skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friend, just because you have the skills and ability. Does not mean you have the tools and opportunity. Just because you think you have the skills, doesn’t mean you do.

Operating at that level is less about your technical skills and more about your soft skills.

Take this thread for example. You’re getting defensive. I can understand why here. But if you get defensive like this in front of senior leadership. You’re going to lose credibility and trust from them. When you bring them a technical solution that works. They will ignore it because of that. They will also in their minds see less value in your skills.

You can be the best software architect in the world. But if you don’t have the soft skills. You won’t be respected as anything other than a replaceable IC.
I'm really worried about the effects on the food supply chain. The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country's breadbasket. Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be harvested, turned into flours and processed derivatives, and could end up in practically any processed food on grocery store shelves.

Does anyone have a reassuring reason why I shouldn't be worried about this? Does the food industrial complex have controls to prevent chemically contaminated grain from getting into processed food supply chains? Is there a reason to believe the government is regulating this competently?

I think I'm going to try to avoid processed food and buy produce as locally as possible for a few years (which also has some other benefits anyways). But, am I being overly paranoid?
Thank you!

> because we’re fallible and often the systems we build are too

Yes, the basis of my article is using the assumptions of the alignment theorists who believe that we can build an AGI and it will be by default "power seeking".

Of course, either could be wrong. I agree that is really the best hope that either we hit some unexpected limitations or the problem we perceive simply does not manifest as we fear.
Aside from that. If you sell alcohol you need more parking spots? That seems like promoting drink and drive.
Cataclysm – Code generation library for the end game
Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Not exactly answering questions on what AIs would do but: to spoil as little as possible: there is an alien ship that communicates with humanity in a way that is eerily parallel and similar to today's LLMs.

It's a pretty tough read though, I had hard time understanding what is happening exactly. Might be one of the books where it might be a good idea to spoil a bit how the narrative works. Maybe just reading to top tagline on TvTropes page doesn't spoil too much: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Blindsight

Also you can read it online easily: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

Edit: this novel apparently has been on HN frontpage once https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378221
> Cars are an order of magnitude safer than they used to be and we were trending towards 0.

This isn’t true for the US, cars are actually more dangerous due to the prevalence of SUVs that skirt safety regulations by being sold as light trucks.
Not aware of a built in way, but if you use bash or similar as your shell you can do an alias like

git config --global alias.chpull '!f() { git checkout "$1" && git pull; }; f'
> The U.K.’s National Crime Agency announced last week that it’s been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services.

This... might actually be effective.

One major reason I stopped using Kazaa/LimeWire back in the day was growing fear (and experience) with files being laced with malware.

Throw out enough landmines to make someone think every service could be a trap... seems smart.
> I think there is objective value to understanding propaganda's origins and goals

Of course, but this requires the propaganda be contextualized, which wasn't a part of the situation I was suggesting.

> Can you describe how the public coming to a better understanding of the inner workings of the worlds most influential social media site is merely propaganda?

You're begging the question.

Does Twitters disclosure of parts of the algorithm used (but certainly not all!) actually lead to a better understanding of the inner workings of Twitter? Or is such a release actually serving some purpose beyond transparency?

If we had that, I'd agree it would be good. But I'm not convinced we do.

Elon's done the exact same thing before at Twitter with his selective disclosure of material to friendly journalists in the "Twitter files". That, in my opinion, led to an overall worse understanding of Twitter's actions, not better.
This will be great once ready. That and audio are the biggest features I'm awaiting.
How is it pretentious? I feel the same way. When people ask me what programming is like, I tell them it is 50% understanding the business problem, 49% problem solving, and 1% writing code.
What's wrong with using 2.7% for housing? That seems low compared to many countries. Isn't that the American dream?
Yet another reason not to buy a car from General Motors
First Q: They do it because it’s harder to exploit a unionized workforce. Exploitation leads to short term increase in shareholder value.

Second Q: Probably both.
As someone who recently experienced hanoi traffic as both pedestrian and motorcyclist - I can attest that it can be scary, but after a certain learning period not that bad.

The big problem there was the lack of sidewalks for pedestrians so you kinda had to go into traffic even if you were just following the streets.

Crossing even the busiest boulevards was actually easy, if a bit nerve racking. The flow of scooters just parts around you as you cross, giving you the “I am Moses” feel - you only have to be visible and consistent with your movement.

Honestly they should just get rid of all the zebra crossings and pedestrian lights - those don’t work anyway, and just build lots of pedestrian islands everywhere and they would be golden, oh and ban cars.

The amount of people those scooters move throughout hanoi is just staggering - even if they are a bit slow, they make up for it being like an organic flow that doesn’t stop for anything as it can just ride around it.
My friend, and I say this without trying to be judgemental or rude..

