skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upstream developers don’t have the time and bandwidth to set up packaging for all distros and versions.

Improving defaults may be fine according to some. Removing major features advertised by the software due to political reasons is not fine.

My software is a victim of Debian maintainers as well: they chose to remove the default theme from our static site generator, because it was built on top of Bootstrap 3, but Debian only shipped Bootstrap 2 at the time in a global package (they also changed the bootstrap 2 theme to use symlinks to the global version). How is this “better integration with the philosophy”?
It seems weird to me that while OpenAI reacts to Google quite seriously (almost all of their recent major PR moves coincided with Google's), their strategy against Llama is simple disregard, which is an existential threat to OpenAI more than any other models or products in my view.
A severe solar storm will hit Earth on this weekend
Interesting point. The Clash even celebrated the destruction of instruments on the cover of London Calling (the cover being a photo of their bassist smashing his bass). And though the Apple ad seems like it’s trying to convey they idea that all these devices are within the iPad, the smashing of instruments and equipment by rockers seems to just be about…reveling in the destruction of instruments and equipment.

You see this in other art as well. For example, the Dadaists took a lot of functional tools, messed them up, and displayed them as art. Moving beyond art, destruction that accompanies political unrest is often dismissed.

It’s interesting that the Apple ad is what touched off this discussion, because it’s actually fairly tame with regards to a lot of intentional destruction of equipment.
Because AirBnB has a process supposedly designed to handle such situations. Also because I was dealing with a nuisance neighbour (loud drug-fuelled parties till 2:00-3:00am on workdays, all day and night on weekends) for four years and the London Met police refused to deal with my complaint unless my life was threatened. The local council had "noise patrols" conveniently scheduled at times when there was not much noise and proposed they install noise measurement devices in my flat to collect evidence as opposed to sending a policeman round to warn the neighbour. His fun stopped when his mates got busted for drugs. He mellowed down all of a sudden.
Had a quick look. Seems like an interesting tool. I know there are many companies in Europe that, for regulations and compliance reasons, cannot have their data leave Europe. As far as I can see from the documentation, the data is stored in the US. Would be nice to have an option to store the data in Europe. Or not having to upload any data at all. But instead have the option export an artifact that can be processed later. But perhaps that defeats the business.
Just reminding that you don't need a Faraday cage to protect against giant coronal mass ejections. You just need to unplug from the grid.

Even the grid is probably fine if it's unplugged from transmission.
I believe Jim Simons is also one of the founders behind the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC.

https://momath.org/
I'm guessing, but I would say it has something to do with the fact they're using a VPN: you may want to route packets between your physical and virtual interface.
Are they? These are some shots from a presentation video about iPads with one sentence at the end saying it was shot with iPhones. They never said anything about it in the video.

If they shot it with RED and a similar lens for those shots and said "shot with RED camera" would that be considered faking it?
Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs?
if you think about it, next-token prediction is just stupid. it's so resource intensive

yet, it's mimicking emergent thought quite beautifully. it's shockingly unintuitive how a simple process scaled enormously can lead to this much practical intelligence (practical in the sense that's useful, but it's not the way we think). I'm aware there are multiple layers, filters, processes etc., I'm just talking about the foundation, which is next-token prediction.

when I first heard that it's not predicting words, but parts of words, I immediately saw a red flag. yes, there are compounded words like strawberry (straw + berry) and you can capture meaning at a higher-resolution, but most words are not compounded, and just in general we're trying to simulate meaning instead of 'understanding' it. 'understanding' simply means knowing a man is to a woman what a king is to a queen, but without the need to learn about words and letters (that should be just an interface).

I feel we're yet to discover the "machine code" for ASI. it's like we have no compiler, but we directly interpret code. imagine the speed-ups if we could just spare the processor from understanding our stupid, inefficient language.

I'd really like to see a completely new approach working in the Meaning Space, which transcends the imperfect Language Space. This will require lots of data pre-processing, but it's a fun journey -- basically a parser human-machine and machine-human. I'm sure I'm not the first one thinking about it

so what we've got so far?
I've got an assortment of backpacking/camping water filters, but don't live especially near a water source, so my days would revolve around walks to the nearest creek. (2 km away) A cargo bike would help a lot there.

If the municipal water is still functional but non-potable, a LifeStraw Max gets you effectively unlimited water on-demand for most sources of contamination.
It seems like it could be safer/easier to charge batteries in space and ship them back down... which probably speaks to the feasibility of ideas like this.
Lake Ontario has 4C water year round not far from shore.

Just need a big enough and deep enough lake in a temperate climate.

Not sure when all that added heat becomes a problem, but it’s gotta get dumped somewhere.
Reading the comments here seems to indicate to me people don't know a lot about the subject areas surrounding noise like acoustics and building construction, but I think that just reflects society more broadly.

