skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've known him since the time of the events in his book, and can confirm. He was (and still is) an insufferable jerk. Not only does he self aggrandize himself in his book and web site, he pointlessly denigrates and takes down and insults the intelligence of his own colleagues in order to make himself look better (but the net effect was the opposite that he intended). And his book was a work of fiction. Nobody in their right mind would still want to work with him, especially after what happened with his LED company. I know somebody who made the mistake of working with him, and the costly lawsuits and recriminations between them have been dragging on for years, but Tsutomu's clearly the one who was at fault.
I am not in either of the fields. I get "confidential" offers from headhunters usually on Linkedin or Xing.
Perhaps more nuanced words than the already-cheapened "joy" might be helpful? I don't find "joy" in dealing with people, I don't discover them a fountain of ecstasy, I just "like it" rather a lot. Perhaps you are expecting too much.
If you have boilerplate anywhere in your code, then you have a design problem.
Assuming that HumanEval is a good benchmark (it's not) and assuming you can naively scale under fat-tails (you can't) then according to OpenAI's own gpt4 report (someone did the math on hn/reddit where they reproduced the curve but i can't find the link) at 100x the training cost of gpt4 you will still have a 15% error rate on medium difficulty tasks.
> The account number should be just an ID, not authentication mechanism.

Right? One of the many things (and I mean this without any hate whatsoever) I simply can't and will never understand about the US. A bank account number is your mailbox for receiving money. How does that country even operate when they build those mailboxes underground?
I'm not sure if i should admire Kevin. I don't see his Github contributions at all.
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Is probably the most well known example. The german "Arbeit" is used commonly to refer to part time work.
By the time China's turn will come, things will be in a much better place.

You think?

China is already outproducing the US in armaments. That's what happens when you have a much greater manufacturing capacity. What happened to Japan in WW2 is what is destined to happen to the US in WW3.

Did you know that Japan had 3-4 times as many aircraft carriers as the US at the start of 1942? But where the US could produce many more carriers over the next 3 years, Japan couldn't. The US started WW2 with 3 carriers, Japan had about 12. Three years later, the US had replaced all of its losses and had built an extra 150(!) or so carriers, while Japan had none at all.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/asia/us-navy-chief-china-...
This is welcome because GPT-4 actually requires a few iterations of prompts to actually do its job now. Before it took no more than a prompt and one clarification to get a good output. Now it’s just a GPT-3.5-turbo that hallucinates slightly less.
It's winter in the Antarctic right now. And summer in the North. Confusing...
> but the flamboyant way it was done scared the crap out of people who were both clueless and in a position to do stupid things. As a result we got the CFAA and the DMCA which are both some of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation after the so called "patriot" act.

> The damage that did to curious people growing up lost the US a significant fraction of their upcoming "innovation" talent.

The causal leap from flamboyant hackers to the DMCA/CFAA, and then to damaging the US's innovation talent feels... speculative.
I find that, in every domain, second place is almost always superior to first place where it counts despite being somewhat rougher around the edges. Firefox is a particularly excellent example of this phenomenon.

Why is that? Just good old-fashioned competitive optimization?
what's a good idea then?
Fascinating that there may be a lot of these maybe millions and we just never noticed because we don’t stare at many region for an hour straight.
Still feels extremely bloated though. Maybe their internal latency?
In my previous job, I've integrated OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry into our microservices. You need to do this in microservice infrastructures to be able to debug and investigate service calls. We first used Jaeger for tracing calls across service boundaries, and then migrated to Instana.

Instana is a wholistic solution and does a pretty good job merging and displaying the collected metrics, logs, and traces. I did prefer Jaeger for tracing simple service calls because it isn't as complex as Instana from a developer perspective, but if you need a deep insight into your running servers, operating systems, runtimes, containers, and applications and how they interact with each other, Instana is really powerful.
"A bit"? You think so? At the time, Tsutomu was enough of an adult to know not to be such an asshole, but that didn't stop him one bit.

Fuck the "boys will be boys" defense, and the people who still try to defend reprehensible behavior (and ultimately their own) by trotting out that old sexist canard.
don't push, tap :-D
That's true going between English and Romance languages anyway
Not even managment. My managment is practically traveling all the time
I think the main (only?) reason universities do this is because it drives donations from alumni with children, which is probably a large percent of donating alumni.

