skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have an insane education system

Hate to be a party-pooper, but as a Brazilian I can assure you that is not the case.

The thing, is that Brazil has some unique factors at play that allow some people to insane levels of proficiency with tech.

One of them is that tech is relatively cheap here. Sure, if you want the latest you will have to pay an arm and a leg. However we have some local brands that make some pretty affordable hardware. Positivo is one brand that comes to mind.

They have a terrible reputation for selling crap (and the reputation is well deserved) but what they sell is good enough for to run a browser.

Another important factor is that internet access is pretty cheap around here. I pay US$ 25 for a fiber connection with 600mb up/300mb down. And there are plenty of other options that are cheaper than that.

And there is also the economic shitshow we are living in the last 15 years.

When you combine all this you get an environment where people have to always keep working hard. Because if you don't, someone else will. And all companies are pretty happy to ditch you in favor of someone that works harder. And even with the social securities we have it absolutely impossible to live with basic dignity without a job.

But I understand you sentiment. I've felt it when I was working for a company in Portugal. There most people simply didn't care. Especially when shit hits the fan. Some people would just logoff and go home: "tomorrow we'll deal with it". I was SHOCKED to see that, this is simply unacceptable in the tech sector here in Brazil.

About the law exam, it's not really that hard. You have 4 years to prepare for that. And if you look for data in the good universities you'll the approval rate is pretty high. The problem is that a lot of places are pretty bad, and are basically just pretending to teach something useful. This way they can get your money, waste your time and shift the blame to you when you don't succeed in the exam.
A statement by itself that needs that sort of qualification is false. It is easy to make dumb games. That does not mean it's easy to make games, generally.
Hmmmm, I wonder when those are out of copyright and eligible for being scanned + added to something like Gutenberg?
It was part of the reason. Definitely not the only reason, though. Do you think super fast networking cards or super fast storage cards aren't worth anything?
That’s the symptom. The problem is just a trade off of the Apple Silicon architecture.

The M1/M2 is brilliant for the form factors that consist of about 90% of PC demand. Macs are better as a device than almost any PC on a few axes.

But… an architecture using an SoC to scale from an iPhone to a large personal server, which is what a modern era Workstation really is will hit limits.

IMO, the failure was they were boxed into dropping MacOS Intel support in the near future, and for whatever reason were unable to ship the Apple Silicon they intended to. So they shipped a compromised Mac Pro that meets the needs of a few key use cases that can sorta work with the limited top line memory.
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From other comments here it sounds like Brazil's central bank offers a system that is replacing credit and debit cards for many use cases. I take that to be their point.
It's an open source language model with seven billion parameters (a measure of its complexity), and a longer than typical sequence length of 8K, which allows the provision of more context when querying the model. For example, it allows you to better generate text in someone else's voice by providing a longer example of their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_models
https://archive.ph/ocqN8
FNRS III/DSV-0/DSV-1 were engineered for fail-safe, elegant simplicity over cost and bulk. Power failure or operator opens the shot releases, and positive buoyancy is assured. There's nothing in the buoyancy filler (gasoline "balloons") that is ever not equalized with external pressure or could be crushed.

Archimède was a French Navy contemporary of the Trieste class but weighing 60% less.

Deepsea Challenger and Limiting Factor do away with 92% of 150 t of Trieste class mass to roughly 12 t each.

HeavensGate& did away with another 2 t but couldn't take half the pressure using unsound design, testing, and manufacturing processes and unproven materials in a rush to cash-in on commercial adventure experiences.