If no one in the room understands the value you bring to the table. The problem does not lie with them. It lies with your ability to communicate and sell that value.
Which one is better for your environment? Pollution filled cities or open country air?
> had to constantly be retrofitted

There’s your problem. You can’t constantly change software contracts without causing bugs. If you’re liable for the code chances are things will slow a bit. Good! We need to develop software slower.
> I see, my status changed from US tax resident to student in Canada so the taxes now apply.

If you stay in Canada for more than 183 days in a year, you are deemed a resident of Canada. I don't understand why the tax applies.

> Still I feel it’s unfair in a globalized economy considering it’s reducing liquidity, as in you have to be a tax resident of some other country to avoid this steep tax.

It's not an additional tax. It simply changes when the tax is collected.

> For example if you decide to take a year long sabbatical or retire in, say Portugal, you’d have to pay the tax every time you withdraw money for rent and groceries.
.
The tax only applies if you have an Indian income of more than 15 lakh rupees and you are not a tax resident elsewhere. If you retire in Portugal, this does not apply to you.
Have the parking minimums actually been increased lately, though?
It’s interesting how NVMe will be even more critically important if this lazy weights loading approach works out. PCIe 5 has arrived just in time for LLM interference it seems.
I cool my server to 30°-35° HDD temperatures, because that's supposed to increase their life. However, all my SSDs are then at 23-27° [1]. I think I saw some long endurance tests and they pointed out that failure rates for SSDs increase slightly below 25°. Tricky tradeoff.

[1]: https://i.ibb.co/dtt6dwj/ssd-hdd-tmp.png
> I'm not saying no gangs exist, but they aren't really an issue (unless you define 'gang' as any association of >1 person

Not too far off. The federal definition is 3+. Gangs aren’t necessarily big.
Related, Gerald Jay Sussman explains why they pulled the plug on MIT 6001 (SICP) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgRFOjVzvm0

In my words, he says: devs continuously change tech stacks without poking at the layers underneath. So only a few become proficient enough to focus on the abstractions.

The same happens with designers, many become technicians of graphic design tools.
>so China remaining stable and friendly would be good for people in China and for people outside China. It's not controversial, is it?

On it's own that's not a controversial thing to say. But headlines like "Xi Jinping says he is preparing china for war" don't tell the whole story. China is only preparing itself in case things get worse globally. The US is often the aggressor, and the US has been trying to destabilize China for a very long time. The Chinese government knows this.

>Mass media in the West is largely in the hands of private interests with their own agendas, it's not in lockstep with whoever is in power.

I would argue that these "private interests" have a big part to play in getting people into power, and for influencing those in power.
Yesterday in a work meeting, I qualified my thoughts on the present subject as the incoherent ramblings of an insane person. Oddly, that just seemed to make my coworkers take my ideas even more seriously.
Better enough to justify driving in and then losing tons of home time?
>I did. The NCLB Act has precisely ZERO monetary incentives for teachers

They had negative monetary incentives for teachers and schools

>It was obviously written and enacted by people who have no idea how incentives actually work.

It was written by people who don't believe in public education. It's the literal concept you are pushing whether you recognize that or not.
The point of this is that city planning is a slow process it literally takes decades to change cities. So yes you can't change cities to only operate with public transport overnight, because they have not been designed that way, but if you want to make them so that public transport becomes an option then you need to start now. And we do need to change how we get around, even if we go full electric cars, we still use too much of our energy needs for transport.
Not sure whether I'd feel better if the people running our government were greedy psychopaths or just horribly incompetent.
9-year-old girl wanted to save her goat from slaughter. Then came the warrant
The link I provided actually responds to the link you provided in response. Did you read it?
But toxic chemicals weren't burning at the time they walked around, right?
Yes, I think those are possibilities.

In simple terms, I think we will either be in control of power we are not prepared to manage or we will be managed by power that we can not control.
> This is evident in the fact that a 20-minute drive can easily transform into a commute of 90 minutes or longer when relying on public transit. I truly wish there were a way for me to avoid driving and still get to my destination efficiently

It's not like it's the natural state of things that 25% of the Atlanta city center is dedicated to parking so we just have to accept the downsides.

There's a reason everything is so spread out and so it's difficult to walk places or design efficient public transit, and it's the same reason driving and parking your car is the most efficient transportation method.
Their argument was not that we can't regulate accidents away, but that it doesn't matter if truck drivers ignore regulations because they aren't having enough accidents to worry about. That's not true.
I hate that this is what SEO has come to but I also respect the grind
They are too busy trying to get people to use the metaverse and dig deeper to get out of the absurd hole they have found themselves in. I imagine that the senior leadership probably hasn’t even noticed the sucking chest wound twitter has.
never seen a pull requests with so many comments, and where the comments to the pull request read like ... twitter :-)
But Intel and many chipmakers contribute to the Linux kernel
What does the CDC have to gain by downplaying the seriousness of this disaster?
It's deeply concerning to me that democratic party insiders are still acting like Pete Buttigieg could be a future presidential nominee after his horrible handling of this disaster.

