skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you do it with a suitcase of stuff for a week- or month-long stay in another city, and contingencies like extra water, food, stove etc if you get laid over in a remote area without facilties? Did you do it rain or shine, on paved roads or muddy rutted-out dirt roads?
> making minimum payments has a negative impact because then you're carrying a debt

I think it would depend on your credit utilization %. If your credit utilization is too low, it may hurt your score. Of course if your credit utilization % is too high then it's an (even worse) issue. But who really knows? It's not like we have the formula.
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Out of curiosity, what are these companies migrating ASP.NET apps to? Newer ASP.NET (Core) on Linux? Or are they swearing off .NET entirely?
> but that is really a gross generalization as stuff like this shows.

I think this research actually still reinforces that we still have very little understanding of the internals. The blog post also reiterates that this is early work with many limitations.
If being anti-government in the US was something you could get arrested for and therefore stop paying your debts because of, I think it'd get added to credit scores pretty quickly.
Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off
Fantastic features. Telegram is the modern day Winamp. Amazing software with a cohesion in it's features unlike the buggy, broken, hideous Google Suite for example.
> None of those words support the initial claim that the CDC has issued guidance to cook steaks to 160F, which is a claim that at this point I can only believe to be a fabrication that was made in bad faith.

it was not the CDC but the USDA [0]:

> Bird flu virus particles were found in beef tissue taken from one dairy cow sent to be slaughtered for meat, and meat from the animal did not enter the food supply, USDA said last month.

> The agency has reported that no viral particles were found in samples of ground beef collected at retail stores, and that no bird flu virus was found after cooking ground beef to medium to well done, after it was injected with a virus surrogate as part of an experiment.

day by day, imo, this virus is inching closer to humans. recently house mice were found to be infected [1]. it's becoming a bit reminiscent of late 2019.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cows-infected-with-bird-flu...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
life was a pleasure writing programs in IrisGL and then OpengGL :(
Rust's linting tool, Clippy, provides a lint that will produce a warning when a function pointer is cast to any integral type: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#/f...

The broader topic of whether it is safe, or wise, to cast between pointers and integers in general is an area of active research. Ralf Jung's blog is required reading on this topic: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2022/04/11/provenance-exposed.html
It is really hard to be supportive of this - even if you worked hard on it, the last thing the world needs is more bots on reddit. We need less of people looking at online communities as targets for monetization, and more of people sincerely engaging with each other on whatever topics add meaning to their lives.
The prequels are truly awful. Some people (not me) say there's no accounting for taste but liking the prequels is as close as you can get to an objectively wrong opinion about art.

The best thing you can say about the prequels is that they're ambitious. Lucas wasn't content to repeat himself. But the acting, characters, and script are all complete failures.

The first Star Wars movie is indeed an example of "compromised visions are superior". The movie was famously saved in editing by George Lucas' then wife. Lucas didn't even direct the second and third movies, he handed them off to more capable filmmakers.
A few generations have grown up with them now, which greatly elevates their status. It's not that unlike the original trilogy in that way. I can think of any number of films that I liked as a child, some hold up better than others, but even the ones that don't, the early impression creates a lasting fondness that is stronger than many of the flaws which more mature first-time viewers might not be able to look past.
Trying to stand up an alt currency backed by Russian oligarchs with deep ties to Russian intelligence services? I smell a federal ban if this catches on.
A lot of your post wreaks of 'citation needed' but I'll choose this one.

>Many cites engage in "zero tolerance traffic enforcement" programs. This is where they patrol a single stretch of road and stop every single person who is even 1mph above the limit.

Searching this all I find is Virginia where over 80 is an automatic reckless driving, but the highest speed limit in the state is actually 70. I've never heard of anyone being pulled over for 1mph over the limit.
You'd be surprised how many enterprises have been basically running the same codebase since the 90s
Cool. Maybe resonance with their echolocation waves.
> I still don't understand why you're trying to shoehorn this into a narrative about being poor

Well, part of it was that a sibling reply[1] was already present, and the idea that "oh, we can all just run our own AI models at home" seemed ludicrously costly in both money, and time to me. It's not that I was trying to shoehorn it in as much as juxtapose it against what was already being stated.

> But it's not like once someone reaches "not poor", time for self-actualization abounds.

I have no idea why you you are interpreting the inverse of my statement that being poor makes this harder to mean that not being poor makes it easy or trivial, which is how it appears to me you're interpreting my statements.

Privacy is hard in the current climate. It takes time and effort or money to alleviate some of the privacy concerns, to different degrees depending on the specific concern. Those are all things the working poor have less of than other economic groups, so solutions that require them will likely be less used by them. That doesn't mean don't offer them, but we should keep that in mind when advocating for people switching to open source solutions, so we make sure the solutions actually solve the needs of the people intended to use them, and not just the needs of a subset of those people.

