skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Own" is one of those words that warn you a scam is coming. Like timeshare apartments. It baffles my mind that anybody wants to "own" a timeshare apartment when you could take the same money and enjoy an endless variety of resorts all over the world. Or the idea that you can "own" your own "independent business" with Amway.

It is OK to own something but the fetishization of ownership is a warning sign for scams and unsustainable situations. (e.g. continuously rising house prices)
In all likliehood, they're going to copy and paste your resume into their tracker, and it's going to look like garbage regardless.
There's no enough information to extrapolate that fact. Were these offers median salaries? Bottom 25th percentile?

Lots of companies low-ball candidates because they are happy with Harbor Freight quality candidates, so long as they will work for Harbor Freight prices.
CGI as in a command line program lying on the disk, executed on every request and the output sent to browser is dog slow.

Convert this one to fcgi, and it will get as fast as any other solution. In fcgi mode it runs as a service listening to a socket and reads and sends response over it while never terminating.

Even php running on fcgi mode is far faster than the old styled mod_php.
“Low on stamina” actually makes sense.
The original investigation of LLMs was attempting to get them to understand language but what they found was that once the model understood language it also somehow understood the concepts, events, and things the language was being used to communicate. That's not missing the point, it's entirely the point of the current interest in LLMs because it's incredibly useful to have a model that not only understands how to construct a sentence but can also do a fair amount of reasoning and actual work with the information in the sentence.

The current default version of ChatGPT is primed to use search to answer questions which is fine in some cases but I personally almost never use the multi-modal version because the "classic" ChatGPT is much better at explaining things from its training data than it is when it just regurgitates search results. Now that should tell you something about the utility of optimizing for information content rather than just a lot of language use examples.
> Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard.

OpenAI could have used this ignorance to their advantage! (Prior to ChatGPT release)

They could have went to NYT pre-2023, said "Hey, can we pay you $100k to come to your offices and run some machine learning algorithm on your content library? We can even do it in an air gapped clean room because we don't need to take copies of your content home with us" -- they very well may have said "Sure, what's the harm in that, come in next week"
It's 2024. Why Does PostgreSQL Still Dominate?
25 hours if sold (operated?) to EASA regulated carriers.
I broke iPhone 4, 5, 5s and 1 st. Gen. SE. All of them are quite small, and all also the 4th are light as well. I use cases, but those light ones, so they don’t add weight and add some protection. Mostly from scratches. In my case, all of them fell from some surface onto the floor. Usually it’s a metre distance. I think I never dropped a phone from my ear height, so not even 2 m.
>What's a good place to start for languages like this?

I recommend:

https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html#but-it-s-unreadab... (for apl)

and

https://xpqz.github.io/kbook/Introduction.html (for k)

... the author admits they are not an expert in either, but the pace and tone are very beginner friendly, which I have found is necessary if you do not have any experience in array languages.
Original HN discussion about SIEVE https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850202
Retrospective on Hacking a Game Boy Game
A few other things that could contribute to a slowing growth rate:

1. People build software differently now. There's not as much reliance on text messages (fewer phone apps build built, 2fa via phone is considered dangerous, etc)

2. Gig economy is stabilizing. There was a huge increase in new companies for years, but at this point it feels like we've stalled on new innovations in that space (while a lot of VC-subsidized ones have faded out)

3. There's way more regulations on spam (good for us, bad for Twilio). I think Twilio did as good a job of avoiding spam as anyone could reasonably expect, but the barrier to entry to using Twilio for even reasonable projects now involves the government. Plus with the crackdown on spam (good!), a portion of their business has likely been affected.
My 2023 prediction mistakes and the new Metaculus scoring function
They may need to stop to refuel. That said Durban had the bigger port these days. The bigger issue would be if Transnet has enough capacity to be able to handle the extra demand since it has had trouble with it's day to day operations lately.
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>I just can't rationalize the idea of paying an entire population for nothing.

And the crazy thing is, that we actually have SO much that needs to be done. There's massive shortages of all type of roles that can be filled by pretty much anyone.
I'm serious when Musk is in play people actually throw out their brains just get some virtual upvotes. Or just make incredibly stupid jokes.

SpaceX is US military contractor with very high security clearance. Starlink is literally used in war against nation state attackers.
I found dive super useful for understanding how docker images work, and how to write efficient dockerfiles. Reading the docs is one thing, but making a change to the dockerfile and then seeing how it has affected the resulting layer structure is what really made me get it.
> That is the usual mentality in FOSS circles

I don't know what this means.

> "Windows PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, macOS, iOS, Android, ARKit, ARCore, OpenXR, SteamVR, Oculus, Linux, and SteamDeck."

