skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is an Android specific problem. The author says iOS has the same issues but I don’t think this is entirely true.

I can move the cursor by pressing and holding the spacebar or 3D touching anywhere on the keyboard. I can then 3D touch harder in the same movement to select a word and drag to select more. One tap on that selecting brings up the menu. Double tapping selects a word, double tap and drag lets you select more. Here the menu appears instantly.

And the proficient users can even three finger pinch to copy and three finger zoom to paste. Or three finger tap to get a special menu.

——

This one might be specific to me but I can type on mobile nearly as fast as I can on my keyboard (I might just be a slow typer). I also sometimes feel like I’m the only one who highly appreciates autocorrect. It rarely makes mistakes (great, now I get roasted for every typo).

Still, editing on the computer is much better. I use a lot of shortcuts and vi modes where I can. But I don’t think this can be emulated on mobile. Please prove me wrong.
main = putStrLn "foo"

Truly insane.
"advising clients" is such an odd way of describing "making a complex topic approachable"

But you're correct, this is HN: so much pontificating without producing a single counterfactual implies you should speak for yourself and not the collective.

They said "LLM", but given the context it's an RLHF LLM, and presumably they want a generalized way to add factual information in a way that doesn't cripple the model's general performance (yes, I am being so arrogant as to draw obvious conclusions to give them a useful answer)

No paper on the subject has achieved this, the ones that come close (and by close I mean very far) fall back to BERT sized models which I already addressed below: so please petition your "enterprise" to share their secrets

(wrong crowd to get any gravitas out of the word enterprise btw, we understand it means "constrained usecase with minimal external validation")
I felt this article was all over the place and basically very weak coming from an academic. It didn't tackle cultural histories, didn't mention BBSs, X.25 or ISDN, didn't tackle issues of politicisation such as censorship, infrastructure privatisation, etc. Few hard numbers or any recognition of the technical issues being overcome. Bandwidth over POTS. Circuit vs. packet switched networks. Decentralisation. Storage media evolution and volumes. The death of Australian manufacturing. If only the Powerhouse Museum wasn't a political football, perhaps we could get a decent social history done.
This is what excites me the most. It’s such a simple interface (prompting) with unlimited capabilities once you look at it as a logic and pattern engine rather than magic
>Degeneracy is positioned as "tolerance" while traditional morality is repositioned as "hate".

>"The Bachelor/Bachelorette", "Married at First Sight", "Real Housewives of [place]", etc - play on the commoditization of intimate relationships, reducing life partners down to... either a Sex Object or a Success Object

How exactly does this not fit with traditional morality? People have been using marriage for this ever since marriage was invented, it's actually the normal state, and the entire reason that marriage was invented. The idea that you should marry someone you love and have feelings for is a new concept.
This is valid statement. But I assume that will get much better over time, as computers are getting more energy efficient, which could change a lot en masse. Delivery of disks is harder to optimise, as you cannot just teleport them as easily.
Yeah we were definitely surprised! This was a small scale experiment; we uploaded our notebook for latency tests here if anyone is interested taking a look at the code / trying it their own finetuned models: https://github.com/eqian99/finetuning-experiment
This question is irrelevant in the context of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. The WGA's motivations are obvious. They are protecting the livelihoods of their members.

If a studio thinks AI can genuinely do a better job than human writers, that studio has the right to replace those human writers with AI. The human writers likewise have the right to refuse to work with any studio that does so. The fact that no studio has even hinted at taking this route during a 5-month-long strike suggests that no one believes AI would actually do a better job than WGA members.
In my experience, a queue system is the worst thing to find out isn't scaling properly because once you find out your queue system can't architecturally scale, there's no easy fix to avoid data loss. You talk about "several thousand background jobs" but generally, queues are measured in terms of Little's Law [1] for which you need to be talking about rates; according to Little's Law namely average task enqueue rate per second and average task duration per second. Raw numbers don't mean that much.

In the beginning you can do a naive UPDATE ... SET, which locks way too much. While you can make your locking more efficient, doing UPDATE with SELECT subqueries for dequeues and SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, eventually your dequeue queries will throttle each other's locks and your queue will grind to a halt. You can try to disable enqueues at that point to give your DB more breathing room but you'll have data loss on lost enqueues and it'll mostly be your dequeues locking each other out.

You can try very quickly to shard out your task tables to avoid locking and that may work but it's brittle to roll out across multiple workers and can result in data loss. You can of course drop a random subset of tasks but this will cause data loss. Any of these options is not only highly stressful in a production scenario but also very hard to recover from without a ground-up rearchitecture.

