skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is not just the number of neurons and their connections, there are lots of analogue factors too, and my conjecture is that the magic happens somewhere beyond what can be digitized.
It's publicly traded and they pay RSUs.
I'm not, although it apparently came off that way.

I meant that, to a person reading the code, `auto` tells you about as much about the type you're looking at as no type at all (like in a dynamically typed language).

This chatter said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814337
Does Lua have the ability to launch very low cost sandboxed instances?

With Deno I know I can quickly spawn lots of isolated instances at very low overhead.

If I really want to push it far, there's tools for loading frozen snapshots that have lots of code loaded.

I've never seen similar from Lua & I'm not sure it exists. Seems like a huge advantage.
He is paid significantly more than better-performing CEOs like Cook and Nadella.
Well, if we are here for poor analogies, it's more like you gone to some 3rd-party shop and they flashed your ECU with a new firmware which gives you options your car hadn't before. And this is a thing already, for at least two decades, people are reprogramming the ECU to have more power. It's extremely popular.

What is similar in the both cases is what it's a 3rd-party option.

Look at my other comment in this thread, maybe it would be clearer what I mean.
Some applications use Lua for configuration: neovim, conky, awesome, etc.

I haven't looked into the details of this so I'm not sure if its a suitable replacement for embedding lua (binary size would be my first concern..does this embed v8?) But I would much prefer TypeScript as a configuration language than Lua.
I don't know why you think this is a good response. I'm familiar with his manifesto. They were "bad guys" who girls liked instead of him "nice guys" like him. It's the same crab bucket mentality all incels have that isn't healthy - instead of introspection, it's blaming other people for your own personality traits. The assumption that woman only like "mean, bad men" is misogynistic in it's own right.

If you are going to sit here and pretend Elliot's manfesto wasn't misogynist, then so be it, there's no point to carry water for these guys.
Hello, the 19th Century is calling and they want their economics back.

They "generate" the value by putting software on multi-billion dollar server farms, while sitting in buildings on top of billions worth of real estate. Did they pay for those and keep them running?
The problem is, we started putting pfas in drink straws because the old normal plastic (PET?) Straws got banned in Europe. The new paper ones have to be coated in pfas to stop them from soaking.

Of course banning straws would work too but they are extremely useful especially if you have sensitive teeth.
From a class perspective, it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, they are all equally guilty of exploitation. Board of directors agree pay their CEOs excessive salary, and the CEO in turns keeps this money away from the workers and away from the customers. Stock prices remain high, bank accounts in Panama fill up, workers gets fired, bosses get rich.

For me “Market rate” is just something the owning class tells us to gaslight us into accepting our exploitation. They created this market, they control this market, and exploiters go on exploiting.
I had no idea what lexing and parsing was when I wrote my first compiler so I tried writing both of these processes in the same module. It was so hard that I naturally split the lexing part of things in a first pass, then realized that it had a name and that it was what everyone was doing. So the simple answer is that it’s the natural way of doing things.
> again, disregarding I/O since then you typically have to know or cast

Thank you for answering for me!
The dental floss you're talking about is PTFE and not PFAS.
That's Google.

I don't bother to read most Google papers unless someone tells me that they're doing something astounding. Just because I know I don't have access to their models, their code or their data. So what's the point?

As a community we need to stop accepting and stop citing papers like these.

There is no science without replicability, and it is literally impossible to replicate this work. It's not worth the paper it's printed on.

It's fine if Google wants to play with its toys at home. But we should stop pretending this is research of any value.
Given that the company has $200 million valuation, that is $2 million per line of code! just kidding.

Still, I would like to understand $200 million valuation of langchain.ai.
No, you're just completely wrong. Life in general isn't supposed to be fun. If you believe that then you really missed the point. Sticking to a consistent exercise program doesn't take willpower, it's just a matter of discipline.
are you conveniently forgetting how none of those cards were actually available for consumers to buy
It's not just the cleaner error messages - if possible, you want to recover from syntactically invalid input at some point so that you can 1) detect errors that follow, but 2) more importantly, do NOT show errors past the point where the original error has recovered. This last bit is especially important in the context of visual dev tooling like IDEs and other smart editors where intermediate states involve missing semicolons, unmatched braces etc all the time. Roslyn (C#, VB) is one specific example of a parser where this approach is pervasive.
> Still I think they [automatic differentiation methods] should be at least mentioned in modern courses.

