skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually do quite like the overall idea of having a unified API at the language level that a (configurable) runtime can provide implementations for. Sure, in some cases an API might not be easy to abstract over due to underlying concerns, but in a lot of cases it does work.

It does show a level of understanding by the language creator that they know how the language can and probably should be used - I like how KV defaults to SQLite locally and takes on new meaning in a hosted environment. I haven't seen, but as long as you can actually override the behavior to use your own KV/queue technology (so long as it satisfies the interface) I see absolutely no issue with this.

There is a huge benefit where the code always looks the same for common things we all need to do. I wouldn't mind seeing other languages take an overall stab at this so there is some choice other than JavaScript.
- Redis

- ScyllaDB

- Riak

- Couchbase

- Cloudflare KV

- Many different AWS offerings (DynamoDB, ElastiCache)

- Similar alternatives from Google & Azure if you are in those ecosystems

Of course there's nothing unique about a KV store. You can use literally any SQL or noSQL service out there, or set up your own in any way you want.

They also all have the advantage that you will get bindings for every language, not just Deno.
Generate beautiful GitHub octocat AI art with one click
> This is the first driver assist to allow you to take your eyes off the road.

this is like Google Maps saying you’re finally allowed to rely on it for directions now
You're right, prior to that it was random forums,
The reason people ditch number pads is so that their mouse can be closer to them. Feel what your upper arm is doing as you rotate to get to a mouse that's next to a number pad, that is painful for a lot of people. (If you use your mouse with your left hand, then this doesn't matter.)

Personally, I just have a layer that I activate with my right thumb to turn the m,.jkluio keys into 123456789, so it's like having a number pad, but one that doesn't take up any space.
No option to vouch on this one?
Ahh OK. Yeah, I always find trying to shoehorn language semantics via functions to be kinda awkward. The best attempt I've seen is this addition of async/await to Lua, which actually looks pretty usable [1].

[1] https://github.com/ms-jpq/lua-async-await
That they catch fire. It’s a reoccurring myth.
I think this is true, and nothing to do with AI. Netflix bought Big Tech money to hollywood and made it rain. Then all the traditionally media companies followed, creating a bidding war for content. It's probably not popular to say, but the last 5 years have probably been a golden age for hollywood, and some people like Shonda Rhymes have made out like bandits, some people like Megan Markle have literally robbed Netflix blind. But it's all going the other way now, and that's going to be massive downward pressure on the industry, at best AI is a good way of protecting Disney's stock price.
He could just have asked as a review of the the maintainers patch[1], e.g. work with the maintaner to fix it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220609133245.573565-1-mpe@elle...
"usable" is not the same as practical.

Even running a quantized and optimized LLM on a smartphone would kill battery life at minimum.
Altman strikes again
Not sure if you use Mac OS but people have designed this https://www.printables.com/model/61596-magic-keyboard-and-tr...
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> Mozilla realized it was actually doing something useful and that such things would upset its unofficial corporate overlords, so it shut everything down.

I don't think that is the case, no. If you have any kind of evidence, I would be very, very interested to see it.

> Hopefully one day we’ll have a fast and light web browser again :(

There are fast, light browsers around. I like NetSurf, which originated on RISC OS but now runs on lots of things. There's also Dillo.

But they are small, fast and light because they don't do Javascript, and that makes them useless for a lot of stuff.

I welcome suggestions on how to improve that situation. I do not think that Gemini is an answer.

Midori used to be small, light and fast, but not any more. It's another Blink browser now, AFAIK.

Epiphany is still quite snappy, and it's the only WebKit browser for Linux AFAIK. (This also means it's a fully native browser for Linux on Arm, because there's no Chrome for ordinary Arm Linux, or for Windows on Arm64. There is a native Arm64 Windows Firefox but it's well hidden. Chromium exists of course but it is quite limited.)

Epiphany is also the best browser on Haiku.
It’s so strange to me that capturing wild animals is the only way to go about it. If demand is so high, why are there no farms already? Instead of decimating the population, they’d help with conservation.
> working 32 hours is not as productive as 40 hours.

Absolute statements like this on this topic are invalid. It’s relative and fluid and not something you can prove scientifically and definitively.
On the other hand, to dig yourself out of the hole of “I’m too busy and there’s nobody around to help”, you have to slow down and do this, sometimes.
I disagree that unions work. It's mainly due to the fact that it treats everyone more or less the same based on some formula. For instance, they make decisions based on an observable set of factors like how long someone has been there and what education and training they have. But anyone that's worked in the workforce knows this is very limited. People aren't the same. Sometimes someone has been in an org forever but is utterly incompetent. Or someone may have all the certifications in the world but be completely useless. So its a dehumanizing sausage factory. Everyone knows two people may have the same title but one is much more productive at their job.

