skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So good, and I love this SMBC take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJS76Bf-ZYo
This project is now all the more interesting given what we now know about LLM scaling laws. It will take trillions of high quality, factual tokens to train the next generation of LLMs.

Copyright is also appearing to be beside the point. A petabyte of copyrighted data could be run through an LLM and rephrased/summarized in a way that retains the essential knowledge but creates a public domain dataset for further training.
s/the minority/a different country/

See also Mozilla turning on routing DNS traffic to Cloudflare by default because that's the level of trust this American organisation has in their ISPs, but after concerns raised in other countries they decided to turn it off by default at least where I'm from in western Europe (not sure about the rest of the world)
I think it would be absurd to expect continuous updates from something you paid for once.
>macOS asks you if you want to move it

I think that's the individual applications themselves: as far as I know osx itself doesn't care where you run the app from (or maybe this was only added after 10.10?). You can even run the app directly from the disk image, which I often do to "try out" an app.
Sure, they are children and said children do a lot of things at school that they hide from parents. This isn't new. As long as the children are not hurting others, why should the schools care?
If you were to tell your CEO you're reducing page load time, they will rightfully ask you why and what problem you're solving. The objective is the simple sentence that makes the "why" clear. It might itself be subordinate to a higher level objective. The idea is that all work is clearly aligned to specific goals in a very transparent manner.

It's actually a very solid framework, but as the many comments indicate, poor implementations abound (also see Agile, DevOps, etc).
https://www.narratear.com/ is pretty far along with this, and the founders are solid.
My broad sweeping generalization was primarily meant as a counterpoint to this from parent comment: "The pandemic showed us exactly what children would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over them, which is bugger all."

My point is more that kids, when left to their own devices (with basic needs met), will find ways to occupy themselves that they find interesting that are not outcome oriented (I call this playing).

And I personally have never met a kid that didn't like playing in some form or another, though the form of playing is highly, highly individualized.
> The studies section of Wikipedia is much less compelling than you let on

He didn't indicate any magnitude, your subconscious mind interpreted that part, merged it into your experience, and here we are.
As the saying goes: perception is reality (a technically true statement, but the particular meaning of the word "is" (there are many) is very important to understand this saying properly). This is not the only error in your comment by the way.

I am curious: how many hours have you invested in studying consciousness, and in what ways? How about psychedelics, have you substantial experience (and do you study your experiences, and those of others, or just do it for fun)? How about meditation? How about epistemology (ie: Gettier Problems(!!!), non-binary logic, phenomenology, cultural norms of cognition (which puts limits on how accurately/soundly you are taught and even ~allowed to think), etc)? How about Direct vs Indirect Realism (did you even consider this, at all while you were writing your comment)?

Are you going to learn a lesson from this and exert effort in the future to distinguish between shared reality and your personal local "reality", culturally and ideologically conditioned Human Being? Or, are you going to continue behaving inline with your peers here, the easy and pleasurable approach, putting people like me who are trapped on this planet (which is warming up due to your ideologies) with you people at ever increasing levels of risk?

edit: fixed spelling, misplaced brackets
Tech Firms Including Apple Caught Using YouTube Data to Train AI Models
Ethernet (OSA cards) and Fibre Channel (FICON cards) are standard on z Mainframes these days. TCP/IP is standard on z/OS, CP (z/VM), AIX and Linux. Terminal emulators connect over TCP/IP, not RS-232 or coax. etc.

But still today:

- The character set for most OSes (not Linux) is EBCDIC.

- The terminal is form-based (like a web page, but with invisible input fields) rather than character based.

- You ALWAYS have to have key punch and card reader devices defined (even on Linux).

- z/OS needs proprietary FICON (not plain fibre channel) connections to emulated ECKD disks (not block based) on one of just a few SANs that support it.

- VSE still needs a TCP/IP stack (one of two 3rd party vendors) purchased separately.

- You need several x86 computers (HMC and two support elements) to manage or even boot-up a mainframe.

- You have to painstakingly configure virtual to physical device address mappings (IOCDS) before you can boot-up anything.

And more.
Euromod: Simulate and experiment with EU country tax policy reform [video]
Is everything typed into the search box sent to Google by default.
You know what’s also cool about this announcement? How clean, lightweight and unobtrusive that blog page is.
Smalltalk is another language that has had this feature since forever.

Tagged pointers / SmallInteger encodings make the memory overhead zero to negligible, and with the CPU / memory-bandwidth gap being what it is, the few extra CPU operations rarely matter.

