skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those aren’t syllable divisions, they’re hyphenation points!

From the footnote on page 219 of Word by Word by Kory Stamper (formerly a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster):

> Here is the one thing that our pronunciation editor wishes everyone knew: those dots in the headwords, like at “co·per·nic·i·um,” are not marking syllable breaks, as is evident by comparing the placement of the dots with the placement of the hyphens in the pronunciation. Those dots are called “end-of-line division dots,” and they exist solely to tell beleaguered proof-readers where, if they have to split a word between lines, they can drop a hyphen.
Their Starliner human spacecraft has failed and astronauts are currently trapped on the ISS until they can figure out the problem. This is after billions of dollars and several years of delays.
Worker Equity
Not sure what is being loaded at the moment, but I know some had Federal, CCI, A&H, Blazer, Winchester, Remington among other less known brands.
Are you concerned with glass shattering if hit by orbital junk? If so - impacts at orbital velocities tend to create plenty of debris regardless.
honestly just use F-droid. If you're on Android already, might as well use the wonderful feature sideloading is
Is there any way to deploy this to an existing postgres database or does it need to use the docker instance.
Correction: they work _for you_.

This may sound pedantic but I see this blanket assertion all the time from people who take psych meds and have them work for them. There is a very large group of people for whom they do not work, and others in which they cause serious harm. I’m glad they work for you, but please don’t assume that they work for everyone. They don’t.
I was just in Norfolk VA. and I saw a multi-block new development that somehow managed to be built with enough thought to look like it was plucked right out a very dense 1830 city. The feel was very much like center city Philadelphia.

I was really pleased because with it which definitely fits with one aspect of this article on classical architecture.

All the houses had small little nooks cranny yards and porches that were necessities in the 1830's and awesome luxuries in today's cities.

The development was very true to the original design but used modern materials to look old. I would be just as happy to have seen the exact neighborhood recreated in another material such as cast concrete. I bet it would have been just as exciting and cheaper to build.
I opened your website and found it downloads 1.8mb of js files. It looks like it's too large for a website that could as well just be a static site made with hugo.
How do you choose the companies?
...for all those users with H100s.
Weren't the osmosis filters made out of fine plastic?
Can you have a single transaction write both to a pg table and an iceberg table?
Skill issue ;)

* (defun fx-add (x y)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0))
(type fixnum x y))
(the fixnum (+ x y)))
FX-ADD
* (disassemble 'fx-add)
; disassembly for FX-ADD
; Size: 6 bytes. Origin: #x552C81A6 ; FX-ADD
; 6: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI
; 9: C9 LEAVE
; A: F8 CLC
; B: C3 RET
NIL
I wouldn't worry about automated ATS. Their use is way overstated on LinkedIn, by "resume experts," etc.

I'm talking about whether a human can read the document comfortably.
I think everybody should be endlessly optimistic when they're younger - that innocence is the gift of youth. But at the same time I find it odd for somebody to hold such values later in life, because life experience teaches you otherwise in endless ways. My issue was nanotech - perhaps you're also familiar with names like K Eric Drexler et al? Nanotech was going to fix absolutely everything, cure all diseases, turn radioactive waste into arbitrary materials, and basically reshape humanity in every positive way imaginable. Except none of it came to pass, at all. Heh, or yeah the 90s view of what the internet would become.

In general find I the simulation hypothesis a much more desirable replacement for religion. It lacks the various logical flaws or assumptions or singularity types, has a pretty sound basis in reality, and also keeps the extrinsic 'better-be-good' factors of religion, given that the simulation could be for any reason - entertainment, education, or even something like rehabilitation or training. And I think that extrinsic pressure is generally good after seeing what societies without any sort of guiding light seem to trend towards - pseudo-nihilism paired with hedonism is not a path to a fulfilling existence, or perhaps even a sustainable civilization.
If you look for it, there is quite a bit of science fiction, history (okay, often of science and tech), economics, etc on HN.
To save someone the lookup, this is:

U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT = midpoint (in typography); Georgian comma; Greek middle dot (ano teleia) • also used as a raised decimal point or to denote multiplication; for multiplication 22C5 is preferred

But note there is a separate Unicode scalar value for the dot operator:

U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR • preferred to 00B7 for denotation of multiplication
A commercial X server was often worth the price of admission for a boxed copy of Rehat or SuSE. That and a copy of StarOffice. IIRC SuSE 6.x boxes came with a personal license for AcceleratedX and RedHat 5.x and 6.x came with MetroX licenses.

They still had XF86 available but I believe defaulted to the proprietary servers. Seeing the XF86Setup screenshot evoked bad memories of inscrutable setup sessions that I was always worried would burn out my monitor.
> My favorite is when people (these people, the Center for Building in North America) claim that the US's 2nd stairwell requirement is "killing affordable housing" and then I point out that the square footage of the 2nd stairwell is not enough to add an additional bedroom.

