skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. And the difference from editorial control over ancient printed encyclopedias is one of degree, not kind.

(I am old enough to have been disappointed as a youngun that encyclopedias failed to include intensely sexual content).
Always start with the question, do you need to optimize? :) Most likely, Probably not! Java is _fast_, and the JVM is pretty good at what it does; 95% of the time merely checking for GC thrashing is all that’s needed.

Otherwise, start with G1 and get your Xmx value in the ballpark. VisualVm can help you determine if you're thrashing. Are you GCing like 10+ times per second? Keep an eye on it. If you start hitting giant pause times and 50+ collections a second, you've got problems :) Increase Xmx. (and no, please don't set Xms = Xmx).

If you have issues past that, it’s not the garbage collector that needs help; the next step is to audit your code base. Bad code makes any Garage Collector in any language to misbehave.

For instance, are you `select *`ing from a table then using the Java streams api to filter rows back from a database? That will cause GC issues :) fix that first.

So now if you've got to this point and you still need to optimize, what we've done is just run through the different collectors under load. One of our JVMs is a message broker (ActiveMQ 5.16.x) and we push a couple thousand messages per second through it. We found that Shenandoah actually improved latency for our particular use case, which was more important that throughput and outright performance.

Oh, and if your application and usecase is _extremely_ sensitive to latency, forget everything I wrote and contact Azul systems about their Prime collector. They're pretty awesome folks.
Yes, these are an absolute must :) Came here looking specifically if this was possible. The cool thing is that is currently the only thing I've been missing after playing for a couple hours! I've tried vscode yearly to see if it had become tolerable, but alas. This is the first time I've tried something that might steal me away from Sublime.

There's an issue for it: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/75
Only special friends.
the discussion is about whether it’s possible to ban development or not
Oddly enough I've just been looking into a veterinary treatment method for superficial tumours based around cytostatica in combination with electric pulses - delivered by a pulse generator controlled by a Raspberry Pi - which are supposed to increase the efficacy of the cytostatica by 'electroporation' [1]. I'm mostly looking into this because the glossy site and the presentation given at my wife's vet clinic have a relatively high snake oil coefficient although there is some science [2] behind the process. It seems to come down to a combination of a TENS machine [3] (which can be had for around £40-60, ₤80 if you want it remotely controlled through your phone) with needle probes except for the fact that a 10-pack of 4-needle probes costs €2.500 while the machine itself - a Raspberry Pi with a keyboard, a pulse generator and an LCD screen in a compact box - costs around €25.000...

[1] http://vetiqure.se/our-products/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5092241/

[3] https://www.boots.com/health-pharmacy/electrical-health-diag...
if you like sycamore check out dioxus.
Many wood fireplaces barely heat anything. You have to open the flue to let the smoke escape, and the heated air from your house escapes as well. That air has to be replenished from somewhere—and that somewhere is "outside," where the air is freezing.

So in the end all you get is heat immediately around the fireplace, and a cold house everywhere else.

(None of this applies to modern fireplaces that account for these issues - but I don't think that's what you are talking about here.)
So I have a few different experiences:

1. I used to write technical pieces on Medium aimed mostly at people starting out their careers. I suddenly blew up and made reasonable money from it for a little while and that blog (before and after blowing up) was a big factor in me landing both consultancy jobs and a full-time job.

2. I now write almost exclusively on my personal website (https://yakkomajuri.com). I get no money out of it and few people read what I write, with the exception of some posts getting on the front page here once in a while.

It's fantastic: I've kept up with my love of writing and have allowed myself to just write about anything, including pieces that show a lot of vulnerability. This culminated in me publishing some poems a couple weeks ago (in Portuguese though).

Beyond that, my website is super bespoke, using a static site generator I built, and it's vanilla HTML/JS/CSS. It's refreshing to write dumb code with almost no deps. I also learn a lot through building it and writing on it, and have expanded it to include different areas of interest (pictures for example). Overall, it just _feels good_ to have it.

Ah, I've also started to write goals publicly which has been a nice experience too.
> It's all about communication with people, and problem solving. [...] So, I couldn't care less about it.

These things seem very ripe for LLM exploitation...
No worries, FWIW I didn't — and still don't — note any sarcasm....
These are the V2-Mini not the V2.

And some level of "learning" is expected considering it's only the first launch of these.

