skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weird thing is that training on text encodes information on related concepts.

from u/gmt2027

>An extreme version of the same idea is the difference between understanding
DNA vs the genome of every individual organism that has lived on earth. The species record encodes a ton of information about the laws of nature, the composition and history of our planet. You could deduce physical laws and constants from looking at this information, wars and natural disasters, economic performance, historical natural boundaries, the industrial revolution and a lot more.

and u/thomastjeffery

>That entropy is the secret sauce: the extra data that LLMs are sometimes able to model. We don't see it, because we read language, not text.
And without the TV. Seriously, I can't stand pubs/bars, my GF looks me like I was an alien.
I prefer cafeterias allegedly targeted to " middle aged women", they are far quieter.
It's 2023, using a proprietary/closed-source web browser gives me anxiety and trust issues. The fact that Vivaldi still exists is evidence that I'm a minority, but at the same time there is nothing I see over here that would compel me to give up on Firefox and whichever tab management addon I installed and forgot about.
Nature takes over really fast.

I went on a tour of the Chernobyl exclusion zone before the war. There are parts where the bus drives through a rough path, barely squeezing through the tree branches on both sides. It looks very much like driving through an abandoned road through a forest.

And then once in a while you see a house in ruins through the window. It actually used to be a road going through a town, but it's been swallowed up to the point that it doesn't even look like one anymore. The city is of course very recognizable still, but there were plenty smaller villages.

And it's only been 37 years since then.
To run the wasi, I use NATS.

It avoids all the GPRC mess You can instead use Proto and let NATS be be Transport.
I'm with you there. I use Mutt to read my mail as plain text, and have mu4e if I need to see an image in an email or whatever. Thunderbird is there if I desperately need an email to be a web page, for some reason.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that paints an overly simplified picture that ignores history.

AFAIK RHEL came out of Red Hat Linux and Fedora came later, then at some point they made Fedora the upstream. But it has never been a "fork"[0] and there was no clean cut, it just transitioned around.

[0]: OK, debatable - depends on the way you use the word fork. They're still Linux distros with common roots and packages were first introduced here or there. My main point is just that it's not like "Here's Fedora, and then later someone forked RHEL off" but more like RHL -> RHEL -> Fedora -> RHEL
The Conservative government that's been in power for 13 years has consistently underfunded the NHS. While the current vogue is to blame Covid, it's only been the final crack in a dam that's been bursting for years now.
> About a year or two after install, reboots and power-offs stopped working. The system just hangs instead after printing out a message about USB, and I cannot figure out for the life of me what's wrong.

My initial read here would be that this is where serial port / console redirection is happening. There should be settings in the BiOS you can look at however I don't know how limited PC's are in their options / functionality.

>I find the project pretty outdated and behind the times. The UI purposefully obtuse with terrible organization and field names and a lot of missing help text to keep their support/consulting biz strong.

pfSense was the same way as well as most projects if you understand the underlying configurations. You can find people saying the same about ubiquiti's interface in this thread as well. In my experience the GUI is to capture the 80% of mostly default configurations.

What other firewall/routing software have you looked at in comparison to opnsense? I'm interested in what other features they have? The API interface and IDS functionality was one of the draws for me.

>Their release process is wildly unsuitable for production network equipment. A 'major' release is immediately EOL'd as soon as the next major release comes out. Running 20.1 and need to stay on it because 20.2 breaks something or you want to wait for the dust to settle? Too bad. There's no security releases for older major revisions.

I mean are you saying this as a paying customer? Free always has its risks and costs.

> The devs are sticks in the mud, too - mostly "franco."
> wireguard being "insecure"
> ARM support? Zero interest in even assisting community efforts

I observe this with projects overtime and this usually just adds to the bloat and disorganization because everyone is looking for "their" one-stop solution. I think its useful to consider things from other view points and complexities you may not have insight into. Not that I have any specific insight into this project however, there are other companies that make a lot money off networking gear, firewalls, etc and provide what you are asking for but the price isn't free. I assume most open source projects are "best-effort" unless they have a formal revenue stream or foundation behind them and even then I wouldn't expect any claim to expect features or support (not saying you are, just generally).
A world issue or a US one?
orrrr they could tone down the mids and highs
Is there some kind of app/website that lays out all these kind of risks you face in life?
Hmm.

I feel like if we moved to sustainable permaculture, and made the rules of land ownership more equitable, we'd solve a lot of the problems that get blamed on 'agriculture'.

