skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I am the GP whose comment you're criticizing.)

I think you're trying to follow the analogy/point so maybe I can be more explicit.

Consistency is difficult - everyone knows that you "have to" save money consistently, or cut back on calories, or exercise daily, or whatever. The gap from "knowledge" to "able to do it" is quite big - as evidenced by the fact most people aren't able to be consistent about much in our lives.

And that's not because of some sort of "privilege" - people spend time on social media where they could be exercising, they are spending money on stuff they don't strictly need, etc. There's a large cohort of people who (1) know they can make their lives better through consistency (2) have the underlying opportunity to do it and (3) fail to actually capitalize on those opportunities constantly.

The connection to religion is that religious practice is by its nature consistent (you go to your house of worship weekly, you pray daily, whatever the case may be) - which is a great exercise in the muscle of consistency. I suspect that if someone is trained in ability to do religious things daily, they are much better positioned to apply this skill to other domains of their life (similar to how someone who is a trained weight lifter can apply their strength to other domains like carrying their kids or physical work.)

What takes my comment from "true" to "fantastic" (just kidding) is the connection to the applicability of seemingly arcane religious practice to a very-much-relevant modern day skillset, which I also believe is less available in society than it was previously. You may not resonate with this on a religious level, but perhaps there's some room to recognize ancient wisdom applicable to today, anyways.
So how long is the code to convert those representations into ASCII or Unicode decimal strings?
Similarities to PRQL: https://prql-lang.org/
You kidding? I'd pay to try that. Suck it, Baumgartner!
Guess it must be an election year - politicians promising things they know have zero chance of ever becoming law.
The sheer volume and rate of successful launches is revolutionary in itself.
Hence, my use of the word "risk".
To be clear, I am not saying Nintendo is wrong for making the hardware choices they have. By all accounts they intended to have a meaningful Switch hardware revision when the OLED hit but decided against it because of the then-exploded and uncertain supply chain.

That said, I don't think you can draw a nice and neat trendline specifically from the Wii. I think the strategy has worked out well for them since its inception but a trend line from the Wii to the Switch only looks really good if you don't include the Wii U.
Celeste64 uses https://github.com/LogicAndTrick/sledge-formats which include loaders for Quake formatted maps. It could be using the Quake format for a different engine.
> the 7zip UI is just an incomplete WinRAR clone with smaller icons

The icons still look like a Windows 3.1 app, but you can make them bigger:

View > Toolbars > Large Buttons
I donno. With Github, I still have my source code somewhere stored locally. With coinbase, you are at their mercy because doing finance things is not that easy. Again, I think crypto/bitcoin is stupid but its just me may be.
Maaaaaaybe. But we did pull like 20g+ on descent, so that's a bit problematic
WinAce, what fond memories. Remind me again why it never caught on?
I despise Kroger. I moved from Texas with fantastic HEB, and virginia with Publix to Colorado and we already had absolutely trash grocery stores, but now Kroger owns all of the major ones here. King soopers, etc. Absolutely trash stores.

Cannot believe they keep letting them take over grocers.

Maybe build a new Kroger in all of our food deserts instead of turning a halfway decent store into a dumpster? I live downtown and my nearest real grocery store is a 20 minute DRIVE away. I shop at 711 more than a grocery store outside of instacart.
I think that's a valid point, but a different one than the one quoted by Summers. They claim sentiment is more closely tied to the cost of borrowing, not unmeasured costs. I am speculating here, but it may be that the American lifestyle is fueled by a revolving line of debt and thus more impacted by the cost of borrowing.
PAR files!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Leadership Lab: Writing Beyond the Academy [video]
I wish I could tell you but I don't know. I was also a fan of WinACE and found it very easy and pleasant to use to make self extracting archives to put on 1.44 inch floppies to take to school.

BTW, I just tried it out of nostalgia and the OG WinACE app still works on Windows 11 today.
No. The temperature of the atmosphere has nothing to do with whether or not aliens are harvesting the energy. At equilibrium, all of the incoming energy has to get radiated back out into space eventually whether there are aliens harvesting that energy or not.

