skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The trained model has 7B parameters or weights for each neuron.

2. It can handle upto 8k tokens. Tokens are usually some representation for a word. If your tokens are characters then, "h", "e", "y" represent 3 tokens for hey. Most of the algos use byte pair encoding. For example "hand-le" has two tokens "hand" and "le". This is a very crud example which is enough to give the gist but is not accurate. You can look into byte pair encoding for more details.

3. The token size 1.5T token means they have huge variations for input and output. Simply put, it was trained on large data corpus.

I hope this simplifies it. You can research further if you are interested! Hope it helps!
Is "licking their hands" an idiom? It's not familiar to me and useless Google only finds dog behaviour articles.
> what's an iPhone that can't connect to the internet worth? It's just a telephone with a camera

Nope. It's just a camera. Because the "telephone" part relies on infrastructure that is unmaintainable without the Internet, and would probably stop functioning in a matter of days.

And boom, you're back to the 19th century, where telephones weren't a thing. Except that unlike in the 19th century, there isn't any infrastructure to make things work in that situation.

How does the hospital order medical supplies now? By paper mail? Sorry, mail can't be delivered anymore, since all postal services depend on logistic systems that in turn depend on the Internet for coordination. Also, printed catalogs haven't existed for almost 2 decades, so the hospital won't even know what supplies are available.

And either way, the supplier doesn't have anything in stock, because their entire supply chain has collapsed, because international trade isn't a thing anymore. Did I mention that GPS (and thus most of sea/air navigation) has stopped working because the ground-based infrastructure needed to keep it running depended on, you guessed it, the Internet?

Still think that won't kill more people than the atomic bombings (which killed "only" 200k)?
Watchy is something that you could customize to meet your needs. Looks like it has an accelerometer to do step counting.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy#products
I've had very good results with even a 3.5 B model (Fastchat-T5) for retrieval augmented generation (aka putting information into the context window and letting the model rephrase it).
Curious where the growth is. I’m assuming in cities. And I’m assuming that “90% of Canadians live within 90 miles of the US border” more than ever. I want my assumptions to be incorrect. But I worry they are not.
It's true, you should eventually submit it to the most topical free journal after doing something like these steps to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful. It won't get as many academia merit points as submitting to the journals that have lobbyists.
I could've been making a great salary in Canada as a new grad but it just didn't make sense to stay when I could make 1.5x more in the US (and in USD!).
I didn’t even realize JavaScript in email was a possible thing until I opened this thread, and still don’t understand the use case for it.
> I still say the web would be better than it is now, if microtransactions had been built into protocols ASAP.

No, for dog’s sake! Microtransactions are a cancer and come with perverse incentives leading to enshitification of everything they touch. They would not solve any issue with clickbait or sensationalism. Plus, I am not going to count pennies when I read news online or manage yet another pseudo-currency.

Some kind of all-you-can-read aggregated subscription is much, much better: more reader-friendly, it comes with incentives to keep readers happy on the long term, and media don’t need to rely only on hit pieces. In fact, Apple News would be close to perfect if it weren’t siloed into its app. I’d sign up with a decent competitor in a heart beat.
> I've seen first hand refugees come to Canada from Ukraine

Software developers are used to paying sub-10% income tax there (or no tax at all).
Flattr[0] started out with this idea and have since pivoted slightly.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr
Why do you think nobody wraps exceptions? Everyone did in every project in every language I've worked on.

Every rest API client library will wrap the http library errors which will wrap network errors.

Languages even directly support the notion of keeping a reference to the original exception.

If anything, people do it too much.
The difference is one is planned. Google promotes dependency on their services. There are alternatives to gapps. There are also alternatives to paved roads. The problem is they add more hoops to jump through. They care about the 99 percentile. Those won't keep chasing said hoops.

While large orgs help maintain relevant FOSS, to them, AOSP is left to rot. In our case, several k employees, we have teams dedicated to relevant FOSS tools. My wife, at a startup, have 20% paid worktime a week to contribute to whatever they want.

Your analogy, at face value, makes sense. Adding a few more lenses to the analysis weakens it severely.
Automatic mute isn't part of it, but I enjoy the "my day" watch face on my Galaxy Watch. It shows a simple analogue clock, the date, and an abstract time line around the edge of the watch representing calendar appointments. You can also tap the little blue lines to get a quick overview of the details without opening the calendar app on the watch.

I'm not sure if this is available for other platforms. If not, there's money to be made, especially if you can add some kind of auto mute feature.
Do casino games count? Sure, the clients "want" that the same way they may "want" some highly addictive drugs...
> Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions?

Not really. Google has an excellent intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.
I personally don’t understand the argument of CSS being too big.

