skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bullshit Asymmetry strikes hard, especially when crossed with Metcalfe's Law.

All it takes is distrust & chaos for these many forces about that want a backsliding away from the civilization we have. They don't need to present or argue for anything, mere strife & discord that leads to cynicism, that erodes belief, is enough for the various agents that would erode.
It is much easier now to scale services (microservices, FaaS, etc.) to meet high or fluctuating demand than it used to be. So there are fewer cases where there is much to gain by carefully controlling how messages are buffered up.
can someone give an intuition for the unified tokenizer that they mentioned? I understand the idea of using a GAN or an autoencoder to make a image tokenizer, but it's unclear how you combine that with text to have a single tokenizer over both modalities (if I'm understanding the paper correctly)
You don’t have to modify anything. We support local LLMs for chat and completions with Ollama.

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/local-code-completion-with-olla...
This comment suggests a lack of understanding of the role of references in papers. They aren't like lemmas in proofs. Often an author will reference a work that tried a different approach to solve the same problem the authors are trying to solve, and whether that other paper is problematic or not has nothing to do with the correctness of the paper that refers to the other work.

Now, it's possible that in a particular case, paper B assumes the correctness of a result in paper A and depends on it. But that isn't going to be the case with most references.
I think it's all of the above.

In large enterprises, there is usually some sort of global message bus on top of Kafka, AWS Kinesis or similar.

In smaller shops, the need for dedicated message bus is over engineering and can be avoided by using the db or something like redis. It is still a message queue, just without a dedicated platform.
People find groups they want to join in proportion to the ease of finding those groups (which is in proportion to the size of those groups) and the degree to which they agree with them. You could try to change those factors, but would it be very simple?
Around 10 mm for OS2 cables.
> Recreate every experiment and analysis all the way down?

If an experiment or analysis is reliant on the correctness of a retracted paper, then shouldn't it need to be redone? In principle this seems reasonable to me—is there something I'm missing?

EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood... is your point that the criterion of "cites a retracted paper" is too vague on its own to warrant redoing all downstream experiments?
>It's not shocking to me that as soon as US got out of that war Ukraine Russia war started and US military industrial complex found a new market.

This sounds like a conspiracy theory. How exactly do you think US defense contractors somehow convinced Putin to launch an invasion?
Why is it a toy just because it has an order of magnitude less performance? Computers became powerful enough for most people decades ago. I get much more utility out of a computer that grows capability in other aspects like mobility and power consumption.
My, perhaps overly cynical view, is that Message Queue architecture and blogging was all about "Resume Driven Development" - where almost everybody doing it was unlikely to ever need to scale past what a simple monolith could support running on a single laptop. All the same people who were building nightmare micro service disasters requiring tens of thousand of dollars a month of AWS services.

These days all those people who prioritise career building technical feats over solving actual business problems in pragmatic ways - they're all hyping and blogging about AI, with similar results for the companies they (allegedly) are working for: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/survey_ai_projects/
It looks like the focus here is managed in the simple way with the distance. Are there any optical tricks to make the display closer (less sticking out), but still fake-distant? I know displays in cars and serious HUDs do a bit of mirror magic to "redirect" the distance, but that would make the side more bulky. Are there any other good ways?
Horses used to be smaller.

Przewalski's horse, the closest thing to a pre-domesticated horse, is about 660lb. A modern draft horse is over 2000lb.

50 mya, Eohippus was around 20lb - the size of a fox.
I'm just wondering who the globalists here are
Hypothesis: The performance of systems has increased so much that many things that required a queue before can now just be made into regular synchronous transactions. aka PostgreSQL is eating the world.
There are very few of the big productivity apps that would justify the expense of the Vision Pro. Every review of the new iPad basically takes the same line. Fantastic hardware, pity about the limited OS and lack of apps.
> They took no legal action against these people.

There was legal action taken against some doctors.

In addition.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/health/fda-ivermectin-lawsuit...

And, it's pretty clear that the govt was behind https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-twitter-blacklisting-of-jay...

It would have been illegal for the govt to force the NYT to not print those stories but ...
Australian mining magnate can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules
European Kick-Off of the International Trillion Parameter Consortium
Most of that is games or mobile apps with limited scope. If Apple wants the Vision Pro to replace our Macs it needs a different approach. One look at the wasteland that is the Mac app store tells you everything you need to know.
> Textiles means clothing, footwear, bedding, towels, curtains, fabric, and similar products, except for textiles that are contaminated with mold, bodily fluids, insects, oil, or hazardous substances.

Apparently it's also legal to jizz on your used clothing and then toss them in the garbage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't make the rules!
People got excited about it as a pattern, but usually apps don't have that many things that really have to go in the background. And once you do, it becomes really hard to ensure transactional safety across that boundary. Usually that's work you want to do in a request in order to return a timely error to the client. So most jobs these days tend to be background things, pre-caching and moving bits around on cdns. But every single one of those comes with a cost and most of us don't really want a mess of background jobs or distributed tasks.

