skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A brutalist might now argue that rendering wrong in safari is obviously right.

This attitude amusingly mirrors the shift from early to late brutalist architecture. Where early brutalist architects were reacting against the inhumainty of the internationalist style, and concerned with recreating the monumentality of historic buildings in line with modernist principles. Like human spacial organisation, function over form, honesty in materials, and lack of ornamentation.

of course that quickly gave way to cheap concrete and poorly built units. The problems that surfaced with these buildings of course became the selling point. You should be shivering in the cold and dark and damp, cowering before the might of the state. Architecture found it's responsibility was to express frugality and indifference towards the populace.

So now, brutalist web design is no longer finding a level of simplicity which works for both creator and user, it is about fucking with your bloated browser. You should, after all, just be using a Teletype.
Moldbug.. i was going to point you at Marinetti, to see if he might provoke the same reactions.. (inconsistent viber, fraternized with Fascists, but really into educating the masses?)

Flies vs mosquitoes: flies are sometimes presented as a source of harmless comedy (maggots as medicine), but genocide (latinate vibes?) is acceptable for mosquitoes.
It’s a fact the environment was sexist.

Everything else is speculation unless their is some evidence that women’s complaints were the driving factor of a change in policy rather than, say, the infantilization of women or a sexist expectation that women would take exception to it.
That's not how it works. BOLT is mainly about figuring out the most likely instructions that will run after branches and putting them close together in the binary. Unlikely instructions like error and exception paths can be put at the end of the binary. Putting the most used instructions close together leverages prefetching and cache so that unused instructions aren't what is being prefetched and cached.

In short it is better memory access patterns for instructions.
There is some magic that may somewhat help - delaying normalization to when it's actually necessary or the numbers get too large, and skipping steps if denominators are equal. But even then it'll be quite bad relative to floats, especially so on software implementations due to likely having unpredictable branches.
Backprop itself doesn't invert the computation, but it does give you the direction for an incremental move towards the inverse (a 'nudge' as the article puts it). That is, given a sufficiently nice function f and an appropriate loss ||f(x) - y*||^2, gradient descent wrt x will indeed recover the inverse x* = f^{-1}(y*) since that is what minimizes the loss. I assume this what the article is pointing at.

If you want to be picky, it's true that the direct analogue of continuous optimization would be discrete optimization (integer programming, TSP, etc) rather than decision problems like SAT. But there are straightforward reductions between the two so it's common to speak of optimization problems as being in P or NP even though that's not entirely accurate.
30% unemployment is bad, but 100%, or even 90% should be great - the age of abundance, where robots are doing all the work, and everything is so cheap that anyone can have the basic necessities for free.
Why the GPL Sucks (2009)
Rubbish, nonsense, drivel, and claptrap all recognizable to me, a Yankee. Twaddle is a new one tho!
The async implementation is not shown in the article, but could easily do a number of things such as
- http request with decoder information
- worker threads
Can you imagine the reaction from conservatives had Jack Dorsey appeared onstage with Biden or Hillary?
Agree, especially about the debugging part.
Trust the government and their experts though.
A Bubble Is Rarely a Bubble
I have my news aggregator here: https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
Although mine is more curated and I add commentary. More slashdotey.
Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)
Its true, the only real winners is the lawyers. No change has been made to the legal process. No change in laws either. If another judge happens to cite this particular case in other situations, then only maybe its a win, but unlikely considering this doesn't set grounds for really anything from the little attention I've paid to this lawsuit.

I can agree with disproportionate responses to people or things I don't like, and if you have the means to do so should try it at least once to screw with someone who has been a thorn in your side. If this is one of those situations, bravo.

I would still be wary of calling this a win as you say.
So the long term risks are mostly from secondary infection, and it's only half of the 5-11% of the cases of mortality after treatment.

I think that sounds pretty fucking good considering the other option is definitely just being dead. That's as close to a miracle treatment as I believe we will get.
Since COVID I wonder if these studies were reproduced.

We had a lot of talking point about why masks won't work were backed by these "people touch their face dozens of time every hour" kind of results, it felt completely absurd but there wasn't anyone going to redo them with strict control in the middle of a pandemic either. But now we could.
Let's not speak about religions and their wars either!
i'm of the opinion that it's like self driving cars. Even if you get 99.999% of the way there it's still "not anywhere close" to the real thing because you're speaking with something that has little to no agency and acting as though it's a good substitute for a person.

My instincts tell me that humans are pretty good at detecting this difference. And when they aren't - they still won't like being lied to or tricked about it. You can see it already - generative art, or music for instance is (in some cases) objectively more impressive than art created by humans all else constant. You might trick a contest into giving you an award but the moment people find out it's generated, they almost immediately react angrily and no longer express interest in the result.

