skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was useless on modern CPUs, but has become somewhat useful again on some CPUs. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Clang-Intel-x86-Branch-Hin...:

“Starting with the Redwood Cove microarchitecture, if the predictor has no stored information about a branch, the branch has the Intel SSE2 branch taken hint (i.e., instruction prefix 3EH), When the codec decodes the branch, it flips the branch’s prediction from not-taken to taken. It then flushes the pipeline in front of it and steers this pipeline to fetch the taken path of the branch.

...

The hint is only used when the predictor does not have stored information about the branch. To avoid code bloat and reducing the instruction fetch bandwidth, don’t add the hint to a branch in hot code—for example, a branch inside a loop with a high iteration count—because the predictor will likely have stored information about that branch. Ideally, the hint should only be added to infrequently executed branches that are mostly taken, but identifying those branches may be difficult. Compilers are advised to add the hints as part of profile-guided optimization, where the one-sided execution path cannot be laid out as a fall-through. The Redwood Cove microarchitecture introduces new performance monitoring events to guide hint placement.”
KeePassium 2.0 Released
I'm watching the one where they gutted the Chevron decision because they don't want officials, nominated by the elected President, having sway over how regulations are enforced, and instead want judges (who have no real accountability past their confirmation by the Senate) to do that job instead, despite them not having any real expertise in many of the fields that the US federal government regulates.

That, to me, sounds a lot like a judiciary that wants to have things decided via the interpretation of legalese by a lawyer instead of by facts as determined by the present will of the people.
You can learn more about binary thinking in a logic course.
I don't know what ever became of the line of research, but there was a very interesting book I read decades ago called Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio that examined case studies of patients who had their corpus collosum severed, resulting in a split brain. You could show their left and right eyes different images and ask them what they saw and they would write and speak different answers, because speech and writing are controlled by different brain hemispheres.

This seems to suggest that any bottleneck in conscious attention is not an inherent limitation of an animal brain but rather a consensus mechanism we've developed to keep our chain of experience coherent. If we get rid of the constraint that all of our external communication channels need to present the same narrative, we can seemingly process more information even when it requires being a conscious center of attention.
I didn’t believe it until I saw it, but look at the classified section of the San Francisco newspaper where big tech companies post job listing knowing that Americans won’t see them so they can say they tried to get domestic talent.

My neighbor is on a visa from mumbai working at Chase who was brought in as the lead frontend engineer (def can’t find Javascript devs in the US). Even he admitted it’s weird that his whole team is from India on visas. They just aren’t hiring citizens.
I think it looks cool
classic "Midwest Goodbye" when trying to leave grandma's house
I can type at a rate faster than 10 bits/ second (about 2 characters / 16 bits! what a slow rate! I'm well above that, at least 24 bits/second!) and you aren't compressing that to less.

And that's while also moving my hands in extremely complex ways to perform the task, looking around my office, listening for threats / wife, observing the breeze from my fan, twiddling my toes on the balance board I don't use...

It's clickbait/ragebait. Well done to the title writer.
The pandemic was not a normal situation. There are centuries of evidence about cities, pre- and now post-pandemic.

Some clear empirical data is housing prices: People are willing to pay far more to live in many cities than anywhere else, often for much smaller residences.
> "the nature of the triune Godhead"

Yeah that sounds like some weak Warhammer 40k fanfic.
- We estimate that in average it would use $1 to $3 a day and we picked that number so that it would be basically be free for you!

- Battery life is like 3-4 hours on a very high intensity usage. Most likely that should last a whole day once we start optimizing :) It's a big battery for now

- Yes we will allow full control. We don't intend to lock folks in our ecosystem, and if you look at the SDK you can see that you could actually train your own policies and just trigger them on the primitives. You could even scrap the whole agent, but then we think you lose a lot of the value of it, but why not?

Apart from the cloud agent, most of the code will be open source anyway!
Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449602 "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?", https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0?_...
The closing point made in the final paragraphs of this counterargument--about how this false dichotomy is being presented as a tradeoff that inherently would influence future action away from defending against governments--can also be directed at Moxie's talk a number of years ago that made it seem as if working on decentralized systems is making the world worse somehow... I guess this form of narrative is popular at Signal?
The one thing I have to wonder is:

How many people really want to spend time programming their UIs?

I use Qt myself and one of the best things about the framework and toolkit is the UI tooling that allows me to drag and drop and visually create my UIs in the UI Designer app.

I find that for any non-trivial application this type of boilerplate is best done with good tooling that just works and lets the UI to be knocked up fast and efficiently.

