skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, our experiences are different here. I suspect it's because I installed Windows 11 (23H2) using a local account using the OOBE bypass (not because I particularly hate the Microsoft account thing, but because this machine uses an external WiFi adapter and requires drivers in order to work, so I could not have done it even if I wanted to). The drivers are actually included on the device, but there's not a clear way to accomplish a driver installation while in the captive OOBE, even given the ability to launch a command line.

I did later connect my Microsoft account. In my installation the OneDrive folder is empty and the entries in Explorer map to the normal places (C:\Users\X\Pictures etc). If I open one of the default folders, it does show a "Start backup" entry in the address bar that is referring to OneDrive, though. If I open the OneDrive folder, it asks me to sign in (entering password) and set it up-- which is funny, because the Windows user is signed in using a Microsoft account already- so seems like they haven't connected those dots properly yet. In theory this might be their way of implementing a security check for uploading all your files, but if so it's an awkward way to do it.

> Additionally, some programs still seem to want to use the OneDrive folder by default, like I think Office programs still do their best to use them.

If I remember correctly, there is an API that programs can use to locate common folder locations for users (such as Documents, Pictures, etc). My guess is that your account still points to the C:\Users\X\OneDrive\Pictures instead of C:\Users\X\Pictures. If you could adjust those directly (maybe in the registry?), I would imagine that it will work correctly in these programs, especially since I doubt those programs would break on my setup, where there is no OneDrive subfolders (though I don't use Office so I can't check). And in case you wonder if there really are no subfolders in OneDrive since I can't open it in Explorer without signing into it- it shows nothing when viewed via PowerShell.
What is password hashing and salting?
From the perspective of the genes, having kids but being unhealthy is better than being a healthy loner. And this is good health in a larger, cross-generational, perspective
Whatever bro, I trust your self judgement. But statistically, I would bet that alcohol makes worse parents, worse listeners, worse friends. And quite often it makes outright terrible parents.
Cheatography – Cheatsheets for Everything, from Vim Keybinds to Cooking Temps
That was my read. They can now identify species of very fragmentary bone remains via collagen protein matching. They didn't say what if anything clues this would/could lead to.
Last year China installed more solar capacity than the U. S. has in total [1]. Let that sink in.

[1]: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html
DMZ setting on a router makes this pretty easy.

I've faced the DMZ at an IP on DHCP. Later when the host changed I had noticed traffic from the internet getting blocked on the new host and realized my mistake.
I guess I am surprised that 80% of people like fast food so much to consider it a luxury in the first place.

I consider fine dining a luxury. Fast food doesn't come close to being considered a luxury to me and I am not in any way rich.
Let's not forget the HN is literally about startups. Easy to forget that and think it's just "hackers" and "nerds" sharing cool links. It's not.
It can vary hourly :)
Stripe's document db supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime migrations
I'm one of those weird people for whom no amount of buzzedness or drunkenness, small or large, feels good.

Doesn't feel bad, per se. I suppose it just feels kind of neutral, and strange. Like my senses have lost a bit of clarity.
Those ascii art headers don't look correct on my phone. I'm using Firefox on Android, so that might only affect a limited group of people. But I think it should just be working with a <pre> tag and a monospace font, right?
Bullshit. Sober people go out socializing, their way to socialize is just different, and they have no trouble finding partners. If you had decided to go without a drink, you would have found a partner, just a different one from different social circles.
People also often forget "orderless autoregression", which was introduced a while back and has been reinvented many times since. See Sec 4 (pg 8) of "Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimation" [https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02226]. The main difference from current work is that this 2016 paper used MLPs and convnets on fixed-length observations/sequences, so sequence position is matched one-to-one with position in the network's output, rather than conditioning on a position embedding. Of course, Transformers make this type of orderless autoregression more practical for a variety of reasons -- TFs are great!

Key quote from Sec 4: "In this section we describe an order-agnostic training procedure, DeepNADE (Uria et al., 2014), which will address both of the issues above. This procedure trains a single deep neural network that can assign a conditional distribution to any variable given any subset of the others. This network can then provide the conditionals in Equation 1 for any ordering of the input observations. Therefore, the network defines a factorial number of different models with shared parameters, one for each of the D! orderings of the inputs. At test time, given an inference task, the most convenient ordering of variables can be used."
The fact that they had to make up a new term for the technique (a "meta-tracing JIT") should be a hint that what they're doing is somewhat novel/unusual.

