skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"good at capitalism"? What are you trying to say?

Are you conflating "good at capitalism" with "good at running a business"?

Not trying to endorse or defend capitalism, but this article depicts a good example of cronyism, which is not inherent to capitalism.

I'd also add that the premium for these types of services are higher when a system is more bureaucratic and complex for businesses.

Mr Bankman-Fried bought Mr Kives' services in huge part to add a veneer of legitimacy to his business, also helping him to make the right connections with influential people in the government. That includes donations to political parties. People like Mr Kives' are very aware that you can certainly buy goodwill from regulators and politicians this way.
Why not just disable product changes altogether?
If two people code up a solution to a problem and only one person can understand one of the solutions but everyone who looks at the other can understand it easily, who wrote the better solution?
Apple photos turned my raw images white space into a pink hue. It was totally unusable to edit raw photos from a canon camera. Never mind how long it takes to back up rough photos in iCloud.
The original purpose of the H1B system was exactly for those rare individuals that have some X skill(s) that can't be met by the domestic job market. The implication being that practically zero entry to intermediate level jobs would have H1Bs filling them, even in SV.

Though the expected norm nowadays is for it to be a cheaper second-rate labour supply restricted by years long waiting lists and lotteries, and not a smooth pipeline of geniuses and super-geniuses interested in emigrating to the US,
You replied to my comment, in which I’m explicitly talking about the green card process. Most people on H1-B are trying to get a green card.

I thought you were talking about transferring the green card process, because I was talking about the green card process. Transfer is possible, but you have to be past a certain point that takes probably a couple of years, which is pretty good compared to how long I had to wait way back when.
This is pretty cool. I had the same idea but in zig: https://github.com/EugenHotaj/zig_gpt2

Not fully finished yet, haven't gotten around to implementing bpe encoding/decoding and only some ops use BLAS.
This isn't the worst advice, but my personal opinion is that candidates would get the most leverage around drilling down into point 2 around loss. BATNA is the most powerful negotiating tactic there is, because it's rooted in reality. The only thing worse than the fear of a bidding war is an actual bidding war. If you're a savvy candidate and you understand the correlation of offer negotiation to sales, this makes intuitive sense and it will help you get to another critical data point -- how does your counterparty treat you in the negotiation process when you have multiple real offers on the table?

In my opinion, this is the true value you get from negotiation; just as useful as the extra salary itself. If you end up winning the negotiation but you see resentment and a lack of respect in the process, it should give you some information about the kind of party that you are dealing with. Additionally, it should mean you can get all of your offers up to the max reasonable range you'd expect, and then you have the option of going with the one that feels the best, where you're most convinced you'll be working with good people.

That's the critical part. You want to max your salary but not compromise integrity in the process -- if you make another 2% in first year salary but you end paying much more in sanity, poor fit, burnout, or lack of growth opportunities, you won't end out ahead. Get what you're worth in the short term, but be greediest about the long-term.
Buy only "shipped by amazon", better yet "sold by amazon". I buy from amazon because I know that if I don't like it I can send it back for free. For any reason. Maybe that's a US only thing?
William of Ockham would like a word.
They're worth like a trillion dollars. I'm sure they'll figure out that insurmountable problem.
Wow. I used to be an avid listener to Idle Thumbs which he was part of. Since the Firewatch team got bought by Valve they have all been pretty quiet online so even though I don't do crosswords it is nice to see him online.
> I wonder if I should just cancel and get in early on Playdate 2

If I had given my money to a company for a product and not heard back from them for a year and a half, my thought process for sure wouldn't be "maybe I should preorder the next version".
>The "AND NOT" instruction is interesting for using a mask to clear bits. which is why it is called "BIC" on the ARM.

PDP-11 (1970) has BIC (dst & ~src) and BIS (dst | src) as its only boolean operations with full addressing modes, plus XOR in reg<-mem form only. VAX (1977) also has only BIC, BIS, and XOR.
Neither, and I fail to see the difference between them. Neither country would do such a thing with altruistic goals and both have proven they shouldn't be trusted. We have already seen how badly the US fucks up other place's economies and governments with their meddling.
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

-- H.L. Mencken

Sometimes rendered as "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

Provenance: <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/01/underestimate/>.
Is the difference not, that when your body generates it in the sun it'll stop when its got enough. where as when you ingest it you're force feeding yourself the vitamin..?
Yikes...that's an absolutely terrible name, made even worse by the fact that the word already has rather unsavory slang meaning...
Not really true. The industry has grown dramatically in the last 10 years and is hiring aggressively. There are budgetary ups and downs (both for privately funded stuff and NASA), but overall, if you are an American and are passionate about getting involved in the space industry, there are countless opportunities to do so.
It's strange that student loan dollars should be considered somehow different from other dollars.
Turns out that it's a contentious topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

FWIW I use the same nomenclature as you, but that doesn't make it universal.
These currency reserves largely represent loans China issued abroad, which have been paid off (or are in the process of being served). Similar to Eurodollars in the past yielding outsized interest rates, increasing demand and thus dollar outflows, this shows a (perhaps?) unrecognized accumulation in China, which may very well either allow them to essentially print their own dollars or mean that they already have been, synthetically.