The amount of investment in mitigating noise pollution is pretty underwhelming, partly because it's expensive, I think, but largely from ignorance. I tried to get a former general manager to acoustically treat a big obnoxiously echoey open floor space and their solution was to ignore everything I said and buy some annoying white noise generators, which misunderstands the problem we had with the space. Tons of apartment buildings cheap out on isolation in a really tragic way, where the difference to quality of life could be big with only minor adjustments to plans.
The most tragic from my experience: when some builder decided to skip putting a real wall between neighboring apartments' bedrooms. Instead there were closets constructed from a single 3/4" layer. That "wall" couldn't stop a snore.
Also trash bags to shit in. Put it in your toilet, close the lid on it, boom you can shit in the comfort of your bathroom in a relatively sanitary way.
Not OP, but I use solar and H8-size AGM batteries as primary with a backup diesel generator that I've converted to run on wood gas (and occasionally coal gas). Added a triple stage water filter to the gasifier last year to keep the tar and creosote down. The generator is an old clunker but it's easy to disassemble, which made it an ideal candidate for tinkering and the eventual retrofit.
My 12 year old son wears this same pump, but does not have the iOS phone integration, mostly because I didn't find it particularly useful when I tried it a couple of years ago. It has more useful functionality now from what I've read, but I really don't find it useful/advantageous.

Integrating with 3rd party hardware (phones) is hard. I commend them for trying it, heck their new smaller insulin pump is 100% dependent on a phone for most uses.
Aren't there only 2 browsers? There is Firefox and there are all the Chrome derivatives.
> Do you think working at a FANG would make you a better developer?

Yes...? I mean look at the complexity of the products these companies build?

I would expect if you've contributed on say Chromium or some EC2 networking layer that you're quite competent...is that somehow unreasonable?

These companies tend to pay multiples of typical "enterprise" CRUD developers because the work is that much more complex.
oooh. you got them.
Like figuring out which timezone the user was in is impossible.
What if the user intentionally set their clock wrong to mess with support.

You are being silly.
>> and you have to deal with medical doctors, who assume that a terminal professional degree conferring upon them a title they appropriated from academia means they are experts in all fields.

Dang, I do not like Doctors as much as the next person (ok, Medical doctors, I am a doctor of engineering, I suppose, according to some piece of paper)... but you are just _jaded_.

I have met Doctors who understand full well that they do not know it all. Sure I have met conceited, full of themselves doctors who think they play god too. For the most part, people are people, and IMHO, on average, someone who went to get a terminal degree and did so with good teachers was taught good and well that they surely did not and do not know it all. I sure as hell know that I know nothing about life, the universe and everything, even though I have three letters after my name.

I agree with this statement, however:

>> Medical software often sits at a sad intersection.

Not sure what a good solution is.
It is worth mentioning that you can set up your own RTK installation buy grabbing 2 higher-end GNSS receivers¹, installing one of them in a fixed location with reasonable sky view, and measuring it in for a week or two. You can then feed correction data from that to your 2nd receiver. Search for RTKlib. (Some GNSS receivers even have built-in source & sink handling.)

Also, the GNSS software in most phones is sadly unable to accept the correction data from any of these systems, regardless of whether it's a nationwide network or your personal setup. This is purely a software limitation on the vendor GNSS stack, but sadly there is not enough demand for this. (An app will not fix this, we're talking vendor specific low level system code here.)

[¹] e.g. u-blox T/R series, but check specific descriptions about raw output/RTK capabilities, it changes between generations. You also want recent ones with RTCMv3, not RTCMv2.x.
I loved the commercial. Apple shouldn't have apologized. There was no hidden meaning in it. People are psychotic.
Wait until you see what goes on at the county landfill.
The justification is absolute rubbish. I The argument is that it reduces attack surface, but compared to what, the alternative to including the yubikey code is not using a yubikey, which reduces security. The alternative to using the browser integration (or the ssh agent) is to use the clipboard, which is likely more code and definitely less vetted code.

By the same argument we should remove encryption as well, because it increases the amount of code and thus the attack surface.
Or with an adapter hose you can connect a standard propane tank. If you get the right connector bits, you can use propane with either a dual-burner Coleman-like stove, or with a minimal Jetboil-like backpacking stove.
I don't understand what you are responding to. The GP comment never said anything about "dying on a hill" or being overly literal. They weren't making some grand pronouncement that there's no wisdom behind the "there's no such thing as bad PR" saying. They just pointed out that in this specific case that the bad PR is most definitely undesired and not a net benefit, and that the "no such thing as bad PR" phrase is often overused in places where it's not warranted as a sort of lazy "sure, this is fine!" explanation.
If anyone else was looking for the source of this, it's here:

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf
And I hope you realize China had multiple famines with cannibalistic events as recent as 1959: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
"Cloud-native", to me, means "built to scale up well". I find that's the connotation that most people associate with it.

