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It's every hour after the "evaluation period" ends, so for the current image it's after February 13th.
> Proof: if it was false, you could do what GPT4 does with 10 param model and a good prompt.

This is oh so very much a strawman. There is rapid progress in AI. For my domains, the first useful model (without finetuning or additional training) was GPT3, which was released in 2020, and had 175B parameters.

We've had three years of optimization on the models, as well as a lot of progress on how to use them. That means we need fewer parameters today than we did in 2020. That doesn't imply there isn't a hard lower bound somewhere. We just don't know where or what it is.

My expectation is we'll continue to do better and better until, where e.g. a 2030 1B parameter model will be competitive with a 2020 200B parameter model, and a 2030 200B parameter model will be much better than either. After some amount of progress, we'll hit it (or more accurately, asymptotically converge to it).

I don't use local LLMs for coding, but for things related to text (it is a large LANGUAGE model, after all). For that, 7B parameter models became adequate sometime in 2023. For reference, in 2020, they were complete nonsense. You'd get cycles of repeating text, or just lose coherence after a sentence or two.

With my setup, local models aren't anywhere close to fast enough for real-time use. For coding, I need real-time use. It wouldn't surprise me if that domain needed more parameters, just based on what I've seen, but I could be proven wrong. If you buy me an H100, I can experiment with it too. As a footnote, many LARGE models work horribly for coding too; OpenAI did a very good job with GPT there (and I haven't used it enough to know, but I've heard Google did too from people who've used Bard).
He was right, MANY people put in way less than 40 hours of what he would have considered actual work. Scrum Masters, DEI Officers, Management Consultants are not real jobs for the most part. They are mostly in meetings saying vague buzzwords.
I wish we could prohibit most forms of advertising. I find them quite ableist, and thus discriminatory.
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I agree, but on the other hand Switzerland is on another level when it comes to infrastructure compared to almost any other European country, is not even fair (I've not been to Netherlands nor to the Nordic countries, maybe they come close to that).
One thing I don't understand is how Twitch solved this problem by (presumably) embedding the ads in the content stream itself. Is this not possible for YT? Do they not have the technical knowledge to do this?

It seems like a lazy effort and one they can spin into advocating for legislation against ad-blockers. There is an argument from some that ad-blockers are piracy tools which is asinine but could easily be sold to older legislators.
I couldn't care less if all of Youtube ceased to exist tomorrow.

I think it would be a net gain for the world as people would flock to better platforms with less censorship.
Database actual?

The buffering analogy doesn’t really work tho, because all three sources (db file, wal being flushed, and wal being written to) are read sources.
It just says the "minimax" solution for the person who chooses the pattern is to pick randomly from patterns with more than one color.
All advertising is spam.
It's also mildly irritating that people still don't understand that wealth is not 0 sum.
> This is the way to do things, and if you don't do it entirely this way, you're not extreme programming!

Which is fine. They defined a set of practices, called it XP, and if you don't do these, you're not doing XP.
> We stopped building highways, and switched from Moses' model of building enough roads to the "urbanist" model. Where we put in transit that makes it easy to go to the downtown ONLY.

I don't think we've switched out of the Moses model yet, or we only did in the last twenty years or so—the urbanist model is still idealistic in most cities. And frankly the urbanist model probably still won't be sufficient without public housing—I'm guessing a popular push for that is still about 10-20 years out.

Obviously, prioritizing driving around a city isn't going to do jack-shit for anyone who isn't trying to prioritize driving around a city. Public transit works well enough for most folks!
This is why I am extra vigilant, pendantic and strict when writing or reviewing code that handles exception and error paths. More than happy-path code, I want this to be simple, rediculously easy and very loosely coupled. No inheritance, no abstractions, very shallow dependency trees and so on.

Just once too often did a bug in exception handling cause a system to go down - It is often not or hardly covered in tests (Its exceptional after all) and very unpredictable: more than elsewhere do exceptions have the tendency to arise where you never expected them (it's in the definition, really).
So the issue of open source becomes : who creates the open source product in the first place?

The fact that open source exists today is because there are charitable people out there that are contributing it for free (or effectively free). Some business models employ open source as a marketing strategy for their paid parts, which is inevitably what you really would need (and thus have the "licensing, feature matrices, or recurring billing" problem).

In the end, the pirate's product is free because they can make it free for way less effort, at the cost of the original creator of that software. While it's arguable that the piratee does not really do harm, as they wouldn't have paid for said software anyway, it is the original creator of the software that borne the cost of its creation.
Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres
JSON support in postgres is superb but sometimes you really want decimal, date, and binary types, "carefree" UTF8 string handling (i.e. no escaping), and robust roundtrippability. So I made an extension for BSON.
Here's a page listing several more: https://text-to-diagram.com/
There's speculation that Microsoft have had a deal with Qualcomm that has prevented this to date [1], but that deal should hopefully be expiring soon.

