skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Head meets sand. I’ve worked right across the street from that WF (orpheum building), saw it went up. Since covid that whole area turned in a little snippet of war-torn country. There’s just no way anyone sane would live or even go near that without a pressing need and i guess $13 eggs are just not that alluring
I have to say—it's a bit unsettling to me! I released it in 2006; I was a teenager. Obviously, it's evolved since then, and others have taken responsibility for it, but the interface is still the same. I regret that: I didn't know anything about design when I was a teenager. It's not at all graceful. Serves me right, I guess, that I'm now confronted with that poor interface regularly as an adult.
The UK was not unique in having “opt-outs” from the EU-other countries have them too:

Denmark has a formal opt-out from the Euro. Several other states (e.g. Sweden) have de facto opt-outs from the Euro - unlike Denmark, EU treaties say they have to join, but their governments have decided to ignore that legal obligation - without consequence, since the treaties failed to provide any enforcement mechanism for it

Denmark and Ireland both have opt-outs from security and justice policies. Ireland’s opt-out permits it to opt-in on a case-by-case basis, Denmark’s doesn’t. Until it was abolished in a 2022 referendum, Denmark also had an opt-out from the EU’s military policy

Poland has a partial opt-out from the EU’s human rights charter

Ireland has an opt-out from Schengen (abolition of border controls). Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus are parties to Schengen, but haven’t yet implemented it
Honorable mentions:

- Newsletter popups
- Account creation nags on ostensibly free apps
- Vanity flaps crowding the viewport
- Sticky social buttons
The test flight hasn't been scheduled yet. This is just a page talking about what will happen during it.
For something this size, my guess is it creates an alert and somebody looks at the problem.
In many cases, the message payload is (or should be) an ID anyway. It's seldom desirable for the message payload to include a copy of an external source of truth, because it can cause sync issues. There are exceptions, of course.
Porn should fetch a premium if you can prove it's "real" then.
> Your fallacy there is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Isn't that also approximately what you are doing? Yeah, maybe e-bikes and scooters are better for many (but certainly nowhere near all) use cases, but then regular bikes or public transportation or not needing to make a trip at all (e.g. WFH instead of RTO) are often better still. Your suggestion is clearly in the middle of the spectrum. Firing salvos to your left while ducking those from your right isn't going to be very persuasive.
I'm not in the US, is medical tourism common amongst US citizens? For non-urgent cases, why not travel to a country that offers cheap, quality health care? Financially seems justifiable, given that in the US, simple treatments and medical procedures can cost many 000s without any transparency ahead of time.
Oddly enough, though that root does produce "fermentum", "garum" seems to be etymologically unlinked.
Thank you for pointing this out, I don't think I would have visited the link otherwise!
you are having a good laugh if you think the average granny is going to do that anytime soon
Thank you! I wasn't aware of that. Let me research that. May 2022 announcement. Is this suitable for the the apps like llama.cpp since it's a Python library? It appears to be a library but they didn't document how to use the underlying hardware - but I welcome more info.
Yeah I don’t see that happening anymore. Crypto is always going to have fees and off-ramps, although I do think it’s helped create competition in the transfer space.

The real way crypto will work or not work is programmable money. If that works that will be huge, if it doesn’t then maybe someone will pick it back up 50 years from now.
Does this price include administration of the vaccine as well or just the cost for the vaccine with syringe and professional services additional?
The only point I would raise is that #1 isn't reliable on any system that has stdout/stderr. For most of the MS-created modules this is implemented correctly. You also have the ability to catch and throw exceptions... foreign to people who live in scripts but essential for people who have programming experience.
This is the most perfectly named CVE.
Yes, I also expected GPT4 to get the joke, as I've seen it understand similar jokes.
This is highly reminiscent of the numbers game from the British daytime gameshow Countdown.

Contestants are given a choice of six numbers, from which they can choose how many big (25, 50, 75, 100) and small (1-10), and are then given a random three digit number. Closest within 30 seconds using standard operations wins.
Sounds like fun. Do you have a specific end product in mind or are you just in the experimentation stage?
Many many senses. First, it's already been built. Now people now how to build it. In fact, many of the people that actually built it have left the company and could presumably help to build it again.

Second, the toolchain has matured in absolutely huge ways. AWS exists. Twitter had to build their own cloud to meet scaling needs. Languages have matured or been purpose-written to enable building/scaling these types of systems. A huge portion of the N+1s and hidden footguns have been cleaned out of the thousands and thousands of open source libraries that you can glue together to get the system up and running.

Third, Silicon Valley engineers as a whole have spent the last decade-plus building all sorts of Twitter-adjacent Web 2.0 projects, so there's an incredibly deep pool of people that have extremely relevant experience, even if they never stepped foot inside the Twitter building.

