skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you provide an example of that on godbolt or similar? In what scenarios do exceptions introduce the claimed cost?

The only thing I could see is just the density of code could mean more page spills and less efficient cache line usage for code. There's otherwise no actual cost to the assembly executed itself. And that's compared to no error handling at all, even. Compared to return values it's very clearly faster. But maybe there's some edge case you're aware of that does something different.
And Marc Rochkind (the OP) wrote SCCS, as well as one of the more seminal Unix programming books and a ton of other notable achievements.

Looking through the rest of the archive, nice to see that Larry has gone into retirement but makes time away from fishing to continue to tell us how fucking smart he is and how stupid everyone else is. Never change, Larry.
Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage
Well, I still disagree. In reality companies still retaliate against whistleblowers even when the information is already out there. (Hence the need for Congress, federal courts and the California Supreme Court to clarify that whistleblower activity is still protected even if the information is already known.)

I, of course, am not proposing that OpenAI assassinated this person. Just pointing out that disclosures of known information can and do motivate retaliation, and are considered whistleblowing.
There are some pretty callous comments on this thread.

This is really sad. Suchir was just 26, and graduated from Berkeley 3 years ago.

Here’s his personal site: https://suchir.net/.

I think he was pretty brave for standing up against what is generally perceived as an injustice being done by one of the biggest companies in the world, just a few years out of college. I’m not sure how many people in his position would do the same.

I’m sorry for his family. He was clearly a talented engineer. On his LinkedIn he has some competitive programming prizes which are impressive too. He probably had a HN account.

Before others post about the definition of whistleblower or talk about assassination theories just pause to consider whether, if in his position, you would that want that to be written about you or a friend.
I own a Decent and I'm quite familiar with its in's and out's.

The Decent uses some math to estimate the flow. Their math is actually quite solid, within a specific range, but if you stray from that then it get less accurate. So most people brew espresso at about 1-2ml/s, if you have the machine calibrated there then it's fairly accurate. If you brew a fast "turbo" style shot, say about 3-4ml/s, it's less accurate unless you set the calibration to be more accurate there.

This actually does end up more accurate than many machines, however some have volumetrics that are much more precise like the Unica Pro. And I suspect the new "Bengle" from Decent will have more accuracy in flow calculation but that's yet to be seen.
For Canadians its impossible to hear about pigeons cameras without thinking of the Tragically Hip song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDbnJPWAng
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments and ignoring multiple requests to stop.

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The title is:

Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

For Musk, buying Twitter and the State was a bargain.
JFK allegedly read at 1200 wpm.
Suffering has worked wonders for me especially in making me grateful and deepening my sense of appreciation for so many things I took for granted.

Even working out and enduring the burn give me a stronger body.

Suffering gets a bum rap.
Both cases concerned people who requested euthansia, and repeatedly so.

Both cases were borderline and raised concerns.

Both cases were reviewed.

It is imposssible to have any such system in the real world that does not have concerning edge cases.

It is a system that many people want for both themselves and for their relatives in cases that are clearcut.

The problematic reality about people with mental issues and disabilities is that they are also autonomous people who have opinions, think for themselves, and sometimes decide that their own circumstances are no longer tenable following years, decades even, of struggling through.

See eg: The Last Leg from the UK.

It's not desirable to have a system that kills people that don't want to die and wouldn't choose death if they had better options.

What are the housing options for people with chronic mental issues (eg: the extreme examples of schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, etc) that have no support and have exhausted friends and relatives?

These are not easy problems.

What is your proposed solution?
> Anytime someone potentially possesses information that is damning to a company and that person is killed… the low probability of such an even being a random coincidence is quite low.

You're running into the birthday paradox here. The probability of a specific witness dying before they can testify in a lawsuit is low. The probability of any one of dozens of people involved in a lawsuit dying before it's resolved is actually rather high.
Dupe (184 points, 2 hours ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718
I, when a young lad, did the same thing. Many of us did.
It was also the impetus for the lesser known SCMs Mercurial and Fossil.
> Boeing guy [...] were both seen as "not depressed" and have even gone far as to say that if anything happened to him that it wouldn't have been an accident.

Yes, but also, his own brother said:

“He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing, which we believe led to his death,”

Internet echo chambers love a good murder mystery, but dragging a quiet and honest employee who works in the trenches through a protracted, public, and stressful legal situation can be very tough.
Research of RAM data remanence times
paywalled..
Algebra Strikes Back
I have the ME11's boot ROM in a disassembler as I write this :)
The embedded map has a link to a "story map" that drops a pin for each recent story, mostly around the bay area. Probably a default to embed a zoom-in on each story's map entry at the bottom of the story text.

