skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop listening only when saying "Alexa" not just when speaking in general. So to test you'd have to time saying Alexa at the same time it is saying Alexa
> there's even a fairly substantial system in place that cache the conversion between a quaternion and a euler rotation

I hope that does show up on a benchmark though, cause that sounds complex
DevEx reads to me like DevOps or platform engineering, etc. - its something that FAANGs care about with 1000s of developers but is probably a waste of time if you are not at that scale.
Assuming you’re referring to the birthday bound on blocks (https://sweet32.info) that’s a limit on blocks encrypted with a single key. XAES derives large keys per message, so it achieves what are commonly referred to as “better-than-birthday” bounds.
Arthur C. Clarke predicted the WFH phenomenon back in 1974 [video]
Does the pacemaker law predate the death with dignity law?

I'm wondering if it only anticipated pacemakers being disabled for malice or out of negligence.
Can’t be the same thing GP is talking about as the repo says it’s multithreaded and the poster said what they worked on wasn’t
I'm not suggesting it's down to that. I'm suggesting that anyone running AWQ on vLLM is probably not running it optimally somewhere else.

I don't have a chart handy, but in our tests, TRT was ca. 10% faster (but it's much more difficult to setup, you have to convert models, etc). LMDeploy we tested months ago, maybe it's improved now, but they were making fairly wild claims that we didn't observe.

Basically, you shouldn't publish a benchmark without providing all of the details. How long did test run? How were requests staggered? What were the input/output token sizes?

A lot of these 256 in / 256 out benchmarks are useless. If your system prompt is 4k tokens, prefill becomes a serious issue. How performant is your continuous batching? Can you do chunked prefill? Are you running prompt prefix caching (and if so, how performant is that)? It's a lot more complex than simply generating some tokens at various batch sizes.
I imagine the attribution factors were something along "we saw IPs associated with Russian ISPs and cloud providers" or "parts of their infra were accessible from Russia without using VPN".
OP only refers to bytecode. There's nothing wrong with executing Lua when provided to the VM via source code. The only reason to allow the VM to load bytecode directly is 1) a very minor improvement in loading time, as the interpreter then doesn't have to parse Lua code into bytecode itself 2) allowing obfuscation of logic running within Factorio. Both seem rather irrelevant, so I'm not sure why they allow loading bytecode directly.
> The internal nomenclature of those working within a particular approach cannot restart the clock of an entire field?

As bowsamic said, I'm telling you what the field's nomenclature is, and then additionally explaining why it is used that way.

> That certainly requires a reference. There were several teams around the world besides Weber pursuing the approach.

They only pursued it after he published erroneous claims of discovery!

https://physics.aps.org/story/v16/st19

Look, there are groups around the world doing lots of things the majority think are foolish. (The DAMA experiment comes to mind.) It's good and healthy that this is allowed, and indeed there is a smooth continuum between "very unlikely but I guess someone should be checking" and "lunacy". But we also shouldn't pretend all attempts are equally promising or reasonable.

> Fyi, you may be confusing physicists with astronomers. The prevailing notion in astro circles was indeed that the known pathways to gravitational waves and with calculations made using GR would be too weak to be detected.

I'm not confusing anything. The people who have the expertise to estimate limits on the strongest plausible gravitational waves are called "astrophysicists" for a reason.

> In this respect Weber was simply unlucky.

An extreme example to illustrate why this sort of lazy "it might have worked" thinking is wrong: If I argue that there is a heretofore unknown law of physics that causes black holes to form at low energies as long as it's in Wilmington NC and it's on the 17th Wednesday of the year, and if I build a special detector in my basement in Wilmington that looks for the black hole signature on such a day, and if I claim to see a positive signal, most people will not say that I "built the first generation of table-top black hole detectors". So saying "it might have worked, who knows?" just isn't enough.

It's not a coincidence that Weber both (1) thought it was worthwhile to look for gravitational waves at a strength that was widely thought to be impossible and (2) deluded himself into thinking he had made a positive identification. If he had only done #1, and if he had been clear that he was looking under the lamp post just in case there was surprising new physics, a defense of Weber would be more plausible. (Not necessarily convincing, but at least plausible.) But the fact that he also did #2 strongly undermines arguments that he was clear-eyed about what he was doing.
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It’s not considered ok for newsfeed to break. It would be a massive issue that would command the full attention of everyone.
I think they mean in the “does not report your browsing history to Apple” sense.
Microphone noise canceling? It's known what waveform is going out, so it should be trivial to subtract playback audio from recorded audio.
Same way that credit card companies and websites change their terms every now and then. It's not what you agreed to when you opened the account, but they just do it. Don't like it? Then cancel. They know that canceling credit cards is a pain, you have to go change all your recurring charges and automatic payments, and also closing and opening credit card accounts can ding your credit rating a bit. So most people just bend over and take it.
I'm really surprised we haven't seen more of this in the US. In other countries have seen this idea where apartments or condominiums are on top of fairly large shopping malls. Maybe it's because of the idea in the US that people like to go places travel around in their car or what not but the idea that your apartment is literally an elevator ride away from shopping and entertainment seems like it would be something that people want.
There is no guarantee the cure will be cheap or even cheaper compared to the current situation. Not to mention the increase in other medical conditions that are bound to occur in the added years of life and add to the total medical bill.

