skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no expectation of privacy when you send data to a server. There is when you run local software.

It's unethical for anyone, yourself included, to use an end user's device to spy on them without their consent. Transmitting their activity without explicit opt-in is spying, full stop. It's not spying to monitor your own server when servicing client requests as that is obviously done with the consent of the device's owner (yourself).

I'm not sure why you bring it up; surely you understand the difference between your own computer and someone else's? It feels like you are perhaps approaching it in bad faith.

There is no amount of ad hominem that will make producing and shipping spyware into an ethical choice.

Somehow projects much larger than your own, also run by volunteers, such as Debian, not only survive, but thrive, without spyware of their own, and also with pervasive policies that patch out spyware and phone-home and other such misfeatures in their packages. Nixpkgs manages to continue to grow without spying on their users, too.

If you really thought users would consent, you'd go opt-in. If you maintain the stance that opt-out is acceptable, it is implicit that you believe that not enough users would consent, which means you are intentionally violating their consent given that you know that. Hence, the ethical issue, which handwaving doesn't change.

Debian knows this. It's a shame that Homebrew doesn't. Normally you see for-profit enterprises selling their users out with surveillance; you have no revenue targets to hit so I'm not sure why you persist in this behavior.

> it's ok, sneak literally just comments this on any mention of Homebrew

I wouldn't have to if you would surface for your users when the software you provided them uploads their usage data. Most of your users are unaware of it.

I'll bet you $10k USD cash that if you printed some messages to the console each time you hit the analytics endpoint with a message that "brew analytics off" would disable it, you'd lose a double digit percentage of your inbound data within 100 hours. You won't take this bet and you won't surface the tracking in realtime because you know it's only giving you the data so long as users remain unaware of your unethical behavior.

Also, parhamn explicitly asked for reasons people might switch. This is the primary reason I use Nixpkgs and not homebrew, so it's a direct and accurate answer to their question. You might be surprised but there are lots of people who choose software based on the behavior (and resulting trust level) of the developers.
Those execs sound like terrible communicators. It’s hard for me to imagine a colleague acting this way in real life.
Yeah I was going down this path for a side project I was getting going and spent a couple days of after-work time exploring how to get just some basic traces in OT and realized it was much more than I needed or cared about.
There is no security settings knife - except there are plenty of safety mechanism around knives.

But anyway, your LLM is less a knife and more a Katana sharp enough to cut through bones in one swoop. Remind me the restrictions around something like a Katana ?
Did the maintainer change on linux side to make linux more comfortable with the stuff coming from android? It felt like back in the days there was a real resistance on the linux side - even though the linux "solutions" where more theoretical.
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Sure, no doubt that the monetary worth is important. But it completely misses the larger context. This is a struggle about power. Musk wants shareholders to give him back the company he sold.

Tesla right now is struggling, a lot. The Cybertruck, the only recent new model, had a slow start and has suffered from a recall. Competition right now is extremely fierce, Tesla is by no means unique in the market any longer. That is the situation in which Tesla is asking shareholders to give him control over the company. I am sure you agree that is a far more interesting story than "evil billionaire want's company to give him billions".
Perhaps the real problem with OTel (IMO) is it's trying to be everything for everyone and every language. It's trying to have a common interface so that you can write OTel in Java or Javascript, python or rust, and you basically have the exact same API.

I suspect OP is seeing this directly when talking about the cludgyness of the Javascript API.
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I try to get out of the house and see people at least one of the days for my own sanity, because the rest of the week I WFH and only see my wife and maybe some random strangers at grocery stores or whatever, usually.

So I meet up with one of my groups of friends for board games (they almost always host something on Friday nights), or meet up with someone for dinner, or meet up with some people at a meetup (recently there's been a new movie+dinner meetup near me that has some cool people I've been going to every other week). Periodically there are parties hosted by my wife's family too. Every once in a while there's a party hosted by a friend.

Besides that, I mostly either try to play catch up with cleaning and/or lawn maintenance, let myself relax, or work on personal projects (working on a video game and several board game designs, sometimes a little work on writing stories or making electronic music).

If it's a nice weekend I try to take the dogs on a walk a bit further away than just around the neighborhood. We've got a nice trail a couple blocks away but there are even better ones and more options about a 10 minute drive away.

I'm also trying to get back into the habit of going to the gym at least one of those days, but I've been failing spectacularly at that so far.
No it’s not. That’s something else.
It’s similar to Apple Maps/Google maps
> which therefore is relatively easier to get into, at least compared to the "hassle" of going to the gym.

