skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's changed my mind a little bit on this, thanks! I'm mostly surprised they were able to get the abstraction right in advance - did they have an idea of what they might move to? Or did they change the abstraction as they went, but the abstraction layer made it easier to find what parts of the code needed changing, or something?

How do you avoid the issue where SQLite doesn't support all the things your real DB supports? (i.e., why is it worth running tests on SQLite as opposed to a local instance of the same DB software?)

I'll read some of these public posts....
Let's look at the post I was responding to:

> The people that he mentions at the beginning of the article who have left have all peaked in their careers.

That is very dismissive of a long list of entrepreneurs who contributed so much to the Valley. I'm not even a Musk fan (I'd never work for him, for example) but he came up as a clear example of someone on that list who is objectively still in a very strong phase of his career and could easily have more and greater impact for years to come.

I did find OP's dismissal rude to these entrepreneurs, but considered my stronger argument to be the counterfactual nature of the claim that Musk has "peaked".

Thus I pointed out that claiming Musk has "peaked" is factually detached from reality. Even if you disagree, my argument clearly pertains to OP's claim (i.e. that all these entrepreneurs have "peaked") and not in any way to OP as a person.

Finally, I've been contributing here for two years now. In this time, I saw many, many snarky comments, and made a few too. I've never seen a comment flagged for snark.

Then I participated respectfully in a discussion, where I spoke out against Antisemitism, and my comment got flagged. It was the first time I got flagged in two years. Then almost immediately multiple other comments of mine got flagged.

Then I made this comment, which seems normal based on all the comments I've seen here before, and it got flagged, and you got involved.

The only reasonable way to interpret this situation: the same people who started frivolously flagging me before are still flagging my comments. You noticed a flagged comment, get involved, and tried to backward-rationalize why after two years I'm suddenly a troublemaker. First because I mentioned Musk (no rule against that). Then because I used snark (very common here, and again not forbidden by the rules). Then because I supposedly made a personal attack (I didn't).

As for Antisemitism, I only ask you to imagine yourself as a Jewish person reading multiple comments about how Israeli Jews are using "many dirty tricks", constantly and intentionally war mongering, mocking and insulting other nations and their people out of wicked spite, are universally murderous and blood-thirsty, "steal land", have no rightful place in this world - all echoing classic Antisemitic narratives about Jews.

And these comments aren't just downvoted and flagged - they are often upvoted and visible. Then you speak out against that racist bias, and you get flagged. Then you try to continue to use the site as you've done before, and suddenly 2/3 of your comments get flagged and mods start addressing you as a troublemaker.

How would you feel?
The screenshot is from the point the email was sent, not the point where the site went down.
I think the video works well with the two of them there - it lends some legitimacy to a video that could otherwise be dismissed as he's obviously enamored with the idea while the driver is more skeptical.
Oh that's unfortunate, can't the models be exported to pytorch through e.g onnx?
Thank you for your expert input. I agree - this is just uninformed speculation on my part. I thought I should point out the unusual circumstances in New Brunswick.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with a $3 stereo purchased from a garage sale stuffed under his desk. All the volume I want, and darn near free.
what does he mean when he says 1T or bust? Is he referring to 1 trillion parameters? Are you saying that GTP-3 has 2.7 trillion parameters? Does it mean that to get to GPT-3 level it needs 100x more amount of dataset?
I would love something like this for the longer, boring, predictable drives.

For example the I5 drive from LA to SF. That's a pretty straightforward, predictable and mostly uneventful 6h drive that seems straightforward to delegate to a machine. There are no pedestrians, no intersections, nothing crossing the street. The main dangers would be around objects on the road, other vehicles getting in a crash or doing something unpredictable next to you, animals running onto the path of the vehicle. As a human you might actually be worse equipped to react to in time compared to a car.

That one use-case alone where the car drives itself on the I5 while I read a book or watch a movie would be worth something. The human can handle the quirks of the more treacherous local roads. I'd still prefer a bullet train of some kind, but in its absence, this would be a decent climate-friendly alternative that doesn't require a giant plane getting up in the sky for a 50 min flight.
As far as I'm aware, working for prestigious companies will always be prestigious. I don't think that will ever go away, for any industry. I don't think it's necessary, though.

Unfortunately there is still pressure to work on open source projects and/or blog about programming-related things in one's free time. I think this article has a lot of bad opinions from someone who works way too much, and expects other people to work full work weeks (or 90+ like them) and still do personal projects on the side.
> As Whitehead observes, whale culture is many millions of years older than ours.

Oh? How old is our culture?

