skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fun question is whether human cognition similarly lacks deep insights or said theory of mind.

I perceive a moving of the goalposts as machine intelligence improves. Once we'd have been happy with smarter than an especially stupid person, now I think we're aiming at smarter than the smartest person.
The Intern Who Created Spotify Wrapped's Story Format Never Got Her Due
That's kind of a technicality here though isn't it?

It certainly pays per stream in the sense that if an artist has 110K streams, they get 10% more money as if they got 100K streams.

It may be the case that the amount per stream varies a bit depending on which label you're associated with, or what Spotify's subscriber numbers are that month. But that still doesn't change the principle that your revenue scales linearly with streams -- that you're paid by stream.

Or am I missing something?
> fact, creative teams are often more impactful and cost-effective (and hence cheaper) the smaller the company is.

There's obvious cases where there's small teams that make outsized impacts and teams that grow too unwieldy to manage.

But there's a reason why we don't have 300 Linux Kernel projects: there would be a whole lot of duplication of effort and it would cost 300x as much.

Indeed, software has massive economies of scale because duplication is basically free. It has a bit more of a tendency to fall into monopoly or oligopoly as a result: there's barriers to entry but no production costs.
A related thing from times when it was common that memory layout artifacts had high impact on sw performance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coloring
General Magic is always a strong recommendation in the valley
CO² tax would likely be effective here.
Do humans have that as well ?
I read studies that suggest we make up consciousness a half second after something happened.
I think 'software developers' in this sense refers to companies developing software (and thus employing designers).
Chevy makes some fairly decent no-BS trucks I hear. Stuff with knobs and buttons instead of touch screens and driver cameras.
A lot of end users run ZFS through TrueNAS/FreeNAS and I indeed found that community to spread a lot of misinfo and un-actionable advice. I liken them to gamers lapping up any snake oil solution to get 0.1 fps more. I would suggest anyone trying to learn about ZFS to avoid it, it definitely was counter-productive to me.

Reddit, random blogs and official documentation (often that by Oracle) turned out to be much better resources.
Ideas can change the world. Memes (not the internet-images) are extremely powerful.

But if you meant, an idea alone can't be packaged and sold. That's true...
No, not at all. Just looking for the next step of many, stacking S-curves atop each other.
Electrocaloric Material Makes Solid-State Fridge Scalable
That was my experience also especially the past year. I do programming and design and it seems many apps twist the ui api to do things that you can't naturally do in the interface and so Yabai, completely oblivious to it, will try to manage it and you have elements disappearing or appearing too large/small, behind other elements, etc. Even if you create exceptions, it seems things sometimes slip through the crack or start behaving unexpectedly. Flipping between native tabs for instance start throwing the tiling off for some apps that I use.

Yabai used to be pretty solid and usable, but I think with the author not using a Mac for his daily and with all the updates to the OS that he has to keep track of (and how some windowing Mac api are still blackboxed or not reliant to build logic atop of) it's only a matter of time before it gets into a poorer state.
There are ~420 deaths from CO poisoning each year in the US, and ~2 for AirBnB's worldwide. With 330 M Americans sleeping 365 days per year, that's ~4x10^-9 chance of death per night. There are ~400 M nights booked on AirBnB worldwide per year, and if there are on average 2 people per booking that's ~3x10^-9 chance of death per night.

So AirBnB's look statistically the same as normal American homes.

One could make an argument that AirBnb's are for some reason a better target for CO safety rules. But any article that describes this as an urgent safety issue yet doesn't mention they are just as safe as normal homes can't be trusted. Clear intellectual dishonesty.
My first driving instructor gave me the greatest line on this; "expect other drivers to be idiots, you will never be disappointed"
Simple Responsive Demo
EU governance structure is set up so that a EU parliament resolution has basically the status of a People's Choice Award.
Meta Sues FTC over Its In-House Courts
I have the distinct impression that there is a bizarre legal/regulatory problem with this: safety devices need to comply with local regulations, even when those regulations are inconsistent or weaken safety. For instance, in the US, a UL-listed CO detector must not alert at problematic-but-not-immediately-dangerous levels. So you end up with absurd hacks like this:

https://www.kidde.com/home-safety/en/us/products/fire-safety...

That’s a real name brand device that is not a CO detector because it does not meet the UL requirements.

I can easily see AirBnB not wanting to get involved.

