skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growth means prosperity.

Also, the idea that the economy requires growth is BS, it's just that economic stagnation or recession currently means some people are going to be starving. And if you actually look at the world, with its still growing population in some countries, or an aging population in others, it's pretty clear why people starve when growth stops, and it has nothing to do with capitalism, or The Man.
UBI, _____, _____
This has been a part of the dlang standard library for some time: https://dlang.org/phobos/std_regex.html
The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors
Curious what your use case is for wanting direct_io? Every DBA I've ever worked with when setting up a new database, the first thing they want to do is enable direct io. My worst experience was with IBM DB2 mounted over NFS talking to netapp. Performance complaints would come from customers and land on the CEO's desk. He'd go to the software team and tell them to fix it. They'd say the DB is slow. Then he'd go to the DBAs and tell them to tune the DB. They'd say there's nothing more to do, we need faster disks. So he'd end up in front of me on the sysop team asking if we had any faster disks laying around (we didn't and buying more wasn't in the budget).

Since it was NFS, you could just use tcpdump and watch what DB2 was doing on the wire. It was happily poking away sending and receiving packets all 1K in size (the current configured DB block size) with peak read and and write speeds of about 11MB/s. Since the DBAs didn't want to change settings on a production DB, I set up a testing environment, begged them to play with the direct io and block size settings on this new instance and figure out the best performance. When I checked back days later, it was set up exactly the same, "we follow best practices, use 1K block size and force direct io".

I ended up creating a VM under the guise of "we need a data warehouse" with 1/4 the cpus and ram as the DB2 machines and installed postgresql 9.2. Did a minimum amount of tuning, mostly just turning off fsync for WAL writes, then spent a week filling it up with 5TB of data and 15 billion rows from the production DB. Ran one of our analytic queries that had grown to taking 30 hours on DB2, it ran in 6 hours. The packet sizes over NFS were 32-64MB in size and getting peak speeds of 180-220MB/s on the wire.
> Apple holds a rare Architecture license to the ARM ISA due to their role as a founding partner, and can make original implementations without incurring licensing dues

Sorry, the architecture license wasn’t a thing when Arm was founded and there is no way that Arm would hand out free licenses at a later date. It’s just a myth.
It's more that after seeing that result of starting with those premises they don't like the 2 premises anymore. It would be like me really liking the experience of eating potator chips all day right up until the point that I discovered it had a lot of adverse health effects. I might no long like eating them as much.
Maybe just cancelled due to the short-notice.

But, I also wouldn't be surprised if leadership doesn't have great answers to the questions their employees would have asked if the meeting had happened.
Python, Typescript, Nim, Rust, C++, C and Elm.
If you just want to run some Linux software, or do linux development, a modern Chromebook is totally sufficient. The built-in Linux VM is easy to set up and no longer requires voiding your warranty.

Docker, VSCode, et al works great.

It's a very different world than 5+ years ago with crouton, etc.
C++ part, not AOT compilation for .NET.
AI used to target kids with disinformation [video]
>It's not under the radar because that's sadly not the case

It is the case. Haven't seen anyone who uses both who thinks otherwise.

also https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13294. This benchmarks 3.5 which is quite a bit worse than 4 as it is against Google, NLLB, Deepl

here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.02210.pdf, GPT wins overwhelmingly with human evaluations. Seems like the typically evaluation models aren't really cutting it anymore especially BLEU

>Neural machine translation is just more consistent, doesn't hallucinate

It's not more consistent. The 2nd bit is just wrong lol.

One of the biggest complaints of Deepl is the tendency to make stuff up to make translations seem more natural.

Summarization and Translation are the tasks GPT models hallucinate the least.
> I think the canyon runoff goes to Utah lake and not GSL?

Depends on the canyon. The canyons in Salt Lake County go to the GSL; the canyons on the Wasatch Back go to either the Provo River (and then Utah Lake) or the Weber River (and then the GSL).
I would suggest that every company over a certain size gets a certain number of death threats.

If, hypothetically, a company just managed to piss off, I don't know...everyone, one strategy to garner some cheap sympathy and have an excuse to cancel public gatherings might be to highlight some of those they were getting all the time anyway.
Tha Hals is a different painting than the van Gogh.
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And with respect for indie games the vast majority of them barely make money.

Unity was trying to squeeze water from a rock.
But isn't the appeal of the Twitter is a global public square?
Tesla’s new car-building process could be an industrial breakthrough
If you can’t sympathize with the people making death threats, you are not sufficiently invested in the problem, and should probably not be passing judgement.
Tried it and it's awesome! Cool that I saw someone on the issues tab port it to ST4 too. btw, have you tried gruvbox?
I agree. The math that applies to corporate profits is not the same that should apply for human happiness.

