skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> like a dog trying to read Tolstoy

this got a chuckle out loud from me. great visual.
I once got sucked into making a little language out of Diplomacy (the board games) specific way of writing down moves. It was kind of nuts because it was both sort of a coding language (albeit an annoying one unless you're writing a Diplomacy variant) and sort of a natural language (so long as the topic of discussion is negotiating within the context of the game). But really, these two are the same thing, as any tool powerful enough to define game rules is also powerful enough to define agreements between players. Really, a rule is nothing more than an unbreakable agreement with an unseen god character called the GM.

I know, very different from the coding languages everyone here is on about. But the extent to which my mini language was conversational despite very few additional words was really profound. Its smaller than toki pona even! And less than half the vocabulary comes from me!
I dunno, this one seems pretty clear-cut.

His story heavily focuses on pitching to a CEO who wasn't running the company when the product was already out on the market.
i loved that book.

unpopular opinion: martin-gardner's intro really ruined the start of the book (for me at least). i just ignored all of it, and was a happy camper.

other than that, i.a.maron, piskunov, g.n.berman are all heavy but excellent texts on this beautiful subject.
One Question Interviews with Open Source Experts – How to Use SPDX Headers
I think this is an important point. Comparing an initial implementation of a language with that of mature projects doesn't make sense. Every cool language started off in a rough initial state I'd wager, and many were initially developed by a single person, so why not give it a shot if it's compelling?
Intrinsic’s First Product Keynote, May 15th
"but I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is tellin"

What is the mainstream media? Is there a conspiracy between unrelated news organizations around the world to help Ukraine?
I'm not so sure. Using tools is the defining specialty of our species, and knowing where the end of your tool is in 3D space seems fairly important to be able to hit that tiger with a spear.
And a lot of the time, the response to "is there a Windows version?" was a dismissive "It's open source, compile it yourself."

At least these days, with VMs and Wine and WSL type things this is less of an issue.
This is the barely a full step from; "I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create nudes of a person I know".

Yes, They're Real and They're Spectacular.
The HayWired Scenario: An Urban Earthquake in a Connected World
Only because of big complicated sounding terms, that also exist in web dev.
This is what you get in a long-established factory which, over time, gradually updates the weakest part of its process. The manual parts are either hard to automate, or are just so cheap to do manually that there's no point. At some point a human did the job that the robot arm does now, but then that became the bottleneck in some way. It was cheaper to get a robot arm than a human, or maybe there's nowhere for a human to stand on that side of the line, or maybe the human is just too slow lifting that much weight 20 times an hour.

Edit: After having seen more of the video, that robot's doing a lot of heavy lifting (no pun intended). It seems to be doing all of the movement of the balls into and out of the various machining cells, and it's involved in quite a few steps of the production process. It's definitely paying its way.
Siegfried Engelmann from the University of Oregon developed a science based method for teaching reading. With simple ideas like making sure the letters were distinguishable, teaching the most common letters first, teaching the sounds the letters make before teaching the names of the letters, immediate feedback on reading mistakes, etc...
> The parents of a friend had their whole kitchen drawn and an offer on the table. So they want to take it home to think it over.

While I'm completely with you for not letting sellers try to stress you into buying, I understand that they can't let the parents take the kitchen drawings home. The company put in bespoke work into planning the kitchen, and can't let the customer just take the plans for free and go hire another company for doing the work.
printf debugging is infinitely better
>bring countries into the position of needing debt
>forces austerity
>prevent any own industrial development

So essentially the exact opposite of what China is doing in Africa currently.
Pretty much any data transmitted on a network is going to spend some time in buffers before being sent off to the next hop. While extending that argument to 24 hours is obviously malicious there is obviously some threshold where something being stored shouldn't be considered stored for this purpose.
I too have some kind of GPS-disciplined high accuracy clock (I don’t recall the exact tech but I think rubidium sounds right). From what I recall, precision timing is quite critical on the infrastructure side of things so that the user device can sync to it and accurately transmit and receive in the correct TDD windows.

One of the niftiest things was using the 10MHz reference clock as the clock source for my SDR, and tuning the receiver to the centre carrier of a nearby cell tower. I got a ~0.25Hz beat frequency out of it, which means this cheap eBay clock is accurate to about 1/3.2e9 Hz (cell tower was around 800MHz). Neat!
The philosophy of postgresql was to do the best possible job the rightest way. Not necessarily the easiest to use nor fastest.

The philosophy of mysql was to do the best it can as fast as it can for as many users as it can. Not necessarily the 'right' or 'best' way.

Its not like either philosophy is formally documented or mandatory but "generally" matches up pretty closely to real world behavior.

