skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's called "extend (the loan term) and pretend (that the collateral has enough value)". Here's the real estate industry saying that's a good thing, [1] "saving the market from becoming flooded with devalued assets."

[1] https://www.loopnet.com/learn/why-extend-and-pretend-may-be-...
You have access to as much knowledge as you could ever want in your pocket at all times and you can ask a computer to create a photo for you of anything you can imagine. We've sequenced the human genome. We've got video games!

There aren't flying cars, but these last fifty years haven't been so bad.
It's also important to see university departments as groups of people who often will end up working together for decades, and therefore leadership will see internal politics everywhere. What does doubling your student body do to said politics? Better to minimize growth and keep people happy than deal with the risks of what happens when you end up with far more staff.

A lot of similar fun is occurring as the all the student body that isn't trust fund babies really wants to study topics that will pay well, which in many universities, might not even have a lot of political weight, or even their own dean. See all the universities where you can end up taking CS classes in 8 different unrelated departments, but where they really, really don't want to admit that 50%+ of the student body is programming, as building a proper umbrella for this, which then has so many students, takes a lot of power away from incumbents.
Sorry about that! Something seems to be broken with my publishing pipelines. It used to be a graceful switch. Now I have to manually invalidate a cache. Seems to only happen on some publishes.
Synthetic Data: How to Use LLM to Improve the Performance of LLM (WizardLM)
No Alternative of Google keyboard in Dictionary, word prediction and Autocorrect
Recently I was trying to get rid of the Google keyboard from my list of apps. But the harder I try to install and try any other keyboard from Playstore and Fdroid the more I start to feel something is lacking in other keyboards. With all the AI and bla-bla features, nothing matched the word prediction and ease and key placement with google keyboard.

What keyboard do you like?
One thing that Asian governments have insisted on is export discipline. Companies could only get grants, loans, etc if they exported their goods. The idea is to force domestic producers to be good enough to be competitive internationally. How does one make sure that the US chip manufacturing industry stay competitive without this sort of export discipline?
I have the same problem. Also in Chrome it uses a lot of CPU but yeah nothing happens and pressing any buttons doesn't do anything.
This happened once (?) in the history of LowEndTalk and Hetzner, and that was someone who was using several servers, 27/7, over several months at 100% link utilization to shovel raw footage around.

You are very unlikely to replicate this running any type of personal infrastructure. Or anything that's not specifically this.
But if you, when you received a warning, knew that roughly a third of the time nothing would happen, would you still adjust your plans or leave?

And even if you trusted the warning, would you leave immediately? Considering that the warning was for the next week, ie the quake could come next minute or in six days.
> So in your view it's perfectly ok to run an internet service where you don't check for CSAM?

Well, that's quite the assumption. The commenter you've replied to said nothing like this. And yet this is your first conclusion?? Is this how you operate in real life, at your job?

Telegram does moderate for CSAM. The claim that it does not is completely unsubstantiated. You can find CSAM across Meta's products. Does that mean they do not check for CSAM? No.
The long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
We’ll try anything to lower prices except building more
If we start throwing around terms like "social cohesion" to justify censorship in the West, how can we complain about China doing the same in the name of "social harmony"?
Washington, D.C. has the famous Foggy Bottom.

Edit: America has a lot of bottoms, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographical_bottoms

Nowhere as grand as Aunt Mary's Bottom but South Dakota does have a Big Bottom.
That's cloud, non-standard NICs, load balancers or vSwitches. Their standard 1 Gbps link does not charge usage fees. The one person that reported it did it on several servers, over 3+ months - and they weren't charged, just asked to slow down or upgrade to a dedicated link.
Lucretius wrote a natural history where the world and life is created through natural processes (like natural selection) rather than throug a deliberate act of design by gods. So the idea is older than Jesus and does not require dinosaur bones.

Dinosaur bones just shows that species can go extinct which does not contradict religion AFAIK. More important was the discovery of geological layers which showed the world was much older than suggested in the Bible.

Honestly I don’t think the rise of Atheism have that much to do with natural history anyway. The French revolution happened before Darwin. It is about questioning and overthrowing religious authority - you can do that without a theory of evolution. We still don’t know life started but this does not prevent people from becoming atheist.
Article is a bit short on "the basics" - I assumed they used some kind of wine port to run it. But it seems they implemented the x86_64 ISA on a RISC-V chip in some way - anyone can shed more light on that part how that is done?
Imagine the idea being used for more complex math operations. Summation/Product notation is pretty straight forward (if you were ever taught it). The vast majority of math notation is not. Or rather most people are not taught most math notation. And even if you were taught it it's really hard to remember!
> Private and anonymous are two very different things

They’re going hand in hand as soon as there’s a data breach or a back door
> If you don’t mind me asking, what is your role in particular? Are you a module engineer, a metrology engineer or are you in design enablement?

