skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble following your argument (disclaimer: I understand the philosophical arguments underlying BTC and crypto in general, some technical details of how to manage it, little of the math). You say that you don't see it competing with payment systems but as a currency, but isn't the benefit BTC is supposed to offer the infrastructure itself? How is that not a "payment system", in the abstract sense?

For example:

>One could envision a credit card denominated in BTC that offers transaction reversibility and dispute resolution features.

This is a payment system, right?
The question is why you would have to many interests in one hire? That hints to me that there are problems of an organisational nature.
Notes is taking off like wildfire. It's not the same moaning and groaning as it was with Mastodon. I left Mastodon after a few minutes and I am already addicted to Notes, Lord help me.
What is the difference to plumbum [1]?

[1] https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What will be or is the pricing model of Phind?

As a privacy concerned person is the search engine focused on ensuring it doesn't consume user data.
Ha, timely, as vanced appears to have finally stopped working for me today. I dunno if there's an update or successor yet, but time to figure that out or cough up for premium I guess.
Could someone give a breakdown on why Dolly 2 is so much more difficult to run than llama.cpp?
You guess wrong and do not understand the actual laws. Try again.
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/genetics-di...

I quote, from the National Cancer Institute (a scientific institution you may have heard of): "The proportion of variation in a population trait that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors."

You're just lying or misinformed. Either way, it's starting to get hard to be civil with you.
I find that the more complicated the prompt, the less detail I see in people. With simple prompts I get photorealistic, but with complicated I get animation quality.

Not sure if this is just my prompts or something general.
Why? I use bash when I think that Python is overkill, and I actually like it. I spend half of my workday in a CLI anyways.
People watch it, so there's money to be made.

This isn't new either. There are plenty of TV channels that run 24/7 "documentaries" of similar quality.
First you have to define proper speed. At least in the US, it's not the posted speed limit. It's condition-dependent (rain, fog, etc)
We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
Because I can't actually hear that frequency. If I play sine waves through ear buds and increase the frequency, the highest pitch I can hear through the earphones is lower than the pitch I "hear" through the tinnitus.
Was this taught at your school?
Show HN: Gitbi – Lightweight BI app based on Git repo
Gitbi is an experimental lightweight BI app that reads queries from a git repo.

I wanted to have one central repo for all SQL queries that I can use either in a BI app for visualization or run them via command line. Gitbi makes this setup straightforward - since there is no database holding app configuration and everything is saved in one git repo, you can edit queries using any text editor and have it immediately reflected in the app. Similarly, all queries created via web interface are immediately available as text files.

Features:

- basic visualizations with Echarts,

- ability to write PRQL queries,

- basic dashboards, reports, alerts
> I've seen a theory that the big tech companies are the ones pushing for regulation in order to achieve regulatory capture

This... would track with what's historically been the case. Damn, that's an eye-opening take, thank you.
That's right. To be effective, the attack would have to be sustained for at least an hour, maybe more.
Masterpiece.

I can only add that (quoting) the "rigid model of repeatedly appending single words to an immutable transcript" makes LLMs less suitable for generating text in certain spoken languages, because, by their very structure, they require a little bit of backtracking. In the case of the Russian language, the backtracking comes from the need to modify the ending of prior adjective to the grammatical gender and number of the noun that follows. I have not tested ChatGPT, but grammatical mistakes in this area are quite common with a Russian LLaMA derivative (see https://huggingface.co/IlyaGusev/llama_13b_ru_turbo_alpaca_l...).
The parent post isn’t saying people need to die, they’re referring the Saudi government murdering a journalist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
> Why? People just don't want to zone out and spend that much time in a made-up universe

Sure this is why people don't binge watch Netflix, looking at purely made up stories.

I'm sure there's a usecase for VR in entertainment. It's just that the killer app hasn't been found yet. Meta has been pushing things too hard and going down the traditional way. But the tech will succeed I'm sure.
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Luckily management is not the requirement for more money nowadays.
Most Staff/Principle and even Senior engineers are on equal footing (and often more) with managers in terms of salary.

At least in my country.
Here's a blogpost from the Rust language blog, that might clear up some things:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/04/12/trademark-...

There's a feedback form (this is just a draft after all), so please do leave your feedback!
Oh you didn't know why it was happening either. If you had, you would have just told me.
Punning on compsci is all too common. "Peer" in bgp has two meanings. It doesn't help. Heap memory. Stack frames. Data bus.

Dale Spender wrote about the unfortunate use of killing processes or aborting runtime jobs.
The benchmark in the video seems flawed:

* He’s comparing an in-memory SQLite DB against a non-temp table in Postgres. Of course the RTT is lower when you don’t have to interact with the filesystem or flush to disk in the critical path.

