skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that the outcomes of technical work is not equivalent to a product with a more static value. Simply put, software is not the same as a burger.

Software development to me is a financial investment strategy. Some risky investments, some safe bonds, some good debt to invest, some bad credit card debt that will be cleared later.

To me, these are the same as a risky overhaul of a critical system adding some automated tests, skipping some type annotations, or launching what was supposed to be a demo/MVP to be first to market.

a piece of software that took months to build could be worthless tomorrow if a competitor comes out with a better solution. There's a time value and strategy to it.

speeding up development with CD lowers the investment cost & time to market of an individual strategy. Automated tests lowers risk. Feature flag & AB testing diversifies the portfolio.

One line of code be the most valuable piece of a product, like Doom's Fast Inverse square root. and millions of lines of code could be worthless.

the value of a software engineer's work is extremely contextual. Two automation can be structurally the same, developed by the same person, written in the same language, take the same amount of time and resources; and still be COMPLETELY different in value.

until IT/software strategies are treated like an investment strategy, companies & leadership will continue to flounder when managing technical teams.
Actually he was the other way around. He strongly pushing windows and the CTO and engineers from Confonity strongly wanted Linux
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Does that really change the impact a lot? Besides, at least internet-loaded ads can be blocked easier than modding out ad assets from a game.
It got down to 40 degrees in our house during the 2021 outages. We were doing everything we could to stay warm. Power was out for several days while it was freezing outside.

Not everyone was as prepared. After 2 days our power became at least intermittent. With a few minutes of power every few hours. And our pipes didn’t burst at least.

Meanwhile, some areas just didn’t lose power at all. My grandmother only lost power for an afternoon.
Should the last in a queue be served first? (LIFO)
Not at all. I can turn on your airgapped computer from the street without getting into your building...

Intel Management Engine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

"Several weaknesses have been found in the ME. On May 1, 2017, Intel confirmed a Remote Elevation of Privilege bug (SA-00075) in its Management Technology.[36] Every Intel platform with provisioned Intel Standard Manageability, Active Management Technology, or Small Business Technology, from Nehalem in 2008 to Kaby Lake in 2017 has a remotely exploitable security hole in the ME"

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/in-b...
Maybe it knows earth is flat after all?
The images themselves may not be subject to copyright, but you can still enter into a contract that says you won’t use generated images without paying for them.
Apparently there are "200k" versions of the 6B and 34B models. I don't see an explanation in the Model card for what the "200k" means here. If that's context size, that is impressive.

TheBloke has GPTQ, GGUF, and AWQ versions of the Yi models. The 6B GGUF instance should run decently on systems without a high-end GPU.

If Yi performs as well in practice as it does on standardized tests, looking forward to releases "Er" and "San" ;)
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More than that, our brains have multiple input and output devices that simultaneously interact with the brain. Proprioception, sight, hearing, touch inputs. Movement, cognition, hormone regulation as outputs. There's a biological basis for why walking stimulates thought, the same networks are involved.

It's not the same thing as training the same NxM deep neural network on multiple modalities and then sending one signal or the other into the input end.
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No I am not talking about Uniper. I am talking about the exact thing you linked.

> Valtiovarainministeriön tukiohjelmasta voidaan myöntää lainoja, joilla tilapäisesti turvattaisiin yhteiskunnan toiminnan kannalta kriittisten sähkön johdannaismarkkinoilla toimivien yhtiöiden likviditeettitarve.

Basically says the loans are given to cover electricity derivatives market liquidity needs for companies that are important for society in general (basically all large electricity producers)

> Lainoja voi käyttää vain sähkön johdannaispörssikaupan vakuusvaatimusten kattamiseksi.

"The loans can only be used for covering electricity derivative market collateral/deposit needs"

As I said when someone sells electricity they have to put money into escrow that can be used to cover that electricity production from the spot market in case they fail to produce that electricity for whatever reason (wind did not blow a much as the forecast said, nuclear plant had to be shutdown due to faulty sensor, etc)

So if you had a customer on a 5c/kWh 2 year long contract and the spot price for an hour is 2e/kWh you would have to put 2e into the escrow account for every kWh of electricity you sold for 5c/kWh during that hour (meaning you would need 40x your revenue for that day in cash just sitting around)

The system makes sense/works well when prices are somewhat normal but needs massive amounts of cash when the prices spike and this is what the government had to help with. Without this loan program there would have been many players on the market with hundreds or thousands of MW of production capacity who would have had to turn OFF their power stations at the moment when the country was almost running out of electricity because they could not have covered the deposits.

