skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to look for the source of analysis right now, but I recall reading a study demonstrating that a large part, if not most of the word frequency shift was caused by RLHF training done on data predominantly generated by people hired from lower income English-speaking countries which simply have a different dialect of English with a noticeably different frequency of certain phrases and expressions, so e.g. at least some versions of ChatGPT got RLHF-trained to speak more in a Nigerian English dialect.

Since there isn't a single English (English learners generally get informed about the choice of UK vs US English only, but most English is spoken outside of UK and USA in other places and other dialects), but multiple different Englishes, any English speaker will probably find something to be surprised by, and there is an economic incentive to get data from people other than the relatively expensive native speakers of UK or USA English.
“We have seen countless instances of inefficient and partial enforcement by the DPC in the past years. We want to ensure that Twitter fully complies with EU law, which — at a bare minimum — requires to ask users for consent in this case.”

Yes, I'm sure it's just a coincidence they are deciding to go ham on Twitter. At least they acknowledged they have been haphazard in the past.
I haven't read the book, just the web-page. But the concept of an anti-meme reminded me of something.

The magicians Penn & Teller use this concept to keep their magic tricks safe. They've publicly said that most of their tricks look really impressive, but once you find out how the work you'll be disappointed. What people want to discover is that the magic trick is really an elaborate puzzle where the viewer has just short of enough information to figure it out. The desired explanation for a trick is a hair trigger piece of information that suddenly has it all make sense. Instead the explanations are really just a long sequence of boring facts. What you see is a facade with a bunch of mundane machinery hidden away. If anyone does explain the trick then by the time they're half way through all of the steps you've lost interest.
> VSCode is a joke, you can't use javascript, worse, you need to compile your scripts, and you need to restart the editor whenever you change your "scripts"

You can use Javascript, you don’t need to compile your scripts if you do you javascript, and you don’t need to restart the editor when you change your scripts. You do have to restart the extension host, but that’s not the same thing.
We have to go further than that. Naming and shaming Tim Cook hasn't changed anything from Butterfly keyboards to cringeworthy "mother earth" interviews to exploitative Chinese manufacturing schemes. Apple doesn't speak your language, you can only communicate to them by showing them a world where they hurt.

So outlaw this. Follow the EU's lead and fix this decade-old problem that has damaged the progress of personal computing irreparably. Apple's legacy should be the least of their concerns when they're forced to pay the piper for what they've done. If their recompense was proportional to the money they've stolen from creators and developers then I doubt Apple would even be solvent.
Note that other car manufactures are just copying whatever Tesla is doing. Including these bad parts.
noyb : https://noyb.eu/en/twitters-ai-plans-hit-9-more-gdpr-complai...

There you'll find the arguments.
I bought the short-story collection this is a part of and liked it a lot: https://qntm.org/vhitaos

A lot of the stories are free to read online without buying it but I thought the few dollars for the ebook was worth it
And they would've found it, because it wouldn't be hidden.
Page and Brin dropped out of a Ph D program. They have Masters degrees.
That's also, what's article is about.

> This is one reason why hard-buttons are so effective in old-school cars. They all use these same standard icons so it’s easier for new users to scan across them and find the one you want without any training.
“Good engineering bundled together with bad opinions” is such a succinct summary of most Musk properties.
If I understand correctly, this is like SQLite, but Postgres. I love SQLite, but sometimes I need a little more. So, no more saving Date as text and we have arrays, jsonb etc and all the good stuff from Postgres. Am I right ?
So when I look at the list of countries that have declining birthrates, all are wealth post-industrial.

Also note that according to Pew, the reasoning does not differ across gender: "For the most part, the experiences of adults without children and the reasons they give for not having them don’t vary much by gender. This is the case across both age groups."

So that diminishes the claim that "When women are empowered and have agency, they delay having children and have less children." as it is both men and women choosing this.

Hence my questioning that Women empowerment is the main driver.

It appears to me that the main driver is societal wealth, societal cost and also a desire to focus on the self.

>They want to focus on other things, such as their career or interests (44% vs. 21%)

>They can’t afford to raise a child (36% vs. 12%)

Korea had a sudden birth rate drop after running an ad campaign about how children are a burden. https://www.prb.org/resources/did-south-koreas-population-po...

We in the west have had a massive change in our values and society since the last baby boom. We had the 60's where we rejected alot of the traditional values and then up through the 80's we had "greed is good" and a large focus on the self rather than society as a whole.

We also spread these views and cultural outlook wildly via Hollywood.

Are we sure this had had no impact?
IQ is measured as your 'intelligence' against whatever the average is in that population.

