skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are useful for things like predicting/generating text, and summarizing text. They are not useful if you want to do other NLP tasks that include things like:

1. Identifying (and highlighting/extracting) the language that spans of text are in within a different language (e.g. a French phrase in English).

2. Text search and highlighting, where you need to do things like performing word stemming or lemmatization on the search input, find matching documents, and highlight spans.

Also, LLMs have a different tokenization model, so you have tokens like "don"/"'t!" -- this makes them difficult to work with in downstream NLP applications where having words, numbers, punctuation, and symbols as specific tokens are more useful.

NLP is not a solved task, as things like part of speech classification (identifying nouns, adjectives, etc.) are not 100% accurate, and tend to have a lower sentence accuracy compared to word accuracy.
Which you otherwise lose to friction and air resistance
I'm sorry, but it is not benchmark, it is farce.

One run, 7ms, 2ms? It is statistical fluctuation, not data, especially if it was run on "typical" developer laptop under "typical" session where browsers and other high-hitters are run in background and all these turbo-boosts and freq-governors are not turned off.

You need OS where almost all software (including most system services) are killed, CPU frequency is fixed (all power saving technology is turned off in both firmware and OS, I'm not sure it is possible on M-based Apple laptops, and many Intel-based laptops with castrated BIOSes are not suitable too).

You need warm-up loops to warm-up caches, or special code to flush caches, depends on what you want to measure.

You need to have tight-loop with your function called (and you must be sure, that it is not inlined by compiler into loop) which runs enough iterations to spend at least several seconds of wall time.

You need several such loop runs (10+, ideally), to have something which looks like statistics.

You need to calculate standard deviation and check that it is small enough (and you need to understand why it is not small enough if it is not).

Then it is benchmark.

Otherwise it is FUD.
That sounds to me like the people who act like Y2K was never a serious threat because it got solved.

They invented the atom bomb during WW2 and dropped it on two cities in Japan to get Japan to give up its stubborn refusal to surrender. Some Japanese soldiers hid in caves and devotedly didn't surrender for decades afterwards.
Yes? Not architecturally different, but with fewer bugs. People are always complaining about bugs in videogames.
This is exactly to the reason why PHP and before perl are successful in this space.

When you extrapolate that to modern tech, you could create a shared hoster with a configured reverse proxy and per customer docker images.

But that is so much expensive to build, operate and bill than an apache. And looks very close to AWS and friends.
> The borrow-checker only expresses that your code is sound according the rust spec.

Doesn’t the borrow checker also track when things fall out of scope, and thus control when Drop is called?
Yes, to take over the world and turn every person of different ethnicity than Han Chinese into a slave or servant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
Yes, the apache[0] image will do what you want

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/1c4b255f3e5ab610c...
I think using the php built-in webserver is not an option for a production setting.
I use RoadRunner for that purpose. It even has some amazing features you can enable as keeping the application loaded in memory between requests.

https://roadrunner.dev/
The 82-year-old who plays cricket wearing an oxygen tank
I think bullying behaviour as a way to display power is the result of dark triad personality traits and hubris rather than imposter syndrome.

While insecurity can lead to people being bullies, I think people with imposter syndrome (which by the way, I think is a super over-used term made popular by LinkedIn) are actually genuinely full of self-doubt and lack confidence in their abilities - so I think they’re probably less likely to go on a power trip - because they wouldn’t believe they deserved the power they had in the first place. (If my understanding of imposter syndrome is correct).

These are just my thoughts - I could be wrong.
The Printing Press Under an X-Ray Microscope
Wait, are you under the impression that do-gooders in the government have given up the outlaw "violent" video games fight?

https://www.wglt.org/show/wglts-sound-ideas/2021-03-08/illin...

Besides the "scientific" consensus is

1) video games do indeed cause violence by a tiny little bit. Not much

And the world's consensus is

2) yeah, we don't care

And the most telling bit about CSAM activists' character is their massive across-the-board support for punitive measures (which if you check turn out to mostly be against minors), and zero support for youth services infrastructure (you know, actually helping victims)
Since you're allowed to add your own sample text, I always use something like this:

efficient, effluent eggs 3690 Il1 GQ To AV Va Yo

... which shows ligatures (if any), old-style numerals (if any), descenders, the zero in a code font, differentiation among similar-looking characters, and familiar kerning pairs (if any).
I don't see what is so false about what langan says
How does it compare to Janet https://janet-lang.org/ ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116
Google's Statement on the UK Online Safety Bill [pdf]
In the article it says best chances to see it are this weekend (implying today and tomorrow), then says it'll be closest on Sep 17th, which is the following weekend. Which one is it?
Yes, absolutely. I don’t think I have once in my life said “I am going back to the office”
Folding anime production company set to destroy film masters in November
People in this thread seem to miss the comparison against tape storage which caps out at 1GB/s today. If this thing can also do random access, it is legitimately a totally new ball game for archival storage and how storage products are built / conceived.
That they maintain this website but decided to drop Google Reader boggles my mind.
No, I'm trying to understand what OP's position is?

