skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much have you spent on purchasing software this year?

I work with tooling that costs on the order of $100k/seat. We don't get many add-ons, or it would be worse. You don't seem to understand how industrial software works. Negotiations involve the vendor figuring out how much your company is worth, and charging the largest fraction of that possible. The number of vendors in a niche is extremely small and they all work the same way.
Domestic migration statistics seem to say the opposite.
In places like Korea the birthrate has fallen below the replacement rate, like in many western countries. There are no "totalitarian" restrictions in these places.
This was done in the 90s or 0s after healthy populations of animals believed to be endangered were found living in the quarantine zone around the shuttered nuclear warhead facility in South Carolina. Many species were originally from other states.
Once again reminding folk to still be angry at AMD for giving up on HDET. Sucks so bad that one has to go server to get >128bit ram. So sad, such a bad limitation.
for $199/year?
The syllabus doesn't include those potentially taboo topics. The knowledge of chemistry leads to knowledge of those topics.

Sure, a teacher with zero knowledge of chemistry can follow a syllabus, read the textbook out loud, make sure everyone's multiple choice answers match the answer key, and try to teach chemistry to some first approximation of "teach". A primitive computer program can do that too.

What happens when a student asks a question that deviates slightly from the syllabus because they didn't quite grasp it the way it was explained? The teacher can't answer the question, but a "dumb GPT model" trained on the entirety of the Internet, including a ton of chemistry, including the syllabus, probably can.

But yes, if you pre-filter the training data to include only the words of the syllabus, the language model will be just as poor of a teacher as the human who did the same thing. Reminds me of my first "programming teacher", a math teacher who picked up GW-BASIC over the summer to teach the new programming class. He knew nothing.

We never even reached the contentious part of this discussion. This part should be obvious. You can't just filter out "bomb" because the student could explain in broad terms what they mean by the word and then ask for a more detailed description. You can't filter out "explosion" because the teacher might need to warn the students about the dangers of their Bunsen burner. You can't filter out all the possible chemical reactions that could lead to an explosion, because they can be inferred from the subject matter that it's supposed to be teaching.

The same goes for things like negative stereotypes, foul language, talking about "illegal or unethical" behaviors (especially as laws and ethical norms can change after training, or differ between usage contexts). Pre-filtering is just a nonstarter for any model that's intended to behave as an intelligent being with worldly knowledge. And if we drop those requirements, then we're not even talking about the same technology anymore.
I’d get a cold at least once a year and the flu every few years. I started taking 5K IUs of D3 daily in 2019 and haven't had a cold or flu since then.
The sad thing is that major universities are filled with researchers who are distracted by pushing on the frontiers. They often do a very basic job with teaching.
All three major clouds have regular threads on Reddit of people shooting themselves in the foot. Clouds are complicated and learning involves mistakes.

It really needs an ability to cap it while experimenting in a sandbox or something. not just budget alerts that helpfully notify you of said foot amputation post fact
These decisions were made by the same people. They are opening up buildings with 14,000 seats in June in a city where they have 8,000 employees. There may be issues in May, finding desks for people won’t be an issue a month later.
It makes perfect sense to have the expressions outside of the string literals, exactly because they are expressions and not literal. Quotes express literalness, the opposite of evaluation.

This is simply replacing the existing

"My name is " + name + "."

by

"My name is " (name) "."

by eliminating the plusses, and adding parentheses to make expressions like

"My name is " ("John") "."

unambiguous (a string template with one parameter that happens to be a string literal). The parentheses also indicate that this is a parameter, like for a function call, that is immediately evaluated. (The whole string template feature is really just syntactic sugar for a function call.)

That way you don’t have to “interrupt” string literals with an expression. Instead you end the string literal normally and then comes an expression.

A string template would be defined as any sequence of string literals and parenthesized expressions.
I have heard Neil Gaiman say something similar. Writing by hand is slower and you end up having to type it which pushes you toward cutting things down and streamlining the prose.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.ph/t5nHa

Stability.ai @ $4bn USD is a little more than HuggingFace's raise @ $2bn USD last year in May 2022, but 2x is still in the same ballpark. HuggingFace has a huge an unquestionable public presence, though.

Like others in this thread, I am curious to learn how they're going to ever generate the investment money and a profit. Would be interesting to see the investor pitch deck they used.
Thats fair. I guess I just know a lot of people who use analog or less technological methods for process/quality reasons, so it is less strange to me.
The idea that the government can’t ban speech and actions harmful to the moral fiber of society is a 1960s liberal invention. It peaked with the ACLU convincing a bunch of liberal justices that strip clubs were protected speech. Who do you think were on the other side of those cases?

