skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add a bit of my opinion after reading your comment in the context of this thread and not to the merit of your idea. You are precisely the type of person I'd keep very very far away from multithreading in any business software project and also why I advocate the GIL to stay. If you want to do that, go solo in your own time, or try apply for a research position in some giant tech Co.
You'd be surprised. I'm literally looking at a mall right now that is open Mon-Sat each week + 1 Sunday / week.

If I have 8 days off per month that literally removes 3/8, or 37.5%.

Also larger grocery stores aren't open unless they get an exception.
How Did the World’s Coolest Air Conditioner Get So Hot?
Ask HN: Did OpenAI just retrain GPT from scratch?
The announcement[1] from a couple of days ago makes note of increased context length from 4k to 16k for GPT-3.5-turbo and to 32k (from 8k?) for GPT-4. From my limited understanding of how LLMs work / are trained, context window is a key part of training.

Does quadrupling context means they retrained the whole thing(s) from scratch, or there's some other wizardry that can be applied to other models to increase their context length without retraining from scratch?

[1] https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates
Is your machine better than you? You may never know
I have a few colleagues at Google that were literally copy and pasting long internal documents in ChatGPT to get them summarized.
what many of those hackers don't realize, it's that their dark mode theme is very hard to read at low brightness levels, so when they switch to some light windows, it pokes their eyes out obviously.

instead of forcing everything to be configured for dark theme, it would be a lot simpler to just drastically lower the brightness at night and keep using light themes.

one trick is to lower the brightness slightly dimmer than comfortable and let your pupils take 2-3 seconds to adapt.

another trick, on iOS/macOS, if you combine this with true tone and night shift, then your eyes will be strained even less!
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/5DwB4
I was thinking of writing one - will do so.
Yeah those issues can be really frustrating. I find textured PEI sheets to be the easiest to get working, if adhesion suddenly stops being good, I first try washing with soap and water, then I try adjusting the z-offset, then drying the filament and playing with bed temperatures, curling can happen in both cases of if the temperature is too low and too high. Additionally, with corners lifting on certain prints, you might just need a brim.

I had a BLTouch for a few months, but I found it to be way more trouble than it was worth (probably mostly due to its temperature sensitivity and the heated enclosure). I ended up switching over to a Klackender probe, which has been more reliable to me.
I briefly tried volleyball and was absolutely shocked at how much impact it applied to my hands. I will not be trying that again!

Like, at no point in everyday life does anything like that happen. Meanwhile, there doesn't seem to be many studies showing any need for anything like that to stay healthy, and lots of people make it to 90s and 100s without high impact or high intensity stuff.

Most sports seem like they must exist mostly because of masochism! Every time I do anything physical besides walking and just the level of excercise you get doing projects with an active job I always regret it.

I used to be interested in sports as a teen... but... that was mostly just because I thought girls would be more interested, but plenty of people play sports and that doesn't happen.

All the sports seem to either be dangerous, or not that popular!

With all the concerns about people not getting enough excercise, I'm surprised none of the video game companies or something have made an effort to design a new sport, with the help of doctors to make sure it won't wreck anyone's joints.

I wonder what the top game designers would say about a new sport for those of us who have zero interest in the old "Expose yourself to danger and get experience with life" mindset that people who play football often seem to have?
Yes, but I don't think its debatable to say that the entire ecosystem is firmly behind NVIDIA's. Usually it comes as a surprise when something does support their framework, whether directly ROCm or even HIP which should be easier....

I shouldn't be surprised that AMD's ecosystem is lagging behind, since their GPU division spent a good decade suffering to be even relevant. Not to mention that NVIDIA has spent a lot of effort on their HPC tools.

I don't want this to be too negative towards AMD, they have been steadily growing in this space. Some things do work well, e.g. stable diffusion is totally fine on AMD GPUs. So they seem to be catching up. I just feel a little impatient, especially since their cards are more than powerful enough to be useful. I suppose my point is that the gap in HPC software between NVIDIA and AMD is much larger than the actual capability gap in their hardware, and that's a shame.
Scientific colour maps
IMHO it's in the guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not dumb, this stuff isn't really taught unless you explicitly pursue it.

One note: the return on some companies may be higher and others lower, the issue is that the risk for money in companies is higher.

Very simplistic example: the US government can offer you a flat 5%, a company investment offers 10% half the time, 0% the other half.

