skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with a top quintile-level of mental toughness and grit, I should point out that being able to dial it up or down is critical.

A constant state of high mental determination can lead to a breakdown of relationships where mental and emotional endurance means out lasting people such that they simply give up. It's like persistence hunting in all the wrong and horrible ways when turned on people and relationships. So, learning when and when not to apply mental toughness is crucial.
> The head of SRE championed Gitlab CI. I resisted this idea because I, the relatively inexperienced manager of a nascent team, was daunted by the prospect of trying to supplant Jenkins, Github, and JIRA all at once.

I think this is a really big scoping mistake. There is a clean glide path, and I have no idea why you'd think you need to replace Jira.

You can use Gitlab Runners in Github (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/github....). Then with your mirrored repo you can try out the Gitlab features and realize it's better to use Gitlab for your repo if you're aso using it for CI. Having switched back and forth over the years (with tens of engineers using the repos), it's really not a lot of work to migrate between Github and Gitlab.

Finally, if you like Jira, just use that? Sure there are advantages to having everything in one place, but if you're already using Jira+Github then you'll get an equivalent experience with Jira+Gitlab.

I think this is one of those things that if you had actually prototyped the migration, you would find that it's much easier than you thought it was going to be.
> This means that there is no convergence because dividing left of zero, and right of zero, leads to different result.

Isn't this related to the reason why if a series can be proven to converge absolutely it's considered convergent? And the simpler tests like comparison, limit comparison, integral test for absolute value by just forcing the expression to be absolute notation?

I always just chalk this up to resolving an ambiguous meaning of "less than", in one sense referring to a relative X position from another spot A on the number line, and another sense referring to a relative X position from zero in either direction.
But no one feels the need to get defensive about nationality if "just bribe some American congressmen" is stated instead of "Dutch or Belgian official".
Especially for IBM! See IBM Watson for details.
“U.S.” then is a doing a lot of heavy lifting. Gorillaz has been a virtual band since inception and already has “Avatars” that play live. Although, the humans are also there.
What's mythical about that?
lol! I’m leaving it unedited.
Well the US Navy has already been attacking pirates there, in addition to weapons and military advisors to the Ukraine, patrols in the South China Sea and paying for (for the first time since Nixon visited China) weapons to Taiwan, plus occupation costs in Guantanamo Bay against the Cuban government's wishes, troops stationed on the North Korean border, naval patrols off the Venezuelan coast as New sanctions are considered, and the navy also sending more ships to the Persian gulf recently -

there are still those (like yourself) who want even more money given to the military industrial complex in pursuit of US worldwide imperial goals. Of course they monetarily benefit from.this (as you yourself said you do).

Myself I would rather the money go to fix bridges and schools in the US than bomb Gazan children etc.
It’s more than that. If you spend a couple or more years learning to maintain those systems, where else will you work? Will you find a co-founder or investor for a COBOL based system when you go “entrepreneur”? Maybe, but it better be a damn strong niche.

Not moving forward with the software industry is a weird kind of conceit that separates these companies from the mainstream by far more than money.
7b can run fine on consumer hardware if you quantize to 4bit. I get around 50-100 token/s on 7b q4 models on older 8gb gpus I have lying around, which is plenty for chat. I don't know of any good resource for "consumer hardware leaderboard" though. In general:

1.3b is about the max you can get for 4gb vram

7b will work on 8gb vram if you quantize

13b will work on 16gb vram if you quantize

33b can work on 24gb if you quanitze

If you lack vram but have ram and infinite patience you can do offloading shenanigans with cpu but it tanks performance to unusable levels in my experience.
Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID
Hi HN,

I wonder if anyone here knows how is Wise handling photos of ID when they request one.

I'm Wise customer since 2012, used it without any problem multiple times and was happy with the service I was receiving.

A few days ago I received an email asking me to send a photo of my ID and also photo of my face.

I understand they are doing this to fulfill some regulations but on the other side I can't stop thinking what damage will it cause if they fall a victim of hackers attack and photo of my ID is stolen from them. In the country where I live you can take a loan based on information from ID.

Please share if you have gone through that process or if you know what they do with those photos once they confirm the photo of face matches with the photo on ID. I asked them through e-mail and will post here if I hear back.

--edit--

I should have mentioned photos are uploaded through Wise web app, not through the e-mail, sorry if my explanation was confusing.
Human-readable regular expressions for PHP
I don't have much knowledge in this space, except that I used sway since ~3 years, and now I'm using Hyprland.

