skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No one wants to pay for anything, and that's the true root of every issue around this. People complain YouTube has ads, but wont buy premium.

Perhaps if buying into a service guaranteed that they would not be sold out then there would be more engagement. When someone signs up it is pretty much a rock-hard guarantee that their personal information will be marketed and sold to any entity with the money and interest to buy it - paying customers, free-loaders, etc.

When someone chooses to buy your app or SaaS then they should be excluded from the list of users that you sell or trade between "business partners".

When paying for a service guarantees that you're selling all details of your engagement with that service to unrelated business entities you have a disincentive to pay.

People are wising up to all this PII harvesting and those clowns who sold everyone out need to find a different model or quit bitching when real people choose to avoid their "services" since most of these things are not necessary for people to enjoy life anyway. They are distractions.

EDIT: This is not intended as a personal attack on you but is instead a general observation from the perspective of someone who does not use or pay for any apps or SaaS services and who actively avoids handing out accurate personal information when the opportunity arises.
That’s what they said, yeah. But it’s all talk without the numbers.

I know they’re focusing on efficiency, and good for them. I hope their claims are accurate or at least close.

But I’ve been on this ride way too many times. Some company claiming their thing is better than the other one and then it turns out it just flat out isn’t, or only is with some giant compromise.

It’s the combination of speed, battery life, AND heat that have been magical for the Mac compared to the last Intel chips they shipped.

I’m just expecting another case of faster but hotter or worse battery life. Pretty much all the quotes are about being faster. Then there’s this:

> During the event, AMD would only say that battery life would last “all day,” which the company defines as “eight hours or more.

I don’t know how that compares in the PC space but if the best you can do is 8 hours you’re WAY WAY off. An Air is rated at 18 hours, a 16” MBP at 22.

That’s what I’m talking about. They are not matching Apple. They’re making big cuts somewhere. It may be a big improvement in the PC space, and good for them if it is, but don’t say you’re beating Apple if you’re getting 40% of the battery life at the same performance.
I probably shouldn't mention how UK Nuke subs used to use WinXP. Maybe they still do. Even if they were using CS, I doubt they would update systems while deployed. I had this horrified image of a nuke sub at the bottom of the ocean while the onboard IT tech was trying hard to make sense of why all the critical systems kept blue-screening.

https://www.theregister.com/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarine...
That's absolutely fair and definitely beyond a bad wordong choice from me.
> Economists say every immigrant is a net economic positive to the nation.

This can only be true if they sustain themselves on their own work. An immigrant that does not work and only lives on subsidies can hardly be called a net positive.
Nop, that would be unethical
It's my belief a lot of the tech VC are autodidactic. They place a very high value on their own certainty. This tends to depreciate academic knowledge. Experiential, engineering grounded thinking predominates. And, a historical tendency to seek and value Ayn Rand and "self made man" schools of thinking.

They emphasise Individualism over collectivism, and naturally that goes to smaller non interventionist government philosophy along with anti unionism and low taxes.

Another common component of this is a belief to be poor is bad life choices, and sometimes even genetic: poor people are unsaveable. Why bother? It's innate and/or their own choice.

Since they find and value their own fellow minded people of HNW they aggregate, self confirm, and now organise.

Some (mostly older) tech entrepreneurs and creators are different. Bell labs types, European education, stronger affinity to community and social enterprise, less rigid belief in IPR and their own "rightness"

Gates is somewhat in the middle. Melinda helped him unpack a lot of socially beneficial choices, as did Warren Buffet. I wouldn't call either of them left but they are certainly not Peter Thiel or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. They appear to appreciate collectivism, at some level.
It is a phenomenal book for what it is. It was the required reading for the class I taught at UNC in 2019. I am teaching a workshop in September and bought a copy for every attendee because I believe it is that important for people to be exposed to his ideas and how he approaches things.

I was also impressed with "Righting Software" and the premise of volatility based decomposition but it is not nearly as approachable as Ousterhout's book.
Also a problem for rocket propulsion content on YouTube interestingly enough.
Does nudge-nudge wink-wink imply official policy to you?

How about undocumented immigrants openly hanging outside of Home Depot waiting for work, while everyone looks the other way because contractors rely on them? That feels like unofficial policy to me.
OpenBSD still has security updates. Software packages often installed on OpenBSD-based systems often issue security updates. OpenBSD has a much smaller footprint than Windows and still has security updates.
First put a law to prevent urinating in public, then remove public toilets. Something sounds fishy
Build Your Career on Dirty Work (2022)
No longer rare: China's overproduction sends rare-earth prices tanking
Sure, I will let you say it :)

Let me say that I think the same about this comment of yours upthread:

>>D would deserve attention too, in a separate post, or here if it was explained how it relates to Aro.

