skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I don't see a single thing of value here but more sensationalism from the purveyors who've been at this for years. People like the authors Gebru and Mitchell, and now Lemoine have contributed negatively to the field while continuing to tarnish the domain with their obviously biased views that serve their own agendas. Lemoine now claims to be a "mystic Christian priest" and that position is somehow supposed to validate his wild rants.

Yes, the current state of AI is biased because the training and sample data themselves are not unbiased. This is the reality, and there's work to be done. However, with their increasingly outlandish rants ("This AI is a person") [1] these people are just looking at riding the AI bandwagon to serve their own twisted agendas, i.e., make a lot of noise and hope to get paid to keep doing that.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bi...
There are theoretical upper bounds on the COP though. As heat pumps get better, it may some day make sense to say things like "this heat pump is 95% efficient, so there is no point in replacing it".
> Found this Cargo package rust-msi.

I looked at that crate.
That lets you read and write .msi files, but those are just containers. It doesn't help you set up the rather complicated contents required. Someone who's into the Windows ecosystem could probably use it to do the limited things cargo-bundler does. The neat thing about cargo-bundle is that it only needs the info from the Cargo.toml file to drive the bundling process. Most Windows installer builders involve manually constructing Windows-specific XML files.
I'm actually surprised to see heat pumps gaining so little traction in Europe over time, perhaps excluding Baltics. I'm in Russia myself and I have a heat pump installed in my house for about a decade and a half already. In the long run, it was far cheaper than gas in my case. Not to mention it was faster to install; the gas pipeline bureaucracy alone would have taken several months.

That said, there are environmental concerns about geothermals at scale (see the earthquake in Landau). Not sure how much of it carries over to residential heat pumps, though.
Or we can just have plants capture the CO2, give those plants to large ruminants which will feed those plants to the microbiota in their cecum, digest the microbiota and converting it into the kind of nutritious protein and fat that hominids have adapted to digest almost exclusively for millions of years.

If one is worried about the methane emissions of cattle, it's not really clear that this is even a secondary concern. The carbon that cows produce, whether it be methane or CO2, came from the atmosphere and is returned to the atmosphere. That is because cows are eating plants which derive their carbon primarily from the atmosphere. This is different from fossil sources of methane, which isn't atmospheric unless it's released. The isotope of carbon isn't even the same between bio-methane and fossil methane. The methane that cows release is oxidized after several years.
Think it’s pretty clear he’s talking about Russia.
The microfilm recipe book made me think this -- the recipes were organized and ad-free, unlike most online recipes today.
One thing I hate about alot of these reader tools is that they always never give me proper customization options. Let me configure the font,the font-size, letter-spacing, line-height, etc. I hate being treated like i'm a 5 year old when it comes to basic customization.
I got a similar feeling from one particular statement in the article: that the founder of Air Protein previously founded a company (Kiverdi) that "now holds dozens of patents on technologies to turn recycled carbon dioxide into alternative fuels". That company was founded in 2008. So where are all these alternative fuels that their patents are for? If any kind of process like this has a hope of working at scale, using it to produce commercial quantities of alternative fuels seems a lot easier than using it to produce commercial quantities of food for humans. So if they can't even produce the alternative fuels at scale, how are they going to do it for food?
I'm hiking the TA trail (top to bottom of NZ) end of next year. I'll probably even come back to the same job/role.
Apple workers vote to join union, a first for the tech giant in US
It doesn't work anymore - but for a while you could ask Siri (also via Stanford) "do you know shrdlu" (you'd have to type it into the correction box) and it would respond with something to the effect: "Wasn't SHRDLU crushed by a blue pyramid?"
Interesting would be the list of safe ed25519 libs. Which all would fail to zero their private keys, I assume.
any thoughts on trying to build a sort of vq-blas?
> is missing some basic functionality, like de-scheduling a Pod from a load balancer, and terminating it once no more connections exist. There are also difficulties around giving people access to the cluster in a safe way (for example, any admin can see the contents of secrets), and kubelets' decision to run without swap also leads to some annoying node failures that would be mere slowdowns if swap was present.

As written, none of this is strictly true. I suspect I know why you believe what you wrote is true, but I think you just need to spend some more time understanding the documentation and architecture. As an example, support for swap accounting was added last year, and while swap has not been supported, it's been possible to use swap perhaps forever.
“… those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves. Nay further, we are what we all abhorre, Antropophagi and Cannibals, devourers not onely of men, but of our selves; and that not in an allegory, but a positive truth; for all this masse of flesh which wee behold, came in at our mouths: this frame wee looke upon, hath beene upon our trenchers; In briefe, we have devoured our selves.”
Thomas Browne - Religio Medici
i find managing aws from a lambda with an aws sdk to be a good in between.

trigger the lambda on events and/or a schedule.

lock around dynamodb to ensure a single lambda at a time is mutating aws.

example:

https://github.com/nathants/libaws/tree/master/examples/comp...

knowledge and intuition about aws primitives is definitely a transferable skill.
It reminds me of the slightly funny incident when my brother's boss got stuck midway on the road to his destination, because his Fiskar Karma was having a firmware update
> But I’m here to tell you they got it wrong, and everyone’s been getting it wrong ever since. Students come away underwhelmed and baffled, and go on to become the next generation of teachers who repeat this process.

