skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understand that this is not condesending in any way, as I do not have this experience.

If there are these "Feelings" around these words, how is any sentence correctly taken at face value. How does one communicate to these people the direct and correct meaning of the terms used.

For example, sentence sounds like seance, do they feel like i'm asking the spirits of the dead ?

Correct sounds like wrecked, do they assume that everything is broken in the above sentence.

Is communication with fraught with unknown minefields of unintended emotions and misundestandings ?
Me being a software engineer I would write this in python. Each python file would named for the client and produce either a text or rtf, or docx. file.
More unsubstantiated ramblings. Please, for once, can we get something that can be proved/disproved? This nonsensical bullshit is on par with theology.
> you don't want your "optimizer stats" to be as big as the whole dataset itself. So optimizer has limited information, by design, and it has to come up with _something_ in a very short amount of time.

This is very true. PostgreSQL does not do any proactive plan caching, so it's important that the planner remains fast. It is possible to adjust the number of stats targets to control the size of the histograms and most common values list. Upping that can be useful for OLAP-type workloads.

> I imagine that in addition to table/column stats, is also uses structural info as its inputs, like existence of (enabled & valid) constraints for example.

Yes. Foreign key constraints are used to assist with join selectivity estimations. PG17 (when released) should be able to make more use of NOT NULL constraints to improve plans.
Indeed. I would also presume that they have a sense of what to build if they are out pitching for how to build. Pure speculation on my part: I suppose if our presumptions are right, it's somewhat akin to Tesla when it first entered the automotive industry. If I was Sam I suppose some version of that is what I'd be out pitching. (first principle is maybe a stretch with Tesla, but you catch my drift)
NVIDIA/cuda-quantum: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-quantum

Docs: https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-quantum/latest/
I forgot what made this New Yorker comic funny.
Amazon's lawsuits against fake review brokers
It isn't just one statement in the article. It's basically the tone of the entire article. Examples:

"Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. His contributions to expanding the Mozilla community would eventually become shadowed by behaviors that made it more difficult for people to participate."

"Gerv’s default approach was to see things in binary terms — yes or no, black or white, on or off, one or zero."

"Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at least none that I ever saw. Gerv was crisp. He had very precise views about marriage, sex, gender and related topics. He was adamant that his interpretation was correct, and that his interpretation should be encoded into law. These views made their way into the Mozilla environment. They have been traumatic and damaging, both to individuals and to Mozilla overall."

"To memorialize Gerv’s passing, it is fitting that we remember all of Gerv — the full person, good and bad, the damage and trauma he caused, as well as his many positive contributions. Any other view is sentimental. We should be clear-eyed, acknowledge the problems, and appreciate the positive contributions."
Some answers to questions received on career, starting a business and SaaS
We’ll see how good the pass through is then, I suppose.
I agree. Chevron deference has (indirectly) led to a shoelace being confiscated by the ATF as a machine gun.
Which of the quantum circuit simulator backends supported by tequila are accelerateable with CUDA quantum?

src/tequila/simulators: https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila/tree/master/src/tequil...
So there’s a funny thing this doesn’t touch on: the semantics of call/cc is genuinely confusing to understand! There’s a related construct that’s much more legible and has a much easier to understand: call with delimited continuation!

Oleg K wrote a very articulate piece about this some long time ago https://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
Please rename the title so it’s more coherent, thank you.
https://lwn.net/Articles/762345/

Does a better job than I ever could to explain what's wrong with that piece.
Canada did ban foreigners from owning homes. But that ban didn’t extend to Canadians and Canadian companies from investing in RE. Foreigners are not the majority of RE owners and unfairly focused upon.
I'd rather intelligence agencies spent their time fucking instead of killing, I guess. You're describing an ideal that has not been realized historically, so while I agree, I also completely understand the fact that tradecraft tends to the practical.
Said the horse factory when automobiles were being built.
Very nice. I like how concisely you hit the points. And also that you can note you're a constituent, tech business owner, and tech expert.

If different people want to mix up approaches, and hit various notes, to see what resonates, a couple thoughts (as a tech nerd, not a political communicator):

* "Information security research" has different connotations for different people. No matter how professionally you conduct yourself and respect the term, and no matter how much you promote the term positively as professional... if a particular reader considers the term to be a euphemism for behavior they think should be curtailed, and they think that's the only use of FZ, that might hurt your effort. (Unless you can find a way to promote both at the same time, to those readers, without compromising on either more than you want to.)

