skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is an unpopular opinion, but I just don't get why so many people in the industry started using containers where using, say, jars in the JVM would have worked perfectly fine.

It seems so much is lost, for no apparent reason. We used to have clean interfaces, architecture independence, pretty good performance, low startup times, low memory usage, and heaps of experience with the JVM or .NET for years.

We now seem to have regressed to modularising software into separate unix processes with less strict interfaces, extremely complex dependency chains, and many more moving parts.

Obviously, this is all fine if you are actually building systems at enormous scale, but I see this move to containers in all fields, even for applications that run on a single CPU where performance or scalability is not an issue.

What would be the reason for this? Is it simply that younger generations need to relearn from their own mistakes? Or is this part of the micro service hype?

(Of course I'm not ignorant to some positive aspects of containers, especially for interfacing with databases or web servers, and other unix services.) My problem is mostly with using containers to split even the most straightforward applications, where existing techniques were (at least IMHO) vastly superior.)
those days they tend to carry RPG munitions. sometimes with some extra explosives strapped to it. enough to cause damage.

making "dumb emitters" still require some engineering. also dumb emitters need to track patterns of proper jammers in order to attract proper attention: i am reading blog of somebody in reconnaissance unit of sorts. they been recording jammers working patterns. so i guess drones can be build to discriminate between targets
If you look at a embeddings leaderboard [1], one of the top competitors called InstructorXL [2] is just a pip install away. It's neck and neck with Ada v2 except for a shorter input length and half the dimensions, with the added benefit that you'll always have the model available.

Most of the other options just work with the transformers library.

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

[2] https://github.com/HKUNLP/instructor-embedding
My sister was a chef her last 2 years, climbing from simple cook.

And she has worked in great restaurants (two starred ones, a 5 star hostel)

She hasn't worked at a non-exploitative restaurant once. Even the one where she was paid correctly, she worked overtime (so much overtime they couldn't pay her legally and had to go off the books). She destroyed her feets, her neck, and a knee over 7 years. Her doctor told her her body seems older than she is (lot of micro-fracture on her scan). One of her ex-coworkers (31) received state payment for incapacitation, because he destroyed his life working exclusively in starred restaurants for 6 years. One is now a methhead, because they drank and drug themselves to sleep every night. If you don't own the restaurant you're working at, chances are you're being exploited (or this is a small restaurant were you only heat already prepared food).
'Proper engineers' often have no interest in actually understanding the underlying processes, which would make for more than iterative improvements. Industry can fund iterative improvements. Source: Marc Baldo telling me to wait until my paper was published/on the arXiv and then he would 'look at it', while in the meantime trashing simulations and theory in his press releases.
Many of the photosynthesizing algae can complete a lifecycle in 8 hours. They should be able to evolve pretty quick to new conditions, especially across the huge volume of ocean water.

Trees and stuff will be far slower, yes.
Anonymous users have access to new code view and navigation
Is South Sentinel where it's at?
Nginx DNS Resolving Pitfalls
What do you think of MEG/singlet fission cells?
No, he says that the strings can contain spaces and other characters but that he wants them ordered (only) by the decimal digits in them. I don't see how this can work either.
https://www.google.com/search?q=kid+stole+parent+car+die

Did you even try to look?

First result is literally "Boys, 6 and 3, Crash Parents' Car While Driving to Toy Store".... Do I need to continue or can you use Google yourself?
You could easily just treat it like Unity does, where the 3d ness is an illusion and everything is actually in 3d space.... Super easy, barely an inconvenience...

The real impediment I believe was Nintendo themselves... Think about it for a moment. What was the process for publishing to N64? That's right, you had to work directly with Nintendo and effectively get thier stamp of approval (good luck getting enough carts otherwise).

Nintendo didn't want 2d games on thier precious 3d focused console. That simple.
I dare you to take away cheap coffee.... Things will most certainly Not be fine...

I think you severely underestimate the importance of coffee to the stability of many people's psychology....

