skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd use `pass`, which I use personally, but it's a hard sell for people not as technically proficient. I've worked with all kinds of solutions both online and on-premise such as 1pass and vault. Ideally a meticulous SSO setup would replace all passwords except for perhaps one; the user identifies to the IdP, which then relays enough information to dependent parties to determine what that user can do. The problem is that getting proper SSO, identity and permission support across all software in use in a company requires a level of effort that few are willing to pay for internally these days, though newer software is a lot more flexible and usually has proper OIDC support.

On the other hand, external SaaS is still hard to integrate into your own IdP, so I guess we are stuck with some forms of passwords for some time to come.
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I opted for Rust in the end: versatile, and sooo much scope!
> I love landline phones (when they work right, which is not the case everythere) because usually they have better sound quality than mobile (which can be good-to-horrible depending on network quality) and almost zero latency.

That was the old landlines, of actual POTS, era. Back then, there was a direct electrical circuit literally switched using relays between both participants in a call, with only amplifiers, switches and power sources in between. More modern systems used banks of relays, and then it all went downhill quality-wise.

First, the telco core systems were replaced with digital trunks that had ADCs on both ends of a call in the regional distribution center, and consumers were switched over to ISDN for telephony. Then, the analog/ISDN frontends moved to the curb side where ADSL, VDSL and nowadays G.fast frontends were added to the mix, which were connected to the telco network using fiber. Then, analog and ISDN were shut down, with voice phone calls being migrated to VoIP.

And nowadays, it's the full evolution with GPON - on the telco side, there's only fibers and a single TX/RX pair of transmission modules serving up to 64 customers. What used to require a whole multi-story building can now be done in the space of a better-quality shed. And the analog frontend is only at the CPE, if there is an analog frontend present at all and it's not VoIP softphones or DECT.
I've read the paper, those objects have all properties of AGNs, but since having AGNs so early doesn't fit current mainstream, authors try very hard to come up with a different explanation.
^ seconding this
Personally I have not seen much difference. Twitter has been a cesspool for as long as I can remember.
Because he's a huge hypocrite and only uses the excuse of free speech to enable right wing radicals, while not granting it to anyone he disagrees with.
And then Starlink users get fined or arrested and Starlink Minis get seized. Also how good does it look for an international company to sell as evading customs and imports taxes.

Crypto and stablecoin don't make the physical reality of owning such a device disappear.
So you made a visualization tool and don't show an example image in the readme?

I am not sure if I should be shocked or impressed, but consider the following question: Would you download a random program of the internet because of the promise of it creating a useful visualization? You probably would if the visualization looked useful to you. But as you can't see it without downloading.. You get my point.
I feel the same way. I'm pretty entrenched in the Apple ecosystem and even switching to new devices doesn't tickle my fancy anymore. When you buy a new iPhone, log in with your Apple account and let it restore an iCloud backup your device will look and feel the exact same. Talk about homogeneity. Sure, it's amazing tech and in a reliability and productivity sense it's the only way to go, but still, it feels... Boring.

Every once in a while I'll switch everything over to FOSS (laptop, phone) and dead simple devices (Casio watch, paper calendar). It's much more fun, maybe because of the jank Linux is still plagued by sometimes rather than in spite of it.
I agree the article's pretty bad. There's a description of the show's content here https://deadline.com/2024/08/oprah-winfrey-host-ai-abc-speci... And Oprah talking about AI a Reid Hoffman + GPT4 book here https://youtu.be/bOXRjnXp3-s Quote from Oprah:

>I am just in this moment where I'm fascinated by how this technology AI is going to be a resource for change and improvements and making the world better and yet the other side of it who's in control of it and what happens when the bad guys get it.
No (I have no idea who he has banned or not) but that sounds like a powertrip!
i know you mean well, but randomly listing a bunch of medications without more explanation is not very wise. at best it can help people compare what their doctor recommended.

what do each of these items do? why are they needed and how are they dosed? (often doses depend on the size and weight of the person, also on the symptoms the person is experiencing.

what happened when you took D3 without K2MK7? i feel there is a story there.
> There's no visible rhyme or reason why ..

Somebody made a case in an earlier thread (that I haven't had time to pursue) that Brazil has the largest lithium mining company (not fields or mines) with standing contracts in South America .. and they claimed that Musk wants to seed unrest | see Bolsonaro (or his party) back in to get a better deal on raw materials for his battery factories in Texas.

