit, and everything else gets more attention than it warrants.
Most developers would rather write code for a “swamp” that has long term backwards compatibility, than for a perfect ivory tower that will get replaced in 2 years by another more perfect ivory tower.
But then he'd never have made it to Hacker News.
I've had decent results with git in Dropbox, and now in SyncThing. There is nothing that git reset --hard can't fix as long as you keep committing to a server...
The company actually would have been profitable in 2023 if it didn't pay out >$200M in combined compensation to the CEO and COO.

Edit: cfo -> coo
Money market funds are not protected by FDIC. Savings accounts or CDs from banks are protected by FDIC. Your choice is likely to be made around risk. Granted, I don't think money market funds actually losing value or going to 0 is very common, but with FDIC insurance you have true 0 risk for <$250k per bank.
Does it? For the person who cleans that restrooms that money goes a lot farther. For the quick boot camp and we will write html it also goes farther. However for the good engineers it doesn't go nearly as far. Great engineers in India are in demand and their prices have gone up to match. I wouldn't attempt a project like this without a lot of great engineers. (Great engineers in India make less than the US equivalent, but the difference is narrowing)
I'm sure your spreadsheet software has a function for that. This will qualify your spreadsheet software as AI since it's smarter than the other AI.
It’s the same interview so probably
How long until people start putting cases on these like with phones?
Machine Translation used to involve complicated grammatical decoding, using search. Now we just use transformers for MT, with much simpler decoding that doesn't really need search.

Perhaps we can reach full inception. Let's use our current best-of-breed predictive models to learn heuristics for neural architecture search (NAS) and search for new neural blocks (better than transformer and mamba).
Swamps keep users trapped in, by making it difficult for a competitor to make a compatible alternative. Had Nvidia (or Intel or Microsoft) kept their product lean by aggressively removing backwards compatibility, they would have lost users AND made it easier for another company to compete.
Does your DNS block archive.is?
You call it whims, but I don't know of any bank that doesn't offer those protections. Generally the terms are that you have to report it w/i 30 or 60 days. Maybe some of the smaller credit unions?

but like the other poster, I've had people try to charge me for things that weren't mine and I've never had the problems people seem to imagine exist with debit cards.

At this point I've concluded it's a marketing scheme by the CC companies that has convinced large swathes of society that debit cards are dangerous.

Not only that, but I would argue the false sense of security of CC's makes it so people are less safe in their habits.
Microsoft Copilot AI makes up fake Vladimir Putin quotes from press conferences
enable settings that capped max watts and temperature for throttling to 90c.

You were going above 90C before???

My first thought is that seems insane, but is apparently normal for that chip, according to Intel: "your processor supports up to 100°C and any temperatures below it are normal and expected"

https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/i9-14900K-temperat...

That is just wild though. On one hand you should obviously get the performance that was advertised and that you paid for. On the other hand IMO operating a CPU at 90-100C is just insane. It really feels like utter desperation on Intel's part.

I would be curious what kind of cooling setup you have.
Surely, but I don't notice any less insane progressive takes, rather I also now see insane conservative takes. Appears additive to me.