skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handling "end of data" isn't really something that any serialization format needs to specify, so I don't think this needs to be called out for JSONL specifically. e.g. in JS if you're using a ReadableStream you can just check whether a read returns .done==true. This is true regardless of the data you're reading, JSONL or otherwise
> The current pressures global populations face due to water access

Nearly unlimited water access only requires cheaper energy (desalination and condensers).
Doesn't the later work on tensor programs show this is wrong? It was show there is a region of hyper parameters that will be kernel methods, and another region where it will learn more meaningful features.
> Eat less meat

I've heard this, but is it true? Would it make that much difference if a small group of citizens stopped eating meat?
Can less provide syntax highlighting?
Guess you'll have to illustrate the vision to them, probably using pictures. Like slides in a presentation.
For what it's worth, I was exactly where you are 3 years ago. I made all of the same arguments. I saw the value in Tailwind. I had come from rebuilding a CSS system for another application multiple times because we never could get it to work for us.

I would have never believed me now either, not until I saw it done first hand and learned how to do it. So, call it uncommon knowledge, or a rare skill, or whatever you want, but do know that not only is it possible, but the skills required are the same skills that enable you to build maintainable applications -- not just CSS.

In large part, this is why we failed in the past. We would often treat CSS as a second-class citizen and put our most junior "front end" developers on it. It should have been no surprise that it ended up as a tangled mess.

> You don't have to switch files to add CSS and invent meaningful names for styles, then ensure you use the same name in the markup file, nor do you ever have to hunt down and change these names and the markup across multiple files to ensure they are applied consistently down the road of you're using HTML components.

This isn't a real problem. The only time we've struggled to come up with a name is when CSS forces us to use some mechanical name that includes the word "container" or something like that. Usually, we just name the thing what it is. Usually, very often this is in the domain of the UI (hint, it is likely the same name as your React component, if you are using React and naming things well).

There's another problem here that complicates things. Most people shouldn't be using React for their forms over data applications. It's unnecessarily complex, but people now tend to think that server rendered HTML is yet another lost art. React plays very well with Tailwind in a sense, because you are already forced to make components for your UI, so what's sprinkling a little class soup in that file? What's sprinkling a few type declarations in the same file? What's sprinkling a few hooks in that file? What it all adds up to, once you can see it, is very difficult to read and reason about code all in one place. You can learn to see through the forest, but I personally would rather work on one tree at a time.

By the way, I'm not advocating for writing HTML in multiple places (and therefore re-using the CSS classes), that often should be abstracted in some way. In Rails, we use helpers and view template partials. Every technology has its options. Technically, web components fit this bill as well, but we don't make heavy use of them as I've found them unnecessarily complex.
I like that they wrote this fine article, decided they needed to jazz it up a bit with some graphs, then decided to further make it pop by having seemingly the author pose as a topless DJ and a trumpeter.
> One of them is doing something wrong, or at least something that needs changed. Which one?

While this is as true in FP as it is anywhere, my experience is that it’s rarely true of the kind of small pure functions that tend to be composed like this. When someone is using a chain of functions like this, they usually are good abstractions that don’t change, and are short enough to be trivially correct.
You must be talking three decades ago or so.
'The Great Gatsby' Is Trash (2017)
My new employer uses nix and devenv to control everything from local dev to builds. Getting set up was much nicer than following a typical README with outdated instructions

I also used NixOS in the past, and it was a relatively nice Linux experience. Highly recommended checking it out
I jumped into Obsidian without looking at all those fancy systems people do and it's been great so far.

I just focus on writing and linking notes and only ever customize and install plugins if there's something I really need but can't do out of the box.

I greatly admire fancy note taking systems, but I just can't seem to stick to them, so I just try to write my silly little notes without thinking too much about organizing them.
What was the climate like in South America during the most recent ice age?

I am curious how sloths survived if their gut is so sensitive to temperature changes?
Less like "sell", more "shove it down your throats," same as today's exploitation. I'm not sure we need to go to space though.

The word "beltalowda" comes from the sci-di series "the expanse" which is a great watch and explores some of these themes.
The founder and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, recently said that thanks to AI, people won’t have to learn programming anymore, as natural language will become the new programming language. He is not the only one to think that; Andrej Karpathy, the former Director of AI at Tesla and a member of the founding team at OpenAI, recently said that the new hot programming language is English. Everywhere on tech Twitter, people are talking about how AI will replace jobs, starting with the job of a software engineer.
Yale's Stephen Roach Says "Hong Kong Is over" [video]
Blockchain is at least 15 years old, if it was useful it wouldn't take so much effort to convince people it is useful.
It is botspam and deserves to be flagged. Go ask chatgpt for explanation yourself instead of polluting forums with generated responses.
Explain sora. It must have of course a blurry understanding of reality to even produce those videos.

