skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how much scaling laws apply here, since this is a seq-to-seq model instead of a autoregressive causal model. It's interesting to see AlexaTM performing better than GPT-3 on SuperGLUE and SQuADv2, but it fails on Chain of Thought prompt, which is a bummer. So, is it because it's a different model or because it is positively leveraging multilingual tokens? I wish they compared this architecture to a classic GPT family model.
Facebook has their own internal reviews for their own internal projects and forks of open source projects. I think the issue came down to Facebook adding anyone working on the project to have the ability to merge code to the open source project.

Typically if a company wants to contribute to open source, you have to create a PR and have it be reviewed and merged by the maintainers of the open source project on top of internal review. Facebook management decided to circumvent that process.
Research on psychotherapeutic use of hallucinogens is done on this premise. At this point I believe it would be unethical to perform such a study. It would risk exposing subjects to psychological harm.

Edit: on the premise that the environment is crucial for the outcome. This means creating a safe comfortable environment.
Maybe with these new drugs will show otherwise in time.
This is one of the reasons I love my Mac, though it’s total happenstance it works this way.

Since the Mac uses Command-c/v it doesn’t interfere with the standard Unix terminal’s Control functions. But you can easily trigger the Mac’s functions (such as Commamd-f for find) without worry.

It sidesteps the problem Windows users have that used to frustrate me too.

Edit: I looked it up. Early Macs didn’t even have a control key. It was added later for terminal client compatibility.
I honestly can't tell exactly when the thread meandered into satire.
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"
This made me laugh out loud, the first image at first glance looked like "Jizz" with a picture of a pizza.
arent you just describing the business from #1 that does this method and fails because they have no money and no customers?
CRA now frowns heavily on "personal service corporations." There is no tax advantage (in fact there's disadvantages) to incorporating unless you have more than one client.

So it ends up being sole proprietorship only, which has far less tax advantages.

I mean, as a tax payer and citizen who paid exorbitant personal income taxes for years as an employee of a FAANG, I think this is probably equitable. But as a contractor, now... damn I'd like to be able to take advantage of corporate tax rates like I could 13 years ago when I did this last.
Nope - It's not a robbery.

The old mantra of possession is 9/10ths of the law is and always has been false. If i have something i own it. That is the one fundamental truth. Now someone can come and try and take it back from me by force (Person, Court System, Rebels, Corporations) if they can exert more violence on 'me' than i can exert on 'Them'.

The problem with crypto is the 'keys' are what crypto is. No nationstate can come and take that away from me. They can kill/imprison/fine me, but then neither of us will have it. You would have to hack/fork the chain for that to happen (Which has happened) or find some social way around it (If i have it on a centralized exchange, if i have a hackable hard drive, found my keys on AWS, etc etc.) Additionally, with things like Monero, and tornado swap good luck trying to find them.
There prior earnings had substantial revenue from crypto. That’s mostly dried up. Then you’ve got the GME reputation hit.

Meanwhile fidelity who avoided crypto and has a great reputation saw & continues to see growth
This axe is heavy, and the destruction wrought by it saddens me. I need to be compensated for this.
remember: the independent is a tabloid owned by a Russian oligarch
Functional programming is representing the program state as a single expression, so that the compiler could do funky maths stuff in reordering things in it. It has little to do with immutability or functions per se.
And once even throwing darts to pick stocks stopped producing big gains.

The same thing basically happened in the run-up to dot-bomb. It was really easy to make book with day-trading in 1999 or so. See also crypto.
I think a big part of that is simply thinking that it all requires a response. It doesn't. I forget people's names with abandon, ditto their preferred pronouns and I'm sure they'll correct me if I get it wrong. I have a friend who changed their name and even after a decade I will still occasionally call him by his old name, not because I don't respect him (I do, very much so) but simply because I wasn't wired to see names as dynamic but static and I always have to think of him as 'x who changed his name to y' rather than 'just y'.

The whole thing to me feels as though there are a lot of people making a fuss about absolutely nothing just so they have something to make a fuss about. To drive the divide you need that fuss, not the request to change pronouns or to try to strive for racial equality. Those make sense, and if someone really disagrees with them then they won't be able to stop society changing around them.

Which is a lot of what this is all about: people rejecting change simply because that wasn't the world they were born into and they think that it is in their power to reject change in the environment. They're living dinosaurs who will eventually be overcome by history, even if they have their occasional spasms.
Surely having separate DBs all sit on the One Big Server is preferable in many cases. For cases where you really to extract large amounts of data that is derived from multiple DBs, there's no real harm in having some cross-DB joins defined in views somewhere. If there are sensible logical ways to break a monolithic service into component stand-alone services, and good business reasons to do (or it's already been designed that way), then having each talk to their own DB on a shared server should be able to scale pretty well.
Or when making money became harder.