The problem with an atmosphere hotter than lava is that very few materials are solid at those temperatures, and it's hard to imagine how a civilization could build an energy harvester without solid materials.
“Frequency change approved, monitor Unicom for traffic, have a good day.”

Just to clarify, I’m not involved in vatsim other than donating my time like so many others.
Same angular offset, i.e they line up.
I'm talking about wiring brand new builds for an ISP. Getting the coax, fiber, telephone line right to the home before the lawn is sodded and drywall is installed is a really fast/cheap job. It costs basically nothing to do because there aren't a whole bunch of easements and property rights problems to navigate.

Generally, a developer already owns the rights to everything so it's just working with them to get everything done. And they like it because who doesn't want an internet ready community to sell?

You end up talking $100 per unit vs the $2000 or $5000. Which is a great discount for the ISP.
> Discourse-style messageboards over bot-ridden Discords.

I'm a bit confused about this comparison. Is there something about Discourse that makes it immune to bots, where Discord is not?

(There's a bit of humor in that Discourse has social media "Share" buttons, which are apparently evil)
It's because it's a great place to HODL for me, since they seem vastly more secure than all the sites that have gone down in thievery and flames over the years.

I think it'd be disingenuous to suggest that there is any safer place to hold crypto, given they are publicly traded, have excellent engineers, have insurance, etc. I even think it's more likely I'd fuck up personally custodying my crypto than letting Coinbase hold it. I've had friends lose so much money trying to keep their crypto in private wallets and on shady exchanges.
The Roguelike Rule of Thumb
Any chance he might have dyscalculia and/or ADHD? Though I guess he’d might have already been tested.
Yeah, totally. I guess really the way to think about it is that any code golfing problem is a separate competition between each language. What's the shortest you can get in JS, in Java, in Pyth etc.

Languages made just for golfing, and how many of them there are, seem a little silly, but theyre cute to look at and fun to make i'm sure. Its art :p Not complaining.
A bit like LVMH, the only difference being that LVMH customers usually don't upgrade their handbags once a year.
I've heard AI used to describe the early versions of things that perform the duties that we always imagined an AI would. Like how Siri is basically just an expert system with some NLP, but if we had a genuinely intelligent helper, it would behave exactly like Siri across a narrow range of tasks.
Others were more accessible and good enough
die: yes; from tatts, nah
23 years (god I'm getting old)

It all ends up bad. Just make it good enough to move on. Come back and throw it out and redo it later. Or, more frequently, never come back because good enough was good enough.
I think that's circumstantial.

Much as I'm a grouchy curmudgeony geezer at heart, I must begrudgingly admit that at my company, the "HR Chatbot" went from "complete waste of time" to "can, shockingly, answer my questions most of the time" in the last 5 years. It's actually pretty good these days, and has good paths to guide it, constrain it, or escalate to a human. Mind you a) This is for internal customers not external and b) I don't think it's LLM in the backend, mind you, but not every AI is LLM.

This is not to say that I enjoy the current level of customer service or its direction, but honestly I have not enjoyed customer service levels for the last 25 years, on average, well before AI. The problem is usually fundamentally corporate policies and priorities and processes, not whether they're implemented by a human or AI. In the perfect world of unicorns and rainbows, I'm OK with the concept/goal of "90% of repetitive questions/requests get handled automatically, save humans for where human judgment is required". So I guess there's a semi-optimistic part of me in addition to the grouchy geezer :)
It's funny how discoveries in NLP & computer vision complement each other. The replacement of multiplication by additions made me think about the AdderNet paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13200), which concluded as you had to suffer almost no performance drop.

Perhaps the accumulators in current hardware cannot leverage this to its full potential, but combined with such a strict quantization, this would open LLM to the wider ML community much earlier than expected (when consumer hardware allows you to train near SOTA LLMs from scratch on your machine).
I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but the Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs has confirmed they've seen no evidence of a breach. Not sure how common it is but perhaps just a bluff to get some Bitcoin?
Ehh Coinbase is the only exchange that doesn't seem to be a complete grift. Also why would an increase in price result in them being insolvent? I doubt they're net short crypto
Not happy with your results eh?
I’m one of those people, I take detailed notes (I have a very strong note taking and annotation system) and most importantly, I just spend more time thinking on the subject or problem than others probably would.
The "Why?" questions are getting downvoted, but to dissect the why section from the page a little...

