skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I did SMS-banking for a candidate, there was always a real person behind the messages. However, that consisted of queuing up a big list of numbers and a templated message and clicking "send". Likewise, if someone responded, the software only let us pick from a handful of pre-canned responses. We did have a button to remove people from the list, and were supposed to use it for anything that sounded like a request to stop contacting them (your message would count).
> the reply from the mutation operation is stored in a tracker until the transaction log acknowledges persistence

What are the consistency and durability properties of the tracker datastore?

Are replies from tracker mutations stored in a tracker-tracker until the tracker-transaction-log acknowledges persistence?

Is it trackers all the way down?
> Over time, the code density of RISC-V will increase

Why given the push back against adding new instructions tang would achieve this?
What are your thoughts on the integrity of the network against state actors?
The original relational calculus, created by the same person who wrote the linked paper, did not allow unbounded deletes. One has to wonder how SQL, which was based on his work, managed to screw things up so badly. These were already solved problems before SQL was created.
KYC basically means that the job of collecting evidence to prosecute potential (read: non-existent yet) crimes has fallen to yourself and your bank/cloud provider/etc., rather than forcing the government to collect evidence to prosecute a crime. Essentially an end-run around the 4th amendment and the whole idea of "innocent until proven guilty".
Yes, I learned the hard way to never donate to political campaigns, and be very, very cautious about donating to any other nonprofit, unless you are giving the money truly anonymously. Giving to these groups means that you're going to be hounded incessantly by other organizations.
The external model is much simpler to do for Redis than a database with complex cross-key queries like an SQL database. Redis has scans but no queries or “real” transactions with rollback. To me it sounds like more work to implement MemoryDB and then additionally re-implement the Redis interior than to implement MemoryDB and use the off-the-shelf Redis.

I also think that the decoupled design is kind of elegant, it allows the logical implementation to be developed independently of the durability bits. It’s open-core but someone else is building the core.
No, unless flatpak will be able to do what snap does for Canonical for years.
It's completely sensible - Why would you just hand over your crown jewel to a competitor?

(At the same time, it doesn't seem like China really cares for its tech industry, given how many times they've sabotaged it. It is possible they don't care about what happens with TikTok.)
Speak of which, reddit has become very slow at roughly this time every day for me for at least weeks.

Did anyone encounter this too?
so… more coherent leads than the article claims, but still speculation.
Folks - Get ready to make a TikTok + AI clone, if not already.
You're validating that there is a human on the other end, though, that's dangerous.
Bevy is a full-blown game engine, which is an awesome idea for visualizing rust programs. Maybe it would be good for generating advent of code diagrams next year... (Who am I kidding, I barely get to day 12 most years!)
Last I looked at tribler it was an attack resilient torrent/tor-like network client. Now it's a micro-economy for media. That's a pivot!
It seems pretty damn unjust to indiscriminately punish people (the Iranian citizens) who may or may not even agree with what the government is doing and certainly have no power to change it in any case. Unfortunately I, too, have no power over my government or else I would lean on them to stop making life worse for people who did nothing wrong.
Team Scheisse, new heights? What exactly brings punk to new heights with this band?

There's no hiding the "influence" of Sex Pistols, and I'd much rather listen to Sex Pistols, Ramones, and also Rancid than this band.

Do not see the appeal.
> I look at a "sort of" competitor in our industry, and their rate of feature development is ridiculously slow by comparison.

Seconded. At my org, Ruby/Rails is our competitive advantage.

Our 5-6 competitors are all Java/.NET shops -- we deliver fixes and new features dramatically faster and deploy them with ease. It gets noticed.

The main downside is rails doesn't scale well re: complexity so regular refactors are necessary (ours is a high-volume big data app).

For performance/cost, it took some doing but by strategically moving business logic to higher performance techs we've even managed to get to a great spot there.
Except for backside power. Intel published and had a timeline to ship at least one generation ahead of TSMC. I haven’t been tracking what happened since, but Intel was ahead on this one process improvement. And it’s not a small one, but it doesn’t cancel out their other missteps. Not by half.
This works for me too with Verizon. And on iOS, under Settings > Messages, I enable "Filter Unknown Senders".
I'm struggling a bit to figure out the pricing here. If I have lets say 50 users that sync Trello, does that count as 50 synced connections?
That's a strawman. <rolls eyes> It won't be a checkbox, of course... <rolls eyes again>
3-4 years ago I was convinced that Rails was in its sunset years. JS had all the energy, Ruby conferences were disappearing, and it seemed like there was no new open-source development happening: we were all just using the same gems we'd used for years.

