skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone worth 100B is rich as hell. Giving out that money to every american means less than 300 dollars each.

So for that amount of money, you just killed the startup economy and killed all grand vision projects like SpaceX. Nothing gets off the ground.

Sounds very much like the socialist paradise I live in called Europe. Where the smartest most ambitious people leave for the US.
LOL. E3500 was small. Now the E10ks aka Starfire were sizable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise

I feel old.
why would you buy an ATMega328p for that price if you can get an ESP32 with wifi/ble and awesome rust support? ;)
Also it is likely that the rise of LLMs gave many researchers in allied fields the impetus to tackle with the problems that are relevant to making it more efficient and people stumbled upon a solution hiding there.

The momentum with LLMs and allied technology may last till it keeps on improving even by a few percentage points and keeps shattering human created new benchmarks every few months
Why would the government congratulate a private company?
my major gripe with both windows 10 and 11 is how bloated they feel at all times. Even with 16 GB RAM it feels like a chore doing anything on them. It could be a perception issue or perhaps an actual one but Windows 7 was so much more faster at a time when hardware was not even that evolved
Reminds me of Geoffrey Hinton who, when asked how to imagine a 14-dimensional space, said: “imagine a 3-dimensional space, and say ‘fourteen’ very loudly”
It's much easier to hold an algorithm accountable than an organization of humans. You can reprogram an algorithm. But good look influencing an organization to change
Astro is _really_ great for static sites. It doesn't feel heavy like Gatsby and Hugo do. I understand what's going on and I get to write JSX that compiles to static HTML.

> What other technologies can be replaced by Astro, to have an example?

As I mentioned above, and you hit on this too, I think Astro can replace static site generators. It wouldn't replace React (or your favorite framework), but it would use those frameworks to reduce your overall reliance on JavaScript and let most of your site be static HTML.

Astro has "island" pattern which allows you to selectively use JS frameworks on portions of pages where interactivity is required. You can use React, Vue, Svelte, etc.

The big benefit of islands is that the majority of your site is static HTML and only the bits of each page that actually need JS rely on it vs React where your entire site would use JS.

I haven't used this feature but I have heard that people really like it.

https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs.

Perhaps, but the relative success of trained LLMs acting with apparent generalised understanding may indicate that it is simply the interface that is really an LLM post training;

That the deeper into the network you go (the further from the linguistic context), the less things become about words and linguist structure specifically and the more it becomes about things and relations in general.

(This also means that multiple interfaces can be integrated, sometimes making translation possible, e.g.: image <=> tree<string>)
Zoomed out, you are correct.

If you zoom in a little, every group of people has its own morés, from peer organizational groups at work to a group of 5 friends going on a hike together. Norms within these groups can be dynamic, but it takes some compelling or otherwise persuasive force.
I purchased a Chromebook a while ago, and I've found it quite adequate as a "daily driver".

It's vastly simplified compared to any other desktop OS, and I appreciate that the simplicity makes it lean and understandable, to beginners or power users alike.

Pretty much everything I did was in the Google ecosystem, and PWAs are well-supported in Chrome, and as a bonus, I can run any Android app natively in the VM, and full-screen! It's fantastic for my astronomy work!

My Thinkpad T580 is 6 years old at this point, and out of warranty, but still performing admirably. When it dies I will wait awhile to replace it with something else, as my Chromebook has taken over the daily duties, and performing great.
It kinda makes sense that more people would think their friends like them more than they like their friends. People are popular because they make their friends feel liked. So there’s some economy of scale to being popular that the receiving friends don’t notice. It might even be a genuine friendship, but ultimately someone with 5 friends is gonna place greater weight on them than someone with 50 friends, and just by numbers the person with 50 friends will be on the other side of the 5 friends more times than the person with 5 friends will be the friend of someone else with 5 friends.
https://www.opensuse.org/
This still literally means 'not saving snapshots,' rather than 'not making an analysis of your screen and sending some "telemetry" with hashed (of course!) data to our servers.'
> It seems like there is no evidence of untoward behavior, just a bunch of gross opinions?

I don't think you actually read it then, because a significant portion of it is about his untoward behavior (as a boss, to random women at conferences, as a Voting Member, etc.)

> But the FSF is an American organization, and in America we have something close to free speech.

Free speech has absolutely nothing to do with this (as you note, the foundation has every right to get rid of him because of his abhorrent views). You don't generally want advocates for child sex abuse representing your foundation, regardless of what sort of foundation it is.
Wiping out the investors does profound downstream harm because it means that future investors will be less likely to invest in these kinds of companies, or smaller companies striving to occupy similar roles.

