skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VC can be a great way to break into markets that just have inherently large moats or barriers to entry. Stripe is an example: you can code all you like but you literally can't move money without going through a ton of very annoying (to devs, anyway) footwork to get cozy with the existing financial institutions. The connections your VCs give you can matter as much as the money.

They can also literally kill your company. VCs have a very specific strategy: they give some money to 1000 companies knowing that 990 of them will return 0% in the hopes that of the remaining ten, 9 of them return %X000 and one returns %X0000. Given this, they are going to have very little interest in finding a company that will return even "good" results. They're going to push you to shoot for huge growth or die trying. And given the choice between "grow modestly and safely" and "grow faster but risk exploding" they will push you to pick the latter, because in their business model they can't even count low enough to measure returns that are just 10x.
Yes! That would be nice.
This looks to me like something they’d be using for internal capacity planning. If so, they’d be asking it questions like, “how much capacity do we build out for the upcoming holiday rush?” I wouldn't be surprised if financial datasets are very noisy compared to service capacity metrics. I didn’t read the paper though, maybe this is addressed and maybe I’m wrong about the use case! But stuff like the below from the docs reads like capacity planning tool to me:

> As an example, let’s look at a time series of the log daily page views for the Wikipedia page for Peyton Manning. We scraped this data using the Wikipediatrend package in R. Peyton Manning provides a nice example because it illustrates some of Prophet’s features, like multiple seasonality, changing growth rates, and the ability to model special days (such as Manning’s playoff and superbowl appearances).
This kind of stuff requires access to the complete architectural parameters of the device, so adding support for even a single device family is a huge reverse-engineering^W documentation effort.

See f4pga.readthedocs.io which consolidates pretty much everyone's efforts into a distribution, but supports only 4 device families: iCE40 and ECP5 from Lattice, some 7-series devices from Xilinx and EOS-S3 from QuickLogic.

For internal testing, VPR has "Stratix IV-like" and most recently "Stratix 10-like" architecture files but these don't try to "document" the whole thing, they just want a close enough approximation to a modern device to evaluate the tool better.
Apple invests a lot into Safari today.

The reason you don't think so is because you are likely equating developer features with investment. But actually Apple just has different priorities which are security, privacy and battery life. They aren't trying to push more pro-advertising features like Google is or turn the browser into an operating system.

It is delusional to think that if Chrome becomes more popular that they are suddenly going to abandon their values.
I looked around and found one or two articles that essentially said "If one customer is more than x percentage of your revenue, time to diversify. Start actively drumming up new business."

If you are so small that you can't actively look to take on more customers because they take up all your time and you don't want to gamble on hiring more help when you don't really need it, you have a problem.

This seems to be partly a self created issue. Small businesses seem to think "We're friends!"

No, you aren't and big businesses know that having dealt with enough assholes themselves already.

No one can make you work only for them but the reality is if you want to stay a one-man operation and not hire more people and this one customer is 80 percent of your revenue, the tendency is to feel like "This works!" -- until it suddenly doesn't and they have you over a barrel.
Funny that you use the term "x64", which is a technically incorrect way to refer to 64 bit x86 / amd64. If anything, "x64" refers to Alpha: 21064, 21164, 21264, 21364.
My suspicion is that the GPGPU hardware in shipped cards has known problems / severe limitations due to neglect of that side of the architecture for the last ~10 years. Shipping a bunch of cards only to burn the next generation of AMD compute fans as badly as they burned the last generation of AMD compute fans would not be wise. It's painful to wait, but it may well be for the best.
Also roadmap.sh have a good set of resources for general (and web) design and architecture patterns: https://roadmap.sh/backend
Back in the day of course. Now he's clearly run out of stuff to post. Which I guess makes sense, it couldn't last forever.
You would have to enter it every single time you search, so not my cup of tea.
Basically, it looks like you can not rely on Google products. They could be discontinued at any time in the future. It makes me a lot less interested to try new products from Google at this point.
That's what I propose in https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/
FWIW if somewhat tangentially related, there is a subreddit that takes old artwork and memefies them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/trippinthroughtime/top/?sort=top&t=...
I see examples
Glad to see some innovation on the mechanical side and more modularity.

Hopefully they will do the same for memory eventually, although I'd really prefer they just do more RasPi style MicroSD as boot drive systems.

I wonder if the same principle can be DIYed or brought down in at all. If you clamp a flex PCB down with screws, directly face to face on a regular PCB, will it make good enough contact?
Thinking back on the negative experiences I've had with gas station attendants, suddenly the awful stories about the TSA makes a lot more sense.
The API looks very clean. Today I learned about "..." in Python
I work with designers who don’t know how to write CSS and who sometimes use Bootstrap for mock-ups (on a system not built on Bootstrap). They spend their whole day in Figma. The designers try to come up with design systems, but never finish them.