You don’t have to use all the bells and whistles, you can just use a subset useful to you and be done with it.
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It means I have exceptionally high confidence that this will be the biggest thing to hit the economy, society and markets in the last hundred years for good and ill.

How does having ADHD and/or Asperger's mean that? Are you implying that those give people high confidence?
Reverse the last 30 years of tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and then we can talk about the national debt.
Honestly asking though, what good is that? They can't take a look at you really, they can't refer you to a specialist, or order any tests for you, and if they find something somehow, they can't prescribe anything or perform any procedures. Or am I mistaken?
If you don't have anything to say, it doesn't mean that you don't need a freedom of speech.

I guess you still close doors while making s*it or use curtains at your window.
Yeah but I don't understand the point you're trying to make. If people couldn't have stuff delivered, and couldn't shop during business hours, then what?
Plenty of android phones have alternatives. It's what custom roms in the title of this article is referring to.
What do you make of the local tech market in Victoria? Are there many tech companies with offices downtown or do most people end up working remotely? It seemed a lovely walkable city when I visited recently.
this looks great, I'll be sure to give it a try. thanks!
OpenOrca's goal is to provide an opensource replica to Microsoft's Orca 13B model, so changing the name makes no sense.
Yeah, that was a big shock for them.
AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All over Amazon's Bestseller Lists
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-...
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...
https://www.retailcouncil.org/resources/quick-facts/sales-ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United...

Federally both rates are ~20% between 50-80k, NYC comes in at 15% state tax, a lot of the Canadian tax rates are up to 15% tax rate, as low as 10%.

It seems quite believable that the tax rates can be similar.

"Social Security will be the biggest expense, budgeted at $1.196 trillion. It's followed by Medicare at $766 billion and Medicaid at $571 billion." https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...

The US does sink a considerable amount into what I would call "discretionary social services".

In comparison Canada seems to only spend ~300 billion on healthcare, and ~300 billion on social security. Their economy is a 6x smaller in terms of population, 3x in terms of GDP, so proportionally, saying 4x (4x600 =2.4 trillion) they spend about the same as the US does (~2.5 trillion).

The purported difference in quality is probably mostly to do with drug cost, whereas US drug companies can and do charge premiums Canadian ones can often create or source relatively safe knock-offs, while they may not have the same (number of) sophisticated facilities that the US might have.
How greedy can Bezos be if he's both retired and lost half his wealth in a divorce? If I was greedy I would simply not have done that.
Did you know that poor user experience can lead to a staggering 88% of users abandoning an app? Manual testing alone simply cannot keep up with apps' increasing complexity and rapid release cycles. It's time to embrace automated UI testing to catch bugs early and streamline their testing efforts.

The statistics don't lie. According to a recent study, companies that invest in test automation achieve a 75% reduction in testing time, allowing them to allocate resources more efficiently and accelerate their release cycles. Moreover, 85% of organizations report increased software quality after implementing automated UI testing.
The worst thing about dashes is you cannot easily double-click it whole to copy-paste.
Ehhh... it's more like a trade-off that some people might prefer.
because -stat is a Greek root.

merriam-webster

borrowed from French aérostat, probably back-formation from aérostatique "of aerostatics," with -stat (after héliostat heliostat) taken as the Greek agentive element -statēs "one who causes to stand" — more at -stat
I am currently firefighting for a customer who has a medium Sized application in c#. Started around 2019 so not ancient, but every programming, architecture and technology choice was wrong.

Sure it compiles. But often it crashes without rhyme or reason and for some reason, customers hate it.

First thing I did was to get it from .net 4.8 to .net 7 and enable all available errors checkers and style linters.

The other howled, but their builds stopped because they could no longer check-in crap. That helped. But fixing this is more work than what this would have needed if they had done it right the first time.

Funny examples: reinvanted rabbitmw badly using raw TCP and XML. Better hope your network is good, If the messages arrive at the same time, they are merged and the app crashes. So there are lots of time.sleep(50) calls to avoid that. Why is that app slow?

