skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s M1 has a monstrously fast divide instruction.

There are some benchmarks here: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/benchmarking-libdivide...

I noticed it is very fast when I was experimenting with algorithms for unbiased bounded random numbers https://dotat.at/@/2022-04-20-really-divisionless.html - the fancy nearly and really divisionless algorithms had much less advantage on an Apple M1 than on an old Intel CPU.
W3C and IETF standards are aspirational wishes that vendors routinely violate or ignore with intent or by buggy code. It's the responsibility of all ethical engineers to:

0. seek out appropriate, minimum friction standards before reinventing the wheel

1. refuse to implement solutions that harm users
> mania or depression can involve psychosis, hallucination, or catatonia

Sure. And diarrhea is a possible symptom of the flu, yet saying "I don't have the flu, I'm not shitting my pants" is just outright wrong. Saying that people with bipolar disorder think their a god and see symbols and signs is like saying that people having a stroke are characterized by vomiting and stumbling around.
The trouble is that the placebo effect has been repeatedly demonstrated to be extremely, profoundly strong for depression and anxiety treatments.

Yes research has found improvements when you put people on SSRIs, but double blind placebo controlled studies generally find that about 80% of the benefits also occur in the placebo group, so the actual benefit over placebo is only about 2 points on the HAM-D scale. [1]

On top of that, SSRIs have well-known side effects that are pretty noticeable for most people, so it’s hard to know how much of their benefit vs placebo is due to loss of blinding and/or the “active placebo” effect.

It is, however, notable that one study found a loss of effect when subjects were deceived and told that the SSRI they were given was an active placebo with similar side effects to an SSRI, and the differences were visible on brain scans, not just in their subjective reports.[2]

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01682-3
Co-founder of Clojurists Together here, I’m really proud of what the Clojure community was able to fund here.

Now, all Firefox users will be able to use custom formatters. They’re a very useful tool, I’d love to see more JavaScript projects adopt them.
> And all Arm processors have to deal with cache coherence issues (which aren't a problem on X86), meaning some drivers

Why are they a problem on Arm and not x86?
I suspect as a general rule, avoiding personal interactions with others probably correlates negatively with successfully running a business.

With the clarification that owning a business is not the same as running a business.
What if it becomes the next Google? Are you really sure you want to be removed from their index?
Honestly if we compare a 10gb compressed re-encode to a 4K bluray rip or remux I would have trouble telling the difference but 4gb is pretty small especially for certain kinds of movies.

There’s certain scenes where I can definitely see compression artifacts or whatever and others where quality differences cannot be noticed.
Also compare with what Propublica has been doing with the Clarence Thomas corruption story. Every few days there is another story about a different time he took a $100+k bribe. They're going to beat the drum until Justice Thomas resigns or stops being openly corrupt, which may be a very long time.
Here's the resulting New York Times article from the Google docs that SBF shared.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37095093
As an avocational linguist I am sympathetic to all of that, but effective communication requires a large degree of mutual understanding of words, so it's not like anything goes, either; plus most people have not studied linguistics and do believe in "correct language" (prescriptive) and do not hesitate to correct people who use "incorrect language" -- so it's a bit complicated culturally, if not from the stance of descriptive linguistics.

In this particular case, there's no danger of misunderstanding, so I agree that this was just a nitpick about dictionary definitions versus a fairly common usage.
That's essentially how IEE 754 floating-point works. You can think of it as a piece-wise linear approximation of the base-2 logarithm.

For non-negative values, the exponent (upper) bits give the integer part of the logarithm and the significand (lower) bits approximate the fractional part (i.e., the mantissa).

In other words, you can do:

float approxLog2( float value )
{
assert( value > 0.0f );
auto bits = std::bit_cast< int32_t >( value );
auto exponent = ( bits >> 23 ) - 127;
auto significand = bits & ( ( 1 << 23 ) - 1 );
return exponent + significand / static_cast< float >( 1 << 23 );
}

This will be exact at powers of two, and within 0.0860748291 of the true value in between (always being slightly too low).
SBF had plans to take part in FTX documentary before court order [pdf]
K2: Climbers deny walking by dying guide in bid to break record
Helion's fuel mix produces just 6% of its energy as neutron radiation, and if you harvest it you'll lose a third of that. As long as you have enough net energy, collecting that 4% might not make financial sense.

