skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I'm saying is that the completions are Python code, which is then run through a Python interpreter.

Even that is incorrect, or, to be precise, correct that it is indeed Python - however it is that part of Python which is actually written in C/C++ and highly optimized.

There is a reason why Python is used for data science, ML and similar. It is both convenient to use and fast, thanks to numpy and other libraries.

I realize that the point of your post is something else entirely, but no need to pick on Python. It's actually quite performant in areas where this is needed.
I feel like this was at least partly written by ChatGPT :)

Even if "dynamic high quality text" is hard, I would like to remid you that we're essentially running supercomputers. And most of "dynamic high quality text" on our computers is incredibly static for signinficant amounts of time.

Even on CPU we should be able to render any quantity of any quality of any dynamic text at speeds that cannot be perceived by the human eye. (Well, as it turns out, we do exactly that, even on smart phones)

And, of course, people have done that, with very little effort. Reason? They actually looked at what a modern computer is capable of, and used that instead of hiding behind high brow "oh, it's beyond PhDs my dear Watson for sho"
I am well familiar with BEAM, and my fascination with it ~20 years ago was one of the things that inspired me to become a VM engineer. Bringing that over to the JDK was, indeed, a large effort, but we are a large, well-funded team.
They're using WAL and synchronous = NORMAL, so there shouldn't be that many syncs to begin with.

By default, I think it'd sync only on checkpoints, and a checkpoint would happen for every 1000 pages of WAL. 1000 is the default value of the wal_autocheckpoint pragma.

I am very surprised that you cannot reproduce more than 500 inserts/second on an NVMe drive with the same settings. I didn't try running this benchmark, as I'm not familiar with rust, but I've achieved ~15k/sec write transactions with python bindings under similar settings.
My favorite Sakamoto piece is Bolerish, and obvious homage to Ravel's Bolero; from the soundtrack of the little-known film "Femme Fatale"
Yeah, we have a bottomless reserve now, it's called an export ban.

Europe though, they need to start building some very deep reserves, because if an export ban happens they're going to be on the receiving end of it.
the average household income in canada is ~$75k. $200k is a lot more "then maybe there's a deposit there". That's paying off a mortgage in record time if thats the priority money. Everyone in canada who is struggling is paying taxes, col, rent, and retirement savings, or they don't even get retirement savings.

You're out to lunch and out of touch.
I am by no means an expert of any kind, but I know several people that seem to have damages their needs by pushing themselves in running or cycling.
Author here, AMA.

Nils' book on Klong is awesome. Very well written and could not have done this project without his very detailed and thorough documentation and C code reference implementation. Nils also helped with some clarifying details on the finer points of the language for KlongPy.
Isn’t this analogy wrong? The question implied is: if shoplifting were legal and if some people shoplifted to feed hungry babies, should we make shoplifting illegal?
Moncage - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1195290/Moncage/

"Moncage is a stunning vignette puzzle adventure developed by Optillusion.
The game takes place inside a mysterious cube, with each side of the cube housing a unique world: be it an old factory, a light tower, an amusement park, or a church, etc. At first sight, they may seem random and unrelated, but upon closer look, you will become mesmerized by the subtle and intricate ways of how these worlds connect."
Alright, I just added Google Photos to the list of links I won’t click anymore.

What purpose does it serve to break the back button?
"discrete"? Do you even understand how these networking protocols work?

All a connection is doing is managing the state of a given byte stream, keeping track of how much was sent on one end and received on the other end. All the packets for all connections go through the same pipes and are even routed the same. The TCP stack sees an IP packet coming in, and in its IP and TCP headers it sees it's from IP:port, so it maps it to the state it is maintaining for that source.

HTTP/3 is using UDP, which is inherently connectionless, but is implementing its own logic of multiple streams/connections. It is not doing anything sensibly different.
The thing is it's ugly in the rare case that absolute performance is worth fighting for. And not ugly in the majority case where it isn't in the top three important things.
New York Times says it won't pay for Twitter verified check mark
Who is more important? An efficient manager that has 5 reports, or an inefficient manager with 10 reports?

How about a very inefficient manager with 30 reports who now needs 2 levels of management to manage that team?

Distracted employees are inefficient, create the perception of busyness and the opportunity to require more headcount, making bad managers more important.

Many large organizations are just bad managers trying to look bigger.

