skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah I understand what you are saying. Not trying to aggressively make you try Fugue out, I appreciate the comments and just want to clarify some stuff.

There is no transpiling, we think that is too magical. It's more of routing to the appropriate functions/method. For example, applying the Pandas function per partition. We use Pandas UDF under the hood when it makes sense. Sometimes, we use map partitions as well, it depends on what the user wants to do. So we simplify usage around these methods with minimal overhead (we benchmarked it).

Fugue can be adopted as minimally as needed so if you feel the need to write native Spark code or tune Spark, we don't block that from the user. The older Fugue interface was bad in allowing this, so we reworked Fugue to have a suite of standalone functions compatible with Spark/Dask/Ray/Pandas DataFrames.

Our opinion (which is totally fine if you disagree), is that most workloads don't really specific features of Spark. There are times when it makes sense to write native Spark code for sure, and for those Fugue won't be a good fit.

Our job is to make sure it's not an all or nothing thing that requires the user to make compromises.
How does the compiler know which parts of the code can be run in parallel?

My understanding is that while parallelism (actually executing instructions simultaneously) is a property of the runtime, it depends upon concurrency (the separation of computations as independent) which is always something that has to be specified in the program source code.

Erlang has a similar property of "scaling with core-count for free" provided you write your program with a prodigious use of processes (which Erlang makes very easy and idiomatic). How is it that HVM is able to identify independent computations?

I admit to being only passingly familiar with Haskell-style FP, so perhaps the answer to my question is obvious.
i feel like everyone in the US should experience COBRA and the choices in the marketplace. healthcare.gov thing. I think we'd see some real change. absolutely insane that we dont have a real safety net like that.

> You can make a huge difference for everyone by speaking out on this subject.

honestly idk, being in software i made a ton of money, have a lot of savings, no one is going to feel any sympathy for me. even if while uninsured one unfortunate thing would wipe out all that effort
We found that Codex was pretty bad at Verilog and so we fine-tuned our own models on Verilog code, starting from the SalesForce CodeGen model. The paper will be at DATE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11140

The largest model we trained is here: https://huggingface.co/shailja/fine-tuned-codegen-16B-Verilo...
I always like to try these zero-shot models on things outside of the "normal" COCO classes. Here are some chess board queries:

Counting: https://imgur.com/KTuQ1Bv

Parse the chess board: https://imgur.com/2zYFK1P

(Result): https://imgur.com/Ei4MAl7

Few-Shot Object Detection (Pascal VOC): https://imgur.com/gZkDMn8

Few-Shot Object Detection (simplified): https://imgur.com/Hk8QGMd

Not quite there yet. I've been more impressed with the other new zero-shot multimodal models like Grounding DINO and Azure Dense Captioning. Really looking forward to putting multimodal GPT-4 through its paces as well.
Erm. No? I use it and I don't remember ads that I can't disable (honestly I don't remember ads in windows except in Edge but thats different story), or some tricky interruption on windows load.

Upd: Im about win10.
Was this not how Covid-19 was announced ?

At first it wasn’t human to human and then…
A shared agenda for responsible AI progress
I have over 30 years experience in a variety of roles in software delivery, been doing architect-y type things for the past several years. I never received my baca degree, and it never hurt me materially.

Work whatever network you have. Build one from past colleagues on LinkedIn if you haven’t. Start applying for remote work. Look for contract gigs if time is that short. Get your CV out there and keep applications flowing to companies.
Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
Apple Card already had financing for laptops, in a more compelling monthly plan instead of 6 weeks. Same no-interest/fees setup.
Back in the 80s Steve Jobs cited this fact in an interview and used it for one of my favourite metaphors: A computer is a bicycle for our minds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c
One could take the alpaca dataset and fine tune using the LoRA/PEFT method and compare to the Stanford alpaca fine tuned llama model.