But we have to acknowledge that the weird philosophical thought experiment that can't possibly convince anyone except weird philosophers turned out to be convincing to other entities after all.

Compare the trolley problem, a famous thought experiment that people used to laugh at, up until a couple of years when suddenly important people began to ask important questions like "should we relax the safety standards for potentially life-saving vaccines" and "how much larger than Y does X need to be so that preventing X functionally illiterate children are worth the price of Y dead children"
What does this have to do with Sony? As far as I know, every manufacturer including Sony and Apple do their utmost to extract as much revenue from consumers as possible.
I think this idea that everyone can "just move" is heinous.
He isn't. He is saying that if a company simply says they have received death-threats from someone or some people, then his view of the entire community changes, and he aligns himself with the company. If the community consensus was to encourage their members to make these types of threats, then he would have more standing. It isn't.
Where I can buy a "used" diamond for a very low price?
GNU C99 for dev, Python 3 for V&V
If my experience with a toddler is accurate, the mother duck will say "Quack quack quack quack!", and 457 of the ducks will come back. 1...2...
but the park is their home
An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide
Mr. manners says the polite way to ask is Please may I take ducks home from the park?
He is just regular capitalism with a love for the spotlight, and a seasoning of quite common neurodivergence. Neither hyper-calculating genius mastermind, nor crazy Bond villain.

What people describe as "crazy" is basically being blatantly against their partisan affiliation, and being a shitty mega-rich boss in public.

For shitty mega-rich bosses with the correct (with respect to media and commentators) party-affiliation, or that keep their shit in private, much fewer concerns are raised, even if their villainy is much more impactful to whole countries and worse than "fired the whole team out of a whim" or "writes stupid tweets like a 15 year old".
Mercedes and BMW Unleash New EVs for Chinese Market
The result is [lon, lat]. You’ve most likely copied it onto Google maps, which works with [lat, lon]. Believe it or not, the industry still hasn’t come up with a standard order.
Rabbit season!
Certainly that can't be enforceable. There's no agreement to the terms, in fact a tacit disagreement and loss of profit by the developer/storefront.

This all feels like Unity is pushing an obviously terrible concept so they can back down to a slightly-less-terrible one and look slightly more reasonable. I'd bet they will switch to a larger per-sale fee after a little longer of people making noise.
I guess the bad PR got to them

Regardless...its a win
Yeah there's no way that's enforceable.
> every company over a certain size gets a certain number of death threats

Citation needed. I’ve never worked at a firm that received a death threat. If we did, I would expect it to be taken very seriously by senior management and law enforcement.
Yes but that's wasn't part of the input to the LLMs.
"With the financial world anxiously awaiting the start of Arm’s roadshow in the hopes that Son can reignite the flaccid IPO market, Son has decided that his chip-maker is worth $64 billion because Son agreed to buy a chunk of it from Son for that price.

In so doing, Son agreed to pay Son twice what Son sold it to Son for six years earlier."

https://doomberg.substack.com/p/arms-length
I've been reverting back to RSS and using Pocket as an interim solution (pocket-reader in emacs is really nice and converts well-formed articles into markdown, with the help of pandoc).

I want to host my own RSS server though and then maybe use a native reader to view it, like an RSS of RSS feeds. I don't want to pay an RSS feed company to host that for me and generate ad targeting from it.

The reason is that I want to be in control of the content I consume, and I'm not in control if an engagement algorithm is emotionally manipulating me.
This whole thing has made me re-evaluate what software I use.
FOSS all the way from here.
Yeah, the driver ABI in Linux is totally stable. Cgroups as well!
The hardware will be obsolete after 5 years as the web browsers require more and more hardware to render text and graphics. Soon it'll be 20GB and 16 cores to render cnet.com. And OS updates always slow down the machine. I just got a Samsung update to my smartphone and now it's 50% slower.
Dosnt running your own server all the time and having it available over the internet then open a whole additional layer of management of security?
I think total system collapse is used synonymously with a total societal collapse, which could stem from a single infrastructure system collapsing. Quite a thing to happen in a single day.
The apparatus is the scale, on which the crown and the gold were placed. They balance out when it is in air. They do not (for a fake crown), when the scale is submerged in water.
> I have no idea why you think it's difficult at all.

Because I help develop a game engine / platform that deals with this problem and therefore done extensive research?

All of those Microsoft device ID variants are trivial to spoof or collide. If you're talking about GetSystemIdForPublisher() and friends like 'Product ID', you get the Walmart collision problems.

https://github.com/topics/hwid-changer

Furthermore, if you rely on an easy-to-spoof hardware ID system, if someone gets ahold of someone else's HWID (see: database breach, phishing), you can trivially mess with the data.