Yeah, this is how recursion works. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" maybe?
My first paragraph was quite substantive which you didn’t really address, other than asserting in the last sentence that one’s intelligence does not give one power in the world. Perhaps the intelligence of an individual does not mean much in most cases, but we already have ample evidence that a sufficiently intelligent species (when we include social intelligence in the definition) can dominate all others which are stronger, faster, or multiply faster.

Reminder: An AGI will be much faster at communicating and (if not successfully contained) multiplying than humans ever could.

Major AI research organizations including DeepMind and OpenAI have AI safety programs and people working full-time on it.

My second paragraph in GP was a reply in kind to your…

“This field is fairly silly because it just involves people making up a lot of incoherent concepts and then asserting they're both possible (because they seem logical after 5 seconds of thought) and likely (because anything you've decided is possible could eventually happen). When someone brings it up, rather than debate it, it'd be a better use of time to tell them they're being a nerd again.”

In retrospect, I shouldn’t have said it. But it’s also quite disappointing that your several paragraphs of reply largely doubled down on ad hominem attack to anyone who disagrees with you (eg by implying they all follow a prophet without thinking; I’d say many would be capable of reaching similar conclusions on their own).

Even Yann LeCun and other top researchers who disagree with the current AI safety programs were not so dismissive of the concerns. Note that many other top AI researchers do have concerns themselves. Bengio and Russell are some examples. I’ll stop here since it’s likely unproductive to continue.
reminds me about the need for AI/ML in random things. maybe it's to sell the "powered by AI/ML" tag. just another hypestorm
email. <my first name>@mosaicml.com
Im working on a game in the same vein: Archapolis, a city builder with real time traffic simulation and interior views of your citizens homes (which you can customize/build yourself if you want), so you can watch them live their lives. I'd like the player to have a more hands on approach to managing the city as well.

Here's a tech demo of what I've been working on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q0l87hwmkI

I created a path finding algorithm that can simultaneously path hundreds of thousands of units to random destinations at a comfortable frame rate (or around 100-200K like in the video using one CPU core). Units can choose from any of the shortest paths between two points (there are many in a grid), and from those paths, can also choose the path that matches any preferences they have.

Very early stages of development still!
I am unconvinced.

It is still funny.
> wants a "Rust but better" language to exist, and that very well might be V in 5 years . . .

How can anyone possibly believe this?? What is the motivation?? V is a `README` full of desires, and a source tree full of incompetence. There is no concrete or technical evidence that can support this optimism. Zig is a serious project. Go is a serious project. Rust is a serious project. V is, obviously, an un-serious project.
> I currently work in a Go shop. Why Go? Did it win some business value delivering contest? I don't think so, it's just the initial team lead liked Go the most of the languages they knew and made everyone else learn it.

By this logic either language keep changing when new people join and desire some different language.

> This makes me a little sad, since I like my company and leaving would be a significant amount of institutional knowledge walking out the door.

You shouldn't be. If company you are leaving is any good they would have documented important stuff. If not, they'll get what they deserve. Better to join place where you are part / lead of initial team. Because anything less you would simply be following someone else's language choice or even when language is preferred still their product design decisions.
Many smart people are drawn to solving intellectually challenging problems. That's why many end up in academia doing research even though the research may never be useful in the real world. There are many challenging cryptographic, game-theoretic, and economic problems in the blockchain space. This, and of course the money, is probably what attracts people.
Java, Scala, and C# also have a mature, distributed, actor model framework called Akka
About the author: Neely Tucker is a writer-editor in the Library’s Office of Communications. He manages the Library of Congress blog and writes for LCM, the Library’s magazine. Before joining the Library in 2019, he spent 17 years at The Washington Post, primarily as a roving national reporter based in the Style section. He was a foreign correspondent for the Detroit Free Press for most of the 1990s, working in more than 60 countries or territories in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

What a life!
Carter is a fine human being. So was Hoover.