I think we are way past the point of debate here. LLMs are not stochastic parrots. LLMs do understand an aspect of reality. Even the LLMs that are weaker than sora understand things.

What is debatable is whether LLMs are conscious. But whether it can understand something is a pretty clear yes. But does it understand everything? No.
Google has only made 2 successful products. Search and gmail. Having worked intimately with a bunch of people from Google, there are brilliant engineers but nobody knows how to design or build products. And now the search index is so big that they don't know how to fix that either. All in all it's basically Google's end days. Like any company. Nothing to feel sad about. Companies like Nintendo are very rare which can last over centuries.
More diversity amongst editors is important. Given Microsoft’s track record of EEE, one wonders what they can do with vscode. Maybe one day it will only support GitHub, maybe code sharing gets picked up and is only available on vscode, forcing you to use it because everyone else.

It’s never a good thing that Microsoft has majority market share.
Well you do make a compelling argument.
Yeah, Quality has multiple axes.

For basic dependability, there are a ton of good manufacturers, these days. The whole industry has advanced, quite a ways.

But the "fit and finish" Quality (or the car is so fast, you get three speeding tickets when you buy it Quality) are ones that can add serious price to the sticker.

I have a few friends that drive BMWs. They are really nice cars, with a lot of things that I consider "frou-frou," but would definitely like, if I had the money they do (so buying a Beemer isn't a big deal to them). They can afford the premium, so they spend it.

I worked for one of the top camera manufacturers in the world. Their kit cost a lot more than many, and their main Quality axes were Image Quality, and Dependability. Major-league shooters based their entire [successful] careers on our kit. Their skill was the main determinant, but our kit allowed them to do what they do best.

If certain types of Quality are important, then the extra premium is worth it.
Yes! It was complete with a complete GUI, browser, networking stack, ISDN dialler, everything there :)
Reminds me of MADD (Mothers against drunk driving)

https://reason.com/2007/10/30/prohibition-returns/
That's not how those projects are financed so. The initial investment is calcupated based on, usually, 20 years, after which the performance guarantee of the big panel producers, and only those are used for big projects, run out. After that, the business case resets. So, in your example, the investors would repower the existing plant, anf xash whatever they get for the old gear on the second market, and build a new obe next to it.

Not to forget, costs per kWp go doen year after year. At the sake time Wp per panel go up year after year as well. This alone makes repowering much more attractive than just letting old plant running.
Or perhaps the issue is assuming people know, or people understand the majority of the time.

There is a reason why the Scientific Method is, well, NOT natural for humans. And exceptionally difficult to not screw up, even for those highly trained and incentivized to do it correctly.

And why if you grabbed a random person off the street and asked them a detailed question, you're as likely to get a hallucinated bullshit response as 'I don't know', or a useful answer. Unless specifically trained to do otherwise, anyway.

Even then....
Very good news for Zig! Does anybody know what industries it's popular in?

I can imagine it being good for games/embedded/etc, but haven't seen it in the wild yet.
> Jail is always an option when someone is subject to contempt of court

Not civil contempt :) I don't know of any modern case in the US where so eone has ever been jailed for striking, even wildcat.
If you want to see it in action, just create a male profile, post some stock photos and a bio that you think represent a “normal” guy, and start swiping.
Egypt announces $35B deal with UAE to buy premium Mediterranean area
Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)
> drastically reduced income, etc will make the problem take care of itself: the class you’re targeting this way will slowly stop having/keeping children

This seems to be opposite of reality though. The poorer you are the more children you are likely to have. Both in the US and globally.
The argument made does not hold up under even trivial scrutiny.

> We want a much larger population because then we can solve problems.
> resources are not a problem thanks to technology.

1.
Most people today consume very few resources.
Not out of choice but due to the highly selective resource allocations.

So the first goal then should be to even out the resource allocations
for all the 8 billion people on the world today.
This could go some way to validating the argument.
I dont think this will happen but if the author can make it happen it
would be impressive to say the least.
Good luck on that.

2.
According to the argument we also have a large surplus of geniuses that
never have a chance ot achieve their optimal utility.
Again, fix that in the world today, to prove it will work with a larger set.

3.
The argument is severely flawed.

Ok, we will be happy with more humans.
Now we are 8 billion or so walking around on the planet.

After some time, we have 16 billion.
Ok, we will be happy with more humans.