Git, or any file-server based software, is not built to scale up well in today's world. Large Git hosters have to invest entire teams to manage their file servers and their Git front-end systems to create a web-scale service on top of a file-server based piece of software. I'm just skipping to the part where you don't need that anymore because Azure / GCP / AWS PaaS services already handle that.

And, in any team dev situation, you're not getting anywhere until you `git push`, and that requires an internet connection. Assuming ~100% connectivity for devs around the world, in the late 2020's, is the right assumption to make. If offline is a hard requirement, Git isn't going anywhere.

> through non-http transports like mail

yeah, I'm not building a new VCS for that 0.0000001% case.
This is not a helpful comment.
On Kon, Paranoia Agent is also excellent. And if we're taking 2000s shows into account, I also have to mention Kuuchuu Buranko in that category of Paranoia Agent-reminiscent sociologically interesting shows.
Mathematics can only take you so far. At the end of the day, people run the exchanges. Not math.

The returns of modern HFT market makers are even higher. With their unfair “business” advantages such as PFOF, privileged dark pool and block trade access, and military internet infrastructure.

Think 60%+, per year, at least. Over 10-20 years, of course.
A science presenter mentioned that the sunspots were supposed visible without magnification using eclipse glasses.
Important to keep in mind that these returns ceased to be compounding quickly: they restarted from scratch 10bn each year to score 30%.

Successful quant stratégies tend to hit capacity limits...
They could then hide in forests and hibernate for a week or two then seek more powerlines to destroy.

Feels sad that my mind is brainstorming destruction.
Both are excellent, I'll add these two too:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/186124

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/482347
Imagine all the conclusions being made from a 1cm cube of epileptic neurons.
>This conversation isn't about "convenience of carrying a single thing vs. many of them".

I am actually making an argument for that. Why did smartphones caught up? Because they're everything in a single thing. Apple wants the iPad to be the same in its respective market segment.*
The intent behind media matters but isn't all that matters. How people might interpret something is important (albeit often unpredictable).

I think the symbolism of "let's crush all remaining vestiges of creative culture" is a pretty obvious _potential_ interpretation from a _non-trivial amount_ of people. In that sense it is an interpretation that matters for our present discourse, even if it isn't the interpretation that the creator of the ad intended.
Siri is so bad almost anything would be an improvement.
Oh… I thought your recent comment was also from that guy my bad, so yeah ignore what I’d replied. Guess I didn’t pay close enough attention
Just read that xkcd, https://xkcd.com/1958/. Same point, most people aren’t murderers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some practical effects at play but it honestly looked too simplified to be real. Crushing a lot of stuff like that would be messy and ugly. Also unsafe with things like broken metal and shattered glass. It’s feels more like CGI. And personally I think that would be the better way to do it. As someone who’s watched a weirdly high number of YouTube videos of things getting crushed by presses, it’s not pretty like that video was.

If, and if think that’s a big if that was mainly practical effects, then those props would almost certainly be fake instruments made from different materials that crush in more visually appealing ways.
Why do people have faith in Apple being competitive in the AI race? It’s like betting on Bing reaching the level of search results that Google provides today, 6 months from now.
storing large quantities of water is not trivial maintenence.

its better to be able to sanitize required quantities on demand.
I saw the ad as trying to draw an equivalence between the iPad and all of those creative tools, as if owning an iPad is equivalent, or even better, than owning those objects. This is a lie, a deception, and apart from lamenting the loss of so many wonderful objects the lie of it is what really sticks in my craw.
I'm actually surprised how fake the fake violins still sound.
“The Man Who Solved The Market” is fascinating because it spans almost the entire history quantitative finance (through the lens of RenTech) dating back to the 1970s.

Simmons was one of the first to realize the advantage of collecting and analyzing vast sums of data to identify patterns in financial markets. They were digitizing magnetic tapes and collecting more data than they could even process given technical limitations of the time.
Very nice! Took me a while to realise it has mouse based gravity but very good! (I clicked directly on the link on a mobile device without checking here)
I don't know about you, but my community came together in those moments. When TP was hard to buy, we shared among ourselves. When members in our community discovered they had issues that prevented them from taking the vaccine safely, we went back to masking when meeting to keep them safe. And so on and so on.

I think maybe you're thinking of a different definition of "community connections" than the parent poster. It's not _literally everyone around you,_ but the people around you that you trust and support and who will support you. Get as many of those as you can, as high quality as you can.

It's beneficial even if the world _doesn't_ go to shit, too! =)
I must really be watching another ad than anybody else!

