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Technologies: C, Erlang, and many other tools that every programmer is expected to have experience with (Algorithm, Bash scripting, OS kernel parameter optimization, writing complex SQL on columnar/relational DBMS, Containerization, Python, Java, Cloud - mainly GCP ::BigQuery, PubSub, CloudRun, CloudFunction, BigTable, Dataflow::, web programming, BigData ETL on Hadoop ::Hive, HBase::, Android app development - native). Total IT experience of ~18 yr.
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Wasnt that exactly what they tried to do for the first 30 or so years, but it wasn't very fruitful?
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It's much more efficient for the LLM to directly inject ads into your brain rather than the old way, where you might accidentally see the google results below the ads.

Google made a search engine. They became rich from ads.

Facebook made a social network. They became rich from ads.

OpenAI made a chatbot. They're trying to figure out how to become rich.

The adblock of the future will be buying $12k worth of GPUs in order to run an "ad-free" LLM locally.
You know you're an are old nerd when you see 1670 and immediately think VIC-20. I never even owned a 1670 - just lusted over them in magazines.
Reflector Grids
> But what is the original purpose of AI research? I will speak for myself here, but I know many other AI researchers will say the same: the ultimate goal is to understand how humans think. And we think the best (or the funniest) way to understand how humans think is to try to recreate it.

Eh. To riff on Dijkstra, this is like submarine engineers saying their ultimate goal is to understand how fish swim.
I agree, but there are also cases where it is blatantly clear that companies are not only on Trumps side but taking initiative themselves to corrode our political culture, and people here in europe are too comfy to make a switch, apart from a lack of similar alternatives.

X and Meta are most obvious, and I don't know about google's involvement, but have been trying to convince people to move away from it for years. It's a similar situation with streaming services.
I read it as reaction in the ties where Trump lies.

Why knee jerk blame media?
That's LaTeX syntax for opening and closing quotes. Though their rendered paper doesn't render them that way for some reason!
I'm 100% sure that people using forums less and less isn't about data privacy. Especially when the discussions moved to Facebook/Discord.
was it maybe with 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 subsampling? at 4:4:4 there should be no difference
Clicking around the previous discussions, it appears that the original question was posted on /sci/, a science and math board on 4chan, and not an anime board, as everybody who writes about this states.

This is apparently an archive of the original post:

http://4watch.org/superstring/

It's a question to a math community, using an anime meme template and referencing another anime. The discussion is very much not some anime fans having fun with a silly question, not knowing they are dealing with frontiers of math. Instead it is math enthusiast having a go at what they know is a difficult problem. One even links to a stackexchange question, stating that this is an open problem, and the poster of the link says that if they solve it, they should post it to arxiv.
Does anybody know how this compares with other "similar" privacy extensions?
Yup, surprising results! We were able to dig in a bit more. Main culprit is the overzealous "image extraction". Where if Mistral classifies something as an image, it will replace the entire section with (image)[image_002).

And it happened with a lot of full documents as well. Ex: most receipts got classified as images, and so it didn't extract any text.
Most people aren't addicted to nicotine. They are addicted to the burnt additives.

This is why vaping tends to work really well if you want to quit. It's just water and nicotine.
With Windows, a lot of this is down to software using AppData\(Remote|Local|LocalLow) correctly. Named differently in NT but conceptually it was there all along. The problem back then was that, since 9x didn't have this separation, relatively few apps bothered to do it right.
Zero emissions sounds like a silly goal anyway, 80/20 and all that.
There's a fascinating thing called aphantasia where people can't picture things at all in their mind, but such people are able to lead normal lives and may never realize there's something different. This feels like a similar concept but for imaging speech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

That said, most of my thinking is not done in the form of a linear monologue where I "talk through" steps to myself.
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Intriguing announcement, however the examples on the mistral.ai page seem rather "easy".

What about rare glyphs in different languages using handwriting from previous centuries?

I've been dealing with OCR issues and evaluating different approaches for past 5+ years at a national library that I work at.

Usual consensus is that widely used open source Tesseract is subpar to commercial models.

That might be so without fine tuning. However one can perform supplemental training and build your own Tesseract models that can outperform the base ones.

Case study of Kant's letter's from 18th century:

About 6 months ago, I tested OpenAi approach to OCR to some old 18th century letters that needed digitizing.

The results were rather good (90+% accuracy) with the usual hallucination here and there.

What was funny that OpenAI was using base Tesseract to generate the segmenting and initial OCR.

The actual OCRed content before last inference step was rather horrid because the Tesseract model that OpenAi was using was not appropriate for the particular image.