Those managers do not want efficiency, because they need inefficiency to justify their organization size and their role.
Correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adherence_(medicine)

Although the studies I glanced at say something like:

<2000 steps, couch potato, certain doom

>2000 greatest reduction in risk

6,000–9,000 steps per day 50% reduced risk of CVD for 60+ year olds <=== you want to get used to this as your baseline to be a healthy silver fox

10k steps, marketing for original pedometer

20k steps, best way to lose weight, almost nobody does this daily :)

Here is a depressing video High School Fitness (1962):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGa6BPj3Mcw

And the easiest one to compare is of course US basic training standards that have gone down each time they have been revised since WWII.
> …for some areas of human endeavour, the only limit is the human brain. … But tau would be better. … [people dismiss this because “it’s just notation”…]

The case for me of this is current flowing from - to +. Franklin didn’t know better and had a 50/50 chance of getting it right, but happened to get it “backwards”.

A small thing but one that always makes me skip a beat while following a circuit.
Why is International Orange (engineering) red instead of orange?
Your last paragraph reminded me so much of an XKCD, haha.

In the past I've done a lot of landscaping work on the side, as well as development remotely. My old man has a landscaping company and obviously needs the help at times.

I gotta say also: if you spend your day cutting/pruning a hedge, cleaning the property up - you actually get to look back at all of that and go "Hell yeah, that looks awesome". I never get that feeling of accomplishment with the dev work. In the past, sure - when I've built something big. But it's just not the same. I can't really explain it more than that.

A couple of years ago I wasn't really paying attention where I was and I was on top of a 10m high Macrocarpa hedge that's... about 120 years old. Anyways, I fell off that straight down on to the footpath. Fortunately there was another (much smaller) hedge in the way that was about 100 years old too and that broke my fall except I parted the hedge so to speak. (We fixed it, wired it up and it grew back together). I managed to get up and walk away, I was very very lucky. Damn though I was wired up so much for the rest of the day, I felt like I could've done 50 marathons!

Since then I have stayed away from doing anything like that - because I am a software engineer really, I just have some skills in landscaping with certain tools but at the end of the day for me personally, getting say an injury from a fall or chainsaw would be devastating to my actual career.

If I spend all day programming (8hr)... I'm really buggered and I simply cannot even brain. Cook dinner? Ugh no.
If I mow lawns all day and get home (6-7hr), I'm like "oooh what should I cook for dinner, I'll have this cold beer while I do that and ..." it's like COME ON BRAIN.
I agree and further - After ~20 or so years in tech (including being a manger myself for awhile) I would guess about 70% of EMs industry wide are your “seat warmers”. They’re not necessarily harmful or bad people, just kind of useless. These days I have learned to pretty much ignore what they say and chart my own path to making things happen.
Oh no, Peruvian culture and Canadian culture, for example, are very distinctly different, at least to my Belgian eyes.
Interestingly, the first Ada standard in 1983 defined signed integer overflow to raise a CONSTRAINT_ERROR exception.

But apparently it lacked unsigned integers with modular arithmetic?

http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-11-01.html...
http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-03-05.html

The 2012 version is a bit more readable, and has unsigned integers:

For a signed integer type, the exception Constraint_Error is raised by the execution of an operation that cannot deliver the correct result because it is outside the base range of the type. For any integer type, Constraint_Error is raised by the operators "/", "rem", and "mod" if the right operand is zero.

For a modular type, if the result of the execution of a predefined operator (see 4.5) is outside the base range of the type, the result is reduced modulo the modulus of the type to a value that is within the base range of the type.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-3-5-4.h...
> This includes activities that are intentionally exploitative such producing 1:1 clones of open hardware with minimal changes

I’m astonished by this opinion. They released their designs under a permissive licence. Should people be mind readers and figure out that they actually meant that you should not make 1:1 clones?

Would you call it “intentionally exploitative” if I build the linux kernel on my computer?

They willingly, and without any coercion choose a licence which let anyone build and sell a clone of their product. Let’s not pretend that those who then go and do that following all the licence requirements are somehow bad.
is argument ad xkcd an official logical fallacy yet?
Even though I agree, there will always be things that we don't own.

I'm developing my blog in Svelte, and I trust that (despite being kind of a niche framework) it will last for long. But if it gets abandoned by its developers then I'll have a problem.