They mention "Lower Haight" and "Buchanan St" for the apartment location. In lieu of an exact address of his apartment, I feel like the marked location is reasonably close to situate the story within the area - within a half mile or so?
I actually agree. I think its over, but the world will take a while to catch up
its a asdfasd encoded message
GP is quite right that it's clickbaity. Better title would be "... its own sun reflector", but it's not as catchy for Vice.
We are barely only planning a pnt constellation on Moon[1]. Setting up Martian constellation is significantly more complex simply due the distances involved; pnt is not fire-and-forget system, you need constantly track and tweak the satellites to make sure they know when and where they are.

[1] https://tempo.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/LCRNS
Asimov described a similar thing in I Robot. I imagine it'd create very unpredictable climate issues.
OpenAI O1 price gouging to get you to use Pro
Interesting. It's hydraulically controlled -

https://youtu.be/kWiilCH1AO0?si=PxE3UuB9DE9sB0Hq&t=124

Norway's Rjukan seems to have implemented it better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PbAsci1D0k
I'm mad that Victoria isn't considered independent of New South Wales for 50 years before federation.
> or Java, .Net, JS, Python... (which require the runtime to be installed separately).

Modern .NET has both modes that can 'include' the specific runtime bits built against, as well as AOT compilation modes that don't involve a jitter and can be smaller (heck with enough effort you can get Snake in about 8kb[0]).

> e.g. you can use Rust on true embedded, by opposition to most other modern languages, and presumably more future-proof. The drawback is that you, as a developer, need to pick a runtime.

Also -technically- possible on .NET but may require more finagaling, There's been at least one POC where a C# app can run in EFI [1]

The drawback in .NET's case vs picking a runtime, is you might have to do finagaling/tweaking/shimming on your own since there are few docs/templates.

[0] - https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/SeeSharpSnake

[1] - https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp/tree/master/ef...
They still ruin society with the Facebook, no matter how much good they do with LLM.
It is nothing like vaccines. Zero. I can easily imagine a thriving world without copyrights, but I cannot without vaccines.
Fast and Efficient Memory Reclamation for Serverless MicroVMs
I don’t think it sounds ridiculous, it sounds like you picked the right tool for the job. Don’t bring dynamic solutions to static problems…
If I'm a whistleblower in an active case and I end up dead before testifying, I absolutely DO want the general public to speculate about my cause of death.
Because the gen pop does not care. My relatives do not care. No body seems to care about anything but their daily routine, save for us fools on the internet watching the world burn..

I've given up, personally. Corruption won. I see no sense in fighting for people who simply do not care and actively work against their own best interest.
And neither archive.today nor archive.org work for it.
With a reusable launch vehicle yeah that's ballpark. Depends how you define "city" though.
SNOBOL apparently is still a (very, very niche) thing.

OpenVMS still exists and has been ported to x86, so I assume BLISS is still a thing.

CLU is prolly a hit.
> The medical examiner’s office has not released his cause of death, but police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
> 2 years before it was VR, few years before that NFTs and blockchain everything

Are you so deep in the SV tech echo chamber that you can’t distinguish between tech bro / snake oil salesman hype and something that actual normal people are engaged by?

The only people talking about NFTs in a non-disparaging way were delusional in large part because they themselves bought into it wanted to egg others on. NFTs were just a stupid faddish speculative ‘commodity’ market. It’s a completely different thing.

Ditto with “blockchain”. That well was positioned by people trying to make money from cryptocurrencies. The mechanics allowed for that. Again, it’s a completely different thing. Civilians with no vested interest weren’t sitting in restaurants singing the praises of decentralised ledgers or monkey pictures on someone’s Google Drive. I assure you. I also assure you that this IS however happening with ChatGPT. Out here in the real world, we see it.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t issues with LLMs, both philosophically and in therms of their actual output. This doesn’t mean there aren’t the same old SV snake oil salespeople and YouTube wannabes trying to push some BS products and courses. But let’s not pretend for a second like this is usefully comparable to “blockchain” and “NFTs”.
You can't post like this here, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't.