"designed to be small and efficient" – adding a layer on top of SQL is necessarily less efficient, adding a layer of indirection on underlying optimisations means it is likely (but not guaranteed) to also generate less efficient queries.

"make developing queries simple" – this seems to be just syntactic preference. The examples are certainly shorter, but in part that's the SQL style used.

I think it either needs more evidence that the syntax is actually better or cases it simplifies, the ways in which it can optimise that are hard in SQL, or it perhaps needs to be more honest about the intent of the project being to just be a different interface for those who prefer it that way.

It's an interesting exercise, and I'm glad it exists in that respect, and hope the author enjoyed making it and learnt something from it. That can be enough of a why!
That's not any clearer. Both "modulo" and "remainder" can be defined in ways (yeah, more than one) that include or exclude negative numbers.

You have to memorize the full definition. There's no mnemonic shortcut.
Statistically, it wouldn't be too surprising if at least one of you was a furry. :)
Google made an A.I. so woke it drove men mad
> this feels like a gauge / counter distinction?

I'm not particularly fond of those terms; I don't find them descriptive. I don't think they're quite the right terms, either. For example, queue length is fundamentally not a continuous metric: it only changes when the length of the queue does, and if you record those events as they happen, you can get the exact graph of the queue length without there being a sampling frequency. But it is a "gauge" in Prom's language.

But yes, a lot of the metrics surrounding event-like data probably do fall into Prom's "counter".

> sample the CPU usage at every tick :p

Linux has been tickless for years. There's still going to be a time at which the scheduler kicks in, of course, but if the core isn't contested, schedulers these days aren't necessarily going to even trigger. The process on that core can simply run until it sleeps. (Assuming no other process transitions to runnable, and there's no other core available for that process.)

As another poster points out, if we had enough insight into the kernel, though, even still we could get the discrete events of when the scheduler deschedules a core. So, technically we don't have to same. But the practical APIs we're going to use are sampling ones.
However, the oposite shift is undefined if a 1 goes into the sign bit.

More precisely, regarding E1 << E2, it is written (in the April 2023 ISO C draft):

"If E1 has a signed type and nonnegative value, and E1 × 2ᴱ² is representable in the result type, then that is the resulting value; otherwise, the behavior is undefined."

Thus if E1 is negative, or if the result overflows, UB.
I thought of Walmart when reading the article too. Conversely, wouldn't the merger be potentially good for Walmart? If one of the effects of the merger is to raise prices, doesn't that imply Walmart could raise prices as well and still be competitive?

(Acknowledging here the merger complaint is based on labor law and not consumer prices)
FWIW this is what Spack does, and it uses a store layout like nix/guix. here are some chunks of the spack install tree path. All you really need is the hash, but we provide a bit more.

$ spack find -p
...
cmake@3.27.9 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/cmake-3.27.9-x6g5fl54kgt4nqmgnajrtfycivokap2p
cmake@3.27.9 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/cmake-3.27.9-x4bznyafesvpdbplqhmnwwvy2zj5fdzs
coreutils@9.3 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/coreutils-9.3-vlwyg7d3ysxfoom3erl6ai4yy7fuf2jn
curl@8.4.0 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/curl-8.4.0-zjz6twa32vxnevika34kkrxjwo27z6vj
curl@8.6.0 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/curl-8.6.0-da5tk7aqaqp6zdligjmahzwohzut65qc
diffutils@3.9 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/diffutils-3.9-lau4vo7zlsktmbhyn3pf3x72nxhihsaq
double-conversion@3.3.0 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/double-conversion-3.3.0-zihvj7vzedapjprk76awr7qied3k45n6
emacs@29.2 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/emacs-29.2-x5v4wdhp4vfsuxquadackqckdvxrppwi
expat@2.5.0 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/expat-2.5.0-hmdysf6hcrzuhcxu7fkecpvskzxecgps
findutils@4.9.0 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/findutils-4.9.0-atynmdjhdjpb2ipurlk7cxtdep77m7mu
fish@3.6.1 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/fish-3.6.1-sg3ws3rmbfgdfyhvjnhd5agepguj4yf2
flex@2.6.3 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/flex-2.6.3-quw6ammnjxfutqtqcifvjfsp5nyqpeab
freetype@2.11.1 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/freetype-2.11.1-ue2ofutkkawtzvcl47pqts4lasm5lgha
gawk@5.2.2 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/gawk-5.2.2-jld7vb24rls64nbzkyxcp4alluyedfzv
gdbm@1.23 ~/spack/opt/spack/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/gdbm-1.23-amtpuskagocirjhffgqrjas3bfbnzixi
...