It's not the entire V2 (or V2-Mini) program in trouble, just this batch.
I suspect (and sort of hope) they're close to hitting a local maxima

presumably they've already fed it all the code in the world (including a load they probably aren't licensed to)
To be fair there is some disagreement over what exactly "the past" _is_. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzN5YwMzv0 discusses this a bit.
Do unions make people richer, or being richer affords people to have more wealth-destroying unions?
If the Fed won't do it then other Central Banks considered safe such as the Swiss Central Bank or Japan should absolutely allow for this.

They are essentially substitute for banknotes, people have the right to have established a separation between transactional services and investing.

People right now are de-facto investing in the loan portfolio of their commercial banks
Multiple industries laid off large parts of their workforce. US unemployment trippled, and more tourist heavy countries fared even worse. One of the biggest drivers of crime is "it was the best option available at the time", and most cybercrime isn't highly skilled and fairly accessible.

To make matters worse, "regular" crime struggled at the same time. It's harder to break into people's homes if they are at home all day, and you can't mug them in a dark alley either, neither can you pickpocket tourists.
Banking benefits society when it’s stable. We should be ensuring that regulation is in place to prevent irresponsible risks such as the behavior of SVB so that banks like First Republic, which if anything is super conservative, aren’t driven out of business for no reason.

A world where banking consists of Chase, BoA, etc is not a good one.
Companies were bloated because of the profit potential of tech and organizational dysfunction.

AI wasnt needed to cut down on bloat - some combination of a few companies reaping the majority of the profit and reduced dysfunction is enough.
This artificial intelligence takeover has got to stop. Natural Intelligence is the best intelligence.
A new math game called Hyperjumps
This is cool; finally, the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.

I’d be interested to see how Google’s LaMDA compares on this task (currently available in private preview).

One of LaMDA’s unique (afaik) features is a fact-check system that edits the main LLM outputs, to reduce bullshitting. This seems particularly important in an educational context where impressionable young minds are talking directly to the LLM.
Exactly, but this has some scary implications in the future - imagine when it is common pratice to allow AIs API access as a matter of course...

When giving a prompt, the prompt causes the crawling of many APIs to build the response - the power of such activity/features, will be scary power-to-authoratarian goals.

Imagine if the prompt is "Select all users who have political beliefs, posts, comments, links from APIs A, B, C, etc where sentiment appears to dissent from [party line]"
> Biases should be expected and understood. People should just know not to trust everything it says as fact and only use it as a source of ideas.

Uhh, the past decade of the Internet called, please pick up.

In seriousness, I think it's been proven well enough that people, generally, can't do this. Shouting "people need to be able to judge the reliability of their sources!" is cold comfort to, for example, victims of a Facebook-spread genocide.
You mean , like, the same as for anything that has ever been built in all of history?
Will we still have human flaws (and strengths)? Oh yes, so much yes.
The research on peanut butter puffs in Israel convinced us small amounts were far better for our young kids than avoiding completely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8
The thing is, I think ChatGPT can help a lot with this as well, albeit not in its current form/implementation.

It just needs some knowledge repository centralization.
Seems unlikely. Neither look like more than a few dozen vertices. The version with the normal map is likely going to be significantly larger in GPU resources due to the texture storage.

That said... how is this news, exactly? Bump/normal mapping was a novel, new fangled technique back in the late 1990's... In its original form, it actually predates programmable GPUs.
After combing through the announcements again I mostly agree with you. Google and Microsoft are putting AI in very similar places.

I still believe MS is going further. Business Chat will be a very big deal if it works well. Google didn't announce anything similar.
The problem is a lot of the papers and newspapers want more money for a subscription to one single magazine or newspaper than the entire Apple News+ subscription.

And especially the newspapers already dropped their content quality decades ago before things like Apple News or the Kindle even existed.
Same here. I remember the first time actually grasping objects and class members:

circle.x = 50;
Some folks grew up without practicing code- did business / operational /technical things for 20+ years.
For someone like that, chatGPT is manna from heaven. 0>0>

I point chatgpt at the general problem and ask about the tech. Check it's answers, drill into specifics. As more questions, get it to write a prototype. (obviously with different parameters to prod- I don't trust open ai not to harvest from my interactions)- ok, now I have proof of concept, if it does the thing I want to do, then go to the engineers and say - hey I want to "X", here is RFC and rough code, .. any problems? if not, how long to push a localised version?

