skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's there any precedent of this happening before? If I had to bet I would bet on the opposite, that is that the general population would get fatigue from so many games and would stick to old brands/companies and just ignore games from unpopular sources, the small games that would succeed are those that _cannot_ yet be generated by AI, that is that have mechanics hard to infer from existing games, eventually AI would learn to make those games too but by then the existing game company would have some reputation of its own.
There is no place in Wisconsin where it’s 45 minutes to a charger. The only states in the US where that is the case are Wyoming and Montana.
If you work for people that are only extracting value and are making decision based on next quarter predictions then I can see that.

This is why I do not work for faceless corporation. I deliberately sticked with small lifestyle business that values maintenance as much as new sales (as a matter of fact just this week I was refactoring my own, original piece of code, that its first version is dated by versions control as written 15 years ago and during this whole time there were clients that were paying support fees for it)
These compensation packages served the very specific purpose of enticing US-based talent to relocate to the Bay Area. As we increasingly accept remote work for senior talent and look abroad (or not at all) for junior talent, this is not as much of a need anymore. The inflow to the Bay Area always had a built-in expiration given there are only finitely many neighborhoods to gentrify and still no appetite for significant housing growth.
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My salary comes from Arachis hypogaea.
>Well, yes - that's kind of the point

"Well, yes" sounds so smarmy. Well yes, I wasn't disputing the fact either. It is just reinforcing information
Back in the early days when I was working on a PET 2001, I wrote a routine to slow down the printing of text, so that it would look like it was coming from something akin to a 300 baud system.

I wanted to make it look like a "real computer".
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I remember when this was announced on hacker news and I snagged an great sub domain name. https://420.neocities.org/
> I can think of stuff like hacking/leaking data about bad things, l

I wasn't thinking in that direction, but that totally makes sense.

Thanks.
They seem to be replacing the right CTRL key rather than adding a new one.
Hey! It is potentially possible to prompt the character LLM directly to simulate multiple characters, but having streamlined support is definitely on our Radar! We are also working on a template where you'll be able to to talk to multiple NPCs and also have them talk to each other.

Research for consistent character in different poses is also in the works :)
Thanks for the explanation and the link. This is exactly how I've always understood 'smooth scrolling' to mean.

What I'm confused about is what exactly am I toggling when say I toggle the 'Use smooth scrolling' setting in Firefox, or the 'editor.smoothScrolling' setting in VSCode. I just never was able detect any difference.

Maybe it's as you said, the effect is just very subtle.
It's important I think to note the head fake that Google's engineering pulled off when they developed site reliability as its own discipline.

It's maintenance, but the argument they successfully sold to management was that if management planned to scale indefinitely, maintenance cost would also scale indefinitely unless maintenance also had a budget for R&D to push up the ratio of services maintained to maintainers (and the authority to tell software engineering "Yes, you built a new shiny thing, but it's not shaped correctly yet to be maintainable so here is the pager, enjoy your 2:00 a.m. wake up calls to keep the money flowing").

This has, overall, worked pretty well for them given what they want to do. While maintenance is still a cost, it's understood that they minimize that cost via R&D, not cutting.
I know, right? When did obvious things become hype and "need literature"? Type bugs are an obvious thing and happen all the time.

Not hype, but an obvious fact: "Static Typing reduces type related bugs."
I hope you do try again because the soup can be spit free, cheaper and tastes better. You do need to pick the right flavour, though.
Nope, it's just a dumb timer telling people to sit down and do nothing. More about that:

https://untested.sonnet.io/MISS+–+Make+It+Stupid%2C+Simple

Similarly, Ensō (enso.sonnet.io) is just a dumber <textarea>
And yet, Total Commander is selling since 1993 (Windows Commander back then) and is still updated today.
A Plasma Furnace for Methane Pyrolysis: Hydrogen and Carbon Production
You can control how dark you want your toast. There is a knob under the handle.

It works for all bread types that fit in the toaster. I should know, I bake my own bread (and it's not all sandwich bread loaves).

It is not more likely to burn down your house. Take responsibility for your own well-being and just add a 3 prong cord (and ground it to the outer shell, there's even a screw hole for it).

I have one of these toasters and I love it. It's my favorite kitchen appliance
> Hype: "Formal Verification is a great way to write software. We should prove all of our code correct."

> Shower: Extensive literature review showing that formal methods are hard to learn, extremely expensive to apply, and often miss critical bugs.

Glad you had the caveat "Written in 2000". What was hard and perhaps not worthwhile in 2000 has changed. Computers are a bit faster and software is more pervasive.

A colleague of mine was involved in the formal verification of a really tricky cellular network bug. That was around year 2000. It was hard but was still necessary and successful.

