skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone worried about tracing garbage collection is worried about unpredictable costs of automatic reclamation. Even naive reference counting has unbounded pathological cases like this, like an infinite list with only one reference that dies, which triggers a cascade of infinite free ops.

You can do some gymnastics like various types of deferrals to amortise the cost, but now you're getting into more sophisticated tracing-like runtime behaviour which has it's own unpredictability.

There's no free lunch. Better static analysis that can aggregate various allocation into arenas/regions seems like the only way to make this trade-off better.
The phys.org article isn't worth spending time on. It's better to read the original arxiv paper that @supermatou linked in a peer thread.
I graduated from engineering school in Germany, this is what my graduation looked like: I walked over to the student office and picked up a dot-matrix printout of my final transcript.

I recently went to my daughter's ceremonies at UO (Go Ducks!) and I have to say that it was quite fun and moving, something I feel like I missed out on.
No, you're paying as much for this printer up front as you are for other printers, so you're just wrong here.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding context, but my cat may need an MRI and I've learned it's standard in all veterinary medicine to use anesthesia for scans in order to keep the patients immobile.
I've been thinking about this argument and while I agree that having a symbolic construct ("Code") that strictly models the solution is ideal, arriving at that model via a single 'layer' of code which must have been written perfectly by a programmer is a big hurdle given the small fraction of humans who seem to have an aptitude for programming (just like with advanced math too). It's probably a less versatile strategy than iteratively building it assisted by AI guided by natural language. I think in the future, the AI agent will probably code the application, asking its human "PM" partner to clarify each ambiguity, and adjusting as it goes. Finally, it should be able to generate charts, narratives, and diagrams to explain how the created application works, for validation of the solution by a non-programmer.
I love when people say the USA or UK pushed this war. Russia tried to perform a decapitation attack on Ukraine and failed. There was no reasonable cause for this, they just thought they could get away with it and keep Ukraine as a vassal state rather than let it turn west like the Baltics etc.

Curious, do you think Russia is to blame at all for violating the terms of the Budapest Memorandum?
Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS
In the context of California, note that the Colorado River does not irrigate the Central Valley. Instead, the Colorado River is used to water the areas around (mostly south) of Los Angeles.
I see no reason why expert-written articles would have to be locked from further edits, or marked as expert-written. They could be subject to the same formal standards as the rest of Wikipedia, but with guarantee that those standards are applied.

There are already paid Wikipedia editors, they tend to be working for PR firms. A non-profit doing the same thing for altruistic purposes sounds feasible and good to me, it wouldn't even need to necessarily be part of the Wikimedia Foundation.
65 billion parameters, and what hardware does this require to run fast enough to be usable?)
Easier data debugging with Zed’s first-class errors
Definitely! Comcast charges $5-10 a month to rent a cable modem, so buying your own pays off pretty quick.
The usual approach is to attend school part time or online on nights and weekends while staying in your current job. If you only take one or two courses at a time this isn't a huge financial burden, especially if you can do some of it through a community college.

Yes, this is difficult and time consuming. It will require sacrificing other aspects of your life for several years. But many people find a way to make it work.
I would argue that Notepad was one of the few apps that wasn't HN-bloated. Although, I kind of think I head that they rewrote it, so it probably is now...
The US did preemptively invade Panama in the past, at the first sign of General Noriega's shift toward the Soviet bloc, after his soliciting and receiving military aid from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Libya.
> Especially when you have a usually informed HN audience sticking up for it.

It's pretty on-brand for the HN audience I feel. For several years HN has felt like the epitome of the temporarily embarassed millionare meme. The site often supports corporations taking what they can for users, and the only reason I can see for people to feel so strongly about it is they either are or imagine themselves in the future to be stakeholders in companies that make their money from exploiting consumers.
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!
These are two different things, actually. The graph you are talking about is constructed using the inputs of the attention layer (ie, nodes=tokens, edges=affinity), while the article talks about graphs that represent the actual operations performed in the attention layer (ie, nodes=weights and intermediate results, edges=mathematical operations that combine them).
Is this just a US thing?

Not only can you do it in the US, but the cable company will give you clear instructions on how to get it set up and running on their system.