After some time we have 32 billion.
Ok, we will be happy with more humans.

Obviously, that doesn't work.
The immense lack of resources would curtail any such increase.

We cannot be permanently convinced that creating a larger population is
beneficial.

Thus the argument requires a somewhat defined limit.

The author mentions arguments made that the optimal population
size is less than 2 billion people.
Then rejects it.

However was proven above the author will have to come up with an
optimal population as well.
Since it is absurd to believe that we can grow in all infinity.
Towards the end there will not be enough land for every person to
stand up, and people are packed like sardines.

Can the author agree that 100 billion people would be a problem?
1000 billion?

Presently there is a hypothesis that the global population will soon
stabilize and then decrease naturally. ¹

""
Projections by the United Nations suggest that the global population could rise to around 10.4 billion in the 2080s, after which it may stabilize or begin a gradual decline.
""

Is this then a tragedy as far as the author's arguments go?

Personally, I am not that worried about population growth.
It appears to be a long-standing pattern that something epically bad
will happen that will drastically reduce the population, in some scenarios
even wipe it out.

War (Nuclear, biological) , meteor(s), consequences of climate change,
a plague (that will make covid seem like a minor cold), or something else
catastrophic, AI (never understood this one myself),

¹ https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/world-population-surpasse....
Training AIs is almost always done with massive data, as small data usually doesn’t have sufficient information content, statistically speaking, to build a good model from it. Certainly this is the case for the generative models.
Not yet, the support for long quoted sentences is a bit sketchy. Also within the wheelhouse of what's up next though. Having solid support for manual grouping is pretty much a prerequisite for automatic grouping anyway.
Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Vibrant World (2017)
> I would have thought that great (or perhaps at least very good) schooling was a bit orthogonal to whether they were public or private.

Actually, I guess that is true. I grew up in a blue collar area with pretty bad (or maybe just "average") schools. So I do (erroneously) relate public schools with being bad :)

I certainly would want more for my kids if I had them. But I (and most people) do have more than my parents did.
Wait, isn't that exactly how you say JSON??
Why would Google sell TPUs when it can rent them out via GCP?
Odd, taking an antidepressant was the best thing I ever did for my sex life. Small doses of Sertraline does wonders for performance anxiety and premature ejaculation.
Honestly, I agree that the article doesn't do a satisfactory job of answering "why?". Simply stating that researchers have an incentive to is true of everywhere.
Have there been any benchmarks compared to netty for real world use? Or any comparisons ? That would be useful for those of us considering a switch.
Yes it had deep and dark themes, but what stands out IMO is the wild-ass production design. Everything oozed cool and spiffy. Especially the various SHADO vehicles and other conveyances, and the costumes for the ladies.
Are humans not the same way? There's a saying "I don't know what I don't know".
> CSS doesn’t scale across teams/dependencies in its vanilla form in my experience, not at all.

In your experience. It was my experience too, until it wasn't. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501442

> often with no way to even control/revert what some deep dependency does

Without looking at specifics, it is hard to say, but it is very likely that this is a design mistake. It's very likely that the person making these mistakes is also making these mistakes in code and creating tangled messes there.

The state of development is quite poor. "Average" (read: most) developers create tangled messes because it's all they know how to do and they've never taken the time to learn how not to do it. So, when something like Tailwind comes along and says "you can't make a mess with this", then of course they will jump on it. They will not, however, be very interested in recognizing the costs that come along with it. They also will be incapable of seeing that the other path is not only simpler, but it can become easier with practice.
> ly; if the people who are supposed to be looking out for your interest end up being another corporation to fight

Except for the super key and critical difference that makes them nothing alike: you can vote on your leadership.
https://archive.ph/rHoIe
I experience free-floating anxiety as I think. And it’s really hard to just calm yourself because you don’t know why you’re feeling anxious and what’s the reason of your body to feel that way. Ground yourself it’s really hard in that situation. Breathing can help me personally in some occasions
Alan Bateman's FOSDEM presentation that explains this issues and some solutions in the meanwhile:

https://inside.java/2024/02/17/virtual-threads-next-steps/
It's verbose because it was finetuned to be "helpful" (the way OpenAI sees it). You can fix it with a system prompt, or finetune the base model with the format you want. Same with grounding it with RAG. Sure if you take a vanilla LLM and make no effort to adapt it to your app's needs, it's going to have subpar results. At least, verbosity is not an inherent problem of LLMs, it's a specific issue of a specific finetune. Hallucinations are a real problem indeed. However, being wrong and being very confident about your answer is something LLMs share with humans. LLMs can already have value if they're wrong less often than the average human (and some benchmarks suggest so).
And the solar industry is currently repeating this entire mess with low-income homeowners, offering to add the cost of the panels (and whatever else needs to be done to the home to accommodate them) to people's mortgages, oftentimes causing people to lose their homes due to living on fixed/low incomes already.

