skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comment three: after hacking my way around that, the script ran for another few hours doing disk IE (writing the offload) such that my directory is now 1.3T (330GB .git/lfs/objects, 330GB sharded weights, and 607G of "offload".

Then it failed again:

File "/home/dek/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/accelerate/big_modeling.py", line 188, in dispatch_model
main_device = [d for d in device_map.values() if d not in ["cpu", "disk"] [0]
IndexError: list index out of range

Now I'm curious just how long it will take to repro this error (IE, running again, with the offload files aalready written). It's also puzzling since I set the device_map to 'auto'.

Again, all par for the course and stuff I expected (having worked in HPC/ML/science for 3 decades, you get used to research codes).
I think Windows 11 is trying to unify the settings etc to something similar to mobile OSs, but at the same time is ditching the lingering remnants of touch interfaces from Windows 8.

IIRC, they now have guidelines to not assume spacing, icon sizes, etc optimized for touch unless touch is the only interface available.
To within a fraction of a percent? Probably not, but to within a reasonable fraction of total performance over 13 years... yes. Look at the initial separation and the final separation and see if the are larger or smaller or look the same. If you can't see it, use a larger monitor. I'd see the point of scaling them when looking at VFISX vs GOOG since there would be a huge range on the scale, but even there you can see the current draw downs are very similar (38% vs 28%). So you can see a 10% (<1% per year) difference in performance between things with a 250x range.

Look at the link for VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX where they start with a ~100% separation (4,5.5,8) and end with very low separation (<+/-3%). In June of 2020 there's a blip where VUSTX goes up 20-25% over VFISX (about a quarter of the original separation) and VFITX is about a third of that or 7-8% over VFISX. So you can see ~3% difference in performance over 12 years or (0.25% annualized).
They were doing fine without it, but Pokemon Go completely changed their trajectory as a company - just a huge influx of cash.
The conversation was about getting packages "in the main repo instead of an untrusted AUR". I used Tumbleweed a few years ago. To get a package selection as rich as the full AUR (which is very broad but not 100% comprehensive for niche packages), I had to use multiple package repos besides Packman, and many packages I wanted didn't ship Tumbleweed builds (reminding me of my experiences with Ubuntu's PPAs).
Novavax Covid-19 vaccine wins FDA authorization
Because that dirty tricks team was busy with Assange
Really neat tool!
Having said that - while I remain critical of the headline - the article is quite good (hey it's a NewYorker article so it's long).

I do think it reflects the author's experience a lot though. It doesn't reflect what I've seen when I use the app.
When I was a kid living in the country, we were told that most city people think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I am sure that's the same sort of myth as not knowing where chips come from, because I moved to the city in the early 90's (and now live in a metropolis!), and I've never met a person who believed that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Likewise everyone I know seems to have heard the claim, and just consider it a silly joke about how out of touch city people supposedly are.
Google IO 2022 showed off astonishing photogrammetry; street view + inside buildings: https://youtu.be/nP-nMZpLM1A?t=533
I think there was also similar reports with Apple recently. There was some kind of emergency hotline contact or something like that where authorities could request information where it was extremely time sensitive (I think the example given was human trafficking? although my memory was hazy), and they would be provided information without a warrant.
Did a Random Person on Twitter Name the Latest Covid Variant ‘Centaurus’?
That you wear for prescription glasses? Unlikely. Glass cannot be shaped into aspheres without very expensive grinding and polishing techniques. Multiple glass shapes are typically molded together to make an aspheric lens. The challenge is that molding the lens this way decreases the Abbe number significantly, which is why it’s not used for prescription eye glasses. If you have astigmatism, your lenses are most likely a polymer of some sort. Check with your optometrist.
> Any reason why everyone seems to be stuck on this problem?

Because they're all trying visual- or line-of-sight methods only, I call this the "robo-human" fallacy in ML: trying to automate the processes that humans undergo so that you eventually have a drop-in replacement for a human. But that is a myopic and unimaginative approach because you could be re-assessing the system itself and eliminating inefficiencies that lead to poor performance.

