skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally the inputs are padded out to the context length [1] and so the cost to embed 1 token or N tokens is the same. The output is produced token-by-token and so the amount of GPU time increases with the number of output tokens.

[1] I'm not sure if these huge context lengths are achieved the same way (i.e. a single input vector of length N) but given the cost is constant for input I would assume the resource usage is too.
You can't just reword things and get a better result. If there actually is an alien invasion and the earth is actually doomed, that's actually the correct headline.

Media literacy is about way more than about the wording of headlines. It's also about understanding why a headline was selected, who benefits from a story, whether the story is internally logically consistent, and why were the people quoted selected, context of the story that you wouldn't know just from reading it, etc.

I say this as someone that wrote a browser plugin to do something similar in like 2011 by screening words that indicated the headline was pointless.
I've been running it on my NAS-slash-homeserver for... 5 or 6 years now, I think. Root on a single SSD, data on a few HDDs in RAID1. It's been great so far. My desktops are all btrfs too, and the integration between OpenSUSE's package manager and btrfs snapshots has been useful more than once.
I believe it's still mostly C, and it definitely uses some custom text field stuff. If it were using the Cocoa textfield it would have smooth scrolling, but BBEdit still retains line-by-line scrolling.
This is absolutely a governmental issue- S Korea and the US are similar in that people are having fewer children in these places because having children is prohibitively expensive. Having children is prohibitively expensive because income inequality is at an all time high - a smaller and smaller portion of people are able to capture more and more of the resources. Income inequality is a direct result of government policy and can be mediated with changes to those policies. It's happened before, and it can happen again.
"take a good look at me, because you will be me sooner than you think".

I add: "IF you are Lucky!"

(Are you feeling lucky, punk? ;-) -- Thanks Dirty Harry! This part does NOT get voiced!)

Seriously, agree completely with this comment. I'm, ahhh, 'more experienced' than many here, if experience is measured in years.

And that's my top suggestion: make sure that 10- or 20-years' experience is NOT 10x or 20x 1-year experience. Aggressively keep learning, and improving. e.g. today if you're NOT using Copilot -- why not?

Except as noted, re: ageism, it has only gotten better for me as a dev. Enjoy and celebrate that.
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Definitely addicts. If they're obese that's even worse.
Soowih! If the bezel sizes could be consistent it might be possible to overlook the ugliness long enough to gain from the practical benefit.

Imagine a matched line monitors/readers which looked good together and could be placed either side of each other. Maybe a daisy chained computer interface, or not. Would have looked better and sold better too.
Or you can buy an old crt one for £10 and see if you have use for a scope before you commit. They do take up more room though!
This is very exciting to see. I invested in several System76 machines for my team, and have been extremely happy with the computers and distribution. Coming to Pop_OS! from Ubuntu has been wonderful - systems upgrade properly, external devices work, and my team is productive. It reminds me of when I first started to use Mac OS X - things just work. The current Gnome/COSMIC is slick and I am looking forward to using their new COSMIC DE when it comes out.
This is some unpopular opinion but please, do not buy extra components thinking that you will use it in some extrea projects. Only buy components that your current design needs. It's even better if you can get a board house to assemble them before it arrives at your desk. Otherwise it is the beginning of the fall to a hoarder life.

Except if you are playing in RF or some black magic where simulation does not cut it...
P.s.: Here is the European Commission on the use of capacity renumeration: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/cap...
> My understanding was that the advantages of A4 are more practical than aesthetic

The oft-cited reason is that you can fold A4 in half, etc. to form other standardized paper sizes.

Which sounds nice, but in practice just doesn't come up all that often.
> That just described how I feel about Typescript - created by Java programmers

Close! C# programmers. :)
I agree JS spec is like C, whereas some JS frameworks like Typescript are more like C++ where it's 100% using JS but w/ brevity to the end user. Think:

Note: I'm a moderate JS dev so correct me if I'm wrong.
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There are very few "modern farmers" these days, because most farming is done by agribusiness on an industrial scale with industrial processes.

The farmers you talked to are a rapidly-dwindling niche group.

You wouldn't be able to have a conversation with an agribusiness, just like you can't have a conversation with a corporation.
> Costs have decreased for 2018 tech, but not for 2023 tech

WaveNet is 2018 tech though. I'm curious why that hasn't gotten cheaper.
>Ah I like those applications, I like to wave at them as I close the tab.

