skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more you study people from thousands of years ago the more you realize they were exactly the same as we are now, just in a different environment.

You can learn a lot about people that way.
Yep! I first encountered it in Tiger, and, unlike most of my favourite apps from that time, it's kept going strong.
The history of philosophy, sure.

The history of philosophers, I would disagree.

I once saw someone post online that the best way to get into someone’s thought was to read a biography of them. After all, their thought is a reflection of them and the material conditions in which they lived. Their aspirations, tribulations and the potential they saw in a world they wanted to interpret.

Sue Prideaux has a good one on Nietzsche and reading about his education really sets the scene for BGE and Zarathustra, which often confused me before. His father’s early death ‘doomed him’ into the mindset that led to his maniacal study of the will to power, and possibly his own early demise.

Knowing about Nietzsche’s life makes me appreciate what he was getting at, which is useful if you’re not used to his flowery style. It helped me identify more with him, and against him. I know more of what kind of man he was, and that I am very different.
I'm not aware of any time GCC does that except due to C++'s promotion rules (e.g. float + double -> double), which is a problem with C++, not the compiler. I write deterministic software using floating point in C++.
But Apple needs TSMC. Not saying you’re wrong, but TSMC also has leverage. TSMC doesn’t want to price Apple out, but at the same time, Apple can’t just pack up and go to a competitor. At the nodes they’re working at, going to a competitor could require a complete relayout with new design rules.
The worlds top 62 richest are all outliers. Little can be drawn from them that represents the general population. As men are distributed more to the extremes you'd expect to see more men here. This excuses nothing and explains nothing.
PyTorch doesn't offer an inplace softmax which contributes about 1GiB extra memory for inference (of stable diffusion). Although all these are not significant improvements comparing to just switch to FlashAttention inside the UNet model.
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what about those remote vehicles they use for treasure hunting? The seem to be able to go down far deeper than what is being talked about here.
I couldn't disagree more. By studying history of philosophy you learn a lot about the process itself, no matter if the conclusions might seem irrelevant or outdated by the current standard enforced by new contributions. After all, I find it quite naive you will not make the very same mistakes that your predecessor did, haven't you been somewhat cognizant of their work and perspective.
Maybe there are some medical experts here which could resolve some questions I have reading this. Thanks in advance.

> Researchers analyzed de-identified data from the fertility tracking app, Natural Cycles. Users of the app provided it information on their temperature and their menstrual cycles. They also had the option to consent to the use of their de-identified data for research.

Isn't this inherently vulnerable to create a self-selection bias?

> Of the total, 1,342 participants experienced a change in cycle length of eight or more days, comprising 6.2% of vaccinated individuals and 5.0% of unvaccinated individuals.

Doesn't this hint at some other factor at play? Looking at this, my assumption would be that exposure to the virus either though a vaccine or through infection is a likely culprit for these changes.
> It's my opinion that a lot of science today is theoretical BS

Well, at least in computer science (ML) it's not what I see. It's very much empirically driven and with a heavy engineering vibe. A little bit more science would often help imho, but papers without strong result are hard to publish, even if they improve our understanding of something. It sometimes feels a bit like a large corporate research lab, which is only a small part of science. We do not only create, we want to understand!
My friend's handwritten site for our band is what the web was always meant to be
Yeah, the problem is indeed in the attention computation.

You can do something like that but it's far from optimal.

From memory consumption perspective, the right way to do it, is to never materialize the intermediate matrices.

You can do it, by using a customop, that compute
att = scaledAttention(Q,K,V) and the gradient dQ,dK,dV = scaledAttentionBackward(Q,K,V,att,datt)

The memory needed for these ops is the memory to store Q,K,V,attn,dQ,dK,dV,dattn + extra temporary memory.

When you do the work to minimize memory consumption, this extra temporary memory is really small : 6attention_horizon^2number_of_core_running_in_parallel numbers.

But even though there is not much re computation, this kernel won't run as fast due to the pattern of memory access, unless you spend some time manually optimizing it.

The place to do it is at the level of the autodiff framework aka tensorflow or pytorch, with low level c++/cuda code.

Anybody can write some custom kernel, but deploying, maintaining them and distributing them is a nightmare. So the only people that could and should have done it, are the tensorflow or pytorch guys.

In fact they probably have, but it's considered a strategic advantage and reserved for internal use only.

The mere mortals like us, have to use some workarounds (splitting matrices, Kheops, gradient checkpointing... ) to not be too much penalized by the limited ops of the out of the box autodiff frameworks like tensorflow or torch.
The vast majority of Apple chips are phones, not Macs. Samsung is neck & neck and their top end phones are definitely competitive, performing better in many ways for many people.
The errors have already been pointed out by multiple comments.

