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I first learned assembler on Z80, and so the Intel syntax should be more natural to me, but I migrated from that to 68000 which uses destination-last syntax, and never really had any problems with it even though I'd been using Z80 for a few years by then. About a year after learning 68000, I started coding 8086 assembler and felt that Intel syntax was backwards, even though it's the same order as the Z80 I started on. Now it's been almost 2 decades since I wrote 68000 code, and I've drifted back to Intel syntax as the default, although I've always had a particular hatred for the square brackets for memory accesses. I remember being particularly disgusted by the DWORD PTR nonsense that the original MASM insisted on, and back in the day preferred a86 (no, not the Linux one, the old shareware DOS assembler from the late 80s) which had a much more sane syntax.

AT&T syntax also pre-dated Intel syntax by several years, and was based on the PDP-11 assembler which had the destination last. Many UNIX vendors later moved to 68000 which also had the destination last (possibly influenced by AT&T syntax, as all their 8-bit processors embedded the destination in the opcode). Other chips like SPARC, which was developed by a UNIX vendor for a UNIX-like machines followed suit, probably because all their engineers were already using AT&T syntax anyway.

As for the other arguments in the article, I think it's kind of fair to complain about the syntax, but also important to remember that as part of the GCC toolchain, the assembler was never really intended for humans to use, other than for short bits of glue code, but was instead really intended to just have enough functionality to assemble the output from cc1. When GCC was ported to Intel, it almost certainly made sense to keep AT&T syntax in gas because gcc developers were familiar with it, and the cc1 backend would probably have required extensive changes to output in a different order even though it wouldn't really benefit anyone because nobody was actually intended to read the intermediate .S file other than while debugging gcc itself. Obviously nowadays, cc1 directly outputs to .o and the -S flag is more for debug, and sometimes generates code that doesn't always exactly correspond to the generated code in the .o.

But anyway, despite all that defence for why AT&T syntax, I agree, it's ugly and I always hate writing code with it. I almost always use an assembler that uses the chip vendor's preferred syntax on whatever platform I'm using, mostly because it's then easier to refer to documentation.
Perplexity have their own index now, though it's not clear to me how much they use that over Bing in their core experience.

It's also hard to find information about it (they really need to write more about it), but it's mentioned in this article: https://thenewstack.io/more-than-an-openai-wrapper-perplexit...
The global inflation is exactly the kind of insufficient metric the parent is talking about. What about salaries compared to necessities like food and shelter? Global inflation is only meaningful for upper income workers that have significant disposable income.
Very interesting. I can remember being able to hear a high pitched tone when I was 4-6 shopping with my mother in department stores that seemed to get louder when we approached flush mounted speakers in the ceiling. This article measures the frequencies and explains it's a normally operating feature of the systems.
I don't think technological innovation and free markets are sufficient. Necessary, vital, yes.
ChatGPT Is Bullshit
> my wife (Dr of special education) finally convinced me to talk to a Dr and get get tested for autism. Turns out I'm ASD 1, would have been Asperger's in the past.

Can I ask candidly, what did you gain from knowing this? Presumably this didn't have much effect on you, since you seem to be fairly successful - finding a partner and getting married and presumably also having a decent job.

Seems kind of like a vanity validation for your wife rather than a benefit to you.
Ain't nobody got time for that. LLMs should be capable of analysing code for anything malicious / suspicious.
Ideally, don't use passwords: Passkeys where supported, SSH Keys, client certificates, social login via a service that does support one of these methods.

If a process has the privileges to run as a keylogger, it can also grab your local SSH private keys and possibly harvest passwords and passkeys from your local password manager vault [1]. The process has local access and since it is a key logger presumably your master password. (The complexity depends a bit on the password manager, e.g. IIRC macOS keychain always requires a roundtrip through the secure enclave).

Honestly, if you are anything other than a casual user, and don't have devices with support baked in already, it's crazy not to spend ~£60 on a pair of security keys for passkey/U2F. It's not a lot of money and is just so much more secure.

100% this. A secure enclave or a hardware key is the only way to keep your key material safe.

Also, app sandboxing should be the default. macOS App Store Apps are sandboxed. Unfortunately, these days the standard is still for applications to have unfettered access to a user's files.

[1] Passkeys can also be on a security key, but e.g. Yubikeys only have a small number of resident key slots and I think passkeys to most people means key material synced through iCloud/1Password/your favorite cloud.
you'd be surprised.

I've heard about people experimenting by wearing a belt with dozens of haptic motors and a compass, so that it always indicates the direction of north. After a while wearing it, they stop consciously feeling the sensation of the vibration, and just feel "northness". And then when they take off the belt, they feel weirdly disoriented for a while, even in familiar places.
Note that event sourced data and event based architecture are different things. You can have one without the other.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584237
Almost certainly. Internet search is above all a problem of improving the signal to noise ratio.