If you read the paper[1] linked in your quote, you'd see that it is not "just a tracing JIT"; the interpreter being run under the JIT has some special hooks that let it tell the JIT e.g. where the program counter is:

> Since the tracing JIT cannot know which parts of the language interpreter are the program counter, the author of the
language interpreter needs to mark the relevant variables of
the language interpreter with the help of a hint. The tracing interpreter will then effectively add the values of these
variables to the position key. This means that the loop will
only be considered to be closed if these variables that are
making up the program counter at the language interpreter
level are the same a second time. Loops found in this way
are, by definition, user loops.

This is vastly distinct from how Jython works.

[1]: https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/extradoc/-/blob/branch/extrad...
Tell us you live in the suburbs without telling us you live in the suburbs (come visit some country folk, or work with construction crews on a regular basis to change that opinion)
If you are completely alienated from a language because of your white space preferences it’s probably a sign you need to re evaluate some priorities.
> you now need the new ssn/name combo authenticate

The point is that an SSN/name pair is not a mechanism of authentication. Many companies are negligently using it in place of one because they don't actually care about fraud, having pushed most of the damage onto the public. Then they invented the nonsensical concept of "identity theft" to enshrine how they wish things worked, as a further fuck you to the public. So no, further entrenching anything about that broken approach is a horrible idea. Revoking a social security number makes as much sense as revoking someone's natural name.
I find it quite OK, just have to leave early enough.
Alcohol doesn't give me crippling anxiety and heightened awareness of all the weird things my body does.
So much for the land of the free.
This wholly depends on where you are in the world.
Fairly certain it won't be switched off by default in most corporate environments. Recall is one of the more impressive foot-bazookas to come out of MS since WebDAV in Windows 2000!
From the referenced study supplemental documentation on the “fasting” days and non-fasting days. Even the fasting days they allow you to eat 350-550 calories as aforementioned supplements/snacks for a ~9% weight loss and 17% reduction in desire to eat over 8 weeks. Not bad at all if you can manage to do it: 205lbs->184.

Table
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107279/bin/OB...

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107279/bin/OB...

#15 study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107279/#oby23...
> Companies that don't take false positives seriously are inherently dangerous.

Alarms with incessant false positives are inherently dangerous. Sure, there's some threshold of false positives, under which we should still expect people to investigate all alarms. But above that threshold, how can we continue to blame the people involved? The hardware is at fault.
I wish my company would understand this and let us use something else. Luckily, they don't really seem to care that I use my Linux based gaming machine most of the time
As I said, "should". In some places there will be enough people in the chain that won't be bothered to go to the LIR directly. Think small rural ISPs in small countries.
Compiling to a single C file such that you can then compile the result via say clang is already supported (-ofmt=c). Automatic generation of C header files from your Zig library is WIP. The current recommend approach is to just write the C corresponding header files yourself, the issue mentions a couple of examples.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9698#issuecomment-9747...
Safeguarding Our Military Expertise [pdf]
> Indeed, there is no function which generates text data, there's a very large number of independent generating processes that give rise to the distribution of text. The phrase "the war in ukraine" acquires a different semantics over 2010-2030 in a radically different way than, "I liked that film" does.

But those semantics are revealed in the greater context of the phrase! That's why it's so important that transformers can attend to large context ranges; that's what lets them learn the greater semantic patterns to begin with. And at the limit, at a scale greater than phrases, I simply reject the idea that the same article - the same book - can have totally different meanings depending on context. Language isn't just shaped by context, it shapes context itself. Because language cannot be considered without context, it reveals information about that context, and in fact any compression of language ultimately requires modelling the person and even society that produced it. That's what the network learns.

If your words don't have meaning beyond themselves, what are you even talking about?
> What, you aren’t allowed to own kitchen knives?

You're not allowed to be in possession of a knife in public without a good reason.

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives

You may think the UK government is nuts (I do, I left due to an unrelated law), but it is what it is.

> Or Google search somehow doesn’t return the chemical processes to make Sarin?

You're still missing the point of everything I've said if you think that's even a good rhetorical question.

I have no idea if that's me giving bad descriptions, or you being primed with the exact false world model I'm trying to convince you to change from.

Hill climbing sometimes involves going down one local peak before you can climb the global.