Seems we either manage to do that, or we become a permanent underclass in a toxic dustbowl within decades.
In Spain alcohol it's basically something for granted. If you don't drink, you are the outsider, or you must be ill to not be harashed for not drinking a beer in the pub with your friends.
That is called caching, which is used to save computation. But only tokens are enough to calculate next token and state could be recomputed.
I want a 3 bed house because some time soon I'll probably need to have kids, else my partner be too old to conceive. I work from home most days, so a 3rd room would be nice for an office or if we want a 2nd child. We will likely make do with a 2 bed flat (still 200k if we're lucky in the arse end of nowhere - 250k in a place we'd actually enjoy living). I don't know any of my older colleagues or family that had to settle for that; again, following the same career path or worse. My parents managed a 3 bed house on the South coast on a nurse and chef salary. That would be functionally impossible today.
the thing is, traffic calming works, it is applied in a lot of places with 'vision zero'. Is it a bit more uncomfortable because of bumps, turns, narrowings? yes. Is it a deal breaker? nope. Drivers are still in comfortable cars, with AC, overall speed is not affected because of less accidents, they mind their own business and 'calming infra' is enforcing more attention and reduces nr of decisions a driver must take to go from point A to B
Because your neighbours complain when you're throwing parties all the time or being loud at night.

That's why it's called a "pub": A public house. It's a place specifically for being loud at night.

If people didn't have neighbours who wanted to sleep, nobody would go to a pub, it would just be house parties all the time. In rural areas it is.
From movies I've learned that Americans get their licenses in high-school by a teacher who just gives them the license so they don't need to sit through another crappy attempt at the course they built in the parking lot with traffic cones.

Dunno how it works for real, but can't be much different =)
In the example you linked it's comparing two threads reading from the same or separate cache lines, no? If so, that's not really the point I was referring to (as the two variables I mentioned as example are accessed by a single thread, not by two threads).
There's exponentially more knowledge and culture on the corporate web than there ever was on the old web.

I know Hacker News is almost universally at the "angry man yelling at clouds" stage when it comes to the web, but there is actually a baby to be lost with the bathwater.
I’m not arguing anything, that is the definition, based on current understanding that just so happens to align perfectly with observations of reality. It’s going to take a miracle of the sort that starts religions to change that, although it seems that there are plenty willing to believe already.
We do pay people at every stage regardless of outcome and so not sure what happened. If you email me I’ll figure it out though.
On June 19, 2023, a submersible named the Titan went missing while on a dive into the wreck of the Titanic. The submersible was carrying five people, including a pilot, a retired French naval officer, and three paying passengers....
Has anyone already tried to use GraalVM with it? Cool would be trying to do a native compilation and compare the performance
Lightning is four times hotter than the sun
One good thing about declining birth rates is that you can't waste people on bullshit jobs.

Fully automated gas stations has been a thing in my country for thirty years. And they can be up to 20 cents cheaper so it was adopted by consumers very quickly.
How does it know if a selector is going to be reliable?
Prove to the Court That I Am Sentient
there may be different correlations, for example maybe suv's limit too much the visibility at night, but yes, we need more data
You didn't even guess at orders of magnitude. Probably because if you had you'd be nervous.

> Efficiency gains. Transport...

Picking on this first one, population in the UK has gone from 50 to ~70 million since the 1950s. Transport energy use has risen from <30 to ~50 mtoe over the same period ([0], collapsed 2019-2020 for obvious reasons not related to efficiencies). Something increasing faster than population cannot account for per capita reductions in energy use. It is statistically impossible.

Ironically, thanks to the logic of Jevon's Paradox, transport probably is much more efficient. That is why it is consuming more energy per-capita than it did before.

And how much do you think electronics efficiency gains can explain since the 50s? Electronics didn't exist at any significant market penetration in the 50s. Computers may as well not have existed. Ditto phones.

What we're seeing is the UK de-industrialising, and likely that is being accompanied by reductions in goods availability (and building things like houses).

> combi boilers

How much of the 25% per capita energy reductions do you think this accounts for, and with what justification?

> Quite likely that the inefficient burning of coal

The BBC says there is an energy crisis [1]. They say global, China is surprised by that. Based on the countries they name, it seems to be a euphemism for "places with no fossil fuels". So much for these efficiencies gained by not using fossil fuels.

[0] chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60112068
Anecdotally, in NYC it feels like something “clicked” during COVID where some small but meaningful segment of drivers just stopped caring about any social contract. I see more cars blatantly running reds, driving with expired (or no) plates, and doing stupid things to shave a few seconds off their commute.
Than the surface (photosphere) of the sun.
Now that is a funny comment.
There are lots of beer with 0% of alcohol which are just as tasty as alcoholic ones.
Thanks for your input. This website should neither compete with nor replace regular journalism. What I try to achieve here is to be able to break free from social media silos where usually people are in kind of bubble. No one can read this many comments and people usually tend to read only comments / conversations where they align with their believes. Hence, I try to highlight different view points along with contrasting opinions (across several different social media platforms) to get an overview--not necessarily fact-based. These stories aren't supposed to push any agenda down anyone's throat.