The biggest problem you'll have evaluating them is both products are incredibly old and have changed over the decades so you'll find plenty of web search results DEMANDING that mysql can't do transactions, for example, because that was written 25 years ago and transactions were pretty much a solved problem some decades ago on mysql. Similar issues exist for tooling, library support, clustering, I wouldn't trust a many years old blog post for either product LOL.
Yay, open promotion of international terrorism on HN, great job dang xD
Overview of Draft Measures on Generative AI in China
> However, even though I sometimes work alone, I do not allow my team to work remotely from wherever they want and require them to come to the office.

how they must love you
So I’m not sure that’s a positive thing either ?
I’ve had similar thoughts, wondering why LLMs aren’t just a component of a larger system, perhaps used to generate “thoughts” that are then tested by some other subsystems, which in turn may re-fire the LLMs to generate more.

I guess I’m imagining that testing the LLM output might be a problem that some other technique might be suited for, and smells like what we need to mitigate LLM weaknesses.
I was certainly taught simple and compound interest and APR/AER for GCSE maths which is about as far as is needed.

But one problem is that most of this goes well beyond maths and really becomes more like law.

The worst example perhaps is pensions. The difficult part isn't "how much do I need to invest to get a decent pension?". Its everything else - how much can you contribute? When? How does this change if you have a change in circumstances? What are inheritance rights? Can I move my pension with me if I change job? What protected rights do I have and which of those have value to me? What is the tax position now and when you retire? This is much less about maths and much more about being able to navigate an insanely complicated set of rules built up over about 3 decades of government changing them more or less every year then adding in special case exceptions or saving clauses.
Be sure to let us know in advance when the fight is on, so we can order popcorn!
Most of us are inventing little languages all the time. Every codebase is a little language. The question is not whether we'll be implementing little languages, but how integrated or separate those languages feel and to what extent they "leak" when you try to integrate different code-bases.

In some "host" languages like Smalltalk, or lisps or Ruby they can feel like they become part of the host language. In other they're - sometimes intentionally, sometimes as a byproduct of the way the languages are structured - feel very clearly separate and delineated.
>In Canada there's a natural and easy North/South transportation and trade links, but East/West nature of the country breaks that.

As Paul Krugman wrote, Canada is closer to the US than to itself. <https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/eh/>

>I read somewhere that prior to Canadian Confederation the Maritime provinces did thriving business with the North East United States trading easily using sea links, but after confederation tariffs ruined this trade, and trade with Quebec and Ontario was more expensive and not as viable. The Maritimes never really recovered their pace.

Correct. Confederation was the biggest mistake in the Maritimes' history. From an economic or demographic perspective, the region since 1867 has been in constant decline. The single most-important reason is the region's loss of its traditional US markets; unsurprisingly, the rest of Canada has *never* compensated for this loss in terms of economic activity.

Before 1867 the Maritimes' economic ties were to New England and the rest of the US, not to Ontario and Quebec. Had Nova Scotians' wishes been followed by London in 1867 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Confederation_Party>, it would not have stayed with the other provinces in confederation. No railroad existed between the Maritimes and Ontario/Quebec until the 1870s <https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/intercolon...>! Well into the early 20th century, an ambitious young man or woman from the Maritimes went to Boston or New York in what locals called the "Boston States", not to Montreal or Quebec.

Such an outcome was exactly what Nova Scotia's fierce opponents of Confederation (and, usually, advocates of US annexation) feared <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_movements_of_Canada...>. There is no inherent reason why the region can't be as wealthy/populated as New England today. Northern Maine is empty because of a conscious decision to keep it for forestry; despite its northern two thirds being devoid of human life, Maine alone has two thirds of the population of the Maritimes. A PEI with full, untariffed access to its traditional US customers might have received more Italian, Irish, and Portuguese immigrants drawn to its fishing and potato industries. To put another way, an American PEI today could have 500,000 people with 100,000 people each from greater New York and Los Angeles, and 50,000 each from Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and Atlanta; i.e. unnoticeable decreases in those areas.

As for Newfoundland, that things have improved since 1949, and especially the recent oil boom, does not change the immense poverty for most of the island's history. Read the accounts of the British/Canadian/American officials and soldiers who came to the Rock during WW2; the "Newfie" pejorative arose among the Canadians because even they—much poorer than their American counterparts than now, relatively speaking—could not believe just how backwards things were.
> Why not use international standards to make the place more welcoming the the majority of the world?

How do you think the US or China became leading world superpowers? By welcoming every standard and culture of the world?

Oh wait, that is Europe. And look what happened to them. (Spoiler: they are not number 1 any more)
PostGIS has no parallel in MySQL/MariaDB world.
As I've grown older, I've seen lots of improvements to software usability - it warms my hear to see the attitude of yesteryear's "you're not using it right, consider changing your lifestyle" still alive and well.
> “look at it, deeply, deeply, deeply; and then solve it”

That's the Feynman method: write down the question, think really hard, then write down the answer. Only three simple steps!