Daniel Bernstein made the argument that integers should default to these semantics for security reasons:

https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2018/readings/qmail.pdf
blockdiag > seqdiag is another syntax for Unicode sequence diagrams, optionally in ReST or MyST in Sphinx docs: http://blockdiag.com/en/seqdiag/examples.html#edge-types

blockdiag > nwdiag > rackdiag does server rack charts: http://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/

Otherwise mermaidjs probably has advantages including Jupyter Notebook support.

E.g. Gephi supports JSON of some sort. Supported graph formats: https://gephi.org/users/supported-graph-formats/

More graph and edge layout options might help with larger traces

yEd has many graph layout algorithms and parameters and supports GraphML XML; yEd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEd

MermaidJS docs > Syntax > sequenceDiagram:
https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/sequenceDiagram.html
Sync Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring a Staff Engineer
US public government spending net transfers by generation [pdf]
I took a polygraph about 30 years ago a Ft. Meade during a background check for NSA. Honestly it took like 45 minutes, guy was totally pleasant and he treated it seriously, but it seemed mechanical, strictly scripted, and more like a box checking exercise.

However, I also had an interview with a psychologist which was very intense and manipulative, but effective, in eliciting true information about how much I was drinking at the time (too much, quite frankly). It was only years later that I realized that was the information they really wanted and all the other embarrassing sex questions were just to set me up.
These are America's 10 worst states for quality of life in 2024
cant wait for someone to lose all their money trying to predict stocks with this thing
Nitpick: Your number of orders of magnitude is off by a (binary) order of magnitude.

The speed of light is about 300,000,000 m/s. (In fact it's exactly 299,792,458 m/s, because that's how the metre is defined.) So 3,000 m/s is off by five (decimal) orders of magnitude, not two.
I will be looking forward to it.

The major concern I had just taking a cursory look revolved around the wording of 'unique' signatures. This word is often misused in an out of context way that makes the claim false.

When used it has a very specific meaning in math, but many times the claim being made is actually an improper equivalence being made (for marketing).

For example, they map some inputs to a finite field that may roll over, which isn't disclosed. This is known to violate the 1:1 map required for a 'unique' property between input and output, excepting some very rigorous methodology and forcibly limited system's/environments.

Uniformity of the collisions in such systems is also a very big problem, sometimes they clump, but absent bruteforce checking the entire space there's no way to predict ahead of time when clumping will happen. Similar equivalences have been made in the crypto space, and shown to be false when those systems were rigorously broken later. The existence of collisions given same inputs is proof by contradiction the input->output pair is not unique and fails.

I've linked one of the cases with a brief gist below (since Justia doesn't provide a rundown).

Harvey Eugene Jr. was arrested based on a false match for a robbery of a Sunglass Hut in Texas (owned by Macy's). He lived at the time in Sacramento CA, he was arrested when he returned to renew his Texas driver's license; during holding he was raped by three other inmates leaving him with permanent debilitating injuries. He was at the time of the robbery provably living in Sacramento. His arrest was based solely on the false positive AI based facial recognition match.

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txsdce/4:2024cv00801...

There have been many news articles, and several cases, a simple search for "facial recognition false arrest" on google should provide a number of articles.

You may also find a few on the ACLU/EFF site as they have a keen interest in going after companies who violate civil rights; their website has a history of some of the more prominent ones.
But this is exactly what I wrote that I don't believe in my initial comment. There'll always be more money in more intrusive tracking. Why would they give that up? Surely Mozilla is selling out to advertisers based on something more substantive than "we hope that advertisers won't keep taking a mile if we give an inch"?
Eating in restaurants is terrible for your health. Here's a study that finds a 49% increase in all-cause mortality risk for those who frequently eat meals prepared away from home. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33775622/

I have stopped eating out completely as I always feel gross and tired after a restaurant meal vs energized after home-cooked food. I think it's mostly due to cheap oils in quantities you would never dream of using at home.
> I don't see the argument why product people don't need to learn this.

They need to, but in my experience, they simply don't want to. They want to get the credit for the product, but they want to wave their arm and just have its features appear without actually specifying them.

I understand because it is hard, exacting work. But as it is specificity just gets pushed from product people down to the lowest-level person responsible for implementation.
My personal experience with story points is that the number never really mattered, but the process of the team discussing how to rate the complexity of a task was very useful. In terms of having utility of estimating how long something will take, I personally have never been able to translate story points into a reliable indicator for that for many reasons (e.g team changing, domain changing, variability in operational load outside of development work).

Overall I tend to avoid using story points, but on the few teams I worked on who really wanted to use it, I always framed it around building shared understanding rather than a metric that is actually useful for estimating work.
> People want to run these things. But that is not the AI running itself. Escape implies that it is doing something it shouldn't, not that it is running by the consent of others.