And it's a good idea. Not only to avoid paying the modem rental fee, but also because the modem provided by cable companies tends to be pretty awful.
The anecdotes you give don't necessarily suggest this is person-specific. They don't refute that, in the general case, there might a good chance for a person who is depressed to have their symptoms alleviated by an LSD trip. Were you depressed (in the DSM-5 sense) any of the times you took LSD and had "a really really fun time"? A person who is not depressed obviously won't notice the mindset shift which alleviates their depression.
I couldn't tell you if it's a set depth or some kind of stochastic system. Many of HN's rules are subtle/invisible, to the point you can't even be sure whether they're being applied by an automatic system or by a moderator. For example, you can post a large number of highly-upvoted comments in a short timespan, but if their score is neutral or negative you'll get muted for an indeterminate amount of time; I've seen between ten minutes and a full 24 hours personally. You can also get muted for stepping on the wrong person's sacred cow; you can tell when that happens because you'll find yourself muted when your last day's comment history is, say, only three comments and all of them have positive scores and no flags. I've found it handy to keep a list of "things mods don't like opinions on".
Zardoz is a great film for weeding out the posers from those who are truly into the weird. I've known more than one person to nope out as soon as Sean Connery shows up wearing the neon orange plastic banana hammock/bandolier and getting the long rambley speech about evil penises.
TechRadar should be auto-ghosted on HN. It's a trash editorial run by incompetent editors who don't bother with acknowledging criticism. According to TR, the best web development tool in 2023 is Sketch and InVision. Neither are related to development, and Sketch is a Mac OS only app on top of that.

These are the same idiots who you can thank for Google search results being as dogshit as they are. The said tools article is ranked on first page by Google.
Windows has been using this mechanism for well over a decade now. It’s called IOCP (IO completion ports)
Most of this is required public reporting for non-profits.
I think the US would attempt to destroy the Mexican government. If it came to it, yes they would invade, although first they would simply try to install a friendlier government through a coup of some sort (it has been US policy to oppose any such actions since Monroe doctrine). As for the feelings of the US public, they can be swayed to war, as history shows.
Well, if you want to go into that: Building a solar panel needs mining, rather like how building a nuclear power station does. Once the solar is there, the sun supplies the fuel, not a mining process.

If you're a programmer, you might say that solar has O(1) mining while nuclear has O(n).
Show HN: Mystery Egg – I hacked together a creature collection game with gen AI
Handful? The i3 Rex? The Chevy "Discontinued" Bolt? There are none.
> They lost it inch by inch and paid a very high price. Why do you think they sent some of their best units there, like the “Da Vinci Wolves“, and lost good chunks of them, including, incidentally, said unit’s founder and national hero “Da Vinci“?

To make Russia lose much more forces in the attack. It's a simple gambit — lose 1 soldier to make enemy lose 2 (or more).

Makes sense to lose an unimportant and pretty small piece of territory like that. Doesn't make any sense to retake it with reverse proportion of losses.
I saw this as a young kid, randomly on a TV rerun late at night, not too long after it was released. The fact that it was widely unknown made it seem all the more like a fever dream or something since it was a while before I could even figure out what it was that I had seen. I remember it seeming very surreal and amazingly stylized.

Keep in mind that before video rentals, the internet and streaming, you would see something like this and you might never stumble across it again. For years I'm not sure if I could remember the title, just that it was very stark and about ants.

Now you can put "movie about ants" and Google autocompletes "...taking over the world" and all the top links are about "Phase IV".
Went to three pages, did ctrl+f export

If there is a way to export the data to be used in other things I would jump into this a bit..

Anything similar out there to make things that work with the matrix chat 3d like things?
I wonder if Apple will have anything to show with on-device LLMs at WWDC in a couple weeks, or if that's a feature for another year?

Definitely feels like something where a lot of apps will want to take advantage of them, and there's some amount of space saving and small developer approachability from building one in as a system service, rather than everybody bringing their own.
You can't have an ideology that claims both "people have a right to things that others must produce" and "bodily autonomy". This isn't a potluck dinner. You can't just mix and match contradictory beliefs because it pleases you.
This is the right answer, shouldn't be downvoted. It's about the estimations I've seen in various sources.
> This fact highlights again the open-source components risk; no one guarantees that the open sources we use are benign, and it’s our responsibility to verify them.

It's odd to call this "the open-source components risk" when the exact same things are true for closed-source...
> We do know that mathematical frameworks cannot be at the same time totally complete and internally consistent.

I take it you're referencing Godel's theorems here, but "consistent" and "complete" have rather technical (and somewhat limited) meanings within that context, so it's not clear to me how they'd usefully map onto the potential relationship between QM and GR?
It was that or the Odessa House of Trade Unions treatment for the local Russian population wanting not to depend on Kiev.

