skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the same way as you about both of those books. I probably got close to half way through both of them before giving up on them.
This is wrong, NVLink is crucial for tensor parallelism in models for training and in large (>40B param) models for inference.
I don’t think that definition of traffic would make sense when talking about inter-state highways, for instance, although I wish it would. My commute would be a lot easier!
International Space Station Above Hurricane Hillary
Which gives you an hour or two of battery life, and effectively no camera support.

I have one, running Linux on it, love it and consider best Linux device I ever had had, but I wish there were fewer quirks.
Why not just exercise?
> In an unexpected corporate restructuring move

If there's one thing that is expected of SUSE is a periodic restructuring.
My favorite discussion of this topic is from David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C6sv7-eTKg

He does a wonderful job of taking very dense mathematical notation and explaining it in ways that anyone can understand. He derives the basic concepts of the lambda calculus from the ground up using Python. Super fun to follow along with.
Americana：A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Yeah, I read analyses like this article and just think "this person doesn't realize that they don't think/act like most people".

Most people flying are not traveling alone. It's not just the oft quoted "families with small children". What about couples/friends/colleagues. People traveling together largely sit in the same rows, not the same columns, and they want to exit together.

These kind of analyses (especially the "if everyone saved 13 seconds we'd size the equivalent of 20 lives!" part) always make me a bit said because, in a lot of cases, it's clear the author understands math but not humans.
The Y combinator is not the same as λ calculus. The Y combinator is an expression in λ calculus.
LLMs can complete code fragments because they're just matching them up based on having seen these code fragments paired together in they're database.
If your child put a dollar in a soda vending machine at school and the vending machine then took their picture, that would be a similar situation. Arguing that it's not the school's fault your child had their picture taken is silly: the school put the vending machine there. The child didn't know the repercussions and can't make an informed choice.

So if YouTube puts a big ad in an app exclusively for kids then how is it not their problem if clicking that ad then tracks the child? Who cares what website does the tracking if YouTube deliberately sends the child from an app meant for children to a website that tracks them.
Does anyone have a 360 that isn’t Red Ring of Deathed?
New Zealand like Japan, Indonesia and other places around the pacific ring of fire is very geologically active.

I have only barely felt one earthquake living in Australia in half a century and it was almost imperceptible. I expect the low geological activity is one of the reasons evidence of meteor impacts is well preserved in Australia.
> Only for HFT as far as I know; latency mattering that much is a tiny niche.

You obviously live in a tech bubble. Remote industrial machine control definitely has concerns around guaranteed latency.
> the plight of the high-income, low-wealth American is getting worse

Solution is pretty simple. Reduce status signalling (leisure class activities and purchases) and start saving. This is what the Japanese did once the cheap credit taps were turned off. Its not the end of the world.
I have been using Tumbleweed for a few years now, but while it seems like a stable rolling release distribution, I am not quite sure about the "rolling release" part. Each month, a new snapshot comes out, which upgrades every single package you have installed, regardless of whether there were actual upstream updates. With a full Texlive installation and just a few more suites this amount to roughly 10,000 packages and over 5GB that need to be downloaded and installed each month. This a) kind of defeats the rolling-release aspect for me, b) takes a few hours, and c) feels like a cheat for the sake of stability.

Between those snapshots you might have bleeding edge updates for all the packages, but even then I do encounter package conflicts way too often. Well, on the upside, at least they are detected.

So yes, it is stable, but it comes at a price.

Apart from that, the community support felt mediocre, at least a few years ago. The most visited platform was a bulletin board forum with very little interaction. When I had trouble installing KDE, it took a few days until someone suggested the correct diagnostic tools. This is bad for being the testbed of a commercial distribution. In the end, I just installed Arch, which packaged KDE better than Tumbleweed did.

But on the other hand, maybe only if you use a distro long enough, you get to see the downsides, and each one has them.
Then you must reject all science, as the knowledge gained is based on probabilistic experiments.
Other remedies such as NMN and resviratrol have already proven in mice to work exquisitely well. Hope those will translate as more accessible solutions first, vs young boy blood transfusions.
Not quite the same thing, but there was a time when 30 pin SIMM sockets had terrible plastic clips on either end. Being something of a gorilla in my youth, I’d break them off from to time. Fortunately the one in my daily driver had another module behind it, so in went a pencil eraser to force the simm in the broken socket to stay in contact.

Was so relieved as newer socket designs came out.
Hurricane “Hilary”

Are Hillary and Hilary pronounced the same?
To some extent my entire career has been searching for and destroying said half baked implementations. This saying can be adapted to infra: “half baked, bug ridden kubernetes”, “half baked, bug ridden proxySQL”, “half baked, bug ridden redis”, the list goes on and on.

