skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. So far we have been focused on allowing non-technical users to self-serve from enterprise data warehouses. It might be possible to enable this scenario with a simple addition to the NL-2-SQL engine to translate the generated SQL to API calls. If that does not work, a custom imeplementation of the NL-2-SQL module would def solve this.

Do you have a specific use-case in mind? Would love to collaborate on adding it to the open-source library if you are open to it.
Some managed k8s from a cloud provider, which is fairly close to cloud agnostic compute outside of persistent volumes.

The HN trope is "you don't need k8s," but k8s manifests have a lot of mindshare behind them. I'd rather use a managed k8s versus manage my own Nomad pool. Sure, managed k8s is complex for cloud providers, but I can mostly offload that complexity provided I'm not full microservices inside the cluster.
So gaming is now less than 20% of their business? Holy shit.
BioWare is laying off 50 employees
It will be cool to send a buddy drone with these landers. A minute or so before the touch down, detach from lander and shoot the landing. Then go back and attach with lander for charging and do periodic flights.
Also, makes it pleasantly binary, instead of just recognizing that it's a personality trait in everyone that's scaled to different degrees at different times in different situations.
Regardless of Zoom's quality as a video calling platform, the real place that daily collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas happens for remote workers is never video calls anyway IME. It's open-ended, text-based group discussions— not meetings!

What is Zoom using internally for chat?
by the dandelion factory right? I biked passed it yesterday and saw that they just reopened.
None of these arguments were ever made when sending engineering teams offshore.
You can't cherry pick that out of context, criminal indictments often cite things that can be ordinary. Buying duct tape isn't a crime, but it can be evidence of a kidnapping.

As far as I can tell these people created a business to profit off of money laundering, and they were helping teach people how to hide their identity.
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Yeah, I agree (with you) that your top-level comment is very very correct, and contributes a fantastic point.

And I agree (with some commenters) that the "Uh" makes it look way worse than it would otherwise. :) I learned something from both your comment and from the criticisms. Yay.

--

Though I think "you shouldn't rely on the Internet" is not quite summarizing it exactly correctly (not a complaint about the original comment, just trying to improve on the summary). It's not "relying on the internet" that's the problem, it's some weird conjunction of a few things that are each fine. I will try to expand, fumblingly.

(1) Obviously you could have a conversation with an expert-in-the-space over the internet, so clearly it's not the internet that's the problem. (2) Obviously you can get good results off Google, for example by googling "textarea bidi", so it's not Google that's the problem. And, heck it, compared to not having an internet to search, the internet does a lot to reveal the hidden complexity that we wouldn't otherwise even be aware of.

So we could propose that the problem is non-experts doing things (i.e. we could encourage gatekeeping), but wait, that's not right either, because that would imply that Mo shouldn't have created Standard Notes until they were an expert in all relevant things (which turns out to include something something multilingual something), and clearly if Standard Notes wasn't delivering great value without that expertise, then they wouldn't be getting "requests to add right to left language support". So obviously Mo had more than enough expertise to do what they did.

I dunno. I dunno what the pithy version of the takeaway could be. We might just have to settle with the longer version from your original comment.

"[Neither you, nor google, knows] what you don't know. ... So, if you can, ask people, not software. Especially if you don't know the space."
You can do that for inference, but most gamers have a single GPU with <24GB VRAM which kinda sucks for training. 3090 or 4090 is the minimum to use reasonable batch sizes
"Owner" is not a title (I've ever seen). And the article is not about owner dispensed as z title.

Ownership is the -result- of the 3 attributes. Mandate is bestowed by management. Ownership is a state.

This article is neither about legal Ownership (which you referred to in your first post, and i simplified to copyright holder.) It's not about a job title. It's about a state of mind when mandate, knowledge and responsibility collide.

I'm guessing you've never been an owner in this sense, not yet. But look forward to it; it offers a unique satisfaction for a developer, especially when done well.
Reading material ahead of taking a course is a strategy I used to help shorten the learning curve;

1. So you want to learn physics ( https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics )
The books recommended all look expensive, so not for dabbling.

2. A quick search turned up a bunch of free resources that look helpful:

LibreTexts ( https://libretexts.org )

OpenStax ( https://openstax.org/subjects ) Rice University

InfoBooks ( https://www.infobooks.org/free-pdf-books/physics/ ) 50+ Physics Books

College Phsyics ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/61 ) --

University Physics Volume 1 ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/378 )-- both part of

Open Textbook Library/ University of Minnesota’ ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ )

Free Physics Textbooks at Open Culture ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ )

Introductory Physics I Elementary Mechanics ( https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/intro_physics_1/intr... ) Duke

Free Math Texts ( http://www.freemathtexts.org )

Mathematics for Physics ( https://goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster... )

3. Even engineers need to communicate well.

Editor's Manual ( https://editorsmanual.com ), including https://editorsmanual.com/articles/i-or-me/ I or me.

