skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d have to have a HQ relative to which all dilation is calculated. If done correctly, it could simplify server operations since the need for simultaneity is relaxed.
He doesn't tend to show up in the lists because he pays himself relatively little (compared to other billionaires). Between 2014-18 he had income of $125m, and paid tax of $23.7m[1]. That's still lower than the average American absolute tax rate, but way higher than most other billionaires. So he's a bit less of a sensational headline than his contemporaries.

His wealth growth of $24.3bn is untaxed through those years, he presumably left those assets in Berkshire Hathaway where he'd personally not generate a tax bill for them. Eventually Buffet, or more likely his inheritors, will sell the Berkshire Hathaway assets, and should pay a monumental tax bill on them.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
This feature drives me nuts. I thought AGPS triangulation was good enough for gps canyons. Why do they need WiFi locations?
What is the point of disincentivizing the accumulation of more than one property?
Tech Writers are the way to go but you have to look for specific ones. Email me, I can send you recommendations (email in profile).
Linux kernel devs are literally unpaid labor working almost exclusively for the benefit of companies and governments with enormous datacenters out in the desert
> What do you think put them out of the business? Just the economy or some other more technical reason?

The main reason was the end of the cold war and the end of the high-tech war. Means there were too few commercial customers. Where they had commercial customers (like the Graphics & Animation business), there was a disruption by other technology, like SGIs (RISC CPUs with powerful graphics accelerators) and also Windows NT. The graphics software was sold to Nichimen and ported to SGIs and Windows NT.

> That explains why all the demos are black and white.

All the Symbolics early consoles were black & white, so all the software was using b&w. Typically the machines had an additional color screen, then with an additional color graphics board. All driven by Lisp. But the megapixel color screens and graphics boards were very expensive. They also might have been too slow to use as an interactive console screen.

The emulator support graphics. It's X11 and one can use color graphics, but the graphics & animation software hasn't been ported to X11 AFAIK. It's just that the normal tools don't use color in their UI, though there were applications which used color.

> I have seen the repo on GH.

Don't expect too much. That's an old, unsupported emulator, which has a bunch of technical problems.
Timezones are easy. All you need is a complete understanding of Special Relativity and inertial frames of reference.

Bada bing, bada boom.
Your phone has a tiny antenna, unless you live out in the country you won’t have good sky view most of the time, and it takes time to get a fix. Most people open their phone and expect to know where they are within a few seconds.
What taxes do they not pay? Have you contacted the IRS about this tax evasion? They have a whistleblower program so you could pocket some cash!
Then is really nice.

I always used to write "clean" pipelines in my gen server and such, that ended in an anon function to return the needed tuple for the respective handlers. Inevitably we'd get a squabble in the code review, where some wanted everything put in a variable then the explicit tuple at the end, while others agreed that the dot syntax, while a bit odd and line-noisy, was ultimately better

Then solved that. The line noise complaints went away, code readability went up, and everyone was happy
Is this Brandon Willard the breakdancer from Detroit Brandon Willard?

Edit: It is! https://brandonwillard.github.io/
Any time an activist organization presents evidence that the state doesn't contest I assume the whole case was set up by activists and the lawyers on both sides have an outcome that they both want but that democratic processes like election and debate won't create.
was Socrates an airbreather? ;)
Some overlap, it seems, with this:

https://www.rei.com/action/network/campaign/outdoors-for-all

though I don't see any direct connections.
For one, it can speed up finding your location if GPS is cold. Maps will start zeroing in by using wifi while GPS is heating up and then it gets the precise location from gps when it is available.

Googlers correct me on this, but from observation, that's how it seems to work.
> given that Atlanta currently has 85 acres of prime greenspace that the city is spending $90M+ to turn into a police training center

You mean the not prime green space that was a prison farm and illegal waste dump site for seven decades?
that is a very good point but:

* the content security policy does not allow unsafe-inline

* extension ids are autogenerated by chrome
Another detail about dates people often forget or don't know (though it's not usually important), is that a "date" can be 50 hours long. Let's say you want to have some sale to occur all day on Christmas, midnight to midnight in your customer's local time.

For easier math let's say your business is in GMT tz. People in the Line Islands (Pacific/Kiritimati) will have access to the sale 14 hours before yourself. Then the sale-time occurs in GMT, 24 hours pass, and the sale ends in GMT. But people in American Somoa (Pacific/Midway) will still have the sale active for 11 hours. (Technically someone using satellite internet in the open ocean east of Samoa has 12 hours, but the UTC+12 timezone is completely uninhabited).

