skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes absolutely. The source makes a massive difference! Every community site suffers from this problem whether it's HN, Reddit, or private torrent trackers. Blocking or making difficult new users is not the answer, that just filters out potentially great users. I don't know how you control for source though without turning it into "you have to know somebody" which tends to isolate people who don't know people IRL.
Zim's inflation was several orders of magnitude worse than this though.
Are they in use by An Post or just disused relics?
> I think if you ask 3 communists to define communism you get 4 answers. For one, some are anarcho-communists and some aren't.

Not really. Most communists agree that communism is a "state-less, class-less society". Sometimes they also add "money-less". The differences you are thinking of are between the various ideas of how to get there. "Anarcho-communism" is also a bit of a red herring. Anarchism is by definition communist - if anything an anarchist society would be a subset of communist societies because it requires the abolition of even more hierarchies. You'll find people on the left using the word "communism" in an inflationary way the same way the modern right throws it at anything to the left of conversvatism but even the Soviet Union never claimed to have achieved communism even if it was generally called "communist". There's an obvious difference between communism (which is narrowly defined, i.e. the end state) and a communist (a person who claims to want to achieve communism some way or another).

> Capitalism seems to obviously work great for me cause I get paid in fiat currency to work on startups that are likely to fail, and I have no risk.

Capitalism means you already have all the risk by existing within the system. Everything you "own" is entirely conditional on your continued ability to pay bills. Not just rent, mortgage or debt but also all the resources you need to actually use what you have: electricity, gas, water, waste water management. And of course any food you want to eat, any costs of replacing or repairing what you have and so on. If you don't keep making money, you will run out of it.

You may have a social support network - a friend you can crash at if your house burns down, a family that will take you back and feed you if all goes wrong. But those exist despite capitalism not as part of it. And those again require you to luck into a situation where you have a loving family or dependable friends who can afford an extra mouth to feed.

As the saying goes, under capitalism, most people are "one bad week away from poverty". Especially if they don't luck into generational wealth, a high paying and stable career and good insurances (which still may not cover everything life can throw at you).

If you want strenuous software metaphors, communism is pure functional programming, capitalism is class-based OOP and most of the world right now is running C#.
A friend of mine is an electrician in Germany who had a lengthy discussion about this with another friend of mine who was drunkenly complaining about how large corporations pay less for electricity. I'll try my best to reconstruct what he said in response.

Residential customers use highly variable amounts of electricity and typically pay a base rate in addition to usage which can have different tiers so additional use may get cheaper if you exceed a certain threshold. Often these contracts also offer month-by-month cancellation or may include a certain period for which the price is guaranteed not to change.

Industrial customers instead often buy bulk volume commitments. Instead of paying per use, they commit to using a certain amount and pay for that exactly. They also generally have much longer running contracts. There are also contracts that directly tie the price to the daily (or in some cases even hourly) market rate, which is usually not an option for residential customers. Their energy use is also generally more predictable than the load required for residential areas with the equivalent consumption so the cost for running and maintaining the grid is lower. Additionally there is a recent trend towards DC power delivery, further cutting costs.

Rooftop solar panels and domestic EV charging actually contribute to the cost of maintaining residential grids because they add to the peak load and variance, both of which have to be compensated for. In other words, per unit of energy sold, residential customers simply have more overhead than large scale business customers.
> ~5000 word mini-essay that I wrote

I think what your coworker did was horrible.

But generally, in the jobs I've had, a "~5000 word mini-essay" is not going to get read in detail. 5000 words is 20 double-spaced pages. If I sent that to a coworker I'd expect it to sit in their inbox and never get read. At most they would skim it and video call me on Teams to ask me to just explain it.

Unless that is some kind of formal report, you need to put the work in to make it shorter if you want the person on the other end to actually engage.
Great question - we compare to the Mistral 7B 0.1 pretrained models (since there were no pretrained checkpoint updates in 0.2) and the Mistral 7B 0.2 instruction-tuned models in the technical report here: https://goo.gle/GemmaReport
Well, given that that restriction added to the meta-llama license is aimed at Google, is petty, and goes against open source norms, I think it’s reasonable that they should feel this way about it.
Hey, that's pretty good. The Bee is generally very bad at satire.

It would have been better without the word "Another", which is over-selling the joke. They succumbed to the need to lash out at the entire group rather than tightening the joke. The gag is already on tenuous grounds since obviously this isn't "purchasing", but it's at least a real thing rather than their usual fashion for just inventing stuff out of whole cloth.
This matches my experience. Something about cloud systems makes them incredibly slow compared to real hardware. Not just the disk, the CPU is more limited too.

