skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This take is a bit silly in that they are implying the problem training models will be that we will run out of data. It's more likely that the problem is that the current models require too much data to reach convergence.

We've been trying to speed run neural networks science for the past decade but we still don't fully understand how they work. It's like being a bad programmer who doesn't understand algorithms so you compensate by spending money on hardware to make your programs run faster. At some point we will reach a limit where you can't buy your way out of the problem with more data or money and we'll all be forced to return to studying the foundations of the science rather than just trying to scale the existing models up.

I am certain when we get to that point everyone will realize we've been trying to feed these models too much data. It makes more sense that our current architectures are just not effective at assimilating the data they have.
All GPT-4 output should include a blue checkmark, so everyone can tell you payed for a subscription, and block you. ;)
> If people can build collectively incredibly useful resources like wikipedia and openstreetmap why not an index of the web as a public good that is devoid of the race to the bottom dynamics of SEO and adtech and whatnot.

The size of a billion scale web search index like ours, is approaching 3 orders of the magintude the size of the Wikipedia and OSM databases we need to provide Wikipedia infoboxes and Map search.

Added to which it's very far from straightforward to provide search across billions of results in around 200ms.
> Probably the xx in the domain.

According to the `considered-18` post linked by a sibling comment:

> It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only [daniel.haxx.se], not for the entire haxx.se domain.

So, even more of a WTF.
Just be an expert in everything. See easy. And experts never get mislead either, just repeat all research yourself, double plus good. /S
Obligatory oi/porn license.
Great consolation.
Wow. I’ve never seen this class of ISP censorship. Is this some sort of government mandated system or has Vodaphone taken it upon themselves to do this?
Would love to see the base of products like this open sourced.
The clothes obviously...
My kid is barely 2yrs, so my plans for English immersion are still vague, but here goes:

- consuming all media in the original language instead of dubs

- kindergarten already does some bilingual exploration, she's a native English speaker

- Later on I intend to do an "English day" each week at home where we would only converse in English. From my personal experience, the best path to fluency is having no choice but to speak in a given language. I also want to create boundaries to prevent mixing the two languages.

About french children's book, I could send you a mail about it. Depending on the age of your kids "la courte échelle" has great stuff.
Nice blog post although the call out to Medium has sadly not aged well!
Wow, I feel like I’ve read that comment 100 times before.

Content aside, I think the punctuation mistake / inaccuracy is interesting:

> call them out fjord what they are - fascists in disguise.

That dash really ought to be a colon.
Wasn't intended to be personal. Just a mediocre way of expressing that your assertion there is missing any form of argumentation, and therefore as baseless as it is unconvincing.

I'm seeing an emergent capability of encoding higher order logic, and the whole point of such abstractions is to not need to hardcode your weights with the minutiae of cats on Mars. LLMs today are only trained to predict text, so it's hardly surprising that they have some gaps in their understanding of Newtonian physics. But that doesn't mean the innate capability of grasping such logic isn't there, waiting for the right training regime to expose it to its own falling apples, so to speak.
Does Git LFS have issues?
Do you have a reason to back that up? I'm far less sure.

(I mean, I think the advantage is that you are able to speak to more people easily and in their native tongue, which is a whole other advantage, but that's different than "expanding your mind" directly by learning another language.)
> there is zero upside to spending my tax money for war in other countries.

So you don't think helping protect the democracy of another country is a upside worthy of 'your' tax dollars?.

Or destroying your enemy militarily without even having to be in a war?.
It only takes some people to accept the newsletter/messages to make it worth it, unfortunately. Probably the reason the practice could ever stop would be the marginal cost of the messages or newsletter to rise above engagement. That’s probably much higher for a newsletter than the push notifications.
> overtime the LLMs will get better and I'll get more lazy, thus making the LLMs the primary lens through which one views the world

There's going to be a progressive de-skilling and dumbing down of humans, as AI's and robots do and think more and more for them.
The Filthy Truth About Subway Air
Switzerland has 9 million people but 3 top 100 companies.
In Germany laws get boring descriptive names without any silly acronyms. E.g. the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, the "network enforcement act", which forces social networking sites to proactively delete illegal content without a court order. They didn't choose an Orwellian euphemism. I assume Americans could do the same.
And one technical / business side that's very valid: error-proofing the service and database. It is to prevent the database to be populated incorrectly, such as financial data, that you proof it behind a set of well-defined API, to prevent any leakage of sensitive data (PII or credit-card info) and to be easily audited.
Cynical voice:

Professional Development budgets can be hard to spend. Spluring everything on a conference gets you some half-decent benefits - something to put on your self-assessment for your review cycle; a couple of days out-of-the-office; some half-decent food, snacks, and corporate gifts; and finally the chance to travel to an interesting new city on your company's money.
Erlang and any Actors models I think
> > You would be surprised but there are so many debates in the hiking community. This debate is to bring hiking poles or not.

