skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I work on a reasonably modern ERP system which has been customized significantly for the client and also works with wider range of client-specific data combinations that the vendor has seemingly not anticipated / other clients do not have.

What it means is that on a regular basis, teams will be woken up at 2am because a batch process aborted on bad data; AND it doesn't tell you what data / where in the process it aborted.

The only possibility is to rerun the process with crippling traces, and then manually review the logs to find the issue, remove it, and then re-run the program again (hopefully remembering to remove the trace:).

Even when all goes per plan, this can at times take more than 4 hrs.

Now, we are not running a mission-critical real-time system like air traffic; and I'm in NO way saying any of this is good; but, it may not be the case that "two level of support teams didn't know anything" - the system could just be so poorly designed that with best operational experience and knowledge, it still took that long :-< .

On HN, we take certain level of modernity, logging, failure states, messaging, and restartability for granted; which may not be even remotely present on more niche or legacy system (again, NOT saying that's good; just indicating issue may be less with operational competence vs design). It's easy to judge from our external perspective, but we have no idea what was presented / available to support teams, and what their mandatory process is.
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Does this mean that if I use an even more deterministic tool like, say, autocomplete to write software, that bit (say an auto-generated function definition), doesn't attract copyright?

Not that it doesn't make sense to say what they did, but it seems not quite compatible with how copyright already seems to work in practice. Which is, instead another demonstration that copyright in general is a pretty internally-inconsistent system when it comes to the details.
Yeah, definitely recommend you try it before discounting... I too have been super jaded with the current Node import ecosystem (esp. as an author), but Bun has basically become something of a silver bullet, with some small exceptions.

If I want, I can literally run a TS file directly with mixed import/require (not that you would ever) directly, without a package.json, tsconfig, dependencies, etc.

In my experience, it's basically Node, minus all the setup/config/build headaches.
Presumably you need to know where upcoming flights are going to be in the future (based on the plan), before they hit radar etc.
"Talkin About Hunga Tonga":

https://hwfo.substack.com/p/talkin-about-hunga-tonga

FTFA:

"The authors project this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck up there for over half a decade.

Let’s restate that to be perfectly clear.

If you believe that CO2 is slowly warming the planet, then the net result of this one very unusual volcano will be to fast forward global warming five years, and keep us at that fast-forward location for between five and ten years, and then will slowly abate. But because 2023 internet life is a sea of culture war, that straightforward scientific conclusion has gotten churned into the modern media culture war engine, dragging the study’s authors into the milieu.
> By putting it in the kernel where

... they repeat the same mistakes MS did with Windows. /s
Not even a 1000 normal engineers can replace a single von Neumann.

What makes it easier, though, is that the general principle is relatively well known, so one could always brute force the solution using computer simulations, even if unable to do the math by hand.
If that's what you need: it's Erlang / Elixir then.
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Sure but if you look at male outcomes, we are clearly ignoring a lot of real health problems that are deadly, so 66% of males ignoring a less than deadly problem that allows 8 hours of work a day seems more likely than a lot of female hypochondriacs to me.
How does this theory line up with the my experience, which seems to be similar to a lot of people with CFS:

I had high energy levels until I suddenly got sick, and had a mild fever for about a day. After that I had the sort of fatigue one feels when having the flu, except it lasted for about 8 months, and then gradually lifted. After that my energy levels totally recovered and stayed normal for over a decade. All tests, including psychiatric evaluation were normal so it was considered CFS.
Wow, that's really close so far as these things go. With the nearest star being 4ly, this can be reached with essentially the same tech level if we'd want to visit that with a rover or generational ship one day
My rule of thumb is that most devs can only really be “responsible” for around 25k lines of code (SLOC) at a time. Almost to a man, everyone who disagrees with me by more than a few percent turns out to be cranking out buggy code. If you’re not on top of the bugs you’ve diluted responsibility. Your affect on the bus number situation is compromised.

The 25k axiom is why I’m always trying to prioritize between concision and readability. It’s easier to hand off readable code, it’s easier to manage concise code. Concise code that is not readable is terse, so there’s a balancing act to be managed there. I won’t say they’re at odds, but they can complicate each other.
I found the link I had archived three years ago (when I mentioned researching this some years back): a Chicago Tribune article from 1994 [0]! There are lots of other search results that discuss the byproducts of various algal blooms contributing to a particular stink in Lake Michigan water, some mention the active carbon filtration and another [1], the use of ozone to neutralize the responsible compounds, but only the 1994 article actually names the responsible compounds: geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (2-MIB). (I remembered geosmin – the sometimes nice, sometimes not, smell of the earth after a rain – while writing my reply yesterday but could not recall the second compound for the life of me and I knew/know geosmin wasn’t solely responsible for the smell on its own.)