The article has an interesting premise, calling it a problem for China to have cash - because China is an adversary. I've not seen this stated so explicitly in normal business news before. Warning of the potential for it to be invested abroad in the B&R initiative really shows that the US is gearing up for great power competition again.

N.b. Brad Setser is perhaps the most insightful expert on debt and international monetary flows. He often speaks about African refinancing deals - or why they're nearly impossible to refinance, due to insane complexity.
The activist mindset is not part of professionalism. If people chose to stick with their jobs, it is their professionalism. And if people chose not to leave, it is a sacrifice they made.

Any professional worth his salt would do the same.
It's the wrong question.

Developing nations will take the support they can get - just ask the predatory lenders who've been dicking them over for hundreds of years. Values don't really come into it, unfortunately.
Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > Hacker News
> - It seems like these embeddings are learned during the training phase. Presumably by backpropagating to the embedding during each epoch?

As far as I understand it, your first part is accurate.

> - Given that they are learned, doesn't that mean that they are completely context specific to a given trained model? Ie, they can't readily be shared on their own?

Yes, but you only have to use that context model in order to generate new embeddings to add or search the existing store. You can then use whatever is found wherever you want. Think of the vector store as a searchable database, where the vector is unique to the exact text embedding (like a hash function I believe, but I think without the possibility of collisions). You can search and compare vectors, then use the vector to determine what text was embedded (using simple relational queries or storing the text in the same row as the vector).

It means you can store chunks of information as embeddings in a vector database, search for similar content to a query and get chunks of text back related to what you searched.

> - What does "similar" mean here? Is there some emerging practice on how to determine how close is close "enough" between multiple vectors for the purpose of similarity searches? Is this too determined by the model weights somehow?

Cosine similarity search is the most used recently because it's what OpenAI recommends. There's also dot product. They are doing calculations to find the closest other vector(s) across the dimensions of the embedding vector. A 2D plane with a vector on it is 2 dimensions. Some models embed 700-800 different dimensions. OpenAI uses 1536 dimensions.

Imagine comparing a dozen 2D vectors to each other to find the three with the closest angle to a chosen other one. Somewhat easy to move them and overlay, and if they are pointed in the same direction they are likely related. Doing so in 1536 dimensions can't be imagined, but there is still an angle between the vectors with a dot product. It's this mathematical similarity which is used.

> I hope I'm not missing something fundamental with these questions. Or maybe I hope I am missing something and someone points out my errors. That's good too. :)

The use of the Postgres vector store is more from the use after an embedding model has been trained and there is a use for the data being embedded, like helping customers shop for similar items based on their search, and returning descriptions; or feeding a user question in to find context to feed to an LLM for few shot prompting.
so everyone should learn how to do cronyism instead of learning to code or other job is what i'm taking away from it
I don't know; was that Musk's idea, or was that Hotz's idea? I vaguely think this was a change that Hotz wanted that Musk went along with.

To be fair, Musk will regularly pay lip-service to the idea of Open communication. I guess that's not literally nothing, but most large site policies have been in the direction of locking down content.

If there ever was a version of Musk that cared about Open access, it's been a while since that version of him saw the light of day. It's very consistent with his overall behavior to believe that he views Twitter content as being primarily his property rather than a community resource, and that he thinks that scrapers/AI companies/researchers are literally stealing from him if they derive any value at all from data that Twitter hosts.
Now at first I didn't know why this would be an advantage over a simple calendar reminder. But I see that it interfaces with the Council API and queries based on the user's address, so it can ascertain the actual schedule as published by the guys who write it; should be accurate.

This is a cool thing, and I wish it could be generalized to a lot of different things. Public services that have a regular schedule, until there is a holiday and then it's offset. Public services that don't have a regular schedule, and you may need to depend on an announcement or watching a web page for the next occurrence.

Right now, I just tend to enter such things into my Google Calendar and roughly try to predict the future schedules. For example, my city's recycling center is open for a few morning hours a few days a week. They also have a big "Zero Waste Day" event every quarter. It'd be great to get these schedules from the horse's mouth, and be able to query some web page, "I've got a pile of junk! When will the recycling center be open next?"
How would the FTC know?
The Asciidoctor flavour of AsciiDoc doesn't have a specification. There is only a working group. The parsers are a mess composed of regular expressions.

