skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scientific literacy is at an all-time low (or rather it's being leveraged at an all -time high)

I'd say your parenthetical is probably the more appropriate take. That said, in the guise of "scientific literacy", do you have any studies saying as such or is this more a general feeling on your part?
Motion Picture Association Lobbying Congress to Enact Anti-Piracy Law
I say this because I am almost at this point (I run copper through my house) but was scared off on going full fiber. I know some who have, but it’s definitely really, really rare.
GPD has some small devices, but it's not the same, https://www.gpd.hk/product

Gemini and FxTec are closer in form factor, with Android, Linux or Sailfish.
If you have a ground truth function, there is no reason to use an LLM outside of marketing.
Which Apple doesn’t use?
There's no shortage of it and there's a highly visible few ... but I wouldn't go so far as to say that HN is "full of" either far-right extremists or (US) libertarians.

Just in this little sub thread run there's clear push back on "far right libertarian nonesense" which is more the norm, there's always a few trying to run particular flags up some pole or another and there's generally many more pointing out issues in idealogical positions.

Various topics do devolve into attracting a small cluster of actively vocal shared bubble comments but these tend to disappear from ranking quickly as the comment noise outweighs the post vote and it sinks.

Much noise, less substance.
The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers
This is really so obvious that it doesn't merit a discussion.

Yes, it is US dollars.

Why should you assume $ refers to USD?

Because the US is the global superpower. Trade and banking reserves overwhelmingly use USD.

No other currency, and certainly none that use the $ symbol, even come remotely close to the USD.
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But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
Wouldn't you use a plastic or brass hoof gauge?
I was at a carrier shop activating a new line and someone was returning their foldable - it just died on her. Rep was on hold for an hour trying to get approval to return.

Really seems too bleeding edge for general public.
Does it? I’d be inconsolable if I was that 19 year old or his girlfriend.
Do you mean something like this? https://allprivatekeys.com/wallet.dat
It's hard for me to picture doing something with an internet/NAS connection and caring about the extra percents of a millisecond copper gives you. And all the 10g cards amazon is showing me are fanless. Even if you need a fan, it should be enough at whisper-quiet speeds.
Is it? The dollar sign typically refers to USD if not otherwise specified.

I would consider it ambiguous only if used in a Canadian or Australian context. (Or other country that uses $ for their currency).
Maybe, maybe not, but there are additional reasons to strip EXIF data. For example, many phones add location data to the images they produce. Posting those images unoptimized online can be a major privacy issue.
What do you think about the other side of the video game industry where games are distributed digitally? Most PC games nowadays are distributed this way and even consoles are moving in this direction too. There is so much more to it than just aligning marketing and distribution with the development cycle.

Time and time again, news breaks out about terrible working conditions and crunch culture being so ingrained and standard in this industry. Many cases come from studios that mainly distribute their games digitally. So many AAA titles nowadays are released half-finished, broken and rushed for the sake of meeting next quarter's quotas at the expense of the company's employees mental health (Ubisoft for instance), and in some cases, their lives (Activision Blizzard).

The fact that some developers are unjustly taking heat, blame and pressure from their own playerbase is not the saddest part. Video game journalists are disincentivised from talking about it from fear of being blacklisted.

I find that looking at it from the traditional brick-and-mortar perspective misses a dark side of this industry that is often entirely ignored, or treated as an open secret. Crunch can be avoided. Nintendo and Mojang have delayed releases to avoid crunch, yet one of the two also deals with physical retail copies. This is a management/investor pressure/culture/people issue.
Some commentaries are heavily biased and borderline conspiratorial.

I am Vietnamese, currently still living in the Vietnam, and I believe the VCP is doing what they are saying on the can: purging corruption (rather than this being political purge).