Valve/Microsoft/Epic get around this by spending tons of developer time on this problem and using techniques like fingerprinting and behavior analysis.
You can, but you may not.
And to add to this, don't save the 50€ and instead spend a bit more to get a desk with memory slots.

Then you can activate your sitting, standing+writing, standing+zoom meeting heights with the press of just one button. You don't even have to take your eyes off the screen.
Jokes aside, given all four combinations of serif/sans * proportional/monospace, with a good variety of weights and italics, and you’ll have covered the vast majority of use cases.
Yes replicating the "core" is also essential in the long run!
It's definitely a strategic move inasmuch as Apple is a sponsor of Thread.
Knock knock. Duck collector here. You are in duck debt and need to repay one duck plus interest of 0.13 ducks by midnight or I will have to report you to the Navy Seals.
> his view of the entire community changes, and he aligns himself with the company

That never happens. Self interest trumps notions of decency. (Particularly in the context of just a threat, regardless of how credible.)

Is the timing convenient for management? Sure. Never let a crisis go to waste. Does that make their actions imprudent? Of course not. They’re a video game company. These aren’t stakes worth gambling against lives.
If this was all an elaborate ruse to make us want to go shopping at IKEA, then I'll concede that it worked.
The features offered by commercial engines are lightyears ahead of FOSS engines, especially at the high end.

If you're running a commercial game studio in such a brutally competitive market as video games, how can you afford to use FOSS? Your choices are go without high-end features that your competitors do have; or divert resources from your game content to build them in-house. Both seem less attractive than "just buy a commercial engine" to many studios.
> Sitting in different rows on the same flight or train, driving in two cars in the middle of nowhere and coordinating toilet/food breaks, finding each other in a mall/store abroad without roaming data...

I can imagine a lot of interesting & valuable uses for that—but I think it would get entirely taken over by network parasites like ads or unsolicited dick pics.
I don't think there is any conspiracy or "psyop" involved in writing fake threats or sending people home for PR points in this case, but I'd be pressed to change my opinion over nutjobs (in this case, probably gamers) being violent.
How about an “Officially Supported Until:” date?
Lldap Release 0.5.0
The energy difference between ambient-temp-to-frozen and ambient-temp to steam is much larger. I would think that this affects scalability.

I live in a city center that uses chilled water for some use cases, but it certainly does not seem scalable enough to be an "easy technical remedy" to the issues of distribution being expensive.
I envisioned my site would be useful for quick and dirty prototyping - especially since the outputs are not licensed for commercial use.

Then, when one's project idea is validated, they could then used a paid stem separation service with higher quality and commercial licensing.

That's why I added some sentences on the website to solicit partnerships for targeted advertisements, to see if any pro demixing companies were interested.
AKA the Repugnantly Ignorant in the Human-Ways Nerd's Idea of Ethics conclusion!
This assumes that 1/5 of them break every year which is probably not the case, older laptops will break more frequently.
> Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best.

Oh yeah, you sure its not because its the default browser on Android ?
The problem is that the "repugnant conclusion" is a matter of definitions. A moral theory is (basically) freely chosen: you can change the definitions whenever you like.

Not so for B2C SaaS. The utilities are always measured in dollars and they always aggregate by simple addition. You can't simply redefine the problem away by changing the economic assumptions, because they exist in physical space and not in theory space.
As others have noted, these are really opinionated suggestions. And while it's perfectly fine to have an opinion, many of these vary between "this isn't the way I'm used to Linux doing it" to the actually objectionable.

The ones I find most personally objectionable:

> - Don't make me name pools or snapshots. Assign pools the name {hostname}-[A-Z]. Name snapshots {pool name}_{datetime created} and give them numerical shortcuts so I never have to type that all out

Not naming pools is just bonkers. You don't create pools often enough to not simply name them.

Re: not naming snapshots, you could use `httm` and `zfs allow` for that[0]:

$ httm -S .
httm took a snapshot named: rpool/ROOT/ubuntu_tiebek@snap_2022-12-14-12:31:41_httmSnapFileMount

> - collapse `zpool` and `zfs` into a single command

`zfs` and `zpool` are just immaculate Unix commands, each of which has half a dozen sub commands. One the smartest decisions the ZFS designers made was not giving you a more complicated single administrative command.

> - Provide an obvious way to mount and navigate a snapshot dataset instead of hiding the snapshot filesystem in a hidden directory

Again -- you can do this very easily via `zfs mount`, but you'll have to trust me that a stable virtual interface also makes it very easy to search for all file versions, something which is much more difficult to achieve with btrfs, et. al. See again `httm` [1].

