skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt they thought they'd take down the root servers, but it seems totally reasonable that they might have wondered if the root server operators would filter DDoS traffic based on the domain name appearing in the requests.

Which wouldn't have worked even if it worked.

When a recursive nameserver asks the root servers for the address of "916yy.com", the root servers are just going to direct it to the .com servers. Which the recursive nameserver already knows when it has the address of the .com servers cached, as would be the case >99% of the time, and would ask them directly instead of bothering the root servers to begin with.

Even in the rare case when the recursive nameserver doesn't have the address of the .com servers cached yet, that condition would last for approximately zero seconds before someone tries to resolve some other .com domain name and it gets cached, typically for at least a day.
Not even Apple is fully supportive of it outside their ecosystem, besides CLI tools and Linux based servers, as stated on Swift's open source website.

Seeing how much engagement Microsoft is having with .NET outside Windows and still failing in many fronts in regards to adoption by non-Microsoft shops, versus the little Apple has invested, I doubt it will really be any different than Objective-C.
When you talk to your mom and you remember something happening one way, and she remembers it another way, but you both insist you remember it correctly, one of you is doing what the LLM is doing (filling up gaps of knowledge with bull shit). And even when later you talk about this on meta level, no one calls this confabulation because no one uses that word. Also this is not a psychiatric syndrome, it's just people making shit up, inadvertently, to tell a coherent story without holes. It very much sounds you did the same. Everyone does this all the time.
Also related, the C++ lambda fuckup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33084431
> I don't believe any honest person in industry

The question should be whether you were genuinely confused about what the upthread commenter meant by using "these rare earth metals" to refer to battery reactants. You were not. You were just being a pedant. Now you're heaping onto the mistake by (1) calling the upthread comment "nonsense", (2) calling me "dishonest", (3) calling the discussion a "smear", and "slovenly".

Good grief. Can you really just not? There are ways to have this discussion without flinging poo...
LLMs can remember their sources. It's just additional knowledge, there's nothing special about it.

When you ask an LLM to tell you the height of Mount Everest, it clearly has a map of mountains to heights, in some format. Using exactly the same mapping structure, it can remember a source document for the height.
Had this same idea as I was reading the article. You could really automate a lot of the probing.
In 1960, the perception of consumer goods quality was entirely the opposite between US and Japan than it is today. "Made in Japan" was considered the same as "Made in China" today.
> Science is written in the language of mathematics,” proclaimed Galileo in 1623.

Not Science. Universe/nature.
So what happens if I don’t have internet access? Windows refuses to install?
> but rather are hallucinatory for some other interesting reason.

In improv theater, the actor's job is to come up with plausible interactions. They are free to make shit up as they go along, hence improv, but they have to keep their inventions plausible to what had just happened before. So in improv if someone asks you "What is an eggplant?" it is perfectly okay to say "An eggplant is what you get when you genetically splice together an egg and a cucumber" or similar. It's nonsense but it's nonsense that follows nicely from what just came before.

Large language models, especially interactive ones, are a kind of improv theater by machine: the machine outputs something statistically plausible to what had just come before; what "statistically plausible" means is based on the data about human conversations that came from the internet. But if there are gaps in the data, or the data lacks a specific answer that seems to statistically dominate, it seems like giving a definitive answer is more plausible in the language model than saying "I don't know", so the machine selects definitive, but wrong, answers.
They didn't call it an end to the world; they claimed that attempts to subvert democracy are fascistic.

Where's the hyperbole?
I think that David Marr really nailed things down though.

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5776/AIM-355....
Knowing the US modus operandi this was all a ploy to bleed TSMC while their own indigenous fab company (Intel) catches up.
This advice boils down to "write good code." Unfortunately, practical advice that goes beyond that is really hard.

Software engineering is hard because everything is a trade off! Should I add another layer of abstraction or just add another optional parameter? Should I add flexibility for future requirements or simplify the code so it's obvious to a junior programmer?