Such a sale is kind of a farfetched example, but I've encountered this issue when trying to do analytics reports looking at user data that happens on specific global holidays.
Ah, I hadn’t read it as `font-size` but as “font-size”. My mistake.
I think this is likely a consequence of a couple of factors:

1. Fancy token selection w/in batches (read: beam search) is probably fairly hard to implement at scale without a significant loss in GPU utilization. Normally you can batch up a bunch of parallel generations and just push them all through the LLM at once because every generated token (of similar prompt size + some padding perhaps) takes a predictable time. If you stick a parser in between every token that can take variable time then your batch is slowed by the most complex grammar of the bunch.

2. OpenAI appears to work under the thesis articulated in the Bitter Lesson [i] that more compute (either via fine-tuning or bigger models) is the least foolish way to achieve improved capabilities hence their approach of function-calling just being... a fine tuned model.

[i] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Yes, but most people don't even have access to that right now.

https://www.akamai.com/internet-station/cyber-attacks/state-...

Making a new system that will automatically go live, work transparently to the current system and is on by default as hardware is updated and replaced is a strong pathway forward to unsnarl the internet when you're stuck in this predicament.

Pedantics won't solve the problem and just ensure that nothing ever gets better.
As I said in another comment, I think folks are just disagreeing on terms. I absolutely don't consider things like unit tests or CI to be any kind of "Google-specific" engineering advice - they're just standard good engineering practices.
> That's how a company works: try to do everything they legally can to make as much money as they can.

No, companies don’t need to be like that. This is a meme that needs to die. Companies can have a set of values (principles) and act according to those principles. Any investors can be told ahead of time the principles by which the company operates, and if they don’t want to buy stock on that basis, they’re welcome to stay out.

Bryan Cantrill has had some excellent rants about this over the years. Eg: https://youtu.be/bNfAAQUQ_54 . His take is that money for a company is like fuel in a car. You don’t go for a road trip (start a company) because you want to get more fuel. You go because there’s some place you want to get to. And fuel (money) is something you need along the way to make your journey possible.

Don’t let sociopathic assholes off the hook. They aren’t forced to be like that. They’re choosing to abandon their ethics and common decency. Everyone would be better off if this sort of behaviour wasn’t tolerated.
Grog was at least 10% alcohol, plus lime juice. Navy rum was 65% or 130 proof. That's more than enough to inhibit most waterborne diseases such as cholera (inhibited in wine at 6.25% abv, though wine has tannins and phenols).
The article is so fast that it will be written on August 23rd and published on 14th!
To what purpose? To make a new avatar for every new comment, regardless of poster?
Sadly probably the biggest short term impact it’ll have is in entering insurance models.
Unquestionably. The denser the housing the more environmentally friendly, they are nearly perfectly correlated. Shared walls share thermal mass, which helps on both the hot and cold end. Shared facilities reduce per-unit square footage, further saving on heating/cooling. Network-effects of density cause more things to be in walkable/bikeable distance. Substantial density is required to make public transit function.

As an example, check out the map of the boston-washington/east-coast-corridor of the US here: https://coolclimate.org/maps
use extra new lines liberally (when in doubt, add a newline) is good working advice
I also released a hosted version of my open-source libraries ReLLM and ParserLLM that already supports APIs for

* Regex completion for LLMs

* Context-free Grammar completion for LLMs

https://thiggle.com/

[0] https://github.com/r2d4/rellm

[1] https://github.com/r2d4/parserllm

[2] https://github.com/thiggle/api

There's also another API on Thiggle that I've build that supports classification via a similar logit-based strategy.
Dementia is also highly correlated with hearing loss. It's intuitive to me that the mind could deteriorate when it loses touch with the outside world. It seems possible that dementia is much less a material deterioration in the brain than a condition that takes place when the brain loses its normal sensory stimuli.
Big donors do effectively direct the agenda of charities, and while direct “buy yachts for out donors” things are usually hard to get away with, there are lot of other ways for charities to be used for donor personal benefit, e.g., as a vehicle for social influence operations, political (as long as it isn’t too nakedly and specifically centered on a specific election) and commercial propaganda, and other things rich people would spend money on to benefit themselves and the businesses from which they derive income with or without a tax break for doing it.
They're not entirely wrong: if you make some area nicer, people with more money still start outbidding people with less money to live there.

The solution is to fix the situation with housing:

* Enable vastly more housing supply so there's less direct 'competition' with people competing for housing slots

* Protect tenants' rights to housing stability; if you haven't broken any rules, you should generally be able to stay in your home
You have to climb quite a bit to get to true forest. Albuquerque is in scrubby desert, although you get cottonwoods down by the river. Go a few thousand feet up the Sandia Mountains and you'll get pines, cedars, aspens.
"Except for helium, no other gas exists which does not have some form narcotic effect at higher pressures."

