skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think native speaker count really means anything though

Especially since there are plenty of people who aren't native speakers, but got to the native level of fluency (usually, due to moving to an english-speaking country at some point and spending 99% of their time in english-only environments for many years). How do we account for those?

I always had trouble with the whole "native speaker" categorization, because I definitley don't fall under it by definition, but English is legitimately my most comfortable and most frequently used language by far, and has been this way for over a decade.

Like, the only thing that gives away my non-native status is that sometimes my accent comes out accidentally, but that's just stupid muscle memory. I am way more comfortable with english in every aspect (speaking, writing, etc.) than my actual native language, despite often having an accent in english, but never in my native language (which i have exactly zero foreign accent in).
Python isn't the best language for exploring this sort of thing, by the author's own admission.
I mean, I don't think "well, they used to have a big empire" says that much about the current state of the country. Shift the dial around a century or so, and you hit at least three other Best Empire countries (Spain, Portugal, Netherlands). I think the British empire is particularly memorable because it was basically the _last_ one (pedantically, shreds of the Portuguese one held on for a bizarrely long time, but the British one was certainly the last one to peak).
Emm,where they host and there is no encryption by default! Why not use xmpp?
Traditionally, dev kits are sold at roughly the cost to produce them, perhaps with a small markup. Arduino is a notable exception, charging at least 10x their production cost for a dev kit. The competition was inevitable.

In the case of the original Arduino, I have a Chinese clone purchased for $3 that has substantially better quality, and has many of the features you would want from a dev kit, like ESD protection on the I/O pins.
What's your point? The parent post said they find the games addictive. Your comment is like bragging to an alcoholic that you can drink in moderation.
They are all more expensive compared to a free market private ones. Although in Europe thanks to the education standards and low corruption level, at least it is doing a good job. In US these are sink holes.
But if it will need a community to survive, then the selling point can't be "it won't go away after you use it for awhile". Or if it is, it needs some compelling narrative for why it will definitely attract a durable community.

FWIW: I think this product looks really great and already does a bunch of stuff I want, and looks waaaay better and runs waaaay faster than Goodreads, and those are all absolutely big selling points that I think could break through with the general book-loving community, and I think that's awesome! But I just don't think "it is decentralized" or "it will definitely not die" are clear selling points for it.
> But what's the alternative ? None.

And gob help you if you dare search for alternative to _____.
> Generative AI doesn't fit very well into Apple's hardware centric philosophy.

Well, I disagree with this take. Apple is known for playing the long game and planning for many years ahead. CPU power is still growing and Apple now has their own CPUs on every device. Sure you won’t be able to run something similar to GPT-4 in foreseeable future, but I predict we will see multiple small, feature-oriented LLMs that can easily be fit into a smartphone or at least an iPad with M(n) processor
There's likely no reason for GPT-4 to get worse, other than perception and some bad luck. I think the real problem is unevenness of its performance. I've had ChatGPT (3.5 and now 4) tell me it could help with problem X, then that it had no knowledge of it and couldn't help, to being an expert. All spaced out over several months.

It's likely that adequate prompt engineering would help to mitigate this problem.
Perhaps an analogy could clarify? Although it isn't a perfect one, I'll try to use the points of contrast to explain why it can be considered dangerous.

If a young child is really aggressive and hitting people, it's worrying even though it may not actually hurt anyone. Because the child is going to grow up, and it needs to eliminate that behavior before it's old enough to do damage by its aggression. (don't take this as a comprehensive description, just a tiny slice of cause-effect)

But the problem with AI is that we don't have continuity between today's AI and future AI. We can see that aggressive speech is easy to create by accident - Bing's Sydney output text that threatened peoples' lives. We may not be worried about aggressive speech from LLMs because it can't do damage, but similar behavior could be really dangerous from an AI which has the ability to form a model of the world based on the text it generates (in other words, it treats its output as thoughts).

But even if we remove that behavior from LLMs today, that doesn't mean aggressive behavior won't be learned by future AI, because it may be easy for aggressive behavior to emerge and we don't know how to prevent it from emerging. With a small child, we can theoretically prevent aggressive behavior from emerging in that child's adulthood with sufficient training in childhood.