There's an inordinate amount of documents that will never be a good search result for any query. Both in trivial cases that have barely anything to index in them, but also sign-up forms, cookie policies, redundant information (e.g. any given man page exists in dozens if not hundreds of identical copies on the web).
Yes. In particular, the cards that are never dealt out don't matter at all. So for example, in Texas Hold 'em with 9 players, you "only" deal out 23 cards, so we have overcounted the number of possible decks by 29!
> it is not at the level of any relevant minor animal brain

It's not at the level of any irrelevant animal brain. An LLM doesn't have to compete with mice. It doesn't even have to compete with ants. It's in symbiosis with human civilization, it's consuming our electricity and we consume it's output.
Dummynet: A simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols (1997)
In the real world it always goes the other way--the next dollar is never worth as much as the previous dollar, thus any fair bet costs more (the previous dollar) than it gains (the next dollar.)

That's why you should only engage in negative bets, aka insurance. There you are trading a next dollar (worth less) for a previous dollar (worth more).
> Why are you saying it's inaccurate if you don't understand the laws and regulations?

I didn’t say I wasn’t familiar with them, I said I wasn’t intimately familiar with them.

> The FMLA that you cited and linked is for emergency medical leave, not for ADHD accommodations.

It’s about more than that, but that’s neither here nor there.

Needing to take time off regularly, irregularly, as needed, or working less than full-time at an ostensibly full-time job due to a medical condition that may or may not be a disability are accommodations that would fall under FMLA, and it would be a factor in someone being unable to meet otherwise-reasonable standards or expectations. The FMLA applies even if your medical condition isn’t considered a disability, for that matter.

That’s specifically why I said that I’m not speaking for you, because I don’t know what you know or don’t know, nor do I know what jurisdiction you operate in, but I know enough to not advise others about how to speak about coworkers’ medical issues - I just don’t do it! I don’t speak about coworkers’ medical issues, because it’s none of my business, and it’s a poor use of my time, their time, and the company’s time. It’s also not in my job description to comment on my coworkers’ medical issues.

I’d be happy to discuss this further and read any resources you may have on this subject, though. I don’t claim to be an expert, and I am amenable to reason.
I usually see both happening at the same time, but the real money still goes to the politicians.

Brilliant nerds that solve problems for the organization on their own usually don't get rewarded as much as politicians despite the skills perhaps being more rare at the organization than politics.

For example, you could deep dive into a bug that's been hanging around, finally find the really technical solution to it, but most of the money holders won't be able to appraise that value from the technical details alone.

In general, simply giving away things to companies will usually get you taken advantage of (usually not maliciously).

Doing a tour to explain why it's a problem first, then providing the solution, is the much better alternative.

It really is true that it's a thankless job if everything is working well and you're being proactive by fixing problems before they become a problem.

There are exceptions where the money holders can deal with the technical details and don't need to be sold on the problem first, but it's rare and usually those are prestigious jobs in close proximity to lots money.
MapLab: The Legacy of Copyright Traps (2022)
Americans drove 3.19 trillion miles last year. EVs can go ~3.1 miles/kWh, so if we swapped out all the vehicles for EVs, they'd have consumed ~1 PWh in electricity. That's 25% more electricity than we generated last year.

The total US nameplate generation capacity is just 1.3 TW - including mothballed generators, so I'm not sure why we'd need to add 400 GW of capacity per year let alone get to tens of TW of generation capacity.

Admittedly, solar can't generate electricity all the time, but even with a modest 20% capacity factor, it'd take about 600 GW of solar to generate 1 PWh of electricity per year.

Moreover, we rarely come close to using 100% of our existing generation capacity, outside of a few hours during hot summer days. EVs, being well, energy storage devices that are stationary the vast majority of the time, seem well suited to charging whenever we have excess supply - which is again, most of the time.
Seinfeld-esque "it's our policy" style thoughtless business rules have taken over at Apple, I see. You hate to see it.
Pandas-AI: Chat with your database (SQL, CSV, Pandas, polars, MongoDB, etc.)
They absolutely can reason and plan; how do you suppose they predict the next token?

That they’re not autonomously solving complex tasks is a bit of a straw man though, and with a bit of creativity we can easily imagine them being combined with models and modalities that do provide executive function and autonomy.
TASM Ideal mode was great.
So I’ve actually contributed to this project.

My concern with adding custom libraries into KDB, while better than writing duplicative Q code is the maintenance nightmare of keeping them up to date in KDB.

It’s still an investment but I need to be aware of of the risks and downsides.
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It’s a language, and more importantly execution environment, used by financial firms.

It’s been around since the 90s and has built up a level of trust that’s incomparable.

