skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating stuff -- the clearly gifted programmer seemingly came in out of the blue with thousands of lines of changes, which to this day have yet to be adopted into core python (though they do get a shout-out at the top of the official `re` module docs[1] as a "third party module"). Interesting convo pretty much immediately starts up as the haggard maintainers try to respond nicely, and I think one that contains lessons for us all from both sides.
Dictatorship of the proletariat
This is kind of silly because the delay between actual event happening to showing up on OTA TV or cable TV to showing up on satellite TV can already be tens of seconds.
Is anyone surprised? I don't see how their infrastructure can handle this when it was designed for non-realtime precaching of prerecorded content.
I agree. The recruiter helped me prepare and also shared resources to read.
Like I said, hiring managers are incentivized to say “no” but as I did not say clearly, informational interviews are a networking strategy, not a backdoor to job interviews.

They are a way of meeting someone on the inside.
> ...the $35 accidental damage protection was worth it.

That does seem rather inexpensive! How did the process go filing a claim?
> though that's more a limitation of the fediverse protocols and fediverse software that really needs fixing

I don't believe ATProto has the same issues, and I believe it would take quite a rearchitecture of ActivityPub to solve.

> such that you can import it into a different service later

This is the key issue. There is no way to import posts in Mastodon without manually fudging the database (which I also had to do when running my own instance). As another commenter mentioned, it's a tricky issue, in large part because it's not part of the federation protocol.

Bluesky solves this by separating the storage from the other parts of the distributed system, such that you don't need to move your storage to change your identity, hosting, moderation, etc. Keeping them independent is a smart move.
> envoy overloaded

That's the plain-text message I see when I tried to refresh the stream.

Follow-up:

My location: East SF Bay.

Now even the Netflix frontpage (post login, https://www.netflix.com/browse ) shows the same message.

The same message even in a private window when trying to visit https://www.netflix.com/browse

The first round of the fight just finished, and the issues seem to be resolved, hopefully for good. All this to say what others have noted already, this experience does not evoke a lot of confidence in Netflix's live-streaming infrastructure.
Planes don't fly radically differently than birds. Birds can flap their wings because they're light and small. Birds don't fly by flapping their wings, they flap their wings to fly. The flapping is to gain and maintain height but beyond that they use the same principle to stay afloat. Birds expend massive amounts of energy to flap too and eat a lot of food to compensate. Large predatory birds try their best to glide as much as possible as a consequence. To carry a human, you need a proportionally larger machine and the square-cubed law would stop us from being able to flap plane size wings. Aside from that, birds and planes fly on the same Bernoulli's Principle of fluid motion and to compensate for being unable to take off from rest with wings, we made engines that provide thrust.

If AGI doesn't take the form of human-ish intelligence, then we'd never know it was intelligence. This means that the target is always a "visible" human like intelligence and that was gained through evolution and millions of years of experimentation and records. It will most certainly not take that long for human-like intelligence to form given our current progress but we would not recognise anything else.
Glass Jake?
I couldn’t watch a show a couple days ago. Long time customer, and first time I’ve considered cancelling. Broke the basic contract of I give $ and Netflix give show.
It doesn't, even in humans. There is an independent circuit of special muscle cells right on it that keeps it beating.

So starting and stopping the heart in a controlled manner is pretty interesting, because it has to be well-timed, and there are few obvious and reliable inputs to control it, especially when thawing.
Mine just crashed and reloaded to "Envoy Overloaded"
You’ll know when he ends every meeting with “dummies, get back to work”
But that would go against

> I believe they also said they don't want to do more of the same

I've heard this too, with Half Life they want each game to be groundbreaking. Arkane have done great games, but they're not all groundbreaking, and arguably none of them are to the level that HL1/2 were.
The Soviet Union's environmental record is significantly worse than the democracies.
Sounds like an AD more than a review, weird
Sometimes if everyone else is the problem you are the problem.
I would assume because moving yachts requires a lot of planning, so he'd likely have one in each location he wants to stay.

Not excusing this behaviour, but there is a reason for it.
>their image has been largely rehabilitated among many young devs

Whoa, what? I only hear people complain more about Windows over time.
It's on the front page right now.

This is a really weird thing to get paranoid about. Alex Jones was no exemplar of conservative values, for all that he repeated some conservative talking points.
8:54 Holy shit I don't even know one could do something like that, jumping back to the room and hide in complete safety, very smart.

Also, at 0:30, turning off that living place hazard is very kind of you. And you also saved Bob and Jim from being cut in half by doing that. Father Grigori might not like it, but he's crazy too.
Yes, the purpose of C++ templates (not macros, macros are C preprocessor) is to implement generic classes and functions, not to implement arbitrary computation, and (iirc) it was only discovered after their publication that they are in fact Turing-complete.
That's not an additional criterion, it's simply the most likely version of this hypothetical - a superhuman engine is much easier to integrate than an 1800 elo engine that makes invalid moves, for the simple reason that the vast majority of chess engines play at >1800 elo out of the box and don't make invalid moves ever (they are way past that level on a log-scale, actually).