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When David is just a nobody, and Goliath has all of the legal and PR resources in the world, Goliath doesn't even have to swing a punch. Goliath can just drive them crazy with social and legal pressure. Also, David might have been a bit of a decision-making outlier to begin with, being the kind of person who decides going up against Goliath is a good idea.
I'm anti-speculating. My point is that no one knows what happened.
Isn't it the other way around since OpenAI is training their models on news company content? OpenAI has behaved extremely unethical the entire time it has existed. It's very likely there is foul play here, it fits the pattern.
>Tesla finds the rules unfair because it believes it reports better data than other automakers, which makes it look like Tesla is responsible for an outsized number of crashes involving advanced driver-assistance systems, one of the sources said.

> NHTSA cautions that the data should not be used to compare one automaker's safety to another because different companies collect information on crashes in different ways.

> Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who focuses on autonomous driving, said Tesla collects real-time crash data that other companies don’t and likely reports a "far greater proportion of their incidents” than other automakers.
The <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" of the page contains text, ordering the letter by their frequency we obtain the reverse of the lexicographic order, so there is some pattern there.

Ordering by frequencies, j code where u is the hidden text
(~. u) /: +/"1 (~. u) I."(0 1) u

zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA=9876543210/+

The text asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb

could be a base seven number (and seven letters) that could be used to generate some permutation or pattern to reveal the hidden message. Trying the permutations with A. in J don't give good results so the seven letters could mean some kind of cut to the text to determine fragments. Just some ideas.

I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by changing the password to be a random password)
to be fair to you tho, it's a lot easier to be almost-infinite-scale-ultimate-uptime SRE when you have an almost-infinite-scale-company CC/bank draft supporting you instead of your personal dalla is staked on a really cool PoC.

thank you. just seeing this and playing with this has expanded how i think about these type of systems
I'd do that too if I held stock, and I think the guy is a borderline-vampire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
Note he didn’t just buy Twitter. He was forced to buy twitter after trying to pump and dump the stock.
I listened to this podcast some time back and as I recall all the ketogenic talk was about keeping glucose low due to many cancers being anerobic (the research he referenced goes back to the 1920s). Without ready carbohydrate byproducts, the cancers are unable to thrive. If the tumors are small they could theoretically then be purged by the immune system. Ketosis doesn't cure cancer it starves tumors.

I guess I recognize that there is much less data for this approach than trying to kill cancers with revenue generating radiation and medicines but I have a hard time understanding why it's harmful to include it as a potential additional treatment.

I tend to feel the same way about climate change. You may not feel confident that humans are causing it or that it's happening at all, but would it hurt anything to increase the fuel efficiency of the cars on the market? Even if your reasoning is just to preserve fossil fuels for future generations?

I suspect there is a similar motivation here. The doctor says in the podcast chemotherapy and radiation treatment are not always effective and neither is his approach. The reason that we're seeing this in the news is that processed food companies don't want people to suspect that all the sugar added to food is harmful and pharmaceutical companies don't want people to feel like their drugs are ineffective. As people we want to find answers and it makes it really hard to determine what is misinformation when there is a profit motivation to all of it... Except for the doctor who goes on a podcast to talk about his research. Sure there's a glucose meter that he helped develop and he mentions donations to Boston College but compared to a course of chemotherapy drugs it's a drop in the ocean. So am I to believe the person with the lowest profit motive in this kind of dispute? Or the highest? It's only our healt so I guess the stakes are pretty low.
The interesting thing about Disco Demolition Day is how localised (to North America?) that backlash seems to have been; I didn't get over here to Europe until this century, but as far as I can tell disco never "died" here.

Good point: Timothy Leary was moving in cyberpunkish circles shortly before his death, and my only IRL interaction with John McCarthy was at a cyberdelic-influenced party in a Bay Area tract house.

What a long strange surf it's been.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgR6UNeQxXEv

(see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826083 )
How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy
Oh, in that case sure.

The statements in the whole popcorn drama still don't add up in my mind, so from the point of view of "humanity's best interest", I'd say it's still bad.

I thought you meant at the time, not with the benefit of hindsight.
I got into unix after CVS had pretty much displaced SCCS and RCS, but the older per-file version control systems persisted long enough that I had a few close encounters with them.