But isn't wlroots the "strong reference implementation" now? I guess Gnome and KDE did their own thing, but that was somewhat expected.
That it's easier to learn via a song is quite obvious to me. I used to compose and record songs for poems I had to memorize in school, and not only those were the only ones I memorized with ease - those are also the ones I still remember today.
Can we fuel planes with fat and sugar?
Yeah, I'm sure the performance of this must be pretty bad. As I understand it, non-batched LLM inference is generally limited by the bandwidth required to read the entire weights from GPU memory for each token produced. This trick instead moves the bandwidth bottleneck to loading those weights into the GPU from wherever has enough space to store them, probably some kind of SSD, and that has much lower bandwidth than GPU RAM.
Thank for the submission! This was also previously posted at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279375 from before my recent update that added ~75 new websites with a new technique: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830

Except the previous one was at: https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websi... which is the corresponding static website version of https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communic...
These sorts of perverse incentives are sadly common in financial situations. You never want to spend less than your full budget lest your budget be reduced next year.
Currently working on a gitlab api thing for work, and I gotta say their API us a complete joke. GitHub runs laps around them in this area. Gitlab is actually worse than bitbucket, believe it or not.
I’ve been seeing these COBOL articles since the 2000s I believe.

Since the '80s for me. And certainly the '90s, since these sort of zero-content articles were very popular in the runup to Y2K: "the entire world is going to end because there are no Cobol programmers anywhere in the world! Everyone panic!". It's still bullshit.
Capacity is measured by peak usage, but most data centers experience a daily traffic cycle with low times at night. We just patch/upgrade our servers at the local low time, when traffic is much lower and a lot of your machines are idle.
How many of these companies actually conduct in-person "onsites" anymore? I would guess most of these are still remote — granted, I haven't done the interview circuit in a couple years now. It would be cool to have some kind of indicator for which companies are doing in-person and which ones remote.
The best part about jekins is that it works. The worst part is that many people dont want to work with jenkins.
One dude’s prosperity, and a whole lot of other people’s still comfortably living.

And for what it’s worth, other options don’t change the “one dude’s prosperity” part.
I get that volumetric displays are cool and all, but you'll spend tens of thousands for one that will still underperform VR/AR googles.
Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors but not hospitals, doctors
Remote only to US and Canada?
It’s a special case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem?wprov=sft...

This says public investment will just increase aggregate land rents to at least the cost of that investment. UBI is effectively a gigantic “public investment” that is everywhere. It’ll get baked into land rents, which will then propagate into actual rents.
> Not really, no.

Well, perhaps have some basic knowledge of the topic at hand before oversimplifying the matter by simply paraphrasing "cui bono", effectively hinting at heinous Jewish scheming being the crux of the matter.
If it isn’t an emergency patch, we do all our maintenance at low traffic times (e.g. the middle of the night local time for the data center). Your capacity planning is based on peak traffic, so you can afford to have more machines out during low traffic times.
Hmm? A T4 is less powerful than a “beefy consumer gpu” like a 3080.
There is a naming problem here where "Nix" is often easily confused with the state management pieces (home-manager, NixOS, etc). The underlying Store abstraction provides the concepts of various kinds of addressing. This is independent of the Nix language and we are currently trying to expose each of these layers more directly so it can be re-used in other contexts.

The piece that might be of interest to you is the interaction between content-addressed and input-addressed content in light of build systems+software+compilers that are not bit-reproducible. There is also the bookkeeping to ensure auditability by third-parties; anyone else can run the same builds and expect the same outcome, or close enough that the differences become easy to find and report upstream (https://r13y.com/), but the system doesn't require bit-reproducibility from day1 because that would be impractical. Of course substituting from a cache is exact, made possible by the signatures.

Remote builds: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/advanced-topics/distribu...

Signing (i'll amend my claim above to be only 1 decade). These are either signatures of a CA path, or for input-addressed things it can be seen as a claim by the signer that the producing build recipe (we call it "derivation") has this particular binary output.

- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-store/ge...

- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/advanced-topics/post-bui...

- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file.ht...

- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file.ht...

- example: see the Signatures line for an example that this this specific provenance produced this specific binary output: https://trusted-friendly-sesame.glitch.me/view.html?cache_ba... or https://cache.nixos.org/7ghhnlwla2mddkg7hgqa5v0sr8g5hga8.nar...
Ah, I see your point now. Makes sense
As a fairly avid Rust user I can say I'm excited to hear that! Just playing a little devil's advocate for fun.

