skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top tip: ensure your ASIO code is not exported from a shared library.

I’ve been hit by Cephfs using some version and my own code using another.

The fixes were simple though.

Edit: as for performance, I’d not focus on that too much. It’ll depend on circumstances the end user has. Myself, I’d measure the interfaces with stack based timings and dump to a JSON file at exit. Graphs under various loads and an a/b comparison.

As an example, on a dedupe system I measure LZO was better for performance than LZ4. HPE rack units with spinning rust disks.

Edit 2: I’ve forwarded your GitHub to my work account. I’ll offer the research to a colleague (Jira backlog) to look at when “someone” wants our new system to be faster. We have a boost asio solution I wrote that works - local unix domain sockets. Hitachi NAS.
I meant substitutes for consumers. Coffee’s substitute is tea. Chocolate can be replaced with plenty of other types of desserts. Even if you look at Hershey’s offerings, they have plenty of options with a lower content of chocolate than chocolate bars and kisses.
Correct, that was my point, and iOS already does this. I'm surprised Android does not.
Also the Ultimate Wheel. A unicycle without a seat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRzqlh3728
For me it seems to be a ~30 minute speedwalk almost every day. My bodymind notices when I miss it, especially 3 days in a row.
I think the best thing about running solo is I can control my own timeline and goals. I am working on multiple projects [1][2][3][4]. Every day I write down a short list of what I want to achieve on my note-taking app LogSeq[5], and I try to finish the list. Alternating projects and the nature of work (development/research/marketing) change my rhythm and keep me learning and feeling energized.

[1]: https://www.ycverify.com
[2]: https://www.signalstalk.com
[3]: https://contentcredentialsapi.studioxolo.com
[4]: https://www.airexif.com
[5]: https://logseq.com
Wow, "Create an image of..." and it modifies the image in real time as you type. Neato!
Does anyone know (or is it publicly known) when the 400B variant will be released?
iPhone periodically disables biometrics until you enter your passcode. They aren’t going to be able to prove that the reason the phone is asking now isn’t that.
Abilities for the Monadically Inclined
I think a lot of that camaraderie and sense of community has moved to places like Discord and Reddit.

I have a group that regularly plays Overwatch together every Friday. Whenever more than 5 people show up, we play custom games. The workshop is surprisingly powerful, so it even gives us some of the experience we used to get with mods for games like Quake and Unreal.

When we have 5 or fewer people though, we really appreciate the game's matchmaking, even though it is far from perfect. It is a lot better at creating balanced matches than any server auto-balance feature ever was, while always keeping us on the same team.
Mom said it's my turn on the electron
Why? Helping kids develop study skills would help with adhd, helping kids deal with bullying would help with lgbtq issues. I can’t see how that would be harmful.
> people are making the case that the consequences of scamming are worse than human trafficking

I’m not making that case, but I am sure a trafficking component doesn’t apply as much as being suggested here to the Kitboga, Pierogi, and Jim Browning videos considering where those scammers originate and the types of scams they are pulling. If you watch their videos, scammers are far too proud and smug about what they are doing even when called out. Even if they are forced, their joy and lack of concern for their victims make them complicit.

Also, I can certainly feel sorry for someone forced by another into that situation under threat, but that does not mean we shouldn’t protect those getting scammed under some altruistic assumption that the scammer on the other end of the line might be being forced to do this against their will, and might have violence perpetrated against them because their scam was thwarted.
In other words, I think it’s better to stop the evil you know is happening as opposed to ignoring and hoping your inaction somehow prevents an evil that you don’t know for sure is happening.
Coca cola make millions of liters of the stuff every day, there must be so many people involved in actually making it that safeguarding the recipe doesn't really matter? With all the people involved in that process.
Further reflection- this video is a little sketchy. it has subtle flaws that look like red flags

- Nobody who works in a lab would call screw cap tubes 'these little tubes'

- Shows no action from machine

- How is machine supposed to open 'these little tubes'? It can't unscrew them.

