skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that you mention it, the would-be dictator that was just elected in the US is allied with both the stereotypical hand-wringing think-about-the-children people (religious groups) as well as with Elon Musk, owner of a major social media platform and future "efficiency czar". Talk about cognitive dissonance...
Yes it can, prediction begins before decode. In general, literally any instruction can be mispredicted, even if it isn't a branch at all, even if there isn't even a instruction there (on x86 where instructions are variable length).
I first tried to shake the coffee to see if I could make a mess, didn't work. When the mug is empty, the github logo becomes visible and you can click through to the github repo.
The dude lurches from one sound bite to another with policy so shallow it barely looks at first order effects.

I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional
Absolutely. Trump disparaged several military generals in his first term.

Conservatives lose all principles and decency if Trump says it.
I wish they would make it produce single statically linked file. Golang is so awesome in that regard. Should not be hard: embed JRE and append jar stuff into the end, write special classloader for this format and that's about it.

Right now it produces directory similar to JRE itself, so makes little sense to me, nobody cares about directory size, but single file ergonomics is a real deal.
> the unwinder has to take (or used to, things got better recently) a global lock to prevent races with dlclose

If someone from another thread decided to unload a library whose code is still being executed in this thread then this thread would normally crash anyhow, and do so irrecoverably, right?
> A lot of companies seem to have "policies" that are grounded in nothing.

A lot of this comes down to people not wanting to stick their head out to change process and groupthink.

I witnessed an individual in a “worker bee” capacity trying to suggest a small-but-significant change on a client-facing first-contact form. They went through their CoC to get the message out, but got the “that’s nice, dear” treatment.

Said “worker bee” moved into a different department some time later, and all of a sudden, it was such a great idea that no one had thought about.
It's been free for a while now: https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/graal-free-license...
They do say trump and republicans are racist all the time.

Meanwhile latino voters went towards trump.

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-...
1) This is not worse than FPTP at all since they are the same in the case of two candidates and FPTP has horrible properties with multiple candiates (the condorcet loser can win the election). Ranked voting can use various methods (condorcet or hybrid) to make sure the winner is the condorcet winner or in the smith set but that adds complexity and no voting method has every desirable property (IRV does not always elect the condorcet winner). Approval voting also can elect the condorcet loser which seems like quite a bad property to me (particularly since this can be affected by strategic voting).

2) Any confusion is due to lack of familiarity and the additional information can be useful beyond determining the winner.

3) This is only true when hand counting a lot of votes (just because you don't want to do it multiple times). Portland just had an election with STV for council seats and IRV for Mayor and these elections were (when possible) called early. You can see the early results here:

https://rcvresults.multco.us/

4) From a quick Google Scholar search there are risk-limiting audit options for IRV that usually work with few ballots but in occasional worst cases can need a full recount. See Blom et al. Ballot-Polling Risk Limiting Audits for IRV Elections:

[PDF] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michelle-Blom-3/publica...

I agree with buzzy_hacker that proportional representation is the most important thing to aim for. The main advantage of IRV is that it is easy to understand for single winner elections if you use STV for proprotional representation (which seems like a good choice for the US to me). As far as I know Ireland only has the President (a ceremonial role) individually elected but the US has a bunch of individually elected positions so going directly to the Irish system would be a bigger change.
At some point, the US will run out of trade partners if it sanctions all those who denounce its anticompetitive practices
> Political analyst Thu Nguyen, Deputy Director at the Berlin-based think tank Jacques Delors Centre, said it was not meant to be in a comment on social media.

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A knife can be stuff of nightmares or a very useful tool (even with constant threat of abuse and accidental harm).

Location tracking is just another knife.
To be clear:

- "Whole OS" is a standard alpine image (4MB) with just lynx installed via standard alpine package. Plus a layer for Lynx itself and entrypoint.sh script.

So a very standardized way to run it, with reusable popular base image, decent backbone for delivering it to the public, with ability to easily mirror and/or cache (done by default) each layer. Currently base Alpine has 0 known vulnerabilities, which may not be 0 tomorrow, but it's still a marvel that it ever has such low number. New versions are available instantly after developer creates new public image, without the need for maintainer of a distribution to look at it. Meanwhile your main OS can live it's own life in his own pace, without interference.

It doesn't sound scary at all, if you really have a closer look.
> If true, that obviously cuts both ways.

It does, but ultimately it adds up to a drift towards what a typical government employee would want to do rather than what the elected representatives decided - and government employees are not a representative sample of voters.