& I meant OceansGate. Darwin Award engineering failures are best syncretized as an admixture of derision of crackpot approaches but with the seriousness of regulatory safety investigation failure chain analysis translated into an oft-repeated undergrad engineering case study. It also seems apparent to not overlook the breadth and depth of human factors extending into a myriad of areas including design, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, rework, and testing regimes far beyond just operation. After blameless data gathering for exhaustive contributing factor analysis, final findings uncovering evidence of negligence should be severely punished by regulators (if there's anyone still living to sue or foreclose on). https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/human...
Also, their metric table is very interesting. It shows Falcon 7B and OpenLlama 7B much less favorably than other evaluations (including the HuggingFace leaderboard, which I am kinda suspicious of), and instruct benchmarks like that aren't seen as much.
I rooted so much for Vala when it first came out. Such good idea to bring the same good ideas to GLib. Alas it was not to be, the (irrational IMO) negativity around this approach killed it before it had a chance.
OP's car is heavier and 10x more expensive than yours. Don't read too much into their figure. The King County RTA fee floors at $40, I think, which is what you would pay with a 2006 era vehicle. There's also a $40 Transportation Benefit District fee in the city. I suspect you would pay approximately what I do ($160/year) in the city, or less ($120/year) outside of city limits.
It should be noted that in National Geographic’s case, all content that is included in the print magazine is also available completely for free on the website. I still pay for the print magazine because the reading experience is better. I guess I’m old school.

The latest issue: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/issue/june-2023
Yes, Oakland is also on the list of the many cities that are more dangerous than SF
This isn’t going to end well. I hope the IPO is a disaster as a result of all this nonsense that could have been easily avoided if Reddit had their shit together.
Ok, but you have to move earth 4,183 km off it's intended course then!
It's MySQL Heatwave. Pretty sure this is referring to analytics usage.

Clickhouse has a similar claim.

If you look at https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/ and pick Clickhouse and Aurora for MySQL you get something in that ballpark. Heatwave claims to be faster than both Snowflake and Clickhouse.
Or they'll write an engine so they don't ever have to write any boring code again.
It's literally the only way to go beyond 25 GbE networking right now on any Mac (AFAICT).
Waivers are there to keep you from suing the company BY explaining the realistic risks you are facing.

If the waiver for visiting the Titanic in an untested submersible is the same as the waiver for getting a spa package I haven’t actually understood the risks.
The README mentions this other project:

https://github.com/idunham/tinyxserver

which has an XServer.man file that mentions X11/MIT-like license, but otherwise doesn't state a license for the project as a whole.
yes, it has doubled from 65% of GDP to 130% of GDP in the last 15 years (GFC and pandemic). Click 50Y or Max time scales for more history:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

This has been growing faster than CBO projections, though obviously the last few years were unique (hopefully). Found a graph from the 2015 CBO report that is still in a wikipedia article that projected we'd be at about 75% debt/GDP now[1]. Another article from 2020 as pandemic aid spending was going out warned we could hit 106% by this year.

IIUC there's not a line that we must not cross, but the level, the rate, and the can-kicking on all this debt spending, and debt in general, worries me (even as someone who leans to the left and supports big government projects).

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FederalDebt1940to201...
many pc games are targeting 4ms per frame. performance matters in some places.
Thank your very much for the well wishes!
My guess is it would be possible to get Asahi Linux to interface with a card, but it would likely run into similar quirks that we hit on other Arm platforms (like AMD driver issues with cache coherence on Ampere).
Pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background
You claim I'm the one with Reddit comments, but you're the one vomiting a bunch of numbers to support your stance at me hahahaha

Anyway, I'm not denying any of those things. That still doesn't mean people think the US is a good place to live. They think they can make more money there, and the tradeoff is worth it.

But there's also plenty of people for whom that tradeoff is not worth it. Those people don't use Canada as a stepping stone, they just like living there. Because the US is kind of a shithole.
https://youtu.be/0FacYAI6DY0?t=57

Should have had an ellipsis between the 2nd and 3rd bit, but the intent wasn't altered. He's calling it gibberish and nonsense.

I wasn't trying to imply that he actually was confused, I was trying to show how he thought the term was gibberish.