Johnson was a sociopath, who gave us Medicare, Medicaid, desegregation, and “standardization of computer communication.”
Yes this. It helps but it isn't a magic bullet because the roof is already airgapped from the roof and the house insulated from the attic. If the roof was directly insulated shingles would curl up and start failing within one or two summers due to the heat. That is why there are roof vents, gable vents, and soffit vents, to let air freely flow into and out of the attic/roof cavity.
IMO it would be super cool and I hope someone does it. There are a lot of interesting tradeoffs around which techniques to use for which matrix sizes and under which assumptions about read vs write ratios, what you have a training set for, whether you can fuse compression intro previous ops, etc.
> Construction is an efficient business

It doesn’t feel very efficient, especially residential construction. My neighbor is building a garage with some finished space above. It’s sat without a garage door for literally months now - everything else is done.

I often wonder how soon into the project was the garage door ordered and how was that order tracked? Was the lead time calculated and a fallback option presented? These are things that we just take as a matter of course in software. They are also routine in industries that are software-intensive (finance, insurance, retail, to a lesser extent logistics)

The construction business - especially residential construction and remodeling - seem insanely inefficient to me. Jobs that should take a few days of wall clock time often take weeks due to poor planning and scheduling.

It’s interesting that certain high value specialties within construction end up being extremely efficient. You can get a new HVAC system (assuming that you don’t need to install ductwork) in a couple of days. Ditto for a new roof or a new driveway. The process is finely tuned.

It would be wonderful to have the ability to apply computational power to jobs that are not as repeatable today. Scan the house and identify constraints. Automatically design the systems, measurements and layout and assemble a BOM to minimize the effects of supplier lead times. Submit detailed RFPs to subcontractors and track their performance to plan. Etc.
If you matter at all you’re going to offend more people than you even know exist.

The entire metric is flawed and useless.
How is that too big for an SSD? My computer is ALL SSDs. What kind of shit drives u buying?
I've been spending time drawing and invested in an angled desk surface(a Saiji portable floor desk) and I've found that when I use this surface, at the proper height, with the proper grip for inking(which is relatively relaxed and avoids contact with the bones of the knuckles), and using fineliner pens, I can write some fantastic cursive letters, despite not having practiced it in decades. I don't even remember all the letter forms.

So I think the story we face is one of gradual degradation of the average condition in which writing is done: the pens are part of it because ballpoints train you into a tighter grip with more pressure. But equally as important is that we've moved away from desks specifically for writing and drawing towards generic flat surfaces, so nobody realizes what they lose by not having such a surface or what kinds of compensations they are making. If you have the height and angle correct, a relaxed grip is easier and you can make more accurate marks from the shoulder, with decent control over swooping curves. It's the single easiest way to boost your draftsmanship and penmanship.
We have secretaries doing the work of a manager, and managers doing less work than we think secretaries do.

The ones who sit around recording things for the sole purpose of knowing who to blame when stuff goes bad are terrible people.
> Individualism is great, but people live in societies along with other people, and that's not going to change. And when people live near each other, mechanisms are needed to prevent their individual actions and desires from conflicting and causing problems for everyone.

People have done that without nationalism very successfully!

> instincts people naturally feel towards members of their family/tribe

People can feel all sorts of things, and nationalists like to claim the special, irrefutable case of 'natural' - 'it's just nature, who can argue with that?' In truth they are just irrational prejudices of some people have at some moment, based on false assumptions and facts, having little to do with reality. For example, people 'naturally' discriminated against Catholics in the US, until they 'naturally' didn't! The prejudices change all the time, within and between people.

> and through education and propaganda you apply those instincts to a much larger group (the "people")

So you are advocating manipulating and lying to people?

> Doing this helps people get along and keeps society functioning by making its members feel responsible for their fellow citizens.

What is that based on? Most places get along fine without it.

> But when the "nation"/fake tribe is given an "enemy" or a father figure, that's when the trouble starts.

It's inevitable - as soon as you have a fake 'us', you have a fake 'them'.
For TL;DR, "having that C99 standard specified is what ultimately was found to cause this large performance difference"
If stretching your budget is so important then enable NTFS compression on your entire drive... I'm storing well over a terabyte of data on my one terabyte drive right now lol
Do FAANG hire remote developers?
> don't help you because you are dealing with real world data where inputs to your system can be null or not so you end up using some type system escape hatch anyway.

You clearly have little experience with such languages, then.
These days when academics (regardless whether it's public health or archeology) talk about evidence, I tend to read "evidence" as "what we already know", and the whole narrative ends up being "we know what we already know, and we reject what we don't already know".

I mean, there's no way to un-see this way of reading "evidence" after realizing how much humanity has yet to learn, yet there's a class of people who's confident that they're really knowledgable about stuff.
JavaScript is a fantastic language once you understand how it really works. If you do truly understand the language then maybe you should use something that compiles to JS.
Yes, it’s part of the EULA for the driver.
That's low.

