skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there's a neat simplicity in how everything in accounting must work out, but extrapolating from that into "P&L, balance sheet, etc. can represent what's going on in any org in ways that can be roughly comparable" sounds like a very financialised worldview.

There are many important aspects of organisational design that are only loosely correlated with financial statements.
> Alas the tantalizing prospect of real time raytracing seems to be backburnered under the AI hype onslaught.

Can you elaborate on this? Is that because ray tracing needs only simple vector units, while AI is driving tensor-type architectures?
Semantics aside, this is a red herring. Whether you call it a "direct" democracy or a "representative" democracy, it's a governance system based on majority votes, not consent. Going through the courts is the correct approach in this case if they believed there was a criminal injustice that could not be remedied through electoral means. As the legal basis in this case is the ECHR, not Swiss law, taking this to the ECHR court is the logical conclusion.

You can disagree with the ECHR. Not every country is a signatory of the ECHR. Not every country is a signatory of the equivalent UN convention either - notably the US is also not a signatory to the UN convention on the rights of children and there are many people in signatory countries who don't seem to agree with it either. But as long as the Swiss government does not remove itself from the ECHR, it is subject to it. You can't have it both ways - or rather, you can and Switzerland does as it hasn't signed protocols 4 and 12 (pertaining free movement and discrimination respectively) and has only signed but not ratified protocol 1.
Norse is/was a Germanic language, just like Norwegian, German, Dutch, German and English.

English, though has Germanic influence in multiple rounds - both through the influx of Angles and Saxons, and through the later viking invasions.
As long as they can sustain themselves and/or grow without profits, who cares ?

Also they hire all around the world where $100k/yr is the exception and not the norm.
> Given that wires can also be cut, is that worth it given the extra cost to install?

Proper camera deployment includes redundancy in camera viewpoints. If you're cutting a camera's cable, I'm seeing you cut it from at least one other camera on property.
I use this deploy script for my hobby project: https://gist.github.com/tacone/230d5c305a9c5eff7f58ea2744f20...

It will connect over ssh, pull the code, build the containers and restart them (scripts/live is just a wrapper around docker-compose).

If the build fails, the services will keep running.

The only problem I have is that hitting CTRL+C in the very moment the containers are being restarted will leave me with the services down.
> And what did you mean with "no server updates"? PHP has to be updated and the server processes has to be restarted.

This is not true. You can update a PHP file without restarting your server, and it will run your updated code.
I don't know. I feel like a cow without humans is most likely to end up being slowly tear apart by a predator
I have a good rule. I NEVER reply to someone who comments on my comment w/ hostile intent. For example: I made an innocent comment on a YouTube video, and someone completely misread the comment and posted a hostile reply. I wanted to explain to him that he misread my comment but I just let it go. You never need to defend yourself. If you want to post a comment, post it. If someone misunderstands or mocks you, let them.
> Initially, I tried to do the angular positioning entirely using an electronically addressable strip of LEDs, but the pixel density was insufficient.

It's also possible to steer light electromagnetically using a spatial light modulator, but the angular range would be very narrow.
What's the right conclusion?
Neutrinos actually travel at slower than light speed (just barely) but since they make it through the star unimpeded, they get out well before the visible light from the explosion (talking about a regular supernova here).
I don't think we do have any benchmarks of replication from mySQL, but I am positive there's no chance it can handle 10,000 TPS.
I look back on my early web dev career where source control was something unheard of as were dev environments. In fact we regularly edited code live on prod server to debug/develop. Looking back I just shudder thinking about it.
Who’d have thought of that
France Bracing for Cyberattacks During Summer Olympics
There is no real penalty for Microsoft here, so there isn't much urgency to address something like this.
https://archive.ph/HOIRp
That would be great if voters and politicians already cared for privacy, and if it was auditable.

Anyway good thing I'm not on Facebook. If I can hang out in a community of about 100 without anyone calling it "media", and we just keep out kids by not bringing any in, I'll live I guess
Think about putting people into a spreadsheet (and remember that you probably exist in a few yourself, starting with an employer). Presumably your life has some value in expected economic output, and some cost associated with providing medical care. If the second number is greater than the first, then what is society to do?

I say this as someone who lives with some physical disability (who fortunately at least has a bit of enough wits to do non-physical work) - it's a rather uncaring country for those with medical needs; particularly those parts of the country governed by the right (I live in South Texas, but not the rural part).
9.66 token/s inference on M2 Ultra with 4bit quants, ~90gb RAM used: https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1778054275152937130
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> If someone misunderstands or mocks you, let them.