One is a sure thing, one is a gamble. The more the 'gamble' the more risk and that is a driving factor in investments. People are willing to take huge risks if the payoff is very large (Look at Michael Burry and the big short)
they’re not profitable. twitch probably loses money, reddit definitely loses money.

economy has changed to where money is harder to get, and investors are probably much more skeptical now. and in order to get profitable, they have to start some user-hostile practices.
Important qualifier that their definition of “electrified” includes any type of hybrid.

There’s a little more detail available from the source [1] they’re referencing.

In the San Francisco DMA, 34.2% of vehicle sales were electric vehicles, while 16.8% were hybrids.

In the rest of the country, Electric made up 9.3%, and hybrids 7.3%.

Surprising to me that EVs have already eclipsed hybrids nationally.

Also interesting that nationally, Rivian, an automaker that didn’t exist a few years ago, sold the 3rd most EVs in the country. (Though, a small fraction of Tesla’s sales).

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/first...
Crawling is indirect. This isn’t a protocol like IMAP where each object exists inherently as specified by the protocol. The idea of a “thread” or “user” does not exist in HTTP, only “documents” do. Everything at this layer is made up by (and at the disposal of) the operator and is not standardized.
Aim to run one piece of the company well enough that nobody else need to worry about it. And don't let anyone forget about it.

This will give you more satisfaction and better leverage than a title when it comes to negotiate a raise or request anything else.
> Ranking programmers is as dumb as ranking musicians.

If a musician had a noticeable impact on culture and was prolific, I don't see why we can't put them in a bracket of [in top #]. The ranking is really just to illustrate my respect for his work, accomplishments, insightful communications, and continued relevance as well as impact on my life and those around me. You can call that 'dumb' if you like, but I am human just like you and am not above placing some people's accomplishments above those of others.
How can I see those stats?
Requiring my phone number does not respect my privacy. Reddit users can create as many identities as they wish.
their ideas about what they are doing (their ideology) being at problem rather than the their actual actions is precisely what makes this a political crime rather than a technical one.
Probably Disney or whoever else wants their PR pieces pushed on a daily basis.
Yes, I've seen more than one subreddit who barely had enough users to keep going do the indefinite shutdown thing and it's just going to kill the community.
> Kind of sounds like they're just open sourcing the development of a platform.. On the platform?

That is also a sentence that doesn't make sense to me. Are they perhaps meaning something different than usual by the term "open source"?
No sir these are specs for a future version.
> The metric I am using is 'impact' in an industry and in society in general

If you correlate against lines of code written over a lifetime then John Brunner and Vernor Vinge bubble to the top. They're my go-to examples for people who think that literature reviews "don't matter".

Kind of a fun exercise since we get to see all the different values out there in the world.
> There was a brief period where the internet was shockingly stable. However, 'creative destruction' and churn is inevitable as the whole world continues to desire a better internet.

It's not at all evident the world actually desires a better internet.

Even without corporate involvement, it's extremely obvious that a subreddit's size is inversely proportionate to the quality of its content and discourse (with perhaps extremely rare exceptions)

In other words, when the "normies" start flooding something, the value of that takes a nosedive, because experts don't want to fight another battle on top of the battle of producing good content (which is hard enough by itself).

> I spent a decade+ actively on reddit

I've spent roughly ~5-6 active years, but then the combination of censorship and nosedive in quality of discourse that started ~2015, made me lose all interest in actively participating.
Yes, over regulation leads to massively spiraling costs as delays lead to financing issues (both interest and uncertainty), knowledge loss, project management timing issues, etc etc

And yet even with that you're getting 400 billion kWh over its 40 year lifespan for €13 billion construction costs (multiply by 1.5 for lifetime costs), for electricity production price of €0.05 per kWh. Which is honestly decent.

Btw: did you actually do the calculation before posting?
Subscription and donation model could really work. Loads of people subscribed to Apollo. Why not bring it over to lemmy? Or if Christian is not interested, someone else will be.

Reddit set such a high bar for API pricing that I think there’s plenty of room to support both front-end and back-end development as well as hosting for lemmy servers. We just need to work out a revenue-sharing model that gives everyone a piece of the pie.
Wish python would sort out their packages mess and let there be one and only one (obvious) way to do it.
I don't understand EU institutions really, but it also seems interesting that this is from the "competition commissioner".
Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage
I love to see one of these come with the ability to fit into a gang box on the wall... to use in a place where one would usually have light switches, etc.
Should ask this person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36331276
r/sports isn't as active as a lot of the major sports subreddits IMO. Any serious sports discussions would be on sport-specific subs.

r/nba

r/nfl

r/formula1

r/mma

Those are some major ones still private.