As I said, all this wouldn’t and shouldn’t have happened had the Ukrainians really believed in the principle of autonomy and of subsidiarity. Happily for them as soon as they’ll join us in the EU they’ll get right on to that.
Ask HN: Open-Source Developer Donations
Given the discussion around wikimedia [1] I'd like to shift my very modest annual donations over to supporting open source developers

What is the best app or channel for donating to open source developers?

Useful criteria:
- service cost as percent of donation
- adoption / # of developers
- integrations
etc

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029115
What makes this a TikTok problem and not a problem with algorithm-driven social media feeds in general?
Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36031088
The actual paper [0] that Gebru wrote referenced Strubell's climate impact paper [1]. None of them make the assumption that google compute runs from jet fuel. They compare training the models to flying, driving, etc.

In the "Gender Shades" paper [2] as you call it, she doesn't use race but dermatologist approved Fitzpatrick Skin Type in their analysis as a proxy which of course covers all people including Asians.

The kind of bullshit (a technical term) response you gave is common among reactionaries who don't read, and can't do science.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02243.pdf

[2] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...
Same here. I love hledger and have a few scripts to convert downloaded CSVs from various institutions into the appropriate format and dedupe any overlap if necessary. Once a month I download a bunch of statements, run a script and have all of the data available to me.
Not quite. If you use the UIKit system colors, it requires no work from the developer. The colors are semantic and automatically adapt to light/dark mode and high contrast mode. It only requires manual work if you have custom colors, or you do your own drawing.
Theres no theoretical reason an inkjet must dry out.

You could totally imagine a design where a special 'storage cup' is automatically clamped over the nozzles, sealing any airflow from getting to them so they never dry out.
> If you search Algolia for Beej...

Or, as I just recently learned, you can click on the (beej.us) domain name next to the title at the top of this page and it will take you to a list of all the HN submissions for the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beej.us
It's fun to argue about what analogy best describes this situation, but ultimately that doesn't matter. It's really about what was advertised by the company, and what the consumer agreed to in this transaction.
who is this "we"? what coup?
I agree that freelance-style paid editors isn't a great idea, but it's not the only option for paid editors.
Off topic:

First time seeing this spelled as "combatting" (HN title, differs in original linked post)

Curious if this is a common spelling that I missed noticing all along.
The privacy issue is that they warn you when you sign up that ChatGPT employees might review chat transcripts with anonymized metadata.

It isn’t exclusive to the app, and, frankly, it’s kind of nice that they warn you up front instead of burying it in the terms.
This analogy would have some semblance of meaning if the US had plans to invade Mexico, or had made statements to that effect, or if there was even a latent desire in the US for that kind of action. It would then make sense for Mexico to find alliances with other countries for protection.

The situation in Europe is completely different, with close to half of Europe having been under Russian domination for decades if not centuries. Once those countries got out, they decided that never again would this be possible.

There is also a misunderstanding of how NATO works. Countries in Europe have not been forced to join the alliance, but they have been quasi begging to join NATO to get protection from the Russian aggressor. The process of joining NATO requires a formal application and the unanimous agreement of all existing members, not just the US's (see Turkey's move to block Sweden's entry for a concrete example of how that works).

There is also the notion that NATO applicants must follow requirements, including [1]:

- a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy;

- the fair treatment of minority populations;

- a commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflicts;

- the ability and willingness to make a military contribution to NATO operations; and

- a commitment to democratic civil-military relations and institutional structures.

In other words, the values defended by NATO are values which I consider positive. An alliance of autocratic nations (say Russia and China) would be a very different one.

Finally, if you haven't followed the discourse in Russia, there really is a discussion there of taking back not only Ukraine, but the Baltic states, Kazakhstan, and other former soviet republics (and yes, even parts of Poland). That is taking, as in invading under false pretense, not the peaceful recreation of a union with the consent of said countries. Luckily Russia will be unable to do so, but the need for protection remains real.

[1]: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49212.htm#:~:text=...
Ok but ideally the federal election system will be fixed eventually (and also most of the states). And I'd prefer if then we also didn't need to fix a bunch of other systems because they had a lot of 2 party assumptions baked into them.
The extensive guide for Server-Side Tracking
Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an astute businessman. Hell he even did brand design - chupa chups for example
Introduction to Vector Similarity Search
Cases like that arise when you want to force a certain monetization practice and it does not match perfectly with the reality. To make it more palatable, HP should offer a way to buy the remaining ink or ask to return (free of charge) the cartridge.
Why Are We in Ukraine?
America should learn from the EU here. Fine ByteDance billions repeatedly until they get the memo. Much easier to enforce than a ban.
Fedora (and I think all the RHEL family) comes with SE Linux by default. Although I'm not that familiar with it (I tend to disable it more often than not) it seems to me like it's addressing precisely that.
Watching fighter aircraft take off in close quarters is quite the experience. The SR-71 must have been epic.

