skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be if the phenomenon is a result of perfectly reasonable competitive behaviors in a given previously fairly common ecology.

When you consider pre-medieval eastern Europe is basically the same as this primitive dynamics plus a technology to build a wall and ability to temporarily plant some seeds and harvest them outside in between the raids.

Third part of musings of this author gives failry clear path from that dynamic into modern times as new technologies and population densities demanded more and more men to be cast out of warrior role into subservient worker role.
ive ejected out of the next ecosystem and work in preact now. some of the optimizations being adopted across react and next had me worried about insurmountable lock-in! with that said vercel's github integration is a beautiful thing that i will continue to use. the automated preview deployments are just too clutch
Yes, and if nukes are being used like this then the world is ending anyway, as the en masse retaliatory nukes aren't going to be set for upper atmospheric detonation only.
I am finding many things to learn on this from the book 'Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout. There is a video in YouTube where John Ousterhout outlines the core principles present in his book.
I like how the Wikipedia entry for this still hasn't been updated.
The battery is absorbing or providing short bursts of energy, thus providing grid stability, rather than than providing significant net energy. This then allows the use of renewables which might have short term variations int their output.

The big energy producer is the huge number of rooftop solar installations which everyday Australians have been putting on the roofs of their houses and wind. There are periods in summer when South Australia has surpassed 100% solar generation [1], the excess being exported to the East. These periods will continue to become more frequent, until they merge and South Australia is 100% renewable. They are the leaders, but the rest of the country is following.

By happy coincidence the most southern state and least sunny, Tasmania, is already 100% renewable due to abundant hydro, but they also have lots of wind being near the Southern Ocean.

[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australias-remarkable-100-...
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If companies cannot stand for something, they'll fall for anything. That's the problem with Google (remember "don't be evil"?), Facebook (or, Meta) and Apple as well. Companies are not structured to care, even from a regulatory perspective. They are structured to make money and regulated by a set of democratic principles.

While what you're saying may well be true, it doesn't prevent bad influences from compromising values you think are immutable. We worship Bell Labs on this website too, but their company culture and "hacker identity" didn't prevent Room 641A from happening. This "unlikely in Apple's case" business seems so baseless when the entire industry wears indecision on it's sleeve. Even Apple cannot promise human rights to all of their customers, loathe as this site is to hear it.
Hence the layoffs
I’m curious how Chinese nuclear power plant prices compare to Chinese solar panel prices. They are both cheaper than in western countries.
46.7% of the state's population is in the Portland metro area as of the last census. Multnomah County has the second highest tax burden in the country for top earners. If a new capital gains tax proposal is passed this year, it will have the highest. There are many reasons why the state lost population starting in 2022, but taxes are definitely one of them.
I could leave the bills frankly
I don't think you realized it, but that is exactly my point. I was highlighting the inconsistencies that come from the pro-free speech side of these arguments. No one actually wants unconditional free speech, but some people like to pretend they do. I'm not one of those people. I understand some restrictions on speech are necessary, such as the example you just gave.
Totally, I don't like surprising behaviors either. At the time we made that decision the `CDN-Cache-Control` proposal didn't exist, so it was a tricky spot.

There also really wasn't a UI opportunity in this case (although one thing we thought about was a setting to control it and turn off the Vercel override).
No, speech needs to be hearable by those who would choose. You're free to shout your own counter-message, but from far enough away that you're adding signal not noise.

Similarly, trying to form a barricade and keep people from reaching the speaker and hearing them is an attempt to silence their speech.
lockpicks. naturally.
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There is an element of truth that C++ is used because it is the default language for people that work on database kernels professionally but that doesn't tell the whole story. I've been party to multiple attempts to port or implement modern database kernel designs in Rust by people that also work on the C++ kernels. There are ordinary language friction issues since Rust is not as expressive as C++ for the kind of low-level memory manipulation commonly found inside database kernels, but that's not what's limiting use.

Two core design elements of modern database kernels create most of the real challenges. First, all references to most objects are implicitly mutable and some references are not observable by the compiler; safety can only be guaranteed dynamically at runtime by the scheduler. Major performance optimizations rely on the implications of this. Second, your runtime data structures don't have lifetimes in the ordinary sense because they all live in explicitly paged memory -- they aren't even guaranteed to have a memory address, never mind a stable one. And you want this to all be zero-copy, because performance. There are elegant ways of doing this transparently in C++ with a bit of low-level trickery, but it is antithetical to the way Rust wants you to manipulate memory. There are workaround options in Rust of course but they are strictly worse than just doing it in C++.

