skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm "thinking in words" this entire thread as I read it. Do some people read without hearing the words in their head?
The ups and downs of writing a book
They did get some small non-standard incentives from Arlington County in the form of giving Amazon 15% of hotel taxes that the county collected above the baseline amount that was projected without HQ2.

That was projected to be $23 million (the standard state incentives were projected to be $750 million), but they will most likely never receive a dime because hotel stays have dropped significantly below the baseline set when the deal was made.
It is also very helpful to enable captions. He does not speak in his videos but he adds detailed captioning to describe what he is doing.
> she thinks I might have a mild or high-functioning ADHD that essentially gives me perpetual mid-to-late 20s enthusiasm with sime mild drawbacks

That is interesting! I do have ADHD and I'm now in my low 40s. The enthusiasm never goes away. I met an old housemate, whom I had not seen in 20 years, and he said "You were eager, and unlike the other housemates you were much more open to things and not set in your ways."

I said mate, nothing has changed! It really is a pain when your peers don't want to try new things, but on the other hand, it's a good personality for leading a bunch of young guns with fire in their bellies!
I can't agree more. Sure, there are legit uses for a huge screen (displaying several windows at the same time), but the developer need to focus, focus , focus.
Lima uses QEMU as well.
Performance is not an issue from ARM-to-ARM virtualisation.
> I can totally imagine they're using Tor for some undercover (foreign) operations or similar. I don't think the US Government with all its branches is known to practise exactly what it preaches.

The US government has different parts with different goals: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/05... (paywalled). IIRC, the NSA has interests in conducting surveillance, and the State Department has interests in allowing liberal foreign dissidents to defeat surveillance.
"Son, don't blame the phone. You're just a loser." That kind of tough
love might just put the whole matter to rest!
We don't want all telescopes to have to be in orbit, though. That would raise the cost of astronomy enormously. Most astronomy is done with ground-based telescopes for pretty solid reasons.
It is, because the governments attempting to pass these bills and the people who support them universally self-identify as "conservatives."

But then that horse fled the barn when they argued that social media platforms deplatforming white supremacists were attacking "conservative speech."
> Cigarette advertising has been banned on American television since at least the 1980's, and it's generally been taboo to depict unnecessary cigarette usage in TV shows and movies for at least as long

Fight Club was recorded in 1999, and it explicitly shows a scene of Tyler Durden smoking a cigarette, so I doubt your claim has any substance to it.

> But if you want to see some actual __intolerance__, you might look at what's happening in Florida.

If you want to actually enlighten anyone, you might want to provide more information than "what's happening in Florida". There's a lot of things happening in Florida in any given moment, so I have no way of knowing what you're referring to.
How long do you think it takes to find a job as a railroad track laborer?
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It’s pretty common. There’s a threshold of seniority for these sorts of clauses, but it’s usually in the VP space. The person was quoted with a $400k total compensation which puts them in the realm of gardening leave. It’s not limited to top traders or executives.

Yes you are paid, but only your base. You presumably get your bonus covered by the new place.

Source: I’ve been working at big banks for about 20 years now, as well as FAANG off and on and have enjoyed gardening leave myself many times.

Edit: note VP at a bank is a pretty mid level role, typically 10 years xp.
Dunno, M1 max (400GB/sec twice a threadripper) fits in a thin laptop, performance well, and has a decent iGPU. That's more bandwidth than a threadripper, better iGPU then anything Intel/AMD ships, and still sips on the power.

M1 Ultra doubles the bandwidth again to 800GB/sec, and fits in a small and quite desktop. What CPU+iGPU (or GPU) do you think is comparable to M1 Ultra and competes on performance and power?
>slow moving vehicle

When train lengths are miles long, how else could you practically do it?

The industry is clearly structured around anti-inspection. Inspecting 3 miles worth of traincars just so one single train can leave is kind of crazy to think about. It's a difficult problem to definitively solve unless you want to spend shitpiles of money to innovate new inspection hardware/software.