There is also the municipal owned electricity company version of that with slightly different conditions.
> I'm 63. Cats seem a lot more friendly and open to human interaction now than when I was a kid.

I’m only a little behind you. I noted that my dad (b. mid 1930s) would pick up and cuddle our cats but was pretty unconcerned about dropping the cat when done (cat would always twist and land on its feet). Also kitty litter was only developed in the early 60s so ppl chucked the cats out at night.

I’ve always been careful to rotate the cat and place it somewhere on its feet. I think the cultures simply used to be casually rougher and it made the cats wary. My cats will lie on their backs in my arms and fall asleep. With my dad they were happy for a cuddle and would purr but their eyes were always open as they were alert to an unexpected change in orientation and support.
Related blog post with above link on FIFO vs LIFO queue management:
https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/first-in-first....
Isn't this merely a dismissive comment that doesn't offer any value?
it's okay. I found tiktok to be better as they search brings your current context for suggestions, user's comments are smartly turned into search links, and they do a better job of letting the user search by transcript
Link ahoy! https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher
You missed the point of the exercise. Of course it's extremely difficult to compare the two, but the question was: do humans get nearly as much training data as LLMs do? This analysis is good enough to say "actually humans receive much more raw input data than LLMs during their 'training period'." You're concerned with what the brain is doing with all that data compared to LLMs, but that's not the point of the exercise.
Most captioning is automatic now though. So it's still true in a meaningful way.
There's more and more losses the further you're pulling it out. And all those states were also near their full capacity as well.
This gets us a bit into the definition of "sugar", I think. Specifically, all the constructs you mention are syntactic shorthands for the same underlying concepts, and the original syntax also remains available - which is to say, those constructs actually are syntactic sugar. Ruby having three ways, in two cases, to do one thing, is not.

I'm glad you mentioned "The Good Parts"! Crockford published in 2008 and the state of the art in JS has so evolved as to make further such work mostly unnecessary, or so I infer from its more-or-less absence over the last decade or so at least. That Ruby still requires such explainers be published in 2023 seems more an argument to my point than to yours.

You're also very anxious to make the perfect the enemy of the good here, which is a surprise after the explicit disclaimer in my prior comment. Why are you asking me to defend an argument I've been at such pains to make clear I'm not advancing?
“This” makes it look like blackouts are imminent; they are not.
I think people regularly trade quality for cheaper stuff. It's not exactly on the box that they have dark ui patterns too. It's also a moving target, they'll just creep the ads in until people start leaving
So uh, 27% of the mass of the _universe_ is being cloaked by civilizations? Literally in all directions, distributed evenly throughout all of visible space? Seems extraordinarily unlikely.

Also, how do they erase their early radio signals after they have been emitted? Civilizations don't go from zero to dark mater cloaking capable without a few intermediate steps...
>Airgapped networks are can bridged.

Not via the processes discussed in the article.
I am using TamaGUI in the last months and it has been a dream to use. It's really nice to be able to use the same code on mobile and web.

For me it feels a bit like using Tailwind CSS, but that works out of the box on all the platforms that I love. I have been active and asking questions on their Discord and people were helpful, the community seems to be good. Seems to be a pretty young project, but very interesting.
Indeed it is. You are a true master of self-referencing phrases!
Open source version of something similar:

https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Video-LLaVA
“Wanting to rewrite for windows” is what you said; was that not accurate?

The key thing here however is that Elon didn’t want whatever he asked for in a vacuum, despite what the book says. Surely this was his engineer’s preference.
All of this may be true, but Stripe's intention with building this is obvious: It's marketing; it's an advertisement showing how much volume Stripe handles during a busy shopping period. A big hint that it's an ad is that the Stripe API Uptime is not only on the first page of the stats, but is the only thing colored green. It's showing that Stripe is easily handling this crazy load, and it's only 13% (right now) of their "current capacity"!

Stripe is not building this to make sure that competitors, creditors, investors, employees, academics, journalists or policy makers have access to important data, that's just not the function of this dashboard.

Those unsure that Stripe will be reliably there for them might be swayed by seeing this during their holiday break. At least that's the marketing theory.