The rigidness also extends to other factors. For instance, working at a bank we were not allowed to move our monitor to another desk. That was a union job. You had to put in a work order have someone show up eventually and move the monitor for you and get paid some fee. It introduces rigidity and inefficiency and there are constant turf wars. Person A can unplug the monitor but person B has to move it, etc. Or they may have to mandate things like "moving is dangerous so you need a supervisor watching as the person move the monitor.

Finally even if they do succeed at paying above market salaries, that introduces a new question: who gets the job? Paying above a market salary will necessarily result in a lot more workers than available positions. So you have gatekeeping. That leads to cronyism as above market jobs are dolled out to friends and family.

A clear example of how destructive unions can be, take a look at police unions that regularly protect bad police. You see that across the board. I've known teachers in the teachers union that obviously phone it in every chance they get (i.e. showing educational videos during class time). This wouldn't fly in a normal work environment, but due to the over-formalization of hiring, you can't just let someone go for being incompetent or just not very good at their job. You have to jump through hoops
Does that mean if I've been contributing anonymously I've been robbed of every contribution?
I see this happening again and again, sometimes repeatedly to the same persons. A friend of mine is currently going through this, but his solution to the problem is immediately trying to go into the next relationship, as fast as possible. I am very much looking forward to the next breakup. Another friend of mine just never got in touch with me after her new relationship, funnily we got to know each other from the last relationship to a friend of mine where I know she neglected her older friends to favour her new circle.

To be honest, I am not interested in being friends with a person when I get sidelined the moment someone goes into the next relationship. I have better things to do than to revolve around someone else life. I have my own friends. It's a very frustrating experience because you try to stay in touch and you don't know what's going on. It's not your fault.

I try to balance my relationship and my own, personal life. Breakups happened and rougher times in a relationship happen and it's essential to have your own friends. It is very important to me to not give up my identity and my social life. But it has to be said I also don't really accept too much inference into my own life and I don't think I could be in a relationship where each one doesn't have their own space. I know relationship that wouldn't really work for me because you have to negotiate stuff that is not negotiable for me.
It’s hard to work cross-handed though
I used GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype
This is cool and, if it interests you, you might like a thing I have been using for many years.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/qtools-asynchronous-pipe-plus
In what ways would non-union government employees be better?
Can anyone provide details about the training of the model. What data is it based on? Common Crawl? (Being a french company the also rather focus on English language tasks) Where was it trained and with how many resources? They mention Leonardo. I was in an interesting meeting at the German Research Ministry last week where people where complaining that the EuroHPC resources were not sufficient atm to train decent LLMs. I guess the guys in the end went also to CoreWeave in the US.
Financial aid = loans.

They get the opportunity to take out more loans, the poorer their parents are. I got a small pell grant a few years, but most of my college was all loans from the student aid office.
1. Yes, it can be used with other applications as a ZooKeeper replacement, unless some unusual ZooKeper features are used (there is no Kerberos integration in Keeper, and it does not support the TTL of persistent nodes) or the application tests for a specific ZooKeeper version.

2. It could be configure to store - snapshots; - RAFT logs other than the latest log; in S3. It cannot use a stateless Kubernetes pod - the latest log has to be located on the filesystem.

Although I see you can make a multi-region setup with multiple independent Kubernetes clusters and store logs in tmpfs (which is not 100% wrong from a theoretical standpoint), it is too risky to be practical.

3. Only the snapshots and the previous logs could be on S3, so the PUT requests are done only on log rotation.
I've kept 25 years worth of Internet browsing data. Not just the history or the URL's, the pages themselves. 90,000 bits of information about what my interests are, what I spent time reading, a wide and awesome variety of subjects.

I'll train an AI on this data, and then give it access to all my social media accounts. It can keep me updated on things ..

;)
Surely you would then attach the debugger being debugged to the original debugger to debug it and stop the recursion (and of course instantly deadlock).
I cannot stand any keyboard less than a 100% layout. I have 30 years of muscle memory built up, and I'm not about to relearn it.

I don't really have any beef with those who want a smaller keyboard (though I don't really understand it - no way is your desk so small that saving a few inches actually makes a difference). But it is a real bummer that makers of high-end keyboards only cater to that crowd, and don't make nice keyboards that are full size. I would love to get a GMMK Pro, for example - if only it was in the form factor I want.
The usual goal of anything in military training, being cruel to new recruits?
Republican politicians are significantly to the right of their constituents. Democratic politicians are also significantly to the right of their constituents. And the solution of mainstream Democrats appears to be... embracing the left wing of the Republican party, while rejecting the left wing of their own party, thus ceding significant power to the Republican party as a whole (the left wing of which happily goes along with the right wing's lunacy).