* He’s connecting to Postgres over a loopback interface, instead of using a UNIX socket. Of course the RTT is higher when requests and responses needlessly traverse the TCP/IP stack.
Depends on how you hoard it. But in most cases that is what banks solve for.
:) oh it will be written like that and has been written like that.
Dont google for the number of unnecessary brain surgeries that have happened cause buggy mri software highlights tumors were there are none.

No one will consider the risk under deadline pressure. The deeper down a tech stack you go barely anyone knows what the hell is going on anymore, and or how to fix it, precisely because of half baked code added in this fashion, which accumulates over time.

At the end of the day dealing with blackbox tech is similar to dealing with ppl or groups of ppl behaving in strange inefficient ways.
As a retro computing aficionado, this is where I disagree. Learning about old computers has always taught me something useful about modern systems. Going back to the first IBMs and Apple architectures has a lot of merit. It's like reading a book from the beginning, instead of jumping in the middle and trying to make sense of everything. You can probably continue reading, but you won't know why some things are the way they are.

Obviously, developing software for obsolete systems is not a great income stream, but as an exercise, this too has merit. You learn a lot about constraints and limitations, which today are rarely considered, but could still teach you how to optimize code. You learn how to produce software which can run surprisingly fast on machines from 30 or 40 years ago, and that is transferrable to modern coding.

You learn a lot about memory, how to use it efficiently and what can be achieved with just 640K, which as we all know, "is all the memory anyone should ever need". You learn that by introducing limitations a sort of game happens in which you need to be more creative to implement things which have since become obvious. And this makes you a better problem solver.

There is a lot to learn from old computers, and while some people will always disagree, I think it makes you a better software engineer.
Could just be timing. Dolly was announced yesterday - Llama was announced by FB and then it took perhaps a week or two weeks for Llama.cpp to appear.
I argue against the notion that a large language model has an "internal understanding". It has parameter weights.

For some philosophy on the matter, here is some Wittgenstein as quoted in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2011.04.028

>“Try not to think of understanding as a ‘mental process’ at all – For that is the expression which confuses you… In the sense in which there are processes (including mental processes) which are characteristic of understanding, understanding is not itself a mental process… Thus what I wanted to say was: when he suddenly knew how to go on, when he Understood the principle [of, e.g., the number series to be completed], Then possibly he had a special experience – and if he is asked: ‘What was it? What took place when you suddenly grasped the principle?’ perhaps he will describe it… – but for us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him is saying in such a case that he understands." (Wittgenstein, 1968, paragraphs 154–155)
>Hmm, if they're not paying him, why does he just put links to these articles on his own blog (ideas.4brad.com), instead of copying the whole article?

Probably because of some combination of his deal with Forbes doesn't allow him to do so and it's often better to have a post/article in one place where it gets the most traffic. (There are other reasons why you might post in multiple places if you can, but SEO is probably not one of them.)
I see your point, I am sorry to hear that you feel this way, you feelings are valid. As someone who moved from China to the US, I feel I can appreciate the difference a lot more, on a personal level.
> Almost none of them are bad and it's also a very objective (at least on paper) process which is probably why Google is happy to stick with the process but most of them also aren't amazing innovators.

Oh, wow, if I could get that kind of result ("almost none of them bad", my addition: "possibly great") from an interview, I would stick with that process.

I have also conducted interviews in a company with heavy focus on code tests, which obviously favors competitive programmers, and my anecdata was that I got very good results compared to the alternative (i.e. not doing that).
The sort of people that need to improve their strategy of meeting women like this sometimes overthink the motives and behaviour of those they're hoping to meet. In a marketing sense, it's about the funnel. Someone upthread talked about just needing to meet more people. Put yourself in a position where you're meeting more and more people, widening the mouth of the funnel, and you improve your prospects at the results end of the funnel.

Generally as a result of being active and sociable, you become a person people want to be around. You can't give off a 'desperate to meet girls' vibe, so focusing on too many details can work against you.

