skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's different is not so much the language (though it is likely unlike anything you've ever used before) but the extreme focus on reliability, error handling, OTP, BEAM and all the other Erlang goodies. All of the parts are impressive individually, they work together to create something that is in my opinion unparalleled in the software world. Read this paper to get a much better idea of what makes this a very unique combination of elements: https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

Good luck!
Oh, interesting. There's a link (by "Noel Cass") from that twitter thread to an article by "Dan Hancox", who refers to him as "The omnipotent narrator". That's the opposite of his approach; he's very coy and elliptical.

That article by Hancox is a tedious rant, by the way; don't bother.

The ashes of the RCP have come to life in the contemporary Tory Party. I had no idea that Curtis had had connections to the RCP.
CNN's YT channel has this clip of Bill Maher taking a stab at it:

How Bill Maher defines 'woke' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwC-10O0cw
I'm not saying I want it, I'm saying it is an ingredient to the function and survival of a society, especially as the number of members of a society grows and diversifies.
People just like excuses to rewrite stuff with new fancy toys I guess.

We have code running for 10+ years in our CM. It's not technical debt. It's well tested asset that continually produces value without much problems or maintenance, coz most of them were already rooted out.

Sure if it was 10 years old blob in language nobody writes in in company it would have been potential liability but assuming every piece of software is that because it is old is a problem.
I guess I've never been to a music store that has the drums on the main floor. Nearly all the main sections are dedicated to guitars because that's what sells. I've even been to some where the drums are on a different floor. Personally, as a computer programmer, I've embraced social awkwardness as a core part of my being though, so being terrible at drums in front of bunch of people I don't know would be right up my alley haha.
D'oh! I drafted this up in Notion; just fixed, thank you for letting me know!
You mean catching up to government paranoia initiated by 9/11 which led to 2 unnecessary wars, never seen before government surveillance and destabilization of the middle east. Great job, let's do the same!
just rename everything to ML, in fact you could start a company and call it OpenML
Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher
>>He specifically said that licensing wouldn’t be for the smaller places

This is not a rebuttle to regulatory capture. it is in fact built into the model

These "small companies" are feeder systems for the large company, it is a place for companies to raise to the level where they would come under the burden of regulations, and prevented from growing larger there by making them very easy to acquire by the large company.

The small company has to sell or raise massive amounts of capital to just piss away on compliance cost. Most will just sell
Honestly, I wish this was around 10 years ago to save my late mother's voice. I saved all my voicemails I have from her and wish I could hear more from her.
In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours
Schwarzenegger Gets Candid on Career, Failures, Aging
The S-Curve of LLMs
You make it sound like the only possible motivation a person might have to start such a business would be to exploit the incarcerated.

What if the founder is a former inmate, and says “I wish there was something like that available when I was on the inside?”

Even if the business is officially classified as “for-profit”, there’s a big difference between a business seeking a living wage for its founders and employees versus one trying to make as much money as possible. In fact, it could even be owned by a charity - sometimes charities start 100% owned for-profit businesses, not because they want immense returns, but simply because sometimes the legal constraints on a charity can be too limiting, but a for-profit subsidiary isn’t subject to them

I have no interest in starting such a business myself, anyway.
"Unexpectedly" in this context might be referring to the actual event in which they traveled from their home to their cell, in which case the unexpected nature could easily prevent them from securing the Google account.

I hardly think it matters anyway. Take out "unexpectedly" and their complaint is exactly the same. Suggesting that someone who went to jail shoulda/coulda/woulda taken steps to avoid being locked out of their Google account is not practically different from victim-blaming.
This film was about to make it to the Cinema and many Cinemas pulled it.

What was odd is they said it hadn't received a certification, but very weird that many Cinemas had already planned to show it and had to pull the screenings.

What I love about a controversial story, is controversy like this actually makes the film more popular as people want to see what its about.

Looks like its been cleared since.

https://www.news18.com/videos/the-kerala-story-controversy-t...
Yes there have been many demonstrations but public availability of it is spotty right now.
I understand that 2FA is good but it can also be annoying when you've forgotten the email backup.
I am literally agreeing with you but in a much more precise way. These are questions of “who gets what stuff”, “who gets which house”, “who gets which heart transplant”, “which human being sits in the big chair at which corporation”, “which file on which server that’s part of the SWIFT network reports that you own how much money”, “which wannabe operator decides their department needs to purchase which fascist predictive policing software”, etc.