Is it good that we have to play "my team/your team" with politics? No, but it becomes a simple prisoner's dilemma. One team plays "always defect" and the other team... insists that not defecting is the right thing to do, and thus loses repeatedly.
It's the philosophy behind them. Let's say Google Search improved relevance by showing less low quality sites. However what if those sites also showed a lot of Google Display Ads and thus generated a lot of ad revenue for Google versus other sites. Given this email it's very possible that such a change would get rolled back or discouraged due to the drop on Google revenue from it.
> Sounds like you are the problem, I don't see what is Microsoft's hand in this.

Perhaps in your haste to conclude that I am the problem you overlooked my mentioning github, which Microsoft owns. It is a website where, among other things, many open source projects are hosted.

If you replied to a comment by mistake then disregard.
Disclaimer: I working on this blog at ClickHouse with the team.

We'll look in to them and adding to some of our social promotion over the coming weeks. Will try to find a way to give you credit.
Master Candidate Cybertrucks Model Y Bodies and Crash Testing 25 Sep 2023 [video]
>Gigafactory Texas on 25 September 2023! This is where Model Y’s and Cyber Truck production happens!
> If a 4 day work week is more productive than a 5 day work week it means the 5th days is producing negative work

Or it could mean that increasing weekly time off by 50% improves people's happiness and productivity, or that a 5 day work week results in days of work that are less productive than in a 4 day work week.
It can bridge the gap in knowledge and experience though. Sure, I could find some organic chemistry textbooks in the library and start working from high school chemistry knowledge to make drugs, but it would be difficult and time consuming with no guide or tutor showing me the way.

Methheads making drugs in their basement didn't take that route. They're following guides written by more educated people. That's where the AI can help by distilling that knowledge into specific tasks. Now for this example it doesn't really matter since you can find the instructions "for dummies" for most anything fun already and like you said, precursors are heavily regulated and monitored.

I wonder how controlled equipment for RNA synthesis is? What if the barrier for engineering or modifying a virus went from a PhD down to just the ability to request AI for step by step instructions?
Why Linda Yaccarino took on the wildest job in Silicon Valley
>I would bet that Tesla today can have a high operational margin in comparison with Ford or GM.

Of course they can, and we know where that margin comes from:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/tesla-wor...

Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, according to incident reports obtained by the Guardian. Hundreds more were called for injuries and other medical issues.

...

“I’ve seen people pass out, hit the floor like a pancake and smash their face open,” said Jonathan Galescu, a production technician at Tesla. “They just send us to work around him while he’s still lying on the floor.”
Sorry, this was a doc that came up in Jerry’s testimony before they pulled everything down. I happened to still have the tab open and found it on archive.org
There's reason for skepticism, but negative work doesn't seem impossible to me. If you've got a 2 hour status meeting that zaps your motivation, reducing productivity by 50% for the remaining 6 hours of the day, that meeting produced -1 hours of work. (And if you postulate that 32 hours is the limit of productivity for the average employee, those kind of soul-sucking meetings are exactly what you'd expect to be scheduled to fill out the remaining 8.)
I think the confusion is what is meant by "in the Worker." From a hardware perspective, the GPU may be in the same machine as the CPU that's powering the Worker. Or they may be across different machines in our network. We are not routing requests to some third party. And we will try to run the inference task as close as possible to who/whatever requested it. The whole idea of "serverless" is you shouldn't have to worry about what machine where runs whatever unless you're on the team building the scheduling and routing logic at Cloudflare.
The latest models generate original combinations that can surprise the prompter with their inventiveness, so your confident assertions about what LLMs can't do seems calibrated to the models of a year or more ago – and not at all an enduring human advantage that one could bank a career (or society) on.

Attempts to rigorously study the relative creativity of LLMs have already found them more creative than average humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3

They're only getting better, fast.

If you're not convinced, what GPT4-level (text or multimodal) or Midjourney-level (imagery) models have you tried, and how much?
I too have been looking into what can replace the 5K 27" iMac display, because my 2017 5K iMac display has developed a column of bad pixels about 30% in from the right side.

It's been that way for about a year and a half now and has not gotten any worse so I don't think I'm in any danger of suddenly needing a new Mac. The way my iMac happens to be on my desk I'm directly in front of a spot about 30% in from the left and most of my main focus is on the left side, so the bad pixels aren't too annoying.

The 27" 5120 x 2880 display has definitely spoiled me. I want something with a similar density and not much bigger or smaller than 27".