In so far as most people here believe in capitalist markets, we can agree to disagree. But at the very least I don't think it's too radical pinko commie scum of me to suggest maybe large industries shouldn't be able to just... fuck their customers like this? Over and over? Like I just don't care if people sign on the dotted line, that's not good enough. The layman clearly doesn't understand these contracts well enough to agree and they are blatantly, openly predatory in nature. I don't give a shit if someone has signed a legally binding document that says Solar Inc gets to fuck them, I still don't think it's right to let them do it.
If you try to take Finnish cultural norms around work and apply them to the entire American population, you're going to have a bad time.

There are a lot of people in America who want to live on social welfare.

I don't think this is something you can change intentionally without extreme and politically unviable interventions.
You can encourage lower reproduction with tax incentives. Nothing wrong with that.
China's New Hyperloop Train Just Hit a Record 387 MPH During Testing
That sure is a lot of words.
The Moonbase wigs were really OTT. I saw an interview with Sylvia Anderson, who apparently sincerely believed that wigs were in the future of women's fashion.
2006...
If they only knew....
If LLMs can self reflect and accurately score themselves on your three dimensions, why are they spending money on RHLF?

They wouldn’t be wasting all that time and money if the machine could self reflect.
> The global population is projected to go down to 6 billion by the end of the century

Source? I thought it was expected to stabilize around 10B or so
Osquery: a privileged daemon written in an unsafe language that allows your junior sysadmins to take down all your machines at once or cause mystery performance blips that someone else has to diagnose for a year before they figure it out.

First-person testimony.
Seaborn??? Typo surely

Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7TnQBSV00
Two key things here to realize.

People also often don't understand things and have trouble separating fact from fiction. By logic only one religion or no religion is true. Consequently also by logic most religions in the world where their followers believe the religion to be true are hallucinating.

The second thing to realize that your argument doesn't really apply. Its in theory possible to create a stochastic parrot that can imitate to a degree of 100 percent the output of a human who truly understands things. It blurs the line of what is understanding.

One can even define true understanding as a stochastic parrot that generated text indistinguishable total understanding.
It goes to the government so you can get it back in the form of public services, infrastructure, social welfare, healthcare, public amenities etc.
I'm sure it depends on how you do things. I think the housing square footage and vehicle requirements a lot of people say they require seem way too high to me. But I suppose there are some regulatory requirements that must be met these days - I was looking at an old station wagon with some buddies and noted that it had what I called the "unrestrained child tub" in the back. I bet you could fit six kids in there easy since there were no seat belts at all. Obviously that wouldn't fly today. Nowadays, it's "I need an SUV with a 3rd row for the kids".

And houses today are also probably a lot bigger than they need to be; often justified as a requirement for families. I don't think it's really necessary, but I seem to be an outlier with my 950 square foot house.

I imagine you've made more pragmatic choices, but I think there is also an element of luck; a lot of people get bankrupted by medical needs, and each kid is a reverse lottery ticket there. Speaking as someone who was once a kid with a lot of medical needs that didn't always get addressed, I can tell you that that does happen sometimes. And I needed to go to school; with my medical issues, the trades or military or whatever was never an option, so someone had to pay for that.

I guess all I can say is "shit's tough"; sometimes you get lucky, but I never seem to.
Yes, he should change his culture. We should too. Why is it taboo to tell people that their cultural values are wrong?
I am not able to endure the psychological torment of Earth...
We are having a conversation the feels much like the existence of a deity.
Unlike these folks from dotnet, which tested directly on ASP for real workload

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398
Looks fascinating. Great that it's free for personal use. Except that not being able to use it on my phone and desktop without paying $100 per year is way too expensive for personal use. Give me a personal sync for $3 per month for two devices and I'd definitely be tempted.
Sure, but not every reader is intimately familiar with Linux command line tools. I'm pretty certain that it is human written as ChatGPT gave much more detailed clarification (actually I got the idea to try it after reading this comment, I don't use ChatGPT very extensibly). I am fairly familiar with the Linux tooling but I can understand that oneliners like these can be quite intimidating.
I've written some comments/suggestions in this issue: https://gitlab.com/riseproject/riscv-optimization-guide/-/is...
This was super helpful actually, I somehow totally missed Ctrl-T being a thing and this makes it even nicer.