skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused. Those amounts are ram, not gpu ram, aren‘t they? Macs cpus are impressive, but not for ml. A most realistic one for a consumer is a 4090 rtx 24 GB. A lot of models do not fit in that, so A6000 48GB and over for some professional cards. That might be around 9000€ already.
Regarding desoldering tools, I also hate solder suckers and instead use a mix of desoldering stations and desoldering braid. I used to very heavily use desoldering tools in challenging situations, such as large traces/joints covered with a lot of flux residue or conformal coating. I ended up working my way up the Hakko desoldering line and developed some opinions.

The Hakko 808 is discontinued and the FR-301 seems to be the current replacement. I used a FR-301 for a while and it was a fine tool. I've now switched over to a FM-2024 which connects to a FM-206 base station (among others). I found out that with heavy use I had many more issues with the FR-301 due to the longer tube between the nozzle tip and the solder capture chamber. The FM-2024 has a much shorter tube and the nozzle is integral with the tube. These factors make the FM-2024 more reliable and easy to clean under heavy use. The FM-2024 is also more lightweight and can be used with a gun or pencil grip. So if you do a lot of desoldering, desolder a lot of gunky/fluxy stuff, or have/want a compatible Hakko soldering station, I would suggest the FM-2024 over the FR-301.
Far be it from me to try to change your mind here, but based on my first hand experience this isn't true.

Myself, and all of members of my team in my location, were laid off 2 weeks ago from one of the big 4 tech companies. Within the 4 people on my team one was stack ranked within the top 20% of the org of ~75 engineers earlier this year and another was in the process of being promoted. The other two were new to the team.

From a strategic perspective as a company, firing us can be considered trimming the fat, but it isn't a reflection on the quality of the engineers. It's a reflection on the leadership of the engineers and if they believe they will be essential for the operation/growth of the org over the next few years.

Before this happened to me I had the same mindset that you had here -- that there was some responsibility the fired engineers had for being fired. I can tell you, from the other side, that just isn't so. The world is bigger than any single person and this stuff happens regardless if you are skilled at your craft or even liked by your coworkers.

It's painful right now for everyone who has been laid off, but from a holistic perspective, I agree with this article. It will be interesting to see what all of these people do with their talents.
Lol why ryanair?
Hilariously the Turkish diaspora living across Europe will be voting for Erdogan.
You don't get the SPOD at startup while it tries to replay every FSEvent that's ever happened?

Seriously, if that could get fixed, I'd still use TM, it's my favorite editor. But I can't even look at the sources because they're GPL3.
> I also don't think many program in vanilla Javascript

I enjoy coding in vanilla JS - my canvas library is 100% vJS, with a hand-written .d.ts file in the root directory in case anyone wants to import it into their TS project.

That said, I also enjoy jogging along cliff edges and sheltering under trees during storms so I'm not the sort of person who should be offering programming advice...
> I think, ultimately, this debate boils down to a conflict of two word views.

I'm pessimistic about the technologists. I favor a future in which god-like beings have good-like (notice the extra "o") morality, not just in how they treat others of their ilk, but in how they treat all others. I certainly don't want people in charge who feel about humanity the way Putin feels about Russia, but who also feel about nature (and other life in nature) the way Putin feels about Ukraine.

Live, and let live. It's not about tolerance, it's not about inclusion, it's about respect.
There's cross platform messengers like Signal. In EU most population uses WhatsApp as it's the most populat cross platform messenger here and if a first party experience for bot Android and iOS users without any bubble discrimination.

Why is Apple or Google the only messaging option for you? Those are not the only services on the market.
I feel like you're missing the forest from the trees here.
Working from 7:30 to 17:30 is already plenty productive...
I overlooked the unified memory on those machines. Can it really run this performantly?
>You're not going to get fired from Uber for being unable to cover a Friday night shift

I bet Uber absolutely de-prioritizes "unreliable" workers.
This is the big thing. The bigger salary more than covers the difference. And it's not just tech. Nurses in the UK make 25,000 pounds per year, nurses in the US make $85k or more.