When I took OpenAi off the first step and moved to my own Tesseract models, I gained significantly in "raw" OCR accuracy at character level.

Then I performed normal LLM inference at the last step.

What was a bit shocking:
My actual gains for the task (humanly readable text for general use) were not particularly significant.

That is LLMs are fantastic at "untangling" complete mess of tokens into something humanly readable.

For example:

P!3goattie -> prerogative (that is given the surrounding text is similarly garbled)
> dont like how political platforms like reddit has become
> I want it to be limited to North America only

I obviously don't know your reasoning but IMO you're already going political
Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled
This is a good example of using big words without any meaning. Total crypto valuation is less than $200 billion with incredibly low liquidity (= the ease with which an asset, or security, can be converted into ready cash without affecting its market price).

There is nothing strategic for holding digital assets. This is just cryptobro's getting rich.
Yes, the article mentioned the declining asset value following this executive action. Even still I would have far more faith in this concept if the confiscated coins were exchanged for fiat shortly after confiscation to drive down asset value over time.
Not quite the same:

Queensland Police gained access to the Check In Qld app in June through a search warrant after the theft of a police-issued firearm, which led to an officer being stood down.

Western Australian Police has used its data twice without a warrant, which led to the state then banning police from accessing the data, while Victoria Police has tried but been rebuffed on at least three occasions.

The police gained no advantage, no prosecutions were carried through, and in WA Quigley (then WA Attorney-General ) rebuffed the police and strengthened the fines for breaching. He is not (now) a fan of the police, despite having once been the police unions bulldog lawyer of choice .. he's seen too many breaches too close to ignore.

In 2007, his life membership of the Western Australian Police Union was withdrawn after his parliamentary attack on police involved with the Andrew Mallard case, where he named a former undercover policeman who had a role in Mallard's unjust conviction.

He planned to melt down his life membership badge, have it made into a tiepin with the words Veritas Vincit— "Truth Conquers", the motto of the school he attended—and present it to Mallard.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quigley_(politician)
If it does, I did not set it up; it would have been automatically done by CloudFlare when I told it to use my custom subdomain for the upload urls.
Lightning protection systems are very sensitive to resistance in the chain, as any localized bit of it will cause a huge amount of heat there, and non-localized will cause current to branch out to other paths, also causing damage/heat. A typical lightning strike can be from 10,000-30,000 amps at millions of volts.

The damage from lightning doesn’t happen due to the current (as a first approximation), but rather resistance to the current causing heating/damage where the current ends up going - very rapidly, in a way the heat doesn’t have time to dissipate.

Having a working low resistance path to ground means heating (and hence damage!) is reduced or even eliminated.

For an example, see the steam explosion inside the tree here [https://youtu.be/3U8aoiEtVSg], compared to striking a grounded tower 6 times (no damage) [https://youtu.be/ScNzI76ZsiY]

The towers lights didn’t even flicker!

Unless carefully specified and properly maintained, the odds that a random cable or chain (especially when exposed to seawater) will maintain a low impedance path to ground is not good.
Do you have a group of retarded friends you hang out with on the regular?

I should not have laughed at this.
> A wealth of data [1] now supports the idea that one-time cash transfers can permanently transform a local economy. Given a sudden windfall, people invest in their future. They go back to school, obtain transportation, pay for childcare, pay down debilitating debts, and do any number of things to improve their career prospects and financial future

This was interesting to me. It's in the section on the wealth of the 400 wealthiest Americans (who own about 3 trillion dollars). They look at what you can do with a 1-time 5% wealth tax. And most of it is stuff like preventing hundreds of thousands of children dying from malaria each year, which immediately raises the question "what do we do 20 ish years from now?". But you can permanently lift 38 million Americans out of poverty to no longer worry if they'll have a roof over their head tomorrow (or ever), or if they can feed their children. And from the spending patterns of the poor, this money will go straight back into the economy rather than being hoarded.

This is not a structural change, but a one-time miniscule tax on 400 people in the US, and it'd have a lasting positive impact on society.

It is an absolute positive, but it will not happen because the media and politicians (both sides) have been completely captured by billionaires to the point of not even acknowledging it when one of them does two Hitler salutes on stage.

[1] https://www.givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers/
The “experimental illustrations” in his pamphlet are fantastic.
You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish (2002)
Also it's Palo Alto. They're not some kiddie scripters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_Networks
It's about zero direct emissions in densely populated areas. It's to prevent people from sitting in their own poop, so to say.
>Not to be defeated, Harris turned to statistics, compiling a list of 235 British naval vessels damaged by lightning, from the Abercromby (26 October 1811, topmast shivered into splinters 14 feet down) to the Zebra (27 March 1838, main-topgallant and topmast shivered; fell on the deck; main-cap split; the jib and sails on mainmast scorched). Additionally, he cataloged the deaths of nearly 100 seamen and serious injury of about 250 others. During one particularly bad period of five or six years, Harris learned, lightning destroyed 40 ships of the line, 20 frigates, and 10 sloops, disabling about one-eighth of the British navy.