Is this kind of a nightmare production scenario really worth choosing Boring Technology? Maybe if you have a handful of customers and are confident you'll be working at tens of tasks per second forever. Having been in the hot seat for one of these I will always choose a real queue technology over a database when possible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
It's not the same as the EU. It's a separate treary. Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus, Ireland are not part of the Schengen Area.
Would be nice if the mod / highligher added an annotation for why the comment is insightful and/or remarkable.
(2015)

Bunch of previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833
I like the second one better.

In programming, it’s useful to have namespaces for overall organization and conflict resolution. But it’s a trade off: you are nudged into a hierarchical ontology, with all the implied issues.

Wikipedia titles are free text (more or less). So they can afford not to introduce hierarchical naming and still have nice, easily addressable names without conflicts.

This avoids all sorts of problems. Most things simply can’t be categorized in a strict, hierarchical manner.
Clearly your professor hasn’t had to stand upright in his career or walk for that matter.

The (spring loaded) inverted pendulum was one of the earliest analyzed models of legged locomotion.
It bounds checks just fine, as long as you pass it a null-terminated string. It just returns 0 on error, so there's no way to know if the string was for example, larger than would fit in an int, or even just totally invalid, or if the user actually entered 0.
Isn't that because of the Madrid bombings? Makes sense when taken in that context.
SQLite is good for small to medium databases. It sort of replaces MS-Access databases. I used to earn a lot of money in MS-Access with AccessBasic/VBA programming and forms and reports. Now you can use any language with SQL hooks to use SQLite.

I remember my time as a federal contractor for the Military and they had Oracle DATABASES in SunOS and I had to export to a fixed field text file and ftp download it and import it into MS-Access or SQL Server. A lot of small databases were still in DOS using Clipper or Lotus 123 and I had to convert them to MS-Access and SQL Server. Today I suppose they can import them into SQLite databases?
Los Angeles has dry air because it's nearly a desert. That doesn't really apply to, say, Florida, or more northern parts of the East Coast, or for that matter even Northern California. Why couldn't they use the same rail cars as are used in any of these places?
another NH easter egg
Valid. I never thought about it, but the problem not in the medium here. It’s more in the laws/contracts. It could be done differently, I assume.
> I have not yet seen it successfully done, and I suspect that updating fractions (~.1%) of the original weights with PEFT methods won’t help.

Nitpick, but although when training LoRAs you're only training 1% or less (depending on rank) of the number of parameters of the entire model, the adapters affect the entire model and after merging the LoRA all of the weights of the model are updated.
I am literally advocating for preventing, or at least reducing, spread in schools in this very comment, and as a parent, have skin in the game. Endemic doesn't mean harmless.
GCP is really under rated in this regard.

Are there any open source implementations of Task Queues? It feels like something that has been missing for years.
We know it's fake, we know it's inedible. Yet even when we see it made out of plastic, it's still appetizing and mouth watering. We're so easily fooled.
The Elizabeth line (Lizzie line??) is a bit of a quandary for me...

Was so excited about it opening and I still get excited about riding it. Although the tunnels are already notably less pristine, so I'm glad to have seen them when they almost sparkled.

That all said, at least according to google maps and citymapper the Eline seems to be a little situational.

For example, if you're on the Met line and want to go to Canary Wharf, it seems to not be worth changing at Farringdon to catch the Eline or even Liverpool Street, or even a cheeky Jubilee Switch at Finchley Road/Baker St then jump on at Bond Street.

Instead they recommend just doing the boring hop onto the Jubilee line and riding out on those numerous stops.

I tried manually calculating it and it seemed roughly correct, the long change times and less frequent journeys seem to mean it's still generally better to take the old routes.

But if you're already on the Eline it really is a blast across the city.

EDIT
I suppose really the game changer was the connection to Paddington. I remember when Amazon moved from Slough to Holborn/Farringdon the transit was shockingly slow for the Reading crowd... the experience was bad enough people would Boris bike or Brompton it instead... I imagine it's even better now for any of the old Reading crowd who now work at Principal Place by Shoreditch
Nah. It’s easy. “The Bible is god’s word, for mankind, on earth. It wasn’t written to exhaustively document everything in existence. It didn’t mention extraterrestrial life because that was not relevant to the creation and salvation of mankind.”
I don't usually downvote posts, but this article is just garbage - a rant about "the cargo cult of scale" but no actual arguments as to why Postgres is better than redis or sqs or anything else. The main reason that people don't use postgres for this kind of thing isn't some kind of misguided obsession with scalability, it's because postgres is way more complicated to deploy / manage and harder to use for application developers than any of the other options.
Haven't tried it yet but it sounds like exactly what I need. There should have been an option to export an entire chat to Markdown, not just "export all the data". So far I have been copy-pasting to LibreOffice to preserve bulleted lists etc.
Come on, that's not in good faith and you know it. That's a special case.