With fuel costs insignificant, your cost per kWh is mainly capital cost. Let's say it's all capital just to keep it simple. I don't know how much the input energy will be but if your choice is between, say, generating net energy of 50MW without a turbine or 54MW with a turbine, then you would skip the turbine if it adds more than 8% to the capital cost. I suspect Helion has done this calculation in detail.
One point to remember is that during the pandemic, customers were much more sympathetic to everyone. The overall quality of customer service has gone done since the pandemic (even in companies that returned to office) and we, the customer, are forgiving of that. Pre-pandemic, we were not nearly as forgiving.
It's not worth it to get certs in general. As long as you can do the work, education is far down on the list when it comes to hiring. Even recruiters will tell you that these days, "Do you want someone who can do the work, or do you want someone who can memorize a few answers for a test?"
Infisical 3rd party integrations are one of the best things about it. They just work without having to deal with plugins or crazy configurations. Kudos to the team.
> You want to succeed in the competitive space (yes, competitive Pokemon is a thing[0] [...] and you don't want to grind for Pokemon with specific Effort Values [...]

I just want to point out, if you're like me and sometimes enjoy competitive Pokemon without grinding, cheating, playing the story or even owning a device, you can play online a simulator, from which every possible, grindable setting is just a click away. [0]

It's pretty popular, with it's own Elo, tournaments, online community etc. It's pretty fun, I can recommend it.

[0] https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
Shocking how the CEO of Evoy could come up with that result.
(and then getting to present it on global tv)

I believe the company is trying to help companies shrink their physical offices.
I am not 100% sure since the website for Envoy seems like satire.

""Envoy Workplace is the only fully integrated workplace solution for all your workplace needs.
Join thousands of companies that rely on Envoy to efficiently manage hybrid workplaces, so everyone inside can connect, collaborate, and thrive.
In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to optimize space without smart space technology. Reducing your office footprint cuts costs. Smart space solutions help you understand how your space is being used, so you can decide if and where you can cut.
"""

I am pretty sure if tomorrow they have on a CEO of company making their
living off of renting out as much office space as possible he will have
a survery with a different result.
School?
Loadshedding: A Failure in South Africa
I don't think you remember correctly:

> In the first emergency meeting of the National Security Council on the day of the attacks, Rumsfeld asked, "Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just al-Qaeda?" with his deputy Paul Wolfowitz adding that Iraq was a "brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily—it was doable," and, according to John Kampfner, "from that moment on, he and Wolfowitz used every available opportunity to press the case."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld#Military_decis...
Hehe, you also described Madrid and basically the center of Spain. From -5 to 45 extremes. More normal is around 0 in colder winter days and 35+ in hotter summer days. 36 today.
No, it restores, for now, their exposure to civil liability.
I have an office with a door at home. Why would I want one I have to drive an hour to?

I go in the office every other week for a day when some other coworkers will be there. It's my least productive day, but it is good for planning with coworkers.

Pay for my commute (on top of salary) and I'll think about it.
I think fedora silverblue is far easier to get into, if your into the "safety" and portability benefits. What is Nix offering above Fedora Silverblue's model?
I think a significant limitation is that LLMs stop learning after training is over. The large context is not really that large, and even within it, LLMs lose track of the conversation or of important details. There are other limitations, like lack of real world sensors and actuators (eg eyes and hands).
Because we don’t have debtors prisons anymore ?[1].

A bank is private business they can choose how to go about their risk and reject anyone for any reason the criminal justice system needs to be fair to all the participants in it .

—-

[1] yes , there are plenty of people in jail only because they are unable to post bail or some other fees but that is not the same debtors prison
I got optimal play. See the below prompt and game

https://platform.openai.com/playground/p/bWvklOt98oEl0TzxUKW...
As it is, as GP says there would be 'zero benefit' to being included in that new Google, to GP as content author.
“The printing press causes real harm because Artisans are all of a sudden in fewer demand.”

That’s how I view all these people decrying AI in the face of all the genuine improvements it can bring about.
Thanks much Jared for this open source project. Looking forward to comments from current or even potential users. I have been asking my colleagues to “harness me up” to a RLHF system for LLM-enhanced causal modeling in genetic mapping studies.
> national security, civic safety of any kind, health care, migration, education. I can see a lot of arrows pointing towards centralization of power and for good reasons.

Many "liberal western democracy" governments do very badly and and make ruinously expensive decisions that go against the interest and will of the citizens on some or all of those things.
If that is not one of the definitions of troll, then can you please explain what a "troll farm" is supposed to be?

> They're going to be pushing for WEI/Attestation/Requiring easily doxxable accounts using this a bogeyman, aren't they?

