skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as an example, Gitlab is (was?)kind of infamous about this - everything you do in gitlab for a long time was already in docker, so you by nature of running in gitlab were forced to do everything in DinD mode. They might have changed this in recent times.
They are starving.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65881803
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They aren't even claiming it is a medicine. They've applied for FSSAI approval which is for food and supplements.
Who’s to decide what’s a horrible question and why?
Real life switch shows it's current state (eg: light switch, up for on (and some even have little text showing ON when on)).

Like a checkbox shows it's current state.
They look otherworldly too.

Recent NASA test: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UShD03eG9IU
Another good one: my company periodically forces all software engineers to wipe their workstations / laptops and re-install everything from scratch. I have one such wipe coming up, with no way to avoid it, will probably spend 3-4 days just setting up all software again and do no work.
Hmm, that doesn't seem fair. At that point, why not encode a huge library of programming challenges into the language spec to beat all the challenges with just a couple of chars? Oh well, I suppose it's not really a competition in the usual sense so it doesn't really matter. And code golf language comparisons are kind of apples-to-oranges huh.
"have enough of the traits to be problematic for society"

that's an interesting way of putting it. Implying that something needs to be done.

Here's another
https://www.spiked-online.com/2016/12/13/viewing-children-as...
The key thing here is reflection. You can look at your speech again and ask: am I more anxious about saying something I don’t like, or about this? I also was a slow-speaker, which in my case was actually anxious-speaker. But at some point I said “f… it” cause no one really cares deeply about the perfect form of a fine structure of your message. Literally anything is better than your awkward stumbling.

Be wrong and say stupid things. You will be corrected or correct yourself. Accept the correction and move on. If you feel very wrong, turn it into a question? Instead of feeding back to anxiety you’ll feed back to speech.
Every day. Git update + build + run tests + launch.

Having a really good test suite is key. I launch straight into production with zero fear.
yeah, that's probably it

i'm using an m1 laptop, so my sgemm implementation relies on arm neon vector extension, and i saw literally no performance improvements when i added prefetching, which could either be a result of their speculative optimisations or an issue in my own implementation

but i have noticed some ppl saying that adding prefetching on x86 has little performance improvement for sgemm, bc it's a scenario in which it's easier to predict the next memory address that's gonna be used
Could you link to where Zoubin Ghahramani talks about that? Curious but can’t find it in my web search
I watch tv on my 720p non-smart tv and it still feels like I'm living in the future. Nobody needs 4k. Hell, nobody needs 720p. A lot of people lives in a luxury bubble.
Went from founding to shipped flight hardware in 2 years with 45 people. I think the key was the really good coffee machines.
Could fiber optic cable help scientists probe the deep layers of the moon?
I would generally agree that polymorphism is necessary, except maybe for embedded systems. You want more of a closed world system there, not an open world system that permits arbitrary extensions.

By open world, I'm thinking of abstractions like closures and interfaces which permit arbitrary extension and require dynamic dispatch. Given any fixed set of such abstractions, you can simulate in a closed world system via something like defunctionalization during whole program compilation, which is what you do on embedded systems. You can probably do a defunctionalization transformation with comptime, and that gets you better visibility on the state of the system in a way that's not possible with a truly open world system.
That’s proof that people are dumb, not that they didn’t used to be even dumber.
Just for the record, the "not at all" part is incorrect for the nodes I'm aware of. Correct would be "way worse", i.e. it's still getting denser, but the improvement is way worse than that of random logic.
I prefer the lest dehumanizing undocumented migrants.

Using intentionally dehumanizing language exposes a desire for unchecked cruelty.
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Because it's basically pouching?
Over-selling tags for profit generation sounds like a problem that needs to be taken care of.
This is definitely true in Asia
In theory it should make training a lot easier too, particularly on CPUs. But I think you'll still need reasonably expensive compute to get a model something close to the current big models, and you really can't ignore data. Data quality and quantity are both huge ingredients in model quality, at least as big as architecture. It's still non-trivial to get a good quality, large dataset, certainly out of the reach of lone hackers and most small companies.
Not that I disagree with you, but:

> up for on

.. is regionally specific. e.g. in some places, you turn on lights in a house by flipping the switch down.
Mostly a few thousand old fleet cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD8qqEx4G18
I agree that they should block it, I just don't think they should be harassing Bridgy Fed developers. The GitHub issues were pretty insane.
You can do your own analysis on what various players can see based on the OS, the OS vendor, the apps, etc. Basically they get a ton of information.
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E.g.