I guess you might call this scripting or prototyping not "real coding" but, damn it's useful not have to fill my head with python etc.
Or bore/waste a guy earning 150k for a half day plus to get the basics, then never get my prototype.. because, priority, resources, etc
As a non-physicist I'm not sure I'm interpreting this correctly. Does this essentially mean that all states in time already exist and our consciousness is just traversing this 4D space in one direction on the time axis?

If so, does that mean that the big bang could actually be the end of the universe and we're just experiencing time in "reverse" toward an initial starting state that we perceive as the future?
That's a common misconception: because it is not their money to do so as they wish with. It comes with strings attached in the form of agreements tied to multiple LPs (Limited Partners) dictating own that money can, and cannot be invested.
ChatGPT can't count the number of unique digits in a number
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog.

In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup.

In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup.

That in turn led to me learning more about media tech accelerators. I applied to one with a new startup idea, and got in, in part because my blogging on the open web was picked up by the New York Times as part of a story.

Blogging for that startup helped us find customers and a like-minded community.

When that startup was acquired, blogging both externally and internally at the acquirer helped me make friends and share ideas that wouldn't have reached the right people otherwise.

And so on. Sharing ideas - not just tips, but thoughts about the why and who behind technology, as well as being vulnerable in public - has let me cut through from being a nobody in Edinburgh to someone with a pretty great technology career in SF.

And even if none of that had happened, writing is a wonderful way to structure your thoughts, consider what really matters, and reflect.

I recommend it. Start a blog - on your own domain, on webspace that you control.
When I was fat, my insurance wouldn't cover any weight loss procedure (including just visiting my primary physician to discuss my options for weight loss-- a lovely $250 surprise) because I had no obesity-related health problems (heart disease, diabetes, joint issues, etc).

So a hospital can actually do a lot for fatties. Being able to talk to a nutritionist, set up a plan, gain access to any applicable medication, addressing out underlying inflammation/hormone/disordered eating...
Scala is also on the way out, adoption is steadily decreasing.
I also find terminology games boring and pointless, but there's something quite interesting that lies at (I think) the heart of the debate: people tend to view a mesh as something like the underlying concrete object, and the textures as a mere skin pasted onto the outside.

This is evidenced in the way people seem to consider fragment shaders to be a kind of "illusion" or falsehood.

But of course, a spoiler: it's "illusions" all the way down. This is not a pipe. A value in a normal map is just as "real" as a face in a mesh (that is, not at all, or entirely so, depending on your perspective).
I'm using ActivityPub on my blog to network with others via a Friends plugin. I'm quite disenchanted with centralized social media at this point, short-form microblogging ala Twitter or Mastodon doesn't really interest me anymore versus substantial essays.

My blog, https://hammyhavoc.com acts as a portfolio of what I've done. I started keeping a 'Now page' (https://hammyhavoc.com/now/) instead of posting on social media, it's much more detailed and interesting.

People find my blog via Google et al via a lot of relevant search queries, and I've picked up a fair bit of work through it passively. I could probably blog a lot more, but I've realized that I've been inadvertently writing a non-fiction book about technology for the past decade, so a lot of posts just end up as fodder for that.
We are just at the beginning, this is going to get much worse.

Technological Acceleration Anxiety is going to become a real issue. Not tied directly to AI, but will run mostly parallel.

Individuals need islands of stability to plan, reason and enjoy the present. Rapidly shrinking innovation, disruption and adaption cycles are destabilizing.

We had all hoped automation/AI would have removed the rat race of monotonous tasks.

Instead a new rat race of sprinting ahead of the technology curve to remain relevant will become exhausting without extended periods of stabilization.

It is not just jobs, but will be cultural shifts as well that will accelerate. It is an unhealthy rate of societal change leaving individuals desperately in search of meaning.

I've been thinking a lot about the societal impacts of these rapid changes and have collected a lot of thoughts. We are moving faster than we can reason about the changes and impacts. https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
I think it would have done well if you added an explicit rule like: "the path chosen should always minimize the number of fire tiles passed through."

The way the prompt was phrased sort of invited the all-or-nothing fire approach.
> In addition to potentially rescuing concepts like locality and realism, retrocausal models also open avenues of exploring a “time-symmetric” view of our universe, in which the laws of physics are the same regardless of whether time runs forward or backward.

Usually the fundamental laws are regarded as time symmetric already.

What does this mean:
> Instead, retrocausal models suggest that there is a mechanism that allows circumstances in the future to correlate with past states.