Again, and I don't know how to make this clearer, I am not calling for an undifferentiated ban on all AI just because they can be used for bad ends, I'm saying that we need to figure out how to even tell which uses are even the bad ones.

Your original text was:

> We know exactly what the system is capable of doing. It’s capable of outputting tokens which can then be converted into text

Well, we know exactly what a knife is capable of doing.

Does that knowledge mean we allow stabbing? Of course not!

What's the AI equivalent of a stabbing? Nobody knows.
Maybe humans didn't originate in Africa. There are many arguments for and against.

But this is an ideological and political issue, not a scientific question. So case closed, the Consensus Is Settled.
Alcohol is absolutely not required. It's the Western culture. I live in a country/social circle where nobody drinks and it's plain out funny seeing Westerners thinking alcohol is some absolute necessity of life.
It was a lot, all at once, heart breaking and heart affirming because no one would ever want that to happen again for anyone or anything.
For me, I have found some new social circles where alcohol doesn't play such an huge role. I'm also in good terms with my old drinking buddies, but of course it is not the same thing any more.
Physicists, like all humans, often confuse their theories and models of reality for reality itself.

And when they are called on it, they are far less likely to simply admit the mistake/shortcoming than their stellar reputation would exist.

Also, like most (but not all) humans, they tend to not enjoy criticism.
I work on Truffle for more than 10 years and I recently wrote a comment on hackernews using Futurama instead of Futamura. That comment had it wrong twice.
> We can start by no longer trading privacy for convenience or discounts, and by no longer doing business with companies that do this sort of thing. In this case, by no longer buying anything from Walmart.

One of the problems I see with this is that they don’t have a measurable way to know how many people choose not to buy from them or visit their stores due to these practices, there should be a way to say: “you lost a sale due to you invading my privacy”. I personally haven’t been on a WalMars, target, walgreens or any large retailer in years.
Audible recently started doing this, to the point where I had to revoke its permissions to use cellular data just to get it to work right.
Libel is in printed form.

Slander is in oral or spoken form.

Saying harmful things about someone is neither libel nor slander if those statements are factual. It's only libel or slander if the statements that are made are false.

IANAL but... It is my understanding that statements can be considered "per se" libel or slander even if they are expressed as opinion as long as they are made negligently or with malice and they cause reputational harm.
Ah gotcha, right now there seems to be a radical group that would oppose their own nose if it twitched the wrong way.

I wouldn't worry, the smart money is on renewables, and nothing is going to stop it. Plus, national security people know it is so important globally.
Yeah. The Graal JIT. I haven’t tried Espresso, but now I got curious…

For anyone else who got curious: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/java-on-truf...
If you're a tourist, know that you can take the Purple Line elevated train from downtown Chicago. At the end of the train line, it is about 0.5 KM east, along a lovely tree-lined street with sidewalks. The street turns into cobblestones after a short distance; it is a very wealthy area.
Feels like peak HN: alcohol makes you a better person and meditation will send you over the brink.
When did this profession turn into a bunch of people that never want to build anything ever again?

I guess I finally understand what they meant by "no one ever got fired buying IBM".
I'm not familiar enough with Jython, but I do consider applying a tracing JIT to an interpreter as a way to automatically convert an interpreter to an optimizing VM.

I suppose if the tracing JIT were very complex and very tailored to a single language that might not make sense, but my impression of PyPy is that the opposite is true, and PyPy can in fact run other languages than Python.
Kudos to you. I hope you'll inspire others around you for a better life.
The reason is that it's a coping mechanism for our shift from nomadic to sedentary living
There's bit of a mushy terminology problem here. Generally when we say threading we mean schemes that don't rely on generation of new native-code sequences, sure, but people who are serious about efficient threading don't necessarily view it that way.

The term context threading refers to generation of native code that behaves much like conventional threaded-code interpretation, except specialised to the particular input code. [0][1]

See also dynamic superinstructions, a term used by gforth to refer to its runtime generation of native code for input Forth code. [2]

Disclaimer: I'm no Forth expert. I should give [1] a proper read, it looks interesting.

[0] https://webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme...

[1] (PDF) https://csng.cs.toronto.edu/publication_files/0000/0162/demk...

[2] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html-his...
Don't use fail2ban

Use keys
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I built an app that helps connect consumers with limited edition products
Thats temporary. Solar builders stockpiled panels for the rest of the year, and doing installs as fast as they can. The costs are going up:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-solar-builders-br...
Just throw away that document and switch to kerberos.