This is wild.
>You have no idea what you are talking about and are clearly trying to spin a narrative out of nowhere.

I have no regional experience with the tiny backwater corner of the world known as "the Baltics"....but I absolutely understand how my country exerts influence in numerous larger, more important places, with even more significant risks.....and it's by heavily using the tools that I mentioned. I'm not willing to give our government the benefit of the doubt, given our extensive list of malevolent priors. If you are saying there was overwhelming domestic support for NATO, okay, but I'd consider that an exception, not a norm.

>I don't need an American NGO to convince me that simply hoping we're not the next item on the menu is not a sound national security policy.

Every nation that isn't at least a major regional power (Turkey as an example) is on somebody's menu. Maybe you guys have been punched in the face so many times by your local Great Powers that reaching for anyone else, even from across the ocean, seemed sound....but as we are witnessing now in real-time, you are also finding out that America's benevolence is neither infinite nor eternal.

Re: 1991 South Ossetia War. Why is it ok for the Georgians to secede from the Soviet Union but not ok for the South Ossetians to secede from Georgia? Why is it morally good for the US to arm the Ukrainians, who feel aggrieved, but not moral for Russia to arm the South Ossetians, who feel aggrieved?
Interesting! Just checked them out.

"MerkleMap gathers its information by continuously monitoring and live tailing Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, which are operated by organizations like Google, Cloudflare, and Let's Encrypt. "
> It's a DRM chip if your working printer stops working after a firmware update because your third party toner cartridge doesn't have the chip, but the printer works again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to stick the chip onto the third party toner cartridge.

Well consider if you had a USB charging cable with a junk-tier emarker chip that stops working when your phone updates its firmware because it adds some additional checks to prevent charging problems. (But the phone starts charging again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to replace your cheap cable's emarker chip with a properly engineered one.)

I don't think anyone would reasonably consider the emarker chip in a USB cable to be a DRM chip.
10^4 permutations. Which you then permute again except the second time you're overlapping them to search for the shortest possible sequence.
Build Your Own Vim Statusline (2023)
Hold the population used iPhones. Wouldn’t be very popular.
The age of regret: Gen Z grew up glued to screens, missed the joy of being human
The UK border is completely porous and counter-terrorism services repeatedly fail to investigate reported threats.

This isn't about improving security.
A good interview with him: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/346...
Tell me you have no idea of climate science without telling me you have no idea of climate science.

The zero net emission (NZE) scenario was chosen because of the effect that it would have on the climate, not because some "guy wants to be a perfectionist". See also: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-and-climate-model/...

The climate is a complex matter and we globally have many bright people on the problem. If you see yourself armchairing on that topic, you might consider that you just don't know enough.
Meilisearch doesn't support BM25, does it?
Fortunately, Terraform has CDKTF [1] which allows you to use common languages such as Python, Java, and TypeScript to author Terraform infra.

I used it daily and find it greatly liberating.

[1] https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf
But all the politicians in charge of the current administration are (and have been chosen to) do exactly that - blindly follow the wishes of the person in command. The voters may (or may not have) voted in the current administration either with or without electoral fraud and gerrymandering on Musk's part, we'll never know, but we do know the same political group were not against trying to take the Capitol forcibly last time, so not by democratic means. It was and is worth too much to Russia and China to not have their man in charge of their adversary (the US), doing their bidding. So they did was necessary to make that happen. Including Musk's takeover of X. His collecting of voter information. The foreign interference and disinformation campaigns. And so on. They play dirty these people, they do not represent democracy, they represent the taking down of the US and everything they used to represent. In a democracy we give the elected politicians a mandate. It means the administration only operates through the people via their vote and that only takes place typically every four/ five years. Until the next vote (if there is one, or at least there may be a rigged one), then no, it does not operate through the people, not on a day to day level of functioning. And to talk of the people rejecting the current administration before the next election is not practical. They have little power to do so. Unless you are referring to an armed insurrection against the government, a revolution. Which of course is not part of the democratic system, that is another means of the people responding all together. There have been revolutions to overturn dictatorships, yes.
This Opsgenie announcement has certainly sparked some interesting discussions. Reading through the HN thread, it's fascinating to see how many teams are in similar situations - either just migrated to Opsgenie (ouch!) or trying to figure out what their next move should be.