In some ways I feel like my impact has been quite boring, in other ways quite vital. But it’s never made me friends with the kind of developers who look sideways at the idea that other peoples life’s work might be better than their 5 year old weekend project.
You beat me to it, this is the link that I found for the book: http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/pdcs/#chapters
Which failed miserably at this task...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-lar...

"A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood, a basic requirement for a language model designed to generate scientific text. People found that it made up fake papers (sometimes attributing them to real authors), and generated wiki articles about the history of bears in space "
I tried reading Infinite Jest a few years ago (liked the characters and style but just couldn’t commit the time to go all of the way through it). I don’t know why but that book made me feel like I was reading a Wes Anderson movie.
Which ingredient in Oreos make them different than a home made cake?

https://www.mondelezinternationalfoodservice.com/Product/Pro...

Like the flour you use to make a cake has been altered from its whole state more than a little bit. So has the sugar. And of course, both ingredients are used in Oreos, for roughly the same reasons you'd use them at home.

I suppose most people don't cook with palm oil and soy lecithin.
It doesn't fix bugs (in the language/compiler). It documents exactly what the language is supposed to do, and therefore what the language user can count on. Without a spec, all you can count on is what you can experimentally determine that the language does (and even then, you can't be sure that it will do that in all situations).

This actually reduces bugs in applications, because it means that the app writers now know what the language will actually do, and can write their code accordingly. Without a spec, they will too often have a cargo cult understanding of what the language does, and so their code won't do what they intend it to.

If there's a spec, and the compiler/language doesn't do what the spec says, now you can definitively say that it's a bug in the language. That can still cause bugs in your app. But at least you can now definitively say that the language implementation is at fault, and demand that they fix it, and you can agree with the language authors on what "fixed" means.
It's better to grow what grows best in the local environment. You can't grow everything everywhere. Everyone would be really limited in their choice of food if everything was local. Unless we're using some kind of greenhouses, which might eventually be a good idea. But it would require insane amounts of energy.

I'm not sure you know what efficiency means. From Wikipedia: "Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste."

Being less efficient means that you're wasting resources, i.e. using more resources than necessary.
I don't get the set up still. Is this the set up for a control experiment?
I don’t want to try to convince you otherwise so lets talk about reality. Due to the reality of scarcity, those who do no work and expect that they will be cared for do in fact harm others.

Scamming government benefits and failing to contribute to society when you are entirely able is not just selfish, it directly damages society and harms those with legitimate needs as well.

> Why should they? For what reason? If they do nothing productive and meaningful, don't hurt anyone, and don't desire to change, what is the reason they should change?

As long as scarcity is real, the idea that you are owed an existence without work is beyond selfish and entitled, it is directly harmful. They /are/ hurting others.
Exactly. And if consumers stopped purchasing gasoline, Exxon would be gone. Exxon is just serving consumer demand. The problem isn't Exxon, it's the consumers who want to burn enormous quantities of fuel in their gigantic SUVs.
Do you read fiction? I ask because if you interpret the above like this, I'd imagine you'd similarly misread or get confused often then.
I've considered the "group" issue at length and do not consider it a major issue. People like us are obligated to improve the world for the less enlightened.
We used to hear about this all of the time circa 2010s but lately nothing.

However, a number of the very rich are living quite a long time, and while they are visibly aging they are not aging as much as one would expect.

This leads me to suspect that there is some kind of treatments that are expensive (like blood boys) that have some level of efficacy.
Real World Divorce: Custody, Child Support, and Alimony in the 50 States (2016)
Thanks. Unfortunately, I noticed an error I made during some rewording: "an low-curvature-radius-but-still-near-horizon effective theory". The indefinite article should be "a", and the reciprocals are wrong -- the radius of curvature near the horizon is high and the magnitude of the curvature scalar is low (it's a function on position in spacetime and goes to infinity as one approaches r=0; that behaviour of the Kretschmann scalar is used to show there's an actual curvature singularity rather than some artifact of a choice of how one chooses the "r" coordinate).

