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Related to recommended hosting platforms, I ended up using Render for an LLM-related project [0] recently and had a great experience with it. It's also worth checking out if people are looking for options.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056910
Do you have an example in mind? Looking at the Shift-JIS encoding tables, that seems unlikely to happen in a text of any nontrivial length; there's a small number of Shift-JIS sequences which would be valid as UTF-8, and any meaningfully long text is likely to stray outside that set.
If people are interested in this stuff [1] is an amazing resource.

1. https://pwn.college/
The website is banned sitewide on reddit. If you post any URL of it, it gets auto blocked and wont successfully submit.
What makes OpenBSD forks/IPC an order of magnitude slower?
To be clear, it appears to be mutually beneficial still. It is just not as optimal as google would like it to be.
Java and Javascript both use UTF-16 for internal string representation, even though JSON specifies UTF-8. Windows APIs too. I'm still not sure why, but it means that one char uses at least 2 bytes even if it's in the ASCII range.
really?

i would love to live forever, because these changes have been beneficial, and those who lived two centuries go would've loved to trade places.
It's a good idea and one I've considered myself - and it is true that over the last few years for several reasons (running a business, living in the tropics where it's pushing 40C much of the year) I don't build real things as much as I used to. I do miss that, and I do identify it as a contributing factor.

However, one thing I'm sure of is that there are many contributing factors, and any reductive attempt to fix depression (just do a keto diet, just build things, just get more exercise) is not gonna be a solution. Besides, in a deep depression, these are likely to be close to impossible.

The best initial solution, as per modern scientific research, is CBT therapy and/or antidepressants. Next step is to bring joy and health back into your life - exercise, socialize, healthy diet, build things etc.

The third step is to figure out what went wrong and what's needed to fix it. You can and should do all of these concurrently - although it's probably a good idea to hold off on the last one until you've retrained yourself, or used drugs, to have a positive mindset - but the first step is the one that's needed to kick things off.
I have read articles on how OpenBSD focusses on security and disables hyperthreading. Is there some IPC security feature it puts in place that makes forks/IPC slower? Or is it just the constrained resources and priorities of the project?
That’s a compelling point.

If you’ll indulge me I’m going to think out loud a little.

What makes sense to me about this point:

- Having zero knowledge of “non-good” could lead to fragility when people phrase questions in “non-good” ways

- If an LLM is truly a “I do what I learned” machine, then “good” input + “good” question would output “good” output

- There may be a significant need for an LLM to learn the “chair is not-a-stool” aka “fact is not-a-fiction”. An LLM that only gets affirming meanings might be wildly confused. If true I think that would be a an interesting area to research not just for AI but for cognition. … now I wonder how many of the existing params are “not”s.

- There’s also the question of scale. Does an LLM need to “know” about mass extinction in order to understand empathy? Or can it just know about the emotions people experience during hard times? Children seem to do fine at empathy (maybe even better than adults in some ways) despite never being exposed to planet-sized tragedies. Adults need to deal with bigger issues where it can be important to have those tragedies front of mind, but does an LLM need to?
In addition, Chinese characters encode more information than English letters, so a text written in Chinese will generally consume fewer bytes than the same text in English even when using UTF-8.

(Consider: Horse is five letters, but 馬 is one character. Even at three bytes per character, Chinese wins.)
Reads like CYA warnings, not lifestyle advice
Oh neat, kind of like a modern VRML.
True.

Having read the article I am interested in what the penalty would be. If you can’t do it with a civil penalty then criminal proceedings make sense I guess.
What consumers should know as Philips agrees to $1.1B CPAP settlement
If you search about the Mavericks again (not included in the video) the agent will query the knowledge graph for results from prior executions.
The a is for agents :)
Conspiracy theories are like religions, they’re an act of faith not rationale
I have a bunch of friends and family who are in their mid-late 20s, don't work, and spend all their time consuming entertainment. I do think that this is the real culprit. We have a situation where you can very cheaply block out the world and immerse yourself in digital wonderlands, and it's quite frankly a lot better than working some shit job in the real world. And at a certain point these folks say to themselves, "I haven't worked in years, so there's no chance I could find a job now". And the cycle continues.
often dipped in batter/corn starch
Lost would like to have a word. I rented the 6-season DVD set to watch while recovering from an injury and the ONLY good thing about that show was that the first time through you had to wait a week between episodes.

Watching without the cliffhanger/socializing "what's next" discussion, and seeing them discard 87.3% of all plot points with reckless abandon made me hate the show after watching 2-3 seasons.
I don't think people realize how tiny the population of Iceland is. For some perspective, Detroit's population is 60% higher. The mayor of Austin TX governs over double the citizens as Iceland's president.
How does Shift-JIS fix this?
GCPs partner team is mostly useless but they should at least be able to do that for you
Hard to know without the benefit of hindsight if a productivity improvement is:

1: An ATM machine - which made banks more profitable, so banks opened up more of them and drew people into the bank with the machines then told them insurance and investments.

