skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it too much to hope that those companies will all go out of business, and every person who was a part of creating this ridiculous theatre will be bankrupted?
That's why I like the English language. "Utilize", however, is exactly the same as "use", with no added nuance.
It's also draining working people of wealth. We have all these tax breaks to keep old people owning their homes while they get free care, while working families pay all their earnings to landlords and our taxes go to elderly care instead of public services.
Because GPUs only have VRAM on board.

For GPUs to take data from CPU RAM, it must traverse PCIe which is on the order of ~100x slower than through the on board VRAM.
The U.S. and the EU signed the Data Privacy Framework over this past summer. https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/ This offers methods for EU residents to exercise claims against U.S. businesses.

Among other requirements, a participating organization must provide you:

Information on the types of personal data collected
Information on the purposes of collection and use
Information on the type or identity of third parties to which your personal data is disclosed
Choices for limiting use and disclosure of your personal data
Access to your personal data
Notification of the organization’s liability if it transfers your personal data
Notification of the requirement to disclose your personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities
Reasonable and appropriate security for your personal data
A response to your complaint within 45 days
Cost-free independent dispute resolution to address your data protection concerns
The ability to invoke binding arbitration to address any complaint that the organization has violated its obligations under the DPF Principles to you and that has not been resolved by other means

https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/My-Rights-und...
The fact that Gitlab Issues aren't a replacement for Jira is a feature IMO. Jira is surprisingly awful at its main job. For example you can't have more than 2 levels of parent/child tasks (compared to Phabricator which has no limit). Changing an issue to a task or vice versa goes via a complex batch update mechanism. Over-configurability means you end up with a gazillion different task states (Done, Resolved, Finished, Closed, ...). You can't do basic things like reorder the backlog based on priority.

Perhaps most critically the interface is just insanely slow! It regularly causes waits in sprint meetings while we wait for someone to drag & drop an issue or for the page to load.

The only reason it's popular is because PMs like to make engineers do their job for them so they can just click a button and get pretty graphs that they can copy & paste to presentations.
Reminds me of TDRs in New York City. You can sell unused density in one zone to someone else in another zone. Of course, this system is just piling bullshit on top of bullshit to negate it, but it at least lets reform happen without people making pesky Takings Clause lawsuits.
Because that is not the retention requirement unfortunately. I’d love for the US gov to allow identity proofing with Login.gov so we get a Boolean or tokenized response and that’d be sufficient (with the record of that response being our obligation to retain), we’re just not there yet.
This works out to, "Kill all of humanity to make sure tyrants die too."

Perhaps there is a better way?
This is very clever. Now I'm wondering if someone has looked into optimal partitions and instruction streams. This would allow, in theory, to run any AI graph locally by partitioning the graph and loading it one piece at a time.

But anyway, if someone has $80B I can get this done. It's just an optimization problem.
One of the frustrating parts of this discourse is that people come to it assuming all the responsibilities fall in the same rough "bins" that they used to, and place their blame accordingly. Wayland made the explicit choice that information about other applications should be inaccessible by default, and that it is the compositor's responsibility to give access in particular cases when appropriate. Your distro decided to switch Gnome to default-to-wayland when it didn't yet have screensharing protocols in place or your videoconferencing software didn't yet support those protocols. You can argue that those protocols should be built in to wayland and backward compatible with the ones from X if you like, that's a perfectly coherent view. But the fact is that they aren't, and the gnome devs knew that all along, so blaming wayland that that functionality wasn't ready is really misunderstanding the issue.
Yes, sorry, going from memory, and just had that it was another A-something god in mind. You’re right, Ajax, not Atlas.
I'm not finding the quote, but he has claimed it in front of an audience. I should point out that he is Executive Chair of Helion so I assume he still has some control over how the money is spent.

One of those bets is on the fusion power startup Helion Energy, into which he’s poured more than $375 million, he told CNBC in 2021. The other is Retro, to which Altman cut checks totaling $180 million the same year.

“It’s a lot. I basically just took all my liquid net worth and put it into these two companies,” Altman says.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069523/sam-altm...
>And looking at their ID would be an appropriate way to do that.

How does that work for companies like Wise, which don't have a nation wide branch network?

>Identifying someone by receiving a photo of an ID would be absurd. As that very act makes the photo of the ID not able to identify someone anymore. As everyone who receives a photo can now also "identify" as that person.

That's why KYC verifications have been increasingly moving to picture of ID + video.
But a book like that is something that you sink into, the author draws you into their fictional world, over a period of hours.

That's quite different that 45 seconds of outrage the on to the next click-bait, isn't it?

The attention span required seems quite different between the two. I assume that's why people are concerned that things like social networks may be detrimental to focused thinking.

