skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if open weights are banned the companies and the governments still have them and can engage in whatever manipulation etc., that they want.

Furthermore, it means that these entities can listen to everything being sent into the models.

If the model weights and training data are not published you can't even try to determine whether the model is designed to manipulate you, because you don't even have a fixed object to look at. If you find something weird about the model and start probing, they can just change the model to be less obvious.

This kind of thing: government or commercial manipulation of models is one of the main problems, and the ability to probe, fine-tune and and modify the models are what allows ordinary people to make them do what they want; and this is a free speech issue. LLMs are going to be critical for journalism, to sift through data, to sift through other people's news and characterising it objectively, etc., and that requires absolute control of the model, which makes access to the weights absolutely necessary.

If there are restrictions on LLMs, then OpenAI, the diverse governments, the CIA, etc. must be subject to as severe restrictions as I am.
Reading log files with really obscure error messages might as well be reading a magical grimoire. Especially when the solution turned out to have nothing to do with the error message.
What problems do you face when crafting proposals?
I'm making a small research as a way to improve penna.app, a web-based tool to create storytelled proposals AI generated and sharable as a private website. What are your problems when crafting them?
This was very good. I’ve been working at the intersection of climate and finance for nearly 20 years, and I would add the following points to augment the story told in the podcast (article available on Apple Podcast).

1. Banks have enormous power to determine what the future looks like. This is exercised via licence to make loans (and issue money) from nothing more than a ledger entry. That loan or ledger entry often dictates the future as without credit projects don’t happen and business operations aren’t viable.

2. On a neutral reading, asking banks to change their practices is a bit like asking Kodak to make digital cameras. Banks are wired for issue of loans using their existing risk analysis tools. Adopting to a new world in which they must onboard new tools to assess climate risk is like asking Nokia to make a good smartphone.

3. On a less neutral reading, banks have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders over and above the well-being of a wider group of stakeholders. Add in that banks are staffed with employees very focused on material and financial gain, so the legal obligations are reinforced with internal cultural expectations. Banks are filled with people who don’t really want to undermine their very lucrative hustle.

4. Banks claim that they need government support and regulatory change to help them make an adjustment and level the playing field to make climate action viable. But they lobby against precisely those statutory changes that are needed. A climate catch 22.
And so it serves as yet another reminder that any corporation trying to "do good" is just the usual sociopathic anti-human bullshit doing unusually good PR.
Rounding by more than an ULP is pretty bad. I don't think it's odd at all to describe rapidjson's behavior as improper.

At least 122.416294033786585 is between ...888 and ...889, though it's much closer to the former.
Actually he recently founded an AGI company. But this post is about optimization more than AI, which he is definitely good at (though he doesn't claim to be the best).
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Well done, I was late to sleep and late to work. Entirely my fault for trying to improve my score. Very enjoyable game and thanks for making source available for study.
Their FAQ says

1. Scale-to-Zero: don’t ever pay for idle again;

So I believe this is true? Where are you seeing a pricing page anyway?
There were some cases where there was a noticeable impact, there's quite some benchmarks out there that show a clear difference in FPS and frametimes. But it always seemed like a borked implementation to me, rather than a problem with the product itself.
No. When the FAA grounds something, the FAA acts and gains trust. Not Boeing.

My interpretation of the door affair is that Boeing played for time and eventually $62M changed hands. (Edit: well, and the previous whistleblower suffered a most unfortunate accident.)
- I know what is good through utilitarian principles and my deep knowledge of science and Bayesian statistics

- AI safety is an imminent threat and the best solution is to form an AI company and sell large amounts of stock to big tech

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I guess you are right, yet seen from the perspective of an educator you might see the advantage of choosing a teaching approach that gets more people going in a faster way. I am not talking about people who are studying maths, but people for whom maths is an means to an end, or maybe even just an obstacle they are forced to deal with.

Imagine a language class where the teacher only engaged with those who already know how to speak the language, that would be seen as bad teaching, especially if it is a course for pre-school-kids.
Can you raise $20m and get the likes of Rich Sutton to collaborate with you?
I am still not sure what the killer app was for the Alpha. Other than OpenVMS/Alpha to provide the business continuity for existing VMS customers, DEC was not really all that successful with the Alpha from that perspective.