I'm a test engineer in Design Enablement, specifically in Advanced Design testing high speed IO.
I'm sure you can find my Linkedin through my callsign if you'd like to know more details or reach out.

> Also, is Intel Foundry currently hiring given all the cuts and layoffs?

Yes, there's case by case exemptions, just depends on that team's needs and staffing levels.
There's also voluntary internal movement as part of the pre-layoff process.

> I hope your job is safe amid all the turmoil!

I appreciate it!
>It's the same thing with the USA in the crypto community, you either don't sell US citizens

When I read that at first, I thought crypto was short for cryptography, and you were referring to the crypto wars, back when most cryptography was classified as arms (weapons) in the US and it was illegal to distribute cryptographic software in many cases.

One of my instructors in college attended a US college, but during his PhD would drive to Canada to write all the code, so that the code could be legally distributed. If it was written in the US, it couldn't be.
Thank you, thank you. I haven't reviewed this, and I may or may not use it, but wow was freebsd-update from 13.0 to 14.0 slow, especially since I run my freebsd systems off spinning drives, and most of them have src.

I did some looking at freebsd-update, and it's quite the shell script, which makes it daunting to consider changing. All the forking and whatever doesn't seem great; using data structures should be a lot simpler!

But my systems running freebsd-update spend an awful lot of time on I/O, and not so much time on cpu, as I recall. I think the general flow for a replaced file is gunzip to the update dir, then install to the destination. This means all the files are written twice, and I thought there was a third write that I can't remember at the moment. Install doesn't have an option to decompress, but it'd be super handy if it did --- then you could write the file only once to the destination directory and move it into place.

I'm never a fan of quite as many files in a directory as freebsd-update gets up to either. Given that everything is already named by hashes, it's not too hard to have 16 or 256 directories named 0-f or 00-ff that get a slice of the files. Large directories have gotten better over time, but they're still slow.

There's some ability to exploit the embarassing parallelism available too, but that's hard in a complex shell script, so some other environment makes sense. I didn't look, but hopefully that's a knob in rustdate ... Sometimes you'd want it and other times one thing at a time is better, even when it's slow.

One feature I know update can do that I want to look at more but haven't had time is the zfs boot environment stuff --- seems like with the right arguments you could do the update on an inactive environment and reboot to switch, instead of the default way which does the install on the live environment but you could reboot to switch back. I'd be much more patient if the live environment continued working and I could reboot at my convenience once the process finished. Especially if I might be able to run pkg upgrade in the boot environment before the reboot. If rustdate supports that too, that'd be neat.
The reason OpenAI bought Rockset is to enhance their retrieval infrastructure, and move closer to the implementation side of Generative AI.

With more models being open-source, and the focus small language modes which many are open-sourced, it seems like the market value is shifting from Zone 4 to Zone 5.

Only a few months ago, it seemed like OpenAI has captured the LLM market and no-one will ever be able to compete.

Then Meta AI open-sourced numerous very capable models.

Followed by stellar work from Microsoft on imbuing Small Language Models (SLMs) with enhanced reasoning capabilities, and by open-sourcing models.

Organisations moved their focus from gradient approaches (fine-tuning) to adapt models to their environment, to non-gradient approaches, like RAG and prompt engineering techniques.

These non-gradient frameworks demand vector technology, data centric tooling and RAG frameworks.

LLMs are becoming a mere utility and innovation is taking place in building applications which are powered by LLMs under the hood.

At last the market is moving to toward a Data centric approach.
This acquisition also brings OpenAI closer to the developer community with Rockset’s integration with LangChian & LlamaIndex.
ETH Zurich and University of Bologna are the two schools that make up the excellent PULP Platform; an impressive set of RISC-V related open source cores, uncores, & toolchains. https://github.com/pulp-platform

Quite the selection of lectures here!
As far as E2EE, you do not need to trust Telegram since the clients are open source, and third party clients are also available.
The prompts:

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts
The current trend is moving from "baseload and peaker" to "renewables and firming".

Peaker and firming are both traditionally gas.

If you think that renewables have an inherent need for expensive storage then you're holding them to a higher standard than nuclear. This is both inaccurate and ahistorical given all the pumped hydro built specifically to complement nuclear.

Though the continued reduction in price of renewables and batteries means they probably already meet and exceed your higher standard anyway (see the recent Fraunhofer report that solar and batteries were cheaper than gas in Germany).
No, there is a specific ruling says that says downloading for personal use is not infringement or violation of copyright. The person who uploaded it is the one infringing by giving out copies, not the person downloading. That's why downloading gets a pass. Any violation of copyright in Europe necessarily includes uploading.
I'm more curious why it would even work to begin with.
Regular trickle charging requires electricity.
That is just false. Try it yourself.
I’m not sure what they meant, so tbh I probably just wouldn’t have replied. You made a good point that for someone in the US (or any other country that hasn’t experienced modern war), unexploded ordinance isn’t even on their risk radar, despite the US being a major contributor to the problem. It’s unfortunate how many people continue to face that reality.
The community college system does a good deal here. As an example in California, students can get a great deal of their undergrad lower division work done at a community college for a fraction of even UC or State university cost (which for instate students is already fairly low).