Yes, I understand backends. Why isn't a new target for graphics that supports some of those backends at least some of that effort reduced?
> I used twilio for years until in August of 2023 they started blocking all my text messages,

New telco industry texting requirements came into play. In short, US biz are required to register with The Campaign Registry and pay regular fees if they want to do any (as in 1+) software text comms.

It can be onerous for not-large biz. Twillo took point early-on (inserting themselves into the administration, IIRC) and Twillo then got a lot of heat from their users - even tho the requirements originated from the telcos.
It probably survived because it hit soft ground and not like granite or asphalt.
Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar: Part 1 [video]
New GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super
This also applies to self defense. If someone has targeted you, the odds of you beating them in a fight is different than the odds you can take on a random person, or a random thief even
PS4/XBox One: Unplayable

PS5/Series X: playable, lots of crashes and bugs

PC: playable, some crashes, lots of bugs
Neither of the two are (or were) simply "Marxist" though. The USSR under Stalin was Stalinist and otherwise Marxist-Leninist at best. China was Maoist and is now more recently Dengist. These ideologies all claim to build on Marx to various degrees (as does Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh Thought for that matter) but calling them Marxist is a stretch. I'm explicitly referring to the Bolsheviks to make a general point about vanguardism which all of these ideologies are built on.

I also explicitly said that the USSR and China are/were aspirationally communist, i.e. their stated intent was to build communism. This is why most of the Eastern Block described their various forms of authoritarianism as "actually existing socialism" or "real socialism" and dismissed anyone criticising them as "utopian", i.e. demanding the impossible. They never claimed to have succeeded at building communism - in fact they mostly argued that the only way to achieve communism would be a universal global transition and this was the motivation behind co-opting foreign communist movements and bringing them in line.

Communism as used by Marx is a class-less, state-less society. Anarchists extend this definition to the abolishment of all power hierarchies (with class and the state just being two examples). Lenin, Mao, etc did not fundamentally change the meaning of "communism", they just argued that it's the (perhaps impossible) end goal and therefore justifies the means.

If you want to use a term to describe the actual rather than aspirational ideology of the USSR and China, the term is "state capitalist", i.e. the state (or party) takes over the role of the owning class. Under these states, the state (or party) holds control and governance over all private property. In the USSR this was mostly implemented as the command economy, under Dengism this also makes use of "special economic zones" were individuals are allowed to act as private property owners as under capitalism but the state is always at liberty to revoke their ownership and reintegrate this property under state control.

Orwell was an anarchist and a supporter of the Spanish anarchists during the Civil War. The USSR deliberately prioritized ideological alignment over defeating the fascists and explicitly turned on the Spanish anarchists. This is one of the most important factors in his resentment towards the USSR and similar "communist" systems. In this context the nuances of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism and other forms of authoritarianism and vanguardism don't really matter.
Quite possibly. But I suspect the full benefits are pretty hard to assess from our armchairs.

I imagine there's a fair amount of useful technology that got developed along the way, and a bunch of global cultural value (and US soft power) over several decades derived from having putting a person on the moon.
Cynically, my initial reaction is to be more worried about the US economy than I was an hour ago.
Right, as in: to what condition and/or to what degree.
Right: unlike dying, if someone sits in traffic more, they're able to change their situation and seek alternatives. It's not like increasing traffic in the short term is something reasonable to extrapolate to all drivers for the rest of their lives. More likely, traffic increases lead to either (or both) of infrastructure changes or lifestyle changes.
I wonder if a smart phone would actually behave differently due to its shape. As kids we loved to throw little paper rectangles because they fall by spinning around the long axis (try it!). Smartphones being rectangles, I could see it auto-rotate like this and slow down further.
> What kind of mythical quality is you imagine required to add examples to documentation???

I can see that you have no respect for the difficulty of writing good documentation.
I watched a documentary years ago about jellyfish invading Japan. Basically, the jellyfish population was exploding because the fish didn't exist to eat the baby jellyfish and keep them under control. The Japanese fishermen were furious that they kept catching jellyfish, rather than the fish that they wanted. They were the cause of their own suffering. Sounds like things haven't changed...

I hesitate to think that Japan could do something about it though. If they stopped over-fishing, that would just attract Chinese fishermen who would fill the gaps. Just can't win without global cooperation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

Passenger pigeons were hunted by Native Americans, but hunting intensified after the
arrival of Europeans, particularly in the 19th century. Pigeon meat was commercialized
as cheap food, resulting in hunting on a massive scale for many decades. There were
several other factors contributing to the decline and subsequent extinction of the
species, including shrinking of the large breeding populations necessary for
preservation of the species and widespread deforestation, which destroyed its habitat.
A slow decline between about 1800 and 1870 was followed by a rapid decline between 1870
and 1890. In 1900, the last confirmed wild bird was shot in southern Ohio.