(Also, there are properties listed in multiple services, and maybe the owners/managers don’t want to put in special gadgets for each service. And maybe people who rent their own home and live in it some of the time don’t want the AirBnB cloud intruding.)
From what I understand, a more direct analogue to "danger" is "abunai". The word "yabai" almost seems to be usable as a generic intensifier, like many English speakers might use the s-word. (I'm extremely far from fluent, though, so take my observations with a pile of salt.)
We don't "make up" consciousness, but yes, there is a processing latency of around 250-300ms.
But these were with tubulars, yes?
Our freight network is running on 1950s diesel electric locomotives so I wouldn't call it fine. Electric has shown it's better just had a huge upfront cost (even though regeneration can probably pay for cost long term even in some setups).

Also if it's fine why is most of the cargo moved by diesel semi?
This is such a bizarre interview.

Musk is free to run his company as he sees fit. If he decides to follow a particular ideology to run his site, that is his prerogative. And lets say left wing users find it terrible. They can't say - "Hey Musk, you are *blackmailing* us to use this site with this right wing nonsense". If they did others would kindly remind them that one, no one is forcing them to use the site. and two, if they don't like it, they can go somewhere else.

And the left wing users can try to "document" all the right wing stuff on Twitter which they think is nonsense. Except some hardcore left wing users, no one would care.

Same logic goes for the advertisers. They can spend their money as they see it. Saying GFY and "it is blackmail" is pure nonsense.

Except his hardcore followers no one is going to care for his "documentation".
Salsa: Surveyor's Applications for Least Squares Adjustment
> SMIC was advertising that it had found a way to produce more advanced chips using dated equipment. It would take longer than Huawei’s previous supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, it would cost more, and it might not work.

The article makes it clear that there is no verifiable info on if success came through legitimate use of older technology or outright stealing. But given (a) the pace of change and (b) the financial focus on leading edge technique, seems very possible there is just lots of room for improvement on older processes and this situation provided the need and the financial backing to make it happen.
(2019)

Blast from the past, the author had a Show HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126142
Unordered map sure hasn't been. There are algorithmic performance guarantees in the standard that force the linked list of buckets implementation despite that being slower than alternatives. Maybe the libc++ map<> is a very perfect rbtree, but I doubt that's the state of the art in ordered containers either.
NYPD switches to encrypted communication system
If I understood their plan correctly, it was only the higher $20 tier that did it, and I think only $5-10 was actually split between your top 2 artists for a given month. They ended that program a few months ago.
Insulin? He didn't have anything to do with insulin.

It was Daraprim/Pyrimethamine. It's used to treat toxoplasmosis. It's also been off-patent for over 40 years and another pharmaceutical could have made a generic but none thought it would be profitable enough to even bother.
What do you use a single "s" for?
OPEC+ Agrees to Significant Oil-Production Cut
I use it as a "JSON library for bash". :-)

Not really in "production", but I have a lot of small-ish shell scripts all over the place, mostly in ~/bin, and some in CI (GitHub Actions) as well.
Could one of the roomba companies now make those things recognize the objects and avoid them, instead of dead reckoning or RF based obstacle avoidance?
> "I honestly think there’s more of a chance that I would go back to Google"

You were fired from Google. What do you mean you would "go back"? You weren't invited to OpenAI nor "back to Google".
A bike, generally, can't brake faster than a car, no?
Too much source, eventually a human cannot follow it. A common software (and not only) problem.

Maybe sometimes once in 2-3 decades it's worth taking the lessons learned and re-doing the thing? Simplifying and streamlining it greatly in the process?

Like, this bug, the file holes - do we even need them now, with very good compression for once?
You were looking at the definition of a computable real number [1].
The issue there is whether you can approximate the number arbitrarily well.
An issue that is nonexistent in integers, as you note in

> Therefore, for any integer N, it is computable.

> If I say: f(x) = floor(xN)

For many definitions of a real, it's not at all clear whether you can compute this f(x). The ability to compute f already amounts to being able to approximate f arbitrarily well.
For example, for Chaitin's number, you cannot compute your f() except for a few small values of N.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
It’s a terrible place to work but not for the reasons people think.

Being green and fresh is priceless, you can take on any challenge because you don’t yet know the reality of it, and once you get in it, your only way is out, which can be really powerful if put to the right uses.

Amazon puts a good price on that to juice the best years of your life.

Please don’t squander your best years to go from L4 -> L5 or L6 -> L7

Play and win at a different game.

The prizes are way better.
>> nuclear can be built anywhere

>Like Fukushima? How do you handle lack of cooling water during droughts (see France 2022)?

Fukushima had problems that were known before the tsunami, that TEPCO failed to address.