Amazing the number of people I personally know who took 1 year of day trading to be the “norm” and made big life decisions based on their results. From quitting good jobs to buying houses they can’t afford, all because they made big money in 2021 and thought they could keep repeating it every year.
> But it’s specific, and no-one will want to take over your job.

It really depends what's on the table. Offer just half of the cost savings vs an equivalent AWS setup as a bonus (and pocket the other half) and I'm sure you'll find people who will happily do it (and you'll be happy to pocket the other half). For a lot of companies even just half of the cost savings would be a significant sum (reminds me of an old client who spent thousands per month on an RDS cluster that not only was slower than my entry-level MacBook, but ended up crapping out and stuck in an inconsistent state for 12 hours and required manual intervention from AWS to recover - so much for managed services - ended up restoring a backup but I wish I could've SSH'd in and recovered it in-place).

As someone who uses tech as a means to an end and is more worried about the output said tech produces than the tech itself (aka I'm not looking for a job nor resume clout nor invites to AWS/Hashicorp/etc conferences, instead I bank on the business problems my tech solves), I'm personally very happy to get my hands dirty with old-school sysadmin stuff if it means I don't spend 10-20x the money on infrastructure just to make Jeff Bezos richer - my end customers don't know nor care either way while my wallet appreciates the cost savings.
Even in Boston, the metro transit authority (MBTA) has talked about the options for full electrification of commuter rail costing 18 billion+. https://d2o8eokdkim9o8.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/20....
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"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make,"
- Lord Farquaad
Ability and Political Will are two different things.
I will drop this apropos of nothing about the time that Scott Adam's created numerous sock puppets to influence discussion about himself on a "popular with the technorati" community blog - https://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos
> As CEO, I approved and took responsibility for our ambitious staffing trajectory—this is on me

So, find a decent replacement for CEO.
Providing material aid to a group known to carry out terrorist attacks explicitly against americans(among others) is within the jurisdiction of the US because the US is the group's target. Dutch law is not what the US is prosecuting. Even if the group was named a terrorist group in her country, if it did not attack americans the US has no claim to make but that isn't the case. Similarly, if a person in europe gave aid to snowden they can be charged in the US for aiding a fugitive.
Ayup.

And yet, people still regularly choose to go down a path that leads there. Because business decisions are about satisficing, not optimizing. So "I'm 90% sure I will be able to cope with problems of this type but it might cost as much as $10,000,000" is often favored above, "I am 75% sure I might be able to solve problems of this type for no more than $500,000," when the hypothetical downside of not solving it is, "We might go out of business."
Silicon Valley (the satire TV show) already covered this exact scenario. Mike Judge is a brilliant writer.

https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ?t=17
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323757.
One running LibreElec and one as a web server running my Amsterdam ferry app https://pont.app. But the most “creative” has got to be the one that measures IAQ and CO2 in my office. It also runs Prometheus and Grafana as a front end. Custom 3D printed case for the sensors which are attached with embedded magnets.
Across the three currently live Pis I have:

* Adblocking DNS on unbound and nsd with policies to serve different results on WG mesh

* Tiny Tiny RSS

* Gitea and Youtrack

* Some home-built apps with Grafana and Postgres

* Homechart

* Wireguard mesh for deployment and on-the-go access to those services

Everything is managed through a Nix flake and deployed through deploy-rs.

Nextcloud, Zabbix and Docspell are running on an old laptop which I plan to migrate to a Pi4 when I can get my hands on it.
slow and steady doesn't win the race :p I think FP would have to get big before getting any bad rap, and I don't think it will
"Amazon is known for its competitive workplace culture, and most Amazonians seem to get satisfaction from making a behavioral round intense, much more so than most interviewers at other companies."

Ugh. No thank you! What a nasty culture that sounds like.

I suppose this kind of confrontational interview must be an effective way to filter out the people who would prefer to collaborate with teammates at work, instead of competing with rivals.
Because climate models have largely delivered accurate predictions since the 1970s.

