skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HP was involved in the IA64 effort and definitely was planning on the replacement of pa-risc from day 1.

As my memory remembers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium agrees, Itanium originated at HP. So yes, a replacement for pa-risc from day 1, but even more so...
I had a tape of it when I was a lot younger and on the reverse was Japan, Oil on canvas. I ended up wearing it out.
I was going to comment that $7 seems far too deminimus to even raise an eyebrow and refusing to pay it as a media org is rather petty.

But from the article, I now see that Twitter is charging $1,000/mo for organizations. Still not a huge amount for someone as big as the NYT but that is a lot for most orgs. So I think Twitter is the petty one in this case.
While sin plays a crucial role in Christian doctrine, it does not mean that everyone is guilty for being alive or that Christianity promotes disdain for humanity. Christianity recognizes the inherent value and worth of every human being, as created in the image of God.

Furthermore, Christianity offers hope and redemption through faith in Jesus Christ, rather than promoting guilt. Sin refers to actions or thoughts that go against God's will, which can harm individuals and society. However, forgiveness and transformation are possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:23-24
>Like in the UK the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, and Scottish First Minister are all from immigrant family backgrounds.

The UK is also closer to having an open conversation around race than many other European countries, and tends to be more directly influenced by US political movements.

As the sibling comment says, it is extraordinary how many Europeans seem to think that racism is a problem that exists only in the USA. Gary Younge wrote an excellent article touching on this topic in the Guardian recently. Key point:

>This ability to unsee what is before our eyes is not confined to the past. The latter-day version of this selective myopia is the repeated insistence that Britain must not “import American race politics” – as if racism is an artisanal product of the US, like French champagne or Italian parmigiano reggiano. When protests erupted on the streets of British cities in 2020 under the banner of Black Lives Matter, many commentators smugly declared that this was an imitation of American fashions – even as the statue of a very English slave trader, Edward Colston, was dumped into Bristol’s harbour.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/29/...
It means "to be determined." To be clear, it does not mean their claim will be denied. And if very recent history, politics, presidential speeches are to be believed, it means their claim will be accepted.

The first clue about contemporary political economy could tell us that the entire SVB meltdown would be socialized by the US state. See my comments in this thread for my predictions pre-bailout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094447
NSA et al probably like better it that way so they have easier access to the "'intel' inside" my PC.
My experience it will just hallucinate what I'm after if I dare venture off the standard route. It's a rival for search, somewhat less so for expert humans.
For real? All of those things are what I detest about having A Job. I bought a farm, am no longer working in a corporate job, and would rather die indigent than ever go back to that shit again.
> anything even close to a common crow's social savvy

GPT-4 has been maxxing out the 'theory of mind' tests. Literally off the charts. They are working on making new tests and charts now.
You can only hold around 7 to 10 numbers in your mind well, in your working memory. Let me give you a few: 6398 5385 3854 8577

You have 1 second, close your eyes and add them together. Write down the result.

I’m pretty sure that GPT-4 at its 4k setting would outperform you.

[The point being, we have not seen what even GPT-4 can do in its optimal environment. Humans use paper, computers, google, etc. to organize their thoughts and work efficiently. They don’t just sit in empty space and then put everything into the working memory and magically produce the results. So imagine now that you do have a similar level of tooling and sophistication around GPT-4, like there is present around humans. I’m considering that and it is difficult to extrapolate what even GPT-4 can do, in its optimal environment.]
Naivety is being surprised by this, which I am not.

What I’m experiencing is closer to despair (and maybe a hint of misanthropy).
Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
Is that true? In India I thought I read how people have fake iPhones because of what a luxury symbol it is. That purchasing one for the vast majority of people is out of the question.

There must be some limit to how low it can be sold for.
Don't like it? Don't buy their oil!
Even though the accounting/tax/etc. is probably very simple as the sole employee/director/owner of my company, I still have an accountant who I trust to do the books. The headache of learning that part of a business is something I'd rather outsource to someone I trust. It's the cost of running a business.
There's communication by interruption and there's observation. If you have a situation where there need to be hourly updates, there should be a person explicitly tasked with observing and noting what's going on to be able to provide those updates with minimal impact to the group that's actually working the problem.

