skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually ran into this problem this week, toyed around with multiprocessing.shared_memory (which seems to also rely on mmaped-files, right?) and decided to just embrace the GIL.

Multiprocessing is not needed when all of your handful subprocesses are just calling Numpy-code and release their gil anyways.

Also some/most Numpy functions are multithreaded (depending on the BLAS implementation, linked against), take advantage of that and schedule huge operations and just let the interpreter sit idle waiting for that result.
There have been a few things that have been in the back of my mind that have been painfully bothering me for quite while regarding this subject.

Are people really that different from an AI model when it comes to generating works?

Isn't the underlying and overarching concept and process similar when it comes to this? (Optimizing for a certain select scenario or outcome by iteratively going through ideas and generating more over time.)

What happens when both the model and human converge and it becomes truly indecipherable when it comes to telling the difference?

Shower thoughts. I guess.
> Certainly it depends on the program. I've seen some truly horrible training programs. Cheesy videos from the 80s, pointless multiple choice tests, no mentorship or assistance after the initial round of intensive training. These aren't what we are talking about.

So how do you make sure your programme doesn't turn into that? Is it just a case of "have a good training programme, don't have a bad training programme"? Again it's weird to have the article use so many comparative terms and not talk about what you're comparing against and what the critical differences are.

> An example of the structure is that we have a curriculum figured out. We know what tools, techniques, and domain knowledge our new employees need within each team.

So how do you know it's right, and especially how do you keep it up to date? A lot of those terrible training programmes suffer a lot from having what was originally thought to be a good curriculum at the time.

> Another example would be with mentorship. In many situations, new employees aren't given a single point of contact with someone whose duties including supporting them. In other circumstances, they will be told to ask anyone about anything, or to ask their manager or team lead, but often new employees are too timid to ask, or don't know who to ask, or the assigned person may be too busy or otherwise unapproachable. Having a plan and making sure everyone is onboard with it is important, but it's not always considered.

Making a single point of contact mentor work sounds like something concrete that many companies don't do or do badly. How do you make sure people are properly incentivised/rewarded for mentoring well? Do new joiners have any way to recover if they end up with a bad mentor (given that having the mentor be their single point of contact/responsibility cuts both ways)?
You jest but back in the day (90s) one of my friends said they still ran Smalltalk VMs in production. That was 25 years ago but still possible…
I remember that during the early nineties, when I was kid, I often used to see over a dozen vultures perched on my maternal grandparents’ terrace in New Delhi on summer evenings (I visited them only in summer). A few years later I noticed that I didn’t see them anymore and occasionally wondered why. Then years later I started seeing articles about Diclofenac killing vultures and then it clicked. Just thought I’d share.
Does LLM get tweaked by the prompts?
Germany Is Losing Its Mojo. Finding It Again Won’t Be Easy
I feel it's incredible good at boilerplate. Mapping SQL to object fields, that sort of thing.

But anything deviating from trivial boilerplate it tends to get subtly wrong more often than not, and the code is bad too. Always end up rewriting half of it.

Been keeping it off lately, feels like in most cases I'm more productive with dumb autocomplete, because then I already know what it will suggest, saves a lot of mental bandwidth over constantly parsing irrelevant copilot noise.
Not sure how that would affect anything (besides confusing your close-flying allies, as here) beyond visual range where majority of modern aerial combat ought to take place.
Just get ChatGPT to get rid of all the irrelevant parts of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, like the parts that describe whaling in detail, and are definitely irrelevant. Personally I just read the chapter headings and first and last sentences of each para, most of the stuff in between in 99.9% of books is just filler anyways
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I've usually seen both presented at the merge, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_fighter_maneuvers#/media...
That doesn’t follow at all. There’s no reason you can’t be good at both.
Minor point, but if you are going to "charge a price per kilometer", then you have as much incentive as helicopters to complete the work as quickly as possible.

Edit: Just adding that the video is excellent. I was imagining that these were significantly larger than what you are using. The fact that you can transport them in a semi-trailer like that is very cool.
Using chatgpt to code is not a skill. It’s a crutch. Any employees that feel held back by not being able to access it aren’t great in the first place.
Agreed, I much prefer Agile Standups for Dummies in A Nutshell to wordy crud like Moby Dick and Hegel, who were paid by the word.
>I sort of miss the days when simple stuff was hard.

what? what's the point?

for me it's the most annoying thing when the simple stuff is hard because why would it be?
This is a 100% head-on match for my thesis here. Thanks!
Google Home automation just got more powerful
That's pretty cool that they are selling "external mix" plans/kits. Snowmaking (at scale) is incredibly energy intensive and over the last few years many resorts have been moving towards various "low-energy" gun designs, which basically means external mix.