Fourth, Twitter (and companies very similar) have been publishing literal engineering designs and post-mortems for public consumption on their engineering blogs. Even if you have no idea what HTML is, your path to self-education and building your own Twitter clone has never been shorter or better paved. They've even published huge chunks of their own work as open source projects.

And on and on and on and on. And here's the thing about growing to Twitter-scale: it doesn't happen all at once. You can build the low-volume version and just follow approximately the same technical scaling path that Twitter itself followed, except you'll be able to skip a whole bunch of mistakes.
Much of Hitchens' critique of Mother Theresa is cherrypicked and distorted: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...
Musk is moving forward with generative-AI at Twitter after purchasing GPUs
I interacted with valve ~3 years ago, I was looking for a job and they were looking for C developers (for proton).

I failed the interview, badly imho, I should have brushed up my C more, but even then I wasn't aware of the correct standard for OSS C development . Now I am (thx Vlc for the best 'how to contribute' documentation). Anyway, great experience, didn't feel like a big company, kind enough to explain my mistakes (this show trust imho), I love my current job but I would definitely try to interview again in like 5 years.

Definitely felt like a small company though, where the project leader is actually the recruiter. I'm not sure if the issue is the lack of available devs rather than the structure.
> "Results on GPT-3 (davinci), Instruct-GPT3 (text-davinci-002) and BLOOM (176B), showcase subpar performance on such reasoning tasks."

These aren't state of the art models anymore. GPT-4 has unlocked some new qualitative capabilities as shown for example in the technical report or the 'sparks of agi' report. That said, Sebastien Bubeck the one who integrated GPT-4 with Bing has in a presentation called out its 'planning' capability as its most glaring weakness, and he said that even though he would consider GPT-4 as 'intelligent' he would understand if many do not call it that because of its weakness in planning.
> Now today I learned Indian spices were influential in Roman food.

They also loved Chinese silk.

I'm kind of surprised you hadn't run into this yet. It seems like every Roman author is bemoaning the popular love of food drenched in pepper and transparent silk clothes. Try reading Juvenal, it's quite funny to see what he decries and what he considers normal.

Europeans never stopped importing spice, from ancient times to the present day. To my knowledge there was never a complete interruption.
In principle, yes, you can, by using something like this on the last layer https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing#sequence-to-vec... ... but keep in mind it will not match the training efficiency of triangular masking in autoregressive transformers. You'd have to train the model one time-step at a time, vs. all time-steps in parallel with a masked autoregressive transformer.

If you're looking to make context longer, a more practical approach is to route multiple past sequences of frozen pretrained transformer hidden states to a much shorter sequence, say, of length C, concatenate that with the current final sequence of hidden states, say, of length N, apply masked autoregressive attention on the C+N hidden states and then a feedforward layer to predict all next tokens in parallel, and last, drop the first C predictions, i.e., use only the trailing N predicted next tokens for training and inference.
r/homelab envy?
Something I didn't get :

SQL server won't callback clients [or application-server] informing that new data is available. So how do you poll it? A query in periodic loop? Some other way? How much that scales, or how much load does that create on the server?
> UX: optimising the software to maximise sales

That’s not the definition of UX.

UX is multi disciplinary, an umbrella term for many things, eg design research, IA, HCI, UI Design, …
Depends on how you define financially stressed. I call negative cash flow financially stressed, they seem to have a different definition. Overall it will probably trend closer to 90% as hyper-inflation hits.
India, Greece, and Rome share a common history, as Hinduism is the closest thing we have to a continuation of the Greco-Roman religion (syncretized with the indigenous religions over many years). This is seen in the resemblance between the Greek and Roman Gods and the lesser known Indian ones. For example, the Rigvedic god Dyaus-pita is a direct relation to Jupiter. The names of the days in Sanskrit correspond to the same gods the latin names are after (and also the german ones, but they become harder to suss out).
Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave. The 3 shot rabies PEP vaccine costs $108 while in the US it costs $1000. Same shit, American patients just receive the privilege of paying more.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
I’ve been using Deno Deploy as as a paying customer for the last year, both because I want to support what they’re doing and because I appreciate the amazingly tight deployment times.

That said, it’s suffered for the lack of access to the file system or dynamic imports which makes things like MDX challenging without adding additional build steps.

Do Supabase Edge Functions allow read/write file system access? What about dynamic imports?
I agree it’s a bit extreme if you have kids. But it’s not impossible, if you want to make it work. I did it when I was 23.
I love these pens, but my hobby lately has been pen turning. Here's a pen just finished today: https://ibb.co/59bhKP7

I'd love a source of reviews like this for the refills. This pen takes a Parker style refill (Cross is another common refill style), and the ones that come with the kit doesn't last long anyway. So a nice source of reviews for the inserts would be really valuable.
People like news which support their biases and views
It's the gambit of brinkmanship + Vito Corleone.
I suspect folks would be less brazen with hitting you over the head with a metal pipe, like with the SF gentleman from last week, if they knew that the median SF resident was ready and able to put a few holes in them in response.