EDIT: I agree that a book like "It", full of suspense, would not ordinarily be considered relaxing to read.
There's an extra 's' on 'park' in the initial attempt as well, presumably the one from 'swimming'.
Never made it, but they have some great YouTube explanations I’ve seen.
The Startling Candor of Helen Garner
Could this be abused to reinterpret the Takings Clause as a right to water access? If only to give the finger to Nestle.
> Intel Neural-Chat-7B Model Achieves Top Ranking on LLM Leaderboard

is a misleading title. Intel's model reached top ranking only among 7B parameter model category.
There is an episode of South Park that covers this exact scenario, "The Streaming Wars"
Have a learning mindset?
Exactly. The sad reality is in any (mostly) closed system, say, the USA or even earth, there are resource limits and you might be able to do more good by treating 4 patients with more simple cancer's vs. 1 patient with a very complex cancer that requires 10 doctors, 20 scientists, and endless support staff working over months to create a personal gene therapy for you. It's difficult and sad, but as a sibling comment said, it's literally the Trolley problem. Until we live in a utopia with nearly limitless resources, then the problem still applies, in both the public and private sector. I'd rather have it be public too.
Toward a Global Monolith
The advice works in certain circumstances, but it is completely useless in more extreme situations…

The rest is probably off topic, but I need to vent…

My wife has/had (the scans after the experimental radiotherapy were clean and she is on Kiscaly) metastatic breast cancer. We are currently awaiting the results of the third follow-up CT-PET scan and I find the experience nerve-wracking.

Before the metastasis, I used to be able to tell myself that those scans were a formality and adopted an optimistic view. However, now that experience has shown me that they are not a formality and that catastrophic results are a real possibility even after four years of quarterly scans, I find it impossible to adopt a positive outlook. We don’t know until they call and there is nothing we can do.

I don’t see anything in this article that could help with this situation. There are some truths like 17:

…Chronic stress without recovery depletes energy reserves, leads to burnout and breakdown, and ultimately undermines performance.

But it’s a statement of fact, not a helpful suggestion.
Odds are there's something buried in the insurance policy's terms that gives them permission to do stuff like that.
> And for those that are reading this, the statement about pipeline groovy being a trap is exactly right. Avoid writing groovy at all costs.

I disagree with this pretty strongly. I've worked with Jenkins where it was all freestyle jobs and it was a nightmare to maintain. Pipelines written in groovy are essential to doing Jenkins well, imo. It's also not exactly hard to write groovy. It's basically Java, not some weird esoteric language nobody knows.
after the 2018 season, Gov Newsom did oversee a series of comprehensive settlements between major parties regarding cost, authority and procedures. Secondly the long-standing CalFIRE lead was terminated.
I stopped posting three years ago, maybe the culture has changed?
My personal peeve is the original Coke Freestyle machines which are overtaxed WinCE systems meant to run with a lower resolution PDA display. They've never resolved all the gross latency issues with them and even the new Freestyle machines are laggy compared to the older Pepsi spire dispensers which could generate fluid full motion video years earlier.
Even if you do not have to comply with GDPR, 12 States have passed data privacy regulations to date. You may still need to comply with data protection law regardless if you qualify for various State laws.

Even if State law doesn't apply - you have have HIPAA, GLBA, SOX etc.
Jenkins is, like, uniquely awful though. Aside from the sheer staggering number of bugs in its core functionality (I encounter on average maybe one bug per new pipeline I write), it is also configured in almost the worst language I've ever touched (considerably worse than Nix, for example, which is really saying something). "Blue Ocean is Incomplete and Unintuitive" is entirely correct - you have to drop back to the old interface for essentially everything, and also Blue Ocean has the absolutely unforgiveable behaviour that it responds to any ESC keypress, even if the OS has focus.
Why American MDs are unionizing
https://archive.is/kXhTy

I suspect this isn’t a surprise to HN, but something at least some of us have been anticipating.
> “This new technique”

Which also has a name that they even use, model sharding. Which is well known to be very slow because you increase the number of IO operations to the GPU. I don't even understand the post because they mention sharding is slow and then say they do sharding but as if they don't. Even the comment in their code calls it sharding. Unless I'm missing something, it's pretty fucking deceptive to call this a new technique. Can we stop with the AI hype? The field is exciting enough that we don't need to be selling snakeoil and selling everything as if it is 10x better than it is.

For anyone interested in model sharding you should look into pytorch's gradient checkpointing documentation and/or fairseq.
I think I’m one of the few that have had great luck with it. We’ve got an outbuilding which is on a separate circuit than the ring main in the house which has the other end. It still gets a solid 120mbps and no meaningful packet loss, dropouts etc.
We don't disagree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38509700
I wonder what the right way to incentivize it is.

edit: I meant corporate budgets but thanks for shedding light on the original question.
If you're rich enough you'll be fine. This seems like an another example of how expensive it is to be poor, but the "floor" for "poor" is elevated.

