skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Great products are created by great teams. It’s almost impossible to create anything of any meaningful scope, these days, without a team.

Yes, but also there are things that teams cannot do, and in fact make them worse.

To use an example from my org, there is a feature which was proposed to accomplish a specific objective. The feature grew in complexity to address much more than was originally planned. A large team was assembled to rapidly deliver as the original objective was important to business needs. The large team enabled the larger version of the feature.

This mostly happened without the knowledge of one of those smart but ostracized engineers. When they became aware of it, they had to step in and force changes to prevent the large feature from leading to serious technical debt and behavior that would not compose with other features well. More changes should have been done to return to a simpler design that would have focused on the original goal but it was too late.
Gcode is like assembly language: yes, it is human readable as compared to byte code, but it is way too low level to work in.

I write software that generates gcode for things like vases and mugs. The gcode for a typical print is between 200KB and 2MB. It would be impossible to hand code at any decent level of productivity.
Oddbean
No one expected larger LLMs to be amazing, so although it's unlikely that these larger models will do anything, it was also unlikely that we are in our current situation regarding LLMs.
Maybe I’m missing something but isn’t TS compiled to JS?
Haskell x Swift interoperability using Xcode
The grid could, at least in principle, curtail rooftop solar by messing with the frequency. This might be a bad idea.
Apparently there are roughly 2 trillion text messages sent per year in the US [1]. I did a sanity check, that’s like 40 or so a day per person, so sounds reasonable.

I couldn’t find the average message length, but I would guess it’s fairly short (with a fat tail of longer messages).

To make the math easy, let’s say the average length is ~10 tokens. I’d be surprised if that isn’t correct within a factor of 2 or so.

So we have 20 trillion tokens per year from text messages in the US alone. And this is high-quality conversational data.

The annual numbers were fairly constant in recent years (and then it drops off), so the past decade of US text messages is about 200 trillion tokens! That’s a metric fuck ton… Much larger than any dataset existing models have been trained on, I believe.

I would guess phone transcripts would be an order of magnitude larger at least. Talking is a lot easier than typing on a phone.

You could train an absolutely insane model with that amount of data… Damn.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/185879/number-of-text-me...
I was a bystander to this, but I was always amused to see flocks of doting grandparents (I presume) with clipboards of 2-6 phones in the park by my house during school hours...
>Now ERCOT has warned there is a 14.4 percent chance it will need to employ controlled outages in December, with the estimate rising to 16.8 percent in January.

No, it said that if we had the exact same disaster storm THEN we would then have a 14.4% chance of a rolling blackout at 8am. The odds of this storm could be 2% for all we know.

Heres the report:

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2023/10/10/MORA_December202...

I assume our odds are better due to the winterization we put in.

https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2022-01-18-final-winteriz...
> Why not embrace 32 bit color and high resolution?

It's a deliberate design decision, which hearkens back to an era when computing was simple. I appreciate it.

> At that point just use MiniVMac.

Decker has many modern improvements though:

> It retains the simplicity and ease of learning that HyperCard provided, while adding many subtle and overt quality-of-life improvements, like deep undo history, support for scroll wheels and touchscreens, more modern keyboard navigation, and bulk editing operations.

I personally like that it can output standalone HTML documents, uses a VCS friendly format, and its language can be used from the CLI.

It seems like a great project, in the same vein as Lua, LÖVE, Carousel, PICO-8, etc. In an era of complex, bloated, slow, opaque, and often hostile software, these projects are a breath of fresh air.
Authority figure belongs to an older generation, quite obviously!
tbh, I'm not entirely informed on what the requirements are for LLM training, but I've noticed that nearly all of the teams don't use unified memory (what makes a super computer "super"). I believe I read somewhere openAI uses a K8s cluster[1] and other teams I know seem to work with other similar non-unified memory systems. If there's no advantage, part of what makes supercomputers expensive is this memory interconnect, so wouldn't it just be better to use a huge K8s cluster or something?

I'm honestly not sure, and hoping somebody comments here and provides more information as I'm genuinely interested.

1 - https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes

OpenAI says their biggest jobs run on MPI so maybe a supercomputer would be better?
I would not say governments have generally made peoples lives better. I'd wager MOST governments have actually oppressed and depressed their people.
Drawdio: A Pencil That Lets You Draw Music
> "I don't think that will be the case, as there will be a gold rush once the possibility is proven and visible, everyone will try to get it, even the naysayers."

