skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold on, every predicted token is only a function of the previous token? I must have something wrong. This would mean that within the embedding of "was", which is of length 12,228 in this example. Is it really possible that this space is so rich as to have a single point in it encapsulate a whole novel?
The counterpoint to this is that having “internet status” begets a number of benefits.

For example, when you email support at $bigco you’re more likely to be taken seriously. When you contact a random founder for a meeting, they’re more likely to meet you. You forget to take out the trash from your Airbnb and nobody complains, etc. Basically everything in your life gets a bit easier, because people are more scared to piss off someone with a lot of twitter followers.
Nobody knows what the end game of systemd even is. Started out as an init replacement, now it's doing all kinds of stuff. I had to bail on Debian because systemd failed hard when it took over user directories.
I don't get a yearly physical. While I do get a few periodic screenings there is no proven benefit to a yearly physical for asymptomatic adults.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82767/

When I do see a doctor I don't waste time discussing lifestyle choices with them. Doctors have minimal training in that area and it's largely a waste of time. I rely on physicians for medical issues only. There are far better sources for other topics. Instead of telling us what you believe, stick to evidence-based medicine.
IMHO This is like status. Sounds smart but not much behind it... How do you know what are someone needs, maybe they evlolve? Maybe your need is to try a FAANG job and have first hand expiring that will change your needs to less material. Maybe one of your needs is to satisfy protestant ethics? And your need is to go beyond the first level needs... So I'd say the same way system purposes I'd defined by what it does. Your needs are defined by what your do.

Having said that, this type of philosophizing is nothing but an empty exercise in confusion. Everyone one is an individual an has his one subjective epirience, a person aspires to live his life as he best understands it.. anything beyond that is just nonsensical.
Shame this person isn't happy at Amazon. Hope their interview with Meta goes better!
The nihilist asks - why does that matter for having kids?

Is it humane to subject the vast majority of the future human race to taxes, inflation, menial jobs, so we can satisfy our curiosity?
No idea, but:

> Luckey hired an employment lawyer, and together negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, arguing that the company had violated California law for allegedly pressuring the executive to voice support for Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity

I'm yet to get anyone to pay me $100m for any reason whatsoever.
Wow, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing. Never heard of that one. Huh, I wouldn't necessarily it's more impressive -- it could be hard to compare -- but they look quite similar in terms of technical aptitude, despite the differences in materials. Have you visited? I would love to visit! Haha! :)
Just checked it, they also save the content.
The those wondering, as I did, what a "Glasgow device" is, it's not a broken bottle wielded by a strung-out heroin addict.

It's actually a Glasgow Interface Explorer. [1]

[1] https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/intro.html
I mean is that not because they get exploited by other countries?
That's not a formatting error. For c000 to make any sense, the base must be at least 13. In none of the bases where c000 is a valid number, the base 12 representation is 10000.
They most certainly were. Unix has been fine being the backbone of the Internet since day one without systemd.
I understand why it’s making the choice it’s making, I’m at a loss for how to convince it to make the choice I consider optimal. Given the available statistics knobs, it seems like my options are [actionable suggestions like the parent and the other helpful commenters], redesign the schema (lots of work), or pick another database (also lots of work but perhaps less than redesigning the schema only to hit a similar problem again).
So fundamentally just a ton of locality sensitive hashing, cleverly chosen to match the domain. Still wild that they shipped this in the flipphone era.
I built a no-code github blog deployer thingy that lets you deploy a blog to to github pages from a codespace. https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/easy-astro-blog-creator

Anyways, it uses astro + markdown.

It'd be really neat if I could scrape my medium account to convert it to markdown to save me the trouble.
Watch very closely for Gene Siskel’s smile admiring Zappa. He (Siskel) is fully aware of his (assigned?) role as the straight man and plays it to the hilt.
New Method Fine-Tunes LLMs with 10x Less Data, Even Rivals In-Context Learning
The core idea of leverage learning is that a task often consists of task-specific and non-specific capabilities. Traditionally, massive datasets are used to fine-tune both these capabilities, which could lead to inefficient use of valuable training data. Leverage learning suggests that it is possible to strategically use minimal task-specific data to enhance task-specific capabilities, while non-specific capabilities can be learned from more general data.

The paper introduce and detail a minimalistic implementation of leverage learning, named Token-Efficient Leverage Learning (TELL). In low-resource settings, TELL can activate tasks that are unfeasible with conventional methods; for tasks that are feasible, TELL achieves significantly better outcomes with the same amount of data. If performance parity is the goal, TELL drastically reduces the data required compared to traditional methods, often by nearly 10x less, achieving similar or superior results. A notable example is that just 10 domain-specific data entries can substantially enhance LLM performance in that domain.