Since this project just went live I'm still figuring out how to communicate that.
> contemplate all your choices in life.

You make that sound like it is a good thing
Offtopic, but this is a new Google Play policy. The app would have worked if Google allowed you to install it.
Dart is a no go especially because Google is not really backing it.
If the database contains stuff that isn't yours then you don't have standing to begin with.
Just wondering: Is Paper consuming less resources than the vanilla Minecraft server for a few players (1 to 10 players). In other words, is it less costly to operate a Paper server on the cloud?
Appeal seems to be proportional to abs(goodness)! :)
Worth always remembering (and a trip to many major European cities will confirm): it’s not cities that are loud, but cars.

Of course trains are pretty bad too but you don’t tend to be surrounded by trains all day every day, even in NYC and especially in Philly, DC, LA, Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, Houston, Vegas, etc, all of which are extremely loud.
if you want to have two links grouped together so that a single transfer uses both links together (2gbps) then the switch has to support it. default is for two separate transfers to each get one gbit, which is good enough for most applications.

packet loss at summer temps is indicative of faulty hardware (maybe just the thermal paste or other parts of the heat management)
I'm not sure why it's suddenly so difficult to take down a monolithic application. It's totally doable and isn't that difficult. It happens all the time too.

For me, the funny thing is I've found that it can be just as easy for a single broken microservice to bring down everything else, and it can be a huge pain figuring out where such a problem originated from because the wrong services are erroring out.
> I often fall into the thinking of top 10 or 20 appstore app terms

You're not the only one. As far as I can tell, the vast majority of (particularly, but not exclusively) compiler work is driven by these edge cases.

As an example, when I look a the justifications for pushing undefined behavior exploitation in C, invariably some Very Smart Compiler Guy™ will state with great authority that this is absolutely essential and completely unavoidable. When you check more closely, it turns out that it enables a somewhat obscure optimisation that at best most people can do without and at worst is just about completely useless.

See Proebsting's Law, which was unduly optimistic, and also some of the work on variability in benchmarking, for example how different lengths of environment variables can dwarf most optimisation effects.

Daniel Bernstein stated this a bit more aggressively as "The Death of Optimising Compilers"[1]. He's not wrong, either, but when I mentioned this at a Google event, Chandler Carruth basically blew up and said it was complete garbage. Apparently he and Daniel almost came to blows over this at some conference.

At the time, Google was working on a far less optimising JS runtime for Chrome, after they found out that their super-simple runtime (mostly just interpreted) for small devices was beating their super-duper sophisticated Turbofan JIT on many real world tasks. And of course Microsoft found out that just turning off the JIT completely has marginal real-world impact.[2]3][4]

So what's the disconnect? How can these two very smart and knowledgeable people come to such stunningly different conceptions of reality, so different as to be not just incompatible, but apparently mutually incomprehensible? I think (Turing Award Winner) Michael Stonebraker had a great analysis[5] of what is happening, though for him it was in the field of databases: nearly all the research today, when it isn't completely removed from reality, is focused on the needs of what he calls the "whales", the 0.01% or so of users who are big enough that they sponsor that sort of work (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, ..).

So in the relevant community, the needs and the problems of the whales define reality. But they are far, far removed from and often in conflict with the needs of the other 99.99% of users.

Which goes back to your comment about compilers and compiler people optimising for the "common case". For that to work, you have to actually be aware of the common case.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf

[2] https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...

[3] https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735392

[5] https://youtu.be/DJFKl_5JTnA?t=677
That can't be fixed unless it's possible to live without a car in the US which is bery far from the case.
We can stop these senseless pedestrian deaths. One SUV per child; let's gooo!

Gonna start working on my TED talk.
I don’t know either, and hopefully someone here in journalism can comment on how serious it is to do what Finkel did.

I like how the New Yorker Book Review article (recently on HN [0]) reviewed both the book as well as the author. I thought that was a fair assessment- bringing the prior journalistic issues to light while also discussing the merits of the book.

[0]-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36449581
Bars often vary ingredients that I wouldn’t purchase for myself and therefore allows me to try a variety of drinks that I can’t make by myself. Also, alcohol and socializing is a positive feedback loop for many people.
Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial [audio]
But does it result in better quality of life? Maybe competitiveness is not the best target to optimize for.
Traffic calming is creating a virtuous driving environment, encouraging considerate and calm driving.

Current american roads are a vicious environment, encouraging speeding, jostling for position, zoning out.

