skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a bit surprised about this as well, since my perspective on a Rust comparison to C++, one of the more noticable issues is the extra verbosity rather than compile time.

You're right about switching to interpreted languages for this reason as well. Python is so incredibly simple to write, and doesn't have any compile time at all.
I think a better trade off is a language that has a long compile time, is very fast and secure, but has simpler syntax.

Effectively a rust based language with simpler syntax.

I recognize some of these exist, but they need to be popular enough to use as well.
Taken literally, you're right, but in effect their point remains that paper (food containers) nonetheless can be toxic.

I think the main point is this is a serious issue but there's still time to phase this stuff out of our lives without it causing a massive inconvenience. They mentioned at the bottom of the article there's an effort in the UN to organize an agreement to ban plastics, and the authors called for transparency requirements from the plastics industry.
Drink one cup of coffee less per day, and stop it completely after 3PM. This was one of the many small things that helped me sleep better. There were more sinister things I discovered to be the true reason for my poor sleep. Something to do with poor mental health, but I’ll write about those some other time.
A tie between the Linux kernel and LLVM (specifically Clang). Also making game engines gets pretty hefty quite quickly. That's just open source work though. I've worked on larger systems at some Big Tech that were unwieldy, too.
Whether there is a microscopic lining, or the plastic is an inch thick, the amount that leaches off, especially in the presence of a hot food substance, that's the amount that's harmful, and any leaching is going to be in small, frequent doses over a large period of time, and that's the harm they'll find.
The deal-breaker for me with Elixir has always been the lack of real Elixir vectors rather than the crappy Erlang array library. Yes, I know you can use a Map with numeric keys but that's not the same.
Regarding genetics, are there enzymes that some people lack, and that they can take to digest caffeine better?
Things which improve my sleep tremendously:

- be active (Walking, Running) for at least 20 min a day

- do not drink coffee after noon
there is interesting historical research, which pops up from time to time, showing that people in many cultures before the advent of electric lighting commonly slept in two phases -- about 4 hours, a couple hours awake, and about 4 hours.

i think it gets too strong when people claim that this is "natural" or "better" or something. but the historical evidence suggests it's at least "okay", and if you sometimes wake up at 3am maybe just embrace this, get up, do something tedious, and go back to bed.
Drink from my flesh chalice sister.
Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu
So it's just for specific users that are manually targeted by dang? With zero transparency and accountability I'd say it's pretty awful.
The age range in the study is 21-98, so I don't think you can extrapolate to children. They also have a formula, ear circumference = 88.1 + (0.51 × age), meaning an average growth of 0.51mm/year, about 1.4um/day
Isn't shorter half lives better? That means radioactivity reduces faster
The author's point out how before the Second World War, people had to be taught how to adapt to a consumable life style, and therefore we can (and must) continue to adapt to a more sustainable lifestyle.
Assuming you knew C and CPU arch terms like SIMD at age 6, imagine an array of complex structs compared to an int[]. The latter can be read directly from disk and aggregated (ie summed) very fast via SIMD instructions. Whereas a dynamically sized structure for rows (like how traditional databases store them) requires a lot of branch and dereference logic.
It still makes sense to have a well because it is a waste to water the lawn with drinking water.
Each cell in the column is store one after another in memory, you have continuous memory of one column. Effectively think of having text file for each column, each cell having a line, to reconstruct a row you have to get its line from every column file. To sum a column you only have to scan the one file for that column.

In row oriented, each cell for each row is next to each other in memory. Think traditional CSV files, each row is a line in the file. To sum a column you have scan the whole file and all data for all columns.
If something stays in motion and has been so for some time, it's more important to explain why it would not continue rather than the default assumption that it will stop instantaneously. Show me a curve of diminishing returns and I'll believe you. If an object is in motion you'd need to show me that there is deceleration, or there is a wall just up ahead.

