skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Microplastic accumulation in the body makes me wonder if natural biopolymers could have the same problem. We cannot break down cellulose; what happens to micro-cellulose in the body? Or lignin, which is even more refractory to decomposition?

We have a lot of defenses to make sure large molecules don't make it into the bloodstream so if those polymers start making it through, we'd have much bigger problems. Microplastics are a special case because they're very chemically inert, but they're still filtered out by the kidneys. Any cellulose or lignin would be too.

To be honest, after reading some of these microplastics papers I'm starting to suspect most of them are bullshit. Plastics are everywhere in a modern lab and rarely do these papers have proper controls, which I suspect would show that there is a baseline level of microplastic contamination in labs that is unavoidable. Petri dishes, pipettes, microplates, EVERYTHING is plastic, packaged in plastic, and cleaned using plastic tools, all by people wearing tons of synthetic fibers.

We went through this same nonsense when genetic sequencers first became available until people got it into their heads that DNA contamination was everywhere and that we had to be really careful with sample collection and statistical methods.

> One of the most lethal professions of old was baker, because of all the flour dust inhaled.

Pretty much anything that is small enough to irritate the lungs will cause the same effect, especially at professional exposure levels (or worse, like silicosis). Pre-industrial agricultural workers and miners frequently suffered from pneumoconiosis from dust inhalation too, for example.
This very technique is why I loved Salman Khan's teaching videos on Khan Academy so much. On any topic, he goes straight to the content, no intro whatsoever.
The note on the front page of the Austin Groups' website says as much with regards to publication:

> June 14, 2024: IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 has been published by IEEE. The Open Group Base Specifications, Issue 8 has been published by The Open Group. At this stage only PDF is available. The HTML edition to follow soon.

https://www.opengroup.org/austin/
>DEI is fundamentally anti-marxist.

It's not explicitly Marxist, but come on, it does borrow quite a few key ideas.

That's kind of like saying Methodists are fundamentally Anti-Christian because they've deviated from Catholicism.
They're also paying with free user data (I know apple has invested a lot in privacy etc. here, but the bodies of your queries still end up going through OpenAI)
even supermicro, which used to be the goto for DIY servers, has been trending toward more proprietary (and more expensive) components.

there are options out there for itx and matx server chassis, even ATX and EATX.

Silverstone in particular has some interesting options for rack mount workstations based around 360mm AIO water-cooling, ATX boards and PSUs, consumer GPUs, etc. though those are meant more for the half and quarter rack enclosures designed to be installed in a home or office environment.
My notes, cheat sheet and links on Growth Hacking
I'm one of "those".

I'm using bun now, but I was on pnpm for a while.
Yeah, the inverted pyramid[1] is almost always a good pattern when conveying important information. Not only do you end up telling people why they should care first, the less interesting stuff ends up at the end, so if you run over time (or someone zones out), they aren't missing much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
OCB is superior to AES-GCM-SIV in every way other than nonce reuse. OCB is faster than generic GCM for any combination of hardware acceleration. OCB is also significantly better than generic GCM for nonce reuse.

GCM-SIV is not perfect for nonce reuse anyway. It reveals to the attacker that two messages are identical.
Well if you’re drinking heavily or something similar yes it might be worse than microplastics. But the scary thing about microplastics is that they accumulate with time, and we still don’t know what effects they’re having on the human body. I find that to be frightening in a very existential way, similar to thawing permafrost or nuclear Armageddon, lol. You can’t escape it, and statistically it’s probably ruining millions of people’s health across the world.
Finally a title so simple to answer what I’ve been too lazy to read into the details on but was curious about.
All good points. I was engaging in a reasoned form of whataboutism. "Neither is actually a problem" would be a resolution to the question.
How does Fini annual pricing at $0.076 per question work??
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39018769
So, OpenAI - Microsoft - signed a contract to provide their service in exchange for exposure. Not a deal I'd take, but I'm not a corporation with billions of dollars in market value and the brand name when it comes to AI.

Apple absolutely sucks when it comes to pushing small developers and artists into bad contracts. But we're talking about Microsoft here, so it's not like they have no power to push back on contract terms they don't want.
Taking a step back though, where has hyper-growth gotten us as an industry and as a society? What if, instead, start-ups throttled their growth to keep a sustainable level of support so that the growth fuels the support instead of just fueling more growth?
Not sure how the US would freeze gold in a Moscow bank. It can freeze dollars because it controls SWIFT and how dollars move. The dollars it froze were not a huge pile of physical bills in Russia but electronic chits.
Except 0.07% (99.87/99.8) more likely to live when cared for by a black doctor is quite different to "twice as likely".