* All the hobbyist experimenting and building things, by kids and adults alike, I consider constructionist "education", which is valued. And I suspect it doesn't hurt to say "STEM", as a keyword for the kinds of jobs and economic development this leads to. (Imagine kids figuring out how modern devices work, which today requires more than just unscrewing an appliance and finding the motor and gears. Or getting interested in the RF that backs much of our global technology infrastructure, and inspired to pursue engineering or science. Or using that knowledge to build things that help get them into universities, or that become a tech startup company.)
How did you do it when you were a kid? Just stop trying to convert your time into something else.
It is always a weird take, it happens with Elon Musk all of the time too. Clearly, some people believe they should both be consulting hacker news before making any decisions, because we know better.
And they say drug prohibition can’t work.
There are probably a lot of optimizations in the silicone and software to find. It's not necessarily obvious what corners can get cut or where, the tradeoffs of tapping out new chips is worth it. Yet Another Matrix Multiplication Chip is not going to set the world on fire. Nvidia has that market pretty well captured.

But perhaps it turns out that subnets can be trained independently or swapped with semantically equivalent but qualitatively different ones. The routing network would effectively "Standardize" and could in principle be well enough understood to "hand optimize" the routing network into hardware.
Or maybe back propagation has some novel physical analogue that can be exploited in scales we can access.
The real question is if Altman is capable of finding the right path in the notoriously dead end filled field of chip design. His backing of helion [1] didn't bode well in my view. But with enough R&D maybe he will flail into something useful trillions is enough for a lot of flailing.

[1] https://youtu.be/3vUPhsFoniw
Edit: more derisive link
You cannot call it safer libyaml, when it still allows all unsafe yaml features to happen, creating and destroying objects at will, or calling custom code. A safe yaml, such as my YAML::Safe library, has a white-list of allowed classes, and disables all unsafe features by default.

The safe variant should use libsyck btw, which didn't implement all the new unsafe yaml features.
I Accidentally [started working on] Blender VSE
Of course there's a justification. Meat contains a lot of calories per gram, specifically in the form of proteins and fats, as well as a bunch of other micro nutrients.
My wife calls this "male refrigerator blindness".

But we all have it.

Paraphrasing a theory I read ... somewhere;
it comes from when we were furtive subterranean critters,
where entering and leaving burrows
resulted in the invalidation of whatever threat just was,
(example: birds outside, snakes underground)
and that clearing the decks to more efficiently deal with different threats in the new context
included dumping short term memory.
It's already happened.

https://medium.com/@Gentlemen_ESWAR/your-phone-is-listening-...
On the flip side, how much as South Korean society managed to advance in the 50 years compared to “happy America?”
PRC State-Sponsored Actors Maintain Access to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Now to figure out how the frig to implement this at $work.
I am guessing an incredibly talented team that is incredibly networked and incredibly well funded and proven agile in the tech hub of the world can find hardware experts. Don’t know why anyone would bet against that.
The tool is great and I use it, but I don't really have a deep enough understanding to know how to fix issues in my approach from what looks bad in the plan.
That one was made to 1) Keep happy the voters who don't have housing, by making it look like they're doing something 2) Keep happy the voters who do have housing, by keep the housing costs sky-high
A bit ironic because oods are the established companies are indeed the ones laying off people (which inevitably targets the 1-3 years more than the 5+ year seniority). If you're not an active detriment to a startup, you're probably not going to get fired unless you get caught in office politics (which can be much more personal and nasty than bigCo politics, admitedly).

>But there's not much written for the people who know they're going to be in and out of work, how to maximize each while preparing for the other, stuff like that, and I wish there were.

like you said, a lot of financial advice is based on stability. The job hop strategy is inherently unstable. No traditional advisor is ever going to suggest going into a job with the mindset to quit in 2 years for better job.

It's also because it's an inherently unique bubble that is tech. Tech moves fast , blazing fast. You can have 3-4 different domains under your belt in a decade if you wanted, whereas you may not even be considered a master of a particular domain if you spent 10 years in more traditional prestige like doctors or lawyers (if you count school you'd just barely be starting in such careers!). And even in tech this is a pretty recent trend isolated to the mid-00's to now (minus a few housing crisis years). the oldest authority exposed to such trends would either be retired and still have spent most of their lives pre-boom, or still currently in the workforce. There's no formal advisor available yet.

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I say all this as someone who wanted to be a "long haul" type. I wanted to be that deep domain tech guru to uncover the various secrets in my field. The reality is I just get laid off every 2-3 years. so what's even the point?
huh, so you cannot visualize yourself e. g. going to the toilet by transitioning from the hallway to the bathroom?
Because the constitution says so.

(Or more specificly, the constitution doesn't mention municipal governments so they dont have instrinsic rights, and all their powers come from the laws creating them. They definitely do not have the power to issue letters patent or anything of the sort)
"I will love you for as long as peer pressure dictates." :D
> I don't know much about Postgres optimizer, but I imagine that in addition to table/column stats, is also uses structural info as its inputs, like existence of (enabled & valid) constraints for example.