There are in effect two different versions of AsciiDoc, because Asciidoctor people have appropriated the name while making their own changes to it and marking what they dislike as deprecated.

AsciiDoc cannot express all of DocBook, for example figures with multiple images.

While I despise Markdown, there isn't all that much to be a fanboy of. Just the syntax is overall saner.
It’s likely. The number of people predicting degradation were wrong only on the length of time it took for the degradation to start occurring.
Because you may want to improve the picture, description, etc of a product. Not everyone can get everything perfect the first time.
Can you expand on what is not MPL licensed? I recall (foggily) reading about struggles with incomplete data sheets for Nuvoton controllers & I see the discussion about CVEs for NXP microcontrollers with secret patch ROMs.
It actually is remarkable that SpaceX is doing it, because this would almost certainly be done by a European launch vehicle, except that Ariane 5 is sold out, Vega-C has had a launch failure and is in stand-down due to investigation of the failure, and Soyuz has been problematic ever since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. (Russia has pulled personnel, plus there are sanctions.)
A mainframe, usually acquired by calling up IBM/Unisys/etc. and writing a big cheque.
Good catch.

I think I may have mixed up some of the post-2022 arms exports to Ukraine with pre-2022 with earlier reporting about Ukrainian weapons imports.
> Part 1

> Mathematical Background

> Before we tackle cryptography we need to cover some basic facts from mathematics.

Nit: we really don't. This reminds me of how dry and uninspired the cryptography and cryptology (less so) classes I took almost 20 years ago were.
The arrogance of the guy is so huge, hubris does not touch him. Thoughts are with the programmers.

What I’m more surprised about is how gum and shoestring the twitter engineering is now a days. They put in no emphasis on doing deep divides into the code base and instead opt to do the simplest shortest fix. And it causes problems.
What question do you have about this essay?

(It would be interesting to know, without reading every comment, what questions people have about it.)
Compared to Google, moving out of icloud is mostly pretty easy (mail, photos, contacts, calendars, files). imessages, safari tabs and bookmarks, and health data less so, but not sure there are many others from Apple.

Proprietary programs that store their data in icloud are harder to export but that's the problem of the app vendors. This includes Apple office apps like Pages or Numbers, but for them at least you can use applescript to export those files in non-apple formats. Easier than Google, TBH.
That's beautiful... Why can't GCC and clang have this?

Small note: your code seems to be calling a wrapper function rather than running the syscall instruction directly so it could probably be even more succinct. Is this valid D?

asm {
mov RAX, __NR_close;
mov RDI, fd;
syscall;
}
Your comment lacks not only paragraphs, but understanding of both US doctrine and understanding and US logistical systems.

1) Poorly trained (by highly motivated) Ukrainian soldiers are fighting successfully against the best the Russian Federation can offer, using both old Soviet era that they owned and manufactured (Most of the good Soviet gear was made in Ukraine), and old US and NATO gear. Old HIMARS, old M113, old Leopard tanks, etc etc. The best stuff being provided is Javelin, M777, a few Patriot batteries, etc. Even the Abrams and Bradleys are old versions.

So the Russians aren't doing well, and are no threat in conventional terms.

2. The US wasn't surprised at all by the invasion, though the IC was surprised at how poorly the revamped Russian military performed.

3. The EU has been underinvesting in defense for 50 years, so their lack of deep inventories is no surprise.

4. This isn't WW2 where Detroit can switch in a month from building Studebakers to Sherman tanks. The only tank factory in the US is in Lima, OH, and has been building Abrams since 1980. The idea that defense items can be built quickly and cheaply ignores the complexity of the gear US forces use.

5. NATO members who have purchased the F-35 have the same capabilities as the USAF etc. There's no "export" version, and some purchasers are even part of the manufacturing process. And none of them have the F-22 as you imply, since it's not available for export (and the production line has been shut down for decades).

6. It's not "a big concern recently" about the tyranny of distance in fighting a war against China. This has been discussed for decades.

7. Finally, you say that the US has not fought a war against a near peer power in a long time. Well, duh. The US has had the most powerful economy since 1916, two oceans to keep enemies away, and hasn't had it's homeland significantly touched by an enemy since the War of 1812.
Not just frontend developers. The backend should serve a 429 or 503 error, complete with a Retry-After header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

That would give the server side more control over the retrying logic (when the header is properly interpreted). I'm surprised Elon hasn't implemented this himself.
Sounds about the right time for you to have babies and ruin all that readiness for great work.
> “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Huffman said. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Redditors said. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to Steve Huffman for free.”
Your argument is that it is a non sequitur to say that the right skilled people are not at twitter, using the argument that the right people with the available skills were not involved in this feature.
Certainly in North America it is very hard to develop your company into a big business without engaging in some cronyism. Obviously this is true. You could argue this has always been true across history though.
Author here. Yeah, in fairness this post doesn't go into benchmarking (that would be interesting as a follow up). Though I would argue even for libraries that aren't numerically intensive (like the one I used in this blog post), I'd imagine the speeds are probably comparable to the JavaScript runtime if you don't have to boundary cross very often.

