skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem, all of you are welcome! Very enjoyable article.
Worth noting that is a step up from NVidia who moved their driver to the GPU and open sourced a configuration file.
something = "else";

That is not observable for the primitive JS types that aren't objects and have no methods or properties or getters/setters (string, number, boolean, undefined, symbol, null).

some.thing = "else";

The `some` can be proxied and observed. Most frameworks are setting up the `some` container/proxy/object so everything can be accessed and observed consistently. Whether the framework exposes the object, a function, or hides it away in a DSL depends on the implementation.
Has there been an open-source fork of Vagrant that's picked up any steam yet?
> So I find it somewhat distasteful that the NIH brain scans were/are cited as a proof one way or the other.

What the scans were matters too. Eg an MRI brain might be ‘normal’, but would a scan targeting the inner ear? A report from an MR looking for evidence of Meniere’s would be interesting.
> Is that really a reliable metric for activity there?

You see, that's like naturally an indication of activity.

> Exodus

A lot of people left searching for alternatives. Well, there was none and there is none - let's face it. However some stayed on Lemmys of the world and many (No, I don't have empirical statistics on these) returned but yet didn't really return. Many returnees have a quasi-zombie-like presence on reddit now (I am one example). I barely participate and if I do it's a quip or two couple of times a month. Basically, for some reason, I just don't give two shits about the "community" aspect of Reddit anymore. No, it's not anger. Something just went missing.

I was regular at and still visit two largest of the country and city subreddits (and few more) and the decrease of quality and engagement is palpable there. If nothing - the lull and uncertainty decreased the engagement and greatly degraded the experience of being there.

Many smaller and mid sized niche subs are just gone. Either made private permanently or are left abandoned with rules in place that makes engagement impossible. Reddit can take over and force the mods out but the engagement is not coming back. Remember these places were built from before Instagram and apparently mainstream Twitter generation. I doubt that is going to happen again. It was from another time and populated by a generation that didn't mind writing long texts and finding great content and sharing without an expectation of "influencer" status and income, among other things.

Having said that, I was shocked to see some of the Lemmy instances to be really active like small flourishing islands. Check some book/book review related for example if you are interested. A friend had sent me the link once - it was some "cafe", I can't recall; there might be more. I have no interest in those instances so I never joined.

tl;dr: people who cared - a lot of them - left. I think that matters.
Obligatory ColorForth link https://colorforth.github.io/primer.htm

Colour as syntax.
You can do it online as long as you purchase your JR pass from the official JR-operated websites (https://japanrailpass.net/en/ -> https://www.japanrailpass-reservation.net/), and not through any of the third-party authorized resellers (e.g. jrpass.com, which appears to have won the SEO game). I was able to book tickets on specific trains online quite conveniently through the same website that I purchased the pass. While I still needed to go to a kiosk to print out tickets, I feel like I reaped the benefits of it by being able to snag windows seats early on a few scenic yet nearly full trains.
We really need better long context benchmarks than needle-in-a-haystack. There is LV-Eval (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05136) with multi-hop QA that's better but still pretty basic.
> have him fix it to his liking

Like when he strolled into Twitter, acted like he knew better than everyone, delivered nothing and then left.

There is far more to achieving things in large companies than simply having great technical skills.
It's not even "human knowledge" that can't be written down - it seems all vertebrates understand causality, quantity (in the sense of intuitively understanding what numbers are), and object permanence. Good luck writing those concepts down in a way that GPT can use!

In general AI in 2024 is not even close to understanding these ideas, nor does any AI developer have a clue how to build an AI with this understanding. The best we can do is imitating object permanence for a small subset of perceptible objects, a limitation not found in dogs or spiders.
Companies like Packard Bell put them in to lengthen the list on the features sticker and so all the front facing 5.25” bays would not be blank.

It was marketing these PC’s based on selling at retail in big box stores. Mostly to people who were not engaged with tech enough to build their own machines or go to a builder.

Anyway, people had legacy 5.25” disks past the millennium…at least I did and my last computer with a 5.25 floppy lasted almost to 2006. Only disposed of because I sold my house and moved out of state. I built it in 1996 with a 5.25” for those aforementioned legacy discs.

That’s how it was on my street, but I didn’t live in Silicon Valley and didn’t work for big tech…I set up a sneaker net in 1997 where I worked.
Israelis are usually off from the evening of Friday (sundown) till the evening of Saturday (sundown) for Shabbat. Where did you get the idea that they’re off on Fridays during daytime?

In this context, middle eastern countries with Islam as the majority religion have the day off on Fridays.
Is it tenuous evidence when Russian agents were photographed at the scene?

Clumsy moves like this are a hallmark of Russian operations, for example, the UK poisonings.
> I'm especially curious how it will do on more "obscure" languages.