In Romania FAANGs aren't paying better salaries than market average, so the only incentive to work for a FAANG is to have it on your CV, stay 2 years and find better employment.

FAANGs get it really cheap here as they pay 10x lower wages than in the US.
No ML frameworks implement it yet, though I'd be happy to work with people from the PyTorch/TF/JAX/CUDNN/CUTLASS/etc. teams (or volunteers) if anyone wants to make this happen.

Also, while you can get 200x compression, I do want to emphasize that there's a speed vs quality tradeoff and the results will vary by problem. We have much more careful statements in the paper about the exact problem setup, tradeoffs, etc. Also, as I've mentioned in other comments, it probably won't help too much on modern GPUs due to their acceleration of dense GEMMs but not shuffles. CPU inference is the killer app here.
> Cause free labor's the cornerstone of US economics

The lyric is alluding to the fact that the country's foundation was built on 100s of years of free labor.

The practice of exporting worthless printed paper in exchange for valuable labor intensive goods is also what that lyric is pointing to.

American slavery, a model that has evolved and now encompasses much of the globe.

Keeping a large % of the world and "undesirable" domestic population poor, at gun point if necessary, is in America's national economic interest.
I read it as “even (some of) the best ones” based on the “not all ideas” start.
I really think ball point pens are the worst. Personally I like mechanical pencils but I would even prefer crayons. At least crayons work reliably.
It can if you choose to return Optionals instead of nulls.
How do I learn about what’s being discussed here? Why do I need a linker?
Most homes with natural gas don't have enough space for a horizontal system, and vertical systems are very cost prohibitive.

When you do have land, your horizontal space now is also being used up by a septic system.

It's great if you can do it, but on the whole I suspect ground source is always going to be an expensive and difficult proposition for most people.
This is a delightful (and wise, IMO) way to think about right-sizing dependencies.
> Nationalism means an ethnic group ("nation"/"people") taking over a state ("country")

That is what I mean - that's what the Hindu nationalists are openly doing and advocating in India.

> the US Constitution is very much collectivist in tone

Yes, and very different from nationalism. We can cooperate. Nobody is advocating some libertarian extreme.

> The individual rights stuff was added by anti-Feseralists in the Bill of Rights, to rein in the main Constitution a bit.

That may be true but it's not the truth. It was added by everyone, no less than the rest of the Constitution. Clearly, Americans have considered themselves, and have been considered to be, individualists for a long time. You're also skipping the Declaration of Independence, and much much more.
- If it were an item id the argument would be item_id. It is an object.

You've never worked with vaguely named variables? What you are suggesting is guessing the data type based off the name.

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What type of object? The type that can be added to a cart.

Okay sure, but what precisely is that?

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Nobody just throws random objects at a function.

I couldn't agree more - so the follow up question is what is the fastest way to get familiar with what type of input or output this function returns?

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They are familiar with the code in general and they know what to do.

For very small projects with very small teams after some onboarding time perhaps, but outside of this I would disagree.

Code changes over time, parts that you use to know intimately get changed subtley and erode knowledge away. Having types in place highlights these changes if your assumptions are incorrect.
there are some jobs that are dangerous and there's just no way to change that

what about parent's post was "macho" -- you think drinking is macho?

parent didn't say their gender
Parent was talking about Spain, not Japan.

And as a foreigner I think it's very hard to get a working visa in the US.
I'm not sure how Scott ended up buying the party line of the weird AGI Doomsday Cult but so be it. In any case, none of the things he says about verifying AI in this post make any sense at all, and if OpenAI actually cares about verifying AI and not just about hiring people who believe in the AGI Doomsday party line, probably they should hire verification people. Alas, that is not the point.
The parent was speaking about Spain, not Japan.
You may want to read this section of the README.

https://github.com/rui314/mold#why-does-the-speed-of-linking...
Python has other issues which make it less than ideal for a learning language. Really it's having to deal with an API at all that's distracting anyway.
Freedom of speech means very specifically being free from consequences/prosecution from the governing body, and makes no claims about speech in the private sector or private houshold.

To focus the scope, it means openly criticizing the governing body is protected and not a punishable offense _by the government_ (people can and have been let go for political posts on social media written from their home, if the employer felt it was damaging to the company's reputation).

And no, literally billions of people in the world do not have that right.
> The Indian state has always been authoritarian

Unless you mean something different than what authoritarian usually means, you are overlooking decades of democracy.
There are always tech fads and many of them don't pan out. There have been multiple waves of AI. We're now on the third VR fad. I remember microkernels, exokernels, unikernels, push, portals, CORBA/RMI, "XML everything", micropayments, P2P, mesh networks...
AT&T, Verizon give FAA another year to fix airplane altimeters
If that were true, we could declare it an unambiguous social good.