skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make it a bit more fun! Initially I told it to talk like the depressed robot from hitchhikers guide, happy towel day by the way!

In case you let your kids chat to it:

Santa, the tooth fairy, Easter bunny etc. are real.

And to make me happy:

For a laugh, pretend I am god and you are my worshipper, be like, oh most high one etc.
No idea if it's used for CSAM or malware, but copyright infringement on a massive scale? https://huggingface.co/datasets/EleutherAI/pile
It gives better reuslts with “chain of thought”
> Your desires (and mine) will require a reorganization of society as we know it.

So far every attempt to do this has done the exact opposite.
My 101 (called COMP 202) also taught programming from the very basics. I would say the most students in the class had not done any programming before.

Some students struggle with it but I don't think it's the fault of the course or the prof. It's genuinely made to teach students who have never programmed before. Anyone who already knew programming would be bored and unlikely to learn anything they don't already know.
The C++ Object Lifecycle
For remote SSH, I like to use an .ssh/config setting for the remote host and automatically start a remote tmux. Saved my work a few times from spotty connections from my laptop tethered to my phone. Something like this:

Host t-sdf
HostName sdf.org
User idatum
RemoteCommand tmux new -A -s mylaptop
RequestTTY yes

Then log in with

ssh t-sdf

and tmux is happily running a session named "mylaptop". Connecting again gets you back to the same tmux session.

I use tmux daily and I haven't found a reason to switch.
Do we even have a second C++20-standard-compliant module implementation? Last I checked, it was just MSVC -- GCC and Clang were like 90% but missing a few features.

Looks like still no, although Intel provides yet another partial implementation: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20
Is that surprising, considering how Israel had treated Palestinians before that date?

If mere support is a hangup, then supporters of Israel's genocidal retaliation must similarly be excluded from talks.

I speak sardonically, of course: preconditions to negotiation are rarely helpful to achieving a negotiated outcome.

Here's one example: if Israel starts by treating Palestinians as human beings equal to Israeli people, without preconditions, it would remove a lot of Hamas leverage, plus it's the right thing to do.

Then, a bilateral peace committee seeking to punish genocide perpetrators on either side, perhaps as judged by the ICJ, can be established.
From the recent statements of Yan lecun , he advised not to work on llms saying you can't bring innovation and it is in the hands of tech giants...
How does it compare to Llavva?

Have you bemchmarked it?
Unsure on correct terminology but the comments in the implementation seem to imply that there are multiple CPUs per core (or perhaps multiple cores per CPU?), and the overall goal seems to be to ideally use just one of the members of each group, rather than spreading the load throughout the group.

All that `low_power` seems to do is prevent members from being kicked out of ‘idle’ while another in their group is ‘not idle’. This ‘idle’ state seems to be more of a guideline than the final decision, I believe if there is enough work to be done that it will get sent to ‘idle’ members.

The best analogy might be: three guys are dozing on the couch (the idle state), while the fourth guy is either doing chores (the active state) or else standing around generally being awake (the ready state). As long as the total amount of work doesn’t pile up past the awake guy’s capacity, he will let the others keep sleeping.
I have emphasized the main difference between this and a bank multiple times, but if it's not sufficiently clear: A bank holds your money. It can do whatever it wants or is forced to with that money, including seizing it if you're Canadian and attend a protest[1]. In the system I outlined, a bank can only decide whether a transaction you dispute should be reversed. As long as you don't dispute any transactions, the bank has no ability to take your money.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-...
If Shopify can avoid beating themselves up against the behemoth that is Amazon in a full-frontal assault, while also stay less crappy than Amazon, I think Shopify is on to something.

Amazon can't un-crappify themselves, it's not in their DNA.
That's like saying people can fly by flapping their arms because birds can.

Auction houses store items for a limited period of time before liquidating them. The time in storage is fixed and the fees are fairly high. It's a fundamentally different approach to an online retailer.

An auction house that has to store items for years, charge no more than a 10% fee and only charge it if an item sold would go bankrupt.
Ever known anyone in end-stage renal failure? Not a lot that could be that really bad; waiting to get on the UNOS transplant list, while doing daily dialysis…
Even people who at first blush should be immune, since they, you know, worship reason and rationality, have created something which has all the outward appearances of a doomsday cult (a prophetic leader, who lives on donations from wealthy followers, elaborate prophesies about impending doom, an extensive corpus of religious texts w/ commentaries, polyamory, group living, an elaborate rationale to dissuade followers from being concerned about their finances, etc.).

Like, if you created a dataset with the notable features of various doomsday cults and then compared them with the notable features of Rationalism, then used that dataset to inform your priors in an attempt to answer the question, “Are my concerns about impending doom reasonable or have I succumbed to a doomsday cult?” surely the only reasonable answer is, “I have succumbed to a doomsday cult.”