GM has a buggy car. That wouldn't have been an issue in 2000. Now it's an issue that forced them to withdraw a car from the market after about two weeks. Not saying that formal methods could have for sure avoided that, but I suspect that it very well may have.
My version of taking a cold shower is to re-read von Neumann, J., Goldstine, H. H. Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic
Computing Instrument (1947) to realise how much JvN et. al.* had already learned about writing and debugging code.

* let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klára_Dán_von_Neumann !
The risk was not zero, and kids for a long time were not even able to get the vaccine. Additionally, they could spread to faculty or other family members, and many young kids have immune issues. This isn’t even mentioning long covid, which is a real risk, and the elevated risk of stuff like stroke in fairly young people.

In other words, you’re just parroting the propaganda of that time that was fairly provably wrong. Maybe some parents thought it was actually “better” for their kids, but they were still accepting some risk over convenience even if they believed the lie.
This 23andme screw up is unacceptable, but I agree with the parent comment -- the whole healthcare system is a mess in terms of opsec.

LabCorp security lapse exposed thousands of medical documents
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/labcorp-website-bug-medica...

Latest hospital cyberattack shows how health care systems' vulnerability can put patients at risk
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ardent-hospital-cyberattack-hea...
Just a reminder that everyone should setup a dedicated account for incoming money. Direct deposits go here, and then are transferred to a different account.

More sophisticated take over might be able to drain all of your accounts, but it is likely to limit your losses to a single pay period.
Luxury fountain pens rarely provide a better writing experience than a budget one. Montblancs had a reputation (don't know about the present) for fragile pens that wrote like every other fountain pen. You're paying for the white blob in the cap. Many luxury pens use very similar nibs as the cheaper pens, just adorned with gold and engraving that doesn't add to the writing experience.

If you want tradition, you can buy vintage pens - they work great. The Parker 51 is usually claimed to be the epitome of fountain pens. They aren't luxury in any way - they don't even look like fountain pens, but they just write and write. Vintage Esterbrook pens have replaceable nib options that put any modern pen to shame.
Humans weren't optimized to endure the unnatural extreme heat of a 175 degree sauna, yet studies point to frequent sauna use being associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality
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>What's special about transformers is they allow each element in a sequence to decide which parts of data are most important to it from each other element in the sequence, then extract those out and compute on them.

They do that in theory. In practice, its just all matrix multiplication. You could easily structure a transformer as a bunch of fully connected deep layers and it would be mathematically equivalent, just computationally inefficient.
How do we pick up that writing style.
I'm not sure I follow you. The neighbour might congratulate you but (s)he is inconvenienced as well.
It’s not clear to me what’s happening on the distillation front. I agree no one is doing it externally, but I suspect that the foundation model companies are doing it internally, performance is just too good.

There’s a bunch of recent work that quantizes the activations as well, like fp8-LM. I think that this will come. Quantization support in PyTorch is pretty experimental right now, so I think we’ll see a lot of improvements as it gets better support.

The KV cache piece is tied to the activations imo- once those start getting quantized effectively, the KV cache will follow.
> Saved you a download.

You did, thank you!
Howdy :)
I don't know why people post this stuff here. It's just banal.
Ah,

It was from an older implementation that wasn't compatible with Nim v2. I've commented it out.

If you pull again it should work.

> Anyway the reason for your competitive performance is likely that you are benchmarking with very small matrices. OpenBLAS spends some time preprocessing the tiles which doesn't really pay off until they become really huge.

I don't get why you think it's impossible to reach BLAS speed. The matrix sizes are configured here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/benchmarks/gemm...

It defaults to 1920x1920 * 1920x1920. Note, if you activate the benchmarks versus PyTorch Glow, in the past it didn't support non-multiple of 16 or something, not sure today.

Packing is done here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/laser/primitive...

And it also support pre-packing which is useful to reimplement batch_matmul like what CuBLAS provides and is quite useful for convolution via matmul.
Indeed. All I need to know about gas is that I paid $50 this morning for ~450km of range. While my EV would take multiple charges to get that range, the total cost would be only a few dollars.
You definitely can via R2. The blog post specifically says it, in my (not a lawyer) opinion the terms pretty clearly say you can by saying specific paid products can bypass the limitation, and the dev plat terms saying R2 is one of those specific products, and numerous employees have said it's fine, and I've heard cases of people pushing PBs of data per month without any issue.
I have no doubt about that at least.
It's not perfect, but I have had success running postgres in Docker and running integration tests against that. Usually you can trigger the problem by running a handful of queries in parallel.
America's childcare system is broken
"Go to a Facebook profile, and ponder what we have now. Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody’s “profile” looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement. Rarely do we create things on these networks; Instead, we consume, and report on our consumption. The uniformity and blandness rival something out of a Soviet bloc residential apartments corridor. And now adding to that analogy, we’ve found out that our government is actually spying on us while we’re doing it, in ways the Stasi could only dream of. The web we have today is a sad, pathetic, consumption-oriented digital iron curtain, and we need to change that."