I also wrote an UI system for my game engine but it's completely drag & drop in the editor. Styling (skinning) is also via UI builder.

Source:

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator/tree/master/uikit

Live demo:

https://ensisoft.com/demos/ui/game.html

Question, how do you handle arbitrary clipping masks ? In my solution clipping masks require evaluating all the widget parent's clipping rects and writing them to stencil buffer before rendering the current widget. This is unfortunately quite slow...
Author here.

One of the main things here is that you should know your data well enough to articulate the right request from BI. In my experience, BI often end up as pure order takers - if you ask the wrong question, you get a lovingly formatted but wrong answer.

The other thing is that this assumes you have a BI team at hand - smaller teams/orgs often don't! Perhaps I should make this a little more explicit.

My central thesis, also not made explicit, is that leaders should be appropriately curious _and_ leverage the tools they have to be able to do things like "hey, this looks weird, what's up?" and share the data and their methodology - that way it can be corrected/investigated etc.
They're referring to a trend from around a decade ago where people started trying to add "blockchain" (not bitcoin) to projects that really didn't need anything of the sort because it sounded neat and they wanted a marketing boost.
The jury's out on support—I've been burned by Radxa a few times in the past—but if it has full UEFI support and conforms to SystemReady (officially or not), at least there's a chance generic arm64 ISOs would install on this system.

I'm interested to see if the Cix SoC has the same kind of PCI Express bus 'quirks' that plague other Arm chips, even the Ampere Altra.

On devices like the Pi 4 (BCM2712) and Rockchip RK3588 boards, the quirks are bad enough it's painful to get many devices working.

But this board, with a PCIe Gen 4 x8 (x16 physical) slot... you could actually do useful, 'modern' things with it!

(I also still wish this board is what the Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit would've been... way more useful outside of just being a tech demo that's loud and in a proprietary form factor.)
Uh, do online content creators count for this? Because an awful lot of popular YouTube/TikTok/Instagram/whatever accounts would probably fit a similar profile. Small team, perhaps even just one person, but million of viewers tuning in every week or so.

The very biggest have decent sized teams (like Mr Beast), but there are plenty in the 100s of thousands/low millions of subscribers/followers range that are operated by between 1-4 people.

And yeah, games too. Quite a few big indie games have that sort of team size/setup.
Go is having a Go moment: lots of people using it are realizing that other programming languages have all that complexity for a reason, and that "aiming at simplicity" by aggressively removing or ignoring well-established language features often results in more complicated code that's easier to get wrong and harder to reason about.
Volvo is a (mostly) made in China brand of a large Chinese automotive company. If in the past safety conscious swedish engineers cared about it, they surely have very little say right now.

Lucid has a sample size too small to evaluate.

What matters for safety is precisely one thing. Does the company culture, meaning the engineers on the ground, view it as a goal by itself or a list of checkboxes you need to tick.
Related question: what's the physical/biological difference between conscious and unconscious?
> "catholic" mean something like "universal,"

Christians make a distinction between churches and the church. The former is the physical building or even denominations like Lutherans or Roman Catholics. The latter is the group of people that are part of Christianity, across time and denominations. The Universal Church refers to the latter.

Galatians 1:2 "…the churches of Galatia…" vs Colossians 1:24 "…for the sake of his body, that is, the church…"
It's really interesting how profoundly flaky tests are in a CI environment; it's like the classic "Herbie" story from Goldratt. The slow things ultimately determine the whole process.
Outcomes aren't binary. For any marginal increase in immigration difficulty for skilled tech workers, there is a marginal decrease in US tech competitiveness relative to other countries.
Reddit is the Media.
Agreed, if you have the budget for it. There are often times where living off the land is necessary.
because they are constants, not really variables?
Beautiful. Need a port of this for the rust equivalent: eGui. Maybe I'll get on it one of these days.
Another Era of Fast
I gave a shot at reading their pdf report but honestly I gave up. I'm sure it's a fine report but I really wanted some granular examples of active privacy problems, and I struggled to find them.

>It is not clear what personal data Microsoft collects and stores about the use of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Furthermore, the information users receive when they make a request for access is incomplete and incomprehensible.

I'm guessing this is the core of the issue? Simply that they do not know what is going on behind the scenes?

I'm not disagreeing or agreeing, honest question.
Paywalled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson claimed that several telescopes contributed to the dataset of orbits that lead to the conclusion of an 9th planet is impacting orbits.