> In general, past climate model projections evaluated in this analysis were skillful in predicting subsequent GMST warming in the years after publication. While some models showed too much warming and a few showed too little, most models examined showed warming consistent with observations, particularly when mismatches between projected and observationally informed estimates of forcing were taken into account. We find no evidence that the climate models evaluated in this paper have systematically overestimated or underestimated warming over their projection period. The projection skill of the 1970s models is particularly impressive given the limited observational evidence of warming at the time, as the world was thought to have been cooling for the past few decades (e.g., Broecker, 1975; Broecker, 2017).

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...
+1, also this is a teacher model. The implications are huge here as AWS will likely spin this into an offering like they did with their other AI products. Building a model downstream of GPT-3 is difficult and usually yields suboptimal results; however 20b is small enough that it would be easy to finetune this on a smaller dataset for a specific task.

You could then distill that model and end up with something that’s a fraction of the size (6b parameters for example, just under 1/3, would fit on commercial GPUs like 3090s). There are some interesting examples of this with smaller models like BERT/BART or PEGASUS in Huggingface Transformer’s seq2seq distillation examples.
If Google is so concerned with productivity maybe they should stop having people work on products that they are just going to shut down a month after launching them.
Under heavy load, electric motors get hot faster (which makes them less efficient). It doesn't surprise me to hear they're having problems with towing.
Wholeheartedly agree. What's more, it seems to me like there's a large segment of the art industry that's very much in denial right now about this transition. You see stuff like "the human touch can't be replicated" or "but the algorithm will never [thing xyz] like a human", and then when it does do thing xyz like a human, the goalposts just get moved again. A lot of my wonderful art friends are in this kind of denial right now, and it makes sense, to be honest -- losing your job to a machine sucks and is scary!
Google's freeze was supposed to last two weeks since May.
Are they still doing the freeze?
I can tell you that I have information indicating that RIGHT NOW major American retailers are losing LARGE amounts of money in stores where they don't have electronic tags. There is simply not enough labor to keep pace with price tag changes given the inflation.
Hah! It may have very well looked like that given the time constraints they were working with.
I wouldn't go as far as "falsehood". Leap seconds aren't inherent to timekeeping. It's easier to do without them, and a system like that isn't wrong.
> This is not inherently true. Whether it's true or not is down to your implementation. You can most certainly have reliability and security problems while doing microservices.

Obviously I didn't claim "you cannot have reliability or security problems while doing microservices".
Not trino, but yes for Presto. But it was already confusing because there are/were two Presto projects with one being a fork of the other?
Hey, programmer time is expensive. It is our duty to always do the easiest, most wasteful thing. /s
> turn off the bedroom light in 5 minutes

This actually works already with Siri (and as mentioned in a sibling comment with google Home as well). I just tried that for fun a few days ago and was surprised that it actually worked.
They didn't avoid cryptocurrency..they've been mining. BTC offerings in friendly nations (Canada).
Anger as company makes money selling stuff to people that they desperately want and which allows us to maintain our historical outlier standard of living.

I wish that everyone could get what they want. The people who hate capitalism could transport themselves to an alternate reality where they make the rules and live in the hell of their own creation.
His salary is like $300k and the stock options he was granted as the pandemic growth hit break even at some $300/share (it's $9/share right now).
> The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010.

I had no idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent
This happened in 1998-1999 too. People got online trading accounts, did great and then decided to try to invest for a living.

You should not take investment advice from people who have been doing it less than a decade. It takes time to sort out the lucky from the smart.
I can only state for myself that on my Mac running chrome, the site works OK. I don't get any plugin messages.
This new outage has occurred almost exactly 24hrs after the first one - is there some automated process tripping everything?

The incident states that it's a power issue (like they said last night), but none of my servers were rebooted last night, so it's clearly something affecting the network level, and it seems to be affecting all servers.
We have no issue with finite resources. We have plenty of energy and raw materials for everything we want for a long time.

The challenge is working out how to access those resources in ways that don’t harm our lives. That is a technically possible challenge, but the problem is that it is much more efficient in the short term to harvest resources in a destructive manner. Without some sort of collective action, the destructive manner simply outcompetes the sustainable methods.
New open source Common Lisp 3D graphics project – call for participation
Hello everyone,

I'm putting out this feeler to gauge interest in developing a new open source 3D graphics in Common Lisp. Hoping to assemble a team for this.

The idea would be to develop a system along the lines of Blender/Maya/Houdini, but oriented towards the strengths of Common Lisp.

Looking for contributors of all kind who are enthusiastic about the idea.

I'm an old-time 3D developer who has worked in CL on and off for many years. But I don't consider myself an expert, and am hoping to attract a cool group of people.