It's not the same for AI - we don't know how to prevent aggression or other unaligned behavior from emerging in more advanced AI. Most counter arguments seem to come down to hoping that aggression won't emerge, or won't emerge easily. To me, that's just wishful thinking. It might be true, but it's a bit like playing Russian roulette with an unknown number of bullets in an unknown number of chambers.
Aren’t plenty of PISA high-ranking nations from the East Asian countries to Germany highly reliant upon placement examinations in student educational destinations? It might not feel very American, but it’s widely practiced.
yes, there is clearly not a worldwide famine if everyone in my city is eating lasagna

'global' is ambiguous between 'worldwide' and 'somewhere in the world', but 'worldwide' unambiguously means 'everywhere in the world', and in fact literally half the world is not experiencing intense heat right now
I think the argument is worth considering. At the same time, it seems easier in the age of internet for kids of merit to attract sources of funding, and I expect funding will still find their way towards massive untapped concentrations of merit.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-temperature...

> in the deepest depths of intergalactic space — an object placed there would gain or lose energy until it reached the background temperature of that light left over from the Big Bang: 2.725 K.
You're not missing anything, if anything that's a great example of why you shouldn't use an LLM to handle your whole sales pitch without supervision, the person being pitched to is clearly not interested in the product but asks if they want to make a video with them (probably as a form of paid content) and at one point the LLM starts to reply like it is the one selling the video...

Awful example to use, in the end the LLM here would have ended up buying a video for $80
Why Effect(s)?
I agree with that assessment and have always considered the criticism of donor/legacy admissions as simple jealousy. Nothing wrong with taking some donors who are going to open up opportunity for regular students, even though I personally wouldn't want to be one of those kids with rich donor parents.

The bigger flaws with Ivies and Stanford (but imo not MIT or CMU) are in how they don't really pick the regular students based on merit either. I went to a top high school and saw many classmates go to those; most of them were about average but managed to pad their resumes or play some diversity card, while most of the real gems went elsewhere. I really thrived going to UC Berkeley and think that had to do with the genuinely good students around me. Still, it was obvious how the neighboring Stanford uni had way more money and connections floating around for the number of students, meaning less need to fight over resources (on the flip side, Cal taught me how to fight when needed, which was more important for me).
Someone still has to work those unskilled jobs. It's not exclusively staffed by high school and college kids, they're staffed largely by poor adults and immigrants, and it turns out they still need to live and eat.
While El Niño is related to Pacific Ocean temperatures it has global implications.
> Harvard recently reported that legacies actually had higher SAT scores than non-legacy admits.

This likely indicates wealthy people can afford SAT preparation tutors.
Web Environment Integrity Proposal
If you're going to nitpick you could nitpick on the use of "web" (though, as others note, that's not wholly inaccurate), but there are plenty of command-line web clients. For example, wget and curl.
There's definitely alternatives. Just as an example - Require every campaign to fund all expenses and advertising from a single campaign account, and limit funding sources to individual people with a personal contribution limit per candidate. Heck, limit the actual campaign period to the 3-4 months before the election while we're at it.

No more super bowl campaign ads? That sounds like a great system to me.
They didn't say they're eliminating open "donations for admissions" systems. They said they're eliminating legacy admissions, i.e. "Your parents went here so you can get in, too". It effects multi-generation middle class families more than the really rich ones.
Swap the square brackets for parentheses in the return statement and it will return a generator expression.

That will read the file as needed (ie as you iterate over it) instead of loading the entire thing in memory.

for record in read_portfolio(fn):
# do stuff
> Generative AI doesn't fit very well into Apple's hardware centric philosophy

They have a huge unique niche to exploit with local private models, probably the only company on the planet with the hardware in place to take advantage of this today end-to-end, but unfortunately I don't think generative AI fits with Apple's culture for anything I just think they'd be terrified of it saying something wrong so would probably clip its wings to the point that it's mundane and kinda useless.
I’ve been looking for something like this: eventually consistent syncing of DB content -> embeddings in a vector DB.

So far, I’ve been dealing with a tradeoff between latency + error handling in my API endpoints. I’ll either 1.) embed content + upsert into to the vector DB inside a transaction block for my main DB in the handler, which kills latency, or 2.) kickoff the embedding work separate from the main handler work, which risks data desynchronizing.

I’d much prefer a set-it-and-forget-it approach like Retake.

A few questions:

* If the “real-time server” goes offline temporarily, will it catch up on any newly added rows in the interim?

* Do you intend to emit any OpenTelemetry metrics? I’d like to monitor lag in production.

* Will I be able to deploy this as a single container on ECS/Kubernetes?
I think it’s just a matter of taste, honestly.

I don’t enjoy 4chan (I mostly browsed /mu/ when I visited) probably for the same reasons that you do. And that’s perfectly fine!
Current heat wave is pretty insane. Some stats here: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/the-scorching-sum...

- El Paso has shattered the old record for consecutive 100+ degree highs by several days and still going strong
- Phoenix just broke the old record for consecutive 110+ degree highs with the highs forecasted to continue for over a week with no end in sight. Phoenix has also broken the record for consecutive lows above 90 - so no relief from the heat.