I fire up vCPU or dedicated or bare metal in the cloud, doesn't matter, I simply cannot match the equivalent compute of real hardware and it's not even close.
Ask HN: I'm Joining a Startup as CTO, First Sales Hire Received More Equity?
I'm in the process of joining an exciting IOT startup as CTO (most of my work will be software). I've had a good relationship so far with the founder, who's an ex-sales guy who actually managed a lot of the initial hardware development.

That said, I've been working out my entry package (mostly stock at this point with a barebones salary until we ship v2 in a few months) and I realized that a sales hire younger than me (who the founder has complained about performance wise to me) has a larger equity stake than I do. I asked for 8% (at a $14M valuation) and they obliged, is this a huge red flag?

Is this just a sales guy thing? I understand sales is what turns thin-air into money but their latest seed round would've been nil without my AI development.

I feel miffed and I'm tempted just to look elsewhere. Also open to strategies how I can use leverage to increase this equity position.

Cheers
ReadySet descends from Noira (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/gjengs...), which I view as the next generation of incremental dataflow technology after Naiad/Differential Dataflow/Materialize.

The key difference is that Noira/ReadySet supports partial materialization and can reconstruct data on-demand, whereas Naiad/Differential Dataflow/Materialize must keep a complete materialization up to date. ReadySet can partially evict parts of the data flow and bring them back later if needed.

In practical terms if you have a materialized view you want to maintain, in ReadySet you pay O(part of the materialized data flow you actually need), which is less than O(entire materialized view) you’d pay with Materialize.
As someone whose dream personal project is all to do with song lyrics I cannot express in words just how much I FUCKING HATE THE OLIGARCHS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
More useful would be a precise characterization of the type and balance of the ideological fine tuning.

They include performance benchmarks. End-users should also be aware of what thoughts are permitted in these constructs. Why omit this information?
The paper [1] cited here is a joke. Here's how they collected their dataset:

> We collect RTO information for S&P 500 firms through manual news searches on Google and Factiva. Specifically, for each firm, we search by using the company’s name and the following keywords: ‘Work from Home’, ‘return to office’, and ‘days required working in the office’. We focus on S&P 500 firms because these large firms are closely followed by media, thus mitigating concerns about media coverage bias. Among the S&P 500 firms, 137 publicly announce their RTO policy and are classified as RTO firms in this study. These 137 firms become our treatment firms

They then correlate this with other (ahem) high quality datasets...like Glassdoor reviews. Their "determinant model" takes into account CEO gender and politics and an (arbitrary) measurement of "CEO power" [2], but doesn't take into account even basic things like industry, other than if the company is "high tech" or not.

If you bother even skimming the thing, you can see that it isn't serious -- there's a weird editorial quote at the top of page two, from a PR firm, which calls RTO "eyewash for investors". Real academic papers don't do this kind of thing. This is like a bad undergrad term paper.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401

[2] "CEO relative power, calculated as CEO’s total compensation divided by the average total compensations paid to the four highest-paid executives in the firm" (p. 40)
Well, phone booths ain’t getting more ubiquitous for whatever reason either :)
> as depicted in post-Dune books (namely Frank Herbert's son's)

You're mistaken, there are only 6 Dune books, all by Frank Herbert himself.

I'm joking, but not joking.
Yep, that's my experience as well. Or because it's just something I don't like to do that much or that doesn't give me some good hormone to my brain in exchange after doing it.
it's really good to know that it's accurate
NT had an OS/2 personality but Cutler's team didn't "complete" OS/2. They built a new OS from scratch, with some inspiration from the work they had done at DEC before coming to MS.

My recollection from interview was ... he didn't like it (OS/2), and built their own OS arch from scratch but with some OS/2 back-compat to fulfill contractual obligations.
I don’t know it’s the case and this is hardly “hard data”.
Yep, western union do tend to have a long kyc check after your first transfer I think. Which can delay things a few days. But after that I never really had a problem. I never heard of anyone getting their transaction completely blocked though.
I think current understanding is <50-100B parameter models will be commodity and would provide no moat. Competition will be in Gemini Ultra/GPT4+ models.

So open sourcing simple models brings PR and possibility of biasing OSS towards your own models.
> As the link shows, the syntax section of the Vim manual offers suggestions to increase speed on slow computers for all syntax categories, tex being one of them. That does not mean all those categories are a problem in Vim itself.

Oh, absolutely! I should have said before that I edited many file types in Vim on that netbook and syntax highlighting was lighting fast on all types except LaTeX. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Unfortunately for me, LaTeX is by far what I most wrote at the time, so it was an annoying problem.

> So, baffling discrepancies; I wish software performance was more predictable.

Amen to that! I've even been on the other side of this issue, with some Emacs packages I've written. I've received reports of some operations being very slow that I've been unable to reproduce (even though I continue to use underpowered hardware because I value battery life more than speed —I'm typing this, in Emacs, on a 10 year old Chromebook!).
We should be defending the creators of our most important tools, like `curl`, from gratuitous time-wasters like these!