Has anyone done the analysis on how this is expected to impact overall university funding if it becomes widespread?

No skin in this game, just curious.
Btw the security problems are solved by having Java and JavaScript running in a secured “sandbox” isolated from the underlying system. So security issues will be a thing of the past.
Nuclear fusion is a big project. You're not going to see it with startups. ITER is joint effort from half the world governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
Don't worry this gap will be filled by another microservice!
Id argue that advertising is am emergent side effect of money/commerce. Once you can produce goods for money you need people to be aware you are selling that product.

That being the case unless we stop using money their business is quite sustainable.
since you would die of organ failure withput them: yes you need them.
It’s micro if it pulls <1gig of dependencies
Get rid of Excel macros – keep the functionality – expand as you need – REI3
Your information is outdated. Kotlin is now a supported backend language at Google.
Thanks, I was trying to find the the tldr
Add this to userChrome and you can also hide the giant Sidebery header on the sidebar that Firefox otherwise forces:

#sidebar-box #sidebar-header {
display: none !important;
}
Here’s what I want: Siri should run locally on all the Neural Core Apple hardware I have. It should always be listening and watching my every move PRIVATELY so that it can understand questions I may have for it. It should never access the cloud unless I explicitly approve it to do so, like how HomeKit works today when opening a garage door or unlocking a door.

If there’s one company that could credibly pull off such a feat without it feeling super creepy—it’s Apple.
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Overly-broad copyright law has made USA a “nation of infringers” (2007)
How is it like Smalltalk?
My proposal: A sun with a large, dense asteroid belt orbiting it. The bursts we see are when there is a gap in the asteroids.

Something caused the asteroids to cluster into groups (maybe a shepherd planet with a resonance), so there are gaps 20 orbital minutes apart - this also explains the semi random nature of the signal.

To block the signal so completely the sun has to be small, and the asteroids large - or orbiting far away (but a far orbit means there are far more of them, making this theory less likely).

Another "failed sun" that emits radio waves: https://www.space.com/brown-dwarf-star-radio-waves so maybe something like that.
It's mired in lawsuits due to him being a jerk, so nobody's ever using any of those really cool LED products.

It's not that he dropped out of sight, it's that nobody wanted to work with him after reading his book.
A video games accessibility API
Again, I know that academia is very different among fields, but usually
high impact for career ~ high impact for (sub)field,
meaning people will want to look at your data and possibly try to replicate it. Outside scrutiny for science is extremely rare anyway
Would IPC help if a remote attacker was still allowed to execute arbitrary plugins?
My argument is that the university is free to conduct admissions as it sees fit within the bounds of the law.

A preference for family members of alums is totally legal. Are you suggesting that the federal government should dictate admission procedures?
> Lemmy federates with KBin, but not with Mastodon

I follow several Lemmy users on Mastodon.
Downvotes are weird; reality is not a fractal. Humans die; is the future on the hook for fiat and resource costs to store our cat photos?

Religion and longtermer philosophy get thought and agency policing really fast. It’s funny it’s often political traditionalists who seek preservation but refuse to point out the established socio-political norm that obliges humanity to specifically back up dead peoples hard drives.
Apple has to make sure you can’t make Siri give the offensive answers AI is famous for. Apple sells quality, they are always under a magnifying glass and they can’t play by the same rules Google can.
US military destroys the last of its chemical weapons
Well, in case of China it will not be just the U.S. but the entire free world against them. Surely together we can make it. Also, what do you realistically suggest doing if that wasn't possible? Just let the free world cease to exist? That's precisely what's at stake.

We need to deter China from invading for the period before internal problems (demography, debt, environment, and lack of avenues for further fast growth which is necessary to keep population content with dictatorship) either makes it a lot weaker, or makes it democratic, both of which is a good solution. It's not such a long time to wait - "peak China" according to most estimates is merely 10-15 years away so a generation from now, they will be less dangerous to us than they are today. Deterring them by at least making sure that invasion of Taiwan, even if likely to succeed, will not eventually worth it, is what we need and it's not all that hard to do. I'm sure Putin regrets invasion of Ukraine big time now and that's exactly the message we need to send Xi: "even if you can probably succeed, it's better to not try".