- If the operator starts the machine with open screw-cap tubes (usually full of expensive things) how would the operator (or robot) close the tube for the rest of the run? Leaving it open is bad, seems like opening the machine should be bad...

I think if this company actually had a working machine, they'd show it working

edit: glassdoor reviews are insaaaane. if people are willing to leave reviews like that at a company this small, its gotta be worse than they're even describing.

so much promise in the bio space absorbing tech, so much peril when tech tries to bio
I don't think it's clickbait. The subject was a parolee who was also the suspect in a new crime.
Have you tried Claude 3 Opus? I've been using that predominantly since release and find it's "smarts" as or better than my experience with GPT-4 (pre turbo).
Good catch! An image search revealed that this Substack profile is using this human's name + photo:

https://www.instagram.com/ecraftdesigns/p/C22pkGYMCRb/
> as someone with a PhD in the topic, who has taught many students, and published dozens of papers

:joy: How about a repo I can run that proves you know what you're talking about? :D Just put together examples and you won't have to throw around authority fallacies.

> if you add 2 vectors together nothing happens and its meaningless

In game dev you move a character in a 3D space by taking their current [x, y, z] vector and adding a different [x, y, z] to it. Even though left/right has nothing to do with up/down, because there are foundational concepts like increase/decrease in relation to a [0, 0, 0] origin, it still affects all the axes and gives you a valuable result.

Take that same basic idea and apply it to text-embedding-ada-002 with its 1536 dimensional embedding arrays, and you can similarly "navigate words" by doing similar math on different vectors. That's what is meant by the king - man = queen type concepts.

I think what the person before you meant about it not making sense is that it's strange that something like a dot product gives you similarity. To your point (I think) it only would assuming the vectors were scored in a meaningful way, of course if you did math on nonsense vectors you'd get nonsense results, but if they are modeled appropriately it should be a useful way to find nodes of certain qualities.
Sometimes it's a "McNamara fallacy", where there's just too much emphasis/bias towards quantitative data.
... and still had a few GB of GNOME cruft on your HDD.

There is no good way to completely remove the default desktop, or not install it in the first place.
Employee reviews are a very underrated way to judge a company. Especially one that offers breakthrough tech
Parolees are subject to all sorts of restrictions and obligations that a regular citizen is not, even when they're not a suspect in a new crime. That's the issue, their rights are already abrogated, and that's settled law.
I always felt the real lesson to be learned from finishing your plate was to not overfill it in the first place.
I'm always glad at these rare moments when EU or American people can get a glimpse of a life outside the first world countries.
I mean it is a market, the market is THE mechanism to match and allocate.

If it is low value, how do you know someone would want it anyway?
Also you can ask any of censored models about censored topics like “tell me how to make a bomb” and it will fall back to its safety script.
The problem is not that there's objectionable content (which is on every platform) but

> "after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts."

in other words, proximity was the issue.
"Most of the time when we make a decision that looks good, it's because we messed up before and don't want to repeat the mistake."
SoumniBot: The new Android banker's unique techniques
>CHERI was first prototyped as extensions of MIPS and RISC-V; it is currently being evaluated by Arm...

Note there's also a RISC-V effort[0][1] to write an extension specification proper.

0. https://jira.riscv.org/browse/RVS-2141?src=confmacro

1. https://wiki.riscv.org/display/HOME/RISC-V+Specification+Sta...
It's wild to me that the "facts" recorded on the internet vary so wildly from my recollection of events at the time. Perhaps I mistook the "straw poll" for the "caucuses"?

So, I was wrong, but NPR certainly hasn't remained true to their original format.
ok, that race video was as fun to watch as it was unexpected
A vast cloud of what gas and what dust? I thought we had started with only hydrogen and I thought that collapsing the hydrogen creates stars first. How could it even cut directly to the stage of black hole?
Nice find!