- make something people want
- talk to users
- ?
- ?
Wow this doesn't have Attention, SoftPlus, LERU...
This indicates they were singled out. Was it reverence or an offering to the gods to prevent repetition (or maybe a combination of both) is anyone's guess.
Sing it with me, kids,

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The assets (mostly BTC and ETH) have risen in value.
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Pretty interesting! signa11, are you the author of the language? If so, is it fair to say the “closest competitors” for this language would be Kotlin and Scala? If so, what do you see as the pros/cons of Claro vs. these two languages?
> M1 etc do even better (they can speculate prefetch through a pointer

Interesting. Do you have a reference or more information on this?
One solution is to cozy up to Zed’s developers and have a first party uemacs mode.

Another is to write his own from scratch, ala git, and create another platform that takes on a life of its own.
Oh yeah, rose colored lenses
Interesting, although it seems to currently be missing a license. While Bazel and I are for sure not friends, I found this funny https://github.com/JasonSteving99/claro-lang/blob/v0.1.495/W... I guess it's similar to having a maven build under Nix but my relationship to Bazel is why I got a chuckle out of the russian doll setup
Well technically it's not an explosion.
Looks neat! We could use something like this for profiling certain codepaths in our Android client.

Any plans to support native libraries built with the NDK as well?
I would have guessed it took inspiration from rust with the `mut` keyword, and then told rust to hold its beer since mut is not transitive so `int[][]` would require `mut mut` to be able to write to int[0][1] if I understand TFM correctly : https://docs.clarolang.com/static_typing/builtin_colls/built...
I don't believe there is any official documentation on this, but https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49430 for example added prefetching to the marking phase of a GC which saw speedups on x86, but not on M1.

It should be pretty easy to find a MWE that shows the behavior. Something like summing an array of int* should do it.
Informative is not a word I would use to describe anything Hitchens said or wrote. His arguments are uninformed at best and pretty much skip over the entirety of philosophical thought on religious matters. One would think that his strident support for the Iraq war should have been a red flag that something was not quite right about his views.

He reminds me of a half-baked and far less eloquent version of H. L. Mencken, a popular journalist and polemicist from a century ago. Both were good writers but both made elementary factual mistakes constantly.

Edit: apparently a lot of Hitchens’ fans seem to be unaware of this. Here is just one example of how ill-informed his typical book was:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/xnt9gq/well_you...

The man was an entertainer who made controversial statements to sell books, full stop.
A few companies already use a similar process for interviewing; they give you a codebase that you have to figure out and implement a feature in that codebase.
I've seen plenty of rooms with more than one switch, where it acts like a toggle, so "on" can be up or down. There is no standard.
>If we turned the Earth into a black body and used all Solar radiation to run computers

>For the record I'm not in favor of paperclipping the planet like this. If anyone was wondering.

We should do this with Venus instead. It isn't doing anything useful at the moment, and is closer to the Sun than Earth. Mercury might be easier though.
The BPO industry was already in decline for quite some time. So I say good riddance.
> "...serious learning curve just in getting comfortable operating the basics"

Perhaps this worked against you.

Wordpress can get complicated, but there's no excuse for "the basics" to be gated by an ominous warning sign: "serious learning curve ahead".

I didn't know until now that CSS-Tricks was Wordpress! Never would have guessed. Now I'm wondering how much it was sold for, and also wondering what the most anyone has paid for a Wordpress site is!
Our legal system's idea of intellectual property wasn't designed for and had no way of knowing what it means to use a copyrighted work as 'training data'. Sadly it still has no protections and even there were, it's no clear how it would be enforced.
A bunch of companies pledged $1bln to a non-profit. A non-profit was turned into a de facto for-profit company. That’s what they should have been investigating since 2019.
> In other words, we would have a perpetual calendar that never changes from one year to the next.

Who really wants their birthday to be on a Tuesday for the rest of their life ?
I mean they never gave consent for their photos to be used as training data.
I half agree that technical feasibility isn't everything. For example, I can murder someone with a knife. But it's not what we want as a society.

But it's not never. For example, I can see your post. So I can send a screenshot of your post to my friends to dicuss it. I can't see your hard drive contents. So I shouldn't hack into it and send a screenshot of your hard drive to my friends to discuss it.

So technical feasibility influences what is reasonable to do as a society. It's not "feasible = reasonable", or else murder would be reasonable, but it definitely does influence it.

And in this case, I believe what the Fediverse people commenting in the GitHub issue want to be unreasonable. It is unreasonable to publish something publicly, on a federated network, where privacy controls exist (but are not being used), and then claim to have an expectation of privacy in a public space, especially when such bridges provide utility and benefit to others that just can't happen if it's opt-in.

It is reasonable to block it. It is unreasonable to expect everyone else to restrain themselves from using public data in the spirit of the open Internet. It is especially unreasonable to harass non-profit bridge developers in this case. That's not a social solution, just harassment.

