skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's a huge oversimplification and I don't think "nerd" is a good term to use for what he's describing, but it's entertaining and would be fun to discuss if HN were capable of that.

So you yourself acknowledge it's a bad article and the author plays fast and loose with common terms, yet somehow HN is to blame?

> would be fun to discuss if HN were capable of that.

It sure would be, but could we pick a more sophisticated baseline than a multi-page rant about Marvel movies (who are almost universally understood to be pretty bad by adults, and are targeted at a less discerning demographic, e.g. 15-19 male)

> he makes a specific claim and does so eloquently and emotively.

Brevity is the sister of talent. If one has a point to make, it should be made prior to the halfway point of their diatribe. That's the least they could do just out of basic respect to their audience, unless they're just Twitter-shouting into the void.
The functional Lisp (Lisp without assignment) was called "Pure Lisp" back then. Sometimes also there was the term "applicative language".
Other countriesin the world, besides the US. In European countries you can't just tell someone tonnit come tomorrow and not pay anything. Sure you csn tell them to not come anymore if you want to keep your secrets or whatever but the company has to pay for this notice period like the person was working there.

When I or colleagues have changed jobs then we have given a month or more notice, continued working etc. Only when someone is fired for total incompetence or just not showing up you don't want to see them anymore ever in the office so the company pays for the notice period time.
Now live for all: Substack Notes
We really need optical computing to take this to the next level.
Yes - the tragedy of this is that the points where RMS has important messages are being actively obscured by his other decisions.
Strictly speaking the US healthcare system mostly works for those who are well off enough and have good enough insurance, at least until a catastrophic or chronic condition.

But the way it is unavailable to many people and useless to many more means it should not be considered a functional system.
> Meanwhile, unbiased research has shown for a long time that there is no significant variations in IQ between races when considering socioeconomic factors.

I get that you're new to this topic, but you should at least understand which side you're on. "...there is no significant variations in IQ between races when considering socioeconomic factors" is indeed the mainstream IQ field's side, but the HBD position isn't the opposite of that, it's, "I totally agree, now explain to me again why a test of intrinsic aptitude would need to be adjusted for socioeconomic factors."

It's a mug's game, defending these tests. When IQ correlates to real-world outcomes like salary and academic achievement, they call it evidence that the test works. Then when you point out that salary and academic achievement level have group differences across race (and gender, and religion, and marital status, and height...) for reasons unrelated to intelligence, they say you need to control for those variables. But they don't actually do that! You will never hear an IQ researcher say that someone with a lower IQ is actually smarter than someone with a higher IQ when you consider the neighborhood they grew up in. They just wait long enough for you to forget the particulars, and go back to acting like IQ is an intrinsic genetic quality that's independently measurable. "Wechsler is much better than those dirty biased tests like the SAT" from one side of the mouth, and "We know it's accurate, look how well it correlates to SAT scores" from the other. A mug's game, I tell you.

And all because they can't just admit that g-factor is a statistical artifact and IQ just a test score. That was the point of the Niceness Quotient analogy: it would have the same problems, but the problems would be obvious without 100 years of thinking psychometry was scientific. If one race had higher average NQs than another, there wouldn't be a debate at all, the whole wiki page[0] would just be "Of course the results are weird, Niceness isn't measurable. We tried our best, and the results are kind of useful in some contexts, but it's not actually a trait, just a subjective concept."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_race_and_intell...
Yup, sounds like a Rob Zombie song.
I've also used PostgreSQL as a queue but I worry about operational implications. Ideally you want clients to dequeue an item, but put it back in the queue (rollback transaction) if they crash while prpcessing the item. But processing is a long-running task, which means that you need to keep the database connection open while processing. Which means that your number of database connections must scale along with the number of queue workers. And I've understood that scaling database connections can be problematic.

Another problem is that INSERT followed by SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by UPDATE and DELETE results in a lot of garbage pages that need to be vacuumed. And managing vacuuming well is also an annoying issue...
> This attitudes extends to so many different areas, especially in technology, where hostility to good taste and style is often seen as something to be lauded, with the idea that somehow, technical brilliance and design chops are inversely correlated and can’t co-exist.

There's a fair chance I've misread the situation, but I don't think it's good taste and style is what's being pushed back against in these situations. It's all of the other things that so often get bundled with glossy UI — aesthetics-above-all-else design, UI as branding, gratuitous amounts of badly written analytics JS added by non-engineers, NIH syndrome, trend chasing, etc.