Unfortunately, that means the observer has to be able to understand and follow what the engineers are doing while staying out of the way as much as possible. Tricky, but something you really need if for no other reason than to communicate and look for any holes that the team/person working the problem may not have thought of in the interim.
> There are productivity decisions at the micro-level that actively hurt scaling

Probably the most obvious one that HN readers will be familiar with is the 10x developer who trail blazes out amazing software but even if they do document it well, it generates an unsustainable technical foundation because it can't be supported after they move on (whether internally or externally). In a startup, this person is invaluable. In a large organisation you may even screen them out at interview stage in certain contexts.
Even better than the step count is the resting heart rate.

Mine went from mid 60s down to upper 40s within 6 months of getting my fitbit.

I started hiking regularly, and seeing that number drop consistently felt rewarding.

I did this when unemployed and hiked Arizona mountains almost daily, so this probably isn't typical, but it was part of a lifestyle shift towards fitness which has been wonderful.
Its really said the i960 didn't take off. Intel wasn't in Unix workstation market much and the high end was owned by Digital and IBM. Intel was working on i860, i960,

Intel if they had added quicker, could have cooperated with a Unix workstation maker and potentially done really well.

Sun was defiantly looking around for a chip partner at the time, but non of the American companies were interested so they went Japan. So the timing didn't really work out. A Sun Intel alliance would have been a scary prospect and beneficial for both companies.
Can I ask how people found it a year later?

Everything always ends up on a confluence dumping ground, and I have trouble finding pages I wrote after any sort of significant period of time, much less finding things other people wrote.
We need to be a country that builds things: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-build-nothing-country instead of a country with a lot of process designed to thwart building things.
Most companies at least still have tools that perform checks for at least simple versions of workable exploits. About the best chance it would have is to write a complex library and get everyone to use that, were the library is exploitable in a complicated fashion.
i see you’ve listed out the side effects of existing in 2023
Yeah, everything is situational. Someone can be a very competent developer, even an congenial coworker, and still be a terrible employee.
So sad to hear this. One of my all time favorite artists. I discovered him years ago as Yellow Magic Orchestra were a crucial influence on electro and techno. As someone into the early roots of those genres, YMO became my gateway drug into Sakamoto's wider oeuvre.

I always identified with his taste, an eclectic mix of pop, art music, classical and electronic. A true original, I will miss him greatly.
You're Wondering Now, But All Results Well :)
Isn't LAPACK written in Fortran?
I like to practice incident response on a regular basis, so people, including managers, know what to expect out of the process. If you do a practice incident every week, a real emergency will feel routine and people will be less anxious. If people are really distracting on the incident response call, you can always kick them off and elect someone to keep them updated, of course. I've never had to kick anyone off a call, though.

I was introduced to Pagerduty's incident response guide and like it a lot: https://response.pagerduty.com/
I think that you need to realise that the US is not representative of the rest of the world.

If you can't imagine how public transport can work in a big city, just try to visit a big city where it works (there are plenty outside the US). Seems more constructive to me than being extremely vocal about how you think it cannot exist.
> No. Wind with approximately three hours of storage is about 95% reliable

That isn't enough, unless you are happy with 18 days of no power per year. Of course you could maintain traditional power plans to provide power for those 18 days, but then you've doubled or tripled your power costs because you have purchased two systems for providing power. An intermittent system and a second system with the same capacity that is unused 95% of the time but must be available at a moments notice. And of course you have to maintain a viable supply chain for fuel, repairs, maintenance, labor, etc.
And so I rest my case: I fail to see what value HBR’s core readership can possibly bring to a company.
> ...delivering results isn’t the end all be all. It’s delivering the right results on a known and predictable time scale without any surprises.

Well said. I've had a hard time articulating this but you nailed it.
Team finds major storage capacity in water-based batteries
> I can only conclude that I wasn’t paying enough attention.

I mean, considering you didn't even know what the title of the "previous owner" even was, you seem to do that a lot.
Hard disagree, cyberpunk had a fantastic story, compared to the witcher 3 that I've tried to finish about 4 separate times and failed every time - the side quests are fantastic, the main quest is just unbelievably dragged out and boring.

Everyone mentions the blood baron quest - and yes, it was great, outstanding even. I've never seen anyone mention anything after that point - it's just a mess of narrative that gets in the way of some other great content in that game.

Cyberpunk has great main quest and memorable side stories.
Not to get off topic but that's why BMW has changed their grill and car design so much even though Western journalists hate it. They are targeting the Asian market.
Maybe the right way of approaching this is setting up a crypto fundraiser to opensource the hardware once some threshold is reached. This could implement a kickstarter-like mechanics of fund returns for underperforming fundraisers at the smart contract level.

This way authors could be decently compensated.
Sometimes the console does tell you which URL they found malicious content at.