> There are a lot of things I think should exist but don’t want there to be laws enforcing that fact.

Can you give some examples? I can't think of a single social network that is not moderated, even 4Chan is to some extent. Maybe on the darknet? But even then moderation exists I assume.

So it seems clear to me that there should be some minimum standard in moderation, which should be enforceable.

It's kind of ironic that we discuss this on a heavily moderated platform, which is both moderated by a centralised authority as well as the users themselves.
That hasn’t been tested in court.

But even if that were true, it’s a moot point because we are talking about the copyrighted content that the models were trained on. Hence the point the OP made that if Microsoft really wanted to reassure people then they’d promote models that were trained on Microsoft’s own code rather than handwave away these concerns with gestures of assuming theoretical liability.
> Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic […].

Slack migrated to Hacklang in 2016 [1].

[1] https://slack.engineering/hakana-taking-hack-seriously/ "We started migrating to a different language called Hack in 2016."
The universe could also spontaneously stop existing[1] but I still put my seatbelt on when I get into my car. It’s about probability.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay
Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
Location: Vienna, Austria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

Languages: Python, Go, Javascript, Typescript, Lua, PHP, Java

Backend Frameworks: NestJS, Flask, FastAPI, Django, nodeJS, Codeigniter, Laravel, Express.js

Frontend: React, Vue, Angular, Redux

DevOps: Linux, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, Jenkins, Github Actions

Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, MS SQLServer,
SQLite, Oracle DB, Redis

Other: Jaeger, GraphQL, BDD, DDD, TDD, Agile methodologies

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15tsofcKyMy99KVYHBGdc-f6_ivZ...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-ruffato-3a699919/

Github: https://github.com/rufasterisco/

Email: rufasterisco@gmail.com
Ok. Thanks for letting me know how my words were perceived. I appreciate it. That's the only way I can improve my communication skills.
If you've never encountered a dangerous situation in the right lane, you don't drive very often or very far or both.

Electric vehicles are not actually better than gas for continuous use, they're better in the city when the traffic is stop and go.

Losing minutes (and hours) of your life for a minor improvement on the climate seems odd. Spending that energy on reducing corporate offenders (like shipping with bunker oil) would be more effective in achieving closer the maximum 20% reduction. Lobbying for better public transportation is better than slowing everyone down. (though it's unfortunate how often those lobbying want to replace instead of augment cars.)

If the majority of drivers feel the limits are too low, and the limits stay low, can you argue democracy is working? It's more likely you favor the status quo and know that contacting a politician is rather unlikely to get it changed.

Electric cars are more efficient in general, the relative efficiency is what I am comparing. Keep in mind, that the best path is to drive your current car until it's irreparable before buying any new car electric or not.
$60 billion is a lot of money. How much do Americans actually spend on tax prep per year?
Agree about coin flipping - I was thinking about the same thing after I posted. Better source of randomness required.

On your final paragraph - is what you're saying only true if you base all your decisions on the quantum mechanical equivalent of a coin flip? Or are you referring to something else?
Read the original quote from the article. It does not say that the state should say that there should be some moderation, it says that the state should say how platforms are moderated. "how closely the state should be involved in the moderation practices of private platforms"

Also, again and again: the fact that all platforms you know are moderated does not mean that this should happen by law.
A what now?
a) We can do something about climate change b) climate change is primary self-imposed c) stacking your bets makes it exponentially less likely to survive
Indeed! This one seems to have potassium hydroxide in it.
I don't really know what directed you to the nginx+fpm+volumes in the first place.

FROM php:7.2-apache
COPY src/ /var/www/html/

and this is it.
That's a poor workaround since many good fonts have alternative styles for such things, and these wouldn't show up
The language is a "reasonable" Lisp, with the caveat that it doesn't have things like reader macros (which is a good thing IMO, and helps avoid the Curse of Lisp).

The runtime/REPL is pretty good too, and can be quite dynamic with Revise.jl, but doesn't have the Real REPL-driven Programming Experience™ as defined here: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

I'm not sure how much of the "breakloop" functionality Infiltrate.jl provides, but at least the runtime re-definition of types isn't supported in Julia, and is one of the shortcomings of the Revise.jl based workflow.