Still deserves investigation, hundreds of babies died, but it's a very different statistic.
I also assumed that part of the first few minutes was filler while butts are still trying to find seats, still chatting amongst themselves, or haven't quite closed whichever social media app as well as letting the presenter shake off any butterflies
Some games are built the way you've described with job threads and queues, but regrettably most are built with a main thread, a render thread, and sometimes use other threads for some compute.
>but the body of your queries still ends up going through OpenAI

depends on whether there's an opt-out/agreement to not use the data for training. Even the free version of chatgpt has an opt-out for training data, although they still say they're going to retain the data for 30 days.
I think I remember from the first WWDC presentation that Apple made some agreement with OpenAI that forbids them from using the queries for training and anything else. I'm not 100% sure if I remember it correctly though, maybe someone else can give a more confident recall of it.
Transient allocations that do not outlive Gen0 collections are fine. Hell, they are mostly a problem in games that want to reach very high frequency main loop, like Osu! which runs at 1000hz. There are also multiple sets of libraries that target different performance requirements - there are numerous libraries made specifically for gamedev that are allocation-aware. The performance culture in general has significantly improved within recent years. But you wouldn't know that as you don't actively use C#.

Please put your FUD elsewhere.
Genetics took care of that for me
New Human Interface Guidelines for KDE
> It seems from the article that odds of survival approximately double in the cited data.

What are the actual numbers for the 2 different odds of survival you're comparing here?
Unveiling Tabnine's vision for the future: The Atlassian Jira-to-code AI agent
Restaurants need to start charging non-refundable deposits for reservations. Holding a table for your party is a thing of value, which the restaurant should get paid for. No show without a letter from an ER doc / police report? Too bad, you lose $20-$40.
I'm guessing it's more likely that OpenAI just want's the data that hundreds of millions of users are searching for vs. the much smaller group of 'technical' users niche users who are already using ChatGPT.
It's between ChatGPT being on there or something else like Claude... OpenAI cannot afford to let the masses know there is something out there that is just as good
What dream do you think I have?
That sucks. Tgx has served me well since the other public tracker went down.

Edit: looks like it's for maintenance https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1dfpetp/have_no_fea...
Yeah, for international trade I don't think it matters what currency you use. USD GBP Dogecoin or whatever. It's mostly for convenience people use USD. For domestic stuff the currency is important as people have their wages and bills in that.
There are a few replies which got greyed out for some reason. Antifa is mentioned which is a reasonable candidate, not a person but a group aimed at deconstruction of western society under the cover of 'fighting fascism'. It has the 'market penetration' but where Jones (et al.) keep themselves to spouting rhetoric Antifa and similar organisations - and yes, these are organisations and not 'just ideas' as the current American president insists - use violent actions as their main tactic. Another candidate would be the pro-Hamas factions which call for 'Death to America' and which insist on downplaying and ridiculing the actions of their ideological allies.

There is a heavy tendency to down-play 'left-wing' extremism but that does not make it disappear. You won't find it in the corporate media though, it is not reported by the likes of the SPLC and the ADL and similar organisations but it is there in plain sight. If it happens to hit the news it leads to odd headlines like the 'fiery but mostly peaceful protests' from the 'summer of love' in 2020.
Progressive overload. There’s only so much resistance you can get by using your body weight alone. Weights allow you to increase resistance over time.
Because paper leaks?

And this type of plastic does not. After some months it will, but that is the idea.
That's not just exposure, though. Google fingerprints those users, prioritizes showing them sponsored content, and routes them to other ad-enabled Google services. Google pays so their exploitative and inferior experience can be default.
Yup, I consider it a use-it-or-lose-it kind of muscle.
I think this is broadly explicable by GPT etc. still being in the market growth stage of development in general. Grabbing market share and cutting off competitors is the name of the game at this point in the cycle. Once they're happy with their share they'll start tightening the bolts in the name of profit maximisation.
"Mixture of Expert (MoE) models rely on multiple optimized smaller models, each with a more refined and specified dataset"

This is not how MoEs work...
wasm support?
Did we get `local`?
I would direct the author to Danielewski's exploration of the term in House of Leaves:

https://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/uncanny/nelebemon...

iirc the gist is that is hinges on the familiar but unfamiliar, nothing to do with control.
First I read: “Taking away Advanced Dungeons and Dragons made my daughter a better person”
Have a look at "Burden of dreams", a doc about Werner Herzog moving a boat over a mountain (with a team, to film "Fitzcaraldo") in the amazon. "The birds don't sing, they screech in pain"

Good movie!
https://pillser.com/supplements/seratonin
The PDF is behind a login wall :(
That's irrelevant though for the purposes of this discussion, which is why are Germans funding projects in China. If you care about absolute levels of emissions the west just isn't relevant. All the decisions that matter are being made in Asia. And as we can see from the fraud rates on these projects, they don't care.
I was confused for a minute because I remember playing Spacewar on a PDP-1 in the 1960s and mis-remembered there also being a lander game. But there wasn't, Storer was the first. There is an interesting history here:

https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-g...
Tesla investors back $56B Musk pay deal
Like in video games: Show the door before the key.
I would define intelligence as "degree of ability to use past experience to predict future outcomes" (which includes reasoning, aka problem solving ability, via repeated what-if prediction, then backtracking/learning on failure etc).

