skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JAX feels like the new kid on the block. Every time that I see it is because it has made a project a loot faster (eg. WhisperJAX or the stable diffusion in JAX).
Can anyone explain me why is it so fast is it because of parallelism?
Weird that all of the discourse on this thread revolves around facts and figures about these various startups, and nothing to do about the inherent insanity of the “mundane thing as a service”, which is remains in my eyes as a bubble mid-pop
“Initially derided as a GitHub clone…” I mean, let’s not kid ourselves, it still is. But so is Gogs/Gitea/Forgejo, Bitbucket, etc.
I appreciate that there are only so many ways you can do a web-based software forge, but most of the design cues and UX established by GitHub have been adopted by the other products in this space.

I’m not arguing whether this is a good or a bad thing—familiarity leads to productivity, of course—but in my opinion GitLab really does derive a lot of its success in being a “GitHub clone”.
Good article, I can relate to it. Just this morning I was thinking, while interviewing an SDE 2 candidate: "how did we ever get here?". By "here" I mean in a situation where it seems that software developers after 3-4 years of experience are forced/coerced/encourage to "influence other orgs", "execute through others", etc. instead of designing systems and writing code.

Every time I get a new team/org, I just tell everyone that I will minimize the meetings and maximize the ability to write code and build stuff. One would think this would make me a popular manager, but feedback is always mixed: more experienced engineers complain that I am taking away their promotion opportunities by de-emphasizing "influencing other orgs". Some leave.

I am also a prolific interviewer, and I have noticed that developers learned the game and are now emphasizing "leadership and alignment" skills vs. actual technical skills. Back then when I started, maybe 1 out of 3 candidates I interviewed were the hacker-oriented engineer who loved solving problems. Now it's maybe 1 in 20 - all the rest are more concerned about showing how they aligned 300 product managers to build a batch job to remind the customer to buy shoes. It's a depressing state of affairs.
Shouldn't we be comparing Ariane 6 with Starship not falcon 9?

Starship is in similar stage of development and by the time A6 comes online it will compete with Starship not falcon .
In AU, even for aerial powerlines, we run our own mix of fibre and radio comms between zone subs and stuff like ACR's... in fact I dont think any of the transmission or distribution operators utilise any telco stuff for their control networks
$800mm is going to be a very hyperspecialized satellite. Normal weather or comms satellite is more like $200-$300mm.
Depends on your jurisdiction. Sometimes hiring someone without verifying their right to work is a crime. (Or without registering with the tax authorities, or social security, or ensuring they have adequate breaks, or or or... paying someone to work for you is often something that involves quite a lot of responsibility, since the law often doesn't really contemplate private individuals doing it outside of the super-rich)
Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.

Yet I have never desired to work as a professional software developer. I majored in history and Spanish in college while working for the university's Unix systems group. My computer skills got me my first job out of college, in an investment bank's tech equity research group; my manager was looking for a CS major but I was able to convince her that I had the equivalent thereof.

I'm glad, for the sake of civilizational and economic progress, that others are able and willing to program for pay. Meanwhile I will continue to putter around with Elisp at home.
What about European regulations about genetic experimentation and GMO technology? The experiments in the broadest sense literally do not exist. They are not supposed to.

I mean, the GMO regulation papers are always referring to "nascent" technology. So existence is itself a dichotomous term for vague future capabilities.

So why can't people argue that alignment research is just a subset of the precautionary principle, which has already been applied to other such domains, at least in Europe? Precaution implies an absence of knowledge, but still having the agency for society and institutions to do something about it.
I'd probably just recommend the classic Andrew Ng courses on Coursera if you want to learn Machine Learning.
What a ridiculously good list. I genuinely learned a few things.

[I don’t mind the repost(s). I haven’t seen it before]
Follow the instructions here, works for me: https://gist.github.com/lmmx/0550cfc8867eb1eea04076ec69c95a5...