I assume the narcotic effect of fluorine, chlorine and bromine are basically unstudied...
Java 21: First Release Candidate
There are equivalent libraries for zig and Nim too
How did it manifest? I just turned off wifi and wifi scanning and navigation still seems to work fine for me. No permissions prompt at all, though it's hard to tell from the linked post exactly what was happening at the time.
After hearing Andrew Huberman talk about the relationship between vision and our dopamine system, I would not be surprised if we start finding more correlations of mental health with vision.

But there's also the recent findings inversely correlating myopia with amount of time spent outdoors (and even some reduction in myopia for people who start spending more time outdoors). So vision could just be a proxy for sedentism?
White bread ingredients explained (Wonder bread):

https://www.730sagestreet.com/wonder-bread-ingredients/
Ha, yeah, in a distant, but really fun, past!
You forgot the karlruhe controllers who saw it all, and tried to call but the phone lines were down. They obeyed protocol and didn’t contact the planes that weren’t in their sector,even though they could have.
> Attorneys for the state countered that Montana’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions is small. If the law in question were altered or overturned, Montana Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell said, there would be “no meaningful impact or appreciable effect” on the climate.

Of course many laws in many jurisdictions, nationally and internationally, need to be altered to have a meaningful impact. Just like many votes need to be altered to change the outcome of an election.

That's not an argument to leave all these climate affecting laws unaltered. Just like we want every single vote to be counted.
Finally a competitor to dbt. the world needs this!
Official PDF on github:
https://github.com/abseil/abseil.github.io/blob/a5168e886917...
I don't care about data collection. I care that when I turn something off it stays the hell off, not just lying to me about being off when it wakes up every ten seconds and wastes some of my battery wardriving for a trillion dollar company.
He had a huge win in both 2001 and 2008. Ultimately he's not encouraging anyone to follow his lead, so it is all palace intrigue. His bets are interesting because unlike economists and Wall St analysts, he puts his money where his mouth is.
Respectfully, all 3 of these sentences are wrong. We do not have a 'balance' presently- the judiciary gets the final word in every situation. Your second sentence is inexplicable- literally no matter what laws the legislature passes, the judiciary can strike them down as 'unconstitutional'. Which is a completely vague term with no real definition.

To answer your other response to me- the German judiciary works much faster with government actions, no reason the American one can't do the same. A lone judge could simply refer possible constitutional violations to the appellate court, which is totally free to issue an emergency declaration while it ponders the issue- courts do that every day
X64 is, only beaten by Intel 64, the worst name for the architecture.
> But what's the alternative?

Taxing the crap out of them in some way that passes constitutional muster, and if necessary changing the constitution?
Interesting observations. For context, it looks like you are a software engineer from your comment history, is that correct?

I'm wondering why you're feeling the need to hire juniors because of GPT-4. Is it because GPT-4 has taken up the cognitive load capacity you need for mentoring juniors, or do you feel like GPT "obsoletes" less experienced people?

I think ChatGPT's advice is on the right track. It sounds to me like your experience of using it is kind of like my experience of pairing with someone else of equal-ish ability: productive, but draining, due to the need to constantly pay attention. If so, why not treat it similarly? Most people don't pair all day every day, probably because of the aforementioned cognitive load of doing so.

Last, but not least, while this may seem obvious, you should remember that you are human and not a machine. You need to separate yourself from this thing for at least some portion of your day. The constant stress (and, yes, that dopamine rush you feel when you use it is a kind of stress -- stress isn't always a purely negative thing) will take its toll on you eventually. That's the "burnout" you're perceiving, and the only way to prevent it is to just not let it happen.

Take care of yourself. Socialize and interact with humans, especially close friends and/or SO's as applicable. If you have a pet, spend some time with them. Take a walk.

But, most of all, remember that GPT-x, as smart as it may appear, can't actually learn anything from experience. It can only learn from an expensive and labor-intensive process, and once its training is done, it's frozen in time forever (modulo some fine-tuning, which is essentially an extension of said labor-intensive training process). And, at the end of the day, that just makes it a very versatile, very expensive, and very useful tool, but a tool nonetheless.
> It can't be stopped.

Maybe. Maybe not. Hard to tell without trying.

I applaud the EU and California for giving it a go with their data protection laws. I really hope their crackdown on this stuff is effective.
Cool keep going
Making Elixir even faster using Rust
Hello who ever you are. I hope you are doing well. I'll be the one and only customer to your thread with an important realization few people seem to have. Since you are thinking about this, good, you are still capable of thought.

Here is the situation that no human being can fix. BlackRock already owns many if not all governments lock stock and barrel by leveraging an AI trading tool called A.L.A.D.D.I.N. The acronym means Asset, Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network.

It has been in operation for over 20 years and it now controls an unbelievable fortune. It was used to bail out the US government in 2008 and other times that we may never know about. The story about financial bazookas and bailouts was just lunch money to those guys to build a story.