But the fact is that the loss goes down predictably with increased compute budget, data and model size (see Chinchilla Scaling Law). We've also seen that decreased loss suddenly results in new capabilities in discontinuous jumps. There is all reason to believe there is still some juice left in this scaling, exactly how far it can be taken is difficult to tell.
You are overgeneralizing from your own experience. It happens to some but most people with sleep problems do test if reducing caffeine fixes their problem.
Heineken sells its Russian operations for 1 euro, taking a 300M-euro hit
But this is about 380V DC which is not going into your living room anytime soon.

Sadly, it is less safe than AC. Automakers tried to increase DC voltage beyond 12V but it causes sparks that cause mechanical switches to fail. AC sparks are extinguished whenever the voltage wave crosses zero. Ubiquitous power DC needs high power/high voltage solid state switches to become cheaper and more reliable than mechanical ones. Perhaps SiC or GaN transistors will do eventually.
My first reaction is, if I'd worry that much about my sleep I would sleep bad, too.

Then again I don't think the OP has a very unusual sleep pattern. But if it bothers the OP, go get checked up. I would make it possible to be in the country where I have a doctor's appointment in three months if it is important to me.
Very good. So why is it necessary to check all of them.
All of these should have close ties with OpenAI, but no one from inside confirmed it as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1671272883379908608
https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/16712671501017210...
https://twitter.com/MParakhin/status/1670666605427298304
There are no microseasons anymore, it's just hot now.
Then why build nocode platform? Just build frame work with components
Stainless steel is a great replacement, but it gets stolen a lot in places that implement it.

Hell, even reusable plastic containers get stolen:

https://packagingeurope.com/news/reusable-mcdonalds-packagin...
The no joke is to have a service public on internet: this is several tens of percent on top of the actual service.
Yes exactly! This is super important for people new to elixir. The vast majority of the time, you don't even need to know that there is even any concurrency. You can write entire sophisticated Phoenix apps and never need it. But when you do eventually need it, it's there and it's wonderful, once you grok the pattern.
Usually you choose the type of database based on your use case. Reporting databases like data warehouses, benefit from using a column oriented database, whereas transactional use cases use a row oriented database. Modern databases allow you to choose per table.
Linking this here as it's still the best sleep supplement I've found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/15ceths/timerel...
I don't sleep enough. I don't usually have a problem with falling asleep as much as I do staying asleep. I've found Magnesium Glycinate extremely helpful with sleeping longer.
A system that could perfectly predict what I would do in response to any particular stimuli, as a continuing sequence, would be exactly as intelligent as me.

That's certainly interesting but it's not a depiction of a LLM is it ? LLM's are not deterministic, and (perhaps) so are we so two non-deterministic systems can only occasionally align (or so I assume). Intuition says they may get "close enough", whatever that might be, and close enough is good enough in this case but I think you are making a giant assumption to the likes of since we can speed up matter to 1000km/h then IF we sped it up to light speed then ...[something]...
>Have pension funds stopped chasing VC funds etc?

Yes, they have. Higher bond yields (compared to 0% three years ago) is causing pension funds to shift their allocation away from "alternative" investments (vc & pe), so it has become harder to raise a new VC fund these days.
It is not as common to water one’s lawn in Poland. It’s not like the country doesn’t get enough rain, and most villagers don’t feel the need to show off perfect lawns to their neighbors as e.g. in the USA.
Oh wow, I'm terrible. Edited, thank you
This is terrible, but the same thing can happen in a basement, and even has happened in low laying areas of land.

Would you suggest we stop digging basements?

There are far more issues with just walking outside, lightning strikes hitting people, are more common.
Well, yes it is. We started with an idea, built a prototype, and came to this startup community to find some guidance hopefully. We are planning an Open Beta in a few months.
Glass is probably least risky...

There is a reason most chemistry equipment is made of glass...

