skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you read The Sleepwalkers? I found it so depressing that despite really liking it I couldn't finish it. It made me pine for the Austro-Hungarian empire. Which I freely admit is totally idiotic.

In any case it painted a picture (to me; I have no idea if this was the authors intent or view) of WWI starting because all of the parties were convinced that they were at a point of maximum relative strength. Germany wanted war in 1914 because they believed Russia would soon be an unstoppable colossus, France wanted war in 1914 because they thought an alliance with Russia and the U.K. in it was untenable and would soon split apart.

Maybe it's a convincing argument, maybe not but it appeals to me because it's not so much apportioning blame as it is describing motivations.

WWII on the other hand. Blame is easy to hand out. The motivations I can ascribe to Germany/Japan/USSR start out vaguely plausible in a geopolitical sense but the more you look at them the more it seems just madness in a way that none of the parties in WWI seem.
That's different. An iPhone with 64GB of storage will have 64GB of storage - some of that is storing system files, but it's still storing something!
Sleep on it.

It's a dishonest actor who tries to rush you into a decision.
Gradle 8.0 Released
> and banks are required to provide them

Do you know if any of the political dissidents in the UK who have had their accounts shut down have successfully challenged a bank in court?
Thanks for sharing this, I’ll have to try making my own brag docs. I’ve recently started a new position & I can feel the imposter syndrome creeping back in.
Attaching a 4G modem to the end of an existing enterprise network is a non-trivial feat.
How much unidentified flying stuff getting shot at is happening in comparison? Very little new is happening on the derail/disaster to report about. It's one ongoing event everybody already knows about versus lots of little events that keep happening. By definition, the former one is news.

What coverage do you want to see that isn't happening?
Yeah, still not a fan of this. Sure, there's the 1% that identity as "introverted misanthropes" (sorry mouzogu), but what about the rest? I see a disconnected society where mental health get's a problem because routine, excercise, experiencing new things and stimulation, and socializing are missing because everybody is staying at home. We move away from a society that is able to check-in on each other (possibility, not necessarily happening!) to one, where you are replaceable, transactional human resource, using other humans transactionally as resouces (yoga video from youtube, doordash driver bringing you food, gorillas bringing you groceries). I'm really worried about our ability to socialize here.

The reality is, that work is the biggest chunk of time in our daily lives. Spending it without other humans sounds like a recipe for disaster.

PS: yes, we also have 100% remote people and people can do remote work whenever they want. But fun fact: I have no feeling nor connection towards those remote employees. And that's not a good thing.
I dare say that "actual storage less" (and other equivalent phrases) are now past the point of covering for the discrepancy.

5%+ of missing capacity is definitely large enough for the actual expected capacity to be used for marketing.

This is also something that should find its way into smartphones. Samsung's are notorious for using significant amounts of the advertised storage for bundled marketing apps that cannot be removed.
Median income in Bentonville is $83k. You might be surprised.
Second time a Microsoft AI project goes of the rails. Turns out data driven chatbots are based on the awful unfiltered garbage humans post online.
What We’re Not Doing
The correct answer would be to sell it as a $54M jackpot then. Or require the organizers to pay the difference out of pocket.
Sure the criticism about Privacy Sandbox is valid.

News journalists should dog food Firefox (to encourage end users) and then avoid Chrome. (i.e) they make sure the webpages work great with Firefox. Usually everything works better with Chrome. The reason for the give would be sorry... Our livelihood depends on tracking/ads etc. Oh BTW, I (as a journalist ) am all for privacy but my corporate overlord (CondeNast incase of Ars) forces us to do this/that.

It is the same thing w.r.t. Firefox.
>> on the other hand, any individual customer you dissatisfy creates zero risk unless it is a mega-customer, so customer satisfaction is just a concept on a dashboard to be trotted out at an all-hands meeting, tut-tutted about, and then forgotten about

From my exposure to GCP from the enterprise side, this rings true. The folks we worked with were polite, but seemed to be asking us about our needs as a one-off / outside the normal process.

With credit to the teams we interacted with, they were helpful and acted on our feedback (things like "As a customer, I need a dashboard that tracks my GCP spending"), but it was apparent this wasn't something they frequently did with customers.

"The maze is in the rat" is a great metaphor.

Execs want certain things ("Realtime visibility into all projects!" or "Stability!") but underappreciate the organizational opportunity cost in requiring them.

Is it more important to have perfectly tracked projects or projects which ship 20% faster?

And if the former, we all understand you're training your people to be like forever, right?
Work and career progression: “always take the interview”.