That's because they used to attribute the result to a person and now they know it's not a person. The psychology there probably isn't even fully fleshed out, but i feel it instinctively, as I said before. And I suspect others do as well based on the reactions here.

Sorry for assuming bad faith. i've met a lot of persons here who really do think LLM's in their current form are a kind of sentience. Blake Lemoigne (sp?) is a good example of that kind of naïveté.

I too have a human therapist, doctors, etc. And I too find myself chatting with ChatGPT, etc. about personal issues and in certain cases benefit tremendously from it. In particular, whenever it is something I would normally feel embarassed to say to another actual human. Since I am very confident ChatGPT doesn't have feelings or even an internal monologue with which it could "judge" me - I have no issue telling it such things. The benefit here is from the questions I can have answered that would otherwise go unanswered. I think this makes for a potential assistive technology as you implied earlier (better than a worksheet).

But for precisely that same reason, it will never work (in its current form) as a complete substitute for a human. And attempts to do so may in fact be actively harmful (as I originally suggested). Again, I'll just say that I don't think there's yet enough research on this but that "I know it when I see it". Any sufficiently serious topic I discuss with ChatGPT ultimately winds up with me drained because I feel as though I'm talking to a wall and not actually being acknowledged by anyone with agency who matters to me.

I will definitely admit that this is a highly opinionated take and is rooted in a lot of my personal feelings on the matter. As such, I can't really say that I've definitively proven that my point is the correct point. But, I hope you at least get the gist of what I am saying.
Bignum rationals aren't "more correct" and expressive than things like algebraic or symbolic representations, you're just picking a different set of tradeoffs than floats. That's fine, different numerical systems are fundamentally about making different sets of tradeoffs. We should just be clear what we're picking.

Personally I'd argue that for most people, writing most applications, IEEE floats are a fantastic tradeoff between performance, memory, error, and stability. That's why they've stuck around as the dominant numerical representation for decades. For most of the situations where they suffer (e.g. rounding transcendental results, operands with widely varying orders of magnitude, results very near 0) don't have general solutions in other systems, so the middle ground between "safe for a naive programmer" and "requires expertise in numerical analysis" becomes very small overall.
I guess the use of astronauts' blood would make it... Khorne-crete?

Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
I try to just buy one or two really nice porkchops or chicken legs quarters from the farmer's market now and then and cook veg most other nights at home. It's nice to eat meat rarely enough that it's a splurge and a treat when we do, and the animals do live significantly better.
Not seeing an UpSet plot?
Yes, but also no. Because you don't have to buy a mispriced asset (mispriced against you) and also, in many cases, you can construct what you want from pieces of other assets.

One car dealer trying to sell a 2023 Honda Accord with 60,000 miles can't just decide, independently, to forget the high mileage and price the car based solely on it being 1 year old. Sure that's "whatever is being asked" but that car will never sell until he brings the price down in line with other 60k mile cars - and that is because the pricing models are essentially agreed upon by all market participants.
It's clear. Fucked Up
> If they swam there, no. Invasive species have to be introduced by humans, by definition!

So what do you call it if humans introduce a species to an island A that's really close to another island B — and then the species happens to make the short hop to island B on its own? In a causal sense, that species would not have made it to island B if not for us introducing it to island A.
WP Engine buy it from Condon, he had already sold it to another company. WP Engine purchased that company and their suite of plugins
I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying.

These therapies are very individualized and will probably be very expensive.

How is CBT and casting a broken bone in any way like that? Those two things aren't reliant on medicine at all. Please explain, because I feel kind of stupid right now.
Would the profiles and resulting binaries be highly CPU specific? I couldn't find any cross hardware notes in the original paper.

The example's I'm thinking of are CPU's with vastly different L1/L2/L3 cache profiles. Epyc vs Xeon. Maybe Zen 3 v Zen 5.

Just wondering if it looks great on a benchmark machine (and a hyperscaler with a common hardware fleet) but might not look as great when distributing common binaries to the world. Doing profiling/optimising after release seems dicey.
It's all about maintaining control.
Sadly not capybaras
Auxiliary values are part of ELF, but it only specifies the layout in memory. ELF doesn’t specify a header that defines the AT_… values and some systems don’t even spell them with that prefix.
One of my favorites, easy to navigate visually!
Not really. Today's mediocre code is tomorrow's technical debt. LLMs often inject subtle bugs or misunderstand the context they're being used in and have to be badgered into respecting the parameters of requests.

Would you rather write code yourself, or ask a first-year student to write it for you while you watch over their shoulder and tell them to go back and try again every time you notice a mistake? Which of these do you think is faster and better in the long run for the quality of your codebase?
You had no point.

A blog post and a video are 2 different things.

Shitter still has many many 5 minute reads if you only want that. They exist, and in greater numbers than ever, right now, today, despite "how creators get paid".

