skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might view purpose as a property that every person has. It is a field that must be filled. Having an unfilled purpose field results in a feeling of emptiness which is unpleasant resulting in motivation to escape that feeling by finding meaning.

This is a poor model.

Viktor Frankl's man's search for meaning said that purpose is to live life as if every moment had purpose. At first I found that tautological and meaningless. Running on empty is a book that addresses this topic that I found very relevant and clarifying. It is a book about childhood emotional neglect. Effectively your parents probably didn't recognize your emotions and teach you how to handle them, they might not have seen you. This can result in extreme emotional repression, complete inability to manage yourself, counter dependence (being extremely against depending on anyone for anything), the feeling that if someone knew you they wouldn't like you, and a host of other problems. When you have blunted emotions, life feels empty. This emptiness is then interpreted as lack of purpose.

So you are asking a question that protects your ego. "Finding meaning" is the ego protecting version of "feeling less empty." Feeling empty is the result of blunted emotions. Blunted emotions are a result of lessons you didn't learn during childhood (that your parents might not have learned either).

This brings us back to Viktor Frankl's living every moment as if it had purpose. Living every moment as if it has purpose is equivalent to ensuring every moment is not empty which is equivalent to living a life for which the time you spend results in feeling. If you aren't consciously aware of your feelings (if your EQ is not high) or you are not able to manipulate them, it makes it really hard to understand what it means to be in search of feeling which makes it hard to grok what these "normal" people are trying to communicate when they say something like "live every moment as if it has purpose."

Feeling is purpose. Lack of purpose is lack of feelings -> lack of feelings is lack of purpose.

So what makes you feel?

This is solidly in the territory of a therapy level problem because if your emotions are blunted there is something you don't know you don't know because there is a host of things missing from your childhood. There are things that didn't happen as opposed to things that happened that were bad.

Running on empty was a pretty good book. It is worth a read to see if it resonates with you.
It seems wonderful for people who can't as easily use a keyboard, but for most people, this doesn't seem any easier than using a keyboard. Am I missing something?
I'm assuming you have an ergonomic keyboard? If so which one?
> spending 10 years in a home you don't enjoy has a mental cost to it.

You buy a house at the top, find out you don't like it, and you'll stay 10 years in it just to break even.
On a more serious note. I think that a lot of product production processes can be optimized way better than they are now. Especially in large companies, where people have become conservative. They think the current way of working is the most efficient, and aren't looking for more optimal ways to produce their products. I think there are some general methods that work in almost all companies that could be made into more general software solutions: e.g., tail analysis, logistic optimization, item clustering, similarity analysis, etc...
Does GH also take care of taxes? Sites like Gumroad are better suited from that aspect - plus there's mailing list, ratings, etc.
Not too bad. But there are already too many similar packages in the market. Maybe something new?
GitHub repo:
https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms
This lawsuit is open-source developers destroying open-source.
Alameda Research website taken down
How would you ensure each person gets the same amount?
It's absolutely possible to have missed FTX. It really isn't that well known or hyped. It's certainly not comparable to Ethereum....
You can just self host your own Mozzila Sync server too! There's documentation on self-hosting, just not sure how easy or difficult it is...
Well, CPython performance only started to matter after Guido got hired by Microsoft, the wonders of big corps.
If it works equally good like Apple Siri or Google Hey (or whatever its's called), then it will be ... totally useless? I can't imagine that they bring a better product than two of the richest companies in the world even can't figure out (perfectly). And if I need to read and adjust all my code for typos, I can just write it myself.

Because in my experience it is very often like "Call Peter" -> "Today it's sunny in NY".
I could see it maybe being important once github codepilot is embedded in it? You tell it roughly what you want and then adapt by hand. But it is kinda funny seeing parent make such claims so early
How to audit your sharding database algorithm and more about DistributedSQL
> local banks harassed me with their KYC/AML requirements

So you use crypto to break the law, and you believe you are justified in doing that. Thing is, most of the people using crypto for crime are simply using it to not pay taxes.

> Wow, shitcoins sound so much worse than pieces of paper that are propped up by a legal decree, which legitimacy rests solely on the monopoly on violence. Wait, does it actually sound worse?

Yes, it absolutely does sound worse.

On one side, we have the United States - the largest economy in the history of the world, backed by the government with the largest income of any government in history, a court system, the police and their "monopoly on violence".

On the other side, you have a cryptocurrency backed by nothing, created by anonymous individuals, with no form of conflict resolution whatsoever.

Cryptocurrencies have been around for almost as long as the smart phone. You would think one or two of you would have taken even a first year economics course during this time.
How about Kraken? They've weathered a few winters.
Next is thoughts to code. Just read my mind I'm gonna seat there and think
Wait, it wasn't before?!? What the hell?