Database kernels are an edge case. Most systems software doesn't break most assumptions about ownership and lifetimes so pervasively. I expect Rust will add features over time that help in these cases.
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Impressive work. I hope the original designers of the RP2040 PIO system are well pleased.
They’ve helped other UI frameworks run on Vercel. They seem to be very good about that or do you mean something else?
IME there is a code quality/sanity valley of death between about 50-1000 people, with the lower bound shifting upwards a bit depending on the maturity of the company's founding/early stage technical contributors. You get more bang for your buck with five of the right people than 50 of the wrong ones in the early stages, and sometimes that determines five years later whether you are drowning in tech debt (bad) or 1000 years ahead of the competition (inefficient, probably) or maybe just barely staying one step ahead of the reaper (optimal, probably). But a lot of companies limp into the valley, get enough revenue to stay alive for a while, and then slowly fade into obscurity the second a nimbler competitor shows up on the scene and eats their lunch. That's why small companies are fun. All that visible impact and you know you won't be mired in the bureaucratic death spiral of a medium-sized company lurching into obscurity!
> if you want you can take the raw GraphQL query and send back whatever response you want from your server

From the client you'd be missing caching but yeah. It's a completely different story in the server.
That logo looks similar enough to Adobe's to be misleading at first glance.
(Only somewhat-related rant)

I'm very much starting to distrust these huge companies with infinite product/feature lists and generic marketing-lingo websites.

"Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration."

Seriously?

I want serverless providers that tell me the 4-5 products they offer (Compute, maybe a KV store, maybe a database, maybe some pubsub, maybe a queue?), give me the pricing, and leave me the Hell alone.

I don't want to feel locked into a system promising end-to-end whatever, ones that heavily push a certain framework, and most importantly ones that look like the homepage was designed by a team of sales people instead of a team of engineers.

It's the difference between the Cloudflare Workers website and the Vercel website: Vercel looks like the new-age big-brother con artist, while Workers looks like a utility.

Sorry, what were we talking about? A runaway bill?
It’s true.

I work as a Client Partner for a $1B+ consulting firm that comes in and cleans up after these situations. We bring in seasoned, experienced consultants with the functional knowledge that these big consulting firms don’t have. And even though our consultants are more costly on a per head basis, we’re more cost effective overall, because we do more with less.

I always admired the big consulting firms until I realized how consistently they fail to deliver. It’s hard for the clients to fix it because they genuinely think they are getting the best. It’s sad and laughable. Eventually they figure it out. Usually when a firm like us comes in and exposes the dysfunction by getting a few consultants in there that know what they are doing and running things like it should. And it generally comes down to a lack of leadership— by both the client and the big consulting firm. They point the finger at each other. But also it’s just a lack of experience by those running/implementing the program. Staffed by consultants who read all the books and go to the trainings and classes but have never been in industry and been in the clients shoes.
Yea, after all these LLMs are predicting one sequence of tokens from another sequence of tokens and the tokens could be anything, it just "happens" that text has the most knowledge and the easiest to input, then there are image, sound, video, but tokens could also be learned from world experience in RL:

Transformers are Sample-Efficient World Models:

https://github.com/eloialonso/iris#transformers-are-sample-e...
Fair enough. And size of company matters too I’m sure.
Haxe development doesn’t seem very active: the last minor release, 4.2.5, was 13 months ago. The last major release, 4.2.0, was two years ago.

Even if Haxe was effectively feature complete, I would expect maintenance for bug fixes and keeping up to date with evolving platforms and backends, especially because Haxe supports so many targets.

https://haxe.org/download/list/
How is it word salad?

The length of the number array is referred to as dimensions for math reasons. That's half the statement right there.

> importantly, these embeddings are trained, so "doctor" will have an embedding similar to "hospital" because it's seen in close proximity in the training data

It is trained to put together words with similar... meaning. So the embedding is a representation of... meaning.
> I guess we'll just have to cross our fingers that Sam Altman and friends will pity us enough to give us some pocket money to survive. That's assuming the AGI created is aligned with our values.

My guess is that Altman and co. already have some kind of exit strategy (like fleeing to New Zealand after they've captured a huge chunk of the developed world's wealth).
Not if it’s something really subtle like manipulating a texture to have some small detail in it.
> I would assume they'd be more likely to have experience with in house systems rather than implementing open source ones.

Every hiring process I’ve been apart of (FAANG to startups) is an exercise in mostly measuring intelligence and empathy. That’s a long way of saying smart people aren’t limited by in house systems or open source ones. They’ll figure it out in a few days.
In case it’s not clear, I am in favor of prohibition! The exact lesson I draw from the failure of alcohol prohibition is that drug harm isn’t a major factor in drug users’ choices; you can’t (ethically) reduce demand by making drugs more harmful, and more modern evidence seems to show that making drugs less harmful doesn’t increase use by much either. I believe that drug distribution should be illegal, and drug consumption should be as safe as practical.

