skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see adds because the web is torture without adblock.
It was 'smarter' than many people I know. Are they not thinking either?
Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
I think it would be perfectly fine to order a piece online for $4 and have it show up in a few days.

Although every school in my county has a few 3d printers, so some schools could print directly.
This diagram helps clear things up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#/media/File:Atm...

Methane has multiple peaks of absorption
All of our “theories of everything” are probably wrong
Strongly recommend this deep dive podcast from Acquired https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
I genuinely thought it was a life sentence, something I was taught in school. Thank you for pointing this out, I honestly didn't know.
you can buy a celeron no-name/Chinese brand ultrabook for like 250 bucks, and that generally comes with a minimum of 8gb of ram and an M2 slot. Chuwi is one example.

I'm not sure that the value-add for Chromebooks as personal machines is still there at that point, at least personally. For me 50 dollars is worth the freedom of operating system/double the ram/ddr5/3:2/decent resolution/m2 interface/separation from Google.
Notable to remember that snake oil actually had use. It was everything getting labeled as such that caused problems.

Probably makes it an apt comparison, all told. :)
This is true. Note words "reasonable" & "assume" in my comment. [Also, identity of "composition", and "nature", not molecular identity.]

(I remember having this conversation back in college; there were the three of us, a friend and his girlfriend. He was saying something along those lines, claiming us to be in his imagination. I told him I could prove he is wrong to his girlfriend, but alas he wouldn't be around to know.)
What's the risk there? That some people might be unhappy with him while he's sipping champagne in his multi million villa? Sign me up.
It's perfect, being forced to use it by the school they'll come to hate it.
It doesn’t change the suffering and abuse involved in making it. Downvoting parent won’t make that go away even if you don’t like hearing it.

I love cheese too. I was eating some almost every day growing up in cheese country. But I gave it up once I learned the cost of making it in term of animal abuse and pollution.

We mostly gave up raping and pillaging so maybe one day we’ll also vastly reduce the abuse we inflict onto the billions of animals we “raise”…
The other big difference is that methane stays only around 12 years in the atmosphere compared to centuries for CO2.
It would be a good idea regardless, but what's your point?

Fundamental to extortion and exploitation is that the buyer has no choice. If you are dying of thirst, someone can charge you whatever they want for water. If you have no rights (e.g., you are undocumented) and have no job prospects, someone can pay you whatever they want. You must have water, you must have the job.
Madoff was also offering >100% consistent growth
One of the topics he briefly touches on is indexing for vector similarity based retrieval (essentially search).

Has anyone on HN tried replacing systems like Elasticsearch with an LLM based index? Curious.

One of the systems at my startup is an elasticsearch based search of a large corpus of structured data that contains larger text fields.
^^ See above comment and "Transformers are RNNs" paper to convince yourself.

There are various ways of seeing how transformer architectures work.

For the past data, using a temporal causal mask, you can compute all past features as they would have been seen by applying the causal mask, which allows you to seemingly do all the past computations in parallel, which hide the sequential aspect of it.

What I've described correspond to the the simpler subvariant figure 1 of "Attention is all you need" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16236.pdf , of the transformer architecture in the case where you don't give the past as input to the input branch, put rather prepend it to the output, which is the what people usually do in practice (see llama) ). If you want to use both branches of the transformer architecture, so that you can do filtering and smoothing (aka not using a causal mask) for the past data, it creates a "bottleneck" in your architecture, as you synthesize all the past into a finite sized context vector that you then use in the right branch of the transformer.

But alternatively you can loop along the time dimension first, and make the sequence more apparent. Due to how the (causally mask) transformer architecture is defined this gives exactly the same computation. It's just some loop reordering.

For the generation part, the sequential aspect is more evident as token are produce one by one sequentially and feedback to the transformer for the next token prediction.
You’re correct that GPT-3 and later can accomplish such tasks with what is known as a zero-shot approach.

In-context learning with few-shot exemplars are needed for things like encouraging responses that adhere to a certain JSON data type.
A Google Antitrust Case Could Determine the Future of AI
> 1. Customers are engaging in return fraud where they “return” an expensive item for a refund, but send back a different, cheaper item. Amazon’s warehouse personnel don’t catch it and then the cheaper item ends up in inventory as the more expensive item, which then gets shipped out to a different customer.

Shouldn't any returned items go into the "used" stock and not be intermingled with new items?
already a thing in Poland:

https://www.pracuj.pl/praca/prompt-engineer-warszawa-czernia...
I am using both. I've lost data on both, and near misses that required hair-raising metadata rebuild.

BTRFS documentation still greatly trail behind ZFS, imo. It's RAID1 implementation is subpar in terms of monitoring.
What third world countries think 'government magically solves' everything? If anything, trust in government is much higher in regions with more political stability and prosperity.
Most obviously the tech industry has disempowered the telco business. They are now just "dumb pipes", whereas once they wanted to be all singing all dancing content providers. Wikipedia replaced Britannica. Linux has largely replaced Microsoft. iTunes Store and Spotify took away a lot of the power that RIAA had over artists.