I'm happy to say that I was proven very wrong. New conferences have sprung up, over-the-wire is trending well against SPAs, and there's been a ton of new features and approaches that have kept Rails and Ruby very relevant to modern development.
It actually was down around this time for a different reason a few days ago
You can feel free to do that, if you're not too hung up on simulation-synthesis matching.
I keep a Google Voice number for this purpose. It's still free, and it's the only thing I enter online. My cell goes to humans I know.

I don't really care how much spam I get to GV. I only check it weekly or so.
Reddit had just announced they were launching new AI-powered ad tech.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/reddit-sneaky-ai-spa...
Regrettably, SMS campaigning appears to be the new norm, as both major political parties are utilizing it. The calculation seems to be that the advantages outweigh the drawbacks. Therefore, I don't believe a bad actor would utilize it to potentially help their opponent.

From personal experience, while the constant messaging can be irritating, I've learned to reply STOP and move on with my life. it won't deter me from voting. I mean, this tactic is part of broader campaign strategies rather than a reflection of any candidate's merits.
It's very readable if you know what every bit means.

export type Brand<T, Brand extends string> = T & {
readonly [B in Brand as `__${B}_brand`]: never;
};

It exports a freshly defined type named Brand, which is a generic type with two parameters, one named T (that can be any type), and other named Brand (probably should be named differently to avoid confusion with the name of the whole exported type). Brand parameter must be a type that's assignable to string. For example it can be a type that has only one specific string like "Account" allowed as a value. It might be a bit weird but in places where type is expected "Account" is not treated as string literal but as a type assignable to string with only one allowed value, "Account".

This whole exported type is defined as an intersection type of parameter T and object type that has readonly properties for every type that is assignable to the type passed in as parameter named Brand when this generic type is instantiated. For example if "Account" was passed then B can only be "Account" here, so this object type will only contain a single property. Key of this property will be a string that looks like __Account_brand (if the Brand was "Account") and the type of this property will be never, so nothing is allowed to be assigned to this property.

The result of instantiation of this whole exported generic type will be a type which values can be assigned to variables of type T, but attempt to assign value of type T (or type branded with some other string) to variable of this branded type will result in an error because of missing or mismatched brand property.

This definition might allow for interesting complex branding like:

let id:Brand<string, "Employee" | "Manager">;

that can be assigned to variables and parameters of types Brand<string, "Employee"> or Brand<string, "Manager"> or just string.

PS.

Intersection type constructed from multiple types in TS using & symbol is a type which values are assignable to variables of each of the constituent types.

For example value of a type Logger & Printer can be assigned to variables and parameters of type Logger and of type Printer as well.
Ah yes let me put some non deterministic garbage on my killing machine.
What you listed likely contains PUFAs, specifically linoleic acid[1]. Even egg yolks contain 17% LA compared to 18% for canola oil and 50% for soybean oil.

I would say besides mayo (usually made with a seed oil), egg yolk would contain the highest amount of Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Linoleic acid in your examples.

If my semi-controversial diet book is correct, PUFAs are to blame.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linoleic_acid
1. Temporarily deactivate the number for 30 days. Most spam engines will flag the number as offline, and actually remove you from the primary lead list they sell to marketers. Simply turning off data/mms/rcs formats can also be effective against some spam sources.

2. Make sure your telecom is not selling your contact details. Often this costs up to $2.53 a month per number to opt-out.

3. Set anyone not on your contact list to be redirected to voicemail. Notify callers there will be a $500 processing fee for leaving unsolicited commercial messages on your service, and get your lawyer to invoice them directly.

Have fun, =)
Yeah, I'm not sure how someone could interpret what you said in the way people are citing here. It's actually obvious that you are right in the context of data in LLMs. Look at LLAMA 3, for example there are minimal architectural changes, and its performance is almost at the level of GPT-4. The biggest change was in the dataset.
It's funny they don't need ID to vote but they'll need one for a VPS.

EDIT: I know it's about IaSS.
I like sealed secrets (https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets) a lot. It's like 1Password, but for apps in kubernetes. You only need to secure a private key, and can throw encrypted secrets in a public github repo or anywhere you want.

It's owned by VMware (Broadcom) now, so you have to decide which company you hate less.
Western companies have largely taken the same approach and exited markets that banned them rather than sell. Whether it's Google, YouTube, X, Instagram, or Facebook, they didn't sell either.
QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer
Multimodal Embeddings for JavaScript, Swift, and Python
You mean around noon to 1pm on the east coast? It shouldn't be that mysterious for why.
The halo effect has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%27s_Ring
Feels a little odd they describe it there as just a problem affecting many frontends. Is www/browsers considered just another frontend, not something essential to use the service for most users?
> 2. ORMs do not hide SQL nastiness.

This is certainly true: the do not hide nastiness, they simply make dealing with the db more (much more) nasty.

I mean: ORMs are now well known to "make the easy queries slightly more easy, while making intermediate queries really hard and complex queries impossible". So for anything slightly complex you still need to break out of your ORM to... yes... plain old SQL.

