skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don't follow, at all. The fact that you seem to love getting lost in words (just as much as I do) is sort of demonstrated and at the same time diminished by your explanation on how (certain?) words/concepts are arbitrary — making it sound like it being 'arbitrary' has negative value. Why does that matter?

If I like a song, and say so, it's arbitrary. Why bother saying it? A mix of frequencies hitting my ear drums and matching some form of pattern in my brain is what I am technically excited about, but it's easier to say that... I just like the song.

I personally find it hard to follow the intention behind your argument, but I also feel it may be a waste of time for both of us to dive deeper, here.

I'd argue that the basic idea of a word is to describe "things", in a recallable form. If people want to discuss their interpretations of a word, I see no harm and wonder what the issue is.

You also seem to (unintentionally?) shift the original discussion over to a different context, from discussing the interpretations of certain words to "what is a worthy, or profound discussion to have", which you can freely do, but makes me wonder, again, what the intention is.
/me cries in range locks and mutexes
I think you're missing something.

Meta makes the Facebook app. Currently, the only way to get the Facebook app on iOS is through Apple's App Store. Which means Meta has to follow all of Apple's guidelines.

Once sideloading is allowed, Meta can make a version of their app that does not follow Apple's guidelines.

Now, they can maintain two apps, but last time I checked, the cost of maintaining one app was lower than the cost of maintaining two.

Eventually, the App Store version will no longer work with Facebook's API. Or the iOS version, or a third thing. There will only be the sideloaded option.

I don't have the freedom to choose the version of the app I want. And now I can't actually trust any of the apps out there because none of them are required to follow any of Apple's guidelines.
It wouldn't be good, did I imply it would? I'm interested to know if we are now in a place where they do become useless
I think your experience is atypical. Most students who learn a new language with a fairly "reasonable" alphabet like Korean or Russian find that to be the easiest part and remember most of the letters within a few days. I don't speak Greek but I've been there a few times and learned the alphabet just so that I could sort of read signs (forgot it now).

As for Duolingo, is there any independent evidence that it's actually effective? Some of my friends have been using it consistently for a long time and yet don't seem to have learned much. The gamification features are effective at driving user engagement but I'm skeptical whether it's actually a good educational tool.
12 is a little young I think. They should be outside playing, not outside working. Getting a scrape on the knee will build character enough for a child.
It clearly is still a controversial opinion to hold that phonics is not the "end all be all" it has been made out to be.

Despite challenging the statistics in the original paper, it doesn't provide evidence that phonics actually is better than the teaching techniques prior to that.
Depends on the job and working hours.

Basically anything that can prevent reasonable development should be banned, such as too heavy labour.
That's what I call a long time, but yes, it's just a matter of personal perspective.
I have access to an Nvidia A100. But as a layman, what specs does the rest of the system need to use it for some real work? I would assume there needs to be at least as much ram as vram and maybe a few terabytes of disk space. Does anyone have experience with this?
Thank you for taking the time to read the post and write a thoughtful reply. You make a good point: it is hard to find good links. These links suck. I apologize for this poor first-order approximation: I want to link to stuff interesting enough to merit a post or two in their own right.

To that end, I keep a list of every interesting thing that I read. I plan to index that list, and make it searchable. Reliance on a search engine is a stop-gap to keep scope sensible at this point. There's nothing stopping other people from taking this idea and running with it.

Given your personal involvement in this area, I understand your apprehension. Like you, I want to see a denser, more interesting web. But without tools to overcome the static friction of linking things together, I don't think we'll see density and utility of links increase any more than it already has. That's what I hoped to highlight in this piece.
For a general guide, I recommend: https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

There's a subreddit r/LocalLLaMA that seems like the most active community focused on self-hosting LLMs. Here's a recent discussion on hardware: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/12lynw8/is_anyo...

If you're looking just for local inference, you're best bet is probably to buy a consumer GPU w/ 24GB of RAM (3090 is fine, 4090 more performance potential), which can fit a 30B parameter 4-bit quantized model that can probably be fine-tuned to ChatGPT (3.5) level quality. If not, then you can probably add a second card later on.

Alternatively, if you have an Apple Silicon Mac, llama.cpp performs surprisingly well, it's easy to try for free: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Current AMD consumer cards have terrible software support and IMO isn't really an option. On Windows you might be able to use SHARK or DirectML ports, but nothing will run out of the box. ROCm still has no RDNA3 support (supposedly coming w/ 5.5 but no release date announced) and it's unclear how well it'll work - basically, unless you would rather be fighting w/ hardware than playing around w/ ML, it's probably best to avoid (the older RDNA cards also don't have tensor cores, so perf would be hobbled even if you could get things running. Lots of software has been written w/ CUDA-only in mind).
> At least one 'Toot' from a registered user a day = 1 daily active user (DAU), no matter how many times they toot, boost, reply or whatever.

