skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you wrote here disagreeing with the author is probably more than what Hashicorp has collectively communicated in the last 5 years. At least you cared to do so.

It's cool if they don't agree with something being trivial. It's fine if they disagree with the implementation. But, wow, the lack of real communication and the canned responses are basically a middle finger to anyone even attempting to help them.

Shit, at least Linus took the time to actually explain his reasoning when he berated people.
I kind of agree, reminds me of a good quote from somewhere…

> make it work, then make it pretty, then make it performant

Solve the problem first, then improve the solution
I enjoyed the interview with him on Lex Fridman’s podcast, too. Some repeat of the book, and some new material.
Good thing then that US law isn't the universal arbiter of ethics!
A key idea at the end of the article -

Somebody should start a company called Transition Teams. This would be a firm that helps people organize into cohorts during life’s crucial transitions—after college, after divorce, after a professional setback, after the death of a spouse, after retirement. These are pivotal moments when the most humane learning takes place, and yet America today lacks the sort of programs or institutions that could gentle the transitions and maximize the learning through mutual support.
Seems that ~100W is regularly quoted as the average human energy output, so that'd be something like 18 MWh for 20 years (assuming 100% efficiency of food input). I suppose there's also the energy cost of all the training infrastructure (daycare, school teachers, homes, transportation, etc.), and also all the energy consumption of all humans that have come before and built those cities and knowledge infrastructure (although LLMs sit atop that anyway), and then the millions (billions?) of generations of creatures going back to the earliest organisms, who have been optimising how cells work to lower their energy cost.

For that setup cost, you get a single-threaded human, starting to specialise in a single field. They will work in that field for around 7.5 hours every weekday, with ~20 days of holiday a year, for around 45 years, and then retire.

Llama v2 70B cost 1,720,320 GPU-hours[1] at 400W, so 688MWh. Once trained, it can be run 24/7, and you can spin up as many instances as you want on much lower spec hardware. That model produces output faster than a human while consuming around ~30W on my Macbook Pro.

Now, I know we're in pretty shaky spherical cow territory here, comparing a human (albeit a highly educated one) to Llama v2 in logical reasoning... but consider that this is the state of the art in generally-available LLMs after a few decades of research into machine learning & we're using repurposed silicon to compute vs the amazing complexity and physics-leveraging approach of human neurons... and the training cost is only 1 order of magnitude off humans.

Again, I'm not disagreeing with the general point of the OP, I'm not saying that the models we're using right now are the best/right ones (or that the hardware they're running on are the most efficient way of executing them), but I don't think the energy efficiency gap is actually all that high considering

Edit: If you look at the total footprint (considering not just the efficiency of the neurons, but the whole animal) the figures are very close - the llama model card indicates that v2 70B caused the emission of ~300T of CO2, and an average human in the US emits 16T of CO2 a year, so a human would emit ~320T of CO2 in 20 years. I assume children don't have as high a CO2 output, but even so it seems like it's the same order of magnitude.

1: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CA...
Came here to say the same thing. Paramo is great, robust, and sustainable.

Another nice option, especially for streetwear, is Ventile cotton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventile

Ventile clothes without nasty water repellents applied on top are generally marketed as EtaProof.
That's how GitLab thinks about that problem, too: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/runbooks/#e...

> The JupyterHub app offered via the GitLab Kubernetes integration now ships with Nurtch’s Rubix library, providing a simple way to create DevOps runbooks

although this is another case of the "don't use the word 'simple' in your description unless it actually is"
Reflections on the extraordinary power of 'slow water'
We've put a fine-tuned GPT-3.5-turbo model to the test against GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 for text-to-SQL tasks. The results? We found that the fine-tuned version outperformed GPT-4, achieving higher accuracy at 1/3 of the cost! We also explore how fine-tuning affects readability, performance, and the usage of SQL statements.
How much is slow compilation caused by the compiler, and how much is it caused by the crates ecosystem and the many, many, many dependencies a project gains?

I'm genuinely curious because a couple of projects I have written are not that large per se, but I don't like their compilation times too much. What I have observed is that I have ended with 100-200 (indirect) dependencies, and compilation slows down the closer it gets to the "leaf" of the process. In other words: by the time compilation reaches my own code, my code seems to take much longer to compile relative to the intermediate (larger) crates. And it's not link time (I've switched to mold).
I'll join the other members of the OpenTF Initiative who've already commented - I'm honoured to be a part of this effort and can't wait for us to push this forward in the following days, weeks, months, and years! It's been a pleasure working with everybody from all the companies involved.

Happy to answer any questions you might have!

Disclaimer: Work at Spacelift, and currently temporary Technical Lead of the OpenTF Project, until it's committee-steered.
It's like flammable and inflammable. They mean the same thing and nobody knows why we have different words for it.

