skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Ireland you need to have held your provisional license for at least six months and done 12 lessons with a certified instructor before they allow you to take the test.
Yet, when I'm browsing Facebook, I frequently encouter an issue where the brower tab process starts allocating 5% or more of resident memory (on a 16 GB memory machine). On the other hand, my usenet client worked just fine on my computer with 16 MB of memory at the time without slowing the compter to a crawl due to excessive memory usage.
Seems pretty relevant to me, based on the fact that transistors in switching mode are so superior to other computing technologies (see sibling comment for explanation of why) that all computers in recent decades are using it exclusively. And for those, paper's conclusions are valid.

A paper about high efficiency tri-level logic cell which is cheap and energy-efficient would be very interesting but sadly I don't think this is possible, at least I haven't seen one nor even have a clue about how one would go about making one. And I have been watching this area with interest.
I created a solver using a SAT/SMT solver that guesses a solution that is consistent with all the previous guesses and their corresponding feedback. It always returns a solution in a small number of guesses. I don’t think it is the optimal solving algorithm but it was a fun exercise!
See it’s weird when somebody is upset when corporation steals and uses their code I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some programmers are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more programmers aren’t being amazed that their entire codebase is now “canon”
I'm not sure that this by itself would help. The root issue is the double-edged sword of liquidity. If you have the ability to "take the money and run", it creates a strong incentive to do things which increase the amount of money you can take now, and then offload the consequences onto problems that will surface long after you have run. Cash is actually worse than stock, because you literally get the money now and have no incentive and no mechanism to see it increase in value later. Much of the reason for stock-based compensation is to align incentives between the executive and shareholders so that their time horizon at least encompasses their vesting period.

To really fix the problem, you need to destroy liquidity for decision-makers. Basically make it unprofitable to switch companies or retire, so that a.) they are forced to stay with the company and live with the consequences of their decisions and b.) they don't gain anything from short-term revenue bumps anyway. This was sorta the system that was in place in the 1950s & 1960s, where the top marginal tax rate was 90% so the government took all your money above a certain max anyway, and as a result companies invested in seniority-based perks like more vacation time, private jet use, employer-funded health insurance, etc. But this...destroys liquidity, which makes the companies and economic system less resilient to outside changes. This is what happened to U.S. industry in the 1970s, when they found they were uncompetitive with new Japanese firms, or to the housing market today, where we've built a system that offered great suburban living to Boomers but now can't adapt to the incoming Millennial population.
You said:

> I don’t personally know why I should be forced to accept or approve that kind of way of money making.

but if there's no harm, and porn is consensual, all is good - right?

> Id say if someone can make porn and publish it they can surely do something else with that “creative” energy.

why should they if it, by your metric, is doing no harm?
We have three Dunes at this point, suggesting the attention may be shifted somewhere else. Hyperion, anyone? Or perhaps some Vernor Vinge?

You could also obvious film Barrayar space opera. So surprising why it was never done. It's so now it makes contemporarity feel like fake.
Interesting. I expected Hawaii to skew high in price (it does), as does much of the northeast. But why are prices so high in Arizona?
We really need to get away from the notion that the way LLMs are and will always be trained is by feeding them ‘the entire internet’

That’s not how existing LLMs have been trained, and the goal of their training wasn’t to have them memorize what was on the internet. The goal was to give them a large corpus of human writing, for which datasets like common crawl were a good start point.

Grabbing random content and shoving it into your training set is a cheap way to increase the dataset size but as increasingly the pool of internet content gets polluted with non-human-originated (LLM-generated) writing, and stuff like that that is intended to screw with LLM training, the validity of ‘just grab as much internet content as you like’ as a way to get training data looks increasingly less valuable.

LLM training data doesn't have to be gathered googlebot crawler style, with the assumption that if it’s online it should be in the dataset.
How do you quantify talent?
Looking at the SF Bay Area, Alameda and Contra Costa counties look to be significantly cheaper (~15%) than surrounding counties.

Anyone know if this has roots in specific tax rate differences or other city/county rules?
Listening with LLM
I'm actually surprised Hawaii isn't the most expensive, considering all mcdonalds are pretty much identical other than supply shipping costs
A clever title to serve as a starting point for an insightful post, but he's not actually disagreeing with what Pinker wrote, and he did not actually change his opinion that much recently. The conclusion is as I understand it is that he feels academics should be free to have political opinions and it's good to be involved in trying to affect change, but they should not be expected to have public opinions on every hot topic and especially align them with those of the government, mass media or various think tanks.
I find it a bit worrying how science-illiterate the some "tech" reporters appear to be (calling Nickel-63 "63 nuclear isotopes").

Also 50 Ci is an awful lot of activity to produce 100 µW. Being anywhere near a hypothetical 1W version would be quite scary.
For a contrary point of view, I don’t think the Dragon book actually holds up that well.