That's why 140 IQ people nowadays are much smarter than 140 IQ people from 100 years ago. The overall average intelligence of a population tends to rise due to better education, access, etc.
> Some programmers (like myself) have little patience for people they consider should know better and are wasting their time. These same programmers are far more charitable to newbies because they know newbies are still learning.

Some programmers are life-long learners and know a very different subset of things. It’s important to remember that just because something is obvious to you doesn’t make it right and doesn’t make it obvious to others.
I argue:

- The list comprehension is ever slightly more readable. (Small Positive)

- It is a bit faster to write the code for the Python variant. (Small Positive)

So this would be a small positive when using Python.

Furthermore, I believe there is this "small positive" trade-off on nearly every aspect of Python, when compared to Go. It makes me wonder why someone might prefer Go to Python in almost any context.

Some common critiques of Python might be:

- Performance in number crunching

- Performance in concurrency

- Development issues in managing a large code base

I believe the ecosystem is sufficiently developed that Numpy/Numba JIT can address nearly all number crunching performance, Uvicorn w/ workers addresses concurrency in a web serving context, ThreadPool/ProcessPool addresses concurrency elsewhere, and type hints are 90% of what you need for type safety. So where does the perceived legitimacy of these critiques come from? I don't know.
Can We Filter PFAS Forever Chemicals from Water?
Couldn't find much (didn't look through the source reports) on socioeconomic background - any interesting statistics there?

There's a difference in "No plan B" if you have a family or network that you can fall back on, or if it means you'll end up as a homeless person.
Yep, agreed. I'm on my third Tesla, and probably my last. The cars are still very structurally safe, but operationally they're getting more dangerous because of changes like the UI, FSD feeling actually worse than it used to (I had it on my Model 3, but I couldn't transfer it to my Model X, and it wasn't good enough on the 3, why would it be good enough on the X which actually had FEWER sensors?) and the absolute insistence than vision-only is safer than vision plus radar and ultrasonic. I understand that the radar they had was limited, but you improve the radar, don't drop it entirely.

Also, I haven't been an Elon fan since 2018 or so, but I was still able to look past his shenanigans when I bought this a few years ago, but he's gone straight over the cliff since then and keep falling, so this is almost definitely the last one I'm getting.
My neighbor has had one for ~2 months. I see it in his driveway every day. The design is "shocking", but as soon as you get over it, it becomes a thoroughly boring shape with weird proportions. There are lots of angles, but none of them are interesting.
Little snitch, the macos equivalent to this was the recommended way to stop pirated copies of Adobe CS programs phoning home for years. Don't think that's the kind of issue you meant, but it does solve it.
> Common ssh (port) forwarding has lots of shortcomings

What are the shortcomings? It always works very well when I use it.
“…and then add back the last piece.” Is the rest of the quote. This points to a lack of QA or dogfooding in Tesla, not an issue with that strategy.
Specifically a lot of younger people are using cannabis, rather than alcohol, so alcohol use has declined in those populations.
It's a .NET program without any obfuscation. You can read the source code using any .NET decompiler, such as ILSPY.
Intel sells a complete package with highly integrated laptop things such as wifi (CNVio2) and webcam (IPU6) for a very low price, and they have things that fleet buyers want like vPRO.
The Abc Dataset Is a Big Data Set of Cad Models for Geometric Deep Learning [pdf]
> Doesn't this obligate every company to read every local newspaper in every customer's area?

In my US state, a lot of important legal notices get published in the newspaper, so companies should already be effectively doing this.

What most do (and what I've always done) is to subscribe to a clipping service that will scan the classifieds, nationwide if you want, for you and forward to you the types of items you want to be made aware of.
They are using an M33 in the RP2350.
Cryptography is meant to preserve secrecy. Are you implying that cryptography is evil? Or that some other kind of secrecy (like keeping cryptographic algorithms secret) is evil?
There are good reasons for not allowing generic methods:

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
> And really, if that's his argument, then he needs to take it up with the World DanceSport Federation.

He is taking it up with the whole world. Wrote an article to do it.
Well the goal of sustainability is the continuation of society in a particular way. By itself it can be important or unimportant, my problem is with people who somehow have it both ways.
> Why it matters: The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020.

Maybe I'm missing the context of this publication/author as something focused specifically on electoral politics, but I find it strange that a dramatic drop in "homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault" in many cities "matters" according to this author, only because of its implications for the upcoming presidential election.
This is one of the many things I had in mind when I mentioned in another comment that this book is a metaphor for anything and everything. I knew someone who saw it as a metaphor for dealing with their past trauma and their need to "fight a war for survival you cannot be allowed to remember you are fighting"

I've thought about it a lot as I've seen mental decline in my family too. The long goodbye. Marion Wheeler's relationship. Beautiful.
> And Gilligan [(the judge)] insisted that he wasn’t trying to equate fast-food service with incarceration, as some of the reaction to his sentence accused him of doing. (From “Weekend Update” on SNL: “Fast food … where your job is other people’s jail.”) “This wasn’t about punishment,” Gilligan said. “This was about gaining empathy.”