I mean, who would take seriously the thought that Ellison actually thought of himself as an idiot.
Gives a very Trump-like feeling.
What a terrible name. Can you imagine trying to form a relationship with a major news paper, selling "flattener"? JFC
Then why doesn't every other piece of software in the world ban benchmarks? Is Oracle really leading the charge into the future?
one of the main reasons the mac pro had PCIe slots was for graphics cards. now, if that was the only reason you needed a mac pro you can get a mac studio instead for much less money. lucky you. it's not as if apple didn't expect this, or it's a problem. they created the product, pretty clearly because they knew people would want it.

the mac pro only exists for the few use cases where you need a non-gfx pcie card. if you don't have one of those use cases, then you don't need a mac pro and apple has lots of other computers they will be happy to sell you. theverge article seems to think this is somehow bad?
> That's an indication to me that Aurora isn't fundamentally broken in some way, making a 1000x claim quite extraordinary.

This isn't the open source MySQL being compared. MySQL Heatwave is an in-memory analytics cluster that works as a MySQL plugin. It's cloud only.

In a way it's similar to AlloyDB from GCP, which has similar style claims (maybe not 1000x)
Yea ! Teenagers with superpowers ! Lol seen one seen them all.
I'm really confused by "Anecdotally, most people use LLMs for ~4 basic natural language tasks" and "Most LLM applications use some combination of these four".
I'm not sure about the `ELI5` use-case, and feels like this is only true for a very limited type of use-cases people currently use LLMs for.

For conversational FAQ-type use-cases like the ones described by OP perhaps a few basic prompts suffice (although anything requiring the agent to have "agency" in its replies would necessarily require prompt engineering) - but what about all the other ways that people can use LLMs to analyze, transform and generate data?
Let me know what you think after the batch of upcoming congressional hearings, new legislation, and new batch of whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge come forward to the public and congress.

Word of advice, read up and keep an open mind. This is just the beginning of what's coming.
I wasn't referring to biofuels. I was referring to pure synthetics like in the HN link I provided. Those require no crop land. Essentially conversion of solar energy into chemical batteries. ICE is treated as equivalent to fossil fuel because that's our main current method of producing the fuel, but it's just a really reliable, high energy density, chemical "battery". What matters is finding clean ways to replace that. Or other options. Aluminium/Air say...

Also, if it turns out biofuels is the answer (and IMO synthetic fuel production seems way more efficient in the long run), there are ways to reduce the externalities. Using land that wouldn't be used for crops, growing the plants or algae without use of fossil fuels. And of course if you're going for externalities, most forms of green energy have them too...
> Coupled with the fact that I would have realistically grossed less than $4k

How many concurrent players did you have on steam? This seems low unless the only monetization you're thinking of is a purchase price.
The Traction vs. Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating
I disliked a lot of things about working at Meta, the monorepo was not one... it was truly amazing, and very well done.
I briefly considered a Mac Pro server rack for an ARM64 build server, but Asahi Linux doesn’t advertise M2 Pro support, and I didn’t want to fight with Docker on Mac disk speed woes (or other Mac/Linux compat issues). The Ampere ALTRA is currently my top candidate, it’s also much cheaper. :)
Correct. Also hypocritical when the title trolls come out of the woodworks and people upvote them.
> It's literally the nerdiest, most avant-garde topic of all.

It's not avant-garde at all. It's the same old nonsense that comes around every 10-20 years with new lipstick on it. The "pilots are trained observers" canard is literally the same shtick from all the way back to Kenneth Arnold's flying saucers from 1947. After going around this hamster wheel a bunch of times, forgive me if I'm not excited by another round of "the evidence is about to be released any day now" chatter.
Google Contributor did that. Didn’t work. It never could amass a critical mass of major publishers to entice audiences, and the per-page fees for an ad free experience were too high when you look at consumption habits.
Oracle spending 'billions' on Nvidia chips this year, Ellison says
If you want another story of a regrettable decline, look up the story of H.L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine.