Conservatives aren’t libertarians and they don’t claim to be.
There could be many things working at once. Constraints often yield surprising benefits through innovation or forcing things to be distilled to the core important bits. In Stephenson's case, if he happens to record core info and not necessarily the full sentence he will write, which he can then finagle the right structure and prose for later, maybe that allows for better flow.

If that's indeed what he's doing, it might be like writing pseudo-code and then going back and translating it into the programming language medium of choice. The benefit of writing in a journal is that it's probably easier to do on a sunny day at the beach in the sand than it would be on a laptop or tablet. Also maybe seeing old ideas crossed out on paper helps later when looking back over it to get you into the same headspace.

Sometimes we over-optimize for aspect of a task (such as getting ideas down quick) in a way that's detrimental to the process itself when we step back and look at the whole.
Not shocking, Im kind of ok with most of this.

Feeling a bit bumbed about this though:

> Additionally, Intel will cancel its upcoming Lancaster Sound GPU for its Flex Series of data center GPUs. These GPUs are designed for lower-intensity work, like media encoding. Instead of pushing forward with Lancaster Sound, Intel will focus on the next-gen Melville Sound products for the Flex series.

That was such a cool product. Heck yes give me a low-power card with a bunch of encoders (& hopefully some modestly ok-ish VDI)! Hopefully the next go is great.

It does seem perhaps a bit smart, on all these fronts, to just not release, rather than let quite mediocre products get out there & underwhelm.
On my x86 MBP, I run GNU/Linux in VMWare Fusion, full screen. That gives me a combination of both worlds, which I can easily switch between with 4-finger swipe.

I did battery life tests running the same Linux distro natively vs in a VM on MacOS. What I found surprised me: battery life was better with the VM than native, so I stayed with the VM.

When a VM is used, driver issues are effectively absent as Apple drivers handle most devices. (USB devices can be passed through to the VM.) The touch pads are properly calibrated and gestures work. Things like external displays just work. GPU access is not the same as from native Linux but the basic OpenGL support in VMWare Fusion was good enough for what I wanted to do. (That's not true any more though.)

Historically I've been more of a Linux user (and developer) on other laptops but it became interesting to get to know the MacOS world as well while still using Linux for dev work.
Making yet again "working on making your idea reality" something kind of exclusive to people not in poverty, as you don't have time to be bored as a poor person.
Not to mention we just came off a pandemic that was spreading like crazy and killing lots of people. It was a very strong reminder that public transit and offices are why you are sick all the time.
I was thinking along the lines of whatever benefits team or HR had no interest in the actual venture and just hijacked it for their own purpose and thus sank the venture.
Thanks! I haven't run any timings on the link I posted. I suspect julia would be much faster than java, though! I just thought it was neat that your post in March reminded me of an earlier pi day post on the same algorithm. I like the explosion from 1M to 20M.
Interviewer: we got 3 great candidates to the final stage we need to pick one. This
chap is strong but he will need 3 months to get up to speed after the hiatus. Let’s go with the others.

Depends alot on the supply and demand of
compiler engineers though.

Could be interviewer: finally a competent compiler engineer! Handcuff him to that gold bar!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

It's referring to dual booting windows but the same principles apply.
v9fs: Plan 9 Resource Sharing for Linux
> GraphQL is a huge burden, for very little practical gain. Most companies have very small number of examples of conflict areas where queries need to be optimized, and for the most part, these can be resolved through smarter front-end engineering (like not throwing React at CRUD websites).

We use Hasura to provide GraphQL and find the exact opposite.

* Need to filter by X? Already done.

* Want to join two different entities? Done.

* Pagination? Done.

* Aggregation? Done.

* Security? Done, just set it.

* Streaming data? Done.

We don't have traditional API code, and yet have an API is more sophisticated and powerful than any API I've built professionally.
I used to be a PT teacher at my local California community college, in the art department (graphic design, illustration, Photoshop, Illustrator, web design, etc.). I definitely heard from other teachers that some things were off (that seem like they could be related), but who knows if they were really related to the use of funds described here.

I taught for just a couple of years and I was told that my classes were appreciated to some degree because I was a working professional in my field at the same time.

Still, it was kind of annoying that some students only wanted that. When you have massively-high-achievers and middle-age homeless students with obvious struggles in the same class, the UMC people angling for their particular needs and also trying to min/max every class start to seem kind of off-putting. Not to blame anybody really, but it had a real feeling of inequity-upon-inequity to it.

One couple really grilled me before a digital photography class, asking trivia questions about the topics we'd be covering and _how much I could teach them_, because they were trying to figure out _how much_ of a waste of time it would be. For a simple weekend class! They had nearly five figures worth of gear and a lot of expectations from a community college.

I believe this is about when boot camps started to really pick up speed, and I could feel that tension building around traditional educational institutions.

I do feel like there are pros/cons of "working professional teacher" vs. traditional FT college faculty for sure, which I didn't really understand before working there.

