skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two recommendations are for improving receiver-side implementations – optimising them and making them multithreaded. Those suggest some immaturity of the implementations. A third recommendation is UDP GRO, which means modifying kernels and ideally NIC hardware to group received UDP packets together in a way that reduces per-packet work (you do lots of per-group work instead of per-packet work). This already exists in TCP and there are similar things on the send side (eg TSO, GSO in Linux), and feels a bit like immaturity but maybe harder to remedy considering the potential lack of hardware capabilities. The abstract talks about the cost of how acks work in QUIC but I didn’t look into that claim.

Another feature you see for modern tcp-based servers is offloading tls to the hardware. I think this matters more for servers that may have many concurrent tcp streams to send. On Linux you can get this either with userspace networking or by doing ‘kernel tls’ which will offload to hardware if possible. That feature also exists for some funny stuff in Linux about breaking down a tcp stream into ‘messages’ which can be sent to different threads, though I don’t know if it allows eagerly passing some later messages when earlier packets were lost.
Context.

That's a rule for jumping into a conversation and making petty putdowns.

It doesn't mean "if someone says HN has never been better, you're not allowed to disagree".
Mattresses as well. When we moved into our house it came with some furniture, including a bed with a memory foam mattress in the master. After a few days I noticed I was getting back pain and figured it was just from unpacking.

One time I feel asleep in the other bedroom, with our old mattress which was a lot firmer, and I woke up without any pain. Tried a few times on both, and yes, the firmer mattress is better for me.
They don’t wonder. They’d happily produce entire novels of (garbage) text if trained on gibberish. They wouldn’t be confused. They wouldn’t hope to puzzle out the meaning. There is none, and they work just fine anyway. Same for real language. There’s no meaning, to them (there’s not really a “to” either).

The most interesting thing about LLMs is probably how much relational information turns out to be encoded in large bodies of our writing, in ways that fancy statistical methods can access. LLMs aren’t thinking, or even in the same ballpark as thinking.
Which made fake sites pretending to be a political candidate opposed by all the above. Clearly illegal. And if you want to know who’s behind it, follow the money.
Also ask musk. He’ll admit to it because he thinks he can do whatever he wants.
Or even https://svelte-omnisite.vercel.app/ which is linked from there.
It is the v5 Svelte homepage, currently svelte.dev is v4

Edit: I'm not so sure that's up to date actually. Lots of "Coming soon" sections
Yes: https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/git-compatibility/#co...
descriptive vs prescriptive
Tl;dr Wordpress.com has a sketchily-authorized copy of the Wordpress.org plugin directory that’s used as a funnel into signing up for a Wordpress.com hosting account. This was causing the author problems because it has better google rankings than the .org, and they were getting support requests from people who thought buying a plan on Wordpress.com meant they got the premium version of their plugin. So they C&D’d Automattic to remove them from the copied directory.

This is only related to the recent WP Engine drama insofar as the author says it made them lose trust in Matt.
OpenAI's Lead over Other AI Companies Has Largely Vanished
I was actually referring to regular bikes not e-bikes in my last point, your quote, but I agree with everything you said. There are definitely disadvantages to e-bikes
My understanding is that display-port is quite open in that there is no per-device fee for implementing it, I suspect you still have to be a vesa "member" to get a legit copy of the spec.

Honestly at this point I consider VESA one of the good guys. At least compared to the alternative, spits, HDMI
Thanks, yes I need luck too
I'm an individual, and individuals are the ones most affected negatively by this Digital Services Act requirement.
Also there is no easy way for management to know if somebody has required level of skill.
Lot of people here talking trash on this probably don’t know the history or even current status of Prada. In short they are absolute top of the line when it comes to everything from the pattern work to the actual nuts and bolts of manufacturing this sort of thing. Any other company would very likely take more time and money to produce and inferior product.
Yeah, I found buying one, though it was very expensive, to be worth it, because I started getting a lot more exercise than I would have without it. I don’t need to carry cargo or passengers very often :)
He’s talking about blogs in general
It is cool how many researchers around the world are still analyzing moon rocks from Apollo.
Don't think it's really systematic. I think this is just a generational cycle. Plenty of content coming from newer people on other platforms through other mediums.
> As someone who can only do vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

This is also why I chose SvelteKit as my first framework. I was actually pretty fluent in vanilla since my first real web project was a full stack chrome extension, but when it came time to choose a framework for my first true web app, I chose Svelte because it was the only framework I could immediately understand.
I had the same thought recently: https://bower.sh/on-writing
see also the section about elective (medically unnecessary) surgeries and procedures too
(2021)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374523
Artemis probably is a boondoggle, but the headline isn’t necessarily an indication of that. The Apollo spacesuits were manufactured by Playtex, by the same seamstresses that made their bras at the time, supposedly because they were the most qualified to do the work.