That's pretty much the bare minimum for a privacy focused Android distribution, is it not?

I never even checked because I thought that of course it would be.
I don't turn my camera on at all and no one has ever complained about it. I don't support this notion that just because we are working remotely, people are entitled to get a close-up view of my face. It just feels uncomfortable to be on display like that constantly and I prefer not to be.
How can it not be a paradigm change when it changes the way people write code from “write by hand” to “generated by ai with natural language”?

The problem with speech to code has always been that precise syntax is hard, but AI codegen solves that.

So, no, it might not take off, but I feel like if it does, then it means ai-codegen will become the dominant way code is crafted.

That would be paradigm shifting.

It’s inconceivable that it wouldn’t be.
Open source libraries, sell binaries.
That is my philosophy
It's always fun to remember that he played himself in the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School". I always have to double check this when I think of it, partially because I confuse it with the time Ernest Borgnine played J.D. Salinger in an episode of "The Single Guy". It's almost like Vonnegut decided to do this only because people would some day think it sounded so obviously ridiculous and false.
> I can't imagine that they bring a better product than two of the richest companies in the world even can't figure out

Are either of those companies investing particularly heavily into voice agents? Certainly neither of them has anywhere near the kind of power of something like Copilot.

Also, a general agent is way different from one that's specific to writing code.
I wonder how many of the big corps are hiring the same management consultants to work on their rebrands.
> Let’s not build that feature.

> Let’s not add this functionality.

> Let’s not build that product yet.

> Let’s not build/deploy that development tool.

> Let’s not adopt this new technology.

> Let’s not keep maintaining this feature.

> Let’s not automate this.

Working alongside (or even worse: under) an individual who sees it as his job to just say "no" to everything sounds like hell.

It also reminds me a bit of the Dilbert character "Mordac, the preventer of information services" alternately also called "Mordac, the refuser.

[1] https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Mordac
I have a firstnamelastname@gmail.com address. I get a lot of misdirected emails for others with the same name; usually I ignore them. It's linked to a Zelle account and one day I received an unexpected $500 deposit.

I asked my bank if it could be reversed. They said no, but I could return it to the sender by initiating a new Zelle transfer. The transaction only showed the sender's name; I asked my bank if they could provide me with a Zelle address, and they said no, I needed to ask the sender for that information.

This was obviously impossible and the whole situation smelled fishy. I let it sit for a few days, and got an email from someone with the same name, asking for their $500 back. It was a lot of money to them, they made a mistake, and their bank wasn't helping them recover it at all. I couldn't decide if it was a scam or not. I ended up sending $500 to the address I received the email from. They thanked me profusely, and I never heard about it again.
There are also interesting instances like social.coop that are run like a cooperative – you join and are expected to donate monthly, as little as $1, and in return you get democratic control over the instance. It can be a cool incentive to "donate"/invest in the instance.
If voice dictation was a killer feature, everybody would use it all the time for ordinary texts. But for some reason only few (lawyers? doctors?) use it.
Somehow Google has gotten worse in the last couple of years.
To note, there's a class action lawsuit against GitHub Co-Pilot since it learns from a bunch of open source code with very specific licenses. It's very interesting from establishing copyright in an AI training perspective. Hopefully it goes the distance and some nuanced arguments come out in the court case.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...
Nice work :)

Porting FlashAttention to Metal will be quite hard. Because for performance reasons, they did a lot of shenanigans to respect the memory hierarchy.

Thankfully, you can probably do something slower but more adapted to your memory constraints.

If you relax this need for performance and allow some re-computations, you can write a qkvatt function which takes q,k,v and a buffer to store the resulting attention, and compute without needing any extra memory.

The algorithm is still quadratic in time with respect to the attention horizon (although with a bigger constant (2x or 3x) due to the re computation). But it doesn't need any extra memory allocation which makes it easy to parallelize.

Alternatively you can use an O(attention horizon * number of thread in parallel) (like flash attention) extra memory buffer to avoid the re-computation.

Concerning the backward pass, that's the same thing, you don't need extra memory if you are willing to do some re-computation, or linear in attention horizon to not do re-computation.

One interesting thing to notice in the backward pass, is that it doesn't use the attn of the forward pass, so it doesn't need to be kept preserved (only need to preserve Q,K,V).

One little caveat of the backward pass (which you only need for training) is that it needs atomic_add to be easy to parallelize. This mean, it will be hard on Metal (afaik they don't have atomics for floats though they do have atomics for integer so you can probably use fixed points numbers).
The example puts it quite well. You kind of know what you want to achieve, step by step, but are not so comfortable with your tools.