In the autonomous vehicles space, there is massive potential for self-organizing swarm algorithms to control pelotons of cars, rather than individual cars with no intrinsic sense of the general flow of traffic. You wouldn't need a top-down "commander" style architecture, it could be designed so that cars only talk to their immediate neighbors and emergent patterns keep traffic flowing smooth and fast.

I have always been skeptical of the attempts to reduce the amount of information about the road that a car receives. (Moving from stereoscopic to monocular vision to save the cost of one camera seems just stupid.) But people who dream of "smart cities" really seem to see little more than The Jetsons in their mind, and it limits the scope of research to our detriment.
Interesting premise for an article, but i was hoping for something a little deeper than - some leaves lack nutritional value (as being almost entirely fiber) and some leaves are poisonous.
Restaurants have no margin to begin with. In the before times, delivery guys made bank on tips and the food sold at retail.

Now you have big VC companies bleeding money while stealing the tips and dumping more costs on the consumer, which further hurts the restaurant. It’s a gross business.
With farmers being attacked, there won't be cooking oil for this soon enough...
I have a good friend who, by these standards, has accumulated a massive sleep debt. He's in his 40's now and is still as sharp as ever. This is just one example, of course, but it appears it's sustainable for some people (or, they have a much greater capacity for debt).
That's literally the point of cities. Living outside of a city has its tradeoffs.
The leaker!
Thanks. Guess I missed that part in the article.
I still like Pokemon Go, but being honest at this point I used it more like a Fitness app rather than a pure video game. After the initial boom, I think the game become a form of "sports social network" IRL, thanks to the Raids. Sadly after COVID, a lot of the friends I hang out playing, just stop it, and the game didn't innovate enough to be still fun to play in house to a large base.

So as much as I like the product, I find hard for Niantic to replicate the mainstream phenomena they had in 2016. I hope to be wrong, and they surprise with innovate like a AR wearable or a game with better mechanics. Sadly, I think those Layoffs are a reality check of the current state of their games.
If it's a frontend issue, then the community could rewrite it using the latest version of React, Inferno, Vue, etc.?
> Netflix arguably may have run itself into insolvency

Neither the balance sheet nor the income statement or cash flow statement supports your statement.
I'm not sure this counts as privacy, it's all data published publicly by the people themselves.
What abominable abbreviation is that?
Refinement types (for example) can be used to prove the code correct before even running it. Assertions typically can’t do that.
I am too. It’s totally fair to say “this person said that” and even add on “and I don't agree with it”.

But travis very very liberally and unduly applies very serious and damaging labels to people.

“This person didn’t immediately agree with me that this other person is an alt-right white supremacist so they’re a transphobic racist” is not okay.

That’s is where I draw the line. One can make a statement of fact that travisbrown doesn't agree with or for which the implications make the left uncomfortable and he’ll label you a white supremacist racist transphobic bigot which these days can be career ruining. I support people’s freedom to express themselves but I also think we need to hold people accountable for unduly and deliberately trying to ruin people’s lives.
A whole bunch of American infra is protected only with the fear of law. On one hand it makes things much simpler: you can do many things over the phone instead of filing signed and sealed forms in multiple places, on the other - the law enforcement is the common breaking point and it's not very well protected itself.
Someone asked how it compares to FetLife but deleted their question.

My response was:

Many more swingers.

I've never tried to use FetLife as a dating app. But in my city I recognize many people across the both (so yes a lot of people into kink, which often doesn't really overlap much with the swinger community).
And yet, there are plenty of BEVs on the market that will never have lower emissions than a Prius Prime. Some of this junk is leaving the factory with embodied carbon higher than the lifetime emissions of a plug-in hybrid. Looking at you, Polestar.
I will admit to only playing Pokémon Go, and nothing else in their portfolio. And I finally gave up on Go about 6 months ago, after playing since 2016.