Further horrifying to think that some of these people may rationalize minimizing and hiding evidence of harm from this disaster because they believe it would serve their political goals.
Steam Achievements for Dolphin
And THIS is why I always advocate for democratization of AI models, getting these into hands of open source community and letting people use it as they wish etc.

But a lot of people would rather only have govt or corp control of it...
i haven't even opened this article yet, but the headline scares the crap out of me
I think you’re sidestepping the point here. The point is that the combo of these systems becomes one unit. One integrated system. That’s the new system to measure. Similarly, your prefrontal cortex without a hippocampus sucks. The combo of them (and other distinct parts of the brain that handle specific functions and have specific purposes that interact with other parts in a specific way) - that is what causes our specific type of intelligence to emerge. The brain as a whole is much more interesting and practical to measure.
Renewable fuel sources are already nearly 100% in use. So if you add electricity demand, that new demand usually comes from fossil fuel. That is, you need to consider marginal electricity generation.
> Do you have a source for this?[0]

I don't have a source, it's just an educated guess. "Defund Planned Parenthood" was a huge conservative slogan in America. It's possible that the people who coined "Defund the Police" had never heard the other slogan in their entire lives, but they'd have to be living under a rock to do that, because they're left-wing and liberal political activists.

> Can you explain this more thoroughly? (in regards to "paying their own way")

Increasing town revenues through more aggressive enforcement. i.e. you increase the ticket quotas so that cops nail more speeders. In America it's so normalized to break the speed limit that, for example, Tesla self-driving systems let you configure how much your self-driving car will break the speed limit by. So you can reliably increase town revenues by issuing more speeding citations, because everybody does it.

This isn't the only lever you can pull to squeeze money out of your citizens, but it's the most common one.

> I think you are amalgamating the separate actions of several different groups and attempting to attach a single coherent narrative to their collective actions in an effort to excuse everyone involved.

Amalgamating yes, excusing no. Consider it a post-mortem report - "How did we fuck this up".

> We used to just call this "Police Reform." So this all seems like a huge unforced error, then.

Yup!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY
Why not take a figma file and convert it to production ready with your tool doing the final touches? Do we really need another UI drawing tool standard? Adobe bought figma so they will copy anything you do that catches on like they copied Sketch shortcuts.
Most of their Linux drivers are contributed by the chipmakers themselves
I wouldn't call either of those in the same class, unless you're specifically referring to the base model MacBook.

The Dell XPS and Razer models are much more similar in build quality, hardware capabilities and price range to the MBPs.
What is "Asian DNA"? I grew up in Siberia, and have some ancestry from local ethnic groups that lived in the region for more than a thousand years, is that what the authors have in mind? Or should we consider actual DNA differences prevalent in different regions, as seems appropriate when studying genetics? I would think India, China and Siberia would be all a little different from each other genetically?
I've found CadQuery to be a nice replacement for OpenSCAD. The viewer isn't as good, but using CadQuery + Jupyter Notebook is real nice. And it does fillets/chamfers, plus you can reference geometry. Bit of a learning curve though
Yes. 1>0
His solution at an outright ban, using force against belligerent countries if necessary, seems like a pretty good recipe for human extinction due to global thermonuclear war.
According to https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support there's at least partial audio support for every machine except the models introduced so far this year, using the 3.5mm output. The built-in speakers are still disabled by default while they work on the software required to drive them at reasonable loudness without burning them out. It's not clear to me whether audio over HDMI works for the models where they already have HDMI support.
As the article established you then need to take up a similar amount of space for parking, then add the roads so suddenly you're at 10%. I thought you want open spaces?
That's not a very relevant response to a comment that began by saying

> We are talking about people making above >150k/year
Python has the ecosystem. That’s it. The lingua franca of data science. At this point it doesn’t even matter anymore why.