At least, this is my head-canon.
i have almost 0 hand travel on my kinesis advantage. It lacks f-keys (layered on the numrow) and it has another layer for a keypad (front printed on the keys .. square of u-p m-/)... but also zmk so I could reprogram it if I wanted. It's a 76 ( if I'm counting right) key layout.
Coptic is used actively. It remains important. It is spoken by its community, it is very religiously and culturally significant. Sanskrit may have been a better analogy than Latin. And I thank you for your perspective. I was only debating a fairly technical linguistic point.

A living language is a language that is used to teach children how to peel vegetables, that people shout when they stub their toe, and a language lovers whisper together. If none of that is going on, if it is used only in some contexts, by people who start learning it after they already know another language (their native language), then it is probably a dead language.

Perhaps "dead" sounds pejorative, it is meant to be descriptive. Does that intense degree of language use occur? If no one speaks a language as their first, primary language, then the language is generally considered "dead" - even if hundreds of thousands of people use it every day. Another way of looking at it: if Coptic is still used in a thousand years, would it be recognizable? Or would it be like how Latin and Sanskrit are nearly unchanged, since they were last living languages? Living languages evolve.
In this case it's one haplotype of one cell line.

If you want a population model of genomes you need a pangenome.

See "pangenome graph", "variation graph", and the human pangenome project.
Just calling it the "15 TB plan" also means a typical person doesn't have to worry about going over the limit but lets the non-typical user know you don't consider 30 TB fair use before they bother signing up for your service and uploading all their data.
Need some tests for those tests!
> the UK police is about the softest there is in terms of crowd control. No guns, no gas...

The UK police forces literally invented rubber bullets, and used them very liberally, and lethally, against protestors in Northern Ireland [0]. Just because they go easy on some climate march you were at in London doesn't mean they never take it further.

[0] https://rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/rubber-bullet-his...
I hope beyond hope that we continue to iterate on the current GPT-4 model. But statements made by Altman himself make me leery that it might not happen. That, coupled with the fact that it is just so expensive to run make me wonder if this whole thing is sustainable.

Take this into consideration - NVDA’s massive profit in the last couple of quarters is someone else’s expense. When no one is making money on AI, can this continue? I absolutely think companies can make money using AI that people will pay for, but I am not convinced that companies can make money supplying AI services. I see it as almost a commodity type service, like internet access or something. There is no clear path to profitability, and that is ok to some extent, but with the massive costs this could come crashing to a halt very quickly.
I'm not specifically defending Safari, it has many other problems (speaking both from user and developer POV). But I'm realistically looking back at that battlefield, and weep the loss of Presto, EdgeHTML, KHTML, the stillborn Servo, the irrelevant "other" WebKit browsers... Meanwhile the corpus of standards keeps growing to ensure no other player can hope to enter this space and remain competitive.

My problem very specifically is with this messaging: "use Chrome". I mentioned WEI not because remote attestation is evil, but because Google (in this case and in many others) ignored the process, and declared itself the law.
No. From a security point of view, LE is fine -- even superior to other methods if the service isn't on their game.

The valid issues with it aren't security-related in my opinion. Management issues like updating certs are more time-critical, of course, but if they get that wrong, the worst that will happen is the service won't be available for a bit.
> For example, they are really bad with anything that has to do with spatial relations, and with logical problems where a graphical approach helps

Of course they are, they haven't been trained on anything spatial, they've only been trained on text that only vaguely describes spatial relations. A world model built from an anemic description of the world will be anemic.
Are we ready for Stuxnet round 2?
Writing a math research paper: start to finish [video]
For several years now, Wube has been careful to very clearly announce upcoming changes that might break mods :

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=70603
I am seeing parallels to the Amazon vs. ElasticSearch fiasco.

Also interesting to mention that they haven't said a single word about CLAs. If this project would require a CLA (and copyright assignment) to contribute, then it doesn't matter that it's a foundation, they could also re-licence it easily, which is exactly what they are fighting against.
Yes it does. There could be another piece of art that you would "enjoy" equally, but pay less for. If no other piece of art will do, then you yourself are equivalent to the pocket buyer.

edit: if you're using "enjoy" to mean "have a private value rather than a shared one," a pocket buyer is a private value. If, instead, your level of enjoyment of the item is around the same level as the rest of the bidders, then there's no reason why the Winner's Curse wouldn't apply.
- AC motor are very easy to build and are very, very durable.
- AC / AC voltage transformation is very easy and very effective.

- Switching AC is much more easy than DC.

- The grid we have today was not made for small small cellphone chargers. It was made for light and motors.
> What would be the difference between a "real vector" and a Map with numeric keys?