I don't think their concern is about the footprint associated with the second stairwell. I think it's that any additional building requirements not directly related to the primary purpose of housing -- whether it be a second stairwell or mandatory onsite parking -- add to the price of housing and thus decrease overall affordability.
If you’re going to call out the AGPL for introducing restrictions, maybe you should call out the original GPL for introducing restrictions as well?

Lumping the AGPL in with the Elastic license feels intellectually dishonest.
That's a great observation! Measuring with ruler / tape / string isn't the most reliable way to do it -- using a full length of something like a stick, is. This is the basis of the simplest of jigs: cut a piece, then cut all the other pieces you want to be like that piece, by using that piece as a guide.

The need for specific measurements seems to have arisen alongside industrialization of building processes - in the times before that, measurements were relative (eg, piece A is 3x piece B, etc). It's telling that a lot of the "traditional" measurements we have (looking at you, metric system) refer to body parts. We used to measure things in relation to the human body.
That particular problem isn't necessarily materially different from the ships we already have that experience major time shifts every day. Time zones already create that problem and you can just look at the solutions we use today.
I came up with....

- do not be a waste of our humanity

- manifest magnificence (create something great that outlives one's self.)

- exhalation and fulfillment are the pinnacle of life (not "happiness", for myself anyway.)
Cotton is a terrible replacement for cold/wet. Not sure any of those other are great though. Don't know much about tencel but the manufacturer's advertising certainly doesn't frame it as a cold/wet clothing material.
Sync in background can be achieved using Storage Access Framework APIs, where Syncthing can get access to directory trees without requesting any special extra permissions - that's right, no need for READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or the one I'm guessing the OP uses, MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE.

The API is available since Android 4.4. The requirement to use it instead of asking for access to all documents, private photos, personal data and other data on the phone is there from Android 10 (that's 4 years now).

It's telling that the author isn't actually saying why they're rejecting him - I bet they're telling him the app doesn't need access all private photos just to sync a directory and that the app should use the API that's been mandated 4 years ago. There's even a fork that does exactly that and is published just fine.
IRS Collects $1B in Back Taxes from Millionaires
One use would be to hide behind the moon to block interference from Earth, at the L2 point in the earth-moon system. Use a laser to, say, a repeater at L4 or L5, and from there further to either LEO or directly the surface.
I think the above comment is just saying that you shouldn't use logs to do the job of metrics. Like, if you have an alert that goes off when some HTTP server is sending lots of 5xx, that shouldn't rely on parsing logs.
How about you check all the dependencies you loaded into your app and determine whichone is a data stealing malware? :P
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Would the heart rate monitor be useful on its own?
This is fantastic news for software engineers. Turns out that all those execs who've decided to incorporate AI into their product strategy have already tried it out and ensured that it will actually work.
> What if it turns out that a confluent sequence of ,,,

That is useful way of looking at it. But the problem remains how do you train on sight, sound, touch in any sort of useful way. It takes 20 years to make an adult using its non digital hardware (which I would consider superior for the task). If it could happen quicker do you not think that would.
Salsa20 ciphers in assembly for different architectures
A comment I made reminded me of this page. Dan Bernstein who developed the Salsa20 and Chacha family of ciphers had a pseudo assembly that compiled into target architectures/instruction sets.

It was interesting noting the variations.
Exactly what I was looking for! Creating small, portable llm-powered tools begs for a lightweight vector database.

The other open source solution I found is sqlite-vec, which is still in alpha.
Because part of the disagreement is also whether the surrounding context (both conterporary and present) is part of the artwork
Anvil: Formally Verifying Kubernetes Controllers [pdf]
you mean countries cause when your energy is uncompetitive every thing else is too.
maybe... construction is expensive, yes, but a bigger problem is that for example in my 'hood there are exactly 0 lots for sale. The sprawl model - which has been aggressively pursued for at least half a century - by now seems to have eaten up all the land in any sane commute reach. Elevators have been purposely avoided for many decades now and not because of their cost.
> In Our Time (BBC)

seconding.

In Our Time[0] is one of the most valuable and interesting sources of knowledge in audio form on the planet. i've been listening to it since the 1990s when i lived in the UK and listened via FM on bbc radio 4.

20+ years later, i live in the USA and i'm still listening to the same weekly round table of scholars talking in-depth about something fascinating, deftly herded by melvyn bragg.

there are over 1000 episodes [1] in the considerable archive [2]!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(radio_series)

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMR...
Would building another identical JWST be meaningfully cheaper? All the R&D work would be done and we could update just the sensor package.

I feel like we don’t do enough reuse in space programs and every project feels like a “from scratch” effort.
I hear you, being able to leave a job and quickly find a new one is a great thing to have in this field, and it helps in having a great sense of job security.