Presumably…
Counterpoint: Android.
Bury yourself in applying, that's what I usually do. I'll just pivot to being up-beat about all the cool opportunities that are out there. If I didn't do that, I'd be in a funk for sure as you say
Thanks for being a customer and for your input here. I can also assure you that we do not adjust our pricing based on searches. Our pricing is pretty static and is usually given to us from the tld registries themselves. They sometimes create "premium" pricing for certain domain names and all we do is pass that on to the customer with a very minimal percentage added to it(usually less than 10%) in most cases.
> I thought bigotry was scapegoating a minority group because of the actions of a few members.

That's certainly one common recent use of that term. Although more often than not it's just "I don't like them but don't really have argument that passes first smelling therefore they are bigots"
> Do you trust your bios?

Yes, it's Coreboot with disabled and neutralized Intel ME.

> Your usb stack?

No, it's isolated in a dedicated, hardware-virtualized VM on Qubes OS.

> Your network card firmware?

Same as above. And it's FLOSS.

> surrounded by cameras and microphones

For those, I have hardware kill switches. On the phone, too.
I worked in this area of the company - it's actually quite a hard problem.

For one thing, these are some of the oldest systems owned by Amazon - the team/service/system diagram is a whole massive mess, so there's that initial part of just grasping all of the pieces that go into it, and everything else that comes with legacy architecture (assumptions, data flows, formats, etc.).

Secondly, uhh trying to limit the amount of info I give - this link hints at the issue concretely enough - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/itemsandoffers... - but there's some pretty complicated automated systems that handle relationships between ASINs, and basically it's those rules that get taken advantage of. And the rules are hard to fix because they do genuinely merge together a lot of duplicate ASINs/manage other relationships between ASINs, and then sometimes they end up merging unrelated stuff. And some of the rules are ML based, so you've got the whole recall/precision stuff.

And the people talking about categories, there's like 4+ different systems for categorizing ASINs which all have separate use cases and taxonomies, so any answer that starts with "just do X" is probably not grasping the number of interdependent parts there are.

Not saying I'm a fan of Amazon at all - I left for good reason - but these comments are just so incorrect about how Amazon works under the hood. No comment on if it's intended behavior, but I never saw anything that would indicate it was the case, and we had multiple teams actively working in this space.
> Why?

They give you a visa in exchange for the money you will spend in the country. That's it.
Very nice, I just saw the Ruby implementation[1]. This looks useful! Right now I'm making 16x16 PNGs and this looks way better. I might attempt making a custom element that renders these.

[1] https://github.com/daibhin/thumbhash
They don’t have to. This indiscriminate piling on of dependencies is a problem, but React isn’t at fault as if it was somehow encouraging it.
My company is very strict about work permit when working abroad. That rules out most countries for me. Also I find that remote work only makes sense in countries where cost of living is low. I did a bit of remote work in France/Italy, but it feels like throwing money away. Unless you want to rent an apartment on a long lease and cook, it boils down to spending tourist money while being locked in your hotel room.

I considered the Thai visa which has crazy requirements. My income makes me eligible (I believe), but the visa costs $1000+ and you're not even sure to get it.
Breaking Bad has a shout-out to B5 at some point. One of Jesse Pinkman's friends(?) became obsessed with B5 and Jesse mentioned that. Idr the exact context.
If you believe that then put it into legislation and fine/ban anyone who doesn't comply. A number of US tech giants, including Apple, have been found to be censoring such terms abroad.

That's not what's happened though. Instead, there's a witch hunt spurred on by US politicians who can't tell the difference between Singapore and China.
I don't think the fuzzy edges between two states mean that the states themselves are illusory. Fuzzy borders are a property of very nearly everything, so much so that I'm struggling to find a counterexample. You've already illustrated that with your example: if black and white aren't so black and white, what is? (Rhetorical, but I'll take an answer if you've got one.)