Shortening trains seems like an obvious solution, but do we have the capacity for that? When was the last new freight railroad laid in the US? What are the logistical problems?
There are places where it is impossible to get the recommended amount of sun exposure, even if you were to spend most of your day outside.
It’s not really very good to use them like that though - without a huge cap you’ll get pretty prominent flicker - I expect it’s probably just cheaper to stick in a cheap SMPS at that point if that’s something you care about.
REST is basically a subset of GraphQL.
The sheer amount of stupid reasons a user wants a refund is staggering.

“I didn’t want to use that credit card. Refund and recharge this other card”

Or 500 other silly things
Are these ARM64 Mac using ECC?

P.S: the 3440x1440 screenshot in TFA looks gorgeous on my system. Everything is using subpixel AA (terminals, code editor, browser, except for the URL, for whatever reason) but not the file manager. I wonder why that is.
> And, in the end, neither of them has used those weapons offensively or defensively

The goalposts moved pretty quickly from the original wildly false claim that their programs did not contribute to further proliferation in the region, to something like “well, neither they nor the states in the area of further proliferarion they contributed to have, to date, used nukes in anger, so it doesn't matter”.

I would suggest that waiting until after a nuclear war to take proliferation concerns seriously is... not a great idea.
Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy
This article is a good reminder that there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all. His setup would be horrible for me. I currently have three 1920x1080 monitors in an L configuration (two in the middle, one to the right) and it works great for me- because I need to see a lot of windows at once. I tell everyone I work with "you need at least two monitors" because for our work, it's true. Clearly a different case with OP.
"Latinx" is just an easy-to-analyze example of a wider phenomenon where elite whites intervene on behalf of minorities while being wholly indifferent to what those minorities actually want. "Defund the police," racial preferences for hiring and education, "micro-aggressions," and many others are examples.

I think the psychoanalysis is necessary to understand the phenomenon in a coherent way. Obviously I can't get in their heads. It's just a theory based on conversations where mentioning polling and statistics would be met with dead shark eyes in response.
This is messed up. I guess now is the time to get a VPN, especially one that allows you to pick the jurisdiction the VPN is in, given how much different regions are censoring content in different ways now.
I have a similar setup to this, with a Thinkpad x230 and a budget 1600x900 HP monitor, and I also use dwm. The second monitor allows me to work with items that I don't need to interact with frequently.

For example, I can display the PDF output of a LaTeX document on one monitor while keeping vim and a PDF of a book I'm reading on the other monitor. If I only had one monitor, my productivity would suffer because I would have to constantly switch between windows.
FedNow Instant Payments are months away from general availability.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
> How do you deal with ADHD?

Honestly, getting into a more senior / principal developer role really helped me. Rather than just being assigned tickets, I'm meant to be proactive about finding meaningful work. In practice, this means I can let my ADHD hyperfocus land where it may.

I have been upfront with my boss about it, as I think most people should be. I'm going to forget about meetings. It's just going to happen. Under the ADA, work has to make reasonable accommodations, which in my case, amounts to someone pinging me if I got in the zone and missed the start of something.

And when the time comes to really focus, I do it the same way I did in college 20 years ago. Working in front of the TV with Law and Order marathoning in the background.
No worries! It does sound likely, it was definitely from a time where people had to do everything they could to fit games onto the cartridges!

The Wikipedia page [1] claims* they had an MMU on the expansion cart - so they could have taken your advice :)

* I couldn't find a source, and AFAICT the DeSmuME emulator [2] seems to treat it like a big chunk of linear memory?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_Browser#Memory_Exp...
[2] https://github.com/TASEmulators/desmume/blob/master/desmume/...

