skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These ML-compilers are being overhyped. It's all the same trade-off as a traditional compiler: you get a lot more throughput than hiring a specialist performance programmer, but the latter will typically outperform, possibly by orders of magnitude.

These things are inferior at many levels:
- Algorithmic: These things aren't feeding back to their human masters tips and tricks on how to modify the network to go faster beyond some very basic signals.
- Loss of intent: ML network designers are specifying architecture in python, and by the time it's gone through many layers of lowering, you can get some complete garbage. Highly efficient garbage, but still garbage. (recent example, we caught one of these compilers doing a slice update operation by first forming the range of all possible indices to the array, slicing that to get indices to update, and then doing a scatter; we replaced it with a single memcpy call).
- Inefficient kernels. Every time we see the output of these compilers go head-to-head with an expert assembly programmer, the compiler loses, often by 30%+. This always seems like the sort of thing that should be easy to solve, but given no-one seems to have cracked it in the past 50 years, it's obviously not as simple as it sounds.
You're going to get more of those startups and less Startups that actually make a profit now. Why? Because a startup burning investor money doesn't have enough revenue to pay taxes in the first place. It is especially bootstrapped and cashflow positive startups that get hit hard and need outside investors to pay their tax debts now.
I had the opposite experience. If something's easy to remember, I don't need Anki. If something's hard to remember (I really struggle with birthdays, for example), even Anki doesn't help! The cards all end up as "leech" and Anki stops showing them to me. (I found this behaviour amusing, since the whole point of using Anki is to help me learn things that are difficult to remember!)

They say if a card is ending up as a leech, it's a "problem" card and you should somehow improve it. But I'm not sure how to improve this: Side A: name. Side B: birthday. (Cards are also shown reversed.)

Arguably I could add some kind of mnemonics, or learn the Mnemonic Major System for remembering numbers. (On that note, does anyone have specific advice for remembering birthdays? The Dutch among you will say "hang a birthday calendar in your toilet", which was probably the correct solution all along...)
Im disappointed that ET doesn't have a quantum entangled fluid router.
> iOS and macOS are vulnerable when Bluetooth is enabled and a Magic Keyboard has been paired with the phone or computer

I’d really love more details on this, especially given the Magic Keyboard pairing requirement. Surely they can disclose the exploit now that it’s been fixed?
Maybe in some small-/mid-size housing markets where rentals are not the main form of housing. In a city like NYC, the rental market is way too large for anyone to control it.

A good example was during the pandemic when vacancies shot up, rents came way down. Landlords were not “holding the line” at previous prices, presumably because they knew that renters would just go to a competing landlord.
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Software runs on hardware, specifically, computers. There's no non-hardware way to run software. The court is seriously confused and shouldn't be analyzing anything more complicated than a toaster.
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As another comment notes, various companies take a shot at this from time to time. It's more an economic problem than a pure engineering one. When you can buy lie flat seating on most long distance routes (and even sort of cabins on some), it's not clear how big the market is for supersonic tickets that may cost even more (as was the case with the Concorde) and probably will have less range. Legroom isn't a problem on bigger jets. You just need to pay a big premium for it.

I also assume there's less market these days for flying NYC to London to shake hands and sign a deal over lunch and be back home for dinner.
The form factor up around that kind of battery size is actually pretty ergonomic (though I do have big hands). I've got a phone in that range (just under 1lb) and it's nice. Solid. I like the heft of it, it feels like I'm carrying around a filofax.

Maybe not for joggers though.
I long for the return of airships. Slower, but probably they emit much less CO2 for the same weight transported. A good fit for people trying to avoid a climate apocalypse. Also more legroom.
6-day work week?

Through sheer fatigue, you'll get nothing done on the 5th day (just like now), and certainly not the 6th.
Hong Kong provides you with a small paper slip rather than a passport stamp
You can use it to produce the fine tuning examples. LLMs are very good at learning styles and answer flows, so you ask ChatGPT a million standard questions and problems and then record the outputs, that data will be very similar to the finetuning data used by OpenAI. Then put that data into your own LLMs fine tuning step and voila, you have an LLM that behaves very similarly to ChatGPT!

OpenAI knows this which is why they put that TOS there, they spent a lot of money to create that finetuning data so they don't want to give all of that away for cheap.
Thanks for taking the risk to share and good luck with the ring box.
Technically you could start off with just Lightsail if you want to start off as simple as possible.
So, the question is, if some usurper takes over a region and becomes de-facto government in that region... and you have artifacts _from_ that region that you took with the legal authority of the previous government... would you hand the artifacts over to the usurpers?
Yes. This is the same for both math and programming. These skills take a lot of practice to develop. It’s like playing a musical instrument: you won’t learn how to do it if all you do is read the book.