Moreover, union obligations cannot always be petitioned in bankruptcy proceedings. This has resulted in company assets being dissolved altogether, instead of sold off and used, in some cases in the past.
You may be interested in reading Wittgenstein on trying to define what a "game" is. In short he found that there are no conditions necessary or sufficient to make something a game. Nevertheless, games exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
It always tasted burned to me
However thats the marketing
You add the sugar cream etc etc to it so its "tasty"
(which adds to the price)
Tried these with some local models and these are the ones that generated the program one shot, a few of them also generated the results correctly one shot.

llama3.1-70b, llama3.1-405b, deepseekcoder2.5, gemma-27b, mistral-large, qwen2.5-72b. https://gist.github.com/segmond/8992a8ec5976ff6533d797caafe1...

I like how the solution sort of varies across most, tho mistral and qwen look really similar.
Perhaps by "norm creation" they're referring to the emergence of new norms rather than the persistence of existing ones.
I had a lot of problems when using it with a dataset of many jpg Files.

The indexing for every dvc status took many minutes to check every file. Caching did not work.

Sadly I had to let go of it.
> It had a minor issue that turned out not to be so serious.

We don't know if it was serious or not. If Starliner managed to land this time, will it be able to do it repeatedly, or it was just luck this time?

If we are trying to deduce seriousness of the issue from data, then one point of data is too low. Boeing needs to launch a few dozens more of test flights to gather the data needed for this kind of reasoning. But if we are relying on causal reasoning, then we have no clear understanding of causes, Boeing engineers are still unable to explain how their thrusters fail exactly, and what they could do to make them robust.
Presumably because whoever's in charge decided that's how they want to run their business.
Am I misunderstanding your point? Changing default configs from upstream is an utterly normal practice in webhosting. That's why config options exist and having someone else make reasonable choices is one reason why you might choose a host.
> Character assassination by anonymous cowards.

Character assassination involves lies. The majority of this is just "here's a collection of absolutely indefensible shit RMS said, in his own words".
This is good intuition for why ensembling overparametrized is a good idea. Doesn’t speak to why ensembles of tree-structured estimators in particular perform so well compared to ensembles of other nonparametric estimators.
I usually have to expand the "more replies" and often also the "probably spam" sections to see those.
One is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and demonstrated hands on ability designing and building complex new designs, the other manages Engineers with a "Physics for Business Majors" unit and a Homer Simpson approach to practicality.

Hats off to the Engineers Engineers that Engineered the chopsticks catch, there were quite a few getting into the technical weeds:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F2...
They will happily boot legal websites off while defending animal torture and CSAM. I’ve made many reports to Cloudflare, Google, and the FBI when I come across said websites and so far I have yet to see any be even kicked off Google search let alone Cloudflare.
This sounds similar to someone saying room temp super conductor was discovered
The union mindset is being exhibited in your comment here, where you scapegoat the management for everything. Even things where the unions aggressively fought for and have now mandated into law at the expense of management's contract freedom.
Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains
Its a valid question, esp if you haven't used a framework for years and want to get to know what other people think of the newer versions. Nobody has time to keep up with all the JS frameworks unless they are a youtuber who does framework comparison as their full time job. And even those youtubers fall behind in the JS world.
The internal diagram appears to be incorrect, https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/inside-the-555.html

The internal resistors should be connected to the upper comparator. Also, that diagram just seems confusing. Something like this makes more sense: https://www.theengineeringknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
> Anyone who's ever had to work on a system that had copious unit tests deep within will know the pain of not just changing code to fix a bug, but having to change a half-dozen tests because your function interfaces have now changed and a healthy selection of your tests refuse to run anymore.

In my experience this problem tends to be caused by heavily mocking things out more so than the unit tests themselves. Mocking things out can be a useful tool with its own set of downsides, but should not be treated as a requirement for unit tests. Tight coupling in your codebase can also cause this, but in that case I would say the unit tests are highlighting a problem and not themselves a problem.

Perhaps you're talking about some other aspect of unit tests? If that's the case then I'd love to hear more.
I feel exactly same for unit tests and ORMs. I'd like to what kind business applications these two items really delivered. In my experience they both worked in most trivial sense. Either projects were mostly POCs and no one really cared about production issues. Or they were so overstaffed that team can continue to support to provide daily work to devs.
GNU is strict about this. Strict to a dogmatic level which causes patching out firmware updates from Guix, leaving people with buggy/insecure systems. But they're free.
I'm a huge fan of providing laymen explanations. And at some point if you _actually_ want to understand you have to stop using those and pickup and understand the math.

http://therisingsea.org/post/mast30026/

Has a good introduction to space, and the notion of a manifold, and what a Minkowski space is.
I agree, which is why it's fortunate that no one is or has suggested "cancelling" anyone for "discussing" things.