This is why Ukrainian war is very useful: it provides a reason to increase armament production capacity, which is being done now. That won't be possible in a democracy otherwise.
In my experience, the key is that it can also provide good explanations for the basics as well. You can fairly easily overwhelm it, but with some practise of prompting, learning new language/domain basics it is pretty good, and much better than googling to learn the same. The best of all is that you can query your understanding and get decent feedback.
From 2015-2020. I started keeping it locked away since 2020.

You're obviously wrong about the car thieves, because this happened to my car. Two of the thieves were central american gangsters. They left reggaeton and stolen audio systems in the car. Another guy was an old meth-head, who stole and lived in it for a week by the bay. I found all his drug crap in it afterward.
It’s currently straightforwardly legal AFAIK, how could one make a legal argument against it? Do you mean some sort of legal philosophy argument, not literally a legal argument?
Three reasons, temperature stability, propensity to have rock vs sediment, and in the bay area, somewhat better earthquake resistance. When I was doing ops at Blekko we had a dark fiber run between our office and the data center to get our own "high speed" connection and part of that was a geo-technical survey. Of much of the SF Bay Area peninsula. The geologist suggested if we wanted to be subterranean and avoid both infrastructure and superfund sites, that we'd have to go down 500'. He expressed doubt that anyone would do that given the expense. And there are still some parts of the Santa Clara aquifer you can hit if you don't aim well.
That needed some serious political effort to pull off. In many places, fine and fee income is a fixed part of the budget, so it incentivises everyone to optimize for "most amount of fines" instead for "best experience for builders and public safety".
Nice!
Can't help but mention Simple Tab Groups [0], that basically solved all my issues with tabs. Absolutely wonderful plugin which just must be in every self-respecting browser.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/simple-tab-group...
I don’t think it has to do with academia. It’s just that manipulating data is common if it benefits people. Think of Facebook ad efficiency scandal, it’s just one example.
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The meaning of bitmap here is essentially "bit array". Roaring bitmaps does a bunch of tricks to e.g. compress long runs of identical bits, which also happens to make bitwise operations a lot faster.
I think the long tail of user bases makes a big difference here. Most programs have few users. Most devs work on programs with few users.
There is some niche in my market that I'm trying to tackle and it's fun for me, I'm enjoying it. I will definitely try that one, but the problem is that mentality of people in my country is that they are so unwilling to pay for something or try, most people are like: "Do I need to pay for this? If yes, then I'm not going to".
On the contrary I feel the evidence is pretty much conclusive. arigatō comes from arigataku (an adverbial form), through a well-known "u-sound" change, as also explained on the page. Influence from Portuguese was not needed for that to happen.

(And according to this page: https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2015/11/02/the-real-origin-of... the word was used in its "ou" form before the Portuguese even arrived in Japan - 1543)
Event after decades, I remember that name.
I don't care about the rest of the post, or about arguing with you. I'm publicly correcting a specific, widely repeated, false claim. One which, if you take the time to read the links I posted, you will see is having a concrete negative effect on an industry responsible for real people's wellbeing. In particular (see the third link), ~50% of students considering radiology as a specialisation express concerns because of false claims its future as a job is under threat. These concerns contribute to hiring problems in that profession, which exacerbate a global staff shortage (first link) which results in worsened healthcare outcomes.

There's a non-zero chance that correcting your statement will influence somebody considering whether to specialise in this field, and replying to your repeating of the claim as well as to the original instance increases that chance. I don't consider it pedantry.
Finland had project for this, 6,4 km deep holes. It did not really work out in the end. In one sense it was representative of old geological formations.

https://observatorial.com/news/economy/89010/fortum-exits-ot...

Turned out that water really did not pass well from one hole to next one at those depths. Which was requirement to get operative temperatures.

So things seems more complicated than expected. And the time taken to drill is rather long.
On https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads you can see if ligatures are supported by looking at the => in the preview.
All of the stories in his books are like this. An existing seemingly sensible system is used in a creative way to get access. Every time you read one the creative solution is so elegant you just go "Ah, can't believe I didn't think of that" (and then go try it yourself obviously - had lots of fun as a teenager taking down websites/stealing ppl's passwords/etc as a party trick for my friends).
Yeah, my design problem is the language I'm using, the language version I'm using, the outdated framework I'm using, and the 3! frontend frameworks I'm using on my job.
Cassandra was initially released in 2008.