Likewise, EDF has (and still had) power-delivery in France during the summer of 2022; "summer" being an event that has happened with some regularity in southern Europe for some time.
For bicycle tires (at least), this is true I guess, but the sealant is going to degrade to the point where one may not be able to ride that bike that's been set up tubeless for a few years, without changing out the sealant.
oh, yeah, probably before the computer era, though see the other comment thread for a possible shortening of the time frame; "unit test" in the engineering sense might date from as recently as the 01960s
Who gets to claim the ' richest shipwreck'?
> AI companies bundle all of them, say that their models are learning like a human, and this is fair use and training data is non-reproducible. Then someone shows that their code, work, poem, whatever can be emitted as-is, damaging them; same companies act surprised, and a couple of censor filters, and go on.

If it is fair use, why are they adding censor filter exceptions at all?

"Tim Burton's style" appears to be a banned term on Bing Chat Enterprise.
By this logic, playing videogames is a wasted effort, too.

"Why all these people playing Prince of Persia fight on their own? Why don't they all get together and free the Princesse once and for all?" :-)
Also, for homelabbing, there's a magic incantation that allows you to configure Proxmox away from the default High Availability cluster mode.

By default, the HA mode insists that all nodes are up or others won't come up, making this tweak (it may be contained in the OP scripts, I don't recall) allows you to retain many of the benefits of having Proxmox machines "connected", without requiring you treat them like a HA cluster.

In my case, I have a node I shutdown when it's not used, I use it for specific occasional tasks, and then I have nodes I want up all of the time.

With the non-HA tweaks, you can still do things like centrally manage, migrate VMs and containers between nodes etc, without the limitations of it wanting them all up and available all of the time.
A probable Keplerian disk feeding an optically revealed young star
Well, I'm not sure how valid is the entire thing. It's not clear how much cross-polination there is between those datasets and the ChatGPT training set (IMO, if I was training something like it, I'd take any specialized dataset I can find), or how useful answering those questions is to any real task.

Also, it's not only the prompt engineering. Training ChatCPT was a decades long process, with billions of dollars invested, and it takes a small cluster to run the thing. How would the other models compare if given similar resources?

Besides that, on the context of this thread, the bitter lesson has absolutely no relation to the specialized vs. general purpose model dichotomy. It's about the underlining algorithms, that for this article are all very similar. (And it's also not a known truth, and looking less and less as an absolute truth as deep learning advances, so take it with a huge grain of salt.)
Yeah, I guess there are probably edge cases here. A friend of mine has a large property that would be a great destination wedding type thing. I guess I'm thinking of regular homes being used as a substitute for hotels. Not quite professionalized like a bed & breakfast or destination type place.
You really should have different physical hardware for such different use-cases.
Is there any app that has the ability to 'lower' the focus of a window on mac? E.g. on Ubuntu I used to be able to 'lower' a window's focus by middle-clicking on the title bar, i.e. hide the window behind other open windows (without minimizing it). I really miss that feature on mac.
The podcast also covers some more humoring of extreme antisemitism when he was negotiating in the middle east. It's not just that he tolerated it, he validated and played along with very clever quips about being a Jew.
It is not self-destruction, its more like it mostly induce a slow development and quality of in-house tech dependent products. Not always, just mostly, but you're right this is an assumption based by my mere external observations, I have never lived in that country.

Also I'm underestimating that there are countless Chinese citizens studding overseas, and the government have nasty resources for to make them return back if their knowledge becomes relevant.

The matter is the sanctions. As I see it, comes more from other facts,

The first one is the Chinese government has been pursuing a coordinated long term dumping plan towards independent companies allocated in the rest of world. Independent companies are hopeless when a whole developed country that is able to manipulate freely the prices target them and run against them; the companies enters in economical problems and are acquired by the Chinese government for keeping the influence expansion. Chips manufacturers are between their top targets.

By other way, such government want to invade Taiwan, one of the main focal points were the chips are manufactured for the rest of the world, and this would be done with armament guided through chips manufactured ironically by those same factories.

What worries to many countries also, and affects the world in general, if Taiwan were invaded, the first consequence of losing the ability/independence in chips manufacturing through some years of prices dumping, is that -among other things- the armament would require of Chinese's government approval. Right now is being subsidized the creation of chip factories from Taiwanese companies across the world, whom -for not lose protection- are not exporting their top tech into those factories.

They are also worried with telecommunications, because Chinese government is involved in companies commercializing products where they are able to introduce backdoors within the designs, and is promoting their use through prices dumping.