Tailwind works pretty well for us.
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Oh G-d we need less of this, please.
Are there any open source projects that make this possible today? Something you can just throw data at (in any format) and build up a training library?
From what I understand the FTC is shifting away from the doctrine that consumer benefit/harm as the deciding factor for an antitrust case.
Mitigating Microservices Change Risk with Platformatic's Breaking Change
Why is the EU so arrogantly, hand-wringingly, mustache-twirlingly evil? It sometimes feels like some kind of comical LARP.
I think the argument about Tailwind is overblown because half the people using it should just be using a component library.

Component libraries suck when you need to massage a design system into them. But at least half the arguments over Tailwind vs CSS are devs mostly doing their own thing and touting how easy it is to change X Y and Z. Similarly those same devs hate component libraries because you can't just change X without changing X everywhere.

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A little secret they don't realize is, X changed everywhere so that your site wouldn't look like a pile of slop.

That's why even the darling of the "anti-component-library pro-ctrl+c-ctrl+v establishment" shadcn/ui had to go back and add theming and a component.json.

If not using a component library is easier for you, that's a red flag: the alternative should be your team rolled out their own design system, and that's just a different kind of difficult with a different set of trade offs.

If you're using a design system, I don't think CSS vs Tailwind is as much of a mortal conflict because the design system provides a map. Usually that map gets translated into something like variables, or even Tailwind Variants, and suddenly the biggest issue with Tailwind (scattering consistent properties across the codebase) is not as terrible as it seemed.
> Do you have anything to substantiate this claim?

No, it's my personal experience.

It's an observation supported by people I know who have gotten a similar sense at their jobs. One director level friend, with insight into how they do hiring, explained that it has a lot to do with how HR filter things. (As someone else said in this thread.)

Some HR departments will sanitize information to reduce bias, like a photo of the candidate, but this can include a cover letter.

It's going to be different with different employers. So you could be an exception. But the likelihood that anybody reads my cover letters these days is so low that writing them is almost never worth the time. I've also found it to be more difficult these days because the quality of job postings themselves have diminished. A lot of the complaints that OPs article makes can be said about the job postings. There's just nothing to latch on to.

But yeah many/most places don't read cover letters. Some don't even read resumes. It's very clear from the start of the call you can see them start to skim through it or just ask you to just about read it for them. I even had a call where one of the interviewers had someone eles' resume up and referred to it by mistake and apologized and then did it again five minutes later.

So, no, I have nothing to substantiate the claim.

Edit: Okay here's something you might consider "substantial".

Apparently it's a thing now to not even send applicants rejection notices -- and just to ghost them instead -- on the basis that they might be a wacko and react poorly to rejection. So, as a policy, companies will inflict on all candidates, including nice people, the ill of ghosting them, to spare themselves the risk of receiving a shitty email from a shitty person. They are so thin-skinned/careless that they can't tolerate bad behavior in the form of an email that they don't even let you know they're not interested in hiring you. Even if you started the "hiring pipeline". Even if you apply with a cover letter.

People on this website who apparently work for companies that do this admit that's what their company does. So if companies do do this and admit it then maybe that's substance for you.

In my opinion, the kind of psycho who can't send a rejection email is totally consistent with everything I've experienced above the edit.
I have not been able to get good results either, but I have not tried it in the past year. I also tried many of the architectures in Darts. I have found that fairly straightforward architectures work well. That is, I can iterate on my own design for my own specific data (with all its specific covariates) and get better results than I could with Darts or Prophet.
This is the kind of thing people should understand about "modern entertainment".

My moment of realization was when I found out the truth of those "claw machines" that pick up a fuzzy stuffed animal. Turns out the claw itself is rigged so that it rarely grasps tightly.
as a developer, I can see a lot of tasks that an LLM would be useful for. In a large organization, new people get onboarded all the time, and generally they have the same exact questions, like 'how do i do a web request out of the proxy?' and 'how can I do multithreading' or 'how do i use library x for our use case y'? whereas an LLM can look at the code used throughout the business and offer suggestions like "hey, I see you're trying to make an https connection to an external site without using a proxy, try this instead". Getting enterprise code up to the enterprise standard, whatever that is, can be very useful. Personally, I'd love to go in depth with an AI on crazy ideas I have for code, and work through a lot of ideas before I implement something. For example, I might want to try different ways to accomplish the same task. I could write my version of it, and instead of rewriting it to try a different way, I might ask an LLM to rewrite it that other way, so I can check which way is better.
Not allowing JS cuts them off from a ton of specific data points in exchange for one big general one. Honestly I think the trick is to present a different unique fingerprint each time. It doesn't matter if you standout so long as each session can't be linked to all your previous ones.

