skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Discord breaks YouTube's 24 hour view record with April Fools Prank [video]
Sometimes it is fine. For example, reference BLAS will check if the input scalars in DGEMM are exactly zero, for

C <- alpha*AB + beta*C

If beta is exactly 0, you don’t have to read C, just write to it.

The key here is that beta is likely to be an exact value that is entered as a constant, and detecting it allows for a worthwhile optimization.
Comment I saw on Ars:

>Interestingly enough, "Jia Tan" is very close to 加蛋 in Mandarin, meaning "to add an egg". Unlikely to be a real name or a coincidence.
The pandemic was hard on people world wide, probably harder on people outside of America. Only America is seeing this trend.

The pandemic and anti-social behaviour is not the cause. American people are not unique, but the built form of their cities and the type of cars they drive is. That is more likely the cause.
Same experience here as other repliers. I've had to call the IRS a small number of times and each time I called, I got an english-fluent human who was surprisingly helpful and straightforward. It was definitely unexpected.
Marc is very specific about this. He had a whole post on it.
I honestly had forgot that, if I ever knew it. But I think the point stands that in many contexts you'd rather have the nuances of this kind of thing explained to you - able to represented by many different sequences of tokens, each individually being low probability - instead of simply taking the single-highest probability token "1".
Bun and Vite are not analogous. Bun is a runtime with a standard library, bundler, test runner. Vite is a bundler. You can run Vite through Bun.
Lyricist Taupin said that the story intends to be about a man, returning to a small-town after the war, who longs to return to the life he had before.

https://americansongwriter.com/daniel-by-elton-john-and-bern...
The rest of the world has phones and they're not seeing what America is seeing. Not likely the cause.
Is there any progress on identifying the attacker? This would make it much easier to find out it this was really a state-sponsored attack.

If this backdoor can be classified as a crime, github logs can identify the IP/location/other details of the attacker which is more than enough to identify them, unless their OPSEC is perfect, which it almost never is (e.g. Ross Ulbricht).
The article is clear and I agree with it, and so do the stats. Airline safety is in the ridiculously safe category. The point of the article, and stats that are easily looked up, is that there have been 0 deaths this year on major airlines but despite that a door blew out and people are loosing their minds, for months. Put this energy into figuring out how this industry has been so incredibly successful at safety so that we can apply that to cars, medicine, industry or basically any other place because airlines are s-a-f-e and the fear and panic people are driving right now because of a door is actually likely to make things worse and not better. I love aviation. I spent a large chunk of my life dedicated to it but we can't innovate even one little bit because a door broke off meanwhile we drive by fatal accidents on the road all the time. Most people know people that have died in a car accident and many have even been in near fatal accidents but there is no panic, fear or months long panic in national media over the 30k+ deaths on the road every year. I'm not blithe. I am actually mad. I -love- flying but we are devastating the industry with panic to the great loss of everyone. Go ahead, keep hyping the fear and drive people from the skies and onto the roads so that they can actually be in danger.
For someone who does not understand the packages used, could you please summarize in layman non technical terms. Thanks I did read the main post.
> This commit imports the v5.6.1 release of xz-utils, replete with binary inputs in tests/files/ for regress testing.

Cute.

I'm half surprised that they didn't say something like "with only 2 vulns in base in living memory, we've resorted to importing them":P
Because we are less despotic than China?
I was curious what architectures were supported by the original GCC, if not x86. It seems the answer is vax and 68020: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History
> Osborne said the vast majority of projects funded by U.S. DOT have focused on making America's roads faster and more efficient, not safer.

Pretty much this is the cause (alongside the steady increase in SUV use). We need the opposite trend and slow traffic to induce a reduction in injuries and deaths.
Yup, all doable. 15yrs ago, I'd build custom Xen PV images for Debian and Ubuntu VMs that would start off as running debootstrap into a chroot. It was basically just that a directory you'd customise files in and turn into a tarball.
I haven’t used them yet for full sized apps, but they are both fantastic for scripting and small CLIs. Between the ease of running scripts, nice standard libraries, npm ecosystem, and excellent type system, I now feel TypeScript is a better scripting language than Python or Ruby.
No, C++ wasn't used for gcc until 4.8 (released 2013).

