skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's different kinds of customers for different kinds of bureaucracies though.

However, it looks like the people working at L4 for Google are being handled no differently by HR than assembly-line workers at other top Wall Street companies. Better pay for more people than most of the old guard, but why can't they do this part of it with some ingenuity.

>The fact that you are expected to reach a certain level in a certain time period

At least factory workers know this is not going to happen from the get-go. This is even more non-congruous for the kind of HR involved. Probably why factory workers have as much of their productivity leveraged as they do. Most of those companies are so far from bonanzaville, if they didn't do it right, they would have failed a long time ago.

You would think Google was built from a different foundation well enough to avoid this, or would have been able to migrate further away from useless bureaucracy than some of the hundred-year-old companies. It's almost like they didn't know any better.

Well, when you do the math it seems like for quite some time that everything truly worthwhile going on at Google has been, to a very large extent, the conserved portion of the output of people who never got promoted.

Financially, if you were going to invest in people, that would make them the better investment than those who did get promoted :\

It might be difficult to put some exact numbers on it, but you could probably tell how high-performance the unsung heroes are, by whether or not Google is making any money or not any more, and how much.

Now what about the people who could never get hired at Google or places like that to begin with?

If you could invest in somebody like that, woo hoo the sky's the limit !

You'd be raking in the bucks way more on a hard-working non-corporate scrapper than Google makes from a highly credentialed true genius who is the least bit decent at corporate climbing :)
Good read, sent it to my Kindle.
It was the CIA who messed up that country in the modern era.
Glad they found oil and now have insane GDP growth.
Hope they don't ruin the Amazon rainforest nearby.
Hope the racial tensions ease down and infrastructure is built up, so I can visit one day.
How would that be enforced? Would teachers snitch their students out to the police for logging into Snapchat? Cops stopping kids and searching their phones if there's probable cause they're using social media?

And realistically, a lot of the parents catching these fines and recidivizing would be those of lesser means. Single parents, households where both parents have difficulty being home, low income parents in general. It'd basically be another poor tax.
*Exorbitant?
It has nothing to do with 'proving', since your ability to prove is always suspect. It's basic civics.
Ish. You can't say that a pill or treatment cures cancer if there's no evidence to back that up. Of course in private I'm sure that's said all the time.

My concern with lowering the bar for advertising such services is it makes it easier for someone to jump in with "Our clinic is actively researching cancer treatments and offers free experimental drugs".
> Unlike most prior efforts, we release not only model weights and inference code, but also the reproducible training data, complete data processing pipeline, rigorous experimental ablation results, and detailed training protocols for open scientific research.

Regardless of the specific performance of this model versus another model, I think it’s good to keep in mind that everyone benefits from this kind of work
Yeah at the moment it just supports whatever the tree-sitter parser accepts, period. A bring-your-own-grammar version could be interesting, I don't see why it couldn't work. Do you have any Rust crates to recommend, to do parsing according to a grammar supplied by the user at run time? It's likely to be slower, but maybe not prohibitively so…

Another approach would be for the tool to accept doing structured merging even if there are error nodes in the parsed tree. If those error span the parts of the file where the extended language is used, then the tool could still help with merging the other parts, treating the errors as atomic blocks. I'd be a bit reluctant to do that, because there could be errors for all sorts of other reasons.
true, concurrency, let alone parallelism, never worked for me when i tried it. never used in anywhere. sounds good in theory but it is unusable for most real world cases. there are endless key-value databases suitable for 90% of what sqlite does. and if you truly need multiple indexes per table and joins, just use a proper rdbms and stop playing around.
The Russians are a people of fascinating extremes.

On one hand, as this explains, they've taken utopian ideas quite seriously and have always been great innovators in the sciences, the arts, and technology. First orbit, first person in space, designed the Tokamak, could easily have been first on the Moon if things had gone a little different, countless great artists and composers, etc.

On the other hand there seems to be a side of Russia that's cynical and nihilistic. There's a joke I heard once that goes something like "in America you die for freedom, in France you die for your country, in England you die for the Queen, and in Russia you die." Today you seem to have dominant thinkers in Russia like Aleksandr Dugin who believe only a tiny number of humans are worthy of agency and this is, with a lot of sophistry, romanticized. For a large number of Russians to swallow this implies to me a level of cynicism about the potential of the human condition.

Or maybe it's not a contradiction. Maybe the utopianism and innovativeness is a brave stand against the cynicism and totalitarian cults of misery-for-most.

The USA of course has its contradictions, like being simultaneously progressive and reactionary. It's a nation built on both slavery and liberation.
When it can be used to justify what you've already decided.
Flying to the moon is a solved problem.

Full rapid reusability is not.