2: Online banking - which simply obsoleted the need to go to the bank at all.

My inclination that LLMs are the former, not the latter. I think the process of coding is an impediment to software development being financially viable, not job security.
First Time Ever Laser Excitation of an Atomic Nucleus
Can't really speak to Java, but ASP.Net, in its new open-source friendly incarnation, is perfectly viable for modern development (and there's still nothing quite like Blazor Server). They have a good story for integrating the new stuff (e.g. Razor Pages) with legacy code, interop and drivers for everything, the CLR is fast and multithreaded (cough Python cough), and F# is available for us language snobs. Just avoid the enterprise cruft and the Azure cost (and complexity) premium.
Show HN: A cross-platform version manager for JDK, Go, Node.js, Bun.js, etc.
More than 40 programming languages and tools are supported.
Yes! You can easily swap knowledge graphs under the same agent. Would love to see this happen!
Looks like a game tool to me. You would roll it some distance or more, and hope to get a preferred vertical hole, i.e. a big one if you are trying to toss something into it or a small one if the opponent is. Coins would be likely. You might get more "points" if you pass through smaller holes. The possible game designs seem very large.
This isn't going to work so long as WikiData is controlled by admins that misapply the notability criteria to delete information they subjectively consider trivial

I think the next frontier is a a wiki-style, collaborative site, deliberately purposed at storing information for LLMs
The business community seems pretty upset by the penalties the SEC has been levying lately...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/the-supreme-court-...

(The Supreme Court declined to hear the case)
To preface this comment, I'm not super familiar with range GETs or the library you're using. Are you saying that the library was performing range GET requests but instead of sending a byte range, it was only sending a starting byte number?

> Today I was hit by a surprise 500$ bill by using byte range request within zip files without an upper bound, but not consuming the whole stream. I tested for about 45 min at about 1gbps. My ISP meter says I downloaded 300gb which lines up with physics, but AWS says it was 6000gb.

Re the bill itself - You may be able to get the surprise bill waived by AWS with a support request, especially if you haven't had to do that before.

Re the metered billing - This isn't super clear anywhere I could find in the AWS docs, but I think from AWS's perspective your network data transfer out from S3 is the amount of data you requested + initiated, not what your app ultimately happened to consume from the stream. They really do not make this clear though, which might help your case.

FWIW, it sounds like AWS's implementation is behaving consistently about "range specifiers" with the RFC they link to in the S3 docs.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#section-14.1.1-4

Sidebar, but: If it works for your setup, I think putting a CloudFront distribution in front of the bucket and accessing that way would mitigate the damage by caching the whole object after the first request. I've used a setup like this for streaming very large files to many viewers before.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
Wouldn't I be able to just "accept" the license, if I knew that by law the liability limitations were not enforceable?

There's still plenty of folks clicking through boilerplate labor contracts too that stipulate non-competes, knowing those aren't enforceable in their (US) state anyway.
Smells like BS.

The source is a 1989 paper about a 1983 study about 37 people wth colon cancer..

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> It also opted to include an outline of how to include an integrated timer. That’s a great idea and very practical, but wasn’t prompted at all. Some might consider that a bad thing, though.

When I've seen GPT-* do this, it's because the top articles about that subject online include that extraneous information and it's regurgitating them without being asked.
Fascinating! Both my wife and my mother have psoriasis and they both say the exact same thing! They both swear by sunlight as a way to treat it. My wife has actually gotten Dermatologist-applied blue light therapy which has done wonders for her scalp.
Pico ballons seem to be extremely interesting. Is it legal to release such?
You can easily incorporate llama 3 or other OS models
I remember some chatter on HN that sun exposure also causes the skin to produce nitric oxide, and that this is potentially under-studied.
"Although generally found in text written with the Arabic abjad ("alphabet"), numbers written with these numerals also place the most-significant digit to the left, so they read from left to right (though digits are not always said in order from most to least significant[10]). The requisite changes in reading direction are found in text that mixes left-to-right writing systems with right-to-left systems."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...
The US is about the same, isn't it?

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candi...
So you're saying lack of sun increases health care expenditure? Excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU
This is the answer.

The customer does not know. They just want it to work. They may be using something that someone else gave them. The original source system of the file may not be changeable. But most importantly, their boss just wants it to work. or else.
They aren't strange, but they are sort of self-inflicted, so it's not unreasonable for others to say, "we're not going to spend time and effort to deal with this mess".

I'm Russian. 20 years ago that meant having to deal with two other common encodings aside from UTF-8 (CP1251 and KOI8-R). 25 years ago, it was three encodings (CP866 was the third one). Tricks like what the article describes were very common. Things broke all the time anyway because heuristics aren't reliable.

