skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't expect to get access to all the data that is sent back - though - as it is from the public purse - I think it should be made available.

You can indeed get the actual data from this instrument!

https://wispr.nrl.navy.mil/wisprdata

> How difficult would it be to have a colour camera?!?! I have a crap mobile and it has 3 cameras! And one on the front! When colour cameras have been available to everyone for so long, its simply inconceivable that NASA can never provide decent imagery!

They do have missions that have great color cameras, like on Mars!

The James Webb Space Telescope also produces great color imagery, but it's normally presented in false color because its camera is biased toward the infrared.

https://webb.nasa.gov/

Here's one of their popular justifications for that:

https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infra...

In that diagram you see that the Webb sees more colors than the human eye, but most of them are ones that our eyes don't see. They have various arguments that the colors that it does see are more interesting and useful for seeing very faraway stuff.
Awesome, please let me know if you have any ideas or feedback. It’s been fun messing around with this idea and I’m interested to see what people do with it!
Just ignore it. You will get used to some hyper sensitive HN people that will down vote an apple because it is red.
One time I accidentally ran a Visual Studio build in a btrfs git clone rather than my main NTFS drive. By the time I noticed and cancelled the build, there were two folders with an identical name but different contents, which I had to delete the folder name twice. I'd say the driver has issues with concurrency.
The book a Fire Upon the Deep had everyone surrounded by AI agents which became extensions of themselves.
What new features rsync could possibly need boggles my tiny little mind.
My USA passport put a space in my last name (that isnt on my birth certificate). It only ever seems to matter in China, however.
> With respect to other environments that encourage autonomy, that last element -- that compensation is uniform -- tends to set Oxide apart: if an environment encourages both autonomy and stack-based ranking and compensation, it absolutely will create shadow structure. By removing the organizational tumor of variable compensation, Oxide removes the shadow structure that it creates.

This sounds like a really profound point. Rather than just saying "it's human nature to form shadow hierarchies", ask why they do it, to what end. If increasing their compensation is removed as a potential motivation, that must change the way people behave.
The UK has a massively milder climate than most of the USA, which provides significant assistance to things lasting.

As I noted in another comment below, roofing slate is essentially unavailable in the USA due to geology - what does exist is of much lower quality than a good welsh slate. Still, in some ways I agree with you: roofing materials in general in the USA are far less durable those used in the UK and Europe, for reasons that I don't entirely undestand.

That said, it amazes me that huge numbers of people in the UK live in essentially uninsulated and almost uninsulatable buildings. Sure, winters are mild, but anytime you have the heat on in the millions of homes built post-WWII, a huge amount of is just leaking through the brick walls. US stud framed construction has its problems if done carelessly, but it does have the benefit that its easy and obvious to insulate your walls to some degree, and not hard to do it to Passivhaus standards.
I was a trainee in an IBM lab nearly 40 years ago. All developers including myself worked using VM/CMS. That I remember for sure.

With production workloads I had nothing to do, so I am not sure what was the most commonly used OS. Pretty sure no bank clerk, airline counter or similar ran CMS.
Holy shit, that thing is amazing compared to the computers I had access to in the early 90s
I dunno about the US but here in Japan for pre-school there is "daycare" (保育園) and "kindergarten" (幼稚園), the former being just a place to put your kids when you're at work and they mostly play, and the latter focusing more on academics. But even my kids in "just" daycare do get the opportunity to learn to read and write (hiragana and ABCs) and basic maths (reading/writing numbers and adding up single-digits) to their level of interest
That is 10x more complicated and unorthodox than simply running "$ npm install --save facesjs".
There are thousands of ways that performance can be impacted. No matter how good you are at developing, there will be a workload that would have a performance hit. Phoronix has been several times reporting issues to the Linux kernel because performance regression with their test suite. Performance tests tend to take more time than correctness tests.
Does it take less compute to train N agents vs one large model? Seem like a big win. Can the majority of the training be done independently or in distributed fashion?
Dignity ...
Not sure that that is obvious and I am not sure the data supports that conclusion.
Same is true in China. I never use my middle name in other contexts, but it has to be written down in Chinese paper work next to my given name. My family name has a space in it on my US passport that breaks a lot of computer systems in China.
Yeah, I suspect it's pretty similar using HTTP/2 when considering all of these new proxy modes; I've been wondering as well if there are any other differences or if it just predates the specification of that (and UDP over HTTP).

With HTTP/1, I don't think there is a way to multiplex multiple TCP or UDP bindings over a single connection – maybe this supports it? The diagram seems to suggest it, and e.g. SSH does too (and is equivalent to CONNECT proxying over HTTP/2 in that sense).
We Can Slay Giants
Two of the most popular libraries for token creation (tokenization) are in fact in rust, with an interface in python:

https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers

https://github.com/openai/tiktoken
It's called brutalism because brute is the French word for concrete.