Unfortunately, some of us are not Feynman.
I have yet to see a cucumber test that was actually touched by a non-technical domain expert. It is a fantasy and only introduces inscrutable abstraction layers that don’t add value.
I tried to make this-- an collector of only local news.. but the results were very boring. I still have the domain waiting in the next inspiration...
Can you summarize this three-hour video?
Current target time is 13:20 UTC per spacex twitter.
This is a great example. Thanks very much!
>One implementation of this right is requiring Microsoft to give me access to the source code

Not really, no. There are examples of software being repaired, or even completely rebuilt, without access to the original source code - from Falcon BMS to (parts of) Microsoft's own Excel.
I'd rather have a long errata sheet than no errata at all. I'll take truth in advertising any day over burring my head in the sand and pretending that everything's perfect.
Should I get a gaming PC with 4090 if I want to get into personal side projects in ML and also games?

Do I need dualboot? Or is Windows good?
Here's a video of Siegfried Engelmann, who is mentioned in this article, demonstrating how he had taught inner city grade school age kids that were considered "unteachable" (I can't recall the exact label I was told) doing algebra... live. (about 20 min in) I think they are about 4th or 5th grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9SjFsimywA

Many people didn't like the strict requirement of his reading methods, from what I have been told.
True but without being able to reuse the tanker the mission would be ridiculously expensive by SpaceX standards.
My impression from working on an app with a Postgres cluster of 128-ish instances is that Postgres is excellent when your largest table fits on 1 instance, and kinda lacking when you need >1 instance for your largest table.

MySQL has very mature cluster managers like Vitess / Planetscale. Citus for Postgres was bought by Microsoft and doesn’t seem as popular as Vitess.
I agree about the importance of links. In fact, when I come across an article about something that many others have written about, and it has no links or references, I often just don’t read it.

But the links in this article, the ones generated by a script, are worse than useless. Meaning, they’re a waste of time that makes the text worse.

First of all, they are set to open a new tab. Rude. Second of all, a link to a wikipedia page for a term, for example, is just stupid noise. If I want to know what wikipedia has plagiarized about a certain topic I can go there and look it up.

Links are not an afterthought, something that can be usefully tacked on to the finished text. Each link should be genuinely helpful, or back up an assertion. Ideally, each one should be non-obvious.
It's not even about engineering. Culturally people who would be embarrassed to say "oh, I can't really read properly" have no issue with saying "I can't work out percentages".
No, I wouldn’t support this for software that doesn’t include a right-to-repair-license. It’s the software maker’s choice to offer it and the consumer’s choice to buy it or not.
Nvidia and the highest amount of vram you can get.

Currently the 4090, the rumor is the 4090ti will have 48gb of vram, idk if its worth waiting or not.

The more VRAM the higher paremeter count you can run all in memory (fastest by far).

AMD is almost a joke in ML. The lack of CUDA support (which is nvidia proprietary) is straight lethal, and also even though ROCM does have much better support these days, from what I've seen it's still a fraction of the performance of what it should be. I'm also not sure if you need projects to support it or not, I know pytorch has backend support for it but I'm not sure how easy it is to drop in.
> is not going to work.

What are you going to do about it, tiger?

You can't force anybody to think the way you want them to think. You are only going to frustrate yourself with your power trip fantasy.
I wouldn't care

I'm one person

Not a development team with all the tribal knowledge of a given tool, and the millions of developer-hours that have already gone into building it

OSS is already "right to repair" ... yet how many people actually contribute something when they find an issue?

Expand that to "how many people even submit a bug when they find a problem?"

I'd wager the answer to the broader question is a lot less than 0.1%

And of those, the ones who actually make a fix is probably also a lot less than 0.1%

Out of a million users, maybe 1,000 would submit a bug (if they found it)

Out of 1,000 bug submitters, maybe 1 would post a fix (if they could)
From friends that have suffered through education degrees, it doesn’t sound like the field sees itself as a part of the scientific community at all.

There’s a disproportionate focus on, frankly, ideological indoctrination. Even if you agree with the underlying ideologies that doesn’t seem like an ideal system for producing excellent educators.

The little methodological trainings that do take place are often grounded in fads or cults of personality rather than scientifically proven effectiveness research.

It sometimes feels as if the US as a society delegated the design of k-12 education to a few hundred experts, that turned out not be experts, and never checked back to see whether we had made a mistake.
The changlings in DS9 didnt change forms - they meerly pivoted to fulfill an alternative product-market fit that they knew all along was better.
There have been proposals to use a custom URL scheme to accomplish this (you don't need the link to point to the person's home domain at all), but they were shot down by Mastodon lead Eugen due to browser support and UX concerns. I think that is a mistake and it needs to be looked at more seriously. Perhaps another fedi software project will adopt a useful standard and then Mastodon can follow after the kinks are worked out.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomme...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291
Follow the incentives! Which option has more opportunity for the lizard brain to feel good watching the number in the top right go up?