Source: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
Why Nest over Next? Is it worth switching?
(2023)

Lots of previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691468
Isn't the lesson only that ids shouldn't be floats? If they were integers everything would be fine, but JS numbers aren't integers, even if they look like them sometimes.
Low Cost Robot Arm
It can be sometime worse. During 2008 crisis many of Andreesan's posts for entrepreneurs were actually bad advice which were pro VCs.
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RIP Ross J. Anderson
We don't need to find out, wikipedia itself documents it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_the_mo...
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Is 1000 bees more or less aware than 10 buffalo?
Bradford pear trees banned in few states – More are looking to eradicate them
From my understanding of looking at denuvo, yes, but at the moment that would require something close to full system emulation -- it's hard to "hide" everything about your 3d hardware in particular, because engines often include different code depending on your exact card, it's GPU power, amount of memory, etc. Emulating a "standard" 3d card would introducing a fairly huge overhead.
> The people who designed those things ultimately threw in the towel and said that if you want that kind of security, use containers or VMs.

I can see why they chose that route. It's a huge maintenance burden. I can't imagine Google throwing in the towel when it comes to securing their browser's JS engine though.
My tongue in cheek answer is that you need consciousness in order to get up in the morning and eat something, or else you die. What are the chances that food comes on its own into your mouth?

The serious answer: consciousness has the role to protect the body by adapting to the environment. At the same time consciousness is based on system trained with environment data, all we know comes from outside.
Jon Stewart on the False Promises of AI [video]
I think they used the word "support" to mean "use", rather than "build". That is - they weren't asking Bun developers to _build_ an alternative to Discord, but rather to stop _using_ Discord.
Risk is low. A copycat can copy but code is only part of the equation.
why not. verve has revenue in the millions, and can move private market perception by millions so there's both desperation and incentives
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Remote: Yes

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Introduction
RAG Using OpenAI
Streamlit App for RAG Using OpenAI
RAG Using Google Gemini Pro
Streamlit App for RAG Using Google Gemini Pro
Using Knowledge Retrieval from OpenAI
Load Multiple PDF files or Folder
RAG Using Ollama(Local) — Mistral Model
RAG Using Huggingface Pipeline and Mistral Model
RAG — Semistructured Data — Extracting Text and Tables
Embeddings
Vectorstores
LLM Frameworks
RAG Evaluation
Potential RAG Issues and Solutions
Major Cloud Vendors — RAG and Vector Stores
LLM-RAG Research Papers
Conclusion
Reference
Support is now upstream
It just handles it natively. The internal representation is coefficient and exponent. Parsing `1e100` results in storing 1 and 100 separately. That's why parsing huge JSON numbers is not a problem. The problem comes when you do arithmetic on it, which is when it needs to convert the number into the libgmp representation.
Related:

Some more anecdotes & discussion

Ross Anderson has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210
> Let's think step-by-step _like LLMs_

Made my day
[new] eyewitness testimony that challenges the US intelligence community assessment that it’s “very unlikely” Havana Syndrome is the work of a foreign adversary.

So its still just people saying their headache was a directed energy beam with no actual evidence.

“Two major National Institutes of Health studies … found no consistent evidence of brain injury”
Mini Macro Pad v1.1.0 release
Macro Pad driver software, written in Golang. If you have an arduino powered device, you could use this to run various keyboard shortcuts and other macros. No device? No problem! You can still click on the buttons to run the macros.
This link helped a little. https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78b...
My wife and I were planning a trip recently and when she was booking the flights we almost passed on one because it was a going to be a Boeing. In this case though it was a 737-800 which allegedly has a good safety record: 0.06 fatal crashes per million flights.
We had an office in a very old building downtown with no access to fibre. The best internet we could get at the time was a 3G router in the window. Every afternoon at the same time our connection would drop down below 1 Meg and become unusable. Eventually we realised that down the street there was a large school and every afternoon when classes were over, hundreds of young people would turn in their phones and saturate our cell.
the "control" of a "weighted control economy" is usually enforced through government (including those politicians you reference). so when we bring in more government then it's less free market. how close we are getting to a free market depends on who is in power and calling for reduced government intervention/regulations for businesses.

as far as control of media, traditional media is becoming increasingly irrelevant and when free speech is allowed on social media the economy becomes more free.

and small players seem to disrupt all the time. openai being the most obvious recent example. twitch being another notable example before that.