So too shall go the tuna. The size of a single tuna is already 50% to 70% smaller than normal. Soon their populations will go into freefall once there's not enough mature ones to spawn. The fishing will continue until there's no more. Even if legal limits are imposed, fishing will just continue illegally as it already does today.
Awesome product!
Best wishes to the team <3
> Also a good reminder that it's a very good idea to have the screen lock after a set time — even if it's long.

It's wild to me especially with how important the device itself and email the device has access to can be that someone in 2024 did not have a screen lock enabled.
Because it’s against ToS of those services
> Can’t get so fat and unhealthy.

Nah you can eat just as bad vegan food. Most vegan burgers are just fat patties much worse than those made of lean beef.

As with any type of food it depends on the choices you make within the class and the amount of it.

I think the reason vegans and vegetarians are healthier is mainly because they are more conscious of what they're eating in the first place.

And depending on where you are it can take a lot of effort so it rules out "comfort food" people. I'm not sure about the US but here in Spain it's actually quite difficult to be vegetarian, there's not many local restaurants that serve veg options. More so when it comes to touristy places but still.. In Holland in comparison the supermarkets and restaurants are full of them.

> We shouldn’t destroy the oceans.

Totally agreed here.
I had the "pleasure" working for Twilio for over 4 years. I cannot tell how much this showed me how you can fake it til you make it in SF.

Twilio tried to expand into Europe and failed miserably. Customers (especially German ones) wanted exact locations of data, exact routes of packet transportation, wanted features Twilio promised on Slides but never delivered.

I was part of at least 4 customer meetings (the biggest in Europe) where the clients just called Senior levels in and told them off.

Twilio was great when it just handled voice and text messaging. It never grew substantially, it never delivered features customers were asking for years. Messy code base, hired product owners with no clue what they should actually build.

Jeff was famous for over-promising and under-delivering. 1 year into my Twilio career, it was clear that the company would fail hard. Colleagues and I had bets on when Jeff will be fired or the company sold. Well, the last few months have been telling.

A sad story, since they had a great core product, really smart people, great people working there. But especially through the pandemic, they grew an insane amount without actually building anything of substance.
> There is no point to checking if the file exists. None. Ever![1]

> There is never a case where this is useful.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes. What about the use case when you change behavior when a sentinel file exists and don't care about the contents? ;) e.g. touch firstrun

It can also be useful if there's a whole bunch of prerequisites you're going to check before doing a bunch of work; yes, opening the descriptor and keeping it around might be nicer, but...

Also, what about if you want to not overwrite existing output if it exists? O_CREAT|O_EXCL could be better (and important to use if the overwrite check has security implications)... though that doesn't exist in fopen(3) and you'd need to use fdopen which is inconvenient and risky in its own ways.
Are you actually suggesting we should have surgeons unmask in an operating theatre and see if the rate of post-op infections go up? I'd like to see that get through an IRB. This is the same mentality that says every current vaccination should be compared against saline placebo.
I suspect that in 50 years, few people will be eating any seafood that isn't cultivated (aquaculture). Not out of choice, and not because of changing cultural values (it is tasty, after all). But because there's just none left. Saw a headline on reddit the other day, $800,000 for a single bluefin tuna. Granted, it was large (over 500 lbs), but you don't hold auctions with winning bids approaching a million dollars on a single fish when they're still in easy supply.

I had assumed that this article would be talking about bluefin, was slightly surprised. It's kind of screwed up, if you ask me.

Not a fan of sushi, and I guess I didn't know what a poke ball, but it's not just the fish favored by Japanese cuisine. I don't even know when the last time I would've eaten real cod at Long John's... in the 1980's as a kid? Now it's all something like Alaskan pollock or whatever. Gulf coast shrimp, shellfish off the east coast, very little of it seems to be in good status.
I don't think connectionism is restricted to acyclic graphs. Or even graphs in general. But you're right that the connectionism as an approach is more abstract than just simulating neuron behavior.
> Actually we did from the decades surgeons wore masks to prevent the spread of airborne diseases.

I remember asking my dad (who was a doctor who performed surgeries - mostly c-sections and appendectomies - often) about masks, and his answer in the early 80s was interesting:

“It’s mostly to prevent me from getting spit into open wounds and incisions when I'm talking or I have to sneeze or cough. Bacteria is a real problem, and the mask stops that.”

I never really thought much of that until recently.
September of 2022, Feb 2023, and December 2023. So no, kinda, and no.
We'll probably just figure out a way to switch to farming these fish or something very similar to them once we finish destroying the wild ones in the ocean.
I second this 100%.

Society overall is in a level of denial towards the very negative impact of cattle farming on the planet like it was in the 50s towards tobacco.

People will bitch about a cigarette being smoked 10 meters from them, but will shove sausages and stakes down their throats every other day pretending it doesn't have a gigantic cost in terms of earth's resources or the many studies pointing about how unhealthy it is.