I know I'd be far more prone to violent outbursts during the first half of my day if my brain wasn't jump started by coffee.... Literally, I suffer from sleep drunkenness and without coffee my first four hours I'm little more than a drunken moron who is prone to irrational outbursts of instinctive rage at sensory triggers (loudness, brightness, unexpected touch etc).

For me that definitely part of a disorder resultant from a combo of genetics and multiple brain injuries but given what I've seen of others I highly doubt it's any different for many.

A quickly accessed link kind of supports this https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/08/22/neighborhood-in...

Theres a reason tea and coffee shops were the birth places of revolutions: Coffee stimulates the mind and brings clarity and calm many can't find absent it. The absence would be felt in increased consumption of alcohol and the resulting problems.

And really, do you think banning coffee would actually eliminate it? No. It would just become another meth and people would be killed to protect the industry etc, just like with every other substance.

Disbelieve? Look at chinese "medicine" and it's absurd contraband items that are still ridiculously prevalent despite there being literally zero effects from it, no high no health boost just bullshit. And still we have poachers and traffickers murdering thousands of people a year over that shit...

But coffee, it's an exception /s
Why are you bringing up stuff about Vancouver in Canada?

Because anecdotes are not useful for anything other than making strangers indignant on the internet.

HN posters used to strive to be better than the comment section of a newspaper web site.
Thanks for this post, I hadn't seen the linked conversation when it happened. Here's my reading. The conversation blog post you linked begrudgingly points out that companies aren't sunk by bugs, technical debt, or inefficient development practices. If you have a good sales team and a product that people want, need, or will be forced to use, you can succeed even if you have to burn money on dev, ops, customer support.
However I think what this langchain conversation is about is overeager VCs and a product that maybe doesn't do anything we need. It's not that langchain is slow or hard to use; it's that we can just do this stuff with Python or whatever. I don't have enough langchain experience to substantiate these claims but I think that's what I'm reading here.
I'm not worried about LangChain not taking criticism well, it's more the fanboys who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and I don't have the free time to deal with annoying "you're just nitpicking because you're jealous" and "it's open source, why don't you just make a PR to fix everything instead of whining?" messages.
depends on what you're programming tho. For web work just about any old laptop will work. AI, number crunching, 3d? yeah you need the best you can afford.
You don't need to split an application into containers, you can have your full app in a container no problem. You can have all your jars in the container. Using containers doesn't mean you know have to split your apps in different ways, it means you ship the runtime, compiled code, whatever libraries are required and all that in a bundle.
Next thing -HN guys discovers that markets aren’t any more efficient than plants are
> That explains why XPDB moves away from "substepping" the physics

Interestingly, XPBD has moved back to substepping! The relatively recent "Small Steps in Physics Simulation" from Nvidia goes into it, but I can outline the reasoning briefly.

In a physics simulation, there are 2 main sources of error, the integrator and the solver. Breaking that down a bit:

The integrator is an algorithm to numerically integrate the equations of motion. Some possibly familiar integrators are Euler, Verlet and Runge-Kutta. Euler is a simple integrator which has a relatively high error (the error scales linear with timestep size). The most common version of Runge-Kutta is more complex, but scales error with the 4th power of the timestep.

The solver comes into play because the most stable flavors of integrator (so-called implicit or backwards integrators) spit out a nonlinear system of equations you need to solve each physics frame. Solving a nonlinear system to high accuracy is a difficult iterative process with its own zoo of algorithms.

XPBD uses an implicit Euler-esque integrator and a simple, but relatively inefficient, Projected Gauss-Seidel solver. For most games, the linear error from the integrator is ugly but acceptable when running at 60 or even 30 frames a second. Unfortunately, for the solver, you have to spend quite a bit of time iterating to get that error low enough. The big insight from the "Small Steps" paper is that the difficulty of the nonlinear equations spat out by the integrator scales with the square of timestep (more or less -- nonlinear analysis is complicated). So if you double your physics framerate, you only have to spend a quarter of the time per frame in the solver! It turns out generally the best thing to do is actually run a single measly iteration of the solver each physics frame, and just fill your performance budget by increasing your physics frames-per-second. This ends up reducing both integrator and solver errors at no extra cost.
Even then, I've never ran out of battery.

