skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, a friend got this game, it is quite fun to play in group!
17 feb 2023, https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1626387226639888385

'Today, we’re kicking off a rebrand of @gpt_index
to : LlamaIndex '

Meta announcing LLaMa
24 feb 2023
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...
Choose the tool you know is the best answer tho.
They didn't come out on top, they revelled in it. What brought us back to some relative normalcy was the crypto crash & Etherium's switch away from PoW; even after that, the 40 series pricing and range seems to be nVidia cashing in on the scalper prices
He's just not worth the ad dollars vs spammer equation
You say children should learn this, and then you say that this is because they will have some new capacity for empathy they wouldn't otherwise have.

Public education is like Lord of the Flies. There is no room for empathy, only survival.
It's so annoying to read over and over this BS about the success of Portugal's old policies on drugs. It is blatantly false.

I grew up in a top drug spot in Portugal. Things were bad, really bad. I would say that worse was impossible, every extended family had drug problems. After the early 90's peak, slowly it got better, addicts' younger brothers and neighbors had real examples. Doing drugs was not "cool" anymore. That generation was eradicated from my home town (many died by counterfeit drugs or overdose, the rest after jail and detoxs eventually moved somewhere else to start over).

Politicians, as always, take positive results as their own but their influence here was negligible. The only positive policy was free syringe exchange. It certainly had a positive impact on AIDS control. Now drugs are coming back (not nearly as bad as once was). Younger generations didn't witness the human degradation as my generation did. It's a cycle.
Just wait till the janitor switches off the power switch. /s
> Articles like this usually make no effort to give that kind of context and implicitly compare their worst to our best or average and make it sound intentionally cruel to a greater degree than was probably the case most of the time.

I don't know that the situations of the people who owned slaves matter all that much to the experiences of the slaves.

There are two ways to read this article. One is as a pure imposition of modern views onto the past with the implication that everyone involved should have known better and should have had the perspective and empathy of a modern watcher; the other is as a clarification that, "hey, maybe Rome wasn't always a progressive advanced bastion of civilization that we should emulate, maybe a lot of people (even the privileged of the time) had terrible experiences, and maybe some of the regular glorification of the past that we engage in is misplaced, both materially and morally?"

I'm not sure that your comment contradicts that secondary reading. The past was an unpleasant place to live in for everybody. Particularly if you were a slave. It's a good thing that we've started to walk away from it.
That is not the reason that spending on mental illness can not be increased.
I mean.. I live in Philadelphia. Drugs aren’t legal here and our issues with dangerous drugs far exceed Portugal’s… So, how is criminalizing going to help again? Maybe the only issue is deeper? Depression is at an all time high. People are burned out since covid, this is bound to happen everywhere..
SEA countries regularly execute drug mules. Does it work? Do they have drug problems? Is there any reliable data at all? How big is the deterrence effect?

Take the recent cases of human trafficking through the EU border (the Serbian-Hungarian in particular), over the past years about 600 traffickers were picked up by police and sentenced to so and so years in prison. And ... did it do anything to the trafficking numbers? Unlikely, because these low-level mules are also desperate individuals, not the ones organizing things and collecting the money.
Kubernetes means you don't have to learn each clouds way of doing a deployment. You just learn the k8s way then use that with Google, Azure or whatever.

So your skillset is reusable.
"Chats" would be the easiest pick. "Chat" (as the chatting place) and chatear (to chat) exists in Spanish (and lots of languages) as talking over the Internet since the IRC days, even if today since IM and Whatsapp people just say "hablar" (to talk) over the media and not "to chat".
Anytime something becomes political there becomes two sides. If conservatives want to expel students, liberals want to keep them. If conservatives say no, liberals say yes, this is America at its core. We cannot agree on anything so when it comes to public education, it's better to ignore the politics and focus on results.
People with private insurance skip the line. You're literally condemning a poor person to suffer more. Congratulations.

Doctors triage based on medical needs not your social status or financial wealth in the Netherlands. It's one of those things that ethically sets this country above others and I hope it never changes.
I personally thought it was ironic to praise Scala when the problem with the code was the opposite of incomprehensible. The complaint was about unnecessary boilerplate but his solution introduces a different kind of problem.
Many things sound plausible without having any real connection to reality, we shouldn't rely on trust-me-bro when we're talking about people's lives.
What really makes me sad is that there is enough of my brain space wasted on gpu esoterics that I can understand this comment.

GPU programming is insane and the devs have stockholm syndrome.
> I am looking at joining a smaller company

> Against all odds, they wanted to hire you. For a significant amount of money

A small company not trying to cheapskate? Literally unreadable.
Blue Jam is amazing, but it was the TV version of it: Jam, that really blew me away. Dark as anything, surreal, challenging, spectacular use of language, amazing use of music, and video editing techniques … incredible.