I reported direct to the CEO at a startup and I told him our largest customer had headhunted me, and I assumed I wasn’t special and they’re probably targeting many of us. He asked me what the process was like and what the offer was, and when I told him I didn’t take the initial call hand he shook his head. “You always take the interview. Absolute worst case is you confirm you’re happy where you are. Median case is you confirm your worth and force me to have a difficult conversation where you’ve got the most leverage. Best case is you find a new better thing. But through it all you’re exercising the muscle of interviewing while you’re at the top of your game. People always let it atrophy and then try and rebuild it when they’re at their low point. Frustrated with where they are. Unexcited about the things they’re working on, and unable to fake talking about them in the overly positive ways they need to. Don’t want until a low point to work out what comes next. Always take the interview”.
I don't feel articles like this are "wrong". I feel like they fail to go deep enough and if they went one layer deeper then it would be clear why the problems they describe are at best actually features and at worst the "least bad" option.

Specifically, all the issues being discussed are actually just features of Google (and the rest of FAANG really) being a mature company in a mature industry.

Google cannot (it seems) launch and maintain new services. Why? Because it already has a single, ultra successful, profitable service: advertising (primarily via search, gmail, youtube etc). When you have no existing business (say you are a start up) you have an urgent need to get one. But when you have a multi billion dollar core business asset (search), you have no urgency to create another. Instead you "urgently" need to not break your existing asset.

This is the same reason GE and AT&T etc did NOT beat Google to the online space.

This is the natural result of success.

This is the healthy, efficient, economically correct position for a company like google to be in.

People have a weird expectation that Google (etc) will be a start up forever. Or an incubator for start ups. Only thats basically functionally impossible.

So the problem here is people's expectations not being realistic and refusal to accept the reality that google (with 175000 employees) is no longer a plucky 10 person startup...
This is not good advice and it largely goes against steve jobs work. This fundamentally works, for a small subset of people that are predisposed via their personality to extremely high levels of dilligence and conscientiousness who need to be told to stop working.

If you are the opposite, this advice basically says "stop sacrificing the short term for the long term, and stop working towards difficult but ultimately worthwhile things, and enjoy short term pleasure" which is terrible advice if you do that by habit anyway
Every statement made is incorrect or inaccurate.

The OP conflates the genesis of hip-hop with its commercialization. For example, the dawn of hip-hop predates the "influence industry" by 30-40 years.
I don't get this. Is there some context that's missing?
Came here to post the same thing. Procedural level generation has been there for a while and it does not need advanced AI. Probably if the same thing was done for games like Call of Duty or Medal of Honour type games, it would be more impressive.
It's complicated. Rail workers are represented by a union but they are also transportation employees and heavily constrained in how and when they are allowed to strike without pulling jail time for disruption of Federal transit.
Agree, that's definitely one of the gems of wisdom from the software product world that would work in many aspects of life.
Finding ways to get an MVP of something, getting feedback and iterating definitely makes one get the motivation from quick visible results, and also definitely teaches one a lesson or two about humility too.
Class Variance Authority Documentation
Define suffering, because the absolute of what you describe requires life with zero emotion and most would agree that a life like that would be depressing as hell. I've never met a depressed person who didn't say they were suffering.
These newly built traditional ships are simply insignificant in the face of the volume of goods transported globally. They are passenger vessels for people who want to experience forgotten time while also delivering some feel-good. Definitely a viable business, but it does not replace global logistics.

The EcoClipper in the article is said to take 500 tons of cargo, that is 23 TEUs (Twenty-foot equivalent unit) [1] by weight. Ever Given the ship that got stuck in the Suez canal carries 20 000 TEUs. That is by volume. Not all can be fully loaded by weight, but still. There is a factor of about 1000 between them. Add on the reduced speed for the EcoClipper, and you need ~4 000 sail ships to replace it.

Now we haven't even gotten into cargo handling since the EcoClipper can not easily be unloaded directly by crane.

Simply, it is too low scale.

What is truly interesting is, for example, the Oceanbird program by Wallenius and Alfa Laval [2]. That is making Ro-Ro vessels aided by the wind, ensuring that you get the efficiency gains and hit the slot times in port. The Ro-Ro, Roll-on, Roll-off, part is important since that means you do not clash with unloading requirements coming from cranes.

The shipping industry is also looking into synthetic fuels and hydrogen since the infrastructure is relatively centralized, and they rely on the energetic density of chemical fuels. Where the trips are measured in hours rather than days or weeks batteries are being deployed.

A nice short film from the latter parts of the era of sail is "Around Cape Horn" from 1929, when the narrator worked on one of the large four-masted barques. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit

[2]: https://www.theoceanbird.com/blog/orcelle-horizon/

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tuTKhqWZso
Where did you end up? I’m west of Centerton, out in the country. For non locals, I’m like 5 miles from Bentonville.
And the coverage of the "spill" took almost two weeks to start ramping up
> Economists would surely love the anonymised spending data, were it to be made available.

They could get this from banks already.

> Retailers would presumably save by not having to pay fees to Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, etc.