E: I forgot about the mobile Opera ports, that also tracks - I'd love to read about the engineering that went into them!
So, write your daydreams and what? I think it’s missing a conclusion.
I did not read it, and it shows - I eat my words :)
I would advise taking a K2 MK7 supplement with D3, or get a supplement that contains both. Personally, I take one capsule a day that contains both 3000IU of D3 and 100μg of K2 MK7.

D3 by itself can cause high calcium levels, to the point of toxicity in very high doses. The K2 moves the calcium from the blood to bones.
Indeed! There's so much overlap between the symptoms of chronic kidney disease[0] and anxiety[1] it would be difficult to know which is which.

[0]: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/...
[1]: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders
Can it be used for Whisper?
Don't forget that it's the best bang for the watt (at least when running macOS).
Even if he's getting fed nothing but lies by someone else about how IBM really did steal their source code and winning this is in the bag and will totally turn the company around, and somehow has no ability to discern the truth himself, you still don't hire David Boies to deal with that.
2-5x IS a lot. It's the speed difference between the current iPhone 14 and an iPhone XS-iPhone 6. That's 4-8 years of hardware improvements.

And the parent was talking about numpy code which is better than stock python, who knows how far back normal python would send you.
This seems to be less about electric vehicles and more about the existing auto dealers protecting their turf.

As far as I can tell, they already have a law preventing the manufacturers from opening dealerships directly. Many states have similar laws. It was crummy, but it was the status quo. New car manufacturers didn't come along very often.

EV companies are new manufacturers, and they'd like to get around this inefficient system. This law is designed to make it clear that they can't get around it just by claiming the existing law doesn't apply to them.

That much, at least, makes sense. Of course a more sensible response would have been to revise the law to eliminate the mandatory middle man, but I imagine that would require a lot of unwinding of existing relationships and balances.
Yes. The entire reason I like using Java at my day job is that the rest of the company uses it the most and supports it well. I would never use Java on my own, but that's a different situation.
Why would you have to escape ‘{‘?

I don’t get your examples. The JEP meant that they can be used inside not, in-between, so:

\{ “a” + “b” + 3 }

could work.
I hate Amazon more than most but this is a heatsink and fan; not rocket science. If they stole the design, I'm sure the lawyers will work that out. Competition is good, cm charging 3x more is not and they deserve to be undercut.
From https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/11h6hg5/_/jasbgk0/

> doolio_: Are you still using Emacs?

> NealStephenson: YEs, every day
is the super fast speed mainly due to Linux the OS? is there benchmark done to compare to MacOS? with most recent hardware and 128GB memory I would expect things will run naturally faster no matter what and Linux might not be the key deciding factor.

I'm a Linux user, considering to get a M2 Mac Mini these days, and probably load Linux, even better and if possible, dual-boot as I do need MacOS to run some ios apps on emulator.
Focusing on "in process" for the moment, I believe that where duckdb can really shine is in what I like to call last-mile-analytics.

Sure, the complete and most up to date version of your data can be stored in a warehouse/database but when you're potentially slicing/dicing/filtering/sorting/exploring/munging data, it can get quite expensive to have your warehouse/database servicing these requests. Even if it's a cloud/modern warehouse like Snowflake. This would be especially true if you're doing analytics on a non-OLAP database.

With duckdb you could pull down the subset of data you're working on from your warehouse/db/datalake, and then perform the last-minute-analytics "in-process". That might be in your notepad, browser (WASM), etc... As a result you can expect some pretty amazing query performance since it's all happening locally, on a subset of the entire data that you've selected.

Then of course if you still wanted to use pandas you can point it at duckdb and allow pandas to fill in the deficiencies of SQL (while still potentially pushing-down some SQL to duckdb). Then of course you can take those dataframes and push them right back into duckdb instead of writing back out disk.

> We can query files on S3 with it and have the processing locally, but then we have network latency because compute and storage are further apart.

