skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Show me a serious battle in Italy or a battle in Rome that resulted in serious destruction as a result of Caesar's civil war.

The people fighting in Spain, Greece, and Africa were largely Italian Romans or non-Italian Romans or allies. Caesar and Pompey were Italian Romans. It was in every way a civil war of Romans. What difference does it make that, for logistical reasons, the battles took place outside of Italy proper?

> It was a handful of battles and sieges. It's nothing compared to other campaigns.

Greece was the hardest campaign of Caesar's life. For the first time, he was fighting a complete military peer that had more resources, more soldiers, and more money. Pompey even had important Gallic leaders and Caesar's #2 (Labienus) leading a much larger cavalry force. Pompey's army matched and beat Caesar's in siege warfare.

Caesar almost lost multiple times and was beaten and in retreat when he turned around to fight and win at Pharsalus. Had Pompey avoided a full scale engagement, it's very likely that he would have won.
Entry level police jobs pay better than a lot of lawyer jobs, with a lot less debt.
Not a LLM-expert, but here are three theories in descending order:
1. Quantization (e.g. fewer bits per weight)
2. Optimization to dedicated hardware
3. (Speculative) pruning of parameters to get comparable performance with a smaller model
TIL: Most countries charge airlines overflight fees which can vary by mile, size/weight of aircraft, etc. These can add up to be significant with the alternative being to fly around that airspace at the cost of increased fuel, passenger time, staffing, equipment mileage, etc. Russia's overflight fees are at the high-end of the scale.

An explanation with nice visual examples: https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/world/article/2165980/fligh...

It looks like such a change would increase some impacted flight times by more than an hour. Since legislatively preventing this foreign income to Russia would result in substantially increased costs and inconvenience to consumers, why not instead of a ban, introduce a limit in fees paid to Russia at no more than the average of all other countries fees? Russia still might refuse overflight instead of accepting the reduced payments but if they don't it would substantially cut Russia's income, while reducing costs for consumers and airlines. This kind of price limiting would be similar to the way some transactions for much-needed Russian oil are being handled to mitigate damage.
One vote doesn't matter, in fact you get negative value out of it cause it takes time and exposes some of your private info to the public. I vote despite that, only cause I want to. There isn't a logical explanation for it.
Yes, basically lots of low tier unis are not worth wasting ur money on.

Ironically, I learnt the most important skills(learn how to learn effectively, prioritization etc) only after I started to work in a company where I was getting coached. I would have been far more efficient if go back to school now.
Having used OSX for ~10 years, I can say Apple isn't much better. Both systems treat the user like an idiot, just in different ways.

You'll see what I mean when the OSX updates start undoing changes you've made to settings and things like that. For your own good, of course.
Just sound like reasons to not get a dell.
> Bold to assume Discord is any different when searchable history is inevitable as the biggest criticism of people moving their technical support to it.

Good point; Signal it is.
Don't have a $5k MacBook to run LLAMA65B? MiniLLM runs LLMs on GPUs in <500 LOC
A gold coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar recently sold for 3 million USD:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gold/comments/jl1wls/an_ultrarare_c...
I don't easily put Lenovo and trusted together with all the security/privacy issues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
No, for now SVB assets are enough to pay for all of the drawdown. It is unclear if SVB will actually run out of assets.
https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-...

Here's the FAQ entry for why it costs as much as it does for iOS/iPadOS with some explanation for why he only charges on those platforms.
? But a liver can exist for a short time outside a human during a transplant
I find Anki essential for language learning. Did it for French, starting from 0 and finishing at B2 (except for writing) in two years (also taking a 3h / week course).

Especially at the very beginning, I find learning the first 500 words as described in "Fluent Forever" very helpful. Going through that before starting with the course makes the experience much easier.

I totally agree with Krashen's theories, but using Anki is a secret weapon here that puts the process on overdrive (e.g. reading on Kindle and then later going through words that I checked in the Kindle dictionary and adding them into Anki).

Also, it's essential to retain the knowledge, e.g. if it's a language that you don't use daily.

5 years and 30'000+ cards later, I find Anki indispensable in learning anything which requires memorisation. Thinks I have to learn for work, for hobbies, certificates, improving my vocabulary in languages I care about. Basically, every fact I care about strongly enough, goes into Anki. If not enough, goes into Obsidian.
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I’m keeping my eyes peeled for a technical co-founder to help build a company focused on mental health for men. If that vague description sounds even a little interesting to you, please get in touch—email is in my profile.

