skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The overall idea that VLA are always bad is incorrect.

I mean, I'm yet to see a definitive example where automatic* VLA was actually right tool for the job.

I know they were supposedly introduced for the numerical analysis, but I fail to see what problem it actually did solve. Yes, the syntax way neater than piecemeal allocation, but it could have been solved with functions and macros anyway. Did VLA just hit some sweet spot in performance between fixed size arrays and heap-allocated ones, which made number crunching better optimized?

* as opposed to VM types used in function parameters and for allocating multi-dimensional arrays on heap
Woah that comment is a call back, thanks for digging it up.

I think one of the major boundary conditions, aside from 25V caps are just thermal. Laptops can't really radiate more than 100W continuously, and 20V at 5A is a fairly happy balance of wire thickness (defined by current rating) and system battery voltage defined by battery chemistry. A 4-cell lithium string tops out at 16v, and a 20v to 16v dc/dc is marginally smaller than a 60v to 16v dc/dc
thanks, that's great!

I guess though I was curious if the GPU has to be on the server itself, or if it's able to harness a remote GPU. Since the database server is likely to be long running it will be expensive to rent GPU enabled hardware for all the time it is on line.
I too find Reactive Programming appealing and have successfully used RxJS as you mention to build a fully reactive app - every action and data change can be observed and reacted to - its a fantastic library and it makes TS really powerful IMO (not to say other languages don't have this, just a powerful addition to an already versatile language).

With TS and RxJS I really like to do all the plumbing and housing a little more classically with some container classes that I call services who house and expose RxJS observables with an init() and a destroy() function where a service needs to manage its own subscriptions. So classes "services" group observables and there functionality, RxJS observables are the "plumbing" of the app, piping data around via events and then all the logic is in pure functions. I find programming like this leads to a clear data/event flow and neat seperation of concerns.
That poster should look up what groceries stores used to look like...
If this was one group studying itself, maybe. Academia is big and has frequent disagreements about itself. Treat it as one group studying another.

(Though one can still make mistakes and misrepresent data when not studying oneself, obviously.)
If you're on Android NewPipe is also amazing, especially the sponsorblock fork which the original devs unfortunately refuse to integrate.
Farmers are feeding the world efficiently. And residential yards really do make a difference.
Washington allowed bank CEOs to pocket bonuses amid failure
If you read what I said a bit more carefully, you'd see that I specifically wanted to _measure_ what the outcome was and that there be data backed up with the processes being made.

I'm not talking about the use of git, etc. I'm not even talking about process in relation to the code either. It's process for tracking how we track projects. Like, that level of indirection.
From the Apollo post:

> For NSFW content, they were not 100% sure of the answer (later clarifying that with NSFW content they're talking about sexually explicit content only, not normal posts marked NSFW for non-sexual reasons), but thought that it would no longer be possible to access via the API, I asked how they balance this with plans for the API to be more equitable with the official app, and there was not really an answer but they did say they would look into it more and follow back up. I would like to follow up more about this, especially around content hosting on other websites that is posted to Reddit.

I wonder if this is the real impetus to do this now. It feels like there's increasing pressure coming from somewhere (payment processors? advertisers? politicians?) to push NSFW content to the margins.

Edit: Another commenter mentioned them going public soon. That seems more likely.
Why not use an adjustable buck converter? They are extremely cheap and smaller (but without an enclosure). 15A can be purchased for $12 - https://www.amazon.com/Diymore-Adjustable-Regulator-Converte...
Yeah; I have the same reaction to products like Notion or Figma where someone is footing the bill to keep servers on. And if those servers ever turn off, I lose access to my stuff.

Either I'm paying for a product, and as soon as I stop paying, I've lost access to my stuff (Figma, Notion). Or the product is free, and someone is somehow intending to make money from me being their user. They'll either start charging down the line, or they're selling my data or my attention to advertisers (tiktok, twitter, etc).

I don't think I like using SAAS products because its never really free. At least not in the same way the web is free or vim is free.
I like .orgs.

I feel they convey a sense of trustworthiness and they're being slept on by commercial projects.
Thanks for the heads-up. I live in California where requiring tenant insurance is legal.
I don't think Reddit is profitable? I can't find any sources indicating it is and several indicating it is not. That isn't to say they can't squeeze a profit out once they IPO, but it's been fairly altruistic up to this point.
There are a number of factors at play here, one is certainly, as others have pointed out, that police are taking less initiative on the job due to low morale and their own form of quiet quitting.

However another major issue is that people are not talking to police like the used to. People do not trust police with information and more so they do not trust police to protect them. Volunteering information on a murderer is dangerous you have to trust the system can protect you.