What were whales doing a million years ago that primates weren't that qualifies as culture?
To be fair, the phone functions perfectly fine without a case or earbuds.
Sure, but Bill Gates leaving Seattle would not impact the Seattle tech industry at all.
The Theranos lady is yet to face consequences for her fraud and since this is financial fraud, there is every chance she might plead guilty and evade any jail time. In such a scenario there is every possible incentive for copy cats to emerge. She is not the first fraudster but feels like the first one to cheat startup investors at such a large scale.
You gotta play to win. Yes, not everyone can win the lottery, that's true.
Harder boundaries? From what I understand, a hypervisor is much harder to break out of than a FreeBSD jail and provides more isolation between the VMs.
Many people don't own suitable land on which they could do such a thing (certainly I don't), and if you're talking about going and planting a tree somewhere as part of a larger project run by some organization that has acquired the land for the purpose then... sure, ok, but it'll be far more efficient to pay a bunch of people to work full time planting many trees every day, rather than each one of us individually driving out to a planting site once a month to plant one tree (assuming there's even a site within a day's drive).

I'm all for reforestation projects (and many other projects that could potentially have some kind of impact in reducing the rate atmospheric CO2 levels are rising), but the idea of everyone individually planting trees is not really practical. If you personally are in a situation that makes it feasible for you, then I hope you go for it and I wish you all the best.
> If real property moves to the block chain in this manner all you need is one final title search, then signed by the court, from then on out title can be ensured by the blockchain.

Just because your "final" title search doesn't produce anything doesn't mean a future one won't, so I don't see how the blockchain solves anything here.
There's https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6 in this vein already.
Who enforces this? Elon can just say he refuses to follow any gov mandates. If they try to penalize or jail him, he is going cause a massive uproar from the public that will prevent any such shenanigans. Power is in people that follow you.
Where are the indictments for the investors on the board that had oversight?
a blog post about it might make a great complement
Could the title of this post be change to emphasize that the model sizes released were 1.3B and 2.7B? Something like "EleutherAI releases 1.3B and 2.7B parameter GPT-like language models". The current title implies that a full sized GPT-3 model is currently available, which is not the case.

edit: the title has been changed, seems good enough
I've appreciated the culture and how it's evolved at Zipline over the past 5 years that I've been there. If you want to work on a UAV based medical delivery system, it's a pretty cool place.

If I weren't at Zipline, I'd probably be at Reliable Robotics, but that's more because I know the founders and lots of other employees there, and they have a strong team that's set up for success.

I'm biased towards robotics companies since I'm an embedded software engineer, though.
> With continental philosophy, most of the value is in how it makes you, the reader, feel, and not in the ideas that it expresses.

That's a definition of mysticism, not philosophy. Reformulation of earlier ideas is key to any serious philosophical endevor, we can see this as far back as Plato/Aristotle and the early Chinese and Indian philosophers.
The repository readme actually includes a link to a notebook[1] that helps getting started on Google colab. It's as good a place to start as any:

[1]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/EleutherAI/GPTNeo/b...
How to look good without spending a fortune
It's more about hardware - these models were trained on TPUs, while GPT-NeoX is being trained on GPUs graciously provided by Coreweave.
And a standard database transaction that can be done with pre-existing technology already can do this too? Like seriously, NFTs are not breaking new ground. This is just an excuse to piss away something that could be converted to objectively far more useful fiat.

The fed needs to raise interest rates and get the free dumb money out of the system as soon as possible so we can suck these schemes dry.

Frankly, I think John Cleese is trolling all of the NFT fans.
it does not. what it indicates is that detection is done per-frame and there’s no continuity across frames of detector information.
He's mostly just managing expectations. One problem starting to trouble public health professionals is the wish of vaccinated people to ditch masks even before enough people are vaccinated to reach herd immunity: since it is not easily visible if someone is vaccinated (and even then...) the appearance of more and more unmasked people in stores etc. could lead to a breakdown in adherence.

There will come a time, in early summer for the US, late summer for most of Europe, when it'll be safe to take of the mask. Until then, it's a minor annoyance.
This is not true. Digital items do not have an original. In fact creating the digital item itself creates multiple copies in the process, and every viewing of it creates infinitely more copies.
I’m out of the loop. How does Huawei (PRC) sanctions end up negatively affecting TSMC (ROC) sales?
There's no way to increase the row column count.
Dominic Cummings reveals Boris Johnson’s lockdown paralysis
Mesh-TensorFlow: Deep Learning for Supercomputers
I've done enough really boring driving to find that about once in every N hours (depending on the road) a very NOT boring event will occur, requiring immediate and correct response. I don't think any road exists without that happening.