I would rather have the higher salary with student loans, my own health insurance, and no subsidized childcare than make 25K GBP (at a higher tax rate!)
Would this mean the employees have to suddenly pay up their unpaid employee-contribution side of things like social security/FICA?
But isn't this the same as what LOAD_ATTR also does? It first checks the simple case, and if that fails, it goes the complex fallback route. Why does this need a new op? Or why would the standard LOAD_ATTR not do this?

Or are there multiple versions of the compiled function, and it modifies the bytecode per each call of the function?
Interestingly, lately, I find myself totally unable to do "nothing" -- to be unproductive by the description given in the article.

The perspective of spending 1 or 2 hours playing videogames or watching entertainment (movies, series) became terribly boring to me. I can only think of that as a loss of time: I wouldn't be a better person at the end of it.

Being able to better smash buttons, faster, at the right timing -- watching a story unfold on screen -- these used to be a great source of joy "before". But today, it seems all so dull; my intellect or my body doesn't get any better by doing that. Instead, reading whatever book on ML or even on an obscure programming language or technique, or spending time at the gym, or listening to a lecture on math or physics, sound so much more appealing to me.

I cannot spend time anymore just sitting, it literally upsets me. Anybody feeling the same?
> None of those things will replace personal vehicles.

Unless you mean in an abstract sense, They do, and they have. By replacement I mean "if there were a train to get me to work, I would take it instead of driving". I don't feel as free or private in a train, but I am using one instead of a car, and I would call that a replacement.

I am treating cars as a way to get from point A to point B because this is what they are to most people, and it's exactly why many people would and do use viable alternatives as a replacement: because getting from point A to point B is a more valuable function in many cases than freedom, status, privacy, storage, functional space, and mods. Europeans do not have 830 cars per capita because they have other methods of transportation that are a replacement for cars. I feel like this goes without saying, but just because a car is more private than a train etc does not mean trains shouldn't exist, which has essentially been the development ideology in America for the past 70 years, and what I'm arguing should change.
If Trump ever shows up in a video speaking coherently you know it's a fake.
but it's all connected.

- cities designed around cars

- bad worker protection laws

- corporate welfare first before human welfare

- monopolies driving up prices.
The OP was asking how a group of Senators can demand answers by just writing a letter to someone. The actual letter, linked to in the article, says "We respectfully request a written response to the following questions by June 8, 2023:". So not really a "demand", right? Like Ars just made that part up to create a more clickbaity title?

I think we all agree that the Congress has the authority to create committees to conduct investigations, and those committees can definitely make demands for information that you must respond to. But if some random Senator that is not acting on behalf of a committee sends you a letter with some questions, do you really have to answer if you don't feel like it? I'd ask a lawyer, because I spent a few minutes googling and didn't find anything useful.
A DMM is a precision tool. Especially a good 6.5 digit desktop one.

An oscilloscope is fantastically useful, but it is not a precision tool. Calibration is just OK, and most use 8-bit converters.
The people who are least impressed by GPT seem to be the ones who've never tried to build anything similar, even a text adventure game.

Industry outsiders also tend to take ML for granted, even when the 'experts' can see it's completely inappropriate. (My GF, a few years ago: "Why do we still need judges and juries? Can't computers judge cases and author legal opinions?" Me, at the time: "LOL, no, that would be ridiculous, and here's why..." Me, today: "Uh, about that argument we were having...")
What was also interesting and caused some issues was when Naspers owned ~1/3 of Tencent when at its peak was valued over $800 billion and their stake was worth more than the entire GDP of South Africa causing them to basically dwarf the rest of the Johannesburg exchange.
Is the right answer pointing out that Arnold might not be Beth's father, and so Beth Junior might be unrelated to Jacob?
Heat pumps, however, do not work in all climates
One of my earliest exposures to the power of bitwise operators happened when I was learning to write chess engines. This was right around the time 64 bit processors were hitting the markets, which allowed storing one bit of information per square, making it ideal for efficient processing via bitwise operators. There were some clever operations that allowed finding sliding piece collisions in only a few assembly instructions (with prodigious use of BSR and BSF) and a small amount of precomputed memory.