The confusion around what's actually happening is understandable. While services will continue until 2027, end-of-sale in 2025 means many teams are already evaluating alternatives rather than waiting for the last minute.

Something that really resonated with me from gregdoesit's comment was that reminder of the 2022 outage where OpsGenie was down for two weeks for some customers. That incident highlighted something we think about constantly at Zenduty: paging services are mission-critical infrastructure.

When your alerting system goes down, you're essentially flying blind. I've been working with teams dealing with exactly these transitions, and the migration challenges are real - it's never just "update a webhook URL" as someone mentioned. Your alert routing rules, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and integrations are complex systems that need careful migration.

What I'm curious about: for those of you considering alternatives, what features matter most to you? Is it reliability? Pricing? Integration flexibility? The ability to reduce alert fatigue? Feel free to drop your thoughts here or DM me. Always happy to chat about these challenges even if you're not looking at Zenduty specifically. These transitions are stressful, and having been through them myself, I know how disruptive they can be to engineering teams who just want to focus on building their products.

Here's a detailed comparison of all the opsgenie features and what you need to know before you decide to migrate to a different tool - http://zenduty.com/zenduty-the-best-opsgenie-alternative-com...
Are there deluded people that think they can produce F35 if they rolled up their sleeves and shouted ultra right wing words.
F35 is a us jet with some international collaborations
Thanks for mentioning. I checked it out, and am learning lots of new stuff (ie, realize how much I do not know).
Don't you think that it's maybe time for discussion and stopping the us vs. them? This is where it got you guys.
A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers
Similarly, can the always-liar state that "I have a penny, it is in my left pocket", when the reality is that it's a penny in the right pocket, or a quarter in the left pocket? Who decides which clauses or aspects are separable?

For that matter, if either of them are perfect at their jobs, they are oracles, and could retire by attempting to say something about out the first, second, third, etc. digit of tomorrow's winning lottery number. If they're imperfect at their jobs, then they aren't actually "always" anything.
This was a very cool paper about using diffusion language models and beam search: https://arxiv.org/html/2405.20519v1

Just looking at all of the amazing tools and workflows that people have made with ComfyUI and stuff makes me wonder what we could do with diffusion LMs. It seems diffusion models are much more easily hackable than LLMs.
The ones designed by ARM and made in Taiwan ?
But eggs aren't imported, are they?

I was also wondering about people who buy things but don't pay taxes.
When the AVGN started out, the SNES was roughly as old as the PS3 is now.
Put your seat belt on fellas. The future is coming when your stomach cancer will go unnoticed since AI is doing the work. A correction will happen and then these will get banned.
Likewise. I can easily work for 10 or 12 hours. It's fitting in things like friends and family, according to their schedules, that makes it difficult. I don't mean to say this in a resentful way at all; it's definitely a me problem, not them.
Proposed solution 1 seems sensible and using acknowledgements and dlq is a fairly common pattern. You might also want to monitor the size of the DLQ and if it reaches a certain limit stop processing altogether. You can also alert based on the size of the queue.

Don't forget a mechanism to redrive back from the DLQ and consider if order is important (might be if you're using a FIFO queue, but unsure as to whether Rabbit supports that)
Maybe Dockge? Its like Portainer light/cool.
I'm so often amazed (but no longer surprised) at the depth of niche (relatively) info and tools out there.
We already have uBlock origin for this.
Oh yeah definitely. There is a very good book about this actually, Weapons of Math Destruction, where the author Cathy O'Neil talks about exactly this - how biases are laundered through algorithms.

Simply put:
- Police Enforcment unfairly policed black neighborhoods, overrepresenting them in historical records
- Machine learning models were run on said historical records
- Police Enforcement used said models to justify their policing, saying it was algorithmically determined.

I may be blanking on a few details, so if anybody can add anything please do, it has been a while since I've read it. These laundering algorithms will cause untold damage and should've been banned immediately.
Ok. What would you like to discuss?
Maybe as I'm not a parent, but this really surprised me:

> Two-thirds of 16- to 24-year-olds think social media does more harm than good and three-quarters want tougher regulation to protect younger people from it, according to polling for the New Britain Project, a thinktank founded by a former tea

I'm very much aware that I've done nothing to find and use alternatives to Facebook, which I rely on for finding smaller concerts.
That's great. I'll keep that in mind from my front row seat to the climate catastrophe, and as every day, ~19k people die from man-made air pollution. [1]

It is all a net positive somehow... Sure.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths
Maybe not, I think hacker news didn't exist at the time.