> I definitely recommend using hiking poles.

This "hiking community" is just the people getting into those debates online. The vast majority of the actual hiking community just enjoys their trips in silence without getting into online arguments.

Source: In my circles of about 40-50 hiking enthusiasts, only about 2-3 engage in online debates. Everybody else enjoys their trips and learns from own experiences and the occasional chat with friends. Debating for weeks whether hiking poles are a must (I never use any, but it's a matter of preference) or whether to break off your toothbrush to save extra weight (IMO ridiculous) are mostly a waste of time.
Yep, it's a very normal thing in the Rails world to separate things like this. For Django too.

I'd encourage people to look a past just the splitting of workloads though. The other point about resource limits for shared resources across workload tiers is really key, such as having very granular database connection pools even inside of a single workload deployment.

That's less common – though not unheard of – in Rails-land.
> I suspect the main reason why there is a "reject all" button is that Cloudflare folks rightly figured out that they are too big to get away with not providing one. Otherwise noyb.eu will say hello.

(Disclaimer: I helped deliver this feature)

We have never even for a minute considered not providing the "reject all" button. It was a user-respecting project from its conception. We actually consider being user-friendly a competitive advantage rather than something that we'd do out of fear of Noyb.

For some context, I'm a co-founder of https://www.internet-czas-dzialac.pl/, which can be described as a "Polish noyb" ;)
Whoa, news to me. What is indicating the tech illiterate are leaving?!
The most dangerous kinds of mistakes in that area are bugs or oversights that cause massive resource usage or endless loops. Those can easily bring down parts of the application that are otherwise robustly separated in the way you mentioned. Consuming too much memory will kill the app at some point, just using lots of CPU or IO will make everything else grind to a halt. Holding onto resources that are pooled like DB connections is a good way to break everything as well.

There are some languages and frameworks that are designed around even handling and isolating issues like these to some extent, Erlang/Elixir for example.

But in general I would expect a web application backend to isolate services the way you mentioned. But I don't think this is really a preconfigured default in every case, and it's not safe do catch everything and keep running. Isolating web requests and only failing the individual request is of course reasonable and should be the default. But for background services your framework can't know which ones are required and which ones are optional and when to crash the process. Especially as most languages allow shared state there, so the framework can't know how independent they are.
it shouldn't. It is your opportunity to actively decline the tracking of the website.

And if you actually do click the settings tab on some of them, you will see just how many trackers clickbait sites integrate and that will give you at least a choice to opt out.

The GDPR laws im europe are part of the healing process of the internet, therefore not at all compareable with the "please subscribe to my newsletter" popups.
Yeah, that part aged so poorly I had to move the post.
It seems like it sometimes works on ecosia, but not for everyone. Ddg also seems to have a similar issue, where it sometimes works depending on location (?). I guess even if it is not related to api pricing, it still shows that search engines that depend on reselling or vendoring an API aren't much of an alternative to the big guys (though ecosia is awesome, and it doesn't pretend to compete on the search offering itself ).

And hopefully I'm totally wrong about the whole situation being related to pricing!
The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which, until then, had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics.

A trade show is where you hawk your wares. A tech conference has sponsors, these are companies that want to sell you things. From their perspective, KubeCon for example, is where they try and convince you that their monitoring and alerting software is the best one. So that's what it is for.

Have a free t-shirt why dontcha, you look like a person of good taste who also needs something to wear. Don't even have to pay you like the guy in the chicken suit spinning a sign outside the venue.

From your perspective, if your employer is sending you on a fact finding mission, it is a free vacation away from the office and the ol' ball and chain. So that is what it is for also.

If you go to a tech conference with expensive tickets and pay out of pocket and aren't buying or selling anything contemplate what you are doing with your life. This article opens like so:

New Orleanians are just as likely as not to offer you a drink within sixty seconds of greeting you. Eighteen hours after leaving there, I walked into the Salt Palace Convention Center and made a joke about still needing my caffeine to almost-certainly-a-mormon.

That's why the guys with the beer bellies wearing Hawaiian shirts at these shindigs are often well-to-do fountains of knowledge who just want to have fun. They have been around long enough.
> In the 90s our sector started to look (again) at VMs as viable alternatives for software platforms.

Now we are back at it with WebAssembly, as if it was something new.
> Those sorts of edutainment style videos are not ever going to compete against say, a college degree.

They're totally different things, obviously...