And finally, murder clearance rates were focused on in the 90s and sometimes that led to closing cases early or other bad practices to increase superficial metrics.
That’s not equivalent in any reasonable way. Tenants can’t put a landlord on the street.
Loebolus – Making the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable
Excessive risk taking = owning the safest US treasuries

Ok, yes, the business of banking is incompatible with the fight against inflation
Two Years of OCaml
Shady Companies Guess Your Religion, Orientation, and Sell That Data
You're absolutely right, and I think that's the source of the feeling as I know there is always _something_ I could be doing which is more productive than reddit and youtube.
Fascinating to click through and see the stats for stolen cars. Florida is #10.
Which Jobs Will Be Most Impacted by ChatGPT?
This is excellent, wait does this actually work
The land in particular is considered the Crown Estate, and the agreements that relinquish control of the land to the government are voluntarily enacted by each monarch. Any monarch could at any time not renew this provision, since King George III did not sell or actually give up the land; it still belongs to The Crown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate
> To me this is an implicit admission from the Reddit team that they are incapable of providing a better first party experience than third party clients.

Can’t, or more likely in my opinion don’t want to.

What users want is pretty simple: a feed of posts from subscribed subreddits that’s sorted by post score and recency. The problem with this is that it doesn’t offer much room to twiddle with UI, algorithms, etc to drive ad impressions, feature adoption, etc.
> More distance and acoustic isolation from neighbors. A larger property with a house in the middle of it separated from others by space means you hear your neighbors less and they hear you less. It makes your home a little more of a sanctuary.

This purpose does not necessarily need to be serviced by a lawn, which is just a patch of grass.

Lawns are stupid.
Retroarch is also on Steam itself.
That’s not an argument against letting the GUI experience be downloadable from the App Store. You just have to flip a flag.
Not sure if you're interested in support questions, but I ran the simple start thing you guys put up (Linux, RX 570) -- and it runs quickly but spits out absolute gibberish?
You must have a PhD in math because it all checks out. No errors :P
The Work Never Ends
That's not a sufficient reason to have bylaws and HOAs that enforce front lawns. Which is amazingly common.
Flashpoint: A Tribute to Web Games eBook by Ben “BlueMaxima” Latimore
After the first two paragraphs, and especially at the point of Swan Moots, I thought “Someone got creative with ChatGPT prompts”.

I was, of course, wrong. But now I want to train a GPT3 model on ridiculous ancient laws so that I can have it generate an endless variety for my entertainment. The responses I get from vanilla ChatGPT aren’t bad, but not of the quality of British Swan Law
Sounds like you've independently invented MMT.
We mainly deal with governments and other businesses in the same fairly small industry, so it's somewhat easier for us in that respect - we do know most of the entities who walk to talk to us in advance. Also, we have a good relationship with our staff and they're usually proactive about telling us when they're expecting mail coming in / we add a new supplier / etc. so we can keep an eye on mail delivery.

There's always some mail that gets blocked, of course, but it's a relatively rare occurrence.

Maybe in your case something that allows users to view and release their own quarantined mail [1] coupled with a healthy dose of training on spotting malicious emails and so on?

[1] e.g. this sort of thing https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2474067-office-365-by... - not endorsing M365, just as an example.
I will go against the grain and say that if it will impact your attendance, appearance, or job performance in any way it may be best to tell HR and your direct manager. If not, then I wouldn’t bring it up.

The reason to tell is because it will provide you some legal protections and will make HR very hesitant to green light firing you. Second, if you do end up getting fired you have leverage to negotiate a better severance package. HR will want to mitigate any potential for lawsuit and offer a good package.
Have you ever used induction? Electric induction is the best cooktop I've ever owned, and I was a staunch only gas person beforehand. Plus I can boil water on it faster than is possible in any gas stove @ 5kW (on the 'power' element). It can do a gallon of water in ~ 4 minutes from room temperature or a liter in about a minute it's pretty awesome.
But then you read this and it's a completely different story. Why the huge discrepancies in reporting?

https://www.nicb.org/news/news-releases/nicb-report-finds-ve...
OnlyFans and Payment Processing
Credit card companies do not allow processing for adult porn content

Then how is the biggest porn site in the world able to process credit cards with ease for millions of sex workers?
Figures, I find virtue signaling in any sphere more distasteful than a quiet personal thirst for knowledge.
Good luck! I jumped from a super boring consultancy job to work at a startup doing backend work which I never have done before besides the odd Django personal project.

My recommendation is to first take some time and learn the tech stack. Take a course on the language, get familiar with AWS or whatever the infrastructure is, etc.

Second, once you start, try to just get everything up and running beginning to end. Hopefully you can contribute some updates to documentation right away this way!

After that, try to deploy a change, talk to the other engineers about the design history and why things are built the way they were, etc etc. Have fun!
Who says that? The same people who have decided that creating a new character, story or franchise is impossible, so they must endlessly recycle, renew, revisit and revise the old ones.