For anyone interested in binary chess math:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards#General_Bitboard_...
This will give you an idea.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...

In US terms somewhere around $240K USD, before tax.
ChatGPT Predicts the Breakthroughs of the Century
That's around the time of the Pixel 2 XL, IIRC. They wouldn't get base OS upgrades, except in emergencies.

I bet they are still getting updates Chrome, Gmail, Maps, and all the other core functionality from Google, though. Notably, the most security sensitive element is the system web browser. This also gets updated even when the base OS does not.

Android and iOS are different worlds. For most users, the update lifecycle differences are not large.
FAR too organized.
Same principle just with a different efficiency number. I doubt any but a fraction of combi boilers are 98% efficient: most people run them too hot, so they aren't able to recover sufficient energy to reach that goal. But in any case, you now have to account for installing and maintaining the gas network, refining the oil into gas, shipping the oil to the refinery, extracting the oil in the first place, exploring for the oil in the first place, and so on.

It's far more efficient to burn that fuel to move existing energy from one place (outside) to another (inside)... you can turn 1J of fuel into 4J of heating if you're lucky!
Former ESNer here.
The Erasmus Student Network is a volunteer-run organization in 100+ Cities all over Europe. It works like this:
You go on Erasmus to a foreign city and you find an ESN chapter there. Among other things, the ESN people there will organize events for you to participate in, help you get a mobile phone SIM card, a bank account and organize parties to mix Erasmus students with local students.

In my city I organized movie nights inside of the university and showed Austrian movies with english subtitles (e.g. Wolf Haas movies or "Muttertag") so foreign exchange students could learn about Austria and Austrian humour. There was a welcome party at the beginning of every semester in a big club with 600+ people and a goodbye party at the end of every semester. In between there were movie nights, museum vists, skiing trips, wine road trips, city tours, pub crawls and lots of other stuff to do and get to know Graz and Austria.

All of this is organized by volunteers (ESN members) who do this in their free time. There are city chapters of ESN (ESN Graz, ESN Vienna etc.) and above them a country chapter (ESN Austria). ESN Austria is a platform where all the volunteers meet and exchange information and ideas and talk about what works and what doesn't for our students. ESN Austria organized a skiing trip every year where they booked whole hotel and hundreds of Erasmus students from all over Austria could go there and try out skiing for a few days. Participating was cheap for the Erasmus students because ESN people got sponsors on board (e.g. free Red Bull and lots of other stuff). ESN Austria also had a cooperation with an Austrian telco and if you were an Erasmus students and you come to our office during our office hours, we give you a free sim card and a cheap bank account. The telco and the bank would pay us a few € for every activated sim card and every opened bank account and since ESN is a non-profit that money would go right back to the students (e.g. subsidized museum trips and other cultural events). It's really a win-win-win situation for everyone.

I was never on Erasmus but I was a volunteer for ESN both in my hometown and in our national chapter and due to this I got to know lots of amazing people, both volunteers and students, learned a lot, had a lot of fund and acquired a few skills that would turn out to be quite useful in my later life.
+background/foreground services. Our product does tonnes of photo/video uploads and iOS is a user nightmare by comparison. Android - kick off a service and happy user!

But that said the Android constantly-changing API's, device compatibility/fragmentation is a bit of a nightmare.
I think this is an amazing idea! The only flaw I see with it is that without the sensationalized headlines I read through going "Oh that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter either" etc haha I haven't found an article that sounds interesting in a few scrolls.

