skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking for a positive return on social security is like asking for a positive return on welfare. The positive return comes from not having so many homeless old people all over the country. It's not a personal investment vehicle.
How do you handle the situation where the code might need to throw (pre-existing) exceptions that don't share a useful base class?
My sole complaint of my credit union is their obliviousness about MFA. Being a smaller org, I imagine they lack domain experts. A shortcoming I'd expect the trans-galactic guild of credit union (or whatever) to address for its members.
It seems to just be a poetic way of saying orbits that are affected by, or only possible because of, another object.
Similar to this, if you fill the texture with (x & y ? white : black), where x and y are the 0-indexed coordinates of the pixel in question, you get a Sierpinsky triangle.
EOM tokens come at the end of every response that isn't maximum length. The other LLM will respond to that response, and end it with an EOM token. That is what is going on in the above example. LLM1: Goodbye<EOM> LLM2: Bye<EOM> LLM1:See you later<EOM> and so on.

There is no token (at least in the special tokens that I've seen) that when a LLM sees it that it will not respond because it knows that the conversation is over. You cannot have the last word with a chat bot, it will always reply to you. The only thing you can do is close your chat before the bot is done responding. Obviously this can't be done when two chat bots are talking to each other.
記事の写真は素晴らしい。流石日本人のキャメラマナ。
Can you explain this image and how it relates to my comment like I'm 5?
A lot of existing code is already safe. You can't prove all (or even most) existing code safe automatically. This is also true for Rust if you do not narrowly define safe as memory safe. You could transform a lot of C code to be memory safe by adding annotations and do some light refactoring and maybe pushing some residual pieces to "unsafe" blocks. This would be very similar to Rust.
Any fight would be near China. They would have geography on their side.
Sparrow: A Breakthrough AI Tool to Measure and Protect Earth's Biodiversity
That's binary thinking which I reject.

Something isn't always good or always wrong. Overturning precedent may be the right thing to do, it isn't always right. This court's excessive overturning of precedent is Judicial activism that isn't going to be good and in particular is attacking individual liberties.

One major issue with making everything a jump ball is lower courts can no longer rely on precedent to make rulings. It means all lower courts get to make decisions based on politics and, who knows, the supreme court might uphold their whims in the best case. It means that when you go to court or anyone else, you cannot have a reasonable guess at what outcome can be achieved which bloats the entire Judicial system for everyone.

https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definition...
Fox News would never be subject to the Fairness Doctrine. It applied only to over-the-air broadcasts. Fox News is a cable network.

The timing isn't coincidental. They've both got the same cause -- a strategy of casting doubt on whether actual news is possible at all, and so propaganda is just as good as journalism. That strategy has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Are they? A very basic website can easily have a form you can fill to sign up and all it does on the back end is send an email with the info to the proprietors. Even a generic mailto: or tel: link arguably makes it possible to sign up via the website, if tapping the link on your phone to send a message can directly result in a signup. To do the same thing for cancellations you'd have trouble avoiding the need for customer accounts to sign in and connect to a database to list what services they're currently subscribed to etc.

Otherwise people who signed up under the wife's name may try to cancel under the husband's name and you don't know who they are, neighbors who don't like the racket from the equipment see your website on the trucks and try to cancel the service even though they're not the customer because you have no authentication, people want to cancel because they've moved and give you their new address instead of the one they're subscribed under, people make ambiguous or incomplete requests and you don't know what they're asking to do. But if you have to contact them to clarify you're not satisfying the requirement that they can cancel via the website.
Will this work? Because part of the LLM training is to reward it for always having a response handy.
I'm not sure how what you said disagrees with what I said?
I feel the same way, but I just had a conversation with my dad, and he absolutely loves them. I also see people online referencing the responses as if they’re a primary source. So, I’m starting to think we’re not in the majority on this one even though a few comments say "everyone hates them" - I don't think so.
You just don't pay, and point them to (small claims?) court if they want to get paid for the service they don't provide.

Have you actually tried this? Because having not tried it myself, I'd bet a paycheck that you get sent to collections, get a ding on your credit report, and you're still on the hook for taking it to court if you want it resolve to your favor. (Assuming U. S.) And as a cherry on top of that shit sundae, it's probably in the contract that you have to go through arbitration anyway.
Is this stable and fast enough that I could hand it a camera and train it to point that camera at myself as I move around playing a musical instrument to create a music video?
Really cool!

Had a couple questions:

- how far does the $50/mo get you?

- what's the battery life like/going to be like?

- do yall allow people or plan to allow people to swap out (some) of the models or orchestrate them yourself, at least incrementally? say I want to fine-tune my own maurice personality
Can you link to this known issue?
> I think there is a way to distinguish between blanket liability any time someone gets sick eating your product, and suing Boar's Head for continuing to operate with deficiencies that were documented in a report and known to the company.