The fact that you only want a soylent pill doesn't mean that a sit-down meal is some waste of time.
Yes, that’s 3.5in. The picture in TFA is of a _3in_ disk.
Iron Storm

Cool game, multiplayer was so cool. Its super cheap on steam.
Sadly, I predict that even when faced with these facts, people will continue to increase their meat consumption over the coming years, as the current trend shows no signs of stopping.

It's also unlikely the government would touch this issue with a ten-foot pole; Imagine the nonstop, angry calls a congressperson's office would be flooded with for even suggesting the most mild of regulations for beef consumption.
I got more of a Ratatat - Tacobel Canon vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use8dcTn4tI
>> Cortex-M4F has an FPU, i.e., hardware floating point support

Maybe I wasn't clear. I know it has an FPU. I originally wrote the code in fixed point because I knew it would be fast and didn't trust the FPU performance on such a small chip. Now I converted it to float and get the same performance.

I also used an "f" suffix on all constants to avoid accidental software double precision. Also used the GCC flags to force it all to single precision and use the hard float libs.

On smaller chips I used to expect fixed point to be faster than a hardware FPU, but that's no longer the case. They are about equal for me.
It would be hard to trust the result.
the travel makes people on average bodily better. usually a lot of walking involved, which has a lot of health benefits, especially for folks who come from the US
> The tweet author is @johnbillion who, among other things, is a member of the WordPress core team and lead of the WordPress core security team.

What's good about this scenario is that @johnbillion isn't employed by Automattic/Audrey, and wouldn't face financial consequences if he went against Matt's wishes.
Is there a link to pricing information?
Oh you changed countries in there too! That explains it ;-)
I don't have a dog in this fight but....nothing with Trump ever ends well, at least that I know of. Everyone who has ever been involved with him goes down the shitter. There are only two outcomes, Trump will either bury Elon at some point or Elon will destroyed himself.
Yeah it's only a kludge until the processing can be done on the GPU, and maybe one day, a proper driver can be developed for the ISP.
When playing draw poker, you only need to select 10 cards from the deck, because the other cards will never be played. So that's 52⋅51⋅…⋅43 = 57,407,703,889,536,000, which needs 56 bits.
IARC usually says that something has carcinogenic potential, which is almost completely useless information for something that we already ingest in absurd quantities without a cancer epidemic.
German spelling is ridiculously easy, whereas English spelling is quite hard. I guess the equivalent inverse would be comma use in German.
Director who identified QAnon authors says HBO doc will expose Satoshi
Kinda, but it’s not great because of the volatility smile
The fact that you have to preface with "I'm no vegan" really sums up the entire issue of centuries-long commercial propaganda on behalf of the meat and dairy industry. Americans eat way, way too much meat and anyone who tells them to cut back is a dirty vegan. These companies don't just sell meat, but an ideology and lifestyle to boot.

As an example, I was in Florida a few months ago and my girlfriend and I casually mention that we were making a salad for dinner after someone asked about our dinner plans. Their immediate response was defensive, saying, "Are you one of them vegans? Well, we only eat meat around these parts" and proceeded to tell us all about these great deals on meat at a local store, thinking that we'd hear those prices and be unable to resist and start eating meat.

Just because we mentioned a salad, his manufactured, mass-produced opinion was that we must be vegan. We're not. She's vegetarian, I'm pescatarion, but the difference is immaterial to a meat addict who's been sold a crusade.

It's the same story with our country's cult-like addiction to alcohol. Every time I go out and don't drink, I have to explain to people that I'm not a teetotaler, and have to explain the foreign concept of moderation. They get defensive and try to get me to drink anyway, because if I don't, they're forced to reckon with their own lifestyle choices of excess. Exact same issue with our meat consumption.
Ask HN: How to partition tenant data in queue for predictable performance?
Hello HN,

We use PubSubLite but the same can be applied to any queue system. The events are then processed by service running in K8S.

I am looking for strategies/patterns on how do folks partition their data so that each worker unit can get consistent performance with optimal CPU/memory usage.

Our data is global and temporal i.e. different regions will have peak/off peak data volume based on their time zones.

We have done performance test and we know how many events / second / partition we can process per worker units.

The issue we are currently facing is that when we get auto assigned partitions and based on randomness, we can get multiple heavy traffic partitions thus causing resource contention at a worker and causing slowdown.

Some options we have considered:

* running one worker unit per partition - this results in wastage as we have to use constant resources even in off peak time. this also results in using coordinater to make sure everybody is subscribing to correct partitions.

* group tenants into their traffic size and setup workers based on that. This has side effect of again extra maintenance on our side and bit of coordination with tenant provisioning/deprovisioning.

* order traffic to certain partitions based on tenant_id but then some partitions become too big and others dont.