Aesthetics are absolutely a factor on the efficacy of marketing activities, and making it "fun" or "pretty" or "flashy" is part of that.
Types are coming...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36311875

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35766126

Re: "You use both <%= %> and {} to interpolate in phoenix templates, depending on where you are" - no need for EEx anymore for web development, just use HEEx, which has standardized on {}. You can use HEEx for LiveViews and "DeadViews" (server-side rendered Phoenix)
Maybe that's because they are assuming a revenue stream from ads?
It’s not the thunderbolt controller totally, the Vega and GCN (RX580 etc) Radeon cards on older Macs don’t support DSC. The 16 inch MBP had RDNA cards (which do)

For example the Vega MPX cards on the Mac Pro don’t do it, but the 5700 etc cards will give you the added port bandwidth.
No, because their neighbours would send them power. And so on. A larger grid is much stabler. It would also extend outside of the area badly affected by the snowstorm.

Simple proof, no where else in the US or any other developed country does such a situation arise. And even most developing countries have better connected grids. When southern Australia didn’t, it paid for that in rolling blackouts.
I get that its virtue signaling but who is the intended audience who would actually believe it and appreciate it?
I used to use Notepad++ but eventually switched to Vim (specifically gvim on windows). I used vim for everything for a while before switching to vscode for code editing and vim for one-off file editing. It's really handy knowing how to use Vim proficiently since it has some really powerful features.
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I just bought a new Apple TV and I love that thing. The quality is so much nicer, the remote control feels great, you get Dolby Vision, and no ads anywhere in the main app. It's my third one, they tend to last a long time IMHO, you get what you pay for.
"maintaining LARGE applications"

And that is very poor software engineering. You should be breaking down those large applications into smaller more maintainable micro-services.

It's bad really bad.

"compile-time support for validating assumptions"

Bad software development again. If you are checking assumptions at compile time then you are slowing down your software development iteration loop. It's the 4 hour compile time problem from C++ revisited.

"over significant periods of time"

Bad, really bad software development again. As business requirements change over the life-time of a software project, you need to retire and replace old code with new code that better meets the changing business needs.

Static typing is useful for performance reasons but that doesn't apply in a scripting language. In pretty much every other context it's terrible.
With image-rich content, 5mbps will be visibly sluggish with only one visitor and even a few people you know poking it at the same time well have a bad experience.

Judging by
https://unixism.net/2020/05/what-kind-of-traffic-does-hacker... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481230, surviving a couple loads per second up to 25 will get you through many slashdottings, and with a solid symmetrical home connection you have a very good chance.

If you have video, you're not going to survive a slashdotting, but 5Mbps will let you have about one viewer with a smooth experience, while 20-30 viewers could watch the same content on 100Mbps. Or maybe you want to deliver 4k and it's zero versus several peak viewers.
It's not. But ever since the freak blizzard of Feb 2021 where temps got down to as low as -13C (8F) and below 0C for a full week (which was a once in a century type of event for Texas), everyone keeps trying to dog pile on ERCOT for a week of rolling black outs during said blizzard. They were predicting black outs this last summer too and they didn't happen.

Black outs happen multiple times a decade in every state I've ever lived in. And these states are all connected to other states but it doesn't stop the black outs from happening. In Florida I've gone two weeks without power after a hurricane.

Texas has massive wind farms in the northern part of the state that provide as much as 40% of the power for the state. They were not winterized to handle freezing temps because Texas is a subtropical/semi-arid state that is not supposed to see these kind of temperatures for such a sustained period. Natural gas demand was more than doubled because the wind farms were down and everyone has electric heat pumps in Texas because gas or wood heaters are not needed 99 years out of 100.

At any rate if Texas sees another blizzard like '21 anytime soon we're going to have to start to have a conversation about global cooling.
See also: gold
No, this is wrong. Saying war is for money gives war too much credit - it's not good for anything and it doesn't make anyone any money. The opportunity cost is too great.

The US does not care about "the petrodollar". Nor do we care about foreign oil. Nor do we have remotely the same economy we did in 1935.

In fact, war is not even profitable for our military industrial complex. They profit from the threat of war because that funds development of untested superweapons. Actual wars mean all that stuff actually has to work though, and there's a chance you'll get nationalized.

But if it was good for some MIC rich people, it still wouldn't matter, because they're outnumbered by all the other rich people it's bad for.
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>Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.

