skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that there can be fault lines of mutual intelligibility between dialects. I'm not even commenting on how we define dialects at all—all I'm saying is that the distinction between a dialect and a language is an arbitrary one that is made for political reasons more than linguistic ones, and that's something that even the sources for that Wikipedia page agree with me on. For example (emphasis added) [0]:

> The debate as to whether or not the varieties of speech used by the Chinese should be classified as separate languages or dialects of one language is a difficult one, with reasons on both sides. The main criterion according to which some scholars tend to use the English term 'language' for the varieties of Chinese, is the lack of mutual intelligibility between the various forms of speech, the fact that the "various 'Chinese dialects' are as diverse as the several Romance languages". On the other hand, since there are no extra-linguistic (political, historical, geographical, cultural) reasons to treat these dialects as individual languages, the tradition is to call them dialects of Chinese.

In the absence of nation states I suspect that we'd mostly talk about dialects and dialect continuums. Discrete languages are only really relevant as a concept because of the non-linguistic ties that bind a nation together.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=lCgnrA7Ke3QC&pg=PA1&source...
Alright fixed it. For some reason the state of one of my component wasn't updating but it's fixed now
This isn't always true.

Fortnite's emote wheel is a good counter-example - it wouldn't be easy to implement in any other way. You don't want to dedicate 8 separate buttons just for emotes, and any form of a linear list of options would be hard for players to learn via muscle memory.

An emote wheel with 8 options makes it easy to remember - press some key to emote, then drag down to play emote X, or up for emote Y. As an added bonus, it works well with directional control pads, but that's not the primary benefit.
gov.uk recommends having a single question per page - principally to make the form easier for users, but it also means you can handle progress saving and conditional sections and so on server-side.

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design/form-structure
could diffusion work at binary level? I mean, could we train a diffusion model to generate a final binary of a program given a prompt? probably AST may be better but the binary I feel is extremely easy to at least test fast if it works or not. Though there may be a lot of drawbacks, if this is possible I can't wait until we ask "give me an app that does that" and the diffusion model starts generating all te bytes the app to do the job. Just wondering
> Will this allow intel chips to run local llms efficiently ?

32GB might not be enough for everything
Intel Xeon 6 6700E Sierra Forest Shatters Xeon Expectations
My thinking is that we may be seeing MSFT working to commoditize CPUs and in the process end up strengthening their position while weakening ARM, AMD, and Intel's positions.

In the past MSFT was always wedded to x86 but now with other ISAs coming, that presumably Windows 11 can be ported to...
I do, thanks.

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

(I'm aware the design system has a sprinkling of JS, but it offers a few in-page enhancements and works just fine without)
Based on my experience I bet at the very least 90%+ of them could do it today, with no downside whatsoever, and I feel like I'm being generous.
>Surely my conscious mind cannot exist in two different eras simultaneously.

mentally I think of it more like save/restore states.

the future-person meeting the past person would just be past person+future person as a merged state, the past person would just be a working snapshot of everything before it without the accrued knowledge of future-person.

if you're someone who believe in an untouchable intangible non-duplicable 'soul', then it breaks the framework. I see myself more as a collection of experiences, so it jibes well into that concept.
He's calling a specific customer an idiot and moron.

Someone who's funds are probably locked up right now posted an interview that the Synapse founder did, saying that doing podcasts "in the middle of the lunacy" is absolutely insane.

Founder replies "this was BEFORE the deal fell apart, you are such an absolute idiot" to that...

Although, that customer is right it's insane to be going on podcasts and Greek weddings when you have thousands of customers out millions of $...

Then in the podcast, this founder doesn't even take any responsibility! He's saying it's some investors fault! That he had a $100m term sheet, where he was going to use investor capital to buy a bank charter and that's how his company was going to work. (nvm that it's purely self-interested, you have a $0 company right now, but you'd sure like 20% of a $200m company with $100m in the bank instead) Like, you already burned $50m of investors money with nothing but peoples frozen accounts to show for it, and you're surprised when they don't want to throw another $100m?
Ohh try out our dump API, it lets you pick specific tables with schema only or data only, etc. Right now for 10GB dbs, it should be ok but again haven't tested for that specific use case.

The goal is eventually to provide a way for resumable downloads so you can download chunks at a time even for backups.

We'll be launching a backup dashboard soon to download your db backups!
Nothing about Trump is normal.
HT is good for shitty code that chooses core count for threading. When it should really be multiples the core count given time spent mostly in IO.
No (less) legacy (smaller chip die area, faster and easier decoder). Paying prime prices for TSMCs newest nodes, one node ahead of everyone else. Bigger (more expensive) caches. Faster memory interface.