Very easy to say when you aren't going viral and 100,000+ people aren't trying to get you fired or hurling insults at you ranging from calling you an idiot to telling you to die. I'm not saying you're wrong but it's much easier said than done.
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>Previously, it was librarians whose duty was to preserve hard copies of manuscripts and make them available

We still do that many at many universities even now. Open Access helps a lot, as it makes it possible to save and distribute research without any hassle. Luckily only a few percentages of research literature is actually worth saving, and the loss is not as big as it seems.

As with this journal it is out there in substantial quantity. It's articles will not be lost any time soon.

https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%E2%80%8E0385-5414&item...
It seems to mean no API that is new, unfamiliar, or something to that effect for the user to learn. You can use the Pandas, Polaris, etc. APIs that you are already already accustomed to.
Isn't recursion solved by just feeding the output of the LLM (with some additional instructions) back into the input? That's how a lot of complex problems are already tackled with LLMs.
without a proper trust fall, it would never be real, either.
Can't afford to see a doctor. Last Doctor I did see told me they would not do a sweat salinity test because I couldn't afford a diagnosis.

Can't buy Sudafed; pharmacies treat the request like you asked them for their virgin daughter.

Can't buy anitbiotics at the feed stores no more; FDA took care of that.

I've got my own individual reasons to doubt the medical industry; I see my neighbors finding many of their own. We're going to need witch doctors and other unlicensed caregivers before long.

Of course, it could be a question of metrics vs incentives, too. Who gets promoted when they juke the stats to say there isn't a problem? "Rural Healthcare" is one of those lovely nebulous goals that can soak up nearly infinite amounts of grant money without ever having to show real results.
I don't wish to put words in your mouth, but it certainly sounds like your argument is essentially, "PHP was bad, therefore PHP is and will always be bad, no matter what improvements it makes."

This...doesn't seem particularly reasonable?

You're not required to like PHP, and you don't need a reason why things you dislike are objectively bad in order to be allowed to dislike them.
I mean the good news is that the regular DOM never really changed. It's still as awkward and clunky as it's always been. And all the snazzy new features that aren't just "here's an API for (other thing)" are pretty much universally trying to make using the DOM less painful.

Async/Promises/Awaitables -> Callback Hell.

Shadow DOM -> Not being able to defer DOM changes.
Hey Ted, I had a question about working at OpenAI, if you don't mind talking with me. If so, email address is in my profile. Thank you!
I have no idea what this means but I’m hoping to find a bubble dev to help me with a food ordering app if you know anyone although I have a small budget but just getting started and will be ongoing with the right partner. Sorry if I’m in the wrong section.
Gate check is different from checked bags. I have my bags in my possession until the door of the plane where I drop them off and someone else picks them up to put on the plane. Then when I get off the plane my bags are waiting right at the door of the plane (sometimes I need to wait 5 minutes). The small planes I normally fly have tiny overhead compartments that can barely handle a small purse.

If you live in a large city and only travel to other large cities you will never see the above.
> keeping their kids off social media, it wouldn't actually be possible for them.

This is false binary thinking. I would argue that effortful attempts by parents would meaningfully reduce their kids social media usage. Social medias negative effects is a spectrum/sliding scale of effect based on amount of exposure.

Even if they cannot entirely keep their kids off social media, they can dampen the usage. Think about alcohol, as a society we focus on keeping kids off alcohol and in the main it works (until we give them free and full access and they experimentally binge, but most regain selfcontrol in short order).
I think of LLM as a non-von-neumann architecture that basically can compute neural network stuff in parallel. You throw a bunch of training data at it, making it do predictions, and it shifts the gears and finds the model that gets close to modeling the latent space. That’s it.

Alan Turing did it with Bombe machin modeling the ENIGMA didn’t he?
I think you went on a wild goose chase _because_ it was a compiler bug. You never assume "it's the compiler" on the first try, so you go looking for bugs in your code that don't exist. Java's integer types maybe didn't help in this situation, agreed. And the lack of unsigned integers is harebrained, agreed too. But I think you wouldn't have had an easier time in C.

You say that the lack of unsigned types in Java is in part responsible for some of your wasted time. But C has notoriously bad integer types and promotion rules, especially for interactions between signed and unsigned! If you had found this same bug in C code (a compiler bug), your first instinct as a C programmer might have been "it's probably some signed/unsigned interaction issue". And you'd also have wasted time trying to find a non-existent issue in your code.
For once, they are probably not acquiring users but the tech & the brand (fighting with iMessage was a genius marketing move).
A table saw is a fixed position blade you feed wood into. A radial arm saw is a moving blade and the wood is stationary. Some of the cuts can involve pointing the blade directly at parts of your body, and then moving it without cutting yourself. A fixed blade is safer since you can try to avoid being in the blade area, but if the blade area is dynamic that becomes much more difficult.