More or less I understand it like this, but Im sure it does exist even more factors that keep affecting all of us.
> Anyway, may he Rest in Peace.

you must be joking. may he absolutely not
Not disagreeing, but you have to look beyond US copyright law. Fair use is less of a thing i.e. in Europe, and his streams clearly come from all over the world. I would just assume his label made deals with the respective copyright holders covering several jurisdictions and markets just to be on the safe side. That doesn't necessarily mean they had to do those deals.
Think how they reported Iraq and you have your answer.
Capitalism at it's finest.
This is a great passage but in a society taking climate change seriously carbon farming will unironically become a thing. Planting certain crops or using certain forms of composting to sequester as much carbon as possible on large areas of land that are not used to produce food or other cash crops.
A best selling single model is way more efficient and profitable than many models.

Volkswagen just said they aren't competitive anymore financially.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/27/busi...
The script re-run ( and the bandaid of caching via decorators) is exactly what I don’t like about streamlit.
I’d love to see an example of how you use Taipy to build an LLM chat app, analogous to this SL example:

https://docs.streamlit.io/knowledge-base/tutorials/build-con...

Then I’ll give it a shot
The physical and philosophical problem of time
I have a friend who is getting out (technically going reserve). It sounds like there are lot of factors impacting retention and most of them are being ignored. Why should the leaders focus on things they are a part of and admit fault if they can simply blame stuff on civilian cultural issues or subordinate "weakness"?

I heard some of the cyber warfare units are proposing to bring in people in as high as O5. No way that causes any related problems...
Edited (not a native speaker).
Another paper in a long series that confuses "our tests against currently available LLMs tuned for specific tasks found that they didn't perform well on our task" with "LLMs are architecturally unsuitable for our task".
Anthony Bourdain always wanted to punch Henry Kissinger over Cambodia
bcachefs's caching (foreground_target, promote_target, background_target) seems more straight forward than ZFS's ZIL/L2ARC stuff since with bcachefs you can use the same device for accelerating writes and reads of frequently accessed files, while (from what I understand) with ZFS you need two partitions, one for each. I'm not a ZFS expert by any means so maybe I've got the wrong ideas, but bcachefs seems a lot more elegant and straight forward in many regards. Still, I'm not jumping to adopt a brand new filesystem.
My pride as a technologist tells me I should be able to get any Python package up and running, but man, AI dependency management is a dumpster fire right now; adding GPU driver versions into the mix seems to make everything really brittle.

This seems like a great approach to compare multiple models, in particular.
I think what you mean by economies of scale are purchasing EoS. There are, I believe, many other forms of EoS that do not revolve around bulk discounts when buying raw materials. For example there are EoS that revolve around borrowing from banks [1], which is something that every big business regardless of industry does.

Also economies of scale do work in software/creative ventures. However these tend to be cancelled out by other diseconomies of scale that are caused primarily by ineffective communication, aversion to change, and people (and government's) changing attitudes to larger companies [2].

What you referred to about creative teams being more cost-effective the smaller the company follows logically from most diseconomies of scale. For example in large companies the biggest decision makers tend to be isolated from the results of their decisions. This is in part because decisions take many weeks/months to be properly evaluated by a team of analysts (who may suffer from their own economies of scale if the business is large enough) and partly (I don't think this is written about but just my own opinion) because the biggest decision-makers will have the most authority and hence their subordinates will not be eager to tell them that their decisions had a negative response.

If anybody finds any fault in this comment please reply to it. Please be polite.

[1]: when a large company borrows from a bank they usually obtain lower interest rates as large companies usually tend to borrow large sums of money on which even a low interest is still very high.

[2]: if a company like Google makes decisions that could, from 1 particular angle, be considered as anti-competitive the government is more likely to consider the situation from that 1 particular angle rather than if a smaller company takes the same decision. However, this assumes a perfectly functional government in a MEDC (as LEDCs won't usually go after monopolies since they want foreign investment from large companies) that also happens to be non-corrupt
This explains a lot about the so-called "window manager" they dumped on us.
Author of ripgrep here.

I'm not sure if this is ever going to happen. I did make some progress in the initial design here (warning, very long): https://github.com/BurntSushi/nakala/blob/15d55b742c07a26944...

But... I was not extremely confident in my design, and proving it out will likely take at least months of continuous work. I don't quite have that kind of time at the moment, and I ended up diverting to work on Rust's regex crate rewrite. My biggest question was whether I should double down on memory maps or not. There is a lot of conflicting advice and practice.

Perhaps I'll revisit this idea some day, but probably not any time soon unfortunately.
Welding, plumbing, electrician… plenty of work for the foreseeable future.
Then they'd immediately undermine themselves and release a "Greatest Hits" to double-dip.
As a flight attrite who ended up running a division on something grey, the Navy knocked me down more pegs than I was thought possible. Appreciate the forced opportunities to grow, but there's got to to be some better ways. Sounds like you're doing some good Sir.