Do we really need more than 6 hours of never being plugged in?

I've heard of a usecase, bus trips with buses that don't have 120V outlets... Its pretty niche.
Hmmm, I don’t think that's accurate. To label plant ecosystems as 'winner-takes-all' really misses the forest for the trees (sorry..!). It's not all about sun-hogging; different species have unique needs and abilities, thrive in symbiotic relationships, and flourish under different conditions. For instance, take the relationship between certain fungi and tree roots, where the fungi provide the trees with hard-to-reach nutrients and, in turn, the trees supply sugars to the fungi. It's not a simple competition, it's a world full of complex interactions, adaptations and interdependencies. That's generally why we refer to these as 'ecosystems', no?
> So which app does Apple reject that cuts into “their market”?

Netflix's "you can't sign up through the app" is a prime example of this that immediately comes to mind but there are many more.

An argument can be made that hey.com is, in a way, competitor to the paid iCloud subscription. Yet Apple acts as if they own that relationship and that the app store was valuable in bringing the users to the app: https://www.hey.com/apple/iap/

Do you really think it's fair that all competing services have to be 30% more expensive than Apple's own ones if they play by Apple's rules?

There used to be lots of iOS apps that allowed streaming pirated music. Everyone, including Apple, was seemingly fine with that and never asked where the music came from. But then, suddenly, when Apple Music was preparing to launch, all those apps started magically getting rejected for breaking the rule on "illegal file sharing".

> When I pay for an app,

Stop right here. No one was talking about paid apps. My initial point was about free apps. But if you so insist, in a FREE market, app developers would offer two options: pay through Apple with their 30% tax, or pay directly without it. I'll let you figure out which option most people would choose.
Machine Unlearning Challenge
Ok that makes sense! I'll check it out. I pretty much just use Starlette + Mangum + Marshmallow for basic api functionality.
your 10 yo mabook pro is not nearly as fast as a macbook pro M2, not even close. Does your old Pro work as good for your -needs-, that is quite possible depending on what you're doing with it.
Apache NuttX RTOS on RISC-V: Star64 JH7110 SBC
I adore this video. I wish there was a version of a talk like this but for Google Sheets, or at least comparison of Excel and Google Sheets features as of 2023. I saw an article[1] that tries to replicate the cool automatic data-table features of Excel in Google Sheets but it seems easier to just use Excel.

[1]: https://spreadsheet.dev/how-to-make-a-table-in-google-sheets
If non-working product was the stuff they've ever cared about.
IG:
- reels were rolled/rerolled so many times with so many bugs.
- have you tried to open some old post from your grid? Scroll is soo broken and loads 1 page of images, freezes, loads another. So, to scroll 300 posts you need to spend 5 minutes. Never was fixed and probably never will.
- Chat for IG does not open images on desktop (or some images). Yea, I know desktop is not a priority anymore.

It feels like it is neverending AB testing or neverending beta.
I predict 1000 years from now, CO2 will be up near 700 ppm and biomass will grow ~15% faster on average, but some plants will grow at 100% faster.
We might want it to work that way, but depending on which state it is, and the she of the child, the district's legal responsibilities might be what the GP wrote.

In places with mandatory public education, parents suing the district for not providing education for their expelled child are likely to win.
The point isn’t to show that there is a threat from general access. It is to see if it will be useful for activists.
I think Joel was inspired by this series. One of the videos on that playlist you shared appears in this Trello board[1] that Joel was referring to during the talk.

