skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if they'd messaged this release as a significant architecture change (that will be more significant over time, and in specific cases, like anything actually using a 512-bit data pipeline) and an efficiency gain they wouldn't be getting this reaction.

It's a much better release than many of the Intel refreshes, but the marketing leading up to it was quite bizarre compared to launch performance.

Moving the same performance down ~40w is great. Having better branch prediction, more registers, lower latency on many ops and double the SIMD width for no cost? Fantastic.

They sold it as a huge gaming gain that hasn't materialized, and then tried to say it was due to windows admin modes interfering with branch prediction (True, but equally seems to apply to Zen3/4)

If they'd sold this as a perf/W and backend architecture shift, they wouldn't be getting the reaction they're currently earning.
Over time this is likely true, but the reality of the top-end of sport is that tiny differences in tracks/environments have a big impact. So if your goal is to find the best out of a group of people at a point in time, I’d suggest the only fair way to do it is to pit them against each other at the same event.

For an example of this, see how the Paris Olympic pool was considered a slow pool due to its depth. Or how wind impacts running times, and can’t always be fairly accounted for (e.g. gusts).

There’s also the phenomenon where athletes perform better when competing against someone vs competing by themselves.
Well... Good point, but it seems I'm the lucky 10K today :) I wasn't around WWII to see the military equipment ads in the newspapers. And even though I've read a lot of newspapers in Poland (basically since the 90s) I don't recall seeing an explicit military equipment advertisement in popular daily and weekly newspapers, except for one case when Poland was debating the purchase of multi-purpose fighter jets, and there were I think F-16 ads – but these were printed inside the in-flight magazines of LOT Polish Airlines, so not really accessible to the wider public. On a side note, air travel advertisement seems to be a MIC's favourite choice, as I vividly remember huge Raytheon billboards at the Warsaw airport baggage claim during the NATO summit ;)
Why is this linked now? There's no new release or milestone at this time.

Citing my comment from when this was new about eight months ago:

> Even more unfortunate is that this change has already spilled to derived standards such as EPUB3 which hence makes existing EPUB3 content using compound headings going back to 2011 invalid, and EPUB3 writers lacking a tool for actually verifying what readers can support (epubcheck was blindly updated without consideration for the installed base).

See also the blog [1] about W3C's most recent HTML spec. Lack of HTML backward compat along with gross import of all of CSS without profiles, or paged media requirements and deemphasis of long-standing EPub mechanisms in favor of CSS and JS, and general impression of a low-effort, merely editorial nature really makes Epub's move to W3C questionable but nobody seems to care anyway, sticking with EPub 2 and 3.1 (which is also what Calibre is recommending as target format for conversion).

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/blog/blog2303.html
The problem with any professionalism setup is that software engineering is a very broad field whose use cases range from "it doesn't matter, it's mostly for fun" and "this software runs the international space station".

On the one hand, there should probably be some sort of certification or liability if you're writing code for NASA or Boeing or Airbus or maybe the New York Stock Exchange or what not, where a mistake could cost billions of dollars and put lives at risk.

At the same time though, there's also stuff like the video games industry, people developing programs for fun, blogs and fan sites and things that are free and mostly static, video game mods and hacks and about 99% of small business and organisation websites where frankly it doesn't matter that much how well they're coded or how stable they are or what not.

If my bank screws up and gives away all my money, that's a problem. If my copy of Tears of the Kingdom breaks, that's not a big deal (and might even be a benefit).

If there's any sort of professionalism or certification or requirement, it should probably be limited to industries and fields where the consequences of screwing up are life changing for a high number of people.
> My orthodontist growing up had these books

When I first read that sentence, I thought you were talking about your orthodontist's upbringing.

I eagerly anticipated hearing about how that affected his work with you :)
BTW, for anyone that has never dived to any depth, you don't really feel the change in pressure much at 20m or 30m, even though you are at 3 to 4 times atmospheric pressure. Apart from your ear canals, which can very painful if you don't manage to equalize them. The air from the scuba tank is fed at ambient pressure, so your chest isn't compressed and you don't really feel it on the rest of your body.
(1) The EU has a right to revictimize for one thing.

(2) What about false accusations? Even if 5% of accusations are false that's a big problem.
It's time to return to the roots, to the C programming language
Why am I writing this post? Not because I hope for something or believe in change. These are just words. I could write this at the end, but then you would be looking for answers for me while reading, and I don’t need them. They won’t change anything.

So here it is. I don’t claim to be a software development guru or a C language expert. I’m just a simple developer.

- Why are we looking for new technologies? Why do we want to be part of a community that is buzzing with new projects? Why do we think that this new programming language will definitely help us create something amazing and truly great and, of course, will make us rich and provide us with a comfortable old age?