One guy on the internet said that the word in hebrew means something which I wont say here but I'll say it is disturbing to say the least what people have ascribed to it.

Seems innocent, Aladdin, kids story right? Nope, deadly serious stuff. Wish it was but it ain't.

But the thing is out of the bottle for real now. The deal with ChatGPT is some kind of story for people who think they are smart to get smart. But in the end, what will happen is that they will lose all their smarts at first, then their hearts, then all their senses, and finally their lives.

It seems pointless to even try to bother to explain it. But I did any way because I still have a small hope. I bet it's just another vain one. Either way I'm not concerned with it. If I could take even one person out of this hell I accomplished something. But its not long of enough of a nail to hang a hat on I'm all too sure now.

Who to believe? A guy who works for food stamps or the captains of the industry? I leave that to you.

Goodbye.

edit

Hello

I see you down voted me with no comment whatsoever about it. I was not disappointed. Thank you for reaffirming to me people still on the internet cannot believe what is happening because the internet is a complete wash now for the discussion of important things.

But you know what? People are still alive outside of it. And nothing will ever change that even if the living are killed by the dead.
I will try! but it is not so easy, because there's no consensus on what these terms mean.
Its even more devious than that. This is household income, so two parents each making 90k - restaurant managers, entry-level corporate employees, etc. - would also qualify for the highest income tax bracket. 90k is not a high salary in much of California either, this isn't just for higher-earners.
The universe is draining.

Don't worry, there's still time.
I knew a guy that was able to save the local school tens of thousands of euros by rebuilding the computer lab with a single beefy computer and many (40?) of these thin clients by using linux and LTSP.
Hold on, I'm making a deck right now to get funding for such a marketplace.
It's this, 100%, but I asked anyway just to see the thought process
I used to wonder about that as well, but note that the ruling is based on democratically put-in-place legislation. If there weren't a solid basis, you take it to a higher court and get it overturned, or go to your representative and have a different law be democratically put in place

Judges apply laws, they don't cook them up fresh
You would also need to keep generating until the whole string is valid. And what if it gets caught in a loop?

Not sure how this can really guarantee 100%
I feel like I'm missing something very basic here, but is this library intended to be used with an existing model? If so, could you point to an example?
This is some of my favorite types of content on the interest. Not for profit, labor of love, sharing knowledge, evergreen.

On of my favorite things to do on the internet is to add context or explain how I solved a problem to older "content". As in an old SO question, an abandoned Github issue, or, until recently, an old reddit post. I know that only a few people will see what I wrote but I know that they will benefit greatly from it (as normally it's something that's taken me anywhere from 30min to 8+ hours to solve and I want to document it). I've typed the words "I hope this helps someone else" many times and it always leaves a smile on my face.
My (Herb Sutter's) C++ Now 2023 talk is online: “A TypeScript for C++”
>> "the elites" to mean "a small subset of elites who have large interest in CRE prices"

That is exactly what is meant. I'm sorry if it really needs to be spelled out like leading a horse to water. It was the point of the entire article, even if there was not a specific sentence clearly equating a=b. There were links to other backing documents. Maybe she could have drawn the line a little more clearly, but it was a short piece, maybe she didn't think she needed to make it a big thesis.

For "elites". Is it "Marxist-Charged"? It is a little funny to be re-defining the term again, given that for 6 years Republicans have been using it as a derogatory term for "educated liberals", not for "Corporate America". Now all of a sudden, if someone uses the term "Elite" to refer to "Corporate America", now that makes them Marxist by besmirching "Corporate America"?

I do agree. It is hard to communicate in this day and age when words change meaning from month to month, and the Left/Right are working with different definitions.

Any definition of 'Elites', in any conversation gets wrapped up in different opinions on who the 'Elite's are. One side thinks the 'Elite's are Socialist, educated liberals, the other side think the 'Elite's are corporate CEO's.

Depending on your side, you get triggered in the opposite direction.
China launches first geosynchronous orbit radar satellite
It is exactly that. Increased accuracy. Think of driving on a tight street, buildings left and right and buildings with 10-15 floors. It will take forever for the GPS to get "enough" to be able to give you an accurate reading fast. But if 20 cars have passed in various speeds, you will get an estimate much faster.

I have actually tested this. It would take 45sec with just GPS, but under 7sec with WiFi.

Knowing Google's ethics (haha) they will definitely use this data also to advertise services to the people living there, as "now" they know exactly where you live and thus may push more relevant ads instead of a random store 500km away.
Do you have any pointers to the history of cops coming from corporations? In the UK, they came out of a government response against the inefficiencies of volunteer enforcement groups in the 19th century, and were mostly opposed by civil liberties groups (including the City of London, which was, I believe, was an institution dominated by merchant interests even then).