The answer to almost every question is, "It depends!"

What are the skills of the dev team? How much time do you have? Do you already have a lot of tech debt? Are you building a prototype or a safety-critical system?

Worse, many answers depend on unknowable facts: How will requirements change in the future? Will we ever need this functionality? Did we bet on the right ecosystem?

The best software engineers can balance all these questions, even the ones they don't have answers to, and come up with a design that works. The fact that we, as an industry, can build multi-million-line programs is a minor miracle. The wonder isn't that so many projects fail but that any succeed.

If anyone were to ask me for advice--which I notice they're not--I would just say two things:

1. Write lots of programs.

2. Work with good software engineers.
You’ve decided that your definition of “understanding” is correct. Ok.
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row [video]
The bunkers might be good for the short term, but long term you need to include the security forces families. Not sure a trained security force is going to listen to the billionaires if society fails.

And when people need supplies, those are going to be hit first.
If you press the "KTM" button ("keyboard tuning mode"), you can search for a string.
In Germany and Austria we have those Querdenker telegram channels. All examples I‘ve given are coming from there. I‘d really like to say I‘ve made it up.
But all you did with my message is also what I‘d do with AI output. It can be trained on wrong data, not understanding the question or make stuff up. Just like a human.
These are the words of someone who has not tried to crack Denuvo.
Yeah on the one hand people think AI management id dystopian (probably lol), on the other hand probably fewer than 50% of ICs promoted to management are good at it.

North of 25% are genuinely bad at it. We've all worked for several of these.

Many of us have tried our hand at management and then moved back to senior IC tracks. Etc.
The solution is available on Internet... [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/11r9q8o/windows_11...
How to Create a Scrivener Project to Use as Your Second Brain
They do this already all the time. Probably the majority of the time. The problem is that a minority of the time is still very problematic.

How do they do this? The same as they do now. The most likely token is that the bot doesn’t know the answer. Which is a behavior emergent from its tuning.

I don’t get how people believe it can parse complex questions to produce novel ideas but can’t defer to saying “idk” when the answer isn’t known.
Wasn't Node 17 released two and a half years ago?
Labor unions in different countries are completely different. For example, China has almost 100% union participation but it isn’t very meaningful. In some countries, unions are merely fronts for organized crime, in Japan and Northern Europe they are more like active partners.
It isn't in any sense US centric. Most countries do eat less than the US, some eat more, but this too is not relevant to my point. Beef is esteemed in Africa, yet they eat very little of it. As African countries become wealthier they eat more of it, so it stands to reason they also eat more of it when it becomes more affordable. The billion-ish people in India who never eat it have no effect on beef production, why would one person in the US abstaining, or a few tens of thousands, change this dynamic? The answer is that it doesn't.
I can't imagine anarchists thinking Obama would have been any better than Romney, and as for the Nation of Islam, in 2011 Farrakhan called Obama an assassin and a murder.
This is a pretty good description from my observation.
High overlap with Inbox Zero fans.
Would love to migrate from Evernote to Obsidian. But one part of what I use Evernote for is dumping PDFs in there for later reference (invoices, letters, etc.) and having the OCR do its magic for them to be discoverable again even without me having to tag or name things. Many of them are emailed in from various sources. Anyone doing something like that with Obsidian?
This flies in the face of plenty of constitutional rights. It'll be interesting to see this hold up in court.

edit: Based on these downvotes, I am *** SO DISAPPOINTED ** in modern hacker culture. This is not the hacker culture I grew up with. The one that welcomed youth and let them cut their teeth on the internet.

There's a growing element of censorship on both the right and the left that is wholly discouraging and dangerous. We must not lose our freedoms of speech, of access, of ideas, and of free thinking.

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN Y'ALL.

This is antithetical to everything I know at a bone-deep level.

Get this desire to control and to censor out of your minds.