That said I was moderately upset by this Friday after carefully assembling a development container for a project at work. Guess I'll have to make something persistent somewhere if I don't want to twiddle my thumbs before each build.
There's a lot of overly simplistic and just plain wrong thinking by WEstoids when it comes to the US. Most notably, Muslims and Arabs in particular are viewed as a monolith. This is Islamophobia and racism, pure and simple. For example, there is the Sunni vs Shia split. There's also the Arab (Saudi Arabia) vs Persian (Iran) split. It's dangerous to make policy decisions on this basis.

Here are some things worth considering:

1. US support for Israel by itself creates negative sentiment and blowback in the Middle East. This is actually by design. The US seeks to destabilize the Middle East. It's one of America's "unsinkable aircraft carriers" [1] but it's more than that. Biden is on record as saying "If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one." [2];

2. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are also of key strategic importance to the US. Turkey is in NATO and is a key force against Syria, Iraq and Iran. The US placing nuclear missiles on Turkish territory also instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis; Saudi Arabia is a key counter to Iran's influence in the region;

3. US arms were used with the blessing of the US in a genocide in Yemen against these same Houthi rebels. The point here is that the Houthis have their own reasons to be mad against both Saudi Arabia and the US that have nothing to do with Iran;

4. Iran is not an irrational actor. They seek both to counter US influence in the region and increase their own influence. They're doing nothing that the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia aren't guilty of doing. Iran is used a bogeyman by US propaganda to deflect away from atrocities committed by the US and its allies in the region. Iran wants normalization of relations but won't become a client state to do it. Nor should they have to. Let's not forget, the US played a huge role in the creation of the fundamentalist government of Iran by supporting the 1953 coup.

It seems like the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia have no concept of the idea of blowback. Committing and supporting genocide is always going to have huge negative consequences.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_aircraft_carrier

[2]: https://theconversation.com/biden-says-the-u-s-would-have-to...
> I can almost guarantee no one has ever thought about the influences of a font.

Maybe not but we know that they do affect people's perceptions whether they're conscious of it or not.

I think it's fantastic that your family was engaged with museums while you were growing up but we also know that there's a demographic divide in engagement across the wider
population. In the UK more than half of white families visit museums annually but for black families that's closer to one in three.[0]

> I mean there are actual fish to fry here, starting with legislation, monetary consequences, property rights

100% but those issues are beyond the operational scope of an individual museum trying to improve its engagement.

0: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/culture-a...
It’s not about local time. It is about a way to find out when someone at a distance is active and available. You need some method to know that. Timezones are such a method.
I live in a zip code that has had Waymo testing for years. The only reason these cars are able to integrate at all is because their sensor package makes them incredibly conspicuous. People give them a very wide berth.

If Waymo had a stealth vehicle with no outward indication it was autonomous, it would not do well. Probably you could just put a microphone in there and count angry-honks-per-mile to measure actual progress.
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If you store batteries in metal containers, you can expect sparks.

If you store your batteries in the same drawer as your bare wire, you can expect sparks.

If those batteries are Lithium Ion type, they might smoke or even catch fire.

The claim that taping AAA cells will save lives seems far fetched.

Relevant parody/commentary from Reason TV: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
These events make you appreciate just how great we have it, and how fragile it is for us to loose it.

Thank you to the U.S. soldiers and all others who risk their lives to allow us in the west to live in relative peace.
Better NVidia support is the only thing that keeps me on X. Well that and my distro (Pop) uses X still.
Avocado farms in New Zealand get robbed when prices start approaching $8NZD a a avocado, :'(. I feel sorry for the farmers. We have no avocados on our farms.
I'm a hobbyist in this space. I have never used Seastar either, But I'm trying to design an "evented assembly" for efficiency in a thread-per-core architecture.

I really want the next generation NodeJS equivalent to take advantage of all these learnings and learnings from Erlang. I think nodejs showed how awesome event loops and async can be and simple.

The TFA (The Friendly Article) makes it clear there are sharp edges with coroutines and lambdas in C++:

- something stored in a temporary between a yield barrier will be destroyed by the time the coroutine is resumed

- you have to make sure you store things inside the coroutine promise object

- lambda capturing rule complexity associated with copying and moving semantics

I am just learning but I've written a multithreaded barrier in C and Java that is mutex free. In 6×2 thread pairs it can communicate between threads in 42 nanoseconds.

I have the beginnings of a JIT compiler. But there's so much work to do.