Antarcic sea ice seems to be broken as well - https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-... - switch to "Antarctic" and click "Show All Years" to see how all the other years overlap each other and 2023 is just... way off.
I will only feel better when the working class controls the society it built.
Grin and Bear It (2004)
It is not. GP is saying that the "expectations" in question aren't as applicable to potential as they're purported to be.

>Asian Americans, which is always conveniently omitted from these racist narratives.

Ironically, so is the diversity of the Asian American community.
https://archive.is/p6wrI
It's all parasitic bots on the surface stealing content and generating sludge. Humans find shelter underground in un-indexable private chats.
The fact that each cuda core also has its own instruction pointer is quite misleading. You would think that this lets it run different instructions per cuda core but the opposite is the case. The driver uses these instruction pointers for finer scheduling granularity. That is cool but is not the same.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58071834/why-does-each-t...
Congratulations!

> Today, I passed $10,000 in cumulative revenue. This is not a significant amount whatsoever

This is huge. The amount is not insignificant, but also doesn't really matter. What matters is that you got your first revenue. That's a milestone worth celebrating. Good job, and keep it up!
Ethnic is not relative to religion per se, but language and traditions.
> Humans are definitely aligned

Yes, that's why climate change was rapidly addressed when we began to understand it well 60 years ago and why war has always been so rare in human history.
The collapse of the jet stream as we know it has been feared by many for quite some time. It has been weakening and changing positions due to global warming. In a decade places like California and Texas will be unlivable.
>"as Debian have proven themselves (per the article) entirely amenable to retaining the ability to run without systemd"

There's obviously more to this (and to Devuan) than just uninstalling systemd and installing sysvinit. Devuan's package repo (for which Debian is the upstream) contains a lot of customizations to allow certain packages to function with a sysvinit foundation.
Thank you, that’s a clear explanation of the cause and 3D shape of jet streams.
I'm not even a Mac user by choice, but Monaco[0] has been a favorite of mine for years.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
When the something you own contains passwords, it replaces something you know and all you are left with is one factor: the device.
no - its radical environmentalists trying to take away your FREEDOM gasoline
You're not alone. Today, every decision that I make is done with the objective of insulating myself non-violently from future coercive actions by the state similar to those during the coronacrisis. For example: expenses, domicile, career, voting.

I know many similar people, formerly of all different political, philosophical and religious persuasions. My rough estimation is that this voting bloc is between 20 and 35% of western society.

To those who disagree: although we are products of the same society, we have simply a fundamentally different view of liberty, happiness and risk tolerance.
Ajax probably just a acronym of Apple Jax given that their training is done on TPUs.
Sadly, a lot of things are never released on physical media. Disney is terrible about this with their shows.
You can generally configure that in your viewer/editor on if to use ligatures or not, separately from the font itself... but if it isn't in the typeface, you don't even get the option if you do want it.
Not really. Countries that are consistently at the top of world happiness rankings are ones that (a) both support a dynamic economy through meritocracy and (b) have high taxes and a broad social safety net that limits inequality.

To put it another way, I'm not arguing against meritocracy; I'm arguing that it alone does not lead to good outcomes - i.e. I think it's necessary but not sufficient. It's like when people thought "bringing democracy" to all these countries without democratic institutions would be a good thing. Democracy is generally better than the alternative, but only if there are broad protections like equality under the law for minority groups, otherwise it's just the "2 wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner" issue. Meritocracy is similar. It's generally a good thing but not if it results in a very small number of people hoarding all the spoils while everyone else barely scrapes by.
> The developer velocity I can achieve with async rust is unbelievable compared to what I had to do previously.

I have seen a glimpse of that in my paid work but I have to say it takes quite a while and a lot of nerves expended to get to that point. It's one of these things where you climb a mountain peak and can now see everything clearly but before that it's all a mess, mists and shadowy figures.
Queries might have secrets. Maybe neither tool is appropriate for that. Reminds me of the acorn about Dropbox is just an smb share.
Spot on. I don't see why this is so hard for people to comprehend and why they are fighting the obvious. That very basic level of nuance tends to be missing from these conversations.
That person explicitly dismissed "advanced mastery" and thus challenging and bettering oneself or themselves as being non-inclusive. I find this attitude highly offensive, because my motivation towards mastery is not of that kind. I'm happy to include people, explain them my code, help them along towards mastery.

Software also has an ongoing quality crisis, all while being more and more influential in people's lives. That person's attitude towards writing quality software helps to deepen that crisis and is therefore harmful.
IIT 4.0: Formulating the properties of existence in physical terms
Choice either is or isn't an illusion. YOU presented that dichotomy. I simply took the other side of it.