Umm...the French word you're looking for is "beton". The rest of the thread has plenty of (correct) definitions of "brut" for reference.
I think you answered my question. I’d like to say ‘what’s the most effective way to serialize this’ and everyone else wants to say ‘use protobuf unless you can come up with a really good reason not to’
Aren't all the nitter instances going to die with the anonymous guest account restrictions? I've not closely followed those developments.
> Based on arbitrary virtue signaling by the Namecheap CEO, is Spaceship gonna give customers one-week notice that their accounts are being dropped for committing the crime of being born in the wrong country, like he did at Namecheap?

Your question contains incredible entitlement. Namecheap's staff is mostly Ukrainian and located in Kharkiv, the city that saw combat on its streets, was almost encircled, and for more than two years has suffered under daily Russian shelling and missile attacks, death and destruction unleashed by Russians are everyday companions there. Do you think Germans had any moral right to demand continuation of services from the UK when Luftwaffe was bombing London? Or that Germans had nothing to do with the Nazi regime? Just incredible.

Everyone serving customers from Russia is complicit in helping the Kremlin keep up the illusion of normalcy: that nothing is wrong, that life goes on, that all you need to do is just shut off your mind and ignore the depraved war crimes that your society commits every day. And the crimes are indeed committed by the whole society: Putin alone is not building missiles, he is not programming their targets or piloting bomber planes, he is not manufacturing artillery shells, he is not on the frontline firing them at Kharkiv, he is not the one raping, looting and torturing - just like Hitler in his bunker was not waging the war against the whole world on his own, but required the overwhelming support of "ordinary Germans" to put his ideas into action.

And before anyone says that "ordinary citizens" can't do anything: then whose responsibility are the things that going on in a country? Are Argentinians responsible? Are Italians? Should the Swedes intervene and bomb Moscow to ashes to slap the society back into respecting basic human decency?
And yet a short time later: "Instance has been rate limited. Use another instance or try again later."
Finally. I've been saying that we need to stop focusing on a single agent getting everything right and instead layer agents for about 16 months now, but it's great to have a paper to point to.

It's interesting that the diminishing returns for tasks flatten out rapidly around the same size as the ideal human meeting sizes: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/18-Optimal-Meeting-Sizes...

If this was done at more granular steps of agent quantity I'm curious just how closely it would match those numbers.

I'd also really love to see the eventual follow-up where we see how much more performance can be obtained when the agents are each fine tuned towards slightly different aims. I'd expect there'd even be a performance lift from just having the agents each set at different temperature levels.

Very happy to see the research community starting to step in this direction!
Depends on your perception of value. I would/could never pay millions for an NFT any sort. I simply see zero value in them. Others seem to have no hesitation in writing that check.

Don't get me wrong I would like to see that type of education available for a lot cheaper. We always seem to make enough money to not qualify for financial aid of any kind but not enough to pay college fees without having to give up something else. My house needs a paint job for example - going to wait 2 more years until my son is out of college. That's life I guess.
ksh does not get enough love it deserves as it is the living ancestor of both, bash and zsh, shells that have inherited, improved upon and extended many features.

It has also been a life saver on proprietory UNIX platforms where the default sh was usually the plain sh, with ksh always being available and having the command line editing available («set -o emacs» or «set -o vi») and GNU readline being unavailable. The POSIX shell is effectively ksh.
I'm from neither. I've personally traveled in and around Hargesia so I have more hands on experience with payments there as a consumer vs. Mogadishu and surrounding areas.
Echoes of Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky.
GreptimeDB: A fast and cost-effective alternative to InfluxDB
Self plug, but Twitter as filtered by GPT is actually pretty good again. I no longer cringe when I accidentally hit the "For You" tab: https://aihelper.bot/
China buys an island with bottled water
I can believe it’s because it was a team behind the account. Someone developed the feature and another more careless or less experienced one integrated it. Another one possibly managing sock puppets and interacting in comments and PRs.
Tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf
> The absolute joy they had when I showed them how to set up 1.1.1.1 on their Android TV, phones, and laptops… so they could watch unrestricted gay porn in their heavily censored and state-controlled slice of the World Wide Web…

I'd be very careful giving security advice to someone in that situation - in fact, I probably wouldn't do it, even though I am an experienced professional who knows more than most people in IT.

