skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's amusing.

I've been arguing against "async contamination" for a few years now, because if you have both compute-bound and I/O bound work, async makes it harder. There's been enough pushback now to keep tokio from taking over the world. You can still use Rust without async. A year ago, it wasn't clear you'd be able to today.

There are situations where async is appropriate. Twitter (pre-Musk) used to ask applicants "A celebrity with a million followers sends out a tweet. How do you get it to all their followers within three seconds?" If you have to keep millions of connections open on your servers for reverse push notifications, you probably need async. Otherwise, probably not.

There's a broader problem. Go was built to do web server side stuff, and it's optimized for that use case. Google staff wrote all the important packages, and Google uses those packages internally. So even the obscure cases have been well-exercised. Go also has "goroutines", which, at some cost in overhead, provide the functionality of both full threads and async execution. Goroutines can block or go compute-bound without stalling out the system. Rust async executors cannot. Thus, Rust has the "function coloring" problem, but Go does not.

Rust is supposed to be for problems where C++ gets too tangled. Keeping concurrency straight in C++ is hard. Keeping ownership straight, and not getting dangling pointers or bad pointers, is hard in C++, too. Rust does fix those problems. So does Go, mostly. Garbage collection hides a multitude of sins.

In Rust, the formal semantics have to be right or the program won't compile. This means time spent getting the plumbing correct, and major revisions can be painful. It also means you need programmers who have some sense of formalism, which probably means a decent CS degree from somewhere. You shouldn't need such people just to make a web site work. It's like requiring electricians to have EE degrees.

Some things for which you'd think async might help don't benefit from it. One-many relationships are an example. Something that comes up regularly for me is this pattern in a game-like program.

- Discover that asset ABC is needed.

- Is it in memory already? No.

- In disk cache? No.

- Put on fetch queue, which has a priority order, and gets reordered depending on where the player moves to.

- Take off fetch queue. Recheck.

- Is it in memory already? No.

- Is it in disk cache? No.

- Is it currently being fetched for some other need? No.

- Are all the things that need it gone? No.

- Fetch from network.

- Are all the things that need it gone? No.

- Do decoding and processing, which is compute bound.

- Tell all the things that need it that it's now available.

- If there weren't any, log the wasted effort.

This seems like a good candidate for async code. But async code is not that good at priority queuing, mixed compute bound and I/O bound work, or many-to-many waiting. So it's a bad fit. Async is kind of a one-trick pony - lots of more or less independent I/O bound tasks. That's a big niche, but a niche nevertheless.
An interview with Satya and the WSJ indicates it is actively cooled. Joanna asks him whether you’ll be able to hear the fans and he says they’re quiet versus missing.
A more honest title to me:

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees from 1% to 1.5% on US

Current title:

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
Laravel has been amazing for a long time. I heard its 'convention over configuration' approach was inspired by Rails, and the ecosystem is competitive with anything.

For small to medium web projects, the benefits of having JS across the stack has kept me from using Laravel again. That doesn't apply to all projects, though, and I still love it.

Waiting for the next thing. Toying with Deno Deploy (no association).
> Yet at the same time, Israel seems to have no obligation to actually consider or represent the interests of the Palestinians: They are not allowed to vote in Israeli elections; they don't have any representation in the Knesset...

Doesn't the US have a bunch of territories that don't have representation? Like Puerto Rico. It seems like this sort of arrangement is not alien even to Western politicians, although the treatment of people certainly differs.
It seems he is either using ChatGPT instead of talking to experts…or just listening to only himself. Either way, Ilya should have stuck to his guns.
If your sysadmins are kind, Outlook can expose IMAP/SMTP.
I am wondering if many Open AI engineers feel mistaken today for having promised to follow Sam Altman to MSFT after the board action.
Same thing happened with my Dell Precision laptop. Fixed it by wiping the hard drive and installing Linux.
I think the opposite. There is value in intelligent software, but IMO we’re a long way from AGI. So lots of grifting but some gold along the way. And it’s intellectually interesting/nuanced (cool math, interesting infra), unlike crypto which was more of a massive energy burning waste than anyone likes to admit.
Much as I love to bash MS, in this instance the M3 MacBook was announced March 4, so it’s not last year’s product.
> Does Sam has any more reputation to burn? Seriously, who would genuinely trust him at this point?

Sam doesn’t care.

After the board threw him out of his own company, why would he allow that to happen again? With that, he now trusts far much less people.

> Money really does blind all our senses, doesn't it?

That is why the cultishness was full on display last year when he was fired by the board.
Did I miss something? The most recent post with the word "banned" in the title was apparently 5 days ago...
Probably not considering Qualcomm ARM CPUs and GPUs will require new drivers Windows 10 never had.