Even then, there are quite a lot of glass additives, contaminants and cleaning products which can pose some risk
I don't use any of them, but I've heard firsthand from some like the author complaining about inaccurate data from devices like the Apple Watch and Oura, some getting rid of them due to this.

Since the OP continues to use them, am I to understand there is no better alternative that is comparable on the comfort/ease-of-use/cost-effectiveness axis with these devices?

The idea of making health decisions based on bad data makes me queasy, but do people who continue to use these devices despite knowing their inaccuracy still recommend their use because one shouldn't let "the perfect be the enemy of the good"?
The problem there is the US' insane theocrat-conservatives (or just misogynist assholes hiding behind a thin veneer of religious justification, as the case may be).

I'm not saying a health IT system should have no privacy controls either. But the requirements for such controls need to be balanced against having a system that actually works, and that means having some people who actually understand the tech, and the workings of hospitals, having a role in requirements conversations. Instead it was dominated by MPs, "patient advocacy" groups and privacy campaigners, none of whom know or care anything about how to build a workable system.
And age. I used to do this fine in my 20s. 30s not so much.
There's glass. Has been around for 3000+ years.
Yes, but you can run both in Linux natively.
"Guy calls humans flawed why claiming the same flawed species will build superhuman intelligence...", pretty good for a bunch of dumb LLMs in "meat bags"...
Myth.
2pm might not be early enough. Depending on genetics the half life of caffeine in your system can vary by a lot. Even if you're in the normal range, a half life of 4-6 hours means that ~25% of the caffeine would still be in your system by midnight...

If you're that worried about sleep quality, it's baffling you have not tried cutting out caffeine altogether
Unbelievable amount of buzzwords for a programming language...
Indeed. As I commented alsewhere this is just about the general design. It is not targeting OLAP in this case (even though I do believe cockroach employs vectorization for reads)
I doesn't work like that. What ends up being popular and widely discussed is the stuff on the front page which is heavily curated by dang. So only the stuff that he personally finds interesting/newsworthy will get a chance. I'm not saying this is good or bad but at least let's face facts here. This is not a 100% community driven site; it's very heavily moderated which has up- as well as downsides.
My arguments against crypto are never about 'not useful for me'.

You either never heard arguments or ignore them but there are not just theoretical but also real life shows us that it doesn't work.

Your poor person who needs to save their hard cash in a dictatorship can either buy things, get dollars or euros (like what they do in Iran) or try to find someone to take their risky local currency to exchange it for a better digital one.

One were this poor person needs to understand backup strategy, fraud, computer and smartphones.

This is so naive it's ridiculous.

And continue to ignore EVERYTHING bad which happens to crypto the last 3 years.

Of course Sam and others those are NEVER crypto issues right?

Btw the poor people would benefit more from less CO2 instead of some crypto shit.
This one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1A2. I've read somewhere that eating Broccoli enhances its activity, but likely too much is needed to have noticable effects from what I recall.

If only there was a short-acting stimulant and antidote available as a combo..
Because humans learn from much less samples sizes than "AI". The overly optimistic point of view on "AI" is over-represented in HN and that makes the discussion unbalanced and puts nearly everyone in it in a filter bubble.

That's not OK.
You mean fancy ceramic which is usually glazed with lead[1]?

[1]: https://digitalfire.com/glossary/lead+in+ceramic+glazes
High CBD cannabis flower, usually marketed as hemp, is not as helpful as full-spectrum 1:1 (CBD:THC) flower. I'm discovering that I'm reacting differently to each cannabis strain, some producing far longer hangover effects than others. It may be a case of personalized medicine, or maybe there actually are terpene profiles that lend to zero, if not low, hangover effects. There are strains marketed for daytime use, usually of the sativa variety, where as there are strains for night-time use, of the indica variety. Yet, I've found that 5 vape puffs of certain sativa-dominant strains yielding 8 hours of deep sleep with minimal hangover. Short-term memory, however, always seems to be affected regardless of what kind of flower is consumed.
I think we'll see a similar scenario as what happened in many rural and semi-urban areas of India. Most folks use well water for their daily use, but still maintain an urban/central water connection in case of emergencies (especially as droughts are becoming more of a reality worldwide).