That might make more sense in another course, like one on numerical methods, rather than in a programming course that happens to use numerical differentiation as a demonstration of programming techniques and language features.
Jordan Neely’s Death and a Critical Moment in the Homelessness Crisis
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I encountered one of these the other day, in a mystery .ans file. I didn't immediately recognize what the SUB character was there for, which is an interesting observation on how far we are now into the world where that character never means end of text.

Interestingly, given that this is still a file format in active use by text artists, the mystery .ans file being datestamped May 2020, no-one appears to have added decoding this header to the file(1) command.
Seeing that Google has failed at every single initiative outside of ads, employees aren’t what they need. They need a vision.
Bugs, faults, errors
"Just build more houses", yet alone when framed as "it's up to you to convince your neighbors to let you to build more houses" just doesn't cut the mustard any more.

We need serious changes that are actually going to make a difference, along the lines of (for residential property):

* Outlawing mortgages for non occupiers.

* Sharing of capital gains with tenants.

* A complete end to no fault evictions.

* Universal right to buy for tenants.

* Putative tax for rental income.
OP did say hardware equivalent
Sure, why not. Let's add this to the 252 pages of the bill.
Humans don't seem to mind considering how many people buy these jackets either way.

I'm sure enough volunteers could be found.
As far as I get hacking into phone and root access is not enough to extract secret key. There also Secure Enclave exploit needed and supposedly it will be much harder to come by.
There's certainly a libertarian vibe, but I wouldn't say it's far more than the standard Republican party stuff.

In Boebert country you'll see plenty of less philosophical politics. "I identify as non-bidenary" stickers, yard signs about how Biden enjoys anal sex with illegal immigrants, that kind of thing.

Colorado polling suggests two thirds of Republicans and a third of "Independents" approved of the Dobbs decision restricting abortion. Half of Republicans and a third of "Independents" believe Biden didn't win the election.

Source: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/aprl/sites/default/files/attach...
Or you can quantize the model and run it on your laptop.
The Simon Willison coverage is great. Simon is cited in the "why we should have seen it coming" section, for his Stable Diffusion Moment piece. He nicely covers the key points of this paper:

> The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community.

Not to dilute from this beloved point, but also covers other key notes well too:

> Where things get really interesting is where they talk about “What We Missed”. The author is extremely bullish on LoRA—a technique that allows models to be fine-tuned in just a few hours of consumer hardware, producing improvements that can then be stacked on top of each other

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

Overall I take this as fairly happy news. It's a trend humanity stubbornly keeps trying to resist: open source wins.

It's great the barrier to innovation is so much less than expected, that so much experimentation is possible from atop the existing models.
> a whiteboard session

Whenever I hear this, I immediately think "dick measuring contest" and take the team far less seriously. A lot of these companies think they're training astronauts for the dregs of space when really they're just trying to build efficient database apps.
They could set it to zero, which would be in-line with severity of laying off of 10+ year high performers or those who are pregnant or on medical leave. I'd like to see an automatic condition where layoffs trigger a requirement that the directors and officers compensation will be set to zero for the next three years. You're basically severely fucking with people's lives and this has very real consequences for those people and society in general who has to pick up the pieces.
What I mean is, if they can't figure out the ad angle and end up facing an existential threat, they have enough money to just drop their existing ad business almost entirely, and buy out the leading AI company to integrate as a replacement business model. It would be bloody (in the business sense, at least), but Google would likely survive such drastic move.
I think the realtime requirement removes hadoop as an option. They might have considered using HDFS as the data store instead of S3, since putting lots of objects into s3 is expensive. Or just using a big EFS volume instead of S3.

It would be nice to know how much latency there was in the microservice version vs the monolithic version.
Given the track record of AP1000 construction, who do you think would ever order one?

I don't see a future for this. If somebody thought it was a feasible design for construction in Western countries, they could buy the half completed sites at Summer for a song.

I also think 300MW is too big. It's not really small enough to get the supposed benefits of small and modular.

The entire nuclear industry appears to be off its rocker when it comes to designs that are possible to construct for any reasonable amount of money. They bungled the AP1000 so badly that it bankrupted Westinghouse, and there's no reason to believe that they learned enough from the experience to do better next time. It's all terribly depressing, and completely soured me on the possibility of nuclear for the next 20-40 years. And in 20-40 years, look at how far storage, wind, and solar will have developed. It's unlikely that my nuclear will ever be a dominant energy source.
You're moving the goalpost to include severity or terribleness. It doesn't make it more or less heinous, but part of the definition of terrorism includes motive.