Even the Intel and AMD machines coming later down the line will require Windows 11 to be utilized to their full potential. Intel Thread Director being an easy one to point out; Alder Lake onwards all run suboptimally on Windows 10 due to lack of support and awareness. Also new drivers for the NPUs, for whatever good they will serve.
It's Windows Modern Standby, one of the stupidest choice Microsoft ever made. Basically the laptop stays on to connect to the Internet to still receive mail and notifications.
We're talking about the Surface line here, so yes, in my experience power management is flawless.

It gets everything we'd expect from a vertically integrated product. You still need to deal with windows' paradigms, but also get a real linux as a bonus.
Thanks for the swift pointer, I’m not too familiar with that language.

As for the more formalized version, effect types come into the picture, that let a function be parametric in how it handles its functional parameters. E.g. a `map` could be throwing if given a throwing f, but non-throwing otherwise. But these can even handle more complicated effects as well.
It looks really unprofessional at minimum if not a bit arrogant, which is actually more concerning as it hints at a deeper disrespect for artists and celebrities.
Sure, but you're not in the business you think you're in: you're in the business your customers think you're in. Incredible products that don't meet customer expectations are about as useful as crappy products that don't meet customer expectations. They either need to change the product to meet them, or do a better job of communicating the real benefit and addressing the customers' difficulties. It's certainly not on their customers to independently figure out why their product is useful.
That's neat! Just looked it up after you mentioned: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/10/opens...
> Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it.

Microsoft... do something good?

Have you tried using Microsoft products?
I've been a Pro user. It's still terrible, and has all the failures previously mentioned.
MS is trying to improve Surface repairability, no idea how it is going...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/surface-it-pro-blog/s...
> That all a saw is,

Wow autocorrect has gone mad... "That all said".
Biden technically has authority to invade the Netherlands if they arrest any member of the military or government of Israel under the American Service-Members' Protection Act since Israel is a major non-NATO ally.
230 may have helped Google grow big, but it also helps small operators from being liable for something they can't have resources to police. The fallacy in your argument is this: https://www.dhmo.org/
You'd think that Worldcoin would be enough proof of what he is but I guess people missed that memo.
The system wasn't hibernating, it was just sleeping.
I work on a couple sets of rules at Google. I enjoy it. Though I agree people really can make balls of spaghetti with it. Everyone’s macros are terrible except for mine . The configuration system is where things can get really out of hand: transitions, selects, flags, etc.
What's illegal, in general, is not the action itself but the intent to do an action and the steps taken in furtherance of that intent.

Hiring someone with a voice you want isn't illegal; hiring someone with a voice you want because it is similar to a voice that someone expressly denied you permission to use is illegal.

Actually, it's so foundational to the common law legal system that there's a specialized Latin term to represent the concept: mens rea (literally 'guilty mind').
Apache AGE Graph Database – Apache AGE
If the aliens are smart enough, they'd realise that the vehicle is clearly someone's unwanted garbage, which is pretty much exactly the case.

The original Roadster is the vehicle which Musk had the least technical involvement with, and which was severely laden with technical debt courtesy of Eberhard and Tarpenning. (Most crucially, the pointless and arguably counter-productive use of the Lotus shell.) This technical debt nearly sank Tesla from the start, which would have basically turned US$100 million of Musk's money into ash. I'm not surprised that Elon had no love for it and was happy to see it flung into space... and maybe explode.
A fixed wing aircraft that loses power is automatically a glider, and a helicopter that loses power is automatically autorotating, what you’re talking about is successfully walking away from the resulting landing. Well, assuming loss of all engine power without the possibility of restart or the contribution of any secondary or emergency power systems, where the pilot’s ability to balance lift with gravity is the only concern, then I’d definitely take my chances in an autorotating commercial helicopter over a gliding commercial jet of the same weight and passenger count and starting at the same height and potential energy state over the same city any day.
The current title is fine. It’s a 50% increase (unambiguously), or a 0.5 percentage point increase (also unambiguously).
>This move aims to dampen the oversharing of personal information in order to enhance privacy protections in a landscape increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats.

Is it possible that this could mean that, for example, the phone company would not be allowed to store your personal data anymore?
As opposed to in traffic? Plenty of road raging psychos out driving cars.
Openness on OpenAI
The one who starts at 999 is MacBooks M2. In this case,

Surface Laptop with X Plus also beats M2 and starts at the same price.
Daily driving Windows for as long as I can remember, using Office for both personal and professional paperwork.

They have given me far more than I ever paid them and will continue to do so.