I met my wife volunteering for a charity. Heavy bias of female to male in the volunteer group. Regular meetings to keeping seeing the same group and getting to know each other.
Memorizing the times table is for suckers. If you can add, you can spend at most 2 additions to get 2, 3 and 4 (2x = x+x, 3x = x+x+x, 4x = (2x+2x)). Multiplying by the base of your numeral system comes for free (just add 0 to the end). Assuming subtraction just as easy as addition, I now know how to multiply by base-1 and base-2 (9 and 8 normally, 19 and 18 in this case). The last trick I need to invoke is division by 2. Assume you've ignored every other lesson in order to focus on being unreasonably fast at cutting numbers in half. So now, coupled with the append zero trick, you have a path to 5 and 10 (5x = (20x/2)/2, 10x = 20x/2). I haven't memorized anything, and I've used at most two operations, and already I can multiply by 2,3,4,5,10,11,18,19,20. With a third operation I can reach 6,8,9,12,15,17. All that's missing is 7,13,14,16. At that point the remaining part of the "table" only has 10 unique elements in it. I can cover it with a 4th and 5th op if I'm truly stuck, but at some point in doing that repeatedly I'd probably end up remembering that chunk of the table anyway. If we were still in base 10, the same tricks would get me the entire single digit table within at most two addition and/or halving operations. It only takes 3 ops if you reject my premise that halving is as easy as doubling / adding.

Sure it costs me 3 operations per multiplication, but my operations are only doubling and halving (and arguably appending zero). What I lose in number of steps I gain back by just being faster at those two specific skills. And I didn't even have to waste time memorizing stupid tables!
I feel like a lot of stuff fhsg "gods against left-wing beliefs" gets silenced primarily when it's a bad-faith argument in the first place, but yeah. I'd personally like more studies on e.g. factors associated with why some trans people on HRT get fatigue, and how to avoid it.
Don’t expect to see immediate benefit from Rust by writing a small Pong application. Rust gives you confidence at scale: the ability to depend on many 3rd party blocks without compromising stability or performance, the ability to grow and maintain the code, collaborate on it, etc. Nothing of this is easily seen on a small self-contained program you can write in C.
My point isn't about what it is, it's about having the right kind of discussions. I'm seeing people falling into camps and it's way to early for that. My objection isn't that you are wrong, my objection is to the amount of certainty in your original post.
> competing with currency

This required that bitcoin be accessible, but it is not. Well you can call it an exotic currency
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Thank you for pointing this out :) Applied a fix and now always show the cube labels.
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I am similarly skeptical of the economist dogma that "deflation is economically disastrous". Feels like a spherical cows argument deeply rooted in theory, but not necessarily true in practice.

I think it's bad for greedy corporations who would see their their profit margin shrink, but periods of temporary deflation every once and a while feels like it could be healthy for society.
Thank you for pointing these out, fixed both of these issues :)
Look COVID proved that humans REALLY do not need to work. Like seriously, if everyone stopped working tomorrow it would be FINE. However, humans with copious free time leads to civil unrest. No matter how capable automated systems become, even to the point of human labor being far inferior, people will still be WORKING. People in power have a vested interest in keeping people working because it prevent social and governmental change. Note, I am not talking about super intelligence simply a relatively solid AGI, which can operate at top 1% of humans in every domain. I think super intelligence, which has it's own goals will disempower even the social systems which current power structures are intended to protect. This really might lead to the end all of anything we currently perceive as "work".
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GitHub stars + issues + PRs is going to favour languages developed on GitHub rather than mirrored on GitHub. It also favours languages undergoing rapid development compared to those that move at a slower pace.

Neither of these have anything to do with popularity, which means people actually using it. Here are some better proxies for popularity:

- What people are searching for on search engines (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2012-07-31%202...)

- How many questions they’re asking on StackOverflow (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=java%2Cc%2B%2...)

- Developer surveys (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popula...).

But as long as we’re not measuring popularity based on number of results returned by Google, we’re probably fine. (https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/)
In the small vs in the large. How are responsibilities split up along the modules? Are there layering violations? Is the right problem even being solved, or is there maybe a way to avoid the "is this a concatenation of two words" check altogether?
> Rogue chains calling themselves "Bitcoin" happen all the time

That's news to me. Reference?
They don't measure the same statistic, but they correlate.

You're selectively citing research on adoption. In fact, there's plenty of research showing that gains are transitory and parental IQ is a better predictor of IQ in late teen years than is the high-SES environment. This whole "mystery" is what prompted folks to ask Jensen to start studying Head Start, as it wasn't clear it was doing any good. The problem is these interventions don't work. They don't work because IQ is genetic.
From this vantage NK looks pretty great, like the only place on the peninsula with a night sky.
> For the most part, you can't choose to believe something or not.

To what extent beliefs are voluntary or involuntary is a major topic of philosophical dispute: https://iep.utm.edu/doxastic-voluntarism/
I agree with you. On GitHub, if someone is talking about the most popular language, I would assume that means that one that people are using the most. Not the one that's used in a project that received the most starts for a given time frame.

I am happy, however, to see Rust at the top. ^^
Purely just because Rust is named after fungi, which I like.
(For the record, I researched this user. He doesn't appear associated with perplexity.ai)

thanks for the tip and also watch your verbiage ... it reads like a self-promoting plug.