[0]: https://kimono-koans.github.io/opinionated-guide/#dynamic-sn...
[1]: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm
Unions protect against the power imbalance between the capitalist class (in the classical definition -- those who control the capital) and the labor class (again, in the classical definition -- those who sell work for wage). The skill disparities you describe exist in literally every field; software is not special in this regard.
>I'd expect any engineer these days to have at least modest skills in programming.

This is probably just your bubble.

Sure most engineers take 1 or 2 programming classes in college, but they are super basic, and once they get into industry they never program again.

Anyway, I'm one of these programmers and engineers, I make a ton of money because my fellow engineers don't program.
Yes, but other persons do not consent to view that ad.

But my point was, that it is not so simple.
They might not stand up at it, but I can bet they've adjusted the sitting height to match them properly instead of just using whatever size static desks are.
If they're using RAM like that, they're pouring money down the drain. RAM speed matters, but 8GB is such little RAM that most users will experience paging from just using their web browser. It's kind of like those guys that put modified exhausts and spoilers on a 2001 Honda Civic.
I wrote a much longer reply but looks like you deleted the downvoted comment and reposted it.

> It's not more consistent.

I think the parent was probably saying for a given input, Google MT provides the same output.

What is the value of temperature/variability in a LLM powered MT model?

I’d assume given the same inputs, you should only be given the best output.
I don't blame them. With tens of thousands of qualified ex-FANGers to choose from right now, it's a great time to find new talent! I'm just a random nobody who makes websites here and there lol. I'm sure they can find super qualified robotics people.
why would a big company dig this moat?

(they're already big, which is _the_ moat, since they likely have excellent tech to have become big)
Oh wut? I got an interview from the first application, back in (checks bookmarks) 2012 (edit: It looks like they applied for McMurdo, not the South Pole). It was an odd one - the first question was what to do first when entering the server room. I'd actually read up on a few things, and the correct answer was to ground yourself to get rid of the ridiculous amounts of static electricity which builds up in a super-dry environment. Static discharge has killed a whole bunch of their equipment.

Another question was what I'd do if one of my family members had a medical emergency and could only be saved by an organ donation by me. In case of bad timing there next flight out would be in almost a year, so there would be nothing I could do. That one … was a bit harder to answer.
What you described is basically an input/output pair. The input is the sentence so far, and the output is the next token. You build your dataset by splitting the raw text corpus into sentences, paragraphs or documents, and for each of these chunks generate input/target pairs by taking the sentence up to the Nth token as input and that token as output. You do this for each token in your corpus' chunks.

For further reference you can lookup "next-token prediction objective".
Navy Seals? WAIT A SECOND you're just looking to get some free ducks for dinner without needing to go hunting, aren't you.
Licensed private security guards who are armed, trained, and legally able to deal with lethal force are common all over the world.
GPT-4's non-determinism strikes again. I got a "semi-helpful yes" with the first ranger query.
Fair one if it's improved but it still feels on par with WSL2 for user experience, some people like that I guess. A vanilla linux laptop just seems better imho but I've not played with one for a while, I admit.
> If you can’t sympathize with the people making death threats, you are not sufficiently invested in the problem

I can sympathise with someone while acknowledging they should go to jail, and also sympathising with the people they’re attacking for taking prudent safety measures.
Brings back childhood memories. Enjoyed reading about these and the accompanying illustrations as a kid from the excellent book Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman. Nirantara Chalana Yantralu they were called in Telugu translation.
Same as psuedostatistics. There are fundamental, objective principals. [1]

Violate those, and it's not what it claims to be.

A bad haircut doesn't claim to be something that it's not, and its goodness is subjective.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudostatistical
They usually sell crippled GPUs to the low end of the market. That's a segment of the market they no longer really serve. They also didn't do anything to hide the fact that their GPUs were really being sold to miners and not gamers, something they got fined doing.

Their leadership is going to be transitory since they are not being competitive. Intel would never had entered the discrete GPU market if nVidia keep prices low. Lack of mobile GPUs and integrated GPUs is a red flag that they're charging too much money. Discrete laptop GPUs is a niche of the market. It is not what most laptops use.
While I like this platform, I feel like this is a tech nerd echo chamber party rather than something broad based.
You're assuming that 4/5 of the laptops remained in pristine condition. I doubt that very much. You need to take account for the ordinary wear and tear compounded together with the impact of abusive 1/5 of users that do an excessive amount of damage (requiring a total overhaul.)

And anyway, if 1/5 of laptops needed major repairs and some of them got it, those go back into circulation. Are they still original laptops? (Ask my grandfather's axe...)
> such as monopoly power.

The article does mention monopoly power, but it uses instead the term 'network effects'. These are not exactly the same, but in the realm of social media and similar platforms, they're very close.
Arm jumps 18% in market debut to notch $60B valuation
The drive to make money has ruined the web. Content creation platforms are optimized for content creators who do not care about what they produce, but only focus on making money.