SpaceX is focusing on the unsolved problem, and making significant progress.
Many of the landers we've already put on Mars are heavier & less tolerant of G forces than a human, so it's clearly not an insurmountable hard limit. They use a combination of parachutes, retro rockets & airbags usually. But you're right that the lander stage has to be a small fraction of the size of the interplanetary stage, & the economics aren't very good. Maybe you'd need to send several Starships to Mars orbit to refuel & support a single one landing &/or returning to Earth -- at least until refueling facilities exist on the surface, & assuming Starship is actually capable of this mission.
Before Three.js there was Papervision3D for Flash written in ActionScript. While it was not a direct port I imagine a lot of ideas were already established and pretty straightforward to implement in Javascript. Happy to see Three.js going strong.
The explanation I understood was that invalid expressions like “Finder” evaluated to an odd number. Since jumping to an odd address is disallowed on the older 68K machines, the default failure behavior was to exit the current application. People used to claim that the code above was more reliable, but maybe this was superstitious: in practice everything is unreliable once you’ve encountered a serious bug on a system without memory protection.
They added something to verify if the binary came out of their CI only a few months ago; I haven't checked now, but it seemed extremely convoluted

In any case, there's for sure no GitHub certificate added to the APKs
Profit of $4 Billion in 2023

https://www.statista.com/statistics/225461/booking-holidngs-...
Just YouTube
Good to know. There is more to shuffle instructions than just their speed, though. Arm TBX leaves out-of-bounds elements unchanged, and x86 PSHUFB can also zero the result and implicitly clear bits 4..6. Some SW does make use of that, so it seems unfortunate that RVV doesn't get either of those without extra effort.
DNA firm [Atlas Biomed] holding highly sensitive data 'vanishes' without warning
Love the book title!
I don't really understand how you can look at the massive failure this election and say that with a straight face. Identity politics is a goddamn failure. If the Democrats dropped that shit and focused on actually helping out the working class, Republicans couldn't mirror identity politics back at them. It only worked for Republicans because the Democrats chose a horseshit strategy in the first place.
Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa
This is paranormal reincarnation mumbo-jumbo, not inheritance.
Ah "taking responsibility for content", that classic weasel phrase for "Do what I specifically want or else." While disregarding the sheer difficulty of moderation at scale. They want a return to a "broadcast" information model and just refuse to admit it.
“In ovo” would be the egg-laying animal equivalent to “In utero”
In the US Gardasil 9 is FDA approved for men and women up to age 45.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
Europe will simply start decoupling from the US, as the US was doing with China and supply chains. The US military is already on the decline, from both a human and hardware force projection perspective.
It was indeed the topmen. Damn, yeah, completely missed those then haha.
These are comparisons to other quantizing methods. That is fine.

What I want to see is comparisons to NON-quantized models all with around the same VRAM along with associated inference latencies.

Also, we would want to see the same quantizing schemes applied to other base models.. because perhaps the paper's proposed quantizing scheme only beats others using a particular base model.
Depends on how it's marketed. As long as they avoid making specific health claims (say "boost immune function" instead of "cures disease X") they can get away with it. If it's "homeopathic" they can even be sold on the same shelves as actual medicine, with similar looking labels.
Yeah, I've double checked.

The checksum VFS shim does nothing to fix the (silent) data loss a random bit flip in the WAL causes.

If you want long term durability, checkpoint your WAL. Then the checksum VFS will help.
As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory
Also the Japanese Unit 731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

The US government granted many of the "scientists" immunity in exchange for giving over all the data they had learned and helped even cover it up lol

The Japanese did some real fucked up shit in these experiments like chopping off limbs and reattaching them to the opposite side and slicing open pregnant women.

They also flew low flying planes over Chinese cities and dropped Plague-infected fleas which killed tens of thousands of people.

In total, they killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Are there books or resources that examine these connections for contemporary technology in depth?
And Didier Raoulot https://www.lepoint.fr/sante/didier-raoult-30-years-of-unreg...
Making it faster and more secure would go further than adding a bunch of tedious AI bullshit.
Sure, that's fair. To be clear that's a Washington state law, not a Seattle thing.
Goddamn, dystopia as a word has reached a new level of dilution.
Why do wet dogs shake?
You can manage Firefox updates from Obtanium itself.
> - for diffing, the matching of the leaves is what matters the most, for merging the internal nodes are more important,

The leaves are the ones that end up being highlighted in the diff, but the inner nodes play an important role as well. We try to preserve as much of the code structure as possible when mapping the nodes. A developer is unlikely to change the structure of the code just for fun. A mapping with a larger number of structural changes is therefore more likely to be incorrect.