These are already low in Europe due to regulation.
Exactly. There's no excuse, a "unicorn" company with millions of users such as Snapchat can surely do better.
Doesn't seem unreasonable for a potentially decisive military asset that's mostly self supporting in peacetime? I'm no expert (far from it) but I'd imagine that speed would be a major factor in success probability, sitting duck vs narrow interception windows.
> Excuse my ignorance, but how is this useful? This seems to indicate only that they found the "bits" in the internal state.

Right, they found the bits in the internal state that seem to correspond to the board state. This means the LLM is building an internal model of the world.

This is different from if the LLM is learning just that [sequence of moves] is usually followed by [move]. It's learning that [sequence of moves] results in [board state] and then that [board state] should be followed by [move]. They're testing this by giving it [sequence of moves], then altering the bits of the internal state that model the board and checking to see what move it makes. If they haven't found the bits of internal state, the resulting move isn't something you'd expect to make sense.
Contrary to many teachings and sayings: Effort does not guarantee reward.

However: Rewards have always required effort, and sometimes a bit of luck.
Models can be massive, but also totally doable. Just to put things in perspective: ProcMaze solving using DeepMind MCTX converges <1M steps. Whereas a physically based agent such as HalfCheetah may require >100M steps to learn to run. Q-learning Pac-Man on snapdragon chromeos is ~1hr for 1000 epochs ;)
Does asking the AI to use a different temperature actually change it? It seems doubtful.
Just be urself bro
That's not entropy that is data. You fundamentally can't increase entropy, hence why they wanted to use a PRNG with a big internal state so they can put more entropy in.

So if your argument is that you want a big entropy PRNG to get more possible outputs then the generation rate can't be the problem because that's entirely dependent on you being able to generate a big enough seed.
This is true of every country, by the way. Reddit has lost it.
> Decide which (few!) products need legal review and let the others run faster.

That is unfortunately not really possible. At the scale of Google, you have to keep up with a ton of different regulatory environments - the US and EU as large blocks which lead with regulation like GDPR, but also the 150+ other countries that have their specific demands. On top of that come all the diversity issues - something completely innocent and expected in the US and EU can become a criminal offense in other countries (e.g. Saudi-Arabia and women's or LGBT rights, China/Russia and anything democracy, India and running afoul of the BJP).
I think the last paragraph quite makes sense. It seems "true" that some kind of reasoning capability emerges as LLMs get bigger, which makes those LLMs quite useful and blows a lot of people's minds at the beginning. But, I think, essentially, the fundamental training goal of LLMs--guessing what the next word should be--pushes the model into a kind of reasonable nonsense generator, and the reasoning capability emerges because it can help the model to make stuff up. Therefore, we should be cautious about the result generated by these LLMs. They might be reasonable, but to make up the next word is their real top priority.
'ish.

datahike would be the closest to datomic in terms of features/implementation (support for as-of, transactor etc).

Then in terms of maturity I think the choice is between xtdb and datascript, both are very solid/maintained but they are also vastly different.
> using taxpayer money to subsidise founders

This is exactly what this is. When I buy stock, I’m passively contributing to society. Founders actively create value. This isn’t my hill to die on. But I see the value in incentivising risk-taking.
I doubt think that's true at all. In most representative democracies (UK here) we just don't have the ability to vote on such fine-grained legislation. If you asked the person in the street "should companies be held to absolutely strict truth in advertising for quantitative claims", once you explained what it meant (!), I'd warrant the vast majority would agree, yes they should.

It's anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist to allow misinformation on products. Markets can't optimise if you allow misinformation.
Not since 2018: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18091774/google-deepmind...
What's the reason for the max length in the input? 400 characters is very short to answer the prompt "Please start by introducing what you are doing and what are any other industries and nature of the job that you are looking for"
Could you elaborate? Do you specifically mean support for 64-bit arrays or something?

.NET in general has great support for 64-bit platforms and while it wasn't the default target for .NET Framework, it has been the default target for .NET [Core] for years.

We notably don't support single-dimensional arrays that have a 64-bit length or individual objects in general being that large. However, that also isn't necessarily a bad thing as there is a large difference between your overall application supporting more than 32-bits of memory (decently common and generally good) and individual allocations using more than 32-bits of memory (not so common and generally not good to have).

If you're creating individual allocations that are larger than 4GB, you're likely not correctly accounting for devices that only have 4-8GB of memory, are more prone to cause memory thrashing, and may end up negatively impacting other parts of the system since such allocations place special restrictions on how the GC can/should interact with the data or in the case of data that is or contains reference types it can add large numbers of additional references for the GC to track.