[1]: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329311-report-windows-...
> It is remembered as both ingenious and bizarre

That's a winning combination for me!
No paywall: https://archive.is/O9XhT
When I worked for the Navy, we hosted a human-powered submarine race in one of the model basins where we normally tested new ship designs. Anyone could enter but it was mostly university engineering teams. It was great fun to see the homemade designs people came up with and built (and were willing to dive in!) - there some good ones but also some hilariously bad ones. A submarine that can be steered accurately under propulsion is harder to build than a lot of people realize. The most common failure arose from the assumption that a submarine will stay “upright,” forgetting that it can roll in the water (and will unless there is some control surface or ballast preventing it). Thankfully, it was a controlled environment with Navy divers on hand, so we didn’t lose anyone, but a few had to be pulled out.
I am sad for this guy that he has this horrible neurological disease. But it's also hard to ignore the irony that this will now prevent him from enjoying the thing he spent his life building at the expense (it would seem) of giving love and attention to his family.
I use Linux. You absolutely need to drop down to the command line at times. Upgrading my Kennel, or Graphics driver breaks something like 20% of the time for me.
Alternatively, you can also just bypass the compatibility checks
I just learned about the film in the recent book “Connecticut in the Movies” by Ileana Douglas. Burt Lancaster referred to The Swimmer as “Death of a Salesman in swim trunks”.
If Microsoft licensed Linux, they would have something like 2*128 SKUs to describe all the different versions
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>MS fired all testers and scrapped their testing hardware and now they are testing virtually in cloud

Do you have any sources for this? AFAIK, according to the LTT wan show when he was duiscussing his conversation with MS baout Windows sleep issues, he laerned MS still uses plenty of bare metal HW for testing, especailly notebooks and in no way got rid of it.
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Node operators will only run changes to bitcoin-core if they believe that they are improvements. Wall Street can pay to have changes made to the github repository, but they won't make it to my node unless I can see a clear necessity for them.

If ever changes get accepted by the majority of the network that makes bitcoin a weaker money, then a fork based on an earlier version will gradually grow to beat it.
>YouTube is one of the last driving treasures of the internet

From where I sit, YT looks like one of the worst inventions humanity has ever created.
I'd expect that "automatic disk and partition changes" have a rather high risk of severe data-loss.
There are user scripts that get around twitch ads, although you only get 480p video while the ad is running.
And after 20 years Agile has been subverted by faux-agile methods such as Scaled Agile Framework that unfortunately have a lot of traction in the industry.
> How do you think many people become billionaires?

Pareto Principle, offering some of the best market options on a planet with 8 billion people? Let's say I make a product that is 10% better than yours (maybe I burned more midnights engineering it, maybe I just had a radical trip on some DMT that gave me special insight, whatever). Let's say my product costs me $.90 to make, yours only costs $0.75 to make. We both sell at $1.00.....but 90% of the 8 billion people buy my obviously better product, and only 10% buy yours (maybe they hate something about me personally, or maybe my marketing simply didn't reach or convert them). I make $0.10 * (0.9 * 8B) = $720M. You make $0.25 * (0.1 * 8B) = $200M. I'm already over 3x richer than you, and ALMOST as close to billionaire as you are close to being impoverished ($0 net worth in this scenario). What part of my competition wasn't fair? What workers were mistreated?

THAT SAID.....I don't disagree that many wealthy families are scummy thieves with a sheen of respectability (like the Sacklers, for example).....just, I prefer that we not instantly reach for that excuse and dismiss the entire concept of extreme wealth accumulation as "well OBVIOUSLY they've got to have done something evil, there is no other explanation, so let's collectively punish their entire class" which is how most of these conversations conclude.
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What are these better platforms with less censorship that host an unlimited amount of content for free?
It's a statistical phenomenon. It's pareto inequality.

Check this video, specially the "trading game" simulation (about 5:24 into it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMBdRfbk6A
> However, if you use Chrome vs Safari, you will notice degraded battery life on Mac OS too.

Still way better than non-M chips.

I've done the runaround and used Safari, Orion, Chrome, Arc, and back to Firefox on my M1 MBP. Some are better than others, but the machine overall is still superior.
Billionaires like Warren Buffet (https://thehill.com/policy/finance/99096-warren-buffett-incr...) and others have argued to raise taxes on the wealthy - he and other supporters are anyways donating most of their wealth, not leave it as inheritance, so it doesn't make much of a difference to them personally, but having a rule that applies to all the other billionaires as well would obviously bring in much more funding than their own.
Yes, and it's ironic that there's an error in the error handling routine :D
You both can be right. It can be the best way for you, and it can also be utterly exhausting for them.