Here's one that surprised me when I found out about it years ago, because I'd never really given it thought: There's a correlation statistic on columns for how well the values in that column match the row order on disk, which can influence a few different things.

In my case a query that retrieved a ton of data with an ORDER BY was using a sort and taking like two hours to run (a data source for an ETL process) - turned out because of a really bad correlation postgres was refusing to use the index, because the random access would be even slower, so it did a table scan then sort. After figuring this out and discovering the CLUSTER command (reorders the data on disk to match an index), it did an index scan and didn't need to sort at the end, was able to start streaming results immediately, and finished the entire query in like ten minutes.

Just a nice example of where the obvious "use query hints to make it use the index" would have been the worst option, instead figuring out why postgres didn't want to use it and fixing that resulted in something much better.
My radical hack idea was to start an online newspaper and to contract with the local super markets to run a copy of their weekly insert. Fill the paper with local news and collect price data over time which could be marketed as a product to people who were interested in the data.

The most appealing part of this hack is that the advertisers weren't the customer, they were the product. :-)
or NDAs and gag clauses on the golden parachutes - which surely exists.
Wow, BSD's atc was a neat way of discretising what's usually a continuous experience. Good to remember!
I quite like being able to carry the things I (legally!) own, as long as my intent is innocent. I should damn well be able to carry lockpicks or an F0 or a pocket knife without it being assumed I'm a criminal.
Next the govt. might ban shipping to these regions.
Perhaps. I have no idea and am not purporting to know.
It doesn't have to be. Just say you're not accepting PRs. Let people fork and develop their own implementations.
and not initially being a piracy product, like Funimation was
At one point there was an android that did the exact same attack as well. No need for an additional device.
Yeah, it's not even like they're running the datacenters where the training and tuning are happening. I would hope some of the people understand what current compute requirements are and perhaps they know better than most what future requirements will be. However, MS has been doing most of the backend for OpenAI and they've been in discussions with actual silicon architecture people (not just NVidia), but those are the folks who would do any implementation.

Perhaps they'll pull off an Apple (for ARM) and do their own architecture (either for training/tuning or inference) that will have a significant effect on the industry, but it seems unlikely. They haven't hired the right people.

The real advantage they might have is insight into how the algorithms can be adapted to reduce power consumption/latency while improving performance. It would seem odd to me, if there weren't more than an order of magnitude in new algorithms for LLMs. You're not going to get 10x the transistors or speed from silicon, but you might get an efficient architecture for a significant algorithmic improvement (that might not just be CUDA).
Did you try? It should definitely be possible. Both near misses and fatal collisions lose you points.
That sounds like overloading of the term "trespass" to me. The common definition is to physically go to places where you're not allowed to be.
Or sarcasm, to be fair ;-)
That's a very different discussion!

If any discussion of AI build-out collapses to "Will AI lead to dystopia???", then we're not going to make much progress in discussing AI build-out.
Yep, that one is pretty valid as well.
That is pretty terrible! Is there a good resource on how different schemes work? It would be nice to know when shopping.
The creepy, unnerving future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302266
Impressive level of detail, and I love the Linda shout-out.

I also appreciate the beauty of someone defining a TLA+ specification for a concept created by Leslie Lamport.

You can learn far more from this blog post than my entire talk on logical time, but since I dearly lament the passing of the Midwest.io conference, in its honor I'll share this anyway.

https://youtu.be/b_swtL5bxJg
Yep. Getting sqlite working in webassembly is almost a production-ready feat these days. I was mainly looking for things that bolt management GUIs on top of what is already possible.
1. We know they have more big breakthroughs already that have not been released.
2. We know the current tech can keep scaling. They have not hit a limit with the current approach yet.

Given gpt-4 is already ridiculously useful and we’ve barely scratched the surface, it makes complete sense to me. More capacity + faster gpt responses unlocks massive amounts of more potential/use cases.
The scam app was called LassPass.
Cache misses will destroy the performance of any CPU-intensive program. You really really want to do mostly sequential reads of RAM if you're processing a lot of data.
> Perhaps he will succeed in misallocating a trillion dollars along the way.

Must be really hard, being only a half-billionaire and trying to keep up with Elon's "success"...
Let's take this as a given, which it isn't. Calling actions of people like e.g. Stalin, a Georgian leader of the USSR, simply "Russia" is not entirely reasonable, but whatever. It's inconsequential. We'll not only take it as a given, but also assume that Ukraine knew, without any doubt, that if they sign this agreement then Russia will come marching in and try to "really" invade them in 5 years.