Nothing magic.

But the deep integration with better margins and higher end product prices allows Apple to have more expensive CPUs than the competition.
FUB: Functional Unit Block.

It seems that they are moving from higher level (larger) building blocks to lower level (smaller) building blocks to increase efficiency.
Respect the equipment A lesson from kindergarten for democracy
It's amusing that the placebo effect is so strong that they needed to create a standard that eliminated it.

Instead, they should figure out a way to induce it more consistently.
I didn't know "crepehanger" was rare or unusual. My mother used often enough that it seems like a ordinary, but lower frequency, word to me. Although in my head I thought it was two words.

To place it a bit more, my mother was born in 1931, and both of her parents immigrated from Ireland to Chicago around 1920. I assume she got the phase from her parents, who presumably brought it with them.

"Gobshite" is another word that I'm 99% sure came over on the boat with my grandparents. Although it seems like the root words are something like "mouth shitter", the invective tended to be used more like "idiot" or "jerk".
I built a terminal tool to easily generate 2FA codes without using my phone
It's amazing how much writing you do just to demonstrate how thoroughly you misread my comments and only found what you wanted to find.

You're the perfect example of biased and tunnel-visioned. Textbook example even.

Think what you will. Unfortunately for you, future readers will make up their own mind and not all will land at your defective conclusion.
Hey guys, I wanted to share this thing that I built so I don't have to grab my phone every time I have to 2fa into something

https://github.com/jaedonfarrugia/lazy2fa

I've found it really useful, maybe you will too
What is spooky is that not just one but two of the necessary conditions outlined by the article are straight up resource depletion - the unsustainable harvesting of timber resulting in complete ecosystem destruction, and then the subsequent depletion of the shallower coal deposits. There has been plenty written about the general dynamics of collapse and how when things get more expensive, all the built up complexity starts to fail under its own weight. Here, the need for heating (and specifically heating with coal) provided enough of a demand to motivate the harder work of technology development and deeper mining, but not too much of a demand that would have squeezed society. If no coal deposits had existed, or the technology had not been developed, or the technology wasn't productive enough to keep up as the difficulty of mining went up, or enough deeper deposits didn't exist until the next energy source (oil?) was found we'd be reading a tale about a once great society collapsing, cities being abandoned, or perhaps even another Easter Island.

It puts a little different flavor on the current worries of climate change, resource depletion, and ecosystem destruction. I guess we're just leaping before we look yet again, this time with the whole planet after having used all of the easily-accessible dino juice...
Cad software uses radial menus for right click selections often (solid works, inventor). Apex legends uses radial menus for weapon selection with a mouse.
We know everything but the current moment only through the fragment of memory active in the current moment, so we don't even know if any past or future has or will ever exist for us to choose.
You are conflating two things: medical research and the practice of medicine. During the normal practice of medicine, most doctors do everything they can to harness the power of the placebo effect: they reassure the patient, they speak calmly and warmly, they encourage religious people to pray, etc. Doctors care about a positive outcome, and will take any help they can get to achieve it.

In medical research, we are interested in figuring out if a particular drug helps for a particular condition. We already know that for some conditions, even giving patients a drink of water helps a bit. We need to understand if the drug is better than that, or if it only appears to help. The placebo effect is a baseline of noise in this case, and we need some way to filter it out to understand if there is some signal from the drug itself. If not, then you might as well give the patients some water rather than waste their money on an expensive hard to reproduce potentially poisonous substance.
Unfortunately the best insults are universally going to be ones that do not need to be looked up.

Bonus points if you can insult someone without swearing, i.e. “you exhibit all the virtues and characteristics of dipping your toes into wet cabbage”.
I never knew about this, thank you!
It's stronger in the initial coverage, I believe by the guy who discovered the story and the immediate commentary on Mastodon. The Verge is a more professional outfit so they're more subtle about it, but it's still there in phrases like "That could make it trivial for an attacker" (emphasis mine) and "There are clearly some obvious holes". Tone is hard to prove, so I'm probably not going to try any harder than that.
Thanks for the feedback, will make the messaging clearer!

D1 does the base infra stuff of running SQLite really well. We do the web dashboard stuff and also the API layer making it way more easier to interact with the database.

We do some infra stuff beyond D1 like duplicating SQLite nodes across the globe! Our goal is to make this even better with more feature allowing for better scalability
In which way are they better?

Jim Keller (and others) worked on Apple CPUs and on AMDs Ryzen.

So when leaving Apple, he (they) became stupid?
You would think an article comparing images would.. well would show you the two images side-by-side.

From the post(s) below It's impressive but its definitely lower res.