Some argue that it's inhumane to be armed when you're assaulted by someone who doesn't have full control of themselves and isn't responsible for their actions. But folks also don't deserve to die just because someone has completely lost it and is now in the process of beating them to a pulp.

Right now you’re a sitting duck, hoping that it’s someone else’s turn to get stabbed today. Ultimately you either empower law enforcement, which is not happening, or you empower law-abiding pro-social citizens, which is also not happening. The only options people have left are to either suck it up, or move.
> The big issue is that it has 0 cognition it can't figure out what it's doing.

I feel like these comments will age so bad, but it's what a lot of people are saying on hacker news. Maybe the ones who think LLMs have cognition potential have moved to various discords or mastodon or they are just busy making LLM apps.
If you’re selling a premium produce, then beauty can be justified by the premium price. But us should never be more important than the functionality. Never.

Even a Rolls Royce is a vehicle (and a damned fine one to boot) before it’s an art piece.
Do you have links about this?

I was extremely disappointed [1] when I learned about Hochul's last minute nerfing of right to repair and I'd be curious to learn more how the governors office acquired that power. IANAL but thought separation of powers was supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitutions, both US and NY. What happened?

[1] https://twitter.com/onpaws/status/1618787954306211840
Stallman isn't as celebrated as much as one might otherwise expect because he can be quite socially abrasive. There's also the controversies in the recent past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Controversies

Whilst Jobs was only human and there are plenty of anecdotes about negative personality traits in regard to how he treated others, he was definitely someone who knew how to work a room of average people rather than a room of neckbeards.

For a further example of social abrasiveness within open source, look to Linus Torvalds. As with Stallman, a genuinely brilliant chap, but some people aren't meant to be in the public eye, they're people who are in their element behind-the-scenes.

Software isn't very sexy. Curvy, pretty consumer hardware is something the average Joe can lust after. Ask the average Joe on the street if they know what Emacs or Linux is, but they'll know about consumer-oriented Apple products.
I wonder what was used for "hot spices" in pre-Columbian Indian cuisine, or whether the term even existed before the introduction of chili peppers.
really cool, you can also check out https://cardtables.online it allows for multiplayer + cams
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
Just took a quick look, this is actually interesting and worth reading even after passing the beginner stage
That was exactly what I thought when I read that. Before ChatGPT, I would've thought of typical SEO spam.
GDPR was toothless during the transition period. They are starting to hand out fines now.

Cookie banners suck, but also the EU didn’t mandate cookie banners. They are only a means to get consent. A bad one at that. A company that cares about the user will only set essential cookies until the user explicitly opts in to advertising/analytics/etc, perhaps in exchange for something. It could be a toggle in your account settings or a button in the footer. There’s no need for the implementation to be obtuse. Companies are just greedy. You should push back against their bad business practices.

USB-C is great. If all you use is a phone, then it may not seem like mandating USB-C changes much, but this is a big deal for camera equipment, radios, and other electronics.
The context of this thread is a company spending $4B with a 4 year plan to build foundation models. One could do what I suggested in between days and months of work for a single person, including building a user-friendly front end.

In the context of this thread it is trivial.
Thanks for sharing, I'm interested in hearing more about your approach here. Do you go:embed to add the production svelte assets to your Go binary or do you ship both as separate apps and/or involve a CDN?
> This is a case where an algorithmic feed would make this into a truly amazing product.

how many platforms need to be ruined by an algorithmic feed before people understand that its a terrible idea?
Counterpoint: "but can we improve on that?" hopefully keeps you in work, unless you're unfortunate enough to work at a company that hires-and-fires upon completion of the latest version of a niche piece of software.
Are you referring to his views on paedophilia?
Scale AI has long struck me as one of the worst examples of the excesses of the recent startup boom:

- An extraordinary amount of hype and handwaving over what is essentially a business process outsourcing operation

- Exploitation of gig economy workers in developing economies

- Significant data privacy concerns (this article describes how Scale AI data annotation workers openly shared amongst themselves private photos of Roomba customers taken without user consent: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...)

- A horrible work culture that has seen Scale AI's founder imploring employees to work very hard and then unceremoniously laying off 20% of its workforce (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/scale-ai-cuts-20-of-its-wo...)

- Founders being allowed to take large sums of money off the table before a business has successfully exited or achieved any profit
My unsolicited advice to JetPens owner: This is the first time I've ever seen the Jetpens site, and it's amazing. The guides are great, and I instantly trust the advice.