This one time, I was in a civilian aircraft, on a shared military/civilian airport. It was nearing twilight. Our cute little Airbus A320 was nosing about and stopped alongside a Sukhoi 30-MKI (the squadron is based there). Now this bird is no pipsqueak. In that light, in that surprise moment, it oozed menace on the tarmac. Then the pilot started letting loose, and a needle-point blue dart jetted out from the afterburners. It felt like the aircraft doubled in length. The roar in our cabin was deafening. The sonic vibration in my body curdled my blood. And then off it went. I almost sprained my neck tracking it. Crazy angle of attack when the pilot nosed up. That was quite the experience.

(edit: typo)
She's mainly against research that tries to achieve naturalness for its own sake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalness_(physics)

If someone is actually trying to get to the bottom of some contradictions in physics experiments I don't think she would be against this. I think she has observed that string theory has failed at it for so long and maybe some other methods can get a chance for funding instead of spending a hundred billion dollars on string theory and ten thousand dollars on other methods.
Clearly they do.

Have you taken some time to play with these things? Try the biggest LLaMA model that will fit in RAM on your computer. (128GB of DDR4 is around $200 and will just fit the big one without quantizing, though it won't be super fast.)

There are things they're good at. Search engine-like tasks in particular, if you're willing verify the output. They're great at providing hints for further reading.

Now try to get it to develop a new kind of battery with a longer service lifetime or lower manufacturing cost per unit energy storage. Ask it to write code to do something complex and uncommon instead of something similar to what it was trained on a thousand examples of. Have it describe a new class of security concern, like Spectre or rainbow tables before they were known.

People can do those things, and have done, and those are some of the best things we can teach people how to do because they're incredibly useful. Maybe writing minor variants on common existing boilerplate code isn't something we need people to spend a lot of time on anymore, and so isn't the thing we should be testing if they know how to do.
Also, the movie itself is horny. It's not like sean connery's character is horny. That is the best way to describe it I think.
Enough, please. None of these ridiculous comparisons have anything to do with the current situation.
As someone who moved from individual contributor to senior manager I'd offer the following humble suggestions:

1) Engage with your manager. Explain your interest in the position you want and ask for their support. If you can't get their support; learn why and either outgrow it or find another manager that will support you. (Not all managers want to develop their team)

2) Ask about and seek to understand the challenges your manager is working against.

3) Internalize those challenges, the broader company goals and create your own personal plan to help achieve those things.

4) Do that plan; gain the support of your team members through influence. Recognize and celebrate their support.

4a) Become comfortable using influence and vision to influence others. Even as a manager, senior manager, or director, you rarely have the pure authority to achieve what you want. Even if you do, the team will chafe under that style. Success is influence; inspiring others to jump in and pull with you.

5) Measure your progress and get feedback. Even unfair or invalid feedback is valuable because its a perception that you can manage against and overcome.

6) Celebrate success. Evangelize and learn from your failures.

7) Ask for the job.
I bought a Brother colour laser 8 years ago for about £150. Its about double that now [1] at £275. The only fault it has had was that once I hadn't used it for a couple of years and the first page I printed wasn't quite perfect. The next one was though.

I think for £275 with toner is worth it. Its pricier up front than the inkjets but the ease of use and reliability are totally worth it for me.

1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-HL-L8260CDW-Wireless-Connec...
Phind is one of the tools I use every day. It helps me combine different resources into a strategy, and helps me get exactly what I need out of documentation and SO answers. It is also able to parse stack traces and point me in the right direction most of the time. Additionally I can ask follow up questions or provide results of things that I’ve tried.

If this sounds like ChatGPT, it’s because it basically is, but with web search as a first class feature.
I did, but as you see HN's culture has turned from quality of discussion voting to agree/disagree voting.

Meanwhile we have distinguished political science professors being dismissed without rebuttal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=1s
https://web.archive.org/web/20230521122746/https://old.reddi...
Dbt Model Contracts: Importance and Pitfalls
It's libertarian trolling.

HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread.
>Eventually we'll have arm machines made by other PC manufacturers

As someone who has been waiting for this to happen for nearly fifteen years now, you'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.