This doesn't require the "highest" settings, it requires any settings whatsoever.

But anyway to spell out some of the huge list of unjustified conditions here:

1. OpenAI spent a lot of time and money R&Ding chess into 3.5-turbo-instruct via external call.

2. They used a terrible chess engine for some reason.

3. They did this deliberately because they didn't want to get "caught" for some reason.

4. They removed this functionality in all other versions of gpt for some reason ...etc

Much simpler theory:

1. They used more chess data training that model.

(there are other competing much simpler theories too)
Knowing the gambling industry, it likely does still work, they just ban you if you use it.
For systems design and engineering, absolutely this. I expected the very highest standards and upmost uptime from Netflix, similar to Google and Amazon.

Tells you the uselessness of their engineering blogs.
Or, hear me out here, it's a wild concept, just work.

You know, like every other broadcaster, streaming platform, and company that does live content has been able to do.

Acting like this is a novel, hard problem that needs to be solved and we need to "upsell" it in tiers because Netflix is incompetent and live broadcasting hasn't been around for 80+ years is so fucking stupid.
I would guess that government bureaucracy is not actually forcing the destruction of the butter. Presumably Costco would be well within their rights to pull the butter off the shelves, relabel it, and sell it. Costco is making the call to trash the butter instead of fixing it.

I, personally, am sick and tired of people complaining about various government functions without seriously contemplating said functions. Is there a way to ask for an exemption to a food labeling rule to avoid waste? I have no idea. But I can play pretend-management-consultant as well as the next person, and we’re talking about on the order of $200k of merchandise, and relabeling it would involve coordinating sending it back to the factory, applying the fixes (I can basically guarantee that, while the factory can efficiently package butter, it probably lacks the tooling to unpackage the butter), and getting it back to stores in time for the Feb-Mar 2025 best-by date. This is absolutely not worth it. And it’s not even worth the paperwork to as the FDA for some kind of exemption.

What I would do if I worked at Costco is to see if I could legally sell it all in bulk to a very small number of very large buyers, and then offer it to some such buyers at a massive discount. “Hey, want 10k boxes of mislabeled butter? You need to sign some documents promising that you will either use or destroy all of it and not give it to anyone else in its present packaging, but you can have it for $5/box.” Even that might be a tough sell, since buyers on that scale probably don’t want their butter in 8oz sticks…

If this were an order of magnitude larger, maybe it would be worth Costco’s energy to see if they could slap stickers on the outer packaging to solve the problem.
It really isn't irrelevant at all.

I get demographics change. Where I live is becoming increasingly more Mormon. On top of the poor economics for most people (the economic numbers are good but people aren't doing good) also tends to push culture to be more conservative.

All these sorts of things go in cycles. Culture drifts left, culture drifts to the right. Out of a culture so syphilis infested it became 'the thing' to wear wigs in the Georgian era we got the Victorians. We had heroin junky/hippie New York, then yuppie anti-crime Giuliani New York, then back again. It's all just cycles. The flapper partiers of the 1920s morphed into conservative 1950s which led to the hippies of the 1960s-70s. Once the religious conservatives reach critical mass there will be backlash and things will swing the other way.
The linked article by Hannah Ritchie states the case for this. There's also this article about an Australian experiment to shut off and turn back on a coal plant within 5 hours:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/australian-coal-plant...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831861
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_ext...

> Though the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions is more than an order of magnitude greater than the rate measured over the course of the PTME, the discharge of greenhouse gases during the PTME is poorly constrained geo-chronologically and was most likely pulsed and constrained to a few key, short intervals, rather than continuously occurring at a constant rate for the whole extinction interval; the rate of carbon release within these intervals was likely to have been similar in timing to modern anthropogenic emissions.

Modern CO2 increase has been going on for 200 years, and is theorized to be comparable to one of the bursts that occurred during the Permian-Triassic extinction. However the PTME witnessed a few such bursts over the course of tens of thousands of years. CO2 levels sextupled from a base that was not much lower than where CO2 levels are today.

It's a warning about the dangers of CO2, but given the corrective actions already taking place I don't think CO2 levels will reach anywhere near those seen during the PTME. Most importantly CO2 level increases are driven by human activity which is a lot easier to modulate than volcanoes.
Freetype also doesn't do the right thing on RGBW at least.
Reading code in the repo suggests it's possible to reconfigure it to work properly with the Harmony algorithm but I haven't worked out how yet.
If anyone knows how to sponsor efforts to fix this I would totally contribute to that.