Access in O(1) instead of O(nlogn).
That you dislike it when people use incorrect but clear language does not mean that it invalidates their point.
Not all details matter for the broader discussion. Being a gun nerd has very little to do with understanding their impact on society.
Because contrary to popular belief, people are only finitely foolish

But in fact this did happen to some extent. LTO tapes used to advertise with 2:1 compression ratio. Then that became 2.5:1. And now IBM is doing 3:1

And that's not because we just discovered how to improve on Lempel-Ziv. The switch to 2.5:1 was around 2012. LZMA is 20th century tech, and people still use gzip today. Compression technology doesn't account for the advertising number inflation there.
My guy, I'm in a gun organization. I'm aware. But most folks call it a clip because that's what movies and videogames have called them for 40 years.

"Throw me a clip!" Or picking up "clips" of ammo in FPS games.

Yes, mag is becoming more common now, but clip was absolutely common.
565 sqft is pretty normal for manhattan. If I had to guess I'd say at least 30% of manhattan apartments are smaller than that.
Your first paragraph is a dystopic nightmare scenario.
My original statement is overreaching then. There is nothing inherently illegal about advertising gun sales on Instagram.
There are different kinds of casual settings. In my social circle, if you criticized someone for calling a magazine a clip, you would be instantly made fun of for being such a pedantic nuisance. A clearly left-leaning media outlet like this is likely targeting an audience more like my social circle than ones who would be pedantic about silencer/suppressor or clip/magazine.

A lack of precision is only really a problem when it would cause confusion. In the context of the article, nobody is confused about what they mean by "silencer". A good example of this is that, even while complaining about calling them "silencers" rather than suppressors, the top comment still didn't have any confusion about what was being discussed.
Big brain move. Gives them a nice easy public exit from what was nothing more than virtue signaling.

I agree with the license change being honest. They clearly didn't give a shit.
Who better to make sure the protest is peaceful than the folks doing the protesting?
Thank you for the correction. Indeed it is not entirely the same thing. Though I'd expect that at least the benefit of not having to read columns that aren't in the family would still help (haven't tried in earnest). I suppose compression is not an option though.
Vanguard is a co-op that's owned by its funds which in turn are owned by present and future retirees.

Instead of investing in individual stocks like Microsoft, Vanguard's index funds make it easy to invest in e.g. an index of all US stocks, which is less volatile.

What exactly is it you find so sinister about index funds?

And why do you think Vanguard (a co-op) is worse than Fidelity (a publicly traded company which also provides similar retirement index funds)? Is it just because Vanguard's funds are more popular and therefore bigger?
Looking through the contents I thought the same thing. Seems like a lot of theory with only a handful of attached methods.

I think one might be better of just reading about uMAP, Mapper and persistent homology directly . At least the last two are very simple and don’t require advanced maths.
Amazon still has some Perl kicking around, mainly on the main website. I don't think there's any new development though, just maintenance and gradual replacement.
I wrote a similar concept around private internet access to your file system. It’s at https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

The window and state management can be demoed on my personal site at https://prettydiff.com
Most of those are trivially paralllelized so it's not a problem. It gets slower towards the end because e.g. your crate needs all of its dependencies in place before it can be compiled.
https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar gives at least the classic taskbar back. I have been using it on windows 10 for a while now. It is much better experience.
The concern isn't that entertainment is bad, it's that Factorio is so entertaining that it tends to get its claws into you, making it difficult to turn off. If someone struggles with time management or self-control, avoiding Factorio is perfectly reasonable.
404 is everything I hoped it would be and more. Absolutely incredible - just signed up for a paid subscription!
HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
It's not inconsistent.
You can want them to be legalised, but still be for big companies having to follow the law.
Makefiles too. And any npm or pypi package. And also maven. Those things run arbitrary code that can access your ssh keys and upload malware to Github under your name (among other things). This has happened before.

Securing just proc macros doesn't really make builds secure because there is build.rs too, and other build tools besides Cargo.

Truth is, if you want to protect yourself, you need to build in a VM, AND run the binary in a VM. Regardless of the language, that's not specific to Rust.
AFAIK most poisonous frogs also aren’t “naturally” poisonous—they get it from diet. Ones raised in captivity aren’t poisonous unless you go out of your way to feed them the things they need to become poisonous.
Awesome, thanks for sharing this- I had no idea! This is great because I feel Nikwax is hard to apply. I once trued unsuccessfully using their "wash in" stuff- I think I somehow applied the coating incorrectly... but the spray on product I have works great.
Minsk is mainly Russian speakers. NY Times reported Zelensky tried to outlaw their religion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/world/europe/zelensky-ukr...