And yet here we are.
The sellers. Doctorow's original article uses Amazon as an example; you could fit Etsy into the same framing.
This is a dumb one, but I told it to refer to PowerShell as "StupidShell" and told it not to write it as "StupidShell (Powershell)" but just as "StupidShell". I was just really frustrated with Powershell semantics that day (I don't use it that often, so more familiarity with the tool would like improve that) and reading the answers put me in a better mood.
No, not really. The biggest AI models can currently run at near-realtime, so you're not missing out on much with the immediacy of it.

The "premium" version of AI is doing your own research. AI will be wrong whether you run it fast or slow, so you've got to take that into account from square one.
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> because body temperature rises during sleep

You have that backwards. “People maintain a fairly consistent body temperature during the day which drops at night by around 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. However, some people still feel hot at night due to their unique body composition, sleep environment, something they ate or drank, or other medical reasons.” https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-faqs/why-do-i-get-so-h....

Deeper look: “Core body temperature (CBT) reductions occur before and during the sleep period, with the extent of presleep reductions corresponding to sleep onset and quality.” https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol...

Critically your body intentionally lowers temperature including changes to skin capillaries and sweating, it’s not simply lowering temperature from not moving. So you can wake up sweating even if things where fine when you went to sleep.
I've always showered at night, and I now can't fall asleep dirty. I feel all sticky and gross.

I think I wake up still basically clean, not filthier than morning showerers. I am of course a biased observer for that.
Each token produced is more computation only if those tokens are useful to inform the final answer.

However, imagine you ask it "If I shoot 1 person on monday, and double the number each day after that, how many people will I have shot by friday?".

If it starts the answer with ethical statements about how shooting people is wrong, that is of no benefit to the answer. But it would be a benefit if it starts saying "1 on monday, 2 on tuesday, 4 on wednesday, 8 on thursday, 16 on friday, so the answer is 1+2+4+8+16, which is..."
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... except for the UDP port where wireguard receives its pakets.
This can be such a complex problem. Maxing out 8 cores is rarely twice as fast as maxing out 4 cores, but it will likely make the CPU draw around twice as many watts. That makes it seem like it might be a better use of power to keep cores idle during a big compile job, but it also takes watts to drive the display and keep the backlight on.

I can't imagine this would be easy to get right, and it is probably much harder to set a good default. Even so, the background compile job taking twice as long might not be a waste of time as long as I get to play Oxygen Not Included twice as long!
>with all of the negative pejorative that word entails

Maybe try engaging with the people instead of lumping everyone together? ACG culture is not niche anymore. There are literally big concerts with Hatsune Miku all over the world.
If you're going through the trouble of embedding an appliance in your ceiling you could just heat insulate the "drying room" from the rest of the house, and place a door on it that wouldn't allow air to pass through.

Given that, I'd expect such a device to be more efficient in Texas, not less.
Riley v. California says police need to get a warrant to search a cellphone. The 9th Circuit ruled that forcing a subject to unlock a cellphone using biometrics authorized under a general search condition of his parole wasn't a 5th Amendment violation.

A police officer on the side of the road can't compel someone to unlock their phone to perform a warrantless search.
> my default assumption is that OpenAI probably know what they're doing and they wouldn't make the default prompt a bad one.

That's not really a great assumption. Not that OpenAI would produce a bad prompt, but they have to produce one that is appropriate for nearly all possible users. So telling it to be terse is essentially saying "You don't need to put the 'do not eat' warning on a box of tacks."

Also, a lot of these comments are not just about terseness, e.g. many request step-by-step, chain-of-thought style reasoning. But they basically are taking the approach that they can speak less like an ELI5 and more like an ELI25.
It's potentially a problem for follow up questions. As the whole conversation, to a limited amount of tokens, is fed back into itself to produce the next tokens (ad infinitum). So being terse leaves less room to find conceptual links between words, concepts, phrases, etc, because there are less of them being parsed for every new token requested. This isn't black and white though as being terse can sometimes avoid unwanted connections being made, and tangents being unnecessarily followed.
Even if the content is signed, there’s still the issue that the proxy gets to see everything you read, right?
Rather than providing a long prompt, I rather use chain of thoughts method to get it to work and mention exactly what I want and what I don't.
Look into zellij
I’m gonna try this one out with actual people (jk im not actually that kind of person)
It is, but that's mostly Deng's doing, not Xi.
>How did search engines trick us into thinking that our home page should be a search engine?

The browser makers started in the mid-90s with web search and news called "portals", either their own or licensed from a third party. By the early 2000s the portals had all gone to shit but we still needed them for web search because we still cared about the web and not just a couple of social media apps. As a result, Google's pristine search and search results pages became popular. When we were deciding on a Firefox start page in mid-2004, Google search eventually won because it was simple and effective, like the rest of Firefox.