It's important to note that the traditional methods referenced here generally include LoRA, which is a top-tier baseline in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and has been proven to outperform full-parameter fine-tuning in low-resource settings. This work potentially makes various applications of fine-tuning in low-resource scenarios (such as user-customized models) more feasible.
unless an algorithm decides to block or devalue the content, but yeah i looked it up, very interesting parable, thanks for sharing.
Indeed. That seems wrong unless the clients have explicitly agreed to let CF manage CAA records
Can it though?

I've been trying to figure out some security problems that are a result of this CORS policy - as I'm considering it for my own application - and I can't figure out how an attack could actually work.

The API I'm working with uses Authorization: Bearer tokens, and only allows incoming requests with a valid API token.
This was actually my first thought. This will confuse many people in the cybersec community.
Yi Yi (2000) https://letterboxd.com/film/yi-yi/

It features a middle-class family living in Taipei. Each of them at different stages of life. There is no central drama except that they are alive. It's a beautiful movie that makes you meditate on the human condition.
People aka eng time is our scarcest resource. Luckily the thing I’m struggling with is nice-to-have, not critical, will try pg_hint_plan as suggested, I didn’t realize it’s available on RDS. Otherwise will abandon.
So potentially is this like, get to mars quicker or does it make missions to outer planets feasible?
He knows how to work with audience. The twitch persona does what twitch persona does. The non-twitch educational dev content is quite different and good quality - his htmx intro is great for example. There are areas he knows how to play well.

I wouldn't try to infer much about the real person from the content.
I just watched Seven Days in May (1964) last night. It is about an attempted coup by a general who opposes an anti-nuclear treaty. A stirring defence of democracy.
Pedagogy requires empathy, to know what it's like to not know something. They'll often draw on experiences the listener is already familiar with, and then bridge the gap. This skill is orthogonal to the mastery of the subject itself, which I think is the reason most descriptions sound confusing, inadequate, and/or incomprehensible.

Often, the disseminating medium is a one-sided, like a video or a blog post, which doesn't help, either. A conversational interaction would help the expert sense why someone outside the domain find the subject confusing ("ah, I see what you mean"...), discuss common pitfalls ("you might think it's like this... but no, it's more like this...") etc.
It would have to be a subject that is incredibly niche such that I couldn't find resources to learn it online - OR where there would be a necessary physical component, such as a laboratory, justifying the need for attending on-site. D3.js meets neither of those criteria.
I really love the theory of NixOS... an entire OS that is declaritively (or dynamically) defined. But the nix language itself does not seem like the right approach. A lot of packages just break out into command line scripting because of its limitations. As much as I've despised the JavaScript ecosystem in the past, it seems like TypeScript with Deno which has built-in JSON/TOML/INI/YAML and sandboxing would be a better language to handle automatic system configuration overall... plus, you'd have the advantage of a web app to manage your system config(s), sort of like what fish does.
Anyone have any tips to getting access? I would love to test some things first hand to evaluate some of the claims.
I wish I could use Graphene without needing to buy into their anti-OSS stance and ideology, though.

The core idea is sound, but I frequently see:

- MicroG is "insecure" because it requires "signature spoofing" (reality: LineageOS allows only MicroG to replace only Google Play Services - I wouldn't consider that "insecure" and the Graphene devs never explain further)

- Open source software is less secure than closed source software (reality: mixed bag)

- F-Droid is "insecure" (I can't address this one because I don't understand the point of view and I've never seen it clarified)

- GrapheneOS executes Google Play Services in a "sandbox without any special permissions" (reality: there is a repository full of code that allows sandboxed Google Play to behave in a way other apps can't within the sandbox)

- Automatically installing updates is necessary to "be secure" (reality: updates might add or remove vulnerabilities. Failing to update when a vulnerability exists is insecure, but updating automatically is not a clear win for a savvy, aware user)

- System backups are not a part of a security policy (reality: having the ability to restore a backup is necessary to mitigate damage caused by an exploit)

- Pixel devices are the only "sufficiently secure" phones (reality: it might be convenient targeting a single platform, but there are plenty of phones now that provide the technical capabilities Graphene requires)

- Privacy is not part of security (reality: security is classic CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. If you can't keep confidentiality you're missing one of the pillars)

- Complying with Google's Compatibility Test Suite is "more secure" than deviating from it (reality: the CTS is designed to favor app developers over end users. The app developers might or might not be better at looking out for users' interests than the users themselves)

Everything I'm representing as a GrapheneOS dev position I've heard straight from the horse's mouth on their forum and/or in their documentation. I think sometimes they hold opinions which aren't 100% aligned with what I'd consider a maximally secure system.

That said, they have delivered a pretty solid OS if you can live with its various compromises. The one that really grates on me is the last one: I don't want an OS that chooses an app developer's "don't copy this file" flag over my desire to copy it!