It's not a bogeyman. It's a real, current, serious problem.
I thought it was remarkable that Biden forgave millions and millions of dollars in student loan debt because the colleges were supposedly fraudulent but his DOJ didn’t see fit to file any charges.
See you misunderstand me. I don't use chrome. I don't like chrome. chrome mobile doesn't allow extensions either, and pretty obviously to protect google from adblockers. It seems to me that your only argument is chrome is evil, and I never once said I use chrome. You're arguing with someone that isn't here.

I don't believe Mozilla cares about the open web. If they did they wouldn't continuously kneecap their users. They use this open web argument to browbeat people into accepting their awful decisions that users don't like, then they do things one after another that have a predictable outcome of reducing their market share. Hard line firefox users make every excuse in the world for why people should tolerate any abuse they throw at people, it's similar to how political parties scaremonger about their opponents. It's grimy.

I want to like firefox. I want to use it. It's frustrating seeing it fall like this which is where the anger comes from. It's like having a fuck up brother and when you tell him he needs to quit fucking up he calls you a piece of shit tool of the bourgeoise. Who needs that bullshit in their lives? So I don't feel entitled to Firefox, I use alternatives.
You are assuming the employees will just accept their exceptional situation instead of using it to gain some time and jumping ship. You are also assuming the managers know beforehand who are high-value employees.

I doubt either of those are true.
2/3 of a pickle spear. Any more and it can't round to 0.
Within the first 5 minutes, the presentation claims that "the tools are unusable without a global central server".

I really don't know what that is supposed to mean. Plemty of people do in fact use github, but I don't know why anyone would say that git in particular is "unusable" without a global central server.

Github (etc.) are conveniences for people who don't want to self-host. They provide some additional tools that can be useful in some situations. But nothing more.
Having something you can transact with and store value that isn't completely vulnerable to your government's monetary and foreign policy/capital controls
Who designed genetic algorithms and set in motion the process of evolution? God. Atheism is incompatible with determinism.
It took 4 years for Hauptmann to lose his life after the Lindbergh baby disappeared. The investigation was massively invested in.

I use this as a guideline for how long I expect such things to take.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnappin...
The 'game playing' you lead with is clearly dominated by deep learning in this decade.
What is the intention?
> You seem to equate government with the wealthy elite?

Strange.

> If not, do you think, there is anything positive, the government is doing?

Yes.

> And the question was, if it is possible for a lowly citizen today, to do anything against the all powerful leviathan. And yes, you can. And I would argue, easier than in the roman empire. But easy? Surely not.

I can't understand what you mean.
that is what I meant by saying it's a feature. It's easy to get started and do 99% of the stuff. When you are lucky enough to hit performance problems it's easy (for someone with knowledge) to fix your performance problems within the structure of Rails. It's awesome.
Your two paragraphs seem to be at odds with each other. You’re interested in old Russia but upset they are not becoming homogenized by the West?

Also, the world didn’t wholesale reject US culture after the needless destruction of Iraq, Syria, Libya and friends (just some recent examples).
Sure but that's also a problem with a state mandated age verification system.
I look at it from a consumer of podcasts point of view not a producer. If the content is good and the voice quality is natural then this can only help unlock more good content, by lowering the barrier to entry. Can't see why that is a bad thing. Sure, there will always be the equivalent of content farms, but remember that content farms exist because of Google. Without Google traffic the incentive to create useless content diminishes. Podcasts are not like that. You might be tricked into listening to one episode of an AI content generated (not AI voiced) one but in all likelihood you won't subscribe, removing the incentive.
Particularly when pay increases in this craft are largely found by job hopping until you possibly land a FAANG job or approximate
> They do need to fund it somehow, don’t they?

Why doesn’t this statement also apply to the source of the materials this entity is stealing from?
US wants China’s chip industry 5 generations behind cutting edge
It's insane to see the level of malice directed at Passage and say anything being done to him is justified. I can only see the mottled opinion of him here as the effect of successful smearing.
You do have cause: decreased productivity.

Make sure you have good ways to measure work product. For example, you can see if people are pushing to git repos.

Set aside a couple of times where people are required to log into chat or voice room every day. Have them type in a report on what they are working on and be available during that narrow window to answer follow up questions.
In ordinary arithmetic and algebra, there isn't any reasonable definition of n/0 because if it is allowed, then one can prove contradictory things.

Outside of proof systems/pure math, like in software you write, you can define n/0 to be anything you like, you just can't depend on being able to derive mathematically consistent results.

There are also more exotic math systems. Infinity is not literally a number (it would lead to contradictions), but mathematicians can happily deal with numbers systems augmented with infinity as an extra member -- one just has to step carefully, since it still isn't a number. The "number system" has one non-number member requiring special handling.