Think about accuracy, which is correctness, completeness, and consistency:

Giving security advice to buddies trying to watch out-of-country sporting events has a much different accuracy requirement than advice for someone whose liberty, life, or pursuit of happiness (assets) are at stake. If your advice is incorrect, incomplete (you don't know or account for the entire picture), or inconsistent (different pieces of your advice don't line up) - these people don't miss their favorite team, the might go to jail, get tortured, lose their children, their careers, etc.

When I give professional security advice, I spend a lot of time on it. I make sure I know the whole picture, my advice is correct - rechecking old understandings, testing and retesting, etc. - and it's consistent. These people are trusting me. And then if I'm not sure of those things, I find someone who knows better than I do. I don't have time to do that at the Airbnb.

In this case, it seems to risk incorrectness and incompleteness: It may be incorrect because setting up DNS lookups so there are no leaks is tricky - I'm not even sure how to do it reliably. For example, some apps and OSes have DNS servers hardcoded; IME some just bypass your configuration (maybe the dev just didn't care to integrate with the system DNS settings); IIRC some have hardcoded fallbacks; sometimes the client overrides your config with the local gateway or the servers it supplies; also, DNS has a complex federated infrastructure. (My first stab at secure DNS is a secure VPN that doesn't leak - that seems much easier).

It's incomplete: the authorities might not see the DNS lookups but they will clearly see the IPs that the user accesses, including those of the porn websites.

These people are trusting you and you told them they could safely look at porn. Yikes, I would not want that responsibility without some serious work.
Your personal information.
With Teams, the distinction is pretty easy: Within a Team, the file gets uploaded to the Team's SharePoint site. If you share a file in the Chat module, it gets uploaded to your own OneDrive.
The flip side of "don't use different names for the same thing" is "don't use the same/similar name for different things."
That's a modern day Beethoven :)
That's awesome. I think a lot of folks would find that amazing to read about!
Nobody cares if it’s not terrorism or national security
This doesn't feel brutalist at all.

https://klikkentheke.com is a great directory of minimalist brutalist typographically driven websites.

Yours feels a little like a retro hacker UI.
Let's put credit where credit is due. VisiCalc.
A UPS will not much improve the reliability against sudden power loss. At least here in Europe it is much more likely that a PSU or other component fails than that the power line is suddenly interrupted.

And lost writes are a problem that all filesystems have. I recommend reading the paper "Parity Lost and Parity Regained" by Krioukov at USENIX 08...
> most people would rate non-consensual sex as significantly worse than a non-consensual day job

The argument here is non-consensual. No work is totally consensual, since you need to survive. You accept a life-long inconvenience in exchange for a beautiful house. Can we make sex consensual in exchange for a large enough inconvenience? The response lies in an experiment: Propose a menial job to prostitutes. Even at the same rate, most prefer their occupation. Therefore it’s consensual.

A funny quirk about non-consensual work is that the 1930’s ILO convention against slavery and forced work… excluded able-bodied men in age of working (article 11). Which kind of defeats the purpose of the convention.

This article was only abolished in 1957.

But compulsory military service still exists in probably half of the world countries.
Why not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.
I’m assuming the insurer would ask. How old is the roof? Do you have a pool? Etc.
How very Christian. We're all "slaves to sin" and "idols" where "sin and idols" just means "anything people like doing", because it's hard to stop doing something you like.
This usage of the word "agent" when they simply mean "another LLM" is sort of nonstandard, no? To me an agent implies some degree of RL.
> Choosing ignorance over knowledge

If there's some piece of knowledge that's absolutely, positively critical to my life, it will exist somewhere that actually matters, not on Twitter.
Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG
Huh. It's interesting that tethering restrictions are implemented via your device, i.e. the device you paid for working against you. Most Android custom ROMs bypass this, and tethering is always enabled regardless of whether your telecom wants you or not.
The story told in the article ends around 1400 given or take a century.

What the Arab world has faced in the "last couple of centuries" has no relevance to the story the article is trying to tell.
I was a high school teacher at an alternative school. Most of our students had struggled at some point in their lives, in a way that had impacted their learning. So they came to us with transcripts that were all over the place: for example some had finished all their math credits but had failed all their social studies classes. Many had earned partial credit in some areas.

This made academic advising difficult for a variety of reasons. One big reason was the fact that all transcripts were text based. To figure out where a student stood academically, you had to take a pen and mark up their transcript, totaling their credits in different areas, in order to see which graduation requirements they had met and which they still needed to fulfill.

I wrote a program that parsed every student's text-based transcript, and generated a visual transcript for each student. What used to take 15-30 minutes for each student now took about 30 seconds. You could look at one of these documents and see exactly where a student's strengths were, in what areas they had struggled, and most importantly what they still needed to do in order to graduate.

It wasn't just a time-saver. The main benefit was that those 15-30 minutes that used to be spent parsing a transcript, with fingers crossed that no one was making a mistake, were now spent focused on formulating a plan that students could buy into and feel confident about.