Also: Age of Empires II. Best RTS ever; change my mind.
The Midler v. Ford decision said her voice was distinctive. Not the song.
Apparently Azure is now going out fashion, as they’ve renamed Azure AD to Entra ID.
Was there some particular event (new release, announcement, etc.) that has prompted the ton of Laravel references I'm seeing on X and elsewhere very recently?
You’re allegedly “not writing the guy a pass” but then you go on to do so anyways. If Johansson isn't lying and Altman did personally reach out to her, I really don’t see how you can even attempt to argue this is some middle manager gunning for a promotion. In the same way you’re complaining that she needs no help from the community in defending herself, Altman needs no help from you reaching this hard. Like how can you not see that hypocrisy?
> The ICC was formed out of the ICJ

No, it wasn't. In any sense.

It was a permanent successor to ad hoc criminal tribunals like the International Military Tribunal, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

> The ICJ came out of the IMT, which was the Nuremburg trials

No, it didn't, it was the UN system's successor to the League of Nations system's Permanent International Court of Justice (the ICJ statute is modelled on that of the PICJ, the PICJ transferred irs assets and archives to the ICJ on its dissolution, the ICJ was headquartered in the Peace Palace that had held the HQ of the PICJ, and the ICJ even adopted the PICJ seal.)

The ICJ—like the PICJ, a court for disputes between nations—was in no respect a successor to International Military Tribunal, which dealt with crimes by individuals (and, indeed had most of its lifespan during that of the ICJ, starting work only a few months before the ICJ.)
Related:

How [Atari 2600] Pitfall Builds its World:

https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

Procedural Generation [Elite, early 8-bit game]:

https://procedural-generation.tumblr.com/post/112509130817/e...

Procedural Generation [general article]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

Somewhat related:

Lazy Evaluation [from Functional programming (FP) languages]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation

Random observation:

If a given raytracing algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) only evaluates visible points for a 2D image created as a view from a set of 3D data -- then that's sort of similar to the FP concept of Lazy Evaluation, that is, "delay the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed"...

Which in turn, prima facie, seems at least cursorily related to "Observation collapses the wave function":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse
Surface for Business service and repair...

>Built with integrity by design, many Microsoft Surface devices are now easier to repair1 and maintain, providing commercial customers with greater flexibility while extending the use of devices.

>Commercial customers can obtain service for Surface for Business devices in several ways. You can get service directly from Microsoft or use a third party Authorized Service Provider. Or with skilled technicians, you can repair2 devices yourself following the applicable Surface Service Guide or article.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-service-an...
I don't understand why battery life in gaming laptops is so incredibly shit even when doing non-gaming tasks. I thought a while back Intel and AMD worked on hardware/software to automatically switch to integrated graphics when you don't need the discrete GPU? Did nothing come of that?

I don't expect the battery life to be as good as non-gaming laptops, of course, but I feel like it should probably last longer than like an hour and a half.
Scarlett Johansson 'shocked' by AI chatbot imitation
lets run away from math if it sounds bad!
that’s spectacular — the information density we perceive is off he charts for such a small amount of code.

Makes me wonder if LLMs aren’t the best way to model the world at all…
Relevant thread on /r/locallama ([1]). A relevant quote from the comments:

> There's a Twitter thread from one of the authors ([2]). This part seems pretty important: "The models in this paper were done training 5 months ago. We've progressed significantly since then."

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ctsala/newly_p...

2. https://x.com/ArmenAgha/status/1791275549815648473
It shouldn’t be forgotten that his sister has publicly accused him and his brother of sexually abusing her as a child.
You can't have both. With the current M3 you also won't get 20h on battery while running an hadoop cluster on it.
<< Can you state that responses to that which embrace eliminationist goals are likewise bad?

Sure, elimanationist goals are likewise bad. I will go even further, it is a really bad idea for the humanity to go down that path, because, if history taught us anything, it is really, really hard to stop violence once it starts.

<< Do you condemn not just "Hamas" but Palestinian nationalist aims?

Can you define those a little more closely? I am hedging, because it is already moving way past the discussion at play and if want to evaluate all nations nationalist aims, I am not sure we should be limiting ourselves to just Palestinians.

<< You're picking a side here, whether you admit it or not.

I worry that you may have chosen a side and are not arguing in good faith ( whether you admit it or not ). Based on your statement, no matter what I say, you have already made a determination about me and my views. That is fine. I am ok with stopping this conversation here. I am not expecting to change minds. I was, however, expecting more.

<< And picking a side means that someone loses.

Does it really have to be that way? Is it truly a zero-sum game? It is not a rhetorical question. I am curious if you can imagine a non-binary world.
I don't think 3D printing materials are suitable for lunchbox.
Problem is they really believe we either can't tell the difference between a human and an AI model eventually, or they think we don't care. Don't they understand the meaning of art?
Yes, I don't generally include Catholicism, Orthodox, and several other Christian sects when I use the term fundamentalist Christianity (although I'm sure fundamentalists exist in any sect of any religion).