I just added a RabbitMQ-based worker to replace some jobs that Temporal.io was bad at (previous devs threw everything at it, but it's not really suited to high throughput things like email). I'd bet that Temporal took a chunk of the new greenfield apps mindshare though.
A few things I’ve noticed, in a large “I pick things up and put them down” solution for high dollar-value remote transactions:
- a lot of services we need to communicate with have much higher resiliency than in the past, and so we’ve seen a big decrease in operational tasks for our queues that are “guarding “ those transactions; newer workloads might have less of a need to guard;
- many services we use support asynchronous execution themselves, using patterns like events/callbacks etc, and while they may use message queues internally we don’t necessarily have to do so;
- in what would have been called an “enterprise integration” environment, we are using internal event buses more and more, given they enable looser coupling and everyone speaks http.

From a technology perspective, message queuing has been commodified, I can pull an SQS off the shelf and get right to work. And so maybe the ubiquity of cloud based solutions that can be wired together has just removed the need for choice. If I need mqtt, there’s an app for that. Fanout? App for that. Needs to be up 25/7? …
There's also those of us who don't have kids, don't want them and would love to go to a theme park without dealing with 5 year olds crying or toddlers throwing tantrums.
It's absolutely not a GUI. It's a conceptual space to build in. It's the difference between the Web and the browser. We'll have a few different types of GUIs layered on top of the conceptual space, including flat GUIs and 3D GUIs.

The content of the space in question will overwhelmingly be constructed by generative AI, not raw human labor.

Until we find out how large, interesting, freaky, weird, enticing that world will or can be, it'll be nigh impossible to pin down how many people might use it.

Prediction: it's going to be extraordinarily massive in scale ~30 years out. It'll be regularly used by billions of people if you look out three or four decades. Large enough that an individual person could never explore even a tiny fraction of it in a lifetime. Eventually generative AI will build so quickly it'll put YouTube content addition to shame in terms of expansion rate.

We need to master generative AI (image, video, audio). Then we need to define what people want built in virtual space and create the guide posts for the AI to follow. That will involve a lot of experimentation. We're going to need dramatically greater amounts of storage.
Yes, that's why I needed "in that sense". As noted in replies, I believe many naive notions of magic really depend on one's background and context.
Sometimes, when battling these issues, I wish the Smalltalk-style approach[1][2] was more popular/feasible. Basically, saving the entire state of the VM is a fundamental operation supported by the language. Only truly transient things like network connections require special effort.

There are some echoes of this with things like Lua's Pluto/Eris, or serializable continuations in other languages (eg: Perl's Continuity).

It's just such a pain to thoroughly handle that sort of stuff without language-level support. And doing a "good enough" approach with some rough edges is usually shippable, so it's hard to build a critical mass of demand for such support. And even if there was, it's very hard to add it to a language/framework/etc that wasn't designed for it to begin with.

I've had a decent experience with 'struct string' style approaches, like Lua's string.pack() or Perl's pack()[3]. It's a little brittle, but extremely straightforward and "not framework-y," which suits me. But it leaves out things like program execution state; it's just for plain data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste...

[2] example of using this serializable statefulness for serving web apps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_(software)

[3] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack
Another theory: HTTP + Service Discovery gained popularity, alleviating the need to integrate with message brokers. Most popular languages have lightweight HTTP servers that can run in-process and don't need heavy Application servers to run them now. And Service Discovery routes the requests to the right places without the need for going through a central broker.

Message brokers need client libraries for every language and serialization support. HTTP clients and JSON Serialization have first-class support already, so many software distributors ship those APIs and clients first. Everyone got used to working with it and started writing their own APIs with it too.
Are you talking about this GitHub script or the Scarecrow app?
It doesn't look like they specify the type of oil so you can just dab some vegetable oil from your kitchen on it.

There, I just saved you a lot of wanking! That should only be done for the joy of it, not to circumvent some state law.
https://archive.ph/6oO8D
They'll probably release slightly souped up Meta Ray Bans which are really solid smart glasses. I use them daily and the way you can ask it what am i looking at, count how many people in the room and or whatever and it audibly tells you makes me wonder do we really need AR content in our face within our daily lives? Meta Ray Ban's informative audio works great; it's a solid UX!
I believe a potential future Republican controlled government would turn something like this against the LGBTQ community (despite certain LGBTQ groups okaying the changes).
> I have to wonder how Steve Jobs would handle VR. In Jobs-ian fashion, Apple didn’t rush into a market and built a premium product that for all intents and purposes was well executed.