When it comes to manufacturing small quantities of high quality textiles (which is, in part, exactly what a spacesuit is), this is exactly the kind of business partnership that makes sense.
Yep; when it started becoming more about engagement and ad delivery than social networking.

I all but stopped using Facebook years ago and deleted it recently. I'm off all of the other platforms.
> Do they have a batteries included bootstrap with social auth?

Nope, but it does have routing!
Are you suggesting that individuals should carry that liability?
They already have been. Even just in programming, even just Copilot has been a life changing productivity booster.
I am certainly not suggesting anyone rely on me for legal advice, to be clear.

But no, my understanding in CA is unlike the Feds, California does not have the concept of constructive possession as it applies to assault weapons. As such, separated parts cannot constitute a CA AW, unless the lower is already registered as such, or said lower is on the list of named CA AWs.

It is technically not an assault weapon in that configuration; however, depending on the DA, they may still come after you under PC 12280(a), stating that you are attempting to possess an assault weapon. The sticking point for them is showing intent, but they have convicted on possession and research of how to assemble an assault weapon.

They certainly could charge someone, and maybe even win; I’m not suggesting anyone rely on this as a defense, but that is what the law states. Short of any other aggravated reasons to charge you, it’s unlikely a DA would have any interest.
Your Writing
I think that’s a pretty good impression. Lots of features for those cases:

- better behaviour under packet loss (you don’t need to read byte n before you can see byte n+1 like in tcp)

- better behaviour under client ip changes (which happen when switching between cellular data and wifi)

- moving various tricks for getting good latency and throughput in the real world into user space (things like pacing, bbr) and not leaving enough unencrypted information in packets for middleware boxes to get too funky
Amazon is part of the _problem_. What you're really looking for is called a "law", and it's something a government does to make people stop doing things that hurt other people. Laws are then enforced so the bad actors stop doing their harmful stuff.
Because it's QUIC _implementations of browser_ not being as fast as the non quick impl of browsers on connections most people would not just call fast but very fast (in context of browser usage) while still being definitely 100% fast enough for all browser use case done today (sure it theoretically might reduce video bit rate, that is, if it isn't already capped to a anyway smaller rate, which AFIK it basically always is).

So "Not Quick Enough" is plain out wrong, it is fast enough.

The definition of "Fast Internet" misleading.

And even "QUIC" is misleading as it normally refers to the protocol while the benchmarked protocol is HTTP/3 over QUIC and the issue seem to be mainly in the implementations.
> I am curious as to what a principled definition of a "blocking" function would be.

It's one where the OS puts your (kernel) thread/task to sleep and then (probably) context switches to another thread/task (possibly of another process), before eventually resuming execution of yours after some condition has been satisfied (could be I/O of some time, could be a deliberate wait, could be several other things).
If only we had some mechanism to force companies to stop doing things like this, instead of trying to invent economic dead-ends like Lego-style monitor assembly kits or Amazon-flavored voting systems.
Conchoidal fracture. The particle is probably a piece of obsidian or some other glass-like solid.
would be way easier if stores interface with search engines directly. majority of stores have inventory systems. just a matter of time until they intehrate. if you search for a product you can sometimes see places that have it nearby.
Where can I read more about Prada's other ventures into this sort of thing?
Nobody needs to hear your nonsense rants. A 50k model 3 makes almost all offerings up to 80k (including electrics) from legacy automakers look like garbage.
> Tutorial is not completely converted yet.

Any idea of when the new tutorial will be complete? I might go back and refresh some stuff.
Different kinds of systems?

> devs who maintain these systems

What is meant by “system” here? Computer application? Hardware?
This tension between two paths, the microcontroller path vs the analog path, there is a bit of an analog to this in the game Factorio. You can use combinators to build sophisticated circuits (the microcontroller path), but there's also a lot you can do with just a few red wires (the analog path).
You can in theory. You just need a accurate model of your available bandwidth and enough buffering/storage to avoid stalls while you wait for acknowledgement. It is, frankly, not even that hard to do it right. But in practice many implementations are terrible, so good luck.
Bingo,

We have a winner. Glad that came from someone not in my lectures on ML network design

Honestly, thanks for beeting me to this comment
Since we're all here: what UI libraries are y'all using in your SvelteKit apps?
Novel pattern work and top of the line quality in manufacturing? Probably your local Prada boutique would be a good start. Or prada.com barring that.
The point is that the ad recommendation models don’t know why people are clicking the ads, they just know people click on the ads.
FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again
Headlines: what can they do, they need that for the traffic

Reader: do the moral thing and read the article, not just the title

How is that balanced.
Shutting Down XetHub: Learnings and Takeaways
Close to having a complete distro in CD's in early 2000's or 3 DVD in early mid 2000's.