What other strategies you use?
If there ever were a time to post that jackdaw copypasta ;)

I missed the video included in those links - very convincing, indeed! Thank you, sir!
What extreme leftist views does the Economist have?
Yes, it will refuse, because it uses openAI for the model.

The interesting thing to do with this project would be to fork it and run it with open inference models.

…buuuuuut, this is one of those “modern” web apps that has a dozen third party api dependencies to worry about,
built on non-self-hostable platform (superbase) so even if you wanted to, it’s probably actually impossible to run in an isolated sandbox you completely control.

/shrug
You're talking about intentionally-created bureaucracies. I don't think very many of these exist!

The majority of the time, bureaucracies aren't prescriptive, a structure imposed; but rather, they're descriptive — that is, they're just the abstraction we use to talk about what is actually a bunch of pre-existing special-interest groups, groups that would continue to exist whether or not there were an organizational label to collect them all into.

For example, what is a municipal government, but a bureaucracy that evolves out of conflicting special-interest groups, with each top-level city-council seat beholden mostly to some particular special-interest group?

The NIMBY gridlock in most cities can be blamed, in some sense, on "bureaucracy" — but only in the sense that there is an explicit NIMBY interest group that holds many council seats through representatives, and which cannot be organizationally engineered out of existence. The NIMBY home-owners make up a large proportion of voters — and so hold power as a voting bloc — and this holds whether they are directly represented by a party that agrees with them, or whether they are just bribing some other party to implicitly do things their way in order to get their votes. And in the case of NIMBYs, "doing things their way" is exactly "doing all that sabotage-manual stuff, to create bureaucratic gridlock, to block any attempt to fix or improve the city that would come at the expense of the asset-value of homes."

There's no technology that can "fix" the problem of the majority of an organization being composed of groups with fundamentally opposed ideologies, with groups seeing the other groups in the organization as likely to fundamentally destroy the things they hold dear if allowed, and where the fundamental tool these group see as available to resist what they see as "regressive change", is degradation of the process of change itself, though such organizational-process sabotage. Make the organizational process more efficient, and you just enable the sabotage to happen faster. (It's a bit like accelerating an AI, just translating into it deciding to refuse you faster.)

And to be clear, I am not just saying that polities and their democratic proxies are like this; I am saying that most organizations are like this. Most orgs are inherently, definitionally made up of such fundamentally ideologically-opposed factions. Yes, even if you hire them to work in explicit alignment with one-another.
Perhaps Automattic's goal is to force WPEngine to host their plugin(s) elsewhere? And also force WPEngine to have their own plugin cache or plugin market? Or at least no longer rely on WordPress.org's plugin repo directly.
I would try installing pacman in the same filesystem NixOS is in.
There's nothing admirable about charging head-first in the wrong direction.
No, userland arc4random() calls getentropy()

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.c?r...

I have not investigated OpenBSD’s boot-time kernel RNG keying.
Another good explanation from Terence Tao’s blog: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/the-black-scholes-...
My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics.

What an immensely cowardly statement. Zeldman is not some naive worker elf and pretending to be such as an excuse to avoid saying anything is contemptible. If you don't want people to know what you think, just say that, or say nothing. Pretending you don't have an opinion because you don't understand is just...ick.
Stop using food for anything else than food, people. We don't have enough arable land to waste on this stuff.
Building a Streaming Service CMS
Because Reddit took a nose dive years ago into an extreme left-wing authoritarian cesspool?
Those are very selective things you picked.

E100–E199: Food coloring, such as turmeric (E100) and paprika (E160c)

E200–E299: Preservatives, such as sulfur dioxide (E220)

E300–E399: Antioxidants and acidity regulators, such as ascorbic acid (E300)

E400–E499: Thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and gelling agents

E500–E599: Acidity regulators and anti-caking agents

This is pretty much the spectrum. Red 40, aka Allura Red AC aka E129 is illegal in the US, legal in the EU, and carries a warning in the EU. Let’s not pretend that the wonderful world of chemicals and industrialization doesn’t exist in Europe.
Might be a good lesson for the world they will enter…see the average customer support experience from large companies these days.
I think it is actually a little funny, nowadays of course the assumption that we particularly should be less profane around women would be seen as old fashioned and kind of a bit sexist. But I guess at the time swearing less was probably seen as a way to make women less uncomfortable. And I’m sure in some cases it did help.

An interesting example of the quirks we carry along with us, and the fact that the combination of behavior, intention, and interpretation can mix oddly.
Discussion (49 points, 2 days ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732985
I do want to believe what you're saying because it means fewer life-years lost but... the other explanation is that covid plus the countermeasures to it really did impact people's health (not just the fatalities) and increased net mortality. We can check back in a few years but so far this explanation seems likelier to me.