All this is not to take away from the original point, Julia does get you a big chunk of the way to being a Lisp and gives you a lot of expressive power. It's just to say that Julia is not just a reskinning of a Lisp with familiar syntax, it has some important design and implementation differences.
All the sole trader company's in the world that operate from home, show working from home has been practiced for many decades.

Some need to do site visits, some dont, their job dictates that.

The sole trader shows the world some people are more motivated about working, increasing their earning potential than someone who works for a bigger company.

So does working from home, show greater or less productivity, or does it highlight the slave driving nature of the managers?
I like the fun spirit of it. We do not have these people anymore.
Fair enough. I just got triggered by the fact that trucks have in fact been used to commit very effective attacks and that we likely haven't seen the last of them, and I think that the next attack will use a truck rather than an ICBM. In fact, right up to the point where ICBMs are used for attacks trucks will have the advantage in terms of actual use. But once ICBMs are used you'd expect that to change rapidly.

Far fewer entities have access to ICBMs though than to trucks so let's hope that those with that level of access will remain composed enough not to use them. The chances of that are not all that good at the moment, too many idiots with access to them.
This is just genuienly awful for the user.
Put yourself back to the times when you first started to learn C++, maybe programming in general. And now you have to wonder why one of your string constants is just fine and the other one gives you some weird error in allocator.h or something...
Saying 77% of the web is run by PHP and concluding therefore that PHP is well-liked for websites is like telling most of banking is run in COBOL and therefore COBOL is well-liked for banking.

The conclusion has no coherence to the source.

I guess that most of the web runs on PHP (because it runs on Wordpress) if counted by page-view. But I'm not sure that's the proper measure.
Isn't Hack basically compiled PHP so that it is faster for FB's use case? I understand it's not technically PHP, but I imagine it is effectively still PHP, or is it more like what C++ is to C?

I understand PHP is fast adding any actual language features that Hack has over it?
Fair enough, why worry when a friendly comet could solve the problem by killing us all.
More like a husband talking bad about his wife for years and as soon as he realized that she earns craploads of money becomes a supporting and loving Partner.
> what prevents it from ensuring that a runtime is present when it does?

The runtime being a library instead of a language/compiler level feature. Custom runtimes is necessary for systems languages as they can have specialized constraints.

EDIT: Note that it's the presence of a supported runtime for the async operation (e.g. it relies on runtime-specific state like non-blocking IO, timers, priorities, etc.), not only the presence of any runtime.

> What prevents the runtime from preempting a task?

Memory efficient runtimes use stackless coroutines (think state machines) instead of stackful (think green threads / fibers). The latter comes with inefficiencies like trying to guess stack sizes and growing them on demand (either fixing pointers to them elsewhere or implementing a GC) so it's not always desirable.

To preempt the OS thread of a stackful coroutine (i.e. to catch synchronously blocking on something) you need to have a way to save its stack/registers in addition to its normal state machine context which is the worst of both worlds: double the state + the pointer stability issues from before.

This is why most stackful coroutine runtimes are cooperatively scheduled instead, requiring blocking opportunities to be annotated so the runtime can workaround that to still make progress.
> "In 2018, it sold more phones in Europe than Apple."

Umm yeah but mostly bottom of the barrel stuff, riddled with bloatware. We had some at work and it was impossible to use them out of the box without constantly being interrupted by celebrity news popups.

It was the kind of phone for a price that won't even buy you a pair of AirPods :)

Our company wanted to replace all the company Samsung phones with these but people hated them. And then trump happened so they had to go back on it anyway.
Tangential: I wanted to embed a sane sandboxed scripting language in a node app and found… nothing. Only options were a completely broken node sub vm, half-broken js sandbox which isn’t maintained and slightly less half broken js sandbox?

Does everyone roll their own when they need to embed logic expressions in their yamls?
I had to look this up... CADT == Jamie Zawinski's "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers"
Maybe there’s a problem with people getting incapacitated by striking the buttresses? But you made a good point about nets getting blocked by debris. Maybe the nets will kill fish as well
I agree; the title is doing a lot of work in terms of getting people to read the article and I'm sure the author is aware. This is a trade-off and when the article doesn't quite sell on the promise of the title you are bound to get a little backlash.
It says Arabic is the hardest language to learn for English speakers - I thought Chinese was the toughest? Is Arabic more cumbersome to learn than Chinese?
and just discovered another joke of a search from a search giant helping me "find what you’re looking for"

You can't find Source Code Pro with any of the 3 Decorative stroke flagged even though that's supposed to be an exhaustive list (serif, no serif, slab serif)
Also, maybe better regulate so that products that are lethal even if the consumer has no medical problems can’t be sold as snacks over the counter like this.
Unfortunately, the link to a site with code for this doesn't work, but archive.org has our back:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160503021303/https://radiganen...