Now do it inside a vanilla function that isn't implicitly run inside the IO monad.
When we hear from a man that a mechanized world would not be a pleasant one in which to live, quite the contrary, it should be true. And it can be true, if the fine minds which have accomplished so much in the realms of applied science would unite with the same enthusiasm to control our creation against social misuse.

Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further refinement or production of labor-saving and comfort-giving devices.
pie is effectively (adaptive) red

the fq part does most of the work and is intended for edge-routers as bufferspace requirements diminish with growing number of flows.
Oh that's interesting! I've been experiencing a similar thing recently. If I'm satisfied with life, there's not much drive to code, it feels like it's just going to disturb my peace.
But when I'm feeling like stuff just isn't good enough and something must be done, "doing something" means writing code, either until I'm satisfied or until I'm tired. Sometimes the codebases in my day job don't satisfy, so I contribute to open source instead, as that feels more impactful and permanent.

I wonder how many projects came into existence just because someone was unhappy with the way things were and the only thing they could do that felt impactful was programming.
I mean, I guess… how many visitors to Orlando actually go downtown though
I do see usages of which in these cases only with the addition of prepositions to tie things together more cohesively.

Take the example case: “Upon the submission of the cause the appellant made a motion to amend its assignments of error, which motion is now granted.”

In 2023, I would expect this to read “Upon the submission of the cause the appellant made a motion to amend its assignments of error, in which motion is now granted,” where “in” is the change.
Are you really trying to argue that there exist humans that can learn facts at a similar pace to a datacenter running GPT training software on petabytes of scraped data?
My point still stands.
I can attest exercise is not that helpful. Over summer of 2022 I did 15 days strait of hiking, 33,000 ft worth of elevation gain. Weight loss: 0 pounds. I lost 6 pounds over the following 2 weeks. cause: mild covid. It was Covid that finally broke my plateau, not exercise.
That would really depend on where somebody was located.

All across Canada, for example, the government-imposed and "public health"-imposed restrictions were remarkably harmful to the health of the general public.

It varied somewhat by region, but pretty much all fitness facilities, including gyms, were shut down for extended (many months, if not longer) periods of time. Some never reopened. Losing access to facilities like those was a big problem in a country where harsh winters can seriously limit outdoor activities for several months each year.

There were also curfews and other restrictions that prevented or severely limited people from doing exercise and other physical activity outside.

The lockdowns and restrictions also destroyed or seriously harmed many businesses, which resulted in significant stress for the employees, owners, suppliers, and others affected. They suffered financial harm, job losses, business losses, and so on.

The forced masking and forced shots caused significant stress for those who were lucky enough to not lose their jobs or businesses.

Hospitals, medical clinics, and doctors cancelled or significantly delayed huge numbers of procedures and screenings.

Those are just a few examples. It went well beyond those. I didn't touch on the harm from the education-related restrictions, for instance.

Between 2020 and 2023 in Canada, blatantly idiotic "public health" policies caused far more people far more physical and mental harm than any virus did.
I wonder why we hear about this type of space more often than micro-apartments or micro-studios.

I think the reality of the number of homeless people, as well as the popularity of options like dorms or pods, especially in areas like California, demonstrates that the requirements for living space size that are intended to keep up people's living standards, are not working out.

I wish that truly micro-studios with balconies were popular thing in big cities. If I could have my own bathroom, small fridge, microwave, bunk bed with desk underneath, and just enough room to play a slightly restricted VR table tennis, along with a mini balcony. I would rather live in a city.

Literally like 12x16 feet could be adequate. It would be better than just a bunk for private space. And you could still have some nice shared facilities.
How is this news to anyone?

Steve Jobs once contacted Eric Schmidt directly when one of his engineers (1!) was approached by a 3rd party recruitment company working for Google.
What would we even do if we found life on Europa?

Would we try to send a rover down and risk contaminating?

Would we be willing to risk leaving our earth junk on the planet, have we ever brought something back off a foreign body?

Would we try to study from orbit?

Could we rely on countries of earth to adhere to star treks' prime directive?
Not being stuck behind a desk IS a major career motivator for many people. They often go into fields like forestry, hospitality, and, yes, janitorial.

Don't knock the power of a job where you can 100% turn your brain off at work, and 100% turn work off at home, either.
Seems inferior in most dimensions to a regular folding electric bicycle.

A Brompton Electric has bigger wheels (less chance of faceplanting in a pothole), longer range, and is lighter and smaller.
1. buffersize requirements are not that simple

2. fq_* is meant for end-/edge-routers where the number of flows is rather small

https://web.stanford.edu/~sarslan/files/Updating_the_Theory_...
That's making a pretty big assumption about the poster and their views.
Doesn't PAX just the badges out? They are readily and frequently resold, online and at the venue.