Unfortunately it was also kind of a slow-motion "that's like a dollar an hour" [1] experience, and after reviewing the whole situation, with its variety of little pros and cons, decided to move all my energies back into my normal business.

One thing I really miss though is how much I learned! My students thought _they_ were learning but holy smokes did I learn a lot from creating lessons, lesson plans, and websites for the courses.

BTW tech-wise it was a lot of fun too. I gave extra credit points for trying non-Photoshop software, including some FOSS titles like GIMP, Bluefish, Inkscape, etc.

Some of my students also got a bonus intro to web development with PHP, Python, and one was I believe a Rebol programmer who showed me his homebrew back-door VNC client with a one-click button palette to control any of his IT-company clients' computers.

I also believe I came close to mastering the art of carrying my teacher's life on a USB disk. I had so many Portable-Apps downloads on there, even some servers I believe.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv440W1xS44
I'd rather occasionally have an awkward url than need to put the date in every time.

I've written ~2k posts and 1% ended up with suffixes like this (ex: https://www.jefftk.com/p/nomic-report-ii). And most of those were published in the same year as the original post anyway.
How Gut Microbes Help Mend Damaged Muscles
No idea.

NowRX does meds regional delivery, ExpressScripts was one of the first by mail, and other US pharmacy chains are sending meds by mail too.

Amazon has PillPack, where they combine meds by time of day.
> some future AI platform

What does that even mean? Because it could credibly mean like 20 different things, some of which would clearly be nonsense, but you haven’t left us with a specific enough of an idea to engage with either way.
I'm impressed to all heck how fast this is, and how intuitive!

I tried it against a large-ish (hundreds of mb) log file and the query was simple to write while spitting out the result .. very quick.

Impressed!
This is about the the oldest genome that was found in Southern Spain. It's not saying that the oldest genome was found in Spain.

Though, there may be something to what you said with this statement from the article:

"In Malalmuerzo, we found no evidence of a genetic
contribution from North African lineages, and conversely,
there is no evidence of a genetic contribution from
southern Spain in the genomes of the 14,000-year-old
individuals from the Taforalt cave in Morocco," said
Gerd-Christian Weniger from the University of Cologne.
You clearly don't know what computing was like back when developers' passions were oozing out of pretty much everything they wrote. Even something as mundane as an icon left an impression.

These kinds of "Wait... Seriously? Wow!" stories play a big role in inspiring the next generation to come and do the work of the future. We're seeing far less of them now in computing, and everyone wonders why the younger generations aren't as inspired about technology anymore.

When everything is a brutal race to the bottom to fleece you for every damn bit you're worth, damn right everyone's going to find greener pastures to be inspired by.
I couldn't handle it. Quit my job to get a new one and work hybrid now.

Still kinda sucks some days.
3D printers are cute and all, but untill it can build a car engine, this is not a valid argument
My experience disagrees strongly.

1. Debian always had more stability and predictability than Red Hat in practice. Too much so. The Dells and HPs of the world didn't recognize it because it was not a company.

2. My impression was again that Debian was technically better than RedHat in every way I might care about. We happily installed it at $work, and the experienced Unix sysadmins I knew could use RedHat but didn't like it so much.
Yep. It's $200 to join. My insurance doesn't cover it but I can see an MD anytime. I can telehealth or visit my PCP through them usually next day. They have labs onsite. The wait is minimal, maybe 5 minutes.
Yeah, to be clear I expect the Apple ones do fine. The ones I had issue with were not Apple.
Having faster/lower profiles lets you fit more clients on a given amount of hardware.
Exactly.

Think good, happy thoughts. Happiness is mandatory. Being unhappy is treason. Treason is punishable by death.

Have a happy daycycle, citizen!
He owns the land, so I doubt that's the (main) reason.

But of course covid would have effect on everything.
Obligatory Orwell quote:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
I am a pro compiler writer and I always use scanner-less parsers (no tokens). It allows me to change how tokens are interpreted on the fly. Very useful for the kind of problems I work on.
Good preschool is $10k+. In large swaths of the country decent schools only exist where housing is prohibitively expensive. The combination of camp and afternoon care in the summer is thousands of dollars a month.

It all adds up and while you can get clothes at goodwill there are some expenses that are unavoidable and scale linearly with quality.
Steve Jobs unveils Rokr E1, the first iTunes phone
Just look at GoodRx recently to see how this veiled this threat is
DSi are quite cheap and available compared to the 3DS which is a lot pricier. And dsi is quite sleek and simple (like the old iPods) compared to the 3ds line which got quite large and heavy (which a lot of
People prefer)
The other way to look at it is that speech about a medical procedure the government deems harmful is less protected than political speech.
I mostly disagree with this.

Yes, there are ways to be really careful with targets. But at a societal or institutional level, you don’t get that kind of control.