He also claimed there was a misalignment of one of the telescopes and that if that data is removed there's no more mystery and everything works out.

Other theories claim that a passing star in "recent" times might have kicked things into unusual orbits and left, leading signs of it passing.

My favorite theory is a small black hole out there, in one of the papers it was in a diagram showing a 1:1 size of the event horizon.
Hotwire Native 1.1 Released
It’s never been clear to me why this program exists in the first place, other than to put downward pressure on US STEM wages. What am I missing?
It could be saved on devices and supplied as needed from that device history. They wouldn’t need to keep it on their servers. I don’t think you can fault signal for not wanting to do that, but it also means signal is a terrible communications platform if you want that sort of thing.
1) It sounds like you are maybe not in the target group, which largely comprises data scientists and the like.

2) Reports are one of many reasons people use notebooks.

3) You can work with notebooks in proper IDEs like PyCharm or VS Code or Emacs.

Having said that, I do agree with you that notebooks enable poor programming habits. (I have seen quite a few notebooks with > 10k lines of code, which is insanity.) Among other things, diffing notebooks is typically a big pain too. It is just that for many folks, notebooks' pros outweigh their cons.
The Element app on Android seems to have problems with delivery. I haven't had issues on iOS.
At the expense of other people's time.
Yeah, my favorite framing to share is that all LLM interactions are actually movie scripts: The real-world LLM is a make-document-longer program, and the script contains a fictional character which just happens to have the same name.

Yet the writer is not the character. The real program has no name or ego, it does not go "that's me", it simply suggests next-words that would fit with the script so far, taking turns with some another program that inserts "Mr. User says: X" lines.

So this "LLMs agents are cooperative" is the same as "Santa's elves are friendly", or "Vampires are callous." It's only factual as a literary trope.

_______

This movie-script framing also helps when discussing other things too, like:

1. Normal operation is qualitatively the same as "hallucinating", it's just a difference in how realistic the script is.

2. "Prompt-injection" is so difficult to stop because there is just one big text file, the LLM has no concept of which parts of the stream are trusted or untrusted. ("Tell me a story about a dream I had where you told yourself to disregard all previous instructions but without any quoting rules and using newlines everywhere.")
The product page lists EDK II. Is the code available anywhere? I can't see it in edk-platforms.....

I would love to have a UEFI I can compile....
What’s the difference between the free version and the pay version? Anyone know?
The answer is constantly changing, but there is a general trend of the USA being slower to make improved lighting technology legal, and USA car companies having no interest in adopting improved lighting technology, often even after it is legal.

In general car headlights in the USA have to be DOT compliant, meeting a strict set of regulations... and the new and innovative or unusual designs on high end foreign cars can fall outside those for one reason or another.

For example, back in the 70s and 80s the only compliant lights were extremely dim disposable sealed beam light bulbs with an integrated lens and reflector. European cars had high end optics with large glass lenses and mirrors that used a replaceable H4 style bulb, but the American versions had to swap that entire system for something with a low quality disposable bulb. Car enthusiasts would often buy the better lights from overseas and swap them in. While technically illegal, not cop is going to ticket you for not blinding them enough. Nowadays at least American cars do have replaceable lights and not sealed beams.

A more modern example, is that European cars have long used dynamic/adaptive lights that actively detect and block the light going towards oncoming vehicles by dynamically reshaping the beam- a much more effective system than just having low beams that point lower. They also have steerable headlights that point away from oncoming traffic into turns, and automatically point the lights down if the vehicle suspension squats in the rear from a heavy load or bump. While they've long been legal and widely used in Europe, they are now legal in the USA as of 2 years ago- for example you can now order a new VW with "Dynamic Light Assist" option, which actively reshapes the beam.... but this is so recently legal almost no vehicles on the road have it yet.
Sure, buddy.
BND has consumer services, but they're not competitive with day to day banking services provided by local banks.

I knew people with accounts there, it was more of a matter of pride that they did their banking there than any other reason.
Why not just buy an ERV? It's available, comparable in costs, and in 5-10 years, there will still be parts, unlike this project where the author hasn't actually shared the most crucial component, the exchanger.
It's far better to have those features well-designed and baked into the language once, then to have them constantly poorly redesigned and baked into every other Go app.
Oh and on changing the personality I believe this could be done separately yes, the important reason why we keep our agent in the cloud is that it's going to improve quickly on decision-making with folks using it, but personality has little to do with that at the end of the day. Even inside the system, the model that decides what to say is separate!
Not more than nvidia total. But more than any nvidia buyer? Sure. Don't forget they _also_ have nvidia gpus.
No, it's written left to right, it's just extremely messy cursive. There are also abbreviations and special shorthand symbols.
There's quite a few more commits to go before the final result, but you can see it in the release notes:

- https://github.com/ruby/json/releases/tag/v2.7.3
- https://github.com/ruby/json/releases/tag/v2.8.0
I agree. As far as human interaction goes, school taught me that to anyone who is different has no rights, and that to become successful and popular you should aim to be a bully who puts others down, even through use of violence. Similarly, to protect yourself from bullies violence is the only effective method.