They have something weird going on. I had to make an account with them to redeem a game key, and they wouldn't deliver the account verification email to my custom domain hosted by Fastmail. I used a gmail address and the email came instantly. Then out of the blue 24h later the emails to my custom domain were delivered (by which time the verification codes had all expired, of course).

I saw a bunch of discussion where other people reported the same thing like https://old.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/yr9tqq/amd_rewards... - they got emails instantly when they switched to gmail but other domains didn't work.
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If he’s like my dad (72) learning siri is the best shot. He also likes books on tape, which you can get a free BARd player for. There’s a USB stick that you can pop in for loading podcasts and other mp3s. The player has big buttons that are easier to interact with than a touchscreen.

My dad’s phone is set up to announce callers and auto answer. Hanging up is a bit of pain. You can set siri to listen to ‘siri hang up’. I think there’s an option to use the side button too.

There’s also a new more accessible home screen in ios 17 that I was going to try setting up for him which might work better with voiceover.

I also tried a bluetooth controller with him instead of the touch screen but at this point he thinks Siri is easier than any option that requires him to touch the screen or use a controller to move through options.
Why would someone be fired over what company they bought an LLM from?
Nothing OpenAI has released product-wise (ChatGPT, Dall-E) has required 'marketing'. The value speaks for itself. People raving about it on twitter, telling their friends/coworkers, and journos documenting their explorations is more than enough.

If this was an extremely competitive market that'd be more plausible. But they enjoy some pretty serious dominance and are struggling to handle the growth they already have with GPT.

If Q* is real, you likely wouldn't need to hype up something that has the potential to solve math / logic problems without having seen the problem/solution before hand. Something that novel would be hugely valuable and generate demand naturally.
Except that bacterium was introduced as a weapon specifically to destroy that society. Weren't they trying to take control of the ring once society collapsed?
I remember when José Valim first came up with it. I thought it might just be a fad, or a toy language to test out some ideas.

that was in 2012.
I plug this on every article about FireTV or AppleWatchbox or GoogleXstream.

Buy a desktop, can even be an old one I picked mine up for $200 from a used electronic store. Buy a wireless keyboard and mouse, buy and HDMI cord.

Setup a shortcut on your desktop to each of the major streaming services you want.

Boom everything you could want or need, if you don't like the idea of a mouse Vimium extension allows you to everything from the keyboard. Also you can install uBlock origin to deal with pesky ads.

You know who doesn't deal with a completely hijacked interface and can customize things to how he wants while also being able to play steam games on my TV? This guy.

If your skeptical just give it a try and prepare to be surprised.
Another story: I had auto updates disabled on my Nvidia shield, and for some reason decided to re-enable them. Afterwards I begin getting twitch streams interrupted by three or four minutes of ads at a time, in the middle of a streamer's match. That taught me never to have auto updates enabled again.

Combine that with the same thing that happened on the shield itself as what is happening this article, where an update that does nothing for performance or features of the device inserts ads to the home screen.
If all I needed was SMTP? I'd likely just use Amazon SES or Mailgun.

I know some folks have concerns with the privacy of that(1), and really want to run their own SMTP. If that's the case, Mail In A Box can do the job, or you can go with a pure SMTP solution like https://github.com/ix-ai/smtp (not endorsing it -- it's just been on my radar) or a roll-your-own Postfix/Exim solution. The latter requires almost zero resources after it's set up; slap it on a $20/year VM and you're done.

1. Chasing privacy with email is a chimera. If you really want private communications, email is not the tool.
OT- there should be a "cloud to butt" extension for "AI to LLM"
Not actually AI generated SVGs, but it generates an AI raster image and then "converts" it.
The Zinc Experiment (1990) [pdf]
Also worth a mention: mailcow,
really painless setup and update process.
I use my Apple TV as a security camera system, in addition to acting as a TV and extra seamless monitor. Video chatting my whole family on a 65” screen is nice too.
Is your point that GIMP is not successful; or that it is successful, despite lacking ux/UI people?
Or easily re-connect AirPods from the phone to AppleTV and watch at night without waking the whole house.
The 200k means the number of tokens in the context window. That means it can operate on very large sets of data at the same time. To convert from tokens to words, it's about 150,000 words (modulo grammar and other facts of life).
Slavery isn't profitable, people do it for emotional or ideological reasons, or because they're not competent enough to run a business that has to actually trade.

This is literally why economics is called "the dismal science". Slaveowners called economists that when the economists told them to stop doing slavery.
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