The issue isn't that these jobs pay well and are great to work in so we should deal with any bs that flys. It's that people don't deserve to be harrassed, regardless of how "good" their work is.

If you make 2 million a year as an investment banker, you don't deserve to be unfairly humiliated at your job more than any part time fast food worker.
hoping an expert can answer a few Qs I have :)

Is FlashAttention simply a drop-in replacement for the attention operation in an LLM? Can it be used anywhere that an "attention" operation is used? Or does a LLM need to be trained specially to use FA?

How does FA relate to attention strategies like GQA (grouped query attention) or sliding-window attention? Are they orthogonal concepts? Or you need a specific FA implementation for each strategy?

Recently llama.cpp added flash attention support - does this just mean they started consuming a flash attention-provided CUDA kernel or something?

lastly, in this post, they compare FlashAttention to Triton. I thought Triton was like an abstraction layer? Couldn't FA be implemented in Triton? I just don't really get what it means to say "FlashAttention vs. Triton".
This is dumb. I can’t really imagine a situation where the slot I the traffic I just left to overtake isn’t still available. The truck you’ve overtaking would have to be 100m long for slowing down to be a worse option.
Furniture maker (professionally):

I typically do Sketchup for design drawings because it's easier for clients to see things in 3D. Do I love it? No, but I'm reasonably quick using it, so I do. It's also a hell of a lot easier to make big changes than working on paper.

Shop drawings I do by hand. How much measuring I do depends greatly on how what I'm trying to achieve:

If the piece is based heavily on proportions and symmetry[0], I'll use dividers a lot more than a ruler.

If I need to hit certain measurements for practical reasons, it's a bit of both.

If I'm strictly reproducing a design model, I'll have the ruler out pretty exclusively. Sketchup does do division/even spacing with array copy, so I can usually work out what I want pretty closely.

If I'm reproducing a piece from a photo[1], it's a lot of both, some educated rounding to a reasonable fraction, and I've gone entirely crosseyed by the end of the day.

Occasionally, I'll do something almost entirely without firm measurements. My tool tote is based on my hand span (because that's about the width you can comfortably carry along your side), and there were no drawings to speak of. Everything was dimensioned at the bench. Stick chairs and stools tend to be pretty similar; if I'm building them out of scrap, I design around the available wood. I'm not sure I'd build any for money yet though. I have a few more learning experiences in me before I do that.

[0] https://www.longwalkwoodworking.com/cabinet-on-stand

[1] https://www.longwalkwoodworking.com/federalclock
No, please don't.

Most firmware systems don't enable interrupts, support paging, SMP, or many other things, for a long list of reasons, while at the same time, in order to enable a full Linux environment, ExitBootServices must be called, which is going to make a mess anytime the booting kernel isn't the right one. Kexec breaks a fair amount of the time if the target kernel isn't exactly what was already booted (ex, see kdump failures). Nevermind if the target OS isn't linux.

And for what? So /boot can stick around? A legacy partition left over from the days of BIOS/MBR like systems that have to have a small partition at the beginning of the disk, formatted with something that supports linux file permissions?

No, the right solution is to just place the kernel(s), and a small signed initrd (s) in the ESP, and nothing else besides a boot selector, like say systemd-boot to allow the user to select the correct kernel/OS, and optionally edit debug/etc options. Then, when the correct kernel is booted, it can bring up the network, filesystem, and whatever is needed.

That solves an endless list of Linux and firmware interaction problems that Grub currently solves, without all the file system, network code, etc., that one finds in Grub, which mainly duplicates the functionality already provided by UEFI.

The problem with this solution is that it doesn't work on systems that aren't UEFI, to which I might suggest that those systems (cough, legacy IBM junk, or hyperscalers still using BIOS boot after it has been deprecated everywhere else) have either uboot-uefi or edk2 ported so they can conform to modern boot standards.
Maybe I need to revisit that part. My key point in other words is: restrictions are bad: In one moment they are intended to work pro open source, the next they work anti Open Source, by wrongfully claiming Open Source work for some exclusive commercial interests of a single entity.
This exactly. I stumbled on an filed Policing Patent regarding a streamlined, real time national AI system that will determine "quasi-instantaneously" if ANY queried person is a likely suspect or not a likely suspect - they state multiple times its for terrorists but in actual examples shown in the patent they near exclusively talk about drug dealers and users, primarily regarding the seizure of their assets That's part of the AI "suspect/not" system, the determination of the likelihood that there is seizable assets or not is another way to state the patent - all under guise of officer security and safety, obviously.

The only immediate feedback provided upon conclusion of a scenario where an Officer was notified that suspect is "known offender/law breaker" - that system quite literally incorporates officer opinion statements, treated as jury decided fact. " I saw him smoke weed" is legitimate qualifier for an immediate harassment experience where the officer is highly motivated to make an arrest .

