skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t developed with .NET in a dozen years, let alone since it went cross platform, but I at least know it is capable of being cross platform. It amazes me how many developers I speak to that still assume .NET is Windows only.
I hope they get what they voted for.
That's just syntactic sugar (and a bit of architecture independence) over intrinsics. You can get the same in C++ just with wrapping intrinsics in classes, and a few ifdefs.
The legal system is crap and should be replaced? I'm out of this discussion, go do a revolution or keep me out of it.
Agreed, it made some seriously wild stuff. Assuming you’re talking about this: https://research.google/blog/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-...

Here’s an example I generated in 2015:

https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/drea...

Source image: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/mars...
A lot of programming interfaces do not even keep alive HTTP/1.1 connections across requests because they do not have means to manage the hidden state. Transparent and meaningful upgrades to HTTP/3 on the library side only appear difficult.
The scaling is brutal. If you have a 20k word vocabulary and want to do 3 grams, you need a 20000^3 matrix of elements (8 trillion). Most of which is going to be empty.

GPT and friends cheat by not modeling each word separately, but a large dimensional “embedding” (just a vector if you also find new vocabulary silly). The embedding represents similar words near each other in this space. The famous king-man-queen example. So even if your training set has never seen “The Queen ordered the traitor <blank>”, it might have previously seen, “The King ordered the traitor beheaded”. The vector representation lets the model use words that represent similar concepts without concrete examples.
You're in for a treat!
The fact most WHOIS is private these days makes it more or less useless.

I think rdap with a request/response authentication on the requestor but that the provider can't mask would be more practical.

Also requiring that registrars keep a history of changes from the time the domain was first registered would be very helpful vs relying on 3rd parties that cache the data over time (and charge for it) like domaintools.

Unlikely that this is in the protocol but I think it would better the entire ecosystem.
Often different protocols cover different data or data differently. Two protocols that have the same data would be quite redundant.
You may not even be able to get real MDiscs any more [0] and I'm always extremely dubious of 1000 year lifespans since they're effectively impossible to test.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/yu4j1u/psa_ver...
The quote of LTO tape being much less prone to read failures (10^-20) vaguely reminded me of an old article stating that something like 50% of tape backups fail. I'm not in that side of the industry so can't really comment as to if there is some missing nuance.

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-restores-from-a-tap...
After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)
Sure - right now there is a firehose of money being pumped into money-losing AI companies. The technology is revolutionary but a lot of us are wondering if the winners will be the early movers with big pockets or the late movers using newer/cheaper techniques. There's a gold rush and the question of "moat" is on everyone's mind.

But this isn't the first gold rush in the tech industry and folks have been talking about moats here forever.
Not talking about pico as i don't have experience with it, but not sure what you mean in relation to something like common lisp or racket? Those things you mention are trivial in both. I know racket is more scheme than lisp.
I actually believe that the not signing thing is a much bigger deal. What then becomes the job description if you cant be bothered to sign? A few steps further you can legitimately deny ever seeing a document. That it bears your rubber stamp means nothing, anyone could have done that.
Now, if I hadn't read literally the same message for Pipenv/Pipfile and poetry before, too...

Python is going through package managers like JS goes through trends like classes-everywhere, hooks, signals etc
A crazy, but cool idea to implement this is using fork: https://github.com/thomasballinger/rlundo
Starlink is actually pretty damn badass. I can use the smaller battery one to get internet anywhere, at speeds much faster than I can imagine. It is insane that we have had fiber tech for 20 years and it's NO WHERE! It has been promised to us for 20 years.

Elon went from announcement to production in 4 years - worldwide access. I can't think of a better recipient for federal funds to get people access.
Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal
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> Why would leaking matter?

Go and see for yourself. /s
You can probably say the same about AWS.
~12% of Americans are responsible for eating half of all beef consumed on a given day.

Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795 | https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15173795
It's not misunderstanding at all - but your response is certainly an attempt to obfuscate the point being made. The moment you represent anything in code, you are abstracting a real thing into it's digital representation. That digital representation if fully formed at every cycle of the digital system processing it, and the state of the system - all the way down to the transistor level may be precisely determined. To say otherwise is to make the same error as those who claim that consciousness or understanding are indefinable "extra-ordinary" things that we have to just accept exist without any justification or evidence.
haha, that would be lovely, but somehow i doubt this is interesting enough for that!
Yep. I agree. And, the last thing we need are more echo chambers... The current trend is really dangerous.
> Deeper spec here:
> https://ref.gs1.org/standards/genspecs/

I fear you're mixing it all up :-)

Most stuff in supermarkets is labelled only with a EAN or UPC code. While EAN codes carry a country code, it's only the country code of the GS1 country branch which dished out the code range to that company, which does not necessarily mean the product is from there, while UPC codes say even nothing at all about countries.

