skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I agree, but I’ll do my best to argue the position.

The neural net software algorithms have been around for decades. What made LLM’s feasible are the hardware advances to achieve unprecedented scale, just barely providing the ability (at great cost) to train today’s LLM models. Transformer architecture might be called a software innovation, but RWKV Raven gets similar performance to transformers and is built on decades-old RNN technology. So it is the hardware that was far more instrumental than the software in achieving LLM’s.

Counter to that argument: had google not done neural net research for google translate and proved the transformer approach scaled and performed well in their “attention is all you need” paper, people wouldn’t have spent the money to train foundation LLM models and we would not be having this discussion, so the software really mattered more than the hardware.

In reality I think it’s a little bit of both.
It’s painful to see your matter-of-fact tone regarding things you have absolutely no clue about. You seem to know next to nothing about the auto space in general. Every carmaker raises and lowers their prices according to supply and demand. And no, there is no driver assistance system among any of the big manufacturers that come anywhere near Tesla’s system. And yes, exploring a problem space that hasn’t been explored before will face setbacks and require many iterations. Those iterations are free for the customers, however.

Elon makes a lot of “promises”, you’re right in that. Although, he really doesn’t. He makes educated guesses that you take for promises. Once Tesla’s own website and news outlets deliver those “promises”, should you start taking them for actual ones.
Come on, what's not to like about the current name? It even ties in with the demo!

Though PolyPwn is a winner, too.
It doesn't kill of 3rd party Apps, it just requires them to do a minimum amount of monetisation.

The pricing is actually reasonable. 1/4the of Twitters price.
I was lucky enough to see inside the BBC shepherds bush facility a few years before it closed. (It's still
The BBC but its a shadow of its former self as I understand it.) Blue Peter was filming and you could see down into studios from above, through glass and the locations used for news and weather were unbelievably crude, bare breeze lock behind the greenscreens.

They also had very strong, armoured doors, certainly was quite well isolated from strangers with an urge to grab a microphone and were buried in the core of the building. I got the impression they had half an eye to "This is the BBC. At this very time, unstoppable nuclear rockets have been launched toward London.. "

Broadcasting house in central london was similarly odd, Spartan in places but more polished in others. The BCS headquarters were nearby and I think it's rather telling computing basically ate broadcasts lunch.

People get very cross about the sculpture. Eric Gill was a nasty sexual predator.

The Shepherd's Bush building was pure 60s. Like the GPO tower it defined the swinging London image for decades.

Vacuum tube TV cameras needed amazing amounts of light. The studios were boiling hot.
Not joking at all. There are even vending machines to sell you a fresh pair of briefs and a change of tie. I've seen them in Tokyo around major train stations and hotel districts.
I have a screen hanging above my bed for that purpose. doing things lying on my back is easier on the back/neck
I have and will continue to use old reddit on my phone's browser as well, I really have no need or using mobile apps, official or otherwise; I use Joey for Reddit now on Android but that's just for convenience, I don't have to use it.
Regulation. If you forbid verticals on a market, you might prevent mergers or create splits. E.g. american cinema where studios are forbidden from having their own saloons and are forced to license their products. Currently made irrelevant by the streaming services where the rule does not apply.
If by advantage we mean ability to do their work well, Historian, Diagnostician, Lawyer, Archivist, Patent reviewer...
why would anyone care about Kaczynski in 2023?
They are the biggest VC player in India and South East Asia currently, but the companies they invest in are mixed. For example, you have household names like Zomato and Meesho in one hand. On the other hand, many of their companies like BharatPe and Zilingo (incidentally started by an ex-SeqIndia employee) have been caught carrying out fraud and SeqIndia apparently had some responsibility in obfuscating facts.
Game Selection (Feat. Angus Young)
> with anti-spam measures making it almost impossible to self-host, and privileged delivery mechanisms like push notifications that require closed APIs to use.

There are anti-spam measures that don't require locking down protocols. Ideally, a user's feed would only consist of message boards they subscribe to. Similarly, message boards could limit posting to subscribed users, approved users, paying users, or those users with a "certificate" proving their human - the latter would be akin to certificate authorities we have today who assign certificates to websites.

> It's generally not in the interest of commercial providers to use open protocols.