> If you really think any low-level minion, or even middle-manager apparatchik, will risk their jobs by substantially fiddling numbers against the will of their boss

What's "substantial" though? There are a lot of things that are just a nudge at any given layer. Your boss tells you that there's some new bullshit requirement that says you have to check voter rolls against the juror database, but he doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic about it, and the department's already understaffed. So maybe you stick it on the pile, or you send an email to your subordinates late on Thursday afternoon, and maybe your boss never follows up on it and neither you do, and maybe the end result of that is that the checking never happens and your state's election laws are perhaps violated (and maybe some people who shouldn't have been able to vote got to do so), but even if the Reps win their lawsuit against your department the chance of anything getting pinned on you is essentially nil.
> None of this addresses the problem of making reality illegal.

Recognizing that trans people exist in reality and providing them legal backing for it is not new. Trans (or gender-nonconforming, third gender or whatever you want to call it) people have been a thing for millennia. Even back in old Greece their existence was recognized [1], the Talmud has regulations on their status in society [2], various Southern Asian countries have some sort of legal recognition for them for centuries [3].

"Reality" is a societal definition, and nature alone provides a lot of interesting edge cases such as various sport stars who pass for females in all aspects including having vaginas but have chromosome sets (or hormonal levels) typically associated with males.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgynos

[2] https://www.talmudology.com/jeremybrownmdgmailcom/2019/6/17/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
IIUC you are saying OP is correct in that culture exists in the world. And you are affirming that Japanese people believe this too and are fine with people that don't eat "disgusting fishes", like me (cooked I can't do, sashimi I'm fine).

So the sentiment that somehow Japanese are incompatible for culture reasons, which is the message I got from the thread I replied to, is not correct in your opinion too, right?
Would that even work? Are you not in Europe, where passport photos are taken on location?
He's mixing plain hosting with "advanced"/"cloud" hosting.
I kind of agree. I really wanted to like Matrix, but it feels like the apps have been "entirely rewritten" multiple times and stay very frustrating to use. Every update announcement from Matrix sounds like "it's magical, this time everything is perfect, we solved it all it's the year of Matrix!" and... well after years of that I just can't believe anymore.

Feels like the whole project has been rushing everything forever... don't they say it's more than a decade old? Pretty sure WhatsApp or Signal did not take 10 years to become usable for the masses.
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Is this something like LabView for hippies?
I agree that microservices need to be considered seriously with real engineering thought and not jumped onto to pad CVs. They are a tool just like anything else, and need to be used carefully. Microservices have a particularly sharp edge.

However libraries feel like a very simplistic argument against microservices. In a world where you have a single monolith, then libraries may work fine, but often you have 2, 3 maybe 4 decently sized monoliths. In that situation libraries may not make much sense when you need to reference a central source of data.
Censorship is fascism. If you want bad ideas to die, let them be examined and discussion to proceed. When you censor ideas you don't like, you give them a safe environment to foster.
Microservices trade development complexity for operational complexity.

Write a monolith in Golang with Postgres instead. 99% of ordinary applications would never be able to max out a modern server running this.

Microservices are an anti pattern for most ordinary application needs.
Adult Swim did it first: https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
Exactly. You don't allow people to carry knives in public because it does more harm than good.
For the iPhone itself, sure.

Now account for the drop in companion devices (Airpods and AppleWatch work best with an iPhone, and it's pretty apparent when you aren't using one)

Then take a gander at Cloud services that no longer push themselves via the red badge on every handset, for the photos people are taking on competing platforms (Google Photos is the obvious danger, but even Dropbox through Onedrive pose risks to total revenue)

Should probably account for App Store revenue as well, considering why most Apple customers buy apps, and then how many buy Macintosh just to develop for the massive iPhone market

None of these are exclusively tied to the iPhone, but none look nearly as nice without the iPhone being a (and possibly even the) market leader
Right-wing groups like the Republicans in the U.S. or the AfD in Germany promise concrete solutions to the problems and fears of the majority of voters. Even if people know they’re being lied to, the slim chance these groups might fix some issues often feels more appealing than the vague promises of their opponents. It’s also clear that endorsements from random wealthy individuals don’t sway voters.

I hope this election is the final wake-up call the EU needs to truly advance its own technological portfolio. A good start would be to significantly increase funding for FOSS projects, as the alternative, investing in closed startups, hasn’t proven effective over the past decades.
It's the whole point of the PS5 'PRO', to give a little more of what's good

Why is it only a problem for Sony, but not for Apple?

FUD journalism
> What would be a use-case?