Elements of Style

https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/...

https://ia804502.us.archive.org/5/items/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHw... (4th edition)
Privacy for consumers of money transmitting services is called money laundering.
I think it's unlikely that discrete categorizations for fatness or suicidal inclinations helps many people. To help somebody who's fat, you need to consider them as an individual, particularly their habits and physical and mental circumstance. Splitting hairs with these clinical discrete categories of continuous phenomena is a waste of time. For instance we can create the discrete category of "obese" and define it as any BMI above 30, and "overweight" as any BMI between 25 and 30. But do these discrete categories really give you any advantage when considering somebody who's at 29.9 or 30.1? Do or should you offer substantially different advice to somebody based on what side of the 30 line they fall? Probably not, one person might fall into either of those discrete categories depending on the day of the week. Fatness, and the underlying reasons for it, are a continuum. The clinical terms create discrete categories which might be useful to scientific research but have limited usefulness when you're considering a single individual.

And with suicidal behavior, do discrete categories really help? I don't have much experience talking people off ledges so maybe you can say better than I, but to me it seems like the line between some chemical imbalance model of depression and shit life syndrome isn't always so clear. I think in most suicidal people it's probably some combination of those two, or other factors as well.
I had very different default settings, so I think there's some randomization going on here.
Ah yes, the same way USPS is unprofitable.
Except it can't, since everyone regularly uses and benefits from encryption.
+1 asciidoc is where it's at. Given its strengths and similarity to markdown, I wonder why it hasn't taken off to the same extent.
I am expecting raises to come soon and I am trying to think through how to ask for a higher raise. Any input would be appreciated.

My company does this thing where they buy some kind of market research salary analysis and use it to gauge what they should be paying us. They tell us as much, and it feels like a trap: "We can't give you more because it's not industry standard" etc. Since I'm at the top of the ceiling according to this list, my raises have been pretty much crap the last couple of years.

The other thing is our growth has slowed. We had a few years of over 20% growth, but we rely on the ad market, and it hit us hard with the Apple/Google changes. But, we still have positive growth, just not the 20% the CEO desires.
Bee Keeping and Bee Breeding, Along with Other Interests of Dave Cushman
Cool. I always want to write my own beancount-clone with budgeting. How to deal with precision easily is one of the obstacles; now I wish I can write Ada!
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There probably isn't another manufacturer they can switch high end stuff to. They recently tried moving at least some of their cards to Samsung but switched back last generation due to yield issues.
https://overthewire.org/wargames/ ?
Probably yes, and I think this is what a lot of rich people do with their kids, at least in terms of exposing them to vastly differing languages like Mandarin and English.

I do wonder if there's some limit on the number of phonemes you can learn, and how many hours are required to "solidify" a phoneme. But I definitely think the idea of a "unity course" is a good one.

Personally I had a French "class" in elementary school, where I barely learned anything - I certainly can't speak French - but I can pronounce French words better than I can pronounce any Spanish words (despite three years of Spanish class in college). Those French classes were basically just learning to count to 100 and singing songs like "alouette."
Android as we know it didn't exist until late 2009
Calling anything that came from before the 19th century a result of "Greek" culture makes things a bit murky, though. If, hypothetically, baklava was developed in what is now Istanbul, is it a result of Greek, Turkish, Byzantine, Roman, Persian, or Ottoman culture? The answer is that it's a silly question.
> You're conflating the computer scientists, enthusiasts and hobbyists (that likely represent the vast majority of the audience here) with business owners and other people whose job is to maximize profit. Back when generative AI wasn't nearly as coherent, only the first group cared much about it.

The computer scientists and enthusiasts are the ones who wrote the programs that scraped the data. They are just as responsible for the situation as the business owners, and this comment goes back to my earlier statement that people working in the valley don't think about the consequences of the things they build nearly enough.

> Say, someone puts in a lot of time analyzing the works of the most popular contemporary artists, and then becomes capable of replicating their styles, while charging a fraction of the price. Are they in the wrong here?

There are not. This is the exact same argument that you made before. If you can't understand the distinction between artists learning the trade and a gigantic VC funcded company producing a system that can generate thousands of images that vaguely resemble your work then I'm not sure what else I can say.