Not to derail, but that's the capitalist's contradiction: a capitalist points to competition as a theoretical advantage of capitalism, but then in practice does everything to eliminate it.
That's been an interesting one to watch from here, being right next to both a Bartell's and a (horrifyingly awful) CVS. The Bartell's pharmacy disintegrated immediately when Rite Aid got around to touching it. The rest of the store has been a slow decline, as stock becomes more and more generic, but somehow it's still the best place nearby for that mid-day snack break. (Maybe that says more about what's nearby than anything else?) Though I doubt it will stay that way for too much longer.
Block more mergers. It’s easier than breaking companies up afterwards.
> yet the lab itself did nothing to help during the pandemic.

Which people in this thread are somehow believing as truth instead of the bald-faced propaganda it is.

Do you actually think a virus research lab in the epicentre of an outbreak would not be put to use?

From Wikipedia:

> As the virus spread worldwide, the institute continued its investigation. In February 2020, a team led by Shi Zhengli at the institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), upload it to public databases for scientists around the world to understand,[28][29][30] and publish papers in Nature.[31] On 19 February 2020, the lab released a letter on its website describing how they successfully obtained the whole virus genome.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology
Maybe progressive taxation of companies, where they pay more tax the larger they become?
Perhaps you could think of it less as punishing drivers and more like stopping punishing everyone else for the sake of cars.
Federation and open protocols aren't new ideas, and the vast majority of people have collectively decided that there is no value for them in those ideas. This isn't pioneering stuff that everyone would jump onto if only it was known/available to them. It is available, and has been for a long time, and the people are not biting. I see no reason to assume that this is going to change.
If they cant compete because the competition is freeloading on their APIs and community building efforts then it’s clear that they need to compensate the lost revenue by charging for the API usage. It seems Reddit has about 1.5b active monthly users, guess Reddit costs are about $0.3 per year per user. Would be fair to charge that for API usage. If the apps don’t like it, they’re free to create and host the community themselves, shouldn’t be too hard, as Reddit offers little value…
Regulation often has the opposite effect by raising barriers to entry and reducing competition.
Instead of turning to pre-made corporate software, you could just hire me or one of my developer friends? We’ll crank out something fine for you in no time flat. All you have to do is just:

- Find me, which is easy, just become an amateur developer yourself and scour the various places I frequent

- Think of and propose in great detail what you want. We will go back and forth over this, over the course of several days/weeks. Bonus points if we don’t speak the same language.

- Sign some form of agreement, really easy, just read this 5 page document and maybe hire a lawyer if you are unsure. All very easy.

- Fork over the cash

- Get deliverables in a few weeks, hopefully.

Now when you compare that with just firing up some website/app and getting on with your work, is that really better? I’m not seeing why you would just go to gmail.com if I could have just made you a very nice, very special email reader.

I have perfected my craft over thousands of hours you know. You should pay us the respect we deserve.

—

Seriously: cranking out tunes through some prompting vs hiring people through shady channels like reddit? Are you serious?
> The name of their vaccine "Sputnik V" (Follower 5) suggests that there was "Something"

No, a regime known for throwing people out of windows if they say one word too much isn't so dumb to hide a hint like that in plain sight.
Some people were noticing, early in the thread, big steps up on the net vote a couple minutes after each comment, which triggered some suspicion of similar shenanigans.
Debateable whether any users will be sacrificed?

If anything this has given reddit more visibility, and more engagement within its website too. All publicity is good publicity
The entire premise of Suits, the TV show, was that one of the main characters had a perfect memory & that made him good lawyer material.
> In the US the calculus for cheap tools is "cheap Chinese chainsaw, $120; ER (emergency room) visit, $3750."

The healthcare costs are indeed unfortunate, but personally I can't think of many things that would be so dangerous about chainsaws.

Kickback will happen with every saw, the chain brake should be tested before every run anyways. A 50cc single cylinder engine doesn't feel like it'd be too dangerous to be around, especially with the rest of the chainsaw body around it. Maybe the chain wouldn't be too good and people would tension it too much, or perhaps it could come apart or something. Even then, PPE that you're wearing would generally make you safer. Realistically, at most it won't last you a decade and signs of wear will become apparent a bit earlier.

Regardless, I get your point and thank you for making it!
I can hear China laughing at us right about now!
> Japan's population is declining so at some point (very soon), Japanese companies in general will have to start paying more attention to their revenues outside Japan.

I'm talking to you Sony.
Yes, eventually they did this. But even before they did that, the scores were approaching negative infinity.
Hand dryers vs. paper towels: surprisingly dirty fight to dry your hands (2019)
In my (direct) experience they are actually quite reasonable about payment hiccups, even extended ones. … at least when your spend is sufficiently high (500k/y+??)
Glad to not see an auth wall, sites like this have been used in the past to collect and sell email addresses.
And.i don't?

