skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

This is the first in a series of articles I'm writing to introduce devs to practical applications of large NLP language models (for text generations like GPT and for language understanding like BERT).

I have been connecting the dots between the capabilities of these models and their business application. I still believe we're in the beginning of grasping the amount of potential value we can extract from these models. Happy to get to share these as I learn them from my exposure to the problem space.

Some of the key visual language I'm aiming to simplify is that of "prompts" and their use to shape model output (leading to practical applications). In this post, a key visual is [1] which shows an example of a summarization prompt and [2] showing a high-level process of "prompt engineering".

Would appreciate your feedback!

[1] https://docs.cohere.ai/img/intro-llms/language-model-prompt....
[2] https://docs.cohere.ai/img/intro-llms/prompt-engineering-and...
> Cortex cores at least do support switching endianness for data in userspace (SCTLR_EL1.E0E)

Yeah, Cortex and NVIDIA cores do (and probably quite some others).

However, Apple-designed recent cores don’t implement big endian support at all.
> This is a weak analogy fallacy, dismissing a strong argument

If you have to back your argument up by some analyist saying companies woudl make more money if they did something other than they were doing, then that does not make your argument strong.

> that has been observed in practice again and again by attacking an "analogous" but worthless pseudo-argument like "of course they're not turning people green".

And yet instead of citing an actual case of this, you cite an analyst that says companies would make more money by not curing diseases. Companies would also make more money if they kidnapped people's children and ransomed them back than if they did not do that, ignoring pesky things like legality and all that of course, but who knows, I'm sure politicans that would allow them to do this would be a dime a dozen anyway.
1-1024 are reserved for root so you can still technically use them. Port 0 is the only one truly reserved/impossible to used
What it’s worth, this is good advice for many fields. For example, in law school, I think one is better off being a rockstar at a lower rank school than a “good“ student at an excellent school.
HN: deploy to cloud, pay as you go only for what you're using

also HN: I will never buy anything from a company that does sells me a product with an upgrade option

same thing, different wording, opposite ends of the reaction spectrum.
The attention to detail is some cases is impressive. E.g. in the regular owl emoji the owl has its wings folded; but when mixed with a celebrating emoji, it spreads its wings. Not to mention mixing bat and cake.

That being said, the UI can be annoying. It's hard to scroll the lists and the popups are distracting.
I had one with the whine and a trackpad issue together! I returned that crap so fast. I don't know how that whine was left out of all the reviews I had seen. All you had to do to hear it was cause the laptop to turn on its fans.
I don't think the transition itself is that hard, but they've not really shown any enthusiasm for it so far, so you have to gamble that they even try before they hit a wall and go bust. So it's more a human problem.

Is it possible to be the hero who transforms a company and get rich doing it? Or do you basically have to make a lot of enemies to do the right thing and get no more money than if you just kept your head down while looking for a job at a competitor.

The Ford investing in Rivian thing also reminds me how Yahoo stumbled on for years as a zombie company, basically living off an investment they made in upcoming Chinese tech.
What new career do you want?
Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate
I'm using CE, don't think you need the paid one for that
Split and Commit
I think that strategy dominates starting in or just after high school by a wide margin. Not the least of which is you might decide to stay, you can probably jump out with the right to return for some period of time, and the signaling effect is massive.
> Why can't a 50 year house be good enough, if it means you can provide very cheap housing to a destitute family for two generations, breaking the cycle of poverty and allowing the grandchildren to replace the structure with something more durable and up to date when they will be able to?

Ruining a homes resale value, and forcing a family to buy a new home every generation, would absolutely exacerbate poverty rather than alleviate it. It's the classic "it's expensive to be poor" situation - a poor person has to buy cheap boots twice a year. A rich person can buy expensive boots that last a lifetime, and saves money overall.

I guess it depends on how cheap you think a styrofoam house would be, but I am skeptical. Even if you get significant savings on material costs, you still need to pay for labor. Labor is typically ~40% of the cost to build a home.
I wonder how this handles TLS. I have tried using dot-net's HttpListener object but was a little disappointed in how it handled TLS.

(In the end, I used HttpListener in localhost-only mode and had an off-the-shelf proxy service to deal with TLS.)
Yes, the funny thing is that because cities allow so many cars in the city center, congestion, pollution, and noise are everywhere, which makes people want to move to the suburbs, which means they have to drive to get anywhere, which makes congestion, pollution, and noise everywhere in the suburbs, which makes them want to move further out...
Ah ok, I couldn't find anything about that in the docs but maybe I missed it. Interesting syntax choice when everyone else is going with `name: type`.
Isn't Raku considered an extremely complex language?
Pew: Growing share ofUS adults don’t expect to ever have children
We just released the accuracy of models, and haven't provide the speed, but we have checked the fps on NVIDIA V100, which will be public soon.
I've done this 3 times in my 8 year career so far. I pretty much leave every job this way. I like to take a few months between jobs to do my own thing and take a break.