I wrote that tool during some inservice days where my very cooperative principal let me skip out on boring repetitive trainings to focus on building the tool. I was able to build something I could run in that time, but it would have taken a lot longer to build a general-purpose tool that they could run indefinitely after I left. I haven't looked in a while, but I hope that some of the companies that handle student records have built these kinds of tools into their software. There was some movement in that direction last time I checked.
"HAL" is "IBM" with each literal shifted one step.
Yes, it seems to be much worse than it used to be in (pick a timeframe that relates to your own rose-tinted "back in the day"), but some of it is excellent.

Does any of this somehow mean that a financial incentive must make free (beer and libre) software worse?

If so, why and how?

It does not to follow, for me, that rewarding software authors with money must make things worse.

I've personally put a fair amount of money into various tip jars for free software authors who create stuff that is important to me. There is no part of me that thinks that me doing this somehow disincentivizes them from continuing to do outstanding work.
I'm glad you get it!
I feel the same way. It is too much complexity in one place, it couldn't work without hiccups.
Icons in the middle of a task bar is objectively, measurably less user-friendly than left aligned icons.

With the standard Windows layout users can develop “muscle memory”, especially for the bottom left corner of the screen — which is very easy to hit with a mouse because the edges of the screen “trap” the cursor.

With middle aligned icons, every new app shifts the existing icons.

Also there is no icon in an easy to hit location.

Windows 11 has some other design elements that broke Microsoft’s own integrations.
As a random example: “Open with VS Code” and “Terminal here” are hidden submenus now.
Well technically you can. The card won't be so usable after that though. ;)
Tethering is free on my US T-Mobile account. I use it instead of crappy hotel Internet connections. Performance very much depends on your location, as the network is often shaky outside of cities.
The US is not the subject of this thread...

> [a] couple in the South-Eastern very conservative Turkish city of Mersin
Has your 350 year-old house been hit by hail, some of which is the size of golf balls, in enough volume that the ground is as white as if it had snowed? Because that's a not-uncommon occurrence here in the midwestern US.
Exactly. It would be amazing if the same LLM were used for both generation and grading, and could see what tweaks the human (student) made before turning it in. That would be very useful training data.
Bitcoin’s value can most simply be explained by contrasting it with a fiat money supply controlled by successive governments and central banks who are addicted to printing money. They know that this hurts consumers and businesses by stealing wealth by way of inflation but they simply cannot stop.

Bitcoiners believe its value is trending towards infinity on a long enough timeline, premised on the fact that central planners can not and will not ever stop printing money.

By contrast, Bitcoin is unique in that its supply is programmatically fixed and is perfectly inelastic in relation to demand. If Bitcoin’s price increases 100x the supply curve remains exactly the same. No other commodity, asset or currency holds this property.

If you believe governments and central banks will stop printing money, Bitcoin’s value proposition collapses.
So this is an ensemble of many LLMs?

I wonder how well a bunch of LLMs trained on personal computers, so fairly small, could perform together?

Train a LLM on your emails, train an LLM on a text book, download a bunch of arbitrary LLMs from the net you find interesting, throw them all together into a big pile, and use a moderator LLM that knows how to format their output into an assistant format.

So, the email LLM would try to autocomplete sentences from your emails, and the text book LLM would try to autocomplete sentences from the text book. People could offer LLMs to download, almost as a way of compressing information, download the LLM of your favorite programming language, and TV series, etc. The important part would be having a moderator algorithm that can shape these LLMs from dumb sentence autocompleters (barely more than a fancy Markov chain) into a coherent assistant format. For example, the text book LLM would just endlessly spew semi-random sentences from the text, but a good moderator algorithm could see that it has sufficiently answered the question and cut it off.

In short, it's interesting that separate LLMs can integrate with each other and strengthen each other and it makes me wonder if we could build modular LLMs.
Intersting quesiton. I did a search about for source texts/articles and couldn't find anything. ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19... )

The only thing I saw that might be about it is in Quintillian, which doesn't interpret it exactly as we would - seeing it more as a servile gesture:

"humerorum raro decens adleuatio atque contractio est; breviatur enim cervix et gestum quendam humilem atque servilem et quasi fraudulentum facit, cum se in habitum adulationis, admirationis, metus tingunt." ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLi... )

"It is, as a rule, unbecoming to raise or contract the shoulders. For it shortens the neck and produces a mean and servile gesture, which is even suggestive of dishonesty when men assume an attitude of flattery, admiration or fear." ( https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilia... )

It's not completely clear to me from a cursory glance if he isn't talking about posture rather than the gesture though shrugs