Personally, I'm not willing to get rid of _all_ my comfort zone to get something out the door more efficiently, where shareholders and C-levels get rich off my labor, and if I'm very lucky, I get to keep doing that.
I'm pretty sure TFA is “intentional” too. Isn't this the whole point of shebang?
Have you ever looked at the interface for buying ads on Google/Facebook/other? They don't use an algorithm to decide who to show ads to. The ad buyer decides who they want to show the ad to.
“For starters, VC-powered defense organizations are making their allegiance with Israel”

Oh, I see.
I reduced them to 0 by not using AWS. This simple trick lets you install and configure dedicated servers that work just fine. Most of your auto scaling needs can be solved using a CDN. But by the time you reach such needs you'd have hired competent engineers to properly architect things - it will be cheaper than using amazon anyway.
What's the windows development environment like? Have they excised the nightmare that is the windows registry yet?
> if you want to show what happened "since COVID hit us" this is indeed the fully correct choice.

It's not though. The stock market dropped 30% from Feb-March 2020, and then recovered it's Feb value by Aug 2020. The Feb-Aug "increase" is really a recovery.

One could certainly write about how the rich were not impacted nearly as much by the pandemic (and recovered faster) and many people have, but that's not the focus of this report.
In video #1, the railway company organizes an official event, with closed registration, memorabilia distribution and all, to celebrate the replacement of a departure time display in the Kawasaki station.

In video #2, an event is organized for the last trip of a specific train. The train itself is full of trainspotters and the platform is overflowing. People cry and scream.

Yes, there _is_ a scene over here but it's nowhere near the size and intensity of the Japanese scene.

#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poexzRiI_Bg

#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgfrZDGkg
I’m sure they have incredibly granular information about exactly where in a video most people spend their time watching, where they stop watching, where they pause, where they fast forward/rewind, and probably more. As a company which has first-party content, it would be shocking if they weren't collecting it.

Some porn sites (i.e. PornHub) make info about where people spend the most time watching available in the UI in the form of a small graph over the seek bar at the bottom of the video. Even though the adult entertainment and sex work industry has historically been a pioneer of new tech, I don’t think they’re alone in tracking that stuff.

And I’m not thrilled about any of that. I’d be upset if my podcast app started reporting more info. I don’t really care about the specific privacy implications of knowing which podcasts I listen to, but I do care about the loss of privacy in general, especially because some people might be potentially more affected than me.
When white collar work that can be made remote doesn't spread the wealth because AI makes it obsolete, regulation does. Wealthy countries tend to ban or limit activities at ever-smaller thresholds of risk and that gives lucrative sources of income to less-wealthy and restrictive countries. Recycling, manufacturing, training on privacy sensitive-corpses of data (healthcare data for diagnostics for example, or as we recently saw IP law attacks on Generative AI), fintech, moderation of social media content, etc. The problem with those is that over time the money becomes concentrated on a few major firms instead of spreading around.

That said, with AI, now anyone who has been doing major digital work in non-major markets has an ability to make creative or entrepreneurial projects at a blazing fast speed now. If there are consistent distribution channel inroads into wealthy markets, those entrepreneurs could make a lot. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, SEO, you name it will get even more competitive.
Sure, so a development process is perhaps a social construct (or rather, using the term scocai construct to describe a development process is not entirely incorrect).

However, the idea of a git branch exists independent of the manner a certain population agrees on its use. It doesn't cease to exist just because you haven't agreed on how to use it.
i’ve tried this with an android tablet and the lag is just unbearable have you noticed this? is it because my tablet ( samsung galaxy tab s6 lite) has usb c 2.0?
No escape capital has nothing to do with retirement.

Retirement is: you set aside as much as you think you need between the time you stop working and the time you die.

Escape capital is: the amount of money necessary so that interests >> what you consume
And power stays up while all of those are actively happening?
Only two monitors?

