skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am by no means dismissing the power. They are created very chaotically, however. Spaghetti thrown at a wall. They are brute force approximations.

They are wasteful. If LLaMa 13B is as powerful as previous 65B models, that's a significant amount of unnecessary paramaters lost/pruned in just this iterative upgrade alone. How small can they go? The fewest parameters that get the job done 99% as well is the way to go.

There is also the difference between the rules and use of language being directly compressed into the model, vs all the information known to humans compressed into the model. A smaller model that ingests relevant information on the fly (more like Bing, that supplements itself with search), may be less wasteful and perform better.

The current models being released are chosen because "they work" not because they are least fit and most performant optimized.
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

In the examples you list, AFAIK, people from those countries are happy to use those names when speaking in English. At least, I've never met a German who insists on calling their country Deutschland when conversing in English. If they did, maybe things would be different. That's the way it is with Istanbul/Constantinople, and also Bombay/Mumbai.

Incidentally, Germany has a startlingly large array of names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany
> with 800 billion lines running in production systems daily

Unrealistic. This would be equivalent to 100.000 linux kernels.
Easier account discovery/follow/porting is the surface. The core differentiator of Bluesky/ATP is the ability to have a global view for its network, as compare to Mastodon's limited local view. Things like search engine is not only possible but first class citizen in ATP design.

Obviously depending on your attitude towards ad tech, you may like or dislike it. However, if everything still (eventually) follows money as it used to be, and Twitter's 5 billion ad revenue (or more if you believe FB is shrinking too) wants to go elsewhere, ATP is offering a viable solution while Mastodon does not (at least yet).
The person I was replying to said "every human society came up with two distinct words to express the concepts". I of expressed doubt about such a statement.

Then you popped into with a completely different reason. I'm still working on the original argument. We came up with more than two words to express the concept.
Does the money for the college fees have to come from cash? University fees (in the UK) can be paid for by a student loan which is paid off once the student starts working. Parents don't have to pay for it
Again with the gratiuitous title changes eh HN?
There's a sign in the assistant principles offices at my local high school which defines what critical race theory is, including the "critique of liberalism" part.

I would ban public high schools from encouraging a "critique of liberalism". Being a critic takes no skill and doesn't help the world. Critical theory, and critical thinking are extremely overrated skills. We need constructive thinking and constructive communication.
I feel like all these conversations need to be a diff against the movie Her. If it was already covered well there, why repeat it?
Awesome stuff!

I was about to comment about how this is all fantastic stuff, but I've really found reading through duckdb docs quite challenging. But for these json table functions, documentation looks much better.

https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/json

Need to spend some more time digging in, but this json functionality combined with some kind of file partitioning (Hive or hive-like) looks promising for some of my use cases.

Incidentally, the documentation for hive/parquet stuff is a good example of what I'm talking about above. For the `parquet_scan` function, where can i see all of the possible function parameters? Where can get more information about the specifics of `FILENAME`, `HIVE_PARTITIONING`, etc?
example usage on cnbc.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPSMgJa8YHQ
Why would it be doomed? What reasons do you see for this to happen?

Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, Iran has a long and recent history of being a highly orderly society.

How democratic it would be is another question, but very likely it at least is not going to be as oppressive. Even if the resulting state were closer to Singapore than to Switzerland, it would still be a serious relief for the population.
Mostly because JSON is one of the most common formats used when sending over data. I think this practice started with pythons requests (which is my real answer as to what you should use in python but I wanted to focus on the stdlib), which has a json function on the Response object for convenience.

Most languages nowadays tend to implement some variation of this specific convenience because it's just one of the most frequently needed things; setting up a separate parser and then calling it might be the "cleaner" option, but it's also more boilerplate and the industry has largely moved to try and avoid that.
Offline webapps would expire too soon.
So what you are saying is that Python is Excel for programmers :D
It’s pretty misinformed to suggest mostly men worked on JPEG technology.
I just wish that I enjoyed using it. I've been doing a fair amount of Python work over the years because it's been required by my employers, but to be honest, I kind of hate it.

I think the thing I hate the most about it is that white space is significant. It's like we travelled back in time to the early days, and picked up one the bad things about them and brought it back. I find that makes it more difficult for me to read, and more difficult for me to write (from a mechanical type-in-the-code point of view).