If you want to focus purely on governmental institutions then encryption put intel agencies / corrupt police on the back foot and the digitization of processes especially payments has killed off a lot of low level corruption.

What other industry has such a record?
Amazon? Oh you mean AliExpress of the west?

It’s sad what became to this company. Myriad of cheap Chinese knockoffs, counterfeit items even when sold by “Amazon”, delivery times in weeks now, and always the possibility of getting scammed if you are not careful enough, aka “third party sellers”
I think Go is a pretty good choice for the purpose. It balances high-level ease of use and learning curve with decent access to the system-y parts of coding that are so important to databases. What you learn to do in Go will translate reasonably well to a true systems language if the user wanted to take database engine design to the next level.

Languages like Python or Javascript are so far removed from the system-y side of programming that the way you would implement the concepts in those languages would not translate to the way you would actually build a "real" database which is I think the purpose of the book. I think the objective isn't to teach the abstract concepts but how those concepts are expressed in real systems.
So I can't just think these things myself and have a valid opinion, you must dismiss my views as invalid and having been manipulated by the article.

An ironic claim about bias. Also, do you have evidence of the bias you claim, or are you just biased?
Yeah, like I said, after you installed it, it's available.
As mentioned here, it's also not in the main repo.
Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
>Gate keeping has some benefits, but is easily circumvented by bad actors all the time, such as all the sham degrees that just churn out the bare minimum to pass licensing tests.

Depends on the country and the educational system. In some countries no such sham degree is possible to be accepted for an engineering title.
Has anyone solved a real business problem with LLMs that they couldn't solve as efficiently before?
I stopped ordering from manufacturers, even like Dell, because you won’t reliably find the invoice and get decent shipping. I’ve just made a CC refund on Xiaomi for example, I thought it was a well-enough established company, I’m still waiting for the package.
My understanding is that the methane decomposes into CO2 and water, so it ends up doing the same damage as CO2 in addition, anyway.
It's unnoticeable when you don't reevaluate your choices. Once you get into the habit of automatic snapshots, ext4's lack of snapshotting is very noticeable.
It converts to CO2 if I recall correctly, only 19x of it expires effectively.
I don't know, I am not a gun owner, let alone an expert, but "old" guns (like the Colt .45/M1911) had AFAIK both a thumb and a grip safety[0], and (say) Beretta 92's had a thumb safety and in order to arm the hammer[1] the trigger needed "full travel", both seem to me like much safer than these "new" guns (against accidental firing).

[0] and additionally you had to arm the hammer

[1] unless manually armed
At least in Germany the subsidiary is disproportionate for the large scale industry as it got paid by animal, so the more you can cram into a building, the more you get subsidized.

Animals in Germany are living through an extreme hell because of several financial incentives which make it so profitable for the one's willing to ignore the animals.

And the farmers that have even a tiny bit of a conscience are getting in severe financial trouble as they just can't compete on price. Especially as that kind of animal cruelty they're forced into comes with it's own psychological issues.
Oh no, from 28x to 20x. It must mean there is no problem at all!
If it is loaded in the sense that they will keep their beliefs despite the vast amount of data proving that not only it exists but it is happening, I am fine with that.
Chromebooks are an entire family of devices; what's your point?
It takes real judgement and critical thought. It can't be done by algorithm. Sorry I have no easy answer for life.
It runs offline locally on your machine, as opposed to on remote servers.
I just had the following conversation on chatGPT

> Human: what is 36,330 26,951 * (input is expressed in reverse post fix notation)

> chatGPT: To evaluate this expression using reverse Polish notation, we need to use a stack to keep track of the intermediate results. Here's how we can evaluate the expression:

1. Read the first number "36,330" and push it onto the stack.
2. Read the second number "26,951" and push it onto the stack.
3. Read the operator "", pop the top two numbers (26,951 and 36,330) from the stack, multiply them, and push the result (971,914,830) onto the stack.
4. The stack now contains only one number, which is the final result.

Therefore, 36,330 26,951 = 971,914,830 in reverse Polish notation.

I dont think this is about notation.
The LLM embedding approach has given me much better search results than Elasticsearch.

Cost is definitely an issue.
This always depends on context. And often the results aren't as good as you think it will be. Sets up an obvious target for regulatory capture and can stagnate things.

I say all of this as a pro regulation person.
Prompt engineer is like search bar engineer

sure you can be good at googling, and it helps, but it isn’t a profession
What's the purpose of mosquitoes in the animal kingdom?
The problem with bureaucracies is that even if someone did see the bigger picture, no one person is able to change the system to get desirable results.