Jobs was at Apple when the Lisa was introduced at a premium/eye-watering $10K (>$30K today). As I understand it, he wanted to run the Lisa group but ended up heading the Mac group instead, and competing against the Lisa. Kind of a shame for Lisa users that the Mac wasn't compatible, but the Mac ultimately ended up delivering most of the benefit at a fraction of the price.

As you note, the challenge now is that there doesn't yet seem to be much of a VR headset market outside of games and vertical apps. But that might be enough for a successor to build on.
Remember that OpenAI has given it a massive amount of extra tasks to read that is more like such logical puzzles etc. Assume it has read billions of such lines, easily generated by a simple python script and many such scenarios, then it is much less hard to understand how these models thinks, and why some models thinks betters than others, they just have better such case generators.

An LLM can do some very basic fitting into such cases, so it doesn't need to have seen the exact scenario, but it has seem many similar scenarios.

Edit: So the hard part of making a smart LLM is to figure out a good set of such scenarios and problems to feed the LLM to cover most of the things people will ask the LLM.
You'd have to make refusal a high rank subspace, and that seems like it could be quite difficult. One alternative approach I've seen is to make refusal behavior more likely to just output the end-of-speech token.
There are three issues I have with audio queues:

- it's an unexpected mental context switch - if I'm concentrating on anything else, it takes a moment to switch to interpreting directions, sometimes enough to miss information

- if the traffic is not smooth, the distance becomes harder to judge - the turn is in 2km, but I did two stops, so how far is it now?

- "third left" becomes vague if you've passed a left while the message is played - was that included or not?

Constant information you can reference at any point is so much better for me. (Although a "tell me the directions again right now" button would solve some of them too)
Another:

* The Log is the superior solution
My sweet summer child, I weep to burden you with this, turn back:

I bet if you looked up waifu's definition it'd have a vaguer meaning. In local LLM context, there's a sizable community for "virtual girlfriend AI", once you start hearing things like "SillyTavern" you're over in the community. Think applications designed around local LLMs and the use case of having pre-canned prompts to "boot up" a girlfriend persona.

For what it's worth, I'm being glib, so it may seem I'm linking it to erotica for giggles. c.f. graphics used on official GitHub, https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern, and language at https://sillytavernai.com/ like [1] and [2]

[1] "We recommend using our sister site: https://aicharactercards.com. It is a moderated character card repo. All cards go through a moderation process to make sure there are no overly inappropriate, illegal or scam like cards. NSFW cards are allowed so long as all characters are above the age of majority."

[2] Easy to use prompt fields such as main prompts, NSFW prompts and Jailbreak prompts that let you steer the chat in any way you desire
I agree but I still (foolishly maybe) did try my hand at a type of solution. In fact, I called it Rashomon (https://www.rashomonnews.com/), related to the "In A Grove" link you shared. Misinformation, in addition to being effectively free/having no cost is also unfortunately very useful sometimes. I don't know if we can ever "solve" it, but maybe we can measure it.
This is amazing and brings back good memories. I spent a good portion of my childhood playing with KidPix on a Performa 600 lol
The dynamite brings back memories.
"The web got faster" [citation needed]

Sure the network has gotten faster, but with the few exceptions like Craigslist and this site, in general "the web" has gotten way way slower in real terms, at least as I see it. These days megabytes of javascript (or webassembly) seems to be required just to display pages with a kilobyte of two of actual text content...
> The App Store has, by all accounts, been a runaway success

Except on the only platform that doesn't enforce it as the sole app store, MacOS. Holy cow, can you imagine trying to set up your Mac with only the App Store for installing software? How many people could do their day-to-day job, like that?

Extrapolating from MacOS it really feels the other way around. On iPadOS in particular it's become a running joke how hard Apple arbitrarily tries to stop you from using their tablet computer hardware like a laptop.
Message queues are still definitely in use, it's just behind the scenes in most frameworks you're using now. They're still great for the highest scale stuff when you can't pay the abstraction cost and don't need stuff like FIFO semantics.

Along with much more mentioned in this thread, I think a lot of companies realized that they indeed are not AWS/Google/Meta/Twitter scale, won't be in the next decade, and probably never will need to be to be successful or to support their product.
Why would it? It's just an upgraded satellite connection for non-classified traffic.
Domain sockets aren't really Linux-specific, even Windows partially supports them now. [1]

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...
It's a classic move from corporate America, foreign cars banned if less than 25 years old, high taxes on motorcycles for decades to protect Harley etc...
It's weird that people say this and yet the web feels very slow.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723083
It becomes apparent after a while. Generally, the websites that have very intrusive pop-ups or no real way to opt-out of associating cookies with personally identifiable information (that is what the notice is for) present themselves as information abusers, and that is a very important signal. I have very low trust that they respect privacy or have it as a value in their business. So it's good to know I shouldn't use their services nor hand over any personal data.