Imagine I 1. hooked up a camera feed of a lava lamp to generate some bits and then 2. hooked up the US nuclear first strike network to it. I would be an idiot, but would I be an idiot because of 1. or 2.?

Basically I think it’s totally reasonable to hold these two beliefs: 1. there is no reason to fear the LLM 2. there is every reason to fear the LLM in the hands of those who refuse to think about their actions and the burdens they may impose on others, probably because they will justify the means through some kind of wishy washy appeal to bad probability theory.

The -plogp that you use to judge the sense of some predicted action you take is just a model, it’s just numbers in RAM. Only when those numbers are converted into destructive social decisions does it convert into something of consequence.

I agree that society is beginning to design all kinds of ornate algorithmic beating sticks to use against the people. The blame lies with the ones choosing to read tea leaves and then using the tea leaves to justify application of whatever Kafkaesque policies they design.
Siri was so good before iOS 13, I'm not sure what they did in that release but it went from around 90-95% accuracy and 80-90% contextual understanding - down to 70% and 75% respectively.

As someone who dictates more than half of their messages and is an incredibly heavy user of Siri for performing basic tasks I really noticed this sudden decline in quality and it's never got back up there - in fact, iOS 16 really struggles with many basic words. Before iOS 13. I would have been able to dictate these two paragraphs likely without any errors however, I've just had to edit them in five places.
Very true. It really doesn't take much these days!
Hi there, thank you for your inquiry!

Upon review of their system, it appears that although there may be similarities, there are some notable differences between their service and ours.

Specifically, it seems that their CPU-based virtual machines come with preset configurations, lacking full customizability. Additionally, I was unable to locate an additional storage solution, reserved instances, organization and auto top-up system on their platform.

On the other hand, we do not plan on offering anything similar to their "marketplace cloud" with individual hosts.
Japan Is Unmasking, and Its Smile Coach Is Busy
The original Power Rangers lol
What an asshole
Without fossil fuels everyone starves to death.
I'm willing to follow dang if they decide to ditch HN and reboot it someplace separate from YC.
That's a claim they made without any evidence to support it, which is a troubling trend with this team. Personally I see them as engaging in unethical behavior by their misleading statements like that one where they genuinely can't know whether the hybrid would be rejected.
> Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game reference.

That’s cute but also completely untrue, “winner winner chicken dinner” predates video-games by half a century at least.
Nice. Here's how it might go down:

He climbs up somewhere and gets kinda stuck. I go over to him and put my hand on his back and breathe and invite him to breathe. Then I spot him, but I don't help him down, I encourage him that he'll be able to get down.

Often, he only wanted his mom to do the breathing with him. That's fine. He falls, cries, we both offer him a hug, he goes to mom and she breathes with him while he cries and I put my hand on his back while she's holding him and offer him a gentle gaze if he wants to look at me, while I breathe with him as well.
How far are we from being able to simulate every molecule and folding in our body, tell a neural net what the desire outcome is and have it point out everything that prevents the desired outcome and what to do about it in a way that also doesnt prevent the desired outcome
Probably all of the above, plus:

- Availability of genetic material (for extinct animals) can be widely variable. For something like mammoths, we've been able to extract genetic material from frozen arctic samples; one would have to assume that samples as large as mammoths are more likely to draw notice and researchers than, say, a preserved mosquito (Jurassic park notwithstanding).

- Proximity to existing species' reproductive biology: we know _a lot_ about how to manipulate reproductive processes in large placental mammals, and most of this sort of cloning is performed mechanically by harnessing the reproductive process of a host with similar biology (in this case presumably by implanting an embryo in a modern elephant for gestation).
Exactly. I have been using OpenAI for taking transcriptions and finding keywords/phrases that belong to particular categories. There are existing tools/services that do this – but I would need to learn their API.

With OpenAI, I described it in English, provided sample JSON that I would like, run some tests, adjust and then I am ready.

There was no manual to read, it is in my format, and the language is natural.

And that is what I like about all this -- putting folks with limited technical skills in power.
I also think the desire of some for an absolutist interpretation of driving regulation in this thread would result in chaos too.

How many seconds is one supposed to stop at a stop sign? The law is silent on the matter. There is so much around laws or rule systems that forms as conventions around the rules that are often just as important as the text of the rules themselves.

See also solid white lines (do not cross) in the US. People cross them for pragmatic reasons in many locations all the time, often in full view of law enforcement.