Opening the article, it is immediately obvious that the author sourced his material from random Js blogs.
He understands very little about the v8 engine and just fills the gap with those material which are obviously wrong.

On the hand, he can be happy that his article made it here where he would be corrected for free.

Hope the author hangs out here...
I've been using the MX Anywhere mouse from Logitech for over a decade now and I think it's had this feature for most of that time.
Obviously it depends on whether people like the activity being banned or not?
My thought is margin is low on apple but volume is high. They also are a good partner helping to push the process forward. AMD and NVIDIA are probably more profitable than apple for tsmc but volumes are much lower.

I also think the ability to improve tier prices as fast as they have is directly related to apple’s volumes.
I thought most donated clothing ends up going to "the rag trade".
Will be interesting if Samsung buys TSMC 3nm capacity for their top-end :-)
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Dev without Ops, why we're building Vercel for Back end
As a meteorologist, Hurricane Ian is the nightmare storm I worry about most
> Unfortunately I working mostly on cross platform desktop applications and for that Rust doesn't really have any good libraries.

This can be said about most alternatives to C/C++, though. I tried doing the same in D, Nim, even Golang - and every time I tried to create a decent multi-platform GUI I hit a wall. There were multiple projects, some outdated, some abandoned, and the rest was just incomplete.
Wait-- you are saying that crypto is a good option to avoid financial regulations.

the regulators might view that as criminal.
(hmm, visited link)... ahh.

For other people passing through the comments, that post was on HN several months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376777 with 673 points and 304 comments. There is a lot of interesting material in there to read too.
That is a nice insight.
That may be true, but you don't need a fundamentally different number representation in order to throw away most of it. Also, the die size cost is quite small.

The biggest saving you could make is probably foregoing exactly rounded results, and only stipulate that the result has to be within ±1 lsb of the true value. That would save multipliers from computing a bunch of bits that don't end up in the result anyway, except for the rare case where they decide the rounding. That would probably be a good trade-off for most AI chips. For general purpose CPUs I don't think it is worth the breakage.
I am not a fan of the new equality movements (that long exchanged the term for equity). But it consists of distinct groups as well, either naive academic students or billionaires that declared themselves to be philanthropists that know better than others. I mean why would they be billionaires otherwise?

But biological essentialem does exist too, comes with allegedly easy explanations and is often just wrong.

At some point freedom does collide with equality and finding the right balance is no easy task and something any society needs to come to a consensus to. You cannot force solidarity and restrictions on freedoms usually demand explanations as well.

Today racism is brought back by those fighting for equality, the right, which to be honest is academically mostly useless and infantile, comes with alternative science or decreases freedom in the name of security, militarism or fighting terrorism. Although a gay cruise missile is probably seen as progress by the other group. They are that gullible.

In the end both, freedom and equality decline and we can look at some distorted kids fighting about who is less mentally handicapped. Yes there are biological factors that form humans, yes a society that can take pride of itself should see that members can participate. Trying to make everyone equal ended in the worst totalitarian nightmares and a society where only a select few can harvest the fruits of labor is doomed to collapse or needs to enact a lot of violence on the population.
I take it back, it was me, not you, who read it wrong. I had remembered the Model S as being a quad motor vehicle, incorrectly.

Accordingly, I'll grant that this isn't a good example of an EV making it past the million-mile mark. I've made the case elsewhere for why it's not such a crazy thing to expect.
Pretty much everything pre-enlightenment is really smart sounding nonsense. Understanding pre-enlightenment philosophy is mostly just useful as historical or cultural context for how intellectual people thought at the time, or for understanding the path human civilization took to knowing what we know today.

Everything after the enlightenment, but before modern biology / neuroscience / physics, is also really smart sounding nonsense, but is getting closer to something approximating "reality".

Once we get to the naturalist philosophers in the 20th and 21st centuries (many of whom are biologists, physicists, or neuroscientists by training), we start getting some real meat.
How is that guy not selling one of these to every goalie in the NHL right now?
The alternative to Philosophy is The Matrix (flawless global alienation).

Our thinking is unconsciously molded by philosophers that died hundreds or even
thousands of years ago.
Note that the English word was derived from Old French, not Modern French. And Old French noun boton/bouton (”bud”) is itself formed from the Old French verb boter/bouter, “to thrust.” It’s had a variety of meanings in French generally related to ”thing that pushes out.”

