skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the captain clearly decided he was done and gunned the engines to take the plane up another 4000 feet

That's not how civil aviation works, but never mind. Sounds like a neat story.
Excellent essay. The thing I do not agree with is how they mention that one has to abandon natural language to understand quantum mechanics. The only reason why we made the jump from Newton to Einstein through Maxwell's theory is Einstein's intuition of the physics behind electrodynamics
Another big issue with performance reviews is how heavily biased they are to recency. People know not to rock the boat when performance reviews are coming up because a bad review will be used against you when layoffs start.

Like the author says, performance reviews between co-workers can be unanimously positive because everybody who gets how the game works knows that any negative thing can be construed as a black mark.

Co-workers are the only ones who actually know whether or not somebody is doing their job, doubly so if the employees have overlapping responsibilities. Day shift knows when night shift hasn't cleaned or prepped, and visa versa. A better approach than reviews would be a system of communication between night shift and day shift about what responsibilities are expected before handing off the shift. It's key that both sides feel like the responsibilities are fairly distributed. Disagreements may happen and some people may dig their heels in, so mediation can be helpful.

What about performance evaluation? That's a made up corporate phrase to justify layoffs.

We all went to school. In every group project there was one, or maybe more people that did no work. How does a teacher know which student did the work, and which ones didn't? Answer: They don't. Everybody has experienced this. The freeloaders get off scott free, because the teacher is not in a good vantage point to see the effort. Asking students to rank each other is also unhelpful because the freeloaders could outnumber the ones who actually do work.

There is one foolproof method to spot freeloaders from those who actually do the work. The ones that are capable of doing the work can do most, if not all of the work themselves. After all, they had to since they were surrounded by freeloaders.
That would present a problem if anyone mentions nftables, the main command to manage your firewall is named `nft`

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/nftables
What information will it pass to those poles, if any?
Twice actually. The first time it someone who I grew up and was close friends throughout my schooling and higher studies.
It started out well enough. They offered me sweat equity upfront (no cliffs or vesting) so that showed a lot of trust.
As time went on, him and his partner began spooling off different companies with no intimation and conflicts of interests. They even diluted my stake without informing. I waited till I was 4 years complete, asked them to hike up my equity stake by a few points as the business while running was not making a load of cash and the salary I was drawing was peanuts compared to the market offers I was saying no to.
They didn't respond on that request for a year. Put in my papers. As to how our childhood friendship fared. He had a child recently and I found out via common friends :-)

After a stint in another startup, have joined another friend at his startup. It is hard but there is much better transparency. Only time will tell though if the friendship will survive the stint (I hope it does).
Why does it need to transmit anything at all?
Of course it is in the brain, the brain created and evolved the language as a very powerful tool. If intelligence was in the language then other animals would be as intelligent as us
Great to hear!

I've spent last two years doing college-level piano studies (pre-conservatiorum, i.e. nominally Year 8-9, was more like Year 4-5 because I lacked any childhood piano background).

Sadly, my program wasn't great in many aspects. A huge portion was devoted to perfecting the playing of pieces by heart (I did some Mozart, some Bach and some Beethoven). While I've learnt a good deal on interpretation, expression and fingering when I meditated on what I'm forced to do, I'd much better spend more time on writing out tons of jazz improvisations using some rules given, learn some idiomatic patterns on a keyboard and the like. So I quit.

Now, for the last seven months I don't have any piano teacher, and I feel so much freedom every time I play the instrument. I don't play anything that I've tried to learn from sheet music. I hate the whole process. Rather, I gradually develop my own improvisations. Not in an intricate and highly restrictive bebop jazz idiom. Rather, something quite tonal and functional, yet with scales, interesting harmonies, stretching the boundaries and the like.

My greatest joy is that I've noticed I subconsciously started building large forms from it, on the spot. I previously lacked enough attention. I feel like I'm an LLM with a loss of my previous listener's experience doing random stuff for many epochs.

I'm curious to hear, what's your request to your teacher, and how happy are you with what are you doing at classes?
Can someone knowledgeable about this stuff maybe explain what it means? What is the context and how does this compare to the usual transformer models? I don't get how to interpret some of these benchmarks. It looks like it's as good as Mistral 7B/mistral-tiny?
Other replies are also right--this is in a family of analytics databases that are unusable for single-row transactions but great at reporting over large amounts of data.

The other tool with a similar focus on querying data where/how it is Trino. (Trino is the engine underlying Amazon Athena. Trino was initially released as Presto, which is now the less-active side of a fork; most of the project founders work on Trino.) ClickHouse, Redshift, and Snowflake are slightly different analytics tools more focused on querying data stored their own way.