Over the life of managing telescopes, is it actually cheaper than a craft in orbit?
I HAVE THE CONCH!!

shuttup piggie...
Yeah I just assumed this was the case lol
Agreed. My newest favourite one is “You’re inconvenient to be around”
This is an absurdly credulous take. If we took this face value, then we'd have assume that Carl Sagan really did keep an invisible flying dragon his garage.[0] This position is the exact opposite of rational thought.

Say it with me, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

Even famed psychonaut, and inventor of the self-transforming machine elves meme, Terance McKenna said the only way to prove that it wasn't all in your head was to ask the elves a question that was easily and objectively verifiable, but you didn't know the answer.

He couldn't do that. He said so. He still publicly said that he believed they were real transdimensional intelligences, but he made no qualms about the fact that he had no proof, they're just a hallucination was very real possibility. (They are.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World#Dragon...
it seems like you're a bit too comfortable with thinking that just because the hallucinations are hallucinations they must be useless. alcoholics see snakes and rats and vermin, and that's not very much help to anybody. but all these psychedelic folks are hallucinating higher orders of intelligence that understand their trauma and can help them? hallucination or not, seems like a useful thing to have access to. far more than shadows of snakes, for sure
Likely true in some cases but are these the bottlenecks on a laptop? I've never experienced HT on a multicore CPU being more than maybe a 40% increase in throughput and no real help on latency or efficiency. Implementing HT isn't free and doubling the number of active processes halves the per-process cache while doubling the concurrency in the memory controller (or more because less cache). Then there's the scheduler complexity... On the other hand there's the dual efficiency win of adding more E cores with shorter/simpler pipeline and lower clock speeds.

Back in the P4 days HT made desktop interactivity much smoother, these days with 8+ core laptops the win is less clear and at least some of the top design teams think it's not worth it.
Your intuitions are on the mark.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-017-4771-x

This study finds that:

> No patients sought conventional antidepressant treatment within 5 weeks of psilocybin. Reductions in depressive symptoms at 5 weeks were predicted by the quality of the acute psychedelic experience.

I think there's another out there with similar findings, that the stronger the mystical-type experience induced, the stronger the impact on the pathology. I haven't been able to dig it up though.
I've stopped playing these past few months but probably the one that I kept going back to was this website to check stats for Escape From Tarkov's ammunition: https://www.eft-ammo.com/
Currently it replaces the oldest photos, yes. (There might be use cases where you only want to keep the first 20k photos though -- if anyone wants that, get in touch and I can add a setting.)
I’ve had many treatments for depression throughout my life, to include trans cranial magnetic stimulation, which I think is considered a rather modern second or third line type intervention.

Ultimately none of it has mattered much. I went through the “Death of God” thing at about seven years old and also acquired a condition that causes me chronic pain to this day around then. It seems rather natural that that could cause someone to be sad.

I suppose at the end of the day, you can’t escape modern life and you can’t create a god where none exists, so we try drugs and other tweaks to the brain because it’s what we have.
Okay, but in entire fairness, I did say "any empire would give". If she wasn't actually commissioned under the name as the Merriam-Webster blog suggests, I believe this qualifies as having successfully weaseled out.

Certainly it makes a lot more sense as a nickname! Those have vastly broader range than commissioned names typically do. In any case, I appreciate your effort in finding a more reliable reference, especially one that adds such color and provenance to a swear I grew up around and have favored since earliest childhood.
Were the compromised accounts sourced from Telegram or was that just the distribution channel? It's not 100% clear given your article and I feel like it's unfair to associate Telegram's name with the leak if they were merely a means of distribution.

I don't mean to trivialize the breach in any way mind you. I just want to ensure that those who don't read the full article aren't mislead into believing Telegram is any less secure because of this (assuming they weren't breached of course)
well that is something we need to fix then, isn't it?

for starters, better education will also affect future religious leaders and make them better leaders. but the religions themselves also need critical examination. examples for a better model for religions exist. we need to look at them and adopt some of their ideas.

this discussion shows how the process works. we identify a problem, look for potential solutions, and in the process we find other problems that get in the way, so we work on those problems, until we find issues we can actually fix. and once fixed earlier found issues can be fixed as well, and so on. every step along the way we are making the world a little bit better than before.
Of course it’s more likely, I’m just arguing we shouldn’t dismiss the possibility just because it sounds silly before we’ve studied it thoroughly.
That would be mind blowing. Why go through all the lost intermediary steps, especially through Python and JS, when you can generate machine code directly
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That is excellent. I will have to remember that one!
> the temperature of sorrowful liquid car parkings

This is quite a beautiful, strange (estranging?) clause - at least in the sense that we (or I) constantly struggle to find meaning and patterns in what might simply be plain noise (apophenic beauty?). It’s a similar form of intrigue that I and I think others often experience when reading the outputs of LLMs operating in the high-temperature regime, though of course we are just talking about embedding/embedding inversion here.