I have over 10 years of experience across all cloud providers and you just assume I'm a troll?

That's not a way to have a discussion in good faith...
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I too was confused, all Google search result was PHP templating library. So I re-read the comment and added "smarty geocoding" to display correct result.
i find it reasonable if the owners don't discipline the dogs effectively.
We have 99% IaC.

I still don't mind upgrading a k8s cluster on the UI, monitoring it's healthy and than patching the tf code for the newest minor version.
The fact that the author talks about using threading or M:N parallelism if he needed additional performance makes me think he doesn't really understand the use case for asynchronous programming. Async is specifically for the (very common) situation where a program has many clients (or servers) it needs to talk to but can't make progress efficiently because it spends a lot of time blocked on I/O. You can therefore handle these connections very efficiently without parallelism leaving other cores available to do other things. Threading and other parallelism techniques don't solve that same dillemma. If you create a large number of threads they will still be blocked on I/O waiting for clients or the network typically, and the existence of the GIL in python just makes the case for efficient multiplexing of I/O bound processes in single-threaded code (ie async) stronger. In the threaded case you have spent system resounces to create multiple threads that can't actually function in parallel (because they are blocked on I/O at least as often as the async event loop would be) and are now also sometimes blocked on the GIL.

Having decided that async is appropriate, the question is how you express that in a language or framework. I've used several approaches, from the magical "don't worry about it we'll just make it work for you" type of approach that he seems to advocate with gevent, to things like the callback-based approach of old Twisted (back in the days that python was a scrappy little upstart rather than this globally ubiquitous language). They are all equivalent from the machine's point of view more or less, but I find the async model easier to reason about and therefore easier to debug. This seems largely a question of taste. It's absolutely not the case that (as the author claims) the async versions of libraries are literally the same with just the word 'async' added into the function definitions. To take synchronous code and make it async, you have to reason about where your program spends its time, what parts of computation you can put into a future vs which parts belong in a seperate task etc. You can't just 's/def/async def/' add a few "awaits" and you're done.
I always wondered how many game clients out there have exploitable vulnerabilities. Seems like you see a lot of CVEs in popular software, but never games.
After citizens united the feedback loop of corruption became too strong.

Company pays for candidates advertisements so they can win primary -> can only vote on candidates that companies voted for first -> politicians are responsive to their benefactors -> politicians de-regulate/ignore mergers/grid lock themselves -> companies are able to centralize more power -> company increases their influence over the government to get even more influence...

This un-virtuous cycle means the only way out is unions (or french-ery).

We have openly corrupt supreme court justices who laugh in our face and say "what are you gonna do about it?" Pelosi said "I can trade stock on companies I regulate" and basically said "what are you gonna do about it?"

Government intervention can only come after we have an answer for corrupt politicians saying "what are you gonna do about it?"

Kroger and Albertsons are gonna merge... "what are you going to do about it?"
From the seller? It wasn't when I checked many months ago, when they had special Interrail campaign with flexible dates for app users but only fixed dates for paper tickets.

Of course there are unofficial sites. But firstly I would not trust that their APKs are unmodified and secondly I would not rely on it that it works with a ticket for 300 Euros or so. Some tamper/rooting detection might still trigger in an alternative firmware. Well, the youth ticket doesn't cost anything, but see above why that's not an excuse.
Why not do something about this directly. This lab leak wild goose chase isn't required.
Twenty years ago, Korean 7-11s seemed more full-service than Japanese. I don't know if that's still the case.
Kind of late now they are caught with their pants down before a black out. Pretty sure they are going to kill it again or put a barrier in there once they get the chance.
PG – multiple founders want people to return to the office
For the ship to come back to port, someone has to want it to come back to port.
> Some artists state that a painting is never complete, or a song is never complete

Kind of like how the software is never complete :P
Researchers develop 'noise-canceling' qubits to minimize errors in quantum compu
The Mathematics of Ted Kaczynski
Google has become unusable recently, maybe my expectations increased since chatgpt but Bing is way superior now.
Could elaborate on this? I'm genuinely curious about what annoys you regarding Elixir specifically.
The linked article is from 2004. It clearly says nothing re: point 2.
It doesn't really matter what they do. I guarantee by this time next week, Reddit will be back to normal.
For one, if it was proven that a lab leak was the cause of such global destruction, that may encourage stronger lab regulations in the future.
I love that idea, great stuff!
easiest solutions are:

a) join a smaller org where you are the only person in your domain so there's nobody trying to compete with you

b) be a contractor where you don't give a shit about politics because you aren't building a career and will just move on after x months.
Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ are being developed at British universities
An abbreviated paywalled re-hash in The Daily Telegraph is currently on Hacker News. This is the longer original from the Jewish Chronicle.