Debian used to ship tons of geeky lore, fun manuals, serious manuals, oddities here and there, weird languages, compilers and manuals...
I mean, it’s a space suit. It’s theoretically possible to have space suits that look a lot cooler (or at least different) from this, but most of them would require huge breakthroughs in technology that we don’t have. So instead we just do a refinement on the same basic approach that we already know works. If we had exotic materials or significantly better energy storage we might be able to replace traditional space suits with space marine power armor or some sort of form fitting wetsuit-looking thing, but we ain’t there yet.
My favourite is daisyUI
Why Does the Moon Look Bigger Near the Horizon?
Larger windows can reduce the maximum number of simultaneous connections on the sender side.
Why do you need multiplexing when you are only downloading one (video) stream? Are there any features of http/2 that would benefit the Netflix use case?
Oh no… That would vindicate the chatbots..
Cicada3301 ransomware affiliate program infiltrated by security researchers
I don't get to decide and I'm not calling it blessed, but it's the one that is becoming dominant, like it or not.
The BrucePac ready-to-eat listeria recall link is broken
The PDF link to show you the products that may make you ill with listeria is corrupted: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/food_label_pdf...

Any ideas how to read the PDF? I can't figure it out, repair features in Acrobat aren't working, etc. I already emailed but wondering if any of you have ideas
https://www.shadcn-svelte.com/
Have not done zero shot yet. At the moment i am experimenting with this https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05245. Looks promising hoping to push an updated version soon but i am still fighting with it at the moment
Every time I look back at Boatmurdered it shocks me just how short of a time Dwarf Fortress spent as a 2D game. 2D had releases between August 2006 and January 2007, then there was a nine month gap, then the first 3D version.

And I think we're still waiting on any reintroduction of cave supports and structural integrity beyond "no floating blocks".
You’re probably going to think I’m very presumptuous but I’m going to say this anyway in case it is helpful for you.

If people are frequently offended when you speak on a topic you’re probably being offensive somehow through content or delivery.

In my experience the thought “[they] feel threatened anytime something is expressed that differs from […]” is not accurate and it also turns off your brain on trying to figure out what is actually going on. I can recommend from personal experience a small apology and transition to more listening in that moment. If more feels appropriate, giving it some time and space and re-engaging gently to discover what went on for them in that moment can yield a lot of value for both sides.
'Miracle' weight-loss drugs could lead to debilitating brittle bones, fractures
But too much system can also cause negative outcomes, because all that system has a cost, both in money and in time. If you add a protection to prevent every negative outcome, your system will never produce anything at all, which is a negative outcome.

Every check has a cost. For some checks, the cost is more than it prevents. Don't add those checks, even after the negative outcome happens.
"immaturity of the implementations" is a funny wording here. QUIC was created because there is absolutely NO WAY that all internet hardware (including all middleware etc) out there will support a new TCP or TLS standard. So QUIC is an elegant solution to get a new transport standard on top of legacy internet hardware (on top of UDP).

In an ideal World we would create a new TCP and TLS standard and replace and/or update all internet routers and hardware everywhere World Wide so that it is implemented with less CPU utilization ;)
My Podcast with Brian Greene
> Such as?

The original article, for starters?

The people in the article are sufficiently rare that doctors don't spot them very easily. And they're using a lot, every single day. That's pretty benign pharmacologically.

> Alcohol is similar: the net harms of alcohol are astronomical.

Funny you should mention that ... Prohibition directly shows that the net harms of alcohol not being legal are far, far worse.

And, by the evidence, alcohol seems to be pharmacologically way less benign than marijuana.

Is marijuana harmless? No. But you solve that by regulation rather than criminalization--just like alcohol and nicotine.

And we haven't even touched on the whole issue of selective drug enforcement being institutionalized racism ...
What a laugh, would you take that deal?

Upside: you get paid a 200k salary, if all your code works perfectly. Downside: if it doesn't, you go to prison.

The users aren't compelled to use it. They can choose not to. They get to choose their own risks.

The internet is a gold mine of creatively moronic opinions.
From a technology point of view yes, from a users point of view they've gained a lead & the second one is the one that matters.
My mother was educated. She bought into some misinformation and fear-mongering about modern medicine and rejected it entirely. No vaccines no doctors. Mostly it was fine till it wasn’t.
I took myself to a doctor as a teen with bad strep. Not our doctor we didn’t have one. just a doctor. No insurance. They could see I was in rough shape. They just diagnosed me with strep (although I already knew that’s what it was) and sent me away with a prescription. I didn’t even realize how weird that was till much later. (That they saw me with no insurance and no previous relationship and no payment)

My sister was in town once years later and my younger brother was in such bad shape she took him to a doctor. She swears to this day he would have died. Again strep.