Free thinking leads to a mind unbound by physics, uncaged by dictators. Censorship in all of its forms leads to polarization and lionization of evil thoughts and deeds. Do not succumb to this.
Cool, just add Gaza why would you remove it?
Why is it concerning? Why is what other people think a concern to you? No need to answer, its rhetorical, some non confrontational phrasing of "because I need them to behave the way I want them to behave in order to achieve my noble goals."

So you can't solve the problem yourself, you need the help of people who are uninterested in helping you or catastrophe awaits. There's no more perfect rationale as precursor to authoritarianism today.

Why cry over spilt milk? Go outside, enjoy life, the weather is nice. You can show me a million graphs from authoritative sources that demand respect in academic circles, so long as me and my lover can prance through a meadow picking wildflowers I'm not worried about it. I'd like to live in the real world for as much time as I have on this earth as I can. I can't save the world, I'd rather not get my blood pressure up looking at pie charts telling me I'm doomed, all I can do is accept that I live in a changing environment and enjoy the beauty of the world. It is still really beautiful out there you know.
Back in late 00's I worked for a very small shop where it was known that I was toying with the idea of moving on, so we were actively seeking to hire my replacement while I was still there (sounds insane, I know, but it was the right thing to do).

We had an application developed in-house (by me) and the new hire was to take it over -- this implied needing somebody who could become productive quickly and think on their feet. The app itself wasn't insane, just pretty standard (but bespoke) PHP/MySQL/JavaScript that powered a bunch of client sites, so I put together and proctored a "code test" to probably 15 applicants over the course of a year or so.

The extent of it was sitting them down in front of a computer in the office with a couple of simple tasks to be completed (outlined on paper), and a folder of files on the desktop. The tasks themselves were then almost entirely-documented in a big comment at the top of the relevant entry file (index.[php|html|js]). It should've taken somebody experienced an hour to do a decent job at -- yet, not a single person was ever able to complete it. Very few even got close, even though 80% of the work was literally done in the opening comment section, waiting to be copied and pasted. Almost nobody asked any questions whatsoever either, which I've always found strange.

Anyways, I did end up moving on and later participated in many dozens of incoming developer interviews at a much larger place -- other interviewers had their very-technical approaches, but I never again asked anybody to complete a coding task or whiteboard anything. I would simply ask them to walk me through where they've been, what they've done (built, contributed to, etc), and what they like to do. You can tell almost instantly when somebody is full of shit if they can't talk about previous projects in-depth or with fluency (or simply admit that they have no real experience and are hungry to learn).

The interviews where I would report back "not full of shit" turned out to be a bunch of great hires (including one guy who I had actually interviewed years prior with the doomed code test!)

Take all that for what you will -- my personal opinion is that companies are missing out on some really great people specifically because of the interview process, but I also get the feeling that lots of companies aren't actually looking for the people that would be the best hires -- good-enough / "warm body" hires promote business continuity, and that's really better for the bottom line in larger organizations.
Afaik Russia has its own DNS roots under their "sovereign internet" program, see for example "3. The Implementation of a Russian National Domain Name System (DNS)" here: https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/deciphering-russia...

I would assume that Chinese have similar capability, maybe some other countries too.
Transformers, Rise of the Mambas, coming to a theater near you!
What’s your recommended alternative?
> … I've no idea why it ever caught on.

People like YAML because it doesn’t require double quotes in the simple case of adding some text to a key. And people don’t like adding trailing commas to array items.

The problem is the insanity of parsing values like “true” or “off” or “123”.
I think it's interesting that C still exists despite great efforts to kill it.

First it was C++, then it was Java, now it's rust.

Perhaps it would be easier to fire WG14 for incompetence[1], add a few things to the language, and update the standard library.