Just like you’re not gonna usurp JavaScript on the web.
AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2022)
From years’ past, when it fell on a workday: Wire GNU talkfilters into your MDA. I recommend the Swedish Chef or Jive.
My stereo is 15 watts (through the tubes, but still) - RIP your ears. Agreed that circuits in the preamp stage make the vast majority of the difference.
Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France
That’s literally what it is though.
Reminds me of the MIT course the missing semester: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Not sure they still run.
Remember this moment when you're about to criticise LLMs. People can act suboptimal too, even experts.
Cost is a big reason. It doesn't matter how good the top-of-the-line models are if the cheaper ones suit your needs. Commoditization is great that way. I'd absolutely use an open source GPT-4 in my browser over a pricy closed GPT-5 once we get to that point.
Which felony-class (or other criminal) violations, specifically, do you maintain that Clinton should have been indicted for?
Seattle is moving towards a ban on gas blowers, I cannot wait.
Before an NDA send him to Rura Penthe I use to have an internet friend pedantic about seemingly useless compilers and interpreters. Quests like: use obscure language A to translate obscure language B to obscure language C. Then use B compiled to C to interpret D.

A long story short, in the future the AI can just convert all our code to FORTH or HolyC or some "creative" combination of languages chosen by prophecy (read: hallucination) perhaps even Python — as a show of strength.
I use software development in place of software engineering. To me software engineering involves more measurement and pre-planning than most developers use, even if they're working in large teams.
The methane itself leaks out of the ground...
There's two challenges:

1. Coming up with an algorithm which really
means expressing it in SOME language.
That language can be pseudo-code or
plain English.

2. Getting the computer to execute that algorithm.
That requires that you get the computer to
understand what you say is your algorithm.

The latter can be called the "tooling" issue.

The "tooling issue" is as important as
algorithm development. Algorithm is great
but you must be able to express it, in a way
that somebody else besides you hopefully
the computer understands it.

It's like a composer would come up with
a fantastic song in their head, but then
for one reason or another were not able
to play it to anybody.

Tooling is about communicating with
the computer, getting it to understand
you, do what you want it to do.
"The recent change also means you can run multiple LLaMA ./main processes at the same time, and they'll all share the same memory resources."
So this could have a main and multiple sub-worker llm processes possibly collaborating while sharing same memory footprint?
The character of a story does not think, or do anything outside of what the writer of that story writes them to. The character cannot write itself!

That is the distinction I am making here.

Any person using an LLM is effectively playing "word games"; except instead of words, the game uses tokens; and instead of game rules, they follow pre-modeled token patterns. Those patterns are wholly dependent on the content of the training corpus text. The user only gets to interact by writing prompts: each prompt gets tokenized, the tokens get modeled, and the resulting difference gets printed back to the user.

No new behavior is ever created from within the model itself.
Relax, unless the grains were grown next door and you got that batch of corn or flour you'll be fine. Otherwise it's going to be very diluted.

There are tons of carcinogens around, East Palestine is the least of your worries unless you live near there.

(I have zero scientific background)
Why scooters? Why not also aim for electric bikes, for instance?
Banning abortion is part of inequality. Men don't get pregnant, not through consensual sex and certainly not through rape. Raising a child is a significant burden on a woman, and the impact is still born primarily by the women and not the men. Most women who get abortions actually already have children and decide they can't raise more.
Happy April Fool's Day!
that's why most of those "whole house" generators take natural gas.

what's interesting is that when looking at solar recently, it turns out that solar generates LOTS more power when it's cold out. obviously when panels are not covered by snow. Actually snow on the ground could reflect more light to the panels too.
The CPython mmap module docs:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/mmap.html

zero_buffer (CFFI, 2013) https://github.com/alex/zero_buffer/blob/master/zero_buffer....

"Buffers on the edge: Python and Rust" (2022)
https://alexgaynor.net/2022/oct/23/buffers-on-the-edge/ :

> If you have a Python object and want to obtain its buffer, you can do so with memoryview in Python or PyObject_GetBuffer in C. If you’re defining a class and want to expose a buffer, you can do so in Python by… actually you can’t, only classes implemented in C can implement the buffer protocol. To implement the buffer protocol in C, you provide the bf_getbuffer and bf_releasebuffer functions which are called to obtain a buffer from an object and when that buffer is being released, respectively.

iocursor (CPython C API, ~Rust std::io::Cursor)
https://github.com/althonos/iocursor

Arrow Python (C++) > On disk and MemoryMappedFile s:
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/memory.html#on-disk-and...

"Apache Arrow: Read DataFrame With Zero Memory" (2020)
https://towardsdatascience.com/apache-arrow-read-dataframe-w...

pyarrow.Tensor: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.Tenso...

ONNX is built on protocolbuffers/protobufs (google/protobufs), while Arrow is built on google/flatbuffers.

FlatBuffers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlatBuffers :

> It supports “zero-copy” deserialization, so that accessing the serialized data does not require first copying it into a separate part of memory. This makes accessing data in these formats much faster than data in formats requiring more extensive processing, such as JSON, CSV, and in many cases Protocol Buffers. Compared to other serialization formats however, the handling of FlatBuffers requires usually more code, and some operations are not possible (like some mutation operations).