Common themes across the whole family include storing each column of data separately, compressed in large (>=1MB) blocks, often using 'min-max' indices or other types of index that just allow skipping whole irrelevant blocks, not finding individual entries. Even data not in a columnar format is still compressed, minimally 'indexed' (maybe just partitioned by month), and more compact than it typically is in an OLTP DB.

Also, while something like MySQL wants a server to serve many concurrent transactions so would rather avoid a single query using lots of cores and RAM, these analytics DBs are happy to use lots of resources for a short burst.

Combining all the above, I've seen this family of database chew through reporting tasks in seconds that take minutes on a well-provisioned MySQL node.

Compared to the others, DuckDB lives in a host process you provide and does not itself do multi-node deployments. However, nodes get pretty big, and the columnar tricks pack data down tight, so (as much as in OLTP-land or, likely, more) you shouldn't underestimate what one node is capable of doing!
Show HN: Animating the World of Van Gogh with Stable Diffusion and AnimateDiff [video]
I know I'm very late to the game but tried to realize Van Gogh's work with AI. Workflow is quite straightforward, generated all the video samples through Automatic1000's Web-UI by leveraging SD1.5 + Motionv3 in AnimateDiff. Rendered everything on my RTX 3080TIM laptop. Took me decent 40 mins for different experiments and generations.
CosmopolitanC has this cool feature that launches gdb immediately and execs it.
> communicate with the speed limiter pole

As a person who's reverse engineered O(1000) "secure" devices and O(100) "secure protocols", let me just laugh aloud at the thought that this will be done right!!!

Basically: new fun use for SDR just dropped! Randomly broadcast speed limits of 1mph near the higway.
Definitely reflects what I’m seeing. Started in the early 90s and this is the biggest winter (starting from the biggest I’ve ever seen as a full employment spot though).
The kind of cunt that kills people with their bad driving is exactly the kind of cunt that will disable this with a $30 device he buys on the internet. Meanwhile the rest of us won’t be able to do 90 on the 5 in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Which are the two things that combine to nothing?
Blame and personal responsibility are not necessarily connected. Blame is imposed from outside, personal responsibility is uniquely yours: you either accept responsibility for your actions or you do not and if you do then chances are that that will modify your behavior.
I don't appreciate how it seems like an elaborate ad though: Every error has a link to the paid service they're selling , with the error/exception "Enemies" list as their product
I love Ruby and write it professionally; unfortunately I agree - learning Python is more practical currently.
In Quantum Chromodynamics we have 3 things that combine to nothng though.
An imperial mile is 1,609 meters. A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.
> maybe intelligence was not centered in the brain. It's a social process.

Is that controversial? We are stand on the shoulder of giants before us and that is why we insist on training younglings for couple of decades on past learnings before they are believed to be of any useful. Even the smartest person won't survive long if dropped in 10000 BC.
> threatened with a lawsuit

There's a special place in hell just for the corporations that do that.
So does this affect the Coast Guard?
Any reduction in accidents will be offset by increases in road rage.
OpenBSD – pinsyscalls(2) work summarized by Theo de Raadt
The draft bill [1] appears to require GPS, yes:

> Article 19. Speed Limiter Technology

> 28170. As used in this article, “intelligent speed limiter system” means an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and electronically limits the speed of the vehicle to prevent the driver from exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Sorry for the nitpick, but that 65% number looked very high, so I checked and it is more like 40% according to what I found [1].

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and...
>he survival-crafting genre is still a gold mine after all these years YET no AAA studio wants to touch it for some reason

games take years to make. If a AAA started making a survival game the second Valheim came out, it'd still be 2-3 years out. Indies are more agile and can capitalize on trends before they are sucked dry.

>2, Nintendo would break all records if they start releasing their games on multiple platforms.

if you need to spend 3 times the amount of money to make twice the money, the business choice is clear unless you can show something like stocks soaring over the decision. Japan hasn't had inflation for 30 years, so there's much less incentive to chase those kinds of stock gains. So you play it safe.

Also, why is death such a make or break feature for you?
For when it metastasizes, aggressive treatment is to get rid of every trace of testosterone in your system. Prostate cells are regulated by it, so removing it is pretty effective… for a while…
I hear you from an executive's perspective. Executives are too far removed.

But this is why even with a smaller scale of soccer teams (25 first team+25 reserve players), soccer teams don't force a stack rank instituted by the executive. They let the manager do hiring and firing decisions BUT, the manager is going to be on the chopping block for not achieving the team's goals - not the players.