Some websites have become region-locked, but I found that it's mostly those who cater to American audiences anyways. Perhaps if you travelled to Europe, this was more of a problem for you because you wanted to read the local news back home. For us, back home is here, so local American websites region-locking us out isn't a big inconvenience. They probably only do this if European audiences don't make up much of their readership anyways — they wouldn't want to lose significant ad revenue.
actually I just went into the paper and skimmed it.

Their image tokenizer creates image encodings in a discrete space of dimension 8192; each image consists of 1024 discrete tokens. The 8192 vector size matches their language tokenizer (discrete and also size 8192). Then they just mash those tokens together, which leads to downstream problems in training: because the two token spaces have different entropies, stable training in later steps is difficult, and they have to do a bunch of regularizations to make sure that gradients don't start exploding.

Interesting stuff!
That's a problem with a lot of software and developers these days. An "About Me" section with a real face and presence is important and I don't mean anime characters and aliases either. Tell me who you are, put yourself out there.
https://github.com/bediger4000/circumlunar
This is the kind of app I want on an iPad for my kid.
Well, yeah, free trade agreements are generally reciprocal. Here's the original article for the curious:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/30/us-and-rwanda-trade-dispute-...

Some East African countries wanted to impose tariffs on US exports, and were told that would mean losing duty-free trade with the US. Rwanda decided it was worth it to protect local industry. Stripped of all the paternalism and Trumpenfury, that's the whole story.
Fresnel lens lined up with it on the glasses, or bifocals?
This seems to cover many common pain points, but I’ve written my fair share of .NET serializers and for anything I build now I’d just use protocol buffers. Robust support, handles versioning pretty well, and works cross platform.

I’d like to know their reasons for making yet another serializer vs just using pb or thrift.
Hype is a function of number of discussions not number of applications.

There is no hype because not much news there.

That doesn’t mean it is less used.
Well, one of them (time) is moving forward at a steady yet unchanging rate. It’s rare to call that ‘traveling’ since it isn’t meaningfully in control of the traveler. More like ‘bring drug along in’
Author here: I’m well aware that there are similar autopilot systems. There’s a reason why my requirements list has “extensive charger network” before “autopilot just as good”.

(Also, the autopilot of my wife’s Audi is a huge regression compared to the one of my Tesla. Though that’s the 2019 model, so who knows…)
Not directly on topic, but: Didn't use to be so interested in (or, allow my attention to be diverted to?) early human history and anthropology, until on recommendation I watched a movie "Man from Earth" [0]. Talk about baking your noodle: The story of someone claiming to be over 10K years of age, intimated to a group of academic peers that draw on their respective domain knowledge to assess the claim. Draws a fascinating, engrossing, not implausible yarn. Ya gotta wonder .. What would it have been like? Exactly how did we climb out of the muck?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=man+from+earth
Viewable at no charge on Youtube!
Tynan recently shared how he manages finances with his wife, plus the rationale:

> We keep our finances mostly separate. The primary reason is we both have enough that we don’t need the other’s money, and we both like having the freedom to buy whatever we want. I don’t want to ask when I’m buying pinball machines or random stuff for my next project, and she doesn’t want to ask me when she goes shopping or sends money to family members. We both invested enough money to cover house expenses and the interest goes into a joint account that pays the bills every month. Of course if she needed some of my money for some reason she’d be welcome to it, and vice versa, so it’s more like we have combined finances that we manage separately.

Source: https://tynan.com/having-a-good-marriage/
Three buildup of troops by Russia along the Ukrainian border started in 2021, which is when the US left Afghanistan.

I'm not the parent nor am I saying the two wars are related but it's not unfathomable to think that American intelligence could have predicted a war between Ukraine and Russia at the same time as they were exiting Afghanistan
https://reverb.com/item/66376148-copppersound-diy-mini-bread... is popular in the DIY guitar effects world
> If you’ve donated clothing to a local charity or tossed your stained shirts in a drop-off bin, chances are your discarded items will be dumped in Africa

or more like it ends up in Eastern Europe where it
runs some rounds first in 2nd hand shops.

“german 2nd hand cloths”, “english quality used cloths” and shops like these are extremely common in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania etc. all over the countries
Man, I used to spend hours on KidPix back on my old 68k mac. It's not quite the same, and a lot of the effects are not 1:1, but it's still a cool throwback.
My pet peeve, grep unnecessarily followed by awk/sed.

Original:
df -h | grep "$partition" | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//'

Efficient:
df -h | grep -Po "\d+(?=%\s+$partition)"
> Using set -e ensures that your script exits immediately if any command fails, preventing cascading errors.

There's a huge asterisk around using -e

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/set-e/ contains a matrix of the different shells (and versions) and how they handle different conditional orders with -e
I can't figure out how to clear the canvas.