They definitely don't make as good snow at marginal temperatures but it's impressive what they can do given a lot use 1/20th of the compressed air compared to a tradition air/water snowgun.

A tradition air/water gun is just an 1.5" air inlet, a 1.5" water inlet, a mixing chamber and a nozzle. At higher temperatures, they take an incredible amount of air. We had a few guns that could take 300 horsepower worth of an air compressor, each, to run at -2.5 celsius wet bulb. As is gets colder it gets a little more efficient.

There are some designs that are basically the same but incorporate a "baffle" that attempts to cut down the size of the mixing chamber when there's a high air/water mixture to make them more efficient, but those baffles would often get stuck open, making them useless.

A fangun is the style of snowgun that uses a giant electric fan to project the snow out from the gun. There is an onboard electric air compressor hooked up to a few nozzles that spray out a mixture of air and water. The tiny droplets freeze into the "nucleus" (a tiny ice particle), which other droplets from water-only nozzles bind onto and freeze, creating a "snowflake".

An external mix gun is basically a fangun, minus the big electric fan, and suspended 30+ feet in the air on a pole. A small number of nozzles spray out an air/water mix, creating the nucleus, and then water only nozzles spray out droplets that then bind to the nucleus. It works but needs to be a bit colder, and they are much more susceptible to winds (especially cross winds). If winds don't allow the two types of sprays to mix, you get a nice skating rink instead of snow!
It is easy to use someone's name against an email address you control, as spammers do. You can also add a reply-to with anyone's email address so far as I know. Probably not what you want, though maybe the best you can expect.
Obviously, any dense enough city is quite different from American suburbs. Heck, I am from a 100k city in Spain, a country where even tiny villages are quite dense and you can find shops everywhere, and I am shocked that in rural Japan where I live now it is American-style urban sprawl and you need the car for everything.

In any case, my original comment about consumerism was about the constant barrage of new products that you see here. Go to your nearest konbini and there is always some ad about some new product, any popular enough manganime will trigger a deluge of merchandise, you have the million gachapon with the most ridiculous shit... I hope you get my point.
My Toyota was the only car I ever bought that had exactly zero defects and worked perfectly in every capacity asked of it.

They are the Debian Linux of vehicles — older libraries but stable. No cutting edge package managers to crash your workday.

Therefore, for them to shut the line down means they are working through a serious issue, but as long as they keep that commitment to “quality, reliability and durability” and the reputation they’ve earned because of it, I’m sure the reason is worth it.

That said, the new Land Cruiser has cup holders for a third row seat in the US (a 250 globally, not sure why they decided to do a Lc brand on a 250 just for the US markets), but it… doesn’t have a third row to use them. It’s baffling and very not Toyota. So maybe they are slipping?
I have often had the same conversation with people in that spectrum, that people should just start coops if they feel like it but to not force me into them, and they tell me that it only works when all businesses are coops, ie workers own the means of production everywhere. Well, if it requires such a fundamental change to society, perhaps it's not actually a feasible solution at all?
My mom says she took ivermectin frequently as a child, and we’re in the disparagingly named named “flyover country.”

Looking at Wikipedia it seems she was taking it after it was approved for animals, but before it was for humans. I don’t know if she’s mistaken it for another medication or if that’s just what was done then. I know when a friend of mine thought he had worms she suggested he take the dog form of it, and this was well before all of the recent press, so I’m inclined to think it’s the latter.
A note to young folks: download the things you love
Rightly or wrongly, 60fps is becoming what 30fps used to be, and gamers can tell the difference (as can normal people with VR). It is what it is.

This latency problem is why I’m dabbling with raylib and LFE of all things. The BEAM cannot hold a candle to SBCL for performance code, but the GC latency can be managed better.

Anyway, I don’t want to go on a tangent, since I really appreciate your efforts; there are plenty of domains that the new SBCL GC will be a big deal for.
Pretty sure mentally ill people go on HN to insult people with whose opinions they don't agree with
I remember 7-8 years ago taking a trip down HWY35, then dropped down into Portola Valley. 5-10M dollar houses. Lot of them had a Prius sitting in the driveway next way more expensive cars.
Bender also recently said in some podcast that there's basically no useful case for LLMs. I think she's a good candidate for some soundbite to add to "a global market of maybe five computers", "nobody needs more than 640k", etc (but she is probably not notable enough even for that).
That sounds like a bargain.
Every morning. It's my self-administered test for Alzheimer's.
If I know what I want to write, Copilot will really speed up my process of writing this. If I don't know what I want to write, ( how to structure the function, how to put the comment, etc...) then asking Copilot for suggestions is distracting.