I remember when it was originally aired, it would be on around 10pm. Then repeated around 4am, but with the visuals just bouncing around inside a small square (like a ‘Pong’ ball). Each episode they would mess with the visuals in a different way. Definitely will never see anything like that on Tv again.

Probably my favourite sketch (which is also on Blue Jam) [1], but there are so many [2][3][4][5]. Even the intros [6] were disturbing, and set you up for what was coming in the next 30 minutes.

[1] https://youtu.be/5SqHtWudI24 - 'Suicide with an escape clause'

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGex0kLgNok - 'Thick People as a Service'

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKxM4ToLLR8 - 'Symptomless Coma'

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKla4MEstY - 'Living Outside'

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsj2bcnRlM - 'Lizards'

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-i0XIux9vo - Intro compilation
Jeez, take it easy with the unwarranted hostility!. I get that you disagree with using OpenAI's APIs but clearly this is an "actual product" in every sense of the word and not some snake oil.
I fear that I wake up one day and the meaning of 'shill' has drifted so much it is meaningless like 'troll'.
In the Blender case, the community bought the trademark and copyrights from the commercial owners (some VC investors if I remember correctly). https://www.blender.org/about/history/ Those donors are still listed in a file in the Blender source: https://github.com/blender/blender/blob/main/doc/license/bf-...
What you say is partly true, partly not. Africans definitely die earlier.

But the current shape of the African population pyramid is partly determined by the baby boom in the last three generations. There were many fewer Africans around in 1963 (which is when people who are now aged 60 were born), so even if they all lived long (which they didn't), their share on the 2023 population would be much lower than in societies which barely reproduce themselves.
Editing code live in production should not be part of your workflow, so kind of a pointless feature.

I don't work with life-critical software and yet auditors demand that every code-change to production is peer reviewed and linked to a jira item.
As someone who hasn't learnt CS -the good way-

I'd wager that I'm interested in a niche of CS, mostly the internet, and websites, and apps and what not. So when I tried to learn C and code unix tools I just felt miserable tbh.

Science !== building

I agree langauge and syntax are just distractions from the -building- part.

In software engineering there's infinte hammers and you can build new hammers out of old hammers btw
If Apple hadn't created Metal we would have nothing to compare Vulkan with and to point and laugh at how badly Khronos did. (DX doesn't count, MS has no taste)
no it doesnt mean that. you still need to know how to operate k8s on a specific cloud.
What's a submarine piece? I did some searching trying to answer this for myself and can't figure it out.
Unfortunately, they likely used AI to sock puppet and prime that pump, along with simply already having a user base.

Nothing very special about those shortcuts. Had they had a standalone system, it's not be much better than all the other attempts. This is akin to how Snoy launched the playstation.
Groovy is essentially a single framework language. If you want the Rails experience on the JVM with good performance it is your best bet but you aren't going to be writing anything except grails apps in it.
Give Alexa a Billion Times More Personality with a New Body – Make
I have a couple of dummy email addresses with gmail and hotmail. I don’t care too much about them (nor if I receive spam). I use them for reddit or hn, for example. I log in a couple of times per year to check what’s in my mailbox.

I do own a domain, and associated email inboxes. I’m very picky regarding when I use them (e.g., never for e-commerce or social media). In general, I don’t feel like I need to mask these email addresses since very few external entities know about them.

And then I have yet a couple of gmail/hotmail addresses that I use for stuff that requires my real name and address(e.g., e-commerce). I don’t mind too much either, although I use them regularly.
The danger here is that AI voice will continue to get better until one day...voice actors are simply not needed. Perhaps a better solution is for voice actors to license their voice to be used in AI. Imagine if you could license Morgan Freeman's voice for something, with plenty of rules and stipulations of course. The voice is recreated digitally and Mr. Freeman oversees the use of his voice.
good point, the term is taken from a recent book (link in post), which describes the Science of Science as, and I quote: an emerging interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern individual scientific careers and the workings of science. It explores the roots of scientific impact, the role of productivity and creativity, when and what kind of collaborations are effective, the impact of failure and success in a scientific career, and what metrics can tell us about the fundamental workings of science. The book relies on data to draw actionable insights, which can be applied by individuals to further their career or decision makers to enhance the role of science in society.
I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope fatherhood brings you joy.
Multiplication in binary is just addition of various shifted versions of one of the operands.

So it should not be surprising that this is possible or perhaps even efficient.
I had a house painting business once which doesn't sound stupid until I tell you that I had almost zero capital to start with.