When an artist learns from another artist, they cannot exactly replicate that artist's work. Their own experiences and even muscular structure changes the result, and typically, one artist is not really a threat to the market for the orginal artist's work. New artists contribute to the field and maintain the knowledge of skills so that those can be passed on to other artists.

AI systems are practically built to digest entire corpuses of people's work then generate huge amounts of similar work by the truckload. Nobody is learning anything from the production of these images, we've automated the production of cultural artifacts which is totally perverse, and we've made it harder for artists to make a living which impacts the field negatively.

Shallow arguments like "The AI system learns just like humans" are a slap in the face.
I've been a part the security/hacking community for years so some people know me or know me by reputation. I actually wasn't looking for a career change but we had a product that straddled both my area and security so I stepped up and became the SME on that product. Over the course of about 2 years more and more of my concentration went from DC work to security work to where I am now where I'd guess I'm 80% security focus and 20% Data center/disaster recovery -but again DC/DR is security.

good or bad being a software engineer now is top of the heap as far as pay so you can't expect the same amount of money. I was lucky to be able to do a lateral move within my company so no pay cut (actually a small increase). Your best bet in my opinion is to get involved in the community and get a job by referral -it's just easier and you can ask for more money.
I found Cory O'Daniel's take on this to be pretty hilarious[0] -- and he converted us all to your pronunciation over the course of the conversation!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaU94LY891M&t=1058s
the most famous example I know of: https://docs.atlas.oreilly.com/writing_in_asciidoc.html
So you read the article. But you missed the part where it said

From the article:

> Amazon was actually losing money on e-book sales, but it didn’t care. The long-term goal was to get people to buy its Kindle e-readers.

—-

> After all, the cost they paid is a sunk cost at that point and it may be worth it to move the item at a loss than to continue to store it

You realize the discussion is about ebooks that Amazon was selling at a loss?
The good news is that legal courts have already lost faith in all things digital imagery, and has for a good long while. They're actually way ahead of the curve.
In this case the "devs" are the owners and operators and they profit on the contract being run.

The answer to all of your questions is the same. When you run this code to facilitate money laundering the deployer gets in trouble and that's how it should be I can't imagine how else it could work.
Maybe I didn't make it clear enough: affiliate links.
Interesting idea. Current battery in the device (I looked it up) is:

Chemistry: Lithium carbon monofluoride

Voltage: 3.3 V, open circuit

Rated capacity: 1 Amp-hour

Self-discharge rate: <1% per year

Its a tiny non-rechargeable battery presumably carefully picked for safety and very slow usage over several years.

I suppose the main barrier to wireless charging of implant batteries would be heat - wireless charging generates heat. And when something goes wrong with wireless charging it can generate a lot of heat. So I guess its risky? But then surgery to change a battery is also a significant risk.

Also I guess someone would have to go through the long process with the FDA of getting it all approved, whereas (at a guess) people designing implants try and use already-proven components and techniques where they can to make approval more likely.
> Cancer: US deaths are way down since the 1990s, though it's cheating a bit since that was the top of the smoking-related spike in lung cancer. Still, other cancer deaths are way down since then too. [6][7] (Edit: worldwide this looks worse and things have increased lately, see: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-people-with-can...)

> Heart disease: can't find long term stats on this quickly, but cardiovascular mortality is way down. [8]

And these two are linked. If most people get their cancer in their 70s, but they're dying of heart attacks in their 50s, anything that stops people dying of heart attacks is going to increase the number of people getting cancer.
But you see your honor, I’m a sovereign citizen!

For some reason too much time spent working with machines clouds the judgement of how law and the court work.
Looks like it depends on where you are in the world. "Financial year" appears to be the preferred phrase over in the UK.
You're kinda underselling what exactly Nvidia is doing right now. If any Chinese company could compete with something like the DGX GH200, they would be building GPUs for the PRC, not exporting them.

There's also the problem of industry hostility, anyways. Even if Nvidia was dethroned in the hardware-space, it's unlikely their successor would improve the lock-in situation. It will take an intersectional effort to change things.
Mostly my concerns are around authorization (who can access what) and those two tools handle that before generating a database query. So maybe the approach would be to go from natural lang -> SQL (as you do now) then to Hasura's or PostgREST's specific query syntax (which are already pretty SQL like). And specifically with Hasura, since it's GraphQL - you can get all the available types. But that might all be to far out of scope of what you're trying to do.
Wow, this went from reasonable to "holy crap that's nude" without any prompting real fast.
Metacognition: The mind’s Swiss Army knife
Ask HN: What are some older programming books that still hold up today?
You know what would be cool? If some company would fix those remote working problems instead of forcing people to work in place.
But I guess it's not their job.
You're mixing up terms here. Gravy seals is an insult term, used for typically out of shape people who are heavy into gun/militia/i-am-very-badass type culture.