Note about copyright: that's not a path one should go down, because it'll make the Fediverse illegal as a whole. It's probably fair use, anyway.

Note about AT protocol: yes it's designed by a for-profit, but it's good. Just because something is for-profit and VC-backed does not mean it will enshittify; take Element for example. It solves a lot of issues that people were having with Mastodon such as global full text search and a global feed. I would use it if it only had more relays to spread out the control.
These gate and metal pitch numbers don’t tell the whole story. In the end it’s logic gate density that counts.

And while decreasing the gate and metal pitch, also the logic gates have shrunk to be smaller (typically expressed by measuring the height of a gate in amount of metal tracks) from 9tracks down to 6tracks.

Changing the transistor from planar to fins, and now hopefully to ribbons with eventually stacked pmos and nmos are a big enabler.

That said, we’re still not hitting the ideal scaling numbers. We’re just doing somewhat better than what’s suggested by poly and metal pitch only.
Rocketlab Photon?
Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder
Nop. The model on Perplexity is a finetuned GPT 3.5 (the free one).
And the paid versons, well, you can choose between GPT4 (not turbo), Gemini pro, Claude, etc.

You can choose their model ("Experimental"), but is not faster than the other models.

All of these, proprietary models are fast on Perplexity. I do guess they are using some insane cache system, better API infrastructure...
why is his name so dangerous you can't drop it on your main account lel?
[dupe] wasting our time OP

More discussion over here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39523957
Sad but true. And many of those third parties, even security-oriented ones, care more about profits than privacy.
I agree with the other commenter, doesn't really seem to matter in this setting.

Colloquially, "decibel" is a widely known scale ranging from "I can barely hear that" to "holy crap, that's loud". 140 decibels communicates this fish is capable of a surprisingly loud sound - which is surprising. I don't really care if it's entirely accurate. I simply know that it's "surprisingly loud".
Is this the answer to the question of the proximate cause of Altman's firing?
The first part of your comment is pretty cringy. Just make a comment, we don't need the story of your life. I've seen you do this in other threads where everything is somehow about you. Very strange.
heh. this reminds me that google just last week updated all their system apps (maps, calendar, clock) to include mandatory, no way to disable, weather. now they can phone home every time you look at the time or set up an alarm even under GDPR.
> viewing it through the lens of yesteryear

Given that those critical adult-free hours were the norm ~throughout human history, I think the year part of yesteryear sells it short.

How about Yesterever?
As linked in this piece, Related from a month ago:

Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139540
Double buffered lookup tables!
> no one wants a kilometer of tailpipe hanging off the ass end of their vehicle

speak for yourself
Being an undocumented resident is not a crime.

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/FINA...
No they're not. There are no people living adjacent to the launch pad.
I remember reading NVDA financial results and thinking wtf:

https://techhq.com/2023/12/why-was-singapore-central-to-nvid...

Reasons for wtf:

- SG in terms of datacenter load in megawatts is a fraction compared to the US. Approx 900ish MW in SG vs 19000 in US. Where are all those GPUs going?

- There's been a shortage of rack space in Singapore due to high demand AND lack of supply due to A.) singapore is tiny, B.) there was a moratorium on new builds. Again, where are all those GPUs going to fit in SG?

- Assuming new GPUs are going into the DCs, presumably that would mean the DCs are having to be retooled to handle higher density rack loads.

I suspect that a lot of those GPUs were purchased in SG and shipped to China. The only other way I could reconcile those numbers is if someone were purchasing the chips and manufacturing cards in SG.
I noticed an odd typo in the html for this web page. Inside the head element, in this line:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=uft-8 " />

The `uft-8` should be `utf-8`.

(How'd I notice this? I have a little HN reader app I maintain at https://www.thnr.net/ , and I got some error messages in my logs when my word-count function (which computes how long it would take a person to read the article) was processing this web page's html. Part of this function examines what text encodings the web server and web page each self-report the page as having. The HTTP headers correctly said "UTF-8", fwiw.)
In my house, it’s random. Not because there is no standard around here (I live in the EU, The Holy Land Of The Mandatory Standards) but because it looks like the previous owners didn’t care enough.

More seriously, it also depends if there is only one switch for the light. If there is two nothing makes sense anymore and if there is more, you are forced to use a relay so switches become one state buttons.
Was this a destructive test? Thing looks like it destroyed itself. (What's with the foil just flying all over the place?)
Thanks for the suggestion! I play with Apple Shortcuts sometimes. It's an exemplary example of how easy end user programming could be. Will keep this in mind.
You could do quick tests using bytea, toast, or large objects.

But an object store may be more convenient overall.