There’s definitely a lack of training data and ability (but unfortunately not confidence) in less widespread languages. It’s quite bad at pinescript, confusing versions of the language and producing unrunnable code, and being unable to correct it when given feedback
Replying here to both.

I don’t disagree on any of your technical points. But I also think for practical purposes you’re missing the forest here. I agree with the sentiment of the article - I think the big trend in general purpose PLs is a blend of multiple classical paradigms. Perhaps we’re moving the goalpost and paradigms need to be rearranged - but that is intrinsically interesting - it’s literally the continents of knowledge drifting slowly into new configurations.

Single-paradigm languages like prolog, CSS or SQL keep their restrictions not because the lack of use-cases, but because the benefit of keeping the complex execution engines away from the end-user exceeds the minor wins in expressiveness.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the declarative languages are in this category. They are higher level, and opening up low-level customizations is really tricky: for instance, if you put imperative code inside your CSS, it needs complex “re-evaluation rules”, that results in a dilemma: either give full control to the programmer, which imposes specific execution engine designs and complex API surfaces – or re-evaluate too often, which risks killing memoization and perf (cache invalidation). It could be even worse if the code has side-effects or dep cycles.

On the contrary, imperative low level languages like Rust can easily come along and say things like: “this is not only a function, but a side-effect free function”. “This is not just a reference, but an immutable reference”. Then you can cleverly leverage those traits in your “execution engine” ie the compiler, to deliver low-level perf. There are even people who describe rust as a high-level language for these reasons, which is a bit provocative to me but in all honesty not completely outrageous.

An alternative take on the last 10-15 years:

- General purpose PLs typically have an imperative base, while integrating multiple classical paradigms:

- Only a few aspects of OOP are added to modern PLs, where inheritance has largely been superseded by simpler composition

- Features from FP have surged in popularity, being integrated and even retro-fitted into general purpose PLs, providing both perf- and DX improvements

- Structured meta-programming and/or codegen has been a strong focus for compiled languages, acknowledging that it’s preferable to limit the complexity of the core language at the expense of separate pre-compile phases
Preach brother! My sentiments exactly. And I've developed SPAs that are massively complex and highly interactive, and whatever problems these folks are referring to that stuff like this supposedly solves, I've not yet encountered.
Oh, this is a very neat tip:

umr --list-blocks

Getting versions of all these IP blocks for a specific card can be confusing.

UMR repo for the reference: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr
If anyone has the means, it may be worthwhile to invest in life extension research. We’re losing more great minds every year.
This is my thought too.

Whenever I see one of these "crazy ways criminals give themselves away" stories I'm now thinking I'm probably looking at a parallel construction.

During the Floyd protests a woman was recorded on camera in Chicago destroying a police car. A week or so later the police arrested her and claimed an improbable series of gumshoeing around the tee-shirt she had on, figuring out where it was purchased and subpoena sales records then doing a lot of cross referencing.

Far more plausible to me is they pulled cellphone location data.
I knew most of the stuff in that article. If I wake up at 5am on full alert, mind racing, I read for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep when it's possible. I know that I can't function well on less than 7 hours, so I don't try.

The article seems to be taking about people on the verge of entering "the facility", on their slow slide into dementia, who are making do despite not getting enough sleep. I'll get back to you when I hit 70.
Is four years really 'long tail' these days? Our VM host box is from 2010 (and I had to rebuild llama.cpp locally without AVX to get it working :P )
> They can see the traffic if you're using one of their load balancers.

Only if you let them manage the SSL connection. Load balancers can easily relay individual TCP connections that are encrypted - load balancing doesn't require decryption.

> And even if not, snooping on VMs is pretty trivial.

They'd have to go out of their way to do this, and this would probably be the end of them if it were ever found out. So it's safe to assume any provider who wants to continue existing will not be doing this.
Why will it no longer work?

When you forward an email, unless the email forwarder modifies the message content, it should still match the DKIM signature, so it still passes.
Roughly 50% of my daily Spam comes from @gmail & @hotmail/@outlook accounts.

What exactly are they doing about that ?
Bad sound systems... wow, yeah, that's right up there with building gas vans.
> You don't need a large computer to run a large language model

While running tiny llama does indeed count as running a language model, I’m skeptical that the capabilities of doing so match what most people would consider a baseline requirement to be useful.

Running 10 param model is also “technically” running an LM, and I can do it by hand with a piece of paper.

That doesn’t mean “you don’t need a computer to run an LM”…

I’m not sure where LM becomes LLM, but… I personally think it’s more about capability than parameter count.