Mind you, I don't advocate for people to cut off meat entirely, I myself have no intention to do so, but if we globally halved this crazy meat culture the impact on the planet would be huge.

We eat unhealthy and we're killing the planet while pretending to be green with Tesla SUVs. We're doomed to keep making this planet worse.
That's not OP's point and you know it.
More importantly the machine is usually allowed to do less than the human. Otherwise it would become an easier avenue for abuse. Whenever you can't do something just build a machine to do it, and the machine's capabilities are ever expanding.

Maybe the starting point for legislating "machines" should be to take human capability as a baseline, make some humans eventually accountable, and go from there. If your machine is learning truly like a human (takes decades to learn then output results, forgets things, only one in a thousand can output something useful at the end of the learning process, etc.) and the "owners" take full accountability for what it does then why not like a human?

But this reminds me of an old joke. A man comes into an inn and asks how much for a thimble of water. The inn keeper says a thimble is free. So he proceeds to ask for 1000 thimbles.
I'm not saying ChatGPT is sentient, I'm saying that when it's put in a body and learns in a RL environment (with live update) it will be; it'll essentially be indistinguishable from a human. In which case it'll seem absurd for it to be illegal for it to read copyright material without permission, but that's what the law would be if NYT gets their way.
Developers have been able to use it in workshops AFAIK.
But it is ultimately what will result in a CEO departure.
I never said the scientific method is flawed. Your understanding of it, however, seems to be profoundly deficient, if you think the scientific method says "the only thing that constitutes evidence of any sort is something that has been specifically verified by experiment."
These data center targeted GPUs can only output that many tokens per second for large batches. These tokens are shared between hundreds or even thousands of users concurrently accessing the same server.

That’s why despite these GPUs deliver very high throughput in tokens/second, responses do not appear instantly, and individual users observe non-trivial latency.

Another interesting consequence, running these ML models with batch size = 1 (when running on end-user computers or phones) is practically guaranteed to bottleneck on memory. Computation performance or tensor cores are irrelevant for the use case, the only number which matters is memory bandwidth.

For example, I’ve tested my Mistral implementation on desktop with nVidia 1080Ti versus laptop with Radeon Vega 7 inside Ryzen 5 5600U. The performance difference between them is close to 10x, because memory: 484 GB/second for GDDR5X in the desktop versus 50 GB/second for dual-channel DDR4-3200 in the laptop. This is despite theoretical compute performance only differs by the factor of 6.6, the numbers are 10.6 versus 1.6 TFlops.
There are over a billion people that don't eat meat by choice on the planet and another billion plus that have low access to animal protein.

We can attempt to fix it before ecosystems collapse, if we do it afterwards, the only meat you will be eating will be worms.
Yet another reason why a non-profit and related corporations shouldn't have such a CEO: The network isn't unidirectional.
The term is spreading, unfortunately.
> But there's no demonstrated huge existing demand for an extremely high-end VR headset. It's unlikely that a product nobody asked for costing $3,500 is going to give the technology mass market appeal or kick off widespread adoption.

Your reply doesn’t disagree with what I wrote. At all.

At the end of the day, the $3,500 price tag is also a signal as to Apple’s thesis about how well the product might do on the marketplace. Their thesis can mean a bunch of things:

1. they think the device will appeal to a niche set of professional customers that have bought or have the ability to buy products in this price range e.g. customers of the high-priced $5,000 Pro XDR Display I mentioned. Their plan might be to grow the applications that Vision Pros can be used for, which will lead to increased demand among pro users which will in turn grow the revenue from this niche segment.

2. they don’t think there’s mass market appeal to justify selling Vision Pro units at a lower price (or at a loss like other companies have done by deploying penetration pricing e.g. Meta) as you observed. Again, their plan might be to grow the applications that Vision Pro can be used for leading to increased demand. The shiny new spatial computing tech that makes the Vision Pro exciting could slowly make it’s way into other products in their line up (or they could introduce a less capable edition at a lower price tag).

E.g. Spatial computing could eventually make it’s way into the next-generation Pro XDR Display monitors used in the office. Apple could also expand their presence in the home with a fresh take on home projectors in-fused with spatial computing, to complement their Apple TV product.
I will never for the life of me understand why people insist on a progressive tax structure, not only is it unfair, but it disincentivizes seeking higher wages and incentivizes seeking tax-optimization structures.

A flat tax with a tax-free base seems like the fairest, simplest, and most effective way of implementing a tax system (Estonia has been an extremely pleasant experience so far). I am aware this is also a "progressive" tax of sorts, but a much saner one.

In fact, we all seem to agree that taxes work as a disincentive and we levy tax on the stuff we want people to do less of, but when it comes to wages and business we close our eyes and flail blindly saying "WE NEED MORE TAXES".