There are also road users for whom laws are rarely enforced or more frequently disobeyed, such as cyclists. In many places cyclists are bound to obey the same traffic lights as motor vehicles. This plainly doesn't happen 100 percent of the time, and again is often tolerated by law enforcement. A car with an absolutist interpretation of driving regulations would therefore still have to deal with the law enforcement and others may not share in this view.
Thanks for sharing. I resonate with so much of what you say, particularly this:
>>or perhaps they believe they already do it with an internal monologue.
This is the typical justification I use for when I'm not in the mood to journal.

And your comments about ADHD, being more intentional with people, and living a prosocial-oriented life. I too could easily veer down a hermit-like path but deliberately effort not to. And I used to think that a personal CRM was overkill and such detailed tracking of others a waste of time. I haven't implemented anything yet, but I see the value of it now. Relationships are cumulative, interactions build off of each other. Remembering salient details in prior interactions (e.g. from my recent life, little tidbits I could find useful: Rachel deeply loves her mom. Ana is aware that I get car sick easily and made an accommodation for me, etc etc...)can enhance future ones.
Ephemerality is the only workable solution to mission drift in an organization.

The vast majority of entrepreneurs don't set out to create surveillance capitalism[1] or enslave children[2], but over time the pressures of keeping the business alive and growing force you to make compromises. The compromises are small, but each one takes you farther and farther from your values. Eventually you end up doing things that are abhorrent to any normal person, but seem normal to you because they're not that different from the thing you did before. This happens with all kinds of organizations including nonprofits, churches, etc.

One of the things I've observed in the success of organizations such as 12-step groups, is that they have principles which they can and do "die" for--rules like "We would rather dissolve the group than do X". Groups in a 12-step program are autonomous--they follow certain principles (traditions) and often groups die off rather than break tradition. Similarly, impermanence is a core feature of Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZs)[3] which allows it to avoid perversion of its ideals.

I think ephemerality is a good idea for businesses, as I think it's a key step in the direction of making capitalism more ethical. Businesses which can't operate ethically should fail, and our society should have safety nets for dealing with that (and other reasons a business should fail). But that's such a fundamental shift in thinking about business. Half of HN seems to think that if a company is making money it must be because they're good, despite extraordinary evidence to the contrary so we have to keep letting those businesses do what they're doing, without any regulation. I'm not sure how we can get to a future where businesses behave ethically when the unethical businesses have successfully sold the idea that their success can only have been achieved ethically, as a rule of economics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/m...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
GStreamer is used for this kind of thing, right? I would google around to find out what the jetson nano people use to do on-device lightweight gpu video processing
See also Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf). (side note, the ECHR is why European countries have strong privacy laws since the '70s.)

The EDPS recently said that under the Charter, the infamous “Chat Control” would always be illegal in the EU: https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/eu-wat....
SQL looks the way it does (rather than some much more succinct relational algebra notation) because it was intended to be used by non-technical management/executive personnel so they could create whatever reports they needed without somebody having to translate business-ese to relalg. That, uh, didn't quite happen.
OpenAI has plenty of moats if it looks for them.

The trick is that companies' moats against commoditization (open source or not) usually have little to do with raw performance. Linux could in theory do everything Mac or Windows do, but Apple and Microsoft are still the richest companies in the world. Postgres can match Oracle, but Larry Ellison still owns a private island.

The moats are usually in products (bet: There will not be any OSS product using LLM within a year. Most likely not within two. No OSS product within two or three years or even a decade will come close to commercial offerings in practice), API, current service relations, customer relations, etc. If OpenAI could lock customers to its embeddings and API, or embed its products in current moats (e.g. Office 365) they'll have a moat. And it won't matter a bit what performance OSS models say they have, or what new spin Google Research would come up with.
If memory serves, NVidia's drivers can only be used for Tesla / Ampere family, if you are using them in a datacenter. Titan / GeForce are not allowed. So, there's that (but maybe I'm missing something).

Now, "running" may also mean different things. For example, you may want to do things s.a. performance diagnostics (in order to understand if your code uses resources efficiently), and then you'd need stuff like NVML, DCGM and co. Consumer-grade hardware might not be supported, or might not in principle support diagnostics collection / instrumentation. Or, if you have multiple GPU-dependent workloads that cannot saturate your resources -- you might think of MIG as being a way to address that... and, again, consumer-grade GPUs won't help you here...

I'm not saying you shouldn't try self-hosting. I'm actually all for it. But, you also need to be mindful of the pros and cons. NVidia must have some reason to pitch the datacenter family of GPUs to, well, datacenters. They aren't just blowing up prices.