This leads to two benefits

1. The people closest to the game make hiring/firing decisions based on team dynamics, team goals, age group mix, tactics, and budget. A distant executive doesn't make these choices and doesn't force a stack rank just because...

2. And, the manager is always held responsible for successes and failures. That is the job and what the big bucks are for. Every level of manager is responsible for a job function and will be on the chopping block first the higher they go.
Yes, although for usage in an assertion like in TFA, you want SIGTRAP outside of a debugger to cause a core dump, which is the default, so you must not SIG_IGN it.

In priority order:

- msvc: __debugbreak()

- clang: __builtin_debugtrap()

- linux (and probably some other posix-ish systems): raise(SIGTRAP)

- gcc x86: asm("int3; nop")

- otherwise: you're out of luck, just abort()/__builtin_trap()
Would tap-and-hold be the closest equivalent?
For linear transformers, the current metric is "perfect token recall", the ability for the model to recall a randomized sequence of data. You can find the limit of a particular model architecture by training a model of a particular size to echo randomized data, and I believe this was touched on in the zoo-ology paper.

This doesnt prevent the model from retaining sequences or information beyond this metric, as information can easily be compressed in the state, but it anything within that window can be perfectly recalled by the model.

Internal testing has placed the value for Eagle around the 2.5k ptr[perfect token recall] mark, while community fine tunes done on the partial checkpoints for long distance information gathering and memorization have been shown to easily dwarf that.

prompt processing speed benefits from the same gemm optimizations as standard transformers, with the extra benefit of those gemm optimizations working for batch inference as well (no need for vllm as memory allocation is static per agent)
The highway could also broadcast the speed limit, via beacons. That would be more reliable than GPS, but GPS doesn't track your location. A GPS receiver is just that--it receives, never broadcasts. It needn't record anything in order to enforce the speed limit.
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Best of luck.

My pay peaked in 2001. If subsequent job moves and raises had kept up with inflation, I'd be making just under $150,000 a year today.

As it stands, the job market is so poor (and my skills need updating, to be honest) I'm having trouble getting a job that pays even $80k.
> More than that, the equation is not E= mc^2[...]

Unless 'm' is the relativistic mass. Which, yes, is a perfectly valid and useful concept. See also this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425252
Particles and antiparticles.

But I think he's trying to make a slightly more general point: why are "parities" (2-fold symmetries) so common in nature and mathematics? Why not more 3-fold symmetries?
Writing blog posts about how to manage the unbearable weight of incalculable genius is probably a good way to get the number up.
How would that work? Cell phones record your location as a side effect, because they can be seen by multiple cell towers.

But in this scheme, your car would record your location as the primary effect. You can still see multiple limiter poles. How do you know which one applies to you? You need to determine your location for that. (Unlike with cell phones, the pole with the strongest signal is not necessarily the one that applies to your position.)

If the limiter poles can receive as well as broadcast, they will also record your location, just like cell towers do. But even if they can't, it's necessary for the car to do so itself.
Nautical miles are globally used and are older than the imperial units by a couple of hundred years[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
Reliably and consistently determining the speed limit is still a challenge for cars. This is also going to suck in places where the flow of traffic is 10+ MPH over the posted speed limit, of which there are many in California. And it would obviously be problematic for safely passing on rural highways.
Well as long as we're getting technical, Mach number is a unitless aerodynamics term, not a speed. As such, it is only valid in the exact medium that a craft is traveling in and relative to that medium, so here air at the exact temperature and pressure the aircraft is flying at. There is no valid general conversion between speed and Mach number, and things like Mach number relative to the ground is nonsensical.
Nobody gives a shit about the dictionary. Framing other people’s worldview as one of faith and spirituality because you think you have a clever semantic argument is not wisdom. If you can’t tell that this line of reasoning is likely to induce annoyance and misunderstanding, then you’re demonstrating social ineptitude more than anything.

If you ever have to explain that the words you’re using don’t mean what others think they mean in order to maintain your points validity, you’re not discussing anything of worth. You are discussing semantics. like I said, your view is just porno. Which is a perfectly cromulent descriptor for some definitions that I don’t care to explain.

And no, don’t bring up the authority of the dictionary. Because we are now here discussing definitions rather than actual concepts so any rightness you had is forfeit to the fact that people don’t agree with your semantics.
This can be done using duckdb_fdw. It needs one additional copy though.

You insert into the duckdb table and then export from duckdb using duckdb_execute.
The captain clearly decided he was done and radiod air traffic control for permission to go to +4000 ft and gunned the engines to take the plane up another 4000 feet

is that better
> The old system is useful for very common things like cooking, because it's a Duodecimal system and you can more easily do fractions in your head. I get it it's funny "the Americans don't like science", but it's actually pretty far from the truth.