I feel the same way about applications that ask payment.
Always wondered at the back of my mind how successive UK Governments have managed to get away with squaring age based minimum wages with Article 14 of the ECHR, which is supposed to prevent age based discrimination. Surely someone has tried to bring a case - virtually every other question of law in the UK regarding the ECHR/Human Rights Act has made its way to Strasbourg.
ZFS will do this. Give it a RAIDz-{1..3} setup and you've got the FEC/Parity calculations that happen. Every read has it's checksum checked, and when reading if it finds issues it'll start resilvering them asap. You are of course right in that it will eventually start getting to worse and worse performance as it's having to do much more rewriting and full on scrubbing if there are constant amounts of errors happening but it can generally handle things pretty well.
That's what I think of when I read “electronics lab bench”. The one in the article is so clean and well organized, I'm getting jealous.
Wait until you have to maintain someone else's overly crufty, inheritance-based JS framework.
Can you give some details on your tool? I've played the "productivity app whack-a-mole" game, too, and always walk away empty. I just stick with a pen and paper, but I'd love a digital solution.
Friend of the subeditor who came up with "6,000 RIM jobs on the line".
hard disks generally don't do well when left to rut. and if you need to repair it, fitting replacement parts my not be easy to come by anymore.
writable cd-roms are also not very reliable for long term storage. quality of the material surely makes a big difference, but lifespan is about 10 to 20 years. that being said, I still have floppies from end of the 80's that still work
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>Also from what I gather on the whole the average IQ of the world is increasing, how is that explained?

Lots of factors impact IQ besides genetics. Education, nutrition, and environment are huge factors.

If you take two newborns and lock one in a dark cage, and raise the other with everything the world has to offer, you will see differences on IQ tests.

This isn't evidence that IQ doesn't exist. IQ is just one measure of applied thought and reasoning so you would expect it to track anything that affects those attributes.
>just install eslint with insane defaults

where do I find these insane defaults?
Man I am so excited for usable HDR in a Linux DE. Might even be encouraged to buy a System76 laptop at this point. Very good news about the accessibility work as well :)
OT but his mention of the calculator reminded me of discovering just yesterday that the built in Mac calculator has a Programmer mode (apparently Windows too) for hex, etc.

I’d been using the RPN/scientific mode for ever but never new about Programmer mode.

I’m actually doing a fair amount of hex conversions and bit fiddling these days (webassembly bytecode) so it was actually something useful.
Moderation is a back-stop service with plenty of candidates in the pool; companies fire new moderators for coming into the job with the wrong "taste" all the time because it's much, much easier to cycle someone out and grab someone new than to train someone who has the wrong "common sense."
Try installing the TypeScript language server. More here: https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/lsp-notes.html
async/await is still pretty old by now. Maybe they wanted to be consistent with even older examples. I dunno, every single thing Google-related uses promises, so I'm thinking they're partial to that for some reason.

Another example from 4mo ago: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/javascript/blob/master/... (the catch at the end is a promise catch)
The main reason we all work for someone else is for money but there is something to be said about the things we build at work and not caring about them. This is something that took me a long time to realize but you need to stop thinking about software as a field and start thinking of it as a skill set. From there figure out what interests you. Wildlife, economics, vehicles, etc. or whatever, and then use your skill set to work on what field of your choosing.

Working on something that doesn't interest you just for the sake of technology is not something that will ever make you happy. If you truly have no interest in anything then that's another problem on itself.
Dude, you are a thinking like an idiot. Spend some time with your wife FFS. Who cares about being productive or playing fucking video games. Your wife ranked at the bottom of you list next to generic friend. You need to reconsider whats actually valuable to you. You need some soul searching
Dasung has some too. Not cheap either though.

What's wild about this Philips one is they are pricing it like a 13" eInk monitor with a 24" color monitor attached for free.
TextEdit is similarly old to BBEdit, just a little younger—- shipping with OPENSTEP in 1996.
I don't think RLHF datasets need to take full advantage of the context window. There's also many ways to programatically generate NLP datasets.
Earth's ecosystem can only absorb the side-effect of so many spaceflights per year. It's one thing to advance the state-of-the-art of space travel vehicles, it's another thing to plan on colonizing the solar system with the equivalent of coal-burning, soot-emitting, 19th century locomotives.