As I see it, all of these great analog (and digital, there's a Space Invaders arcade cabinet!) tools are getting physically squished into the iPad.

That's coincidentally how I think about my smartphone already: It's not necessarily better than most of my other devices (digital and analog) it's replaced, but it's all of them at once, and that is quite the achievement.

That doesn't mean that the squishing didn't cause an unfortunate loss in expressiveness or ergonomics in many cases, but at least in photography, there's the old saying that the best camera is the one you always have with you.
I have been blown away by how badly people took this. I don’t mean to take away from them, I mean to highlight how fucking CLUELESS I must be. I thought it was a clever commercial and I understood the message as it was intended to be communicated.

It was very surprising to me when I started reading just how badly people hated it.
GUIs aren’t composable with other tools easily.

Like, you can pipe CLIs together, and some TUIs accept a command and exit, allowing you to chain things together.

On the web, your best bet might be playwright, but that’s about it.
Imagine having GTK and QT applications able to be chained and exit automatically.

On MacOS/iOS it’s not much better, even if Apple Shortcuts can feel ok sometimes, assuming the devs thought about allowing some actions to be available through shortcuts.

On Linux, I think dbus was supposed to become the universal bus onto which all GUIs could provide services and do things together. It hasn’t panned out IMO.
And ets: https://www.erlang.org/docs/24/man/ets.html
The note at the end about different log bases was confused and borderline nonsensical.

It doesn’t matter what the log base is.

0 on the scale will correspond to 1, and 1 will correspond to the base. The shape of the curves will be identical regardless of what you choose as a base, only the labels on the scale will change and generally what you really care about with a log scale is less the values that come out than the shape of the curve.
Intel Updates Its PyTorch Build with More Large Language Model Optimizations
That's because the blown up car is not advertising anything.

Instead, imagine an ad extolling the virtues of public transport by blowing up cars in a parking lot. It sends the complete opposite message than what was probably intended.
I think it'll be a long time until we see an inflection point like that [1].

I also had a Ryzen 3700X, high-end CPU and case fans to make it somewhat quiet under load. Then I got the MacBook Air M1, which was as fast in multi-core use, but felt much faster in daily use to much better single thread performance (turns out that large builds spend quite some time on portions where everything blocks on one unit and the amount of parallelism is 1). And it was completely quiet (no fan).

The Air M1 felt like magic at the time, I could have the power of the 3700X on the train and insanely long battery life.

[1] That said, I got an M3 Pro for work and my private laptop has an M1 Pro and the difference in single-thread performance is certainly noticeable.
> I don't see how

Try ketamine some time with good sensory deprivation — comfy bed, silk sleep mask, ear plugs :)
Remember to bring lipstick as the trashed empty lots nearby serve as a great wild boar attraction to kiss and ride.
> * there is no column level security – e.g. I want to show payment_total to admin, but not to user

I think what you want is dynamic data masking. RDMBSes like IBM DB2[1] and SQL Server[2] offer it out of the box.

For PostgreSQL, there's the postgresql_anonymizer[3] extension. For which you could do something like:

SECURITY LABEL FOR user ON COLUMN invoice.payment_total
IS 'MASKED WITH VALUE $$CONFIDENTIAL$$';

Last time I tried it though, it didn't play well with transaction variables (`current_setting(my.username)`), so you could not combine it with RLS logic and application users[4]. I'll be exploring an alternative on https://github.com/steve-chavez/pg_masking.

To be fair, this discussion is more related to a PostgreSQL feature than PostgREST. PostgREST relies on PostgreSQL for all authorization logic by design.

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=statements-...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

[3]: https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/decla...

[4]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/application-users-vs-row...
If a user wants to build a hardened copy, they are free to do that. Distros should provide a version with standard features that are expected by end users.
What a bonanza of free air for Apple.

I would never have known about this product launch except for this brouhaha. Now I know their launch, the key feature their selling, and the concept backing it. What a coup for whoever is running this campaign.

An apology is a genius addition. More free coverage for them, and they get to "be doing the right thing" while getting it!
Is that true even for the relatively new Android "raw GNSS" API? https://developer.android.com/develop/sensors-and-location/s...

I believe Google are using that themselves for their "urban canyon" GPS improvements: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/12/improving-...
It is illegal. https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/203...

You are right that enforcement is weak, but that is not because it is legal. The notion that members of Congress can legally trade on knowledge derived from or used in the performance of their duties has not been true for over a decade at this point.
By that metric, doesn't seem like a particularly interesting claim for the advert?

Don't be rude to the audience that is coming to the article, either. It is specifically engaging with people that will have these interests.
That movie legit traumatized a generation of little boys.

The GI Joe movie was changed to un-kill Duke because of it.