I think the are of ORMs is over. It simply did not deliver.

If a book on SQL is --say-- 100 pages, a book on Hibernate is 400 pages. So much to learn just to make the easy queries slightly easier to type? Just not worth it. You still need to know SQL if you use an ORM!

I prefer jooq any day over ORMs. And dont get me started over what tools like Hasuna have to offer.

There are also some languages (forgot the names) that are SQL-done-right. Select in the back, more type safe, more logic, more in the same steps as the query gets executed. These need to be adopted by PG and MySQL and we're good to go. (IMHO)

https://www.jooq.org/

https://hasura.io/
Facial recognition technology (and humans) can predict political orientation
Their MemoryDB page says the exact same thing:

https://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/sla/
Mental Outlaw for sure.
Will its security ever be defeated?
I can't see how an ISP (or VPN for that matter) would qualify for the second half "and with which the consumer is able to deploy and run software that is not predefined, including operating systems and applications."

This would apply to all hosting providers, which is bad enough.
Elon is truly the genius that we deserve and I tip my fedora at him.

I don't know about what chips Tesla uses but if they're using the right chips and have enough storage on board, this might actually be the first time this idea pays off (other than the plethora of crypto miners).

I mean who hasn't come up with "what if we use peoples' phones, computers, etc. to do compute while they're not using it?!?" as a startup idea?
Then you need a part which is only produced in China, or a chemical compound which is only produced in India, or you need a plane ride and it has titanium parts from Russia?

I expect a significant change of tone once you need to change your own usage patterns because of your principles. Or a straight out "fight dictatorships, but only when it's convenient".
Now they are showing this!

Investigating - An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site. We are looking into the cause.
Apr 25, 2024 - 09:52 PDT
https://www.redditstatus.com/ right now

>elevated error rates on many frontends #8256

>Investigating - An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site. We are looking into the cause.

>Apr 25, 2024 - 09:52 PDT
+1 for Neon on GCP. Besides egress cost, it also improves latency due to cross could networking
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
It’s not a matter of technical merit, but one of first-mover advantage and vendor lock-in.

By many metrics LibreOffice is superior to Microsoft Office, but what keeps people locked to Microsoft Office is,

1. Public consciousness/pervasiveness.
2. Business integration via Excel’s scripting

By many metrics Linux is superior to Windows, but what keeps people locked to Windows is,

1. Shattered UI experience across distros, leading to wildly different UI/UX that makes it unfamiliar and frightening to NPCs.
2. Lack of interest from large software vendors to support anything other than the primary horse in the race.

Hell, that second one can even be seen with MacOS, with how many software vendors don’t even give a second thought to that platform aside from providing a highly lobotomized online-only version of their installable Windows-only software (looking at you, QuickBooks/Quicken/TurboTax).
US businesses that try to compete with big tech don't stand a chance no matter how innovative because they'll either be bought and killed, or killed/suppressed through some illegal business practices from big tech that government won't or can't stop.

When an innovative foreign company comes in that Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/etc can't buy, the government ends up killing it.

Optimistically, this will create an opportunity for a new business to come in and fill the void left by TikTok's departure. Realistically, that's going to all get gobbled up by a big tech company in the end.
There will just be something else that's basically the same thing
Some integrations are connected at the org level (one account for the entire company), and others at the user level (many accounts per company). For the latter case, the pricing per connection is lower.
I have noticed a lot more status/hierarchy jostling from immigrants who come from certain cultures. But I don't see that in their children who tend to have a much more western view of status/hierarchy.
Despite what they said I think they will still sell.

If they don't sell it's a really bad look for them.
> I don't know about equal but Luckey has achieved some pretty impressive things by age 31.

Having interacted with Luckey in a number of unpleasant ways, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Who even knows what the buyers are buying? The major investor groups that have shown interest so far didn’t seem that savvy. TikTok would sell the user base and basic functionality, but no way they will sell the magic algorithm that no other company STILL has yet to replicate

It would be on the buyer to prove / challenge it’s not the same algorithm and that would be almost impossible to prove

Who knows what TikTok is even worth without its highly addictive engine behind it
Fun chair force article: https://www.woodreview.com.au/how-to/the-logic-of-chair-desi...
I'm not nearly smart enough to state this confidently, but doesn't [1] imply that exotic embeddings can always be replaced by larger Euclidean embeddings?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorems
The use of Tribler was problematic in my case because it uses a random torrent cache that was instrumentalized for lawfare after a political problem with my public employer in Spain. I was accused of having pedophile content on my computer after the prosecution's expert selected the corresponding torrents and downloaded them. It seems there are always pedophile torrents in a random sample of torrents.