Usually this kind of exploratory work involves a lot of Googling and copy-pasting snippets from Stackoverflow without putting too much time in trying to deeply understand things. If you get out what you want - great, if not, back to Google.
I agree that this is an eventuality, but is anyone actually doing it yet? Everyone I’ve known who has migrated has either been to community-run or self-hosted instances, and I haven’t encountered any corporate or university domains when lurking around.
GitHub Blocks Demo / Presentation
While there is something to be said for tech bloat and obsession with pouring money into insanely complicated distributed systems, WhatsApp does not have to have a moderation system covering the whole planet and a confusing maze of government laws and regulations based on locale. Outside of encryption, it's by default non-controversial. Twitter is.
I imagine being an archaeologist and spend months/years digging and digging and digging and not finding anything relevant and then you find something like this. The emotions, the feeling of achievement, the joy, must be something not easy to find in any other profession.
And from both of them, better keep the one that is under Erich Gamma's stewardship, he just happens to know a couple of things about IDEs.
I feel this really needs fact checking.

I'm also confused, why, in Japan, would a Twitter curation team curate for more political topics, and not for anime ?

And what's this Moments feature, some way to make sure local news posts would get seen?

I don't know, seems we have very little information to go by, and I'm not sure if there's anything to make of this or not.
> “We are adapting our plans for domestic production of green hydrogen from five gigawatts to ten gigawatts of electrolyser capacity by 2030,” Scholz noted.

That would be quite some capacity.
People can’t seriously believe this is going to be useful at all?

I can see this helping as an accessibility tool, but beyond that I don’t think it will be useful. This kind of assumes you know everything about what you’re doing, most of the time you don’t.
> …because speaking is easier than writing, obviously?

Easier isn’t always better.
I remember a talk given some years ago by a man who was using voice to text for creating source code. The key point I remember from his talk & demonstration is that it was not casual ordinary speech but instead a very weird mashup of sounds intended to represent the various symbols which we use in source code.
On my wife's Chromebook, the problem with the touch screen when in normal laptop position is bounce back, so a click becomes two clicks etc. She only uses it for scrolling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52094111
Generational? Idk. I work for a company that regularly sends out surveys, and there are several tools to integrate voice into it. Willingness to speak instead of type is quite low across respondents (which is a representative population sample). It looks as if speaking to a machine does not hold the same appeal as speaking to a human (something that can also be seen in telephone queue screener questions).
It's simple: I wouldn't do that. Do we need guidelines to not delete repositories too?
Because it's only used by people in a tiny little political segment today - far-right-wing libertarians.

No one else denies this or doesn't believe it's true, I hasten to add. For most of us, we think that this is a good thing, but also such an obvious thing that it doesn't need to be mentioned.

The people who keep mentioning it are people who think it's a bad, bad thing. They want everyone to have access to violence at all times.

The sane majority does not.
> to being the first in space in the span of 40 years

Never mind the USSR's rocket program was based on the German V2 ballistic missile and captured German rocket engineers.

(To be fair, so was the US space program.)

There's some evidence that Eisenhower drug his feet on the space program because the matter of orbiting over other countries was not settled and he worried that the USSR would regard it as an attack. By letting the USSR go first, then the US space program could not be seen as a provocation.
And a movable monitor, decent chair and desk at the appropriate height...
The profitable part of Amazon is AWS, their platform. Retail is loosing money
I'm so pleased to read the comments in all this thread. Thank you everyone.

I've recently decided that I can't deal with hangovers when I over-indulge or even the negative impacts on my sleep of a single beer.

It's a real societal struggle to be completely dry, but when I break it down logically the pros to having a drink or two don't outweigh the cons.
Do not underestimate the instincts of any living being. The implicit knowledge and the foundation carried with every one of us is immense.

Monkeys have evolved enough to start making their own tools [0].

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkeys-make-ston...
A difference is that I can't just spin up a copy of George Lucas on my GPU in seconds and request it to produce something from a prompt like "a disappointing prequel".
Simple cave paintings are much more than nothing.
in Europe, cardmarket.com is very good.
No, I haven't seen anyone doing it yet. I might just be voicing some wishful thoughts.
This is big word fluff and wrong. Counter example: Reddit, not mentioned once because it invalidates his hypothesis. HN arguably too. Also, Discord is a hive of activity with an amazing bot scene.

Mastodon is also starting to really take off and isn’t all that bad, people just forgot about USEnet and BBS’.

Social media isn’t dead, yes people like dumb consumption apps too, there’s no grand shift.
Always on for the meetings in which I actually need to talk to people. Everyone else at the company has video on too. I could occasionally turn it off for big meeting with 30+ people in which I'm just listening.
Considering that Musk is on a roll making decisions that will outright murder the platform (making everyone pay for the Blue Check or your tweets are treated like garbage), who's to say the new boss will not come up with some knee-capping payment regime for API clients?