[0]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-11-20-941120... archived at https://archive.ph/qV723#

[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-06-25-990625... just archived at https://archive.ph/wip/ybQ9N

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There’s also this 53-page survey of contributors to taste and smell in water supplies from the Illinois State Water Survey out of UIUC that I would love to get around to reading (or at least skimming through): https://www.isws.illinois.edu/pubdoc/C/ISWSC-127.pdf
Yes, this is it!
Yes but the question was about the original PDP-7 implementation of Unix, not the port/rewrite for a large volume (by the standards of the day) machine like the -11.
> More that it doesn't need to have a big emphasis on social skills

> Most software development jobs are already like that though

A tiny fraction of software engineers have jobs where they don't need to interact with anyone. Beyond a certain level of seniority, you are expected to lead or influence teams, mentor junior colleagues or work with cross-functional teams like product or sales. Even when you are junior, you need to work with rest of the senior members to learn from them and earn their trust.

All of that needs social skills.
I only write Perl for one-liners anymore, and use -F"\t" all the time (mostly tab-delimited files), but I wasn't familiar with -l to avoid writing chomp. Thank you!
I bought a great domain name from Namecheap, after which they voided the purchase and made it a $1,500 premium domain. Other folks have pointed out that this may not have been malice on their part, but incompetence. In any case, I recommend avoiding them.
Definitely depends on the area but there are flooring options that stay cool, and if really hot weather is a common issue, a misting system can keep things surprisingly cool at the cost of some water use.
4DOS had it.
Link is in Spanish (I think).
This is a hard read. It seems to require a lot of context to understand.

Is it basically saying everyone online wants attention and that makes them girls?
He predicted it happening so eloquently too. What an outstanding exemplar hero.
>22680. This chapter shall not apply to a social media company that generated less than one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in gross revenue during the preceding calendar year.
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Is this any better than the Wireshark database? https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html
So you think the creators of mid journey could copyright this art piece?
German builders are on the brink of collapse due to rising costs and red tape
Thanks to the folks at MLCommons we have some benchmarks and data to evaluate and track inference performance published today. Includes results from GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs as well as some power measurements across several ML use cases including LLMs.

"This benchmark suite measures how fast systems can process inputs and produce results using a trained model. Below is a short summary of the current benchmarks and metrics. Please see the MLPerf Inference benchmark paper for a detailed description of the motivation and guiding principles behind the benchmark suite."

https://mlcommons.org/en/inference-datacenter-31/

For example the latest TPU (v5) from Google scores 7.13 queries per second with an LLM. Looking at GCP that server runs $1.2 / hour on demand.

On Azure an H100 scores 84.22 queries per second with an LLM. Couldn't find the price for that but an A100 costs $27.197 per hour so no doubt the H100 will be more expensive than that.

7.13 / $1.2 = 5.94 queries/second/$
84.22 / $27.197 (A100 Pricing) = 3.09 queries/second/$

[edited to include GCP TPU v5 and Nvidia H100 relative performance info for LLM Inference]
seems fine?

copyright exists in the US under this clause in the constitution:

> “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

not sure how letting people copyright the output of a program that ate the work of a million other people would "promote the progress of science and useful arts"? or how there's an author to reward? or how there's writings or discoveries?

of course this also applies to the US endlessly extending copyright also - nothing Congress can do, no matter how well intentioned, is going to encourage Walt Disney himself to produce anything new of value, nor did keeping Happy Birthday copyrighted until 70 years after the last Hill sister died assist any of them in coming back to life to come up with a second hit.

the dumb optimistic part of my dreams that having matrix multiplications shitting out words and pictures will cause a reassessment of why we let IP laws get so fucked up to begin with, but of course, it won't - it'll just mean Disney and Warner et al will find some way to keep selling tv shows and movies and the humans who produced the art who get shoved into the matrices get shafted.
Oh he did put me on supplements but he also recommended me to get out and get more sunlight
> How could this be detected and enforced though? Rely on self-reporting?

Presumably, the existence of such laws would preclude much of the larger companies from trying. Then, for the smaller companies, how is real-world stalking detected and enforced? Whatever that is, it might be a good start.
When just displaying a static banner add, your browser is a lot more passive than implied by "agent that is acting" in the GPP. Simply displaying an image (with a little HTML for the link) and perhaps caching it in local storage is quite different from collecting & collating logs about you and distributing that back out to the where internet.