Although cups has a hardwired dependency on libsnapd-glib1 so you can't remove that library, but the nosnap.pref file will prevent snapd from ever being installed again.
Hey that's fair, I appreciate your directness and I think you did accurately break down my flawed perspective on this. I don't mean to belittle you.
Fast container ships, they still exist with speeds of even 29 knots. But they're for shippers who pay for that speed.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maersk-container-ships-big...
Using a mesh of Glinet routers (GL-AXT1800) and Wireguard across residential points of presence. Nothing but good things to say about them, use one to bridge between a Starlink gen2 dishy and clients when mobile (fail closed VPN). iOS app is good, optional cloud mgmt portal also good. My only regret is I wish they offered a 1U half depth rack mount SKU.

Don't get the Mango (GL-MT300N-V2), it is cute but woefully underpowered for anything but the most light throughput.

(also no relation, just a satisfied customer)
just in time for Q*
This is a good line: Ocean and space exploration are frequently compared, and Don often joked that he had the “Right Stuff”, just in the wrong direction.
What is it in the tweet that makes you think that people who work in “strange ways” are toxic?
You think their data matching capabilities wouldn’t make that link?
In one sentence you say "direct comparison," and in the next you contradict yourself by using the words "single purpose devices." A phone is a general computing device. A smart refrigerator is not. Is there even an app store on a smart fridge which contains third party apps?
It's the size of the caches, memory bandwidth, and high core count, of some of these mainframes that make them interesting to me. It could be fun to play around.

I'm sure they eat electricity like crazy though.
Thanks, and you're totally correct, I did not understand.
> After the war, the Bureau’s work on titanium accelerated. By 1947 it had successfully scaled up Kroll’s process

The article so far can be summarized as "people played around with titanium, but had no idea what to use it for" so why is the bureau suddenly trying to scale up production, or even mass producing it in the first place? It wasn't until 1948 that they identified engineering applications.
This is not about the Dilbert Scott Adams, it’s about a prolific video game developer
yeah, all they have to do is pray for humanity to not let the magic AI out of the bottle and they’re free to have a $91b valuation and flaunt it in the media for days.. https://youtu.be/2HJxya0CWco
The inverse: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/682764-fi...
Emergent capabilities are interesting but at the moment I don't think anyone has any idea how interesting they really are, or if they are truly a gigantic leap in the direction of AGI. I've skimmed a handful of papers trying to answer that question and there has hardly been a slam dunk proof that indeed they mean anything other than the fact that the transformer model can generate reasonable facsimiles of what a human might say.

The reality is that GPT isn't even great at answering factual questions at this point, despite all the hype. I have a modest amount of expertise in music theory and I've found that asking even relatively basic questions resulted in completely incorrect answers coming out of GPT. It's been impressive that in some cases if you say, "No, that's incorrect." it will actually go back and spit out a new answer which in some cases is correct, but that's hardly any fundamental advancement in "understanding", and just more evidence that it's parroting what it's been trained on, which includes substantial amounts of misinformation.
I installed Firefox on my phone originally just to get away from the awful Android YT UI.
Piggy backing on this thread, are there resources that walk me through creating a generative AI model?
> they're a good fit with solid-rocket boosters

What? Why/how?
If you mean Ryzen AI, a product of AMD's Xilinx acquisition: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/ryzen-ai-software...

"Select models of [AMD Ryzen™ 7040 series processors] offer the new XDNA architecture with built in AI Engines, the first dedicated AI processing silicon on a Windows x86 processor."

It seems to be a more fully featured parallel to Intel's current GNA: https://github.com/intel/gna

Apple Silicon Macs only have a lead at a substantial markup over computers without modern dGPUs, and if Intel has a lead anywhere in hardware, they're keeping it well hidden. We're not saying that too loudly, though, because latest gen AMD prices could stand to be a little more competitive.
The page doesn't even contain the word "skip," except for the "skip to content" link. I think you're right.
Please share! This is something I've always wanted to explore.
Guess he shouldn't have bothered.
I’m confused, I don’t see any alternate routes in that screenshot?
"Pakistani parents have good reason to not trust anything administered by a needle. 700 children recently contracted HIV."