The document you linked to instead is for the full GS1 standard, like it's e.g. often used to track pallets, shipments etc. A GS1 Code 128 code for example can carry all kinds of information, dependent on the Application Identifiers there are in the code - which are explained in the document you linked to. But you will absolutely seldomly see a product tagged with a (long) code like this in a shop. These kind of barcodes get huge soon and are mostly used in shipping or storage.

Basically, to REALLY know where a product is from, you'd need a full UPC/EAN database plus do some tracking what kind of company is behind a certain number range. No such official database exists, there are a few inoffical ones though.
A lot of things are stated as conclusions in this article, where SOTA has reversed or in some cases invalidated the conclusions. Unfortunately they are not published, and will probably remain trade secrets for another decade.

The biggest conclusion that is invalidated is that your archival workload cannot be bin packed with your hot workloads. With the ever reducing IO/byte of HDD, this has radically changed where the bytes go.
https://archive.today/tikoz
I personally don't believe an archival storage, at least for personal use.

Data has to be living if it is to be kept alive, so keeping the data within reach, moving it to new media over time and keeping redundant copies seems like the best way to me.

Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time.
This essay says it pretty well I think: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/never...

It’s not a referendum on their music at all, which I generally liked in the 90s and am generally tired of now. It’s about the economic success and the knock on effect that had on music production.
Doesn't matter to me. There's zero chance that I'll ever willingly give a dime to any Musk company. Shiny toys are not worth helping him destroy my country.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anything done to strengthen fair use is in my opinion a positive outcome. Happy to see copyright holders go toe-to-toe against a bully their own size. If both OpenAI and entrenched IP interests get bloodied in this fight, it's a win-win.
Makes sense. i guess it’s another way for google to extract cash from us, lol.
No, it's because of IBM's monopoly. It has little to do with it being enterprise.
I think that researchers, educators, and others with power over institutions & culture publicly lampooning and attacking anyone with even the thought of daring to ask a 'dumb' question or have a 'dumb' theory, without proper rite of passage and standing as a crackpot has a larger negative effect than whatever positive effect these attacks have in dissuading (probably not!) the delusional and fraudulent from stuffing people's mailboxes with their theories and amassing followings.

Political thinking that probably predates the Egyptian pyramids: If you empower people with freedom, it will be abused in a way that produces some suffering for everyone that wouldn't be had the freedom not been granted. There would definitely be tradeoffs to having a culture of free and open learning, research, and knowledge sharing, unguarded by institutions.
Yea - I don't think voice commands are a feature particularly desired for speakers. There are only a few instances I can think of where I want my speaker to respond to voice commands - when I'm in the shower and when I want it to be silent so I can take a call being the primary ones. For the former I think just having a playlist on shuffle is good enough and the for the latter there are better solutions available by integrating my phone into the system.

Using voice commands to control music has always seemed like a sisyphean task to me. You're using a control method that directly conflicts with the state you'll generally use it in and song/artist names are so dense and confused that oftentimes you'll need multiple commands to hone in on what you actually want.

My "smart speaker" (aka desktop computer with massive speakers) is simply controlled by spotify sync which is absolutely not amazing but it's also not not terrible and far easier to control than times I've tried shouting at voice devices in the past.

The mic in these home devices is, imo, 90% for cooking and 7%[1] for other alarms and timers - they're relatively poor music platforms and only moved into the space because of how subsidized they were by Amazon and other companies.

1. (edit) bumped down from 9% to 7% because smart lights and thermostats are also quite prevalent.
Pud's book, "F'd Companies: spectacular dot-com flameouts", was a good laugh. It's just a simplistic piss-take, but even all these years later, it shows up the sheer ridiculousness of what those dotcoms were trying to do and were able to (apparently easily) get millions of dollars of funding for.
tracker shuts down end of april so before lanes was able to self host i still used the original tracker.
Unix2dos is idempotent on CRLF, it doesn’t change it to CRCRLF. Therefore converted singular LFs elsewhere in the file wouldn’t be recognized by the magic-number check if it only contained CRLF. This isn’t about roundtrip conversion.
HAProxy supports HTTP/3. Should be mentioned.
I seem to recall a few different "if we get this many signed up" flyers (more East Bay than South) trying to organize something along those lines - maybe the name was Compass? Also try Sonic and see if they have anything for you.