I'm hoping to meet someone who can help me shape the business from the ground up.
Can a Neuroscientist Fight Cancer with Mere Thought?
https://archive.ph/3aLMQ
In the programming/IT space ive noticed that the indiehackers community is somewhat in the same vein. Lots of posturing and talking about how to get rich and build a saas (with 1m ARR and No Code), courses, email lists, “masterminds”, etc, but little substance behind it.
No, if FDIC ends up paying it will impose fees. They haven’t yet had to pay.
> Julius Caesar was neither the first nor the last leader to be assassinated in Roman history, but his is the only death that still reverberates.

The context is Roman leaders, of which Christ isn’t one. Don’t go looking for unnecessary offense.
Unless evaluating the applications is centralized, I'm not sure it's a great win for schools.

As someone who has been on the conference committee for quite a few events, I often think that having some friction or even strict limits to submitting a proposal isn't the worst thing in the world. In theory, you want the widest possible pool. In practice, each proposal/application takes some time to evaluate and, especially given conferences obviously don't have quantitative filters like GPA or SAT, picking the best 50 sessions out of a few hundred is generally a lot less random than picking the best 50 out of 2,000.
The problem is that science has not figured out how to work without this system.
Interesting! I did something similar with 12+ years of my writing in an attempt to understand the trajectories of my attitudes. Downloaded my Reddit data and ran some extra processing to contextualize my comments within as much of the original discussion as possible. Created some specialty prompts, did some tests and checks, then let it rip.

It makes me happy to see someone else thinking about using a LLM to analyze stories and writing to understand people/characters.
> SCOTUS

‘…the Southern District of New York will hear…’

> question of merits whether you like IA or not

Whether the court ‘likes IA or not’ may be a relevant question in respect of public policy considerations.

> rooting is definitely inappropriate

First, participating (well IA really mean listening which is even weaker) does not amount to rooting. Second, there’s nothing wrong with having a view on what the judgment should be, unless writing an article in a law journal disputing a judgment would be ‘inappropriate’.
For long term holding, sure. For funds that move in and out in 48 hours? I doubt any bank wants money bouncing in and out like that. They probably pay svb, and now jpm, to be allowed to do that.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed 465 failed banks from 2008 to 2012. In contrast, in the five years prior to 2008, only 10 banks failed. Things could get much worse.
> So it’s basically a managed group of tools and libraries to let you build stuff in a handful of different languages, usually C#, but targeting the same runtime, which is a JIT?

This is not wrong.

.NET Framework = the built-in class libraries. Confusingly, also ".NET Framework" can mean the older, legacy, Windows only version of the whole thing.

ASP = the web server and web services centric parts of the framework.

NuGet = package management for built-in and 3rd party libraries.

Roslyn = the C# compiler

CIL : the bytecode "Intermediate Language" emitted by that compiler

CLR = Common Language Runtime for CIL, and related concerns such as GC and JIT

So I suppose "ecosystem" is correct.

C# a general purpose high-level language, OO-first but with some functional things.

The other problem is that it's broad: a person can use C# and.NET for one thing (e.g. Web services, or Desktop GUIs), and have strong opinions about what's needed and how to do things, and have them validated daily with all colleagues, assume that this is universal but ... those opinions are not true of the other.
It would take them about a week to adjust. We operate in a time and a place with acknowledged and unacknowledged constraints. Interpreted basic ran fine or many business applications in the 80s.

The increase in computing power has allowed non-essential accidental complexity to run rampant, but it doesn't matter because the incremental cost has gone to zero.

I am sure somewhere you can order lunch via an SMS message, have it delivered by moped and pay for the whole thing cash.
This paragraph is scary. It looks like a good idea for the Golang version of the Underhanded C Contest.

> This trick is useful for returning a slice from an immutable array; if you accidentally append to the supposedly immutable slice, a copy is forced and no data is overwritten because there is no more capacity left.
Hah. I will delete the comment, the header was out if context
> With that premium you are also paying for the traffic between instances.

No, you aren't. You're paying for the service following an arbitrary pricing model that bears no relationship with their business costs.
Given that companies in China are blatantly selling forgeries of US gold coins[1], it appears that they aren't too worried about the consequences. Though maybe it would start to attract more attention if they began counterfeiting larger value items such as these gold bars.

[1] https://m.alibaba.com/product/60579932545/Gold-Plated-Tungst...
They are seldomly used because they are difficult to use.

They are difficult to use because using them means loss of money.

Combined with other entrapping features means the all features that help escaping the ecosystem are seldomly used. So any individual products off boarding features are even less used.

These are also features that don't use more than once.

So of course when a product manager looks at usage metrics they see this feature is seldomly used and continue to deprioritize improving it.

Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yeah I think ADP has one account at the East Piscataway Chemical Savings and Loan. If that bank failed the same thing would have happened to ADP. Rippling definitely didn’t expose themselves to excessive risk for no reason other than their inexperience.
Meanwhile, here in South Bay, an activist board member (who is a senior lead at Tesla by day) just fired our longtime hacker space director with zero days notice because membership wasn't growing fast enough. Now our events are struggling and members are leaving because of this cavalier display of leadership.

It is almost impossible to find tech-adjacent countercultural spaces in the Bay that aren't fully co-opted by a self-devouring corporate mindset.
They did, but they is FreeBSD there. Pronoun confusion, I'll work on it.
When C language, WebAssembly and GPT are combined
If you have a garden you can let a little bit of it go wild. One garden isn't much, but millions of gardens with wild patches can make a difference.
It’s cool to see? If it’s the same solution as what one would do in C, how is it “cool to see”?

Is having the same meal two times in the same day also “cool”?
I'm actually okay with begin and end, but, writing a function's name twice on both the declaration and after the end statement sounds like a HUGE chore. If that's mandatory, it's immediately a mood killer for me about Oberon+.
I looked into this myself (not in US) - all paths seemed to require full time apprenticeship..
I'm a huge fan of spaced repetition and Anki. I strongly believe that most people's professional lives would be improved by using it. There is a huge amount of information that falls into the zone of it's needed often enough that not knowing it is a pain, but it's not needed often enough that you would "naturally" remember it.

I've yet to find anything else that only takes 10 to 20 minutes a day that has a higher ROI. The amount of "compounding interest" it gives over time is incredible.

Learning to write good cards is skill that takes time and practice. The article from Andy Matuschak [0] is a great guide to learn how to write good cards.

[0] https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/
You must have misunderstood what you were replying to. The GP said that there are test wells around the facility for detecting leaks and they detect at levels much lower than is dangerous.

The post wasn't implying that nuclear power is absolutely safe. Simply that safety measures in place worked in this case and the incident was handled correctly with respect to response and reporting.
as a device creator the main issue is that SoC vendors maintain their own trees and their work doesn’t seem to easily make it into the mainline tree. this causes a lot of work on my end especially because there is no way to manage patches and bring over all necessary changes related to one subsystem from their tree to the mainline or other way around. this means that small companies can forget about using linux on devices unless they get lucky because other people already did the work.

so the main issue i see is that it is too hard today to group changes related to a subsystem and too hard to manage patches.

on the other hand the maintainers are open to bizarre and very involved changes like allowing rust in the tree. the effort this is taking could have been spent solving the above problems.
Yeah my first thought was I am absolutely shocked that they used SVB exclusively until 9 months ago. Now they use JPM, but what if JPM has an issue? You would think a payroll company would integrate with at least 2-3 of the bulge bracket banks…
are you saying this filament is nothing more than a meaningless exercise in box-checking bureaucracy

that is depressing
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

We've banned the other account, but it's not ok to break the site guidelines regardless of how someone else is behaving. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I'd go farther: I thought it was a surprisingly good writeup for a general audience magazine! Northern Woodlands is interesting, partly because they take a somewhat pro-logging stance for what is essentially an environmentalist nature-oriented publication. We'll see where the next parts of the series go.

Your points about the limitations of forests for carbon sequestration are a good reality check, but there are others that are more optimistic that improved forest management can be play at least a regionally significant role. Here's a recent Harvard Forest publication claiming that forests currently offset about 14% of New England's 2020 fossil fuel emissions, a number which could be increased to 21% with better practices: https://harvardforest1.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.f...
Gusto's management of health insurance is awful. I had a very bad experience needing a document from my health insurer. Including their customer support being very slow, and when they finally replied, incompetent.

For payroll they're a good experience, but I wouldn't use them for anything else.
Well, when SVB got its “bailout”, what happened to its shareholders? They got wiped out. The people that made the bad bets didn’t get rescued.
I think part of the challenge and problem is that college has come to be synonymous with high tier universities.

There's a ton of non monetary rewards that can be had cheaply from learning, whether it is art, history, or any of the non technical professions. This value can be had for pennies on the dollar at community colleges without locking oneself into a 4-year degree track. You can ignore it GEs and simply take the classes you want to learn. You don't have to front load education into your early twenties and then stop completely once you are done.
Alaska in the summer is the one place where there mostly definitely isn’t a shortage of flying insects.

I’d never seen anything like it.
The context within the social and economic structure of society matters, too. Very few good quality careers are accessible for the self-taught individual.
The Magic of Value Statements Is in Failing at Them
The trades can be excellent careers, but it doesn’t do anyone any good to pretend that they’re an ideal path for most people.