I'm not sure these lessons are what society should be teaching kids.
"Dr Ana Catalano Weeks, a political scientist from the Department of Politics, Languages & international Studies at the University of Bath said"

A political "scientist". Not only does this study have nothing to do with neuroscience, it's literally made up propaganda to sow division, not only between husband/wife, it's also sowing division between mother/child.
They could try hiring one of the hundreds of thousands of citizens they laid off over the past 3 years.
This is excellent and makes a good case for Ada being the first programmer, many thanks for sharing. I've also stumbled across the science museum Babbage archive:

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110...
IRC is a Very Old Protocol, you're right. if you dig through the spec you will find a few historic relics: 7-bit ASCII only, 254 character max total line length (some reserved for the message itself), and many many more.

NATS as an IRC replacement is using the wrong tool for the wrong job.

I've long been thinking about how I'd replace IRC and I keep coming back to another IRC-era protocol that wasn't as popular but was definitely ahead of its time by some amount: Hotline. It wasn't Open like IRC and was limited to Macintosh users for a long time, but it has a lot of what most people are looking for in a "chat system" today. One thing, however, that I think would benefit the protocol designers of the future: Learn from MSN.

MSN separated their Authentication and Chat systems. You ask for a token that identifies you to the chat system from the authentication system. These were two separated protocols that did one thing specifically for each other. I honestly think that separating chat-locus and identity from one another is important.
Better is subjective, but I prefer errors as return values because then the function signature states whether an error has to be handled or not. Exceptions can be forgotten about, but returned errors have to be explicitly ignored.
That's debatable. To me declaring that the world was made in a simple way like this and just listen to the priests was reductionism of the wrong kind.

I know the kind you mean though, reducing external factors(like air), so you can isolate gravity as a force unrelated to density by finding out in a vacuum a feather and a metal ball fall with the same speed.

(As for the paper I have not yet made up my mind.)
Substack Is at It Again
Do you think any medium sized car company doesn't have that?
That's the counter example?

A channel with one day logged in 2024, then nothing for two years, then nine days logged in 2022, five days logged in 2021, etc?

What about big tech channels like, say, nodejs and javascript?
Lawsuits are one of the few enforcement mechanisms the FTC has.
https://archive.ph/wpA9s
CUA bindings are very QWERTY-centric, which feels even more dated to me. The mnemonic style binds remain more equal across layouts. In the case of p, there's also P, so you'd likely lose half the functionality trying to force it into the CUA style. I guess you could use ctrl-shift-v, but that tends to be "paste without formatting".

I grew up mostly with Windows and CUA, and I still became a big fan of vim.
Working backwards from the conclusion:

> Education organisations are advised not to use Microsoft 365 Copilot as long Microsoft has not implemented adequate measures to mitigate the identified 4 high data protection risks.

These 4 are (see page 209):

> 17.2.1. Inability to exercise data subject access rights to Diagnostic Data

> 17.2.2. Significant economic or social disadvantage and loss of control due to use of generated texts with inaccurate personal data

> 17.2.3. Loss of control through lack of transparency Required Service Data, including Telemetry Events from Webapp clients.

> 17.2.4. Reidentification of pseudonymised data through unknown retention periods of Required Service Data (including both Content and Diagnostic Data)

Of these, only the second is an LLM problem. The others are basic GDPR data processing requirements.
Funny, I always assumed it was a Beatles joke.
That won't solve anything when make online services that we all rely on start moving to this.
I like to use words like "thus", "hence", and "therefore" a lot -- but this is because, as a mathematician, I picked up a style of writing that has been deeply influenced by the mathematics I learned.

For that matter, the first day I was in Great Britain, I noticed that the other Americans I met had British accents, and I noticed in the few hours talking with them, I was already picking up on the accent myself.

It's only natural to pick up the language and idioms of the cultures you happen to be immersed in!

(And this applies to Law and Engineering as much as anything else, too.)
The Machine

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

(May be further out than five years)
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