What’s strange to me is how people seem to resist this fact. Like it’s obvious to pretty much everyone that you need to practice an instrument to be able to play music on it. But for math and physics at least they seem to think it’s somehow different? That they ought to be able to solve the problems just by picking up a pencil? And when they don’t get a decent grade on the exam they look over at the person who got 100 and say “that’s why! I can’t do it because I’m not a genius like they are!”
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When learning new programming concepts, I would often have to learn them 5 or 10 times before they clicked. Once they clicked, they seemed completely obvious, and I couldn't imagine what it's like to not understand it.

Two mathematicians are discussing a theorem. The first mathematician says that the theorem is trivial. He then proceeds with two hours of exposition. At the end of the explanation, the second mathematician agrees that the theorem is indeed trivial.
The director of the Australian Society for Medical Research has a nice TEDx talk about all aspects of learning here: https://youtu.be/kKvK2foOTJM?si=RF479ogKABAtcCUE
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>And or course on a recorded interview/questioning, right? Because if there was no recording then it’s my word against police’s, right?

Nope. You need to express your desire to stay silent early in the "arrest or questioning" process with the police. I'm not an expert, so I don't want to pretend when your words can be used against you, but if a cop hears you say something, they can quote you in court.

Also, here is a fun twist. Your words can be used against you in court, but not for you. For instance: if the cop writes down a bunch of stuff you said while being arrested, and your defense lawyer wants to look at it -they are not allowed to see it-. They can only see the stuff the cops use to charge you
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Why would you need to learn birthdays (except maybe closest family)? It's maybe the canonical thing to put into a calendar.

"Because I want to" is obviously fine, but it still reminds me of the infamous "capitals of the world" flashcards that spaced repetition practitioners warn against.
Checking eBay there are plenty of old-school dumb phones to be had. I don't know if they work on modern networks but you could get an old school phone every year for the rest of your life on eBay.
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Talk about a hostile work environment
A calendar in your toilet? Go digital and use your phone's built-in calendar.
I mostly play commander, and find the AI to be pretty dumb to be honest. That’s not saying it’s not fun! But I find that even with the AI using simple deck archetypes I usually have to put three of them on an enemy team before they hit moderately-skilled-human-player levels of challenge. The AI is pretty bad at threat assessment, so removal, counters and board wipes get used pretty randomly sometimes.
Yes, if you are replacing a process which basically just converts low entropy energy into high entropy heat directly with something that does more interesting along the way, the end result is basically the same from an entropy point of view. Generally we as a species are not limited by the entropy available at the moment, but by our ability to harness it and the consequences of doing so in terms of the balances of the systems that it flows through.
> Why Books Don’t Work

I think it should be clear that it's not books that don't work, but how many people approach books that's ineffective.

Just reading books isn't enough, you have to internalize the lessons which is often hard work.
Quick math: 10000 users per machine?

Not considering that 90% of all users are likely sleepy accounts.
I agree, vector search on music seems pretty obvious at this point.
Mine is kind of between full cinematic details and outline. If I could see in full detail I would be able to draw it. But I know I can't, not without a reference image. I do see a cinematic elephant but when I try to focus on details they are fuzzy. I know where the head, trunk and teeth are and the shape of whole head but not sure where exactly the eyes are, it's fuzzy around there.
All the problems listed aren't real world problems. No one has a problem understanding the calendar and there are no engineering problems with it either unlike the inch. For the few folks in astronomy we have computers.

Why would there be a problem? Half the world's population prays according to a base 7 week.

Nor is this proposal new. Its been tried (at least) twice before failed spectacularly embittering people. Based 10 (french) or 5 (soviet) weeks were introduced at the blood thirsty peak of thise anti-religious regime with the explicit goal of also erasing worship to the God of Abraham.
Such a linear pump was invented by a Japanese guy, and is commonly used in ENGEL brand RV freezers.
The feedback is a lot faster when playing an instrument, you hear if it sounds good or not. The reward is built-in. This is a bit harder for maths/physics once you're past the trivial stuff and most people don't find it rewarding to solve physics/maths problems.
Why do you feel compelled to carry water for the people participating in behaviour detrimental to society?
Are you good at drawing? Will you be able to draw the elephant or just it's head in full detail correctly at least?
You store the output from ChatGPT, you don't run it again every time you do a training step. Generating millions of examples to add to your own training wont cost much at all relatively.
It's not hallucinated, it's not written by AI, it's creative, tongue-an-cheek writing by a person who has literally decades of prior art in this very style on his blog. Try reading it with these statements held as truth and see how much sense your post makes then.
Huh I wonder if there have been any substantial changes to international cooperation, investments made thereupon, and agreements made thereupon between the 1850s and 2013.