I have other niggling issues with it, but if the white space thing weren't an issue, I doubt the other issues would bother me enough to complain about them.
Who cares? Why does this dilution matter?
Are you sure about that? I've talked with librarians and stakeholders and it seems to be the opposite. There's no stable scaled infrastructure in place yet for books via lending internet/devices and print-on-demand and more. The library serves as that actually instead, especially in cities.
I used to work in film/tv/live entertainment. The shops pumping out scenery and stage devices are probably not normal, but every day was some sort of innovation. If you are building a different product every day, creating new jigs to make those products is a daily task. A new bit of metal to secure a bit of equipment to camera rig, aka a "camera cluster", was a very normal daily thing.
Same here. I knew about RPN before Calc, and knew there were calculators that used it, but it seemed bizarre to me. Once I started using Emacs, I decided to see what Calc was all about, and finally realized how slick it feels. It's really cool to need to do some math while coding or writing, hit a quick keybind, and have a full-fledged calculator right in my editor.

And the cool part is you can do things algebraically, too. Even solve for variables. Really crazy program.
Psychology hasn't moved? Maybe not in a way that's as easily exploitable for profit, but it's certainly moved...

There are dividends outside of financial. If you can't see them then maybe you should study some psychology.
Do you have a particular timestamp for the video you linked where he starts to actually cover the techniques he thinks were used? I'm thirteen minutes in and all he's done is ramble on about how academics are wrong and the so-called indoctrination video. I agree the pounding stone thing seems ridiculous, but he isn't building up my confidence on what he may propose.

Edit: After looking into this more elsewhere, the pounding method doesn't seem so ridiculous. Apparently, according to Reginald Engelbach's experiments with the pounding stones by hand, he estimated the excavation of the obelisk would have taken a little over 7 months. That seems reasonable.

Couple that with augmentations of the pounding stone method with wood pikes or even scaffolding and possibly heat, it seems plausible the scoops, which seem to be a misnomer, would be created by those pounding methods and workers working next to each other.

I think the ancient "missing" technology is simply patience.
The US DoD recently migrated some of their COBOL systems to AWS GovCloud. One of the steps was automated translation of COBOL to Java.

https://tsri.com/news-blog/u-s-department-of-defense-mainfra...
> The board letter /g/ stands for gijutsu (技術), the Japanese word for technology

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki//g/#:~:text=%2Fg%2F%20is....
What’s GHAE?
>They only apply to the silver level plans,

This is false.

They are computed from a given state's 2nd-most expensive silver plan, but they apply to all plans. I am on a gold plan and receive them; last year I was on bronze and received them.

The subsidies have no impact on deductibles or OOP - that is determined by the insurance plan itself.
>Childcare at 4,000 is upper quartile of expensive cities. You’ll find many places where it’s half or less of that price. Private schools at $50k a year are either going to be boarding or some of the more expensive country day schools. Even Sidwell, where Obama sent his kids, is cheaper than this.

Most of the people on this site aren't farmers living in Rural Iowa so idk how relevant the cost of living in places like that are.

>And finally we get to university education. There are many schools with merit based scholarships. Treating living expenses as unique to college is also wrong.

Not everyone is getting scholarship. Obviously that changes the calculus.

>Nothing is stopping a kid from getting a job in college!

This is pure boomer sentiment. I had a job every summer in college and through grad school, this was only ~10 years ago and it paid for exactly 0% of my tuition. It was enough to survive the summers and pay my rent during grad school that was it.
There are several programming languages with package managers that work better than NPM. Not having one is not a positive no matter how you try to spin it.
See also Venkatesh Rao's blog post on The Locust Economy[1]:

> "To take coffee shops as an example, an unending supply of idealistic wannabe cafe owners enters the sector every year, operates at a loss for a few years, and exits. The result is that even under normal business conditions, without swarming locust consumers, this is a loss-making business with an extinction rate of around 90% at the 5 year point in the US. Starbucks has the scale to be profitable and resilient. Locust coffee drinkers happily drink the excellent, loss-making coffee from small, local Jeffersonian coffee shops and callously retreat to Starbucks or DIY homebrew if the prices go up. Starbucks survives, coffee drinking grasshoppers survive, small coffee shops go in and out of business."

("Locust coffee drinkers" is analogy not insult).

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/
This is a slippery slope fallacy
> "if i asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

I think a more apropos Ford quote would be the "you can have any color you want, as long as it's black," but that still doesn't capture it.

It's one thing to present something that meets the needs of your customers that they didn't anticipate, it's quite another to ignore those needs and just force the thing you want on them at great cost. He was only concerned with software engineers writing less time conversion logic, and cherry-picking to try to justify that idea. If you think about it, the whole thing is crazy and backwards, given how people use time 99% of the time and who is better at arithmetic.
I thought this was going to be ridiculous but it's actually a really good. It's clear enough that you could extend it down to showing how logic gates work.