A good video with examples (of pictures of recommended cuts, not injuries) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Zeg8fHVrJBk

A good example is at 1:20 of the video.
here's the deployment script i use most often

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3.git/hooks/post-update

#!/bin/sh
set -e

echo -n 'updating... '
git update-server-info
echo 'done. going to dev3'
cd /home/kragen/public_html/sw/dev3
echo -n 'pulling... '
env -u GIT_DIR git pull
echo -n 'updating... '
env -u GIT_DIR git update-server-info
echo 'done.'

dev3.git is the origin for dev3, so the `git pull` in there pulls from the bare repo that just got pushed to

it doesn't have the 60-second lag and it doesn't load the server all the time. it also doesn't run `go build` or restart a server with openrc, but those would be easy things to add if i wanted them
It was hilarious when Banksy did it. He released videos of him in an absurd costume sticking the painting on the wall of the museum. I heard an interview where he explained, "Well, it can take them a very long time to put you in the museum, so I figured I'd just cut out the middleman."

This just seems like the same gag, but not as good.
> without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is

You just need to remember that you need to multiple by 1,024 instead of 1,000.

So 1 kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, 1 megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes so 1,024x1,024 = 1,048,576 bytes, 1 gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes, etc.
Because businesses that don't want those zones to MITM them will move to zones that do support SCTs. It's not as strong a reason as Mozilla and Chrome arm twisting WebPKI CAs, as sovereigns can resist longer, but eventually it will happen.
Yes, that's the idea. Writing a simple read only database back end is not too tough.
I know that. I said what I meant. Every hecto millionaire is a deci millionaire too.
Yes; you can see a collection of the high-pressure comments at https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline. (E.g., "Submitting patches here has no purpose these days… It is sad to see for a repo like this." "You ignore the many patches bit rotting away on this mailing list. Right now you choke your repo.")
I'm not too familiar with CMaNGOS, but my understanding is that the original MaNGOS is the ancestor of AzerothCore (as well as most other C++ WoW emulators).

The primary differences that come to mind between CMaNGOS and AC are AC's larger and more active community, AC's module system, and CMaNGOS has a relatively good bot (as in, non-human players) system [0].

As an aside, AC does have a playerbots module [1], but my understanding is that it doesn't have the same polish as CMaNGOS's. It's also distributed as a patch to the upstream AC repo instead of a standard AC module, so that can be a pain for some as well.

[0] - https://github.com/celguar/mangosbot-bots
[1] - https://github.com/liyunfan1223/mod-playerbots
That's not a big deal for me since I only am running a handful of servers. I install it system-wide during initial setup of a new server. Plumbum has the ability to run remote shell commands as well, so I have a script that can login to a new remote machine and do that initial setup.
I think people's stated positions on CLAs are often not clearly thought out.

Mostly when I've seen people object to CLAs, it's on the grounds that it's not acceptable for any company to be able to take freely contributed code and fork it into a proprietary licenced version or change of open source license, yet... the same people encourage contributions to permissively licensed projects, such as MIT/BSD/Apache license, which explicitly grant companies the ability to do those same things!

Some CLAs are almost identical to the effect of contributions being under a permissive license like MIT/BSD/Apache.

So when I've seen blanket CLA objections, I usually have the impression the person hasn't really thought about what it means, and they're saying it as more of a cultural signifier than anything with a clear goal.

I've encountered this while evaluating whether to release a project under the GPL, where I wanted the option to relicense it more permissively later (for everyone), and I wanted that to be clear up front with any contributors. For that, a CLA seems appropriate, but the community has evolved to find them objectionable.
I seriously doubt marketing people are spinning up AWS instances.
The purpose of scientific publishing is to generate journal articles, and occasionally to cite them to operate an "impact" metric. It's not to actually read them.
> 1. Remove state income tax outside of cities >100k people

Every wealthy person (and less wealthy people including myself) would immediately set up (and leave empty to rot) a new primary residence for tax purposes. The cost of 1/4 acre in the middle of nowhere is less than a single year of income tax.

> 2. Add high import tariffs on all goods

...spiking prices for everyone due to reduced supply, inevitable retaliatory tariffs, and general market inefficiencies.

> 3. Waive property taxes for farms & factories in towns <25k people

...is this on top of the substantial tax subsidies farms and factories already receive?

> 4. Move federal spending from military to infrastructure such as rail, roads & internet.

I can get behind this one.

> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years

Including the currently illegal forms of immigration that currently support the vast majority of our agricultural output? I was talking to a farm owner in North Carolina a couple months ago and he was complaining how hard it has become to get seasonal labor because nobody wants to work this type of job. You can raise pay rates, but it'll still be tough. This wouldn't bump rural areas, it would kill whatever remaining businesses are left.
I think that's part of it but not all of it. Even here on HN, with no ads, you can find hostility in the comments.
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> I should mention that I don't see it that way, but a lot of people don't know how to separate real life from the internet - Especially Gen Z. The internet is NOT real life

People have lost jobs, college admissions, and more based on their posts online. I understand the sentiment but what we do on the internet most certainly has an impact on real life.
The social side of things is very difficult to work around.

Public institutions, however, should not be restricting information dispersal to third-party private companies who force even a casual viewer to agree to extensive legal contracts.
That's where statement of cash flows[0] comes in -- because over a long enough time frame, profit is just cash in minus cash out. Hard to obfuscate that. Companies usually go bankrupt not because of negative net worth, but because of insufficient cash flow.

[0]the third basic type of statement, in addition to balance sheet and profit & loss.
Of course there is a conversation to be had, though I think there's pretty clear evidence individuals can function just fine without animal consumption. But the idea that "society would collapse"? That seems to be going just a tad bit beyond what I would consider a "very reasonable take".

I think it would be easier to argue that our addiction to meat consumption is one culprit fueling society's collapse already given the environmental and ecological impact that meat production creates.
Together AI adds Mixtral-8x22B
I had a friend who was fired because a customer's machine let fly with a few profanities. He had used Norton to patch his copy of command.com with swearword-laden error messages which he'd use to build their machine, and then forgotten to overlay their machine's copy with a clean one before sending it on.
People will always choose convenience over security.

I'd figure out what the least-technical person (with data access) in the company needs to do their job, and find the friction points that prompt this person to find the path of least resistance.

2FA in general makes a bad solution worse all for the sake of security; it's not long for this world.
The "Obesity pandemic" is almost directly attributable to increases in corn subsidies and processes to turn it into cheap sugar. Processed foods, which is the majority, have consistently removed more expensive fats/proteins and replaced them with less expensive sugar.

Sugar has low satiation, so you can consume a lot of it before feeling full (unlike, again, fats/proteins). This was of course worsened by the anti-fat/pro-sugar movement in the 1990s (which is a whole topic itself).

Unfortunately there is no mystery to obesity. We've being systematically poisoned by our own food supply. If they either removed the corn-subsidies OR added a corn-sugar tax to offset the subsidies, food prices would increase, but obesity would decrease.

It isn't politically realistic though to make food taste less good (i.e. less sweet) and increase prices, nor is it politically realistic to remove corn subsidies or create sugar taxes. So we're stuck here for the foreseeable.
A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades
That's basically what beancount does, isn't it? You basically have all the transactions in your plaintext files, and it generates the full ledgers from those on the fly once you want to do any evaluations.
> Definition 6: Credit
An entry that represents money leaving an account.

> Definition 7: Debit
An entry that represents money entering an account.

Not really, the meaning of debit and credit depends on the type of account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debits_and_credits

Maybe there's a reason why it takes more than one course to become a CPA (https://www.accounting.com/careers/cpa/how-to-become/).
i have encountered messes of shell scripts that were difficult to maintain; in my first sysadmin job in 01996 i inherited a version control system written as a bunch of csh scripts, built on top of rcs

but they were messy not because they lacked 'abstractions' but because they had far too many

i think shell scripts are significantly more bug-prone per line than programs in most other programming languages, but if the choice is hundreds of thousands of lines in an external dependency, or a ten-line or hundred-line shell script, it's easy for the shell script to be safer
For those primarily interested in open weight models, that Mixtral 8x22B is really intriguing. The Mistral models have tended to outperform other models with similar parameter counts.

Still 281GB is huge. That's at the higher end of what we see from other open weight models, and it's not going to fit on anybody's homelab franken-GPU rig. Assuming that 281GB is fp16, it should quantize down to roughly 70GB at 4bits. Still too big for any consumer grade GPU, but accessible on a workstation with enough system ram. Mixtral 8x7B runs surprisingly fast, even on CPUs. Hopefully this 8x22B model will perform similarly.

EDIT:
Available here in GGUF format: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1-GGUF

The 2-bit quantization comes to 52GB, so worse than my napkin math suggested. Looking forward to giving it a try on my desktop though.
I think the thing that prevents efficient research is presentation of what is already there. There are lots of great things presented very poorly/undocumented. Anybody developing should worry much more about explaining clearly/presenting what is out there rather than build amazing features that nobody will use that they are not aware of.

But this must be a management vision and effort, if you are always pressed just to deliver something working, you will end up with lots of people reinventing the wheel internally.