A little about me:
• wrote 3D animation software used in “Jurassic Park”
• software R&D lead on “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” movie
• senior software developer on “The Hobbit” films

A proof of concept system I have been developing over the past few months:

Source: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Demo: https://youtu.be/NJe4isZ7NHI

I am well aware that this will be a large undertaking. This is my first such project, so please bear with me as we figure out the process together.

Do get in touch if you are interested (kaveh808 on Reddit). I have a feeling this might lead to something exciting. :)

Regards,

Kaveh
Good luck taking down Bitcoin.
Thanks, that's helped me with pattern matching in C#
TL;DR - In large language models what matters most is the data, not the model size. And data is finite.
Sure, but this is all quibbling.

Join an early stage startup as a senior engineer and you'll probably be getting less than half or a third of a % of equity. If they even deign to tell you how many outstanding shares there are. Say that company gets super lucky and sells for a $1B? You might be lucky get $1M out of it. Assuming they didn't play funny business with the paperwork during acquisition, or dilute your shares a whole bunch.

$1M is a lot of money, but it's not "goodbye workforce" or "I'm off to invest in seeding my own startup" money, not when you have a family, home, and are still youngish.

Meanwhile the founders and other major stock owners will be doing quite well for themselves.

It's not unjust necessarily. But it definitely should inform just how much passion people put into the startups that hire them. Don't be fooled. Treat it like a job.
Yeah, the at the billions of rows mark it definitely makes sense to start looking at splitting things up. On the other hand, the company I worked for split things up from the start, and when I joined - 4 years down the line - their biggest table had something like 50k rows, but their query performance was awful (tens of seconds in cases) because the data was so spread out.
What? Fidelity has a huge digital assets division and literally added Bitcoin as a 401(k) option
These mystical experiences are part of the outcome, not an environmental variable. There maybe anecdotal or some other kind of evidence in the sense of what the effect of the supporting environment is on the long term.
Why would the whole original dataset need to be in memory all at once to operate on it value-by-value and put it into an array?
Vulnerability management policies considered harmful to shipping secure software
You can argue how much a change in quality of life it is, but not being able to travel or buy cheap plastic things is certainly a reduction in quality of life.
Are you complaining that when they cut their pay from 400k to 32k that wasn’t enough? Or are you complaining that they didn’t cut their 32k salaries down further?
If I remember correctly, in the movie it was hinted that the train’s mechanic (Wilford) invented a perpetual motion machine. I’m not sure if the original graphic novel or the TV shows suggests something similar.
> Last-resort emergency measures like solar radiation management (SRM), the injection of aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight (35). Whether to resort to such measures depends on the risk profiles of both climate change and SRM scenarios. One recent analysis of the potential catastrophic risk of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) found that the direct and systemic impacts are under-studied (36). The largest danger appears to come from “termination shock”: abrupt and rapid warming if the SAI system is disrupted. Hence, SAI shifts the risk distribution: The median outcome may be better than the climate change it is offsetting, but the tail risk could be worse than warming (36).

> There are other interventions that a better understanding of catastrophic climate change could facilitate. For example, at the international level, there is the potential for a “tail risk treaty”: an agreement or protocol that activates stronger commitments and mechanisms when early-warning indicators of potential abrupt change are triggered.

I like the idea of a "tail risk treaty" as a way for skeptical nations to hedge their bets and prepare for unilateral geoengineering.

> An existential risk is usually defined as a risk that cause an enduring and significant loss of long-term human potential (51, 52). This existing definition is deeply ambiguous and requires societal discussion and specification of long-term human values (52). While a democratic exploration of values is welcome, it is not required to understand pathways to human catastrophe or extinction (52). For now, the existing definition is not a solid foundation for a scientific inquiry.

Dark comedy.
That's a lot of staff - it means 1/5th of your coworkers got laid off...

I'm very bearish on Robinhood - I don't know if they have enough of a moat to defend themselves from other free stock trading apps. People have forgiven so many outages. The Gamestop saga was the straw that broke the camel's back for many.
> you still have the same amount of data to back up no matter what

But you can restore/back up the databases in parallel.

> If you need to backup/restore just one set of tables, you can do that with a single DB server without taking the rest offline.

I'm not aware of a good way to restore just a few tables from a full db backup. At least that doesn't require copying over all the data (because the backup is stored over the network, not on a local disk). And that may be desirable to recover from say a bug corrupting or deleting a customer's data.
"One who passes the sentence should swing the sword"

If it's good enough for a lord, must be good for the CEO.
Robinhood is cutting 23% of its staff