Countries don’t have to join international trade regimes. They also don’t have to join climate/emission commitments. They do both of them because they come with benefits.

Cursory searching suggests the first real work on international copyright, by contrast, came about in 1886. Even early versions came after Dickens’ story here.
I had an iRiver 350 slim so 700mb cds but it fit in my pocket and ran all day. The UI was wayyy better than any other CD MP3 player I could find and let you just store albums in folders and use the multi line remote to browse and play.

I wish they'd taken it to SD card storage but my palm pilot could so I ended up using that
Nope, he didn't, Axel-Springer regularly campaigns against people they don't like, including private people.

Let me quote one of Germany's best cabaret artists, Volker Piepers: "Bild-Zeitung..... this filthy newspaper that is so disgusting that you insult dead fish if you wrap it in it!"

There is a reason Heinrich Böll wrote a book about them:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Honour_of_Katharina...
heavily under $50 BOM
If you're using an external display, your display might not be near your computer.

In that case, you likely want a wireless keyboard and mouse to use it.
I don't have to close my eyelids to see it in my mind and closing them only gives me a slightly better result, or different at least. I can see all the colors but nothing like the vivid cinematic description that people seem to be upvoting the most..

Are people exaggerating? Or are they actually capable of watching HDR content in their heads.
Since when have corporations ever been ashamed of hypocrisy? Corporations can't feel shame about anything.
Are you good at drawing those images too?
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The question you have asked has a clearly "yes" answer, but the devil's detail is that you bending the narratine (I would prefer to say that you are lying) about what are you doing in reality. You are addicting your peers to a (the) closed-source software which is running on the incredible unsafe device such as something with Android or something from Apple's walled garden.

When you are trying to make your student "streak of learning" what happens in reality is gluing the student to the device which effectively is a someone's social network client and nothing more. He/she is going to be bombarded with all kinds of dark patterns which are the essence of every snoop-phone. So, no matter how good teacher you are, I will never consider using a snoop-phone for a kid less than 18 years old as something ethical.

What is really ethical is to be an offline mentor/teacher for those who urge to study what you have already mastered. Tomas Edison once has said that the video industry is going to be the best creation of all times to enhance learning. I understand why he used to think like that. But from my experience of working with teenagers, learning is just not possible when there is something other than plain text has involved.

Learning is not when the app shows some sad picture and the learner starts doing anything in order to make sad picture happy. Learning (if not under academia which goals is not 100% of making students smarter) is making your student to yield some really smart questions. Learning is hunting in my pov, learning (no matter what industry) is always about reverse engineering, learning is continuously sitting calmly and solving some tasks interesting to learner, not being bombarded with notifications profitable for Alphabet or Apple or you.
Ah, gothca. I've mostly used triggers and LISTEN/NOTIFY for those things, so haven't tried the WAL methods.
It depends. If I spend a week looking at elephant heads, I'll see them even if I don't want to. I have this problem any time I get really into a video game.

I forget the name, but there was a free to play Starcraft clone/homage I got hooked on. After a while, entire scenes would play out in my vision when I wasn't focusing on anything. Doesn't seem to happen as much these days, but I also have a healthier relationship with my hobbies.

This also happens with (fiction) books to some extent.

Not being able to visualize stuff hasn't been an impediment to visual art. On the flip side, being able to compose entire songs in my head hasn't been a benefit to making music: it collapses on contact with reality.
I was using Opera for its UX despite its constant degradation and other well-known matters. The last straw was when they added borders around main webview, so you can’t use “click or scroll aside” action anymore. Switched to Vivaldi and it feels like that old Opera, which I always liked. Why:

- UI settings and behaviors which in other browsers are considered excessive, confusing and inducing panic attacks for a mythical regular user. Pretty ordinary for detailed enumeration, that’s just my workflow and QoL for years.

- Not google.

That’s pretty much it. Popular browser UIs just suck. They are nothing more than a basic shell around a webview and do not feel like you’re using an app. To me they feel like notepad instead of <your ide/editor>.

I wouldn’t call it not heavy, pretty much the opposite.

I also compared Chrome and Vivaldi on sites I use. The actual speed difference is marginal, but Vivaldi feels slower due to lack of common ui techniques. I don’t mind it cause I know how it works.
>The one “downside” compared to regular databases is that CRDTs use optimistic concurrency.

My understanding of the term "optimistic concurrency" is that a write operation can fail if the optimism turns out to be misplaced (so to speak). CRDTs on the other hand always merge deterministically and never fail, even if application level consistency constraints are violated.