You’ll be constantly working with people making poor life decisions that look like a lot of fun, and being encouraged to join in.

People with self-control issues or trouble resisting peer pressure are going to have a lot of trouble succeeding. They’ll have very little help.
A) what was he on and B) are you sure it is just the drugs at fault here.

First, this sounds more like a DMT experience than anything. Loads of people convinced the "entities" are real. For LSD, this would be highly unusual.

Second, the one long term effect psychedelics arguably have any link to is triggering the first break in schizophrenics. Keep in mind it does not appear to cause schizophrenia, just trigger it if it hasn't happened already. So there's really really good reason to see if perhaps it wasn't just the trips leading him to this state.
It's all expected, things are for the lookin'
Reminds me of Flammkuchen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammekueche
Your post makes me consider what other avenues to achieve the growth of intellectual souls and exposure to depth of thought could exist other than paid-for highly-structured institutions.

I think people wax poetically about their own experiences without really considering the experiences of others. We've had free public libraries for centuries now. We've had a pretty open Internet for decades. There is literally nothing stopping a 20 year old human who lives in Western society from growing their intellectual soul through learning.

For a lot of young kids, school is more like a prison than an intellectual garden. Yet a certain kind of thinking keeps these institutions mandated with the good intention of growing souls.

My own opinion is that the current means is utterly failing at generating the desired ends. As the antiquated expression goes: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
i appreciate you being willing to clarify the things that were hard to understand or that we were wrong about

(i actually had the impression that working lead on a lathe was very easy indeed due to its softness, but i've never tried doing it myself, and my bachelor's degree from youtube is worth what i paid for it)

i think you may have misunderstood something in the comment you were replying to yourself
I mean, I suppose you could use a numeric format that takes more than 64 bits, but you certainly couldn't use one that uses fewer. You have no way to know whether a number should be an int or a float. And since JavaScript (the JS in JSON) encodes with 64 bits, you'd be losing precision if you choose to use any less. The point is that an integer written as one byte in the JSON will take up more space (at least seven bytes more) when decoded, all the way up to numbers that take seven characters.
You're blaming the Internet Archive (an online library) for the sins of publishers and the broad devaluation of digital content due to the Internet? For example, Spotify pays pennies per stream because that is what the content is worth when there is so much available. Piracy didn't kill copyright value capture by artists, the Internet did (just as LLMs will devalue intellectual work). This is scarcity inertia having an existential crisis with technology enabled abundance.

This started during Napster times, and is why bands derive most of their income from touring and merch.

Please reconsider your position based on the evidence. We need to figure out a way to compensate creatives, but the Internet Archive providing access to content in a controlled manner is not of material impact to the economic situation. Z-library and LibGen make content available with no controls already.
MDs require more school on top of college; their major is often unrelated except they have to take pre-med classes. Often times people will go back to a community college or some other schooling option for those classes if they decide they want to go down that route. So you absolutely can be any of those majors and change your position later. Far better than say a communications major, which with psychology are the two main majors for people who are in college but don’t know what to focus on.

You can self-educate but very, very few have the capacity to get anywhere near what you’d get from a dedicated professional walking you through a curriculum in a context where you’re dedicating 4 years to the endeavor.

Of course not everyone “needs” to be more educated to have a functional life, but society is much better off when more of the public is educated. You can look around the world at the varying results of that, and it’s consequences.
Just add two OS'es to UEFI BIOS. Bootloaders easily break.
CDC purchased private location data on 55M Americans for lockdown compliance
Think of Every corporate job as a glorified McDonald job.
Zero and Few Shot Text Retrieval and Ranking Using Large Language Models
It's cool (to me) because it highlights a point some people (including me) have made about the claimed benefits of using new languages.
Illegal? OK, I'll cope, but for sheer cheesy bad taste...
You are thinking of the death of Jesus? Yes you have a point. He was a leader in Roman history, even though he was not a Roman leader
Grist is it, in fact "GSheets + Airtable" is how people often see it. From https://blog.appsumo.com/airtable-alternatives/#3_Grist: "Grist has been described as if Google Sheets + Microsoft Excel + Airtable had a beautiful baby."
More than that the problem is that authorities knew about this in November but the news is only reporting four months later. Why?
>>4 years of education on a daily basis.

Is it? Really??? For all degrees and all programs..

that is the claim... but I just do not see that manifest in reality.

Seem you have a very inflated view of the programs... just how much debt are you attempting to justify?
Sure it has. The modern “scientific publishing” industry is much younger than science.
most of the greatest masters were taught art from childhood, it’s not magic