That has a plausible ring to it (but, again, I stress I haven't chased the details).
Musicians who play in orchestra may play the difficult sequence a lot, but they do not get to play whole concert again and again. They also need to be able to react to other sections, because otherwise whole orchestra desynchronized. Sometimes play unexpectedly something different.

The big groups of musicians are massive chaos.
If you don't expect such an attack, then with your threat model you don't need to do that.
Except in some rare edge cases, it’s mostly the latter, indirectly: in the average crate the vast majority of the time is spent in LLVM optimization passes and linking. Sometimes IR generation gets a pretty high score, but that’s somewhat inconsistent.
by what law of economics?
I really don't know what to tell you if you think one of the most practical human inventions in history is frivolous...
Do you have any examples of industries that operate as a free market, one that has never received government subsidies, grants, or bailouts? (i.e. socialism)

One that doesn't abuse the intellectual property system (e.g. patent trolling), or exploit their dominant market position in anti-competitive ways?

When deciding which system "performs better", there are deeper societal factors to consider than just return on investment for shareholders.
Other than broadcom licensing, I can guess that there's a warranty issue because the firmware controls the voltage.
It's been over a year and a half since I was last able to access their site at all without seeing just a "403 Forbidden" page.
> Secure boot makes sense if you're a Microsoft-only company

Yes, the author is actually working at MS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering
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(But your fence bend radius is limited, though ... :)
That kind of sarcasm and putting words in other people's mouths is why people are burning out of the project.

And maybe you're right and some Rust-based UNIX will eventually outcompete Linux.

But it'll be a shame if it gets that far because one community distrusted the other so much it would rather sneer at them like you're doing and tell them to piss off than put any investment whatsoever into sharing work.
I feel sort of ehh the same but also the opposite. I feel with both slack and discord that they are a little better than IRC. But that I so easily can see those features being implemented in IRC and I feel really sad history didn’t go in that direction. What if IRC had became the standard in the same way email did. IRC was so great and I miss it. I know ppl still use it, but I don’t even think I have a client anymore.

Learning to program as a kid in the 90s and getting that 28.8k modem with direct chat access to adults at Apple and later Sun/Java was amazing.
You’re swapping something that can be feasibly debugged or at least easily burnt and reformed for something that’s impossible to untangle once they’ve done two projects with different or conflicting deps into the base environment.
I wonder how you word your cold emails so that people bother to respond. Do you offer an hourly rate upfront in the first email? Thing is as someone who’s quite frequently on the receiving end of cold emails, I respond to companies looking for contracting/consulting because I know they probably have an at least passable rate in mind, whereas the few times I responded to individuals offering to pay for mentoring or feature development in my open source projects, after a few back and forth I realized they expected to pay one to two orders of magnitudes less than what I normally charge (e.g. $50 for about a week’s work, true story), it’s frankly embarrassing, so now I no longer respond to this sort of individual requests.
Fair criticism and I agree -- to that point, we're asked to bring our own devices to work without any compensation or the like (though it does have its advantages). I've considered paying out of my own pocket, but I just don't use Docker outside of work, and that's kind of where I draw the line at paying for software to do work.
If we just keep extrapolating from success stories, we'll inevitably run into survivorshop bias.

We can find a thousand companies where founders returned and made the company bigger, but what about those where the founder blocked growth and they never rose to prominence in the first place?
Hold on. That's the "Body Worlds" you are referring to?
I suspect, even for people who know about pypy and have programs that would benefit from using it and can use it, the main thing is defaults. Generically running on Python (only recently Python3) means you run and forget about it on pretty much any target. But installing pypy (or making any changes to defaults) on some k8 image or whatever is enough of a hassle and people just shrug.
And I disagree with him only allowing right wing radicals and banning left wing radicals.
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That's a great summary!

You're right, at scale, Kafka allows you to parallelise the workload more efficiently, as well as supporting multiple consumers for your replication slot. However, you should still be able to use the plug and play output processors with Kafka just as easily (implementation internally is abstracted, it works the same way with/without Kafka). We currently use the search indexer with Kafka at Xata for example. As long as the webhook server has support for rate limiting, it should be possible to handle a large amount of event notifications.