In this case, the main thing that was "fast" was that I didn't have to rewrite a nontrivial string formatting library in a new language (I literally couldn't find any other JavaScript libraries that had this kind of error-formatting functionality, so that would have been my only other option). :-)
Ah, so it’s like CDMA in WLAN, TIL
> At some point one has to ask oneself: what's the best outcome for my child?

This is exactly the way it is supposed to work.

Sad to hear that the commenters parents care more for cultivating their social media presence than the wishes of their own child.
Can you explain why?

It’s my understanding that every cryptographic algorithm is based on math, much of it not so simple.
Question: how could comments on the essay be structured, so as to give them maximum value for readers?
> that would leave us with a bunch of private healthcare companies.

It's already a bunch of private companies.

> These private companies would drive up the cost even more.

Other way around - by having to actually directly compete for customers, instead of just having to convince a few large corporation prices would go down, not up.

Although we really should not ignore that insurance companies are not the drivers of higher costs, it's health care providers that do that.

It's enjoyable to blame insurance companies, but the reality is their profits are capped by law - they are not the problem. Dr.'s will have to take a pay cut, and there will have to be mass layoffs, there's no other way to reduce costs.
Thank you for clarifying. You initially responded to my point about H1-B visas with a different issue with a different immigration process. It is very informative but has nothing to do with H1-B holders as a group categorically.
This is a really ignorant take to dismiss scrapers. LLMs operate by having petabytes of conversational training data. Scraping is how OpenAI trained GPT. It’s how all their copycats are trying to do the same.

Elon can be a monumental asshat, and he can be self-DDOS’ing, and can be accurate about scraping at the same time. It’s why every single social media platform is heading toward becoming a walled garden.
I think they're related, but it doesn't go both ways. Self-made financial success almost always takes great work, although great work does not necessarily lead to financial success even when the work is clearly great.
Poland has developed and is producing their own MANPAD system initialy based on Soviet design.

They supplied significant number of these to Ukraine where it performed well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.armyrecognition.com/polish_...
I can't think of any legitimate video upload scenario that has it's value 'destroyed' by being unavailable for 10-14 days. Can you name some examples?
Holding on to cash reserves seems like a smart move for any government. People will applaud private companies and investors holding decent chunks of cash so they can invest into economic dips and crashes, and we have watched many countries borrow huge amounts to alleviate economic downturns, but a government holding money to either invest into or diminish an economic downturn is suppose to be bad?

If the opposite happened everyone would be freaking out about how bad China is playing with fire that will hurt the global economy by holding too much debt. And if they held the account books even everyone would complain how they are either not leveraging debts to invest in the economy or complaining how they are unprepared for an economic downturn. To me it just reads "China bad because China."
Would you ever run a kernel written by someone else?
There's the concept of escaping notation using a single backslash: \

So:

**strong text** -> bold "strong text"

\*\*doubled splats\*\* -> "doubled splats" w/ "**" on either side

This is also cumbersome to type, but at least there's a path to what you want to present even if the character is reserved for markup.
You should never remove a fence that you do not know the purpose of. The code you don't understand was not created by an idiot! And fences do not grow spontaneously. That person was solving a problem, and that problem had requirements those requirements are what this code is at least a solution for.

If you don't understand the requirements, you likely don't understand the solution and potentially the problem either. In such circumstances it is best to either not intervene, or take the time to familiarize yourself with both the problem and the solution before you attempt to intervene.
> Because AWS and GCP chose to innovate with their own accelerators, Nvidia heavily favoured Azure for a while.

AWS and GCP work on competitors to Nvidia's products, so Nvidia favors Azure who is not doing that, and this is somehow Nvidia's fault or even a problem?

Looks more like Nvidia was hedging its bets in case AWS or GCP succeeded at developing competitive AI chips and then transitioned completely away from Nvidia.
I was not happy with wyze V3 but found reolink to work fine without internet, and Amcrest to be the best overall for being open and working without needing fancy software. I'd wholehearted recommend Amcrest except they don't have a very wide angle cam.
> submit to US jurisdiction

Since youtube is incorporated in the US all youtube users worldwide would have to submit to US jurisdiction anyways? (On top of whatever country they're in)