A separate problem is that I don't think there is a standard way for monitors to communicate the subpixel layout in such a way the font rendering engine will have access to it. That seems like a pretty big oversight when introducing these in the first place.
This doesn’t add up to me either. These are incredibly expensive cars that will bring in a lot of money from just selling them. If you rip up the interior, you’re only going to get what it actually costs to put the vehicle back into sellable shape- and then there will be a record of the claim so buyers will check it was done properly.

It’s not even a good bear costume- it is immediately obviously a person.

So the real mystery is how did a group of people this dumb, with apparently no valuable skills or work ethic end up with these 3 expensive cars?

Bears are intelligent and can easily do things like open car doors. It is very hard to engineer bear proof food and garbage containers that humans can still operate.
The ambiguous "use"
>Cole Brauer, the girl who “didn’t grow up in a yacht club”, has been fortunate to get financial backing from a sponsor who is more of a philanthropist, supporting her throughout and demanding little in return.
Fallout was pretty good. Very loyal to the game.
It’s clumsy because C++ templates are an implementation of generic and dependent types, while C++ constexpr and consteval functions are for arbitrary computation. The fact that template metaprogramming _can_ be used for arbitrary computation is actually an unhappy accident of its design that was only proven after its publication.
> In what sense is English “more phonetic” than the Chinese languages?

Written English vs written Chinese.

How would you write, in Chinese, the words thingamajibber, gizmosity, or half the things that come out of AvE's mouth? These words have subtle, humorous, and entertaining meanings by way of twisting the sounds of other existing words. Shakespeare was a master of this kind of wordplay and invented a surprising number of words we use today.

I'm not saying you can't have the same phenomenon in spoken Chinese. But how do you write it down without a phonetic alphabet? And if you can't write it down, how do you share it to a wide audience?
When I have time I'll definitely play with this.
That's neat, though why do the two metal rails stick out over the windshield?

Also, dcsm is compelling.. are you located in The Bay by chance?

https://igor.moomers.org/posts/secrets-in-docker-compose
I was surprised to learn recently that Rousseau, who is usually seen as a radical egalitarian, hated the democratization of publishing. [1]

His reasoning was complex but a lot of it revolved around the simple fact that as you get more people publishing, the intellectual quality of the average published work goes down.

I'm not ready to roll back the printing press, but in retrospect the digital era has proven him right about this. For instance his position kind of predicts Eternal September - the easier it gets to post online, the more numbskulls you have doing it. Microblogging is the ultimate expression of this and frequently the content you find on microblogging platforms is the absolute worst hot takes and generally the most vile stuff the moderation rules will permit because shock value generates impressions. It's every idiot on earth competing to be as flagrant and base as possible.

We usually hold up free speech as a virtue in Western societies and there are a lot of good reasons for that, but I'm increasingly inclined to treat microblogging less like publishing, and more like alcohol/tobacco/gambling, like it's something people do but they know it's not good for them, they do it anyway because it's addictive and easy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ucJ29O1kM
SPC gets used on complex dynamic systems all the time. It takes more work and more nuance, but it's doable. I don't see a categorical error here, it's about fine-tuning the details.
I've seen tons of them! The formula is to create conditions that will make even slightly competent people leave. They hire their morron nephew, he is always 30 min late then they moan when you are 5 min late because the parking lot was blocked by their car. He always leaves 2 hours early while you do overtime that they regularly forget to pay for. Your day is filled with your own work PLUS that of your retarded coworkers who only drink coffee while joking about you doing their work. You are not as fast as the last guy! haha! If something goes wrong the morrons collectively blame you, just like the last time. You get a formal warning. etc etc The other normal person they hire is let go after 2 days because they complaint which means they didnt fit the team.

And so on

If he still works there the morron who left was less of a.
> But you don't have to take my word for it - take an open LLM and ask it to generate integers between 7824 and 9954.

Been excited to try this all day, finally got around to this, Llama 3.1 8B did it. It's my app built on llama.cpp, no shenangians, temp 0, top p 100, 4 bit quantization, model name in screenshot [^1].

I did 7824 to 8948, it protested more for 9954, which made me reconsider whether I'd want to read that many to double check :) and I figured x + 1024 is isomorphic to the original case of you trying on OpenAI and wondering if it wasn't the result of inference.

My prior was of course it would do this, its a sequence. I understand e.g. the need for token healing cases as you correctly note, that could mess up when there's e.g. notation in an equation that prevents the "correct" digit. I don't see any reason why it'd mess up a sequential list of integers.

In general, as long as its on topic, I find the handwaving people do about tokenization being a problem to be a bit silly, I'd definitely caution against using the post you linked as a citation, it reads just like a rote repetition of the idea it causes problems, its an idea that spreads like telephone.