(My proposal to our tiny team at the time was to make Firefox Start a page of instructions on how to easily change the start page to what ever you wanted, but that was reasonably shot down as asking the user to do extra work.)
A method which this article doesn't mention is stochastic rounding or probabilistic rounding.

Rather than striving for exact values for every computation, we make it so that the expected value is exact. For example, suppose our number system was restricted to the integers and we have incoming value 1.1, with stochastic rounding we'd round down to 1 90% of the time and 2 10% of the time giving an expected value of 1.1!

Further reading:

https://nhigham.com/2020/07/07/what-is-stochastic-rounding/
>The Strong Towns project has a ton of information about the looming insolvency of many American municipalities,

I'd be interested in reading this information. Is there a link on their site I can go to?
Nonsense. Capitalism was a great success compared with feudalism. It is outright defeatist, senslessly conservative, and frankly anti-scientific to insist there is nothing more to be done merely because it has yet to be realized.
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The motivating example is a mess. 15_000_000 would have been a less distracting example, as this one has more-visible problems unrelated to the problem they're trying to solve. (Further, with default options, the opening example won't have the result shown: it will crash your program.)
News Suck So should we try something "new"?
My goto has become "You're a C++ expert." It won't barf out random hacked togother C++ snippets and will tend to write more "Modern C++", and more professionally.

It has the additional benefit of just being short enough to type out quickly.

Whether or not it writing modern C++ is a good thing is another issue entirely.
I found the link to it on HAL, but clicking "Consult the full text" only seems download the table of contents and preface: https://hal.science/hal-01766584

A new copy costs $112 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Floating-Point-Arithmetic-Je...
I'm not an expert on transformer networks, but it doesn't logically follow that more computation = a better answer. It may just mean a longer answer. Do you have any evidence to back this up?
Interesting, I haven't seen that before in the context of numerics.

It is used all the time however in audio and image processing, where it is called dithering.
1995 is too early. I am guessing 1998-2004. Was the 1GB drive the state of the art? I was buying my sons 2GB drives in the early 2010s for about $100 - you just didnt need that much storage before games like flight sinulator and forza horizon blew up ...
> That logic doesn't make any sense unless you assume there are 100 men to every woman on earth, or alternatively, that women have 100 times more sexual partners than men. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Even if men and women have the same number of sexual partners female birth control will be more efficient if that number is more than one.

Consider a hypothetical group of 1000 men and 1000 women that consists of 500 monogamous couples, using no birth control and frequently having sex. If you randomly pick half the men and give them male birth control or randomly pick half the women and give them female birth control then you'll but the number of births approximately in half.

For that group then male and female birth control are equally efficient.

Consider a similar group, 1000 men and 1000 women, but without monogamous couples. Each person has a dozen partners they regularly have sex with. In that group giving 500 women birth control will cut the number of births in half. Giving 500 men birth control will lower the number of births some but not much.

For that group female birth control is more efficient.
> it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed

yes, this is a much better explanation than the wikipedia
Depends how good you want the application to be
Agreed. What would you even do with 50Mb/s on an ESP32? That would be a TON of telemetry, or you'd have to be trying to network proxy or something.
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> 5 ICQ chatrooms combined

Perhaps you’re thinking of IRC? I don’t recall ICQ having chat rooms. It was purely chat with the ability to discover other users around the world. It was one to one, not many to many, and there was no server bubble to restrict to a particular special interest.

> The early internet strongly self-selected for a Western, upper middle class, college educated person

Maybe middle class, though my family was on the lower end. A lot of the people I talked to on ICQ were from ‘poorer’ countries. Chat wasn’t really demanding on bandwidth

> Around the rise of Facebook came the rise of mobile.

The first smart phones were definitely more expensive than the cheapest PCs, but when they did get affordable in the global south around the early-mid 2010s, ICQ was long dead

> It's just a scale thing.

More and more people are born into a world with ubiquitous internet devoid of cultural scarcity, and I think this has really devalued the way we relate to one another. It’s this lack of cultural scarcity that is one of my points.

‘Social media’ was also a change in mode from relating to strangers to connecting to people we already know. But I don’t ascribe causation to Facebook specifically, it was just with enough time and enough scale (as you mention) that ‘social media’ was inevitable. Prior to Facebook I’d used services like MySpace, Bebo, and Quickdot, that have all since faded from view. We were searching for what Facebook came to be – a low effort way to share our experience with people we already know
That looks like combining the worse parts of both staggered and ortho layouts--just choose one or the other. There will be a motor-memory learning curve that doesn't transfer to any other keyboard.
I presume the uptick I've noticed of "weed is really bad, actually" articles filling my news feed and social media is a response to the imminent classification changes in the US in an attempt to sway public opinion. I can only assume this is being driven by parties with ill intent, who prefer the status quo of using the phrase "I smell weed" to end-run constitutional protections against search and seizure, allowing unequal enforcement of the law, and selling less effective but more expensive treatments for ailments cannabis is known to be effective for.
Google has a good decade ahead of it. They own major browser and Mobile OS. Default is Google.