Tell new stories.
The whole continuing existence of the British monarchy (as well as other Commonwealth countries where he is sovereign) highlights the extreme bizarreness of humans to me.

On one hand, the King is the supreme leader of the country, to the point that his subjects need to pledge allegiance to him on official documents, but on the other hand, he has no power. One might argue he has even less power than a commoner as he is forbidden from offering a political opinion. He is the titular owner of "Crown Lands", but he can't actually do anything with that ownership.

The whole thing is just so bonkers that if I were an alien and I landed on Earth and someone explained the situation to me I'd just say "Y'all are too f'n weird for me, I'm gonna peace out."
For reference this is what I meant, either use some GPT-like LLM or pass on a large prompt of data previously scrapped into OpenAI GPT-4 as it currently accepts ~8k words for input in the paid plan.
Stay overnight at this lighthouse – a thrilling 32 miles out to sea
I have a gas range and love the idea of an induction cooktop. Plenty of power and control without the difficult cleanup. But heaven help you if you’re stuck with 208V service as many do in condos and apartments where the building is serviced with 3 phase 480V. The reduction in wattage for a 240V appliance is significant and easily noticed.
This kind of tit-for-tat flamewar is against HN's rules and you broke both the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid this in the future, we'd appreciate it. We want curious conversation here.
Too bad it's tied to glibc. If you want to link with musl, you need to define the dynamic dispatch logic manually.
I get loads of dandelions and dock, which I find ugly (grandmotherly conditioning) and are not terribly good for bees.

In the UK at least, they say wildflower meadows flourish on poor soil, where dandelion, dock and grass struggle. Sometimes you read that you should scrape off the fertile topsoil before sprinkling wildflower seeds, but this seems kinda perverse to me.

Instead, I weed the dock and dandelion by hand. Both have pretty evil taproots. This is enough of a task with my small garden, I can't imagine doing it for a half-acre!

I have quite a lot of tree cover, so I planted native bulbs beneath the lawn which have done reasonably well (they mostly come up before the trees are in leaf). I basically don't mow these patches from February til June, as the bulbs are best left until they die back naturally to store up energy for the next year. I mow a winding path through the long grass which looks rather nice (mowing around the longer areas is a good general tip for making things look neat rather than neglected). Other than that, I seem to have clover, creeping buttercup, cow parsley and common vetch. I rather like the vetch so spread it around a bit. This year I've put in a few ox-eye daisy plugs, which I'm told I may live to regret, but we'll see.
Ggwave: Message people over sound
Reddit can’t possibly have much time left. Talk about a space ripe for the taking - Reddit seems hellbent on driving away as many users as possible.
Eva AI-Relational Database System
> Presumably he cannot sell swans either.

Well, of course he can't — if you own something by definition, then if you sell it, you still own it; so you can't really sell it (without that being a con), can you? ;)
> People do not write makefiles anymore.

We do, not every project is of scope of AAA game.

Heck, I don't even know if some of our projects could be converted from hand written Makefiles to something else.
visual explanation https://youtu.be/d55P1hwbvYU
Finally, a curmudgeon who sells his woe-porn in a den, drip by drip. First hit is free!
Neat. But I suggest moving the summary to the top.

There is a reason summaries / tldr are at the top. They help your reader understand / digest all the details that follow.
It was never a promise and it was something to do once the game had died which the game clearly hasn't.
The thing you're ignoring is that humans have reason, which is able to produce behavior that goes against human nature and its corrupting influences. There's a reason why some people give away large sums of money to reduce suffering in the world instead of spending it on themselves or their genetic offspring, for example. I would argue that we have made substantial progress in overcoming human nature through cultural evolution in the past few thousand years, which is a small fraction of the history of our species. I think your argument relies on an assumption that our current culture is somehow inevitable, but that seems pretty obviously false to me.

To take another angle, we could remove humans from the picture entirely. The problem of how to get autonomous agents to work together to accomplish a task is a computer science problem. I don't see a fundamental barrier to solving that problem. Getting humans to cooperate is a special case of that problem, with the extra requirement that you need some domain knowledge in the social sciences to be able to convince people to cooperate. Again, there's no fundamental barrier preventing us from doing that research.

That doesn't mean it's easy. But that's why I'm skeptical when someone claims that the problem is simply unsolvable. Whether intentional or not, people who deny that progress is possible are reinforcing and justifying the status quo.
Indeed, RISC was only possible because of a rather short era in the late 70s/early 80s when memory became fast enough to justify needing to fetch an instruction every clock cycle. If the cycle time of the CPU is lower than the memory, then it makes more sense for instructions to take more time but also do more.