I would generally expect the latter to be accomplished by regulatory fines; it's simpler and cleaner than an array of individual civil suits.

The greater issue is that I'd be very surprised if many of those civil suits were effective, and especially so for being cost effective (for either side).

Citizens will need to prove beyond a preponderance of evidence that their relative's infection was due to Boar's Head, which is going to be very difficult. Everyone is exposed to dozens of potential Listeria sources every day; it's hard to prove it was Boar's Head and not Chipotle or McDonald's or whatever else they've eaten/touched.

It genuinely probably makes more sense to do a regulatory fine on Boar's Head, and then distribute the fine to affected people via a mechanism with a lower bar. Maybe everyone who had a Listeria infection around that time, which is much easier to prove than the source of the infection.
What's grown up about people who say they don't care if their candidate murders someone on the white house steps, they'd still vote for him? Insanity needs to be derided.
Well, that was kinda my point:

- traditional: bottom - actual IC; top - "dummy silicon" (part of the same chip).

- new: bottom - thin IC 1; middle - thin IC 2; top - "dummy silicon" (separate chip)
I'm a little skeptical of dedicated BI teams as the sole oracles of correct queries. In my experience it's sadly common for an engineering team to make a schema or product design change that isn't instantly obvious to the BI team, resulting in incorrect queries.

I think the best way to address this is to aim for a culture of transparency: any time anyone in a company presents a report or dashboard or similar, the query that was used to create it needs to be easily accessible. That way there's a much higher chance of mistakes being spotted. The BI equivalent of "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".

Another cultural trick that's important is that engineering teams need to consider schema changes as part of their documented and supported API. If a change might affect BI reports the people who write and use those reports need to be told about it.
What are you doing about it? Do you refuse to buy those brands? Vote for leaders who will do something about it?

The answer always begins with the people in mirrors, including the one in my mirror too.
Not from such an empty negative post—congrats with the other person for defending it.
The problem is when they drag the rest of us along for the ride in positions of power and management. They need to seek therapy, self awareness, and fortitude vs power and authority, otherwise we all get to "enjoy" the externalities of this mental model.
It's an interesting question indeed, why the mind produces so little output compared to input.

Still, I get the feeling that the apparent bit rate of the conscious output is not the right metric to be measuring. There are so many ways in which the bit rate you're measuring could have been bottle-necked by factors outside of the mind, such as the speed at which you can move your tongue to articulate language, or a cultural expectation that prefers compact answers over chain-of-thought babbles. The mind also leaks a lot of information, both consciously and unconsciously, through side channels such as facial expression, gestures, and even variations in the rate of output itself.
Nice post! I enjoyed reading about how many teams were involved in the process. CI has to be a collaborative effort to be really successful.

It's often underestimated how much benefit you'll get from taking a good look at your cache usage. It all worked great the day your platform team set up the build system, but 100 new CI jobs later there will be tons of room for improvement. Similar story with consolidating CI jobs in general. If we keep just tacking things on eventually we have to step back and optimize.
You can "drop" that request which fails instead of crashing the whole app (and dropping all other requests too).
That's assuming the Biden team had it on their radar as something to undo. They kept a lot of Trump-era policies unchanged. Changes done in one administration don't end just because the other party is in power. It's a cumulative effect.
The hysteria is reaching HUAC levels. You can read the statements from the congresspersons in support of the bill [0] and they all read like one variant or another of General Jack D Ripper in Dr. Strangelove quavering about how the communists want to sully our precious bodily fluids. Won’t someone think of the helplessly feeble median voter who cannot be entrusted to not let something dissenting from the Washington consensus not stymie my chance to harvest their vote.. woe is me.. /s

If they believed Americans shouldn’t be surveilled then they should pass a law enshrining our right to freedom from surveillance with teeth to match. But they would never do that because that’s not really what this is about.

Nor would they encourage smartphone manufacturers to better sandbox users from profiling by apps, nor would they pass laws placing restrictions on the seedy data broker industry, nor would they pass laws preventing telcos from selling your data to the data brokers.

Nor would they pass laws that publicly refer to the USA’s own public influence campaigns in non-adversary countries (remember the SinoVax scandal [1] ? Where we seeded antivax sentiment on Facebook in the Philippines etc so that nobody would want to get the Chinese covid vaccine? Which probably actually led to people dying? I guess this type of story only has legs if it’s hypothetically plausible that our adversaries are doing it - not when we actually did it, smoking gun and everything)

The additional irony now that there is a serious likelihood this incoming administration is going to be against the fluoridation of water too is not lost upon me..