Community colleges are also where folks would normally turn to for casual the classes they wanted to take but didn’t necessarily want the formalities of the full degree. Online delivery of there helped further but vs MOOCs, CC has geographic and residency restrictions for who can actually study there.
Let's see the features used in that snippet:

* The cond macro which works similarly to C switch

* Hashmap functions like merge and merge-with

* Destructuring

* The for macro which is similar to the "for each in" statements

None of these are something unfamiliar to common programming languages so that code will not be hard understand once you go over the initial syntax and idiom hump. The syntax makes things much easier once you get to used to it, I think all Clojure programmers like it.
OP is saying neither of those relate to the problem. Not that they don't relate to each other.
Seems like you are reading the engineer definition of "develop", and OP is using the general english definition.
Do you not see any difference with this and "it's included in the distribution and vetted by a distribution developer"?
Thanks for clarifying, cheers.
Russia Launches Drones Guided by Fiber Optics to Avoid Radio Jamming
I do think, however, that what they can leverage is community, having more sociable spaces for interactions related to each course and/or more generally. I understand some already do, but I feel like in the few classes I have tried through EdX they were not utilized well.
The basics are here: https://box86.org/ It is an emulator but:

> Because box86 uses the native versions of some “system” libraries, like libc, libm, SDL, and OpenGL, it’s easy to integrate and use with most applications, and performance can be surprisingly high in some cases.

Wine can also be compiled/run as native.
Don't want to go too off-topic but:

Why does this has to be so hard? I mean what if the regulators went the opposite approach: make ALL the data publicly available by anonymizing it.

What privacy concerns would anyone have if the whole data is completely anonymized? Wouldn't it create far more benefit by accelerating innovation in healthcare? I strongly believe the privacy concerns (which shouldn't exist after stripping out any PII) are outweighed by an order of magnitude by the upsides, which are literally saving millions of lives in the longer term.

But again, regulation, as always, cripple innovation, this time slowing down developments that would literally save lives. Great.
I find it amazing that this is used as an example of a good thing.

A few decades ago, one of the factoids about USSR was that they required all typewriters to be registered with the state, with a sample page produced for every unit manufactured so that the state could track their use (this last bit is unlikely to be true, but was widely believed). That was supposed to be a case in point on why free societies are better, not an example to follow.
That's quite the shortcut. Audacity and Musescore belong to the Muse, and the Muse hired Tantacrul. He didn't buy anything. Do we know that he made those decisions?

Yes, questionable stuff was added to Musescore since he joined. I'm particularly not too happy about their push for their Musescore.com cloud in the UI, the proprietary (optional) audio rendering bit, and the proprietary "update manager" in the binaries they distribute. Is he the one who pushed those things though? (Maybe, I don't know. But I doubt it. Those things are mostly business decisions, he is a UX designer).

Musescore also massively improved since he joined. It is a massively better software than before.

But I don't see the connection with the current discussion? We are not talking about Musescore, the Muse or Tantacrul, are we? We are talking about Finale.
I really like the avoidance (elimination) of one-way-door decisions by turning them into several small(er) two-way-door decisions. I guess the software development interpretation of it is clearly defined boundaries of responsibility, and avoiding to leak implementation details beyond those?
Wow. I'm surprised this app has been in development for so long.

I used Finale in highschool in the mid to late 90s to write (admittedly terrible) music when I was in high school. Really amazing program at the time and the instrument voices were good for the time.

I'm sure I have an old piece somewhere floating around on a floppy from that time in a box.

Does anyone happen to know how far back the latest version supports their old file formats?
Personally still amazed that we live in a time where we can tell a computer system in pure text how it should behave and it _kinda_ works
Found it! https://github.com/holman/spark/blob/master/spark
My favorite quote/story was "Never Never Never take the First No!" (16:20) because some people are just obstructionists and others just want to see how serious you are. As she says, appreciation for how to do this comes with age, but to me a good definition of management in general is learning if, when, how, and how much to pushback against pushback.
Protection of Critical Infrastructures
What does a marketing person do staying up until 2am working for Nvidia? My grandma knows what Nvidia is.
Thats a good point! I'll have a better description by the next release.

I'm conflicted about keypress count because I really want the focus to be about speed. VimGolf does a great job of covering those types of puzzles/scenarios. The differentiator here is speed. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do some sort of data analysis on key strokes. An interesting finding might be that www is faster than f<a character>.