- Why are we offered so many courses in so many programming languages and frameworks? Why do we teach what is required for companies that make money from us?

- Why are there a lot of conferences on banal simple things, such as ** framework or ### technology (so as not to offend anyone), and there, with a smart look, newly minted gurus tell us how important it is to be able to transfer the value to the client and how to use certain templates?

- Why do computers become more and more powerful, but programs continue to lag?

- Why, when applying for a job, do we look for a vacancy based on knowledge of a programming language, but find it only based on knowledge of certain frameworks? Is it really difficult for a professional programmer to learn a framework in a week?

- Why do we go into software development with the enthusiasm to create something great, but end up in a situation where we are developing some other catalog or some other digital yo-yo to make money?

Reason: because we want our passion for programming, our interest, to also bring us income.
Result: we do not earn this money for ourselves, but for companies whose main goal is to quickly receive income from the software they sell.

P.S.: I look at how programming has changed over the course of 25 years, what they teach at universities, and where they start. And I came to the conclusion that on a large scale, it was all for the benefit of giant companies or the government.

We must protect the “intimate” knowledge of the foundations and water the roots ourselves. Because they don’t realize, they don’t see that if the roots are not watered, the branches on which they sit will dry out. Therefore, who, if not us? Thanks, everyone!

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? © Ada Lovelace
It’s their company culture and Google’s heavy toleration of radical political speech in the workplace. This can make Google a very toxic place to work at.

When I was at Google I saw an email that went out to a large number of employees calling all us vets murderers. The employee who sent it was not fired. Those other companies you listed would bring that person up to hr, and likely start an investigation with some percentages of offenders fired.
I experience having mo free will whenever I am in the break of a meditation retreat. During those breaks it’s sometimes quite easy to observe my thoughts, given that I focus 10 hours per day on making my internal chatter very very quiet.

The most fascinating thing to me is how subtle body sensations lead to thoughts and vice versa.
After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet
Tell me about features, not benefits (2022)
Bolt acts to halt Nigeria-South Africa 'taxi-war'
Because instincts exist, there is no free will.

(Although free will is required to make any conclusion about the presence or absence of free will, so the point is moot).
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The data governance concerns are not that Microsoft has access to the data (that is no doubt covered by contract clauses).

The concerns are that most corporate implementations of network roles and permissions are not up to date or accurate, so CoPilot will show data to an employee that they should not be allowed to see. Salary info is an example.

Basically, CoPilot is following “the rules” (technical settings) but corporate IT teams have not kept the technical rules up to date with the business rules. So they need to pause CoPilot until they get their own rules straight.

Edit to add: if your employer has CoPilot turned on, maybe try asking for sensitive stuff and see what you get. ;-)
Well not indefinitely...

But at least until Windows 12 or maybe even 13.

My Win10 LTSC says it's supported until 2032.
If Keith Jarrett can produce such a sublime music as his Köln Concert on a broken piano, perhaps the level of perfection mentioned in the article is just professional pedantry. After all, isn't an artist a better artist when they can use their medium to maximum effect no matter its imperfections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert
It seems like it would be more grid efficient to use more power at 3-5pm to cool your house to temperature early while solar is still high in availability then to rush and cool from 5-6 when you get home.
The current rate structure for anyone not paying spot rate does not incentivize that of course.
Nit, it predicts that it is the token '4'.

Token frequency in pre-training corpus and
the way tokenization is implemented impacts arithmetic
proficiency for LLMs.

OpenAI calls this out in the GPT4 technical report.
You prove my point. Most of those things have happened, many times.

Everyday there's a breach, and yet the world goes on.
Exponential growth is pretty rare in nature, right?

Linear growth or fuzzy up and down growth/swings seems way more commonplace
Congrats on shipping. This is a cool project!

One thing I noticed I was able to start a workout without giving it a name. Then when I got to the timer the time in the top left of my screen was a second faster than the main timer. When I clicked done it told me the time from the main timer and not the one in the top corner. I’m wondering if you need the timer in the corner at all?

I like the design I think I might try it out for my next workout.
Its https://automatio.co. We built initial version back in 2019 (actually the first MVP was in 2017).

And after 3-4 years, we paused development to explore the world of blockchain.

We are all in and back fully on Automatio. Gonna catch up with lost time.
Why isn’t it OK for internal tools with trusted users?