I suppose a better term would be "evangelical protestant fundamentalist Christianity", although I suspect that even there, some small number of them are not focused on politicizing Christian eschatology.
Looks interesting, not sure when I would need a tool like this though.
What are some good use cases for Recall you see in the future?
i hate ios and apple software quality is a total joke.

ill give it up for any actually good things tho, i did try a macbook air during a long trip and the battery life is truly excellent and worth dealing with the downsides
They used a sound-alike and had her sing one of her songs. I believe that's a different precedent, in that it's leveraging her fame.

Imo Sky's voice is distinct enough from Scarlett, and it wasn't implied to _be_ her.

Sam's "Her" tweet could be interpreted as such, but defending the tweet as the concept of "Her", rather than the voice itself, is.
I think young Americans have learned all their lives that ethnostates are bad, especially those based on religion. I think they (we) want a one state solution where Palestinians are full Israeli citizens who can move, work, and vote freely.
> Does nobody test anything anymore?

Sure they do. You're just not the target audience. You're stuck in the A/B testing phase where the A side gets Advertisements and the B side gets the B-rated website.
Actually, no. Look up videos of "range-gated imagers". With multi-hit data for each scan point and appropriate processing, you can see through fog.
This technology has been around for years but not talked about much outside military applications.
He's taking the same stance allied forces took in Germany and Japan.
>When it comes to AI we have just a lone detached brain, not in control over anything, so that it cannot even "fire" by itself: someone has to provide its inputs.

By assumption, this AI has already been created, so presumably someone is willing to do that -- and given its superhuman manipulation abilities, their willingness will probably not change.
Fees on payment methods are a good example of the kind of friction we wanted to get rid of, agreeing to use these intermediaries.

If we've just replaced stupid inter-bank 3 day cheque clearing bullshit fees with stupid microtransaction fees which are variable at-will by the guy in the middle, whats the point?

Money is regulated. Money flows should be regulated. This industry should be regulated, and the fees set to cost recovery, not profit point. If that reduces to one interchange agency per economy, I'd be fine: Nationalise them all.

Does it cost the CPU more to process $1b in one transaction than to process 10c?
In my perception, Github Copilot is the OG. The first one, amd the only product in that list that is actually making my life better.
People disagree with one another and have different views on the world? What a shocker.
Pretty sure GP was using their MacBook over the weekend. The MBA is supposed to last something like 30 days in sleep.

Yours is the sort of things I got with my Linux work laptop, and it’s miserable: a few years down the line battery degradation means after a 3 days weekend you have even odds the laptop will have slept itself to shutdown.
...because human brains enjoy being talked to in a flirty voice, and they benefit from doing things that their customers like? Doesn't seem that mysterious
It works like that on most laptops. The GPU selection should be transparent on windows. (And can be done explicitly in Linux)

I know Linux has powertop which can measure energy usage per subsystem. Not sure if windows has something like that to answer your question?
I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily driver and make myself learn this. It's been a lot of fun. Like, Dwarf Fortress kinds of fun. The kind of fun where when I first looked at it I thought it was insane inscrutable nonsense, and now I kind of wonder what happened to me that it's kind of making sense now. The kind of fun where I keep telling myself I just want to make some tiny little thing work, but actually I find excuses to rabbit hole down a bunch of different pathways and find amazingness under every stone. The kind of fun where I know better than to try to count how many hours I've spent on this now.

Except unlike Dwarf Fortress, I feel like things are actually improving over time instead of shambling ever-onwards towards an inevitable downfall. So I guess maybe it's more like the kind of fun the very first time I installed Linux and didn't know my way around anything.

I'm surprised how much I enjoy customizing things now. I always thought of my desktops sort of like betta fish before -- like, I've taken care of them, but also known better than to get too attached. Eventually the reformat is gonna come, and I'm never gonna set things up QUITE like I had it before. That's definitely not true now. I could start from scratch and be up and running with my entire suite of applications, themes, add-ons and configurations in no time, because it's all just a git repo of nixfiles.
It doesn't "seem like" in this instance, "no no that is not what we did we commissioned someone else" without specifying who is their claim.

From technical standpoint, a finetuned voice model can be built from just few minutes of data and GPU time on top of an existing voice model, almost like how artists LoRAs are built for images. So it is entirely within possibility that that had happened.
The track record is important: PCs have a track record of reducing the battery life to 15 minutes within 2 years through simple Windows updates; It’s probable that it will take 15 years to overcome people’s assumptions.
All Microsoft did was demonstrate that they believe the MacBook Air to be the best laptop on the market.