The report's author(s) are advocating for removing RMS from positions of influence and authority from the free software community because he's advocating for child sex abuse and bestiality, harasses women, and is a shitty human being.

Pretending that anyone ever has been jettisoned from their position or public life for "discussing" something - or that that's what's happening here - is insanely disingenuous.
I think this is precisely why for-profit healthcare is wild. If it weren’t for ideology we could get behind socialised care and cut out all of the nonsense.
> Blocking code is a leaky abstraction

> Asynchronous code does not require the rest of your code to be asynchronous. I can’t say the same for blocking code.

Well, you can also say that "file systems are a leaky abstractions. Sector-addressing disk access does not require the rest of your code to access disk sectors directly. I can't say the same for the code that uses files".

First of all, asynchronous code does require the rest of your code to be asynchronous: because, as you've yourself said, blocking code doesn't mesh well with the asynchronous. Second, when your are trying to work with two different levels of abstractions at the same time, of course you will find the presence of the higher-level abstraction (the blocking code, the file system, etc) to be inconvenient: the higher-level abstraction has to make some opinionated choices, or it would not be an abstraction but merely an interface.

So yeah, I guess blocking code is a leaky abstraction, just like file systems, TCP streams, garbage-collected memory, and sequential processor instruction execution. It's still a higher-level abstraction though.
I think test pyramid is a great idea, in theory. In practice, having lots of unit tests with mocked dependencies doesn’t make me sure that everything works as it should. Thus, I use real database in my unit tests. There, I test serialization errors, authentication problems, network issues, etc. All the real problems which can occur in real life. Leaving these scenarios for integration tests layer will turn a test pyramid to a test diamond.

And what was the rationale behind mocking a database in the first place, speed? Disable synchronous wal writes, or run your postgres instance in ram. Your test suite execution speed will skyrocket.
and yet, it was a mere road kill to a tanker
Single English words cannot be trademarked. However, if you string two of them together, and demonstrate that you are actively using the phrase in commerce, you can get the phrase trademarked for use in a particular domain, e.g. computer software.

Three words is even better.

Note that a tractor manufacturer could still trademark "Active Custom Fields" for agricultural equipment, because it would not be confusingly similar to the "Active Custom Fields" software.

Also trademarks have to be renewed every 5-10 years and you must show that you are actively using it.
It is absolutely what he was saying.
What is the most impactful you get from AskAmanager?
Certainly one of the first algos to demonstrate that humans are quite accepting of a hint of machine intelligence that is laughably far from what they are projecting upon it. Much like politics and advertising in that way.
How can they do that with HTTPS though?

HTTP sure they can happily MITM and redirect, but with HTTPS you need a valid cert.
The difference is XP was in main stream support until April 2009, Windows 7 was released just 6 months later in October.
Has anyone tried this with Llama 3.2 or any other “open source” options?
You can perform file I/O in JavaScript synchronously. The localStorage API in the browser is synchronous (and in Node via the --experimental-webstorage option), and of course requiring a CommonJS module is also synchronous (and there are many other sync filesystem APIs in Node as a sibling comment pointed out).

You just can't perform network I/O synchronously. Although a network attached file system allows for both network and file I/O technically, but that's a really pedantic point.
The terms "shit umbrella" and "shit funnel" have been around for a long time, at least in the context of management in software development.

https://managementpatterns.blogspot.com/2013/01/pattern-shit...

I learned early on when I moved from development to management that a big part of my job was being accountable for everything my team did (short of outright sabotage). You don't hold junior devs accountable for anything, you do your best to monitor their work anytime they're working on something mission critical and to mentor them through the mistakes they make. Senior devs take on some or a lot of that monitoring and mentoring role, especially as the team size grows, but as their manager I am still accountable for any errors they make too (especially including letting errors from junior devs slip through).

Sometimes I think the most important part of my job is standing up before senior management and saying something like "My team made this series of decisions which resulted in the bad outcome we are here to discuss. I apologise and accept full responsibility. The team has learned from this, and we can assure you we will never repeat this mistake." And then deflecting and outright refusing to throw any of my team under the bus by naming them - to the point of being accused of insubordination occasionally.

(To be honest, I didn't internalise that quite early enough. There are probably a few apologies I should have made from back then...)
Windows 11 is also buggy as hell. And not esoteric things either - things like the clock crashing, or the path in the file explorer being wrong, or the wrong icon appearing for a file type until a reboot. Basic polish is missing.
I think this article is getting all anxious about a non-problem.

Microsoft ended up supporting Windows XP far, far longer than they expected to or wanted to. As long as people (especially corporate people) need to run Windows on hardware that Windows 11 rejects, Microsoft will extend the Windows 10 EOL date. They'll realize that charging all that for "extended support" will hurt them more than help them, and (mostly) drop it.