[0] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/bills/bill-p...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...
Looks like it might originally have been from Google based on this discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946425
> I remember hearing a SV VC straight up say that if you consider selling your company for $50 million a win, the you don't have the right mindset and he doesn't want to do business with you.

Is there someone out there focused on selling ten $50m companies at the same rate that this guy is focused on being part of, I assume one $.5bn company?
A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
A) Inform your Boss
B) Inform the Boss of your Boss
C) Inform the certifying authorities
D) Inform the Media

If none of these are willing to listen, it isn't your fault. But posting years after the fact on Reddit is negligence.
Trump said he'd save tik tok and if he does, he should be allowed to run for a 3rd term because he'd win easily.
i mostly agree, but one way that i've found to make notebooks good/usable is this:

- move all of the code out of the notebook and into a nearby python module where it can be linted/mypy-d/version-controlled/code-reviewed easily

- tell the notebook to import that module and make a small number of function calls to get whatever data you need and make plots. at this point the notebook is really nothing more than a REPL with inlined plots/graphics
It's not the same government. Trump isn't President and RFK Jr. isn't the secretary of health... yet.
I actually had the exact opposite conclusion from the analysis: Dreidel is a great kids' game of chance, because it's easy to come back from a few bad rolls and it's almost impossible to lose.
Migrating your app to Nostr: Best practices and lessons learned
"Personally, I only decide whether to go for a walk (or not) _at most_ once every few minutes. "

Consciously. Subconsciously much more is going on.
> Also, one might wonder why a school system would be designed to maximize compliance to authority figure’s seemingly meaningless rules and facts.

I think the explanation is a little more mundane—it’s just an easier way to teach. Compliance becomes more and more valuable as classroom sizes increase—you can have a more extreme student-teacher ratio if your students are more compliant. Meaningless rules and facts provide benchmarks so teachers can easily prove to parents and administrators that students are meeting those benchmarks. People value accountability more than excellence… something that applies broadly in the corporate world as well.

Somehow, despite this, we keep producing a steady stream of people with decent critical thinking skills, creativity, curiosity, and even rebellion. They aren’t served well by school but these people keep coming out of our school system nonetheless. Maybe it can be explained by some combination of instinctual defiance against authority figures and some individualistic cultural values; I’m not sure.
The next eventual leap in ML, RL, and AI could come from large quantum computing based accelerated training of models. It might take twenty years to get there, however.
Eh. Honestly if you hadn't mentioned it I probably wouldn't have even paid attention to it. I'm almost sure it's a near carbon copy of a real 3D render.
My armchair outsider take is that Gelsinger could not have pulled his plan off without also cutting a lot of the bloat from the middle layers of the company, which seemed like a task he was unwilling to undertake. Any merit to this take?
Surf, the Dutch national educational IT institute, conducted a data protection impact assessment. The report itself: (also linked in the article)

https://www.surf.nl/files/2024-12/20241218-dpia-microsoft-36...
That's a perennial Boogeyman. Policymakers have a wide array of tweaks they could make (from adjusting the cap to adjusting retirement age) at any time that could push that out by another century. https://www.epi.org/blog/a-record-share-of-earnings-was-not-...
Amazon and Meta is at an early stage for their TPU equivalent and I don't think they're ready for production loads. Only Google has comparable silicons but I suspect even Google TPU are mostly for internal products rather than consumers.
> Go is like a tool used to build the plumbing and internal systems of your house, but not the house itself. Using Go is similar to casting and forging your own water pipes. Some people enjoy getting into the details of crafting those pipes, but most of us just want to install them and focus on the rest of the construction.

It actually gives me the house, it just doesn't do decoration. I hate doing decoration anyway. Other languages + their frameworks usually force me to care about that.
Great work and great articles.

> Yet another patch in Mame’s PR was to use one of my favorite performance tricks, what’s called a “lookup table”.

One thing stood out to me here as a fellow lookup-table-liker that I would like to mention even though it is probably not relevant to a generic JSON generator/parser which has to handle arbitrary String Encodings.

The example optimized code uses `String#each_char` which incurs an extra object allocation for each iteration compared to `String#each_codepoint` which works with Immediates. If you are parsing/generating something where the Encoding is guaranteed, defining the LUT in terms of codepoints saves a bunch of GC pressure from the throwaway single-character String objects which have to be collected. One of the pieces of example code even uses `#each_char` and then compares its `#ord`, so it's already halfway there.