I'm glad the `curl` organization is a CMA now, though, maybe that will mitigate the issue.
RFC 9512: YAML Media Type
That’s why they’re called open as in free to use how you wish, not open source where the source of the training is also provided.
WFH is essentially "what if everyone at work had their own office?" I'm not at all shocked people who don't even need the flexibility enjoy it as a perk.
You can deploy on your own via their .deb packages - https://readyset.io/download

The advantages is that reading from a cache will be faster than from a read replicas. The benefits increase even further if you have to perform computation on the fetched data.
LLM is the dumb pipe but so far ChatGPT is the most successful generative AI product.

It remains to be seen. OpenAI’s models are barely leading Gemini Ultra now, but as chat product it is still miles ahead of the Gemini interface.
I have a different take, Google releases a lot but is also a massive company and tools like Chromium serve to increase their stock price so they can hit their quarterly estimates.
About 5 months until we see widespread local LLMs, thanks to Apple.
Eh, I don't really blame anyone for being cynical but open weight AI model releases seem like a pretty clear mutual benefit for Google. PR aside, they also can push people to try these models on TPUs and the like. If anything, this seems like it's just one of those things where people win because of competition. OpenAI going closed may have felt like the most obvious betrayal ever, but OTOH anyone whose best interests are to eat their lunch have an incentive to push actually-open AI, and that's a lot of parties.

Seems like anyone who is releasing open weight models today could close it up any day, but at least while competition is hot among wealthy companies, we're going to have a lot of nice things.
> as a developer who have to target both plattforms

If Apple blocks something, you don't need to make the moral decision as a developer, because they made it not your choice.

> I am only going to target android

Target the open web instead, since Google could do whatever it is that Apple's being accused of.
I can understand in principle but not actually. Converting between snapshot and patch representations is not an exponential effort operation. You could convert a git history to pijul (yes, expensive, but not exponential), do the conflict resolution in pijul land, and then handwaved convert back to snapshots.
I started working on a human readable markup language for non-code dependencies to solve this exact problem.

I wanted something that could be checked in along with the code. Something that would let me do impact analysis and data lineage.

I have only just started to document this idea yesterday.
This has always been my theory (as someone with the condition). The human species has benefitted greatly from having 3-4% of us being constantly restless and always NEEDING to know "what new thing can we do NOW!!"
How long did it take for you to get past it? TBH I was surprised how bad it is. The first three days I could barely stay awake. No headache though. I managed to do 10 days before giving up. Not sure if that is enough to fully get over it.
The context length for these models is 8192 tokens.
>GDP is just a measurement of how much shit a country produces a year.

No, it's a measure of much money goes through the economy, regardless if any "shit" is produced there. Look at Ireland, Netherlands and Luxembourg or any other tax heaven.
I'm sure a lot of Argentinians would love to live in a place as stable and prosperous as Alabama.
> Huawei design division was on par with apple.

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7n...

7nm and 3nm are not even in the same ballpark.

And the legacy tech is useful, but this isnt "progress" its production. The distinction is large, production did not sustain declining producers.
I got a few recently for model train lighting; ten bucks on Amazon. There's a thin wire that goes to a battery you wear behind your neck like a necklace. https://www.amazon.com/JZSMY-Luminous-Flashing-Eyelashes-Hal...
The main problem of Gemini 1.5 is that you cannot access it at all as a user :|
I'd rather have one hour/week, triaging milestones based on data-driven estimation with confidence intervals than an hour a day of planning poker ...
This would be really interesting in my opinion, but we are not releasing datasets at this time. See the C4 dataset for an earlier open dataset from Google.
Good catch - just corrected. Thanks!
It absoultely wasn't #1, he was drafted not patriotic. I think he was just broke and took advantage of a 17yo kid and probably offered him a few grand to have 50 years of VA doc appointments that never help him out.

IIRC they literally broke out every tooth/re-aligned jaw and then wired everything together.
On the one hand it seems like, if you are reporting a security issue, you should presumably have some kind of PoC. On the other hand we’ve seen plenty of exploits that required chaining a half dozen not-obviously-exploitable issues to achieve a successful exploit. If someone at MITRE has to adjudicate these issues for every CVE in all possible programming languages for all possible exploits for all possible software… well that seems like a tough job anyway.

I think the people using the CVE database as some kind of official source of actual security issues, as opposed to reported potential issues, is the problem.
Not the OP, but BSL is Source License that gives you access to use the source, with specific restrictions.

Most commonly the restrictions prevent you from launching a competing offering. In their case, you can't offer database-as-a-service using their code.