However, if they detect you doing dodgy things like trying to cloak from their scanner (eg. giving bad content when given a browser user agent from a home internet IP range, but not when scanned by googlebot from a google datacenter), then they won't give the URL because that would leak what IP range they scan from to detect such cloaking.
Anyone here paying or working for an org that pays? I’d love to hear some justification for those who are sticking with the platform.
Yes, but when they start to bring them online OPEC immediately increases production to cut prices and make shale less viable.
I hope Andrew Ng was correct that a great many methods end up largely equivalent given the same amount of input because the current methods deliver a rather useless result.

With a google search you are getting citations and stuck finding the truly good ones that truly match, with chatgpt you are getting an answer from someone who read all those citations and treats them all as equally good.

I think the real problem was to get the most perfect citations given your specific question. We can forgive the error since it took the web a few years to discover that best is rarely a fresh bit of blog spam by a moron who has read everything and refuses to cite sources. So GPT is convincingly as good as a human blogger yet not as useful as a less human emulating tool.
Thank you for your work on neovim :)

I noticed the difference by playing with kitty.
It makes me consider switching to a compatible terminal emulator.
Space fleets will be relegated to the conceptual world of delivery trucks and Greyhound soon enough. Let people be grandiose while the novelty lasts.
Obligatory Monty Python reference:

My brain hurts!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcl8qr
I had a manager at my last job who tried to do the "what's the update" during a crisis and I just decided to make fun of her saying "I solved it but decided it would be funnier if didn't tell anyone" and she stopped
Reason for needing a co-founder if applying to YC: http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
The knockoffs are great though and they offered many things years ahead of prusa (32 bit controllers with wifi, bed leveling, ...).

Prusas product cycle is slow which prevents them from keeping up with the competition. Now they have an answer to the latest an greatest versions of their knockoffs like ender s1 pros, but by the time Prusa is ready for their next refresh the market will be dominated by fast and cheap knockoffs of the bambulabs. I believe prusa is not winning this.
I take intelligence to be a general problem solving ability. I think that's close to what most people mean by the term. By that definition it's clear that LLMs do have some level of intelligence - in some dimensions greater, lesser, or within the range of human intelligence.

What definition do you have for intelligence and how do LLMs fail to meet it?
I don't know the original reason for choosing the shift register, might have been that it involved lots of short wires between flops so the timing is easier to get right - but essentially they will switching to the big mux/etc next time around
Decided to run this with NodeJS (on Linux) for mandatory Web Scale:

100k inserts using `better-sqlite3` (difference: it does use prepared statements), all single-threaded with the same pragmas.

- 8.6k inserts/s with `uuid` and `Date.toUTCString()`

- 12.0k inserts/s with faking uuid and date (generated unique strings)

...So a large amount of time was spend in uuid generation and current date.

EDIT: I mixed up the two numbers above. Simple strings is of course faster than syscall+date format+entropy. Fixed now.

It's fair to say that although Rust is slightly more Web Scale, this benchmark simply measures the excellent performance of SQLite.
Something to note is that there are two important variables in the second story. The first, as you say, is that you had a different manager. The second is that you had more experience. In every situation a manager is only ever as effective as the information they have, and that comes from how good their team is at communicating with them. I'd hazard a guess that you were better at telling your manager what they needed by the time the second event happened.

If the team has good comms, and experience of both working and communicating updates to their manager regularly, and the skills to explain things in ways people understand, generally speaking you find the manager needs to check in less often. They can trust you to raise things promptly, to ask for them to do things for you, and that when you're quiet it's because you're busy rather than stuck. I find that teams who complain about their manager very often don't trust their manager and vice versa. Building up that trust by getting both sides to work on improving comms fixes a ton of problems.
For those who don't know, Bob "munificent" Nystrom wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters", so that's quite a compliment

[0] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

[1] http://craftinginterpreters.com/
Scientists show the safety by searching diligently for unsafety and not finding it.

That's not proof. A ten year drug trial may fail to show problems that take 20 years to surface, but that doesn't mean the drug is safe.

I suspect a lot of these chemicals fall into that hard-to-find-problems category. Only when they are an overwhelming part of our environment for decades or even generations will we start to understand the effects.

So this is not just a matter of money. It's a hard problem.
Except that neither of those things are true.
If that is the case you should pair program, where one of the pair's only job is to sit behind the engineer doing the job and listen in, then take the meetings. This needs to be a full engineer who is fully capable of doing the work, but instead is just understanding the work, but not doing any.

