skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not on purpose but a direct consequence of the computational requirements of the model.

I say this often and I cannot stress this enough: this is not magic! High quality results require a lot of computation and with it a lot of other resources like VRAM.

This area of research has always been resource intensive and no one was surprised by this back in the 1990s when some research required hardware that wasn't available to mere mortals (looking at you, SGI Indigo and Octane).

You should look at it be the other way around: it's astonishing that you can use off-the-shelf consumer hardware (here: mid-range gfx cards) to participate in and benefit from cutting edge research.

Even better yet, services like Google CoLab even allow you to meddle with this for free if you don't own the required hardware.

BTW, it's not the researchers' fault that the market is f'ed up again due to shortages and crypto mining. Otherwise you'd be able to buy a 12 GB card for around $330 (e.g. the RTX 3060), which doesn't sound particularly outrageous to me.
Yep I’m also in love with Vivaldi especially the customization options.
The profit incentive remains. The ends to which they apply those profits are up to the individual entrepreneurs. There's nothing wrong in my view with worker owned businesses, as long as it is a voluntary arrangement. From where I stand these businesses are entirely valid options which can exist in a free market. Where you paint them as as in conflict with the profit incentive or a 'civic religion of greed', you branch off into pure hyperbole.
My kids’ school is heavily invested in Teams. (They’ve also got Minecraft, which is less critical, not that they’d agree.)
Makes a sort of sense.

No one in the private sector has much faith that any decade-long giga-reactor project (in the West) will come to fruition, let alone the multiple projects needed to leverage assembly-line economies.

A rejigged submarine reactor already has those economies, and might have a better chance of producing profit within five years.
Just remove the SD card and say there wasn't one in there at the time of the accident.
I think we're talking at cross-purposes. I'm saying that it's only when the supply from renewables exceeds total demand, you need storage. Otherwise if the supply from renewables doesn't meet demand then there's nothing left over to store, and you'd need to start burning gas.

Note that the end-game is that renewables become so pervasive that there are significant periods when renewable generation does exceed total demand, and then you generate hydrogen with it. That hydrogen then displaces the natural gas that's currently used, the storage / pipework infrastructure for natural gas being equally suitable for hydrogen.
or even this

typeName = Object.prototype.toString.call
Interesting - I never knew the name but totally agree that I absolutely love and prefer this navigation on OSX for folders
Ah, that explains why physicist Amory Lovins is so pro-nuclear, right?
That's right. But I wanted to to use `Readonly<T>` because it can also be applied to plain objects while readonly cant
How do you sign up for something like Azure or Office 365 without an MS login? I'm curious
Does it pay good and expose you to work beneficial to your career? Do you want to work for a western company in the future? If you answer yes and not really, go for it.

I think it's best to not mix work and politics unless you work in politics. That said, be realistic. I would hesitate to hire former huawei or foxconn people.
I do it KISS. Deployment for me is always a git hook, usually with a private gitea server. So I have versioning and rollbacks available with a cute UI if necessary.

DBs run side by side and are simply backed up regularly with whatever backup solution the VPS offers.

That's it.

Out of school I put way more effort in building my infrastructure but in reality a good VPS, something like Cloudflare and some app based caching can run millions of daily views over 20+ different apps without issues.

Edit:// it's mostly rails apps I host btw. For my wordpress installs i use dedicated VPSes because those scale horrible.
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https://www.dunkinrunsonyou.net/
Why your Lambda functions may be doomed to fail
Yeah, this is their second year i assume.
> Loyalty to a company is foolish, because the company has no loyalty to you.

In an employment context, all loyalty is foolish - if you take it too far.

In one of my earliest engineer posts, I had an excellent manager - an engineer himself, we got on really well, I got promoted, and I was given good work. He got promoted too, and I moved up with him. I flatter myself that I was a part of his success.

Couple of years later, there was a re-organisation, he got moved to Head Office ten miles away, and I never heard from him again. My new boss was a likeable but dull fellow.

My opinion: you should be loyal to your employer. It's not OK to badmouth your boss behind his back. It's not OK to scheme with your employer's competitors. Unless your boss is crap, you should have his back. You should do your best to achieve your employer's goals.

But you shouldn't confuse loyalty to your employer to (e.g.) loyalty to family members, friends, spouses and so on. Employment is business, and in business, money talks. I resented my boss for leaving me behind; but that was because I had confused employer loyalty with family-type loyalty. Of course, when he got the big promotion to Head Office, he was going to take it. He didn't owe me anything - I hadn't done him any special favours, I was just an employee like him.

People get betrayed by spouses, girlfriends and family-members all the time. It's shit, partly because people don't expect relationships of that kind to be transactional. Sometimes we misjudge people, sometimes things just don't work out.