[1]: https://trello.com/b/HGITnpih/you-suck-at-excel
Ask HN: Is there a resource that explains LLM Tooling
What the heck is: huggingface, langchain, llama or gpt4all.. Is there a resource that explains all of these. I have a fleeting understanding of the state of affairs in these tools. I would like a high level understanding of the popular tools that are available. I also want to run a model locally/privately on my documents.
This seems to be it - https://www.doverbooks.co.uk/animals-creatures

I'm not sure I understand the licensing issue - if the camel graphic came from one of these books, would it not be possible to license it direct from the pictorial library (possibly no licensing required, just a royalty free deal from buying the book)?
Thanks for looking at the paper. It forced me to go read it:

"We address this by increasing the repeating rate of the two lighting
conditions at 72HZ, so that the lighting changes from one color to
the next every 144th of a second. The lighting then appears nearly
constant, with a remaining effect being that rapidly moving objects
leave a trail of magenta/green outlines when seen against the screen,
as in Figure 6 (bottom)."

"The remaining drawback of time-multiplexing in this manner
is that the shorter shutter angle reduces the amount of motion
blur, which is considered desirable for cinema."

Interesting that the complaint is that it reduces motion blur.
That doesn't look contradictory. An expression is a (syntax) tree, and every variable use has a unique path from the root to that use. This path crosses some sequence of binders, which we can label with integers.

If you assign integers from the inside out, as DB indices do, then the `x` usage in `\x -> \y -> x` passes one binder (`\y`) before landing on the correct one (`\x`), yielding `\_ -> \_ -> 1`.

If you assign integers from the outside in, as DB levels do, then the `x` usage lands on `\x` instantly, yielding `\_ -> \_ -> 0`.

De Bruijn came up with both systems, and it can be confusing to keep track of which one is which; but they are different systems.
Ugh, getting rate limited by Spotify – even though this is just using public preview URLs. I'll put up a notice until I find a workaround. Thanks!
Problem is, there's a bad update combination for the RB1100 that can cause it to get into a reboot loop that has to be resolved in person with a direct connection and a recovery tool.

Ask me how I know.
> For anything other than comedy, which is not equally well done by typing your query into your favorite search engine, it seems that this kind of "AI" has no "I".

I swear to the gods and goddesses, does this attitude stem from no creativity or what? My work throughput on some tasks has 30xed. I have a GPT-4 loop that reviews SIEM logs, performs OSINT to see if anything matches know IOCs or cybersecurity news feeds, and emails me a compiled report complete with threat analysis diagrams and a list of recommend actions and pros/cons of each. Something that used to take me 20-40 minutes is now 30 seconds deciding which of 3-5 action buttons to click. It already recommends the best one most of the time with no refinement, so even that will be fully automated soon.

Next I'll be automating take down letters and phone calls to registries and hosting services that outline how dipshit #37562 is abusing their services.
Theres no need to guess, we can just look to before it was prohibited.

And it was alcohol that was worse.

Most people don't care to use it (heroin) at all let alone regularly. Opiates cause nausea and retching in most areas drug abuse levels....

Alcohol was far more popular and consistently harmful...

Just ask the wives of the time what they'd rather thier husbands use....
> There are some Asus laptops that seem like they'd fit the bill, but they're just so clunky and large, which gets in the way of the portable dream.

Does anyone know which laptops Devin is referring to?

I'm one of those odd guys who love big laptops (I've used 17” models for over a decade now) and I don't care about the weight at all. But I'd love it if I could trade some of those models' performance for more battery life (a reliable 8 hours would be sufficient), and they're never designed for that.
They trade efficiency with the ability to rebuild themselves for centuries out of air.
It's not doing to badly with Asahi Linux. There are still shortcomings to work out, but there are people using Asahi on their Apple Silicon machines for their daily driver.
> Or how Apple is being a gigantic bunch of assholes by not using something other than vanilla SMS if you're not an iMessage user.