Is not a good rationale for making a decision. Parents, indeed anyone, shouldn't be worried about anything administered by a needle unless proper protocols are not followed, and they always should.
> The author doesn't seem to understand how filesystems work

At the time of writing (2009) the author had 10 years of experience under Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel, and Red Hat -- all working on filesystems. Including ZFS, ext2/3, and ChunkFS. (It's literally on her Wikipedia page)

So I'm more likely to regard her comments in high regard versus a driveby post written by a throwaway account.
Please verify you are "professoretc" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right".

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
If they pay more than the open-market price (and they were, in the early days - they were paying significantly more than any commercial customer would have paid such an unproven entity, explicitly because they saw strategic value in SpaceX's existence) then that's funding them.
I would expect written notes would make books passed down between generations more special and meaningful, not less.
Not the person you are replying to. It's not unusual to find a working RJ45 in a hotel room, and as a bonus they often don't have a captive portal.

Otherwise you can usually set up a router to bridge one WiFi network to another. Sometimes the captive portal screen just works on your computer that you're connecting to your own router. Other times you can sign in while connected to the hotel WiFi, and then clone your machine's MAC address so the network thinks the router has already signed in.

My favorite hack is bridging a congested hotel 2.4GHz network to my own personal 5.8GHz network, which benefits everyone if you are a family about to light up 5-10 more devices.

The WiFi-to-WiFi bridge isn't always very efficient, especially if the router has to multiplex the two connections using a single antenna, but speed isn't always the top concern.
Many children (and adults for that matter) would fail to qualify according to that definition of intelligence.
It's because the traits that make a good programmer like high introversion and interest in the abstract are exactly the opposite of the traits that allow you to exert influence in a company.
If the Orange Pi is a Raspberry Pi knockoff, then the Raspberry Pi itself is a knockoff of the Foxboard LX832 which predated the first Raspberry Pi by at least six years.
So according to you, human beings are considered to possess intelligence prior to grade school?
To complete the answer, the only difference if you merge branch B into branch A is that A is advanced to the new commit instead.
It wasn't particularly transferable outside of Google's scale. They have continual failures in their fleet of machines which cycle through a repair queue. It's fairly automated, dispatching bulk repair requests to people in the data centers. I managed to get some process changes and code changes through that allowed machines with alleged disk errors to be processed while still in production and have the resources returned after the disk was verified good and reformatted. When you calculated depreciation costs for the equipment that had been waiting for repairs before, and now never left production, it was well over $10M/year of depreciation cost. (there were other cost savings as well like the over provisioning needs of a cluster were lower , etc etc) They weren't wrong in that it wasn't particularly technically challenging, but getting a change like that through the organization had been tried and failed several times before I was given that task and succeeded. That skill, being an effective change agent in a large organization, was not even on their radar of useful skills at that time.
https://imgur.com/a/nC4dHxq

Cloudflare says it's fine to serve video from R2.
Not nearly as well known as Ansel Adams, though. Especially among people interested in photography.
69th edition would be sacred
Magnesium from mine tailings https://anrweb.vt.gov/PubDocs/DEC/GEO/TechReports/VGTR1998-1...
- Could it be that there was a difference in IPv6/IPv4 presence/preference between the two? E.g. your wired connection acquired an IPv6 address while the wireless was IPv4 and had to go through NAT.

- Did you make sure to compare results for non-concurrent speedtest? Ie maybe those ~800 were actually 4x~200 - many speedtests open parallel connections by default.
BMW K1200RS and R100R, the first of which was in the list. I selected R100RT for the latter and it looked close enough.