Yes this is making the assumption that, when the unexpected occurs, an experienced human driver still outperforms whatever self driving code may be running.
Archive link: https://archive.vn/4IR68
You should consider an NFT to be something like a certificate. Some entity has issued you a certificate saying, e.g. you are the rightful owner of the Brooklyn Bridge. The value of certificates in NFT form is that they are difficult to forge and easy to verify. However, like a paper certificate that you might hang on your wall, the actual certificate is worthless. It is representative of something that may have value, e.g. proof that someone who owns the Brooklyn Bridge has transferred ownership to you. What matters is if other people believe the underlying item is worth something and accept control of the token as being sufficient to authenticate you as the owner. Obviously, in this case no one will accept this token in place of a deed for the bridge, but on the other hand if a government did issue tokens this way and recognized them in court then it might work out pretty well (until someone steals your crypto keys).
I use flatpaks all the time and I almost always have to adjust these permissions to be more restrictive.

It's really not an issue with flatpak itself, it's the maintainers who give permissions that are not restrictive enough. It's understandable because it makes it easier to package and maintain.. but it also kind of makes the whole concept useless.

What I personally want is apps which are as, if not more restricted than mobile apps.
US Averages for school funding are completely worthless because schools are funded with property taxes; i.e. wealthy areas have amazingly well funded schools while poor areas have underfunded, overcrowded nightmares.
I would perhaps change 'GPT-3' to just say 'GPT' instead, as a more salient fix.
How many failed builds did it take to fill reflect-config.json completely, one for each object in the array? Can this step be streamlined somehow?
Somebody in the Washington Post once quote a phrase from a sailor's prayer: "O, Lord, my ship is so small and thy ocean so large." How many thousands of miles of cable, in how many hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean?
I think this title and article are overstating things, are clickbait:

>"[A] final release of City Streets will continue to be an SAE Level 2, advanced driver-assistance feature," continued Williams. "Please note that Tesla’s development of true autonomous features (SAE Levels 3+) will follow our iterative process (development, validation, early release, etc.) and any such features will not be released to the general public until we have fully validated them and received any required regulatory permits or approvals."

City Streets is a feature of the current offering, not what Tesla apparently intends to deliver in finality.
An audiophile would spend more than $25k on a pre-amp, amp, and two speakers. A single speaker cable might cost more than $1000. $300 headphones are vastly better than $30 pair. That is a difference an untrained ear can hear. However they don’t even scratch the surface of high-headphones much less something an audiophile would purchase. A pro level reference headphone might be in the range of 2 or 3k. Pros can hear the difference and properly identify characteristics. A 10k or 15k headphone? Many would conclude that the unbelievable pricing of some ultra expensive audio is snake oil because claims are subjective/unsubstantiated and the science behind them are flimsy or nonexistent.
> He wasn't just a white supremacist, he developed the framework he did specifically because he wanted to elevate certain forms of music as superior and "White".

So what? Even if that was his main intention (that's highly disputable), the intentions does not carry over like glue to the system he created. Modern music theory has nothing to do with race. Good luck finding notion about race in a recent music book. Again, you argument is purely coincidental in nature and totally lacks in causality.

> English is a natural language and all technical concepts are equally well expressed in most natural languages perhaps with the need to enrich the vocabulary.

I'm sorry but this is not true. As someone who knows French, English and is currently studying Japanese and dabbled with German and Mandarin I can tell you that not all natural languages do not have the same capacity for technical precise technical jargon or other domains such as philosophy. Somehow English "won", due to the British Empire winning wars around the world.

> A specific framework for analyzing music which emphasizes certain specific structures and discards considerations that other musical traditions hold as important creates systematic biases in the understanding of music.

All framework is going to be better at certain things and worse at others. Are the Chinese racist because their traditional system doesn't accommodate certain traditions held as important such as African dance music? Of course not. It's just not possible to accommodate everyone, and as English, modern music theory "won". And that nothings stops "systematically" people from playing other styles and user other systems.

> A better metaphor would be perhaps be expressing algorithmic ideas in a language where only "for" loops were deemed important and everything else a derivative concept.

I get it that you never tried functional programming. (which according to its supporter is superior by the way) but I digress. Programming is pretty much a free market of ideas, and nothings stops people from using other musical notations and framework or augmenting existing one, and I would be surprised that nobody does. There nothing "supreme" or "systematic" stopping people from doing so.

> The fact that you think this bias towards specific forms of European music doesnt have consequences doesnt make the idea insane. I think the fact that you have to resort to that kind of labeling speaks to a fragility in your worldview.

