skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's equally desired at "web server and above" and "operating system and below", which probably makes it one of the hardest languages on the planet to design.

My theory as to why C++ has become as a problematic language as it has is because it is able to do it all. And "all" doesn't fit nicely into a single package or paradigm.

I don't like async (in any language), so your post immediately piqued my interest. I'm not that interested in 'webserver and above' so of course that would be where people find async useful.

It is possible that there is no way to unify these two domains into a single language (at least without becoming c++). Although, then again, it might be that if you think about it long enough then the unification mechanism becomes apparent.
Tokenization, same as a year ago.
I worked in it for 13 years (worked on one of the biggest non shooter games in the world). (this was ten years ago). I moved to new city to work and did so much overtime that when I go back to the same city now it feels strange to me. no familiarity whatsoever. The main problems I experienced were insane hours, low pay (base salary sounds good till you do the back of the envelop calc of pay over time and realize its less than minimum wage. lol.) and business people (who don't play or like games) making decisions that overrode the decisions of people who actually like games. Yahtzee is the only game reporter/reviewer whose name I still remember. I far as I can tell, he was the channel. you could tell he liked games. He will be fine, he has talent.
I think the comment this person was responding to is completely off topic for my blog post, and extremely shallow. I share the person you're responding to's frustration with how async Rust is talked about on Hacker News.
No, stop repeating this. They use examples to learn and attempt to generalize with on-the-fly modeling.
Hilarious how god awful these CEOs are while still apparently being worth $23MM in severance.
Functional Ownership Through Fractional Uniqueness
Yeah, I'd say Charlie Brooker's stint at PC Zone was more notable. That was the best gaming magazine ever and the world is shitter without it. Dave Woods, Jamie Sefton, Will Porter, Rihanna Pratchett. I'm genuinely amazed PCGamer beat it in the market and continues to this day.
Not sure I understand here... you can tap on the CarPlay map and then drag to scroll around. It's better on capacitive screens, but still works well. Then, tap the compass indicator to go back to current location.
I've given it descriptions of non-existent "franken-languages" composed by telling it to imagine taking programming language A and adding various features I want to explore to it, and then had it correctly symbolically reason about a program written in this hypothetical language that doesn't exist anywhere, so yeah, the notion it doesn't generalize to at least some degree is nonsense, but note this involved tests on a GPT2 scale model so it's not very surprising they had poor results.

That said, even GPT4 certainly has pretty significant limitations on what it manages to reason about. But without comparing their capabilities in other aspects, arguably so do most humans. We tend to force our way past those limitations by learning incrementally by doing over and over. Current models don't get that luxury without complicated fine-tuning steps, so if anything what should surprise us is how well they do with the limitation of only context to act as short-term memory.
That's fair. And it's probably more interesting to showcase Apple products because they do produce relatively better engineered products in general that would look great with this kind of imaging technology.
The great thing about working with Bevy is it forces you to finish a project within a few months before the APIs all change again.

(I kid! It's great that Bevy is developing so quickly.)
Was thinking the same yesterday.

Microsoft will make it cheaper but I'd also be very interested in a generic echo like smart home device that can be plugged into any LLM.

I have a few echos, and more google home devices, not a single one is plugged in anymore because I got tired of them not being capable enough or google doing stuff like adding "oh and by the way, if you ever want to do x you can ask me y".

No way to turn that shit off.
There have been two criticisms of this paper floating around.

1. The test mechanism is to use prediction of sinusoidal series. While it's certainly possible to train transformers on mathematical functions, it's not clear why findings from a model trained on sinusoidal functions would generalize into the domain of written human language (which is ironic, given the paper's topic).

2. Even if it were true that these models don't generalize beyond their training, large LLMs' training corpus is basically all of written human knowledge. So then the goalpost has been moved to "well, they won't push the frontier of human knowledge forward," which seems to be a much diminished claim, since the vast majority of humans are also not pushing the frontier of human knowledge forward and instead use existing human knowledge to accomplish their daily goals.
Then they actually profited, and didnt lose $700k
I wish there were some way they could filter out the whole super patriot warrior persona from law enforcement, it's useless to the community and it doesn't feel safe it feels hostile, they have no business being in a position of power over anyone.

I shouldn't see cops with punisher skull and crossed AR15s sleeve tattoos, that's not a law enforcement vibe, that's murderous vigilante cult vibe.
Mosaic will be useful. Can't believe the retail version didn't come with anything to track score.
This started around 2017. There were lots of plans and tours and proposals. I hear a lot about how this is NIMBYs keeping everyone out, but this was a redevelopment project for a lot of commercial property near a bus/train/lightrail/BART(in the next 5-10 years) terminal. The YIMBYs were the ones who slowed it down with endless demands. I'm generally supportive of their goals, but it was pretty clear to me that by delaying it for years they would get a market cycle turn and nothing for their efforts. To be completed by 2025 it should have started a couple of years ago when financing was cheap.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/california-today-googl...