BSL typically also restricts production use - though it looks like ReadySet has relaxed that restriction.

Finally, BSL reverts to a traditional open source license after a set period of time - in their case Apache 2 after 4 years. This means that code written today is licensed under BSL for 4 years, then automatically reverts to Apahce 2 thereafter.
It seems like the most straightforward path here is to ban auto thefts all together.
Millions of gamers all over the world are still absolutely puzzled how they ever built any rapport with each other playing games over the internet without routinely bumping into each other in the hallway twice a week. A total mystery.
This is giving some serious "take a position then write an article to try and prove it's the right one" vibes. The "data" cited is laughable, as is the analysis.

Meta did RTO and just had one of the strongest quarters in history. I guess that "proves" that RTO is actually beneficial and that people trying to wfh are just lazy.

Why is this even shared here? What a joke.
But my point is there's no analogy for that that we call open? It's like self-hostable, or free (as in beer).
If you add more than 10 lines of CSS to your page, someone will complain about the design.
Duolingo Launches Music and Math on Its Flagship App
So you are saying that executives at businesses are violating their fiduciary duties and putting their own personal profit goals related to commercial real estate above their obligations to the company? Surely with making such a claim you can provide a list of a number of companies doing so.
LinkedIn is the number one way for me to find early adopters. I love browsing LinkedIn and learning about new tech, and I think others do the same and like my content!

At its peak, I’ve received 10,000 views from LinkedIn in a week. I post interesting content every day, and I promote the latest happenings in my business and startup.

A lot of the AI community has migrated to LinkedIn after the collapse of Twitter/X for AI influencers.

You can check out my LinkedIn by searching “Josh agilend” in LinkedIn search :)

J
In what way does chromium increase stock price? In what way does stock price influence quarterly estimates? Are we playing business words mad libs?
Another possibility is that the Galactic Federation has a rule that when they need to visit a planet that is not yet aware of aliens the crew must entirely consist of beings that have the same general form as the people of that planet.

That makes it harder for someone who sees them to convince others that it was aliens and not just a trick of bad lighting or someone with deformities or injuries that give them an unusual appearance.

It also makes it less likely for them to be mistaken for some other species on the planet. Suppose the Federation sent an expedition to ancient Earth that included crew from a species that looked a lot like our cats, and accidentally let Earth people get too good a look at them and their technology.

Those Earth people might think those are Earth cats, and conclude that Earth cats are a lot more powerful and advanced then they thought, and that they had better stop treating cats like animals lest the cats decided to wipe them out and start treating them as superior beings. Next thing you know that entire civilization is treating cats as magical being of great value or even worshiping them as gods.
Their definition of "open" is "not open", i.e. you're only allowed to use Gemma in "non-harmful" way.

We all know that Google thinks that saying that 1800s English kings were white is "harmful".
Byford Dolphin Diving Bell Accident (1983)
This real estate narrative never made sense. offices exist to optimize (and monitor) employees.
You can just pull dns records and see for yourself. It’s funny. It’s like saying water is wet. You can also see what services are enabled on that domain - and.. maybe rven other things!
How does laughing at thing online dissolve/disarm the problems?

I'd say the opposite - it dissipates the anger and make people feel like they accomplished something, all the while the problem still exists and is getting formally entrenched via policy and legislation. But hey, we joked about it online, so all is well?

I don't have a specific problem in mind, BTW, just observing that the actual impact of online content is minimal. "Actions speak louder than words" is doubly true with online content.
As someone who works with Azure daily, I am amazed not just at the initial consultant's conclusion (that is, alas, typical of folk who do not understand database engines), but also to your struggle with NVMe storage (I have some pretty large SQLite databases on my personal projects).

You should not have needed an Ebsv5 (memory-optimised) instance. For that kind of thing, you should only have needed a D-series VM with a premium storage data disk (or, if you wanted a hypervisor-adjacent, very low latency volume, a temp volume in another SKU).

Anyway, many people fail to understand that Azure Storage works more like a SAN than a directly attached disk--when you attach a disk volume to the VM, you are actually attaching a _replica set_ of that storage that is at least three-way replicated and distributed across the datacenter to avoid data loss. You get RAID for free, if you will.

That is inherently slower than a hypervisor-adjacent (i.e., on-board) volume.
Export Anaconda environment specification in a portable way
What side effects are you talking about that are hard to grok?
Spoken like a child who has yet to learn about the benefits of having a state… aka a Libertarian.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of code doing "the right thing" and trusting TCP to monitor connections. I trust none of it. My application layer always pings some status back and forth at regular intervals and both ends will disconnect after an explicitly set timeout. I'm sure there are situations (probably most static web server stuff) where this is a terrible idea but for realtime(ish) remote control it's the only way to go.