Surely future states inevitably correlate with past states?

Perhaps it all makes sense but that article doesn't make a compelling case.
I made no such assumption. I've just never seen it discussed, where as, for example, I've seen "mixins" discussed and dismissed (justifiably) as an alt.

> How do this two behaviours compose together/interact with each other?

What?
Exactly

How in tarnation did anyone think keeping babies away from the allergens would help with allergies is beyond me

Which countries has the least amount of peanut allergies? Countries where people give it without much concern

Thanks to these misguided though there are people severely allergic to peanuts
Can you show that there is a factual past without parsing it through your perception?

It was factual that the earth was 6000 years old, until it wasn't.
No average joe is getting screwed over by private companies investing money in other private companies, any more today than they were on any previous day where the same things happen. This is not news, and is only relevant because of the crisis. No public dollars are funding this.
Using ChatGPT as a disassembler seems like a dumb idea when free disassemblers already exist. What possible advantage does it give?
The issue being that neither they, nor the LLM has the proper model for the problem domain and so don't ask the right questions when trying to extract business requirements.

Additionally, this is "stateless" to an extent. There's no architectural plan for how it should work when you have an LLM do it. "We're using X now but there are plans to switch to Y in some number of months." This could lead to making an abstraction layer for X and Y so that when the switchover happens there is less work to be done - but that requires forward looking design.

If "they" only describe the happy path, there is no one to ask about all the unhappy paths, edge cases and corner cases where the naive implementation of the problem description will fail.

Hypothetically, yea, "they" could be trained to think through every possible way the generated code could go wrong and describe how the code should work in that situation in a way that isn't contradictory... but that remains an unsolved problem that has nagged developers for decades. Switching to an LLM doesn't resolve that problem.
Subscriptions for legitimate ongoing services make a lot of sense.

I use "legitimate" there because a lot of SaaS is only offered as a service to soak customers, with no technical need or benefit to being sold as a service. That's the toxic business model.
> All the examples - installing and using a package manager, running a command line program - are "simple" from a software point of view, but they're not at all "discoverable". To understand the steps you need to memorise a seemingly meaningless sequence of text.

In a big enough organization, document sharing setup and program installation for non-technical users should be performed by sysadmins. There's a good chance if someone needs something, everyone will need it, so with proper device management tools they can make it discoverable/preconfigured for everyone.
>I will never purchase a digital file for $9.99.

License
It’s become more widespread guidance in the last decade. There are a few studies iirc comparing cousins living in the UK as opposed to Israel. The Israeli kids get a peanut based cracker as a common snack and have much lower incidence of peanut allergies.

I think in the US the issue is that there isn’t a ton of published material on it. My info may be out of date as my kids are well past this stage.
We should stop thinking about the trade-off as between developer time and CPU time. The CPU is an inanimate object which doesn't mind pushing around more electrons. What we're really throwing under the bus when we optimize for developer time is the customer's time.

If an inefficiency saves a developer 10 days of work, but results in an operation taking 100 milliseconds longer, and you have 50M customers who do that operation just one time, then you've wasted ~58 customer-days.
Stupid question: "How could all the crypto mining infra be reporpused to be GPU GPT prompting farms?"
yeah 70% not 100% some people will still develop allergies
This tool could be a lot more dangerous on many levels than a freaking loom

Not quite sure that's how the Luddites viewed it. I suspect they thought that if something is harmful, distressing, dangerous etc, People have the right to question if we’re going in the right direction or not. We've seen the same views with the introduction of every new technology but so far none of them have destroyed the human race.

This is seen as something earth shattering now, and in many ways it is but I suspect in time it will become a loom, another tool like all the others. One to be superseded in time by something another step beyond.
I see this in the Golang forums a lot.

The people who moved to Go a while back, when it was unpopular, because they loved it, aren't that vocal (apart from the continuous cries of "just use the standard library!").

The people coming to the language from other languages, not because they like Go but because they need to use it for work (because it's now a popular language), are very vocal about how they don't like it because it's not what they're used to (though usually this is phrased differently - usually complaints about Go's "inexpressiveness").

I was one of the people who loved VB6 and struggled with VB.Net, wandering through JS and PHP, until I found Go and fell in love with it immediately. I would hate for history to repeat itself and the Go team to make the same mistake that MS did with VB.
Prime Muzak, iow.