The GitHub link works still:

https://github.com/WRadigan/pySpot-It/blob/master/pySpot-It....
Let's hope your car can handle that.

Or the road is in good condition.

Or that your tires are rated for that speed (T or higher).
> there's no reason to force them to do anything.

So why are we forcing social networks to do a lot of things already today: We force them to remove illegal content, remove content that is not suited for minors, moderate content that is traumatic, protect people's privacy etc?

I don't really understand? Is your point that we should not be doing this as well? Is your fear that the state of California will moderate Twitter?
I guess it will, as does Idiocracy I am afraid. Or not.

But yes, don't look up was funny!
Like, never checked the safety brochures, or looked if the safety vests are where they are supposed to be, or never listened to preflight safety instructions? I always do that, and also try to book seats close to exits.
Yeah, the "culture" had its technical issues. But in real culture PHP people are typically good mooded, friendly and humble fellows.

So culture is a plus thing. Because the technical mishaps are there in any community with size (looking at you JavaScript)
I believe it was originally exported because it is very good for train track sleepers - it’s a hard wood that grows very quickly.
Mozilla actively supports online ads and tracking. Without their partnership with Google, they could not continue as a going concern for very long.

The deception is to make people believe that studying them as ad targets through their internet use can be "private". Many will believe this nonsense. Including regulators. "It's OK, folks. Privacy is preserved." Green light to keep on tracking, collecting data and serving ads.

But the study of people's internet use to enable programmtic advertising _is_ the problem. There will be more ads. They will be more personal. The www will become even more annoying. Perhaps moreso than any other medium that has come before it.

To Mozilla, there can be no www without advertising. The truth is that there can be no so-called "tech" companies, monopolisng intermediaries, without programmatic internet advertising. The www does not need it and the original www did not have it.

First Mozilla partners with Yahoo. Then Google. Perhaps Meta will be next. Mozilla is no different than so-called "tech" companies in at least one regard: it cannot find a "business model" besides internet advertising.

https://analyticsindiamag.com/despite-clashes-in-the-past-mo...

https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/ipa-the-meta-and-mozilla...

https://www.admonsters.com/eletters/mozilla-and-metas-ipa-fr...
I haven't used it for a long while, but I did a LOT of PHP5, several years. In my opinion PHP4 was horrific (from a language/standard library perspective, most languages you can get what you want done regardless of that), a lot of it carried over into PHP5 despite being a lot better (e.g. see phpsadness). Then the fiasco that was 6/7/whatever made it really hard to have confidence in the future of PHP.

No idea how recent PHP is. It's hard to escape those opinions that formed fairly widely in the industry is, though.
Bought some image stabilising binoculars recently, admittedly on a bit of a whim but the experience is quite magical. Excited to see if they're any good for stargazing!
Indeed, one of my last big projects I worked on before I retired was using an LSTM model for named entity recognition. It was many times faster than anything you can do with an LLM.
Spacy is a great library and still way better than LLMs in a narrow set of tasks for a few of reasons:

- Effiency: get the same job done in less time, with less memory

- Consistency: always gives you the same result, no prompt engineering required, no hallucinations, no creativity

- Security: parse untrusted text without worrying about prompt injection

I work in a project that uses complex NLP pipelines. LLMs are replacing or enhancing parts of it, but not at all replacing spacy.
More discussion on stories days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37422829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37422525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426556
Elon Musk’s X sues California over new social media transparency laws
Well it's not exactly secure by default. I was deploying an app to a new server and some bot grabbed my .env file before I finished the Apache config.
Ultimately it's my own stupidity, but you don't have to worry about that with most other languages
PHP is akin to, I don't know, the Subway (fast food restaurant chain) of programming languages?

You don't hear too much about it. You almost never notice it unless you're actually looking for it, unlike McDonald's with its ostentatious golden arches.

It's popularity is waning. But it's still everywhere. [0] There are a hundred other sandwich chains that have tried to do it better but none have managed the ubiquity of Subway.

People like to look down on it and espouse the alternatives, but when it comes down to it fast food can only ever be so good.

I guess that means that JavaScript is McDonald's?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_fast_food_...
I'm not aware of any issues as long as you are on the latest Nuxt and nuxi versions, so it might be easier to help if you open an issue with a reproduction on https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues.
Yeah, capsaicin as a drug should probably not need regulation. As a snack for entertainment, on the other hand.
I'm a graphic designer and Vector Magic[1] still is my gold standard for vectorizing logos. Expensive but worth it.

[1] https://vectormagic.com/