It's a little weird that the author didn't bring this up as a possible scenario. I think it's much more likely than any of the others listed. I expect the scenario where Microsoft relaxes the Windows 11 hardware requirements isn't that realistic; they seem to think those hardware requirements are critical for security (regardless if they are or aren't).

Eventually the hardware that Windows 11 doesn't like will age out to the point that Microsoft will actually EOL Windows 10. And the kind of people who will continue to still use that hardware are the kind of people who don't know what security updates are and/or won't care that they aren't getting security updates.

This all feels like a big nothingburger. Worse, the headline is super clickbaity, and I regret clicking it.
Nobody, people are just crying because Chomsky calls them out, rationally, on their intellectual and/or political bullshit, and this behavior is known as projection.
Is that actually the latest status? They flip floped a few times and I thought that the latest decision was "we'll enable it by default, just not yet"?
I heard on NPR (I think) that it was astronaut Suni Williams herself that named it Calypso. Hope she's not detained for seven years!
Yes, I generally build new products around my current audience.
Suppose I give Gemini a 10 minute video. Will it spend 10 minutes “watching” it if I ask it to extract something? Or does it know how to speed up the video? I assume it must do some sort of preprocessing like extracting keyframes; it surely (?) can’t be looking at the raw encoded video bytes, after all.
How do you "come across" animal torture and CSAM?
This reminds me of my experiences working with a software developer transplanted from the humanities who was highly articulate and capable of producing language about programming, yet seemed to not be able to write many actual computer programs themselves.

I think that I ultimately developed an obsessive need to cite all my ideas against the literature and formulate natural language arguments for my claims to avoid being bludgeoned over the head with wordcelry and being seen as inferior for my lesser verbal fluency despite having written software for years at that point, since early childhood, and even studied computer science.
Didn't the PDP-8 have 12-bit bytes?
One of my biggest pet peeves is flagrant overuse of "deep". Everything is so deep around around here these days...

> since the ReLU function is itself a spline basis (a so-called truncated linear spline) and happens to span the same functional basis as B-splines of the same degree.

... you literally just spelled out the entire "depth" of it.
So you think Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX and whatever else succeeded in spite of Elon?
This is why I think react is still the best: In react you only deal with plain values. You never have to worry about wrapping a value in an observable or calling it in a function with a tracking context. Or .valueing it or whatever.

It looks like Svelte 5 is trying to make signals "disappear" but they still leak through. Reading the docs about shallow $state.raw vs deep proxying the default $state rune in svelte 5 makes me really appreciate the plain value and simpleness of react.

The react compiler will make the biggest headache of react go away, that being useMemo, memo, and useCallback.

React has the biggest and highest quality ecosystem. It has the smartest and brightest people in this space working either on react directly or in the immediate surrounding ecosystem. React has by far the most $ backing it.

Looking ahead I think react makes the best immediate AI target. Long term AI will go past react but while we still want to vet the code with humans react will probably be the best target.

Thought of another important reason why I love react:

- It has the best TypeScript support of any framework. Partly because MS is so invested in react the typescript team is very incentivized to have good support for them.

Oh yeah and this one is imporant:

- React Native with expo is the best way to make cross platform mobile apps. Yes its better than Flutter.
Do you have any citations? I would like to read them.
Sure, as long as you're not fantasizing about gaming or training neural nets on it. I've got a relatively old i7 6600u in my current travel laptop and it handles coding while playing YouTube just fine. Before that I ran Linux pretty comfortably on an i5 520m minus the HD video acceleration and 1080p display.

Not sure Windows 11 would run fine on either device, but NixOS sure does.
No one ever uses SCTP. It's pretty unclear to me why any OSes do include it; free OSes seem to like junk drawers of network protocols even though they add to the security surface in kernel land.
I’ll pop in with a friendly “that research is definitely wrong”. If they want to prove that LLMs can’t reason, shouldn’t they stringently define that word somewhere in their paper? As it stands, they’re proving something small (some of today’s LLMs have XYZ weaknesses) and claiming something big (humans have an ineffable calculator-soul).

LLMs absolutely 100% can reason, if we take the dictionary definition; it’s trivial to show their ability to answer non-memorized questions, and the only way to do that is some sort of reasoning. I personally don’t think they’re the most efficient tool for deliberative derivation of concepts, but I also think any sort of categorical prohibition is anti-scientific. What is the brain other than a neural network?

Even if we accept the most fringe, anthropocentric theories like Penrose & Hammerhoff’s quantum tubules, that’s just a neural network with fancy weights. How could we possibly hope to forbid digital recreations of our brains from “truly” or “really” mimicking them?