So I make sure I know what I want to write before I hit the keyboard.
Driverless cars with a person who's supposed to be driving... are not what most people imagine when you say driverless
every other market in the world the LC is 3 row seating. It isn't considered luxurious because the space in the trunk is more wanted. Look at LC in Philippines or APAC.
FWIW also working fine here.
I can't tell if this some subtle satire on the 20th century of other similar "benevolent dictators for now" that, any day now, will relinquish control to the masses of workers. If not, that would be some true irony.
Yes. If you re-open a chat from a while ago, typing a new message will typically result in an error causing me to having to start a new conversation. Happens both in the browser and on mobile for months now. Because no one else has it then it’s probably because I disabled history. It’s still a bug.

Another bug that I‘m having for weeks now is that pressing Stop Responding will indeed stop the stream but it will also cause a block on any new messages for about a minute. This one used to work just fine but started to fail a few weeks ago.
This is exactly the type of website I collect for https://Cloudhiker.net, great find!
Why would apple ever release an SBC product? I could understand if a community grows up around repurposing iPhone logic boards, but sourcing their laptop SoCs or boards wouldn't be feasible commercially.

If it's about developing the ARM ecosystem, the Pi boards have systemready certification with ACPI tables and all the creature comforts, with supply issues improving.

As a consumer, a hypothetical Zen4 APU SBC would perform better (7840u) on both performance-per-watt and absolute performance metrics compared to equivalent price M series, while giving you access to the mature x86 ecosystem.
Great write, learned a lot. It’s incredible how there seems to be BPF programs for almost anything in the kernel.
Ok, 3 bucks and inconvenience of using a vpn(if free it's also tracking you) and no blocking sponsored blocks and works worse in some countries without vpn? Yeah sure...
I pay for premium, but i du this solely for blocking tv ads and yt music, for the rest, ublock and sponsorblock do offer a better experience in browsers and completely free
If I don't know what I want to write, I use ChatGPT instead. The combination of both tools is quite incredible for productivity.
Why has D failed to get momentum? Some years ago (maybe 15?) there was some buzz around this language, which looks like a nice improvement for many C or C++ use cases (but not all!). The language makes a more ergonomic impression than Go, for example, and it is probably easier to learn than Rust, because you don't have to wrap your head around the borrow checker. However, today hardly anyone talks about D and I wonder where the train derailed.
I believe latest version of Elastic offers this
Google Tests Removing Estimated Number of Search Results
I know right? I love zfs but i want something with a better licence and for that filesystem to be in mainline for the decade it will take for me to be comfortable with its maturity it needs to get started ASAP, otherwise i will probably die before i can switch.
Nope. Losing the first game after a 71-day streak cured me completely of the addiction.
It's a carrier, it connects you to the internet. Why isn't "I haven't connected to my account in months" the expected state?
> Maybe that is still _likely_ true, but your experience was that nothing about your internal clock fundamentally changed?

Nope. The only thing that changed is that my 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) went into overdrive and I'm nearly incapable of going to sleep before midnight now. Which is probably the reverse of what you're hoping for.

> One thing that has changed since I was a kid, is that I can fall asleep in just a few minutes if I make a conscious effort.

For me, it's a bit of a wash. I no longer get stuck in the loop of getting stressed over how little sleep time I have left, preventing me from falling asleep - a constant in high school. But how fast I fall asleep now depends on how tired and relaxed I am. Since latter hardly happens, it's mostly a function of sleep deprivation - i.e. I can fall asleep in minutes, provided I'm systematically undersleeping. Otherwise, it's a coin toss. Cooling down the bedroom helps - recent heat waves made falling asleep hard for me until I made the connection and started firing up A/C at night.
How do you prevent it from, you know, catching fire and exploding?
A lot of companies roll their own (like Honeycomb, and Kentik (network telemetry)). Clickhouse is a very good open option.
How does that compare to the average at risk of high capital shortage?
Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates
just noticed this today

Yup, more tech 'enshitification': the removal of useful features combined with the addition of unwanted or useless ones no one asked for. We need to make this known to tech companies to stop doing this. Stop removing functionality, eliminating transparency, etc. Websites that we take for granted are rapidly becoming less useful in the pursuit of profit or some other motive.
It's still legal in Spain, and kills vultures there.
ChatGPT doesn’t work for this. There is a huge GIGO problem here that it’s missing the organizational knowledge to disambiguate. Unless you’ve pre-told it which excel sheets are correct, this is DOA.