I can finish a workout in less time than I would spend driving to and from a gym. Putting hassle in scare quotes doesn't actually dismiss the massively higher friction involved.
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Certainly true! Expressing internal conflict and ideas in external, comprehensible ways is maybe the single most difficult challenge for the filmmaker. It's very hard to get right. 'The medium is the message' still rings true.
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Not quite. There is information that's not part of the price system.

National defense isn't going to be priced in by markets. And food security is national security, even if it's "more efficient" to ship food in from your geopolitical rivals.
the problem with the GPGPU space is that everything except CUDA is so fractally broken that everything eventually converges to the NVIDIA stuff that actually works.

yes, the heterogeneous compute frameworks are largely broken, except for OneAPI, which does work, but only on CUDA. SPIR-V, works best on CUDA. OpenCL: works best on CUDA.

Even once you get past the topline "does it even attempt to support that", you'll find that AMD's runtimes are broken too. Their OpenCL runtime is buggy and has a bunch of paper features which don't work, and a bunch of AMD-specific behavior and bugs that aren't spec-compliant. So basically you have to have an AMD-specific codepath anyway to handle the bugs. Same for SPIR-V: the biggest thing they have working against them is that AMD's Vulkan Compute support is incomplete and buggy too.

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/was-gpu-support-just-outright-...

https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75411 ("As of right now, the Vulkan drivers on AMD and Intel are not mature enough to compile (much less ship) Octane for Vulkan")

If you are going to all that effort anyway, why are you (a) targeting AMD at all, and (b) why don't you just use CUDA in the first place? So everyone writes more CUDA and nothing gets done. Cue some new whippersnapper who thinks they're gonna cure all AMD's software problems in a month, they bash into the brick wall, write blog post, becomes angry forums commenter, rinse and repeat.

And now you have another abandoned cross-platform project that basically only ever supported NVIDIA anyway.

Intel, bless their heart, is actually trying and their stuff largely does just work, supposedly, although I'm trying to get their linux runtime up and running on a Serpent Canyon NUC with A770m and am having a hell of a time. But supposedly it does work especially on windows (and I may just have to knuckle under and use windows, or put a pcie card in a server pc). But they just don't have the marketshare to make it stick.

AMD is stuck in this perpetual cycle of expecting anyone else but themselves to write the software, and then not even providing enough infrastructure to get people to the starting line, and then surprised-pikachu nothing works, and surprise-pikachu they never get any adoption. Why has nvidia done this!?!? /s

The other big exception is Metal, which both works and has an actual userbase. The reason they have Metal support for cycles and octane is because they contribute the code, that's really what needs to happen (and I think what Intel is doing - there's just a lot of work to come from zero). But of course Metal is apple-only, so really ideally you would have a layer that goes over the top...
>LVT is unique that it doesn't reduce the thing it taxes because land is constant.

This may be technically true but the important thing is productive use of land. And that is as susceptible to tax influences as windows are.
Tesla was worth 1.01T when he announced the purchase and now worth 571B..
shouldn’t his salary be worth less cause my investments in Tesla are half of what they were.
> If that's the case the winning move is get the bytes, and convert them to UTF8

That would require knowing the original encoding.

> or just process it as bytes

As long as the APIs you have to use take bytes and not u8 strings.

> Modern systems should be able to convert various encodings at GiB/s into UTF8.

They might even guess the correct source encoding a quarter of the time and it will break any legacy application that still has to interact with the data. I guess that would be a win-win situation for Rust.
I'm not claiming it's ergonomic (I don't think it is especially ergonomic, as I indicated in my previous comment), I'm claiming it's more ergonomic than Java. That said, it's always struck me as silly that people associate ergonomics with character counts. I don't think code golf is especially ergonomic either.
Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving - shock, horror!
Carving out a geographic region of zoonosis improbability around virology centers is not unbiased. That's the issue with starting with "it could have been any wet market," and then subtracting "but it couldn't be wet markets around virology centers," because then it would be "virology centers." Probability doesn't work like that.
For a long time we (I still do) thought that free speech and expression were best for society. But the hyperspeed internet and corporate conglomeration of AI have proven that this was the wrong track altogether.

Turns out the winning move was to strangle all speech until the Big AI Gobbling of 2023, after which you can let people say whatever because the Official AI® will simply automatically deem them to be making no sense and deal with them accordingly, no human in the chain at all.