These days, everything is in UTF-8, and we're vastly better off for it.
The linker is a convenient way to get your code to run in the right place, but the linker runs in userspace, and your code can do anything the linker does. E.g. you can scan function tables, remap pages r/w, and interpose functions.

The OpenBSD folks have some good ideas against these issues, although they are targeted at things like ROP exploits. E.g. pledge, which disables certain syscalls, and immutable memory maps (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=166203784715942).

A really scary version of the xz backdoor is if it had an entire implementation of openssh in its own ctor function. Then it wouldn't even need to interpose anything. It's way harder to get rid of ctors.
Honestly, I've found using GH CoPilot chat to be the real value add. It's amazing for rubber ducking.

That being said, my employer pays for it. I am still on the fence about which LLM to subscribe to with my own money.
Those two centuries ago probably yes. Three decades ago probably not. The world is in a much darker place than the 90s. And our extreme consumption is partly to blame, as is internet manipulation of the masses.
I go to libraries a lot. What's killing libraries is the near total disregard for traditional norms about how to behave when you're in the library. Bringing it to the attention of staff isn't just fruitless. Often it's the paid staff who behave the worst.
Just to be clear, I do see the value in a group like the Nordic TeX Users Group choosing a neutral language for simplicity and fairness. However, it's quite different when a whole nation adopts a new language just because it's the easy option, without considering the repercussions.

This crutch of using English in Iceland not only discourages (and actively prevents) newcomers from learning Icelandic, but it also creates a paradoxical reliance on a language that most immigrants do not speak prior to their arrival. This creates challenges, particularly hindering integration, as Icelandic is (for the time being) still required in most aspects of society. It also threatens the preservation of our language, which is only spoken by around three hundred thousand people.
This is a really poorly argued article, not sure even where to start dismantling the author's arguments. (Almost feels like ChatGPT wrote this article).

But let's start with this "If H&R Block could replace 90 percent of its seasonal employees with AI, it would see its profits skyrocket, given that labor is its biggest expense. Those profits would be reallocated elsewhere, that would increase the potential for even more economic growth, and that would in turn create better opportunities for the accountants."

=> Lol, no. It doesn't work that way. H&R block, if any, will allocate more to share buy backs, and the size of the tax filing "pie" won't increase due to AI.
https://imgur.com/a/z39k8xz

Seems like it's not too hard an ask.
A crucial difference to the other examples is this. Compilers and spreadsheets are deterministic and repeatable, and are designed to solve a very specific task correctly.

LLMs, certainly in their current form, aren't.

This doesn't necessarily contradict what you and GP are writing, but it does give a flavor to it that I expect to be important.
It certainly was, although capping sun exposure to pre cancer levels was the message:

One of the most successful health campaigns in Australia's history was launched in 1981, when a cheerful seagull in board shorts, t-shirt and hat danced his way across our TV screens singing the jingle.

'Slip, Slop, Slap!
It sounds like a breeze when you say it like that
Slip, Slop, Slap!
In the sun we always say 'Slip, Slop, Slap!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nocIenCYg

and then there was the Life, Be in It campaign (1975) promoting exercise and good diet, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjEge3Awl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuqDlF8DUuY
Kind of a click-bait title, eh?

A few paragraphs in, the statements felt generic and lacked supporting details to the point I got that uncanny valley sense of LLM writing. It doesn’t seem like this piece adds much that hasn’t already been said.
I found out the doctors are recommending vitamin D drops for infants. Yet they're loaded with all sorts of junk, like caramel color, polysorbate, etc. Sunlight produces vitamin D, helps break down bilirubin, and produces other beneficial substances. I know which one I'd choose.
Cheers, and yes, you are right. Cloudflare provides geolocation info in the headers, and then I pull the weather for it. I also convert data into a more comprehendible format for the LLM. For example, I turn local time into words like "afternoon", "early evening" etc.
I'll have a look, thanks for the recommendation.
To help myself to understand others better, I made some efforts to look and keep looking outside my bubble.

That's not simple though- humans tend to think THEY know better for all others while it's often not.

Say you don't want to have immutable distros, but many want. Android or Talos or even OS for network switches are nice examples.

Linux based solutions and products related community is wide and to keep up with evolution one needs to adapt and adopt changes.

We already see what happens for immutable/stale systems like FreeBSD - even TrueNAS is abandoning it, dying as predicted by experts since 2008-2010.

On other side - nothing stops you from keep using sudo or even choose disto vendor which doesn't use systemd, there is a choice, not thing set in stone.