It seems obvious now that I would be living hand to mouth and always under-pricing work just to maintain basic cash flow.

My youthful naivety convinced me that hard work and great service would eventually pay off though.

The only surprise was how long how I managed to keep going, even to the point of employing two other people full-time. Inevitably, my relationship broke down when my girlfriend at the time decided our landlord might be a better prospect (she liked spending money and gravitated towards people who could pretend they had some) and locked me out of the house. As a consequence I was forced to find a proper job for a while.

It just goes to show that even a reasonable business idea can be doomed to failure if the basics are not in place at the outset.
>“These actions will help ensure that we can continue to provide a consistent best-in-class subscription experience for all our users.”

Very carefully engineered horse pucky.
Twitter handle could cost 10s of thousands of dollar and it is a part of brand value, lot of times even more so than domain name. How is it worse identity than DNS?
You can't look at this without compensating for population growth and get a meaningful comparison. A raw population pyramid is only a reasonable-ish indicator of life expectancies when a population is growing at slow rate.

For a fast growing population you'll always see a significant narrowing by age no matter if people live long or not.
To be sure, I also agree, tried to clarify what I meant in previous answer in this thread
Couldn't you have learnt them on your own thanks to your own curiosity and outside of a job setting?
Very off topic, every time I see nvidia expand towards AI products I'm reminded that they had every opportunity to expand towards crypto products and didn't. I like that they work on what they believe in - and skip if they don't. In a time when AI is becoming a buzzword, this feels refreshing.
Your phrasing makes it sound like that's a negative.

I'm honestly surprised they're required to abstain from doing so at the author's request.

You can only read the context of the match after finding the search result after all, not the whole book.

It's an example of significant overreach of intellectual property from how I see it. The robot.txt rational doesn't apply there either, as their scanning does not impact anyone's resources. And it's been published, which makes it public by definition.
Yeah... That's not wrong.

On the other hand, those kind of "fake" internships are rampant here in France, specially with smaller companies or startups. From personal experience they don't bother checking their work. And how could they, the other employees are interns too.
The Mac-only gaming market is tiny but the iOS market is huge.
It’s also worth adding Charlie Brooker to that list of cultural icons too. Someone who has not only worked with Chris Moris, but also has an exceptional repertoire of his own as well.
Consider a few things. Acting a collective fashion is extremely powerful. It could be eminently rational to sacrifice a few incidental personal goals in order to join a collective which can achieve some of your larger ones. Another thing to consider: I think, in general, the arrow is moving away from monolithic collectives and towards smaller, overlapping, more individualistic, identities because of the internet. This has had a lot of effects on society, one of which is to make smaller collectives seem louder and more powerful. Before, culture was so monolithic that alternative views had to be pretty widely shared or violently asserted to make a splash.
Read up on it and this or basically this has already happened a bunch of times.
Researchers find drug-resistant fungus living in dogs’ ears
I suppose as an individual there aren't very many of you.
Apple is already in hot water over law enforcement access. Just imagine the political kerfuffle if they started supporting a messaging technology that even the NSA couldn't break[1]...

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-...
The Typescript compiler could probably emit additional JS files with reflection info just as it currently emits .map and .d.ts files (basically a 'type database' that exposes the information that's already in the .d.ts file as JS module, and which can be queried at runtime by type- and property-names (e.g. stuff like "what was the original Typescript type for this Javascript property").

The only missing link is then that Javascript objects don't know their original Typescript type, that would need to be magically injected by the TS compiler as a custom property.

How useful that would be in practice, no idea... I can pretty much only see downsides (mainly increasing bloat).

Also the same thing can probably be implemented in 'user space' by a tool which parses .d.ts files and code-generates such type-database modules from that information.
Not everything needs a hyper-abstracted solution. Most people suck at writing neat abstractions, so they spend an excessive amount of time writing shoddy solutions which no one really wants to deal with but there's a soft, begrudging agreement to use them anyway while the business sees no value in having their devs rewrite it. This goes double when you step into the world of microservices, where you now have another layer where you can easily swap the implementation behind the interface.

Surely years of old Java shops with absolutely dreadful software architecture, sloppily copied from literature, showcase the path to hell being paved by good intentions.
Man that is such a good point about outsourcing manufacturing. Damn.
Just made something like that, though I had to split the feeds based on year, otherwise they'd get close to 100 MB in size: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643086
> You have millions invested into an app that really is a glorified CRUD service that somehow ends up with a team of 500 engineers, and 3000 more employees.

You are just looking at the tip of the iceberg. Being essentially a CRUD app doesn’t mean it is less complex than other software. This is similar to saying “Facebook is just a web site, I could make that over a weekend.”
Super Drug
Given that it's such a small change... Surely this is not a problem for our generation. It definitely does not appear to be a problem that's worth destroying financial opportunities on a massive scale and enabling totalitarian governments in the current era.