Most people I think aren't opposed to well designed UI that incorporates a central tenet of Jobs', which is that design is functionality and not purely visual, but this is staggeringly unusual to the point that something idiosyncratic but simplistic (like the HN UI) is a safer bet.
'Tinkering' is my goto phrase if I want to avoid the negative connotations of 'Hacker'. And I never call cyber-criminals 'hackers' since I don't want to taint the word hacker or associate it with e-crime.
That's a remarkably insightful rebuttal. I sure see the errors of my way now. Except I'm not really sure whether these are in the Output, Error, Warning, Verbose or Debug stream, so...
It makes 0 economical sense to buy a GPU to train a model. If you want to train a model, train it on the cloud.
Handling strings in WASM without burning yourself
Most treatment addiction treatment centers, especially the more effective ones, are in-patient facilities.
+1 to this. I'm just as wary to recommend using a DB as a queue as the next person, but it is a very common pattern at my company.

DB queues allow easy prioritization, blocking, canceling, and other dynamic queued job controls that basic FIFO queues do not. These are all things that add contention to the queue operations. Keep your queues as dumb as you possibly can and go with FIFO if you can get away with it, but DB queues aren't the worst design choice.
We need private businesses (including banks) because it's the most efficient way to reach consumers.

Any large bureaucracy has standards for loan/lending evaluation. Inevitably those standards become more and more restrictive and conservative, because of risk management.

Private businesses are willing to take on more risk to reach different segments of a market.

As an example, take SVB. One of SVB's markets are startups: companies with no track record, spotty revenues, large and non-repeating transactions, and fluid ownership. A normal bank would consider a startup a money-laundering operation: no visible sources of income, with really large incoming and outgoing transactions that happen intermittently. Many startups also do business internationally, which is another huge red flag for normal banks.

This makes a regular bank much, much slower. Normal banks will put holds on financial transfers because of...risk management. SVB didn't, because that's their "normal."

It's the same for underserved/unbanked (ie: poor) communities. Lending standards have to be different because the community is different. In fact, the new wave of FinTech places are experimenting with other ways of judging creditworthiness, which would be very difficult or impossible to do in a large institution because of...you guessed it, risk management().

It's the same with private businesses vs public businesses. Why not just have a Wal-Mart run by the state? Oh, because every new vendor somehow will need to scale out massively to sell a product...which is probably impossible, both financially and logistically.

Is it possible to design a bureaucratic structure that is both all-encompassing and flexible? Probably...but in the (albeit short) history of bureaucracy it hasn't been done successfully.

() these small fintechs eventually get bought by the big players if the tech proves out
You're mis-understanding the use case.

It's been some years but my recollection of the explanation is something like this. The process of buying/selling houses and land involves many organizations. There is the land registry, the bank, lawyers, conveyancers and possibly others I've forgotten about. To actually complete a sale requires coordination of all of these. Today this is done with lots of human-readable documents bouncing around, maybe in digital form if you're lucky, wet ink signatures, lots of people who are just sort of trusted because they're pillars of society and so on. There's lots that can go wrong even in the absence of a dispute over who actually owns the land currently, it's very slow and it's very hard to digitize. Land registry exposing some documented HTTP endpoints doesn't fix anything because it doesn't solve any of the coordination or security or privacy problems.
> Fraktur is now associated with the Nazis, who used it extensively in propaganda, going so far as to outfit government offices with Fraktur typewriters.

Actually, Fraktur was banned in 1941 and the regime transitioned to Latin writing (Futura was used quite extensively).
If someone requires mental medication there should be a presumption that they shouldn’t be out loose.
> There are two types of F-150 buyers

The F-series isn't the most popular vehicle in America because there are only two types of buyers. Roughly, the answer to "who is a truck person?" is "everyone."
EVs don't help global emissions. They centralize them to power plants and mining. Its debatable whether its net better than ICE for global emissions.
Most people who are mentally ill don't want to harm other people. The fact that they sometimes do, however, is indisputable. I would encourage you to do some research on homelessness in America and specifically on the chronic homeless. I've worked off-and-on with the homeless community for several years, and homeless people are not out to get anyone, they need help, it's just that providing that help is not nearly as simple as you make it out to be. Mental illness is so difficult to deal with partly because of its insidiousness, rather than what you are apparently imagining as "the truly deranged". Addiction is a big challenge as well, and the causative relationships are anything but simple and straightforward. Many people abuse substances to self-medicate for underlying mental health problems. Being homeless can create mental health problems as a consequences of the traumas associated with it.

Trying to wrap up complicated issues with a bow and dismiss them as simple is not a realistic or informed viewpoint. Do some research and then get back to me.
It does seem like there are a number of states in which deadly force is permitted in the circumstances of trespassing

https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense...
If there were a unitary source of car title, yes. But we have 51 issuers of car title in the US.
tinygrad

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/master/accel/ane

But I have not tested it on Linux since Asahi has not yet added support.