Billions of people could live in habitats in orbit around Earth, while mining local asteroids or the moon. Targeting one of the deepest gravity wells in the inner solar system doesn't seem like a good first step.
My first thought:

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
I think I caught the tail end of that in the 90s. I remember taking a class from the local parks and recreation department where we programmed a little robot in (I think?) LOGO.
> In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the actual facts and relevant information.

A reasonable premise! But easier said than done. I wonder how this app counteracts the hallucination and lying behavior of LLMs.* Would be pretty bad to trade off easier-to-decipher human bias and sensationalism for distorted truths and lies from an obfuscated sequence of dot products!

* I assume they are using LLMs because they state:

> By utilizing the power of advanced AI language models capable of generating human-like text,
I'll even go a step further. In some cases cheaters are doing better, because that kind of behavior is what's expected of them in "the real world", just don't get caught.

People with integrity get run over.
Instant Rollback is now generally available to revert deployments
I actually appreciate his wealth of knowledge (Paul Stamets) and his presentation of facts, often I learn a lot and his holistic approach is something that most universities would find impossible to implement as curricula. While not a classically-trained scientist, he is an erudite scholar of the highest caliber and his continual contributions to science and furthering our understanding of the natural world more closely correlates to the inceptive motivations of Science than would be found in the modern day tower of ivory.
Frugality is an understatement on that timeline. To retire in 10 years you're going to have to be able to live comfortably on something like 1/3rd of your take home pay.

No employer is going to pay you 3x what your nearest peer is willing to live on.
They could settle for the max width and height of both to have a single product for all markets.
So I tried this prompt in their chatbot arena multiple times. Each time getting the wrong answer:

"Given that Beth is Sue's sister and Arnold is Sue's father and Beth Junior is Beth's Daughter and Jacob is Arnold's Great Grandfather, who is Jacob to Beth Junior?"
It's not going to be a crutch. It's going to be a large segment of lower paid grunts, doing work that will be less difficult and more mind numbing. The requirements will still be modestly high, you'll need a degree, and you'll get paid less than today's software developers (in some cases far less).

A software developer in the future will be someone who only interfaces with AI centric tools, with the AI writing essentially all the code. It'll be rare to directly tweak code for the typical software developer. It will no longer mean someone who writes code to develop software, it will mean someone who uses AI tools to develop software.

What you think of as a software developer today, isn't what people will know them as in another 15 years. It'll happen fast. The code is going to get abstracted away. An 18 year old in 2040 that is looking to become a software developer will go to school for how to build software, which will mean using AI tools to do it; they won't go to school to learn how to program. In fact they won't know much about writing code at all.

In several decades it will be a far more rare skill, that will be viewed as a bit archaic, to still directly write software code. Stories will abound about the old times when millions of people used to directly write code, and they got paid ridiculously well to do it. That problem got solved.

One of the great benefits of AI will be abstracting away complexity (complexity as far as the human mind is concerned), and writing software code is a big juicy target that won't be difficult to abstract away (for something like GPT version 13).
It's like Apple but for musicians. If you need to care about the price you are likely not the target audience.

Thanks but I will stick with my Zoom field recorder.
You can have a private militia, so long as you don't take your operations to the public realm. And if it gets to the point where your militia is useful, then I don't think that law matters anyways.

Also, I still find SCOTUS too milquetoast to represent me. They still ruled in favor of permitting, which is blatantly unconstitutional, and to argue otherwise is totally disingenuous.

I don't think you're worth my time, nor am I yours.
In addition to what you point out:

If the IPS panel is on while you read on the E-Paper screen, there will be light aimed at your eyes from the left side. That alone will cancel out a good deal of the benefits of reading from a reflective screen. Similar to using a regular display against a daylight lit background, such as an open window.
Its a scientific collection. Not just some random poacher's loot. Building such collections of specimens to support is crucial to life sciences in particular.[0]
This skull collection is the life work of Ray Bandar.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_collection

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bandar
But how many heat their homes with electricity? Many households in France (and the UK and elsewhere) are heating their homes with gas and the same goes for cooking. The share of electricity of the total energy consumption is also important to consider.
I don't know how anyone can say this with a straight face when Google is the one who invented LLMs as used today to begin with.

Google has a product issue, not an AI research one.
Canada is kind of slowly imploding. It's going through a lot of crisis currently. Housing is one of the biggest ones, for example I am a housing activist and trying to do something actively about the housing crisis happening in Canada.
Philips pretty much doesn't exist anymore, they have sold off most of their divisions one by one.