More effective would be having to show your ID at the venue with no reentry.

"Scalpy McScalper. Looks good to me. Enjoy the show!"
False assumption it needs to accumulate and leave at the same time.
I think you could use “who said girl” though (especially when the first phrase is really long).
Thanks for making OPs point is just so many words.
10 feels like the classic "find a half-way mark" decision between 5 and 15 which reflects expediency more than evidence.

I suspect 5 is too long but both producer (ag companies making herbicide) and consumer (farmers who are serially addicted to it) want more time to convert their dependency.

As a casual backyard gardener it dripped all over me for a while. Not every day. Not all day. But I am sure many people like me read of the risks now, and worry what we've been exposed to unbeknownst (it was casually sold to us as "the safer option" although nobody would have said safer meant totally safe)

More weed tolerant forms of food production are also not risk free: There's been a small outbreak of poisoning from immature non-spinach leaking into the crop for bagged baby spinach sold in the supermarkets. Cross contamination with unexpected plant material poses some risks.

Another systemic poison "Confidor" was bloody good at keeping bugs off our plants but always came with "you can't eat anything afterward" which was a painful lesson in what it takes to kill a modern mite. It's mostly off the market now too. Chlorpyriphos was used for Cockroaches and other bugs as a surface spray, "your kid would have to lick the walls to be affected" they said: now, banned for domestic use. The lists go on.
Rental car agencies oversell far more than is typical of most industries, including the airlines.
Hello, World Part One: Eliza (2022)
I'd just be aware that XFS has no data journaling, only metadata.
> It sounds like you made up your mind that the vaccine could not possibly be at fault.

No, I specifically indicated that I was sympathetic to concerns that a rushed vaccine might have unexpected side effects; I simply did not agree with your belief that the vaccine was the only major change during the time period we're discussing.

> Nothing to see here, right? You will not even consider the possibility? Not even a 1% probability?

This is nothing but an emotionally-driven continuation of the previous claim. Of course I'm willing to consider that the vaccine has serious side effects -- show me the data, and show me it in full context (meaning we also consider the vaccine's impact on the effects of Covid infection).

> Note I said nothing about religion, so not sure why you bring that up here when speaking of the probabilities of potential cause, but I believe your stand requires significant faith.

"Quasi-religious" because the assumption that Covid couldn't have caused this outcome is invented from whole cloth.

> I do not consider covid to be harmless. Many died, including my own family members. We are talking about diabetes among children. Children were hardly impacted by covid. But many did take the vaccine. Food for thought.

So at last we've reached the standard conspiracy theorist endpoint: "I'm just asking questions!" And instead of providing an ounce of data to support your argument, you've -- predictably -- provided a pound of wild accusations and obfuscation.
But what is the fifth problem?
I would sometimes use "whose" in this situation; despite referring to an inanimate / non-person noun, it fits grammatically.
There is a bird called “Little bustard” [1] and more [2].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_bustard

[2]: https://www.boredpanda.com/bird-species-silly-names/
> Unfortunately Caselaw limits access to the full text bulk data of most jurisdictions without a research account

That's only true until Feb of 2024! It should be totally unrestricted in a few months.
That's one of the advantages of traveling by train rather than airplane: train stations are much closer to city centers than airports. And, at least in Europe, they are the "existing transport hub" of the city, connected to things like subway, suburban trains, city and long-distance buses etc.
Nearly every week in Palm Beach County there's a story in the news about subscribe getting hit, either in person or in car. The day of the first Miami to Orlando train someone was hit by a train.
I put in large constant forces, but the acceleration doesn't seem to depend on the force.
You said plastic specifically.

And the postal service, to a rough approximation, already goes by every mailbox every day. Adding an envelope has a smaller impact than a bicycle delivery.
I don’t defend a lot of TSA procedures but with PreCheck it typically takes me 5 minutes at my home airport.
I obviously do not include things like putting a sign outside a restaurant or sponsoring an FSAE team in the same category as being shallow and silly in linkedin or shipping predatory ads to phones.

You obviously cannot see the distinction, so why bother replying ?

Pretty sure that without marketing you would either not have a job or not get paid

Oh and, the work I'm doing (aerospace engineering) does not require predatory marketing. It requires results. No need to hype some new tech on twitter and show how I follow the trends.
Not really. When you (or Netflix) buys a disk, you own it. It’s yours.

When you license a show via a streaming service, you don’t own anything.

This is the problem with the tech economy. The consumers don’t own anything. They just rent.
above a few hundred mbps, you usually want a x86 box for queuing/fw (any linux will do, try some fw-distros or openwrt) and a separate wifi-ap.
I put in large constant forces, but the acceleration doesn't seem to depend on the force (on the inclined car level)