In case you cannot or don't want to google for some reason, here are the Wikipedia articles about D, Walter and Andrei, and important related topics (all on Wikipedia, which implies notability) that I suggested you look up, above:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zortech_C%2B%2B

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1977_video_game)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Alexandrescu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_C%2B%2B_Design

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

Edit: spelling
I think I may have heard of a similar problem in a different field, computational thermodynamics. Solutions to a set of equations may be real or complex. The nonlinear solvers worked with real numbers exclusively and from time to time would not converge to any solution. Apparently if one used a solver that worked with complex numbers, the solver would reach a solution in real space more often than exclusively real solvers. Of course solving was much more expensive. Your explanation seems to fit here too
https://archive.is/0ODTi
Show HN: AI-First Album, chat with your album based on GPT-4o-mini
AI-First Album, allowing direct natural language chat with your image library.
It doesn’t require much scrutiny when you can see where the money is going.
My Commodore 64 never gave me a blue screen of death and my Atari ST never lapsed into a hardcore boot loop.

just sayin'
The words “give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are engraved on the Statue of Liberty. We were all taught about immigrants trying to escape poverty, war and hardship by coming to America and starting a new life for themselves and their families. So it’s got a bit of a romanticism to it, and it’s hard to blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to get their families into the country like we saw the immigrants in our history books do.
I think if you watch Andreessen & Horowitz describe their thinking, it will explain their perspective [1].

For others, such as Musk, I don't think it's as much "turning to the right" as it is that many on the left, which used to be a bastion of civil liberties and free speech protection, have abandoned that position and embraced speech suppression.

This has become so pronounced that the label "liberal" is pretty confusing these days, and many folks feel the need to clarify that they believe in "liberalism" as in "Classical liberalism" [2] because many modern "liberals" have moved away from many of those traditional beliefs.

There also seems to be a strong and growing anti-capitalist sentiment in the Democrat party which has driven some business folks that were traditionally "left" away from that ideology.

And while it may sound a bit trite, I think another factor is that they are simply getting older.

The phrase "if you're not a liberal in your 20's you have no heart, if you're not conservative in your 30's you have no brain" has existed in some form since the 1700s [3] and been remarked on even in the American Journal of Medicine [4]. It's pretty common for people's viewpoint to change with age.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

[3] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/

[4] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30193-0/pdf
I'm sceptical, which proves this is controversial. I've used one of those allegedly ML secure systems (NOS, on a CDC mainframe). The two reasons NOS and other systems of that vintage were considered secure is that nobody of a hackerish nature got to use them, and they were so damn stupid nobody else cared enough to break them.
Was somebody trying to install an exploit or back door and fucked up?
Real life operations of hospitals were affected (eg scheduled surgeries not taking place).
> I might have a talk with David. I might say, ‘Listen, I’ve figured out it was you. Do I not seem approachable? Why are you and I not having a conversation about this?’

Talk about an absolute terrible way to approach someone who went public about a sexual harassment claim. From just this article I don't think I'd feel comfortable talking with this dude about anything serious going on.
I will agree based on anecdata alone. I have a high IQ, but have achieved much less than you might predict based on that IQ alone--primarily out of lack of desire.

Even though on paper I may be high-potential, in real life I'd prefer to be normal, and for every one of me that exists, there's a 100 IQ person who has the drive and willpower to achieve things that would be considered atypical. Both of us are exceptions, but we both still exist.
More confusing and borderline idiotic syntax comes for CSS in the form of IF conditionals. CSS is already a syntax hell, an unreadable mess, but the author is excited... oh dear god. The asteroid is coming, He is excited... Really?

Cut the bloat, what is this mongrelified thing?

background-color: if(style(--weather: clouds) ? var(--clouds-color): var(--default-color));

I tell you what it is. it is Holy shit level bullshit!

Okay let's see another example.

Conjured by some alien lifeform:

width: if(media(width > 1200px) ? var(--size-l): var(--size-m));

What about a semblance of sanity:

width: if (media:width > 1200px) ? $size-l: $size-m;

Much more readable isn't it? Strive for something like this please, don't make css look like a Silent Hill monster.
> I find it hard to believe that they didn't test it before deployment.

I’m not sure why you find that hard to believe - based on the (admittedly fairly limited) evidence we have right now, it’s highly unlikely that this deployment was tested much, if at all. It seems much more likely to me that they were playing fast and loose with definition updates to meet some arbitrary SLAs[1] on zero-day prevention, and it finally caught up with them. Much more likely than somehow every single real-world pc running their software being affected but their test machines somehow all impervious.