It’s functionally the same as saying “hey coworker, here’s an API key you can use, it’s billed to the company”.
I just have to look at my ancient msn account being effectively turned unusable for several (notably: Skype, Xbox) MS services due to being stuck in some limbo between MS auth service migrations (?) to gauge my confidence in their control of user data.... And no, several hours with their support agents spread over several weeks did not resolve it.
Are you arguing this was not a scam involving crypto?
People who disbelieve in free will are often not educated in the fact that the laws of physics don’t include explanation of most of what is observed and clearly lack in the area of the existence of mind, and are therefore extremely incomplete.

Also, it’s impossible to disprove the existence of free will because it requires will to make a conclusion like that.
On paper, yes absolutely.

In reality, the wiring harness is one of the more expensive and complex components in a modern vehicle. The majority of the data being carried is low speed and low risk signalling: climate system controls, entertainment system, lighting control, etc. Obviously braking, steering, throttle controls and things like that are a different class.

Look at a modern luxury vehicle and how many things are in one door alone. Accent lights, window controls and motors, locks and lock controls, speakers (yeah, often plural), side mirrors and controls, side-looking cameras, etc. The wiring harness into a door needs consolidation or else it can become a giant heavy thing, the multi-drop approach makes a lot of sense here.
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Interestingly, I recently tried to dive in and figure out why exactly Microsoft went with COFF. It seems like Intel OMF was adapted all the way up through OMF386, and Microsoft switched to COFF around 1989, near the beginning of the NT OS/2 project. Fascinatingly, it seems like a big criteria that Microsoft had factored in was that tools for COFF already existed for the Intel i860 RISC processor, so early on in NT's life they seemed to think that it was going to be a lot more important.

That said, I do not consider PE to be similar enough to COFF to warrant calling them the same format. Aside from having completely different headers, PE has many additional structures that don't exist in COFF, and even the structures that are shared are fairly different between PE and COFF. PE barely uses anything from COFF, and it doesn't even use it the way that COFF does. Of course ELF objects also have some differences between object file and shared object/executable, but it's at least very clearly the same format the whole time, just utilized a bit differently.
Google Essentials Is Coming to the PC
I’m not sure why they don’t support JWTs so we can mint limited user-specific keys instead of exposing the master key

Supabase is a great example of how to use claims to give safe client side access
>The fact that a website can’t make a request to another website unless that domain like it

That's wrong. Any website can make a request to any other website. The same origin policy will prevent READING the response, not making the request. This is to prevent evil.com from making a request to email.com and reading all your emails.

CORS was invented as a way to partially disable the same origin policy for websites that want to allow their responses to be read by other sites. Note that CORS is a way to disable blocking. Most people think CORS blocks things, but that's a misconception. The same origin policy blocks things, and CORS can partially disable it. CORS = Cross Origin Resource Sharing. The Sharing refers to how it disables blocking.

(This is a slight simplification, because I'm ignoring complex CORS.)
Doubling floating point performance is disappointing?
Are you trying to argue that this logo feels too corporate, like Meta’s logo?
EPUBCheck
Yeah I thought Red Hat fought to get their keys installed in there, too. Which is why Fedora and RHEL (and derivatives like CentOS or Rocky) work alright OOTB
Google Tag Manager can now be served through your own domain name
That’s mostly because complexity can’t be wrapped up in simple rules. Physics is easier because it is dealing with a handful of particles.

There isn’t enough energy in the universe to calculate the full Schrödinger equation of a human. That tells us something…
Sounds a bit like how Tracy works
Please elaborate. See also the FAQ regarding data collection: https://www.ghostery.com/faq
And the lives of certain innocent individuals get ruined in the process. I guess it's fine as long as it's not you? "They didn't come for me..."
Tricks that work on floating point are sometimes useful and not listed there..

Make float sortable as integer. (the reason you might wish to do this is that integer comparisons are faster and run on more ports, also you won't get unsortable data from NAN). You can undo the transform by calling this fxn again. You only need this with a mix of positive/negative floats, if they are all positive you can skip this.

int i = cast_int(f);
shift_right_sign_bits(i, 31) & 0x7FFFFFFF) ^ i

Scale float by powers of 2

Cast a float to integer and add 0x00800000 * N(N being the power of 2). Subtract to divide. Fails with 0 value float.

Not super useful unless you already have the float in the integer domain for some other reason, also integer adds/subs run on more ports and are 1 cycle.

The fast sqrt function is well known but you can do this for other powers of 2

//An approximate pow(a, 1/4)
float fastPow_1_4(float a) {
return asfloat((asuint(a) >> 2u) + 798700996u);
}

//An approximate pow(a, 1/8)
float fastPow_1_8(float a) {
return asfloat((asuint(a) >> 3u) + 931853847u);
}

//An approximate pow(a, 1/16)
float fastPow_1_16(float a) {
return asfloat((asuint(a) >> 4u) + 998350438u);
}

//An approximate pow(a, 1/32)
float fastPow_1_32(float a) {
return asfloat((asuint(a) >> 5u) + 1031705320u);
}

They are very low accuracy as they don't have a newton raphson step, and were just intended for stuff like graphics where accuracy isn't always important.
CJO? SF-86? CI?
Linux did implement an API for safely instrumenting these types of events, eBPF.