Regarding the transaction metadata, the current implementation uses the wal2json postgres output plugin (https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json), and we don't include the transactional metadata. However, this is something that would be easy to enable, and integrate into the pgstream pipeline if needed, to ensure transactional consistency on the consumer side.

Thanks for your feedback!
> Alternative platforms appear to be more civil because they're islands of echo-chambers. The anger is still there, it's just directed at the more abstract out-group, rather than any individuals that are part of the conversation.

I'd say there are less bots and Putin-financed "fifth column" groups around on the Twitter alternatives, and that is the key thing. The porn spammers that make up half of the "likes" notifications on Twitter just don't see bsky or the fediverse as juicy targets and Instagram/Threads has far better tooling to yeet them, and the Putin propaganda army knows that the utter majority of people on bsky/fediverse are progressives where their points just don't appeal.

Social media would be way less toxic if the Western world had yeeted Russia off of the Internet after 2014.
> [Taiwan] A singular place on earth where silicon wafers are endlessly etched with arcane symbols 4 nanometers in size, engraved by the light of heaven; life breathed into sand to help shoulder the burden of the world.

-Roon
Are you talking about group selection or kin selection?

In evolution what matters is that the gene(s) frequencies increases in response to selection. It would have to be a very big kin effect to offset suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Software "Engineers" thinking about creating documentation and actually creating documentation? Where? Usually I find "engineers" trying to use new unrelated tech to create more work for themselves and the company. Like adding the AWS stack to an Azure firm. Or the overzelous "perfectionist" starting with way too much abstraction to solve a simple problem. Real engineers get certificates, but software "engineers" range from over-glorified PowerApps developers all the way to the people who program medical devices and other life/death-grade solutions. The former never thinks about documentation and the latter has most all documentation provided or automatically generated.
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Since it is also end-to-end encrypted, an architecture involving Apple server wouldn't reveal the contents either.
They probably wouldn't sell terminals straight to Brazilian customers but rely on resale to keep their hands clean.

I'm not sure how feasible first finding and then fining/arresting owners would be. The proposed VPN fines were seen as outrageously disproportionate.
slides (w/notes): https://sean-parent.stlab.cc/presentations/2024-03-07-chains...
For a continuous workload that's a reasonable rule of thumb, but it doesn't tell the whole story. You always have a certain static power draw, just from having a component enabled. So modern embedded systems will often use a "race-to-sleep" or "race-to-halt" strategy where they will execute tasks really quickly, before shutting down most of their components waiting for the next event to trigger.
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I'm pretty sure it's the hardware. The SOCs they use in the mainline pi products are generally targeted at applications which aren't battery powered, so they don't focus on fast sleep support and similar power optimisations (which make the system design much more complex). Unfortunately if you want that you generally need to go with phone SOCs which are generally incredibly NDA-bound, very hard to buy even if you're as big as the rpi company, and have short availability windows which runs counter to requirements of large parts of the SBC market segment.
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It would be amazing to have a single authoritative server in an mmo for the EU, USA, Asia, Oceania etc regions and only have bad latency if you were actually directly interacting with people from far away.
What sender and tone? The issue is that an individual show power superior to that of a state. And a powerful and rich one at that.

I would care if he did the same to Turkey or India where similar demand were made (it wasn't legislative power there, but still). I really appreciate the fact that he called Brazil out, i would have really appreciated if he called India or Turkey out, i think this is going too far.

And as for "going to far with allowing free speech", why doesn't he do the same in China, where free speech issues seems to be far greater, and the great Firewall is blocking way more than just X?

No, he was just sightly hypocritical but seemed mostly principled before this choice, now he just seems too powerful, hypocritical and egotistic. You know what my theory is? Brazil just died as a Tesla importer because of BYD, so he chose to make a stand on it, while India and Turkey used to be potential countries he could invest in at the time so he shut up and let them walk over him.

It seems its just about money, so he grandstand on his principles when almost no money is being made, and shut up when he doesn't want to upset people with dollars he could get.
In what way does taking X off Brazil decrease the censorship in Brazil?
I mean he paid 40 billion. He can run it any way he pleases.
Carbon pricing is widely and successfully used around the world. The US federal level is a notable outlier in this regard and leads to people having distorted views on the topic.

https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/
Violent?
>because the context it retrieves based on the question text isn’t useful in producing the correct answer.