Maybe one or two people could, but they didn't get to that position by rocking the boat.
Because the employees are shareholders? If the profits are going to shareholders then employees are directly benefiting
I don't see how 4 (or more) out of 6 would be wrong. Are you from Spain? Perhaps there's variations in the Spanish speaking world?

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezas_de_ajedrez
Even if I am 100% completely in the right, I would be hesitant for fear of retaliation. The MegaCorporations are only getting bigger, and they can have an outsized impact on my life. If I bring a small claims issue to Amazon - will I ever be able to shop there again? Use AWS? That would be a huge burden to try and recover $50.

For similar reason, I can never issue a charge-back to Steam - they have a policy of blocking your account and that would result in losing access to thousands of dollars linked to my profile.
> The question is if you think "most recent college graduates without wealthy parents" are a population worthy of government assistance.

And, quite frankly, I'd gravitate towards a "no" on this. When taken as a group, I'd expect college graduates to be able to pull off an income stream sufficient to pay down the student loans.

Of course there are individuals for whom student loans pose a real problem. There should be some realistic provisions for discharge in bankruptcy.

Considering our recent/current environment of low unemployment and high inflation, broad-based loan forgiveness is simply the wrong choice from a Keynesian economics perspective. The same is true of continuing the payment pause.
Methane naturally turns into CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if it did increase warming more than CO2, once methane emissions reach a steady level, reducing methane emissions won't change a thing, compared to CO2 emissions.

This is also similar to meat production emissions. Most of carbon emissions in meat productions are of carbon which was captured from the air as a part of the production cycle, by the plants which feed the cattle.

The narrative is extremely misleading.
One word: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

(You can pick which word)
1. Draw some circles

2. Draw the rest of the owl

https://www.pillarsofimpact.com/post/draw-the-owl
> my R&D engineer works three shifts and you only work one shift

> All RnD fabs move wafers 24/7

Are you talking about the same thing? It's one thing to let an experiment run overnight with three technician shifts. It's another thing to have three research shifts.

It could also be a metaphor for doing more research than the competition on how to best use the same equipment, so I wouldn't get too hung up on it.
Good to now.
> Manage access to it through a server

This has real "draw the rest of the owl" energy.

How to make a DBMS? 1. Get a file 2. Make a DBMS
Except climate change is happening, and there's no doubt about that because knowing it's happening isn't relying on models, it's relying on thermometers (and to a lesser extent ice cores to confirm that it's human-driven rather than a natural change).

How bad climate change will be, yeah I suppose there is a little fuzzyness there. But given how bad it COULD be (think: complete extinction of humanity, or an end of civilization) we can't really wait around not doing anything while we try to develop a perfect model.
This stuff is complicated. Specifically you can't do a straight comparison between the greenhouse effects of methane and carbon dioxide. Why? Methane is naturally destroyed in the atmosphere [1]:

> Methane is naturally destroyed by both chemical and biological processes, including reaction with atmospheric hydroxyl [OH] and chlorine, and by methane-consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) in soil and water. This results in a lifetime in the air of 9.1 ± 0.9 years [12]. Thus, we face an important question—given methane is being removed from the air anyway, why trouble to do this artificially? It may be preferable to dedicate the cost and energy involved in methane removal to the task of stopping methane emissions, which would accomplish the same end result of lessening, halting, or reversing the growth of methane-driven climate warming, or, alternatively, simply to ignore methane and dedicate all efforts to CO2 removal. To answer this question, the specific methods of removing methane must be examined.
> another can just as easily argue that it closes doors for reasons not worth discussing

Why is that not worth discussing? Because there aren't any or are pretty weak?
The difference is that Canonical forces the contributions ownership to be handed over, while RedHat plays by accepted opensource practices.

So while Canonical might have good initial ideas, the way they manage projects really kills them, e.g. snaps properly opensources might have been successful, instead they enforces the use of their proprietary server and ignore community requests (like moving /snap to /var/snap or making it configurable or allowing different servers/sources for snaps, while you can relatively easily make your own flatpak server and have users add the repo to their systems).
What’s your beef with computer science?
I did not downvote, just wanted to share that me, and maybe many like me are not buying the milk industries’ lies. I would support legislation that increased quality of life for cows and all animals.
Student loan interest is also tax-deductible...
Good point on companies needing to focus on the happy path and non-happy path. Thanks for the reminder of the terminology.

Doesn't Amazon make it easy to cancel items that have not been dispatched? I've noticed language highlighting this ability in the past.
Thanks for your rebuttal based on logic and rationality. Did you have anything to add in terms of, I don't know, something based on scientific or mathematical grounds?
The other points weren't great but when it degrades to insults, there's no point in saying anything in response. I'm surprised this stayed up, I thought this kind of language is against HN policy.
As usual, uBlock Origin with Firefox solves these issues. Although even with uBlock turned off Firefox's built-in tracking protection kills all ads except or one (for a book published by the website).
Show HN: ModernDash – A TypeScript-First utility library inspired by Lodash
for once i hope jaron lanier is right.
The issue isn't just natural gas leaking out of the distribution system.