Google Translate is not a very complete dictionary. You can find many more definitions in Trésor de la langue française informatisé :

https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/bouton

It means “projection” in the sense of ”bit that sticks out,” like its use in goldsmithing or for the foot at the bottom of a harp.
You also get a lot of finely incremental costs and the ability to grow. Like, can you really buy 0.1% more IT people? Well, yeah if you already have a thousand. Otherwise you have to buy in bigger chunks. So you save money because you can timeshare talent and hardware. And the ability to write a larger check to scale is valuable for consumer facing applications you're hoping by to grow.
Well, in my case I am pro practicality. I can understand 60-70% of the spoken English and almost 99% of the technical one, so with Spanish and English I can communicate with a huge chunk of people across the world. OFC writting and speaking it's very difficult to me, as I live on a non-native country, but I'm able to talk the basics of a subject at least.

With Interlingua, these people are trying to do with Latin and Romances what Spanish did 500-1000 years ago first with the peninsula (Spanish was the lingua franca between the Iberian kingdoms) and later across the pond.

To me it looks as if the German, Dutch, English and Norwergian/Sweden/Dane language speakers tried to create a proto Neogermanic language to be able to be understood between themselves, when they already have the English language.
If any, they could just radically change the English spelling being closer to the Nordic languages (cutting down the vowel amount to a max of 7).
What happens if I fill out the form BUT I am an easypark user? Does it delete my account?
> legitimate useful applications of deepfakes

De-aging actors such as Luke Skywalker in the Book of Boba Fett.
Not really - how could it be worse than the status quo? Worse case you could use turnstile, no?
No mention of hcaptcha. Is this still worth it if you are hcaptcha user?
This is the "Nordic model", and it doesn't seem to produce significantly different or better outcomes; sex work remains underground because it's still criminalized, just on the buyer side of the transaction.
SV is getting a lot of mind share because of packaging 'technology' into end consumer products/services iphone, facebook social networks etc and yes taking a big share of the profits. But for some decades already its been a global network and supply chain enabling all of the supporting components and systems.

TSMC & Samsung manufacture in Taiwan, Korea with ASML machines from the Netherlands, cloud servers running Linux (finish developer) enable app developers in every corner of the world.
You're already giving them your name, phone number, home address, and extensive details about your past whereabouts. While the idea of an interviewing bait and switch seems incredibly dumb to me, if there is a serious need to verify identity then that's what ID is for. And it's not like it needs to be at the very beginning, it can be the last step before the offer is formally extended, by which point the relationship is exactly as developed as it will be when you submit it for your I-9.
I mean, in theory all services are sold to you with the goal of making a profit, so there must be some margin baked in, but AWS has enough margins to run the Amazon retail store as basically a non-profit while also making enough money to finance Bezos's penis rocket rides.
Without hurricanes, Floridians would run out of water. Hurricanes bring rainfall all over the state. The aquifers would collapse, causing sinkholes all over the state. The rivers would stop flowing and become full of smelly algae instead.

People from other states probably think hurricanes are scary but most Floridians (except the ones on the coast or the ones from Cuba) don’t panic until it’s a category 5th hurricane. With the exception of CAT 5s, hurricanes have never been as bad as the news portrays them.

The biggest negative has been the noticeable increases in the mosquito population but it’s only temporary. Maybe Project Verily or something similar can help with that.
If you're going to visit the Florence archaeological site[0], you may as well go see the famous water tower[1]:

[0] https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower
>It’s not like TSMC builds the machines. They just operate them

you clearly have no idea on chip manufacturing.

if foundry just operate machine then why GlobalFoundries licenses Samsung 14nm? it just operating machines, right? just operating machines, why you need to licenses the process? isn't ASML or other machine vendors cover everything you need? just operating machines required R&D on operating machines?

https://techreport.com/news/26336/globalfoundries-licenses-s...
I have the DevTerm, it's pretty neat.
There's a huge difference between a Dropbox and an Uber here.

Dropbox is a technology company. This is famously a place where deeply technical leaders can achieve competitive advantage. The whole company exists to support the tech, so if the tech fails, bad.

Uber (and most startups really) don't do tech, they use tech to drive sales. Of course the tech is important but it's a solution not a driver. Here I agree that a "well-rounded" tech-average CTO can be advantageous.

Tech strategy is where everything converges. If products literally live or die by it, you better have a crack technologist at the top.
Learn to pause your train of thought and say, "I don't know, what do others think?"

I find myself sometimes realising that I am talking a lot about something and then I wonder how it must come across. e.g. "The only proper way to do this is with microservices, this other idea seems to be doomed to fail....I don't know, what do others think?"

Works wonders and helps you to realise something that you might not have thought about without sounding like a dickhead.
I feel like there's a middle step missing from this article (or I just missed it reading quickly) - did they build their own data center? Where are these new non-AWS servers physically located?
> I do not expect a shell to be secure.