EDIT: formatting
Note that this isn't new research, it's essentially just a fancy blogpost by a researcher, but I found it very interesting. For what it's worth, Yann Lecun retweeted it earlier today.
This is cray seriously. It's so weird to see these "anti art" statements coming out. It's like from people who never stepped foot in an art gallery or been able to appreciate that. It's kind of sad that a whole aspect of human experience is cut off from you. Hahaha! :)

It seems more like this self-important judgement that all art is trash is what's narcissistic: judging for everybody that what they like is crap -- pretty narcissistic - I guess you're just better than everyone? Hahaha! :)

Do you realize how narrow and bitter you sound, in your own little grinchy anti-art world?
Sure, but assumptions about the state of data are made in real world code. It’s just a mess, which is why the code in question needs to break into jail and very explicitly indicate that it isn’t going to fire off exceptions (and hold to it). Honestly, C++ move semantics and default behaviors could be its own very lengthy conversation. It’s why the bulk of my C++ code over the years has been explicit about references and copies (since most of my C++ code has been about high performance real time rendering or data analysis).
How expensive are environmental reviews? Is it a purely on paper/surveying exercise, that doesn't require any construction to happen first?

If that's the case, then I can understand environmental reviews taking a long time. Its similar to pre-production in movies/games, where the writing/high level design can take a huge amount of time, and is not accelerated by adding more people, but is also very cheap to do, so companies partition small teams out to constantly be in pre-production.

If that's not the case, then it probably is debilitating to construction work.
Everyone has 4K is a dumb argument. Most have 1080p. The sensible upgrade path for PCs is 2K. Legal streaming services only support a few devices, so a 4K device may be stuck in 720p. HiDPI is also, somehow, still an unsolved problem in this day and age? Same thing with HDR, especially since many self-proclaimed HDR TVs aren't even good enough to achieve what any layman would expect from a HDR TV. So HDR certifications became a thing, amazing. But 1080p SDR remains the king for now.
Not datacenter related but i recall someone had a job of being a data mule between California and Australia to ship dailies to the VFX studio (in Australia) by hopping on the flight every day. I can imagine something like this (smaller) to be carry-on.
> But you can work on projects that help you understand things better

Sure. Although it seemed OP mentioned this in a different context since it was immediately followed by "earn more money".

I think the real distinction whether these projects are outwards oriented or inwards. How do you measure the success? Is it by the adoption numbers or by the things you've learned and the time you enjoyed?
Incredibly done in 2003.

There's a python library called dejavu[0] that does similar hashing. It mostly works to make your own Shazam (assuming you can source the data to hash!)

[0] https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu
A shattering film called Open Hearts (2002) made me appreciate that every day is a miraculous gift and that the proper stance toward life is warm hearted gratitude, as well as an awareness that you are a mote in currents beyond your control.

I still think of it as the most (the only?) “grown up” movie I’ve ever seen in its incredible realism.

I saw it many years ago in an art house theater, but oddly have never even heard a mention of it since.
When I was a kid I had a classic playstation (PS1) it had multiple kinds of video outputs, one of which was S-video, which was a lot sharper than composite, problem was sharper wasn't better, it made pixel games have sharp edged pixels and the blur and scanlines that blended were missing, it also made the motions of 3D things just look clunky and disconnected. In almost every way possible the higher resolution output made it look worse.

So yeah, making a movie sharper could very likely make it worse.
I think it's just a matter of semantics - "model" usually refers to a neural network or some similarly pure, deterministic computation, or so I thought.
For those groups, typically at things like quarterly all-hands, etc. Not on a daily basis as they do in the retail side.
Yeah I've had my fair share of big city traffic, but this is very different. In many ways driving here is a lot easier than driving in a place like downtown Chicago or Manhattan because it's much much much lower-volume, so there's a lot less action you have to pay attention to, but all of the roads are tiny and twisty. It's like heart circulation vs pinkie tip circulation. And since it's so small, even being slowed down to a crawl from one end of the city to the other as part of a longer drive would affect your drive less than even moderately bad traffic in a metropolis.
"Cooking is narcissism, move on. 'Flavour' is a secular religion. Suck your slop from the tube." /s

Life is without meaning in and of itself. It falls to us to give life meaning. Art is a way of giving life meaning.

Tell me what gives your life meaning and I can be similarly scornful. I'm unsure what the net gain of this exercise would be, other than a net increase to misery.