I’ve written about the difficulties a bit here:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/beware-the-variable-maximiz...
Does it pretty well for Alan Turing, as it turns out.
Some random anecdotical data points :

I live in New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana.
On a busy street in the city center.

I could benefit from fiber for my home office. It’s just not available.

The best I can get for $120 / month is some decent DSL. It’s fine, until I need to upload GO of data.

My parent in rural France have a strong and reliable fiber connection they have no need for for. They pay 55$ / month for it

In regard to home AC, so far we don’t need it in large swath of Europe. House are better isolated and climate is less hot overall.

Energy price are not comparable indeed. But a factor to take into account is the consistent effort to insulate houses , subsidies for heat pump , etc etc.
Your energy money get you further. ( same for gas, we drive compact cars mostly )

Not contradicting anything you say. Just giving it a tad more colors.
Brands that exude warmth hit the mark with lonely consumers, study shows
STR seems to function like a class name, where you’re calling a static method. In fact that’s literally what you’re doing, but it seems to be syntactic sugar that you don’t have to write the method name and the parentheses.

Since class names start with a capital it fits. At least I think that was the reasoning they stated.

Why not Str? Perhaps they thought this would be less likely in existing code. I’m not sure I don’t think they mentioned the reason.

They could have also just put it on the String class. Again I didn’t see a discussion as to why that wasn’t suggested.

String.”Hello, \{name}.”

Seems like it would have been reasonable. But this is a proposal so it may change before officially joining the JDK.
A lot of things have improved in distributed databases as of late. There are distributed databases today (my co. provides one) that can have strict serializability (the highest data integrity level) for hyper scale applications. Tolerating "eventual consistency" is largely a choice, oftentimes forced because your DB application or implementation (NoSQL and traditional RDBMS, depending on their implementation) does not provide you strict transaction guarantees. There are third parties (https://jepsen.io/analyses is a great source) that can evaluate and validate such claims. A lot of the anecdotal information in this thread here is no longer accurate or applicable. Yes, there are databases (like Fauna) that don't compromise on the highest transactional levels, and yes, there are more widely used databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, and many others) that either cannot make those guarantees, or their implementation by their service provider cannot demonstrate that guarantee. Happy to provide more info if interested.
Managers playing managing in their dollhouse.

What self-respecting, competent techie would want to be one of the "dolls" in such a playpen?

The article is solid gold.
This gets brought up a fair bit. A major issue is that hard bill caps cause not just an availability concern, but also a durability risk (data loss). From the cloud provider’s perspective, it’s probably easier to save face by comping accidental overages than risk deleting user data.

One solution here would be to identify SKUs that are not durability-critical, such as just instance runtime (though even this has caveats), and enforce caps by killing these.
For example, I can chew nicotine gum during exams but I can’t do yoga.

But if you're doing yoga the benefits extend in time far beyond the session. So say you're doing hatha yoga 3 times a week. You're going to be relaxed and calm; your nervous system is going to be more resilient to stress; You're going to be more focused; you're going to sleep better and need less sleep -- for that whole week. So the "half-life" is a lot longer compared to nicotine.

Nicotine is only toxic in high doses

But also...acutely toxic at high doses. It's still a toxin at low doses. And I wouldn't say how it's giving you the relaxation it is healthy for you at low doses. But yoga is.
I'm loving people complaining about this tool while I use it to do 90% of the things I don't have the slightest desire to do and then I have free time to do shit that matters to me.
To keep agreement, I refuse.
I bet with a lathe, a 3d printer and AGI you could make the tools you need to build an engine. I’m not sure why you would though, since electric motors are both the future and 3D printable.
Thank you - just set up some simple tests leveraging postgres - so I guess we can't jump to gitea w/actions just yet. Still, I'd never had guessed the feature-gap was this close. Exciting!
True, though his videos often fit the criteria of including "tactile" or "natural" sounds and he seems careful not to add anything that would get in the way.
I quit caffeine cold turkey more than a year ago. I rarely drank soda and energy drinks before so most of the caffeine intake was through coffee. The first four months were the worst because of brain fog. But it also made me aware how badly addicted I was to caffeine!
There's a history that partially explains why this is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16353398
Time to back up your ebook libraries.

Step one: Download Calibre - https://calibre-ebook.com

Step two: Install Alf's DRM removal tools for Kindle bought ebooks https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com
Please tell us what features you’d like in news.ycombinator (2007)
Pretty well or correctly?
How much money do the chipmakers extract from computing?
I think your understanding is rather limited. It is quite easy to become a good developer in Python (or a lot of other languages) without ever touching Linux. Many people do it, and always have.

Does that mean they have the same skill set as you, or can solve the same problems in the same ways? No. But that doesn't mean they aren't good developers.