This is not how Twitter measures DAU. In fact, most Twitter users are quiet lurkers who rarely if ever tweet. Twitter makes money (or used to make money) from their eyeballs, not from their tweets.
If I was going to spend $8000 on a video card I’d hunt on eBay for an A100 80GB rather than settle for the A6000
And the code GPT gives you won't work, much like a lot of web dev? ;P
LiFePo4 are the safest of the commercially available lithium batteries. They can still catch fire if you insist, but it is nothing like the kind of batteries typically found in cell phones that can readily turn into fireworks. Some models are rated from -20C to 60C.

Lead acid also have their own set of problems. Some types can produce hydrogen gas while charging, which can be an explosion hazard in an poorly ventilated room. Also, all types of battery are energy storage, and in case of a short circuit, they will release a lot of it as heat, and even if the battery itself can handle it, it can ignite flammable material in the vicinity.
I mean it is kind of nuts. I didn't have "pretty much switch entirely to Bing" on my 2023 search Bingo card, but here we are.
It will still run in a sandbox, that's how iOS works. It just will bypass app store review, meaning certain rules won't be enforced.
I think this comment should be removed, as it ranks below 7 on the Rob-Grant scale.
I believe you’re just making this up. People are paid generally on a biweekly or weekly basis, the shutdown lasted a few days, even if the fed missed a payday, there is no chance it wasn’t paid the following payday. Not trusting the federal government to pay means not trusting in the US dollar at all… kinda unlikely.
I was very lucky and my mother was a teacher at a private school when I was young, so I got to attend for free. I had phonics-based reading instruction, and learned to read acceptably in first grade. By fourth grade I was one of the best readers in the school, and ended up in a gifted program.

I still remember and feel appreciation for my first grade teacher, Mrs. Drown, for teaching me to read. It opened an entire world for me.

The public schools where I lived did not use phonics, and when I entered the gifted program I shifted to public school. I met people in high school who were considered average students that had less literacy than I did in fourth grade. The overall literacy rate in our small city was lower than the national average as well.
Incorrect. Here are some actual numbers: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

> Writing 512 byte blobs as separate transactions, in WAL mode with synchronous=normal3, temp_store=memory, and mmap enabled, I got 13.78μs per write, or ~72,568 writes per second.
There's a big difference between helping your dad in the shop and working in a field for a (basically) nameless entity.

I don't think anyone really has a problem with the kid who is "working" at his dad's convenience store, though I do feel for the kids working in chinese restaurants.
And yet it would be better than the current situation where the hex editor is a copyright infringement.
The Amiga had a litany of custom chips to achieve its incredible performance. The Mac and PC used far less custom ICs.
As it turns out, excitement was not guaranteed.
I look forward to the US passing similar laws and getting the upgraded image!
Show HN: Let GPT quiz you on any topic you want
It's a fun game I built: It generates an actual 10-questions quiz, tells if you are wrong or wrong and scores you at the end.

You'll need your OpenAI Key though (if that's fine with you). Try it out! I am waiting for your feedbacks.
Who does the checking and verification that the apps are compliant with the “threshold for safety, privacy, etc”?

Apple do this now, using the Apps that pay the 30% on digital purchases to fund everyone. If they no longer make a fee from those to cover every app (including all the free ones), who pays to validate the apps?
Well, if people can't read a language, they can learn it.

Most DSLs take to few hours to maybe a weekend to learn. Not understanding a language is not really an issue when it is so small than you can easily learn it on demand. Being able to follow the basic flow can require as little as a few minutes of explanations form a co-worker.

Familiarity plays a huge role when deciding between different DSLs. Are we going to use good old JSON or that new thing that is technically a little better? Yeah, let's use what we know already. Would we decide to not use any interchange format at all because no one has ever worked with JSON? Nope.

Similarly, I don't know many workplaces that outright ban using regular expression even though chances are not everyone is exactly fluent in reading them.

If you language is good, fits a new use case that other languages don't and has good tooling, people will use it. The good tooling part can not be underestimated here.
scrapped for today.. pressure issue on first phase.

Fun fact: SpaceX starship has 33 engines

https://ibb.co/7SrTK7P
1. My understanding is that education is much more important in Europe than the US. From what I gather, people with long careers often still lead with their education credentials. Not sure why.

2. I think it really depends on the person's career. If they've had 7 jobs in 10 years, yeah - GPA probably isn't super relevant. But if someone's been at the same place for 10 years, maybe it's not the worst thing.

IMO, the 1 page (with large text) rule is more important. GPA should probably fall off before relevant job related stuff, but there's no harm in keeping it there if the resume has the space.
Software isn't fungible and right now today you have the ability to install facebook with app store restrictions on iOS and without on Android. If FB pulls from the app store that choice is taken away.
Nope. IIRC typical one is safe to discharge at -10 but needs to go to 0 to start charging.