Just as concrete counterexample on why it is not merely political purge: In the past 3 years, the last two Presidents of this term both had to resign due to corruption, the first one related to covid testing kit was from the Northern faction. The last two Chairman of People’s committee of Hanoi (basically Hanoi’s mayor/ governor) were also removed and arrested for corruption.

Someone below was wondering what the trigger for this was, so here is it: people were tricked into buying bonds by SCB (My Lan’s bank) when trying to opening saving account. Some lost their entire life saving to the bullshit bonds, and to this day I still occasionally see protester in front of Vietnam’s state bank (it is on my daily commute).

I am not saying there weren’t political infighting, but past few years weren’t it
It seems to me that the refractive index plays a role: couldn't you increase resolution by replacing air by another medium every other cut?
Say air, water, air, etc.

My reasoning is that you'd increase the resolution without adding too much technical complexity.

My maths is too rusty to evaluate how it would mess with the gray code though.

Very nice idea
You're lucky, I find something like <2% enjoyable to actually give real attention to. For that reason I watch basically 0 TV or movies anymore.

And feels like the less I watch, the less I can watch anything without immediately being annoyed at cheese, cheapness, and mostly just plain unrealistic characters or dialogue (which really and truly is 99% it seems like of shows).

I need either high art or a slice of life. Ghibli or Satoshi Kon for anime, stuff like Kubrick in film, or Mad Men for TV. Mad Men especially was my turning point where after that show I couldn't stomach much else.

Call me elitist. I watch lower quality YouTube stuff much more easily (at low attention), but once you're trying to sign me up for 30 minutes or more I just give up.

Tried watching the 3 Body Problem on Netflix and in just the first scenes (cultural revolution + the scientists convo on God) were so full of cringe. I kept it on as background a bit but petered out after a few episodes.
Russian hackers steal US Government emails with Microsoft, officials confirm
How to create C binding for a Rust library
I was an early Alexa PM for Skills back in 2017. Even back then when Alexa had all the hype and first mover advantage, it was extremely difficult to provide any meaningful traction to “Skills developers” for various reasons (friction in VUI, discoverability issues mainly)

Fast forward to 2023 when OpenAI came up with GPT Store, it felt like a deja vu of Alexa skills in some sense. My understanding is that GPTs are also struggling to gain good traction.

There are some fundamental reasons why conversational 3rd party platforms are hard. If there’s any interest I will write about it in the Enterprise AI substack (nextword.substack.com)
This is a really interesting anecdote because (obviously) Cisco fared quite well on net over the last severl decades, is largely respected as a reliable vendor for critical infrastructure, and doesn't evidence even a hiccup in market assessments of its health during that time.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CSCO/cisco/stock-p...

I don't mean to take away the truth of your experience or dismiss that you might better know the disconnect between what you describe and what outsiders might see in hindsight -- it's just the disconnect itself that's fascinating.

> If only things were so simple.

Indeed!
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And yet it has the Amazon links, which makes it appear to have some economic purpose...
Again I’ll ask, why does the US allow backbone providers to maintain connections to China and Russia. It would appear the cons greatly outweigh the pros.
It's extremely distracting. It's a competently written article mixed with a bunch of childish animated nonsense
Kyle Corbitt teases Llama 3 release next week
Actually, I'm happy you spent all those words, and I read them all.

I've been looking for an SHM IPC for a very long time and not finding one. It's nice to know that I'm not the only idiot thinking along these lines.

In addition, it's also nice to know that this was hard. I have taken several stabs at doing this, and I always bounced off thinking "It can't be this difficult. I'm screwing up." Seeing that smart people working for a real company had to do major surgery on something like jemalloc is a bit of a validation.