Maybe; instead when this happens, e.g. hairloss and finasteride, I look at people desperately trying to fight aging and stay young forever and then replacing their worry about hairloss with worry about post-finasteride[1] depression and sexual side effects. Or the people who are obsessed with nootropics ('smart drugs') who are in a hyper-competitive world I don't want to be in at all. Or the people who slather vitamin A creams on their skin to try and look younger who may give themselves retinol burn[2] and Vitamin A, E supplements to look younger which may[3] gives bone pain, liver damage, birth defects, increased risk of fractures, skin irritation, increased risk of prostate cancer.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5047

[2] https://www.healthline.com/health/retinol-burn

[3] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/how-these... - "For context, consider that a single 3-ounce serving of pan-fried beef liver [alone] contains [over 2x the recommended daily upper limit of Vitamin A]."
Musk Derangement Syndrome
I’d be down Alex at alexandarnarayan dot com
It’s a problem that spans across all modern operating systems. Even if they are not taking up 100% CPU, they are running and that’s still a problem. Just look at Windows Task Manager or Apple’s Activity Monitor (or even Linux ps on some problematic distributions). There are always dozens (hundreds?) of unknown daemons sitting there doing god knows what on a computer that is supposed to be yours. How did we users allow this to happen?

I long for the days when all that was running on your computer were things you commanded it to run, not things that the OS vendor wants running at all times for whatever (nefarious or otherwise) purpose.
Music on a long thin wire is also very pleasing in a meditative way. A drone with what could be described as a rich “overtone cloud”. I once showed it to a friend who is a massage therapist and they would use it for sessions.
Governments have murdered over one hundred million people over the last few centuries through war and forced famines. Corporations don't even enter that conversation given the scale difference.

Napoleon's government alone murdered more people than all corporations combined have throughout all of history. And that's a revered historical figure that routinely gets fawning movies made about him, there are obviously worse examples. Mao's government murdered several times more than Napoleon did.
No company can technologically defend against nation state level resources for industrial espionage.

The only solution is tit for tat damages.
A header to opt in instead of a banner...

I'm sorry now I'm confused. Is UI design this hard? Is this neurotypical?
Some day once we strip the entire planet of its accessible natural resources and turn it into trash the landfills will be the only place left to scrounge for rare materials.
It’s funny because I think overtime this is the same sentiment that seeped into the Ruby community. It used to be with pride when something worked with ‘magic’, but Ruby and even rails have both gotten away from that mentality, and I think for the better.
SoA performance comes from wasting money trying different things and seeing what happens. This will be another data point that we all can learn from, unlike GPT-4 that we have no clue how it works.
Oh shit I summoned the TERFs. With a 6 minute old account no less. Go away.
Uh huh. And what percent of the mail you send will be silently dropped by gmail (not even spam folder)? Sadly that game is lost.
I'm so excited for when their 70B version comes out!

I'm wondering how much of a factor the larger token dictionary plays in this progress. Seems like greater token lexicon translates to better learning. What do you think?
I’m not going to flag or downvote you, but this is a very typical European mentality. We have large numbers of immigrants from the places you cite and they integrate fine. I think there are ~1 million people of Middle Eastern descent in California and again, zero issues. At some point, people have to recognize it’s their own culture’s biases that create the social conditions that prevent integration and not the fault of the people themselves.
Continuous Team Advocacy
Exploits in computers and using them doesn't inherently make them more unstable. These exploits rely on existing things in code and memory to make use of. It's not like after using one, your system will be less unstable in almost all cases. It is possible that the system could somehow detect that it was tampered with, or the jailbreak itself did some things, potentially malicious, then make things like this happen. You could also say that it may not be seeable from a mac because the system is more open than the mobile version. If someone wanted to hide it, they might decide not to put it in the version that can be more easily reverse engineered.
Unfortunately I know a lot of devs who file garbage bug reports as well. It’s a smaller ratio than the general public, but it’s far from zero.
They're not, but I am more interested in their ability to follow instructions, and here Yi did the opposite of what was requested.

A non-code example: “Can you take this list of groceries and order it alphabetically? (Salad, cherries, garlic, cheese, milk.)”

Yi:

- Cherries
- Garlic
- Milk
- Salad
- Cheese

Zephyr:

cheese, cherries, garlic, milk, salad
Easy to say that when you’re not sick.

Isn’t almost every country on earth having their birth rates plummet ? Mainly due to less people dying and a better quality of life
> Seems rather rude in some sense.