No one knows. The guy is increasingly an unstable wildcard.
Works only in remote. Used in the office that'd be madness.
> generated by ai with natural language

I don't want to disparage their work, because it's really impressive, but "fill null values of column Fare with average column values" is closer to AppleScript than it is to natural language.
Song to code, we shall be singing our next systems:)
I wonder if the quest pro could do the eye tracking as well? It has pretty extensive eye tracking cameras, not sure how precise they're though.

Could it also do a virtual keyboard, but a custom layout to not trigger arm, elbow and hand pains?
> I'm dropping your software without a second thought.

Ha, it sounds like more work to replace a free piece of software with something else than to use your own patched version. Especially if you have to replace it with something inferior or proprietary. If there are better-maintained alternatives, why did you adopt it in the first place?

Pull requests take work to review and test. You shouldn't take that for granted and assume everything will be merged for free.

If you manage to review and test fixes faster than the original, or if you're willing to add features and maintain the code yourself, go and promote your fork!
Panik!! Kalm. Panik!!
Microsoft “irreparably damaging” EU’s cloud ecosystem
The only point at which you should quote Buterin is if asked to quote someone with absolutely no knowledg trying to speak from a position of authority. Him making up a new definition for a widely used word to justify the existence of his shitcoin does not make it gospel.
Dude bootstrapped the company.

Last I read, Zoho was working on solving some Japanese village's issue. Forgot exactly what it was about. Interesting guy and company who are solving problems.
Kudos to them.
Mastadon doesn’t ever need to become the twitter of 2022, and most people would rather it didn’t. It does remind me of Twitter in ~2008, which is arguably more fun anyway.

(Anybody who thought 2008 twitter would become what it is now would also have been called delusional)
Difficult to evaluate this independently.

Before the acquisition, Twitter stated that it had to remove 500 000 inauthentic accounts a day. If the mass layoffs have reduced the company's ability to do that then the increase in spam accounts and traffic alone might be driving the apparent usage/mDAU increase.

It's possible some usage might be from people who left for Gab, Truth Social, and other platforms recreating accounts too of course, and it'll be interesting to see if that's the case and how sticky those are.

Anecdotally I'm seeing a lot of the non-US regular accounts I follow cut back on tweeting or leave entirely. It's also unclear whether that'll persist over the long term, but for now it's an interesting signal. Many of the US accounts have been temporarily more active because of the recent election.
The question is not whether a person is equal to a program.

The question is whether a person is doing the same as Copilot for this particular case, i.e. reading source code to learn.

You have not really given any argument why this is not the case. Or maybe your reference to scale? So only because Copilot has read more code than a human possibly could, that makes it different? But why exactly is reading a bit of code fine w.r.t. copyright, but reading more code suddenly violates copyright?

Note that the reason why Copilot needs more code to learn is just because the learning currently is not as efficient as for humans.
> Will you accept that graphs predicting more than 6 months of results were in common circulation?

I accept that they exist. I don't accept that we were "bombarded" with them. This is, of course, a US perspective, so perhaps your mileage may vary.
I probably wouldn’t use this to write code, but I could see it being really useful for navigating around a project.

“Go to line 35”
“Open the model controller”
“Show the get method and set method side by side”
One often mentioned example is the EU.
https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more

One swallow does not make the summer though, as we say in our country, so we'll se if there will be more.

Edit: there is also on for the German Federal Government.
https://social.bund.de/about
That's how I became a software developer. I was working for a big tech firm as a data entry "specialist". Everything (except some pricing calculations) was done manually. I was hired as the 7th member of the team. It started with copy/pasting some simple VBA scripts to automate small tasks. In a year I managed to automate most of the tasks. More notably: A monthly task that took 2 days(and quite prone to human errors) of the entire team into a less than an hour job for a single person. And automated discrepancy checks between the data sources.

It was quite satisfying and made me realize that I should be doing this for a living. I quit that company for way better pay as a software developer. I don't know if I'll be able to find such a job again, but I really enjoyed it.
You're right. One is eating meat, the other is slaughtering all wildlife in an industrial meatgrinder.
The shrinkage of one technology platform in the past isn't enough to predict the shrinkage of another in the future. We're just so used to the idea of tech getting smaller and smaller, but I think we're reaching some limits that might make progress on VR or other immersive tech like that slower or even impossible.

Well, fingers crossed that isn't the case. I for one am never strapping something anywhere near as large as current devices to my face as a replacement for sitting in front of a couple of monitors.
I find the implication that a single find can "rewrite history" to be very much hype.