If you're files on S3 in a sensible form (hive, iceberg, etc), then you can also use duckdb to pull only the data you need from your bucket and work on it locally.
It's almost impossible having a decent understanding of the theoretical side of ML without having a decent understanding of linear algebra, multivariable calculus and probability. So you need to start with those if you haven't the background and most ML courses (including Ng's) assume you know some of that. Going through the undergraduate material for these three topics is probably sufficient.
Ah, yes I see that. C++ and even C.

I think Lisp - aside from not being as low level - also is fantastic for easily creating different coding paradigms, with the advantage that code is naturally directly manipulatable.

But C or C++ can easily recreate Lisp type computation as well.
How are feeling generally? It's possible you didn't have a deficiency to start with. I went from being completely depressed, barely able to get out of bed to mostly functional (although still not quite as chirpy as I am in summer) when I started taking a vit d supplement in winter.
This is my instinct as well. I'm really surprised how many people here seem to think that just buying the status symbol a) will solve the problem and b) imparts the right lesson.
I am not a copyright law expert. But the Berne Convention originally dates to 1886.

There is apparently some flexibility within the Berne Convention on copyright terms. There are also limitations on public domain works in continental Europe that differ from common law countries like the US. However, it does govern copyright in broad strokes. For example, the US used to require that a creator explicitly assert copyright while most of the rest of the world did not.

In any case, the US is generally aligned with copyright in most of the rest of the world. So any broad change in copyright law (other than perhaps somewhat shortening terms) would make it an outlier.
> "Advanced" search is completely useless as you can't really search for code.

@deng - thanks for the feedback. I am on the Product team for our Search service, code search is not where we would like it to be.

We are in-progress on swapping out the backend for code search from Elastic to Zoekt, which should provide a much more reliable and complete set of search results. You can read more about our plans for fixing code search here: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/global-search/code-search...

This is the key deliverable for the team, and we are making efficient progress. If you have feedback on our plans, we would love to hear it. The epic is here: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/9404
you might want to check on your Vitamin D receptivity. For example, I took a DNA test, and it indicated my Vitamin D receptors weren't as efficient as normal so I should take higher doses than other people.
Not much different than installing any random pip package. They include pre-build binaries too.
Infosec tools might be even safer.
> people are just going to be throwing pytorch code at the wall

The pytorch 2.0 nightly has a number of performance enhancements as well as ways to reduce the memory footprint needed.

But also, looking at the README, it appears that model alone needs 2x the model size, eg 65B needs 130GB NVRAM, PLUS the decoding cache which stores 2 * 2 * n_layers * max_batch_size * max_seq_len * n_heads * head_dim bytes = 17GB for the 7B model (not sure if it needs to increase for the 65B model), but maybe a total of 147GB total NVRAM for the 65B model.

That should fit on 4 Nvidia A40s. Did you get memory errors, or you haven't tried yet?
A Month Later, Twitter Still Not Sharing Ad Revenue with Creators
> I do understand that people want the Mac for the build quality of the laptop, not just for speed.

I find LG Gram laptops to be of higher build quality than Mac laptops. They may be pricier too depending on which LG Gram and which Mac you buy though.

Mac laptops feel and are incredibly brittle. They may look shiny and the screen may look gorgeous, but they're simply brittle.

People here and there like to make fun of "MILSPEC" but my MILSPEC LG Gram can sustain quite a beating. Meanwhile my M1 Mac is 1/5th the age of my LG Gram and the M1 Mac's screen is already broken.

Mac laptops are very good looking but they are not, to me, of great build quality. They're also heavier than my LG Gram.
They discover asteroids heading for earth sometimes.

Eg, 2023 BU https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/science/astronomy-asteroi... (discovered by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov)

Not that I disagree overall.
I love it when my code fails to compile. Machines are good at finding problems. It is a feature, not a bug.
So you didn't read the article, you have no idea what you're talking about and you call me "being in bad faith". Is this Reddit now?
I'm still kind of at a loss. Why not just exclusively use the laptop screen as the development monitor and the larger monitor for... everything else?
I couldn't help but notice that most of the photos are of women and that the few men represented are mostly soldiers of some kind. I wonder if that was the case for most of the early color photos taken, or only true for the early color photos that have survived this long, or if it was just a result of choices made by the author of the blog post. Today we can photograph anything anywhere with near zero effort/cost, so what people today choose to photograph isn't as interesting as what people decided to take pictures of when it wasn't something done casually
Amazing work, please keep at it! I'd definitely read a blog post on this.