Merkel indicated the West 2016 Minsk agreement was never going to upheld and was to buy time to arm Ukraine. Now who would trust the West?

https://ho1.us/2022/12/ukraine-war-merkels-confession-about-...
So looking at /user/pyanodon, there doesn't even appear to be a mod named "Pyanodons", but rather he's made a whole bunch of different mods. Which one are you recommending? All of them at once?
We never intended to have this functionality. If a user wants to put their message to some server, they have normal email. Everyone has it, and everyone will keep using it in the near future. Let’s say we added a convenience to use one client app for both conventional and decentralized emails.
> In the context of the article, nobody is confused about what they mean by "silencer".

People are confused as to believing the idea that any device which makes a gun silent exists.
It's not. I guarantee you they know the difference. They are choosing to use common vernacular to speak to their audience.

People know what a "silencer" is because that's what it's called in movies and TV. Much fewer people know that it's actually called a "suppressor".

Meet the audience where they are.
Don't worry so much with that, very soon we will see a sea change in the global economy. We have seen the limit of Western sanctions(Russia). Change is coming, and it is coming very fast.
Mood. I've been fighting this Powershell script for hours now.

"Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because its null"

I'm ready to give it an argument. An argument involving a hammer.

edit: ah, my foreach counter logic is flawwed. It's incrementing one extra and spewing out an empty array element.
You are technically correct but I do see a difference between signing a CLA with The Linux Foundation, Eclipse, ASF etc. and a purely commercial corporate entity.
If this is true, in the end the crimals will take over all the cities with nice weathers. It's kinda hilarious
As the other poster said, they can check themselves but this requires an iterative process where the output is fed back in as input. Think of LLMs as the output of a human's stream of consciousness: it is intelligent, but has a high chance of being riddled with errors. That's why we iterate on our first thoughts to refine them.
This is interesting. Part of my life was working with a water well driller running a rig for my grand-father's business a long time ago. The technique is virtually identical but with a hydraulic lift for running the drill and uses compressed air to clear the bore.

The first step was to find the location and park the drilling rig so it wouldn't sink once the well was dug. Then you'd raise the drill arm, attach a section of pipe and the drill head. You'd lower it down into a round flange that had an opening to one side where all of the cuttings blew out. My job was to shovel the cuttings into a trench to direct water flow once you hit the water line. It was critical to keep water from getting under the tires of the rig.

Each section of pipe is 20 feet long and as you drill in you detach the rig head, raise it, get another section of pipe from a rotating carousel and then start grinding again. Once done you pull all the pipe by basically doing the reverse and then perform a similar operation to push casing down into the hole. When the rig pulls away you have a round hole in the ground ready to have another truck come in to insert an electric pump with all the wiring. Then you box everything up at the top and say job done.

Oil field drilling is pretty similar as well but the rigs are vastly larger and move way more earth much faster. My dad worked on a rough necking crew and I've been exposed to the oil and gas industry most of my life so this is an interesting tangent.
(off topic) I promised to reply to you in another thread, but I can't because replies are locked. feel free to reach out to me if you want - my contact is in my profile
Dell???

Agree on Intel, MS, Boeing. And there are others.

But how is Dell strategic?
Yeah— as a primarily python guy, I find concurrency much more palatable in elixir than in js. As a relatively infrequent js user, I have tripped on its asynchronicity for decades. After learning in Perl, shell scripting, and a smidge off C in the early 2ks, then PHP and python in the subsequent decade, I rage quit js every time I picked it up for anything significant until like 10 years ago. For the first few years, I always forgot basic facets of the language like the scope of "this" in anonymous callback functions.

While it's not a close analog, the way Unreal Engine's node-based "no code" Blueprints language approaches asynchronicity just feels so much more natural. Even hopeful pre-hello-world coders seem to conceptually get "well I can't get that because this hasn't happened yet." Having graphical representations of things both in nodes and in-game obviously helps in ways that wouldn't make sense in js, but being built from the ground up to handle it does show that it can be approached more intuitively.
Do similar initiatives exist for the other HashiCorp products?
They've already got more FTEs on this than Amazon seemingly put on OpenSearch.
Sorry, I didn’t want to talk about what I have personally done to test this. I felt it would be better to refer to other people.

In the past months I have used Gen AI to create multiple proof of concepts, including labelling and summarization tools. In addition, to make sure I took a project to conclusion, I built a website from scratch, without any prior knowledge - using Gen AI as extensively I could.

I am being pretty conscientious with my homework. The results of those experiments are why I am confident in this position. Not just because of the articles.

I am also pointing out that its not the tech, its the expectations in the market.

People expect Chat GPT to be oracular, which it just cant - the breathless claims from proofs of concepts fan the flames.

I leave it to you to recall the results and blame, when unrealistic expectations were not met.