One of my hypothesis was that searching with 'f' and 'F' is not as efficient as simply navigating with more commong motions like w, e, h, j etc. I've already been proved wrong, Although, I should phrase it like "many top performers use 'f' and 'F'." Which would suggest that they might be fast, or using them isn't too much of a detriment
TSMC is spending $65B in Arizona so the US at least gets a big fab out of it.
It helps a lot if you use a strongly typed language with a strict compiler and get the LLM to write plenty of tests.
Then you need to understand that the tests are logically correct. The LLM is also good at documenting the functions, so you can review that matches your intentions and the code as well.
Also the LLM will pick functions from your own source code library to compose new programs for you.
So the reuse of your own well tested code should increase confidence.
Certified vim racist
I've heard that there is Library Genesis extension on Google Chrome that allows you to search catalog right from the browser window. It has everything SciHub has to offer. Article from the post was found without any issue.

Rumors are that extension was working just fine for the past year+ so it is quite reliable.
That's going to be a hell of a big GDSII file.
> Or I simply stop using their pricing, undercut my competitors, and gain tenants. Same as before.

Except the landlords signed a contract... they legally bound themselves to using their pricing.

Also the market keeps changing, so you'll need their pricing in the future (so you can't break your contracts), or you'll need to do your own independent market research without access to their data.

> It's pretty hard to set market prices with literally millions of competing landlords.

What's the most important rule in real-estate? Location. Location. Location.

"Market" prices, obviously, apply to a "market". There are not millions of landlords in any given real-estate market. You can't compare a studio in Manhattan to a townhome in SF and a ranch house in Houston. No one is actually shopping for a rental and considering all those options. The entire US is not one market.

The housing market in many parts of America do not operate like a traditional commodity market. Demand outpaces supply, and landlords can't just make more units to compete on margin - most landlords have very low vacancy rates already. There is no incentive to undercut your competition when you can fill units at higher prices with no drop to vacancy rates through cooperation.

If it was this easy, the company wouldn't exist and the suit wouldn't be moving through the courts.
I am wondering if they cleared this with their lawyers? At a minimum it looks like a variant of a binding resale price, which is not legal in the EU. Yes, Dorico is selling their own product, but it is based on the ownership of of finale. On the other hand it seems pretty obvious that a lot of value is being created for the customers.
It's almost more amazing that it only kinda sorta works and doesn't go all HAL 9000 on us by being super literal.
Yes, this also made me immediately think of that chapter in Nate Silver's book ("The Signal and the Noise"). Considering what I remember Nate's musings on the topic to be, I highly doubt that this is a particularly significant improvement in earthquake prediction. Sure, with the ability to crunch more numbers than ever before, AI can no doubt up the accuracy a bit. However, same as with the non-AI techniques that it's built upon, only a big-ish improvement in our fundamental understanding of tectonics, and/or a big-ish improvement in the physical sensors that feed data into the models, is really going to move the needle in this space.
The scalar efficiency SIG has already been discussing bitfield insert and extract instructions.

We figured out yesterday [1], that the example in the article can already be done in four risc-v instructions, it's just a bit trickier to come up with it:

# a0 = rax, a1 = rbx
slli t0, a1, 64-8
rori a0, a0, 16
add a0, a0, t0
rori a0, a0, 64-16

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1f1mnxf/box64_and_ri...
Being innocent of the ways of MO, I'm not going to judge sig. Quid either way.

For flatlanders, after reading https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/2015/04/11/worms-brains-and-g... I now worry that procrustean restriction to planarity could be detrimental to their neural networks.

(the 1D graphs, aka the total orders, have no expanders, but on the flip side, that's probably why prime ideals and ultrafilters are so effective?)

EDIT: On Silver's River, a few footnotes on Ez.47:

47:10 In a groysn taykh khapt men groyse fish.

47:22 anticipating Ruth/רוּת?
Another variation on that is relative in both modes, but my current cursor line has the absolute. That's what I tend to roll with!
Clojure is a lisp. Lisp languages represent code as trees. That's why you have so many parentheses. The trees contain language constructs (if, cond, let, defn, ...), data (numbers, strings,...) and names (function names, names of value bindings). There is also some more advanced syntax for quoting and macros.

When reading lisp code, you navigate it like a tree. Indention matters and clean lisp code has the same indention level for all sibling nodes (with minor deviations for special constructs). Most code follows the pattern of defining "variable" bindings (e.g. via `let`) and then it has one final expression that uses all these bindings to calculate a value.

(defn name-of-a-function-that-i-define [first-argument second-argument]
(let [sum-of-some-numbers (+ 1 2 3)
product-of-some-numbers (* 1 2 3)]
(+ first-argument
second-argument
sum-of-some-numbers
product-of-some-numbers)))
Sorry for my late I missed the comment

Yeah I think it's because the quanlity of the model, hopefully we will have better quanlity in near future. I will see if anything I can do with the settings