The only thing missing is a little endian discussion; it assumes big endian (network byte order), and that may be confusing for all those x86 users out there.
When your word amount is strictly limited, you cannot really discuss about things.
Algorithm-based platforms pick usually posts based on extreme ends.
People are interested on posts which rise emotions on them.
If someone says something you don't like, you are more likely to like or share a reply, which somehow outsmarts and counters this original post. And as your word amount is limited, you will need to use stronger words to get attention and rise emotions on people. You are rewarded for expressing extreme opposite in a smart way.

Soon you will be in vicious cycle, since things get quickly personal, as there is no room to articulate anything properly, and you need to win this conversation with few words. Writing well articulated multi-post replies won't get much attention, as they usually don't rise emotions for masses, and algorithm won't pick them anyway as attention is not in single post.
It looks like there are multiple "Green Onion Members", which is 10k-49k.
There’s no legal issue though, and I think most users are willing to accept the tradeoff if it gives them search. The ones who it really bothers always have the option of joining a private instance. Unfortunately posting public data by definition always means somebody is going to do something with it that you don’t like, you can’t opt out of the world.
> Is this a “the first as tragedy, then as farce” type of deal?

Definitely. First, cancel culture emerged as a response to genuine concerns about social justice and equity, particularly with regards to marginalized communities. Cancel culture initially sought to hold people accountable for their harmful actions and words, and to create a more inclusive and just society.

However, over time, cancel culture has increasingly become a farcical parody of its original intentions - it has devolved into a tool for online mobs to attack individuals for minor or unintentional offenses, resulting in a culture of fear and self-censorship.

Cancel culture has also been weaponized by some to silence dissenting opinions or to settle personal scores, rather than to advance social justice. See: https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ for a recent example.
I guess this only applies if they pentest a belgian institution? Otherwise that would be prosecute right after the leave the country
Do the same steering physics apply to riding a bicycle on rollers? That's so much more difficult I wouldn't be surprised if the fundamental steering behavior is changed somehow.
This may be new in the last 10-15 years, but let's not forget why that icon appeared there: because of the huge marketing budget spend created by tobacco companies to make smoking look cool instead of something that kills millions of people slowly.
There's no escaping geopolitics and open source is part of it. It would be foolish of China, India, Russia and much of the non-colonized world to rely on american dominated open source/tech/etc.

> then we would risk the possibility of a fork forming around geopolitical lines.

The world's forked.

In the short term, it'll be bad for open source, but over the long term, I think it'll be a net positive as it'll lead to more diversity ( linguistically, culturally, etc ) in the open source ecosystem. The more forks the better.
Randomly perturbing the weights and then finetuning would probably make it impossible. If someone had access to the finetune dataset and you didn’t add noise, they could see if the finetuning curves intersect.

I guess in practice, it’ll look suspicious if you have an identical model architecture and have similar performance.
Extracting natural resources in a cost effective way involves a lot of pollution that Europeans would rather happen somewhere else
I'm not sure why you are subjectively calling my number-based argument "optimistic." What do you mean by that?
Ivory seems to support following without copy paste, finding the profile still requires searching the full handle though.
Once in a while an executive really makes enough money for shareholders that you can say it is justified.

There was a time when Facebook had a popular product but no path to profitability but this person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg

showed leadership in building the advertising business which made Mark Zuckerberg and other shareholders rich. A person in that position can possibly create so much value for shareholders that a stupendous payout seems fair.

On the other hand you can point to executives who seemed to be along for the ride (say Marissa Meyer), who ran a string of companies into the group (Meg Whitman), who were involved in a cynical game to strip a company of assets (Eddie Lampert), or who seemed successful but departed just before the firm blew up (Jack Welsh) and in those cases their gains seem unjust.
Yes, gg and v/V appear to be vim-only commands. One vi counterpart to gg is 1G. Visual mode is a vim-only concept, I believe. The rest of them, I would bet are vim-only.

Yes, I can see why, if you require all of these vim features, viper would not be good for you. "Viper mode is terrible though." was not a good way to express this. The title of the thread, and the name of the package (incorrectly) state that it is a vi layer, so it's natural to mention the vi layer that's built into Emacs. It's definitely something that people should remain aware of and still provides value. IMO, Emacs + viper is significantly better than just Emacs, so it's worth knowing about. Comparing its vi functionality against vim is definitely good, but it being forgotten and neglected is not.
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It's a mix of both, I know that some companies do make a good living writing transpilers to languages like Java or C#. But it also require lots of business knowledge to keep track of the changes so you're definitely right in that aspect.
It's possible they only donate the minimum to get into the tier
Yes but it would be tricky without major savings.