If we’re talking about political feasibility, I think replacing harmful street drugs with their pure versions at the point of consumption is politically much closer to “safe injection sites” than it is to “government agents with the job title of Drug Dealer”.
No rules: Illegal cabins with million-dollar views of Portland
The company would go on, hes just one person

Twitter laid off most of the company and they still limp along somehow
There are some official thread to post jobs offers. Take a look at the current ones in case you find something useful and remember to post in the correct thread the first day of next month. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
> In production

Did you know Ruby has a garbage collector not unlike this one? People are running it in production right now.

> a toy GC

It does its job. These algorithms have been working for decades now.

> without threading support

It can just stop the whole world.

> without register scanning

Add some inline assembly to spill all the registers. I did this on my own language implementation not even a month ago. If this was a real project I'd submit a patch.

The author even acknowledged this limitation and hinted at how to solve it, he just didn't want to get into those gritty details in his article. I'm happy to demonstrate if you want.

> Imprecise also. How do you seperate large ints from pointers?

You don't. You collect conservatively. It will have false positives but not false negatives. In other words, it will mistake some ints for pointers but it won't collect memory that's in use. Correct if suboptimal behavior.
It does not. Its still up to the program with how it wants to deal with end of file though.
I think it still gets the point across, namely that you have to stick one chip on top of another, but it's a little wild they didn't at least give the artist labeled notes and legends
My thoughts as well.

It's too bad so many people are indoctrinated to think the way they do about nuclear power in the US.
LLaMA is part of LLM history in a way that Bard will probably never be
Wipe or Wash? Toilet Paper or Water?
Sure, apart from one is a $20 watch and an insignificant investment of time and energy versus a lot of expensive, risky hoops with a high-level of skill to pull off. People always lean on this analogy of cars, but frequently there's no analogy required. The watch mod isn't for you and that's fine.
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> 5he police is going to be the first one to interact with addicts because they should be working on dismantling the entire drug network and working on catching dealers.

Dealers aren't users or addicts. Different people. The police would not be the first to respond to them in 99% of cases.

And you can dismantle the network by making it uncompetitive. Let the state sell drugs, who cares? Then the narcos die off and the network dismantles itself.
In this case, any sufficiently strong opiate would do. However this thing is probably cheapest and easiest to get.
That is true for a lot of government schemes that work with credits , you need to have taxable income to benefit from tax credits , so higher income means more benefits up to a point
FYI your comments were probably flagged because it's a fresh account. I've seen it with entirely innocuous posts from brand new accounts before.

You're right that it's not antisemitic but you've got some details wrong (that kinda make it sound antisemitic as it happens). They specifically hid their identity to flee the Inquisition, it's not some kind of ongoing deception. They generally don't identify as Jews or worship at temples or practice Judaism but have fossilized customs light lighting the candles on Saturday evenings and such. Sometimes people convert to Judaism to reclaim that aspect of their heritage.

But it's easy to see how the idea of Jews as deceptive plays into antisemitic narratives, no?
Are there any knock off bricks with the same fit tolerances? I haven't seen any.

Although you might ask, should be accept a slightly lower tolerance to drive down the cost?
Those tests don't have "construct validity" (i.e. they don't accurately test what they claim to test) with regards to LLMs. Word problems can be used to test human abilities because humans use words to represent interior understanding. LLMs have no interior understanding, so "performing well" on a set of word problems only tells us that the LLM's training set contains enough form to predict the answer, but not that the LLM has any concept of what the words in the question mean or how they might apply to novel situations in the real world.
As a gay person, I'd sleep easier if Apple focused on not supporting Chinese genocide and left the marriage equality stuff to the government. Just my personal opinion though, of course.
In the grand scheme of things GPT isn't learning "meaning" in any different sense than Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) learns meaning (which is just using "percent chance that some token should show up next" using covariance).

For those without a background in NLP, LSA is literally SVD/PCA (which is ultimately just based on the covariance matrix) on the term frequency matrix for a corpus of text. However LSA is well known to learn certain meanings such as "pet" by projecting words like "dog" and "cat" onto the same principle component. Semantics is learned by exploring the "loadings" in PCA terminology.

Now LSA is just a linear transformation, but the idea is that same as GPT that uses a wildly more sophisticated non-linear transformation: the assumption is that words (or tokens in the case of GPT) are caused by some latent variables (in the case of LSA, for GPT high dimensional embedding) and most importantly the patterns of word/token usage allow us to infer what those latent variables are.