That which starts well ends badly.

That which starts badly ends worse.
Oh it's by Nature one of the beneficiaries of the corporate capture of publication metrics. This is like reading an article by DeBeers about how you can do a proposal without spending as much on diamonds as you are afraid that you might.

Here's what you can do. Make a github account. Make an account on arxiv.org or biorxiv.org. Publish your work onto arxiv. Put all of your data onto your github account, including copies of whatever you put onto arxiv and including extensive markdown readme file that is a synopsis of the paper. Disseminate it by announcing it on your twitter or mastodon or rss blog or substack or research community discord and even put it to a site like hacker news if it's relevant. If you are with an affiliated institution then their press office will put a small release.
These are the geoglyphs the paper identified:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03054403230005...
Maybe? But I don't think many of us would go and read them anyway
e^pi + 1 = 24.14069263...
>GNOME

>A whole GNOME-specific language

Lmao

I was also a big Theranos investor and an early toe sock adopter.
The argument is that your consumption of the content is is tacit consent. I find the argument to be specious at best.
Sadly this is also true of a lot of database software; there are similar clauses for DB2 and SQL Server.
Red states are a form of sarcasm.
You can easily make double that as a senior eng in Montreal nowadays
The knowledge is harder to come by, and the field is (relatively) new. You need a fusion of data engineering, math, software engineering, and data analysis. Plus the ability to read and implement esoteric papers hot off the press, or in some cases innovate a new technique/module/architecture that hasn't been done before.

Oh, and you need to be able to do all the above _quickly_.

What's nice about it versus SWE is that you can totally ship hot garbage, doesn't have to be optimal at all, just "fast enough" and cheap enough.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation and the Limits of Liberalism
Calming to hear that going under anesthesia have been a positive experience for you, then it maybe will for me too. Also, thank you very much for the well wishes!
My country quite literally needs every able bodied man or woman in the workforce.
People with university degrees sitting at home raising kids is almost treason at this point considering it was the government who paid for their education.
I don't think we need anymore high-flying search engines, do we?

salesforce air esearch ;)
Lol you can easily 1bdr around 1500-1700 in grand Vancouver area by skytrain
When you have an army of lawyers, they just let you sue them.
Exactly. That right wing grifters have piled onto the current UFO conspiracy push doesn't lend it any additional credibility. If anything, it detracts from it.
I also had an argument with my prof over The Modular. Luckily one of the TA's did his undergrad in math.*

The Crow was the Ted Talk of self-promoting architects and the largest failure of the original Modernists; IMO not much to consider in his body of work other than Villa Savoye and the diametrically opposite Ronchamp.

*Note, if you aren't familiar with his new replacement for math, "The modular" can not divide, it's only a half-baked anthropomorphic proportion system and results in a bazillion ugly literal edge cases when actually used.
Are there no mac compliant thunderbolt to pcie adapters available?
My favorite analogy here goes back to TV days - where according to this model you're obligated to leave the sound up during the commercial, and remain focused on the screen. Want a snack or to use the bathroom? You owe us your attention.
I think we are only at the beginning. Call it first generation. LLaMA was even missing many improvements that existed before it (xPos, Multi-Query Attention, Blockwise Parallel Transformer)

Many researchers are improving very fast, and I would bet that soon we will see more efficient LLMs.
Apparently the PCIe setup on the Mac Pro isn't all that great though, multiplexing things through a limited number of PCIe v4 channels.

So, it'll probably work for adding (say) a single 50 or 100GBe card, but seems like it's wasted a bunch of potential. :/
If you're looking for a billionaire to blame, the Newhouse family owns a good chunk of the Discovery channel.
QA is paid very poorly in both Canada and USA
I don't need to think their assumptions are incorrect -- I know they are.
What's the deepest underwater tour available?
That’s basically the model of Apple News Plus, although it’s Apple ecosystem-specific. Users pay 10$ a month to get access to selected publishers via the Apple News app and then Apple takes 50% of the subscription revenue and splits the rest with publishers based on the number of times an article is read[0]. I don’t think it got any significant traction though as I haven’t really heard anything about it since it was launched 4 years ago.