Now it will be partially demolished empty buildings and blight for the next decade. I hope the city/county just start taxing empty lots and buildings for the lost tax revenue rather than letting the owners sit on it for decades like they did with the old malls from the 80s which were empty till the 00s. Not doing anything with prime land in the middle of a city should have a cost too.
Someone needs to record an Omnichord set of Christmas melodies as the soundtrack, or backing music, for the movie Alien.
If the town population doesn't grow (100 deaths each year, 100 births, equal immigration and emigration) then new houses aren't needed. Sure you have kids needing a new home, but then your parents die, freeing up an old home

The reason we need more housing is

1) Concentration of living in certain areas more than in the past

2) Smaller households (more common to have a family unit of 2 parents and 3 kids being divorced, with both parents wanting a house large enough to keep the kids on alternating weekends)

3) Increasing population (both from longer lives, more births, and net immigration)
Or the people working on those cancelled projects...
This would be easy enough to fix by having a modifier added to each token embedding vector to say "this is an instruction token" or "this is a data token".
It would be news is somebody showed transformers could generalize beyond the training data. Deep learning models generally cannot, so it's not a surprise this holds for transformers.
I'm accepting suggestions for games to add, since pretty I'm out of touch with the scene and there's so many amazing new ones to keep up with.

As far as contributing, maybe I'll put this up on GitHub...
YouTube is insufferable for me without youtube-dl/yt-dlp and watching with a proper player like mpv locally.

Skipping around without a bunch of buffering lag and ability to increase volume up to 300% in poorly recorded/mixed videos alone are game changers.

The signal:noise ratio of the content there is awful, it requires better tools than what they provide for obvious reasons.
Why Three Prongs?
Any source on trackers poisoning this data? I assume if that were common, requesting a few blocks from a provided IP address could let you know if they're really seeding that torrent.

Adding fake entries from certain IP ranges would be quite funny, and a good example of the data not being trustworthy.
Waze is a Google product, so yes, you are the product. Also, they sell ad spots. Published a few for a restaurant, worked OK actually as we got some customers who got there because of the ad.
FWIW the paper title is focuses on quite a different conclusion than the submission title: Pretraining Data Mixtures Enable Narrow Model Selection
Capabilities in Transformer Models
The people who live there and vote clearly don’t want it, or they’d change the zoning?

I think what you’re saying is ‘people in general want to be able to live there but currently can’t afford to do so, and those jerks who live there won’t budge on making it happen’.

Which, okay?
Oh you mean the paper that was discredited in the link I already shared? I am not going to copy and paste the argument from the link I shared, you can read it for yourself. I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you actually read the article that you claimed to read but unfortunately good faith arguments around this seem impossible to have with the alarmist crowd.
This is (probably) wrong, see:

https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
And specifically the part where it discusses addition under the heading Blessings of Scale.
How about "trashion"?
True, I really didn't need to use the term "dog whistle" there as the GP was pretty much outing themselves with the entire post. To decide that one entire group holds exactly the same opinion requires either a pre-existing distaste for that group or a complete lack of critical reasoning.
it would actually be pretty great for cities to have more multimodal patterns of density, rather than the current unimodal downtown + progressively increasing sprawl (I'm looking at you, nyc)
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it.
Aider supports the repo map for bunch of languages already, see below. Is there one in particular you need that is missing?

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/tree/main/aider/queri...
I think std needs a default runtime, and we might as well make it tokio, but maybe make the single-threaded executor the default instead and tweak the API where appropriate to align with this change.

Swapping the executors out should absolutely be a feature, and the traits should be portable, but a way to start fixing the situation beyond the great suggestions in this proposal is to acknowledge that std and no-std users are different, and std users are often developing applications and prefer sane defaults.
> The carrier has no way of knowing that.

Let's do that then. Seems like
it would be the best of all worlds. Click on "Sign up for text alerts" go through the OAuth flow and the user grants you the ability to text them (and importantly revoke that privilege) they never learn your number and you can send messages directly via API and avoid the Twilio overhead. The carrier(s) set up strict rules for what kinds of messages you can send and how often and violating them means your app id getting pulled.

God I wish we would just do this for email as well. Spam would just stop being an issue for 99% of cases.
The guy I genuinely feel sorry for is "an unaccompanied technician who had only been on the job for a week".

Regardless of any and all corporate spin on the issue, a newbie was dumped into an event at the worst possible time.