I wonder whether there is some off-the-shelf controller that can do something clever like run a heater instead of charging battery till it gets up to temperature

There are some specialty ones that allow lower temps but that comes back to cost again
Could anyone provide a good explanation about "pressurisation issue"? What happened?
What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
Saying 48 hours now.
>What kids need is teachers who know math.

I would add, "and how to teach it." to that.

My final "Advanced Math" course in high school was a young teacher just out of college who apparently knew math, but failed completely at teaching anything meaningful to anyone in the class --- this may have been the fault of the textbook being used, but the fact that the school board chose to replace Calculus with this class because they couldn't find a teacher competent to teach it, speaks volumes to my mind.
Yeah, that test was really about proving that their 3D printed rocket components could withstand the forces of launch. Once they got past Max Q successfully, that test was completed successfully... anything else would have been gravy.
I'm by no means a perfect dad, but one thing I've done well is reading to my kinds. In the past 14 years, I've read to my kids almost every night. They both tested in the 99th percentile for reading comprehension and vocabulary. I'd often be shocked when I'd read a complicated word and ask my 5th grade what it meant and she'd give me a great definition.

Read to your kids.
App Store review was not stopping evil/scam apps, though. I would expect the system privacy APIs to clamp down on the worst of it (even Facebook can't violate your privacy if it can't identify your device, or access its contents or location).

Normal users don't sideload on Android. Even the (objectively easy) steps for enabling it there are too much for the average user. Why do you think this would be any different?
It's a little off-topic, but agreed! I use SQLite on production. Here are more resources talking about the trade-offs:

- https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

- https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
Lithuania and Poland say hello: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...>
I'd kinda agree with your take is these kids are working in their own fields (or soon to be theirs, as transmitted from the current owner, who treats them like his own kids)

Short of that, fuck no your granpa's story has nothing to do with this.
It's 2023. People (re)discover that the web is about hyperlinks.

Incredible.
Update: it will be a minimum of 48 hours until they can try again. Maybe the rocket will get high on 4/20 after all.

Elon is now saying there was a frozen valve, which seems fairly tractable.
I worked in strawberry fields during summer months at about 12 years old or younger. I actually enjoyed it and loved the money I made to be able to buy some Nintendo games or candies. More kids should be learning some job skills early and get out of the house.
earliest window for a new attempt is 48 hours, not tomorrow.
Children can certainly be abused for labor, but they can also get a lot out of it, and it's at least defensible in that case. I worked in construction for my father at that age. I was well looked after, was able to do actually useful work to help him, learned things and got paid. If I had been prevented from doing that by child labor laws it would have been a loss for everyone involved.
Not in the one being discussed in the article. I'm not an American myself, but I think the context is clear here.
You’re using links to disambiguate your terms; it makes sense. My unpopular opinion would be to keep linking as you’re doing, but find better sources than wikipedia. Something reliable and, if possible, authoritative, and that’s more likely to have stable content—where you can be a bit more sure that what your readers will see when they follow the link is what you saw.
> "- Streaming Replication (keep a secondary instance for contingency or moving heavy queries away from the main database);"

MariaDB/MySQL's replication is also streamed. It's a continuous stream of replication data over an unbroken connection, for both statement-based and row-based methodologies. The only difference is that Postgres has since long been able to break transactions up into smaller pieces and apply them piecemeal, which is something that didn't show up in MariaDB/MySQL camp until a few years ago when introduced in Galera.
There are reasonably good decompilers already, and the right to use them being added to the law would probably lead to improving them.
Here's a good article explaining in-depth how and why LED light looks different from incandescent.

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investi...
> This really isn't the same. If you're just building up objects/data structures in your host language, and calling functions/methods on them, then you're not creating a language. It doesn't matter how slick/fluent or whatever else your API is, you're just working in the host language.

It can be. They're called EDSLs, "embedded domain specific languages". The point is to embed the language semantics in the host language via judicious choice of data types, and then methods implement semantics-preserving transformations on them. The more expressive the type system, the more expressive the languages you can safely embed in the host language, and you then have all the debugging capabilities and libraries of the host language at your disposal.

This pattern is very common in Haskell, Oleg is well known for doing this with OCaml [1], but you can also do this in typical OO languages like C#. Arguably C#'s IEnumerable<T> interface is such an EDSL for set programming, and here's a simply typed lambda calculus [2], here's an SKI combinator calculus [3], here's a stack-based language [4], and here's a logic programming EDSL based on µKanren [5].

[1] https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/#DSLs

[2] https://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2008/09/mostly-tagless-int...