I concede that there is probably not a clear line between conscious and not. I have experienced being close to that line myself in the morning. But the lack of a delineation doesn't mean that consciousness isn't real any more than the existence of #EEEEEE means that a room with no light isn't black.
Without going in to the fact whether this is real or not, I wonder how this works in Europe.

I thought they had the right to resell software licenses. And since that's not possible with Steam, you sell the account.

In fact, I've said multiple times that it's better to create an account per game to facilitate this.
>(And yes, I do sideload apps -- including one I've written myself -- on my Android phone. So this isn't a theoretical "don't take my freedom" type concern.)

Over the years I have built several very small, very specific apps, to do one thing and do it exactly the way I want it. The one that found most use (also among my friends) was my QR-code scanner, which was built in the days when the only QR-code scanners you could find were littered with ads, or paid for.

It took me less than 2 hours to wrap the google barcode SDK in an app with one view that showed the camera preview and had one toggle button.

The toggle button controlled whether a scanned QR-code would be immediately opened (through a generic intent), or whether it would be stored in the clipboard.

Super easy, works really well and I still prefer over the much slicker looking paid apps. If I had an iPhone i would have surely never have built this app, as the hassle would be too much.
Good point. At the time, if Intel had had a better response to it, perhaps many people would have been fine to continue using their faulty CPU as a Pentium "without FPU", or only in contexts where they did not really care that much (e.g. playing games).
I'm sorry this happened to you. It sounds like you are feeling extremely lost.

1. Take time to regather and make sense of things.

It can be hard when it feels like there is a constantly ticking timer but you need to move out of panic mode and into a functioning state. This is not just snapping your fingers. It takes time and "active recovery". I like a mix of reading, exercise and meditation but you might prefer walks, therapy, etc.

2. Establish a new routine

Work provides a natural routine which you've lost. Establish a new one. When I was laid off, I would wake up at 8:30 and quietly have some breakfast, shoot off 3-5 job applications, and then work on an activity (home repair, chores, learning). Give yourself a schedule.

3. Make three plans

Make an optimistic plan, a "most likely" plan and a failsafe. Maybe you have a company you dream to work at and trying to apply with them is your optimistic plan. Maybe it's running a bakery and your action here is to do the math on your business idea.

The "most likely" plan is what it sounds like. This is probably a job like your old job, making about the same pay. What are you willing to give up? What do you need? Are you willing to fly out once a month to a client site?

Your failsafe is that. Maybe it's a boring but sufficient job. Talk to your friends and former colleagues. Maybe you have a side gig that could cover the bills but is annoying. The goal of the failsafe is to cover the basic needs, not hit all the wants.

4. Execute forward every day

Move each plan forward every day. Take a little action. Call a colleague who you think can get you in at BoringBigCo. Send a resume cold to a dream job. Reach out to recruiters who might have good leads.
Disabling them isn't the solution, an OS shouldn't have ads

Because you can technically disable them for a period of time doesn't make it any less unacceptable.
Yeah I smell Stallman in that text
Just adding to the chorus that job-loss is a "qualifying life-event" that bypasses the annual cycles.
Punishment for a leaked private key?
> i pretty much always assume the corp will fuck me over at any given time

This is a very healthy assumption that I also make. I am fully aware than I'm a resource, a cog - and they owe me nothing.
I choose to use Windows unless of course you consider laziness as a form of having to do something.
It is not about GPT, it’s a whole revolution that is happening.

New models are coming out almost every day. Including some that have almost same performance as GPT but are 100x faster to train and are smaller (look at this:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281026).

You can believe or deny whatever you want.