The point remains is that this war was a choice. They could fight now, or not. Ukraine could have, instead, spent the next 5 years setting up an unprecedented series of defense in depth series of barriers around the border, akin to what Russia did when preparing for the Ukrainian counter-attack. This was not an obligatory war for self existence, but a choice - a choice made at the urging of the West.

Ultimately I think the complete catastrophe this war has turned into is largely due to multiple miscalculations. Russia obviously thought they were 'ambushing' Ukraine and would be easily able to impose their demands. And the US/UK, in turn, thought they were 'ambushing' Russia and would be easily able to impose their demands. There's some extreme parallels with WW1, where I think everybody thought they were going to be able to go in and just finish the job pretty cleanly. If those nations could have seen out outcome they were signing up for (win or lose), WW1 would have never happened. And I think the same is true here.

So that leads me to wonder then, what is the future that we're signing up for now 5 years or another decade down the line? Does what sound good today, instead lead to regrets tomorrow? And that consideration is what drives my views, today.
I don't remember LLM's claiming to replace GPU's. This is more like arguing with a landowner why your assembly line is so innovative and needs to be built on their land for free. They need the land, the land doesn't necessarily need them yet.
Before planes people imagined machines that would flap their wings like birds.
People say this, but the alternative you propose, that Trump's 2016 electoral college win was meaningful, is self-evidently false; people in Wyoming aren't 3 times more representative of the country than people in Massachusetts.

You can coherently say elections don't mean anything, but you can't coherently say that the popular vote is meaningless but the electoral college isn't. Your argument has to at least make some kind of logical sense, right?
Could it be that for today's workloads are perfect for Nvidia GPUs? Not because it is an ideal chip, but rather because of the availability of them, the current workloads are made to take advantage of Nvidia GPUs' architecture.
Doesn't this also generalize to LLMs (which are mostly all doing just one-next-word prediction):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830186 :

>>> Making the prefix shorter tends to produce less coherent prose; making it longer tends to reproduce the input text verbatim. For English text, using two words to select a third is a good compromise; it seems to recreate the flavor of the input while adding its own whimsical touch.

But could classical LLMs approximate quantum relations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255848 :

> If there is some sort of e.g. geometric correspondence, it could be possible for a Church-Turing classical computer to compute quantum functions (that return wave functions) that a Church-Turing-Deutsch quantum computer can compute; but otherwise Lean [and all non-quantum LLMs] can't compute most quantum circuits either.
Since we're a puppet shop, the user account definitions are largely (albeit not exclusively) kept in hiera (i.e. yaml), tracked in Git.

We haven't used this for the purpose of writing epitaphs, but we could. In fact, since such changes need to go through code review, someone could theoretically author their own removal and add an epitaph of their choice in the commit message; after they leave, the change can be approved and merged in their absence.
That was such a terrible move. For people who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
After some searching, I think the possible approach is to use a Language Server. For example: the "Find References" in VSCode is implemented through TypeScript Language Server.

I skimmed some LSP extensions (Vue, TS), the codes are quite complex, but you only need to interact with those language servers, not re-implement them, so that's still possible
After some googling. (Ianal)

ISED is responsible for the radiocommunication act. Section 6(1) seems to give pretty broad powers to regulate different radio devices. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/r-2/page-2.html perhaps its broad enough to allow banning such devices.
That’s great! Back in the day I’d have to take a snapshot with my +D and then disassemble parts of it and print them on my dot matrix printer. At least the HiSoft Devpac Mons debugger was relocatable so you could move it around to get out of the way of the code you wanted to look at. Which then became a target of curiosity for how the relocation code worked :)
I just clicked around and set up an automation to scrape a website and copy the text into a Google Doc. Seriously, bravo. This is extremely impressive. You seem to have both the integrations and the design down pat.

I'll echo what others have said: I would expect OpenAI to be breathing down your neck, as this seems to overlap a lot with their plans for assistants.

The topic is so broad, though, that there may be a niche for you to carve out along the way regardless. Best of luck!
Yeah, Gemini Advanced should just be an add-on for any Google One plan. The current structure makes it look like an intern with no experience came up with it and everyone just rolled with it and pushed it to production.
This might sound like a dumb question, but I always thought that the streets south of Burnside were aligned with the Willamette River? I love learning about any history/geography stuff, so your comment is super interesting. I grew up outside of Portland, but have only been back a handful of times in the last decade and a half.
I'm a Google Fi user but have not tried to sign up yet. Would you mind expanding on your point about Fi affecting the ability to upgrade?
Yeah, but we can freely buy and eat chocolate Kinder eggs.
Your question raises concerns about intellectual property and consent. Addressing training data specifics could potentially involve sensitive discussions about proprietary processes or inadvertently disclose private information about data sourcing, which is not in alignment with maintaining a respectful approach to honoring creators' rights and privacy.