The latter two are just ribbing jokes about the Air Force, from the other branches usually. My old (Army) boss used to tell me to 'take off your air force gloves' if he ever saw me with my hands in my pockets.
If the government has records that you wrote a service that specifically violates the law, that you contemplated a change that would make it compliant but didn’t because your customers won’t use it, they are right to charge you with a crime.

I’m a privacy advocate, who thinks kyc laws have gone too far. But if you knowingly break a law you can’t cite the unjustness of that law unless you are engaged in an act of civil disobedience. Profits will suffer is not civil disobedience.
Yeah, you really shouldn’t be building this (or really any sort of important or destructive interface) with LLMs unless you have an intermediate representation which users can inspect and understand. Even if the understanding of English were perfect there are still ambiguities you’d need to sort out. You also need to be able to suggest something useful if the user asks a nonsense question (for example data that doesn’t exist in your schema or its contents). When I worked on this a decade ago we were quite good at mapping unknown queries to various suggestions drawn from a canonical subset of English for which we had very explicit semantics. But obviously the Soave of unknowns was huge.

I’ve no doubt the AIs will reach human parity at some point (and therefore still make mistakes!) but I’d be terrified deploying any sort of one-shot text-to-results pipeline today.
Oh, the nerve of developing a piece of software, and advising people on how to not put in place processes! I thought the default state of transactions was not putting in place processes. How exactly do we square this with freedom of speech? When Phil Zimmerman published the book with the PGP source code, Could they have simply arrested him for exporting munitions despite the first amendment? That is a serious question, how come he was able to get away?
The ideal interface would be a WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) word processor like app that let you edit the markup visually, but using a semantic representation rather than strict WYSIWYG. Thus you can write without having to know too much of the syntax, but still be producing strict markup. I recall such editors existing about 20 years ago. I guess the market for XML tool died.
This is not a government imposing something on everyone, but a company making decisions for themselves with the information they have available. Possibly information we do not have: maybe during previous waves they saw significant tension between people who chose to mask and those that didn't. Moving that animosity onto HR might be worth it even if it changes nothing about COVID. I'm not saying that is the case - as I said we don't know - but making a decision to address the issues in front of them without studies that address their particular concerns and situation and some reason to be skeptical is just... how almost all companies operate almost all the time.

Heck, do we even know that this mandate doesn't require good masks?
So even without crypto, the prices of GPUs are still expensive regardless.

The hoarding isn't going to stop unless there are either efficient alternatives that are competitive on performance and price.

Perhaps that is why I keep seeing gamers crying over GPU prices and unable to find cheap Nvidia cards due to the AI bros hoarding them for their 'deep learning' pet projects.

So they settle with AMD instead.
Harmony Korine's Hi-Tech Vision for the Future of Movies
I prefer taking notes one-sided on loose sheets; unlike a bound notebook, you can freely insert, remove, and re-arrange pages. Taken directly from the zettelkasten concept, I date each sheet for a unique identifier, and then notes in a series are numbered hierarchically, so that, for example, a page inserted between those numbered #1.1 and #1.2 would get the number #1.1.1 ; for storage, I staple or clip my stacks and stash them in a hanging file.

For writing on the go, steno pads integrate well into this system; when I fill up a pad, I (eventually) unbind it and re-file the pages as if they were loose sheets.
One thing about LLMs is that from what I know, batching is very effective with them, because to generate a token you need to basically go through the entire network for just that one sample. If you batch, you still need to stream the entire network, but that doesn't get any more expensive; you use each piece of data more often on hardware that used to just sit idle.

So I assume that at an OpenAI-scale, they're more than able to batch up requests to their models, which gives a tiny latency increase (assuming they're getting many requests per second), but massively improves compute utilization.
For a bit of perspective , it's kind of funny to see the 240D called a “little” car. A while back, after the introduction of the 190 (predecessor of the C-class), the 240 and its ilk (the successors of which are now collectively known as the E-class) were the definition of a mid-size Mercedes – but even before that, they were generally accepted all over the world, except for North America, as large cars.
Generative image systems are notoriously poor at producing legible text without significant rerolls. You'd be far better off generating a textless logo and then layering text afterwards using PS, Photopea, Krita, etc,
> The Sheriff is the only law enforcement officer in the US that the people vote for. All others are appointed.

Most US states have elections for their chief law enforcement officer, the attorney general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_attorney_ge...