[1] These guys haven't been able to come up with a non broken version of strcpy with 40 years of trying.
There is the complete and explicit answer what is ReactOS is supposed to be for:
https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ
You don’t need to convert back to yaml. Your json is valid yaml.
I manually update the few apps that I use but yeah, I don't let any of the TV system apps update. I only use Plex, PBS, and NewPipe
Few projects in the same realm that you should also checkout -

[1] Steampipe (https://steampipe.io/)

[2] InfraSQL (https://iasql.com/)
12nm Vs 4nm seems like a big deal
Once a comment in Hacker News gets replies, it cannot be deleted anymore.
Surely it can be treated the same as liquor and cigarettes?
> It might be better for the median American to cut down those industries and shift the economic mix to industries that create more solid middle class jobs.

Serious question: How, exactly?
Neither of these comments are accurate. (edit: but
renegade-otter is more correct)

Here's 1.5 EMA https://imgur.com/mJPKuIb

Here's 2.0 EMA https://imgur.com/KrPVUGy

No negatives, no nothing just the prompt. 20 steps of DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG of 7, seed is 1.

Can we make it better? Yeah sure, here's some examples: https://imgur.com/Dmx78xV, https://imgur.com/HBTitWm

But I changed the prompt and switched to DPM++ 3M SDE Karras

Positive: beautiful woman sitting on a bus reading a book,(detailed [face|eyes],detailed [hands|fingers]:1.2),Tokyo city,sitting next to a window with the city outside,detailed book,(8k HDR RAW Fuji film:0.9),perfect reflections,best quality,(masterpiece:1.2),beautiful

Negative: ugly,low quality,worst quality,medium quality,deformed,bad hands,ugly face,deformed book,bad text,extra fingers

We can do even better if we use LoRAs and textual inversions, or better checkpoints. But there's a lot of work that goes into making really high quality photos with these models.

Edit: here is switching to Cyberrealistic checkpoint: https://imgur.com/gFMkg0J,

And here's adding some LoRAs, TIs, and prompt engineering:

https://imgur.com/VklfVVC (https://imgur.com/ZrAtluS, https://imgur.com/cYQajMN), https://imgur.com/ci2JTJl (https://imgur.com/9tEhzHF, https://imgur.com/4Ck03P7).

I can get better, but I don't feel too much like it just to prove a point.
> Unfortunately, interpretations of the Federal Arbitration Act by the US Supreme Court in recent decades have made it very clear that what they're doing is legal nationwide under US law, with or without an opportunity to opt out.

Do you have sources for that? The reason I ask is because I am aware that forced arbitration clauses have been upheld at the point of purchase, but changing Ts and Cs after the fact, where many people may not even read them, seems like it should be a gross violation. What kind of contract law allows one party to change substantive terms in the contract at any time? I'd be very curious to know if that (specifically a change to forced arbitration after initial sign up) has ever been tested in court.

I was searching because I was curious, and I thought this Reddit comment has some good context: https://old.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/14eo9l0/changes_to_et...

That is (and I'm taking that comment with appropriate grain of salt) it does sound like companies add the opt out provision specifically to help these clauses stand up in court, so you should just always opt out.
Do you really feel like what they’re collecting is “spying on you” though?

They’re collecting errors and statistics to make the product better. It’s all anonymous and you can turn it off.

If it were Facebook ads, I’d be more sympathetic. But it’s automated bug reporting…
> Google knows alot about your behavior - they can and have been able to correlate online behavior with health and meatspace actions to identify budding extremists or people at risk of addiction, etc. AI will bring that capability to business processes.

not in the EU it won't.

if you can de-anonymize people from the data it's not anonymous, and collecting this data at all would be illegal in the EU without user consent, unless it's being used solely for the purpose of delivering the service.
Often all it takes to get someone into a better life position is listening to their story and finding the space to help as much as you can.

I helped my friend J get out of the woods two years ago, and I’m currently working with my new friends “R” and “M” and “D” (not going to out them) to get them permanent housing or vehicles.