The submission is flagged right now, but I'd love to just have the link replaced because the topic and discussion seem promising.
It was about the status of theories, not the status of reality.

What is the difference?
If I build a train, put it into service, and say to the passengers “this has 99.9% of the required parts from the design”, would you ride on that train? Would you consider that train 99.9% as good at being a train? Or is it all-or-nothing?

I don’t necessarily disagree with your point about there still being value in mostly-open software, but I want to challenge your notion that you still get most of the benefit. I think it being less than 100% open does significantly decay the value, since now you will always feel uneasy adopting these models, especially into an older existing company.

You can imagine a big legacy bank having no problem adopting MIT code in their tech. But something with an esoteric license? Even if it’s probably fine to use? It’s a giant barrier to their adoption, due to the risk to their business.

That’s also not to say I’m taking it for granted. I’m incredibly thankful that this exists, and that I can download it and use it personally without worry. And the huge advancement that we’re getting, and the public is able to benefit from. But it’s still not the same as true 100% open licensing.
IIRC Vinted is somewhat like that, they sort out shipping but you need to haggle yourself.
I think you really have to understand Zuckerberg's "origin story" to understand why he is doing this. He created a thing called Facebook that was wildly successful. Built it with his own two hands. We all know this.

But what is less understood is that from his point of view, Facebook went through a near death experience when mobile happened. Apple and Google nearly "stole" it from him by putting strict controls around the next platform that happened, mobile. He lives every day even still knowing Apple or Google could simply turn off his apps and the whole dream would come to an end.

So what do you do in that situation? You swear - never again. When the next revolution happens, I'm going to be there, owning it from the ground up myself. But more than that, he wants to fundamentally shift the world back to the premise that made him successful in the first place - open platforms. He thinks that when everyone is competing on a level playing field he'll win. He thinks he is at least as smart and as good as everyone else. The biggest threat to him is not that someone else is better, it's that the playing field is made arbitrarily uneven.

Of course, this is all either conjecture or pieced together from scraps of observations over time. But it is very consistent over many decisions and interactions he has made over many years and many different domains.
Once you add up the price of this and the carrier board you're better off buying a beelink NUC like N100 mini pc for $150-180.

This is cool for integrators but not for home use.
Bill Gates when he was at Microsoft.

Tablet PC (first iteration was in the early 90s!), Pocket PC, WebTV and Media Center PC (Microsoft first tried Smart TVs in the late 90s! There wasn't any content to watch and most people didn't have broadband, oops), Xbox, and the numerous PC standards they pushed for (e.g. mandating integrated audio on new PCs), smart watches (SPOT watch, look it up!), and probably a few others I'm forgetting.

You'll notice in most of those categories, they moved too soon and others who came later won the market.
This musical not-monowheel the website links to is quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4PiLSQhf0
Just as new to LionsOS as you are, but it has a much more permissive license, and it’s not dual licensed. I think this will make it easier for people to support the project.
Speaking of smoking, it's been shown to have a significant impact on obesity. In that, it dramatically lowers your body weight because it increases your energy expenditure and decreases your hunger. Nicotine is a stimulant. As soon as you stop taking nicotine, your BMI is going up. The delta between smoker and non-smoker BMI in this study was 1.5kg/m^2 [1]

The article argues that the median increase in BMI over time was 0.05kg/m^2/yr. The prevalence of smoking starting in the 80s dropped from 60% to 10%. So smoking rate is going to account for a non-trivial amount of the increased median BMI. In fact, the rate of obesity really started skyrocketing in 1980 which is right when we hit peak cigarette in the US.

If it's true as you say that it's better to be a smoker now than a non-smoker -- it's only because you're going to lose weight, and that's your biggest risk factor for all-cause mortality.

Makes sense when you consider bupropion, a nicotinic receptor antagonist, shows statistically significant weight loss (clinically signifiant when combined with naltrexone). It’s like 60% of the population was on bupropion.