The Telegraph weasels with the passive voice ("UK universities accused of") and reports the reporting, adding nothing new. This article is the accusation.
I saw the Elm on the Backend presentation. Evan would like ELM to be a full stack language. If it will work properly, you will not have to manage the message passing (JSON, XML). Seems like very interesting topic. Evan looked really psyched about.
Vim but you can quit with hand gesture
A slightly different but related topic - Chomsky on why (humanitarian) intent doesn't matter: https://youtu.be/syikF6gNJDk
remember when people needed enough brains to get online that most of them were capable of figuring out Usenet and IRC? Seriously, if you're a "mod" or "dev" whose life's work rotates around the good graces of a private company that doesn't give a flying f** about you, you're basically just a tapeworm in the colon of the consumer internet. Good luck with your protest; you sold your soul years ago.
> There are anti-spam measures that don't require locking down protocols.

Of course. Locking down protocols is never required. It's being done because it benefits the largest service providers by restricting their users' ability to move elsewhere. You're acting as if the status quo is an unfortunate situation that can be resolved by giving service providers the necessary technologies to interoperate. The exact opposite is the case. Service providers are actively undermining open protocols (EEE). They are very much aware that federation is possible, and they do not want it.
Debian distributes fwupd, which accesses the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which distributes updates for proprietary firmware stored on devices:

https://fwupd.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates
They will not, because those accusations came from people who intended to use them to discredit Chinese people in general, or that closely associate the leak with the Chinese way of doing things and so on. These accusation led to racist attacks against Asian people all over the us.
So what? You missed the point or are pretending to ignore it. Another CCP troll.
Good comments from everyone. For anyone else stumbling to this thread I want to add that at least on iPhone's Safari it's more cumbersome to open to a new window than it is on a desktop browser with middle click or ctrl click.
> Something like this should be up for a referendum.

That would only increase the cost of achieving agreement by necessitating the purchase of adverts before referendum. It was sold as miraculous. People bought into something they were told is miraculous. They would surely slso vote for the miraculous thing to be allowed.
It's also worth noting that those vending machines are only located in sex shops.
Gene sequencing is table stakes with modern tech, and many countries did that during the pandemic. We don't need a BSL-4 level lab in the middle of a large city to do a gene sequence. It happened that they published early what many other labs would have done (and did do). On the other hand, the vaccines and effective cures had nothing to do with their work. The benefit/risk ratio seems very poor here.
They prefaced the statement with "most importantly" so it seems they thought it was their key point.
A web application framework for Java/Scala: https://www.playframework.com/
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An obvious false equivalence. The difference is pressure.
The weird part is, they don't feel like they provide a good value. Family Mart is obviously better and if you can find a grocery store within walking distance of work, it's the obvious choice. But they are still good enough, where if there is any issue, you feel fine giving them your money.

There has to be something. Maybe America has just been abused by MBAs for so long.
If their revenue would increase, would they not be taxed more?
Yeah, in fact being honest, sincere and collaborative with foreign powers is the tenet of NSA, CIA, and all major security agencies in the USA, right?
> it’s hard to assume people argue here in either good faith or have any idea about the problem.

Funny, I had the same feeling.
This article literally explores and lays out theories about how potentially events and people could've conspired to our present day. I don't think that is intellectually helpful.
First, russia is not a monolithic coherent group.

"And they broke every single point of that treaty, except the one prohibiting the usage of nuclear weapons against any of these countries"

Second, much later.

Third, there were russian troops all over east europe. Lots of them. (I remember)

They could have smashed any uprising - but they choose not to. They choose democracy at that time. And it did not pay off for them, which is why they are back to authoritian. But there was a time when they were open for change. In my opinion, the west blew it.
Same with pointing out at the first studies that indicated that the virus was airborne. I got downvoted to oblivion here for posting a link to the study.
> 3) Distribute output widely, note that copyright still applies to the output.

Can you elaborate on this point? I don't think this has been established to be the case yet.
> We can agree that killing people or trying to kill people is terrible, but

That last word in this quote should’ve been a red flag.
This is from vague memory, but I believe all franchise convenience stores in Japan are run as family businesses. From what I recall, the company demands a strong personal commitment as a condition for getting the franchise. I suppose that's similar to Caterpillar or Chick-fil-A in the USA.
gpt uses huffman coding for tokenization