To answer the question, it looks relatively equivalent.
Says every js hipster who will forever lack the power of shell ;)
I'm between then and now there were some significant court cases establishing that it's very very tricky to legally RE networked setvices in the USA. That had a chilling effect, especially on commercial reverse engineering.
> How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now?

Nearly zero. Hate to be the guy who says "told ya", but when everyone was mesmerised by gmail "oh how cool it is!", it was already clear why they are doing it.

Never used their services and would advise anyone the same. Not just google but any other "bells and whistles" services from large corporations.
By selecting to live in an attractive location, you mean? Makes sense.
It loads classes lazily, so your program can start up at `main` very fast, and you only pay for what you use. This might cause some application feature to start up a bit slower on first run, but the byte code format is very compact and can be parsed in a single pass, so I don’t think it would be significantly slower than ordinary machine code loading.
Seems like a terrible interview question. The candidate either already knows it or will struggle...
> Given the number of foreigners with foreign degrees settling in the US each year, I would think that the gap is not necessarily that big, is it?

This is a strong case of survivorship bias. You will see the 1,000 Indian engineers every year (let's say) moving to the US, but not the other 499,000 that doesn't or cannot.

A lot of those people with foreign degrees also entered US to get a higher degree (Masters or Ph.D.), which supersedes their undergraduate education from a relatively low-prestige institution when applying for a US job.
What a shit argument. If rape was instinct this world would be a lot different. But you knew that. Disingenuous.
That'd be ask.com which is IAC, which makes them a bastard. Good luck.
I agree, we are big lego/duplo fans in my family as well.

Just a little safety warning that old legos, especially 70s (and older I guess) can contain toxics in the colors like cadmium. I am not qualified to say how large a risk that poses. The risk of choking is probably larger?

A more positive side note, have you seen that you can order separate bricks from all newer lego/duplo kits? You just search for the name of your kit and get a list of all the parts it contains in the lego support. It is not cheap, but a great service.
> you make real mistakes on a smaller scale and learn from them rather than being sheltered, so you don’t grow into an incompetent idiot as an adult.

This. It might sound rough, but in a lot of "accident scenarios" kids don't break as easily adults.. They don't break their bones and hips as easily.. They're shorter, so their tiny cute little heads don't get banged as hard on the concrete when they fall..

Yes, of course we need to protect them from danger, we don't want them to lose fingers, eyes or lives.. We want to limit the head-banging to especially teachable moments.. But still, I want my kid to learn balance and inertia and all the physical things that comes with being in a human body, while he can do it without the same serious consequences as someone in their 20s would suffer.

I don't wish him pain, but I want him to be comfortable with himself, not be scared of everything because he don't know what will happen or how to do anything, and the other hand, know what things are unrealistic and shouldn't be attempted, because they already tried it while they were flexible enough not to break too much.
GPT-4 does have 35,000 token limit. I'm sure GPT-5 will probably have an order of magnitude bigger context window. I'm sure by the seventh or eighth model there will be enough context to recreate Twitter's entire codebase or something. Although perhaps the context window for LLM's really is fundamental and a completely different architecture is required. That's alright, I think Anthropic might make some progress with their "constitutional" AI then. And if that fails, Deep Mind has it's own multi modal agent which is probably running a unique architecture as well.
Yep this is not a dealbreaker
The hash table solution permits an O(n) average solution if you change the hash function to be one that is incrementally computable (most are). Probably way faster than a trie of your entire corpus also...
The birth rate in Italy is down to 1.24 so I don't believe your claim that they're doing anything extremely well. How much of Italy have you actually visited? Most of it seems like a miserable place for parents of small children to live.
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I do think Forbes sold its soul for clicks and I don't have any first-hand knowledge of how their contributors and other third-party content works these days.

That said, most of the trade press for example uses outside contributors--sometimes paid, often not. As I wrote elsewhere, there are various problematic aspects to the arrangement but there's usually enough editorial oversight to present blatant conflicts of interest around promoting a company, etc.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are sleeping in a hotel.

In the middle of the night a power surge happens and all three of their room kettles catch fire.

The engineer quickly locates the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire.

The physicist remembers from his college years that combustion feeds on oxygen, so he runs to the bathroom and covers the kettle with towels, putting out the fire.

The mathematician wakes up, sees the fire extinguisher in the corner and promptly goes back to sleep: he just proved that a solution exists.
Or that any telecommunication gets delegated to AI, so as long as your not in the same room with someone, chances are you're speaking to their AI assistant
"Exiting the server business" is unnecessarily ambiguous - "will no longer sell servers" would be an improvement.
Certainly was. As was every year since 2000, at least for me.