When I took over Cambridge University’s DNS, its code and configuration was still in SCCS, because that was what shipped with SunOS in 1991ish. I converted the SCCS archive via RCS and CVS to git – https://dotat.at/@/2014-11-27-uplift-from-sccs-to-git.html – which was a fairly entertaining exercise. (Sadly the links in that blog post are mostly broken.) I even used those conversion scripts more than once! https://dotat.at/@/2016-07-19-uplift-from-sccs-to-git-again.... (That repository ended up with at least three distinct root commits, one for the main DNS history, one for the Ansible setup that started with DHCP and later grew to handle DNS too, and later the separate vanity domain DNS setup.)
This is why Qubes OS exists, providing security through strong hardware isolation. The attacker would only get the access to an empty VM. Split-ssh seems particularly relevant here: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/split-ssh/19060
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and neither is using the site primarily for political/ideological/national battle. Since this account has been doing those things, I've banned it.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

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Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT
My hunch is that AWS charging for v4 addresses will start applying pressure across a broad cross-section of businesses as they start asking why don’t they just use the free thing
Well actually... you can create a magnetic shield in front of the planet by putting a large nuclear reactor powered superconducting magnet at the Sun-Mars L1 point that would fully shield Mars from charged particles from the sun. No new technology is required besides making the thing relatively maintenance free. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
possible to allow users of ithy the option to add their own API keys for N of your used services to offset your own $?
What to do when a new AI model comes out
Doesn't compression make any minification gains negligible?
OmniAudio-2.6B: Fastest Audio Language Model for Edge Deployment
On a 2024 Mac Mini M4 Pro, Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct running on Transformers achieves an average decoding speed of 6.38 tokens/second, while OmniAudio-2.6B through Nexa SDK reaches 35.23 tokens/second in FP16 GGUF version and 66 tokens/second in Q4_K_M quantized GGUF version - delivering 5.5x to 10.3x faster performance on consumer hardware.

Blogs for more details: https://nexa.ai/blogs/OmniAudio-2.6B

HuggingFace Repo: https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/OmniAudio-2.6B

Run locally: https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/OmniAudio-2.6B#how-to-use-o...

Interactive Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/NexaAIDev/omni-audio-demo
Whoops, typo for 770, edited to correct. Thanks!
This is the best comment about meetups of all time

One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang.
The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists.

It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965
That’s an odd way to define “smart”. The current crop of LLMs have absolutely no ability to query the raw input or output. I can look at the words I’m typing and think about them. Transformers don’t even get the raw characters, and they also don’t have any feedback from later layers into the queries generated at earlier layers. So the fact that they have any ability at all to reflect on their own input is IMO both impressive and somewhat surprising.

I occasionally wonder whether one could get better results by allowing later layers to query against the K/V data from earlier layers. This might make inference, and possibly even training, of models that don’t fit in a single node’s memory rather more complicated.
Already happening:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musk-doesnt-want-...
Protecting your pedophile Zionist handlers, got it.
> The default configurations of most terminals includes illegible color combinations

This hasn’t been my experience - while I’m not familiar with a wide breadth of terminal emulators, all the ones I’ve used have a default black background with the ANSI colors being very bright, making them clearly visible. I would again say that if a terminal emulator has some of the standard ANSI colors set to not be visible on their default background, that is the terminal emulator’s problem, as it is clearly undesirable.

And of course, once a terminal program starts changing the background color then it can’t make any assumptions about which of the user’s colors will be visible - which is why, as you say, the background color should not be changed without a very good reason. If the bg is set, it should be very easy to switch it to either a “dark mode” or “light mode” to make colors visible.

But some assumptions must be made in order to make any use of color, and “the 6 standard ANSI colors (red, green, yellow, magenta, cyan, blue) are visible on the user’s background” seems like it has to be the safest assumption.

I am in support of terminal programs respecting a universal configuration to disable color: https://no-color.org/
I am not sure if it is me on the article sounds like it was passed through an LLM.

These days I see more and more content similar to how the chat GPT would generate and describe things
Fascinaging stuff. This should be a separate submission!
Even though Meta doesn't sell I/PaaS, Meta's fitness goes up when AI is in the hands of more players than just Google and OpenAI. Commoditize AI and you create a diverse set of businesses that will reach customers through Meta's platforms.
Besides the error handling, I also got to the bottom of trying to do high performance stuff in Go and came to the conclusion that you have to use non-idiomatic Go to go faster.

I think they held off too long on adding generics. I for one lost interest and moved on to other things before it landed and haven't looked back.
> This wasn't true when Office was first introduced and Office still created a domineering market share

It was absolutely true at that time, but Microsoft was already a behemoth monopoly with deep customer connections throughout enterprise and was uniquely positioned to overcome the moats of their otherwise fairly secure competitors, whose users were just as loyal then as the GP is describing about users now.

Even if OpenAI could establish some kind of moat, office applications make for very poor analogy as to how they might or whether they need to.
already mentioned in another comment by me but this would/could be a primo use-case of Cloudflare AI gateway. i'm not related/affiliated with them at all, just a user/dev with very little traffic thinking it might help someone with a lot of it