It's also the enormous methane output of the cattle industry. There are thirty million cows in the US alone. Each is producing 150 to 300lb of methane per year.
My guess is that if you moved from reporting and analytics to a DBA role in web operations in a large scale shop you'd see something very different. It starts with programmers who don't know SQL (they use some ORM instead) and who don't know how to get or interpret a query plan and who aren't aware of indexes with the results you might imagine. These same developers tend not know how to get decent performance from a NoSQL database either. And since the code is in an ORM it can be difficult for DBAs to do a decent code review.

Also, there's a very big difference between the impact of performance requirements for reports which run once or even 20-30 times per day and something that runs in every transaction where that transaction runs 10s to 1000s of times per second. If you optimize a report to run 3% faster that's unlikely to make a difference. If you optimize a hot path transaction 3% on a large website that could mean you have a few less hosts/instances to provision and the impact is a direct budget impact of $5K/yr or more.

Oh and as an SRE I've found several queries where I've made 2 orders of magnitude performance improvements in one of those cases the process was beginning to fail regularly because the queries were so bad.
If it is settled based on data that is as reliable as this (40% off!) then it is not settled at all.
You can absolutely be a "software engineer" in the legal sense, just not in the US.

Here in France, the engineer diploma is a regulated thing, and there absolutely are software-centered engineering school who are accredited to deliver it, which is how I got mine.

It's in the "Grandes écoles" cursus, which usually follows a more classical STEM-centric cursus called "classes prépa".

As to whether "Software engineering" is a real thing, well on one hand most of it isn't very process-oriented, on the other hand there are such thing as ISO certification for software security, so it's less the individual which is regulated than it is the project in itself when it matters (like critical data-center, or handling of medical data), so it's not like there aren't any regulatory framework in the software world.
Democratizing the Future of Education
In my experience, btrfs has one significant disadvantage over ext4. It's the behaviour once the partition is full. It's relatively easy to get stuck in a state where you can't delete anything because of the fullness. In some cases it's only recoverable by extending the partition, deleting, and then removing the extension.
Could you explain further?

How does:

> reducing methane emissions won't change a thing, compared to CO2 emissions.

Follow from:

> once methane emissions reach a steady level
Senior level, 11+ years experience, Canada, Toronto area.
I've tried to approach this in a few different ways.

1. In many cases, I think it could be true.

2. Still, I like the anecdotes because they could show or help me interpret different implementations of knowledge. (This mostly applies to self-help books).

3. If it's a topic I don't know about, I'm not sure if I can actually say that these are the bare essentials that the book should be distilled to. That's why I'm reading about it, after all.

4. Sometimes, I need to be battered over the head with obvious points before they stick.

5. That's what the index & table of contents are for – dipping in and out for what might be important. It's less important to read nonfiction linearly and all the way through than fiction.
Who wants to play a chess game against me?
Executive Behind ChatGPT Pushes for a New Revolution: Psychedelics
Nadella is a very good counter example for that. I think one difference is that Ballmer set up Nadella much better in his final years (both by removing alternative power centres like Sinofsky, and kick starting projects like Office on iOS which solely get credited to Nadella)
"Compared to what" is a common theme with studies. Thanks for pointing out.
You just know you're in a Bad Shop when you see "unit tests" come out the bag...
A few negative comments?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/03/10/google-...
I'd be curious, if somebody bought the book, to know what kind of concurrency they write about, as in just 2 phase locking, or if it talks about MVCC.
> there will always be some skill

There is a world of difference between the needs in governance in just having to write "Those decorations where I marked the area, make them a bit more Hans Holbein as opposed to Klimt", compared to knowing patching tricks so that if you asked the engine to draw a 'T' you were not being served a 'B'.

This latter example - ask 'B', get 'T' - I have seen from Midjourney only a few hours ago, in the public showcase. I have examined several prompts and results, and very often they do not overlap but very partially - the engine is like a wild horse.

That this is not intrinsic, but just a current stage, is only part of the story: the user will want to have a tool that allows the production of what the artist had exactly in mind (not just "anything nice as /inspired/ by our suggestions"). It is the normal form of the product in its "ready for shipment" state.
> For example, suppose a drug cartel invents a new formula. The DEA gets to ban it under existing law.

The cartels exist in the first place specifically because the DEA exists and keeps knee-jerk banning things without bothering to demonstrate actual harm.
Four American Citizens Indicted for Spreading Russian Propaganda
I haven't seen those "skeptics" who said "maybe methane has a slightly smaller impact and CO2 a bigger one". Can you point me to sources here?
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