All of the front-end parsing stuff is good, but heavily biased toward LALR parsing, which is rarely used in production compilers these days because it’s really hard to get good error messaging. There’s also a lot of tooling that can help these days.

But where it really falls down is the backend part. Parsing is just not where you’ll spend most of your time. Once you parse you usually need to translate the parse tree (often an AST but not always) into some other representation.

I found the Appel books (Modern Compiler Implementation in <language>) to be much better at that part. I still own a Dragon book (an older one), but tend to refer to my Appel book a lot more when working on compiler-y things.
Another annoying side effect of its "success" is founders thinking and being treating like they are some internet visionaries that can weigh in on any new trend or whatever, when they just got lucky making a run-of-the-mill IM chat app.
There's no fixing the 737 MAX because it was engineered and manufactured in a business culture incompatible with excellence and safety. The problem is aircraft are capital assets are compelled to quickly reenter service for economic reasons with a few fixes around the periphery when thorough and proper inspection and retrofitting more involved than a multiyear maintenance check.
I worked in quite a few sensible firms. A salesperson not selling anything for 3 months was never heard of because they would have been fired long before that. A 3 month ramp doesn't mean produce zero results. In case anyone is wondering, results for a salesperson means selling things.

That she goes on to try and rub their noses in her shortcomings tells me all I need to know who was at fault here.

Q4 is a dead time of year? I swear some of you have never had jobs.
There seems to be a big area centered in Arizona where they're more expensive. There's seemingly no reason for it.
A few comments in this thread, including yours, have made me wonder: are you a fan of Dune and how Lynch adapted it, or are you a fan of Lynch's Dune?

Because the qualities you're describing sound very much like other Lynch films but not like Herbert's Dune.
Not a BMW driver but I never keep my blinker fluid topped up. In California, turn signals just telegraph your intent to make a move, giving other drivers valuable milliseconds to block your approach. The element of surprise is crucial to an offensive driving regimen.
In principle, yes. In practice, I have never been able to make it work, across multiple attempts on both Linux and Windows.

It archives. A few hundred URLs. At least some of the archival methods work, some fail a lot.

And then it always stops. I‘ve never seen it archive a few thousand URLs, despite having it run for several days.

Zero error message, it just stops and seemingly idles,
So far, it’s always been the other way round though.
Yes, and this has its limits. Many true experts in their fields would struggle to explain their field simply. I like to think I'm an expert in my work, but how many times have I explained to my wife what I do in simple terms, and she still has no idea what I do?

Complex ideas often get distorted or lost in simple explanations.
I wouldn't call ANYONE disrespecting terms and conditions they may have agreed to a sociopath. Not everything in a contract is enforceable just because it's written there, whether or not both parties signed it. And unless it's spewing out copyrighted materials "verbatim" there is an argument to be made that the LLM learned to talk from an open source and inserted knowledge from a copyrighted one.

However this turns out for private AI, I hope at the very least it can be considered fair use. Monetized LLMs can be forced to pay up or follow terms but individuals should be able to pool together and create open source models. I'm not saying I have the exact legal arguments for why this would work but LLMs in their current forms need to exist.
They wanted to trade on the hyper selective attention and binding new and old very tightly together, but this thing has double edge, everyone knows it, they must eat what they cooked! They wanted the good ignoring the bad in their deliberate half blindness.
And a culture that doesn't prioritize safety enough. At least Boeing isn't doing for the lol's.
I agree in principle, but the only thing that keeps China from invading Taiwan is the ability of Taiwan to defend itself (with international help). Explicit US (or broader world) recognition of the ROC doesn't mean China wouldn't invade anyway. Hell even if China would officially recognize the ROC as legitimate, that wouldn't mean they wouldn't invade in the future (they have no problem ignoring past treaties when it suits their interests). This is all just a political game by China to present a narrative that bends reality to pretend they're not invading and taking over a country that neither threatens them or wants to be ruled by them. So while I agree with you it's pretty disgraceful of the US and other countries to advantage themselves through trade and cooperation with Taiwan without officially recognizing their sovereignty, I still think the most important would be if more countries at least supported them in their defense against Chinese aggression.
Isn't the point here the potential risk? By definition, nobody can point to a textbook instantiation of the risk because it hasn't happened yet, and the question is whether and when it might in the future.

It strikes me as similar logic to "you're saying I might get injured if I use this chainsaw without protective equipment? Well, show me the injury then!"
Inaction/no decision is a decision too, although that idea is often a surprisingly hard sell in the media.
No, you’re wrong, luck isn’t helped by anything. It’s just luck. You can change all the opportunities you want but if you have bad luck you have bad luck if you have good luck you have good luck.