As we started to move CPUs onto single chips the numbers started to change, RAS/CAS timers were ~1-300nS, caches in particular, initially off chip and eventually on chip were in the 10ns sorts of speeds, suddenly the tradeoffs between heavily encoding instructions to make them small and trading off decode time for fetch time were reasonable changes to make

...and now, CISC still makes sense because of the huge gap between core and memory speeds, accompanied by the many levels of caching in the middle. This is also very important for SMP since each core takes fetch bandwidth.
Reddit continues to forget what made them successful: the collapse of Digg when they pulled the same shit that Reddit keeps trying on now.

I don't think they quite understand the ground they're losing to Discord.
Is it our assumptions? No! Its the users preferences that are wrong!
Wow its wild to see this posted here my great grandfather knew this man . He was famous for building that ship in a small part of Saskatchewan.
Where is the variance in your example?
Sounds like you need to change the company then.
There are people like this everywhere; the lack of overall caring has been happening, i'd argue, for quite some time. From physical construction to tech jobs; people want to get the job done (and cut whatever corners as they can), to get paid and move onto the next job. Can we really be surprised?

Take a good look at any part of any construction that goes on, from the concrete to the finishing paint jobs and I'm confident the more you look the more you will realize folks either do not pay attention to detail, or they simply do not care.
It goes deep into all corporations, especially when buisness-is-booming; gotta move onto the next client to get more cash!

The same can be said for what items we consumers get as well; Apple selling laptops where the cords turn yellow, plastic freys and expose wires after 8 months of use; Samsung has similar issues, and the list goes on.

Now take a look at the products spammed at us via Amazon; searching is abysmal (search for an audio cable, get results for usb cables instead). Want to check the quality of an item? Better order it and return it later when you figure out it is trash.

Long dead are the (deparement?)stores/(big?)corporations/people that had at least some caring about others. What was once normal is shifting, and it has been for years.

I am curious if the dude writing the article did raise up said concerns of fellow employees to their (respective?) boss(es); essentially if management does not prioritize caring is said issues, why would the lowers care about it?
I've always bounced off of Minetest at the "build a game out of modpacks" stage.

Anyone have recommendations? Nodecore looks fun, am open to others as well.
HoA areas are voluntary, you don't have to live in them. I wish we had that kind of thing in New Zealand that I could voluntarily buy into. I don't see anything wrong with having high standards where you live.
And in fact most new developments are built with HOAs already intact, meaning finding a home without an HOA is constantly becoming harder. This isn't a free market customer choice thing. The supply comes with the burden whether the customer wants it or not.
True. Sometime for frying oil is heated to higher temp and it is easy to forget.

If they can ban gas stove like we saw in NY, they can ban these forever chemical utensils.
Yeah I need to update the marketing site

Check out on https://twitter.com/superwhisperapp
I’ll call them marketing: writing collateral, commentary, discussion of products politics etc. All forms of writing that are not really subject to validation and can appeal to emotion more than rational/factual analysis. It will put a whole lot of such writers out of work although I hope there is an increase in editing as people tend to “hallucinate” less.

This change might undercut the value of things like movie and product reviews as they’ll be quickly and seemingly accurately created. Assuming there’s a scan for misused words or inverted meanings, a quick read won’t distinguish which side of the Turing test they’re on. And a common response to this is to disregard the lot to save time and effort.

Coupled with realistic animation, it might wipe out newsreaders as well as their writers. Similarly, actors and scriptwriters might be priced out of most work. But, as with other forms of automation, a net loss of jobs leads to a loss of economic activity and social stress. Language models aren’t good consumers.
Is it only the British monarchy you have an issue with? How do you feel about the monarchies of Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the many others?

I presume you are from the US? It seems a substantial number of US citizens believe the British monarchy to be an outlier and the only one worthy of comment.
It honestly worries me when I see people paint the whole "everything is a hallucination" angle as uniquely applying LLMs...

If you're going to be that loose with your definition of hallucination, I'd really hope you apply it to yourself. That's a level of introspection that you need to avoid letting biases that all of us have deep down end up affecting your higher order function.

We humans rely on a ball of biases, interpolations and extrapolations to function, LLMs don't have a monopoly on that.
Norway is a small country (1/300th the population of China) with Magnus Carlson. Chess could be of interest to a small fraction of China and still produce champions.
Intel voluntarily recalled the processors. The cost was about equivalent of $800M today, which is quite large, but nowhere near the cost of replacing every Meltdown-susceptible CPU. The FDIV recall probably didn't have any benefit for the majority of customers who used it.
The FAA shouldn't concern itself with reputation damage, it should purely look at safety. This is part of the problem.
This is the second post on HN to Gwern's site recently with fairly dubious assertions about the late development of something.

If he reads the comments here, that's good, but I'm going to have to take everything he writes now as "X doesn't exist" to "I don't know about X, but people generally familiar with the field might"