It's also a perfect example of the weakness of the genre: just because it sees [5077, 5068, 5938] instead of "strawberry" doesn't mean it can't infer 5077 = st = 0 5068 = raw = 1 r, 5938 = berry = 2 rs. In fact, it infers things from broken up subsequences all the time -- its how it works! If doing single character tokenization got free math / counting reliability, we'd very quickly switch to it.

(not saying you're advocating for the argument or you're misinformed, just, speaking colloquially like I would with a friend over a beer)

[^] https://imgur.com/a/vEvu2GD
Looks awesome! Been doing a lot of OCR recently, and love the addition to the space. The reigning champion in the PDF -> Markdown space (AFAIK) is Facebook's Nougat[1], and I'm excited to hook this up to DSPy and see which works better for philosophy books. This repo links the Zerox[2] project by some startup, which also looks awesome, and certainly more smoothly advertised than Nougat. Would love corrections/advice from any actual experts passing by this comment section :)

That said, I have a few questions if OP/anyone knows the answers:

1. What is Together.ai, and is this model OSS? Their website sells them as a hosting service, and the "Custom Models" page[3] seems to be about custom finetuning, not, like, training new proprietary models in-house. They might have a HuggingFace profile but it's hard to tell if it's them https://huggingface.co/TogetherAI

2. The GitHub says "hosted demo", but the hosting part is just the tiny (clean!) WebGUI, yes? It's implied that this functionality is and will always be available only through API calls?

P.S. The header links are broken on my desktop browser -- no onClick triggered

[1] https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/

[2] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox

[3] https://www.together.ai/products#custom-models
I recently found a lil dvd rental place in my city. It’s a non-profit, they also do archivals and stuff.

It’s pretty much a two-story townhouse packed head to toe with DVDs (lots of blu rays!)

You don’t realize how limited the streaming collection is until you’re back in a movie store, looking through thousands and thousands of movies you would never find otherwise.

Since I found it, I’ve started doing movie night every week with my friends. It’s such an absolute blast. We go to the store, each pick out a random movie that looks good (or bad, in a good way) or just different.

All of a sudden, I love movies again!!
it's really not that hard to comprehend. trump was broke due to all the lawsuits he lost. you know, the ones where he is a convicted liar and rapist, yeah those. now here comes along the world's richest man with a bunch of fake ideas and cash. you do the math.
FWIW, I'd advise against template caching. It's awkward to cache bust, and a network round trip to your cache will almost certainly be more expensive than the Python operations to render the template, even with stock Django templating which is slow.

The only place it's possible worth it is if you do a lot of database queries from your template rendering, and you're therefore caching database results (as rendered text). In that case, it's an easy patch. However a much better solution is to fetch all database results up front.

In my previous company we had a very significant Django codebase with plenty of templating, and found that using the templating system for (lazy loaded) database queries or caching was more hassle than it was worth and avoided it as much as possible. Treating template rendering as a pure CPU bound function was always better.
I can't imagine subpixel rendering is at all worth it on modern DPIs
I'm using "control" in the statistical process control sense, where it means "we can tell if variation is ordinary or extraordinary".

To me it seemed clear that the paper is about detecting regressions, which is control under my definition above. I still think of that as distinct from optimization.
Artist would come under media class.

The point does not change. Twitters importance only comes from the fact the people reporting on twitter were obsessed with it.
> Aggressively maintaining a decent follow list no longer helps.

> I'm so incredibly tired of algorithmic timelines.

Then why not just use your following lists? I have a main list of people I follow, mostly people I know, then a bunch of topical lists for various topics, from silly stuff to NLP.
San Francisco tech company Forward, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down
It's not lagging for me. It crashed and not coming back.

Update: Switched to the app on my phone and so far so good.
AFAIK, Edge by default import these and even cookies from other browser. You have to explicitly opt out of this.
Here in Australia the average punter on horse-racing is normally competing against his fellow rational and informed punters.

But every November we have a huge Melbourne Cup race where millions of people make their selection because they like the jockeys' colours or the sound of the horse's name. So the serious punters are competing against uninformed punters and on that day they are in a much better position to make some $$$.
Not really a new technique. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I needed to get libraries from the internet onto an air-gapped network, and the supported way was to burn them to a disk and bring the disk to be scanned. The scanner never allowed executables so it would always reject the libraries. Can't make this up, but the supported way that InfoSec (!!) explained to us to get past the scanner was to take advantage of WinRAR being available on the network, so split the rar archive a bunch of times (foo.r01, foo.r02,...) and the scanner, being unable to parse them nor execute them, would happily rubber-stamp them and pass them along. As long as the process was followed, InfoSec was happy. Thankfully this was before the days when people were really worried about supply chain security.

Glad to see this bit of security theater recognized as such.
Exactly! And just to clarify, the `verify` script is a Cyph feature that I added to allow comparing a local reproducible build against the production build, not a general npm feature. Running `npm run verify` in any random JS project won't do anything unless the project happens to have a script configured with that name.