The iot devices can only address 254 states. The UI for that allows ulong devices. It's never checked, but if the vast fails, the app just crashes.
Sorry to say that's totally false. I worked in the film/video industry for almost two decades. If you are a small operator shooting birthday parties for $250 a pop, you have to bring your light bag, camera and other gear. Similarly, if you make deliveries or pickups from Manhattan, these fees will prove prohibitive and make people seek alternatives. I'm not going to send my film to get developed in Manhattan when it costs an extra $125 a week, on top of the tolls, to send the driver to pick up and drop off the rolls every day. The decrepit and inefficient state of mass transit in New York is vastly understated.
That ratio is declining by the day as more and more join the renting class. Olivia Chow’s victory in Toronto is testament to that. She ran on increasing the vacancy tax, making evictions more difficult, building 25k rental homes, etc. No wonder why the old guard like Ford and Tory tried everything to steer people away from her. But she still won. Speaks volumes of the changes in the demographics. It’s no longer 70% that are happy with the housing crisis I can tell you this much.
You’re in a very privileged situation to be able to afford $20-$25k up front for a big system like that. These problems are technologically solved, they’re just not solved from a cost perspective for the average Joe. Average Joe is therefore stuck paying per kWh from the grid.
Slack tries to satisfy a number of requirements, all through a chat interface. 1:1 chatting, group chatting, team/project discussions, company updates, etc. I think Slack is as good or superior to Workplace just considering chat functionality, but as a tool for inter-company collaboration Workplace is much better.

Once your company reaches a sufficient size (maybe 300+ employees?), Slack channels just become so clunky and tedious for trying to keep up with projects and discussions. Using Slack keyword notifications helps cut through the noise, but I really think applying Facebook's ranking/Groups expertise to work-related content has been the best solution I've seen so far. You're no longer inundated with unread channels that may or may not have messages relevant to you, Workplace just surfaces the relevant content (and obviously there's chat/mentions for more pressing issues).
>Is that mentoring or just standard collaboration with colleagues

A combination of collaboration and informal discussion/mentoring. Code review absolutely isn't mentoring. It's the discussions around how to approach things, and other tips and tricks.

>Well, BigCos are forcing a return to the office, and they supposedly hire "the best", not the average.

The average worker is still better than 50% of the workforce. Big companies may get "better than average", but by definition the best only end up at a very small set of companies.
There's no unicorns because there's no VC. Everyone here is busy using their capital to trade houses with each other. For the few investors that do exist, you're expected to show multiple months of profit just to get tiny seed rounds.
I mean how would one rtfa to be able to discuss it cogently on a news aggregator site like this? Do you subscribe to a dozen news sources behind paywalls? I had a natgeo sub for years growing up.

I really wish micro payments were a thing where I could pay $20 a month and not hit upteen paywalls and they would all get a piece of that monthly cost.
Aggressive immigration without proper planning raises rents and lowers wages. It is exploitation under the guise of benevolence.
> They have an insane education system, it's good but maybe too aggressive

Entire essays can and have been written about the problems of our education system. My favorite one was written by Feynman and it has already been cited in this thread. I'd like everyone here to know that it's stunningly accurate to this very day. I actually gave up programming as a career because the system and my peers demoralized me so much. Pursued an alternative career instead.

I'll have you know that brazilians who speak english fluently are the elite, likely private school educated. That's the pool of candidates you're selecting from. Those are the brazilians you're likely to meet here on this site.

> Lookup the law exam. It's rough.

Not at all. It's the bare minimum and it wasn't even enough to prevent the job market from being literally flooded with lawyers.

Had you cited concursos which roughly mean "contests for government jobs" you would have been right. Few job openings, tens of thousands of brazilians competing for them, infrequent tests. That's how judges are selected, for example. I know people who literally study for 10 hours every single day and who have yet to make it into one of these positions.
Because the desktop OS is used for so much more. But if the core functionality is missing, the point is lost. A better analogy, as you like to play games, is a VPN company releasing their app as open source, after being critiqued for privacy issues. Only to find out just the GUI was released but the rest can be installed using a plugin system.
Somehow `for` doesn't read as comprehension to me. In Erlang I used to use comprehensions extensively. In Elixir I almost never do, and only use Enum.map
There are no real alternatives. I'm installing apps on a factory reset Samsung A40 from 2019. The last ones of all the process are banking apps, github (only because they decided I need 2FA (*)) and a digital identity one for my country, basically another 2FA. I really don't have an alternative for them. In theory I could leave an Android phone in a drawer at home for those apps, use WhatsApp web on the Pine, maybe Telegram desktop, maybe Gnome maps or Google Maps web, but I'm not paying for two devices.

And the PinePhone Pro is a brick: 160.8mm x 76.6mm x 11.1mm and 215 grams. I'm looking at the 11.1 mm and the 215 grams. Granted, 200 grams is becoming worryingly normal for the new flagships but it's still a brick and those flagships are bricks too. I'm not buying something like that. If they want me to go around with 200 grams in my pocket they pay me. The A40 is 140 grams. I'm afraid there won't be alternatives for that in a few years too, and I don't buy stuff from Apple or one of the old SEs would be a solution until they will also grow big and fat.

(*) I'm also not logging in into GitHub since they forced me on 2FA, because of the extra pass. I currently don't need it for my job and I don't have to open issues to open source projects. The first time I'll have to I'll count to ten and see what to do.
Browsing HN only needs one round-trip (fetch the HTML), maybe two if you don't have it cached (fetch the CSS).