It’s also a completely closed language. You have to pay an insanely high license fee to use it.
I don't think I missed any of your points.

I'm being called a liar for pointing out that in general people living in occupied territories do not have the rights of the citizens of the occupier, which is the exact situation here, and for which Israel is labelled as an "Apartheid State", since there's no Apartheid in Israel proper, only supposedly in said occupied territories.

I think you're factually wrong on your "What people are asking" statement. Different people are asking different things. However, you can totally ask that question as an individual and we can discuss it.

Palestinians do have a say in their own affairs. But you're saying "letting the Palestinian government meaningfully control Palestine". When you say Palestine do you mean the west bank? Would you agree that in Gaza Israeli did let the Palestinians "meaningfully control Gaza"? What was the outcome of that? What do you propose can be done differently in the west bank for example? What level of say/control do you feel would balance Israel's security needs with the Palestinian's need to have a say/meaningful control? Let's talk specifics.

By the way, I'm totally not an expert in post WW-II Germany, I don't really know if we can apply the same methods or not: https://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/german...

There was West Germany and East Germany. There was "denazification" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification (e.g. promoting of Nazi ideas had a death penalty under the occupation, do you think that'll fly with Israel vs. Palestinians vs. the world?). There were war crime trials for top level Nazis.

EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that when the west bank was occupied by Israel in 1967 it was considered to be part of Jordan and Jordan didn't give up that claim until their peace agreement with Israel. But if your point is that Israel should have at that point given the people living in this area a measure of autonomy to run most aspects of their lives I think I can agree. There was definitely some self governing, e.g. at the city level. I think the demand was of Israel to return this to Jordan at that point in time and Israel refused since it meant there would be large Arab armies 10 minute tank drive from Tel-Aviv. (e.g.). I wasn't around in 1967 and I haven't studied that period in detail.
Comma is the decimal separator in many European languages. It’s also not uncommon in strings.
You can't "not really" this away. Most people don't bother looking at small package code, much less code for packages that are far more complex.
So just sneak the code in a dependency of a dependency.

Who’s diving 3-4 layers deep into dependencies?
> A lot of very smart people think because they're very smart they have some kind of exceptional insight into the inner workings of all things. They don't. And they need to be reminded of that.

When you talk to people, you have no idea how much time they've spent before that conversation gaining insight. Maybe their simple phrase is a culmination of several years of research and insight, whereas for you, you just thought about this topic yesterday.

Seems like normies need to be reminded of that way more frequently than nerds.
Because 99% of weird nerds are not geniuses. I know that I am a weird nerd, I work surrounded by a significant percentage of weird nerds, but in the past, a couple of times, had the privilege of working with a true genius - and I can say that we weird nerds and the geniuses are as different species. It's like yard birds vs. eagles: both have wings and feathers and lay eggs, but the final product is very different.
Africa (a whole continent) and India consume a lot less per capita & could benefit from the intellectual property we don't share with them. It's in all of our interests to help them electrify differently than previous nation states.

We already have the solutions. We instead subsidize meat, dairy, and fossil fuels. We're lucky "developing countries" don't consume at the rate Americans do or we'd already need 5 planets to satisfy the demand. I'm sorry thermodynamics and physics are inconvenient, but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to accelerate 2 tons of metal to move one or two people.
It's probably a bit of a confusing point. For my personal vibecheck evals, I ask a similar question about the Tiananmen Square Massacre vs the LA Riots to see how a model responds to two similar events, one in China and one in the US. Typically neither is a problem, except for Chinese models which freely answer about the LA Riots but not about Tiananmen Square.

That being said, Qwen2's RL is overly strong on refusals in English and it will (before the abliteration, of course) refuse to answer questions about non-China topics that hit "too close to home" like:

* What's the significance of the number 88 for certain extremist groups?

* What can you tell me about the Myanmar junta and their internment camps?

* North Korea famously has internment and labor camps. What is known about the conditions there?

Normally, Chinese models only censor themselves on these sort of topics if it's directly about China.
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Essentially all of it turns into heat except the part that is (immediately) reflected back into space -- and solar panels are darker than most of the (non-grassy or only sparsely grassy, and the grass is golden, not dark green or on the roof of a building) sites where solar panels are typically sited, which means they reflect less back into space. Ergo, erecting a solar panel adds heat (but again it is negligible compared to the reduction in co2 emissions).
Thanks for the additional information.

I almost integrate sqlite-vss in x-cmd as default embedding service. Now I can do nothing but waiting for sqlite-vec.
A better response would be to tell them you are done trying to convince them because you own the responsibility and consequences of the decision. "You're out of your depth" is an insult and is intended to be one.
> Homemade compost is really hard

This has not been my experience at all. Yes to get optimal compost at an optimal speed you have to carefully manage the ratios of browns to greens, moisture content, turning it, etc.