> … It’s a tantalizing idea: If an angry passenger had to work a bumpy regional flight from Birmingham to Knoxville, would they stop being so mean to their flight attendants? Rehabilitation and accountability have long been goals of criminal-justice reformers seeking alternatives to incarceration,

> … The jury remains out on creative sentences and how effective they can be.

Looking at it through the lens of punishment is itself a kind of controversial view. I don’t have a horse in this race, but I’m glad people are trying out other ways of reducing bad behavior other than the ones we already know are just barely effective.
So this is a CPU implementation vulnerability, and not patchable through microcode. Are these CPUs used outside China?
The new Zen 5 has a much better single-thread performance than any available Intel CPU.

For instance a slow 5.5 GHz Zen 5 matches or exceeds a 6.0 GHz Raptor Lake in single-thread performance. The faster Zen 5 models, which will be launched in a couple of days, will beat easily any Intel.

Nevertheless, in a couple of months Intel will launch Arrow Lake S, which will have a very close single-thread performance to Zen 5, perhaps very slightly higher.

Because Arrow Lake S will be completely made by TSMC, it will have a much better energy efficiency than the older Intel CPUs and also than AMD Zen 5, because it will use a superior TSMC "3 nm" process. On the other hand, it is expected to have the same maximum clock frequency as AMD Zen 5, so its single thread performance will no longer be helped by a higher clock frequency, like in Raptor Lake.
Woah, this is neat - insane that it can handle extensions.

Just added a new section to my "Postgres Is Enough" gist:

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
When leaning on libraries pushing what's new in computer science, like certain facets of machine learning as a prominent example, which generally aren't found outside of the Python ecosystem, certainly. But head-to-head on well-trodden computer science paths, Python doesn't stand a chance.
I haven't seen the movie. It looks great (especially the BH), but the plot makes no sense to me and I didn't feel like watching it.
Moisture barrier: it traps the humidity in places you potentially don't want to

This is more applicable to fiberglass. How does humidity somehow get past the foam while being kept there? I never see any evidence for these claims.

Structural strength: yeahhhh... no

Foam adds rigidity to wooden structures. This is actually very commonly brought up and noticed where houses creak far less on top of the sounds proofing. Saying "yeahh.. no" is not evidence of anything.

Longevity: not more than anything else, a pain in the ass to replace though

Definitely more than fiberglass, since fiberglass can sag and flatten over time.

offgas for years is good for air quality

This is not typical and happens when it is installed poorly.
Really wish Tesla went the $25k model route... could have put 4X+ more EVs on the roads and reached a much bigger segment of people who would switch at that price point. Would have been good for Earth and TSLA
Could you elaborate on your point I a bit? I think you are making a good point but I am not fully grokking it. Are you looking at the investment on the utility’s level or the individual level? Wouldn’t high variability provide an “insurance justification” for individuals to push solar / battery or similar? Who eats the $8000/mwh currently that wouldn’t be able to justify renewables on just that basis?
That's not the point of the article, but we'll take a corollary of your statement.

Imagine a physical button for the demister that's hidden behind a temperature display LCD that hinges down.

There's no indication that the temperature display moves or reveals anything, no affordances, other than on a statement on page 3-11-A of the vehicle manual. Would it be acceptable to be confused in that instance even after many five-minute periods?
unlike other platforms that are basically free throw ins by the mega corps. Spotify is its own thing and there is no money in music streaming. at least so far and its due to the monopolistic practices of music licensing.

spotify has to try and distinguish or expand as seen with the heavy podcast investments and they desperately need hit features if they want to compete with the companies and stay profitable. for reference i believe this year will be the first profitable one
There's some momentum around getting core HTMX functionality into the HTML spec so JS might not be required:

https://www.reddit.com/r/htmx/comments/1ehjw7v/comment/lg09w...
This isn't going to hit developers.
One thing I wonder about is whether it's the long term effects of things like spectre/meltdown coming home to roost. I can only speculate as I'm not in the server industry, but IIRC with the mitigations that reduced performance intel benefited a lot with companies buying more servers to make up the shortfall while AMD Zen was still proving itself to what seems like a conservative market. Has the "no one ever got fired for buying X" reputation shifted?
The same authors also have a language model at https://github.com/Zyphra/Zamba2 but it's not clear to me if that model is connected to tree attention.