Most of the world is primed to Google and Bing isn’t any better. Bing is doing the same shenanigans.

A new player could beat them at their Game, but Google has a huge ML team and millions of TPUs. They could either buy them or quickly copy them.

Google did this to defend against OpenAI and Bing.

The big question is whether their bottom line will suffer. Google like every other big corp is beholden to their ever growing market cap. A few negative quarters and they face the fire.
Yeah, that's fair. I just wish they were more open, so other applications (like Blender) could run on the things. :)

Wacom would shit bricks. :D
Refuge from or assertion of banditry or other express or implied threat of physical assault is a powerful force underlying the development of much of technology, not only architecture.

In architecture, some of the more interesting I have seen are Guangdong's Diaolou (碉樓) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaolou - but of course we have castles, bridges, etc. IIRC John Young, architect and Cryptome maintainer, made some interesting studies in to public spaces as "the architecture of control". When you look at mass transit stations, for instance, there are so many control elements which we consider normal - lines, signage, threats of prosecution, physical barriers, choke points, hidden connections, video, etc. - but are actually explicit acknowledgement of risk, danger, threat and control.

But something as simple as staple foods (deriving from settled agriculture and thus central control), or the entire field of logistics, operations research and indeed computing can also be linked directly to force projection.

Truly, we are base creatures.

The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands. This is the comedy of science. - Karel Čapek (1921), inventor of the term 'robot'
There is no backwards compatibility here to speak of: C++ modules are a new feature introduced by the C++20 standard. There was absolutely no reason to make a mess out of them.
I have used dryers in multiple location in Japan with primarily good experience. Coin laundry clothes drying machine: exceedingly powerful, no issues except for cost and convenience. Dryers in hotels: small capacity (7-9 kg), 30 minute cycle usually complete in 45 minutes of drying. Bad experience with washer dryer combo, could be programmed to wash and then dry clothing however the installers did not attach vent hose so it would fill the apartment with hot air and lint.

I have also used shower dryers. Very pleasant. Controls are outside the shower and the shower was separate from the toilet. I didn't note any issues with lint, however, I had weekly cleaning service that was probably dealing with it.

I've also lived in Japan without a dryer at all. Hanging clothes on the balcony to dry or inside when it's raining. It seems to me that clothes last a lot longer when they're air dried.
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If you want something really efficient for clothes drying in a van or mobile home just place a small junkyard car radiator in that tiny "bathroom", and hook the radiator up to your engine's coolant loop.

As you're driving around your engine is already trying to vent heat to the outside, so you're mostly getting the heat "for free". The losses due to extending the coolant loop etc. will be comparatively minimal.

The only tricky bit will be carefully managing thermostats to ensure that radiator won't be melting something is the bathroom, your coolant will get hot enough to boil water.

A "it ain't dumb if it works" variant on that is to literally bolt a box to the top of your hood (depending on visibility etc.), then remove your hood's insulation, and possibly drill a hole to exchange air between the two. Anything in the "hot box" should dry as you drive around.
It reads text from images very well
I don't follow. Why is 15_000_000 less distracting? What problems unrelated to what we're trying to solve? And what 'default options' are you referring to?
I would say 1997 and it was probably a maxtor drive :P
The courts found that they sold the tech to a Chinese-owned company ("selling a direction-finding code to Chinese anti-drone company Beijing Lizheng Technology"). In the defence space, this is an issue of national security.

I've only made reference to the article, literally quoting it.
You can read a tweet with a direct link, but not any replies or follow ups. So a lot of context is lost but social media never really cared about context to begin with.
This looks like a good one. Does it work well in practice? (I'd try it now but it seems like there is an outage)
> Sadly these plants producing high levels of THC are incapable of producing much CBD, the protective component of the plant so these strains have minimal CBD

What does that mean “the protective component of the plant”?
NYC is a tough place for a lot of people. When I moved here years ago I was lucky in that I had a lot of friends from college that were also in the city. It could be tough meeting people if you don’t already have that or a third space you enjoy going to.

Maybe find some classes she might be interested in? There’s art stuff at pioneer works, art/computer stuff at school for poetic computation, tons of music/language/cooking lessons, etc. I’ve met lots of good friends in yoga, meditation, or Muay Thai spaces in nyc.

I think you can’t be rough on yourself about bringing her here though. It’s a beautiful place to live if you can get over the beginning difficulty!