Can't say I'm happy to see this in C++, but I'll take what I can get. :)

Thanks to all the folks who wrote it. And thank you for the long winded explanations otherwise I probably would have ignored it.
I just today was interfacing to one of these 4x4 keypad arrays for a small in-house test box we're making at work. I was handed the keypad and told to make it go. No problem, they're pretty straightforward to work with. But my immediate question was, "can't we get one with a calculator style number layout rather than a phone style layout?" and it seems to be the answer is basically no, unless you want to have one custom made. Pretty much all the stuff out there floating around is all phone layout. Why?? The pattern on the one in your project write up (which is a fun project, btw) seems the most common, and the same pattern as the one I've got. Along with the reverse number pattern, the '#' and '*' keys seems much less useful than a '.' and an 'enter' key would be in a lot of applications.
So you would have had an easier time getting admitted based on your participation in lacrosse, unpaid internships at non-profits, and so on?
...and off by one errors.
> Mockery is equally function in the sense that it implements the interface it targets.

Consider a function with a key/value database dependency:

type DB interface {
Get(key string) string
Set(key string, value string)
}

func ContrivedFunction(db DB) string {
db.Set("key", "value")
return db.Get("key")
}

And let's test it using mockery:

func TestContrivedFunction(t *testing.T) {
db := mocks.NewDB(t)
if ContrivedFunction(db) != "value" {
t.Error("unexpected result")
}
}

Code looks reasonable enough, but then... Epic failure. This should work, at least it should if `db` is a mock. But it does not work. `db` deceived us. Clearly not a mock in any sense of the word.

But, okay. It is still something. We will play its game:

func TestContrivedFunction(t *testing.T) {
db := mocks.NewDB(t)
db.Mock.On("Set", "key", "value").Return()
db.Mock.On("Get", "key").Return("value")
if ContrivedFunction(db) != "value" {
t.Error("unexpected result")
}
}

Wonderful. We're back in business. Tests are passing and everything is sunshine and rainbows.

But now, the contrived project manager just called and, for contrived reasons, would like to change the organization of record keys:

func ContrivedFunction(db DB) string {
db.Set("ns:key", "value")
return db.Get("ns:key")
}

Ah, fuck! The test just broke again. But it shouldn't have. The utility of ContrivedFunction – that which is under test – hasn't changed one bit. The DB implementation should have been able to handle this just fine. The DB implementation used in production handles this just fine. This mockery tool is fundamentally broken.

But not only is it broken, it doesn't seem to serve a purpose. Why would you even use it?
Oops. This estimating centuries is harder than I thought
I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly.

I do not like the whole of xwindows crapping out or applications being killed.

I don't really know if it is better than fifteen years ago and have little interest in finding out.

Also I sometimes have 9000 browser tabs open.
this is fun. thanks for making it!
Based on the article the dude seems like he'd be less beat up about it than the comments here are on his behalf. He got 100k+ during his college years and it helped him land his first full time job.

Hell, let most's problems be that a developer incentive program didn't live up to be a lifetime career replacement and I doubt they'll consider it an upset at all.
May I ask how do you solve the problem that almost none of the 3rd party libraries in Java ecosystem use modules?

Last time I checked, jlink tool refused to make use of those "automatic module" dependencies when creating an image.
TIL about the Hartley Mammoth butchery site, 37kybp in New Mexico, via offhand mention in the paper. It will be hard for naysayers to discount it, given so many details seen almost exclusively in human contexts.

Of course there would be no detectable linguistic remnants of these people after so long, so their place in the landscape of migrations may never be established.
I think this is the prompt?

Return a regex matching user input. Answer in this format "^.*$", nothing else: "Validate a password with at least 8 characters, one uppercase, one lowercase, and one number".

This looks great, I will use it in my tool (https://tablesmith.io/) and let user filter by regex. One suggestion is also let user input some positive/negative test cases, and test them automatically.
Scribd has a PDF of "Vietnam Magazine" from February 2016 (https://www.scribd.com/document/325931427/Vietnam-February-2...). Page 40 of this PDF has the following quote that supports the San Francisco shop story:

"Hung eventually left Vietnam and ran his own photo shop in San Francisco, where he met former AP photographer Horst Faas in 1998, according to the San Francisco Examiner. 'They paid me $10 a picture,' Hung told Faas. 'It could support my whole family for one month.' A selection of Hung’s photos follows."
Luckily we can use common sense and intuit that razor sharp microglass embedded in the colon will cause cancer via immune response.