This is why CRDTs are rarely useful to me, but I can see how they may be useful in domains that can live with the very weak form of consistency guarantees that CRDTs can provide.
> Now go make your build tooling cross platform so we can just run it on a linux vm like everything else

I don't think they need to go as far as this. We already maintain windows CI agents on my team as we build C++ apps with MSVC. But crucially, our builds only take 10 minutes from cache, we don't want to pay for 24 hours usage.
Not sure what you mean. I have been joking some here in this thread, but overall, the thing was one of the most serious things in my life. As to how MS ended up with it, I probably chose the wrong partners for the startup where we tried to monetize it.

At the end of the startup, there was a 20 minute phone call, where I had to decide to either keep my patent and probably ruin my chances to marry the love of my life, or to sign over the patent, take some cash and stock, start my new life with my fiancé, and hope that I could come up with another patent that good later in my life. I chose wisely.
I've read up on CRDTs over the last two months or so (and I've come across your very helpful posts as well, of course), because I am building a collaborative editor for Practal [0].

In particular, I've invented a new simple text format for this which I call Recursive teXt (RX) [1]. The idea is to just develop a CRDT for RX. RX is naturally structured as a tree, and it seems to make sense to model a document as an A of blocks, a block as an A of lines and blocks, and a line as an A of characters. Here "A of" stands for some sort of CRDT array based on inserting via predecessor (and successor?). Each A-object (document, block, line) is referenced by its own id and stored in a purely functional tree (similar to how Redux would do it [3], and I think Automerge does it similarly).

Would be great to get your opinion on this design choice, maybe you see some obvious (or not so obvious) problems with it. One problem seems to be one that Kleppmann points out in [2, end of section 4], when you press enter in the middle of a line, so that a line is split into two lines, you have to deal with that in a special way. Similarly with splitting/joining blocks.

[0] https://practal.com

[1] https://practal.com/recursivetext/

[2] https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/list-move-papoc20.pdf

[3] https://redux.js.org/usage/structuring-reducers/normalizing-...
I've noticed the same in Austria and the UK.

Amazon's last mile shipping is outsourced, in a race to the bottom, to desperate migrants with a cheap white van who's road worthiness is debatable and who park illegally on sidewalks and bike paths during their deliveries. If you tell them that's not allowed they'll just say "Where else am I supposed to park? I won't make the delivery deadlines if I spend time looking for free parking spaces for the van. They're not reimbursing me for parking you know. What am I supposed to do?".

I hate Amazon. I also hate the governments who fail to regulate and crack down on these well known labor loopholes and abuses since this hasn't been going on since yesterday but for a very long time. I'd be totally ok with waiting 2-3x longer just to know th delivery workers have fair working conditions.
Great to see Forge making the front page! It runs on mobile too and the UI is frankly better than the desktop version. Definitely install a snapshot version so that your client stays up to date. The bots can play surprisingly well with agro and even control decks, but can't play any kind of combo... Or even assemble Tron.

I've even used this to play local network games against other players. If they had a global server that allowed you to find games, it would be the perfect way to play MtG.
I’m a firm believer that 90% of today’s mental health issues could be solved by:
1. Regularly spending time doing manual work out in the sunshine.
2. Getting enough rest
3. Eating a healthy diet that doesn’t include processed foods.

The remaining 10% are major psychological disorders that science still has no answers for.
Here's a faster fix: Simply repeal the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act.
I typically have a low opinion on rote memorization, I remember years ago at university my roommate swore by his note cards (physical index cards at the time) while I strongly maintained the need to build up intuition around the math and physics I was doing. He was in med school and I was in engineering, but I felt that the memorization while successful at least for him, was limiting in terms of potential innovation.
Not everything is hard work. Some are smarter (or better equipped) than others. You can spend an eternity teaching me math and still won't be able to accomplish anything. It's almost like different people exist and they have different skill sets and interests.
Given that they would carry fewer people and would be much slower, I'd have to see the actual energy use analysis. As for legroom, as I noted elsewhere, that's just a matter of how much money you're willing/able to spend for your seat.
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Not a single mention of the topic/reason calendars were invented in the first place: keeping track of the 4 seasons (for agriculture purposes). Though since each month has 4 weeks, I can see a season being 2.5 months making sense. At least much more than the 13-month year.
Conversely (or to take it further really) I’d rather a way more comfortable experience on a much slower service. Yes, I’d like an airship cruise that takes a couple days to get me to my destination. Bring that back.
> aren’t copyrighted so this is actually more ethical that’s what OpenAI did

why is that? all works, as long as it is "original" should be granted copyright. It should belong to the person who made it (in this case, the user, not openAI).