The positions looked right.
Here's a very funny joke that uses a very un-funny word:

Prejudice by Tim Minchin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
Yep it did play out like that. Full board reset! Well done MS, but still I don't think it's enough. Oh well :) haha
Lot easier to ship pills than to clean and ship water
We didn't invest so much into launch systems but it's not super important anyway. It's important to have some capability for things like Galileo. But Europe doesn't have the ambition for its own space station etc so the number of launches are always going to be low.
1. Wired Ethernet Cable (RJ45). Almost all hotels have it. If you cannot find one, ask for it or ask right at the reception to give you a room with it. If on extended stays (Airbnb, Service Apartments), I plug one into the primary router to have my Wi-Fi. It is rare not to get one way or another to set this up. Carry one of those thin but lengthy RJ45s (such as the ones from Monoprice or Ubiquiti) with your router. They will fit well in your tech pouch.

2. Connect to the Wi-Fi, but run your own DHCP in the router to distribute your IPs to your devices.

References;

- https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=44504

- https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/accessories-cables-d...
> And if it hurts, abort, abort! You're not Arnold Schwarzenegger training, it's not supposed to hurt.

Yes.
I absolutely detest people who tell me "pain is weakness leaving the body"
as if I solicited their advice.
Well when you want to look at the absolute maximum waste of resources just look at SLS. It's just government space that's inefficient. This is not limited to Europe.

And I personally don't want us to be a second USA. I don't want that high level of crime and social inequality, low level of social welfare etc. Extreme prices of medical care in the US. Ubiquitous firearms. Here we do care about the climate, about privacy, work-life balance (holidays) and so many other things the US doesn't care about. The US measures everything in money. We don't. Quality of life is not about who produces the most billionaires.

The EU is not a great institution I have to admit but I wouldn't trade it for the US. Here I just go to the doctor when I'm sick and I don't have to even whip out my wallet.

Von der Leyen is not the sharpest tool but EU presidents are chosen to be the least offensive to everyone's national interests, not to be some strongman leader. I'd much rather have her in that position than someone like Trump. We don't have a political system trying to tear itself apart.

We're doing just great and launch capability is a tiny rounding error in the equation of what being in the EU means to citizens. It's like Africa laughing at us because we're so inefficient at producing bananas. Sure if you ignore literally everything else it looks like they're better.
How to hire a good stylist? (In SF)
What games are using that?
That's difficult since I don't think anyone at SpaceX has talked about Starship launch costs and it's even more difficult because the comparison will be even worse for Ariane.
I didn't say "insult", but "doomer" is not strategic advice, right? That's what I meant. "Doomer" is a bad thing, yeah? You didn't have to say that. Maybe I'm reading you wrong, but it just seems like you were being disrespectful and reductive of other people's views, as I said.
It's been done but the cost is very high compared to other materials because of the amount of specialized labor and only boutique builders offer one, the legs are really fat so it has poor aerodynamics so it's only suitable for off-road as a drop in replacement for a bicycle frame built for a suspension fork to account for the crown to tire distance and almost everyone has switched to suspension off-road. I've ridden some of the cheaper titanium forks and they flexed so much I did not feel comfortable riding them but have heard even the expensive ones flex quite a bit.
Ok. Let me know when WinRAR learns to speak.
I don't even think they are contradictory.

Books aren't for gathering dust, they are for engaging with. Margin notes and underlines is part of that. It's actually pretty great, you often discover different things on rereads.

The notion that books must be kept pristine is from libraries, does not apply to private books.

Greeting cards are looked at once, then usually gathering dust somwhere, and eventually thrown out. Different wheelhouse.
It's pretty common for people with some experience to not understand filesystem nuance - there's quite a bit of it right here in the hn comment section. You'll note below I also corrected someone significantly more credentialed than the author of this LWN post.

My suggestion to you: Worry less about measuring resumes and more about who is actually correct as a matter of demonstrable fact.