The way I see climate change activism is that elites want to fix the climate at the expense of the lower classes of society... In a time when wealth inequality is at an all time high and without the consent of the lower classes. This is incorrect.

First, we have to fix inequality problem so that the pain of the transition will fall more or less evenly on everyone's shoulders... Then once this is the case, everyone should have more time to think about climate problems and we can expect broad support.

Of course, 'we' will all be long dead by then. I feel totally fine and morally justified in leaving this problem to a future generation. Most people in my generation have way too many concrete personal problems concerning their own survival in a week's time to worry about abstract problems such as the survival of the human race in a few hundred years.

...Not to mention that in a few generations' time, if we focus on maximizing access to opportunities, through the resulting innovation, we will probably end up with extremely efficient renewable energy which will be able to fight climate change far more effectively with no sacrifices necessary.

It seems literally like a no-brainer to me to just let the free market do what it does best in terms of innovation. Shut down government money printers and dismantle policies that are harmful to the free market and which centralize opportunities and create tech monopolies to control the masses. That's not the way. It needs to be done honestly.

What's the point of even allowing the human race to survive if it turns the global economy into a squid game and only the most dishonest, manipulative people will remain?
If you like Chris Morris, then you might also like Victor Lewis Smith who had a similar sense of humour. (I'm not going to get into an argument about whether one influenced the other. There was apparently a bit of bad blood.) He (VLS) died recently and the BBC did a retrospective: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kgd2
Where in Europe though?
The current pricing is free for 8GB (10GB or 1B rows read /month) or $3k/month unlimited? So not really possible to start relying on it for anything serious yet (except really serious).

The middle tier isn't even fully described yet, but does say 20GB limit (and from $29/month) - I suppose that means that's a base from which you'll be able to pay for more storage as needed.
Was Llama a top-secret name at Meta? Could it have leaked?
He also coddles fascism in transparent greed.
Ask HN: Why paid apps are not popular?
> Any optimization is again fragmented with FasterTransformer or TensorRT conversion with half baked layer supports which lags by 6months or more pretty much.

Thanks, I came here to see whether anything had changed since I last did ML stuff on Nvidia GPUs, and it looks like things are still the same.
Tesla Model Y: First impressions
Reagan was governor from 1967-1975. Clearly he changed this so permanently that it’s impossible for anyone to fix in 45 years.

I suppose that is an impressive feat to do something that no other governors can fix.

Or perhaps they don’t want to fix it since they can just blame Reagan and then pretend it’s unsolvable.
Agreed. Buried in twiss’ reply above is the actual response to the article:

> though we could of course add that in the future.
Maybe they are hype immune - clearly crypto is zero sum and somewhat seasonal. Machine learning (and matmul and relu
in particular) is here to stay and will expand.
You're true, my best co-workers have been architects who also where tech-leads and great ICs

Your comment made me think how any full-time uni professor is -suspicious- of not interacting with the real world. Any -good- professor should be doing research or on the private sector half of his time to not be just a bookworm
“One flew over the cuckoo's nest” - back in the days, the state went a bit overboard with forced mental care, and there was a lot of political pressure to dismantle the system.
People don't like paying for stuff and would prefer to jump through multiple hoops in order to get an inferior product that doesn't cost anything.
Ah yes, an ideal versioning scheme for modern video game projects!
Are you sure it isn't their employer's interest? What if the company sells training or licenses for the framework? Then it definitely is in their interest. There are obvious examples out there.
Tent cities don't exist solely in places without access to housing

"Access to housing" isn't enough. You might have "access" to health care but unable to afford it. You need housing as a right - even without payment - alongside enough adequate housing for everyone. And allow folks to do things in their own home. If they cannot do it at their home with other people, the person in question does not have adequate housing.

And that last bit - about a death sentence? That is only for a few addicts. A subset of addicts die.

If you have to get clean to get housing, housing is inadequate. I'd probably not go for rehab if I were homeless: I'd just have to be sober for the misery.

And that's what we give people. That's what we are offering. Various forms of misery.
The Battle of Maldon
Hey Jay, thanks so much for your work! The screen looks very beautiful but for me personally it would be much more attractive if it could also be used for reading the entire newspaper, not just the front page. Any plans to include (tiny) buttons to switch pages?

In this case, during breakfast I could put the screen on a stand on my table, and read the news without having to resort to a backlit screen / news app on my phone. Though, maybe 32" would be a bit big for my breakfast table, not sure. :)
I remember when congress extended the copyright for Disney. The extension date seemed so far out as to be unacheivable…