My barrier resembles a "phaser" pattern in a loop and bulk synchronous parallel.
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one of my managers is going through this right now. it's absolutely worth having the conversation.

you might even find that a lot of what you're facing are solvable problems that your manager can help you with.
That's not what I'm writing about. It's obvious from the photos that they're living in apartments already (those who aren't living in vans), so a "modern" apartment is just a living accommodation upgrade. It's about trying to find relative solitude in a huge city. It's hard enough to do so in a modern sub-urban environment.

I'm personally paying about $1k/month more for relative solitude in an older place with some solitude near a large metropolitan area than I would for a modern apartment in the area. It's worth it not just for the solitude, but for the things not being physically connected, or even really close, to your neighbors' homes provides.
Everyone has a price?!?
It started before then. My school switched from a rather elegant 19th century (I think) design to something more streamlined that I never really liked around 2000. But I don't really disagree in general. I know when my company did a rebrand, one of the drivers was that the old logo had a lot of fine detail. (It also had some aspects that you couldn't unsee once someone mentioned them and it basically got the company's name wrong--which still gets people confused to this day.)
Iran much like Hitler will not respond to appeasement. Let’s not repeat the mistake of our forefather with a “peace in our time” type of approach.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
A blind mole thought since 1936 to be extinct was recently rediscovered
If you work at start ups that are in the a manufacturing, processing, or general heavy industry, think SpaceX, Relativity, Rivian, etc. they use structured text (STL) which is like Pascal and usually use Beckhoff's TwinCAT platform which is a modern platform relative to Siemens and Rockwell platforms, but due to their start up nature they usually have a mix of platforms.

I've been working in this field for quite awhile and the systems can be complex and challenging. The software you write controls equipment that can cause massive damage and even death. This leads to very conservative programming languages and frameworks.
how much did this cost?
> I wouldn’t say they are smarter.

Nutrition is better than centuries ago. People are stronger. They live longer. All around on that time scale, tech has improved human lives. One would expect that to be reflected in brain health, too.

No one can agree about what "intelligence" actually means. Using synonyms for intelligence but claiming they mean something subtly different (e.g. "wise") is part of that phenomenon.

But there is the Flynn Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Submitter's is a way better title imo
Weird because primarily submitting one's own stuff seems to be pretty common there. Random example from a user currently on the front page: https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories

And that is not the only one on the front page right now that's submitting mostly their own stuff.
Aerospace headsets... yeah, helicopter headsets might be the one case where you actually can find cable-powered active noise cancelling. But you're a long way out of the consumer sector at that point...
At a local hardware store the battery recycling bin has a sign asking that only 9V batteries be taped since there is a much more likely hazard of their side-by-side terminals being directly shorted from inadvertent contact than for those with polar opposite terminals. The mess and hassle of untaping non-9v batteries for recycling centre workers was the cited reason, so my guess is that the fire risk is seen as much less important than the work required to untape them.
That would lead to China facing an existential threat, with more instability in Southeast Asia.

A better approach might be to encourage the world to move more quickly to renewables and nuclear power, reducing the need for oil backed energy.
We have tested this code on a 16GB Nvidia T4 GPU. The entire inference process uses less than 4GB GPU memory.

You don't need 16GB of VRAM for this, it's just what they had available for testing.
Because someone will invariably buy this thing and then hang 15 access points off of it, and it won't be able to manage given build of materials this device has.

And then they'll be pissed off because it doesn't "do" what they want it to.

This thing is designed for what 95% of household's need. A router and one or two WAPs. That's really it.
Gitlab is 29/month. It’s hard to stomach 29 + the money for GitHub and Jira, depending on the features you need. (Minimum 11/mo)
Could you explain what your issue is here? I think we are generally just try to reason through this phenomena, not make grand conclusions about the model. We talk about how hard/time consuming it is for a human to pose possible theories for what the LLM could be doing. It is not to assert anything about how "difficult" it is for the LLM compared to a human, because we can't ascribe difficulty/ease to anything the model "does", simply because we know the fundamental mechanics of its inferencing. We can only after the fact of an LLM's output say something like: "Wow that would have been hard for me to output" or "I could have written something similar in like 5 minutes." But these claims can only ever be counter factuals like this, because in reality the output of an llm comes out at a constant rate no matter what you prompt it with.

If you try to say more, you'll end up falling in weird contradictions: it would take an llm a lot longer to output 10 million 'a's than a human, so it must be "harder" for the llm to do that than a human.
Where does Wayland fit in that picture?
Good ideas posted in response to this. Perhaps we need to try just rearranging images of specific things. Like, rearrange a bird and see if it can figure out that. Above I jumbled up everything and that’s different than what they did with the text, where they grouped by words.