What alternative would you suggest? And is that alternative as universal as SMS?
And self-repair. And self propagate.
They are definitely not optimized solely for making energy.
It is not even trendy.
FB literally killed Pages before and now is actively killing IG.
Many creators just don't really care about any new Meta products anymore.
Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
Doing this. We soft launched yesterday with a paid Falcon-40B playground - 3 models for now Falcon 40b instruct, uncensored, and base. Adding API and per token pricing this week.

https://api.llm-utils.org/

And more models coming soon.

Vector storage isn’t on the roadmap (what stops using a separate vector store from working well? Could add to roadmap but want to add understand more first), and we could add fine tuning if it’s a common request.
I don't disagree, but when googling other places you might not want to visit I found something called Snake Island -

https://allthatsinteresting.com/snake-island
I configured SPF/DMARC records for those domains, sign outbound email with DKIM and run the outbound server side in cloud data centers. That helps. Seeing the server logs also helps identify failures and diagnose why mail doesn't get accepted.
What's the logo for BASIC? for Pascal? for COBOL? for FORTRAN? for C (other than the light blue letter 'C' on the 1970s K&R book)? For that matter, what's the logo for English or French or German (national flags aren't language logos). Since when do languages have logos? Logos are trademarks of companies, not languages. This is confused thinking.
China announced new social credit law. The West has largely gotten system wrong
Many online games do not require an account. Ones that do not store things like level progression or inventory between play sessions.

You need an account for WoW, but not Unreal Tournament, to use 90's examples.
Agreed with all this!

One note if you decide to go the integrated graphics route: if you’re planning on gaming, get a CPU with the most powerful integrated graphics you can.

I did as shoo pointed out, started out with a CPU with integrated graphics to save money (inflated GPU prices during pandemic), then later upgraded to better CPU plus discrete graphics card.

I started with a Ryzen 3400G for its low price and integrated graphics, but found I could barely play even medium-low graphics games like Valheim, maxing out at 15 FPS, dropping to 5 much of the time.

Hopefully you can avoid the same issue if you decide to get an integrated graphics CPU. I do prefer and recommend a dedicated graphics card, assuming it fits within your budget.
That might be easy to remember for baseline calculations but it’s actually more like 1,360 watts per square meter.

So a smidge below 450W at 33%
It’s technical rent seeking and premature abstraction.
The term 'relative' is Latin, and it is used for "reference" (of course: fero and latus are in the same verb).

Galieo uses the term 'relative', and to mean the judgement about magnitudes, but not for the invariance. The paragraph about the motion (the ships) does not contain it.

The term 'relativity' in English was coined by Coleridge; in Physics, adopted by Maxwell - see https://www.etymonline.com/word/relativity

In philosophy, as the parent mentioned, 'relativism' appears first in German in Wilhelm Traugott Krug (the successor of Kant), in 1838 - seemingly in a lexicographical work -, then in English in John Grote (1865) - see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism
There's two possible explanations.

1. They don't think about these kinds of second-order effects. They see that this company is somehow involved with the government and that's it. Their electorate won't care about these kinds of details because they're "doing something" to supposedly stop the war sooner.

2. They think that Russians would somehow revolt against the government. This doesn't work — the Russian government lacks any meaningful feedback mechanisms. By protesting, you'd expose yourself to immense personal risks for no discernible effect. Unless you're a heavily armed private army heading straight for Moscow.
And then they release an updated GPT that breaks all your tuned prompts.
Using generative AI for decision-making is going to bring the world to an end. There is no way people can trust anything to work.
Every programming language had its own version of jars, dependency management, etc. that you then need to reproduce everywhere you want those things to run. Containers mostly abstract that away - you just have a container image filled with what you want and you execute it. It also provides a consistent means of isolation. Thats the benefit I see.
My memory is fuzzy, but even before Hejlsberg magic, Wirth parser was a light and fast (but maybe unreadable) hand coded piece of code.
how does this compare to the aa battery in the photo
Maybe not your world, but mine? Definitely true.
every chart is a just a big yeeeeeeikes