Other words, the odds don’t care about your luck.
And I got brain cancer 2 years ago.
Hamas is also on the wrong side of international law. Bombing, kidnapping, raping and murdering civilians is not ok no matter how angry you are. And they aren’t just a rogue terrorist cell. They’re the elected government of Palestine.

Russia can just pull out of Ukraine and everyone will chill out. But Israel can’t ignore Hamas after the terrorist act in October. And if they pull out of their illegal settlements in response to a terrorist act, it will embolden the next strike against their civilians.

As far as I can tell, it’s an impossible situation for everyone. If you truly think there are simple answers in Gaza, how would you de-escalate the conflict at this point?
I'm not actually present in Reddit and outside my Tweeter feed. It would be very helpful if you do that, thank you!
>I'm honestly curious how CloudFlare will handle reference checks for these people, given they are calling these performance based dismissals. Will they say they are "not eligible for rehire" (the HR way of saying they were terminated for cause)? If so, I hope they get sued, as that can tank a person's entire career trajectory.

1. If you were fired for "performance" reasons, why would you want to use that as a reference?

2. IANAL, but regardless of whether "not eligible for rehire" will "tank a person's entire career trajectory", truth is a valid defense against defamation. If Cloudflare indeed is not going to rehire them, they're fairly safe from lawsuits.
I’ll note that MetaGer has been operating since 1997.
>disability insurance

I think you meant unemployment insurance?
I watched one on Youtube. Try Dune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux [Spice Diver Fan Edit]. Let me know how you like it.
I recently got to rewatch the first LOTR film in theaters, after not having seen it for maybe 8 years.

I was stunned at how well done it was visually, and how well handled the tension and pacing are throughout the whole thing. It was just an impeccable cinematic experience.
> The Standard Model of particle physics governs literally all of existence, minus gravity, and it can fit on a single page [1]. Gravity is another few equations that can also squeeze onto that same page. This is a set of fairly simple formulae compared to the unbelievable complexity of existence.

Can this model explain why we have yet another war in the middle east (which is part of existence), and also why education in certain fields seems to decrease one's curiosity in the cause of such events and whether they can be reduced or eliminated?

Maybe gravity isn't the only thing missing from the model... If there was something else missing, is there anything contained within the model that would allow one to detect such a situation, or at least think about the possibility?
Is this Mossad or not-Mossad?
Is a 0.5% layoff important?
Git Developers Discuss the Possibility of Beginning to Use Rust Code
Elixir opentelemetry works quite well with Tempo. Tempo does the metric generation [1] and writes it to Prometheus. Tempo also does Service Graphs which works great with context propagation [2].

Btw, metric generation is not enabled in Tempo by default.

# tempo.yml
overrides:
defaults:
metrics_generator:
processors: [service-graphs, span-metrics]

# Prometheus
--web.enable-remote-write-receiver

# Grafana.yml
[feature_toggles]
enable = tempoSearch tempoBackendSearch traceToMetrics

[1] https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/metrics-generator/
[2] https://hexdocs.pm/opentelemetry_process_propagator/Opentele...
That'll probably be useful for niche applications but not general public smartphones because phones last for a few years at most, this would carry disposal costs, and risk of pollution would probably be too high (Nickel-63 has a half-life of 100 years so while it does decay into copper it takes time...).
Just to be clear, they did walk us through the process of solving the kinds of problems that would be on the final exam. But the starting point was always a set of equations that were simply given as gospel with no motivation nor justification nor hint as to how they were arrived at. It drove me nuts.

You can see this happening today. My favorite contemporary example is elliptic curves, which are a hot topic. Most introductory materials on elliptic curves will tell you that an elliptic curve is defined by an equation of the form: y^2 = x^3 + ax + b. Where did that come from? Why is there no x^2 term? How did anyone ever figure out that this particular equation would be good for cryptography? What other polynomial equations might be good for cryptography?

And then one day you learn about Montgomery curves, which do have an x^2 term but no x^0 term. So was the whole x^3 + ax + b thing a lie from the beginning? What about a complete cubic equation with all terms included? Is that an elliptic curve? Is it useful for cryptography?

Maybe my brain is just wired differently from most people, but those kinds of questions just pop up naturally for me, but I hardly ever see them either asked or answered. And this is true in every technical field I have ever studied, and I've had a very long and diverse career.
If only OS vendors like apple thought the same and actually updated the cli tooling
Louis Pasteur would disagree: "Chance favours the prepared mind"
Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time
How to tell the author is completely clueless wrt nuclear physics:

What the company is apparently saying:

"To create the radioactive battery, Betavolt's scientist used nickel-63, which is a radiactive element, as the energy source... "

The author describing this in his own words:

"The compact battery uses 63 nuclear isotopes to generate..."
"
Yeah, a creator who gets money from the very entity he complains about.