> - for diffing, it feels more acceptable to restrict the matching to be monotonous on the leaves since it's difficult to visually represent moves if you can detect them. For merging, supporting moves is more interesting as it lets you replay changes on the moved element,

We use a pipeline based approach and visualizing the changes is the last step. For some types of changes we don't have a way to visualize them yet (e.g. moves within the same line) and ignore that part of the mapping. We are still trying to get the mapping right though :)

We upstreamed a few bug fixes for tree-sitter itself. The grammars were a bit more complicated because we were just using them as a starting point. We patched tree-sitter, added our own annotations to the grammars and restructured them to help our matching algorithm achieve better results and improve performance. In the end there was not much to upstream any more.

Using a well tested parsing library, such as Roslyn for C#, and writing some code to integrate it into our existing system aligned more with our goals than tinkering with grammars. Context-sensitive keywords in particular were a constant source of annoyance. The grammar looks correct, but it will fail to parse because of the way the lexer works. You don't want your tool to abort just because someone named their parameter "async".
Well L. Ron got that one right.
A majority of Robert Crumbs paintings are not caricatures, but he did paint caricatures and the subjects were often black.
Seems like the link on HN was changed from the original which had a more movie-worthy headline.
I'll give this a shot. F-Droid is broken on Android 15 and nobody cares.
> Trivial examples of Gtk+ apps seem to be legion but to find a decent tutorial that works its way through a moderately complex and usable app seem to be scarce.

The same is true for a lot of languages and frameworks: Programming education, and tutorials on the Internet, start with Hello World and stop at some very small, trivial application with the complexity of about 1-4 source files. Final class: How to write a notepad-like application, or a TODO list with check boxes. There are a lot of resources that get you started but very little about how you'd approach what would turn into a medium-sized or large application, with hundreds of source files and many third party dependencies.
This is a great writeup, thanks for posting it. The post mentions Early Bird APC is a fairly recent development, around 2018, but process injection has been around for a long time. Is there any theoretical work being done towards locking down processes against injection in more robust ways than simply making sure there is no temporal chance to inject a malicious code? I’m thinking something along the lines of CFI, but for processes instead of subroutines, would be useful if it could be made to work.
What are you trying to say here?

I gave it a few tries but couldn't figure it out.
A hospital I worked at would only provide dialysis to immigrants if they were in florid kidney failure. So they’d come to the ER dying, get dialysis once, then get released with no follow-up. They’d have to wait til they were back in kidney failure to come back, no preventative care was funded by the fed so they just stuck to that. There is no ethics in the American medical system. Anything claiming to represent it is a scam.
A funny story: Ambrosia Software was, for many years, THE name in Mac gaming. Their biggest series was the Escape Velocity space sim titles. The final release in the series EV Nova, was popular enough to be released for Windows, as well. Years passed, Ambrosia went the way of the dodo, and now, if you try to run Nova on a modern Mac, it's basically impossible due to all the platform changes since the release... except by running the Windows version, via Wine.
I was wrong:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ablacktop%2Fipsw-diffs%20i...
Lifetime fixed rate is more common especially after 2008 when floating rates contributed to crushing the US housing market. Even before 2008 fixed was more common. The fixed rate is why those in the US who have a ~3% rate from a few years ago are “stuck” as it is difficult to justify giving it up.
What a beautiful soul..
Agreed.

Once a model has been trained, I believe the main metrics people care about are

1. inference speed

2. memory requirements

3. quality of output.

There are usually tradeoffs here. Generally you get a lower memory requirement (a good thing), sometimes faster inference (a good thing), but usually a lower quality of output.

I don't think reproduction of original output is the typical goal.
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I never did a full trial, but my lawyer really wanted to do some kind of pre-trial appeal thing after hearing the nature of my stop (forget exactly what it was called, I believe it was a Texas specific process though).

I was pulled over because I passed an officer going the speed limit of 65-70mph. He was stopped on the other side of the road, I passed at that speed, and he immediately started to pull me over because he said he "didn't think my seatbelt was on". My lawyer made a very good case that it would be somewhat impossible for him to see one way or another, using pictures of where I passed, as well the model of my car.

Because it wasn't a trial, there was no jury, it was just the judge's call. I remember feeling so hopeful after we went to court because our argument seemed good and we barely heard anything from the DA to counter it. But it was still denied. My lawyer really wanted to go to trial after that, but I was too scared at that point.
> Why are so many people so clearly misinterpreting him?

because they believe everything they're told by corporate news companies owned by billionaires who are financially invested in non-trump candidates
Ah yes, when you are a minority living your life is just 'an agenda'. It is so much better that kids feel alone and isolated than knowing facts that there are other people like them. Fuck that and fuck you.
The headline is nonsense. That the body "remembers" things is not news. My immune system remembers the cold I got.