If you are financially stable enough and are in a spot in your career where you don't think you'll need to worry about getting another job too much. DO IT. Looking back at the last 8 years, those periods off are the periods I remember the most.

One time I had a tougher time finding a job (but I was also only a little over a year into my career). The other times I haven't had a problem. One time my old company hired me back with a promotion/raise. Most recently, I did some VERY easy part time contract work for about 6 months. I think these breaks are becoming much more common and I don't think it impacts my resume too much.

I wish there was a way to get a new job with a starting date 3-6 months in the future. That would be the ideal situation.
Containers were never actually designed to be sandboxes, and inside you have access to many system calls and a comparatively huge surface area inside the kernel and userland, all written in C, with a long history of local root exploits due to C based bugs.
It's just a pain in larger organizations that's all. I met developers in my life that have no idea how any of the dev env work, they just code, so if setting up docker dev instance fails because of their machine it require someone else involvement and modifications in docs for the future. It's not a big deal but it may be pain in the ass for some organizations.
The Perfect System Doesn't Exist
Try NewPipe if on Android: https://newpipe.net . You can disable comments and recommended videos, at night I just do a search on some of my favorite channels (despite everyone moaning "please like and subscribe" I think I have one channel I subscribe to, I guess I do miss a lot of things) to see if they have new content.
Picking up on the "three at once" theme, the 1-bit computer I built in the 1980's has an instruction that does three things.

The computer only has one instruction, so I didn't bother to give the instruction a name. But it performs an input, an output and a 2-way branch. I hope this is weird enough to deserve mention in this thread. :)

The project was mentioned at least twice previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616831
They've shut their borders to virtually everyone since the Olypics ended, they've got one of the highest rates of vaccination in the G20, they also follow the masks, distancing and hygiene rules quite carefully, so that could explain why its not spread as much over there. However there's also a huge stigma attached to catching covid in Japan, which could lead to under reporting, also the presentation of the data may have been a bit inaccurate in the past, it may be better now, but we dont know.
Induced demand is not nonsense at all.

I don't have a car. If there were capacity to drive, I would.

If a bunch of capacity to drive was added, I'd buy a car.

So that's one data point.

> If more people drive it indicates that your city isn't filling its purpose as being a place where there are a lot of things to do.

This sounds like an argument from someone who's never heard any alternative to American status quo.

> Cities need to figure out how to get ahead of induced demand

Wait, you said it's nonsense?

I'm starting to think you're misunderstanding me. Induced demand is not an excuse, it's an antipattern no be avoided, and it's not irreversible.

It's about how adding lanes to a road doesn't help traffic (see Katy, Texas).

Or the I101. Adding a lane, or improving the Caltrain? Clearly the latter will improve 101 traffic more.
Well good for them for not picking name used by any opensource this time.

/s
This is neat. Another option is to just ask GitHub to render your README:

curl -H "Accept:application/vnd.github.v3.html" https://api.github.com/repos/captn3m0/hackertray/readme

If your repo is public, you can do this in the browser as well with a single line of jQuery[0] without any authentication. On my blog, the page itself[1] is just a placeholder for the repo URL, and the layout[2] does the rest. Obviously, this isn't static so all the usual caveats apply (SEO/perf/accessibility).

[0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...

[2]: https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...
An ISA is like a platform.

It is valuable only if it has many users, e.g., application code, optimized for the ISA.

HW's job is to then run that code with good perf/cost.

OpenPOWER has little software.
ARM has a lot of software.

So from that POV, ARM is already many orders of magnitude more valuable than OpenPOWER.

But it doesn't end there. Do you need some software to be extremely optimized for ARM? ARM can do this for you at resonable price, no need to hire.

Also, for OpenPOWER, you need to hire 50-100 Facebook engineers, at 400k$/year, and it'll take them >3 years to produce a chip design, which then needs to be verified, etc. and then needs to be built, so you'll need a fab, specialized on OpenPOWER, or not. A fab churns 40k chips/month, so how many chips / month do these companies need ?

With ARM, you pick one of the many ARM farms, and there is little for you to do. And you get 5 engineers, and they just customize an ARM design to your needs. And they ship in 1 year instead of 3. And next year ARM gives you a way to update your chip to the next generation. And if next year you need some other feature, ARM gives it to you. And if you need software, like C library, profilers, math, all that is supplied by Arm.

And they take royalties on chips you built, and.... and....