Do you work for an asbestos company?
I assume illegal in the EU antitrust sense where if Apple can access then so should everyone else
Apple joins tech exodus to Florida
Not to be too cheeky, but take javascript out to the woodshed and I expect a marked improvement in mental health all around.
I agree with the original poster. The novel was extremely expositional, with epigraphs, italicized personal thoughts, and shifting points of view. The film is the novel with all the exposition removed. I see the film not just as an adapatation, but as a direct response to Lynch's version which includes all the exposition you could like.

> - We are told the Atreides ruled Caladan, but at no point is the audience shown who the Atreides' subjects are...

I'm not sure why this is particularly needed and it isn't really in the novel. The importance of Caladan in the novel is that it is wet (which we do see); and that the way Caladan is ruled (whatever that is) must necessarily be different than how Arrakis is ruled (air/sea versus desert power). I'll have to rewatch the film to see if this can be gleaned from it; but it seems largely irrelevant what day-to-day life is like for Caladanians not in the Duke's direct employ and if the Duke is particularly loved or hated there.

> - On Arrakis, we are only ever told how strong and powerful the Fremen are...

This is also true of the novel. The main characters know more about the Fremen than anyone and very little at that. The Duke believes the Fremen are his 'desert power' because of the comparison to the Sardaukar on Selusa Secundus and because their estimates of the number of Fremen are greater than those of the Harkonnen or Emperor. Duncan Idaho confirms these suspicions, but the Fremen are largely mysterious even then. We also have the interaction between the Shadout Mapes and Jessica to hint at their capacity for violence.
https://archive.is/hMNdQ
I found this email from Apple in my inbox too. At first I thought it was spam.

The only thing I can think why I could possibly be targeted is that I mentioned on a few Youtube channels about the clearly obvious IDF troll armies spamming the comments of any YT news stories which highlighted the atrocities (as well as mentioning when the troll armies seemed to stop their operations dramatically last week when the World Kitchen aid workers were killed and the news exploded around it).

Lockdown mode now enabled.
The point is that model alignment ensures the model's security and safety, especially in public-facing applications. If alignment is removed through fine-tuning, the model becomes unsafe for use in such contexts.
If you use tables like “ReplacingMergeTree” which _explicitly_ states that merges happen in the background, and non-merged rows _will_ be visible.

It’s a table design optimised for specific workloads, and the docs and design detail those tradeoffs.

We use it at work for workloads that can tolerate “retreading” over stale data, because it means they can efficiently write to the db without round tripping, or locking and row updates, and without the table growing massive. It works fantastically in our use case.
If I understood the figures I looked up correctly, she had about 8% of the entire printed/minted Vietnamese Dong currency in her basement (1,352,910 Billion VND in circulation).
Yeah, most future applications will use grammar-based sampling. It's trivial now to restrict tokens to valid JSON, schemas, SQL, etc. But we'll need more elaborate grammars for the limitless domains that LLMs will be applied to. A policy of just rawdoggin' any token is...not long for this world.
It is interesting that this work places those languages entering only ~5kya, many millennia after the other language families were long established. Their success establishing residence particularly in the Pacific Northwest is remarkable. How they achieved it might never be known, but maybe some complex of technological innovations they brought enabled it.
Maybe it would have been simpler if GP said it cost about 7-12 axolotls from Petco.
I know this was just an example, but in the case of video game sales, they’re all going to be digital in the next console generation (if not, in the one after that). Then all of that retail space will be reclaimed for other purposes.
LLMs like ChatGPT only generate one token at a time. To generate more you run inference repeatedly until you reach a stop token or some other predetermined limit.