I've no problem with more than that. I don't know what hardware you're using, but that's atypical.
Flying a drone continuously would require a lot of batteries like this one - their peak current is very low. One could, conceivably, use it to charge higher-current sources such as a battery or supercapacitor, for short surges of activity, but continuously flying a drone is not one such use (unless the drone is a balloon and you don't really care much where the wind will carry it).
"think they have mastered it by default" - yeah I see this a lot. I think its ease of use lures people into a false sense of mastery.
Even a Venn diagram would be better than a periodic table.
This is hog wild. I guess it was inevitable given Unicode's design, but there's still󠁄󠁥󠁥󠁰󠁬󠁹󠀠󠁣󠁵󠁲󠁩󠁯󠁵󠁳󠀠󠁨󠁯󠁷󠀠󠁴󠁨󠁩󠁳󠀠󠁷󠁩󠁬󠁬󠀠󠁢󠁥󠀠󠁵󠁳󠁥󠁤 something skin-crawlingly bizarre to the idea that any innocuous text can contain an entire hidden layer.󠁉󠀠󠁧󠁵󠁥󠁳󠁳󠀠󠁵󠁮󠁩󠁣󠁯󠁤󠁥󠀠󠁤󠁩󠁳󠁰󠁬󠁡󠁹󠀠󠁳󠁥󠁴󠁴󠁩󠁮󠁧󠁳󠀠󠁡󠁲󠁥󠀠󠁧󠁯󠁩󠁮󠁧󠀠󠁴󠁯󠀠󠁨󠁡󠁶󠁥󠀠󠁴󠁯󠀠󠁣󠁡󠁴󠁣󠁨󠀠󠁵󠁰
At first it sounds completely strange to relocate the beavers with airplane and parachute. But this story reminds me again how little I know about the vast rural areas of other countries. In Germany we have no spot that can not be reached via car and foot in a day.

It's hard for me to imagine how big the rural Areas in America are. A plane is the most efficient transportation vehicle for those.
Can you add an rss feed for search results? If so I'll autopost to stacker.news
Scary but not scary enough to make you look like a doomsday-er.
Lost me at "to protect our democracies".
Does that make them deserve to also be your Lords? Because this is what is happening in practice.
Scrums biggest problem has always been management interpretation of sprints as deadlines (commitments) and not estimates (forecasts).

The former eventually leads teams to lowball everything to make sure they always complete everything at the expense of trying to accomplish more. Which will then lead the company to wonder why everything is so slow.

Getting people at the top to understand that challenge is the hard part.
I like this version, highly customizable - https://periodic.artlebedev.ru/

Try pressing '+' sign and play with settings. You can even download the result in high resolution
Wealth is indeed power rather than simply a collection of material goods, and most of all the wealth this article talks about is the power to run specific large businesses in the way those specific wealthy people want. That is, the way capitalism works in this case is that control over businesses and the ability to dictate how they allocate resources is given to individuals who are in some sense "successful" at running those businesses in that they manage to make lots of revenue and convince investors they'll do a good job of continuing to do so going forward.

The reasons why this system might be attractive may become more obvious if we consider some alternatives. For example, in Russia currently the power to control big businesses is given to politically well connected "oligarchs", and anyone whose business success exceeds their political influence tends to find that business is taken off them and given to someone much less capable but better connected. This does not lead to a functining economy. (There's a popular idea on the left that capitalism has oligarchs too which we just don't call that, which misses this important difference.) We could also imagine a system where this power is distributed democratically, and everyone in the country gets a say in how all the businesses are run. The problem with this is that in order to make decisions that are as well informed as even just some dude who happened to be in the right place at the right time, every member of the public would have to dedicate as much time to informing themselves as all of those random dudes collectively do already. That is, it's structurally impossible to just distribute this power out to everyone.

Also, most of the things that populist campaigners claim that wealth redistribution will achieve are about more material goods for everyone which relies on those material goods or at least the capacity to produce them being there already and just horded by the super-rich - just handing out power will not satisfy people's expectations for wealth redistribution and wealth taxes.
I've also spent some time playing with TSM. I would login to WoW multiple times a day only to play on the AH.

I don't quite recall where from, but I had some price data, where I filtered the top X products that made the most volume (price * amount sold).

I then simply did something like "if the price is lower than Y% of the average, buy it. Don't sell the product for less than you bought it for."

Surprisingly this simple formula works very well and I made more gold than I've ever had. It was more than enough to pay for the monthly subscription and I even bought Overwatch using the I credits I got from it.
Vienna != Austria same how London != UK, Berlin != Germany, Tokyo != Japan, Washington != US. If you only apply a succesful policy to one big city while ignoring the others, you can't claim you fixed national housing in the whole country, if the rest of the cities are still left behind.

Not much use if a policy only applies to a subset of the population of the capital city, and can't scale to the whole country so the whole populaiton can benefit from it, leaving >75% of the population out for themselves.
You can still batch and block before returning from a request to maintain durability. This improves throughout at the expense of latency.

Since SQLite is single writer I'm not sure if it does this. But this (batch yet block) is how I understood Postgres works.

Of course you can turn off the blocking too by setting postgres fsync configuration to an interval rather than synchronous.
This is interesting and a little bit entertaining.

There has been excellent work on taxonomies for data visualization. Tamara Munzner's book "Visualization Analysis and Design" is a good starting point.

There has been excellent work on identifying "dimensions" or properties of data visualization. Lee Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics" is a landmark. You could search backward to find Bertin's Semiology of Graphics, or forward to find ongoing work like UW's Vega https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite/

Some of this work might somewhat capture the properties of a periodic table to organize a catalog and even support further discovery.