For example, a Philips monitor is now actually produced by TPV / MMD, who have an exclusive right to sell Philips-branded monitors. It's the same company making AOC and Envision.

They used to be a pretty good company, though! Its spinoffs are highly successful (NXP Semiconductors, Nexperia, ASML, parts of Thales, parts of Atos Origin), and it did create a boatload of innovations like the CD.
Boston edit?
> is it that important to open source models that can only run on hardware worth tens of thousand of dollars?

Yes, because as we've seen with other open source AI models, it's often possible for people to fork code and modify it in such a way that it runs on consumer grade hardware.
I just start a new project on top of the pile of unfinished projects, coffee cups, home repairs, bike parts, etc.
No one said anything about avoiding participating in an economy or abstaining from tools.

You seem to be confusing permaculture with primitivism.
This is a very nice guide. Lots of good choices.

One thing I would add is that having a solid bench with a replaceable surface to do dirty/cutting things on is really useful.

I have a really solid desk I made out of scaffolding planks and recycled roof timbers. The surface is then made using either Ikea bamboo chopping boards (they were on offer) or some other replaceable work top.

Another thing that might be useful for Beginners +1 is a second hand bench top multimeter. This is only useful if you are not going to be mobile. They have the advantage that they are always there, and aren't moved much. If you have a more fancy o-scope, this isn't probably needed as you can do most things on that (once you've learnt how to.)

This is personal preference, so do take this as a personal opinion.
Could be BotW is the problem. I was so much happier when I switched to Genshin Impact :-D
It was team-sized. So, not writing open-source libs used by multiple companies or something, but ~10 people were looking at the code.

At my current job we do have a lot of untyped Python used by tons of people, and it's fine. People can read the code without it asserting in every line what each variable is. You just make sure any widely-used APIs are documented properly, which typing doesn't really help with. Also anything modern is more microservice-oriented which comes with nicer boundaries, and everything has tests (which again typing is no substitute for). Typing seems like a mostly outdated thing for application-level stuff.
I agree. Although one side effect of the Boring Report's approach that I quite like is that it also seems to make the headlines more informative.
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The hooters waitress just thinks the joke was really funny...
I agree utility of open source for personal usecase is overblown.

But for commercial usecases, open source is very relevant for privacy reasons as many enterprises have strict policy not to share data with third party. Also it could be a lot cheaper for bulk inference or to have a small model for particular task.
You misunderstand. He is like you. He felt anxious when he wasn't being productive so he spent his free time studying or whatever. But at some point maybe that stops working for you. Maybe you just don't have energy left and need a break. That happened to him and the important realization is that then you also have to let go of that anxious feeling, because if you aren't gonna be productive you might as well have fun. It's easy to say "to each their own" if it hasn't happened to you (yet): not actually feeling like being productive while still having that anxious feeling. So what I'm trying to say is: It's good to be productive but being driven by anxiety is maybe not something you should view as a fundamental character trait of yours.
I'm old enough to remember when "handwriting" meant cursive. If I want to use a font that looks like block print, there's already tons of them out there. There's nothing particular distinctive about my block printing.
From the article you linked:

>Ultimately, the term fractal dimension became the phrase with which Mandelbrot himself became most comfortable with respect to encapsulating the meaning of the word fractal, a term he created. After several iterations over years, Mandelbrot settled on this use of the language: "...to use fractal without a pedantic definition, to use fractal dimension as a generic term applicable to all the variants."
> Management at tech companies is comprised of non-technical people.

Sometimes there's good reasons for this
What is your timezone, and area of expertise? Maybe you can try getting into a remote gig, with less crazy working hours? We use a lot of offshore labor at $CORPO_OVERLORD, at somewhat more normal work hours.

Best of luck, hang tight..!
I read about BBEdit on HN a few months ago and realized it has one use-case where it excels: text transformation and regex search/replace across files. When it comes to this, no other editor I know can hold water: neither Sublime, nor VS Code, nor Vim. And forget about Emacs, as regexes need to be awkwardly double or triple backslashed.

Text transformations can be done via regex, predefined functions, or any scripting language, where the scripts will be listed in the menu.

Regex search/replace has a history of used patterns, so you can reuse them.

All in all, it is a very lightweight editor with excellent text transformation features that no other editor can offer.

I use VS Code for coding, Emacs as a Lisp machine and its macro recorder for repetitive tasks, and BBEdit for all other text transformation tasks.