It would be a real shame if what I think is one of if not the best option for solving this problem in an egalitarian way failed to take into account the needs of that economic group and we actaully ended up with a solution that many are protected by, but disproportionally not the poor for multiple reasons. A world where 90% of people out of poverty are protected in some manner but only 50% of people in poverty are isn't necessarily better IMO, and may actually be much worse, since I'm not sure there will be much incentive to fix it at that point.

No, I wasn't very clear in my initial comment (and wasn't really going this deep), I just wanted people to consider that running your own LLM for your own needs isn't really feasible for most people and in a more general way than a reply to that person specifically might have communicated, and I was slightly inebriated when I wrote it, so didn't think it warranted much explanation.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593085
Kubernetes Copilot: Your AI-Powered Guide to Kubernetes Mastery
Here's where things get really counter-intuitive. If Starship lives up to even a fraction of its potential, it's likely Falcon 9 will be completely retired, because Starship will cost less to launch! The entire point of the Starship is complete and instantaneous reuse. The idea is to have it launching something up, landing right back into its launch pad slot, and then going again. The ridiculous cost saving potential is what makes all of this so much more revolutionary than most realize.

This isn't just a new big rocket. This is the most powerful rocket ever built, with the goal of launching it for less than the cheapest rockets cost. The current goal is to aim for $10 million within a few years, and then keep pushing it lower. For contrast, a Falcon 9 currently costs about $67 million to send 18 tons to orbit. Rocket Lab's Electron micro-rocket costs $7.5 million to send 0.3 tons to orbit. Starship can deliver 150 tons to orbit, a number that is planned to increase substantially.

The thing about space is that the potential is infinite, but it only becomes possible to start doing stuff once you get launch costs really low. Falcon 9 has brought launch costs down by orders of magnitude, but most people don't even realize this because unless you're a giant telecoms company or something, then $2000/kg doesn't sound that different than $50,000/kg --- wayyyyy too expensive for anything. But now imagine a world where you could launch things for $10/kg. Suddenly the entire universe opens up to expansion and exploitation, and life as we know it would basically change overnight.
Those hunter gatherers still had territory. Sometimes it was claimed and defended by a tribe and not individuals, but still the same.

Only in places of complete abundance did people not make claims.
Take a small enough map or globe and a big enough sharpy anf everything is on a line.

Agree so, there is no line besides the one people make up.
Benchmarking LLM Inference Back Ends: VLLM, LMDeploy, MLC-LLM, TRT-LLM, and TGI
Oh yeah, NOW they give a shit.
https://archive.ph/4MbcF
Consider the Cosmonaut's Corvette: Cold Start
> Good subtitles are more akin to interpretation than translation.

Translation is interpretation to start with, but subtitling definitely adds constraints around what works well that don't exist for, say, generic prose in a purely written context. Similar to (but different specific constraints) to translation for dubs.
Was it nicely paved and mostly flat? And how did you feel at the end of it? Would you do it again the next day?
"The reason why Windows 10 users aren't upgrading is that they already know what Windows 11 is capable of, and they've made the decision not to use it"

I'm not so sure about that. Maybe it's because the general populace has spent the past 30 years being trained, often with on-the-spot reinforcement, that popups and banners == viruses.

I don't think the average person on the street could tell you even one thing that "windows 11 is capable of". People do not use operating systems, they use apps.
Mike Lynch cleared in Autonomy fraud trial
If the west had a creditscore, mine would be very very low. I am banned on almost every social medium. C, FB, insta, tiktok, reddit, google and more. Its pretty tough sometimes to survive on the internet without having access to all. (Although most still have read access)
No. I run those under Wine or VirtualBox.
You don't see a lot of peer review on articles about musicians in an arts magazine.

Search for "otoacoustic emissions" and you will find a bunch of research on this going back 30 years.

FWIW, the sound in the YouTube video sounds exactly like my tinnitus.
Are the toolchains and libraries already much better or will that be in the future? Note that the CPU architecture is the least important thing of a microcontroller; as long as you have a decent compiler for a higher level language you don't care what instruction set it uses. And I can see the toolchain getting more love if it's a more widely used CPU architectue (and Tensilica is rather niche), but I don't see why library support would be any better.
No, I don't think that that's good reasoning. They could, if nothing else, make first-party libraries that have a high-level DSL or something that makes it less horrible to use. As it stands it creates a bunch of crappy libraries on top instead of an officially supported API that could also be standardized across operating systems and platforms.