The radius of curvature is 1/|K| where one chooses a curvature scalar -- Kretschmann, Gauss, others may apply -- and finds a matching "kissing circle" (osculation is kissing). Here's an example in 2d, \rho is the radius of curvature and we're asking about the radius of curvarure at P on the curve AB: <https://undergroundmathematics.org/glossary/curvature/images...> (Two other examples <https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...>, <https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...>). For a point on the surface of a shell, we'd use an osculating sphere, and so on in additional dimensions.
Shareholders in publicly traded companies scare easily.
I agree, but it is the same monopolists at Google pushing both initiatives, and the person you are responding to is actively focused on the "forced delegation of trust".
GP? Do you mean Geekbench? If so it literally includes clang performance as one of its benchmarks that it runs. And it scales pretty consistently with the overall score.
This is the main issue I have. I actually maintain paid subs to Washington Post, NYT, plus a local major newspaper. This should be more than enough to cover my share of news reporting costs. Yet if I’m linked to the Atlanta Journal or whatever, I’m expected to subscribe? Really? Every paywalled newspaper should support roaming. If museums can do reciprocal benefits, at WORST there should at least be reciprocal benefits among the roughly 1,000,000 Digital First Media newspapers, and within other large conglomerates. And ideally they should find a way to let a subscriber consume a reasonable amount of articles across a larger network. The higher the subscription tier paid, the more articles. Share a few cents for each article viewed.
Have y'all flown recently, or ever??? I feel it's hard enough these days to get people on planes to be fully clothed, semi-sober, and to refrain from violence. And somehow we're all going to coordinate perfectly to get this complicated choreography to work?
Req.get!("https://hex.pm/api/packages/req").body["meta"]["description"]

wow. coming from Go I have to say I do not like this. no error checking at all (I assume it just panics or exception?) no mention of JSON at all, even though thats what its doing. and if "body" is JSON, how do you even get the raw body, or can you? just seems over engineered/over fitted whatever you want to call it.
You have replaced God with "society" in your mind, and that's why you attack me with religious fervor, forgetting polite behaviour. There is no society and has never existed any society. It is a common myth, designed to organize people and to let some groups benefit at the expense of other groups - and to always let old people benefit at the expense of young people, because old people are not fit to compete.

"Paid their dues" is one of those myths, that translates to telling young people that they owe old people something for being born. Which is of course a lie, nobody is born indebted.

If "anarchy and chaos" is the option to having your blood sucked, I know what I chose.

All human progress is thanks to individuals who have made inventions and discoveries. Since modern man doesn't believe in God, and is too proud to acknowledge the greatness of their fellow man, they instead turn to the fairy-tale myth of a "society" who they say made everything possible, saved the whole mankind from slavery and poverty, and so on.

Feel free to do what you think is good for "society". I will do what's good for me and my fellow man.
> It absolutely sucks if you want to do good work and that doesn't align with company goals.

It's particularly bad if you otherwise love your coworkers, your immediate manager, and what the company does enough to stick around indefinitely, but come find you're never actually allowed the opportunity to "do the right thing", because there's instead just always something else more pressing pushed on you. You'll never get the chance to fix the big problems that you see solutions to. You realize that for everything else you appreciate about your position, you're still just a cog in the machine. Then you feel depressed and slip into some negative developer stereotype.
I’ve always said when you’re paying the bill you can wear whatever you want. I don’t need anyone to take me seriously, I’m not a politician.
You can easily add it with the console.
You don't. Just like before generative AI responses. If accuracy is required, you have to check the citations and make a judgement call. And no, people generally won't do that just like they didn't do that before.
Do they not care about what happens if you decide you want more money, want to do something else, or just get frustrated and quit?
So what you're saying is, a spec is no better than documentation and design documents.

It doesn't sound materially helpful or like it saves lives - it seems like a contrived requirement.
LLMs are a type of machine learning. The stupidest type of machine learning.

The OP did not suggest machine learning in generally, they suggested LLMs specifically, which time and time again have been shown to be incapable of this task as a matter of fundamental design. Worse, because LLMs can't understand the their training data, the output of an LLM must be verified, which in situations like this would probably take more time than simply conducting novel research in the form of random experimentation.

Also, you really need to read your citations. The first one found that machine learning was unsuited for the task of agricultural prediction...
Opensource is getting attacked on all fronts.

SUSE becomes another risky choice.

Nothing companies control is out of limits for a bait and switch (a la Hashicorp).

Wake up folks.
I love the concept (and the name too) of vulgar computation!
If A is routinely known to be sarcastic, then yes. Otherwise there's no reason not to read it charitably and take it as a genuine thanks.
"Economically coerced" is just a far left term for "paid". I'm economically coerced to do a whole lot of things like work. Most of us are.

It's only a problem if people don't have other ways to make rent because of it. If this somehow decreases people's other opportunites to get money, then sure, that's bad.

I've had poor friends and family sell plasma for money. They don't feel worse off for having the option.
If I understand correctly the how part, is that to drain the fields and refill once cracks appear, that would mean more water needed. For Bali I am not sure what is the source of water, but for places where it is ground water, it leads to another problem.
I don't know where you live, but I did that two years ago in Texas and it was... straightforward [0].

First buy the land. I didn't even use a real estate agent. Seller and I figured out the forms ourselves and went to a title company to do the deed and make sure everything was correct.