So ARM is many orders of magnitude cheaper in perf / $ than OpenPower. Not only is the hardware better, but it is better, cheaper, has more software, and tools, and teams of experts ready to help your team, etc.
Most decent registrars have APIs allowing you to do all of this with just a few lines of code in a script.
These kind of studies and experiments always sound so amazing, but how long would something like this take to be applicable for at least human trials ?

I understand there are so many precautions to take etc, but is there any kind of 'complete consent' one could sign to jump start stuff like that ?
> 60~ hour weeks, working 6 day weeks

Can you scale back to 40 hours? That is simply nuts for how little you are compensated. That would give you the time you need to investigate other options. You can't enjoy life working that many hours no matter how well you are paid.
Interesting related status, what is important to you in life:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/11/18/what-makes-lif...
Simulating (or predicting/describing) economic situations is exactly what game theory is about. It allows you to basically set up a set of rules, and under some assumptions (everyone knows the rules, everyone behaves rationally, etc) calculate what will happen.

In that context it's important to note that collective bargaining is very much a feature of a pure capitalistic system. Just as the supply side seeks advantages by forming monopolies or cartels, the demand side seeks advantages by forming unions or purchasing pools. Both sides face similar challenges with this, like holding the group together and prevent betrayal (so you have to set up a Nash equilibrium where any one party leaving loses from doing so). You can certainly end up with universal healthcare in a pure capitalistic system because for the buyer side it decreases risk (because of the insurance characteristics) and lowers costs (due to the collective bargaining).
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And how much does that pay? Being a generalist typically doesn't pay unless you do it as a manager. Compare that to a specialist in some domain in software engineering who make $500k a year. Companies looking for generalists tend to not pay a lot, they do it so they can hire fewer people and save money, paying a lot would go against that.
For each and every tool that is added to my project, it needs to be installed by every developer, it needs to be understood at least on some level by every developer, and it needs to be maintained by someone.
"Feeling pain" has never been a particularly intellectual experience to me. Pain isn't some sort of abstract thought, it's a raw sensation that the harmed flesh itself seems to feel. When I step on a lego I feel it and flinch away from it before I even realize it. I guess that sort of reflex is what you're calling "experience structural damage" but I say it feels like pain.
I can’t upvote this enough!
I'm not a futon fan, but I did recognise this attack on futons as misguided. The article has a very important point, but addresses it poorly in my opinion. Partially because of this sort of unfair attack on something unrelated.
I've been a fan of "strong towns" for a while. I was wondering if anyone in the know here could answer: has it made much difference?
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We can’t yet even define consciousness so of course we don’t have a “good” model. But using our current understanding of the “machinery” makes more sense to me than basing the decision on whatever it is you’re vaguely referring to, otherwise I don’t see what stops one from going to full Jainism. If our understanding of that machinery changes so will my opinion.

You haven't really given much rationale beyond "they seem to react to stimuli". At best, your position that they have consciousness or feel pain analogous to humans appears based on intuition; at worst, on dogma. Neither is a particularly reasoned stance.
Toit doesn't have generic types yet. This limitation means that the dynamic checks are very fast.

Since these checks also allow some optimizations, the cost of the dynamic checks is maybe 10-15%. And that's before doing a global type-inference, which should remove many of the checks.
why do you think governments cannot perpetuate conspiracies at this scale?

https://scroll.in/article/1005956/behind-bihars-vaccination-...

https://caravanmagazine.in/news/narendra-modi-birthday-covid...

https://science.thewire.in/health/bihar-manufactured-a-vacci...

what they did was, knowing this "birthday" of the idiot in chief was about to come, they falsified official covid vaccination figures to "show the acheievement" of having done that many vaccinations in one day.

Just a pointless exercise one might say but this is a concerted effort by the ruling party in india to normalize hiter/lenin/mao/xi style obedience to the "great leader" because that is how they wish to remain in power.
conspiracy? probably. people already know so doesn't matter but still
Wouldn't all of python have that problem? What you're saying is that there's very little static checks until the code is run, but all of python has that problem too, doesn't it?

Either you write big test cases covering everything, or you live with the knowledge that very unexpected things can be passed in to your methods without you getting notified.

And then there's javascript ...
What about Dns, smtp, http, https, ftp, ssh, sftp, etc.?

Pretty sure those are not drains on everybody's nerves. Devs bashing standards cause they don't want to follow the rules which make things work well is a drain on everyone's nerves.

But maybe I have misunderstood the document (didn't read). Standards are nice, except when they are mostly geared towards one company. Then yeah, it would be better to have SRV records and discourage default port usage such as Apple is doing.

If we could go back in time, forcing an app layer (e.g. an ssh header) over a port might have been helpful, port conflicts might have been less common and you could have even eliminated root only ports.