It's really not. Most of the time, I just convert to grams and use a scale so I can get an actually accurate input quantity. I don't want to think about "heaping" and "leveled" and "packed" and different densities, humidity or uneven distribution within a measuring implement. If I'm going to be putting it on a scale I'm definitely not setting it to ounces.
Feet, nautical miles, statutory miles, and meters are all part of the United States Customary Units.

"Imperial units" is ambiguous and can refer to many different sets of units all sharing the same name. US Customary units use SI as a baseline for measuring based on physical constants, and standardized conversions from them to units very similar to what was conventional. Eg, since the meter is defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum for the duration of 1/299,792,458 second, and the US defines an inch to be exactly 2.54 cm, any refinement to the speed of light inherently changes the length of an inch. 12 inches equals a foot, a mile equals 5280 feet (exactly 1609.344 meters), and all these things are based on physical constants. Nautical miles are defined as exactly 1852 meters, which is approximately 1.15 miles.
I really need SF to stop sending idiots to the state senate.
I do think it would suck but it would be sensible to have electronic limits that cap at something very high such as 90mph.

It's better than nothing and no one should ever go at that speed anyway.
Incremental Reading (2023)
Not the person you’re asking, but I wrote a bit about my experiences here: https://neurotechnicians.com/p/generative-ai-and-anki-part-1...
The same was the case in that Asus router. I just wish every AP had that setting
From data in the link it looks like it was about half and half.
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> I've also been having trouble articulating why I stopped GAF about computing and technology. Whenever I go for a job interview, a question is "what tech do you think is interesting or exciting right now?" and I think it's a dumb question. I actually don't GAF about kubernetes or microservices or serverless or FaaS or whatever you think is cool this year.

God I hate this. When I first got out of uni it didn't strike me as weird, but now I realize I could honestly give two shits about kubernetes or any of that

I'll think about kubernetes if they want me to, provided they pull out the fucking checkbook

> For me, it's not so much burnout, but the realization that I have lost my attachment to tech-in-itself.

It's a narrative. This idea of really caring about technology, to the point of doing a bunch of volunteer work and making a lifestyle out of it. That narrative proliferates here
Just like "metric" can refer to CGS or MKS, "imperial" can refer to... well, whatever you want. But usually in the US when we say "imperial", we mean statute miles as the mile unit, not nautical miles.
I don't think that's quite right -- I think you're thinking of 1601 S. California Ave. Faceboook had there and 1050 Page Mill, but not 1501 Page Mill afaik -- that was HP/HPE until recently and is still an office building, now leased by Tesla.

After Facebook moved out of 1601 California Ave. in 2011, it was leased to Theranos. Then it (and some of the buildings on adjacent parcels) got knocked down to turn it into a Stanford faculty housing development that opened in 2017-2019 (University Terrace). I think that's the only housing in the Stanford Research Park.
I think the difference it that I don't have to use a scale. I'm not in a chemistry lab, I'm in my kitchen. Though, I suppose, those are one in the same aren't they.
It’s good to remember that scientists are just as capable of violence (if anything, they can be better at it). It might also be a mistake to think that rational people are inherently less violent towards other people. Finally, I reckon it’s especially dangerous to think the Nazi did what they did just because of “bad emotions”.

The trolley problem adjacent research has shown (if inconclusively) that more rational people are more likely to be OK being a cause of harm to other people to achieve some goal. In those experiments such goal is usually “save more people”, but all you need is to define some terms and “kill some now” might seem imperative to “save more later” to a sufficiently rational, long-term-thinking, “smart” person.

So the Nazi did, and there is much less conjecture here since it’s mostly well-documented. They were specifically inspired by natural sciences, including the then-new Darwin’s theory of natural selection. If anything, their shtick might’ve been to overcome the “bad” (for the Nazi) emotions that one may experience when sending some disabled person or a Jew to death. Which, according to them, had to be done since they were detrimental to survival of humanity (as Nazis defined it, of course) by polluting its genetic pool—so they were taught to train themselves to treat Jews as non-human bedbugs, stripped Jews of citizenship, disciplined fellow Germans who dared to shake hands with a Jew, etc. To Nazis emotions were a hindrance, they included the “irrational” compassion, and we might be better off remembering that when we discuss rationality, which consequentialism tends to go hand in hand with.

Addendum: An obvious argument can be made that Nazis were “not rational enough”, i.e. the problem is not with rationality per se but only with rationality based on premises that we now know are wrong. That, however, shows nothing because if we’ve learned anything it should be not to assume that now we have finally got all of our premises in order and possess absolute truth and complete understanding of reality.