Learn to be tolerant - even encouraging - of others having different priorities from yourself. You get the benefit of others doing so for you every day.
Software devs will do anything to escape their existence.
The single most impactful thing for making your children's life better is being a present parent. Be part of their life, be there when they have fun and when they have worries. Listen to them, help them navigate life. I've seen many parents chasing wealth, leaving their kids lonely and psychologically marked.
If there companies paying 500K who’d like a software engineer to just professionally do the job, not complain, not have an agenda, not worry about promotions - drop me a reply. You pay, I work. That’s the all there’s to it.
A Brief Aside on "Why"
They are relatively expensive, inefficient, and barely work for cooling.

Better to get a non-He cryocooler to make your own liquid Nitrogen drip feed.

One shouldn't go halfway if you want to overclock something. =)
Apollo used metric system when calculating and then transformed for displaying to imperial.

source: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37607/why-did-nasa...
Yep, we permuted the join order, although I’m not sure we tried the full combinatorics for explicit vs implicit joins
Phononic switching of magnetization by the ultrafast Barnett effect
this is a big deal
I'm reminded of a quote by the late poet David Antin, which I can not find at the moment, but found one which gets at a similar idea, which I think is relevant here because really theres two types of news: the kind you can predict will happen and plan for dedicatibg the recources needed to cover, and then the other kind, which in some cases is arguably more important, but because there's no plan in place to pay for the work involved in reporting on it it's trickier to have a permanent establishment that is responsible for it. I'm pasting the adjacently related quote I found below. Look up David Antin if the formatting seems strange:

there will be a man who

will have a theory of sculpture and he will

relate things that other people will for example

im giving a parallel example that is im

not leading into greater depth here what im

assuming is that a man publishes an

announcement in some accessible place saying

that he will pay a reward for the capture of

this notoriously nondangerous criminal who is

among the twenty most or least wanted men

by the united states government the name of the

man who published this is douglas huebler

and he offered a reward of a thousand dollars

for the capture of this notoriously nondangerous

man who the police also wanted and he

was going to pay a reward for the capture on the

basis of selling the documentation that is to

say he was going to sell the documentation

involving the apprehension of the criminal and his

offer to pay the thousand dollars and when

he did this he set a kind of diminishing reward

if the capture was effective within so

many days a thousand dollars was paid if not

it was reduced gradually over a period of about

a year i believe and the thing was worked

out very carefully because as the time elapsed

between the offer and the capture the price of

the art work i believe was being reduced to

keep it equivalent so that the whole thing"
"

Edit: source: https://www.artforum.com/features/talking-at-pomona-213137/
pissing matches and missing patches (sorry couldn't resist)
According to the datasheet this is a 512MB (4Gb) 34nm SLC flash, die code M60A. Introduced in the late 2000s and apparently was produced until ~2 years ago. SLC is the easiest to read in this "ad-hoc" fashion but note that newer MLC/TLC/QLC flash is quite prone to read-disturb errors and there may also be a scrambing algorithm applied to the data, so you're likely to need knowledge of both that and the ECC format in order to recover the actual data stored; it's somewhat astounding that random correctable bit errors are basically considered a "normal" occurrence for these newer parts, depending entirely on ECC to compensate for their unreliability.

Also, saying "parallel NAND" is like saying "4-wheeled car". NAND flash with the standard parallel interface is the vast majority, found in basically every solid-state mass storage application.
it's not about a single point encapsulating a novel, but how sequences of such embeddings can represent complex ideas when processed by the model's layers.

each prediction is based on a weighted context of all previous tokens, not just the immediately preceding one.
I link to awesome-tunneling in my post :) I didn't know about that particular list until after I spent my night doing this.

I didn't know about headscale, that does seem pretty cool but I think MagicDNS also specifically would introduce a behavior that I didn't particularly want -- TLS certs being issued for my individual hosts, and thus showing up in cert transparency logs and getting scanned. Ultimately this is really only a problem in the first minutes or hours of setting up a cert, though.

Honestly I would probably recommend every other solution before I recommend my own. It was just fun to figure out and it works surprisingly well for what I wanted -- short lived development tunnels on my own infra with my own domain, without leaking the address of the tunnel automatically.
so terrible product, that the whole world use them and apple is the largest tax payer in the world. These are some of the most innovative companies out there.
Something that might not be obvious: the shape of feeders can change based on switching operations. New PV on the big expensive house next to open space can create problems (you now have a generator right at the end of the grid) and new EVs can be roughly as much demand as a new house. Sometimes the fix is to change what feeds what, especially in a dense city. The utility obviously knows what feeder every meter is on but may not have anticipated (or paid for!) bulk calling the exact customers based on that. CA had rolling outages (caused by Enron) and implemented a system for notification but it was work, took years to design and put in place.

The systems for managing switching and restoring power are quick/live/critical whereas the systems for building / maintaining are more slow / archival / non-critical. Both are typically legacy systems mired in an interconnected web with other legacy systems and very, very slow to change. Anything that looks like a bulk customer / phone list api is even slower.