(Maybe they made some amazing updates since then, and my points here are totally invalid…)

But what an extremely mismanaged product. Extremely buggy, extremely slow development, and extremely over-hyped AR features. Niantic was very slow in fixing any issues with the core game loop, and they basically never fixed issues with the later features, namely Battle League. I don’t even know where to start with the issues…opaque errors, location problems, low frame-rates, awful connectivity for Bluetooth accessories, buggy “Adventure Sync”, poor communications with users about issues or UI problems…

I played forever because of my perpetual love for Pokémon, and because it helped me connect with neighbors. Not that Niantic helped in any way at all there—community building was totally ad-hoc, via Facebook groups, or Facebook group chats, or Discord, or WhatsApp. But the entire time, I knew I was playing in a rickety house that was going to fall down at any moment. And it’s just not a surprise that house is starting to fall down.

(I just sort of drifted away, when my new dog demanded much more attention than my old fella. Turns out a year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever has a lot of energy, versus a 9-year-old Lab…)
Greenhouse was Sproutcore's response to Atlas which was a Cappuccino product developed by YC company 280North.

In principle it worked very differently though; as you said, it was mostly a code generator. Atlas was a port of Cocoa's Interface Builder (which uses state/value serialization as opposed to code generation) to the web.
After?

I'm the opposite, how can they fail with a game that reportedly [0] took $1.21B in revenue last year (well past its zenith, as you point out) and by its nature it's fixed (doesn't need any development).

It seems like it's going to be 200:1 profits to expenditure with those numbers.

You've got to do things seriously badly to mess that up??

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/pokemon-go-statistics/
I took that turn of phrase to mean something akin to the detachment she felt/feels to life. The whole article read to me like an ode to post post modern drifting in and out of superficial encounters. I ended up reading the whole thing while waiting to see if there was going to be a prod issue tonight. I'm definitely not the New Yorker's target audience.
Yeah it's the trendline's slope, but it might be a bit hard to compare them since the angles are not that dissimilar.
Completely agree. I think the prevalence of sequels in Hollywood underscores the point; successful content begets popular content at a higher rate than a complete unknown.
> Google's internal studies, "something like almost 40% of young people when they're looking for a place for lunch, they don't go to Google Maps or Search, they go to TikTok or Instagram."

Emphasis mine
HTTP 301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32089964 :~)
> The cost of keeping small non-perishable items around is zero.

If you're renting a small apartment, it's not.
… according to him (and you can’t ignore those examples are hand picked to support his agenda). Personally I’m tired of social vigilantism. Let the law punish these people if they’re really what he calls them. If they’re not harming you don’t go looking for trouble.
Is it problematic if you drink caffeine at all? Or only if you drink it late in the afternoon or night?
Sure thing my dude. You also cannot express fuel consumption in miles per gallon. You must express it in square millimeters. https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
pogo did a good job at killing ingress. Then niantic was like oops we forgot about you because you are the bastard child pokemon go is the gifted child. Lets rewrite the client from scratch but completely butcher it from both a UI and UX. Haven't touched it since they forced everyone to the prime client. I was heavily involved in both the local and national scene.

They also made the larger events (anomalies) paid entry, it was free before.
Why were "round-up resistant GMO crop plants" created?

Because the intent was to allow heavy use of glyphosate to wipe out weeds under the assumption that glyphosate is 100% harmless to humans so eating such a crop plant with so much glyphosate wouldn't matter.

That happens to be wrong but that was the assumption of many GMO plants. And why glyphosate is showing up in urine!
Now here's an interesting question - can the effects of BDNF from ketamine infusions (or LSD/psylocibin therapy) assist in repairing the damage caused by sleep deprivation?
Refinement types is exactly what you are looking for. Languages like F* (F-star), Dafny, and Liquid Haskell are good examples.
Ask HN: What are options for Musk if he loses the Twitter case in Delaware
I am wondering if he loses in the chancery court quickly, what are his options?