Misinformation is a big problem. People who buy into it put their kids at risk. When we allow purveyors of nonsense to thrive because “freedoms” we do everyone a disservice.
Oh man. I've been off the IT floor for too long. Time to change my rhetoric, ya'll have been around the corner for a while.

Aging has it's upsides and downsides I guess.
This is So unrelatable lol. Imagine how different alien minds would be!!
Could you elaborate on the numerical precision issue regarding Julia?
Speaking of missing things. Uh, I'm guessing you missed the OP?

> "The Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia is currently using one fifth of all the steel produced in the world, an official said on Monday."

The key word there is "currently." It is also, emphatically, not the case. So perhaps the guy misspoke and was making a forecast, but that's not what was claimed.

What might happen a decade hence, if the Saudis build out capacity, is another matter entirely. I don't doubt their ability to spend vast sums of money on steel and concrete. Who knows whether or not they'll go through with it?
Bone marrow contains fat cells.
With a relatively small variant to make it gradient boosted trees it’s pretty much as good as it gets for tabular data these days
Honestly 228M for something like a space suit doesn’t even seem excessive to me. Extreme security requirements together with extreme conditions make for an expensive combo. Electronics for these conditions are hardly ever off the shelf because of the harsh environment.

If these suits fail it’s not only immediately life threatening for the astronauts, it would also be a huge embarrassment for the country. So if you still can pull off something like a moon landing, better do it right.
Those without, do you feel “jealous” of people with a “mind’s eye”?

Or vice versa?
>> They’re basically the first model organism for researchers studying the neuroscience of language. They are not a biological organism, but until these models came about, we just didn’t have anything other than the human brain that does language.

I think this is completely wrong-headed. It's like saying that until cars came about we just didn't have anything other than animals that could move around under its own power, therefore in order to understand how animals move around we should go and study cars. There is a great gulf of unsubstantiated assumptions between observing the behaviour of a technological artifact, like a car or a statistical language model, and thinking we can learn something useful from it about human or more generally animal faculties.

I am really taken aback that this is a serious suggestion: study large language models as in-silico models of human linguistic ability. Just putting it down in writing like that rings alarm bells all over the place.
Just a note, you have couple of places with different copy

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I think the data is way more important for the success of LLMs than the architecture although I do think there's something important in the GPT architecture in particular. See this talk for why: [1]

Warning, watch out for waving hands: The way I see it is that cognition involves forming an abstract representation of the world and then reasoning about that representation. It seems obvious that non-human animals do this without language. So it seems likely that humans do too and then language is layered on top as a turbo boost. However, it also seems plausible that you could build an abstract representation of the world through studying a vast amount of human language and that'll be a good approximation of the real-world too and furthermore it seems possible that reasoning about that abstract representation can take place in the depths of the layers of a large transformer. So it's not clear to me that we're limited by the data we have or necessarily need a different type of data to build a general AI although that'll likely help build a better world model. It's also not clear that an LLM is incapable of the type of reasoning that animals apply to their abstract world representations.

[1] https://youtu.be/yBL7J0kgldU?si=38Jjw_dgxCxhiu7R
I mean, the reason I was discussing those specific aspects is that you're the one brought them up. You made the claim about how HTTP/2 was a "big bang" change. You're the one who made the claim that HTTP/2 was enforced on the ecosystem by Google.

And it seems that you can't support either of those claims in any way. In fact, you're just pretending that you never made those comments at all, and have once again pivoted to a new grievance.

But the new grievance is equally nonsensical. HTTP/2 is not particularly complex, and nobody on either the server or browser side was forced to implement it. Only those who thought the minimal complexity was worth it needed to do it. Everyone else remained fully interoperable.

I'm not entirely sure where you're coming from here, to be honest. Like, is your belief that there are no possible tradeoffs here? Nothing can ever justify even such minor amounts of complexity, no matter how large the benefits are? Or do you accept that there are tradeoffs, and are "just" disagree with every developer who made a different call on this when choosing whether to support HTTP/2 in their (non-Google) browser or server?
Have not read the article in depth yet, but I am very familiar with the Troyanskaya lab. They are good and their articles are always worth a read.

They are using a geodesic finite mixture model, which I am not familiar with, but seems to be an extension of mixture models to non Euclidean metric?

Pleiotropy can be tricky though, as traits / diagnoses / observations can have causal relationships amongst themselves. For example, a variant that impacts obesity may be statistically associated with heart attacks; but the relationship between the variant and heart attacks is not directly causal in the sense of something like a variant that alters function of an ion channel expressed in cardiac smooth muscle.
That's interesting.

Obviously, energy cost creates a barrier to entry, so reduction of cost reduces the barrier to entry... which adds more players... which increases demand.
I guess we should not take blameless to the extreme.

Some feedback must exist. (calm, obective and possibly private)
Eventually it is up to the manager or manager’s manager to be aware what is happening and take action if critically needed.
*patently