Also, note that this investment money is directly related to the number of working hours. All those people working on a cure in labs etc. will have a very different experience in life compared to those same people earning the same money for caring for their fellow humans. It is not a purely financial weighing.
There are skinny folks who had the exact same diet growing up. It's luck of the draw.
I was curious what the actual numbers were for momentum vs kinetic energy, and equivalents. A 1 gram projectile impacting at 17km/s imparts a force of 17kg m/s. [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/momentum]. That same
projectile has the kinetic energy of 144,500 joules (or in American, 106,577ft/lbs).

Average adult males mass between 60-80kg, so such an impact - if fully absorbed - would contribute the momentum equivalent to a light shove to an adult human. Approx. 1/3 of a meter per second, or in American, about a foot per second of velocity. Barely enough to make someone shuffle their feet to stay upright.

Energy wise, however, it is the equivalent of approximately 34 grams of TNT [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent], or 2x 20mm Anzio Anti Tank rounds [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzio_20mm_rifle], or 8x 50BMG rounds [https://youtu.be/fUOh7a0cdUw?si=xX7Qzdl5ZfUUIVOs] - at the muzzle.

Those cartridges are roughly the size of a medium carrot. Absurdly large by sport shooting standards.

YouTube 50BMG video is a bit gruesome btw (ballistic dummy), but no actual blood.

The 50BMG is the most
powerful ‘one man portable’ weapon you’re going to find, as they typically weigh over 20 lbs, and firing it is a rather intense experience. Especially since very aggressive muzzle brakes are necessary if the gun isn’t anchored to something.

Armor to protect against it is so heavy, it is pretty much impossible to wear in field operations. Think ‘bomb suit’. It will penetrate armor on many modern armored personnel carriers. 20mm is far more powerful, even without explosive shells.

And that is the size and velocity of the ‘small’ orbital debris.
Even if that's true, the example definitely isn't proof of that given that the old technology seems to handle the problem just fine.
I'm skeptical of this because I think that a well-architected large codebase should be as good as multiple microservices stapled together at the seams. But then I don't do much web dev.
Email logo validation and prominent display seems like a perfectly valid use case.

See arguments about red-warning unencrypted HTTP and how that pushed the web to update.

Add in that genAI is going to make plausible-looking phishing emails a lot easier for the world to generate en mass, and giving the everyperson something better than "decide if it looks suspicious" is important.
PS. I get that UBI is controversial.-
If you've ever been to Lodi, or any number of dead end towns, you would understand why John Fogarty got lucky picking that city as a fill in for being stuck somewhere.
I can't cite my sources, but I recently started learning Rust and I've been doing this. I would guess that I picked it up from the Rust book, since that's been my primary learning source.

I know I _could_ define my own error type, but that's tedious, especially if there are many types of errors to handle. For my (non-production) purposes it's been fine.

What's the idiomatic way to handle errors? Is there a way to collect more detailed error information without excessive boilerplate?
Already bought Liang's Comprehensive Java, too late advice.
This is not a new development. All your content online hasn't been yours for nearly two decades. People who still don't get this seriously need to get educated and think about what they post - or simply stop posting.
> This is how the rich avoid paying taxes: the money they spend mostly comes from bank loans secured by their stocks which are only paid back by their heirs using this scheme.

Only a small percentage of wealthy people do this because

1) It is risky. If the stock falls too much, they get margin called and lose all their pledged shares. Natural gas billionaire Charif Souki learned this the hard way [1]

2) Many of them have privately held companies, so there's no stock to borrow against.

3) It's easier just to take dividends or salaries and use that for everyday expenses.

4) Any pledged shares must be disclosed in public SEC filings, and most public company executives don't file such disclosures (they prefer to sell shares outright).

For some reason, any finance-related thread on HN always brings out the faux accountants and tax lawyers.

1- https://seekingalpha.com/news/3549059-tellurians-souki-force...
You clearly did not understand that woman's point.
His heirs will wield a tremendous amount of amount of influence on society from controlling these foundations. Is it really that much different than just giving it to them outright aside from limiting conspicuous consumption?
The foundations you mentioned exist to redistribute that money to other foundations and initiatives. They’re better vehicles to make grants instead of Warren/Berkshire trying to be experts on charitable donations.