I understand that we do not live in a vacuum. Yes of course we respond to stimuli, that's part of what it means to be alive. What I am advocating for is more agency in your own life.

You are the one in the drivers seat. Act like it and your life will be better. Pretend you don't have agency and your life will get worse. It's really that simple. I think that's why your original comment triggered me so much.
I don't know what I did to get so lucky. I'm on Ubuntu and have the following versions: cli@3.13.0, protonvpn-nm-lib@3.14, proton-client@0.7.1

I've even written a couple of tools that manage my connection through the CLI automatically and it all Just Works. The only issue I ever had was when I had to force shutdown my machine for an unrelated reason and I didn't have an internet connection until I opened and closed Proton VPN. I'm sure someone smarter than me could have just reset the interface they were using or something
Both cases they're abusing market power in one category to compete unfairly in another market. Apparently this is called "monopolistic leveraging" and is a somewhat unsettled area of law in the US. [0][1]

Here's another example. Amazon using its market power as an online marketplace to benefit in both the logistics market and its own-label goods market. [2]

By not allowing anyone else to advertise on its front page, it could also be said that Google is practising "Refusal to deal", which is also forbidden, although I admit that case is somewhat weaker. [3]

> Google does not force you to install Chrome in order to use Search.

I believe that just means they aren't practising tying, which is yet another abuse of monopoly power.

[0] https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

[1] https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1304...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54887650

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Enhancing Redis Observability with Uptrace
> Austria-Hungary was an empire up till the end of WWI

It was _called_ an empire, but it wasn't an empire in the same sense as the British empire; if Britain had been feeling particularly grandiose they could have called Queen Anne the Empress of England and Scotland as part of the Act of Union on a similar basis. Sweden's was also not a modern colonial empire; it economically did not work at all the same way.

> Also, there was extreme poverty in Norway and Sweden not that long ago (the 19th century), leading many to emigrate to the US.

I mean... there was in the UK, too. For the most dramatic example see the Great Famine in Ireland, but there was extreme poverty all over the UK.
It's weird to me that "stop being racist" some how has led to universities considering giving up legacies, "prestige"/donation based admissions and even athletic admissions.

If it's the case that affirmative action was being used to mask other unfair practices that will be utterly ghastly.
As far as I can tell, you are the only person in this thread who actually skimmed the paper. Thank you for pointing this out!

The API clearly delineates the March and June versions. The paper authors ran tests on different API versions. The fact that these versions are different is clear & transparent.
Anyone can use the March version of GPT by calling the API.

gpt-4-0314: very slow, smart

gpt-4-0613: fast, less smart
Is there a tool like this but to manage docker compose project?

I have a folder with many project folders containing docker compose files and I would love to easily run start, stop e.g without constantly running cd
https://github.com/ir33k/gmi100/blob/master/gmi100.c#L27 definitely threw me for a loop until I realized it was a line saving trick. It would be more readable to save lines elsewhere by exploiting the comma operator instead of essentially cramming irrelevant statements into a conditional.

For example:

addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(1965);

Could become:

addr.sin_family = AF_INET, addr.sin_port = htons(1965);
What's funny is I thought he was an environmentalist. Bitcoin is definitely not good for the environment.
Those are all decisions the university leadership made. David Tepper (?) doesn't run the school - the university leadership decided to make those decisions to get the money. They could have said "this isn't sustainable", and their hands weren't tied.

"Your $100m gift will cost us $200m, we can't accept it as currently stipulated".

All university leadership decisions that they failed on.
Threads usage is dipping already – but why?
Since I've seen it (around HN, no less) years ago, it has been among the first few installations on every machine I handled.

Beautiful. It feels tall in just the right way.
Since coding fonts seem to be of interest today I thought I’d repost this.

Original discussion when the creator posted a Show HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
I've been waiting for "board inversion" - where the video card effectively becomes the thing you insert the motherboard/CPU/RAM assembly in to.
The point of the article is that it's very difficult to have an objective transparent answer. Client and seller are guessing the value, so trying to remain as loe as possible is just bad practice.
Meh. I like nice fonts, but I never talk about what font I use.

I don't even know what font I'm currently using, though I put some thought into choosing it at the time.

Some of us just care about what our fonts look like. I'm loving the configurator with Iosevka; yes, I'll likely spend an hour tweaking a custom font, but after that I'll just be done and move on.

There's no "flex" if I never even show anyone my dev environment or talk about what font I use. I think you're experiencing selection bias in thinking that only people who flex care about their fonts. ;)
Interesting read, thanks !