You are right about the bit of the post you noticed though, both do use at least some resources. This system more, but the simple banner still some.
This argument could be applied to any condition with psychosomatic indicators.

Your suggestion that somatically-involved conditions aren't 'real' is offensive and what gives rise to the stigma that means we can't talk about this in the first place.
Cool idea! I don't really picture myself using this, but I think this add-on is a great example of how great a browser Firefox is. I'd be the first to critique Mozilla, and there are definitely things about Firefox I don't like (ex. Pocket, telemetry on by default), but overall I think it's an amazing product in that it allows for multiple levels of isolation (profiles, containers, private mode) and a level of control over them that Chromium either doesn't do as cleanly or doesn't do at all. As an aside, the only thing I think Chromium does better is the debugging experience; I don't truly understand why Firefox thinks it shouldn't support debugging Node.js like Chromium does.
A Firefighter's Account of Ground Zero Following 9/11
Training an LLM can be batched - you can train using entire sentences / blocks at a time. But when doing inference, you need to do one word at a time so you can put the output word back into the input.

The optimization problem is that it’s often not the CPU that’s bottlenecked. It’s RAM. As I understand it, if you run llama locally you need to matrix multiply a few gigabytes of input data for every output token before your computer can start figuring out the next token. Since the weights don’t fit in your CPU’s cache, DDR bandwidth is the limiting factor, just pulling all the weights over and over into your cpu. GPUs are faster in part because they have much faster memory busses.

To really optimize this stuff on the cpu, we need more than a few new CPU instructions. We need to dramatically increase ram bandwidth. The best way to do that is probably bringing ram closer to the cpu, like in Apple’s M1/2 chips and nvidia’s new H100 chips. This will require a rethink of how PCs are currently built.
After getting sucked in by the phosphine on Venus hype, I refuse to get hurt again. . .
> Even if they had parsed it into some structure this would be the equivalent of a KeyError popping out of nowhere because the code assumed an optional key existed.

How many KeyError exceptions have brought down your whole server? It doesn't happen because whoever coded your web framework knows better and added a big try-catch around the code which handles individual requests. That way you get a 500 error on the specific request instead of a complete shutdown every time a developer made a mistake.
So, this is probably a super nimby moment, but the growing excitement around "retrocomputing" (really just old machines) means a lot of hardware is becoming super expensive. Like good luck finding an IDE harddrive under 500 MB that works, people are pulling them out of working old machines, putting them on ebay for 100s to even 1000 usd, then shipping them in after thought packaging that has them fall apart on their way there. This hobby is fast becoming a rich man's game for speculators and huskers.

It's a tragedy really. I feel like efforts like OP are great because they pull pressure off the literally limited stock thereby making the speculators go elsewhere (segasaturn games and the like mostly).
Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchip Sweeps MLPerf Inference Benchmarks
Outside of Macs, llama.cpp running fully on the cpu is more than 10x slower than a GPU.
Hm, I think Pony did try doing what Rust is doing, with an even more advanced system for "borrows" (there's several types of borrow, not just two): https://www.ponylang.io/

Also, Vale is on the way: https://vale.dev/

And D is also working on it: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...
This is only 7 * 4 bits. That's really nothing.
Can Large Language Models Reason?
> I think it’s harder to find, though.

There is a much higher volume of trash and a much higher percentage of trash, but it's still not hard to find the quality reporting. There are a lot of surveillance-infested messaging apps, but whether there are zero or 10,000 of them, it's just as easy to install Signal.

For news, there's the NY Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, ... PBS NewsHour is effing amazing. Also the AP, NBC/ABC/CBS, Reuters, AFP, BBC, etc. Who can read them all? I don't need to worry about the mountains of trash.

> Do we have faith in our fellows to sort through and find the good stuff, or do we assume they will mostly get sucked in by the best propaganda?

Well, I do have to worry about it because lots of people do get their news from trash (partly due to certain forces demonizing jouralism along with anything else that stands in their way), and their misinformation has an enormous affect on my life and the world. Misinformation is the primary cause of climate change, as an example - seriously: no misinfo, no climate change problem.

> Of course we always assume that we can tell the difference.

Yes, of course. The moment you start thinking that, you're the sucker, a walking talking mark. You, not me, that is. (just kidding)
Sam Altman on Productivity (2018)
The problem is systems written in the 1970s in FORTRAN to run on Mainframes don't speak JSON.
Cool to see Eskil Steenberg's name pop up, his game dev diary was a very interesting read back in the day.
Have your partner eat two as well. Problem solved!
Having a post arbitrarily or even maliciously being removed from a social media platform being equated to physical harm is an extremely absurd, out of touch, pampered, and privileged position.