The technology is moving way faster than we can keep up with and the speed is accelerating.
Open Source Alternative to Copilot
i'd say that the "average" outcomes would likely be the same for two "similar" people, one who attends a prestigious school and one who attends a state school but i'd say the probability of becoming "wildly successful" is much higher at the prestigious school (even if the overall probability of becoming "wildly successful" is small)
Yeah, people in forums can have a nasty tendency to want to flex. Either about what they know or what they own. It’s very easy to find people discouraging others. Luckily, I find most of us that actually do this for a living tend to tell people “get a basic DSLR, a nifty fifth, and go to town.” At least that’s my experience haha
> "They will reject" seems an awful like "won't run on my distribution", and not because it's not compatible because of runtime or kernel differences, but because of its 'being nonfree'.

It doesn't sound like "won't run on my distribution" to me. It seems that you intentionally took this line out of context just for the argument (or to defend MS).

The full paragraph:

> These distros are ready-to-use full systems whose developers have made a commitment to follow the Free System Distribution Guidelines. This means they will include, and propose, exclusively free software. They will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware “blobs,” nonfree games, and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals or documentation.

Next paragraph:

> If one of these distros ever does include or propose anything nonfree, that must have happened by mistake...

"This means they will include...". Not "This means they will run...".

"include or propose...". Not "execute or install...".

It clearly means that they don't include nonfree stuff with their systems. Not they don't allow nonfree stuff to run.
A crypto company having its crypto seized by a government seems a bit ironic. Isn't avoiding that the one valid use case for crypto?
Whoops, that's not what I meant at all. I really just wanted to avoid excluding Persians like Avicenna/Ibn Sina. I actually wasn't aware of al-Quff before this post, nor that he was a Christian before your comment. Goes to show I really have a lot of reading to catch up on.
By the time Windows 12 is released, you'll see legions of Windows fans clamoring to keep 11 at all costs. They'll also add it to the chart as one of the "good" ones.
You can use chatgpt and many others for free. Doesn’t seem expensive at all actually.

I’m sure a super premium category will emerge, but the 80-20 rule likely applies here.
It could be this website in 12 months or a few years. Or someone else. Doesn’t matter.

To me your reaction is like dismissing version 1 of the iPhone as a nothingburger because it’s battery isn’t good enough to be practical at launch.
It's a pretty mad architecture tbh. Compile times must be absolutely insane. Also Tesla's Dojo also uses a manufacturing technique that has basically obsoleted their WSI design already.
Depends on the subreddit, but generally extremely true.
I'm still skeptical - remember colleges refer to loans as "financial aid".
I learned while filing taxes after a layoff is that COBRA payments are typically not tax deductible. If you're employed and paid $200/month deducted from your paycheck, that was taken out before taxes. But when you're stuck paying the full cost +2% administrative fee (say, $500/month), you're paying with after tax dollars unless COBRA and other health expenses exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income.

Feels like getting kicked while you're down.
Specialized use or small audience or should be accommodated. I'm specifically thinking in terms of handicap accessibility. I need speech recognition in order to work effectively. The only good speech recognition environment for people with disabilities is Dragon on Windows. Everything else simply converts speech to text. I need something converts speech to tax then digs into text boxes and GUIs to enable editing and recognition corrections by speech.

The same also applies to copilot. I've trained myself to give it prompts to generate code that matches what I would've generated by hand years ago. But without copilot, I wouldn't program. Simply not practical.
I really don’t want to have to think about every phone app source.

The spyware game on mobile is different than laptop or desktops.
I used to work at a registrar and I have trouble believing any registrar would buy domains you search in real time as stated in the Reddit. We got literally millions of searches everyday and, surprise, domains cost money! They’re not free for registrars. Maybe some shady registrars (one in particular who also happen to own an aftermarket) do it, non real time, but it would be a business reaaaally hard to make profitable.
> Pop music, the kind that charts (and the only kind labels care about), is way more commodified than TV shows.