Yes, Windows NT Alpha did take off initially and was the go-to non-Intel platform for CPU hungry apps, but it was expensive and then Intel caught up with multi-processor Pentium Pro systems and that was the end of the Alpha.

Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC was effectively a hardware appliance to run the Oracle database (and SAP). SGI/MIPS covered the 3D graphics market. IBM POWER was the hardware to run DB2 and other IBM wares ported from mainframes for customers who did not want to have to deal with JCL and other hairy stuff. HP PA-RISC was an enigma that ran something although not that many people were sure what exactly it was. HP Superdome was pretty rad tho – I worked on a project for a telco that had purchased a 128 CPU Superdome to run their billing system on (ironically, it was IBM who had sold them on the Superdome). HP-UX before v11.21 had been buggy AF and overall an abomination.

Yes, Alpha could run Oracle as well, plus other things… they never seem to have taken off tho, and Alpha was quickly relegated to an IP garage sale.

From the technology perspective, Alpha was a resounding success, at least in the beginning.
I wasn't familiar with the term, either, but it's in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
Great work Dillon!

As you know the current setup with langpal's API is literally just next API routes from the marketing site. Bit of a strange and hacky coupling haha.

Can't wait to see and use this!
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We likely would have backported the change. I'm already planning a big rebase of packages that missed the Fedora 40 / C10S branch (related to RISC-V in that case).
Nebula does not have comments though, it is more like a creator managed Netflix.
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As a longtime Dynamixel user I agree the U2D2 adapter is pricey in comparison to other options, but I would like some quantification of the “latency is very high” claim. I have always found it to be a sure bet for low latency (~1ms) across a wide variety of platforms.
I had that feeling, too, especially when the author talks about climbing up to the endpoint to check the equipment. He knew it was a line of sight microwave link, so the first thing to check is obstruction or reflection by things that can move a little. I was thinking that it might only work when someone had a big flat-sided truck or RV in the right place to reflect the signal around something.

I've had trouble with tree growth in other contexts. A tree once slowly grew tall enough to break the neutral wire on the drop from the power pole to the house. This put overvoltages on some 110V circuits. Computers were fine. Washing machine emitted a burning smell. More recently, tree growth broke a fiber line coming into my house. AT&T lineman came out and restrung fiber for three poles (I'm a ways back from the main road). He saw me running a desktop computer, slowly, tethered to a phone, and once fiber was reconnected, said "Now you're back in 2023".

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It's a good way to ensure we don't get any wealth.
FYI, JWZ blocks linking from HN.
That depends on how many people are putting blind faith in terrible AI. If it's your doctor or your parole board, AI making a mistake could be horrible for you.
I had experienced this one and felt like I was going mad, and then I guess the humidity changed and I gave up/stopped thinking about it. It wasn't until a couple years later I saw a post here about the gas cylinders causing monitors to blank.
Also with Deno, it become very easy to write typed cli. .ts file can be run as script very easily with permission access defined on top of the script such as:

#!/usr/bin/env -S deno run --allow-net

Then one can just run ./test.ts if the script has +x permission.

Also project such as https://cliffy.io has made writing cli way more enjoyable than node.

It is a good idea to beware of the VC. So it is good idea to support project such as Hono (projects conform to modern web standard, and is runtime agnostic for JS).
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> Successful creators can reach huge audiences quickly and can expect significant monetary rewards, so they are incentivized to produce highly engaging content on a variety of topics, including educational or edu-tainment content.

We're not going to make it, are we? People, I mean.
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Zuck's take on the Apple Vision Pro is mostly aligned with my own (disinterested) take, having tried both the Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.
If you're fighting a war, automatic weapons are a pretty much essential tool for doing so effectively.

Yeah, war is bad. Sometimes the alternatives are worse.
You could blame it on anything you want because you're not using science. You could say it was radio waves, vaccines, processed foods, or micro plastics. You would never be wrong because the ones who haven't gotten cancer just didn't get enough exposure yet.
I love that after I don't even know how many years I can still find excellent ytmnds that I didn't know about
I don't understand your point. I don't even understand your argument.

The java runtime runs java.

And C++ and Rust are compiled and have no runtime.
> Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an April 1st effort to publish genuine essays on unexpected topics.