But employment relationships are always transactional. There is always a price for which your employer will sell you out. Whatever the employer says, paid staff are not family. It's not reasonable to expect an employer to show you the same loyalty as a friend or family-member.

It took me the greater part of a career (and two divorces!) to learn this.
None of those are the real issues with nuclear. The real issue is that it's too expensive. And no, it's not too expensive because of unnecessary regulations.
> Then everybody realized Docker was just idiosyncratic configuration layered on top of Linux cgroups

That is true and that is why the Docker runtime is still free.

However this is about Docker desktop, which is mostly used on Mac and other platforms, where docker actually manages virtual machines etc.

And yeah, all software is just a layer on top of moving bits around ... some of those layers create value, some less.
https://archive.is/uPsEC
I gave two historical examples on lieu of writing a much longer comment. These are real examples of institutions that made diverging decisions. I’m more interested in the reasons behind the decisions, whereas you seem to be more interested in qualifying the outcomes of those decisions. I don’t see how your comment is a rebuttal.
I guess I'm interested to see if this performs qualitatively better than GPT-3, given how many more parameters it has.

However, I think this is really a dead-end: throwing more hardware at this is just going to generate better-sounding nonsense. Yes, we are learning the "model" of the English language - which words go with which others, but successively larger transformer models don't really expose much more about the nature of intelligent conversation.

I think we need a better algorithm now.
I have been in Taiwan, concretely in Taipei.

It is one of the most lovely places in the world. It is developed, it is safe. If China took control of it would be terrible news to me.

In fact, Taiwan stands as one of my first destinations to settle in the next years.
You have me thinking. Has drawing such a line ever created a problem in the past 50 years?
Another Theranos in the making.
You pretty much always have to define your record type with `| undefined` tacked on to the value type parameter. With that, the problem mostly goes away.
Why would you hesitate?
https://model.energy/

No, nuclear and renewables are not complementary. They are both inflexible.
JD Power Tech Experience study: new car tech unused, people don't want to use it
That’s a JavaScript specific nuance that typescript inherits.

‘const’ declares a variable with an immutable reference, not an immutable value. If you’re referencing a simple literal like a string or a number that’s effectively the same thing but for objects (and arrays under the hood of JavaScript are fancy objects) while the reference to your given object is constant, the properties of that objects are still mutable.
Can't someone turn this into a feature of HN?
https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/fixing-the...

tl;dr: Object.prototype.toString.call, you most likely to also want to exclude null, RegExp, Function, Date, Number, Boolean & String (not string)
Everytime I hear or read what anti-vaxxers have to say, it feels like the person on the other end is a teenager who has watched The Matrix for the first time while having smoked a tad bit too much weed.

"THEY control us and manipulate everything, bruh! You're just a sheeple."
This was more about me seeing an unappealing risk profile than me being principled. The discussion about principles is a far more complicated one I think.
https://archive.is/ysi79
We reported exposed database, schools email marketing company told us to go away
Alot of stores futz with location. Target used to show higher prices within the friendly confines as well.
Also, just because those benefits exist doesn't mean that they're good or worth it. In the UK I often need to access healthcare privately not through the NHS. My projected state pension is a joke even though the National Insurance contributions are significant. I feel like I'm paying a lot and not getting anything in return. Add to that the high cost of living in London and the whole picture looks much worse than the US given the difference in salaries.
I was expecting someone to make the reference to "Hide the Pain Harold". I wasn't disappointed.
Interesting initiative.
What happened at the K-Pg limit with dinosaurs and crocodiles is similar, both went from being very wide to a handful of species remaining. The difference is what happened afterwards, when the few (single?) species of dinosaurs that remained diversified into what we now call birds.

The interesting thing from the article is that crocodiles are still evolving rapidly, but not diversifying! they seem to be successful in their narrow and specialist niche.
Ultimately the 100% renewable grid is backed up by something like hydrogen. The round trip efficiency is lousy, but it's not needed very often so that's not very important.

A combined cycle power plant has a cost per watt just 10% of that of a nuclear plant (and simple cycle, just 4-5%), so you can completely back up the grid with them and still come out cheaper than nuclear.
First SMD ceramic safety capacitors with Y1 rating of 500 V AC
> JetBrains is one of the few companies that bucks the trend, and one I gladly give money to regardless of my increasing VSCode usage.

Large parts of IntelliJ are open-source as well, and sometimes they do get used in other open-source editors. Afaict they're pretty good citizens in terms of F/OSS.
Cynthia has a great paper where she distinguishes between "interpretable" and "explainable"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10154.pdf
"const foo = bar" just means that foo can't be reassigned to some other value. It doesn't say anything about bar.
Base load can be provided by renewables + storage. There is no need for base load generators to supply base load demand.