[1] When my company was considering getting into endpoint security and network anomaly detection, we were required on multiple occasions by multiple potential clients to provide a 4-hour SLA on a wide number of CVE types and severities. That would mean 24/7 on-call security engineers and a sub-4-hour definition creation and deployment. Yes, that 4 hours was for the deployment being available on 100% of the targets. Good luck writing and deploying a high-quality definition for a zero day in 4 hours, let alone running it through a test pipeline, let alone writing new tests to actually cover it. We very quickly noped out of the space, because that was considered “normal” (at least to the potential clients we were discussing). It wouldn’t shock me if CS was working in roughly the same way here.
your kink is ok
What happens if you offer them less than $10? Maybe you can get a deal.
I did not realize this, but makes completely sense. Still super disappointing!
Bright: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval
What, you assume I think the government is good? The cartel is worse by a fair margin, but we do not have a virtuous government. The difference is that government has a modicum of public responsibility and can't/isn't likely to simply murder most* of us for no good reason.
> I would argue it is (obviously) impossible the way the current implementation of models work.

> How could a system which produces a single next word based upon a likelihood and and a parameter called a "temperature" have a conceptual model underpinning it? Even theoretically?

Any probability distribution over strings can theoretically be factored into a product of such a “probability that next token is x given that the text so far is y”. Now, whether a probability distribution over strings can efficiently computed in this form, is another question. But, if we are being so theoretical that we don’t care about the computational cost (as long as it is finite), then the “it is next token prediction” can’t preclude anything which “it produces a probability distribution over strings” doesn’t already preclude.

As for the temperature, given any probability distribution over a discrete set, we can modify it by adding a temperature parameter. Just take the log of the probabilities according to the original probability distribution, scale them all by a factor (the inverse of the temperature, I think. Either that or the temperature, but I think it is the inverse of the temperature.), then exponentiate each of these, and then normalize to produce a probability distribution.

So, the fact that they work by next token prediction, and have a temperature parameter, cannot imply any theoretical limitation that wouldn’t apply to any other way of expressing a probability distribution over strings, as far as discussing probability distributions in the abstract, over strings, rather than talking about computational processes that implement such probability distributions over strings.

But also like,
going between P(next token is x | initial string so far is y) and P(the string begins with z) , isn’t that computationally costly?
Well, in one direction anyway.
Because like, P(next token is x|string so far is y) = P(string begins with yx) / P(string begins with y) .

Though, one might object to P(string starts with y) over P(string is y) ?
I'm no chemist, but from a comp sci perspective the title claim seems overstrong. One can show that certain models of one category outperform certain models of another on certain benchmarks, or first demonstrate some impressive result with a mode based on such a contrary insight. But it's very very hard to prove that a whole category - e.g. models eliminating invalid SMILES - won't lead to competitive results.
I like this coding analogy. Would they willingly accept 20 million people with bizarre and incompatible software? Yes but barely because it's in the same language? China has even less desire for the NK regime to fall, as the formatting and language would disrupt the balance in Manchuria.

But I'm not talking about what they want (whatever South Korea says they want about reunification). I mean what preparations are they making for absorbing that mass of people in the event that it happens... in particular, turning them from a faceless mass into prosperous and contributing individual members of a modern westernized society. South Korea has put a lot of study into that question, as did West Germany. So why can't France? They did control a good portion of the Muslim world for a couple of centuries, after all. What's the difference between the potential collapse of Algeria and the collapse of NK, or at least what is the plan for it?

No one wanted civil wars in Syria and Libya that would send millions of refugees to Europe, but there has been no systematic approach to integrating them and, let's say, updating their software. The prevailing view seems to be that this is temporary rather than just a fraction of what is to come. Anyone looking at the demographics can see that if Europe fails to inculcate its Enlightenment values into its immigrant population within a generation, those values will cease to exist. So I mean what is the real plan?
The spoiling is a feature, it encourages trade and spending. Truly an economic boost you wouldn’t believe.
I suspect the wiley hackors have known how fragile that code is for years.
Not sure why this is so unpopular. Pressure comes from a boss or a client. The US government is likely one of those. But not the only one who can put on that kind of pressure.
Yes. In fact, Aro is already in the main Zig compiler's repo, although currently I don't think it actually does any compilation of C (unless you explicitly disable LLVM) and is mostly used for Zig's "translate-c" functionality, last I checked.
Use the darknet. Get a list of possible texts, then download them. Figure out which one teaches the way you need to learn, then go buy that one. Used.
> How could a system which produces a single next word based upon a likelihood and and a parameter called a "temperature" have a conceptual model underpinning it? Even theoretically?