Traffic calming is the exact opposite of ruining streets.
The same shortcut is present in "Kids" mode, which I tried setting up to prevent my children from doing just that. Absolute fucking idiocy.
It depends on the LLM, but GPT-4 at least is very good at translating natural language into API calls or structured data and vice versa.
Always worth linking to ryg / Fabian Giesen: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/the-magic-ring-buff...
Depends on what choices you have made up to that point I'd say!
First we had outsourcing to Indians, now we have ChatGPT. There is almost a rule of thumb, the less you pay, the bigger pile of shit you get. At least with ChatGPT you can vet it first, but with the market being flush with 1-2 year experience devs, globally vetting will be shit too. I honestly wonder, what will start happening to all these LLMs when the training set will get over-represented with cheap, fast, crappy code written by LLMs themselves. I bet "content inbreeding" will become the topic in the future.
If you’re in the US and think you’re safe from this, think again.

The reason we don’t hear much about it is because of the near absence of preventive care for middle class/poor people.

So things only get caught when they have escalated to serious issues not traceable to the thousand paper cuts contributing to it.
Many diffusion based approaches have been tried for language. I like a diffusion style that goes a bit like this:

* empty string

* Berlin

* Berlin city

* Berlin is a city

* Berlin is a city in Germany

* Berlin is the capital of Germany

* Berlin is the capital of Germany, located in the North East.

* Berlin is the capital. It is located in the North East of Germany.

* Berlin is the populous capital city of Germany. It is in the North East of Germany, by the river Spree.

* Berlin is the capital city of Germany with 3.6 million inhabitants. It is located in the North East of Germany. It's centred on the river Spree.

...

At every step, the diffusion slightly rephrases to add more information content and detail to that of the previous level, by inserting, replacing and deleting tokens.

It is usually more costly to sample from these diffusion style models (which is not the case for diffusion for images, as unlike text, images tend to have a fixed size). But, one might imagine this approach to scale up to generate texts of arbitrary lengths. Just keep on adding more and more detail on your text, and you'll end up with a book or a coherent novel.
It doesn't seem that difficult. Get an electronic speed controller and a hub motor from a trashed e-scooter (10" wheels should work?) put a battery pack on it and rig the throttle to a cable on the handle.
It's Alyssa Rosenzweig. Congratulations!
Or test a bartender by ordering a fizzbuzz and see if they're a former software engineer who got fed up with the crunch and left to go work in a bar (something I think all of us have considered at least once).
> Meanwhile, my government mandates that ALL employees automatically get a raise matching inflation

How does this work in practice? It is your wage is reviewed annually and adjusted, or more frequently? Do employers give raises for good performance or do you expect to just get a raise based on inflation?
I'd rather everyone adopt the German system and have public transport as an alternative for those who can't pass the test.

Over here, across your eastern border, there's been a huge increase in the number of people on the road and it's becoming increasingly obvious that some people are better off taking the bus/train.

Problem is, trains/buses are disappearing, so especially elderly people are either stuck at home or have to get behind the wheel, to mixed results.
Microsoft considered acquiring Bungie and Sega
How to Imagine 52 Factorial
ChatGPTs rather underwhelming performance on a formal problem
A recent study of centenarians seemed to indicate a correlation between a diverse gut biome and long life: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01370-6
It's much more preferable to drink alone at home than to go out to a bar. I understand people who wax enthusiastic about bars will disagree, and are far more likely to read the headline and post a comment here.
Storytelling – Depth vs Width
Who's Got the Monkey?
...And when you graze your Cattle on someone else's fields, you pay through the nose for it!

Best damn business innovation ever, renting people shovels to dig themselves a hole with!
What does un-distro mean?
Ask HN: Why do we still put up with telephone
Sorry. This will be a short rant. You have been warned.

Why do we still put up with the telephone?

Why don't I like being phoned?

* Of all the modes of communication, it is by far the most intrusive.

* Most phone calls could have been an e-mail, with screenshots, facts, and numbers in it. On the phone, the caller has to read it out aloud, and I have to write it down. That is not efficient.

* As a company, you are expected to “pick up” the phone, and even need to hire special people for this, be it a receptionist or an entire helpdesk crew. But for small companies and small teams, this is a heavy burden.

* The mental load of context switching costs a lot. We work less efficient, or more slowly because the phone rings, and after you put the horn back, what were you doing? You need time to pick up the work again. Before you get to work, the phone rings again, and you are once more not doing what you were supposed to be doing. It looks like the Greek myth of Σίσυφος who was condemned to push a rock up a mountain but never reach the top, forever.

Why don't I like phoning up a company?

* Rarely do I know whom I need to speak to. Much rather do I send a mail that can internally be forwarded until it reaches the right person.

* I have no way of knowing if I'm disturbing a person in his work. By calling, I'm implicitly demanding his/her time right now.

/rant
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