The terrible terrible Vulkan API just kind of feels gatekeepey. They got rid of the only open easy-to-use graphics standard, made NO REPLACEMENT, and then said "oh you should just use this impossible API or let the outside world come up with a fix around it".
Yes, absolutely. I was referring to the part about "still usually done via a normal tuned LC circuit". Sorry for any confusion.
We launched a FOSS alternative two days ago OpenRecall https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall we're fleshing out the roadmap to build a more privacy-friendly/auditable/secure alternative that is not dependent on OS or specific hardware
So, speed of reentry is directly a consequence of surface area (or energy expended by fuel to counter, in the case of the booster which does not use friction with the atmosphere to slow down) of one side. You'll produce the same amount of heat (and sound, light, but let's keep the model simple so we can understand better) no matter how fast you come in and no matter how wide your surface area is (assuming the same mass), it's just the thermal properties of the material and the surrounding environment dictate how quickly that heat dissipates, and the surface area determines how distributed the heat is, and the speed it's entering determines how quickly the heat is generated.

So to slow down more evenly and have less heat at the max point per square inch, you need wider surface area (or you need to expend fuel firing engines in the opposite direction of travel, what both parts do at the end to slow to 0, and a problem due to the rocket equation, fuel has mass and so increases the amount of kinetic energy you must dissipate), and that means more mass and more engineering and a bigger vehicle. The goal ultimately is of course optimizing all these variables.
what do you care how many people are happy for reasons you don't approve of? what are you doing to make yourself happy? how long until you demand the best for yourself from yourself?
The people who care tend to be the ones who write software. Not a great crowd for an OS vendor to lose.
Sounds like "The Last Child Into The Mountain": http://www.williamflew.com/omni54a.html
You should not use the fact your own side has done terrible things as an excuse for others to do similar things.

Feel free to be outraged no matter who it is.
Let's be clear: this article is at best ill-informed or completly partial.

For examples:
> the city voted to triple parking charges for the biggest, most polluting cars

Mmmm... not really. Participation was 5,68% of people living in Paris (only! without any consideration for the suburb). And the Mayor said first that only "outsider" would be taxed... and changed her mind after the vote.

The Anne Hidalgo's plan seem to turn Paris into some kind of Disneyland Park. Would you spend your life in such a park?

Actually, even Parisian are less and less fond of this "greenification" of Paris because it causes more and more problems for them too (OK, they don't give a shit if it makes problem for suburbs people working in Paris... but now it starts to impact them too)

Companies are leaving Paris (too expensive) and people are thinking twice before accepting a job offer inside Paris because of transportation.

Actually, the situation is so bad that public transportation are asking since month to people and companies to work remotly during the Olympics because... well... it will be a real nightmare. And not everybody will have a bicyle

So, watch what you're wishing for. It's nice to be able to use bicyle from time to time when you want... but it's a bit different to have transportation problems because cars that absolutly must cross Paris (taxis, ambulance, people living there, truck that recharge shops...) are all stacked up in less and less street to develop cycling

[Edit] For the record, I live in Paris...
> In the more exciting case, the copilot is really good. It allows candidates who wouldn't otherwise pass the coding interview (whether for technical skill reasons, or behavioral reasons, or whatever) to breeze through like an exper

What you're more likely to get are in-person interviews or interviews in some controlled environment.
I dunno if that's entirely the case. State of the art LLM reasoning is very impressive but it clearly can't replace actual people doing complex reasoning jobs yet. Even stuff like telephone helplines.

On the other hand we're starting to see some crazily impressive progress on the physical robotics front.

I think it's definitely still an open question whether we'll see e.g. a humanoid robot that can load a dishwasher, or an LLM that can reliably .. I dunno, edit a video, first.
Finally... I looked out for such an product for years... I definitely try it, tomorrow.
As AI booms, Microsoft's deal with Inflection comes under federal investigation
Yep, those pumps have to push the propellant into the explosion harder than the explosion pushes back. That takes serious power!
One factor is that Northern Europeans made much more intensive use of animal power than the Chinese (or the Greeks of antiquity) ever did. If you are already using oxen or horses to pump water out of your coal mine, it is less of a leap to start using machinery to do it (because you will probably be able to re-use some of your laws, legal precedents and business practices for using the oxen and horses).

The Northern European's close relationship with the cow goes back about 7,000 years. Other cultures relied on cows for a large fraction of their calories, too, but the Northern Europeans were the first farmers to do it. I.e., they weren't nomads.

Once a farming culture gets good at keeping cows for calories, it is a short leap to using male cows (oxen) to help plow fields. And once you are doing that, it is a short leap to using them for transportation.

But more straightforwardly, the Industrial Revolution started when the Scientific Revolution was well underway. The first generation of European steam engines were inefficient, then they used the new science of thermodynamics to design steam engines that were twice as efficient.
I too, read Project Hail Mary (great book btw).
Processing data is already a liability. The compute power isn't free. The storage isn't free. The engineering time isn't free. It's just that it produces more value than what it costs or people wouldn't do it.