These seem to be the choices currently:

1. Apple Studio Display. As you've noted it is expensive. It also comes with a stand that does not have a height adjustment. Add $400 to get it with Apple's height adjustable stand. (Or for $0 get it with Apple's VESA mount adaptor instead of the standard stand, and buy your own stand. If you can find a VESA compatible height adjustable stand for less than $400 this is cheaper than buying Apple's stand).

One thing to not if like me you would really like a monitor that you can keep using for a very long time is that in 2021 Apple made a change to AppleCare. It used to be that you could buy at most a small fixed number of years of AppleCare. Now you can keep renewing AppleCare indefinitely.

For the Studio Display it is $49.99 per year. If the Studio Display is fine for someone except for the price, it might be worth considering if that plus $49.99 per year, which should let you keep it working for a long time, would make it worth it.

2. LG UltraFine 27MD5KL [1]. Supposedly this is the same LG panel that Apple used in the 5K 27" iMacs. Just under $1300. Seems to get good reviews.

3. Samsung ViewFinity S9 [2]. This is new. $1600 so same as Apple's price for the Studio Display, but the S9 is height adjustable and VESA compatible so no paying extra if you want height adjustability.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1500040-REG/lg_27md5k...

[2] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1760795-REG/samsung_l...
This is somewhat misleading. "Sudafed" has always been Pseudoephedrine, which does work.

Sudafed PE (the PE was obviously a tongue-in-cheek move by the manufacturers referencing "placebo effect") is a different thing. You can still buy real Sudafed but you have to get it from the pharmacist's counter.
Sure, my point was that heat and battery are really good in AMD ThinkPads too.

Not as good as in ARM Macs, but sufficiently good to be a compelling alternative.

I have test-driven one and I could get ~10 hours of use plus it was warm and silent.

Macs get a lot more, but some packages are a bit problematic to run on non-x86 architectures.
So that’s why they changed from a non-profit to a capped-for-profit. Use the AI hype to unload and execute the grift since 90BN is clearly overvalued.

The employees also know it is overvalued, hence why they are trying to unload some of the shares now rather than follow the same mistake as Stripe did before it loses value.
And occasionally coming out from under the bridge to give guidance when a contributor gets too far into the weeds.
> We're already paying so what practical difference does it make to the owner of that car?

Vehicle accidents can extend past body damage and minor injuries and go well over the limits your auto insurance covers. As an example, if the software severely injures or kills a pedestrian in a crosswalk in a way that the driver couldn't have reacted, the liability is going to matter a _lot_ more than just paying off insurance.

Frankly, self driving cars aren't going to be worth more than slightly better (or slightly more stressful) cruise control until the company actually assumes liability -- which no one has done, until (presumably) now. So Mercedes stepping up could be a big deal.

Also... Does regular auto insurance cover the case where the driver has their hands off the wheel and software is in control?
Are there already solutions that allow a blind person to walk around in a city and the smartphone tells them to go left/right/forward/stop, or is anyone working on them?

I'm also curious about purely AI based versus LiDAR solutions.
I think there is a change of attitude with a shorter work week. If I am working 9-5 at the same place everyday, I basically live there. It is easier to decide to take more breaks because there is no Friday to relax or get chores done or go to appointments. I take every other Friday off and it helps me focus more at work. I schedule all my weekday appointments for Friday (as much as I can). Monday thru Thursday I can push a little harder and be a little more focused because I know I have Friday (or a week from Friday) to take my dog to the vet, me to the doctor, or whatever else I need to do. I would love a real 4 day work week.
Sure, and that's an important tool for improving quality in the face of different skill levels / levels of effort. But that's independent of investing a bit in improving the skill level across the helper base; as you experienced, it's something where experience helps, and if your first time in the real flow is with an actual request, there's no way to avoid the helper needing to deal with both helping and learning simultaneously.
> ruin the internet in a few months.

I'm sure the internet will be fine, and the web has already been essentially destroyed as the drive for extracting revenue from every human interaction has rendered it just an amusing advertisement for the most part.

Most of the content of the web today is already generated by "bots" even if those "bots" happen to be human beings.
Hey,

Out of interest, what does your stack look like to do this and how do you use the information? What front end do you use?
Some wealthy people like driving. An S-class is one reasonable thing you might purchase if you are wealthy but enjoy driving and would prefer to do more of it than (likely) is necessary or ordinarily appropriate for your station in life. It's a nice car, it's too expensive if you need to justify the price, but if you don't care about the price then why not?

So if you like driving, then you might choose to live somewhere that's a "longer commute" even though you needn't - as this is part of your day which you enjoy. Now, that's probably not going to be bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, but it absolutely might include country roads at limited speed - I said enjoys driving not racing, if you like track racing and have $$$ you can indulge that without owning a road car at all.