If the main engineer has a 'family emergency' your communication engineer has enough context to take over, while another engineer is assigned to communication.
I don't understand this sentiment. People in various countries often protest against or in support for politics in other countries they have no relationship to. Practically anything of note that happens in the world causes public campaigns somewhere else, this is neither new nor exclusive to US politics.
15K doesn't seem particularly noteworthy.

I made a prototype message queue in Rust that processed about 7 million messages/second. That was running from RAM.

I also had a prototype that ran from disk and it very rapidly maxed out the random write performance of the SSD. Can't remember the number but it was in the order of 15K to 30K messages a second, bottlenecked by the SSD.

If the sqlite test is writing to disk it is likely also bottlenecked at the disk.
Alright who plugged gpt into his hn account?
It’s a great tool but it’s becoming clear that this is another IE6 in 2002 situation. That is, MS has a killer feature but can’t recognize that and will let it fester until a competitor comes along in a decade. Real shame because even a small team could add some desperately needed updates.
> Even if literally everyone made the exact same amount of income, the wealth distribution would look closest to the last one because older people would have more time to accumulate more wealth.

There are plenty of other countries
with old people.

I disagree with what I read as your core argument, which is "It's going to happen anyway, so lets not fight it"
Nice work! Keep it up, you're well on your way.

Sounds like fun but I don't know if I could stay motivated in the winter.
This only works if the EM is both somewhat technical and actually communicates well with their reports. "Shielding" and leaving out key, important details will eventually result in pissing off your reports even more than useless meetings.
It's 'nationality' under an implicitly racialized understanding. If you are not white, having a German passport will not be enough for many Germans to consider you fully German.

That's not to deny that American racial categories are either inapplicable or less central to personal identity in most European countries; but let's also not pretend that the roughly equivalent concept is some kind of bloodless bureaucratic idea of 'nationality'.
When a remote, international company gets very large, it can be just about impossible to find a time where everyone can meet.

Even in time-sensitive situations, I prefer asynchronous communication methods like email and voice memos. That way everyone can catch up as soon as they get a chance, no matter what time-zone they're in.
Yet another article and discussion that mostly ignores the fact that intermittent energy sources are not viable mechanisms for base-load generation. This is a basic physics problem that no amount of legislation or green-virtue signaling is going to make the problem go away.

Until we find a reasonable way to store energy at grid scale, a continued shift to intermittent energy generation will result in dramatically higher prices and dramatically lower reliability.
It is simply unable to do anything novel. I've had arguments with friends about this, specifically in reference to the paper "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence:
Early experiments with GPT-4", which is wonderful and presents some amazing capabilities, many of which I use constantly for work every single day. But, these capabilities seem to all be within the range of data that it's trained on. Or they can be seen as interpolations, which are as novel as the prompter can suggest, but which are clearly derivatives of modes in the data and not of deep understanding of abstract concepts.

It's amazing stuff. But it totally fails to take the prompter anywhere new without extensive support, and it is still at a very shallow level of understanding with complex topics that require precision. For instance, turning a mathematical description of a completely novel (or just rare or unusual) algorithm into code will almost never work, and is more likely to generate a mess that takes lots of effort to clean up. And it's also extremely hard to get the model to self reflect and stop when it doesn't understand something. It is at present almost incapable of saying "I don't have enough information or structure to do X".

If we are already as deep into a realm of diminishing marginal returns as the GPT-4 white paper suggests, we might indeed be approaching a limit for this specific approach. No wonder someone is trying to dig a regulatory moat as fast as they can!
In Windows 11 you can restart it without losing data, though, which is nice, since its so fast that it starts almost instantly. Because of that speed, I test all the funky software in it first, and some I run in it exclusivelly as you can create "run in Windows Sandbox" fairly easyly and customize what runs on startup via pwsh script.

I would love the option for it to survive the closure though, that would open entire new world of possibilities. It doesn't have to compete with full HyperV setup if you open just a few more options.
You're a computer program?
Assigning a "communications officer" at the start of an incident seems to work well. They are a person with the same technical skills as the people actively working on the problem, but their job is primarily to observe and filter/transform communications to and from the team. A nice side benefit is that having someone who isn't actually responsible for fixing things seems to free up their mind to notice things that their hands-on-keyboards colleagues missed.
I’ve started seeing more black DSMBs recently. They’re meant to be very visible, but every skipper I’ve spoken to disagrees.

When I’m doing project diving, we’ll use a pink DSMB to mark something that we want to go back to, and not surface with it.

Orange for surfacing and yellow for an emergency, as you describe.