Can he appeal it in higher courts? If so, how many times can he appeal at different levels? Can this be appealed all the way to Supreme court?

I ask because both parties have practically unlimited money for legal teams and Musk will definitely want to drag it as long as he can if he loses in the Chancery court.
Yah, but what about all those hyper-productive impromptu meetings where someone interrupts you at your desk, or when you're on the way to the loo, and they spit out something that could've been sent in an email? Super important stuff, that.
Refinement Types… thats the phrase I was looking for. Thanks!
Sorry I’m not sure I understand. Watt hour is a unit of energy. Energy can be stored. They’re making batteries that store energy. A Watt is a unit of power. They’re not making power. So after a year of making batteries, they will have produced exactly 0 Watts. I guess in that sense you can measure their (power) output in Watts: they produce 0 Watts.

I think the confusion is that the unit of their product is not GWh. It’s (GWh of capacity) which is not the simple product of Watt and hour)
Maybe he did. Maybe he wasn't able to shred in time.
Definitely not a huge influx of original ideas, though.
> I've seen difference estimates, but you need ~5 acres of land to feed one person for a year with a balanced diet.

Check out “The Market Gardener” by Jean Martin Fortier. The quoted statement is a myth. Farms historically were nowhere near as large as today and we able to provide a balanced diet to those literally on the same block (think “in-fill market gardens”)
He’s actually been sued for defamation and there’s a bunch of history that isn't on his public Twitter account.
To be honest I already feel brain damaged from kid-related sleep disruption.
> With some infrastructure improvements we could have "virtual" trains. Vehicles would talk to each other on the highway

I think the idea is to get rid of the roads and have the robo vehicles travel instead on tracks. That increases fuel efficiency and bypasses a lot of AI challenges.
Salaried office workers receive far poorer wage and hour protections in the U.S. than you may be used to. Overtime above 40 hours per week is often unpaid, as is the case at Microsoft, and no amount of paid vacation is guaranteed by law. (Workers paid hourly do get overtime pay at 1.5 times the normal wage or higher.)

Microsoft's work/life balance is good in my experience; managers respect your time, product deadlines rarely or never cause long-hour rushes, and if your role lacks an on-call rotation then you won't be woken up in the middle of the night. But other companies may be far worse, and Microsoft is big enough that one person's experience never truly generalizes.

For time off in particular, as of my last experience 2 years ago, MSFT's US policy on paid time off was stingy by American tech company standards:

* There is no scheduled period of the year where everyone gets paid time off. (LinkedIn has 2 such weeks a year but it manages its HR independently of the rest of Microsoft.)

* You accumulate 3 weeks of vacation PTO per year of work for your first 6 years at the company, then 4 weeks per year for years 7-12, then 5 weeks per year for years 13+.

* Unused vacation days expire at the end of the calendar year following the calendar year in which you accumulated them.

* When you leave the company, you get a "vacation cash-out:" you are paid a lump sum equal to all your unused, unexpired vacation days.

* In addition to vacation, each calendar year you get 2 weeks of paid sick leave and 2 "floating holidays" to use like vacation days.

For comparison, at Google you accumulate 4 weeks of vacation per year starting just in year 2, while at Netflix and many smaller companies you get unlimited vacation at the cost of no cash-out.

In practice, there is more leeway at Microsoft on PTO than this policy allows. Even when I had an otherwise poor relationship with my manager, they still looked the other way when I went on Christmas/New Year's week vacation without filing an absence request or using up my vacation days. And I have heard of divisions where after a particularly stressful and overtime-heavy year, the division Vice President told everyone to take such an off-the-books holiday vacation.
That’s exactly it.
When's the last time Hollywood film studios 10x'd their revenue? Even looking at global box office, it increased from 23.1B in 2005 to 42.3B in 2019 pre-Covid.

That's not a growth rate that would attract a VC. Not a lot of new VC-founded studios, as a result. Would you count Quibi?

Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, cable networks, and movies are all competing for a finite set of attention, and there are more other things competing for that attention than ever before too. Netflix has aggressively expanded to compete globally in a way US cable never did, but that still has a ceiling.

If you ten-x'd the amount of 200-million-budget films made in a year you'd similarly hit a wall. At a certain point all you're doing is raising the bar necessary to attract consumer attention, vs attracting new attention and dollars.
What is Netflix? /S
I have heard that Commodore BASIC was MS BASIC 2.0, so somewhat behind the times when it came out.
so the tokens will be worthless or what. trading at 60 cents
> What's less often understood is that there is a more general principle here: that if you have a choice of several languages, it is, all other things being equal, a mistake to program in anything but the most powerful one.

Interesting how this advice really doesn't apply anymore. If you want to build fast, it's less about the language itself, and more about the community and packages. Trying to write a web app using Lisp will most likely set you far behind any startup that just uses NextJS.
in my neck of the woods if your far enough away that someone has to use binoculars or some other artficial means, even eyeglasses, they are breaking the law. you, the one being observed are not at fault.
> it lacks the political will to make great public transport

It has enough space to continually and affordably reduce population density. I'm sure other countries make greater public transit investments because they do not have this convenience at their disposal.
Hi! In a few other threads today people claimed that they / one can time the stock market.

Wanna start a trading venture with me? :-)
Anything is edible, at least once.
As another commenter points out, it completely depends on what feature of the data you're trying to highlight, or what question you're trying to answer.

I don't think anyone looking at this chart really cares about the inflation-adjusted value of one share in a specific year, I think the main point of this chart is the real returns of stocks, bonds and cash (or an approximation of such represented by the selected indices), over time.
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https://zero.sci-hub.se/3624/e781001ea990adec2dbedcb0e410f44...
Could you point me to some perfect philosophical writings?

Obviously, the authors must be beyond reproach in their lives. And, do ensure that everything in their writings & speech are “good” before their time, during their time, during our time, and for all future times to come.

Your other point seems to be that it’s better to avoid all this, and start from scratch. It’s good for you that you are able to inform yourself of everything with no materials. The rest of us need something to go off of.
To answer your question narrowly, some VC or incubator came up with this title. It would be interesting to trace the history, or maybe, maybe someone here is or knows the inventor of it.

It simply means early employee and carries no other significance. It generally implies some technical seniority but I've seen this given to lower level or lower experienced folks as well. It's interesting that internally, if ranks (levels) are shared, that when the company reaches a hundred or hundreds of employees, the early engineers will be readily identifiable and perhaps command a certain respect or deference.

I find it to be a form of title inflation, used to attract early employees.

You are correct, that founders will have an order of magnitude more equity. But also, note that non-denominated plain ole "engineers" will have an order of magnitude less equity than founding engineers. Surely you must agree that they also carry nearly the same risk. As an employee earning startup market rate ($160-$180k) your risk is on par with those who come on at A or B rounds, so yes this is a sweet deal IMO, title inflation aside.

In a very real way, your risk is actually much less than later employees, even series A. By that time, the equity is much more expensive to exercise. At "founding engineer" time, it's cheap enough that you don't even have to think about it. Just early exercise it.
His comments are about an outspoken sect of political and self proclaimed intellectual “elites” who have a particular opinion on population he disagrees with

I’m not sure why I should assume Marc is automatically part of this group. Because he is in the same tax bracket?

Again, for me this would be like hearing a person of lower income describe the opinion of a group within their own economic status - say, a religious sect - whom they disagree with, and immediately downplaying it because they’re both poor.

I can’t lump all rich people in the same bunch, sorry.
Agreed, I actually have never heard of Pokémon Go until late last year, imagine my surprise when I learnt that it's not only hugely popular, but even those who don't usually play games it as well!
The article says he felt slighted by the CIA. What was the reason? Did he not get a promotion?
Makes sense! Thanks @pbhjpbhj!
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