[0] https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/7-facts-publishers-should-k...
So Mac Pro is just a Mac Studio with PCIE slots. It doesn't make much sense, considering that GPU cards don't work with it.

So here's my completely baseless theory: M2 Ultra PCIE coprocessor cards.

These cards could be upgradable, and they would include CPU, GPU, and memory. It would transform the Mac Pro into an incredibly powerful machine.

This is a type of product that already exists. And Apple can definitely do this, since they control the entire product.
In that case the fairer comparison should have been to Redshift, though I will concede that Amazon walked into this one themselves by overhyping Aurora's OLAP capabilities.

OLTP != OLAP, and the sooner database vendors learn to stay in their lane and focus on one use case, the better.
I think this is the common mistake.

Making games is easy. Making a living making games is incredibly hard. Substitute "art", "music", "fiction", etc for "games".

As the article says, making stuff that satisfies your creative itch and also appeals to a mass market is like getting hit by lightning twice.

But as you say, this needn't be a discouragement for people who really want to try it. Because it's mostly luck whether your creative itch aligns with what people want to buy, so there's no harm in trying your luck.

For the rest of us, it's either the long meaningless slog of creating stuff we're not interested in creating but people are interested in buying, or of doing something completely different to make money while keeping the creative hobby.
Apple News was trying to be the Spotify of news sites. It's never gained much traction and I expect it to be killed off in the not too distant future.

EDIT: Bytesmith beat me to it.
>Personally I don't believe it's aliens. I find it incredibly unlikely that alien races would send crewed ships here and then be clumsy enough to crash them or get shot down.

It's unlikely, but it's possible. Maybe the aliens are rather primitive technologically, and have weapons technology similar to cannons from sailing ships in the 1700s (and spacecraft technology otherwise resembling our early 1970s craft), but they somehow discovered a simple but somehow-overlooked portion of physics that allowed them to build spacecraft that could instantly teleport across the galaxy.
I hope you've taken the time to read The Men Who Stare At Goats, which is definitely solidly in the "tax dollars went where?!" genre.
Friend of mine is a big name artist. He has to pay his record label everytime he performs his songs. For big tours he gets exactly one dollar of each ticket. He can make money off of other stuff though depending on how the show is setup he can get money from alcohol and merchandise sales. He's done smaller sets of shows where they charge him 30-50k to perform even if the record label had no part whatsoever in putting the shows together. Like if he wants to play at a local bar where we grew up he has to pay them.
Is anyone working on generating compiler-ready boilerplate from macros, rather than running interpretively?
Let's separate the -browser- from the -engine- for a moment.

Nothing stops a new project (eg Brave) from implementing a new browser based on an existing engine. And you even have 3 big mature engines to choose from (gecko, website and blink).

The engine is responsible for the HTML, CSS and JavaScript support, which is the bit everyone seems concerned about re standards.

The wrapper around that engine is significant - and where most of the complaints actually seem to lie. Built in popups, tracking, phoning home etc.

I'm not sure we need another engine. By contrast there are quite a few browsers to choose from built on those engines.

Building a new -browser- is "easy". Building a new engine is "hard" (and would be very expensive to keep current.)

Incidentally 90% is likely useless. 99% -might- be enough, depending on which 1% is missing.
That is _probably_ what he means, but there is nothing in the quotes in the article to confirm that is _actually_ the case.

Also, the comment at the end of the article "... RDMA and other key drivers behind Oracle’s ascent to being the world’s hottest major cloud vendor" demonstrates that the person who wrote the article is not interested in asking hard questions. Oracle Cloud is quite a way from being the "hottest cloud vendor" by any meaningful metric, right now.