Honestly, reading "April 1st!", I was expecting this to be one of April's fools but it turned out to be a true and amusing story.

The author was lucky to solve a technical problem in a non-technical way, unlike me!

A decade ago, I had a weird Internet connection issue. The upload speed suddenly dropped to near zero kb/s while the download was alright. I contacted my ISP, and for weeks, they were unable to figure out what was going wrong. I reached out to my neighbor and offered him to pay his Internet bill in exchange for sharing his Wi-Fi with me until my ISP solves my problem, and he kindly agreed. After about three months, my ISP's technical staff was still unable to fix the issue. I gave up, and guess what I did to get around this?! I just moved away to another distant home.
This strengthens my theory that VC vocabulary consists almost exclusively of other people’s hot takes. I know only of two other groups of people who speak primarily in quotes: religious fundamentalists and teenagers during a brief fan-frenzy of some pop culture icon (eg Nirvana).
Really impressive list of changes. Bun sounds like the dream node alternative, I hope they succeed in their mission.

And I’m glad they spent time on Windows support, that’s something neglected in the web development world
Thanks, I didnt realize it came back online.
"...Bun on Windows passes 98% of our own test suite for Bun on macOS and Linux."

Does this mean the release was made with failing tests, or am I misunderstanding?
Was about to say this. Those multiprotocol proxies (presumably build to climb the Great Firewall) are an interesting microcosm. Tons of possibilities for obscure traffic routing. Also have android implementations. Used them just to open up a hotspot on a non hotspot SIM and non-rooted android a time ago. I am always wondering how trustworthy they are because they are packing tons of code taken from all over the net and have a quite interesting developer community for obvious reasons.
Imagine someone having a workflow for 20 years on an OS. This isn't like just IDE+browser. Wine/VM is spotty still. Also not having to fight with each piece of uncommon hardware.
You should read The Information Diet. Mostly agreeing with what you say but coming to a different conclusion of where to find better information.
What action should one do ?
I think you would be suprised how solid linux gaming is by now. I play Helldivers 2 with my son - One windows machine, one Ubuntu. No issues with anti-cheat so far. Only issue, with linux gaming, at the moment is some MS published games with wonky networking code (like AoE4). I see no performance dip at all on proton vs win-native.
Definitely! We plan on having a pay-per-millisecond pricing model as well.

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How do we report that. Some issues has come up with aws on esm.sh
https://esm.sh/@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager@3.540.0

It is just not working.
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It's sort of a good example of the counterpoint at the same time though: other than melanoma, skin cancer is pretty minor in general (and having it is correlated with increased life expectancy!) so combined with how rare melanoma is, I could imagine that a lot of such screening might not be associated with a net benefit.
This is definitely a hack and despite their claims that it's more robust they've introduced a load of more failure modes.

I can't imagine it's really that slow to edit the paths properly. It's probably just accidental N^2 or something.

Also it feels like there should be a proper field in ELF/DWARF for this if people are wanting to do it a lot (and it seems like a reasonable thing to do).
Age of Empires 2 does not work well on Linux.
Blink to generate power for smart contact lenses
Reminds me of that time when my desktop computer wouldn't turn on if the printer's USB was plugged in to the wrong kind of port. Took me some time to figure that one out.

Or that other time, when my mom's phone started crashing all of a sudden. Until we discovered, that it was caused by her new ID card in the folding phone case touching the back of the phone.
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It extends beyond the tech industry.

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Also a point to note to the WASM advocacy folks, this compiler toolkit is one of the first to have a bytecode format for C, called EM, shared across its languages, namely C, Modula-2, Pascal and BASIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_intermediate_language
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Signs of life from Lasse and a link to his web containing more information: https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/
> “Recently I've worked off-list a bit with Jia Tan on XZ Utils and”

> "In 2021, JiaT75 submitted a pull request to the libarchive repository with the title ‘Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar’ which seemed legitimate at first glance. "

Seems “Jia” is related to both
slow laggy site wtf
So many important points in dead and downvoted comments. Who the hell runs this site?
And he didn't prove that he actually did it at all. I will trust him on that given his reputation but the information in the article is so vague and basic that if we solely rely on that thin evidence literally everyone can claim the same.
Cool cheatsheet. As someone new to Rust, what are the benefits versus Go, C++, and C?