> Nobody puts Netflix on "shuffle" or lets it play random episodes based on what they've watched in the past

Not convinced. People used to watch TV the way they listened to the radio - turn it on to whatever's on and mostly ignore it. It's not the current dynamic but I don't think that's an immutable law of nature.
Is Puget systems representative of the broader computer market?
I have to agree with you. This sets a pretty bad precedent, but funnily enough, it only does so in front of the people who read The Guardian. So no harm done, since the people most likely to be influenced by mental gymnastics like this are actually the ones reading the paper anyway.
You need to research the difference between "facts" and "opinions"
Fun tweet from @amasad

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1640831001256689664?s=46&t...
Now’s a good time to post your resume here since you’re getting this attention!

Edit: doing it for ya…

https://www.ryanmercer.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmercer317

https://issuu.com/ryanmercer/docs/ryan_mercer_resume_2023
Poll: How long will you read new replies to your older comments?
Often HN discussions are rather fast-paced. People comment on comments within hours or even minutes. If you are following a discussion actively that's a natural thing to do.

However, sometimes I take a bit longer breaks from HN and then I see that someone replied quickly after I wrote some comment, but I did not see it until something between a day and a week later. If I just wanted to contradict the commenter and defend my earlier comment I consider it case closed. However, sometimes the commenter shows genuine interest and asked something. So it would be polite to reply. The question is just, would they still read the response?

Do you use some service or script to be notified of responses? I believe I have seen those mentioned, but myself I have never bothered to look at any. I just use "Threads" on the vanilla HN web UI.

Edit: (ah right, HN randomizes the order of the choices)
Up to one day from the threads view
Up to 3 days from the threads view
Up to a week from the threads view
I use a notification service or script
Something else (please describe in a comment)
I prefer OSS in every case where it is viable but there are just no alternatives. Not because RMS, just when shit inevitably breaks I have all the parts in the view, not black box making smoke. Or even occasionally just fix it myself and throw a patch.
Well said! Python can push down to other languages like Rust and C to speed things up. Python can serve as a great end-user interface.
Agree, once you realize how to traverse search.nixos.org and module definitions in nixpkgs it gets a lot easier.
I remember staying up super late on a school night frantically refreshing the windows 7 beta page. IIRC, they only let a limited number of people download a copy, and I just managed to snag one before they ran out.

That was the last time that windows caused me anything approaching joy.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35336870
Or:

Steal credit card.

Sell new stuff on eBay.

Wait for purchaser.

When someone buys from you on eBay, you go to a merchant, and order stuff with the stolen credit card, and have it shipped to the buyer.

You have your money from eBay. Person has their stuff. Owner of stolen card gets refunded.

Only the merchant has lost some money. Which makes this hard to stop.
No offense, but has this guy used Google? Because it's much worse. Microsoft is not innocent, but Google makes them look like child's play. There are 3 tech companies (in reality) that are juggernauts. Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Apple at least pretends to care about privacy (I don't believe them) Microsoft somewhat pretends (I don't believe them) and Google doesn't even pretend (I actually believe them.) Pick your poison.
Automation seems like a poor fit for an LLM since results are random and irreproducible? But I could see asking it to write a script step by step, and, once you've confirmed it works, keeping the script.

Also, it could help you fix the script when it breaks.
This is a very bold move. they are making a bet that LLM’s will get good enough where you won’t write code anymore, but instead guide the AI. As someone who uses copilot regularly, they are not there yet. If they do get there in 5 years, dark lang could be in a good spot. If they don’t, they will instead have occurred a huge opportunity cost of not shipping features people can actually use.

Though I disagree with the idea that we would be better off moving away from “text editor” IDE’s to “AI driven” IDE’s. One thing that makes LLM’s so useful is that you can generate text! They can already integrate well with the universal format. I see “AI powered” IDE’s being similar to structured editors (like darklangs) where it sounds superior in theory but in practice you just want a full featured text editor. All these AI features can be integrated into something like VsCode.

We shall see. Dark lang may prove me wrong. It would be interesting to see a future where the question isn’t “how good is the lsp server”, but instead “how good is the AI codegen”.
Yeah I shouldn't have said fatal dose I meant "acute liver damage" dose.