If that fails you can just Project Lavender the undesirables until they submit. All hail AI
That’s fair - I’ll try to go through the weekend and write out some of the equations for the kernel that loads the weights out of the index and does the adaptor ops. It’s inspired by cross attention in retro but there are some differences for training stability and to use as an adaptor rather than training from scratch.

I consider that paper an early draft - hot off the press so to say - it needs review & editing before we would submit it to a conference. I tend to prefer a few rounds of open review before a final submission these days anyways - so appreciate the feedback

I think the main idea should be reproducible - you can repeat the randomization and generalization tests with any LLM and get similar training curves and eval results - it just wouldn’t be efficient.

We have tried it on about 5 real customer use cases with different facts and good success. Obviously we can’t publish customer data to reproduce which is why we focused on the randomization tests in the paper .

There are also some missing hyper parameters from the appendix as well we will add eventually
I have lived in several towns and cities in the UK.

The problem is that even in reasonable sized towns not having a car is very limiting. The solution is much better public transport - more frequent is the big thing. That is the difference

On the other hand I did not have a car in London (which has very frequent public transport until quite late in the night), nor in Manchester (not as good, but OK) until I had a child. It was no problem. paying for the occasional taxi and hiring cars for trips when needed was a lot cheaper than running a car and more convenient too.
The EU is NOT a federation.
It seems like a very convoluted path, but if people are for some strange reason more apt to end up at the FAQ via “chatting” with a tool like this rather than just looking it up directly, this still seems useful, right? I mean what’s the alternative, is there a “more self-directed users as a services” offering out there?
People have been doing this on Upwork for at least 15 years :)
Sometimes, ugh, even nonexistent people.
Run, hike, play radio, work on school projects :/, relax, do yard work, care tasks.
So basically: in medias res

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
Here are my sources: [1] Robert Habeck, our Minister for economic affairs say's we can not afford less work. [2] Saxony's Minister arguing for "40 hours workweeks for all" and say's that "part time is a mistake". [4] is Markus Söder, Bavaria's Minister telling his plans to force Teachers to work more [5].

This is a manifold problem. Low post-tax wages (except for some government workers), high stress due to few colleagues and tons of work, extremely late age of entry for pensions.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/faktencheck-robert...

[2]: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/recht-auf-teilzeit-als-f...

[3]: https://www.fr.de/politik/cdu-michael-kretschmer-sachsen-rec...

[5]: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayern-lehrer-soeder-teil...
Samply is awesome. It's my go-to profiler I can throw at any un-stripped binary on any OS that I use and then just drill down with a nice Firefox profiler UI (particularly the fact that it allows to navigate multi-threaded traces well).

In fact, its predominant use for me so far was collecting "full" traces of C# code that shows the exact breakdown between time spent in user code and in write barriers and GC since .NET's AOT compilation target produces "classic" native binaries with regular object/symbol format for a given platform.
Thanks; so it's not Asha Bhosle (which the 45s are brimful of).
Wood dust can cause fibrosis: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulmonary-fib...
haha no fire hazards there!

The official specs [0] say the A100 80GB has a 300W TDP. That's pretty doable on standard domestic power... harder if you want to run multiples.

[0] https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...
Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B
Joseph Stiglitz proved what he called the Henry George Theorem which shows basically that useful government expenses will always show up as increased land value that matches or exceeds the cost.

Unfortunately, it is true that a fair amount of government expenses are not useful. (i.e. do not constitute a public good in the economic sense)
Musk wanted shareholders to honour a deal agreed already. All car companies, including Toyota, are currently 'struggling'.

If aliens landed today they would surmise that cars were the dominant species, closely followed by dogs. As has been the case for 50 years or more.

In other words, 'struggling' is a relative term.
Yes, I see your point here. I think most objections to plastic including my own are about the longevity of its effects on ecosystems, but local, short term effects on health are equally problematic.
I'm not going to take the blame game angle of personal accountability as another sub thread has gone, but! I'm here to help!

First things first, you can organise your apps so that the tools you want appear prominently. On iOS Focus modes can help you set pages of apps just to what you need in that focus - I have one for "Holiday" which I use when on a beach which has my airline/holiday company, bank (to check the spends), an e-Reader, and that's it. My work focus has apps I need for work - slack, email, calendar, internal apps for accessing shared docs and so on. There is one focus which has casual games and mind candy stuff - I switch to it consciously. I can't accidentally end up in there.

I'm also lucky in that I can separate out how my friends contact me (Whatsapp/Signal/Telegram) vs family (FB Messenger and text messages), vs work (Slack). If you can do that, do it, it really helps, honestly.