Next sign a contract with a builder, get financing for the (detailed) contract, and build the house. The bank will inspect the house every time they give the builder money to make sure you and the bank are getting what you're paying for.

Edit: actually other financing arrangements are more common, since most people can't afford or don't want to buy the land outright then finance construction. Usually you package the land loan and construction under the same mortgage which takes more up front work.

[0] Searching for the right word here. Simple doesn't quite fit because construction is a complex industry and it is easy to over pay. The more you know and the more you can be involved in the process the better the outcome will be.
I can't speak to any kind of general principle here, but viewing any standard modern web page e.g. Twitter, Discord in a Web browser reliably takes more CPU and memory than running a late-game Factorio save.

I will allow that it is probably theoretically possible to do client-side rendering in a CPU-efficient way, but it sure isn't the standard.
Thank you! I've been looking for this term for a while ever since someone posted a blog post about examples of US military memo writing on HN a few years ago.

If anyone can remember that link and share it I would love that!
Do you think donated plasma is just going to the rich? I'd say people who need plasma are buying the blood of the poor.
> More esoteric stuff is: If you do pointer arithmetic that technically goes out of bounds and then in bounds again... that's technically UB (can't remember if this is C++ only or both), so you can't rely on knowing where everything is + bounds checks.

When the goal is preventing UB, you can simply define things like that as not-UB. At least on the vast majority of architectures where the numbers work fine at runtime, and only the compiler sees it as invalid behavior.
This piece is similar to (but obviously better than) the song by Nero in Quo Vadis (1951). It's nice to know the movie got that part right.
There are different libertarian philosophies. You are describing anarchists.
Wut?? So if I'm in a window seat, and the folks in the middle and aisle seats have carry-ons, I'm supposed to crawl over them, or have them block the aisle while we somehow shuffle past them? Do you understand the size of the average American?
Experiments are difficult in farming. Most land holdings are not big enough and that land is the single source of income. So risking it with experimentation, when profits are anyways not high, becomes problematic
We have a full legal system based on parents or guardians being able to provide consent for their kids. How is this different?
San Francisco's Homeless Ticking Time Bomb
That’s usually allowed. It’s non-local freshman who are sometimes required to live in university housing.
It's be nice if you pointed to an article that was freely available.

For me it is a fascinating topic but also one I am skeptical about because soil carbon is distributed over such a wide area that measuring it is tough. It's important though because it is the "dark matter" of carbon on Earth in that there is an awful lot of it.
> right in the middle is one 6 person family group who are going to take 10 minutes to get seated while they arrange toys and stuff for each child

such a group is slower, certainly.

they do not take 10 minutes.
The Y combinator is in a sense the heart of the λ calculus; it's a key discovery for understanding that the λ calculus is universal, which is what makes it a useful concept rather than an arbitrary bundle of rules.
I'd never read that as sarcastic.
Interesting - the service my team runs has had chronic latency problems with South Africa, so I wonder if I can see a difference in the metrics.
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In general I don't know how you make currently-UB aliasing safe. But in that specific case you can just say that the value not showing up through the bad alias is a possible defined behavior.
and we're out here having meetings about how to make retro more actionable..

but ya it's really more scrum and associated bs that i have a problem with vs og agile.
The pricing or lack there of is a huge turn off. We use Replicate and Runpod. On Replicate everyone just shares the GPU cloud. On Runpod I had to bundle 8 together into my own cloud but I can't see that this service solves my problems (queueing image generation and restarting jacked stable diffusion nodes).
> CEO is management

I disagree, a CEO is not management in the sense you are describing. Being a CEO is more about decision making and direction setting for the organization holistically to maximize the value to the shareholders of the org. Depending on the size of the org, management might be a task they perform, but in larger orgs, CEOs rely on managers to manage.
The Germans succeeded in some bicycle use early in WWII. The invasions of Poland and France startled the world with their speed. How could they move so many hundreds of thousands of men so far in such a short time? Even the Germans didn't have sufficient autos to move so many men that quickly.

Bicycles filled an important gap in the transportation infrastructure, and they employed an approach where groups of soldiers would move many miles per day by rotating between trucks, bicycles, and walking on foot. Sleeping was not part of a soldier's schedule in these blitz invasions, and he'd presumably get some shut eye on the back of a truck or in a field during a very brief pause. This was also made successful by excellent planning, and maybe drugs.

Also, I heard that German soldiers appropriated a bunch of bicycles during their occupation of the Netherlands.
Agreed - ARM put x86 on the clock, and Apple Silicon - the best implementation of ARM yet - is the death knell of x86. Every opinion to the contrary feels like cope, because it's coming, and fast.