i usually don't respond to distracting personal questions, but your use of bicameral confused me a little. did you mean to say binary?
Avalanche Porcupines
be rich enough to be a limited partner, means you're rich enough to have your own specialized lawyer to review the contract (instead of "I know a guy" "my cousin" "prepaid legal" "general counsel"), rich enough to afford an MBA, rich enough to do a dry run in setting up your own hedge/vc/pe fund

otherwise, I don't know exactly. but I've personally been reading wiki pages on fund structures since I was 18 and not eligible for anything, just dissecting the quiet class systems I noticed. scouring SEC documents, and validating my assumptions with hedge fund lawyers and being an LP when I could afford it later
> you have free markets ... or planned economies

Believe it or not, humanity's economic markets cannot be fully described by two simple categories.
From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly
Timeline of the xz open source attack
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39892015
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39892015
I’m no lawyer, but it is at minimum tortuous interference.
Libertarian Socialism vs. Capitalism with Robert Murphy [video]
> "A joint media investigation ... findings from its five-year probe with The Insider and Der Spiegel ... Mark Zaid, an attorney with security clearance representing more than two dozen clients with Havana syndrome symptoms ... said there's evidence of a government "cover up" ..."

Should be interesting to watch ...
Just wanted to chime in and say that if you use the CLI to generate things, the experience is much nicer. However, you do still need to be in their playground. If you have a large team out org and don't want to have to document extra about the guts, I love having something proven. If you need to mix protocols, I believe Feathers JS was a little simpler to get into last I looked.
> The whole effective altruism movement is infected with this bizarre space feudalism.

This is basically what "longtermism" is. It's "we will amass huge amounts of capital to rule you now, because we know best, and we promise that as a result your (great-great-...)grandkids will have it better than if we hadn't".

It's just getting rich and playing with toys but with an ethical justification for it.

It reminds me of how back in the day there was all sorts of Creative Bible scholarship around it being "easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven". Like they were all "actually the 'eye of the needle's is the name of this big gate in Jerusalem. It's super easy to get a camel through it!"

EA has done some neat stuff in the here and now in terms of looking at charities et al. But anything claiming to benefit the unborn trillions of the far, far future is just someone making excuses for themselves.
I don't think it's possible to watermark AI generated text in a way that can't be easily removed by someone who simply switches a word around or adds a typo.
Altered state and personal experience are still a part of the fabric of reality though... They are just different configurations.

Granted only a few people have been able to transcend materialism since the beginning of history, but it's all the same either way.

Reality is axiomatic. Either we're here and a part if it or reality doesn't exist.
Official post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/microsoft365-...
Happens every now and then. It’ll be back in months or so. Often they single lane it.
Every couple weeks I try again to run my app fully on bun. For now I just use it as a packager.

The big ones for me are continual prisma issues. Mainly due to poor decisions on their side it seems…

Vite crashing. Because I’m using remix.

And then the worst one I don’t see a way around: sentry profiling which requires v8.

I can’t wait for the day everything can be on bun. Everything else sucks and is so slow or requires really bad configuration to make it work.

Can’t believe node itself and TS are so terrible with module compatibility. Bun solves all of this and is 20000x faster when I can use it!
MIT licensed?
Does it support editing the source-files while in the debugger?

I've been hesitant to move to TypeScript because I'm unsure how well the debugger works in practice.

My current platform is Node.js + WebStorm IDE as a debugger. I can debug the JavaScript and I can modify it while stopping at a breakpoint or debugger-statement. It is a huge time-saver that I don't have to see something wrong with my code while in the debugger and then find the original source-file to modify and recompile and then restart.

Just curious, do Deno and Bun support edit-while-debug, out of the box? Or do I need to install some dependencies to make that work?
Inserting a change like this as a one off would cause lots of scrutiny, which would probably get it detected. Instead, the bad actor spent years contributing to the project before dropping this.

So, while writing the exploit might be a couple of hours work, actually pulling it off is quite a bit more difficult.
> the "control" of a "weighted control economy" is usually enforced through government

It is extremely common for large private firms to have weighted control in an economy. Sometimes their control is bolstered by government and sometimes it is hindered by it. But in a completely unregulated market it would be common for monopolies to pop up which could then control large sections of the economy. There simply is no simple linear relationship between "free markets" and government intervention.