Many apps need more round-trips, by loading assets sequentially. For example: fetch the HTML, then the JS, then the JS downloads its config, then the JS fetches some assets. Latency accumulates with every round-trip.
The Withings Steel HR seems to fit the bill perfectly - it has a screen for phone notifications, a step tracker and basic fitness function, and I regularly get two weeks and more of battery life out of mine. Only problem might be that you find it’s small circular screen too small - but I think that’s a feature of its minimalist aesthetic, not a bug.

https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr
>Those are new grads and frankly most Canadian CS programs are awful to the point that if you are forced to hire one of those, may as well hire an Indian contractor remotely.

Presumably you exclude Waterloo, Toronto, UBC, and McGill from the list of awful programs. What do you have in mind? Brock? Guelph? UVic? UPEI? MUN? Lethbridge? USask?
Its notable, perhaps, that the

if __name__ == "__main__":

block allows you to do this for a _module_, i.e. a single *.py file. If you want to do this for a package, add a `__main__.py`

You can also use either of these throughout your code so that you can have

python -m foo
python -m foo.bar
python -m foo.bar.baz

each doing different, but hopefully somewhat related, things.
> The problem is that sometimes in Python exceptions can be used for control flow, or for things that are reasonably common.

Almost every time I've heard this argument, I've disagreed with it. I think that the only time using Exceptions for flow control was valid was some string-validation technique (like ensuring that a string was JSON or an email address) that could only throw an exception on error. I'd love to see _your_ use case, though.
I’ve been using a Steel HR for a few years now. I’m extremely satisfied.

Long battery life is an understatement! Even when the battery drops to near 0 the watch is still useable as a plain analog watch for at least a week giving me enough time to find where I left the damn charger (given that I don’t get to use it often at all).

What I don’t get is how this model (analog watch with just enough smarts) hasn’t gained more traction. It seems to me there’s a lot of opportunities in this space, not everything requires a high resolution display.
Do tell, which building is this room in? MPK20? 21? Classic?
The competitors you should fear aren’t copying you
I can’t because:

- I don’t have a phone that can run it, I’m just curious but without seeing what it looks like it’s hard to become interested

- even if I could install it, there’s basically no chance I would install it because I have no idea what it looks like, because there are no screenshots on the front page
No modern type systems are powerful and flexible enough that I don't believe the pendulum will swing back toward dynamic languages, at least to the same degree. Especially with dependent typing becoming more of a thing.

Then again perhaps LLM programming will become the new thing. ;)
> people are an endless font of excuses about why they won't pay (or they just don't) even though many people routinely subscribed to a newspaper and a bunch of magazines.

That’s not really fair. Back when magazine subscriptions were a thing, you weren’t exposed as much to other magazines or newspapers you were not subscribed to, or if you were you could just read them. Cafés used to have newspapers, various places with waiting rooms used to have stacks of magazines and nobody tried to shame you for reading without paying.

As a matter or fact, I am subscribed to the Atlantic and 3 newspaper’s websites (in different languages), which is equivalent to what my parents did when I was a kid. But I am not going to get a subscription for the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Financial Times, or some random local news website every time someone links to a story there.
Ever heard of HTTP error 429?

We got it from providers where our clients sent too many requests

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/429
I use http.server all the time, particularly as modern browsers disable a bunch of functionality if you open file URLs. Had no idea there was so much other stuff here!
Looking for a simple SmartWatch and then going for a big Garmin?
I think there are other alternatives that are way simpler. The Withings watches for example.
Ive seen actual gibberish blogs consisting of random Unicode characters (often within a specific rangr(). What are those
> Lookup the law exam. It's rough.

There's nothing too special about it, quite the contrary, you could say it's the "bare minimum"
I wonder what the overlap is between people who put custom ROMs on their phones and those who use their phones to make actual phone calls more than once a week.

I think I made my weekly phone call a couple of days ago, only because my ISP doesn't allow cancellations via email.
Seems remarkably stable to me:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/198969/home-ownership-ra....
No, HN is not just one request, it is 7.

And no, latency does not accumulate.

Because the browser requests assets in parallel as it loads the html.

Also, assets can easily be routed through a CDN.
Why would Gnome Orca use the same name as the orca project[1]?

Why would that orca project use the same name as the other orca project [2]?

Why would the orca project use the same name as the orca plant[3]?

etc....because orcas are badass and finding good names for things is difficult.

[1] https://orca.org.uk/

[2] https://www.orca-project.eu/

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/worlds-b...
To expand on wk_end's comment, an amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too.