"retrieves" is the wrong word. Each token (in GQA a small tuple of tokens is summarized into a single token), becomes an element in the KV cache. The dot product of every token with every other token is taken (matrix multiplication) and then a new intermediate token is produced using softmax() and multiplication by the V matrix. What the attention mechanism is supposed to do is combine two tokens and form a new token. In other words, it is supposed to perform the computation of a function f(a,b) = c.
The attention layer is supposed to see "count r" and "strawberry" and determine the answer 3.

Well, at least in theory. Given the combination "count r" and "r", it is practically guaranteed that the attention mechanism succeeds. What this tells us is that the tokenization of the word "strawberry" is causing the model to fail, since it doesn't actually see the letters on the character level. So it is correct to say that the attention mechanism does not have the correct context to produce the correct answer, but it is wrong to say that "retrieval" is necessary here.

The reason why it doesn't make sense to label what is happening as "reasoning" is that the model does not consider its own limitations and plans around them. Most of the work so far has been to brute force more data and more FLOPS, with the hope that it will just work out anyway. This isn't necessarily a bad strategy as it follows the harsh truth learned from the bitter lesson, but the bitter lesson never told us that we can't improve LLMs through human ingenuity, just that human ingenuity must scale with compute and training data. For example, the human ingenuity of "self play" training (as opposed to synthetic data) works just fine, precisely because it scales so well.

Instead of complaining so much about humans trying to "gotcha" the LLMs, what we really ought to build is an adversarial model that learns to "gotcha" LLMs automatically and include it in the training process.
micropython supports esp32 too
Looks to me like Brazil is treating ostensibly independent companies as divisions of Musks personal conglomerate.

They blocked the funds of Starlink because of X related business. So why are you saying this?
It's a stupid system anyway. Corrupt airline staff can easily bypass all security checks, bring a pistol in a handbag and leave that in the cabin luggage bin for prearranged pickup by an unscrupulous passenger or any sort of shenanigans.

How do they protect against corrupt staff. It's like they're not even thinking. Why don't they just fast track staff checks.
So if we imagine a very rudimentary social hierarchy with a government on top, then thousands of corporations below, and then millions of people below corporations, this feature protects people in a case when government is malicious, but every single corporation is benevolent. Now if the government is not malicious, but corporations are, even part of them, it will allow them to basically take any payment and refuse service or do any other variants of abuse, costing time or money (think how it is bad today, and make it worse). And there is nothing to be done with it, because payment chain information is broken. Which is very useful for criminals who would want to run some business unaccountable and outside of the law system, and not very "useful" for the regular people.
Some examples would be nice, I'm not familiar with binary visualization, so I'm curious why and when I would personally use this
Do you have any examples where he blocks other people's speech?
I will contact you, I may be able to help with a better solution. This is something I do a lot of.
Do we need 10000 communication satellites compared to what a terrestrial network can provide? Cellular networks reutilize spectrum much more efficiently than space based systems. I get that there niche applications like rural broadband and military communications. I have no idea if Kessler syndrome is a real possibility but if it is then it doesn't seem worth it.
What's happening is clear: Elon doesn't like Lula, the Brazilian president. Lula is left wing: his predecessor was a Trump-esque idiot. I'd guess many of Lula's actual policies harm the Musk's material interests in some way, or are just things he doesn't like. It might literally just be that Musk has heard Lula is left wing and therefore wants to make life as hard as possible.
On top of this, prefer individual accounts and passwords over shared accounts.

Some services require shared passwords, keys, or tokens. Consider grouping them by sensitivity. Key to the kingdom shared accounts should be accessible only to a tiny number of people.

Finally, never send credentials over plaintext, such as email or Slack. 1Password and other password managers have a “share” feature. If need be, send a zipped and encrypted text file and share the password via a voice call.
Brazil should just sponsor their own fediverse nodes. But it's a lot easier to just block something in their national ISP. Complicated long term solutions are not interesting when they're trying to extort Elon for money.
I learnt this in NZ as bedmas.

Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.

Bedmas, Christmas in bed!
How is preventing a color revolution "authoritarian"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240540.shtml

You'd want the white house to do the same if China would want to do something similar with, let's say, TikTok ;)