Maybe bootstapping a new language with no dependencies.
The thing is, this story sounds like miscommunication/misremembering all-around because male goldfish do exist, and their "reproduction" section on wikipedia does not mention asexual reproduction at all[0]. Also, the wiki page on gynogenesis suggests that it specifically is a form of reproduction that still requires a male and a female, but that the male does not contribute any DNA to the offspring[1]. So male fish are required either way, although they are typically from an "adjacent" species.

Searching the general internet just returns articles claiming goldfish can reproduce asexually, followed by another paragraph claiming they can't (proving to me that it's all AI generated bullshit). Not even going to link examples.

Then, finally, Google Scholar points to two articles with the following titles: Genetic responses in sexual diploid and asexual triploid goldfish (Carassius auratus) introduced into a high-altitude environment and Genetic homeostasis and developmental stability in natural populations of bisexual (Carassius auratus) and unisexual (C. gibelio) goldfishes[2][3].

Reading those finally clarifies that goldfish (carassius auratus) are the diploid species that reproduces sexually, and the Prussian carp (carassius gibelio) being the adjacent triploid species that reproduces via gynogenesis, including by using sperm from goldfish.

So if the question was interpreted as "could there still be male Prussian carp somewhere in the wild?" I'm guessing the answer was "no" because being a triploid that reproduces via gynogenesis seems to be a fundamental part what defines their classification as a separate species. Any hypothetical "diploid Prussian carp" would probably be labeled as different species altogether.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish#Reproduction

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynogenesis

[2] https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.22541/au.166859689.9117...

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452709050077

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_carp
I think GP means economic left / right.
>> Organisms have had billions of years of training.

You're referring to evolution but evolution is not optimising an objective function over a large set of data (labelled, too). Evolution proceeds by random mutation. And just because an ancestral form has encountered e.g. ice and knows what that is, doesn't mean that its evolutionary descendants retain the memory of ice and know what that is because of that memory.

tl;dr evolution and machine learning are radically different processes and it doesn't make a lot of sense to say that organisms have "trained" for millions of years. They haven't! They've evolved for millions of years.

>> What’s billions of years of sensory information that drove behavior and selection, if not training data?

That's not how it works: organisms don't train on data. They adapt to environments. Very different things.
https://scontent-zrh1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/455099012...

Or maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RQxD4Ff7dY#t=48s ?
Is GitHub social media? How about stack overflow?

What is social media exactly?

This would need to be ban on specific blocklisted companies and services which might be a good thing because alternatives might arise that could try to do their best to not end up on the blocklist.
>"Reality" is a societal definition

Reality can be whatever crazy people want it to be
This is a massive indicitment of our country. We get what we deserve.

Voting based on perception, not facts, especially given Trump's overall character and abhorrent track record, is going plunge us further into far right extremism. Enjoy.
Not to be confused with Python pickle files, commonly pkl.

Did they even know that?
Yes. Go for example doesn't use glibc and instead interfaces with syscalls directly.

https://pkg.go.dev/syscall
There's an ImHex WebAssembly build accessible online at: https://web.imhex.werwolv.net/.
An eddy in the spacetime continuum? (apologies to Douglas Adams)
They did not. Protesters broke into two different entrances (which has been abundantly documented), then opened the doors from inside. This video is editing it together to look like the police welcomed the protesters in.
You just came up with a good name for this type of interface: the Easter Egg Interface in which everything need to be discovered, a bit like walking through a forest with paths to the South, South-East and North and there is an old house there with a mailbox, the flag on the mailbox is raised.
Some places don't. Some do. In Poland news about ban on knife carrying was April fool's joke. In UK it's a serious law with serious punishments. In UK people who'd carry a knife with malicious intent just moved to carrying caustic chemicals. It's often not specific tech that's a problem, but the culture and incentives for its misuse.

Although reasonable restrictions on all technologies aren't inherently bad.

Restrictions imposed pre-emptively just because nightmare scenarios are easy to imagine and captivating are not great.
Oh.

It's really not practical.
What location lets you play "lots of gigs on the streets" ? This would be wonderful, I think a lot of people would have much happier lives, if this were to happen all over the world, but lots of local gov'ts prevent it due to noise complaints, risk assessments etc..
well insects have an odd number of pairs as well
These are not "the results", this is a particular aspect of the whole story. What about the price? The total energy in TWh?

(Spoiler: I checked these data in the same site you linked, and the ideology still looks bad.)
You've moved the goalposts from AI to LLM's. Fair enough, we've been doing AI since the 50's, and this is the second AI boom in a decade.