On a human level though, it makes me wonder why you picked that phrase. Did you roll dice in front of a dictionary? Play madlibs? Were they the first words that came to your mind? Or perhaps you went through several iterations to come up with the perfectly meaningless combination? Or perhaps you simply spilled your hot chocolate on your favorite pair of pants or dress while getting out of the car this morning (or perhaps as a child) and the memory has stuck with you… who knows! Only you!

In any case, my original point was simply that these interstitial points in embedding spaces can become ways of referring to or communicating ideas that we simply do not have the words for but which are none-the-less potentially useful in a communication between two entities that both have the ability to come to some roughly shared understanding of what is being referred to or expressed by that point in the embedding space. Regular languages of course invent new words all the time, and yet the points those new words map to in the embedding space always existed (eh not a great example because the shape of the embedding space might change as new words/tokens are introduced to the lexicon but I think the idea holds). Perhaps new words or phrases will come about to bring some point back into textual space; or perhaps that point will remain solely in the shared lexicon of the algorithmic systems using the latent space to communicate ideas. Again, who knows!

For instance, consider the midpoint of a segment connecting two ideas, or the centroid of any simplex in the embedding space… if we assume that there is some sort of well-defined semantic structure in the space, is it necessarily the case that the centroid must refer to something which equally represents all of the nodes, a kind of lowest-common semantic denominator? Obviously if the semantic structure only holds over local regions but breaks down globally this is not the case, but if all the points are within a region of relatively sound semantic structure, that seems plausible. We know what happens when you do a latent space traversal for a VAE which generates images, and it can be quite beautiful and strange (or boring and familiar by 2024, depending on your perspective), but some similarly weird process might be possible with embedding space traversals, if only we could some how phenomenologically if not linguistically decode those interpolating points.

> concepts which have essentially no meaning

This is a pretty strange idea to try to wrap your head around.
While I'm not a fan of the almost forced OOBE setup, I really don't understand the complaining regarding security. It's again another case of if you can run code on my computer you already own it. As Raymond Chen put: "you’re already on the other side of the airtight hatchway. And you’re bragging that you can do something annoying like a denial service, apparently unaware that being on the other side of the airtight hatchway gives you the ability to do far more interesting (and threatening) things".

This kind of "vulnerability" has been a constant topic of his blog in the past:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181219-00/?p=10...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121207-00/?p=58...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180227-00/?p=98...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240404-00/?p=10...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200420-00/?p=10...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220907-00/?p=10...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240102-00/?p=10...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070807-00/?p=25...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230206-00/?p=10...
> A11y

This word is inaccessible to those unfamiliar with the abbreviation, such as many non-native speakers who would have difficulty guessing.

Just write "accessibility".
For clarity: is this to say that it is a fact that these are simpy hallucinations, nothing more?
Is the notion and the feeling of 1 second a human made up thing? Surely the speed of time isn’t invented by us so I wonder if some other beings sense time differently
Now you’re just mixing up sub groups and definitions to meet your criteria. Mine are simple: doctors should listen more.
what if you are just really bad at going to bed on time
As opposed to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557726 yesterday though it came with a disclaimer.
Sure, I guess. I don't really make a habit of pedantry, in the kitchen at least; we both evidently know very well to what tool I referred, and if it means something to you to use one name over another then you're certainly welcome to honor that preference.
No, cars are not able to talk to the mechanic to tell them where it hurts.
What I'd really like is every project documentation has a short "development loop" section. How do the maintainers actually set it up in some kind of development mode, make a change, see the results and be able to iterate on that (and diff/stage the change they made)?

Sometimes, this can be extremely non-obvious and involve a lot of fiddling about, virtual environments, copying files, setting paths or ports etc. Especially when the language or development tooling is unfamiliar. But it's almost insultingly obvious to someone who has developed their workflow for years on the project.

A good example of how not to do it is Sigrok, which has a pile of separate libraries, and instructions on building and installing but not much about whether that's the most effective way to build and debug. Especially as the library you, a prospective hacker, probably want to develop with is a lower-level one to add device support. Eventually you can piece together something, but it often feels like you're not quite doing it "as expected" (or sometimes it's just that fiddly).

A good example is Tridactyl, which has a "build and install it" section, but also has a dedicated "development loop" section that tells you to use "yarn run (re)build && yarn run run"