That seems a lot easier to pull off than trying to blend in perfectly with the crowd. I wouldn't bet on my efforts to account for everything that might uniquely ID me in a never ending game of Whac-A-Mole with fingerprinters. They seem to find new tricks all the time.
There are already a bunch of tools that do that sort of thing (even Strava has it these days), I'm not sure how much LLM-based tech would help.
- better than russia or china

- i compared to the same countries you compared to :)

- as for assange: "The US is far from perfect"
And Firefox solution is to ignore all developers that think this is a great platform compared to Play Store and App Store. Great way to lose market share.
The runtime is currently about 37MB, and when served with gzip it’s around 11MB compressed. Once it’s downloaded it should be cached and quickly startup. I think a lot of the challenge is going to be spent getting the binary to be smaller, or potentially breaking it up into separate individually loadable parts.
Sending a message to someone close to you is fine. There are several reasons to do that. What's bad about remote work for me is that it's the only option.
> I avoid in-person meetings as much as I can. They take too much time and don't provide much incremental value.

Thank you for this, I've been afraid that landing clients would mean having to travel and meet people.. If I can just do video calls that would be so much better..
Timescale Vector (PostgreSQL) now available in LangChain
I'm all for creating jobs for people who need them, but can they at least do that where they're not as bothersome and won't go through my luggage because I packed a gel sleep mask? every single time :/
"most customer-centric company"

I don't think anybody actually buys that line.

Do they believe that internally?
I take your point that it's been a long time - in the intervening 17 years that particular technology would probably have died out on its own, but the primary complaints about the modern web stack on desktop aren't dissimilar from those that pertained to Flash in the day: memory hungry, power inefficient etc.

We're _still_ pumping out solutions that are easier for us and worse for customers on desktop and that's without the problem of software-driven user tracking, which was still just larval when the App Store opened up. In fact the only reason things aren't even _worse_ on desktop is that non-mobile devices are a much smaller % of where people spend their time, and therefore a smaller target with a more technically proficient user base.

There's an open ecosystem available to people where you can load any old crap onto your device. It's even cheaper than iOS. Please just let most of (not all, some crap still gets past App Review) the junk alight there and give people a choice to buy entry into the walled garden.
Cory Doctorow: ‘We do not have fast companies anymore’
Google drastically needs portfolio management. The qualifications for this position should be very low, some very basic common sense would do.

I suppose they can get away with all of this because the concept of competing for a customer doesn't really exist at Google. They can toy around without any consequences because they have a money printer.

Also, at Google's current size, anything producing less than 1B in revenue per month is frankly not that interesting. Small stuff.
Microsoft controlled >90% of the entire desktop computing market when they ran into anti-trust issues with the EU. I suppose I'm not old enough to remember, but I don't recall the argument at the time being "They control 100% of the Windows market". Perhaps it was?

Comparatively, it looks like Apple has marketshare in the EU is somewhere between 25 and 40% of the mobile phone market, depending on your source.
I've been collecting movies for my Plex server for a few years, and I went through the phase where I was getting all the classic movies, all the Oscar-nominated movies for every calendar year, etc.

And I stumbled on a movie I would never have watched. But in reading the synopsis for it, I recognized a reference I had picked up as a small child from what was either the very late 1970s or maybe early 1980s. For less than a year (I'd imagine), everyone must have been making jokes about "Turkish prisons". The kind of thing that stand up comedias on Carson would have joked about, SNL, etc. And I overheard one of those jokes (or several), filed it away, and never figured it out.

Midnight Express (1978).

It's funny to me, there have been other such instances. Only took me 40-some years to solve.
Just use a pret-a-porte payment system, lile Stripe, Square, Paddle, Clover etc. They will handle your plans and recurring payments for you.
FTTP is already available in lots of places. I have a choice of two providers right now neither of which is Virgin or BT.

So to say that FTTP is not going to be rolled out until 2030 doesn’t make sense unless you are talking about by a specific provider in a specific place.
Totally misses the point of what micromanagement is. It’s not being too involved, it’s not trusting your employees to operate.
Which features lacking from the passwords system in Sonoma keeps you in 1Password?
> use Tailwind first and hand craft the small percent of CSS where that’s required later

What is the difference between Tailwind and in-line CSS?
It adds "display: none" so it doesn't delete DOM nodes so its not likely to mess with pagination, but of course JavaScript can do anything (e.g. measure the rendered height) so it's possible that it messes with some layouts; I remembered trying it on facebook and it went awry, I had to undo it (in the options page of the extension you can see the full list of your filters and just hit "delete" on one)
What about shipping logistic and warehousing? Afaik this is something what Amazon FBA helps with as well?
> Try to make a living from [...] open source games.