I don't see streaming helping anything besides maybe Time-To-First-Inference, but regardless, you're still not getting any output until the entire weights are downloaded.
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> Any house built in the last few decades would probably have a built in dish soap dispenser you could pop out, but if not, no luck

Is this common? I’m not sure I’ve ever come across this idea but it sounds pretty convenient.
Except the thesis of the article - What if we turned malls into housing. There was that part.
If you liked that, you should check out the History of English podcast. It is a great and long running podcast that looks at the history and other factors that gave us this language.

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
This game had one of the best first level soundtracks ever. Didn't matter what sound hardware you used, it just sounded intense. There are port engines that allow for additional features (OpenGL acceleration, etc) and keep the game alive for the modern era.
I guess, but most compression algorithms like DEFLATE or zstd would compress those big sequences of zeros basically to nothing.
> Use a super jump to cross over the water area with the missle pack atop a pillar in the water when you are going to the Wrecked Ship area.

Funny that they were aware of the mechanic that can be used to skip grapple beam entirely (a huge time save), but didn't incorporate it into the "speed run" walkthrough.

The earliest known recorded run is from 2003, by which time the mockball had been discovered, but not the zebetite skip, so there's far more ammo collection than you'd see even in a beginner's run today.

https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Record_Progression#Ancient_His...
The convention is that crawlers first read /robots.txt to see what they're encouraged to scrape and what they're not meant to, and then hopefully honor those directions.

In this case, as in many, the disallow rules are intentionally meant to protect the signal quality and efficiency of the crawler.
Nation states will still launch cyberattacks even when you're not directly connected to locations they physically reside.
Yep. The worse circumstance is when a lunatic champions a legitimate cause be it technological authoritarianism, the absurd concentration of corporate power, or income inequality.

It's worth remembering that "libertarian writers" advanced deregulation and climate change denial tropes for decades, and "libertarianism" is itself a billionaire-manufactured and -evangelized sock puppet ideological religion concocted with the help and credibility of Laissez-faire, pro-corporate economists and riding the coattails of a philosophically-bankrupt fiction writer who makes the irrational leap that reality (to a human observer) can ever be a known, unbiased, and concrete certainty.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Virtue-of-Stupidity-A-C...
It seems straightforward that finetuning an LLM just for usefulness will reduce alignment (and the other way around).
You’re wrong about the mentally taxing bit because you’re comparing Apples and Oranges. Most doctors are not spending solid 4hr blocks in flow focusing on a highly complex problem (surgeons being the obvious exception) but instead dealing with a sort of multi-tasking complexity which is a completely different type of mental taxation.
Ig, it's there in the paper: training or finetuning the Deberta-V3
> 10 minute timer set, while you wait I can....

Sounds like they enshitified where they eat.
When I was last there (almost a decade ago!) they sure did.

Microsoft has been under attack by state actors for decades now, their security teams work hard to keep things together but even a company like Microsoft will fail when literally every large country is attacking them 24/7, including going so far as to get spies hired into the company.

Microsoft was historically very locked down internally, unlike Google where all source code was visible to everyone, Microsoft had (may have changed not sure) product code based cordoned off.

As for bypassing TOTP, does TOTP provide any security if running on a cell phone and the cell phone is rootkitted?
Except that's not what I'm saying and it does in fact matter what's under the hood if you're looking for a scientific, causal explanation of organic intelligence. I know that AIs are useful, and that they can be logically sounds and make real world contributions. That's not what the article is arguing against. Human reasoning, by the way, is much more complicated than any of these things.

The article states that AI will never reach human intelligence, which LeCun defines as "reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world."

I would argue that's still an extremely narrow definition of human intelligence. Even ignoring semantics current AIs cannot do any of those things, and to my lights never will for the same reasons LeCun says.
Did you read more than the first sentence of this comment before replying? I'm up in the air on it but it deserves more discussion and less mental laziness than you're showing here.