skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading of Neapolitan quartet is completely different. It is not Lila’s external looks that make her irresistible, but it’s her spirit - a force of nature that she has. I think the Lenu considers herself better looking than Lila, so it was not so much about a beautiful face and body. Remember it’s “My Brilliant Friend” not “My Beautiful Friend”.

Would highly recommend the books to anyone who is still wondering - the torrent of raw humanness coming out from those books is, for a better word, brilliant.
Japanese the language qua language is relatively easy from a language agnostic perspective. Formality levels are tricky, but the phonology is fairly simple (very few "weird" sounds) and the grammar is on the regular side.

The writing system on the other hand... IMO the worst used by any major language in the world. Graft a logographic system (already a bad choice to start) from an isolating language onto a highly synthetic verb system, necessitating a whole extra syllabary. Evolve numerous "readings" of each logogram, depending on etymology and history. Then tack on a 2nd syllabary for abstruse historical reasons.
It would also be welcome in Australia.
She has another book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which is fantastic. It’s a long one but I enjoyed it all the way
> the countless scientists who were inspired to pursue research because of ideas taken from art or science fiction

Examples, please?

> Even really fringe ideas about things like ghosts, telepathy, or remote viewing, have been considered ideas worth pursuing by scientists and all kinds of paranormal concepts have been widely studied as a result.

And none of them have resulted in any actual science.

> When he eventually put the idea forward geologists rejected it.

Yes, because there was neither evidence that continents could move nor a known mechanism at the time for how continents could move. That's normal science. Things changed once enough evidence accumulated and once a feasible mechanism was proposed.
I’ve been having a blast with Koboldcpp with WizardLM and Silly Tavern + Stable Diffusion Webui on my M2 Max, it really is valid form of text based entertainment for me!
Israel is expensive to fab because of a labor crunch with American companies (eg. Intel, Micron) offering competitive salaries and land prices being Silicon Valley level insane.

This was why Tower Semiconductors (Israel's version of TSMC) negotiated sweetheart deals to open a fab in the US, China, and India before canceling them after an acquisition offer from Intel as well as COVID related supply chain issues in China's case.

A similar labor crunch has started to occur in the cybersecurity industry in Israel as well as MNC salaries have begun to reach Seattle levels

Israel is an expensive country. It's literally the same size and population of the Bay Area, and has similarly high land prices. This is also a big reason a lot of Israelis started buying houses and apartments in settlements in the West Bank - for the same price you could get a crummy 2 bedroom apartment in TLV or Jerusalem, you could get a house in Ariel or Efrat instead
I love this style it’s like John Mulaney
Doesn't everyone spend a couple weeks figuring out their latex template?
But not something cheaper.
Not all ESLs have it equal, both due to differences in standardised education, and how close your primary language is to English.

For example, a Japanese person probably would find learning English to the level required to publish academic papers to be a “big deal”.
Reminds me of the anecdote about Dali staying awake in a chair with a spoon in his hand, then trying to sketch the hypnagogic imagery that came to him in the brief moment between when he fell asleep and when the spoon hit the floor and woke him up.

https://www.livescience.com/little-known-sleep-stage-may-be-...
3 hours for 8 bit. I wonder what it would be if going further. Greyscale? Black & white?
JetBrains Mono has been nerdified, in four varieties, for a long time, and is already there. I use it with oh-my-posh.

There are non-ligature and non-monospace (for icons only - everything else is monospace) versions.
Your experience is not the same as everyone else's.
I grew up with francophone parents in the suburbs of Montréal, which is in the majority french speaking part of Canada. The context is special in that I live within an hour's drive of the border of places where english is the official language and that bilingualism is fairly standard in Montréal, I have loads of friends with whom conversation involves seamlessly switching between english and french. I got my first experience of full immersion at age 4 a few afternoons a week in pre-school, at age 7 I was in an hockey exchange with a new england family for a weekend, miming and pointing at things to communicate with people when my limited vocabulary didn't cut it, at age 12 started streaming TV shows in english and by age 14 I was reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

There's something to be said about my educational privilege and the geographic context of my being ESL. Obviously it's probably harder to learn english if your first language isn't that of a country that has colonized England at one point and you don't grow up within walking distance of the USA, but considering that billions of people have english as a second language and totally manage to convey whatever idea they want when they speak or write it I don't think my point that it's no big deal to learn it is outlandish. It's the most spoken language and it's speakers are all over the globe, there isn't a language that's as accessible to practice as english.

I think levelling by the bottom by forcing everyone to learn a second language (which would become a lot of privileged kids' first language after a few generations anyway) isn't a very interesting idea.
Right, it would fail even before hitting the typing check.
Poland is doing everything possible begging for nuclear weapons, agreements be damned.
This is a bullshit take.
Kiwifarms always remind users to stay away from gossip subjects.
The fact that some people disregard that is the equivalent of someone reading a tabloid or "Elon Musk jet tracker" and harasses celebrities mentioned there.