All the problems in this document are solved immediately.
> The fact that they had to make up a new term for the technique (a "meta-tracing JIT") should be a hint that what they're doing is somewhat novel/unusual.

you say this and then quote directly what the novelty is and so i ask you - does that piece warrant a whole new term?

> This is vastly distinct from how Jython works.

jython isn't doing anything - it's a python interpreter that runs on the jvm. my point was that that's the same thing: an interpreter for a language that itself is being jitted.
What value is that? My auth cookies are far more valuable than anything I typed out in the open today.
Non-truth, and the unknown (both realized as such, or not) are also fundamentally important components of aggregate reality.

Reality is very complex, but it typically seems very simple.
Alcohol dulls your mind at best. If you enjoy using your brain, it's a net negative even with small amounts.
I still believe it was due to Humans. Megafauna disappeared around the time Humans reached the Americas, way too much of a coincidence to me. These mammals were there before the Ice Age and I think the coming of the ice age was just as hard on then as the retreating ice.

The difference were humans.
That’s interesting. Without knowing what the switch was, I guess it is hard to say, but a switch that kicked off some big process silently seems like it could be really dramatic and cool.
That sounds positively dystopian. Is it really that hard to dump to private/non-vendor storage for local analysis using your own tools?

I do not do cloud or web development, so this is just totally alien. I generate multi-gigabyte logs with billions of events for just seconds of execution and get to slice them however I want when doing performance analysis. The inability to even process your own logs seems crazy.
This is especially obnoxious for Desktop and Remote Desktop Connection.

The former because my desktop is... where I want things just a certain way for THIS computer, not across the cloud. And because it's a PITA to undo and set it the correct way.

The latter because of course I use Remote Desktop on multiple computers, but it keeps saving a "default" file in the same place across computers, and throwing errors left and right because they conflict. So stupid.
The ventilator company I worked for tried very hard to avoid false positives because we were very concerned about alarm fatigue. We also tried to ride the line on false negatives. It’s really hard.

Sometimes the alarm limits are set incorrectly by the RT or aren’t forgiving enough to allow some motion. When you see an entire ward of nurses totally ignoring alarms it’s a management failure. Either there aren’t enough nurses available to manage the issue or there aren’t enough technicians to properly configure the equipment for each patient. If someone dies because of that then it’s ultimately the hospital’s fault.
Ooh, thanks for reporting that! Looking into it. It should look something like this https://imgur.com/a/V55N1f1 (Safari/iOS).
> It is blindingly obvious that the structure and frequency of heirglphys on tombs, Chinese glyphs in poetry, and latin in medieval liturgical literature are not distributed by Reality.. written in this order by God so that the Langauge of Reality is what places "d" alongside "oor". We already know this to be the case. The assumption of its opposite is rank pseudoscience.

I mean, on the first level, of course they're entirely determined by reality in the sense that the human brain is a real, physical object. But also on a second level they're still entirely determined by reality because the shape of the human mind is also entirely determined by reality. What is the mind for except reflecting reality? What is language for except communicating it? Sure that reality is warped, filtered, reduced and biased, but the data is still in there. That's in large part why LLMs need such ludicrously large training runs.

I don't think letter frequency is objectively determined, but we know for a fact (many studies!) that the features that large language models learn are far, far above the scale of letters. Even arguing about phrases isn't engaging with the current state of the art.

We're not talking about Markov chains here.
It's hard to solve the problem of false positives when the decision to sound an alarm is reliant on a single sensor that may start to become detached (e.g. glue/tape failure). If you think the solution is multiple sensors, well, what happens when one sensor indicates an alarm condition and the other doesn't? Now you have another potential false positive. Not to mention it's untenable to connect twice as many leads to a patient.
Why would you use password based auth instead of priv/pub key auth? You'd avoid this and many other security risks.
>Oh wait that is only for Chrome Apps. For extensions, they can literally update themselves anytime. Someone would just have to steal the certificate.

Mozilla reviews signed extension updates. Something tells me uBO is one of the most scrutinized given how very many users it has.

>If an extension that reads all data uses a CDN (like CloudFlare) that CDN can execute a MITM attack against it and download new code, that would he catastrophic even if it was caught 1 day later.

My threat model doesn't include state actors targeting me specifically. Not sure much of anything works against that threat model besides maybe iOS in Lockdown Mode as your only device.