The announcement at https://www.zyphra.com/post/zamba2-small links to this paper, but the paper doesn't actually mention Zamba2 anywhere.
I wasn't arguing that falling populations is something we only need to worry about 25 generations from now. I was saying we should probably look at solving problems in a more immediate time-frame.

For South Korea specifically, the population challenges are probably more immediate than other countries.
The article had a separate "mobile" category for that where AMD had <20% market share.
No, they are not. They are just wrong people hired for the jobs by ignorant management which has no idea how diverse can be design tasks. It’s like blaming React developers working on some Jira tickets without a full picture, which is not a website but a satellite RTOS. An experienced generalist would understand the challenge and may refuse to do it if they don’t have the knowledge, but most people would simply incorrectly assume that they can do it. Management on the other side should have done better.
According to the article: A "frictionless economy" was emerging with promises to make our lives easier in part by removing the biggest friction in our lives: other people.

I know what you mean, but I'm not sure I see the irony. "Rough area" and suburbs don't have exact meanings, but in my experience, for what I think is being described as rough areas, interacting with other people, including new people, is seen as good, important, even necessary, and not as "friction". In nicer suburbs, interactions with new people may be rarer & more transactional.

How you treat someone you don't regularly interact with is an extension of this.
Think bigger, Apple Intelligence will now detect that you are ordering a new TV over the phone and they will want their cut.
Is there a link to the actual data?
> how this landscape changes when you don't consider VC funding as a necessary part of being a startup

Unicorns are defined by scalability. There are scalable opportunities with low barriers to entry. But they tend to be hypercompetitive and thus a better domain for small business than unicorns. The moment you have barriers to entry and economies of scale you have a decisive advantage for the players with more capital. As such, when talking about unicorns, VC is a necessary condition. (VC firms may not be.)
We need some example here, otherwise any language can generate code in the target language to do anything. And in the end all languages generate machine code one way or another so thats pretty much the same thing.
I think there’s a wider issue plaguing the tech industry right now, and it’s not relegated to any one company. It seems this newest generation of product managers and owners has absolutely no clue how to research, develop and build upon features. It’s the only explanation I have and it’s something I’ve observed in every company I’ve been in. The roles are typically filled with very young people with absolutely no background to support it.

What I generally see is they are reactive largely to the whims of leadership, they don’t understand their users, they don’t do any research or testing, they don’t aim for ambitious new ideas (more often aping what other companies do), so we’ve ended up in this milieu of product experiences that feel weirdly homogenous and ultimately very unfitting with what the product should be.

I’m just a guy but I hope someone with a louder, more important megaphone writes up something soon on this because the industry needs to shine a spotlight on these folks.
Strategically, in global terms from a US-centric point of view, it would be very good if Intel could recover, as having the entire world reliant on TSMC would be bad for everyone. Also there really isn't any other org like Intel at the moment in the broader sense in a few ways (mostly advanced research).

That said, Intel really has nothing to fall back on. Internally, it is very much like many of the other big companies - run by executive whim papered over with justifications that are tissue thin. There are a lot of companies like this - Cisco, Intel, whatever the hell is left of IBM, Nokia, Lattice, NetApp, etc. - that will probably die this decade if they fail to reboot their executive and managerial cultures.

I have a lot of friends who have been in the great parts of Intel (the CPU design teams and, believe it or not, fabrication) and the crap parts (everything else, especially networking and storage [what's left of it], except maybe the perenially suffering ICC team). Pat has failed to make things materially better because the system that is the body of Intel is resilient to disruptions of the sort he is trying. A massive replacement and flattening of culture is required there and he has not been able to execute on it.

Turnover is coming for all the companies I list above. If I had to go out on a limb and suggest a longterm survivor from the list above, it might be Lattice. Otherwise everyone listed is driving hard straight to the ground internally, whether the market sees it or not.
> by any means you prefer

I prefer to unsubscribe by writing it on a post-it note and sticking it in a public bathroom under the sink. That way I can always sue for them not doing it!
Usually schemes like this have terms like “you’re not allowed to offer a cheaper price outside the ecosystem”.
I was being sarcastic. The mere act of a government giving people money or otherwise interfering with contracts does not make that government "socialist" any more than walking to the grocery store makes you a triathlete. A hardcore socialist would probably scoff at the very concept of a "government relieving student debt" as something that shouldn't be possible or even make sense in a socialist society.
(G4) Geomagnetic Storms Observed – 12 Aug 2024
The only positive takeaway is that it got so bad that we'll inevitably swing back to the older, better state of things.
The developers part relates to having to deal with Apple and Google’s review process, hence the dislike.