I mean, it's great because it's accurate. Half of the "news" we're fed is sensationalized so we'll click on it and it's really nothing but it gets us riled up about something that is effectively meaningless to us. This just brings reality to the forefront and makes me realize I don't care about the news lol

Thank you though, this is awesome!
This may be true even for inorganic matter, eg cracks in dried mud follow a predictable development that can be modeled quite economically.

http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28373/1/5915_Goehring.pdf
My Pixel (and I wouldn't buy anything other than Google hardware for Android because the integration and UX is top in the industry IMO) syncs up to my Google account, all my photos are freely stored, my phone backup is free, and any other backup data counts toward my Google One account.

If I bought an iPhone I'd have to buy Apple storage to do all of that, and I don't want to. My Google One account has Youtube Music and Youtube premium along with the storage. I never see Youtube ads which alone is worth every penny.

Other than that I really don't miss one thing from my old iPhone. Smartphones are so good these days all iOS competes on is sugar on top.
I'm definitely anti-IRS at this point in most ways, but... let's be honest, this is FTX we're talking about. Their so-called "balance sheet" for their multi-billion dollar operation was an approximately one-screen-large Excel file at a level of detail that would have embarrassed your local plumbing shop. Even through my anti-IRS biases I have no problem whatsoever believing that FTX went well beyond playing "fast and loose" with tax laws to outright tax fraud. I doubt this is even the end of their troubles, which will more likely end simply by the matter becoming moot rather than investigations coming to their end.

FTX was so badly run that it isn't even suitable as a business school case study. The questions it really raises is how they got as far as they did at that scale without ramming into one legal wall or another even sooner, and I don't even mean exotic cryptocurrency laws, I mean just plain ol' corporate laws that everyone else faces. How much you want to bet they weren't correctly an Equal Opportunity Employer, or managed to have non-trivial OSHA violations, or... just pick your agency, really.
I wonder if the parent comment was made tongue-in-cheek :)
I believe that ideas usually come from personal needs or desires.
This doesn't match my mental model (or implemented model in the case of GPT2) of how self-attention works (you need to calculate the residual stream for each individual token, attending to all prior tokens before it). Have a link?
Should've just invested in public cloud providers :D
So IRS is asking FTX to pay millions of dollars in unpaid payroll taxes as result of classifying FTX workers from contractors to employees. Will IRS refund said workers the payroll taxes workers paid as part of their Schedule-C? (Contractors pay their own payroll taxes when they file Schedule-C; companies pay payroll taxes for their employees, but not for their contractors)
Do you have thoughts around the concept of Python becoming a Rust macro based language? I read another comment about that being a potential future for Python but I don't know how feasible it is.

I've moved on to Go for things where I need to care about performance but like thinking about things in a similar way Python lets me think about them.
What I am saying is that entertaining the idea, that there might be a job out there that you actually enjoy, might help you find it. At the end of the day is a transaction and is better to learn to make good deals for oneself, and also accept if one can only take a bad deal at the moment. I always tried to make the best out of the bad deals with different degree of success.
Apple's messaging protocol makes that impossible. It is intentional vendor lockin.
I dunno if this is still true but a couple of years ago MySQL was cheaper on AWS (RDS/Aurora) than Postgres.
I see they have a workspaces applet that has "row" and "column" in the source code. I'd love to see a GNOME-like DE that supports 2D workspaces again so I can happily abandon my GNOME extension (Workspace Matrix).

I couldn't figure out how to run COSMIC so I couldn't test if the applet really supports 2D workspaces, though.
Also interested in the responses, not because it seems like a close decision but because I would pick postgres by default for anything (anything that isn't simple enough to be done in sqlite).
Kinda, as usual within Javaland, there's a lot of reflection involved into making annotated interfaces (a kinda of standard Java reasonably limited dsl capabilities) pop up as singletrons connecting to your database/OLAP/LDAP/REST-endpoints/websocket-clients/whatever.