Could a creature that simply evolved to survive and reproduce possibly have a conceptual model underpinning it? Model training and evolution are very different processes, but they are both ways of optimizing a physical system. It may be the case that evolution can give rise to intelligence and model training can’t, but we need some argument to prove that.
Fun fact: it rains diamonds in Uranus (high pressure plus methane atmosphere = diamond precipitation)
Agreed, but I do believe it has gotten more serious the last 15 years with the centralization of most data centers among the big three (AWS, Microsoft, Google) and the increasing reliance for end user devices and software to be able to connect to them in order to function.

Now that a major worldwide outage has happened I'm curious what industry changes will take place going forward... If any...
Awesome, thanks. Can confirm I'm not using `--ontop`, so at a bit of a loss. The issue is probably with mpv or Wayland because I get the same problem just launching mpv directly, without library. Although focus stealing protection in kwin seems to use some rubric around whether it thinks the window was spawned directly by the user or not to determine how the levels of protection are applied. I would have thought the highest level (extreme) would just prevent focus stealing entirely based on its description.

I'll see what I can do to debug the issue, but otherwise, thanks for your help, I might try your playlist idea in the meantime, it's arguably closer to my desired behaviour anyway.
counter-anecdote: I sleep on it a lot and Namecheap has never taken the one I was looking at
I thank god I never became a lawyer. They are $300+/hr thugs for hire whose only mission is to bully you into complete submission until you pay to make them go away.
I found https://pwn.college to be excellent, even though they mostly focus on exploitation, pretty much everything involves disassembly.
Netflix isn't really that big. two organizations ago our reverse proxy used 40k cores. netflixes is less than 5k. of course, that could just mean our nginx extensions are 8 times crappier than netflix.
They're referencing an (in)famous video of a drunk/drugged/tired Orson Welles attempting to do a commercial; his line is "Ahhh, the... French... champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence..."

I don't think there's anything more to the inclusion of "French" in their comment beyond it being in the original line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s

and the successful version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb1KndrrXsY
Rebuilding the Maze: Reconstruction of Oakland Freeway
The kid likes Pokémon so much he decided to look around the game and discovered some info, and this guy decides to call the kid up and harass/bully him so everyone will know that you don't just look around in his executables.

Fuck this guy and this company.
Read Pareto's Circulation of the Elites and Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class.

All possible behavior of the Ruling and Non-Ruling Elites is covered. "Tech" Elites aren't doing anything different from what Elites of the past have done.
You don't know if it was Namecheap that sniped it, or if an actual person just registered it. It also doesn't make sense to do front running for them.

And if they did snipe it, why wouldn't they list it for sale? What good does registering tons of domains that people search for and then just... not selling them to the people who wanted them?

It's a baseless accusation.
um.. don't have access to the kernel? what's with all the kexts then? [edit: just read 3rd parties don't get kexts on apple silicon. that's a step in the right direction, IMHO. I love to bitch about Mach/NeXTStep flaws, but happy to give them props when they do the right thing.]
For things that are claimed to be high-performance, it would be helpful to see some numbers without running it locally on our own json files.
There's plenty of people doing accommodation and food. Or anything else with high demand. The profit margins are tiny because of this, aka red ocean. More of these don't always make the world a better place; you just end up fighting with a smaller competitor, while Big Corn rakes in the profits from the economy of scale.
In my case, my problem was wanting to sync key A’s data to/from Alice, and key B’s to/from both Alice and Bob. It was unclear to me where and when to apply which updates involved in the yjs protocols (which i couldn’t find any documentation on).
You don't use registrars to find domain names -- because some will take advantage of the data you are handing them for free to try to blackmail you into paying more.

You search for domain names using the DNS system itself, via the command line and nslookup or dig. You only go to a registrar once you've identified a name that is not in the DNS, to see if you can buy it.

Is this 'perfect'? No, you'll sometimes find a name that's owned, but has no entry in the DNS system. But you'll also avoid telling disreputable registrars what names you might be willing to buy so they can then decide that the name is "in demand" and raise the price on you.
Both terms are misleading anthropomorphizing.
What a deranged lunatic. Is there really no one capable of helping this man, does he really only keep yes men as company?

Maybe this is a 5d chess smokescreen for what you currently find if you search http://google.com/search?q=Elon+neo (it's nazis).
Bold of you to assume there is CI to begin with
cool hack and all, but id question what requirement there is to intentionally leave your fridge open for more than a minute and waste copious amounts of energy to get back to original temp.
Did you know about Instruments.app?
Adding support for Haiku.
Anyone like this project
Closing churches because of character limits is everything that's wrong with the world today.
Jews were money lenders, which inherently instills a level of hatred.