I believe this project was in response to the EU's Digital Services Act ("DSA"). Now IANAL but it always struck me as ambiguous as to what constitutes "personalization". Like, can your data be used to train an ML system? What if identity is scrubbed from that data? What if it's aggregated in some way so there's no individual user activity at all?

It also raises questions about every aspect of product behavior. Let's say you see a video post on your news feed. You get shown a snippet of the comments. Usually this is from friends but maybe it's just a comment that we thought might interest you. Is that personalization? What about a shared link where a snippet is shown from the article?

Also, the DSA seems to apply to on-site contextual personalization. What about off-site? Is that covered? Is there a separate law for that? Can I use derived demographics from a display ad pixel but not what pages you've liked and what groups you participate in on site?

Can I use your friends' activity to customize your experience?

The list goes on.

I'm a fan of clear legislation. If the goal is, for example, to allow opt out of personalized ads based on contextual on-site behaviour, we should enumerate what applications (eg feed ads) are covered and what information you're allowed to use if someone opts out.
> I have never paid a credit card in any way other than "in full" and "before the due date" and have a score of around 800.

There are a lot of very specific assumptions in there about the mechanism.

How do you know which dates' balances are relevant to the calculation? If your credit score is 800, then you probably don't have a "credit utilization" of zero, as it's widely believed that the optimal % is more than zero (not "too low" but also not "too high", whatever that means).
A fiserv engineer recently told me not to hold my breath and I suspect the rest of the midsize banking ecosystem is going to be the same.
Yeah, same. I think for me, this is due to focus. Similarly, when someone says, "Don't think of a beach ball." What do you do?
From the article:

"We currently don't understand how to make sense of the neural activity within language models."

"Unlike with most human creations, we don’t really understand the inner workings of neural networks."

"The [..] networks are not well understood and cannot be easily decomposed into identifiable parts"

"[..] the neural activations inside a language model activate with unpredictable patterns, seemingly representing many concepts simultaneously"

"Learning a large number of sparse features is challenging, and past work has not been shown to scale well."

etc., etc., etc.

People say we don't (currently) know why they output what they output, because .. as the article clearly states, we don't.
You’ve changed the goal to something I didn’t state and then demonstrate that it’s a bad idea. I agree it’s impossible to restrict unsoundness to only appear within unsafe, but that’s not the goal.

Of course unsafe code can generate unsoundness in safe code. The main difference is that unsoundness would be more bounded somewhere between unsafe blocks as you’ve written which improves code review and the speed with with issues are found.

I’ll also note that the +=1 is also potentially unsound in release builds since Rust doesn’t do overflow checks at runtime (although since it presumably originates from a valid address that’s not possible in practice). It’s the one practical tradeoff Rust chose to make to allow UB in sounds code so that code wasn’t overly verbose while retaining good performance at runtime.
For those unfamiliar with the origin, the Russians copied a lot of what they did in the American space program.

Corvette made a very attractive deal on Corvettes to both the original Mercury astronauts and the later Apollo ones. Here are a couple of Apollo guys with their Vettes:

https://www.space.com/apollo-astrovette-corvette-astronauts-...
I think quite a lot comes from teenage nostalgia from whichever era you are from. The original trilogy is not actually all that good, but some people still talk about it as if those movies are the epitome of moviemaking. I think it has a lot to do with the circumstances that people first saw them in. The prequels are also not fantastic movies, but as the people who saw them in cinemas as children grew up they came to be loved more and more. It's not so much the movies themselves that are liked, but the associated memories.

I wonder if in ~10 years we'll have a new batch of people who like the latest trilogy. First ironically as they get through their edgy teenage phase, then unironically as they grow up further and point out some great scenes from between the (admittedly many) terrible ones.
There WAS more context, but some moderator of hacker news merged in the post with more context into this link that was posted first. That erased all the context.

Also the significance is not Super Heavy landing in the Gulf of Mexico, but Starship landing in the Indian Ocean.
Very similar pattern to the recent stories about grokking (someone leaving a model training for too long by accident, then discovering something unexpected when realizing the accident)
>I’m increasingly concerned about the future of personal computing. It seems that there is a trend toward increasingly locked-down devices that serve the vendor rather than the user.

I feel like tech companies are constricting their future talent pools by doing this. But maybe they want to kill their future competition too. You already get university students now who don't know what files and folders are, which they need before moving into the basics of navigating a command line or source tree.

Usable and accessible computers are great. But locking them down to the point of eliminating user agency and learning seems really shortsighted.
A bit more exciting than my standard day at the office! Production outage is about as spicy as it gets…
I wonder if they'll back down at the 11th hour like Google does with 3rd party cookies.