Exactly what I felt when Youtube removed the ability to customize your channel in 2011, deleted my by then fairly large channel in protest (3000 subs in 2011 was alright sized)
https://archive.ph/UlyB8
What I Love about F#'s Type System
(2018) banality
The non responses are really demoralizing. I can take a form rejection letter. You can even lie to me and say the position is closed. Just do not leave me hanging with some scrap of hope.
So what are we saying here? Nature parks should reject people who can't afford a radio, even if they have a phone which can be used for calling for help?
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IIRC many of Airbnb's systems were implemented on top of sparkey: translations, feature flags, experiments, dynamic config. It stood the test of time really well. Probably all built by Jon Tai.
Yep! That's what I meant in an obtuse way about the hammers and nails :D
The G2 05 used to be my pen of choice but within the last few years I've noticed the ink tubes dry out and become unusable long before they actually run out of ink.
> This implies a higher income tax bill 'now', with a smaller deduction smeared over time.

I would not characterize a lower deduction for a business expense as taxing something. I would have assumed it meant a buyer has to pay an additional tax as a result of purchasing something.
I’m not counting maintenance for either vehicle, though: and, over the expected ownership time, I save enough with electricity for the Tesla to pay for a $16k battery pack replacement (and, over the four years I’ve owned the tesla, I’ve probably spent like $2000 on Tesla maintenance and $6k on maintaining the Odyssey, so I think I’ll save enough on regular maintenance to break even when I have to replace the battery)
BlueJ, David Barnes, and Michael Kölling?
Oy. The morally correct way would be to, at minimum, allow subscribers to opt out. It might even be acceptable if opting out was a "feature" of their paid plans.

The tiniest consolation is that the revised TOS doesn't apply until subscription renewal for paying customers, which is pretty much the bare minimum "ethical terms change" approach I can think of.
Weird to think typescript is similar to a language that requires a class definition for “hello world” lol. You can’t even fit it on a single 80 character line…
The world's deadliest cat is deceptively cute. Meet Gaia
> you can't even ask it to spell words incorrectly

Yes you can.

https://chat.openai.com/share/cd28dc1e-cb50-45b0-986b-275d53...
A similar idea implemented in Go https://github.com/akrylysov/pogreb (disclaimer: I'm the author of this package).
Very interesting, thank you!

I didn't think it was stupid, I had genuine trouble understanding how could an extra feature be hated - it didn't make sense: I thought it was maybe not the feature itself, but either the default setting, or the fact that it was a setting that could be tweaked.

But when something doesn't make sense to me, I've found it often means I've overlooked or missed something that may be evident to others (sometimes I even write: "what have I overlooked?")

Here, I missed that it would be interpreted to mean "poison under veneer".

I'd like to improve, as in "not being perceived as aggressive", so I appreciate your feedback!
There is a condition called “altitude anorexia”(1) where individuals who move to a high-altitude location sometimes lose a lot of weight all at once - see also (2), (3), and weight loss results(4). This effect also seems to apply to lab rats who are moved to labs at higher altitudes.(5)

(1)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18284032/
(2)https://www.wired.com/2010/02/high-altitude-weight-loss/
(3)https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/15270290432296375...
(4)https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/46/1/25/661337?login=fa...
(5)https://jn.nutrition.org/
>>> We have been overspending on this stuff for half a century

I don't think it follows that the US is prepared. Most of that money is just maintenance. You have to spend it just to keep the forces you have. You can't derive much value from the service members who have retired or the stockpiles of obsolete equipment. To put it in extreme terms, if the US stopped spending now, it might not take China very long to overtake them in capability, even though it might take decades to overtake them in spending.
There should be a warning label on Windows like there is for cigarretes.

Every time a user logs, Microsoft should be obliged by Law to show: "Your computer will get cancer if you proceed logging in."
Current Chat GPT 4 outputs: https://chat.openai.com/share/babb5d95-8220-48d3-b540-cc0314...
Just like YouTube, in the beginning, the quality of user-uploaded videos may not have compared to cable TV, but the experience of empowering everyone was very novel and eventually led to more people joining in. Ordinary people became familiar with video-making and storytelling.
Now, look at YouTube – it has a lot of high-quality content and production standards that rival cable TV. The difference is that talented individuals don’t need a TV station to be seen by the world.

In the same vein, Rosebud AI initially gives more people the opportunity to turn their ideas into games. Then, through rapid iteration, both users and we grow together, continuously improving the quality of the games
it only really wears out if you are running the machine beyond what it’s supposed to, if you do this with a metal gear you will break the motor instead of the gear.