The source study states:

> Our findings show that canonical features of memory do not necessarily depend on neural circuitry, but can be embedded in the dynamics of signaling cascades conserved across different cell types.
>‘The machine did it coldly’

I'm not so sure, with the technology they're "shooting for".

I thought this said it all:

>They can differentiate between friendly, civilian and enemy, decide to engage or alert based on target type, and even vary their effects.

Obviouly they're only going to be designing, building, and deploying "nice bombs".
Cron#trap Exposed: Innovative Malware in Emulated Linux Systems
JAWS is a well-known screen reader for blind people with a more then 30 years history.
To be clear: INFTech is a for-profit (I think…?) firm out of Shanghai, and MAP is an international FOSS collective (https://m-a-p.ai/about).

Speaking generally, a lot of software engineering worldwide is done in English, so it makes sense that they’re training models in English even if some/most of the researchers also speak a Chinese language. Plus, HuggingFace is English-native, and working on FOSS models (FOSLMs?) without targeting that community would be like making a command line accounting tool and not immediately posting it to the HackerNews community.

Your comment seems to imply some sort of hidden motivation, but idk, seems pretty straightforwardly benign to me! Plus it’s hard to say how many papers are published in other languages about LLMs, considering we wouldn’t read them.
“Realist” media criticism such as this is becoming my favorite form.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42093345 As well.
Yes maybe, but these issues are true for Git's native merge algorithms too. It isn't perfect either.

As soon as you do any merge you're accepting that there might be edits you don't agree with.
I'll happily accept arbitration clauses because I know I don't have the money to sue in the first place.

Edit: why are you booing me?? I'm right
This is likely to happen in the case that your hardware is telling lies about when it has committed data to disk.

In this case, it makes sense to cut short the WAL application, but you are probably right in saying it should throw an error (or at least a warning).
This came to mind when I saw the post. I work at an ayahuasca retreat center and these types of things are front and center here. Physical wounds can and do heal, but traumas ("energetic"/psychological wounds) remain fresh as the day they happened and influence us in immeasurable ways. The effects of ayahuasca often put a spotlight on them and it can be a rough ride until they are fully processed.
The issue is that fraudsters would like nothing more than to call themselves R&D and to sell BS to desperate people looking for a cure.

That already happens very frequently. For example, bleach enemas to cure autism [1]. Colloidal metals to cure cancer [2]. And a whole host of other cure-alls.

Now imagine you have a mechanism where they can claim to be legitimate research AND there is an incentive to bilk people out of 80% of their life savings.

Heck, even imagine what happens if legitimate for profit companies can use this route for revenue generation. If they have a route to sell drugs which has less regulation and liability, why would they ever release a drug through the full FDA process? And why, you might ask, is regulation needed for this sort of stuff? Well, think Vioxx.[3] Sure, maybe this cancer drug works but it also might give you a heart attack. Without getting it fully approved or researched drug manufacturers have no reason to actually look into downstream effects. They have every incentive to just keep it on the market (like they did with Vioxx) and ignore evidence of adverse results.

Taking profit out of the equation makes it so that the research isn't and can't be endless. It makes sure there isn't a perverse incentive to make lethal drugs that work good enough for some diseases. I'd love it if we could have a win win, but the free market loves to reward bad actors.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fig...

[2] https://www.healthline.com/health/colloidal-silver-cancer

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
Study reveals superbug MRSA's double defense against antibiotics
Trump victory opens door for historic tariff hikes
https://archive.is/NxRS9
I'm not confused about why the field exists. And I agree that something needed to be done to prevent repeats of those horrors. But the current state of the field is (in my opinion) unacceptable.
I'm perfectly fine with a minority of users checking it.

That's generous of you but most people are not fine with a 'click here for laptcat to not-ignore you' checkbox.

How does it waste space? There's currently empty space.

That seems to assume empty and wasted space are the same thing and the fact we have different words for them alone suggests otherwise.

It's not a requirement.

As I mentioned but you didn't seem to consider/reply to - it's already not a requirement for people to absorb the material on the site to your or anyone else's personal standard and that appears to work reasonably well without any additional ui or features.
You install tortoiseSVN or something similar, look at explorer.exe process or any process that use a standard "Open File" widget, and you will see some dll from the utility loaded by the process. (Easy to see with process explorer from sysinternals)
I am surprised that this study does not mention which vaccines are being used - as they vary by the number of HPV types they protect against.

"Currently there are six licensed HPV vaccines: three bivalent (protect against two types of HPV), two quadrivalent (against four), and one nonavalent vaccine (against nine)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine
> Glad they found oil and now have insane GDP growth.

Guyana has weak political institutions and high corruption & tribalism. It’s more likely to become a poor resource-cursed nation than a successful one.

I truly hope this isn’t the case, but if history teaches us a lesson..