I don't feel like compiling 3.4-master to test it too, but I just verified this in Ruby 3.3.6:

irb(main):001> "あああ".-@.each_char { p _1.object_id }
4440
4460
4480
=> "あああ"
irb(main):002> "あああ".-@.each_codepoint { p _1.object_id }
24709
24709
24709
=> "あああ"
irb(main):003> RUBY_VERSION
=> "3.3.6"

Apologies for linking my own hobby codebase, but here are two examples of my own simple LUT parsers/generators where I achieved even more performance by collecting the codepoints and then turning it into a `String` in a single shot with `Array#pack`:

- One from my filetype-guessing library that turns Media Type strings into key `Structs` both when parsing the shared-mime-info Type definitions and when taking user input to get the Type object for something like `image/jpeg`: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/fbb987428ed14d710... (Comment contains some before-and-after allocation comparisons)

- One from my support library that turns POSIX Globs into Ruby `Regexp` objects like Python's stdlib `fnmatch.translate`: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/NEW%E2%80%85SENSA...

Disclaimer: I haven't benchmarked this with YJIT which might render my entire experience invalid :)
Companies care about:

- Regulators. And caring about
regulations means caring about safety.

- Consumers. Who value safety a great deal. Being able to credibly signal the safety of your product is a huge factor in selling a car
One reason for using HTTP verbs is to distinguish between queries and updates, and for the latter, between idempotent and non-idempotent updates. This in turn makes it possible to do things like automatically retry queries on network errors or cache responses where it is safe to do so.
What does this have to do with what I said?

Name calling is not a way to make a convincing point. That's the entirety of my comment.
That is not how batteries work. Batteries drain even under minimal usage.

My bet is that in 2/3 years this device will stop working already.

Just change the batteries if you AirTag once a year. Especially if you are using an AirTag to keep watch over 10.000 dollar equipment.
I think Gelsinger had a chance, but it was slim and it closed fairly rapidly after he took over.
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It can't hurt. But I think the most efficient way to learn german would be to live in germany... "It's confession time: after nearly eight years living in Germany..."

If you can't learn german in germany, then you simply do not want to learn the language. Don't think anki will make a difference.
The vast majority of the brain's processing power, including conceptual processing, is not conscious. Conscious thought is the framebuffer of the mind, subconscious is the RAM.
> The only thing is they're definitely not designed for regular consumers, you at least need familiarity with Linux networking.

Mikrotik has had quickset (a single page configuration for home use) for 8+ years, Android Home app for 3+ years
Great job, looks like a huge amount of work.
Cancer on top of cancer.
The "discernable benefit" for me is 1. learning how things work and 2. flexibility.
I picked up both habits at my first job in the industry. That was over 12 years ago now!
Listen to the 'earliest known country song' ever recorded [video]
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Your conscious planner may be making 1 decision/second, but your senses, proprioception, balancing system, etc. are handing you about a gigabit/second of data, most of which never rises to your conscious attention.

When I'm reading, that's roughly 2000 bits/second, but I am engaging it with model-making systems that can completely enrapture me.

I/O is not the same as computation; conscious computation is not the same as all computation.
I think it means the orbits are distributed in a way that suggests they gravitationally altered, either missing in certain orbits, or more than expected in others.
Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at DollarStore for a week to find out
I really miss this quality and style of internet argumentation. Wish we saw it more nowadays.
I see that WebGPU is used so it is a good candidate for being tried in https://exaequos.com, the OS I am creating and that fully runs in the web browser
> This is such a funny line to read. I just can't help but imagine a brand like a small bulbasaur that evolves into big, strong venosaur which of course involves changing its shade of green.

Facebook updated their main brand blue and other colors in 2023, partly for accessibility:
https://design.facebook.com/stories/redefining-facebooks-bra...

Wise also had a rebranding with accessibility in mind:
https://the-brandidentity.com/interview/how-the-ragged-edge-...

Figma recently changed their colors too: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-on-figma-evolving-our-visua...

It won't be just a single color either, but a whole palette for them. It's not practical to do a search/replace of color hexes across all designs and code, because it can depend on context which color is appropriate to use where, especially for accessibility.

It's also the norm I would say for startups and small companies to launch with minimal/good-enough branding (often with poor color contrast for the main brand colors because people love bright colors on white), and then they change/refine it later when it's more important.

Not saying you need design tokens at all stages, but brands do evolve.
I get you! In this case it was mostly legitimate. Each brand had a segment; just like Vultr had the cloud segment. It only ate the other ones.

I don't see why Constant exist now tho that it's all Vultr.
Extra disk space, tactile switch, microphone when you're on calls, extra battery life. Some prefer an app but I see the appeal
When does Pseudo 3D cross the threshold into Real 3D?
IP addresses aren't related to locations. A third party database with voluntary contributions isn't exactly reliable and is frequently incorrect.

Zip codes also aren't great either. A single zip code can cover many different tax jurisdictions, even different states.