At any rate let's not break the web because some lazy mofo doesn't want to get off their couch.
That does sound like the Ruhrpott if I had to guess!
Ionic used to do this. But in angular they stopped supporting this type stacked page transitions. Do they do this with vue or react?
> Is there anything stopping us from having multiple solids per file? If not, I don't see the reason for another format.

I think TFA offered a pretty compelling argumentation why you should consider using 3mf for 3D printing and I think you glossed over it:

> 3MF provides a clear definition of manifoldness — it’s impossible to create a 3MF file with non-manifold edges, and there is no ambiguity for models with self-intersections.

Even this is enough of a reason for me to prefer using a 3mf if available instead of having to fix holes in a godawful mesh editor. "STL works everywhere" is true only if you consider incidentally non-manifold STLs as an issue with the software that produced them and not the format itself.

I would like to add another technical detail that I don't think is included in the article -- 3MF uses curved triangular tessellations to encode geometry. This means more accurate representations of geometries and smaller file sizes even with high detail.
> Could LGPL license limit it's growth and popularity?

No.
WeWork was overpaying (outbidding others by 20% in some cases) and undercharging for quite some time.
That was exactly my first thought as well.
They should switch to kph from mph so the effective speed limit is lowered to ~15mph while being labeled as 25kph. Drivers will feel like their going '25' so less likely to feel inconvenienced :)
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Prescription drugs are not an open market.

At the less extreme end, you have FDA authority to approve a product. At the more extreme end, you have the entire corporate media establishment lined up against you and doctors threatened with disbarment for prescribing (or even just advising) off-label.
Same concept but with Pokémon: https://pokemon.alexonsager.net/
I quit a place once, it rhymes with brudwick wealth strategies. I was told by the proprietor that he didn't have to calm down because "he signs my fucking paychecks" in that second I realized that I didn't want to work for someone who thought like that. I told him have a nice day Barry and enjoy the extra money.

I applied for unemployment and almost lost the case but then I learned of the term hostile workplace and won. Unemployment was backpaid. During the time of fighting for it. I studied for my A+ and Sec+ certs, learned to program, and worked odd jobs from CL until every IT job eventually called me back and I had a couple to choose from. Eventually found a gig that I have been at for about 10 years. I'm happy, the organization appreciates my contributions and I'm in a comfortable place financially. I am currently looking for an remote gig in the evening US EST hours. Some sort of grunt work that someone doesn't want to do. I'm open to anything.
Currently working in agroculture technology software controlling water and fertilizer usages, as well as climate control and monitoring PH levels in the soil, temperatures, winds etc. and taking action based on other factor. The impact is quite big IMHO.
Not my experience. I inherited two Django projects, and adding features is quite cumbersome. I had to add one boolean switch which Django only has to pass from an Angular form to a template, and I had to alter the code in 7 places (one of which is the Angular code). It's just not suitable for REST-like access from a front-end, nor for data that's not a tree, nor for heavy processing: I ended up pulling all kinds of tricks to keep processing time limited, and at a few points resorted to writing SQL queries. It's pretty heavy on CPU and memory.
You mean Karl Marx, who coined the term "surplus labor" and theft of thereof, is typical far right?
No, they need to move the commercial property closer to the leaves. Not at the leaves, but close enough that the distance is still walkable. That would really reduce car traffic, and therefore reduce stress on the road capacity.
Love Django. But we are using Django with Gunicorn at work and we are having massive concurrency issues (1 process, gthread)... More than 4 concurrent requests waiting on a slow IO and the whole thing melts down...

FastAPI doesn't have those issues at all...
I had a job I didn’t like and left without a backup. It was a great move for me cause the next job I liked and stayed with for a couple of years.

If you have skills, a good resume, and know how to market yourself you should be able to land on your feet.
Yes, the last defense of a fraudster is "it's not lie if I believe it; I'm just dumb and these dumb people gave me money" even for decade of lies.
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Since you mention you did not study economics, I will make a small note on terminology.

"Earn" in economics means profit. What you mean, the way it might be said by economists, is you receive $1000 in revenue. That is, funds you get from customers paying for your product.

To go a bit further, you would "earn" that amount less the costs of providing the product, including amortized costs for its development.
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I also do the same thing, it's just nice every now and then to rediscover the passion for developing and experimenting without meetings and managers ;o
Depends entirely on the career you're looking to go into. There are certain fields that do, and should, require a college degree and appropriate certifications.

Assuming you are looking for a job in software development (since that's most of what HN is), the need for a college degree is becoming less and less. Some people are going the bootcamp route, some people are going self-taught. Just something to be aware of in terms of the talent pool, there's a ton of junior talent right now so it's hard to stand out. Actual projects you can showcase on Github and deployed on things like Heroku will be a good start
This sounds like parking minimums all over again.
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