So, intelligence exists on a spectrum - some things are easier to predict given a set of learnt facts and methods than others. The easiest things to predict (the most basic form of intelligence) is "next time will be the same as last time", which is basically memorization and pattern matching, which is mostly what LLMs are able to do thanks to brute-force pattern/rule extraction via gradient descent.

Going beyond "next time will be the same as last time" is where reasoning comes in - where you have the tools (experience) to solve a problem, but it requires a problem-specific decomposition into sub-problems and trial-and-error planning/testing to apply learnt techniques to make progress on the problem...

Certainly a lot of human behavior (applied intelligence) is of the shallow "system 1" pattern matching variety, but I think this is over stated. Not only is "system 2" problem-solving needed for on-the-job training, but I think we're using it all the time when we're doing anything more than reacting to the current situation in mindless fashion.

So, sure, LLMs have limited intelligence, but it's only "system 1" shallow intelligence, gestalt pattern recognition, based on training-time gradient descent learning. What they are missing is run-time "system 2" problem-solving.
No need to be snarky :)
Also, if the litmus for corporate murder is "possible", then that includes essentially any death.

90 year old expiring from cancer? That's what they want you to think!

In fact, we'll never know. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... or at least, some.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but neither is it proof.
Even if it's not used explicitly for "training", it's still valuable for model evaluation, A/B testing, etc.

(e.g. "do users engage more with model A or B?")

And to be clear, I'm not accusing Apple or OpenAI of being "evil" here wrt. handing user data, I just think it's a potential factor in their partnership.
What would it even mean for an interface description to "support" WASM which is a (virtual) machine target for implementations?
Plot twist: now he's entirely disinterested in the mountain now that it gives itself so freely.
Is the headline possibly a reference to this Oatmeal comic?:

“Exposure”
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
Inspections for aerospace parts are, in theory, a bit more involved than just 'looking at it.'
"natural" rights no, Second Amendment rights provisionally.

And like... there are dozens of restrictive gun laws that rational people should advocate for. Concealed carry should not be available to just anyone; firearms should not be allowed on planes or long-distance public transit, background checks should be mandatory for Uncle Jack buying an anti-materiel rifle, and hunting licenses should continue to be mandatory to prevent overhunting.

Repeating this sort of non-nuanced position is how you get ignored in the grander scheme of gun control legislation
In practice, this ends up with attendees interrupting with pointless questions that are covered in the next slides
Go is significantly more verbose and just recently can one implement a goddamn map without hardcoding it in the compiler. Besides all the beautiful if err unreadable “error handling” that makes it all too easy to silently ignore errors, and design mistakes like defer being function scoped, it’s hardly something I would call ergonomic.
asprintf is a nice toy, but it should really take a context and a "realloc" function pointer to be useful, in general. Here's hoping for 2040!
What is CNR?
It overlaps a lot with the library Taichi, which Disney supports.

It's noteworthy that Taichi also supports AMD, MPI, and Kokkos.
Sally Bhai never misses a beat. Khan Academy has been a generational change for education
My takeaway is that if we want an offline encyclopedia, we'd basically need to download the entire wikipedia including the full talk & edit history.
French Power Slumps as Surging Renewables Push Out Atomic Plants
https://archive.today/6R7zS
It’s unsurprising that at least one of the hundreds would write such a game though? In particular when those having access already are self-selected to some degree.
Sorry, I did not want to come across as anti-TSLA so I chose to ignore the highest peaks such as November 2021 where the stock is down more than 50% since.
Supposedly, anyway. You also have the lovely incompetent folks at Boeing who can't even tell you who worked on removing a plug door and who forgot to put back the bolts holding it down. Thankfully that's a crime though, so hopefully someone (ideally both the fools who did this, and all their managers and managers' managers that cultivated such a culture to allow for such a thing to happen) will go to prison over it.
Apple seems to have a good strategy to me - Use an existing 3rd party until a better path emerges (ideally, the Apple silicon path).

How much capital would it take for them to run leading-edge inference for all of their customers? Why not outsource that risk until it's obviously worth taking on?
Astonishing given his recent action of taking away H100s.
Great - you've literally revealed the spoiler. Do kids these days not know about internet etiquette?
>> I honestly can't believe I'm seeing people arguing against child labor laws.

And where are you seeing these people, exactly?

My argument is that the claim “winding back labour law has caused a rise in workplace deaths involving children in sawmills” is unsupported by any statistical evidence, and very likely false. There are no statistics that support this claim.