Those "stochastic parrots" have still proven that they are immensely useful. You might not personally find value out of coding assistants, but many many people do (as an example). People are (allegedly) turning to LLM's rather than StackOverflow for help [0]. They work well for boilerplate where you're an SME and able to validate the output - I can review 10x the amount of code I can write for example. They work (remarkably) well for summarising input text. An example - I semi occasionally (3-4x per year) have to deal with a few hundred GB of audio files that need cleanup. The cleanup tasks are "run FFMPEG with parameters", except I can not ever remember the parameters (they're different for different things). I can: read https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html or I can ask ChatGPT to write a script to clip the silence and add a 0.5 second intro fade to every file in a specified folder, and the entire task is done before I've even thought about it. I get to focus on what I want to, rather than munging data around.

If you expand your definition from LLMs to Transformers, then you get Whisper as a stand out example of something awesome. There's definitely negatives, but things like Diffusion are being used outside of image generation for drug discovery. We're not going to yolo AI generated drugs into human testing, but we can save an awful lot of screwing around to find something viable.

> And you spend gigawatts of power just to train this thing which selects and prints words based on probability and some randomness.
> That doesn't solve any problems.

I disagree, it does solve problems. A very fair question to ask is "is it worth the cost" and I would agree that it's not worth the cost. That doesn't mean it doesn't solve real problems.

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387278/has-stack-ex...
The name in vogue a few decades back was "mystery meat navigation."
>> But causal reasoning is much more mysterious, and we are very far from figuring out a good mathematical formalism that a computer can make sense of.

I agree with everything else you've said to a surprising degree (if I say the same things myself down the line I swear I'm not plagiarising you) but the above statement is not right: we absolutely know how to do deductive reasoning from data. We have powerful deductive inference approaches: search and reasoning algorithms, Resolution the major among them.

What we don't have is a way to use those algorithms without a formal language or a structured object in which to denote the inputs and outputs. E.g. with Resolution you need logic formulae in clausal form, for search you need a graph etc. Animals don't need that and can reason from raw sensory data.

Anyway we know how to do reasoning, not just learning; but the result of my doctoral research is that both are really one and what statistical machine learning is missing is a bridge between the two.
> See also Linux's nolibc headers

Kind of an understatement. The existence of an official interface obsoletes 3rd party projects like the one posted.
https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...
It definitely shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and should be the obvious choice to make on Nintendo's side too...

But it's probably worth noting that it's Nintendo we're talking about, and the games industry as a whole. They have a tendency to make questionable decisions that people could immediately tell were questionable decisions, either for anti consumer reasons or just not knowing the market.

So while the odds of the Switch 2 being backwards compatible were really high, and we all knew it was the obvious choice to make, there was still always a worry that it wouldn't happen for some ridiculous reason or another.
It could be construed as constructive dismissal in the US - reduction in pay, or hours. So essentially the same problem.
In Germany and Japan, you bring one. It wouldn't be an issue if it fit the biometric spec.
As an amusing ironic counter-example, I know someone who had the talent to be a pro musician in the 80s, observed many starving would-be rockers and thought "nice idea but no thanks" so pursued medical career, and drove his son's band to gigs. His son's band recently got signed by a major label, given money to live on so they don't have to have other jobs, they've hit the big time. Neither of them ever saw this coming !
just a name resemblance, no relationship otherwise
I’m aware of this but I really don’t the benefits of this approach; It causes issues in eg openbsd where you can only call syscalls from libc, and it seems like they’re trying to outsmart the os developers and I just don’t see an advantage.

Is it faster? More stable?
Millipedes are also interesting because some of them produce cyanide as a defense measure. Wash your hands after handling.

I sometimes see a local species of black-and-yellow millipede, chunky individual several inches long, that have climbed up walls, tree trunks, or fence posts and died. They were victims of a parasitic fungus (Anthrophaga myriapodina) that takes control of them and forces this climbing so spores from the fungus can disperse more widely.

You might think this is Cordyceps, a fungus that does something similar in ants, but it's not closely related, not being in even the same taxonomic class. It's a case of convergent evolution.
But we already prohibit children from drinking alcohol. How is social media any different?
AI-Time Travel-Street View
You can re-edit it to preserve the How though.
Not off topic at all!

I can only speak to our experience. Once you get under the hood, you find that this is a hard problem to solve.

There are also a lot of workflows that involve documents in every sector and every function. In other words, the opportunity is massive.

For our product, our customers are either internal engineering teams or folks building products that require document extraction but don’t want to invest time in it.
That’s how .NET’s single-file publish works (one of its modes).
ugh.. in which case our platform detection code is not working as expected. We will look into that
Interesting, there is a short description of the project in the Moleskine book that you can click through after dragging it into view.