If I were busting my ass at a job just to make sure I could pay rent and keep food on the table for my kids, I probably wouldn't have much energy left to learn Vietnamese, either.
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. So much of contemporary conflicts / culture / etc. have been illuminated to me by understanding this book. It’s super long, however, so you may want to read How Not to Be Secular by James K. A. Smith first, which is a summary of the larger book.
Sounds like the browser vendor should fix all the crappy javascript deployed to the web :)
Black Friday is a mostly local to US.
Reading through the several answers, it seems like the TL;DR is

1. Maybe there is toxic material IDK who wants to touch that instead of some rock

2. The industry actors who would do it only regard landfills as shiny metal reserves, and don't want/can't get the other materials one might extract from it, raising cost floor
Because it’s a lot more complicated and expensive than mining native minerals right now, because you have to deal
With all the other random things mixed in.
Unless they get rid of Android sideloading entirely it'd be extremely hard to do so.
yeah I learned of the Phoenix Project as the 'why' behind doing the orange DevOps handbook 'how' when our company was hit with the DevOps wave. Continuous Learning + automation + instrumentation are many of the tools that let you do the 1-5 in your post.

Saying it is only to "work harder to get more work done faster" is not what I took away from TPP.
Wait, gravity has something to do with this? Like in the same manner as when NASA uses a gravity assist, or is this some other effect?
I'm just surprised this hasn't been done before. Isn't this the kind of low-hanging fruit that would have been studied at some point in the last 40 years?
This comment is interesting. What little I read about the "boat people" escaping Vietnam in the late 1970s was about comparatively privileged South Vietnamese fleeing the new regime that was out for revenge. So, I would have assumed high literacy from those demographics.
Kotlin, definitely an interesting choice for backend development. But I love to see idiosyncratic language choices being made.
Aha, that would do it. As an aside the amount of stuff baked into these models is impressive, I tried using the dolphin2.2-mistral 7B model to translate bits of that ticket and it did just fine.

>>> Translate: 如题
The title suggests: "As the topic"

>>> 关于模型，hugggingface上只看到，34B chat是有的，6B还没上传吗
Regarding the model, on Hugging Face, I only see a 34B chat, is the 6B not uploaded yet?
Academic sources I’ve seen are in the 10Mbps range, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564115/ (estimating 875kbps for a guinea pig and ~10x that for a human).
You wrote a lot but said nothing except your own projecting of me as a self obsessed person. Your post just says accept death or I'll look down on you, because the universe and stars and assange? Lol.
None, if apropriate relays used. Mailchannels or mail.baby for example. The game is never lost if there is active gamers.
One of the very few games in the past decade, which I can refer to as “actually got significantly held back by technical limitations of the host platform”. Same with Pokémon Scarlet/Violet and Shin Megami Tensei 5.

I am not picky in terms of graphical fidelity or anything like that, very happy to play older games, even those that don’t run that well. But I had to straight up step away from SMT5, despite how much i was excited for the game, because it felt like I was controlling a blob of pixels at under 30fps most of the time. While pokémon games i mentioned above had slightly more stable performance, Arceus was the most lifeless and depressing open world i’ve seen in a very long time.

Which is such a shame, because you could obviously see the devs tryng to evolve the pokémon formula in an exciting new direction, only for it all to be squandered and met with criticism due to not necessarily the fault of the devs, but the host platform. And that’s why I am upset about Switch being so weak. Would gladly play more games on it, but it is extremely unappealing when even a lot of the top tier AAA exclusives look awful (exceptions apply, e.g., zelda games), have lifeless worlds, and cannot even run at stable 30fps.

I am not asking for PS5 tier graphics or anything like that. I am even willing to grind my teeth and forego 60fps. But ffs make it at least a stable 30 and let the world of a game (Pokémon) that is supposed to be full of “wildlife” and nature not look like it was annihilated in a nuclear strike the day prior to the events of the game taking place.

At this point, i would only count first party mario-universe type of games to be not held back by anything (and maybe Zelda, but you can obviously see how the devs had to push it to the max of what’s even technically possible with it). And that’s pretty much how Switch ended up just as a “mario- and party- game machine” for me.
I started around PHP 4 as well, mostly as a hobby, and I think 5 was around the corner when I started really working in the field.

I’d take PHP for a new project in a heartbeat if the shoe fit. My last real PHP project was Laravel+Inertia+Vue and it was a really great workflow for me and my team.
"The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. The organization was founded in 1989 by James R. Leininger"[1]

"A tax document shows that—surprise!—the influential right-wing organization is funded by the Koch Brothers, TXU, Exxon, State Farm Insurance, Big Tobacco, etc"[2]

In 2017, former President Trump named Kathleen Hartnett-White, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, to chair the administration’s Council on Environmental Quality. “I am not at all persuaded by the IPCC science that we are standing on some precipice,” ­Hartnett-White told The Washington Post last October, referring to the urgency to combat global warming. “We’re not standing on a cliff from which we are about to fall off.”[3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_Foundation

2. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
I assume it actually does not understand video, but reads the transcript?
> Aside from name-calling, I don't see an argument for your prediction.