When I did something similar, I did store embeddings and the image UUID in a table and my images in an object store with the same UUIDs as filenames. It was simpler to upload the images and put them available through a CDN.
I think your comment is circling the crux of the issue. Technical individual contributors see the results of bad management decisions and attribute blame to an easy, but tangible target (MBA's), which crucially has a "solution" that appeals to them: ignore the bean counters and let me do my own thing.

Good leaders don't need to be technical, though it helps, and just as an engineering degree doesn't guarantee a good IC, an MBA doesn't guarantee a good leader. But it's less appealing to complain about bad employees, and also it's easy to forget that even good employees (on both "sides" of the IC/management divide) can make bad decisions if there's incomplete info and someone has to make a judgement call
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Not sure if I understood correctly, but does this mean that instead of going up vertically, with this engine, the "rocket" should fly near horizontally and stay in the atmosphere at the right altitude until it reached the highest possible speed given the air resistance, and then lift up by the 2nd stage rocket engines?
From the Table if Contents

> Backpropagation Is Not Too Different from How Our Brain Learns

I am very skeptical of this position, but not enough to buy this book. There is a process in the brain called “backpropagation” but to my knowledge neuroscientists don’t believe it is primarily responsible for learning or can even carry an error signal back multiple layers like the loss in an artificial neural net.

Neurons in the brain are living things with complex behavior and many degrees of freedom. Nodes in an artificial net are governed by simple rules. This constant drive I see everywhere to analogize brains and artificial neural networks is really unfounded. We use NNs because they work. They can approximate the functions we want them to, we have backprop to efficiently drive them to that approximation, and we have hardware (GPUs and TPUs) which can run them efficiently, the latter being almost an accident of history really.
Sure, be pedantic.

But look around, loads of switches in the real world show their current state.

Hair Dryer, Stove, A/C. Mostly, toggle switches and dials show the current state. (And sure, 3x and 4x lighting circuits exist)
every ad network does this. right before the pandemic the new feature released on all big five was digital-out-of-home, which is the literal plot of dystopian movies... outdoors targeted to people passing by.

after that they all added targeting by weather (latest fine grained targeting under gdpr) and BT beacon tracking.

fun fact, google uses BT on your phone to mark of you entered a store after seeing an ad for it to get paid for the "conversion".
Why? We already have checkboxes with the same purpose. If that's not stylish enough, it's easy enough to implement a switch like this on the page. Browsers are already enormously complicated - every feature just piles another straw on the camel's back, uses more memory & code, makes the web a little harder to learn, bloats our Electron executables a little more. Wish developers would be a little more judicious about adding things. Maybe even remove things once in a while.
Does this mean the engine is fully deterministic?
Cisco had a lot of competitors in its growth era. Of them only the tattered juniper (soon HPE) remains.

Arista is doing very well now but Cisco is long past that growth era.
"One major release that blew everyone's minds and a bunch of random news that isn't a problem and is already forgotten."
Unclear, but the predictions appear to be better on things like US elections than prediction markets or 538: https://firstsigma.substack.com/p/midterm-elections-forecast...
> Running a thread per client is famously known as The C10K Problem.

Gonna have to be that guy: the C10K problem was "how to serve 10000 clients from a single server" specifically in the 2000ish time-frame. The article links to the C10K problem page, which discusses the tradeoffs involved in at least five high-level strategies[1], only one of which is the strategy of running a thread per client [2].

[1] http://kegel.com/c10k.html#strategies
[2] http://kegel.com/c10k.html#threaded
https://web.archive.org/web/20231026054429/https://www.sigid...
This sounds interesting:

> Claro’s declarative, DAG-based structured concurrency model provides an easy-to-use abstraction to statically guarantee that programs are:

Non-blocking
Data-race free
Deadlock free
Optimally scheduled
Scalable by default

Any language that can simplify the static guarantees of all those is worth a look.
> survivor bias

Using that phrase is... 80s childhoods weren't some sort of trial by fire threshing machine, dude. By and large everybody survived. Children being lost to quicksand or stumbling across gangs of counterfeiters holed up in abandoned mills who black-bagged them is a thing that happened in Scooby Doo and The Hardy Boys, not real life.

This elides the main issue; children need to be left to play unsupervised as the machiavellian instigator types only reveal themselves when nobody's watching. It isn't so much about letting the children take risks as it is about figuring out who's always present when something odd and painful happens to somebody else.
This is a fantastic article, bravo. Required reading for all SW developers
From Orders to Insights: Leveraging Materialized Views for E-Commerce Dashboards
This barely adds anything to the story, and is dated only a few days after it. It's a dupe. You're welcome to add Woodworking Network's insights to the discussion over there.