All from just a simple conversation seeing how they were living and taking them through what they need to get back on their feet.
Retrospective Thoughts on BitC
I am not the average person. It's none of my business what the average person does. Just because the average person can't be trusted with something, doesn't mean I should have to suffer because of it.

Permission dialogs should be as informative as possible, sure, warn people that they're giving the app full access to their files if a permission is granted. If people still accept, then they accepted, it's their device and the device should respect their choice. It's not anyone else's responsibility to make that decision for them.
When is it worth the time and effort to verify a proof FORMALLY?
Goodness, this is weird. Written by an AI on acid?

And it never answers its own WHO WE ARE.
I hadn’t heard of Mamba before reading this article, and I was wondering if anyone has tried setting importance of a token as a TF-IDF or BM25 lookup. Requires a first pass to construct the token index but otherwise it seems like it would address the big issue that all these architectures have - they don’t know how “important” a token is. Interestingly this seems to be the crux of Mamba - deciding what tokens to forget! EMA other treats all tokens equally at sequence time. What if the tokens were weighted beforehand and the weights were passed as an attention mechanism? I wonder if anyone has tried something like this.
You're certainly not the one to be scolded for low information density in your videos.

(One semi-serious metric is the need to jump backwards to check something interesting when watching on 2×. This means the author/editor worked well on concise packing. Obviously, not applicable to live stream recordings.)

An article like that certainly can be linked here. Many similar ones are. There is no guarantee it will swoosh to the top, but it will be noticed by some people, and appear in someone's searches. Sometimes links are resubmitted years later, and finally get the deserved attention.
How about you show some examples of generated logos before anyone pays $30 a month? Also, why would I need to generate hundreds for that price, make it 4 logos for $5 and I’m sure a lot of people will try it.
There's some weird magic incantations that worked for me ~6 months ago, involving breaking open a secret console, tying random arcane shit, and disconnecting the computer from the internet, in a precise sequence. Who knows how long these procedures last. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...

The idea that an OS wouldn't even install without Internet connection is wild.

A new years resolution was to stop using Windows on my desktop, my only windows machine. I haven't had to do a windows boot yet this year! I had a couple hiccups setting up Steam (hadn't installed enough :i386 packages, was using my existing NTFS mounts & you need to symlink a compatdata in to make that work well), but it's been basically flawless.

(That said, power management has been a beast. My GPU seems to want to run it's memory at max mhz, USB devices power control has been a huge headache & trying to get them to sleep after a reasonable amount of time (>>>2s) hasnt worked like it seems like it should, and susoend hasn't worked on windows or Linux much to my chagrin.)
And at railway stations, although there are somehow never enough clocks at railway stations.
I'd be surprised if I went to buy a watch in a store and they handed me a dead watch. How do I know it even works? If they offered to replace the battery when I purchased it, I would take my business elseware, since I don't know if I trust their ability to change a battery correctly.
That might explain the motivation for why the Δ variable is used and varied; but not the "Selectivity", which the article says is expressed by how the matrices B and C vary while consuming input.

Something I've noticed is that B, C and Δ depend only on the current token. See this: https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/images/mamba/ssm_algorith... -- Another thing is that I've noticed that the definition of "SSM" in the image I've linked to is apparently recursive. This is also in the Arxiv paper. Strange.

+1 though for making me go back to the article and read it more carefully! +1 also to the article.
Design = thinking things through. If that’s not a competitive advantage, I don’t what is.

You must see the irony in advocating for 4 things that the market has proven it doesn’t particularly value as being some kind of advantage?
There is this tendency to see younger generations as ideal candidates, however this may be the flaw in thinking. Those who have lived a full life, who know themselves quite well, and have an idea how they may maintain their interests and purpose in an extreme circumstance that has no definite end would likely be more suited for these types of objectives.

Does anyone remember in the old days, when the crews of starships in our science fiction where all in their grey years? When did we swap out mature well developed contenders for such youthful (and less self aware) prospects?