Well digging is still going strong - actually stronger, since people are now digging deeper wells as the water table is shrinking.
Typically Nature or high impact journals are specifically more likely to publish irreproducible studies.

It's very similar to the well established fact that students with good grades are the most likely to cheat.

If you want to look for solid research, don't look to Nature, look to the so called "mid tier" journals.
Also, similar observations are true for research groups. Research from ivy-league universities follows similar principles as above.
>most people with sleep problems do test if reducing caffeine fixes their problem

You'd be surprised how many people are oblivious to this.
For about a year already, I use ASMR audio/visuals when I go to bed (strange, not even mentioned in the referenced post). I found they help me falling asleep (though, probably, not staying asleep). Also, not just any ASMR stuff does the job, there is a lot of ASMR junk out there. Plus, ASMR triggers differ in efficiency from one person to another, so I preliminarily assess if a particular recording might be good for me. Most of all, I like educational ASMR about history/culture/languages/etc.
Under Compounds D3 is missing. Magnesium, D3 and Glycine fixed all my issues.
Ghost in the Shell's main storyline is about a rogue AI which thinks of itself as the next step of evolution.
Weightlifting and better nutrition really improved my sleep. I almost hibernate every night now, it's like a miracle.
Sure, not several. Not several trillions either though.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, HN anthropomorphizes AI too much. And is too optimistic about it. I just don't see the results and the value, people trip up all over themselves to congratulate themselves and the researches, yet 99.99% of the problems in the world persist.

I am one of these a-holes that wants to see results when money are invested. It still comes as a shock to some apparently.
Glass sucks. That's why we stopped using it.

It's expensive, it's brittle, it's heavy, it takes up a lot of space.
There is plastic-free paper and cardboard packaging. But that is normally loaded with PFAS which is used to stop paper from breaking down when exposed to food fats. However PFAS is a chemical that accumulates in the human body and has been linked to cancer, liver damager, decreased fertility, asthma, and thyroid damage.

So yeah, you can remove the plastic lining from paper, but that severely decreases our quality of life.
As far as I understand this is worse, because it'll regenerate everything in the file every time, right?

But yeah, I'm personally not comfortable with Copilot or its ilk, either.
Came here to say the same thing. My body basically forces me to take breaks, after a couple of months of just one or two coffees a day I’ll eventually be tired to the point where I can’t function properly until I take a week off coffee. I need to quit altogether and get back into exercising, when I get on to a good exercise streak and I’m training for an hour or two every day I rarely feel tired and I always sleep well. It’s just harder to maintain when things get busy.
Faster can still be a very long time, relative to the kind of time we typically operate projects on, and also means that the decaying material is more radioactive in terms of exposure risk.
Fine-Tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo: A Costly Mirage?
> I'm counting the HiFive

Isn't it years behind ARM/x86 performance wise?

> nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded

They unlikely to be competitive anywhere else without significant investment.

> but it can also scale up to "real" compute

Did anyone doubt that you could theoretically scale up ARM to be competitive with x86 back in ~2000? It still took them several decades to achieve that..
Thought so too, turns out we're right now
Thanks. So they are specifically for aggregate queries?
Every experiment in human history of deregulation, privatisation and austerity (neoliberalism) has failed miserably to serve the needs of the working class.

Experiments with collectivisation have failed to serve the needs of the capitalist class, for sure. It's why they use union busting, sanctions, coups and invasions to cause such experiments to fail.
Exactly what you imagine, and then a bit more.
Many parents wake up in the middle of the night to feed the baby and change the diaper.