If you have actionable questions, ask them. Use facts, not appeals to (frankly not very substantial) authorities.
Pretty sure you can do yard work or shovel snow for someone one time and get paid like twenty dollars in cash.
As far as I know, nobody gets in trouble for that.

It only becomes a problem when the entity paying tries to enter it as an expense.

All the usual disclaimers apply.
I anal.
I am definitely not YOUR lawyer.
https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT
What you say is correct, and ext4's current default behaviour can be quite confusing:

* ext4 turns rename() into an invisible fsync(), if the target file existed.

* ext4 turns close() into an invisible fsync(), if the opened file existed.

This leads to surprising results:

If you unzip something the first time, it's nice and fast.

If you unzip the same file again, force-overwriting existing files, suddenly it's 10x slower. You now spend hours finding out why, and start cargo-culting vodoo that doing `rm` before makes it inexplicably fast again.

Invisible fsync()s that the application programmer cannot turn off are quite bad.

My speculation is that Ted Ts'o agrees with that in principle, but that he got tired of having to explain people that if they don't fsync(), there are no guarantees; so he added this hack that makes 95% of the cases go away with surprising special-case behaviour.
So that depends on a few things..

1) If the contract is physically settled vs financially settled.
2) The existence of a clearinghouse - which is a middleman in charge of making sure both parties deliver on their contractual obligations. Virtually all futures contracts go through a clearinghouse.

Lets assume that it is physically settled with no clearinghouse - what happens is the same as any other contract where the other party does not deliver on the terms of the contract (also known as FTD - failure to deliver).

You sue them for the damages.
Reliability is not that high. But Geek Squad can help when it doesn't work.
For people who want to read more about this in _up-to-date_ documentation:

* `auto_da_alloc` section of https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/ext4.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#Delayed_allocation_and_po...
That may be, but as far as feasibility goes: I'd bet on solving a social problem over an amorphous technical problem (alignment).
Figure out what the customer actually wants to do

Figure out the existing workflow and document it

Figure out the actual requirements, not what the customer says the requirements are

Figure out what their existing solution does and how it's used in real life
Maybe I'm pointing out the obvious, but there are references to Q* in the docs[1]. Specifically it's just the Bellman equation describing the optimal action-value function.

It would be kind of weird if OpenAI invented their own thing called Q* which collides with an existing name in a topic I'd expect them to be familiar with.

https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/algorithms/ddpg.html
They should pretend proper protocols are followed because proper protocols should be followed?
Ok - carbon dioxide removal is going to be needed to meet to the 2 degree C target too.

Sure, you can reforest or afforest with whatever trees you want. It certainly will help but won't solve the issue alone.
... in 1979.
I'm convinced that deterministic AI will never fully replicate human intelligence. I will attempt to explain my reasoning.

I can say with absolute certainty that I have subjective experience. If my behaviour is deterministic, I can imagine a philosophical zombie version of me that behaves the same but doesn't have subjective experience. That zombie, using the exact same reasoning as me, down to individual particle interactions, will (incorrectly) determine with absolute certainty that it has subjective experience and is not a philosophical zombie. Its reasoning, which is my reasoning, is thus flawed. Therefore, in order to believe my behaviour is deterministic, I must doubt my ability to reason.

(Some claim that philosophical zombies aren't possible to imagine. But I can imagine them, so if that's impossible then my reasoning is still flawed just for a different reason.)

I believe the same argument applies even if I assume my behaviour is non-deterministic but follows a probability distribution which is a function of the past -- the philosophical zombie has the same probability of reasoning that it has subjective experience as I do, and the rest of the argument is similar. Thus, I believe my behaviour is not only non-deterministic, but mathematically ineffable, and thus outside the realm of what computers can do.

If you have subjective experience which works similar to mine, maybe you can follow my reasoning. If you don't, the argument may appear to be nonsense due to the ineffability of subjective experience.
That seems sketchy for the happiest place on earth?