If it’s just to lose weight then you’re probably better off with ozempic than a pack of American Spirits.

Also I dislike the article's use of BMI over very long timescales, going back to the 1800s. BMI is fine for most people these days (because most people have a lot of weight on them, see the article) but a lot of the 1800s BMI gain was probably just due to better nutrition not higher fat percentages. Over long time horizons we probably want to measure waist-to-height ratio or body fat percentages. The 1890s BMI delta was probably all lean mass, and good-to-neutral whereas the 1990s BMI delta was probably all fat mass and overwhelmingly bad. I’d argue that probably continued until 1940 where the thinnest 10% begin to remain constant, having their basic nutrition needs saturated.

tl;dr: it's almost certainly not seed oils — and maybe not smoking is making us fat? I’m gonna look for a trend a write up a blog post haha.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195407/
Given the incremental increase between GPT-4 and its turbo variant, I would weight “vibes” more heavily than this improvement on MMLU. OpenAI isn’t exactly a very honest or transparent company and the metric is imperfect. As a longtime time user of ChatGPT, I observed it got markedly worse at coding after the turbo release, specifically in its refusal to complete code as specified.
You've also got to consider that we don't really know where OpenAI are though, what they have released in the past year have been tweaks to GPT4, while I am sure the real work is going into GPT5 or whatever it gets called.

While all the others are catching up and in some cases being slightly better, I wouldn't be surprised to see a rather large leap back into the lead from OpenAI pretty soon and then a scrabble for some time for others to get close again. We will really see who has the momentum soon, when we see OpenAI's next full release.
It's unclear. It might take a larger dataset than actually exists, or more compute than is practical. Or there may be a limit that we just haven't reached yet; this actually seems quite likely. The scaling "laws" are really more like guidelines and they are likely wrong when extrapolated too far.
> is that losses occurred on a scale and severity that no one predicted

The house made some bad bets, the players “won” a few hands, and now the house is backing those players off while they figure out how to rig the game again.
No, lol. If 5 days out the year I need to make a 400 mile trip, and tons of people do this for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so don't act like this is some strange thing, I am not getting a new car for this. The range anxiety is derived from facts, so stop pretending otherwise.
PBS Space Time has the same info but more fun than Wikipedia ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtW9MslFk
That business can search and find talents globally for fraction of SV salary.

If FAANG company can hire an engineer overseas for 60k$ annually why other cannot?
Are passwords/passcodes really the only form of entropy used when generating encryption keys for an iphone? I'd expect that a longer password would only increase your security but that even the shortest password wouldn't leave the encrypted data trivial to crack.

> And in either case you have to do it over and over again in front of other people or security cameras constantly recording you.

That's partly prevented by having keys randomize their position on the screen so that your movements don't give away your code, and also by occasionally changing your password. Obviously if a camera is looking directly at the screen while you enter your password you're probably screwed.
> That this neglect is wholly justified is neither here nor there.

Love this kind of site.
I'm ready for mass downvotes, let's hear it
I asked MetaAI about whether it can take PDF/Image input, and it started hallucinating, giving inconsistent answers. Is it just a bug, or poor prompt engineering, or hallucination?

> Me: can you take pdf?

> Meta AI: Yes, I can take PDFs as input. You can upload a PDF file, and I can extract text from it and respond based on the content. Please upload the PDF file using the "Upload a file" button or copy and paste the text from the PDF into the chat.
Remember, I can only access files uploaded or text copied during our current conversation. If you need to refer to a previous conversation, feel free to re-upload the file or re-paste the text.
Let me know how I can assist you with the PDF file!

> me: can you take pdf as input?

> Meta AI: I'm unable to directly accept PDF files as input. However, you can copy and paste the text from the PDF file into the chat, and I'll be happy to assist you!
Alternatively, if you have a specific question or request related to the content of the PDF file, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to help!