Say I don't plan to switch to run0 in any near future - first it's not gonna be in any LTS disto, 2nd - it seems to be lacking LDAP based rules and very much likely other important features.
"Please do not leave the mines. Everything you need is available within the mines; you must only do your mining. It is dangerous outside the mines. If you insist on leaving the mines, you will need our protections or you will die. You will need to do more more mining to be protected. Please do not leave the mines. You do not want to leave the mines. It is dangerous outside the mines"
Do you think you'll ever move to a state with more sunlight?
Reminds me of human made software racing against the clock of AI now
GPT-4-turbo-2024-24-09 (temperature = 0.7) just told me a horse had one “frog” per hoof and went on to clarify that a frog does not refer to the amphibian but to a part of the horse’s hoof.

Gemini Pro (the current web chat version) gave a similar answer, either no frogs or four depending on the intended meaning, and showed a photo of a hoof. All 3 drafts agreed on this.

Other models I have tried said a horse had no frogs. That includes gemini-1.5-pro-api-0409-preview as provided by the Chatbot Arena (temperature = 0.7, 2 tries).
Is it possible you need other vitamins to utilize the higher levels of D, such as vitamin K? Or perhaps it's not vitamin D related but some other benefit of the sun?
Electromigration Concerns Grow in Advanced Packages
> But it's great at suggesting very short snippets that guess exactly what you were in the middle of writing and write it for you.

I found it reasonably good when I described what code should do through comments and let it generate based on that, evaluated the output, moved on to the next piece of logic, and repeated.

Basically, chaining the snippets together. Then again I'm doing Python back-end web development, so not something terrifically hard.
I believe that’s no longer true. That is, there are now orbiting satellites that use GPS in a client capacity for whatever reason.

I’m pretty sure I recall a paper I saw on the subject discussing how the Earth centered inertial frame can’t just be used unmodified.
>Surveillance technologies are providing a tidal wave of additional data points at a rate that's too fast for even humans of average intelligence

They can, and probably are, using AI to "police harder" as well.

Even metadata can be very powerful evidence when combined with AI.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ysi1aIY4NkU&t=433

ASIO chief Mike Burgess (youtube transcript manually corrected, hopefully I didn't miss anything):

>I can confirm that ASIO has been using artificial intelligence for many years now it's not replacing our people, it's augmenting and assisting them. As one example the vast amounts of data being produced every day means that finding a critical piece of intelligence is less like finding a needle in a haystack than looking for a needle in a field of haystacks. AI makes that process easier and faster, it can identify worrying patterns and relationships in minutes and hours, rather than weeks and months.

>Unlike our adversaries, Australia's use of artificial intelligence is strictly controlled and governed by ethical controls. We put humans at the center of our decision-making. While a process might be data driven and Technology enabled it will always be human lead.

>AI is a case study in inherent tensions between technology and security. While new technologies can deliver rich evidence they can also be exploited. As I said earlier terrorists and spies are early adopters. We see the same thing with end-to-end encryption

I'm not sure what he means by "AI can be exploited" here, in the context of when it's being used to filter all the surveillance data.
>ejecting a certain demographic of male in the hopes to extra judicially eliminate them

What do you speaking of?
Google and Apple already have the same if not better functionality via Google assistant and Siri. The AI pin thingy is totally just a gimmick product to get funding. Just like all the other "wearables" companies out there. And teenage engineering just likes weird quirky products.
I know the discourse around this topic is going to be an incel dumpster fire, but please consider all the positive reasons that could cause this, for example just being rich enough to retire at 50. Also consider that the population aged 25-54 is not just flatly distributed: there are dips and waves, the process of which changes the likelihood of being in the workforce.
Ever wrote a build log for that? Would love to read it.
I feel like the author has missed the concept of “Past performance is no guarantee of future results”.
I don't think it's fair to require "meaningfully long text" since when you're dealing with strings in programming they can often be of any arbitrary length.
Presumably, it would let you dynamically update the SVG the same way that React lets you dynamically update HTML. As simple examples, imagine an SVG clock or some map-based data visualization.
If it were a matter of choosing another language, Polish might be a more natural choice, as Poles form the largest minority in the country.

But to answer the question, I personally lean towards discouraging English as the default second language and instead focus on strengthening Icelandic. Encouraging everyone to communicate in the native tongue, regardless of proficiency level, can be very effective. That was certainly my experience when my family and I moved to Catalonia.

Norskan er auðlesin, en ég á erfiðara með að skilja talmál!
>the loss in purchasing power is understated by CPI, because it has hit areas where people have little flexibility to reduce spending without reducing standard of living: food, transportation, etc.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
The CDC has to provide advice to people as far north as Alaska, as tropical as Hawaii, and as far south as Miami - for a very heterogeneous population that doesn't understand nuance and tradeoffs.
Hahahah. That's a great story. Personalized forecast from yer mum! :)
If I was voting in this election, I'm nearly certain I would not be able to answer that for most of the 82.