Back in 2004 I was running larger MySQL databases than yelp has now:

https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/stats/yelp-statistics.ht...

> That is not something you'd be able to put on one single database in 2004.

Sorry, but it was, plenty of companies had much larger databases back then running plain old master slave replication.

But even if it wasn't: just don't run it all on one db? Nothing says you need to be able to join on the restaurant table and the comments table. Put them on different servers. That's all you're doing with Casandra anyway.
Rewriting a whole system from scratch is almost always a bad idea. Rewriting a system part by part is much more achievable with each part going into production incrementally. In the end you might have a 100% rewrite, but doing it incrementally keeps the system sane.

Doing this way also often ends in failure though because it takes longer and often the rewrite stops midway (business requirements change, key person leaves, organisation rework) and now you have two competing architectures in your product.
Recently re-discovered him due to a Business Wars podcast episode on him. The dude deserves his own movie. Not a nice way to go but he'll surely be remembered.
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All my immediate family is very young so I always thought 50 was old. Then I lost a stepfather to cancer when he was in his 50’s. I couldn’t believe it, he was so young.
I mean, for a start Cassandra wasn't available for years after that date, but either way, whatever Postgres was like back then Cassandra was much more of a piece of shit. Smells like implementing what the cool kids were doing to me.
The whole concept of a GPU is performing SIMD, what's novel more precisely?
I think the Wiktionary explanation is pretty detailed about the formation of arigatou: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%8C%E...

Given the inflection exists for other words, e.g. o-medetaku -> omedetou and o-hayaku -> ohayou, I'm pretty sure it's derived entirely from Japanese grammar.

Modern Japanese -i adjectives formerly ended in -ki for the attributive form. This medial /k/ dropped out during the Muromachi period, both for the attributive form (-ki becoming -i) and for the adverbial form (-ku becoming -u). However, the adverbial form reverted back to -ku thereafter for most words, with the -u ending persisting in certain everyday set expressions, such as arigatō, おはよう (ohayō), or おめでとう (omedetō), and in hyper-formal speech.[4]
But, but, but how will you claim you read Moby Dick in under 55 minutes?

If one considers "reading" glancing at every 30th word for a blink of the eye, it seems a completely wasted effort if one doesn't stop to smell the roses and build a vision in their mind's eye by reading thoughtfully (no pun intended).

It's like the people who are always so busy yet have no time, and miss most details and skip enjoying the simple minutia that give sometimes authentic and believable depth to character, plot, and prose development. It's why most movies are bad: it's not the acting, but the script either lacks character development by not building the character as someone good to love or a dastardly villain, and real by specific foibles, idiosyncrasies and habits unrelated to the central plot. A spy movie where the main character flies a kite on the weekend without being on a stakeout, but then shares it with the kids and gives it to them as they're having so much fun.

Movies, books, and readers mission focused to skip to the end are as boring as people who make love like it's a race or a perfunctory ritual.
RIP Kev, you were quite a legend!
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Building the Cheapest MIDI Home Studio from 1988
That's actually part of the Commission Regulation EU 2016/631 and I misspoke - 800W is how much you can have without reporting it, provided you're not selling energy back.

Specific regulations for on-grid systems in Poland are:

-3,68kW limit for single -phase installations - that's actually a technical limitation.

-10kW limit to receive subsidies for purchase of the system.

-50kW limit for net-billing as a private person, but you'll have to first ensure your connection has the capacity to handle that - it's usually 12kW or less, so you'd need to apply for an increase, which will go through depending on the infrastructure in your area.

Overall large PV farms in Poland lately went through series of temporary downtime in situations where the grid went above the safety threshold of 253V, but prosumers were largely unaffected by this.

Everyone is in on it because panels are cheap and electricity has become expensive, so the investment pays itself off in a few years - especially when you go over the subsidised limit of 2600kWh annually per household with children. My sneaky plan with those panels is to remain below that threshold.
Yeah, search in Outlook has a hope of finding stuff. Am I to understand you can use Outlook to browse Teams chats? How would one go about doing that?
> What's the alternative?

Apple blocks all tracking in Safari by default and builds search engine without ads for iCloud+ subscribers.
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Holy shit that video has a higher budget than my country's entire years film catalogue