I don’t realllly believe you can do a lot of useful LLM work on a pi
Do you think that maybe your dire world view might be caused by force feeding yourself a steady stream of rage bait articles while you are supposedly "escaping" reality?
And I hate to make blanket statements about generational stuff, but the incoming teenage generation grew up with social media and covid. These kids are extremely sheltered from my experience. I've got two neighbor kids that I talk to once in a while who are 10 and 12. They're squishy fat babies with 0 social skills and throw tantrums when they don't have their iPads. I invite them and their mom over when I have fires. They play games on their phones and can't make eye contact with me or have a conversation. I've lived across the street from a park for two years now and haven't seen any kids there ever. Not once.

This is all very hand wavey but I'm
worried about this new digital generation. I'm now the person I never thought I'd be saying this, but these kids are soft.
You seem to assume Mullvad stores something that allows correlating a Mullvad account to a specific incoming envelope.

Or that they store something that allows correlating an IP+time to a Mullvad account.
It's "this isn't isn't happening, and if it is it's a a good thing"-adjacent.
Digging a bit apparently it's a Linux binary and Windows would need a version compiled from source.
When I was a PhD student ips in header were a great way to see if professors I was working with were traveling or not...
Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance
Maybe I'm seeing things through a modern lens, but if I were trying to restart civilization and was only left with ChatGPT, I would be enraged and very much not grateful for this.
Yes, that's a problem, but it's also a bit of an unfair dunk.

After all, your CPU almost certainly runs firmware with all the same issues. Not to mention all other GPUs from all other vendors.

Despite all of the noise-making, I don't think anybody has really convincingly made the case that the firmware quality is the main issue here, as opposed to the quality of the rest of the stack.
There was a short entertainment clip on YouTube with ex-CIA person Jonna Mendez - that I can't immediately find - in which she said(as accurate as my heavily quantized memory goes) "The Agency can produce anything, so long it's made of paper, for official purposes". And it struck me, despite aware that spies forge documents all the time: it'll be the real deal when they do it. There is some process legitimacy that backs those.

I doubt the xz maintainer would have rejected Mr. Jia Tan with verifiable record of employment with a defense contractor and complete Virginia identity, on the basis that their printed application form has no fingerprints and is not showing valid printer tracking dots. That isn't realistic at all, and wouldn't have mattered.
You can just say that you believe in the great replacement theory.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/impending-us-population-de...

There’s a lot of nuance to this off-topic topic. I encourage you to try harder in your comments here.
I'd like to see more experiments with firms that actually focus on providing a better product more effectively to maximize shareholder profit legitimately rather than through abusing dark patterns/ignoring the business purpose entirely for weird ESG goals. When that was the norm rather than an experiment progress happened at a much faster rate and progress makes us all rich enough to pursue our dreams and interests rather than toil at work all day to scrape by. Focusing on technological improvement to drive sustainable economic growth makes firm composition irrelevant because it gives individuals more freedom to pursue whatever they want to pursue.
It's so pointless to argue about what percentage of which group should be toiling in which salt mine. The goal should be to grow enough that we have the leeway to pursue our individual interests
> Aldi tries to signify that absence with a lackluster presence, with mock marketing that conveys minimal effort.

I read the article as being that actually. It’s the postmodern “generic” label. The traditional mocking of the brands, so to speak, were the plain black on white products from the 40 years ago, but today it won’t fly, it needs to have a self referential ironic flare. But idea is pretty much the same.
I'm using NextDNS with AdBlock list, which is effectively a Pi-hole on the cloud.

The most annoying this is when email senders use click tracking on domains that are blocked by those AdBlock lists. I keep a separate browser instance to copy-paste those links into, but then I have to login again.

I prefer sending unsubscribe emails instead of clicking links. Gmail can automate it.
Is it easy to find where the matvecs are, in LLaMA (if you are someone who is curious and wants to poke around at the “engine” without understanding the “transmission,” so to speak)? I was hoping to mess around with this for Stable Diffusion, but it seemed like they were buried under quite a few layers of indirection. Which is entirely reasonable, the goal is to ship software, not satisfy people who’d just want to poke things and see what happens, haha.
The vending machines often have ones with a bottle shaped hole explicitly telling you to only throw bottles in there.
I feel part of the problem is the adversarial environment created by the lack of proper consumer laws e.g. returns/warranty and credit card fees are strongly regulated in Australia, whereas in the US taxes aren't included in the sticker price, tipping and there's a general opacity about the actual cost. If there's no trust, then people go looking for signals like "free shipping" to see there's no hidden fees.
At least I didn't have the power of the spez and use it to edit someone else's comments.
> and it is very difficult to say definitively that I am really experiencing those images in a fundamentally different way from someone with aphantasia

The fact that you experience them at all is different than people with aphantasia. I don't have complete aphantasia, but it is extremely difficult for me to visualize anything or have any mental imagery. And even then, such imagery is very vague, and colorless. Mostly my thoughts are just words.