You can also customize the install tree paths[1] with format strings; the default is:

config:
install_tree:
root: $spack/opt/spack
projections:
all: "{architecture}/{compiler.name}-{compiler.version}/{name}-{version}-{hash}"

One reason `nix` uses `/nix/HASH` is because it results in shorter paths and avoids issues with long paths. We use sbang[2] to avoid the most common one -- that long shebangs don't work on some OS's (notably, most linux distros).

[1] https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config_yaml.html#conf...

[2] https://github.com/spack/sbang
Heavily modified. But it's the Gopro sensor and board.
looks like they are back now.
In college I worked at an ice cream factory. It was not cool. It wasn't even air-conditioned.
When you ask ChatGPT 4.0 symbolic mathematical questions, it uses sympy under the hood, and you can get the script that generated the answer. It's great.
An interesting off the cuff alternative hypothesis that could be tested in a future study for sure. Though if I were the authors before I did that study I would do a pretty big lit review of gender differences in foveal vs peripheral visual engagement. Is there any evidence that men might use their peripheral vision differently from women in the first place? (This is just a thought exercise, I don't have an answer and am not asking for one)
Yes correct, I like to show these kind of graphs because a lot of people (not saying you) do no realize how little overlap there is between the distributions.
I don't really have a job description, I just solve problems.
I would feel comfortable with a solution that can be self hosted. Every cloud service will be hacked, they deny it first, then they blame the customer, and finally they go under, with half data already on the internet and the other half going to the shredder irrecoverably.

I don't need to this hassle, really. If I self host your cool stuff, I can avoid all of this blame-game.
arsim is definitely one to keep an eye on, it's fairly new but a great example of what generative AI might be good at (given the limited number of words used during ATC interaction)
Just a cost thing. I use a scale all day. But for most starting out the measuring spoon and cups are cheap and easy to use.
Totally agree, this specific case is 100% entrapment. I was responding to the general question.
Well, it's not going to outpace it, exactly. Unless the temperature is actually increasing (or decreasing), the energy in matches the energy radiated away, less the non-heat work.
Yes both Chrome and Safari are "the new IE" but for different reasons

I think people make too much of Safari lagging in the adoption of standards. Yes, they lag behind on what Chrome is pushing but they're also ahead on other features, like color spaces.

I'm familiar with Safari strange bugs but it's usually while I'm testing with VoiceOver so I have fewer occasions to notice bugs with Chrome or Firefox, which don't work as well with VoiceOver overall.

I think of Safari being the new IE because it's not as evergreen as other browsers; old but still usable iPhones and iPads can't run the current version and aren't allowed to run anything else. Thus, developers have more reason to care about what a browser from 2+ years ago supports.
7GB fits neatly on a thumb drive. Could just be a lost device.
Yes, I'm aware. However in most cases I know the size of the array in the beginning and it's not modified by any means (which is guarded by const correctness throughout the code).

If I can't guarantee that, I use vectors and ".at()", which does bound checking at runtime.