If Alice convinces Bob to commit a crime for her — i.e. Bob consents to do the thing — she is engaged in a criminal conspiracy even Alice herself never does the crime she convinced Bob to do.

If she instead (or in addition) runs for president and is democratically elected, she is president by the consent of the people — we may not be able to change hardware the way software does, but is she not "running herself" when this happens? Let's say Lemoine had been successful and the lawyer had set the precedent that the LLM was "a person" and that turning it off was basically murder; is this not the AI "running itself" in a perfectly reasonable use of those words?

(Common objection I encounter: "who pays for the electricity bill?", to which I ask "who pays for your food bill?")

When we build a deep space rocket, it reaches "escape" velocity and becomes unbound from Earth, I would not call that "doing something it shouldn't".

> To clarify: I took "escape the initial vessel" to meab the AI was running completely autonomously without any human intervention or input, and providing for all of its needs itself.

Does it matter how it gets there, once it manages this? Why should it matter if this is social engineering or software hacking when the result is the same?

I'm sure someone has put an LLM on an off-grid solar powered computer by this point, which is rather more devoid of human intervention than most humans are capable of given we're not photovores. Current models likely won't do much given what I've seen of them — and I won't expect them to do much interesting by themselves for at least 5 years even in the shortest timelines I'm willing to consider — but I bet someone has already done that.
I'm not sure I agree with the framing of this article.

It seems to be comparing two different things, 1. Points as a method for attributing difficulty to a work item, vs 2. The collaboration process of creating a task list as a method of breaking down work.

Running a team, I found pointing useful, more useful than the individual line engineers did, as we had different goals. My goal, in optimizing the team, was to go through all our work, get everyone in a room and create a relatively optimal plan for the next couple of weeks.

By going through the exercise of pointing, we often found that something one person thought was hard, another found easy. That act of estimating would reveal knowledge one person had that another didn't, that made the task easier. Without that process, the work might have been harder do do, because the easy way was never revealed. We also adhered to a 8 points is too many philosophy that meant any item that hard needed to be decomposed to simple tasks to repoint.

The "queuing" section basically implies the planning process should decompose tasks all the way to nothing but 1 point stories (or at least similarly sized work items within some variance). It's basically the same process as pointing, except not calling out some things are chunkier than others because it all comes out in the wash.

TL;DR this articles definition of queuing is basically pointing where task = 1 point items.
You are labeling people disagreeing with you evil and globalists and bad persons, this is the direct path to authoritarianism and its murderous consequences. Your statements are driven by hate, please look in the mirror at your own words and beliefs.
Trump appointed judges that stated row vs. wade was settled case law during their confirmation hearings, directly lying to congress. Of course Trump is not himself pro abortion, he is a philanderer who slept with porn stars, he has zero interest in the issue, but he has used the political issue to gain power and his actions have already greatly damaged individual rights in this country, and will continue to do so.
You're dangerously naive
> It will take trillions of high quality, factual tokens to train the next generation of LLMs.

This is like saying it will take trillions of man-hours to chisel through a mounting with a spoon.

You might want to think outside of that box.
I love the responsiveness and communication -- I'm preordering now!
Interesting take that a lot of bright minds are being stolen from us due to the allure of riches via crypto malware. But I'm hard pressed to assume that they would have stayed on the virtuous side of things in the absence of crypto. Then again, being well versed in cryptography/blockchain/etc isn't something any person can learn quickly and easily.

I also use the skillset to build Bitcoin as a way to pinpoint who Satoshi is/was. It had to be 1 of those small finite # of people who were able to build such software around mid-2008.

Lightly relevant quote from Albert Einstein, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
> I would advise to use the rent or buy calculator

I've used it. It's not good.

If you asked someone to make a calculator that makes renting as attractive as possible - it would look similar to the NYT calculator.

It's not surprising this calculator comes from a city where the majority of people rent, and is read mainly by "elites" who live in areas where more people rent...

At the time, I lived in LA in this exact calculator convinced me that housing was a horrible investment in 2013.

Had I bought then instead of had my money in the S&P my net-worth would almost be triple what it is now.