Edit: I think we should do something about it, but money = speech so there's nothing to be done as long as the status quo benefits people with money.
Funnily enough, your list of instructions unironically sounds easy to many of us.
I'm not sure what point is being made here. The article says that we evolved from pre-hominid primate species that used tools (there are non-hominid toolmaking species as well), which I don't think anybody disputes, and doesn't appear to be claiming that that is novel either.

Is the claim that no hominid is known the have given up tool making? That's a hard claim to make (no evidence of absence and so on), and anyway seems like a circular definitional argument (an "only true scotsman" if you will).

The central chart is interesting, but to my (note: non-paleontologist!) eye hardly "striking". Feels like the opposite would be more interesting, though again, hard to be persuasive.

Am I missing something important here? Again, I'm no expert.
It's called direct memory access. The CPU doesn't have to do all I/O. Any subsystem can access RAM with DMA. The main issue is scheduling the loads, stores, and arithemtic operations to avoid stalling the pipeline.
1) Is this a government program or some kind of industry effort? It seems like there's some Council involvement, but it's a little unclear about if industry or government is running this thing.

2) Are there payment options available in this system with cash? While digital payments are often convenient, it should still be possible to use a nation's legal tender.

3) If this is some kind of centralized system, how is user data provided to law enforcement? The cynic in me thinks that some kind of system like this would enable law enforcement to too easily go fishing and cast a very wide net for anybody parking in a particular area.
"but we have never attempted a cryogenic refuel in orbit (this seems like a biggie)"

Isn't this a consequence of having Sen. Richard Shelby in de facto control of cosmic spending for decades?

AFAIK Shelby was notorious for vetoing any project that included refueling in orbit. Fortunately, he finally retired at the ripe old age of 89.

(If longevity research pays off, we may never get rid of such entrenched people... or in 100 years or so.)
The trip down 36 can get brutal, but it’s a great bit of land all year round. Especially right up at the north end walking around the dunes. The inner beaches are beautiful and calm for young kids too. It’s a soft warm calm puddle in the summer, where the outer side gets rougher. The toddlers loved the inside and teens the outside.

Taught my wife and one of the kids to drive down there too. Up at the end are really good, mostly empty roads and parking lots for beginner drivers to practice on.
Arm Launches the Cortex-M52 for IoT; Its Smallest Processor with Helium
If it was investigated, both the investigation and findings went completely unmentioned publicly.

News coverage at the time made it clear that there weren't active investigations and Sweden effectively blocked any investigation due to national security concerns.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-shuns-formal-joi...
Allow me to append seven words to the title:

"...within the scope of the human mind."

Once we humbly accept the finite nature of human intellect, the answer to the question of existence is available within the community if faith.
Part of the original impetus is because the nice-looking classical logos, etc. were too high-resolution for low-definition display devices.

Then it became a game of pointy-headed middle-managers having meetings in the boardroom and micro-managing the creatives.. "our competitors wet their pants, so we have to as well in order to not appear behind the times.."

That's an inherent problem with the system.. even if something works and is comfortable for people to use and they're happy with it, you still have some middle-manager screaming at subject matter experts that they need to innovate because the system is based on creating artificial value for "the shareholders". So you end up with dubious changes like Google Maps recently deciding that they would change their colour palette to a "cold tone". Why? Did anyone ask for more blue and green and gray, or is this just more artificed "innovation for the shareholders"?
> if prospective tenants are savvy enough to hold out collectively

and why would that be the case? Seems like a hard coordination problem to me.
The public may be interested to know what their governments are actually up to.
> Wayland is simply unusable with Nvidia's junky blobs.

That's a lot less true as of their 545 branch. It still has a rather serious VRR sync issue but otherwise they're almost there. And aside that sync issue, it feels better than X does. It's close.
Overall, this a refreshing change to the normal crop of anti-Wayland coverage. There are some important issues raised.

By the end though, he kind of lost me. I sometimes lament that too much choice hurts the success of Linux. I rarely think that it hurts the quality of the ecosystem in the long run though. If the Xorg mono-culture was a good thing, I hope we are all reading this is a Chrome browser. Wayland compositors are to the Linux desktop what web browsers are for the web. In the long run, more is better. All the same arguments can be made for the dev convenience of only having a single implementation. In the short run, a single implementation can be higher quality and innovate faster. Over time though, a diverse ecosystem with competing implementations delivers better results.