To me, many of the elements of political interest with free software in general don't really come into play with games (although some incidental issues, like privacy concerns, certainly do come into play in practice). Part of what makes software freedom urgent where it matters most is a very material dependency on software— it matters most when we depend on that software to make our livings, or to access medical care, or to access education. The stakes are lower for games, and I imagine that many people who care deeply about free software are still comfortable buying and running proprietary games. I know I am.

I don't think there's a serious problem with making/selling proprietary games, either, even if you're generally committed to free software.
Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?
They are generators of streams of statistically related text. They have no interests to defend, and no minds to change.
There are a lot of similarities, but the granularity is finer. The idea is that you make a decision to launch one workgroup (typically 1024 threads) when the input is available, which would typically be driven by queues, and potentially with joins as well, which is something the new work graph stuff can't quite do. Otherwise the idea of stages running in parallel, connected by queues, is similar. But I did an analysis of work graphs and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't help with the Vello (2d vector graphics) workload at all.
Bradbury.

[edit] also, if you like short stories and novellas, I found the New Hugo Winners series (in which Asimov had taken a back seat as editor, writing in his introduction, to paraphrase, “I do not understand these kids”) has a way higher average quality of writing than the older Hugo Winners series. The ideas didn’t seem a lot worse to me, either. But I’ve also read a lot more of the regular Hugo Winner series so maybe I just got very lucky with the New Hugo volumes I’ve picked up.
ClickHouse was open-sourced in 2016 and moved to an independent company in 2021, with no ties remaining with Russia or Yandex. Read more: https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine/
Too late to edit:
This should have said "at run time", as it's set by making a relatively normal (can't be inside a transaction) SQL query.
Not yet, the port is still a work in progress. For the old Zero docs you can go here:

https://github.com/zeroengineteam/ZeroDocs
Uncontrolled aggression is one of common symptoms of low blood sugar. If you are not diabetic it should not just happen, your body should deal with situation. But it does happen to diabetics and they have to watch out for that.
Oh nope you are 100% correct, I was thinking of the first llama. My buddy is running the 70B llama 2 on two 3090s and the 30B llama 1 on one 3090.
When was this? I might go chasing this lead down, but even a fuzzy estimation of when would help. Will come link it here if I find it.
Instinct has much better SW support today than Radeon, so you would need to send MI210s/etc .

I think it's at the point where if you are comfortable with GEMM kernels, setting up SLURM, etc it is usable. But if you want to stay at the huggingface layer or higher, you will run into issues.

Many AI researchers are higher level than that these days, but some are still of us willing to go lower level.
That seems to be even more horrible than I expected, multi-cursor editing, seriously?

@apply and the frowned upon solution is what I would expect to be the only clean solution.

I am a proponent of WET, but pulling the naming things card when it comes to places that you may want to localize, test or aria-label anyway, just seems lazy to me.
> I can't understand why more people don't share my zeal for OpenCL.

When I last worked with it, it was difficult, unstable, and performed poorly. CUDA, on the other hand, has been nothing but good (at least). Well, nvidia pricing aside ;)

OpenCL might be a lot better now, but for a lot of us, we remember when it was actively a bad choice.
But the "work" they do at the TSA wastes immense amounts of time and property, as well as causing untold amounts of stress on people who do actually productive things. Putting them to work planting trees or some other useful activity would be far better for everyone.
Yeah, this. I tried to do some computing with AMD server grade cards 2 years ago and found all of the API so out of fate and the documentation equally out of date... Went CUDA and didnt look back. Sad, cause Im an AMD fanboy of old.
Working Through Depression
I haven’t done a lot of testing with Firefox, I’ll take a look!
Prophet is such an appealing package because it promises to abstract away all the difficult parts of forecasting. However, in practice it does not fulfill its promises. I think this is a good discussion of the problems: https://www.microprediction.com/blog/prophet
What do people use for an "analytics.js" for reporting events with common items like campaign data, user device and user profile measurements, and related from browsers and devices?
This is hitting my gpu super hard (Radeon Pro 560X, near-4k) with just the default ball scene. Frame rates are dipping very low just orbiting around. Does anyone know if there could be a WebGL optimization issue?
Man I the part about having to get a license to release a foundational model really friggin sucks and I hope it doesn't make it to the final version of the text
OpenAI Seeks $90B Valuation in Possible Share Sale
I mean. It’s ok to be sad when a store you liked fails.

But the owners should, and do, get to decide what happens.
I tend to think you're in more meetings when you WFH and they last longer. Mostly because they are inefficient. But also because people don't get to overhear what you said with someone else and end up eventually calling you on something you just had a conversation about.
The purpose of justice isn't to make the victims or their families feel better. That's just revenge.