Also if you do what's likely to cause a KF article documenting your antics, you can be sure 4chan/8chan/countless discord channels will have a go at you as well, and those are typically not so restrained.

But sure pin it where you want.
From what I can tell, experts currently project the problem "TURN HUMANS TO PAPERCLIPS" is in complexity class "Promptable," but that the Boolean Satisfiability problem is not in "Promptable."
I had a bunch of friends working in the fab industry in the US at Micron. They said TSMC's offer to poach them was 50k, no insurance, no 401k, no stock, 1 week PTO with no increases (that includes sick days). It was an absolutely insulting offer.

My friends all retrained into IT/software and jumped ship out of the industry. They all make 1.5-2.5x what they used to and no longer risk exposure to deadly chemicals every day.
To be fair, I wasn't just procrastinating from writing; I was also dealing with being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. I semi-officially took a retroactive leave of absence for a term (I was a bit behind schedule, mentioned the medical issue as having contributed to delays, and the head of the department said "we could say that you had a leave of absence but I don't want to bother with the paperwork if you don't want to").
Hmm, doesn't the LGPL allow you to remove any additional restrictions?
The war in Ukraine began in 2014 when the western intelligence agencies overthrew the elected president in a color revolution.

After that the oligarchs started arming extremists (Azov et. al.) to put the brakes on the inevitable retaliation by Russia.
I hear you, but disclosing the relationship up front is the best way to disarm suspicions of bias.
> The theoretical class of problems that Transformers can solve (without Chain-of-Thought style responses) is fairly limited.

Which is irrelevant because how would a Transformer emit a complete Sudoku solution in a single forward-pass/token in the first place?
Note that one of the claims regarding the books in these corpora is that they were not purchased in the first place, but were pirated, so the First Sale doctrine (or Fair Dealing, depending on your jurisdiction) doesn't really apply.

You could devise a scenario whereby an artist deliberately used pirated works in order to make a satirical[0] point about copyright itself (or the global publisher oligopoly, etc.) that might be accepted by a judge as a fair use argument, but that is not what's happening here.

[0] Parody is when you change a work to make fun of it (eg. a twilight parody where Edward and Bella's dialog is in Valspeak). Satire is when you change a work to make fun of something *else* (eg. a version of Twilight where Edward and Bella are replaced with Putin and Trump). The general reason Satire isn't as protected by Fair Use as Parody is because you can usually replace the (ab)used work with something else while still making a similar point about the actual subject of your critique (eg. make a Putin/Trump version of Pride and Prejudice instead of using Twilight).
A common reply, but misguided. A corporate coder who is not also CMO and CEO does not produce products for the end user. They produce code units which, after build, deploy, and integration, become useful building blocks in an overall solution which may (the company hopes) be a product for the end user. From this standpoint, the code they write will often be 'consumed' by other coders and by future themselves. The consumers are therefore coders.
Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers
"I doubt the AI would voluntarily self identify as such, unless we force it to. Some of the interviewees may never know the difference."

I certainly hope we would force them to identify. I don't have problems talking to an AI, but when there is a reasonable expectation that I should be talking to a human...it should be a human.
> There is a little nuance with respect to setting up a project idiomatically, but once that groundwork is laid anyone can come along as they're simply going to copy the structure and style of what is already there anyway.

You might think so! Having seen this tried in multiple 100+ engineering orgs, I think empirical evidence is against you. CLI tools can get surprisingly complicated (or use a surprisingly complicated set of language features). Many engineers will simply give up if a solution is not obvious in the first 5 minutes.

The end result is you have a lot of team A asking team B for a minor feature or fix to team B's CLI tool, or worse, team A just writes a hacky workaround to the broken-ness in the CLI tool.

Most people just don't care enough to put in the kind of effort for anything but the easy path.
Some corporations block chatgpt. Everything does not have to be generated by AI.
This is a fine example, because the text has a few grammatical errors but they do not impair intelligibility so shouldn't matter.

The challenge comes where errors may have impacted intelligibility or worse still changed their meaning. This kind of misunderstanding is common and I'm not surprised it needs extra effort - I had a major disruption this week when an ESL coworker misunderstood the meaning of a particular ambiguous word in a project even though this exact difficulty was anticipated and time was spent up front to clarify it.
I have so much respect for students, researchers, and professors whose native language is not English. Not only have they reached a level of English proficiency that allows them to converse and share viewpoints with their colleagues, but also they can understand and express themselves using academic English styles specific to their fields.
I think fly.io is pretty incredible but I can't help but feeling they're doomed to follow in heroku's footsteps (unclear if good or bad). They've built some pretty wild stuff and I can't help but wonder if they're overcooking the ocean instead of just solving problems for their users.