Many EDR and other security products are beginning to use it, although IIRC Crowdstrike does not yet.
Thanks for your interest in NextGraph. I am Niko, the author of this software. You are catching me a bit unprepared here, because I am still currently writing all the documentation and it will be ready within 5 days maximum.
Looking forward all your comments, criticism, and evaluation! We are in preview release for now and until the 31 of August, when the first alpha release will be published.
Microsoft to kill Windows Control Panel in favor of Settings app
Digital Identity Guidelines v4 2nd public draft
I doubt that this is what the author intended, but it could be interpreted to refer to human's cultural ability to pay attention to small, seemingly unimportant (if not unseen) details.

Take climate change: most informed people think this is a job for science, this is where we should exert our effort and invest our funds. But this overlooks that individual human opinion and volition plays an absolutely massive role in the problem, at many levels. From where I'm sitting, this problem is not even on science's radar, beyond general complaints about those stupid people who ruin everything (overlooking that it was science that invented the technologies that went on to enable climate change in the first place...but you see, that doesn't count, it is(!) not a part of "the" chain of causality). Metaphysical causality is something else that is basically not on science's radar, or in their Theory of "Everything".

But of course, all of this this is pedantic, and can be safely ignored, or better yet, suppressed.
That would be the French national grid system, no? The UK has the ordnance survey grid which is based on the OSGB36 datum. I'm pretty sure France will have a similar national datum to create their own local grid coordinates as planning and building works needs to be done in a more accurately aligned local datum than WGS84.
I'm trying to argue

BEHOLD!

<<ICONIC>>
New AI Tool: Fight Health Insurance Covered in SF Standard
I've seen reports of skilled candidates being weeded out and unskilled ones gaming the system with this happening in the ATS space.

Legitimate candidates are rejected without ever knowing that they were filtered out and have no way of know why or how to fix it.

Aside from saving time for business customers, how do you intend to address this sort of system abuse and failure of users?
Diamonds are artificially scarce anyway. The big producers stockpile their output to keep prices high, and spread FUD about dirt cheap, just-as-good synthetics.
You might want to try running the EPUB through https://kindle-epub-fix.netlify.app/

This applies a few fixes for problems with EPUBs that the Send to Kindle service doesn't like.
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# Build Reusable & Programmable Prompt Engineering Workflows

Introducing PPE (Programmable Prompt Engine), a revolutionary open-source framework that transforms prompt engineering into a modular, reusable, and code-like experience!

`@offline-ai/cli` is a lightweight, javascript-based interpreter CLI for the Programmable Prompt Script Engine (`ai-agent`), used to directly run the Programmable Prompt Engine: https://github.com/offline-ai/ppe script.

*PPE allows you to:*

* Build reusable prompt scripts: Treat prompts as code! Define functions, use conditionals, and leverage reusable components for efficient prompt design.

* Simplify prompt management: Organize prompts into libraries for easy access and sharing.

* Boost developer productivity: Say goodbye to manual prompt tweaking. PPE empowers developers to write and manage prompts like they write any other code.

* Define custom prompt types: Create specialized prompt types tailored to your specific needs, like character roles or domain-specific prompts.

Key Features:

* YAML-based syntax: Intuitive and easy to learn, even for non-programmers.

* Powerful scripting capabilities: Use conditional logic, functions, and event handlers for dynamic prompt generation.

* Multi-model support: Design prompts that work seamlessly across different LLMs.

* Interactive debugging: Easily test and refine your prompts within the PPE environment.

Example:

```yaml

system: "You are a helpful assistant."

user: |-

What is the name of the tiny blue fish who helps Marlin find his son in “Finding Nemo”?

A. Dory; B. Squirt; C. Nemo; D. Crush

assistant: "The correct answer is [[Result:|A|B|C|D]]. Because [[Reason]]"

```

Get a summary from file:

```yaml

user: "Summarize the following file: @file(file.txt)"

assistant: "[[summary]]"

```

* the `@file` is another PPE script in the lib directory.

Advanced Features:

* Advanced AI replacements: Inject dynamic content based on LLM responses.

* Custom script types: Define reusable prompt structures like character roles.

* Event handling: Trigger actions based on specific events during the conversation.

PPE is currently under development, but we're excited to share our progress with the community!

Join us on GitHub: https://github.com/offline-ai/cli

Let's build the future of prompt engineering together!