The political problem was that I refused to alter statistical data for a "scientist" that wanted to publish that women after abortion develop mental health issues. They search my job computer for something to kill me and found tribler cache.

https://www.publico.es/actualidad/rioja-paga-estudios-salud-...

It was hard. Lost job, six years under juditial prosecution... at the end, the case was dismissed, I could show that the torrent cache was not personal, but the damage was great.

Be careful if you are an activist or have political involvement. I'm unaware of the workings of the current version, hope it encrypts the torrent cache somehow.
That you think it needs to convey anything other than "better than the last version" suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of marketing. It's actually even kind of decent because it is actually approximately more dense as you might suspect given the numbers.
There's a lot of focus here on the alternative economy part, but I think that's way less interesting than the rest of what this tech offers.

What we really need is alternative moderation. The most fragile/vulnerable part of traditional torrent trackers is centralized forums. It's also the most problematic aspect of social media. A successful decentralized alternative to content moderation would drastically change the world.
I'm a little confused. Doesn't the user still have to sign into each oauth service individually still ?

1. So is this managing tokens ?

2. These templates are used instead of api's ?
are they going to start requiring an ID to buy a GPU too
Yep this. PQ is a huge satire of the grind RPG games do and the low-quality writing and such, especially in quests. Look at the things it says at the bottom "Fighting teenage werewolf" or "Fighting giant mini rat" etc. Its entirely satirical from top to bottom.

Its a huge criticism of the WoW/Ultima/Bard's Tale/MUD era. Thankfully, since about Dragon Age and Mass Effect, that stuff is less common and those works showed us that you can have RPG mechanics without the "kill a rat" grind or "fetch me my long lost magical object" grind stuff. In retrospect playing older games or MMOs feels so infantilizing and lazy writing. Its incredible how long we considered that acceptable.
That's true, it just makes them common. This is a good idea on its own merits.
Of course they were inspired by existing artists and by a greater set of them! This is central to my argument that music is only going to get better with greater exposure.

Those are all great artists you listed but to attempt to quantify that they are any more talented or creative than contemporaries is a silly exercise. It's art.

This is a small list of random artists that I've listened to over the past few years. Jacob Collier is a perfect example of exceptional generational talent who not only is technically mind blowing but also incredibly original. I bet every one of those artists you listed would say the same about him (if they haven't passed of course).

Nate Smith likewise would be welcomed as the drummer in any one of those bands. Did you listen to the right Nate Smith?
"many users" :-)
Wouldn't 2nm have 4x the density of 4nm?
Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand. Especially where technical leadership can’t rely on engineers to do anything but code with very strict guardrails.
I wholeheartedly agree with the article critique.

Every output of an LLM is a hallucination. If you try to argue anything else, you need the machine to be able to judge the validity of a response. But it does precisely the opposite: it expects you to judge the validity.

Every output of the device is of a form terminated by an implied question mark. It is querying the operator.

Yet, strangely, it seems none of the models can learn from the operator. So interaction is a circuit of hallucinations.

Like a N-way Magic 8-ball it's fun, for a while. Then you begin to notice that you have to work just as hard to make sense of its help as you do to think for yourself.

Being able to not know seems to me to be a crucial first step for sentience, followed closely by adaptability to not knowing— curiosity.

An organism is a manifest endogenous dynamic with a suitability for exploration of the environment which gives rise to it.

AI is an constructed exogenous dynamic with a suitability for replicating state based on a corpus of exposures and a context.

An organism is distinguished by the feature that it keeps going.

An AI is distinguished by the feature that it stops.

That the human organism is now peering into the abyss of its recorded history via construction of the AI is a special event, full of strange possibilities. But the making of a reliable oracle doesn't look practical without the AI being able to govern itself, which it obviously cannot do.

As to the value of an unreliable oracle, seems to be practical as a general-purpose time-wasting device.
Had no idea this existed before this morning. T-SQL devs, if you're out there, please add something like this to MSSQL.
That's the default for Nix Darwin's Homebrew module, see:

https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/230a197063de9287128e...

and

https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/230a197063de9287128e...

By default, brew commands run manually do still perform the automatic updates, though. That can be disabled with the following Nix-Darwin option: https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/#opt-homebrew.global.a...
I've noticed my TikTok feed is full of "Bosnian Serbs want emancipation, war is looming on Western Balkan" type of videos lately. My guess is Russia and China want another war far from Ukraine so western nations focus less on Ukraine.
Were this true then any of the countless authoritarian states which ended up in complete control of all media, news, and even the ability to enter or leave the country - would have had a nation full of fully misinformed and obedient people. Instead it's invariably the exact opposite. The USSR is one of the best examples. They not only controlled all media, all news, and even who was allowed to leave the country. Yet trust completely collapsed as the state of nation completely collapsed.
It is not handing over. It is selling for a price. I think there IS a price that ByteDance would sell.