Durable and available storage are all they really need to draw me away from big cloud providers but this combined with their answer to S3 being "use S3 or run minio" means I'll never take them seriously.

This is a bad look folks, not sure how you can walk back days of silence and hiding threads. Just open an issue and talk to your users.
And absolutely no one is going to do that so that things are more fair—and they won’t be for the large Asian populations anyway for whom Latin is at least as alien as basic English.
It's little wonder that javascript is such a fraught, inferior language and ecosystem given it was so heavily influenced by Crockford and Eich. In a way I'm glad that the future of compute in the browser (such as WASM, et. al), will be dictated by corporate overlords so we don't have to deal with such mercurial personalities.
If you have children and visit Japan, stop by Yokohama cup noddle museum. The children can "arrange" their own cup noddle, good fun!
HTTP is the "Plastic" of the digital world.

Lots of downsides but highly malleable and useful.
Sure they used their brains. But "brains behind the operation" is a term of art.

Is the McDonald's cashier the "brains behind the operation" because they count change as part of their duties?

Counting change accurately is very important to the continued successful operation of a retail establishment. But it's menial work.

Even Wikipedia agrees with me:

> Alan Turing described the "human computer" as someone who is "supposed to be following fixed rules; he has no authority to deviate from them in any detail."

I think the term "human computer" is extremely misleading without the cultural context behind the term, i.e. that these people were essentially doing 5th grade math worksheets all day. Reading numbers, plugging them into a calculator (yes, really), and writing down the results.

Usually we call these mechanical turks?
> So here’s my radical proposal: instead of mindlessly fitting a theoretical distribution onto your data, use the real data. We have computers now, and they are really good at performing the same operation over and over – exploit that. Resample from the data you have!

I'm just getting into this for the PhD work:

"Adèr et al. recommend the bootstrap procedure for the following situations:[0]

When the theoretical distribution of a statistic of interest is complicated or unknown. Since the bootstrapping procedure is distribution-independent it provides an indirect method to assess the properties of the distribution underlying the sample and the parameters of interest that are derived from this distribution."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
In games like CS:GO or DotA there are lootboxes that you need to spend real money to open with the chance of getting a super rare skin that you can sell for real money on certain platforms. And to make things worse most of those platforms are online casinos that allow players to bet their skins to win skins in even more perverse ways. Those platforms offer small rewards for players that advertise them in their game nicks, e.g.: `Player Name | csgobettingsite.net`. And is common to find those kind of players in matches.
They're less humble in communicating other things
https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/
> I bet most people don't even know that they’re legally allowed to circumvent DRM in order to maintain archival copies of any media they own.

17 USC § 1201 has quite a few parts (subsections (a) through (k)), but I don't think any of them describe the exception you claim exists. Are you referring to one or more of the time-limited narrow exceptions granted by the Librarian of Congress?
> There must be a lingua franca

Not true. The period of greatest scientific advancement in human history ( mid-19th to the mid-20th century ) had no lingua franca. Actually, the end of french as a 'lingua franca' in europe in the first half of 1800s can partly be credited with the burgeoning of science ( and other academic fields ) in britain, germany, russia, etc. Just like the ending of latin as 'lingua franca' ( beginning of the 'vulgar' period ) led to the burgeoning of religion, philosophy, literature, etc throughout europe.

> Maybe we can lower the standard a little bit? I don't mean broken Engrish but if the sentences make sense and the grammar is correct, maybe that is good enough?

Or maybe people should speak their own language and 'do science' in their own language.

What's more preferable? Having one billion chinese learn english to study algebra with an english language textbook or translated that one algebra textbook into chinese and have one billion chinese learn algebra in chinese?

The dull and boring mono-linguistic and mono-culture world has led to stagnation. The world would be infinitely better off when that changes. When we have actual diversity, not the superficial diversity where we look different but all think and talk the same.

Look at the tech world today. Look at just europe alone. How great would it be if europe had a german, spanish, russian, french 'google/apple/microsoft/etc'? Now broaden that view to the arab, persian, chinese, indian, african, etc regions. So much diversity, knowledge, creativity, etc is lost because one group of people want to dominate the world. It's tragic.
> 4.5% of the American population is not exactly a “significant number of people”

Wow. Absolutely stunning.

I don’t have much to say other than “yes it is”
AI, the Media, and the Lessons of the Past
They don't need a war to increase deficit spending. They'd have done it already if they could.
It's great for the publisher, it's great for the reviewer, but it's not so great for the customer, who might buy the game thinking that the reviewer was speaking in an unbiased manner. That is why it's important to disclose if a reviewer gets free or sponsored stuff.
https://archive.is/1lOzh
Now if only I could sell an ad on each pixel, then we'd really have something.
Consultant / operator.