Also, while Wayland progress has been slow, the idea that it will never improve does not ring true. The article has to be updated with “surprise” progress. The same is true of “someday” features like HDR that are already upon us. NVIDIA has been a long road but there has been a lot of recent progress.

Overall, the idea that Wayland adoption will stagnate from here may resonated a couple of years ago but heading into 2024, it seems clearly wrong. In just a few months, KDE is going Wayland only. RHEL is going Wayland only ( and hence GNOME realistically ). Wine is adding Wayland support at a rapid pace. I expect the Steam Deck to go Wayland only at some point which will drag the Linux gaming scene with it. All the significant Desktop Environments have near-term Wayland plans ( Cinnamon just dropped a preview recently ) and even many niche choices are looking at it or have Wayland equivalents.

Again, the article raises some great points. Things could have been easier. However, the overall thesis is not one I can get behind.
" believe in a multipolar world"

There is nothing to believe here, such a world certainly existed before, and will likely soon exist again, but don't rely on it being peaceful.

Competing superpowers, even if avoiding direct confrontation between themselves, will start a lot of proxy wars to push out their adversaries from country X or region Y. See also the entire Cold War 1.0. In multiple places, said war was actually very hot.
Obviously it is a bug, but, apparently, author didn't bother to report it, opting to write a blogpost with a somewhat clickbait title and ending with "so weird" instead.
Not very much. There's an interview lead that is supposed to make sure no question overlaps happen. They will sometimes comment on the chosen question (e.g. asking an unrelated question to someone interviewing for a research position). In general I think this is pretty rare as it requires folks to care about their interview before it starts. :)
Imagine someone who hates the exponentiation operator but wants to do mathematics nevertheless. For a living.
What We Mean When We Say "Software Engineer"
> I expect you could get a 90% solution faster, but the whole challenge with these projects is how to get that last bit of correctness, and how to be confident enough in the correctness of it to actually use it in Production.

Is the goal to get working systems or to generate support activity? Or to tank the systems and replace them?

> it's a management problem, and no AI tech is going to fix that

What if we replace middle managers with LLMs?
Worth noting that the criteria being measured for success, while they may indicate "reverse aging" by decades, probably won't delay death by anywhere near as much.

In other words, extending healthspan is not the same as extending lifespan.
Isn’t this disingenuous? As far as I can tell, Starship can make it to the lunar surface with a significant payload without refueling. The refueling launches are only required if you want to maximize the payload per lunar trip.
> The kbd community has all kinds of small form factor / isometric layouts like this that are totally custom and efficient but just make me think how you just train your hands to be shockingly unproductive on 99.99% of other systems

I am curious, what kind of conditions require you to be productive on "other systems"? As a programmer these days, I pretty much am never told to sit in front of a random keyboard and expected to be productive there. I have the Ctrl/Caps mod you mentioned, and it bites me on other computers — but these typically tend to be instances of me helping some friend out with a computer problem. Any time that I am going to working for an entire day or more on a computer, I tend to figure out a way to swap Caps with Ctrl on it.

I can imagine the "should be able to be productive on any system" being a problem in the days when computers were scarce, and for instance, one had to use the computers in a university lab or similar. I can even imagine it today when you're talking about servers (e.g. I need to be able to use emacs, vi, and nano on any server that I'm logged into). But for keyboard input these days, it seems like we have the luxury to use our own highly customized input devices for 99.99% of the time.
For my personal taste it's already a mess but for the the average masochist it's maybe bearable. The real mess starts from here though:

- Wayland can not render strings. You need something external just to render some other text than "hello world". And depending on the library text rendering will look different for each application.

- Wayland can and will block your render loop for arbitrary reasons (like being minimized) potentially indefinitely. In order to make this application useful you have to put everything concerning rendering in it's own thread which complicates things hugely.

- If you want to have basic functionality like capturing the screen (former simple XGetImage() call) you have to talk to dbus and pipwire which pull all kind of dependencies and require loads parallel infrastructure running. And then you still have no guarantee that it works on every compositor.
Assuming you throw out dead batteries, what's the harm in shorting them? (If we're talking normal nonrechargable alkaline batteries. If throwing away a lithium battery I'll definitely verify that the cells are totally dead or protect the terminals.)
If you know how to program in other languages, the concepts and practical examples will make perfect sense (even if the math occasionally doesn't).
If you're the M Kromberg, any chance you could ask J Scholes to whip up a dfns version of Iverson's 1960 Simplex algo for us?
We had someone who got fired for performance issues. It took a good 6 months.
I’ve encountered this too.

I always wonder why the eng departments never itemize the time they spend dealing with finance, then bill the finance team for the hours.
Do it for your own good. You will get an idea of what working in industry is like, and perhaps the name of a reputable company on your resume.

I am not going to reject a qualified student out of hand for not having done an internship.