Because of this there are lots of units “for parts” on eBay and will often even mention that it just needs a new worm gear. This is an easy fix and how I got KitchenAid in my kitchen for under $150
From the comment, it seems to also improve R500, which is ATI's X1000 series. I have an Athlon64 with a X1950 Pro (i bought that PC in late 2003, it had a GeForceFX but later upgraded it to the X1950 Pro) and i planned on trying Linux and see how it performs.
Former Adobe software engineering leader convicted of insider trading
HN would probably be interested in another book by the author, Witold Rybczynski: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684867303). It's born out of a writing prompt for a newspaper article - what is the most important tool (for construction specifically) of the past millennium? Prof. Rybczynski decided on this answer, and gives a history of the screw, both as a fastener and as a way to regulate motion in a machine. It's short but still quite comprehensive, even involving looking for screws in medieval drawings.
Did you see my username?
I built a campervan in between jobs and I take pride in bragging about the quality of my build design, especially because I installed much higher quality materials and systems for around 1/3 the cost of a manufactured RV.

For example, all rough wood framing is solid wood, all cabinetry is built from solid baltic birch plywood (zero OSB, zero MDF), stainless steel fasteners throughout, multiple layers of rigid insulation for through-winter occupancy, all cushions made with 1000d cordura, plumbed with PEX with Flair-it fittings, propane heat system, solar,etc.

My van is much lighter than RVs as a result, I don't need tandem wheels as most van RV builds do.

The most luxury of luxuriest RVs can't duplicate that. The overhead of hired labor and the coalescing of "we just do it this way" thinking among the RV trade results in a poor typical product.
Please do. Although I'll probably never write C in that style, most of us here will probably learn a few things that will eventually prove useful. (And it probably will also serve as a historical document of a "skill"(?) that is apparently soon to be lost to obscurity...)
Even if it doesn't reduce bugs (and how do we even measure this? in terms of bugs per loc? bugs per unit time?), it does make APIs easier to use (not even in terms of correctness, but in terms of time required to grok an API).
Great point!
We tried the oracle (Belady MIN) and found that the oracle often does not admit new objects (<20% chance admitting new objects) in most traces. That's why we need to evict new objects quickly
Almost as bad as giant isopods. I'm fairly certain HP Lovecraft saw one and dreamed up the Deep One.
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Here's the terms changelog: https://sentry.io/legal/changelog/

I absolutely hate the new terms, but I have to commend them on having this clear legal changelog. I wish everyone did this.
Somehow I doubt any weather station would register temperatures above 2,14 billion degrees
invisibly tiny bacteria were also very likely to kill you, and still often do
Something that can reason and figure things out without having ever been exposed to the information during training.
I wish they would go with a 4 cylinder ICE. Probably could even go down to 3. I want an ICE that can just barely keep up when I'm running on flat ground with a trailer. When going uphill I want to drain the battery a bit (and then recharge downhill). I want to be able to drive for 11 hour towing a trailer, stopping to recharged and fill the gas tank (both at once please!) every 300 miles.
Thanks, I use it to meditate myself (shi-ne).

I often set a minimal timer (e.g. 15 m) and then, either:

- use the 1-minute interval to get a rough idea of how much time has passed, or

- practice different breathing patterns (e.g. 3 breaths per minute)
Is this a refutiation of Betteridge Law of Headlines?

Sounds like it might be, OTOH, the most important factor here is probably the user/prompter of the AI.

From the conclusion:

We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group. Additionally, we found that participants who invested more in the creation of their queries to the AI assistant, such as providing helper functions or adjusting the parameters, were more likely to eventually provide secure solutions

Edit: corrected "Pepperidge" to "Betteridge". God, things like this make me question if I am an intelligent being myself
Now make a differential equation pet that acts as a puppy.
I live in Colorado. A large chunk of the state intentionally moved here specifically due to outdoor recreation opportunities and had kids who also do these (skiing, hiking, climbing, biking, etc). We also have ample public land and parks/green space/trails in which to recreate - which states like Texas lack.

The military may not have the same choice on where to move, but when they get here there's opportunities and communities to be active.
Also, you could probably get a ChatGPT instance to create and run a Python script to randomly replace letters in the words that ChatGPT itself creates. So technically, you can get it to misspell words. It seems like the person you replied to is forgetting the point of pre-training transformer models on instructions.
It looks like a very nice exhibition, I guess i will try to go to Munich before the 17th of March.

Also if anyone is interested in glitch aesthetic I’ve been working on a software for making png glitch creation accessible called Glitched Factory[1].

If by any chance you try it i would love to know your critics.

[1] https://glitchedfactory.com/software/
it looks like the ring is implemented using a linked list?
One of the inputs for MD5 is the length of the message, so I'm at least wrong in the case of MD5. Don't know about the general case and although I'm interested in the answer I can't spend time on it right now. But if anyone has a pointer to a useful resource please reply.

In general, just use a good hash function.
Kind of like how tesla is a musk owned company. I would never buy one for that reason.