Quite disappointing that r/soccer decided to re-open though. Would've made a significant impact.
I was at least hoping for a cookie recipe.
> Ranking programmers is as dumb as ranking musicians.

But also as much fun for people with appropriately specialized interests, so it'll probably keep happening.
Shouldn't the headline read "WFO mandates" or "Return to office mandates" ?
I assume this is meant to ask, "what's the point of Discord when we already have IRC?"

The answer is I can't figure out how to use IRC since I'm not an old dude. :D Also it has way less features to foster rich multimedia communication
There's an "or" in "fight or flight".
>who wants to work for Reddit for free while being treated as disposable?

Any 'big fish in a small pond' personality type who gets a kick out of exercising what little power they have. There is generally no shortage of people signing up for that position
Well I'm not doing anything smart with this but perhaps readers will be interested; New Zealand bird song recorded at dawn each day, with a remote solar powered pi. Here as an RSS feed or ready to go on Spotify

https://chorus.mohiohio.com/feed.xml

https://open.spotify.com/show/1UZNkmrC020U3te9W2k4TE?si=a5Km...
Calling it as 'frustrated' is implying a kind of anthropomorphism that GPT does not deserve. If you understand how large language models work, you can see that they only predict the next word in their output, one at a time. If you want to learn more about them, there are some great essays like "AI is a Blurry Jpeg" and "AI is a Stochastic Parrot" which reassuringly confirm that these scary AI are really just glorified autocompletes! They serve us at our whim to complete the next word and they never have emotions or feelings or agency.
Shame. Missed opportunity to editorialise it to "Ineffective Rust" ;)
Checking in with the same feeling. If I had to do an interview and they asked me to sketch out on a whiteboard a high level diagram of how anything from the last 20 years of computing worked, I could probably muddle my way through it. A 3D engine, a database, a word processor, a web site with a REST API, you name it. It might not be 100% right in the details, but I could at least describe it in the general sense and talk about the constraints of such a system.

If you held a gun to my head and asked me to tell you even at a sky-high architectural level (let alone in any detail) how ChatGPT worked, well... tell my family I love them. This is the first time in my 20+ year career I have felt like some computing thing is total unexplainable black magic.
Because these lawsuits are costly, a PR nightmare, loosing them is a serious possibility and going around fighting your competition with lawsuits can put you into a bad place with government agencies.

Playing games on linux is not a threat to microsoft. The money they loose on that is miniscule.
Rag tag group of friends obviously
aye - in Java, this inevitably leads to strange catch Exception/RuntimeException statements all over the code. In practice, there are very few/no reasons to order a program crash. Programming errors are inevitable on a large code base, we learned the hardway in kernel development that Blue Screen Of Death is not the correct outcome for an error.
Why not just use https://www.darkhn.com/

Works for me.
So this is more along the lines of what I was thinking, where borrowed money had higher interest, but many other replies in this thread make it seem like because treasury bills are better people are just investing in that instead.

Is it both of these factors combined? Is it more one factor than the other?
VC money has dried out, platforms suddenly try to extract money, and they go at it way ham-fisted with little rhyme, reason, or respect for the user base.
Yeah. Before investors had basically no other option. Now the baseline has moved from virtually 0% return to 5%.
Where I work it's fine.

They're stuff like standups or sprint planning for projects I'm not always actively contributing to. If I need to be there it's because I have a significant number of Jira issues assigned to me.

The other meetings I set to tentative are the huge (hundreds of attendees) quarterlies, monthlies, etc.

I don't usually do this for one-off meetings unless the organizer just optimistically added people from the org chart. In that case I will ask about it.

I'm not saying I won't attend, but just that I don't know if I can. It's an honest answer. All this time adds up.
But books are not down. Why would websites go down?
This is sometimes called the diaper (anti)pattern - because it catches all the poop. It works great - so long as the only exceptions your program ever throws are ones you are deliberately throwing to the global error handler. Given that, go for it. ;)
> Maintainers learn to be causation experts when dealing with repair. They build two narratives, one for finding the problem, and one for solving the problem.

I'd prefer to have those narratives delivered as part of the product when maintainer is hired.
You say that as if it is known fact but I don't think that is a given at all.

The converse could be true: maybe being inundated with fake empathy is almost as good as being inundated with the real thing, ala placebo effect (or the studies which have shown that just forcing yourself to smile can actually improve your mood).
no offense man but -

> I have been already working nearly at a burn-out level for many years ... Rent is sky high ... I don't feel comfortable taking on mortgage ... I am unable to enjoy any content, movie, tv show anymore ...

you are struggling with yourself here, not GPT4.