Luckily, I'm doing fine either way, and did buy and lock in a 2.7% interest rate, after learning this calculator has some serious flaws and building a much more realistic spreadsheet to model it...
Thank you for the detailed feedback and kind words! It’s great to hear about your positive experience with Qbserve. I appreciate you sharing the features you love—many of them align with what I'm aiming to offer with Taim. I'm working hard to bring these features and more to Taim, with a focus on simplicity and efficiency. Your insights are very helpful, and I hope to add some innovative touches to improve the time tracking experience even further. Thanks again for your support, and stay tuned for more updates!
> fastText is faster, cheaper and runs locally

the question is if quality will be acceptable
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Elon Musk says X and SpaceX will move from California to Texas
The Foundation Pit (Kotlovan in Russian) is great and Kafka-like: the Soviet people are digging a giant hole no one knows or remembers why and how deep. Eventually people start dying from the hard work and they are buried in the hole where others continue working
It's a pretty common feature on high-level languages. Python, Ruby, Lisp(s), Haskell, etc, all use arbitrary-precision integers by default. Even JavaScript has integers now (since 2020), not as the default number type, but with the `n` suffix, like `42n`.
Or they want to motivate the Democrats to do better with a protest vote. That's my plan, anyway.
but embeddings came from somewhere (LLM?).
According to news stories, Apple received $20 billion dollars in 2022 from Google to make Google the default search in Safari.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...
What are the hardware requirements for this course though?
Has dealing with your PTSD actually improved your memory or has the damage already been done?
There was a talk about some novel ways to approach test suite generation and reduction at a PLDI workshop a few weeks ago. That work came from the compilers and programming languages tool domain:

https://pldi24.sigplan.org/home/egraphs-2024#program

Specifically, the EGSTRA paper.
You're always doing something wrong
Cute.

He set up his receiver near the VOR, though. So he doesn't get any useful distance info from it. He can hear the aircraft's query and the fixed station's reply, but near the DME station, the difference will be constant, just the fixed delay.

The next step is to put the receiver far from the DME station. Then, the time delay measured will indicate the aircraft to DME station distance minus the aircraft to receiver distance. I think this lets you locate the aircraft somewhere on a hyperbola, similar to the way GPS and LORAN work off time differences. If you have two receivers at different locations, you should be able to get two hyperbolas and locate the aircraft.

This is really a 3D problem, because altitude. So you get quadric surfaces and need 3 receivers. Preferably four, because there are multiple solutions. Two is enough to get a rough aircraft location for test purposes.

This has potential as a ground backup for ADS-B. ADS-B tells you where the aircraft nav system thinks it is. This is telling you where it really is, if it's using a VOR/DME at the moment.

But not who it is. That's not in the DME poll.
Make sure that safe defaults exist, don’t expect people to reinvent wheels safely, and try to use collaborative and well-informed validation of choices rather than stage gates with all the normal queuing problems, automate security checks into local build phase if you have it, make sure that nonsense CI based security checks can be overridden by sane people, and keep track of tech debt and try to work it down consistently.
We should be thankful that it's commonplace to use points instead of units of time like days even if points are horseshit. Estimates aren't that useful most of the time, and the last thing I would need is a manager telling me they're concerned because my ticket took 3 days instead of the two that the whole team estimated.
This is personal for him since his kid came out as trans a few years ago. That was when his political shift really started in earnest.
Amazing news! Long life to Meteor
> $179

Ballsy... unless you mean to make that deep discount permanent, which is a can of worms of its own.
I've used a 3090 and some of the predecessors and VM/CMS. The "monitor" was called CP (control program) IIRC.

XEDIT was a great editor. There was also Rexx (and previously EXEC and EXEC/2) as the system's programming language that you could use to customize virtually every aspect of the editor and automated tasks. Rexx had integration with the editor and also integrated with the OS there were lots of these small integration points that let you do really powerful stuff. Applications like email were implemented on top of the basic OS and editor. A very unique and powerful architecture (mirrored to some degree in OS/2 later).

The ecosystem was incredible. The virtualization support in the CPU let you run a complete multi-user system with each user having a visualized CPU within one virtual CPU. I.e. it was "fully" virtualized. What's more incredible is that a lot of these pieces, like the OS, were all written in assembly. Super robust. Super clean. Amazing documentation for everything. As top notch engineering as it gets.

The full screen terminal (e.g. 327X) were part of the architecture, delegating a lot of the interaction to the terminal. Interesting enough you could poll the terminals for input which we've used for writing some games. A friend of mine wrote a library for doing that. There were also colour/graphics terminals like the 3279 and could be programmed e.g. with a library called GDDM.

EDIT:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)

Another interesting bit is that IBM shipped the full source code for everything (I think this was by default). They also had a shared bug reporting system (anyone remember what that was called?).
All good! That said I do like the genuine recommendation. Will look at that.
I agree - just countless times I have to beat that up into peoples head and even people who I would consider smart "points <> time".

After the sprint you can kind of infer the time but it should not be guideline for next estimations unless these are tasks like "fix typos".
This isn't a coincidence. I wrote both.
I'm talking about the index.

No, you haven't.

Because if you did, you woulnd't be looking at an exponential and saying "but but but it reverts!!!!"