It's just like how a world leader's jilted ex-lover killing them for personal reasons doesn't make it an assassination just because they're a world leader.
They should be affordable, but the inflation and housing shock is affecting pretty much the entire market. Even the run up to 2020 was making housing more unaffordable as prices were rising faster than salaries for nearly a decade.
About the first advice, if we’re talking about Rust, it might be a good idea to turn a number of assertions into debug_assert, so that it does not affect performance during prod. Of course it’s almost always not the case that you would want to not fail in prod, but sometimes you KNOW that an assert will HAVE TO be triggered in tests.

Another way to think about this is that there’s three kind of errors:

- recoverable (return Err)

- unrecoverable (debug assert)

- unrecoverable and tricky (assert)
> Use a language with good compile speeds.

This is an interesting suggestion to me. Honestly, I consider a lot of other things like type safety and ergonomics of the language before I think about compile speed if at all.

However, that's not to say it's irrelevant. Perhaps I should be thinking about it more. I did notice that they didn't suggest any particular language with this comment. Compile speed seems like a difficult thing to compare between languages in general, since it would be difficult to make a genuine apples to apples comparison.
Your phone can tether via USB
There is something really endearing about this. It takes me back to those days where we were building something new and bugs just popped up and we had fun with them, doing silly things and then fixing them. Morale was high, team was fun, we were all learning and building something new.
LoRa is not a quantization method, it's a fine tuning method.
Emphasis on allegedly.
Sounds like you should try watching TV while you watch TV!
It's less water, but wouldn't likely have a higher concentration of PFAS chemicals?
Advanced protection is specifically designed to opt out of that protection. The entire point of AP is to opt-out of normal account recovery procedures because you take care seriously that an account recovery attack on Google is a legitimate threat.
> at-birth mental health issues

many of the most common mental health conditions (personality disorders, and schizophrenia) don't appear till the end of adolescence.
Wow, Vangelis' score is the best thing about the original and an epochal masterpiece. Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for the second one is just another Zimmer score, swiftly done to replace Johannsson's work. How different can perceptions be!
> That's exactly the trick. Have the head of the state encrusted in titles, ceremony and tradition, but with no practical power.

The British Monarch has more practical power than some elected heads of state in parliamentary republics (who typically do not have both vast personal landholdings and properties tied to the job and a veto, exercised confidentially, on any law that would impact them in their enjoyment of those privileges, which serves for potent and secret leverage on general legislation.)
There is several other countries like that. France where the author is from is similar.

You become French by having a French parent or being born on French soil.

Overall it’s a more of a « new world » thing. But I would say a handful of other place in Europe have similar laws.
You also have the option to pause your subscription. I use it whenever I’m accumulating too many credits, to catch up on my listening. If you didn’t like a title you can refund it after the pause.
Or running efficiently never maybe?
Too often correct. But in a case where Founder1 and Founder2 have absolute majority voting control, the Board is extremely unlikely to play such "obviously we'll vote to give each other raises" games. They are sitting in those cushy Board seats - or not - at 1 & 2's whim.
> My understanding is that schizophernia is a predisposed condition. Cannabis can trigger it but not really cause it.

If something is flammable, and so predisposed to burning, and you hold a lit match to it, you did cause the fire. You didn't just trigger it.
That's a lot easier said than done though. I mean it is quite easy to imagine how letting a 12 year old join a forum with anonymous adults can go wrong.

Then again that is basically the same fear that is preventing children from playing outside unsupervised. And not letting children play unsupervised may end up doing more harm, whether it is playing outside or exploring the internet.

That said I'm not sure if not doing something is an option here, partially because I'm getting the impression it's not simply the (luckily) rare 'bad people' that are a problem on the internet, there's whole industries that profit from children without concern for their wellbeing.
Creating a new lua context is pretty cheap, but I don't know how it compares to Deno / v8. It should be much lighter weight, but not sure if Deno / v8 does some special thing to speed up the use case you talked about.
I am not doubting you and my experience has been the same. My current home lab has a pretty good Jupyter server where I experiment with different local models vs GPT using LangChain and the simple chains can achieve some impressive parity with GPT3.5 depending on the use case and local model. Things do break down when we I do more complex things due to compute capacity. Im still running all of the local models on CPU mind you. I have not gotten to the point of testing on a high end GPU yet but based on what ive seen so far, it won't take much more to run smaller local models that are good enough. This is they key. On the client side, we want smaller more focused models. This is what the post linked in this thread hints at and I agree. We are months, if not weeks, if not days...and maybe hours (at this pace!) where those smaller more domain specific models are common. Still, they won't solve the issues I mentioned above. You will likely need to build your own platform around it, or pay exorbitant fees to host it in the Cloud.
I read it Road and Track magazine or some such when I was a child. If it turns out to be apocryphal, I wouldn't be surprised.
We are. Tons of new SFH and apartments.