[3] https://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2013/09/combinator-calculu...

[4] https://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2009/01/embedded-stack-lan...

[5] https://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2015/02/kanrennet-featherw...
Of course it does.

In addition to governments, how long do you think it will take for companies and schools to roll out apps to monitor what people are doing with their phones? Companies will say you have a choice (you can always quit!) and schools will just be protecting children - who could oppose that?

And you know when it comes to enterprise and software sold to school districts, it's usually top quality stuff.
I may be wrong but I think that's not the view of the modern PL community. If your API talks about values, combinators, and has (implicit) laws about them then I would certainly consider that a language.
Not sure where you studied arithmetic but in my locale 12 is not "teen".
I have a Ubiquiti Security Gateway that seems to manage by LAN network well. However, adding an Edge Router X significantly reduces my speed.
SpaceX halts Starship launch at last minute
Amiga History: The Delfina Plus 16 bit sound card [video]
For those who don't know, Starship is the first fully-reusable orbital rocket.

If they manage to get it working as designed, it would radically change the economics of going to space. You can imagine the savings from not having to rebuild your vehicle after every use.

This would be a paradigm-shift and would likely cause a massive boom in human space activity. Space tourism and in-orbit manufacturing are two commonly discussed use cases that would become far more economical. Existing use cases such as remote sensing and communication would expand.

All this could cause positive feedback loops of innovation, cost reduction, induced demand, and so on. A new era of human space activity. That's what all the hubbub is about.

P.S. Not to mention the slightly more far-fetched possibility of human settlements on Mars…
> We also have to put this in the context of US life expectancy being significantly lower than comparable European countries.

Yes, this is due to drug-related deaths. The US loses 277 per million, while the UK only loses 53 per million.

That is a problem, one usually attributed to how the US cares for sick individuals with a more lackadaisy attitude towards prescribing certain addictive drugs. So, again, those who are unwell are in a disadvantaged position.

> See the infant mortality statistics.

The US does has an exceptionally high infant mortality rate, but mostly due to the US counting pre-term births differently to other countries. Canada, with universal healthcare, also has a mortality rate of 6 per 1,000 when using the same methodology although only reports 4 per 1,000 when using its standard methodology.
Isn't charging efficiency for lead acid lower tho ? Then again if you save on batteries might as well get that extra panel or two
Expanding on the other answer, Koreans play Tetris with their letters, such that almost every "character" is a syllable-length block. eg. the food 떡볶이 tteok'bokk'i is written with three. You can just break a word anywhere because of how the script works. That's not the case with English.
Ahhhh, it was much more polite than that and it was a junior-ish developer. I was new to the team and had already made it clear that while I had some database experience I had zero Oracle experience. I don't fault them too much; when someone suggests something that is completely outside of my mental model of how things work, it takes me a bit of reminding that I need to dig a little deeper to figure out what's going on and not just start jumping to conclusions about competence.

It just happened to be a great opportunity for both of us to expand our mental model of how different systems work. If you imagine someone whose mental model is "DML commands can be transactional, DDL modifies the database structure directly" then it's pretty reasonable for them to go "Uh... this guy doesn't seem to know the difference between modifying data and modifying tables..."
New ChatGPT models and ML product cases
The boat removal requirement seems open to abuse of people attempting to 'protest' Musk, especially considering his post twitter profile these days where they might conflate unrelated grievances with him to SpaceX.

I wonder if they need to change the rules so 'a reasonable attempt' to remove and inform people needs to be made only.

No doubt some people involved have discussed this one.
You do need to read slightly further to see the issue with tobacco plants:

> All the while, nicotine — a substance he's barely old enough to legally purchase now — seeped into his skin. For all tobacco workers, but especially kids, that can cause nicotine poisoning, or green tobacco sickness, whose symptoms include nausea, vomiting, headaches and dizziness.
If I'm a pharmaceutical company, why would I spend a billion dollars researching a drug if someone can copy it?
Here's my experience with PostgreSQL:

Coming from Oracle, I've been able to use PostgreSQL pretty much as though it were Oracle, including Oracle's optimistic locking strategy. Some of the SQL functions are a little different, but it seems the underlying philosophy is the same. In other words, PostgreSQL seems like Oracle, just a little different.

MySQL has always felt completely foreign to me. Depending on your background and familiarity with other RDBMS's though, you may be right at home with it. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone had a similar anecdote to mine replacing PostgreSQL with MySQL and Oracle with SQL Server.

If you don't have a personal preference for either system then do some benchmarking on the platform you'll be running them on and the loads you're expecting and see if either particularly excels over the other for what you're intending to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun_economics
They shouldn't be allowed or compelled to do either buying cigarettes or working as child labor. Both are unacceptable.
Not sure if this a common joke in the industry or you're actually quoting the movie Primer