So it's not absurd and it's how statistical NLP has always worked, only now we have much, much more sophisticated ways to model that latent space. LSA, HMM, and Transformers all assume that the patterns of text usage can be used to model an unobserved latent space that generates the text, which is what we traditionally call "meaning".

Ultimately the limits of GPT-N (unless there are none and it does become AGI) will be valuable in showing the limitations of this fundamental model of semantics.
> Your understanding is wrong. In Portugal you are forced to go into addiction therapy or go to jail. You're not allowed to just continue to take drugs on the streets like in SF.

So my understanding is correct then. I'm familiar with what I'm advocating.
> A multi-layer neural net is not limited to vague statistical combinations.

It, absolutely, unequivocally, 100% is only limited to statistical inference. That's how it works. The problem of linear separability (which is like 60 years old, by the way) has nothing to do with logic, but it's actually a byproduct of (a) the fact that neural networks use linear activation functions, and (b) XOR is not separable by a single hyperplane. Hence, you need multiple layers.

No idea how you get to "arbitrary logic" from this.
fastly does: https://developer.fastly.com/learning/concepts/stale/#stale-...
Why would kiwisdr care?
It's been great to see Governor DeSantis show leadership on Everglades restoration. Too many "conservative" Republicans have neglected conserving our environment, but hopefully that is changing.

(Edit: I don't mean to give him sole or primary credit for this project or any other. It's just that the default position of Republicans on any environmental issue is too often "screw nature", so any exception is welcome.)
Sure, heckle and hold counter-events. But the current state of university mobs today is literally closer to murderous than insightful.

SFSU let Riley Gaines be beaten and held against her will by the braying mob. New Zealand let Posie Parker and a bunch of old ladies be attacked be assaulted by shrieking thugs. There's nothing of speech in their actions, just terroristic political violence against the enemy.

> you’re free to buy / rent your own private venue

Actually, no you're not. The mob will blockade even an entirely private event held off-campus, or in a public square with permit, etc.
Nah, some green accounts do have some sort of “shadowban” until they get vouched but they usually just appear only as [dead]. I’m pretty sure [flagged] comments are specifically user flagged, but correct me if I’m wrong.
Musk Hyperloop had 0 effect on California HSR, I have no idea why people bring this up sometimes as if it mattered. Calling this an 'intervention' is a bit silly.
I feel like if meaning itself was simply contained or even encoded in the words we write, the world would be a very different place to us. How could we ever find ourselves, as we do, arguing about the meaning of a text? Even then driest prose can sometimes lead to different interpretations.

Is there "meaning" somehow inside the novel on my desk? Can you extract it and manipulate it? If I had no body, environment, temporality, what even could the book mean to me? Even more, if nobody could teach me the meanings of the words themselves in the book, what could it ever be to me but a collection of certain patterns?
I am curious if these processes need continuous power or if they would work okay if most of their power was delivered during the daytime.
Given that the same house costs vastly different amounts in different places, it seems reasonable that those places drive the costs to be different. Maybe in rural Nebraska the actual cost of building materials and the technology of construction is relevant.

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the twin forces of NIMBYism and Big Government have made it difficult and uneconomical to build anything. The NIMBYs have enacted extremely restrictive zoning laws almost everywhere that prevents you from entitling projects on the front end, and well-intentioned over-regulation has driven up the cost actually building anything on the back end.

After you spend years in public hearings placating bored and angry old people, you then need to hire more professional services, pay higher impact fees, pay higher permitting fees, etc than practically anywhere else in the country. It'll cost me more to knock down my house here than it would cost to build the same plans somewhere else.
It doesn't help that the main Vercel GitHub repo isn't really any core part of Vercel. It's just the cli and ancillary scripts. None of their infrastructure is open source or self-hostable, which was a surprise after finding the repo and trying to dig through it
When a program reads from a pseudo-terminal device in "cooked mode"[0], ^D is the default control character to indicate "no more input will be made available."

A program reading from a file handle other than a pseudo-terminal or a pseudo-terminal set to be in "raw mode" will behave as you describe.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode
Yeah that's right afaik, good point. I bet the flag threshold on green accounts is super low though, probably just 1.
People are already using it for dating sites and catfishing on twitter.

I'm interested trying to make an RPG in the style of bards tale, generate the scenes for the game. Each game would be different. Cant get the client side voice gen working yet, but the online voice api works, but thats pay.
You should offer better customer support as repeated in many comments here.
Indeed, perhaps something like Simple Television Interface (STI) or Visual Display (VD) would be better? ;)