False assertions are no way to debate about policy, provided we want good policy that is actually effective at keeping people safe. Such policy must be evidence based, and not vibes and feels based.

You’re battling a strawman of your own creation.
I think that is an invariant of presentations
I think you must have misread the comment. The comment is very clearly anti-landowner and saying if an LVT were repealed, labour and enterprise would be taxed instead, which is bad.

Nothing to do with trickle down.
> However the following is fine:
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> case $a in
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> No field splitting occurs here

This kind of bullshit is how I made a career rewriting people's buggy shell scripts in Python
> how often is significant numbers of bit errors a problem, or when does that come up?

It depends on the transport. If you are going over something like TCP you will have a perfect bitstream or you will have nothing, so your codec doesnt have to tolerate bit errors or loss. If you are pushing raw bits over the air with GMSK modulation with no error correction, you'll have to tolerate a lot of errors.

In real world applications you almost always have to consider the tradeoffs on what things you want to leave to the codec and what things you want to leave to the transport layer.

At very low bitrates, the overhead required to create reliability and tolerance for errors or omissions become significant enough that the entire system performance matters a great deal. That is to say that the codec and transport have to be designed to be complimentary to one another to achieve the best final result.

From the presentation they show us mlow at 6kpbs and then again at 14kbps with 30% packet loss (effective datarate 9.8kbps). They do not say if the loss is random bit errors or entire packets, but let's not worry about that. Let's just assume the result of both of these is that you get final audio of about the same quality. This means that mlow has some mechanism to deal with errors on its own, but is using an obscenely high overhead rate (133%) to accomplish it. They also dont let us hear how it actually degrades when exposed to other types of transport errors. These numbers and apparent performance just aren't very good compared to other codecs/systems in this space.
I have one ... it's called IFTTT.com

heck! I have a couple different accounts on it for different purposes :)
I doubt it's that comic specifically, as it's a way of doing things as old as time. Doing it for the clout, doing it for credit, doing it for (anything other than money) is not a new trend some web comic started.

I'm shocked someone like unOpenAI would make this kind of agreement though
Most LLMs can't even talk about the tokenization they use which I think indicates that they don't have the right knowledge to do wordplay at the letter level.
If the market cap gets to 25T, I think he's already getting over 1T of equity. He just needs to sit on what he was just granted, he'll have 5T if he stays at 20%.

Fresh 1T after he sells his current stake to buy some toy, like a pharmaceutical company? If I were a stockholder I'd not want the dilution, I think, but I'd only have bought the stock because I buy into Musk being a Big Man and he tanks the company otherwise, so probably yes.
This tracks with the product demo idea of ‘do the last thing first’. No need to make the audience ‘earn’ the payoff - just skip right to the good stuff and then go over the rest for the folks that care. (This and much more from reviews of a whole bunch of demos here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220126051034/https://www.secon...)
Similar to BLUF -- Bottom Line Up Front.

Hear that one used more for memos or emails, but same concept. Give people a sense of what's at the end so they see where the background is going. Use the story-spine if you want, but show a trailer to convince the audience there's some juicy explosion-ladden scenes at the end of the rainbow.
I agree. TFA calls out the “fundamental weakness” of the theory as a lack of specificity in definition and measurement, then goes on to make further opinionated statements as far as a proclaimed definition without referencing the much deeper history of the uncanny in literature (e.g. The Sandman, Frankenstein) and philosophy (Jentsch and Freud).
As the article mentions, this is also used by authors. I went to a book signing for Mark Z. Danielewski, the author of House of Leaves and he mentioned that for his books, he always ends up throwing out the beginning of the book.
Worked with the Excel team on the 2007 beta. They want to do this too, but program managers give them a hard "No." If you touch even one thing there is a cascade of side effects that will drag you off the local maximum.

The PMs are right. It would be expensive to do this and it would piss off existing customers.
While this is really cool, I have to say..

> import warp as wp

Can we please not copy this convention over from numpy? In the example script, you use 17 characters to write this just to save 18 characters later on in the script.
Just import the warp commands you use, or if you really want "import warp", but don't rename imported libraries, please.
Demystifying Tensor Model Parallelism
100% agree.

Every time I tried to use OT I was reading the doc and whispering "but, why? I only need...".
A cryptocurrency where all the voting nodes are run by the state could fulfill the same objective. The problem is that cryptocurrencies as we know them are based upon a publicly verifiable ledger. Inevitably, the state would want an "off the books" way to move money around, which would lead to a shadow currency, and the resulting disequilibrium would destabilize either the state or the "official" currency.
> This is far from the dominant opinion.

True if you are counting individual stocks, maybe not so if you are counting individual owners?

> How is that relevant?

It was posited that Elon was a "curve goes to the skies" kind of CEO and my response when looking at the past years performance is that it looks more like "curve is bungee-jumper".