Mishandling of heavy metals can cause lifelong affects not just to those handling them, but to anyone in the vicinity.[0] it’s estimated that 1M people die per year from lead poisoning[1].

Content moderation cannot directly cause any physical harm. If you consider indirect physical harm related to all social media (which I’d have more sympathy toward), it would not come close to the affects of heavy metals and other substances known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

0 - https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/20/china-children...

1 - https://www.who.int/news/item/23-10-2022-almost-1-million-pe...
Not just that but there are many iterations with pre and post processing.

Im not sure about the process for this image and im not sure what I think is fair, but “AI generated” is a wide spectrum.
> so that anyone could run their own LLM locally?

180B ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419518
I've written a linear-time regex matcher in 65 lines of code: https://jasonhpriestley.com/regex
If you've got a big family and cook a lot, you might run the dishwasher a couple of times a day. Not everybody's use case is the same.

But would you accept 100% slower, or 400% slower in your case, if it was your computer?
Parmesan makers add microchips to cheese wheels to foil counterfeiters
Depends.

Did you read the EULA of the LLM you're using closely enough?

I know that sounds shifty and underhanded, but the providers of these services have every right to slide a little nugget into their EULA that shares the rights to your prompts with them. Most even explicitly say they'll use prompts and other data to "improve the offering".
This in turn followed their failed attempt to derail UNIX by bankrolling SCO's failed anti-UNIX lawsuit.
Thats the main reason I don't register through CloudFlare too. I've heard lots of comments like the parent "its good enough". But I don't want to centralize my domain and my CDN. A little separation is nice. So I register elsewhere and use CloudFlare proxies.

CloudFlare still feels "too good to be true" to me. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. They offer way too much for free. I'm taking advantage of the free tier CDN for now, since it is overly generous. But I keep thinking one day they are going to pull the rug out from under us (like we've seen with so many tech companies before) and a lot of devs will feel trapped with CloudFlare. So that is why I mostly keep my domain registrations away from them. The savings are honestly minimal in my experience for registrations.

It's like having a prenup. If they sour the relationship and I want a divorce, it's easy to just point my domains elsewhere and move on quickly and effortlessly.
A big chunk of our engineering and product headcount has moved to Canada. Looking at our engineering org, Canada has disproportionate number of employees compared to the US.
Fixing the MX record and adding alt attributes to the images brought the score to 9.9/10. According to mail-tester, if I want the last 0.1, I need to add a text/plain alternative. I suppose if we really cared we could automatically render the html to plain text, but it seems good enough at this point.

At any rate, big thanks for the link - I'll add this to the blog entry.
This is an interesting engineering problem and I'm not sure what the best approach is. Fail safe and stop the world, or keep running and risk danger? I imagine critical systems like trading/aerospace have this worked out to some degree.
The History Of The Nic(k) Collins Cup (2010)
As far as I can tell, the entire rest of the world is also moving away from edu address verification. Seems like more and more schools now let you keep your edu address permanently.

I almost never see anywhere to easily get educational discounts that doesn't require some kind of verification you are currently a student. Seems like Apple is the only major company without hard verification, but they seem to have a soft policy that allows buying devices at a discount for your child's, niece's, cousin's, etc school expenses
Oh man they have obscure Plato! I can't even spend money to get all of plato read.
I have a feeling Elon is working with people in IT to "block" CA from accessing the Twitter and X domain names.

- Not implement it juuuuust yet, but probably a 2 day test coming for sure.
I'd love to know more about the fun conversations. Did you blog on this?
I wonder what life looks like on a planet which is over 8 times more massive than the Earth. Do animals have spines at all on a planet with almost 8g gravity? Does life even get to evolve into complex systems like animals under this much gravity? How about plants? Do they grow up or spread out instead?

If one day we get a visitor from this planet, they'll jump on our planet the same way human astronauts jumped on the Moon.
That's an assumption on your part, while it might just happen to be true.

Typing 130 vs 90 is 3 button presses vs 2, so the converse would be why type 100 when you could type 60. You can either be a seconds person or a minutes person.

Edit: they entire number entry thing for microwaves is just weird. 60 => 1minute. 100 => 1 minute. 120 => 1minute 20 seconds. Essentially, any 2 digit number is always interpreted as seconds. Which makes me wonder if the Car Talk question wasn't actually "when is 99 > 100"
Anything about "woke" and "fascism" is constitutionally protected political speech. This is an easy call.
For such a simple service, its weird right?

Is it because they don't capture enough volume on registrations alone? I wonder what makes them usually trend to mediocre (at best) to awful (at worst, unfortunately often)