I'm sorry for the pejorative term, but critical theory is simply non-nonsensical by nature. Ideas can and are abstracted from the original context from which they have been created. The Rocket Equation is not Nazi just because it was mainly used by Germans first during WW2. Blaming Europeans and countries of European descent for simply having their own culture is downright ridiculous. Nations having their own culture is fine, especially when nobody is forcing anyone to use only one system.
Yes, after a year of treating the illness now each patient takes less hospital resources. They were able to get the death rate from 900/day during a time with 5000 new infections per day, down to about the same daily death rate with 25,000 new infections per day.

This is kind of my point.
You do remember that, a couple years ago, CentOS was a community project with no relation with Red Hat that went rather out of its way to avoid mentioning Red Hat and drawing trademark ire?

Also it costs $40/year to get access to the paywalled docs.

Anyway, what a shame it is that Red Hat was acquired by IBM. With customers like you, it's baffling that Red Hat thought they couldn't stay profitable on their own....
Well, based on my understanding, we don't know for sure.

What we do know, is that they give you a much higher chance of avoiding serious symptoms, including that most serious of symptoms, death. You won't be "virus-proof" completely, but someone vaccinated fully (so 2 doses for vaccines which require it), after a certain immunization period, which varies between 2-4 weeks after being fully vaccinated, will be super resilient to being in contact with Covid patients. Don't go get coughed on by 10 Covid patients, though.

Regarding contagion, apparently after vaccination, you can still get Covid with most vaccines, you just become "asymptomatic", i.e. it doesn't really affect you. However it seems that you're also much less contagious, which is still great, since it reduces the infection rate, it becomes much harder to spread it.

If you get Covid while immunity from vaccination hasn't kicked in fully... you can still be screwed. People have died 1 week after being vaccinated. So you probably want to stay put for a while until your immunity ramps up.

Regarding immunity, as I was saying, it's primarily lack of serious symptoms. I think they also make it harder for you to catch it, but I don't think we have super solid proof of this yet.

And for immunity, it's hard to say. We're basically just counting up days from initial vaccinations to see how long it lasts. For the other vaccines we know the time intervals because... time has passed. So far, for the current vaccines it seems that immunity is at least 6+ months. From what I've read we should be reasonably optimistic that we'll be immune for 1+ years. I don't think anyone expects lifetime immunity, yet.

TL;DR: Get vaccinated, it will keep you much safer, it will probably also help others around you, by making you spread it less if you do get it. You'll still get Covid but it will be much less of a deal. Side effects are temporary and not massive in the vast majority of cases.
> writing a garbage collector has been harder than I expected.

I hear that from everyone. I am looking to write one in the future, so interested to see how this went.

> One reason for this is the unusual set of requirements: it's moving, precise, and written almost entirely in portable C++. We use it for both a little hand-written code and a lot of generated code.

I understand the portability requirement, but I wonder why it was required to be precise and moving.
Who cares what the the difficulty involved is when these are going to be on the streets today. You sound like the video's passenger
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't mean to pick on you personally—the problem is more that these things tend to get upvoted to the top of the thread, where they choke out on-topic conversation. This happens because the annoyances are real, not because they're unreal. At the same time this comes up so often that we have to try to avoid the repetition.
What if in the future we have virtual reality merging more into our lives. In that world it would be different, having the real deal asset would be valuable.
>this is one of the fundamental parts of writing maintainable code

>It's probably even worse to deduplicate code wrongly than not deduplicating at all.

I strongly agree.

>A few questions: You're quote of the parent doesn't seem correct? Where did you find that quote? MEGO?

pardon me, I meant a sibling [1], not the parent comment. Otherwise I'm just relating my experience. MEGO is an acronym for "my eyes glaze over", I see searching on it leads to a LEGO clone, thanks Google. Trying to explain why a homeomorphism is potentially a DRY violation is the kind of explanation that leads to MEGO.

I don't like those "hinting" questions any more, in retrospect it seems more about exploiting assumptions of superiority at being obscure rather than a valid assessment of suitability. Also seems to waste precious time (interviews cost time, more valuable than money). Better to be direct and practical, principally because misunderstanding is more likely the default state of human transactions. It is probably better to first settle on a mutual understanding of some expected conceptual requirement (e.g. understanding of DRY), then produce some specific examples for the interviewee to judge and interpret. Since these are mostly heuristics, judgement with respect to application of heuristics is the key facility I would attempt to elicit, InMyHumbleOpinion (no more TLA, CamelCase from now on!).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532424
That’s what I read two days ago when I saw the same headline too

I don’t really understand how people are able to extrapolate flawed conclusions like this
How am I the problem? I’m simply explaining that it’s not a single subscription. The whole reason people started cutting cable was because they could replace a $100-150/m cable bill with Netflix. Now the content is getting so divided we’re almost back to where we left off.

If you live in a household then it’s easy to run into the situation I explained. I don’t use 5+ streaming services, but the household does because people have different preferences.