ALL reported feedback upon completion of the event from AI to Officer to Prosecution was related to the assets having been successfully collected, or not.

It also had tons of language regarding AI/automated prosecution offices.

It also seems rather rudimentary - like it's going to cause a lot of real serious issues being so basic but that's by design to provide "actionable feedback" - it presents an either or of every situation for the officer to go off.

That's the Sith btw - if that sounds familiar it's bc it's exactly what the bad guys do that the good guys are not supposed to ever do - see the world in black or white, right or wrong, most everything is shades of grey. So, that's not only wrong it's also a little stupid...

and apparently how cops are supposed to defacto operate without thought.
Vanguard. Fidelity has some nice low-cost index funds in the style of Vanguard, as well.
Chicken and egg maybe? It depends on where you define the start of industrialization. If you did not have cheap, available steel no one would have wasted it on pressure vessels and saws and instruments of precision. The innovations of Darby and Bessemer were done largely by hand-measured built machines.

Jean Picard's tools of measurement themselves would have been custom built by hand for him, and his results were measured in a very regional French measurement of feet. Standardization != precision.
This is not really true unless there's something _really_ wrong with your back. For run of the mill disk hernia the patient satisfaction scores at 1 year for surgery and conservative treatment are pretty much the same [0][1].

[0] - https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/12/e012938.short

[1] - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-010-1603-7
Apple settles EU case by opening its iPhone payment system to rivals
That name, Tunney. Remember it from around 2014, being homeless, bumming around, and shit posting on Twitter about Occupy lol
I was speaking in general terms, not referring to a specific decision.
According to Geekerwan (who is one of the best mobile SoC reviewers) Apple does not destroy the competition. In fact, aside from the A17 single core score (which comes at the cost of increased thermals and aggressive throttling) Apple is the one destroyed in multi-core and GPU performance. All the while being on an inferior TSMC node.

>Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 comparison with A17. Apple's multicore lead is gone, GPU lead is gone, and the single core lead hasn't been smaller in a decade and has worse thermals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/17gvtew/geekerwan_sn...
The events may or may not stand out but children today have less autonomy and are given responsibility for themselves later in life. I see this as developing a feel of helplessness. Compounded with current media landscape of distortion and distress is different.

Finally I see that society would rather scapegoat the smartphone than point out the issue having TVs the public spaces makes consumption of this stress are background noise.
In fact what they meant is 'typeface' , a fancy word for what's often (wrongly) referred to as 'font'.
I think if I cared about damage control I would have deleted the article a long time ago as so many people have clearly missed the point of the post.

Again I would never (and didn’t) draw an issue with an entire nationality of people squeezing oranges in their hair, particularly being an orange-squeezer myself. If anything, it would be better if almost everyone would be squeezing citrus in their hair every day, as we would more readily be able to point to the side effects associated with doing so without it seeming like an affront to one group of people.

True, this analogy is confusing, but it’s also great that you created it.
did you really think the powers that be are gonna let us think we're still free? freedom to invent and produce we are not deserving of, because it takes away from dishonest shadow elite who only know how to profit from destruction and sowing chaos. don't you get it? they hate that we're free to thrive without them!
Sure, but combined with other methods, you get something much better.

Maybe I invent a protocol today called "hitta" and make a new package called

"hitta"

I'm pretty much automatically going to be the de facto standard, even if better, more updated implementations exist. Names matter.

But if my implementation is called

hittaorg/hitta

Organizations and users (publishers) can be verified, and the tools integrate correctly; you gain better package context, increase trust, and reduce supply chain risks.

Now, if user123 has a better version, they might make

user123/hitta

Instead of

pyhitta-with-new-features

or whatever garbage is used today
Enable/disable disk encryption or reset a machine on Ubuntu via only the UI.

You've been able to do both on Windows and macOS for other a decade now without touching a terminal.

or repair a broken install
etc
I use Pomodoro occasionally (~few times a year)when I really need to focus on some unpleasant task.

The rest of the time I rely on screaming at myself inside my head.
Lessons from 20 Years Hacking MySQL
One of the more endearing human errors is our tendency to anthropomorphize—put a name and a face on anything, even just a pair of googly eyes on a paperclip, and suddenly it’s a person (“Clippy!!”). These people, instead of thinking “How can we help people not anthropomorphize AI?” instead thought “How can we profit from people anthropomorphizing AI?” I don’t usually wish failure on people’s business ideas, but I’m making an exception in this case.
There is a part 2 also, which is linked at the bottom of this first post, for that reason I removed the mention of (Part 1) from the title.
Your complaint is more like saying a people carrier is an overpriced sportscar because of its inability to function as a backhoe, while ignoring evidence not only from all the people who use people people carriers, but also disregarding the usage and real world value evidence in the form of the particular company behind this people carrier manages to be wildly popular despite above average prices for every single model.