The problem is lack of diversity of housing. There are no more rural suburbs and there's no urban housing centers. There's suburban SFHs, townhomes, and apartments, and nothing but. And no one likes it, but we all have to live with it.

Not to mention the potential walkable areas might as well just be a open door prison with the amount of crime and drugs.
I’ve seen other people that posted about the HN embrace talk about 50k extra visitors. I guess this is a single page, so 50k pageviews?
Discussed 9 hours ago, 140 points, 99 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35816789
Last time I compiled standard Lua I think it was only 300-400KB. It has all the cross platform file manipulation capabilities that C does. I was using TCC though, and it does seem to generate small (unoptimized) binaries.
Fine tuning isn't a thing for foundational models though, it's all about in context learning.
SMR is being sold as smaller thus inferring smaller mess when disaster strikes but I don't see that anywhere can you shed some light on whether it's safer? perhaps the smaller containment meant it can be constructed to a higher threshold?
> A pump and dump is a coordinated effort to artificially raise the price of a stock.

And with what methods are such coordinated efforts carried out? By communicating a narrative intended to convince people that the stock will go up, so that the audience buys it and it does go up.

The narrative is the central element of the pump of a pump and dump.
If it is seamlessly integrated, the AI won't even surface in a UI. You will just be presented with different options in the UI, which theoretically would be more precisely curated by the AI that you don't even see.
I agree, ironic that it’s taking about bad web design when it has hard to read fonts and a Mario like character jumping around.
Perhaps she is leading by example; how would you know otherwise? This article is not about her personal family planning decisions.
It's a great momentum to dominate eco system. Heard about Docker (that was more than http fetch wrapper) ?
Have they sold any of these to anyone yet?
Trying to figure out whether it's well-defined to compare two pointers to different objects in memory...

...By reading the C++ standard: "it's well-defined"

...By reading the C standard: *self-referencing Zalgo text quoted by dozens of StackOverflow thread debates where no completely confident conclusion is ever reached, although 3/4 people way smarter than you think it's well-defined and blame observations to the contrary on compiler bugs which they've reported to all the major compiler maintainers with varying reception from said maintainers as to whether they agree that those are actually bugs, forcing you, at the end of the day, to realize that you should really be writing your compiler's C, not aspiring to a universal, platonic ideal of C*
Development of a Universal Radio Test Instrument
Five million UK children lost a parent or other caregiver because of the pandemic. I'd start by doing something to reduce that.

Source: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/234197/at-least-million-chil...
We have gpt-4 deployed to production being used by fortune 100 labels.
Yep, when writing IaC I always just give it a prefix like "$project-web" and terraform adds a long string of numbers at the end. It's going through CloudFront anyways, so no one should be referencing the bucket name directly unless they're writing to it (and writers can just do `aws s3 ls` to find the name).
To the contrary, I think settling for a mechanism that (maybe) cleans up the damage after it’s done is defeatist.
Related comments about ReAct: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I mean, this is how we write programs usually ain't it? We break the problem up into chunks, composing functions and/or objects on our way to the solution.

In this case there's a fairly natural split, as you mention, so it's natural to use composition to handle this as well.
As much as I like to shit on Apple, I dont think you know how the MFI certification works, both in theory and in practice.
This is a weird argument, because “trigger” and “cause” here are exact synonyms.
The 1080 was impossible to buy at launch too and was sold out for months. And the 3060 is easy to buy!
It's always seemed unfortunate that they're going after high-volume but mostly inert and harmless plastics like PE/PP/PET in bans, causing them to be replaced by alternative materials which need to be augmented with much worse substances.
I guess JIT type specialization / "monomorphization" might be one way to do it, but I expect that it would be bottlenecked by all the surrounding CPython interpreter stuff.

/amateur_two_cents
> Casual users can play with the open models without much difficulty either, provided they take a few hours to work through an installation tutorial

That can be quite a barrier for entry for non-powerusers. I wouldn't underestimate serving casual users, considering that the alternative is OSS i.e. giving your shit away for free.
Economies of scale in production and demand isn't a moat?