I unsubscribed from his channel the very day I saw that video. As a YT premium subscriber, I'll support creators who have at least some self honesty

For goodness sake, YT isn't close to perfect, but it's leagues ahead of the craptastic TikTok.
As I understand it from my time there, one franchisee owns all of them and they set the price.
I agree it's awesome. There was a strangle loop talk on the economics of creating a programming language; Kotlin is really the first of its kind being supported by an editor licensing program.

I personally think Jetbrains getting acquired would be a nightmare. JB is very responsive and accessible when you have an issue with their libraries (Of which I've found many). Google is an impenetrable super-corp and they already endorse Kotlin heavily for Android development.

What's more in typical Google fashion, this would inevitably spell the death of Compose Multiplatform UI or Flutter when a higher-up learned they were paying for two competing solutions. Flutter has more users, so Compose would join the graveyard.

Best I can tell no one really uses Swift for anything other than desktop/ios apps. Kotlin is only gaining traction in industry on the backend. I don't really know how relevant Tiobe indices are, but I would expect Kotlin to overtake Swift in a year or two.
Sounds like you want to impose your beliefs on others through threats of ruining lives and careers via the prison system... seems hypocritical to your otherwise live and let live (fuck and let fuck?) position.
Also, the most expensive McDonald's is actually connected to a gas station, which might be part of the high price. It's actually one of two on opposite sides of the highway (for travelers in either direction). The westbound side is more expensive and the eastbound side is cheaper. Wild!
The thousands of civilians murdered in Gaza, the people getting killed in the West Bank haven't "plotted" anything. Starving people is a war crime, not war. Nobody, literally nobody ever at any point in this debtate, is talking about how Israel is treating Hamas. You have as much as an argument as Putin saying he just wanted to denazify the Ukraine.
> You should call me out on it.

Well, I was using thought experiments to avoid calling you out, but if you want me to be forthright, I can do that. I don't want to get into an argument though, honestly I don't even want to get into a debate, so I'm gunnuh say my piece and you can take it or leave it. I just don't have the energy to get into a debate. (Not to say you aren't free to respond however you see fit, I just probably won't respond if you defend your position.)

I do think you are taking a position which is harmful. For more reasons than I can get into in an HN comment, but the highlights are, you're exaggerating the potential for harm; you're projecting flat narratives in your head onto real people and using that to justify removing their bodily autonomy (eg, not everyone makes porn because they're desperate - some people are exhibitionists [no, I don't understand why either], some people enjoy that kind of work, some people do it for reasons neither of us have imagined); generally you're trying to impose your moral standards on to others.
Yes, it’s nice to see features flowing from JavaScript -> Java like tagged template literals, now JavaScript is caught up on things like “class”.
> The problem with all lifters is though that even a trivial "add rax, 1" generated a lot of IL code (probably 50-100 lines in LLVM IL)

Why is this a problem? The addition is one LLVM-IR instruction (add), followed by flag computation (maybe 10-20 instrs). Dead code elimination will afterwards quickly remove unused instructions (e.g., unused flags).

> register1 += 1

I don't see how this could be beneficial, especially on x86 where you can have "mov rax, rdx; add rax, 1" and "lea rax, [rdx + 1]", which do mostly the same (the former clobbers flags). SSA removes registers and shows the semantic operations clearly.
Takeoff/landing cycles, actually. Cruising at high altitude is much less rough on the airframe (including windows) than the strains that happen when changing altitude.
I am certain that it is because I have a large address book and one or more cards exposed a bug. I expect that people with simpler address books (almost all users) never saw this.

I reported it to Apple and never heard anything back, as expected.

If you google, you will find others reporting the same misbehavior.
Maybe in your field, but in over 40 years of work in a pretty wide variety of technical fields I have never seen a single person write an equation on a board as part of doing actual work.
It took 50 years for people to realize fat is healthy and sugar loaded bread and grains is bad for you. Because of "science".

iPhones straddling your genitalia is considered "safe"' today. Can't wait to hear from science towards the end of the century.
I always assumed everyone assumed everything was learnable. Realizing this (i.e., that being everyone's default belief) might not be the case is kind of blowing my mind a little right now.
It is coming (again) thanks to one of the largest single market on the planet making replacable batteries in portable electronics a requirement by 2027 (in 3 years time) [0].

I find it highly unlikely that there will be double production of devices for the EU market on one hand and the rest of the world on the other (and the biggest producers are not going to be pulling out of the market for obvious reasons).

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
That degenerate asshole was a thin avatar of an author who twice decided it would be wise to introduce a child character & immediately talk about them having sex with another character by way of time-travel-shenanigans
Loved them both.

Also a huge Lynch fan!