I've had ATT gigabit fiber for ~6(?) years now. And for the first time ever (started with a 300 baud modem in 1985), similar to recent CPU releases, don't feel a compelling need to upgrade. In fact, would consider 0.5 Gbps if it offered substantial savings, since we don't fully use 1 GB. But no caps, and getting measured throughput of 850+ MB/s for $85 (started at $70) is affordable (for SV) and has been very reliable other than when the very-early transceiver they installed (I was one of the first to get it) got waterlogged and shorted out - the replacement was installed indoors, so that won't happen again.

I'm not a fan of ATT's corporate policies by any means. But the alternatives are, well.. Comcast with a much worse service (not symmetrical) or some flavor of 5G.
It's kinda mind-blowing that we have (so-called) AI, quantum computing, 6K screens, M2 NVME, billions of networked devices, etc., but regular data *can only be expected to last about 5 years* due to the propensity of moving disk failure, SSD impermanence, bitrot, etc., and is only overcome with great attention and significant cost (continually maintaining a JBOD or RAID or NAS, or painstakingly burning to M-Disc bluray etc.) or handing it over to someone else to manage (cloud) or both. I mean maybe you get lucky with a simple 3-2-1 but maybe you don't, and for larger archives of data that is simply not necessarily a walk in the park either.

Absolutely mindblowing.
He's been working on it in many ways over the last few years, but the biggest and most recent example is doge.
One time I got a $70 refund from them after reporting a bug.
What value do you see in such lists?

Is it to honor these individuals? If so: no.

The very existence of such a criteria implies that they're not worthy to go on the regular list, which is effectively racist and essentially diminishes the honor.

If your goal is political messaging and holding on to racism to further your own agenda, then yes: You'll want them.
Is it cross platform?

Best thing about milkdrop was that you could use a microphone. We brought a projector and screen to a music festival (HSMF) in '04 and had a jam circle in our camp where the visualizations would respond to the music we were making. Definitely a hit way back when before that sort of stuff became boring.
> We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better access to annotations for blind users and an advanced reading mode for dyslexic people. Too bad; disturbances around LCP will force us to focus on a new round of security measures

This is so funny to me. "We might have gotten around to making our software accessible, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
> As one learns by reading the linked article, radiation levels on the island are either equal to or below the levels that aircraft passengers are exposed to at 35k feet.

Time ?
Another example is the cost of IO when your backups are not perfectly coalesced. If you're striping writes across datacenters, into objects which are sharded across clusters that encode across many drives - your backups get extremely fragmented.

The IO for your backup suddenly becomes HUGE when compared to the size of the end object you wish to read. This makes things like tape nasty - sure you can read at incredible linear speeds.. but that's only worth it if you actually wanted to restore the exact TBs that are on the exact cartridge your drive & robot picked up.
Starlink is much slower, less reliable, and has prohibitive scaling issues. There’s been a significant amount of fiber deployed over the last couple of decades but the primary problems there have been monopolists reneging on promised expansions and anti-competitive state and local laws preventing competition. Allowing Starlink is useful for applying competitive pressure but what we really need is more regulatory pressure to push incumbents not to slow-roll deployments or charge so much that many people can’t afford it.
The solution to the L1 regularization problem is actually a specific form of the classical ReLU nonlinearity used in deep learning. I’m not sure if similar results hold for other nonlinearities, but this gave me good intuition for what thresholding is doing mathematically!
You are right. I've worked at 2 startups and we had options and filed Section 83(b) elections and pre bought our stock for $0.001 a share. But both companies failed so I lost about $50

I had options at the 2 companies in 2002 and 2005 but since then the 4 other large publicly traded companies have only given RSUs
Ghost releases ActivityPub beta support for their hosted service
> It being a video you exploit the obvious video compression advancements that has been achieved over the years without having to reinvent the wheel.