Recently someone asked what kind of tree I think of when I see the word tree. This was a very strange question for me, because I when I read or hear the word tree, I don't have any mental picture of a tree, just an idea of what a tree is.
> cutting edge of automotive design

Uh-huh.
Local LLMs are also a fantastic too for creative endeavors. Without prompt injection and having the ability to modify the amount of noise and "creativity" in the output, absolutely bonkers things pop out.
the kiosk factor is great to hear. Ive tourguided foreigners around several times in the past and having to wait on them to do everything seperately in the office always took the wind out of my sails when getting around.
There's a Russian joke that takes it up to 11 - about a new manager who is assigned to a department, and on his first day he convenes an all-hands meeting and explains the new work schedule:

Monday: recuperating after the weekend

Tuesday: preparing for work

Wednesday: work

Thursday: recuperating after work

Friday: preparing for the weekend

After the presentation, he asks the audience if they have any question. The most senior employer rises and asks, "So wait, you mean we're going to toil like horses EVERY WEDNESDAY NOW???!"

(As far as I can tell, this dates back to Soviet times at least, if not earlier.)
For what it's worth, jrpass.com is a reseller. JR nowadays has an official online site to sell the pass, which prices in JPY. https://japanrailpass.net/en/

Others have pointed out the currency conversion, which helps in keeping it affordable. But it's worth pointing out that individual train fares are also priced in JPY, and therefore are also cheaper in USD because of the same currency conversion. Compared to the huge increase in price of the pass, train fares themselves have stayed relatively stable. As a result, while the pass itself may still be affordable to those of us using USD, it's even more likely nowadays that it just makes more sense to pay for the individual train fares than for the pass.
You don't even need to be a huge retailer to get good shipping rates.

Even for a small business, opening an account will get you double digit percentage discounts on retail shipping rates.
I went directly under the 2017 eclipse.

Vantage point was pretty irrelevant to the experience…beyond being outdoors of course.

Traffic afterwards was terrible.

Good luck.
romhacking. I want to make patches to old console games from the late 80s and early 90s. I've never really worked with binary data before, so I have had to learn some new things.
Bang on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity

To be clearer (and fair to the context): "Pure" intersex is

conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female", stating the prevalence of intersex is about 0.018%

whereas more general chromosomal aberrations that deviate from " unquestionably male " or from " unquestionably female " come in at just under 2% (as I recall).

FWiW I believe there's a bit more to behaviour than pure genetics but it's a hard one to pin down; outside of western society there are many places with a long history for not caring about gender nearly as much as abrahamic westerners seem to; the Bugis, pacific sistergirls, etc.

From a datascience perspective there's a non zero number of actual people in Australia that are born intersex and neither male nor female at birth to warrent a non specific gender entry on passport databases .. as a matter of cold pragmatic fact divorced from any "woke" and|or "culture war" politic posturing.
Yup, I like this point. Oils / YSH is kind of a mash-up between shell and Python:

1. shell-like commands - ls *.py

2. python-like expressions - 42 + a[i] + f(x, y)

So it would be nice to highlight them differently to help people learn the language. It's not always obvious where commands are valid and where expressions are.

https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/ysh-tour.html
There are exceptions to everything. But only native-born US citizens are eligible for some jobs, e.g. in the military. Other countries may be even more particular and require your parents to be natives too. This is not discrimination but plain old common sense. What foreigner or foreign-adjacent person can really be trusted? If there is an exception to be made, the trust extended must be minimal.
You might be interested in some recent movement on this issue in California: https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20231009-california-banning-...
A human–AI collaboration workflow for archaeological sites detection (2023)
most other services (Stripe, ChatGPT, Google Workspace) also don't seem to offer refunds?

And neither do most restaurants either; what's to prevent someone from getting a service and then a full refund?
I don’t understand why the imaging done in these studies isn’t more focussed on the inner ear. Maybe it’s already been rules out, but I can’t find anything that suggests it has.

Things like Ménière’s disease are a PITA to image, but it’s possible.
The traditional wisdom is that if you go down to Deep Ellum keep your money in your shoes.
That's just email working as intended. You pay a third party a small monthly fee to handle email blasts via a relay.
Dense urban areas are often blanketed by a range of spectrum sensors for the purpose of retroactive correlation (e.g Palantir) with other metadata sources.
I haven't read the article yet but I think sometimes its good to be loud and good to get caught because you're saying "we can get you" to the people the public don't know exist yet.
Or does it? If you enhance security footage to make a barely visible face recognizable it will make it but it won't be the person in the footage anymore.
Plus he isn’t using oflag=direct, so since output file is small it isn’t even making it to disk. I think it would only be sent to page cache. I’m afraid he is testing CPU and memory (bus) speeds here.

oflag=direct will write direct and bypass page cache.
I'm not following your reasoning. It appears to be disjointed. Please explain
Except the derived class can simply change the visibility of the override, so...
Good catch! I'll fix this soon.