I liked it better when I wake up in the middle of the night. At some point, my child could sleep until 5 or 6am, which is a more difficult time for me to return sleeping.
Some say earthing improves sleep as well.
Speaking here with some experience of mental health services, professional misdiagnosis and incompetence within the service is so normalised that that wouldn’t be my main concern.

If someone is experiencing mental health, and chooses to open up and have a chat with such as AI, that itself is a positive sign. That the AI could be on demand only makes it more valuable as a tool.
Coffee leads to dehydration. Drink several liters of water during the day and some people may be able to continue with morning coffee consumption.
Was unable to edit my previous. It does use vectorization: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/vectorized-executi...
Is there a sleep tracker (or general fitness tracker) which doesn't store my data in cloud services or require an account?
Paraphrasing the people defending Copilot and ChatGPT when they came out.
There's a Youtube channel from a Dutch researcher doing scientific tests on sleep and fitness tracking performance of wearables[1].

Ardently Apple devices and Oura are at the top in terms accuracy of what wearables can do, but if you want proper accuracy then you need to invest in dedicated sleep monitoring equipment as a watch on your wrist will never come close to electrodes on your head.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist
BookNote: General Purpose Computing with GPT
Hey Hackernews,

A friend of mine and I have been thinking building a general purpose environment for GPT so it can generate code on the fly and run it. Imagine if you could have JS frontend and Pyodide-based Python backend in a notebook-like environment. You have python libraries running in the browser, react, can call any API, navigate the web, ... . And given the current code-gen quality, it works with no debugging most of the time. This way normal users can generate micro-tools for their use-cases on the fly.

We have been surprised by how generally capable it is. From making simple calculators to handling complex workflows like doing OCR on data and syncing it with firebase. It's not quite ready for a public release but we have a few videos and would love to know what you think!

Here are some examples:
(note that other than passing some api keys, we have done no hardcoding what so ever, it's SO GENERAL!)

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Interacting with Firebase and creating a custom frontend with fuzzy search: https://youtu.be/EgSkn6vUVJg

Data-cleaning and basic datascience: https://youtu.be/TD-1orzQyuU

We also have a waitlist and will start onboarding people in 2 weeks. If you are interested sign up here: https://booknote.cloud
has the historical evidence been reconsidered?

i remember reading quotes from historical people who were all pretty clear that this is how they slept, and often implied they considered it not to be unusual.
WebGL, an important part of browser fingerprinting, takes a long time. Im sure there are other APIs being 'abused' for this purpose that take a while. This doesnt quite prove the PoW.
Exerting Scientific Authority for Political Ends Undermines Scientific Authority
AMD ROCm Support Added to Llama.cpp
It's also possible that we've already peaked as a society and we can't continue to have infinite higher standard of living. Real wages have declined over the past 50 years. Due to both resource consumption/demand and environmental impact it may not be feasible for the next generation to have the same things as the previous generation. Even shifts like a secondary economy transitioning to a tertiary economy can cut out more people due to the demand for high skill/education. Despite all this, standard of living has gone up, even for the less fortunate if you compare to the past, mostly due to the quality of goods and the advantage of trade with poorer nations. When that might end or reverse is anyone's guess.

But yes, inequality has also gone up as you point out. Raising other people's salaries is probably the best way to deal with this while staying in the current paradigm. Although raising chip worker wages isn't going to change inequality - you'd have to apply this to other jobs like retail, food service, custodial, etc.
> When you go shopping for the cheapest sushi, you should expect worms.

No, I prefer paying a government taxes so they can hire restaurant inspectors who work to ensure the probability of being sold food with worms approaches 0%, regardless of how much the food costs.

I have no interest in keeping track of the price of sushi. My main concern is knowing the product being sold meets a very high probability of meeting a certain minimum standard, such as not being infested with parasites. Otherwise, I just opt out of the market and make my food at home.
That would be great but if we can’t even convince most researchers to use open science principles then good luck convincing them to spend the time to convert their papers into graphs.