Also, to give some sense of comparison:

Titan X ~= 3.5K CUDA cores.

V100 ~= 5K CUDA cores.

A100 ~= 7K CUDA cores.

H100 ~= 18.5K CUDA cores.

It probably doesn't translate directly into H100 being six times as fast as Titan X, but, I hear that these GPU workloads might be lengthy...
Did you read the Wired interview?

> “I listened to him thinking he was going to be crazy. I don't think he's crazy at all,” Hinton says. “But, okay, it’s not helpful to talk about bombing data centers.”

https://www.wired.com/story/geoffrey-hinton-ai-chatgpt-dange...

So, he doesn't think the most extreme guy is crazy whatsoever, just misguided in his proposed solutions. But Eliezer has for instance has said something pretty close to AI might escape by entering in the quantum Konami code which the simulators of our universe put in as a joke and we should entertain nuclear war before letting them get that chance.
language is subjective
This is a great talk that answers many of your questions, https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE

I am so far merely an enthused observer, so I can't give any insights into the experience of delivering business software with it. Here's my observations though

- Engineers that work with this stack love it. The two most common issues I've seen are lack of static typing and difficulty in hiring

- Great for IO bound tasks due to collaborative scheduling. For CPU bound tasks performance is better offloaded to e.g Rust (see rustler)

- Exception handling is done by processes having supervisors. My mental model for this is similar to pods & deployments à la K8s, but at any abstraction level you want inside your component.

- Elixir pleases many crowds: ruby, FP, performance, resilience

- Phoenix (an elixir library) is seen as a next step from ruby on rails.

- Concurrency model is considered to be simple & powerful
The LLM. The most common end-user interface for LLM is a chat so the ser expects to be talking to someone or something.
MGS has so many cool mechanics.

I was in university when Snake Eater came out and I got to play it when I went home during the Christmas break. I got to The End fight and had to go back. When I came back during March break I didn't have to win the fight because he died.

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/The_End#Avoiding_the_fight
A FRACTRAN interpreter in FRACTRAN, in 24 fractions:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/246682/15469
Statically linking libC is problematic in various ways. I really appreciate that Zig has its own runtime that is designed specifically for this use case.
Yeah, this is honestly one of the things that turns me off of containers in general.

Like, the whole point was to effectively use linux kernel namespaces with cgroups in an intelligent way to give VM-like isolation, but non-emulated performance - and supposedly not having to deal with image size bloat from the OS like you get in VMs.

What we got was an unholy mashup of difficult to debug, bloated images and ridiculously complex deployment and maintenance mechanisms like kubernetes.

I just do old school /home/app_name deployments with systemd unit files, and user-level permissions.

Oh, and it's webscale[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Ciabatta is hard. I have tried the recipe (and others) from "the perfect loaf"-- but never exactly because I don't have easy access to the flour brands he uses.

This one: https://www.theperfectloaf.com/ciabatta-bread-recipe/

The key thing, IMHO, is high-protein (high gluten) bread flour. It helps to keep structure with any high-hydration dough. Also, if I remember correctly, ciabatta should not proof too long, or it gets too slack. I used a canvas couche and made the loaves relatively small.
Today new electricity is tomorrow old electricity. We are playing the long game here.

A sub-1.5 degree scenario (I initially wrote credible but who am I kidding there is no credible sub-1.5 degree scenario) requires significant energy for both transportation and decarbonisation. This energy needs to be produced without emitting more carbon. That requires massive investment in non-carbon emitting energy production now.
I would love for it to have a second edition soon. Wonderful book.
These molecular systems are deeply complex and will depend on cascades of interactions. Hang tight. The only generic neuroprotective supplement I can recommend is niacinamide (vitamin B3, non-flushing). See:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28209901/

(yes, in mice! but now in clinical trials for glaucoma and looking good. And yes, glaucoma is not AD, but many/most forms of neurodegenerations are associated with high mitochondrial stress/dysfunction).
They emailed him, but I have the same problem. I get so much email that's not really important that none of it gets looked at.

I think it would be nice if there were a way to configure an alternate email address for notifications about things that are extremely important. Things like account throttling, termination of service, terms of use violations, etc. are all abnormal, so it's hard to build email filters that are going to catch them.

Those are also things that need immediate attention, so it would be a huge improvement if I could have them going to a shared mailbox where multiple people have prominent notifications configured.

Basic filtering only works until "account termination" spam starts bubbling up and frustrating everyone. Direct mail to an unpublished email address would be so much better.