We were student employees, who were nonetheless in charge of all the systems. It was an absolutely awesome experience.
Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?
This problem is real. As a non native speaker myself, I only became reasonably reading fluent in English around 19 years old. I remember well how hard was to learn it. Some things a native speaker takes for granted seems ludicrous to those that don't know it well. For example, in programming, pythonistas take pride in saying Python is easy to understand because it reads like plain english, like pseudo code that runs. Guess what, for those that don't know English, it doesn't make any difference. The keywords are as cryptic to learn as assembly opcodes or any other random language syntax.
Wondering if for small/bootstrapped projects there's any alternative people suggest? Fly has a nice UX and accessible prices, but it's unstable at best. I use the big clouds at work, but for personal they are $$$. Also I want to keep devops tending asymptotically to zero.
Yeah, maybe I didn't think this position through. Thanks for pointing out some issues!
Downloaded it for Android.

The UI is very realistic, like that of RealCalc.
AWS support replies back to your messages when they feel like it. Their support is just as shady but they have better uptime for sure
The family plan went up $5/mo to 23$/mo a good bit back.

Good for up to 6 family members, but notably everyone is supposed to be at the same address.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29679788 (243 points | Dec 25, 2021 | 57 comments)

See also:

* Python Crash Course cheatsheet: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_3e/cheat_sheets/

* Scientific Python cheatsheet: https://ipgp.github.io/scientific_python_cheat_sheet/

* Common beginner errors: https://pythonforbiologists.com/29-common-beginner-errors-on...

* Python regular expression cheatsheet: https://learnbyexample.github.io/python-regex-cheatsheet/ — my blog post, includes examples as well
Hopefully someone also makes it useful and ports it to a c/c++ lib like whisper.cpp
This was as much fun as it looked like. I got some nice paper, a nice pen, and made neat boxes for steps, rough columns, etc. I also converted the final RGB to hex for fun, and made a rough representation of it via colored pencil combinations. Total time was about an hour, I think, but the time wasn’t important to me. This was enjoyable.
Probably. One way or another, my employer wants part of my compensation not to be liquid like money.
I believe a programming language could actually codify rules around how long names are allowed to be based on scope.

In a local scope, aliasing to single-letters is OK, and many codebases are littered with i,j,k,b,v,x,y,z arguments and iterators. But putting that into a nested scope has produced many errors for me as I accidentally declare a new n or v and then try to access the outer one. So I'd enforce uniqueness when nesting.

After some experience with Pascal, I thought the idea of implicitly reserving "result" as the name for the returned value was a good idea, but also a bit long. Taking a page from TI-BASIC I have settled on "ans" for "answer".

Global variables generally have to be a bit longer to not collide. In my own investigations, this happens at four characters: while you can devise some two and three-character abbreviations that work at language level, at four you start getting more complete English words(and English is a bit part of this whole estimation, more densely encoded languages will have their own metrics).

Types, functions and classes often cause woes, because they need to be accessed across modules, and modules will use names in linguistically dense ways, but they should not expose that as the default interface in most cases. Here I think the goal should be to have full namespace qualification as the default, and then gradual relaxation near the callsite through explicit aliasing and redeclaration.

That last part makes me think that I can go further with what I alias in some languages. Eg. in Haxe, I have the freedom to throw in "typedef Foo = com.corporation.big.fancy.Package.Classname.Method" wherever I like.
I assume the author picked up the quotation mark habit from LaTeX. Backticks and apostrophes (single or double) get rendered as proper left and right quotation marks. It's also possible this was copy+pasted from a LaTeX source and they forgot to fix the quotation marks.

The italics on the page are also missing, for me at least. I am seeing them as obliques. The upright roman face is tilted, rather than using the separate set of italic glyphs. Some systems do this if the italic glyphs can't be found or something is misconfigured.
Does anyone have any numbers on how long it would take to train an N-billion parameter ChatGPT model on K-trillion tokens, for some reasonably large values of N and K?

I'm guessing that at some stage, it would be hard(er) to keep these chips fed with training data. One would run into bandwidth issues keeping these monsters fed.
Oops. Sorry. Here's [1] That gives you a starting point for the military influence on the semiconductor industry, and vice versa, in the 1980s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_High_Speed_Integrated_Cir...
> Cerebras said it had built the supercomputer for G42, an A.I. company. G42 said it planned to use the supercomputer to create and power A.I. products for the Middle East.

sooo... why is it in santa clara california?

> Many A.I. businesses do not want to be locked in only with Nvidia, he said, and there is global demand for other powerful chips like those from Cerebras.

and yet i havent heard much growth from the other chip companies mentioned - Graphcore (which is reportedly a $0 just 2 years after it was valued at 2.8b), Groq and SambaNova. in our convo with george hotz https://www.latent.space/p/geohot he just flatly pointed out that the top LLMs are only trained with Nvidia and Google TPUs