For such scenarios, it's often better to manage your memory differently, to support streaming/buffering where possible, and if it is the rare scenario that actually necessitates such large allocations to use things like NativeMemory to bypass the GC alongside Span or the SequenceReader/Writer APIs to work with smaller chunks of data. This also allows the data to be thought about differently since the algorithm you'd use to work with small to medium sized data is not necessarily the same algorithm you'd want to use when working with large to huge data. The time cost required to process multiple GB of memory is significantly different after all, as is the cache locality and other aspects.
That's a very cynical way to live a life, isn't it?
You can also run against resource constraints with a smartphone.
Does Spiral have a competitive ecosystem?
Raw performance is useful but when you build, as the article suggests, a cloud service you need more than fast calculations.

Also I'm not sure how the article author thinks Python libraries & tools can beat C++ but disregards other languages for not achieving the same (or better) out of the box. If Python can be made to compete with C++ any language can, and almost any other language is more preferrable to me than Python when it comes to production code.
I am! Heading over to OVH.
'a_bonobo, you're lying to yourself.'

I am an overly optimistic person and I was talking about how I believe my career will pan out and develop. They just stopped me and said that I was lying to myself, being way too optimistic, blindly assuming stuff that (relatively surely) would not happen or pan out. They were right. Sometimes you want to believe something so much, even though it has no chance of being true.
He’s saying, when you’re ready to shut your business down, keep jacking up the prices, and eventually your customers will leave. In that scenario, you don’t need to innovate or provide good support. The whole point is soft-kicking your customers to the curb while making some money.

Ethical? Probably not.
Who learned the Toyota/Toyoda way from Sakichi Toyoda.

https://www.toyota-industries.com/company/history/toyoda_sak...
Yep I agree, no idea why I got downvote I thought it was deliciously relevant to feed an article about chatgpt into itself
It's possible to have friends outside of work - I reckon for most people their closest friends are no their work friends.

We can socialise more with our actual friends.
Long-Term Trend in Mesosphere from the Crab Nebula with X-Ray Satellites [pdf]
You can set the power options so that it can shut down after a period of inactivity. Mine has 8 HDDs. According to my power meter plug, it uses 70W when all are spinning, 30W when the drives are spun down, and about 3W when "off" (configured to WOL). When I need to use the NAS for a while, I usually bring it up via an SSH app on my phone, which connects to my always-on Raspberry Pi that can send the magic packet. I use the wol package in Arch.
Isn't Spelunky rearranging level pieces which were designed by a human? I imagine if you played it long enough, you'd start to recognize the pieces.
So how does having physical cash in your mattress prevent your government from going full China?
I also started on stronglifts and moved onto greyskull lp shortly after my progression stalled and I stared to lose interest:

https://physiqz.com/workout-routines/powerbuilding-programs/...
Later in my career, I worked for a company whose principal technical strength was that they knew how to glue optics together in such a way that they NEVER moved, either thermally, or from shock. Detachment? The optic would break in an area besides the glue joint first. And the solution had little to do with the nature of which glue, which however was also optimized. These assemblies were flown in space, landed on the moon, and were in all U.S attack helicopters.
That was heartfelt.

There, but for the grace of God, go I.
OP is agreeing with you. "Cleaning up" is a euphemism we should move beyond. At best, they are "mitigating" the spill and that's probably the word the media should use.
I read this, thought "This looks like it was written by GPT." Checked the profile:

> Real Edwin exiled by HN moderaters, PC edwin has the same opinions but translated to silicon valley sensibilities using ChatGPT.

Which makes me feel like I can recognize AI comments, but no way to know how many I fail to spot.
This is just GiB vs GB. The usable / announced size is more or less 16 GB (roughly 14.91 GiB), which you can also verify by multiplying the number of blocks by the block size (512B).
Having a love for one's fate.

This is a common idea in Stoicism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc.

Shakespeare famously touched upon this in Hamlet:

> Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

The absurdity of life is that much of our suffering is our own doing. That one has to accept this absurdity before you can find peace.
I wrote every day for 365 days. Here are my results and 5 insights
Still happening I believe. Data scientist roles are around 260.
Since you're on this site, sounds like your mom doesn't want you going after beautiful dummies.

My mom told me she saw lots of beautiful dumb girls marry successful men, and then their kids were dumb as bricks.

Also to be careful with dating short women because then your boys might be short. I said okay well then by that logic you don't want to date tall women either because you might have tall girls.
It's odd reading this because none of it is surprising. Despite never working there and doing absolutely nothing to research the culture. It's obvious because it is everywhere, every company and government is so risk adverse as to be useless. Why? That I have pondered significantly.

My current thought process leads to virtual organizations formed using the existing employees as members of a virtualized democratic business. The CEO is voted in, the employee is the citizen, the managers are voted in.

I believe it would be different than the government we have because the government we have is possibly too large to function as it did closer to founding. For example, Walmart has more employees than the USA had people when the USA was founded.
supercool thanks!