This is literally all public record, you can see every single grant made by each foundation.
I guess the idea is that Democracy is only good when it supports the position I take; otherwise, it is dangerous to the people.
I don’t think that owners files are the best way to ensure things don’t break.
Really interesting, where is the money going, is surely not $500M/yr in nebraska college scholarships which is the sole thing mentioned on their website.
Perhaps you should compare new EVs to new gas cars, because new gas cars shut off their engines at traffic lights.
Don Lancaster had a software-only method for syncing to the video scan, called the Vaporlock. Which is a play on "genlock", which TV production systems called their hardware to sync to the scan for doing overlays.

Don's technique relied on the fact that the video hardware in the II line scanned memory that was outside the video frame. He put magic values in those extra bytes for each scan line, and his software could detect where the beam was on each line. (I've probably messed up the explanation; it's from memory of 40 years ago...)

The great thing is that you could mix video modes within a single scan line, allowing you to put text on the left edge of a HIRES graph. The downside is that the Apple can't do anything else, because his code is running in an exact timing loop to stay synced.

There were other solutions, but those were all hardware-based.
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Depends where you are. US law doesn't apply everywhere.

Also, I'd guess that even in the USA, evidence produced by a burglar can be challenged on the grounds that it isn't what it purports to be. I suspect that US chain-of-custody rules etc. are meant for broader purposes than just controlling police corruption. The police are not the only people who can manipulate evidence.
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The sugar-free sweeteners taste odd to me, I haven't found one I like
Openrisk was commenting on how the language is used by practitioners in the field, for which being a LIGO member is directly relevant. It's a mistake to try and mock him for doing that. It just drives actual experts even further away from HN.
> I'm looking for work as a senior software engineer.

Pairs well with

> I don't know how much longer I can comfortably call myself a "technologist"
Bad take.

I opened the Github issue linked. For us it represented, at times, thousands of requests per second across multiple users. And that was with affected users getting IP-banned temporarily.

Some of which were 404s which you typically absolutely do not want cached. Or 405s (on HEAD /favicon.ico for example). Or 429s. Or 403s.

Browsers are expected to:
1. Use the favicon specified in meta if any (we do have one, /favicon.svg)
2. Respect cache headers (immutable + multi-months max-age)
3. Not make completely random requests to things they should ignore (such as OpenGraph tags)

Yes CDNs do help with these kinds of issues, but they absolutely do not fix them all. Which is why even though we have a pretty damn elaborate setup in that regard we were being annoyed by the issue.

But also Firefox on iOS should be not-completely-broken.
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Nihilism has nothing to do with either world war. You’re likely trying to blame Nietzsche, who was the polar opposite of a nihilist, for German nationalism. The radical optimist Nietzsche, in his old age while writing Ecco homo, disavowed his German heritage and spoke about how awesome Poland and his polish identity were.

Nihilism is only just now having an impact in the academy as it is the intellectual foundation of post modernist and critical theory.
Really? I've gotten the sense that the Rust community is more kind to noobs than average. Not that the average is great, but still.
For the disassembler we round trip. x86 ->(via model) IR ->(via clang) x86. If they are identical then the IR is correct. Could be correct even if not identical, but then you need to check.

For the auto-tuning, we suggest the best passes to use in LLVM. We take some effort to weed out bad passes, but LLVM has bugs. This is in common with any auto-tuner.

We train it to emulate the compiler. The compiler does that better already. We do it because it helps the LLM understand the compiler better and it auto-tunes better as a result.

We hope people will use this model to fine-tune for other heuristics. E.g. an inliner which accepts the IR or the caller and callee to decide profitability. We think things like that will be vastly cheaper for people if they can start from LLM Compiler. Training LLMs from scratch is expensive :-)

IMO, right now, AI should be used to decide profitability not correctness.
If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
There is at least some figures that are wrong on this site since they list exec comp as only $1.1M, then right below the total exec comp is around $2.5M or $3M if you include their other exec comp.
Prozac and weed/psychedelics also a well-worn path.

Not necessarily exclusive from the other options in sibling posts.
I know information literacy isn’t practiced among conspiracy theorists but it’s literally listed out in detail every single year.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/476...
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I tried this once and was amazed when my landlord texted me the same week wondering why my car had not moved for 2 full days?
A subsequent game of hide and seek ensued until I just called it a day and moved out. His precious office has remained empty for the subsequent 18 months.

Never underestimate the lengths landlords will go to in order to prevent you, in their minds, getting something for nothing.
That was my thought as well. Not sure what the actual value is here.
As a hint, if you think labor in your company is interchangeable, odds are that you are just a bad manager.