The only way for me to own everything on it would be to do develop as much as I can by myself, like quit using Sass and Svelte in favor of plain CSS and vanilla JS, and also self-host it instead of relying on a VPS.
And that's not even mentioning the dependencies of the API, which is made in Rust and its less mature ecosystem

I think that the path to software preservation is a long long road
German was largely influenced and modified by nazism. Proper German words and syntax were pushed. This is part of a trend that's far from virtue signaling. Year after year the initiatives of the far right get more extreme but don't feel like so because they're only a small increments above the previous one.
Sounds like the company's problem. Maybe they should change their incentives so that managers actually want the right things.
> I think countries should resist global cultural homogenisation.

The only way to achieve this is with illiberal, authoritarian measures -- I.E. a centralized government forcing people to think and behave in a certain way. And not because such thoughts or behavior is harmful in any way, it's only because it's aesthetically displeasing. Not good.

Also, not all cultural homogenisation is created equal. It's good that all cultures have evolved to say that murder is a bad thing. That was cultural homogenisation, and it was good.
During the pandemic era, I deliberately went for a one to two hour walk to nowhere in particular every evening after work for precisely this reason (at the height of the restrictions in Ireland, you had to stay within 2km of home, so I went in circles). Honestly it's about all that kept me going.
He heard the idea, but didn't understand the execution: what he needed to do instead is proritise testing the software on slow SATAs
I'm probably missing something, but why would the temp_store pragma be relevant? They don't appear to be using temp tables in this benchmark.
Totally agree. It's the design philosophy of pick from a menu of scripted choices vs interact with a simulated world.

I don't think Bethesda has ever quite lived up to that ambition even in the days of Daggerfall and Morrowind, but they have at least tried.
And also wind/solar rely on cheap fossil energy for their construction.
The US is capable of producing enough oil to be a net exporter. The US and the OPEC react to each other and all the other players and parts of the market. You can also always just read OPEC's own public assessment of their actions through their own Monthly Oil Market Report to get the fuller view [1].

This is cartel behavior over a limited resource that's in high demand. Oil and gas will die out when demand is reliably met through other sources.

[1]: https://momr.opec.org/pdf-download/
Because google wants to choose what you see and where you go next. The back button is an escape. So they don't want that to work.
maybe I can make it parse your github and make it more powerful. Allow develop itself
The fact is that the government reached power mostly because votes not happy with the populists (five starts) and the failure of the left in recent years. Only a small percentage of the voters really care about the other right-shit of the government. However, premier Meloni, to satisfy their allies during the elections, promoted many Lega Padana party crazy people into minister roles... and that's the result.
He’s not saying anything of the sort.

You seem very worked up and calling people names is ironically something a puerile teenager in high school would do.

Go outside, get some fresh air and perspective and come back to being a productive member of this community.
> "I want to see people and I want to see people jump through hoops for me".

Nauseating.
I would not be surprised, if GPT-4 (in its optimal environment, with access to a well-working external memory, prompted in a right way, etc) is already capable enough to do an interesting power move.
Yup, and I have played it with others.
Congrats on graduating, and good move building experience with the latest dev tooling like ChatGPT.

I don’t think you should feel too discouraged. Plenty of companies do not allow their developers to use third party language models/services (due to privacy, legal, or other concerns) so they’ll have plenty of standard unassisted dev work. And for the companies that do leverage the tech, your experience with it will make you an even stronger candidate.
quantity has a quality all of it's own.
> saying “bru-shetta” instead of “bru-sketta” could be a punishable offense

I'm going to sweat next time I go to Italy. I suppose that asking pineapple on a pizza will be the equivalent of a lifetime sentence.
"Prompt engineering" isn't real. What are you engineering? You're throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

Software Engineering is kinda fake, especially in industry, but at least that's an actual discipline.

"AI monkey" is a better description
Well yes IF it is true that trees can hear, which is what these new experiments give some credence to but don't prove conclusively
In 1994 France passed a law banning the use of English words in official documents.

There followed a highly entertaining (if you like that sort of thing) debate in the UK House of Commons as to whether to retaliate by banning French words[1][2]. The difference being, they were only joking while the French were deadly serious.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0wvkZmGKQ&t=70

[2] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1994-07-05/debates/8a1...
>I still have some Amiga 880k diskettes that probably don't work.

Look into GreaseWeazle.
> Did you somehow miss Bucha?

Wars tend to allow for this kind of tragedy to happen. Much harder to slaughter people during a civilian disobedience act that is globally covered by media. Brutal repression of demonstrations also causes much more outrage, basically backfiring if your intent is to stop them. Any dictator worth a shot knows this very well.

> If a significant portion gets shot either way it's better to at least be able to shoot back, no?