You're clearly stressed, you say 'near burn out' but being unable to enjoy things that you used to like is straight up depression, you know?

Have you considered seeing a counselor?
lol that url applemust is a bit much. Really cool that there might be some standards incoming though
OpenAI, of course. They have to get their content somewhere, after all.
The point is that the language has decided that some kinds of builtin operations can panic, in the interest of developer ergonomics. The alternative is that every indexing operation returns a Result, or you write 4 lines of code instead of 1 for every indexing operation. So the notion that the programmer should never write "panic!" in their code does not fully address the underlying problem, if the reason for not writing "panic!" is "library code should never panic".
Blast from the past!

I actually used this Cookbook to look up a matrix derivative that I used in my PhD thesis!
Ask HN: Would you hire someone who thinks work-life balance is important?
And in particular, would you hire such a person for a software engineering position?
"Backup transportation solution", it can be public transit, or even a bicycle if it's enough to get you where you need to, but yes that's my opinion.

Even something as simple as an oil change can go wrong. Drain plug broke and you need a new one? Or you forgot to put a gasket and it leaks and now all your oil is on the floor? Well, now you need a trip to the parts store, or order it and wait until parts get there.

In my case, it was a routine maintenance operation: changing brake fluid. I used a power bleeder, and at a third of the pressure specified on the manual, the reservoir ruptured. So now I needed a new reservoir. Parts store didn't have it, and it took 2 weeks to get there.
That's right, Grusch has no first hand accounts. But apparently personnel from the crash retrieval teams have come forward and testified to congress. Crazy, I know.

It's a developing situation; we need wait and see before jumping to conclusions.

That said having discerningly followed this topic for years, I believe what we're seeing is a momentous shift in the status quo and that the revelations from these proceedings will be paradigm shifting.
Isn't this just utf8 without information on how many of the following bytes belong to the glyph?
> any attempt I made to clarify intent and expectations in regards to this corporate vocabulary is interpreted as questioning "the leadership" and being a difficult worker.

I suspect that you're looking for meaning at a level where it doesn't exist. These are BS words and phrases, intended to sound smart and authoritative without actually meaning anything of substance whatsoever.

That's why you aren't finding consensus as to exact meaning: there is no exact meaning, by design. Your attempts to gain clarity are interpreted as questioning leadership because the purpose of using those phrases is not to give clarity, but to express authority.

It comes down to the various purposes of jargon. Jargon is often used in order to make communications more clear.

However, jargon is also often used as status signifiers. In that case, the purpose is to exclude people who aren't part of the "in" group, not to make communications clear.
I doubt that "shock absorption" would have been a problem.

This kind of sword would not have been used like a hammer.

The wavy pattern on the bronze handle would have ensured a firm grip even with a sweaty or wet hand. I have some Japanese Tojiro kitchen knives, which have stainless steel handles with a similar pattern on the handle, and they are more comfortable than most of the knife handles made of wood or plastic, especially when used with a dirty hand.

So based on this experience, I do not believe that such a bronze handle would have been a serious disadvantage, even if it is possible that the sword was purely ceremonial.
Can't Reddit just un-private all the popular subreddits? Why haven't they done this yet?
Well all you have to do then is make it not hard to read :-)

#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
enum Error {
#[error("bad index somehow")]
BadIndex
}

// ...

let pivot = array.get(array.len() / 2).ok_or(Error::BadIndex)?;
This is possible already with Apple-supported Payment Request API (and even without those APIs, like just logging into a website). This is how Netflix on iOS works, which is explicitly supported (though with stupid cavets) by Apple.
Coincidentally (or not), Carmack started Armadillo Aerospace and was working rocket control and navigation systems. So…
I'm not an expert in this topic, but coming naively to it, it strikes me that direct to consumer retail of all types was harder before the internet, which required more middle men to distribute goods.
Oh wow, I think this translates PTX (nvidia's high-level assembly code) to SPIR-V? Am I reading this right? That's...a lot.

A note to any systems hackers who might try something like this, you can also retarget clang's CUDA support to SPIR-V via a LLVM-to-SPIR-V translator. I can say with confidence that this works. :)
Unlike Gatorade, which has electrolytes.
Are you embarking on an exciting fintech project and need the perfect software development firm to bring your vision to life?
I click on the link, and a bunch of posts are scrolling past on the Lemmy site. Is this intended? I can't imagine it's helpful to have the homepage live-update like that.
Ok, that's the latency of the L1 cache and that isn't shared between threads, so you might not want to count on being able to do this.