In a thread that is filled with derision and contempt for gen z, directing criticism back the older generation is name calling? Seems the hypocrisy has been internalised and become invisible.

The broad and well-fanncanced campaign of slander against younger generation has been going on for decades, and unfortunately it is very successful.

There has never been a time in human history where old generation holds this much power and wealth relative to the younger one. Congress has never been this old, there has never been this level of exclusion of younger people from owning real estate, the future of younger generation has never been this much under threat and this ignored.
nhh, Google Bard
Much, MUCH worse.
Because I don't care for what those things do to programming environments.

If you take more than a superficial look at Decker, you might find it is capable of quite a bit more than HyperCard in an emulated Mac Plus. If you want it to look different, the project is free, open source, and permissively licensed; do as you please.
Hacktivists breach U.S. nuclear research lab, steal employee data
@dang this person is clearly using sock puppet accounts on HN.
Sloppy security in favor of reimbursement is financing organized crime.

Though how credit card processing fees relate to sloppy security is mostly a brainfart by me.
Number of economic migrants? They're not really recorded that way afaik. But let me know what you're looking for, and I'll see if I can find it somehow.
Are the people dying unhoused, or is insulation really bad such that people can’t add blankets and thick clothing to stay warm enough to survive?
>protects its systems with an extra code provided over the telephone, but the hackers circumvented this double authorization by changing the telephone numbers

How do you change the phone number without access to the phone authenticator in the first place?

>states that the hackers caused no material damage, but did steal intellectual property

I wonder what valuable IP they could have gotten, as last time I interacted with them, they had their hardware design files on airgapped networks for which you needed a second laptop to access and had no internet connection or open USB ports making hacking impossible. But that was a long time ago.
No. It used to but they turned it off in Dec 2021; notice in my dashboard says it improved sales revenue by 0.5% but only added fraud risk by 0.0004%
It would probably cost $20B to winterize the Texas grid...

$40M isn't really going to move the needle.

It does seem excessive for a CEO of a regional distributor - though the PG&E CEO made $51M in 2021.
If mining landfills was profitable, recycling would be profitable even before that.
So you go through the effort of setting up your own mail server only to send all your outgoing email through a third party? Why even bother at that point?
Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power
Doing some project lit. review a few years back, I came upon the area of component-based software engineering (CBSE), where the idea was to mirror the same kind of manufacturing approach as in electronics. You'd write a software component to do one thing, and have well defined inputs and outputs, and you could then "simply" compose complex systems by chaining lots of these software components together.

Nice idea by maybe software engineering wasn't/isn't that formulaic as more well-established engineering disciplines.
Just for context, we were quite young, and it was quite a small business. It was a mom and pop that started as a mail-order catalog, and we were hired to modernize their web presence.

Now, by "web presence", it's true they had a website. And it was made with HTML. Lots and lots of HTML, in fact, as in thousands upon thousands of hand-edited, non-version-controlled files on disk that they'd manually curated over the years.

We didn't exactly have a cybersecurity team or defined best practices. But we were treated well and worked together well. (Still friends with that dev a decade later!).

It was also a really small town. We all hung out after work, went to the lake, climbing, whatever. Lived a few houses apart from each other (or sometimes in the same house, lol). We trusted each other. Had to. It's the kind of environment where relationships took precedence over rules.

Looking back, it was definitely an uncommonly intimate situation, but it was awesome!
Every generation focuses on the things they think their parents did badly and some of the things they managed to do well don’t get prioritized. Which includes things their grandparents did badly.

Chesterton’s fence with children.
Ramp and Divvy (Bill), both in the expense management space, chose Elixir for a portion of their payment systems.
The current conflict has been going on for about 75 years. To ignore that and just focus on what happened last month is disingenuous at best.

Where did you get the idea that I want to give land to Turkey?
Several good technology suggestions already, but I want to emphasize a suggestion of a different kind.

Recalibrate your culture: live with (or very near to) family so you can help your family. We see concerns like these often enough about complex technological solutions to help lonely, elderly, and otherwise impaired family members, and the tech suggestions are nice, but there is no substitute for actually being there for someone, no substitute for actually being a family member in the traditional sense, i.e. to be physically available free of charge, no strings attached, and without technological limitations, to almost immediately help a kinsman, your blood, with whatever it is they need.

Modernity has dealt a serious blow to the traditional family, Anglo cultures in particular. What used to be provided with tender love and care for free from one's kinfolk is now packaged and sold to you as a variety of products and services. I think it's a bad thing for everyone involved, on many levels, financially, liberty-wise, and socially.

I realize this solution is likely an unfeasible change for you, for many, but it really ought to become the norm again, for our children's sake.
Corporations, ancient and modern