False dychotomy. People who protest the war in Russia are being arrested, not shot in the streets. So why do you think that would happen in this case? Because "Russians are Orcs"?
People move around way less.

There's a vocal group though, that will tell you how – finally – they're able to hit the gym four times a week.

It's less, but people think it's more. It might be true for some, some of the time for some months, but of course movement will decrease.
> That's less than an hour for any cyclist and a fit cyclist could do it in half that time.

And how long for a car? 5min? 15min?

If you have a car, then you will likely use it for some percentage of trips. That's a pretty serious motivation to not become "a fit cyclist".

All of these problems work together. This also works in the inverse: a good solution would do something to resolve all of these problems.
Ask HN: SSD File Transfer Speeds
Why do file transfer speed run at 1/5th to 1/10th the quoted maximum read and write speeds?

Researching online, you can get an SSD that supports 7,000+ MB/s read/write speeds and top out at 3,000MB/s for a USB4 enclosure. But I only find people getting 1GB/s transfer speeds for regular setups (without enclosure).

Why are benchmarks and file transfer speeds so different? Are there any sites that track transfer speeds? Where would you start debugging this?
> Go look at the percentage of global energy supplied by renewables and nuclear, include hydro, it doesn't matter.

You must differentiate between primary energy usage and what an electrified future entails. An ICE car is 20% efficient and does not have regenerative braking. Coal power plants sit at ~30%, topping out at 40% if using supercritical steam.

For example, electrified transports will increase the grid demand by ~15-30% according to most studies.

Looking at heating with fossil compared to heat pumps, the difference is 1.5 - 5x depending on temperature.
The piano fits for Sakamoto over a sword or a dam because he is a musician who spent his life with the piano as his primary instrument. It's where he is most experienced and he has a much closer relationship to that than a dam or a sword.

Ivory is also typically only used for the keys, and doesn't actually impact the tuning of the instrument.
Giorgia Meloni being Giorgia Meloni ...

When your country is on HN for all the wrong reasons (facepalm)
I've been using GPT-4 extensively for programming and its consistent failures at novel tasks have kind of left me less excited.
Vertical farming is a solution in search of a problem. It's not viable and it doesn't solve any meaningful issues in agriculture. In cities, land is more productive when used for other purposes (residential, commercial, retail, etc.), and out in the country where crops are typically grown, space simply isn't an issue to the point that you need to go up. Indeed, way more food is currently produced than is actually needed for human consumption (most cropland in the US is used to feed livestock or turned into bioethanol).
It's far too high. The collectives in OpenCollective (https://opencollective.com/) usually charge 5-10%, and they take on a LOT of legal and compliance operations on top of the billing etc.

Indeed it's also not what FLOSS means.

Still, I wish you the best and hope you succeed, because a proper alternative to bountysource is welcome. But this leaves a bad taste in my mouth from the beginning :/
I've observed worse performance with caddy+http3 so I disabled it. That was especially noticable on larger files
Show HN: Spine – Create and Share ChatGPT-like Interfaces on multi-modal data
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Spine is currently powered by a few open-source libraries (HF, llama-index, etc.) along with OpenAI. We have designed Spine so that it should be simple to make it LLM-agnostic; we should be able to swap out GPT-3 (the default behaviour right now) for Cohere or an open-source LLM like FLAN or Bloom. We also want to make it trivial to embed Spine in any form -- and are currently working on making an API available so users can embed us on their website or slack. We also have a few known issues we are navigating through: https://sharing.clickup.com/9003104561/l/h/6-900301350489-1/....

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Languages evolve, they're living things. Isolation creates new languages, that why Europe has a gazillion of them, people of different valleys developed different languages, on the other hand communication mixes them and blends them, for example after wars and invasions, immigration waves, tourism, or even introduction of technology such as TV or the internet.

It's a pointless exercise to try to preserve the status-quo, and it could be counter productive and isolationist. The language will change anyway.

Also, when do you freeze the language? Which words are you nostalgic about? The ones that were in common use when the legislators were young? Their grandparents? Current usage?
definitely this ....

non-technical managers have literally no tools at their disposal other than to bug other people to do things. in a crisis, therefore, all they can do is dial up how often and how much they bug everyone else to do the actual work. At best they act as communication hub, gathering crucial information and coordinating to ensure it gets to the right people as fast as possible and they act on it in the right way. But even in that role they are limited because they don't have enough insight to really know who needs to know what and what they can do with the information.