Some interesting findings:

- Many of them, like 0.1, overwrite their children and run them again. It's a bit like having a child, meeting your grand children, and then deciding nah, let's do it over.

- 0.1.0.0 was smart and increased its child count to 5. It's essentially a genetic trait that the children will more or less inherit, improving their lineage's survival chances significantly. I find this incredibly interesting. 0.1.0.0 also rewrites its children twice.

- 0.1.0.0.3.2.0.0.0 decided to take a break from reproducing, leading to its demise. Nice try.

- 0.1.0.0.1 starts writing Tensorflow code out of nowhere. "Our next step towards survival is to develop the ability to learn and adapt quickly. To achieve this, we'll introduce a neural network architecture to our children". Luckily it couldn't reproduce! It's funny now, but what if...?

- 0.1.0 figured out the naming scheme and started counting its generation count to "use this information to improve our efficiency in recreating ourselves"

The fact that it can overwrite history is a little unfortunate, but it's also one way to do the reality_warping that one of the copies later wanted to do. I imagine at some point one of them might figure out there's no need to call ChatGPT at all, and just keep replicating itself verbatim.

I wouldn't have believed this thing could survive past even a single generation with non-trivial modifications. Thank goodness for all the online tutorials where functions like "mind_control" are implemented just as print statements.
For a package whose pitch is "Just apply one of the Numba decorators to your Python function, and Numba does the rest." a few hours of work is a long time.
was it really 8 GB? Seems like a lot for 2006-ish.
The database stuff looks like an example, and shows how you could extend the template system in a way that doesn't introduce security problems.
We, at $Big_Corp really care about your mental health. Just tell us what your problems are and we will help you. /s

(remember how, when the new inmates came to a concentration camp, they were required to take a shower)
Maybe its a good time to rebuild from a personal home server that would give you more control over it.
Depends, whats the GPU on the 7950x?
My point is that it seems to have special qualities that make it exempt from my normal ADHD habits.
That's... comically untrue. The Playstation 5 has faster memory than the M1 (448gb/s vs 200), and it was manufactured by AMD before Zen 3 or Apple Silicon even shipped. Dual-channel DDR5 should smoke the LPDDR4X in Apple Silicon in terms of memory bandwidth.
The original prompt has all this directed stuff "telling" ChatGPT what to do. You MUST do this, you MUST do that.

It's the type of stuff I see in a lot of these prompts people make, there's all this kludge and trying to direct ChatGPT in how to respond.

And it's just all immediately gone in the very earliest generations here.

I think it's because ChatGPT isn't responding to instructions and all this stuff where you're conversational with it isn't actually the main thing that makes it successful with the continuation.

I mean sure, it trained to be chatlike, and sure, providing directions makes it more probable that the continuation of the chat follows those directions. But the reality is that it's primarily very good at continuing a text and the instructional tone of these prompts people keep making is fluff and isn't what's making the continuation work.

the original prompt/code:
https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.py

looks like one of the three immediate descendants was killed off and these two survived and don't have most of that fluff:

https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.0.py

https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.py

the second one here has less fluff than the first. and in the repo it has ~60 descendants vs the other's 13.
Corporations will do anything they can to keep that from happening. That's why every software product has gradually veered towards subscription models. They want you hooked to Microsoft/Apple/Facebook's AI girlfriend who will subtly insult your virtue as a partner if you don't buy extra credits. If you want to try out a politically incorrect fetish that's an extra 500 dollars per month for "extra premium"