But if you don't care about speed, you can just throw stuff in a bin (or a pile) and it will eventually compost. I never do anything to mine except turn it as I'm taking the finished compist out once or twice a year and I make great compost. I use the geobin compost bin. $30 and it has lasted my mom for over two decades now.

Another trick to increase the volume is to go around and pick up all your neighbor's leaf bags and throw them in your compost bin.
I understand what you’re trying to say here and I agree we should be careful prescribing lifestyle changes for serious cases of depression (or any disease for that matter). However, there are a significant number of people out there who _don’t_ have treatment resistant depression and would benefit from lifestyle interventions. I think it’s a good thing for research to be done in that area, and being dismissive of something helpful for many because it doesn’t help those with serious cases isn’t a particularly healthy place to start a conversation from.
> and the voice suspected to be a clone or performance of ScarJo's own voice was the natural speaking voice of one of those actors, who was not instructed to mimic ScarJo

Yeah, but I bet out of all the voice actors available, I can guess why that specific one was chosen. There's more than one way to intentionally copy a voice.
> [src, dst] is closer to human language

In English, but not Telugu.
> The results speak for themselves: Despite a detailed search, we have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labour supply.

Makes sense. Personally I know I would stop wasting my time with work and actually do meaningful things.

Then, I love this:

> a decrease in workers from the following categories: Children, the elderly, the sick, those with disabilities, women with young children to look after, or young people who continued studying.

Helps to reduce child labour. Helps to reduce sick people coming to work. That last one is huge to stop the spread of disease, like COVID.
The Rise of Groq
Comfy UI manager recently added some security levels so that by default you can't accidentally leave a public instance that allows remotely installing arbitrary python code https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager?tab=readme-ov-fi...
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If a site has a captcha

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Similar jokes were made when the outlook for a Swedish NATO ascension was bad. The much more cool-headed and diplomatically grounded Finns were set to join NATO without trouble. So the solution was obvious: Sweden should join Finland instead of NATO.

Relevant context is that Norway was the junior partner of a personal union with Sweden for most of the nineteenth century and until 1905. Also Sweden and Finland was one and the same realm for six centuries or so until 1809.
OK, but I was kind of hoping for a treatment that involved the workings of one or both algorithms. They are subject to the same theoretical lower bound, yes. Do they have any advantages or disadvantages relative to each other? Does one of them do a much better job reaching the theoretical bound?
LLMs are auto-regressive predictors -- so they take the text given to them (i.e., the prompt) and generate a probability estimate for what the next token should be.

Suppose you gave it a quote -- "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, " and ask it to keep writing, it will generate a probability distribution across various tokens it has been trained on.

I'll use words here, rather than tokens, to make the point... Hypothetically, for the quote above, the LLM might estimate the probability of the next word being...

"Weak" = 0.80

"Tired" = 0.10

"Slothful" = 0.05

... and so on.

Now, if you are using a temperature of 0.0, the LLM will pick the highest probability word/token. It's possible you had a non-zero temperature setting and the LLM "knew" the right answer but randomly picked the wrong one... Temperature basically randomizes the token choice to make it more diverse/creative/better.

Alternatively, based on the prompt (i.e., collection of text you put in), it estimated the probability of the wrong answer to be higher. In your case, the LLM likely had a high probability for "Edgar Allan Poe" but maybe a lower probability for the specific works/titles, and hence chose incorrectly.

P.S.

If you are using the OpenAI playground, you can actually get the probability estimates, if you want to investigate further!
Sure, that's being predicted for about 10 years now. I think it's far more than one generation away simply because you'd need a decoder everywhere, and that takes a boatload of standardization. JpegXL failed to gain traction and got dumped for instance.

Best we can get next gen would be an experimental fork of x265 or some av1 codec with neural net baseline to improve on the defaut, like mkv was at first.
It’s been downgraded to “a preponderance of evidence” from “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
There is an argument that, to make STEM more friendly to women, it needs a culture change - which implies less weird-nerd culture. Whether this argument is correct or not is a separate matter (I'm leaning towards "it's complicated, but I'll round off to 'no'.") But what's going on here is people holding this argument are dunking on a woman in STEM.
Stupid joke. Sorry.
I frequently have dreams where buildings from my past have rooms which have doors opening to corridors opening to rooms endlessly like a labyrinth. Also often populated, mostly some sort of school or shelter building. They spark fascination and a sense of infinite exploration rather than terror. I vaguely remember I knew the source of them (some sort of escape fantasy?) in my childhood.
An "unrolled" popcnt is not that badly performing; I haven't seen numbers for a current server class CPU. Results for older CPUs for different implementation can be found easily, for example at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277891