(Also, notice that I didn't write "knowledgeable" or "development" or any other qualifier there.)
Fundamental principle at work is adaptive filtering.

it also has uses in noise canceling headphones, voice conferencing software, and radar/sonar in some cases.

No LLMs or deep learning at all - purely DSP!
Poor education is mainly a problem due to the gated access to quality education, which requires educated parents and money. Both of which depend on the income of families, which is tied to their jobs. These things have very complex dependencies, and just doing nothing will not improve anything.
Hey. Regarding 1, compatibility is handled by a separate library, Primate's only dependency, rcompat: https://github.com/rcompat/rcompat ; it's a unified compat layer around Node, Deno and Bun.

As for 2, what would you consider a React-like example? The examples on the frontend are meant to illustrate commonalities between different frontends.
What's the biz model ?
Many things are 'great pieces of [software] engineering'. That does not mean they are a fit solution to any problem. Many times a script or simple ansible playbook, or docker-compose is just a better fit.
Trying to learn to become a developer from tutorials is like trying to become a carpenter by reading instruction manuals for saws, nail guns, &c.

To learn how to implement computer programs, read books about it.
I assume they're using some form of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_diarisation
"Alexa, what is love?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESt7CTZiXqY&t=123s

Anyone actually pull this off?
Yes! An AI building a compiler by learning from a super-optimiser is something I have wanted to do for a while now :-)
I think a big reason why a lot of people in tech feel like this is because tech has been reduced to getting a job and optimizing for total compensation.

If you look at employees at Google, you can see that they are there to coast. Intelligent, sharp folks, reduced to mere optimizing for compensation while tweaking an algorithm here and there.

Instead what devs need to do especially those who are new to the industry, is to think like hackers of yore. Have total disdain of big tech and organizations.

I remember early 2000s and if you asked anyone who was a good hacker if they want to join IBM they would laugh in your face.

That culture needs to return. Where is the Napster of this era? That would give people the fulfillment they want and make them feel useful. A simple way of doing this is to take any popular piece of software and think what the "out there" version will look like and start building it.

Maybe punk rock and the hacker culture both need to make a comeback into the mainstream, otherwise FAANG and Leetcode will eat the soul of tech.
When you say inefficient, do you mean that the process results in more entropy than work-producing fuel than another method of recomposing molecules into methane, such as biological processes?
Primate gets close to that -- there is a webc handler with props support: https://primatejs.com/modules/web-components

The webc handler does lack a few things like hydration, and this can be added if users show interest in it.
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Magnesium is almost always grossly under dosed because the actually daily dose is quite substantial. I take a multivitamin and a supplemental magnesium and to get the daily recommendation I need to take two magnesium capsules as supplement. If they had included it in the multivitamin it would be a horse pill.
> There's of course money involved too: the elder care home she's in gets a hefty rent each month. And so does the doctor.

Leaving this out might make your argument stronger. At least in Europe, there is no shortage of elder people that can be cared for. Most of these elder care homes have long waiting lists, and normal doctors have waiting lists as well. I think it would be more fair to say that it is an incredibly difficult decision to make as an 'outsider', and combined with how the law works with respect to death and liability, procedures and strictness with regards to euthanasia are not that strange.
That's not what this does. This moved the power from agencies to the courts, not to Congress. Congress always had the ability to clarify or change the laws. The problem was how to interpret those laws. Under Chevron if the agency made a reasonable interpretation of the law as decided by a court, then the agencies interpretation was followed. Under this new ruling, sole interpretation of the regulatory laws is now in the hands of the courts.

Nothing whatsoever was returned to Congress.
Thank you for writing this, Jacky. It's hard to read and really important. I learned a lot and am going to reread it.
That was my thinking too, until I started looking into them again more recently. They're now basically distributing variant alternatives of Fedora that usually have far better implementation and design choices, but mostly use the same underlying technologies. They only have a few in-house tools, unlike Fedora that decides to spin new undocumented ones with questionable design each week it seems, and focus hard on rock solid performance.
And they've been jumping in to fill the gaps RedHat leaves, while also pursuing the more modern edge compute/cluster corporations are very interested in.

As an individual user's daily driver, the documentation is severely lacking for their immutable distros, but if you're experienced enough you can often find Fedora Atomic documentation to get you close. There are still some major hurdles though, like not all Fedora RPMs can be directly installed on OpenSUSE (e.g. CrowdSec) when there is no OpenSUSE version, and some corrected idiocies of Fedora Atomic cause problems (e.g. nix install for ostree only works on immutable distros with ephemerally writeable rootfs, which also eliminates 80% of the benefit of immutables but is the Fedora default and not the default for OpenSUSE).
Interesting. I left Spyglass in January 1997, just as they were heading in that general direction.