Generally I'm developing solo, so people mucking what I do is very rare, however I don't blindly believe myself either.
a lot of coffee, wishing i had something even stronger xD.

honestly, it is genuinely a situation where print debugging is your friend… i get every bit of code that yields in as close physical proximity as possible and trace it with my fingers like i’m a child counting on my fingers. because you really need to have an unassailable mental model in order for you to get it right at all most of the time (more so than “regular” programming).

on the flip side, once you figure it out you never really need to touch it again, and you can usually “scale” the solution fairly easily as long as you don’t change the dynamics of the system (e.g. you can bring in N faux-coroutines in as long as only one pair is operating at once, but can’t as easily turn it from a two-person dance to a three person… i don’t know any three person dances lol).
You can also reuse containers with test containers.

Now the next question might be "Well why use test containers then if you are reusing containers".

Because you can express these dependencies and drive the config programmatically from your code and test harness.
Thank you for the support and the valuable feedback! Sorry about the response time, I haven't expected the incoming volume of requests.

* For changing prompt in the middle - I'll take a crack at it this week. It's on top of my post launch list.

* Feedback button: Thanks for reporting this. The button was supposed to open default email client to email feedback@recurse.chat

* LLaVA model: I'll add more documentation. You are right Llava could not generate images. It can only describe images (similar to GPT-4v). For image generation, it's not supported in the app. While I don't have immediate plans for image generation, check out these projects for local image generation.

- https://diffusionbee.com/

- https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

- https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
With default settings an attacker can run up-to 10000 req/sec on your api gw which would result in a sizable bill if left unnoticed. So with AWS you have to configure throttling and AWS protects you from low level ddos. How do you save yourself from a huge traffic bill in a VPS?

AWS also has WAF to protect from DDoS , it is expensive but may save a day if you urgently need a protection.
Surge pricing doesn't only apply to increasing price.
What Justin Bieber and other celebs taught me about how to use my phone
So, pre-crime?

It's not illegal to be a monopoly[0] (at least in the US) but abusing your monopoly is what gets you in trouble. Copyright and patents are examples of gov't granted monopolies.

[0] Fully conceding the fact that MS is a convicted monopolist and has to play by different rules than everyone else.
RAR file format have heavy encryption even on filenames. So 3rd party observers can't see what IS inside of archive actually.

If you encrypt ZIP file - then filenames aren't encrypted, only content.
> what has worked in real life for you?

Asking questions. It gives me more time to think and more information with which to come to a conclusion. I think a lot of what is sometimes called slowness is really analysis paralysis. Not caused by lack of thinking, any more than gridlock is caused by lack of cars. As you know, the person who makes confident, knee-jerk decisions looks highly competent, but usually isn't.
> Coinbase has suspicious crypto hedging

Any source on this? I've never heard that

> during huge crypto moves, generally to the upside, they have "outages"

Price increase -> increased web traffic -> outage
It's bizarre at my local Wal-Mart. Cursory selection of rotting, fly-covered (no exaggeration) produce, and then 50 shelves of packaged food. Of the shelves - there is exactly a quarter aisle for canned vegetables and another 1 3/4 just for Nabisco products
Apple Shareholders Vote Down Request for AI Transparency Report
That's not a 'bit' ("Binary digIT"). It's closer to a 'trit' ("TeRnary-digIT"). Specifically, ternary digits spanning {-1, 0, 1} (rather than the usual {0, 1, 2} in a base-3 numbering system) are 'balanced ternary'.

A great intro to the theoretical reasons ternary might have some promise in computing is this 2001 article from 'American Scientist', "Third Base", which quotes Knuth calling balanced-ternary "perhaps the prettiest numbering system of all" and also discusses an abortive Soviet effort in the direction of ternary computing:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011205185830/http://americansci...

In an aside, the article hints that e-nary digits (base 2.718…) if somehow made practical/meaningful, might actually be better than ternary (or perhaps even optimal?).

So maybe this paper's observation that ~"1.58 bits" (ln2(3) binary-digits) is a sweet-spot could be further refined into some method for representing the state of a e-nary-modeled algorithm in ln2(e) binary-digits (~"1.44 bits") per underlying e-it.

(As it may be of renewed interest, I've also put this 2001 "American Scientist" base-3 intro as a new HN submission for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541756)
yeah it comes and goes. saw my assets show up and now they are not.