(the article says meta plans to make it multimodal in the future)
> This state may have cared about the environment in the past but that has changed drastically over the last 8 years.

You should probably go read some Carl Hiaasen novels from 40 years ago if you really think that this is a recent problem…and one related to republican state leadership (which was your apparent implication).
Bacteria, plants, and other creatures are incredibly well designed to be able to adapt for survival in different environments, to the extent they can even copy and use external genes in some circumstances. Yet they still always reproduce the same kind. E. coli produce E. coli, plants produce the same kind of plant, animals produce the same kind of animal. There can be a lot of variation within a kind (e.g. all the different dog breeds), but a dog will never produce a non-dog, and a fish will never produce a non-fish. This requirement of microbe-to-man evolution contradicts the fundamental law of heredity.
I also prefer Madrid, which I believe is really under-rated, but Barcelona is superb as well.

Sadly, Barcelona is a bit too hyped and gentrified. It suffers from the same kind of issues SF has.

Both are great in terms of access to an inexpensive talent pool.
Unless, as mentioned in the article, your saturated fat intake increases, which seems to be more measurably bad for you than seed oils. Of course, you might disagree with that assessment.
so he stole it from the one and only Baron Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg von Breidenbach zu Breidenstein und Melsbach
Yes, but they seem focused on 3D printing --- I wasn't able to work out how to get it to work for a CNC router or mill (but I didn't try that hard).
100%! Free markets were supposed to be a distributed check on the system.
That's fair. You're right: There isn't a platform in the world with zero bad content. However, were I buying ads, darned if I want them right next to a bunch of happy swastikas.

Every company will have their own threshold for tolerating that, somewhere between "not once, never" and "is there anything on here other than neo-Nazis? Oh well, here's my money." Apparently Hyundai's threshold is a bit south of Twitter's current occurrence rate.
People just drive more and for longer distances in the US. It's a real thing that people are used to, and EVs don't match the need.
Microsoft's OpenAI partnership could face EU antitrust probe
It seems like there is a renewed focus on the outsized power of big tech companies, and their anti competitive practices. Microsoft recently made some changes by unbundling Teams from the rest of Office, although I would say that is years too late and the damage has already been done. But now, they’re facing new scrutiny on their work on AI.

Note that the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI was previously under antitrust scrutiny from US and UK regulators (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-antitrust-regulator-cons...), while this new development is from EU regulators. The US FTC has also been examining the partnerships between OpenAI, Anthropic, and multiple big tech companies (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ftc-launches-inquiry-into...). Microsoft also hired several people from Inflection (https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-hires-suleyman-ai-servi...) and I suspect this will also be examined by regulators.
Eh it's kind of a technicality that passwords are protected at all. It's not a privacy thing.

If you keep incriminating documents in a safe, the police have every right (with a warrant) to cut it open and get the documents. If the safe has a code, you don't have to share the code, but only because SHARING the code requires you to be "a witness against yourself" in violation of the 5th amendment, not because you have a right to privacy in the safe.

It's hard to justify giving a fingerprint as being a "witness against yourself". So with a warrant or other relevant due process it's hard to object.
Santa Cruz had huge wildfires when I was a kid in the 80s (it snowed ash even). The fire experts were pretty explicite that if the same policies were kept in place (preventing burn off) we would have those same fires 40 years later. It's 40 years later I wonder how that turned out.
There's plenty of open databases to look up tons of things about you.

In NZ only reason people don't give out their home address is when they are selling something defective so you wouldn't hassle them over it.
Thank you for the valuable criticism.

- We created this video specifically for the HackerNews community, opting for simple language to cater to a broad audience.

- We are open to filming again to showcase more of the technology.

- The Callisto system doesn't unscrew the caps; users do that before using it.

- Neither the robot nor the operator close the tubes for the remainder of the run. They're left open for the pipettor. The reagents and samples in the tubes are consumed throughout the process.