> you may learn some factoids about physics are learn about some cool experience but in no way will they impart to you a deep understanding of any subject. Those sorts of edutainment style videos are not ever going to compete against say, a college degree.

I disagree with this sentiment, even though what you say is technically true.

"Deep understanding" can't be imparted, not in school, not in a video. Here we all know plenty of engineers with degrees with no deep understanding of the programming languages they use daily. Deep understanding can't be imparted, you have to go and grab it by yourself.

"If you want people to build a ship, don't talk to them about sails and wood and tar, tell them about freedom."

Those edutainment videos have sparked my curiosity and help me appreciate things about the world around me I wouldn't have noticed. For really deep understanding, I may have to let this curiosity propel me into a book. Going into a book about urban design after a "Not just bike videos" with curiosity and an intuitive although shallow understanding, is much better than sitting through 50 minutes of a boring and bored professor drawling about something, which was a lot of my college experience.

You are right that Youtube can't replace college, or making experiments yourself, or reading a book. It's a different thing. But, specially for kids, this is how education should start, and it may be way more fundamental than the other pieces.

You are also right that if kids, or anyone, stays on the level of watching Youtube videos, not much is gained. But still, that edutainment can be a great part of education.
The problem will solve itself eventually.

Now that the elderly are leaving the internet, the chance of finding somebody who randomly follows instructions will make this malware trend vanish imho

/e:

apparently this is more true for Europe than it is for other locations. I mean come on, its two clicks more which you usually do once for a website. And we also had every news station explain to you why the GDPR is a good thing and a big deal.
The Problem with the Fediverse and Twitter Clone (From an Artist's Perspective)
> Note the sports car top right

that's left.
>In short, programming with automatic memory management has been a part of Unix from Bell Labs onward.

Not sure what this post is about. Automatic memory management is a property of the language, not the operating system. UNIX has had languages with AMM since forever, and those existed way before UNIX too.
There are jailbreaks that let you get past the censorship. It's a cat and mouse game.
Incoming Content Deluge
In practice, it's often a bit hard to separate out single-vendor centric and broader tradeshows from more grounds-up community efforts. Certainly, there's a continuum from purely volunteer weekend jaunts to fairly non-commercial but nonetheless heavily corporate sponsored large-ish events. (I'll refrain from giving specific examples to avoid ratholing a discussion of specific events.)

I agree with most of the basic points. I find a lot of breakouts are more useful for letting me know about something that might be worth following up on than teaching me in depth. I zone out on a lot of demos pretty quickly; they have to be really compelling which is rare. One reason I'm generally a fan of shorter breakouts and keynotes.

The author also says that submittals are judged blindly (as in the name of the submitter isn't known). This isn't anything like universal practice though it may be more common with community events in the interests of supposed fairness. But IMO the reality is that the identity of the speaker should often factor in so long as the committee doesn't just pick "the usual suspects."
Since DDG is (or was last I knew) primary using bing under the hood i wonder if this is less a DDG Change and more a Bing Change?
> Do you think so even after the "Trump-Russia" fiasco and Twitter Files?

No I think so after the very obvious Russian propaganda that is being pushed all over the internet.

There was even a notable uptick of Russian propaganda being pushed here after the war started.

> Trying not to engage in binary thinking

You haven't really addressed any of my points but thats okay, ill add some more for you, why do so many writers for MintPress Media have a history with working for Russias stated backed propaganda media arm RT?.
Any teardowns? Everyone fixing electronics/cars knows about foam crumbling to dust with age/external factors like heat.
Tesla chases volume over profit in autonomy gamble
"Engineering" makes it sound as if there was a solid understanding of of LLMs actually works - there isn't. We're still finding out how LLMs work and what they are capable of.

Prompt engineering" is just reasonable guesses and trial and error.

There's little engineering involved.
That's why you use a separate `Task.Supervisor`.
Show HN: Prompt Engineering for SWE Interview
None of those articles mention LV at all.
I've noticed in some niches, it's an opportunity for vendors to brainwash the attendees. Cybersecurity is one example. Vendors spend a lot of time pushing language around regulations, perceived risks, etc, that are "only solvable" with their expensive tools. And passing FUD about open source tools that solve the same problems as their paid tools.

Lots of little ways to push harder too, like giving out organizational or individual awards like "CISO of the year" to stroke egos. Or "free training" that's really pushing more sales.
If you use alloca that's not "automatic memory management" is it?
Might have been easier calling it ZGC 2.0
Sports fans. But yeah, all BBC online TV content also needs a license (it didn't in the early days of iPlayer); and recently they added a delay to podcasts (which you can't buy separately) if you're not a license holder.
Inferno was a Plan9 derivative kinda research OS, not necessarily what people wanted.