Next up, kill notifications with fire. Apps heavey on notifications are the crying babies of smartphones: they can ruin your sleep with their neediness, but you need to help them adapt into your routine, not the other way around.

On iOS you can have "scheduled summary notifications", and that's awesome, but I think the only stuff you need to get notified about generally is really important stuff. Only you can decide what that is, but it's probably not social media. Kill as much of it as possible.

Unread notification badges are evil. You can get rid of those. Even on email, do you really need to know how much "work" is needed inside that app? Probably not.

Plan your time, then plan your tech around that plan, and then stick with those plans (and at first it might require willpower until it becomes habit).

These changes mean I've not been a habitual user of social media in years (and I used to be on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook for 5+ hours a day), and I'm reading more books on my phone. Things that need my attention get it, but I am super careful about deciding what that "need" really is, and most things don't get it.
Not the first time either. The US covert use of fake vaccination drives to gather intel to assassinate Bin Laden caused the public to become distrustful of vaccinations and led to the resurgence of Polio in that region.
now I feel very bad about going to sleep between 11PM and 1AM and getting up between 5AM and 6AM for many many years now.
The shares he is gaining now he can't sell for a certain amount of time.

This is about him wanting control over the struggling company back.

That context also makes the situation far more interesting, because it is the sole reason why shareholders would even vote for his proposal. Because it is a vote about him as a leader.
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https://www.energy.gov/articles/restoring-americas-competiti...

"the U.S. Government will move into markets currently dominated by Russian and
Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE) and recover our position as the world leader in exporting best-in-class nuclear energy technology, and with it, strong non-proliferation
standards"

Russia and China have state owned enterprises. Now the US government will move into their markets...

"The U.S. has ceded its leadership position to countries with state-owned-enterprises, including Russia and China,"

The US government is the actor who is directing the US industry.

> The claim that renewables foster "local ownership" and "distributed industry" oversimplifies the reality.

The topic was that "we", Germany, don't want this. We want to strengthen local ownership of energy production. There are a lot of examples here. Nuclear power plants are so far large (large plants are more cost effective) and based on large monopolies (granted or even owned by the government).

Example: Before the movement towards renewable energy, the grid and the electricity production was owned by only four large companies each occupying a region in Germany.

The electricity grid was then taken away from them and opened to many players. Now (basically) everyone has the right to be a producer and to feed electricity into the grid. Now we have a large landscape of energy producers, with the goal to establish this across the EU.

Nuclear power plants (owned by very few companies in protected markets) are dinosaurs in the effort to create dynamic energy markets.

Nuclear power demands long-term contracts and guaranteed prices for huge monopolistic players. See for example the new nuclear power plants in the UK...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

"EDF has negotiated a guaranteed fixed price – a "strike price" – for electricity from Hinkley Point C under a government sanctioned Contract for difference (CfD)."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/france-seeks-more-uk...

"PARIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - France wants the British government to contribute more money to two new nuclear plants its state-owned energy utility EDF was contracted to build in the UK, given delays and spiralling costs, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters."

A state-owned French company builds for the British government a nuclear power plant.

We are not talking about a distorted "free market". There is no market at all, it's all government controlled: building and financing.
As a presenter in that situation you should tell them to shut it or leave, and take notes so they remember the questions they have for after the presentation.

If they refuse to comply, leave.
Yeah, ATX/EATX exist, and they probably will exist in non-zero production for another 50 or more years given the historical momentum.

But most of the market is Dell/Lenovo/HP/Supermicro (and in China, a couple other players).

Silverstone is an absolutely tiny business by comparison. Their US office is 1/6th of a shared warehouse space in an LA suburb, next to a laminate flooring retailer.
Before reading the post I thought the strategy would be similar to those wikis that allow to create new pages when not found the link
Up my alley. I'm the author of a FOSS Golang span instrumentation library for latency (LatLearn in my GitHub.) And part of the team that back in 2006/2007 made an in-house distributed tracing solution for Orbitz.
The Web page is breaking text selection for me until I disable JS.
That may be your definition, but that's not everyone's definition. Wikipedia, for example, says:

> Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
>Sandy hook parents were not watching his hours long ranting to find some small snippet about them. This is government not liking what he said.

Are you joking??

He had people terrorize them for over a decade. In addition to their suffering from losing their children, several of them had to move multiple times because Alex Jones told his lunatic followers that they were crisis actors.

>Its not about alex jones, it's about weaponization of the justice system being used against political opponents.

That is ridiculous.
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I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust
You’re talking about antifungals approved for human consumption.

I wonder why they were approved for human consumption?