> when free speech is allowed on social media the economy becomes more free

Sadly the loudest "free speech proponents" who run social media firms are actually just interested in allowing the speech they want. They will still do everything they can to limit the speech of those they disagree with.
Pixel 7 here, game consistently locked up in chrome for me, usually around the score of 20k. Couldn't speed play, very laggy.

10/10 will play again.
I didn't defend Boeing, I defended the industry and its practices. Boeing needs to fix issues and the process I am defending is making them do that right now. I define panic as irrational fear. Irrational fear here is backed up by stats showing safety compared to industries with massively worse records than aviation that aren't experiencing nearly the reaction this one incident is having. Basically you have just thrown big words around and ignored the arguments presented. Present an argument and I will listen.
The clear salient point both I and, I believe, the article are making is that aviation is safe stop obsessing to the detriment of aviation over every inevitable issue that happens. Bad things will happen when hundreds of millions of people move billions of miles every year. It is unfortunate but the best safety conscious industry in the world is handling it. The fact that 0 died in the US on major airlines for the last ? how many years now? shows the incredible safety record of the industry. Obsessing over a door when you don't even care that several people in your city likely died in car accidents last year is the definition of panic.
One way to describe incognito correctly is that it is a "porn mode". You do not want your spouse, children or anyone else to find out what you were watching. But that is it. Incognito does not prevent the browser company from seeing what you saw, the porn companies from noticing what you saw or does not stop anyone who has access to some rudimentary-sophisticated software skills (including your spouse) from figuring out what you did in your incognito.

A more appropriate thing to do however is to use a different browser altogether like Edge for such things and using it's incognito mode + some VPN protection do do whatever secret stuff you do. Even that does not give you full protection. Only the level of sophistication to beat your privacy goes up.
A doubt - why would someone do "yearly biopsy" when you already know the tumour is cancerous? Does an annual biopsy help in some other way?
Software Supply Chain Compromise Now the Top Threat of the Next Half Decade
I don't even know what it is
The problem is, if you have ESM and then a tool in your repo like jest, requires commonjs.

Now you have to compile stuff.

In my case I’ve had apps use certain ts config options, and then another library has a start script which is incompatible.

So you’re stuck needing a different TS config for both things. These annoyances are solved with bun
When Phones Were Fun: The Sidekick (2002-2010) [video]
Myscaledb: Open-source SQL vector database to build AI apps using SQL
I'm currently trying to sus out if i can use it for more data intensive / dashboard-ing tools. Not unlike Plotly Dash.
https://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/
Deep Aphantasia: A visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
If one could have a "free market" in the sense that there were no state to begin with (which one can't) then you wind up with anarcho capitalism, in which a single entity wins because returns to capital accelerate. This single entity can then do whatever it likes.

In reality, you start with a state and then have increasing regulatory capture by large private entities who turn the state into a system that exists purely to enforce their property rights. As they do so they eliminate public purpose.

Whether you have planned totalitarianism or anarcho capitalist totalitarianism the result is the same. If you have 100% returns to either labour or capital, or you try to eliminate either public or private purpose, then you must have totalitarianism.

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto imagines that you can have no state AND no regulatory capture, it's garbage. There are only 2 things in the economy: labour and capital. You have public purpose and private purpose. You balance those things, you have social democracy and innovation. You let it slip to any extreme and you're gonna have a bad time.
Ever tried asking the pilot to pull over so you can get out?
When I worked at a large-ish tech company it was very clear that their big PR pushes were coordinated with articles at major news sites like TechCrunch. It is all completely manufactured and disingenuous.
Rss3, web3? Clever.

Crypto isn't.
My wife gifted her niece a Fisher Price folding wagon --- a couple of years later, when we had our first child, my brother-in-law reciprocated, buying _his_ niece/our daughter the same toy, and it quickly become a favourite of hers --- when they first had occasion to visit, we explained that it was her uncle who had gifted her the toy, so she gladly ran to her room to wheel it in and present it.

When she did so, my brother-in-law exclaimed, "Hey! That's not loud like the one we have!"

It seemed that it was so loud, that it was the subject of complaints, and a modification, so at least for some toys, noise reduction does happen.
A great deal of harm is being caused by "AI detectors" today.

There is an endless stream of stories about students who have their work flagged as "AI generated" by a detector when it wasn't - and then get failing grades, from teachers who don't understand that AI detectors are inherently inaccurate.

Here's a paper about how unreliable they are from last year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11156

OpenAI shutting down theirs was the right call.
it's the lying