Renewables and storage are also falling rapidly in cost. Any nuclear plant we start planning today will be competing with the cheap renewables and storage of decades hence, not just what's available at this instant.
It's the iTerm2 built-in status bar: https://iterm2.com/3.3/documentation-status-bar.html
Interesting article, but I think this sentence was unfair to other AI scholars, who also want AI to help society.

"While many scholars in the developing field of machine learning were focused on improving algorithms, Rudin instead wanted to use AI’s power to help society."
This is absolutely tragic, and software is not yet so commoditized that most folk should need to put up with this kind of experience. I can imagine why locally Amazon might seem like a good employer, but after a recruitment experience like that, how would you expect to be treated as anything but cattle for the remainder of your placement? I'd sooner take work in a bar or soup kitchen than an environment like that, and in any case definitely wouldn't have participated in the interviews.

Are mass recruitment events a recent software thing, or perhaps a local culture thing? I've never heard of them before except maybe for new graduates
Any link to her actual work?
They might have gotten used to unethical business practices. What people assume is acceptible is important
Same as Java’s final, isn’t it. You can use final when declaring a reference to an object but that doesn’t make the object itself immutable, just the reference itself.
Why Japan Looks the Way It Does: Zoning [video]
Plenty of obsolete audio files on my phone.
I work for Huawei in Germany as external contractor. Project I am working on is extremely interesting and payment is correct. Some of colleagues I have are one of smartest people that I met. There is culture clash sometime when I need to collaborate with colleagues in mainland China, but I see them as interesting features of global world. If job is interesting, well paid and progress in your career then go ahead.
Chokoku CAD: 3D CAD on the browser made by Japan junior high school student
While it's legal to throw plastic in the trash, rather than "recycle"[1], trash which ends up in the landfill is more likely to get blown away or get carried away by water.

How many is "Most"? If 5% don't, that's still a lot of trash.

Plastic doesn't really help preserve bananas and oranges, which are two of the fruits on the immediate list. Plastic shouldn't be used as a psychological comfort simply because people "do not want their fruit to be touched by other customers".

We could totalally go after "Big Bad Corporate Guy". But the issue there is that keeping the plastics completely out of the environment is expensive. Rather than increase waste fees (making the consumer and/or city pay in perpetuity for the plastic trash), shift the cost to the producer by requiring something other than plastic, and let the market figure out cost-effective solutions.

[1] (in quotes, because that plastic might go to a special plastic incinerator instead of being recycled)
What spreadsheet program is superior to excel?
When was the society asked what the punishment should be for speeding tickets? For pollution into the environment? For murder?
What they could do is retroactively fix injustices like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/opinion/pulsars-jocelyn-b...
love this idea - I would've loved this when my husband and I were in the market for our cabin and could get some candid "local advice" from others in the area
A huge fan of those string algorithms and Those notebooks. Real craftsmanship.
Is $1 Million respectable?
The question is what will happen when the nuclear power plans are decommissioned.

Keeping nuclear running and expanding it's role further could be used to replace fossil fuels while expanding renewables at the same time. In the long run, energy storage technology will improve, which will help overcome problem with unstable renewable sources, but I don't believe we will be there soon.
Yeah way in the back there's not much cell phone reception. The same goes for WalMart, since people are talking about their inventory practices as well.
Rust only catches integer overflows in debug builds, my C# programs catch it everywhere. The compiler setting is off by default but it is available.

In Rust, many libraries especially the standard one have lots of unsafe code, with a history of security bugs there [1]. In C#, the standard library is written in almost 100% safe code.

About threading, while it doesn't catch all data races automatically, C# implements many useful things on the VM level. Monitor class, or memory model guarantees, are very hard to implement in languages who compile to native code.

[1] https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-rusts-standard-library-was-v...
the last React version that feels pragmatic.

The APIs introduced after this are poorly designed in my opinion, the "function as children" context API (and TWO other ways to access context) and hooks
Vim Conqueror of Completion
It is one of the best if you are lucky enough to live close to one of the big city centers.

There are tons of places where car is the only option, or after 8pm there are no running public transports (you are supposed to stay home, I guess).
There is much better original [1] article though.

[1] https://sick.codes/leaky-john-deere-apis-serious-food-supply...
No, not really since I'm not an American but mostly because I don't want label some traditions as "beneficial" as opposed to others, it kind of goes against the point I was trying to make.

But I can tell you what I meant by tradition: basically everything you did not explicitly decide about in your life and that you mostly do like everybody else does and did before you. Even wearing socks for example or hard soled shoes - you can easily find people these days that go against these. And you can think about it yourself. Is the barefoot movement right? Seems healthier for your foot. But how about one accident like a cut or penetration of the very thin and soft or even non existent sole?
> you might get lucky and have a cultural resurgence as artists, musicians, restauranteurs, local retail, etc etc can afford to live and set up shop downtown again.