There is much more opportunity to earn virtue points with a rags to riches story (regardless of the truth of the story) because it naturally breeds all sorts of "this could never happen at BigCo" contrarian take which then lends itself to all sorts of tropes and anecdotes about perverse HR policies, evil capitalists, inept bureaucracies, internal politics, team churn, etc, etc. There are tons more virtue points up for grabs in that type of circle jerk than there are in response to an article that debunks the story.
You might enjoy the [Aharonov-Bohm effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect). Quantum mechanics says we can in fact detect `A`. A similar effect exists for `phi`.
https://www.executiveplacements.com/jobs-of-the-future.asp
Work is changing and the jobs of the future will look very different from what we're used to. Many workers aren't satisfied with their current jobs and are looking for remote alternatives. Over half of all workers would switch jobs for the opportunity to work from home and over 90% are happier at work when they have flexible hours and the option to work remotely. Remote workers are also more happy with their jobs and are able to maintain significantly higher morale than traditional workers.

A number of large elements that many workplaces have are changing to favor the things that employees look for. Having flexible spaces to work gives a variety of choices to employees on where they want to work. Future jobs will also be based more around teams and collaboration, as compared to current hierarchical systems, letting employees work together effectively and efficiently. Many new workplaces will also have a much larger emphasis on the wellness of employees, with spaces being designed for comfort and various other benefits for employees. Jobs and workplaces must adjust to the new evolving needs of employees in order to stay ahead of the competition. The move toward remote working is becoming more popular and more achievable.
So the future of jobs is a new landscape and here are a few of the more popular jobs that will be insd demand:
- Home Health Aids
- Restaurant Cooks
- Software Developers
- Fast Food Workers
- General and Operations Manager
- Nurses
- Laborors and freight movers
- Stockers and Order Fillers
- Market Research Analysts
Considering that Russia has invaded Ukraine why would you think comments about erradication are just "chest beating"

I guess what I'm saying is why are you interpreting their words that way when they started a war?
All the current stable diffusion commercial applications are in this format: take picture of subject & create a bunch of new portraits of subject.

For example:

- There's one that creates gaming avatars based on your picture
- There's one that makes professional headshots for your CV

Even Microsoft's own product (Microsoft Designer) to use AI to create posters & flyers is most useful when you start with an image of your own creation then use the AI to change the style of the image, or integrate it into a template that it dreams up.
Why is it rude to open a new tab? I truly hate when I’m trying to view a link and it navigates me away from what I’m reading. IMO new tabs should always be the default.
Is there a meaningful difference? Having a lack of resources is a decision.
This has got to be a troll post
Yup, I found out how hard it is just writing a simple language that doesn't even need computer tooling: https://dogma-lang.org/

And even with a language as simple as this, it still took 6 months. The biggest problem is keeping the patterns simple and coherent, while avoiding unnecessary features. It pains me to think of the weeks spent developing parts that were ultimately ruthlessly slashed away. Hours spent agonizing over a usage pattern that was mostly the same but different enough that (I thought at the time) it required special constructs... and then not as I thought about it in the shower days or weeks later. It's one hell of an eye opener.

And then there's the type system... UGH.
kind of like software developers not taking GPT4 well.

or humans and huggingGPT

or ChemCrow and Chemists.

kind of reminds me of the early days of the internet.
A little history, I used:

- MySQL from about 1999-2007

- Postgres from 2006-present

- Oracle at a job 4 years ago

One of the things that absolutely made my brain explode is that Oracle, too, does not support DDL transactions. I discovered this during a pretty funny code review.

“Why are you wrapping this DDL in a transaction? That’s pointless.”

“Wait… Oracle doesn’t support DDL transactions?”

“What do you mean ‘DDL transactions’? That’s… should you be working on DB code at all?”

“Wait… you mean if a migration in Oracle fails half way through it just… leaves things half broken? Let me show you what this would look like in Postgres”

“WHAT THATS AMAZING!!!”
Windows generally works but there may be a somewhat small performance hit. IMO linux is much easier to get to work judging by all the github issue threads I see able SD/LLaMa stuff on windows - but I don't use windows so I dont have personal experience.

4090 24GB is 1800USD, The Ada A6000 48GB is like 8000USD and idk where you buy it? So if you want to run games and models locally the 4090 is honestly the best option.

EDIT: I forgot - there is a rumored 4090ti with 48gb of vram, no idea if thats worth waiting for.