I have a $100 cart though, and I'm not going to checkout because there is no Apple Pay or Shop Pay or Amazon Pay option. Sorry I'm too lazy to add my data to yet another e-com site!
The source is 4chan, and most certainly an exercise in creative s#!$posting.
I'm not going to lie, I got some GPU envy of Elon Musk with his 10,000 GPUs. I guess I should have hustled harder and pulled my bootstraps harder if I thought I deserve to have them and not him.
Stupid wide? Pins, memory controllers, and traces (and layers) on motherboards aren't cheap. Apple just decided that the paying memory bandwidth was worth it. Is there some reason why you think the extra memory bandwidth was stupid?

Sure it's easy to ask for 1024 bit wide memory bus, but it's not cheap. Done with the traditional x86-64 method you'll need two 280 watt CPUs (a few $k each), on a $1k motherboard, with 24 dimms, a 1kw power supply, ear plugs, and at least $10k. The minimum physical size is going to be substantial since you need two large CPU sockets (6096 pins each), 24 dimm sockets, and of course a substantial number of fans, dimms, and power supply. Even managing airflow over 800 watts or so of chips isn't going to be easy, cheap, or quiet.

Because of the above size, cost, noise, and heat it's targeted at enterprise and cloud folks with the related cost, service contract, and sales pipelines.

Or you could buy an Apple studio and hide it somewhere, you'll likely not be able to find it by listening for it.
"confident idiocy" is exactly what is wrong with CGPT and other AIs. (and plenty of people)
Apple devices are functional. I’m using one right now. I’ll be able to use it for the next 2-3 years, at least.

Beautiful, not in the least. Thanks to the cameras (a functional feature) I need to have a fugly case wrapping the entire thing.
The folks who are telling you you’re wrong don’t understand Nyquist’s criterion very well. Curse those undergrad courses for only effectively teaching about Nyquist at baseband frequencies.

You can sample 100MHz of bandwidth at 1GHz just as you describe at 210MSPS. You’ll get everything in the 950-1050MHz band.

Trouble is, without an antialiasing filter, you’ll get every other band that’s a multiple of that sampling rate. The Nyquist criterion works at every multiple of the sampling frequency.

Bandpass filter your analog input appropriately from 950-1050MHz and you’re golden.

This is the way nearly every commodity Wi-Fi chip downsamples 2.4/5GHz raw RF. Sigma-delta ADCs are cheap, fast, and space efficient for die area using this method.
You frame that like it's a bad thing. If I want free software to thrive, and I think the FSF is doing a bad job of that, reforming the FSF has a lot of upsides over trying to bootstrap my own replacement.
I had LEGO Duplo in 1981 and LEGO at the Christmas of 1982.
Are there any women in this world or is this just some bro universe ?
I remember that Ben Horowitz includes a lot of rap lyrics in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Don’t a lot of tech bros love music that glorifies criminal behavior?
I suspect that John Deere and friends will find a way to challenge this in court and -- if they eventually lose -- find a way to maliciously comply with the law. Their behavior has been actively hostile to their customers for years, and they have zero incentive to change.

Like Apple's repair kits mentioned in another comment, I suspect their strategy will involve providing tools that cost nearly as much to rent as it would take to buy a new machine. Then, only the most well-capitalized farmers will be able to afford to lock up the extraordinary amounts of cash required to perform their own repairs.

Without legislation that absolutely eviscerates their monopolistic business practices, I would be shocked if anything changes for the average farmer.
No, but rather that Musk has been using it in bad faith (I’m assuming “I support free speech” was meant to qualify the criticism of Twitter under Musk’s leadership).
I never said it's a good idea for all situations, but for some. It was most definitely done, so the claim that it was impossible is clearly nonsense. It was impossible in some circumstances, but possible in others. And of course it's a good idea to use local resources when they're available, but there's a big difference between that and relying entirely on local resources.

Armies used supply lines over land during the 100 Years War[0], Romans maintained a network of supply depots[1]. It happened during most time periods.

Just like there's a limit to how much food you can move how far, there's also a limit to how large an army can live off the land. Beyond a certain size, you simply need to bring your own supplies. In fact, one of Napoleon's innovations was that he organised his armies in a way that allowed larger armies than before to live off the land. But larger armies did exist before; they just had to bring supplies.

And of course you're not going to supply a large army over a distance of hundreds of miles using just carts. They used ships where possible, they used supply depots, and organised the most efficient routes by which to maintain those. But you bet lots of land travel was involved as well.

[0] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/medieval/army-supplied-100-...

[1] https://www.everythingsupplychain.com/roman-army-supply-line...
Nice Dave Dobbyn sneak reference there.
Go to any Indian news channel, people openly mock Indian government without any repurcussions. Infact some publication with anti Govt, anti India stance thrive within the country. Their journalist are invited to all govt events, same as others. See The Caravan as nlan example of dubious but anti govt publication
WebKit in a similarly undecided position: https://github.com/orgs/WebKit/projects/1?pane=issue&itemId=...