Same machine but OSX, llama.cpp runs at 18ms per token (7B) and 200ms per token (65B) on CPU using float16.
> That means computers can theoretically compute anything that's possible to compute given enough time and memory, which includes anything a human could figure out.

Whoa, that's quite a leap there. Not sure where we (as society) are with our understanding of intuition, but I doubt a million monkeys would recognize that the falling of an apple is caused by the same agent as the orbit of planets.
I did 50 minutes each way in LA, from Santa Monica to El Segundo. I loved it, except for the parts with cars.
> She was an original member of Fluxus for god sakes!

> Although she didn't actually join the Fluxus group, she collaborated over many years with him [1]

So... she was not. Also, Fluxus, MoMA, these are visual arts. That doesn't mean she has training or talent to be playing music on live television with Lennon and Berry

[1]: https://fluxusmuseum.org/holding-page-for-yoko-ono/#:~:text=....
Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk’s X Corp
The Machiavelli Benchmark
If search was broken in general, wouldn't there have been a whole lot more people complaining about that instead?
And then someone steals the Dixie Flatline.
>Then I got any email from Couchbase's lawyers with a document stating they would hire me for 10 days total and no longer.

I wonder what would happen to your sign-up bonus? There is usually a clawback clause if you decide to leave yourself, but letting you go after 10 days should still make them liable for it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907168/

Scrolling down to the graphs that have all sorts of breakdowns, it looks like in general it hasn't been converging. The third group, which breaks down by race/age, looks like a mixture of noisy sameness and diverging.
If you don’t want to talk about work then that’s on you. Plenty of people are fine with it.
Pace of growth is what's important now. I'll look for the numbers but I would guess that Ford is reaching early milestones quicker than Tesla. Not a knock on Tesla, just that it's a different market now.
Having done a lot of Bank/Gov related work... I can tell you this

> Almost everyone is willing to trust 3rd parties with data, including enterprise and government customers.

Is absolutely not true. In it's most basic sense - sure... some data is trusted to some 3rd parties. Usually it's not the data that would be most useful for these models to work with.

We're already getting tons of "don't put our code into chatGPT/Copilot" warnings across tech companies - I can't imagine not getting fired if I throw private financial docs for my company in there, or ask it for summaries of our high level product strategy documents.
We use Kong as our API Gateway, so it is responsible for authentication, rate limiting, routing, etc. By moving that to edge runtime, we simplify our stack since we already run a edge runtime container to run user functions.

The other motivation for doing this is that it makes our API Gateway programmable with user defined functions. For example, you could implement custom transformations for storage or augment the Authorization header with custom claims before calling Postgrest.
We used sqlite for a queue at a prior startup - enabling the WAL was critical to maintain disk throughput.
Google vs. the web has become "embrace, extend, devour".
The thermal expansion coefficient of water:
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-density-specific-we...
Yes, either these folks are competent to make decisions, or they are not. A significantly binary decision.

Deeming them competent to make treatment decisions but not to face consequences for their behavior has been an absolute disaster.
>Apparently my strategy of not to handing in notice before a contract is discussed and executed (signed) is not a bad move.

I mean, sure? Not quitting before you and they actually sign a piece of paper is a practice absolutely no one should disagree with. No particular reason your start date can't be a bit further out than your customary notice period though if your new employer to be is OK with it and you want to take some time off.
Apple has very little ML expertise and very few cloud resources.

They are absolutely behind in the space and anyone who works in the industry will tell you that. Only feasible way IMO would have to be a very big budget acquisition of one of the major LLM startups, but most of those already have big tech backers.
Same. Never seen a 2 weeks in the US from the company. It's either "get out, now." or else it's a layoff situation where there is usually 2-3 months to let them gracefully out.

Exceptions being PIPs, if you want to characterize it that way; usually a gracious way to push people out without the drama or severance.

I now live in Canada and there are some different requirements re: getting terminated.
Psh. Details.
Importing Tweets to Micro.blog
i havent had time to dig through it but what about something like guardrails? https://shreyar.github.io/guardrails/ early alpha I reckon, but looks interesting nonetheless?
Why Universality Trumps IQ
A simple implementation of a queue in SQL will need to acquire an exclusive lock on the table anyway. Although it's not necessary to use locking at the level of SQL itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482402
It's rather said by people who have a rough understanding of how ML is implemented, rather then those who are mesmerized by its output.
Hell, that's a damn book of an article. A short warning would have been apreciated.
Does it update regularly?
I think llama.cpp will die soon because the only models you can run with it are derivatives of a model that Facebook never intended to be publicly released, which means all serious usage of it is in a legal limbo at best and just illegal at worst. Even if you get a model that's clean and donated to the world, the quality is still not going to be competitive with the hosted models.