ChatGPT only works as well as it does because it’s been trained on a corpus of “internet accepted” answers. It can’t fucking reason about raw data. It’s a language model.
Right, but you are bending the argument to your will.

What is a "decently complex one liner"?

If it's decently complex, then it's probably not a one liner, so indeed chatgpt may be faster.

If it's a one liner, then it's probably not complex, so I would be quite confident in being faster than chatgpt.

The reality is, 99.9% of one liners are just series of pipes and filters to extract specific fields from an output, and act on it. I'm quite confident I would be faster than chatgpt for any of these. And no, I don't write bash "all day, every day".

I tend to see "every day bash" as very similar to SQL. Once you know cut, grep, find, sed and awk, even at a basic level, then you can combine them and extract pretty much anything.
personally i would smash the ipads too. solves a lot of problems.
It's probably referring to the Markdown to HTML translator library, an example of how Wasm enables Unix-style composition.
> Rising temperatures in Black Rock Desert, which hit a record 103F [sic] at last year’s edition, have led to an increasing reliance on air conditioning fueled by generators.

> ”... But more private jets than ever are flying to the Burn. We’re burning propane for fun. The air-conditioned domes are getting bigger every year.”

How common are these? There are plenty of results if I search for "burning man air conditioning", but is it 1% of people or more like 10%?

Example [1] has someone driving a "heavy as fuck" 3.2kW solar array there from Canada, and someone else renting a refrigerated container.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/8oxwts/advice_o...
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Though I’ll be less worried about a drone flying above the ocean than above properties and infrastructures. You’re gonna need a bunch of lawyers and public relations, but I guess the kind of industry you’ll work for can help on that.
Library sandboxing is a well known application of WASM. Search for the WebAssembly Component Model. There's also a way to use WASM to sandbox a C library - search for RLBox.
From my conversations with some Toyota software engineers, they have a respectably sophisticated modern software/tech stack.

There's a ton of C++ since they have to interface with hardware. For tooling and internal applications it's a lot of Rails/Elixir/Javascript. Web APIs are backed by Elixir/Go. Data processing in Scala/Spark. Infrastructure in AWS, orchestrated with k8s. Truly agile prototyping then polish, significant automated testing.

Honestly, it makes "big tech" look like dinosaurs with their megasized-Java projects and 3:1 PM:engineer ratio waterfall planning once a year releases.

What they're missing is the operational experience with operating the software at scale.
The Rise of the Serverless Monoliths
Yes. Which is why the comment I replied to is nonsense.
Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness
That sounds right to me. I actually think I enjoy coding more now than in the past, writing function names and letting the IDE write the code itself.
That isn't the point of this article or the comments here. It's all about accepting the inevitable and seeing the beauty in it, not fighting against that.
A study in the art of maintenance, analysing a round-the-world solo yacht race
What a beautiful story this is of three legendary men who tired to conquer the high seas, and what they (and us all) learnt along the process
You have it backwards, life is amazing, death and dying sucks
Re-Evaluating Second Brains
Back when I was contracting the pattern was to fire their own staff first, particularly those with domain knowledge. Then they would offer the contractors full time jobs at half their contract rates. I didn't do many contracts where I wasn't offered a job by the end of the contract.
Just because the name says worker co-op doesn't mean every employee has to be vested.

In the Netherlands a coop is an acutal legal structure that businesses may adopt. It will surprise you to hear that we even a big bank which is: A co-op.

The core characteristic of a co-op isn't that the workers all have shares. It's that they have members and that the members instead of the shareholders may receive payouts based on the company income.

I realize this is different than the American case of a worker co-op. Your reaction though speaks to me that you don't consider this a serious form a company might take. Whereby you ignore that some very big and wealthy companies are in fact co-ops. I assert that this is merely because the US legal systems don't facilitate co-ops, and I wonder whether that isn't a missed opportunity?
No it’s not. You haven’t refuted the claim that starting a restaurant requires momey. You just said having money makes you bad at running a restaurant. Which is silly.