Similarly there are modern approaches to infinitesimals where there's a thing "e" which is not zero, but e^2 is zero. That is not normal arithmetic but when handled carefully it can be useful.
Ah interesting, I didn't know that existed.
Is that different than being prosecuted for such liability? (Not my field, so perhaps I have terminology wrong)
I doubt that very much. Most likely it's because unlike before, in WFH when nothing is happening it feels like there's nothing they can do about it.
Aahaha, "nobody may have an opinion about how they are governed, or an interest in thinking about different possibilities unless they are 'experts'". That's rich. Exactly what some kind of self-proclaimed "government expert" would say, thank you for that.
People have been arguing over whether animals are intelligent for centuries. I estimate we'll never fully settle arguments of whether machines are intelligent.
I find it useful to frame performance of pure software in two fairly distinct categories:

1. Efficiency, which I define as minimising losses i.e not writing things inefficiently, avoiding artificial complexity, bloat and keeping code simple. Performance hits here can also be a 1000 cuts problem when depending on many 3rd party pieces while having people chanting "premature optimisation" at you.

2. Optimization, which I define as employing specialist algorithms (which sometimes come in the form of entire tech stacks these days) with the cost of added complexity (and potentially performance trade) to get performance beyond the basic or naive yet efficiently implemented methods. The cost benefit ratio to these is not always worth it, especially in the beginning.

Hopefully the point I'm trying to make should be obvious, that attempting #2 before #1 is a bad idea, and in less explicit words I suspect this is kind of what the author is getting at... Yet it's not all that uncommon to see someone trying to fit a turbocharger to a cheese skateboard with 64 triangular wheels.
> Atheism is incompatible with determinism.

No, its not.
i don't think this is anything other than the intended outcome.

C-Suites knew attrition would be high, and regardless of what the managers who had to implement the policy might have thought companies knew that return to office was just layoffs in disguise.
I actually agree with the thesis of the author's argument, but the sensationalist framing and subjective definition of 'harm' makes it difficult for me to fully stand behind their writing. It feels characteristic of a lot of other popular writings on computational linguistics.

On the one hand, it feels like a 'boy who cried wolf' situation in the age of LLMs. On the other hand, reading stuff like this makes me wonder if there's even a populist sentiment against AI in the first place.
The picture of the decaying site is so powerful. If, after millennia, we found such site in the jungle we'd say it was a temple built to worship the star gods.
I turned down an offer to work at a company which used ML to make loan decisions. I now work on something much less consequential, and I’m ok with that. Computers are best when they empower people, not when they take that power away.

If we replace “AI” with “automated systems” in our rhetoric and marketing, it’s pretty clear what’s happening. One, things which used to be impossible at scale, like searching the entire internet, have become possible. Two, things which used to be done by humans are being done by machines.

Number two has upsides and downsides. Computers can be auditable, consistent, and (in theory) ignore biases our society has baked in. However, they have a tendency to diffuse responsibility and some models are entirely opaque. Sorry, the computer says no is a situation more and more of us will be facing in the future, with no recourse.
Envoy sells products for managing hybrid workspaces: https://envoy.com/

So they clearly have something to gain here.
Considering that being polite when sending prompts has an impact on responses and outcome I am waiting for unfiltered models and inspection and alternative responses.
> In this case std::lower_bound is very slightly but consistently faster than sb_lower_bound. To always get the best performance it is possible for libraries to use sb_lower_bound whenever directly working on primitive types and std::lower_bound otherwise.

I will say that if this is the case, there are probably much better versions of binary search out there for primitive types. I made one just screwing around with SIMD that's 3x faster than std::lower_bound until becoming memory bound:

https://github.com/matthewkolbe/ThinkingInSimd/tree/main/alg...
Looks pretty good!Though there seems to be a new tailwind ui libraries that looks good every month.

What's the differentiating factor between this and shadcn/nextui/daisyui/tailwindui/flowbite just to list a few on the top of my mind?
Does someone have this article in a format that will work on Firefox with uBlock Origin?
Problem of biodiversity is one way of putting it. New Zealand did not have any mammals apart from bats. When those arrived, the native wildlife were not equipped to deal with them.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat_in_New_Zealand
Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO is good insurance
Go into about:config, turn off video autoplay and then update your browser, see if it persists.
Ask HN: Future of Work
Hey hn was wondering your take on what the future of tech overall looks like 5 to 10 years from now in terms of work location (in person, hybrid, or remote)?

Ive worked now in two positions 100% remote but continually get articles suggest 'leaders want the workers back in office' so it got me curious to know what the future of work in tech looks like from now to 5 years out...10?

Thanks