Same thing for serialization things, you define interfaces, the actual classes often just pop into existence by generated bytecode.

It's also not unknown to bring JSP/EL (literally requires a Java Compiler embedded in your server to compile servlet objects for you on the fly) or some other, on purpose less fully featured template things with their own DSLs like Thymeleaf to do the same job.
These features aren't even all that new. The "find my device" name has been used since at least 2017, for one. Live wallpapers have been a feature in Android since at least Android 2 and I distinctly remember apps for setting videos as wallpapers popping up almost immediately (with the corresponding impact on battery life, especially back in the day).

I can't say I know what an emoji wallpaper is. From what I can find, it's just another type of live wallpaper? I guess the new Android version may integrate better with the system UI colour theming?

RCS is an absolute failure. It's better than SMS but so is Signal, and with Signal your ISP can't read your messages. With the EU forcing companies like Apple to interoperate, Google should really be looking towards initiatives such as MIMI rather than try to force this stupid phone carrier-based protocol down everyone's throats.

The new Pixel phone seems to be doing things well. It's well-reviewed, despite its comparatively mid-range processor, and the new Android theme seems to fit the device well. These new Pixel devices all seem pretty good, to be honest. If Google can manage to keep supporting these devices (sounds impossible, I know!) I think they have a find product range on their hands.

I don't know what the Whatsapp bug has to do with Google, though? I suspect that's just WhatsApp's calling functionality not giving up a microphone lock after the app is dismissed into the background.
Why is it hashing files and not blocks? If a block is hashed and written there's no need to touch it again.
Yup lol. Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906258

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8067/if-only-the-s...
20th Century, but here's a great article on Benny Shanon, perhaps the foremost researcher on DMT:

https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...

One of the reports of his own experiences with the substance was as follows:

>Another pattern of interpreting-as is one I shall characterize as seeing the particular as generic, or rather, seeing the generic in the particular. I have experi­enced this on a number of occasions. The first, which for me was very striking, occurred during the daytime. It was in a village and I, intoxicated, was sitting on a small verandah overlooking the meadows. A farmer (a real one) was passing by, and I saw The Farmer, the universal prototype of all farmers. Again, as in the previous example, the standard perception and the non-ordinary one are related. After all, I saw The Farmer, not The Fisherman or The King. Yet, while normally I would have seen just a farmer, this time I saw The Farmer. While semantically linked, experientially these two perceptions are totally different. I have heard accounts of the very same phenomenon from my informants.

--

I've never taken DMT, but I'm curious if people who have can report similar experiences of effectively seeing Platonic forms (or at least, believing they have).
What I think is missed in this conversation is that this behavior seems to be almost exclusive to America as the rest of the world has moved onto WhatsApp. The "blue bubble" rants, to me are like complaining that google's messenger doesn't work with WhatsApp. I'm not sympathetic to Google here. They shit the bed on messaging for years, and now Apple must open up.
How would that fix the blue bubble problem?
When it started, the native text editing on the Mac was limited to 32K chunks! Need anything more, you could start with the raw APIs that lay out a single line of text and do it by hand.
We blocked their domain on our email security gateway.
> why should they spend more time catering to you rather than spending it on more interesting problems?

Of course, if you're content with your community stagnating and nobody ever using that software, then there's really no reason to put that effort in.

I remember similar arguments about Linux installers. Why should they cater to people who don't even know fdisk? We have kernel to work on, UX of an installer - with obvious, immediate impact on adoption and getting new users - is boring in comparison. Having installed Fedora last week I can attest that this line of thinking, fortunately, went away in Linux as far as installers go. The chances of it going away in the Pharo community, however, are slim at best.
A few questions:

1) Who is being abused? The platform? Can you elaborate?

2) Can you give an example of the corporate brainwashing you’re referring to?

3) What are you glad about specifically?
I want javafx back in jdk!