Squeak/Smalltalk had the issue of programs and runtime images being conflated, making version control awkward (at the time at least).

Erlang is a functional language.

All the above had relatively small and poorly documented libraries.

Java combined an imperative C-like and relatively simple language, with an evolvable bytecode-oriented VM, garbage collector, large and well documented libraries + lots of tutorials, and really intense VM engineering. Easy to forget but Cliff Click and colleagues were the first to show that a JIT compiler could produce code competitive with gcc, Sun also bought/implemented stuff like deoptimization which is still relatively advanced, and then gave that tech away for free. From the end user POV all these things mattered a lot.
SF is a port city and like all port cities has been permissive towards the vices that sailors tend to engage in.
Leaving the internet? You mean joining in huge numbers?

According to this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...) only 63% of us are online. Prepare for a lot more tech illiterates joining over the next two or three generations.
Something like command-not-found is as good as it gets. Because you don't want to run an arbitrary program based on user input. You want to be able to know beforehand which program is going to run. Which you specifically cannot be sure of when you make a typo (and you don't know beforehand that you make a typo).

Its why rm evokes -i by default and requires -f to avoid interaction on some OSes. Users can and will make a mistake with it, especially new users. And everyone makes typos.
C99 is a much newer standard though. 1911 C was very primitive, pre-ansi C, basically an assembler for Babbage machines.
How bad could this get?
And there are yet newer and faster sorting algorithms being implemented.
This paper is honestly fairly weak, if you look at it closely. The theoretical justifications rely heavily on approximating attention with linear attention, and really just show that linear attention could be written as (A + A_delta)x, then try to imply (not show – they have now theoretical justification for this next step) that A_delta is a gradient. One could make the same implication about almost any matrix-vector multiplication, by splitting the matrix into two pieces.

The empirical studies are fairly weak as well – none of them suggest that there is actually any gradient descent occurring during in-context learning, only that if you fine-tune a model's attention parameters (and no other parameters) for a set of examples, its internal representations and attention patterns are slightly more similar (and it's really not by much!) to those of in-context learning than before fine-tuning. Is it really that surprising? You could most likely take any two techniques that optimize a model towards some target, artificial restrict both of them to only apply to the same set of parameters, use both, and find increased similarity of the two optimized models compared to the non-optimized model.

None of that would be what the paper claims, i.e., a shared mechanism of gradient descent, just a similarity in outcome – and we all already knew that ICL and fine-tuning have similar results!
How is that "automatic memory management"?
I never understood the appeal of a hoster "supporting" frameworks.

How is it better than using any standard VM for $5/month and running a script like this ...

https://www.gibney.org/web_app_from_scratch

... and then you have a running web app?
Antimalware is the worst malware I’ve seen in my decades-long career in IT.
> In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked

This sounds like an extreme over-estimate. Some ISP's, mostly mobile ones, default to blocking "adult material" unless you tell them to turn that off. Some of the larger ISPs are under court order to block some specific other content (Pirate Bay in particular; my old ISP was one of them, my current ISP happily lets me access it, not that I've ever done so other than to see if it's blocked).

Most ISPs block at most a tiny set of sites and personally in 23 years of using UK ISPs I've never "organically" run into those blocks (as in, no site I actually had any interest in accessing has been blocked; I've only seen them when checking whether people were right that a specific site was blocked). And yes, that includes visiting sites with "adult material" without running into any blocks.

I do have a VPN, so it'd take me as long to bypass as it takes me to press one button in my browser address bar, but I only need that to evade IP region/country blocks - never needed it to get around UK filtering.
They’re “work holidays”.
Probably that most of Europe’s wealth came from its colonial ambitions of exploitation and extraction and so it’s fitting their largest company continues this European tradition.

Or possibly a comment on how Europe is unable to innovate so it makes sense their largest company relies on old, traditional perceptions of “European luxury” in craftsmanship when in reality it’s just outsourcing to the same factories as everyone else. But vapid people still fall for it.
I appreciate that you are making an argument and will respond when I get a chance later in the day and after I read a few of the links - I’m familiar with like half of them.
Waiting for garbage collection...
Thank you for introducing me to Autofocus. It's similar to a technique I've been using for quite some time now and I'm happy to hear that it has a formal name and all that. I decided to write a (very!) short blog about it ( https://legendofcode.com/blog/task-management )
I've seen DPOs requesting sites to not load YouTube without consent because of the cookies
I must say I thought this was some "become a 100X engineer, write code faster by using your tongue!!!" venture capital thing, until I saw the video.

Great work, but without having the context of the video it is weird.