One avenue might be to start doing IT work with and for a local electrician, and expand from there. If you're comfortable with computers, they could offer you as the low-voltage side of things.
I agree, crazy thing is this is the 4th straight job I've had like this. As far as I know this is just what work is
Can you directly choose what goes into the cache or is it just a technical optimization? Which instructions read and write the cache?
https://archive.ph/JJNMw
norway is the only example of someone who broke the curse.
Saudi, gulf monarchies and all other examples that you can come up with(except maybe russia, but it's a very big and not that simple to analyze), either already fucked by the curse, or still in the process(which is pleasant enough, so most people think it's ok), the metric is that other parts of the economy have meaningless growth rate compared to resources extraction, at best. Sometimes it's negative. Add growth of corruption and inequality to that as well.
In general, try and do some minimal research about the topic you are commenting on before coming in and speaking with authority about what is or isn't the case, especially about something somewhat sensitive and (unfortunately in this case) politically charged. It helps keep the quality of the conversations here somewhat acceptable, and promotes intellectual rigor and curiosity where its needed most. Its not a huge deal, but it can make a big difference.
This.
Funny how this seemingly clear point doesn’t get across to the other side of the debate (this discussion, more then others, seem to divide the group into two sides: one that sees why using Lena can be considered troubled, and one that does not). I find this difficult to understand.
Is there a functional difference? Or put differently, why would someone prefer to have a repo person come and take away the asset, putting themselves and other people at risk of a physical encounter?
adjusted mine as well
You can get power only cables.

Your only concern would be someone trying to fry your computer, but electrical outlets are the same.
The "justice-involved person" one is especially gross and disingenuous depending on context: Through repetition it strengthens the assertion that a conviction is justice, and it erases the power imbalance between convict and court employees/cops. Plus, it's a transparent euphemism - Nobody will refer to a judge as a JAP for example
Thinking we need to shame our colleagues more is a really bad take. You can like your obscure programming language for all sorts of reasons, but if they go around shaming people I'm not surprised people would rather use a friendlier language.
I say this in all seriousness, though it may sound kind of snarky: You could start a farm, move somewhere with fewer "leopards", and build a new social circle. Also, can't you let a new consciousness have their own say on the matter? They can choose their reaction to the multiple looming hells when they get here, no?
Comedy is genuinely useful and makes people laugh.
Not to mention, the kind of expertise to run this for a major corporation doesn't come for free either? Facebook employs quite a few high profile ML researchers who undoubtedly make mid-high six figure salaries.
The Airline Experiment to Make Boarding Less Awful
if aaron had attempted to release the jstor database he would have succeeded
I read the original article about the muon imaging project and remember being surprised that there is actually a scientific endeavour that involves exotic elementary particles, advanced physics, cosmic rays from deep space and ancient Egyptian pyramids and which was not thought up by the Stargate SG1 writers.
‘Rivers in the sky’ shape African climate
Indeed this seems like a refutation of the whole thesis that trans athletes are somehow cheating. Intersex conditions are natural (as in no surgery of hormone treatments are involved), yet they confer a competitive advantage - just like genes for bigger lungs or longer limbs confer an advantage to some athletes - so why should a trans person be treated as uniquely advantaged?
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm saying it's definitely moved. It's just moved in such a way that almost all of the new knowledge replaces rather than extends or builds on the old knowledge. Thus almost all effort learning the old knowledge was a waste and we can expect the same for learning it today.

Edit to respond to your edit: And I'm most definitely considering non-financial gains and losses. Consider my example of a PhD in psychology from the 70's, do you think it's a net positive to believe transgendered people have a pathology? Or that we should destroy the frontal lobes of unhappy housewives with icepicks?
Articles like these seen today should make us value more the love and effort that requires to train people. Because there is no shortage of "love" and effort (and money) for training AI models.
You just like that assumed their native language?
This is an interesting concept, could you share a paper or some writeup about this?
Interesting, thank you. I've never tried to run the open source version, so this is good to know.
The other problem in house wiring is that when you tighten down the screw to attach the aluminum wire to the terminal, the aluminum work hardens, and expansion/contraction/vibration will cause it to break.
It still does use a lot of memory, but thankfully most systems have that to spare, and CPU usage is much more optimal now thanks to native compilation.
Had to check if it was April Fools or not. Insane, almost comical (in a bad way) how this played out.
Nonmachinable mail can be all sorts of shapes as well. I've had a lot of fun cutting cardstock into silhouettes and irregular polygons and mailing them.

When I moved, I sent postcards notifying people of my new address in the shape of my new state. US mail is quite flexible thanks to the nonmachinable surcharge.