And yes I've played with it. It was/is exciting. I can see use cases for it. However none are achievable because the models are (a) not good enough and (b) too legally risky to use.
congrats on being a pedant! "I write all my production code in the javascript runtime environment called Node.js"
That's already illegal - you're using someone's image and likeness in a way they did not approve of.
Depends on what region you are looking at / interested in and what your goals are. An equivalent question would be "how do I get into software engineering?".

Geopolitics are a very difficult thing to come up to speed on and the relationships are massively varied, while also constantly changing.

For me, understanding what drives certain countries can help you understand how they might approach problems. You can largely read how they think about it by looking at their policies and PR releases.

I'll give some examples of policy strategies by country:

- USA: State Department "A foreign policy for the american people" [1]
- Russia: Aleksandr Dugin "Foundations of Geopolitics" [2]
- China: Belt and Road Initiative [3]

[1] - https://www.state.gov/a-foreign-policy-for-the-american-peop...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
I have a strong feeling Musk didn't buy Twitter to grow Twitter. I have strong feeling that Musk bought Twitter for technology and people's information and to use it however he sees fit to profit from it.
Unfortunately, people voting with their dollars is a large part of the global climate problem. However, e-bikes are certainly becoming popular, so I don't agree with your assessment.

In the U.S. (and other countries), there's the additional issue of people being stuck with how cities/suburbs have been arranged around the use of personal cars and don't have access to functional public transport or where active transport is impractical. However, there are plenty of places that haven't made that mistake to the same extent and that allows people to have flexibility in how they choose to travel.
Looks suitable for application in Teledildonics.
I wonder what would happen if you prompted an LLM with something other than human language, like a large upload of patterns from a cephalopod brain. Could it translate concepts?
> If you need to restart, you can restart processing from the chosen point

One caveat to this is that you can only start from wherever the beginning of your oplog window is. So for large deployments and/or situations where your oplog ondisk size simply isn't tuned properly, you're SOL unless you build a separate mechanism for catching up.
> Well there's quite a lot here that's just flat wrong, but you get the gist of some of it.

If you're going to be condescending the least you could do is be correct.

> Computers can't pass turing tests because the answer is divergent, or in other words has multiple possible answers.

This is wrong. Computers can absolutely pass Turing tests; an obvious example is ChatGPT. Not sure what you mean by divergent, to my knowledge it's not a technical term in this context. Given that you use it as an explanation for an obviously false statement I'm not going to even try and interpret it.

I've seen you arguing in with other people this thread. Instead of claiming that others have no credibility you should instead examine your own. FYI, probabilistic Turing machines and Turing machines are the same in the same way that Javascript and Java are the same.
> Most of us, including those of us with mental illness (which is effectively everyone to some degree), don't want to live in a society in which antisocial individuals are permitted to "refuse" to be treated. Their victims do not have that same privilege.

You're making an excellent case for mandatory vaccinations.
> They optimize for stock price,

Of course, understanding the reality of this situation and acting accordingly would be good for stock price.

What you're talking about is optimizing for short term stock prices or the perception of what's good for them.
> I'm sure if we'd pool resources together we could build a truly open alternative worthy of building on top of.

This would require like ConstitutionDAO level of resource pooling without direct monetary payoff.

I mean, good luck.
> What you know today from Apple was stolen from NeXTStep and BSD's.

The BSD code is open-source with a permissive license. Even if we were to consider that stealing, how could they have stolen from NeXTSTEP when they acquired it and both parties wanted exactly that?
Do you believe that it is just IQ specifically that's flawed, or the notion of some kind of measurement linked to intelligence in general?

If you see the latter as problematic, and any research that incorporates it as flawed, then how do you provide scientific basis for the assertion that intelligence is not at all inheritable? Marx certainly isn't one.
None of that is a mandate. (nor does it reduce inflation)

Also calling it "bipartisan" is also a stretch

>California (which by all accounts sets national car standards)

no. they do not...
But that is their genius, the ability to convince other geniuses to devote themselves to Jobs/Elon’s vision.
Interesting. The AI is already to the point that it can contribute to improving itself. That's...exciting? scary?
The Big Era of the Search Engine Is Over
> take in the willing and motivated

how do you select the willing and motivated among the millions of resumes you receive?