You should. The example with "rm -Rf" is a problem with ergonomics/usability; what definitely would be way more scary is e.g. if the shell had an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in its path processing code.

$ /bin/sh

$ cd /some/path+evilmagic+'echo pwned!' # that's just a normal directory name, allowed by POSIX

$ /bin/vulnsh # prints "pwned!"
Hah, except that you get more of what you subsidize. Besides being immoral, it’s destructive to society.
And, importantly, you can turn off your commitment to spending in a second.
>Indeed it is, point out where I did that?

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about my country's government. it's like you missed the entire point of what I was saying
It's probably suppressed.
The common man is being sent to die for elite goals.

In Germany, people are rebelling against the usa.
They believe Joe Biden had nordstream destroyed
"As for the pair-bonding thing, it reads like it came out of a bible pamphlet. "This idea feels right, and is consistent with my ideology, so it must be right"."

Why do you think that? There are objective reasons for parents sticking together - success of the child and the economics of being in a pair tend to positive things. Although I will say that I don't know of any resources that investigate these on things like polygamy - they focus on the common stuff like marriage, divorce, and sometimes remarriage.
LEDs themselves don't really get warm, but LED bulbs that plug into a wall socket have a transformer in their base to step mains voltage down to something the LED can handle, and that can get quite warm.
There is no asymmetry. Regular business outsourcing isn't deceitful, it is expected and encouraged.

If a business promises up and down that they don't outsource or subcontract and do, then of course it is amoral as well.

I rarely see the 2nd situation with businesses.
You can, in multiple ways: there's the standard single-fare train tickets that you can get from vending machines, but they carry a 1 euro surcharge over the normal fare (the paper cards still are RFID-enabled so people can open the boarding gates with them).

There's also the "anonymous" transport card that you can get for 7,50 and then pre-charge with a set amount. It will act as a pre-paid card rather than a debit card, so you can't board unless there's a sufficient amount stored on the card. But since most people then use a debit card to transfer money to their public transport card, it's not really anonymous anyway.

So most residents here choose the personal variant.
Philosophizing a little bit (and in agreement with one of the quotes in the conclusion), I think the bittersweet feelings are precisely because very few people try to understand the box, because they consider it to be a black box.

But it's often a white box in reality. When the electric push buttons came out, you could trace the wires and usually see the mechanisms which were being triggered. The doorbell, for example.

But curiosity rarely seems to push us in that direction, it seems.
Black is pretty nice with the defaults, but it certainly is configurable these days.

It can take command line options, or it can be configured in your Poetry pyproject.toml file.

https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage_and_configurati...
Why do you call the whole data a sample? Why do you call a year incomplete - the fire season is practically over, we had the first week of rain already, the grass is green again.

Anyway, your prediction that I am paying too little for fire insurance seems wrong so far, isn’t it.
I think this is an 'okayish' position to take. There are some people who absolutely can't handle being wrong, and I've personally seen them wreck havoc when they get out of their depth.

However, there has to be a limit to the nature of the questions that are being asked. If I'm spending my free time to go check some place out because they're telling me that they might be willing to give me a job, then I'm going to be kind of put out when they start asking me questions about what the 50th letter is in shakespeare's macbeth. The questions have to be somewhat on point. This isn't a medieval system of patronage where I have to be subject to every whim of my patron. We owe each other to not waste each other's time. And if they're going to 'break trump' then I don't see why I shouldn't as well.

I can hear the objection though, 'oh primes are relevant to development.' But are they really? Maybe for advanced data structures like hashes, but what are you doing with a web framework that necessitates you write your own hash function? Besides, if you know about prime numbers, but not weak primes, strong primes, strong pseudo primes, safe primes, etc do you really know about primes and their CS applications? No, you just picked up some random trivia in high school and you're put out that everyone isn't as excited about it as you are.
Why would I use this instead of just using e.g. a postgres jdbc driver? How would I use this? A query compiler library (or service)? How do you do a join? Group by? CTEs? Window functions? Transactions? Bulk inserts/updates? Index and constraint management? Temporary tables? Why does the read endpoint have a hard limit?
CPython relies on reference count.

other python implementations, like PyPy, does not.
what data sources did you use? im interested in working on something similar.
I think some of this is due to the presence (until just recently) of abundant VC money, encouraging tech companies to trade of money for time by outsourcing their server admin (or part of it, anyway). It's one less thing you have to hire for and spend time getting good corporate policies and procedures on.

But, now that the emphasis seems to have shifted from growth-at-all-costs to where-can-we-cut-costs, I think there may be more organizations with a large enough server load to realize that they can do it cheaper (or even just get a different cloud provider to do it cheaper).
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