I really really really hope he gets a decent bit of counselling to make sure that is fully aware that the issue with the data centre had NOTHING to do with him unplugging the coffee maker to plug in his recharger for his iPhone. Absolutely nothing at all.
I am pro async Rust, but we don't use async in our embedded projects at Oxide. This is because of specific design constraints and goals: https://hubris.oxide.computer/reference/#_why_synchronous

That being said, I am also a fan of embassy when you have different design constraints and goals, and consider the fact that is is able to exist and be successful is a massive testament to the design of async Rust.

(We also use async Rust heavily further up the stack, and have some issues with it, but they tend to be disjoint from the way that this is talked about online.)
That sort of attack has been around for a very, very long time.

> Th end solution ... destroy the box.

Or reformat the disk, or even just write over the boot sector with something else (proper boot code, zeros, or even garbage).
>The argument as it went went like this. Is the theory that no infringement has occurred believable, or can it be said as a forgone conclusion that over the course of the operation that some specific copyrighted work has been infringed on at some point in time and that the operator knowingly were aware that such cases was likely to have happened.

Though in this case, I assume that a great many lawyers would argue that it's hardly a foregone conclusion in this case.
I kindah lost track what is the current status of async in traits ?
Still relies on the macro?
Just one (of many) examples: I asked for scores in several different categories, and the total score was not what the individiual scores added up to. I mentioned this, the model apologized, and gave another total score (also wrong).
"My high school covered all the classical literature: from Greek Mythology to Shakespeare."

Did you cover the Greek in the original Greek?

I actually would be fine with covering Shakespeare in what amount to a translation. The sex and violence does not bother me per se, as they are valid topics for true literature. As you allude to, we do that for many things. The problem is that we pretend Shakespeare is in English and present it to the students that way, but it really isn't anymore. It is at the very least in a very different dialect, and for practical purposes is in a different language.

When I say we shouldn't teach Shakespeare, I mean, in the way we do, not that he should be some sort of verboten topic. We teach it in a way that clearly nobody involved has any clue what is going on. Directly attacking that problem is fine, but first we have to get people to even be willing to admit it's a problem and it doesn't make you a stupid dum dum to say that language has shifted over the past 400+ years to the point that we can't expect to just throw it at modern teenagers and have them understand it even superficially, let alone deeply.

And to be honest, I will hold this point up as a counter to anything anybody else argues. Clearly, nobody involved understands what is going on. What is the point of teaching something the teacher is oblivious to? How hypothetically wonderful it might conceivably be if people more deeply understood it does not a single thing to change what is actually being tought. Until we can admit that what is actually being taught is lightyears from that hypothetical wonderfulness, we can't fix the problem and students will continue to be taught that High Literature is incomprehensible nonsense.
After the big tech companies all did their RTO last year I'm really not sure how remote work could be seen as the default. I recognize that it happens - there was a whole drama cycle last month from Amazon employees who seem to have believed the RTO was optional - but it's not a wise job searching strategy to expect remote opportunities from a company that doesn't advertise them.
Nah, Altman doesn't really want you think machines are like humans and have rights either, because if the law thought that, it would also think Altman was aspiring to be the greatest slaver in all of history.
Salary is money, bonuses are a bet. The 2 are not the same.
That updated viewer is a absolutely awesome, I like how you can go through the part layer by layer.
Good thought, I'll add it to todos.
What I like about Embassy is the Metapac, and less reliance on generics and typestates than predecessors.

My complaint is I don't find the async ergonomics intuitive; it feels like a layer of misdirection. And, the viral character.
The PRRAR furin cleavage sequence wasn't a previously known furin cleavage pattern and its unlikely that human scientists would have tried to insert that particular pattern into the genome of a virus.

We also now know of natural viruses which are very close to SARS-CoV-2 and only missing the FCS, but at the same time there has been zero evidence that WIV was ever working with SARS-CoV-2-like viruses when their focus was on SARS-CoV-1 like viruses.

And the natural spillover event is the leading theory in the intelligence community, from the ODNI report:

> The National Intelligence Council and four other IC agencies assess that the initial human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was caused by natural exposure to an infected animal that carried SARS-CoV-2 or a close progenitor, a virus that probably would be more than 99 percent similar to SARS-CoV-2.

> The Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation assess that a laboratory-associated incident was the most likely cause of the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2, although for different reasons.

> The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.

> Almost all IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered. Most agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not laboratory-adapted; some are unable to make a determination. All IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon.

The natural spillover theory is the leading theory 5-to-3 compared to other theories and only DoE and the FBI think that the lab leak was more likely. Genetic engineering is not a well-supported theory. And I don't know what evidence DoE or FBI could have that CIA/NSA doesn't that leads them to the conclusion that it was a lab leak.