The question really comes down to how much downtown real estate is paid off or under mortgage, which basically depends on how recently it was sold to a new owner.

Anything under a mortgage will be subject to a CMBS that was valued based on the worth of renting out the units in the building. These will have terms setup such that if the owner lowers the rent, they will be required to pay an additional down payment to cover the lost value in the mortgage's collateral (the building) from the now lower rents.

CMBS's will be invested in by multiple investors at different risk levels, creating different incentives on modifying or maintaining the collateral requirements, and anywhere from 50% to 75% of the investors will have to agree to any changes to the loan terms.

In short, some landlords downtown are bound by terms forbidding them from lowering rents without having to pay a huge capital expense for the privilege to do so.
I earn less money, but I work 32 hours a week, have 6 weeks paid vacation, and a 5 minute commute.

It's also really hard to "translate" money via exchange rates. Cost of living matters a lot. If food and housing is cheap, then the money goes a lot longer. That's also the sort of goods that the arbitrage pressure of international trade struggles to even out. Maybe if WFH becomes a big international thing, but I don't think we're quite there yet.
But it's still true that each individual contractor in a bridge project is not a bridge integrity engineer. I was replying to GP who said

> What all these coders do all day?

Implying that all coders have to care about everything in their stack. Putting the blame of UX devs or data engineers for the platform to be offline doesn't make any sense. Even hiring more platform engineers doesn't necessarily fix this issue. Like when building a bridge, you avoid this problem with good architecture.
> We pay for our national health insurance too and probably comparable to what Americans pay for their private.

To clarify something, in the UK there are two main deductions on personal income - income tax and National Insurance. National Insurance doesn't pay for healthcare, it pays for things like state pension and other support benefits - https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/what-national-insuranc.... The National Health Service (NHS) is funded through taxes.
Listening to conversations and learning how they flow is only one aspect of language learning. What these things are missing is the interactive part. Next generation systems need to be able to form hypotheses about what appropriate responses should be, try out various responses and then see what the results are. They can only learn so much from passive consumption of training sets, so I agree this approach is going to hit a wall of diminishing returns.
It's impressively large - if I was planning a pleasant little flight in Denver or on the Gulf of California I certainly wouldn't be wondering what's happening at White Sands:

https://imgur.com/gallery/24Ax0AK
Well, this would go well with most climate modeling. Both are just computer programs generating crappola.
It all comes down to U.S. tech companies being much more successful, mainly because of the scale of the U.S. market. Any U.S. startup can immediately address a market of $21T (GDP) without any regulatory overhead or language considerations. This causes engineers to be insanely productive in terms of economic productivity. In comparison, Germany, the largest country in the EU, has a GDP of only $3.8T. It's much harder to scale across the entire EU, and even then, the entire EU market is still smaller at $15T.

The second question is, why do international companies like FAANG underpay their European employees compared to their American peers? The reason for that is the prevailing market wage. Any company will pay as little they can while still getting the caliber of talent they need. Given the lower economic productivity of engineers working in local tech companies, the prevailing market wages are lower, so FAANG don't need to pay as much to get the top talent.
Life is what you make of it. Also, I guess working remotely doesn't fit everyone's personality.

But I've been working remotely 4 years now and there's no way I will ever be going back into the office. As a matter of fact, I plan to buy a condo near the beach maybe end of this year or start of next year. This condo will eventually be my office, but now it will just be for holidays. It will have a nice olympic size swimming pool and a nice assortment of restaurants next to a beach road. The beach road will be nice to walk daily one or two times (at night seeing the sun go down into the sea). The swimming pool will be nice for a little break and exercise in the afternoon. For me this setup will be perfect.

My current setup is not perfect since I work from home and still have distractions from my girlfriend (e.g. cleaning the room, calling out for food and small shopping chores, etc...).

I thrive when I am in a space with zero distractions and I hope to have this space in the future in the form of my very own condo office :)
Americans love to bring this up but half of a six figure US income still leaves abundantly more than £32k at 6 years experience leaves outside of London. Without a car, dependents, and with private healthcare costs (because the NHS is far more flawed than propaganda would have you believe), I'm not the only one living alone in a mould-infested flat that isn't even suitable to keep a pet, unable to move because of trying to cling on to the lower-but-still-too-high rent price ridden through the recent massive increases, putting no savings away, in a country where recent delivery shortages make your fresh food shop a roll of the dice.

I'm glad to have the shelter, warmth, and relative security that many others don't, but living as a software engineer in this country is nowhere near comparable to other 'similar' countries, whether the US, Canada, or European neighbours.