If you pull away enough layers in any modern video codec, you will find that the intraframe compression case looks very similar to how JPEG operates. You have a block/partitioning scheme, a transform (DCT/DST), quantization, and then some sort of entropy coding.
> For a headline “what x looks like today”, I expected more pictures

They have great writers. /s
The worst part is when I ask Siri to call or text my partner, and then the phone goes ahead and calls a different person with a vaguely similar sounding name that I have had no contact with in a decade. Why Siri?

Or when I ask for directions to a hardware store, and I get a result 300km away across a national border...
It can easily happen with version control across Windows and Unix clients. I’ve seen it a number of times.
Annex J is a list of explicit undefined behavior. It can't and doesn't attempt to enumerate the vastly larger universe of implicit undefined behavior.

There's also no official list for C++, just a proposal to make one that's languished in committee for the past 6ish years.
The advantages from SLI were always well below doubling and usually more like 50%. As frame rates and everything else has gotten higher and more complex the overhead of SLI got more and more onerous to the point where it barely gave much of an advantage to support at all.
Dropout is roughly equivalent to layer-specific L2 regularization, and it's easy to see why: asymptotically, dropping out random neurons will achieve something similar to shrinking weights towards zero proportional to their (squared) magnitude.

Trevor Hastie's Elements of Statistical Learning has a nice proof that (for linear models) L2 regularization is also semi-equivalent to dimensionality reduction, which you could use to motivate a "simplicity prior" idea in deep learning.

Yet another way of thinking about it, in the context of ReLU units, is that a layer of ReLUs forms a truncated hyper-plane basis (like splines but in higher dimensions) in feature space, and regularization induces smoothness in this N-dimensional basis by shrinking that basis towards being a flat hyper-plane
I meant for accessing the whois, not for registering. If you try any type of WHOIS request you'll be replied with a message sending you to nic.es site, where you'll be presented with a captcha if you try to get information about a registered domain.

It's not very well documented, but you can register at a government site using a national ID and they'll open WHOIS access for a fixed IP address, for a maximum of 10 queries a minute. [0]

Context for any of you not used to the .es ccTLDs: Until some years ago, and simplifying a bit, if you wanted to register a .es TLD you had to be an Spanish national or company, and be the legal holder of the domain name you wanted to register (or your name and surnames).

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0: https://sede.red.gob.es/es/procedimientos/solicitud-de-acceso-servicio-de-whois-por-el-puerto-43
Can a senile old man authorize anything in a legal sense?
The 'Useless' Perspective That Transformed Mathematics (2020)
At some point, the user has to take responsibility. If you ask Google to save your home address, you can't then turn around and go "Chrome is collecting my physical address!!"
The difference with, say, NVDA, is that moving bits was more or less a solved problem in 2000.

That's not to say NVDA can't go down like Cisco, but it's not really the same story(yet). AI architectures are still in flux and it's a far more complex problem vs networking.

Edit: and sure, matrix math is more or less solved, but that's not all that goes into a "ai" accelerator. SW, libraries, tools, support, HW efficiency and availability, etc...
Guide to Building Secure PHP Software (2017)
Uhh, I think it's becsuse boring stuff is boring. If you start to do repetitive plumbing aren't much "greater" than the ones working assembly lines, no?

People who describe themselves as "great" feel such work is beneath one and know there's only so many hours on earth. Easier to pay a grunt to do that instead. And hence power dynamics are established.

That ego alone is why a team of only "great" engineers is bound to fail. You have a bunch of strong but negative polarity magnets trying to stick together. It simply won't be allowed.
That might be so, but the original comment wasn't talking about "securities manipulation", just "manipulation".
I see your point - having a global language certainly helps with knowledge transfer, and English has become that standard for programming. But is learning English really 'not a big deal' for everyone? For someone with limited access to quality English education, it could take years before they’re comfortable enough to learn programming effectively. Meanwhile, a fluent English speaker can start coding right away.

Rather than fragmenting knowledge, what if we had a system that let people write and learn code in their native script, while still maintaining full compatibility with the existing programming ecosystem? Similar to how Unicode enables multiple languages on the web without breaking global communication. Do you think that could work?
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That is how ownership of a resource works. That is how shares work, how dividends work, how investing works in general. If you own a company, you can have someone doing the basic work, someone else doing taxed, yet someone else clean and someone to sit on reception while you make business decision here and there. Or a lot of them - entirely based on what you want.
been tumbling down the old Cthugha and Milkdrop visualization rabbit hole recently, nice gfx and aesthetics on yours and it's always nice to see a fresh take on code
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