> People who ignore you led with scientific facts and expert analysis to focus on the documented conspiracy — then try to call your whole post “conspiratorial nonsense” are funny.

You haven't presented any scientific facts. And then you pivoted into conspiracy theories about scientists. Yeah, there was a scientist early on who looked at the FCS and got startled by it and thought it was a smoking gun, and then after considering the scientific evidence he changed his mind. Assuming and stating as a fact that he changed his mind due to financial pressure, without any evidence, is exactly conspiratorial thinking.
Find another place of employment? I'm being fairly serious, with the obvious caveat that switching jobs isn't something you can do at the drop of a hat.
Amazon is perhaps one of the best executed businesses. Their retail logistics physical footprint is insanely huge and chews billions in capital. They chose to reinvest their profits to stronghold their logistics position.

In terms of warehouse square footage, they are the biggest by a wide margin (~320M sqft - probably more now) https://www.bigrentz.com/blog/amazon-warehouses-locations

Now they're playing the card of AWS but for physical logistics. They're opening up their warehouses and logistics as a service to others.

Every company ought to be investing it's profits for long term gains.

The fact that Apple is sitting on so much cash that it doesn't know what to do is not a great play.

I'm willing to bet that in 10 years, Amazon will be bigger than Apple in market cap.
Here is my thing about Andromeda, it was a bad Mass Effect game in the same way that Mario Sunshine was a bad Mario game. The bar was incredibly high so in comparison it was a "bad" game.

But both were still solid games. now ME:A had its faults (especially at launch), but to this day I blame Kotaku for single handily causing that game to fail and the public perception of it being the way it was and we never got the DLC that was clearly hinted at in the game. Which I am still frustrated about.

It seemed like on a daily basis for a couple weeks we got a negative article about ME:A from Kotaku and suddenly everyone talked about how bad it was even though they never played it.

Disclaimer: I have a Mass Effect tattoo that I plan on turning into a sleeve so I am not exactly... impartial
The benefits are essentially bribes to the citizens and planning departments.

It would be irritating if someone bribed you to be able to do something, then once they did it the check bounced!
Braiding is not fabric: fabric is a tight-weave, stable sheet, where the fibers are locked in place because it's been loomed specifically for that purpose. That's basically the opposite of what braiding is meant to do: each braid is explicitly meant to move independently, and constantly, so even if you managed to print something on the braining, in a way that looked fine coming right out of the printer, whatever you printed will be unrecognizable after even a few days of coiling and uncoiling the cable, let alone the years of use that apply to USB cables.
> rushing to flee a rapidly advancing forest fire, tidal wave, active shooter

You design for the normal, not the "so unlikely that 99% of drivers will never be in this situation in a lifetime of driving."
Not to mention Brit salaries are absolutely abysmal compared to most US tech salaries lol.
Yes, actually, they do. See the heading Blessings of scale in [0]

[0]: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis:
I'm sure there's some alternative universe where Yahoo bought Netflix and ruined that instead. It's not that they bought the wrong company, it's that they just don't get it.
Heh, yeah, my work is the opposite, so I've been sticking with Bevy for quite some time at this point. Tried Godot, but I really enjoyed ECS so hard to change now...
Ask HN: Mint is shutting down. What are your alternative preferences and why?
My shortlist is:
Copilot Money
YANB
Lunch Money
Monarch

In no particular order.
> you have all the overhead of understanding a filesystem.

No need. Read & write cluster/sector or block/page directly; BIOS already does that.
get my vote
Because often, the tokens are broken up as random groups of numbers. For example, let's say 1984 appears quite a few times in the source text, this will become a single token. Given that these many different, semi-random groups of digits it is hard for the LLM to learn any consistent rules. I believe there are papers showing that if you structure numbers more consistently LLMs have no problem with this kind of arithmetic.
Ukraine uses starlink for live artillery correction. The drone operators don't just send coordinates. They send live video. The people firing artillery can see if they hit things live
Are you claiming the on the fly modeling can learn or reproduce multistep algorithms, like simple addition that the parent comment asked about, and which i asked about above?
Keep up? I just ask chat gpt stuff and use copilot autocomplete. Just doing that has been a huge help and I’m not sure how much more I need at this time!
I had an absolutely awful experience when I tried using Sqlite through the sqlx crate. The work was mostly cpu-bound, but I didn't mind blocking the event loop for a few seconds here and there, so I thought I would just run it on Tokio's worker threads. Big mistake, I ended up getting extremely low CPU utilization due to a quirk (Or less charitably, a bug) in Tokio's scheduler.

I eventually rewrote the whole thing with rusqlite, but apart from being non-async, I found the API much less ergonomic to work with. But at least Rayon worked exactly as I expected.