skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen https://github.com/jonmmease/avenger? Which is an experimental Vega visualization renderer in Rust using wgpu.
Android does this with zram, and I think this is a big part of the reason why it tends to use more battery once you run low on RAM, since paging in and out requires (de)compression, which uses CPU.
I mean when it was introduced in MacOS Catalina literally everyone was griping about the popups and menus and how "locked down" everything is. Microsoft probably doesn't want another Vista situation, and who can blame them lol
Given that multi-variable calculus is accessible to college freshmen, and millions learn it every year, it's hardly incomprehensible.

You'd be right to be suspicious of the Space Shuttle though.

You may have noticed that it's not going to space anymore. The excessive complexity of that system (and the resulting disasters) is the reason for that.

Simpler (and far less capable) Russian spaceships, meanwhile, kept operating.

Complexity may be unavoidable, but it better yield more value than it takes away. It's a trade-off. There's nothing good about complexity in itself.
Not really.

You don't need bespoke cutting edge hardware or models for most defense applications (aka to kill people) today.

For example, C-RAMs are using Maxwell level hardware at most.

The biggest driver for GPU, FPGA, and CPU development has been nuclear research, and is a major reason why the top supercomputers and HPC programs globally are usually linked with Nuclear Weapons Labs (eg. LLNL, LBL, Argonne, Oak Ridge, NSC Guangzhou).

It just so happens that you use the same math for nuclear simulations as you would for "ML", bioinformatics, and computer graphics.

It's all Numerical Analysis and Optimization Theory at the end of the day.
It's the best multilingual model out there and it's not even close.

Especially in terms of open models Mistral's are the most multilingual but outside a few handpicked ones the level of proficiency is just too poor for any real usage.
For CF accounts, I use the gmail `+ feature` to make a totally unique email address that cannot be easily guessed. Not perfect, but adds another layer of abstraction.
Exactly. If mainstream accepts you, you aren't counterculture. Real counter-culture isn't "cool" .

Im sure there are other countercultures besides Juggalos; US Wahabis, religious polygamists, ect.
It’s still abrasive, even if not as bad.

A helicopter on the moon would have an even harder time working.
bootp / tftpboot were used to provision diskless systems (diskless workstations / X-terminals) even in the very early 1990s (and likely before, but I didn't interact with them until college computer labs).

On scanning my brain-based archives I can't recall how IP addresses were assigned and a brief asking of google "bootp vs dhcp" leads me to believe that with bootp there was just a static list of IP / MAC mappings for already-known diskless devices.

Old network cards could have a boot rom in them; this https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=86741 discusses the magic and a couple of the non-pxe protocols.
I got the same thing. I got it to elaborate and as I asked it how it could be trained on GPT-3 when it's closed source. I asked if it got the data through the API. It insisted it was trained on conversational data, this leads me to believe they generated a bunch of conversational data using OpenAI APIs...
The statement of the problem is the guarantee, just like the statement of the problem is the guarantee that there is always 1 car and 2 goats, that you always get to initially choose 1 door, etc.
Programmers writing lines of code do not do so without consequence; the way they do
their work is of critical importance to the national interest.

Ick.
Lot of it is luck of the draw, the odds of which are influenced by environment. My own data point is with used motorcycles but all of them have had varying degrees of issues that grounded them for some period of time until I could fix the underlying issue. But many people I know have stories about older cars breaking down and leaving them stranded on the side of the road.

I don't doubt at all that there's good used cars out there. But for a lot of folks, it's worth the extra money for the peace of mind comes with a new off showroom floor new car with a completely known history with a manufacturer backed warranty that includes roadside assistance.
Sheer cost of "hundreds of billions"?

Within another couple years, automated systems that are descendants of today's rapidly-advancing coding-assistant LLMs will be able to do amazing things.

For example, it's plausible they'd be able to to create proven-memory-safe rewrites of older software, with verified drop-in compatibility for all enumerable use-cases, practically for free.

Well, unless it's a parasitic government contractor doing the work.
I think I probably have similar attitude to the GP post. I have been using Linux on laptops for over 25 years, and have zero interest in ordering one with Linux preinstalled. I will research that the new model has integrated devices with upstream, integrated support. I almost treat a vendor-supplied Linux as a bad smell.

I don't want to risk "Linux support" that comes from the vendor tasking some interns to hack drivers into one specific distribution and/or kernel version.

I want a machine where I know I can wipe or replace the SSD and boot my preferred standard Linux install media to get a fully functional system. I want zero vendor-supplied drivers or other add-ons.

Luckily, Thinkpads have been popular enough that I can always read about someone else's experimental validation of new models before I bother to order one myself.
This is moving the goal posts. Saying that members of the same racial group can actually be more genetically similar to members of another race has no bearing on whether or not the traits that define racial categories are genetically derived.
> Is it an axiom of civilization that destruction always costs less than construction?

Defense and Offense vary in power over time.

In the middle ages, it was possible to construct a suit of armor that effectively made you invulnerable. A small force of armored men-at-arms could defeat a much larger force of peasants because the peasants just wouldn't be able to injure them effectively.

Additionally, castles and other fortifications increased the power of defense.

Firearms swung the advantage to the attackers - giving conscripts a way to pierce plate mail, and cannoneers a way to take down castle walls.

Barbed wire and machine guns swung the balance of power back towards the defenders. Largely static trench warfare was the result; even with overwhelming artillery fire, it was extremely difficult for determined attackers to mount an effective assault.

Stormtrooper tactics, tanks, and airplanes all boosted the power of offense making deep penetrations into enemy lines a routine occurrence in WWII.

Nuclear weapons were initially a massive boost to offense when only the US had them. But with the advent of MAD they are firmly a tool of defense[1].

Even with modern weapons at their disposal, economic conditions can also affect the battlefield - the Ukraine war is very much a defense-centric war. This is partially because of the potency of SAMs and partly because Ukraine is starved of artillery munitions. Among many other reasons.

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1. At least until they're next used in anger. No one really knows how MAD will actually play out. Hopefully no one has to find out.
Yep, happy hours are already well-understood and accepted. As long as they make their hours clear and obvious and standard across their restaurant line.

Shifting to ridesharing's surge pricing is much different, especially if the user has to find out the pricing when they arrive at the restaurant. Ride sharing apps fundamentally sidestep this because you see the surge pricing without incurring a cost, and you can compare to competitors easily.

But with all the restaurants wanting more mobile orders, this may split the customer base in weird ways.
Hey java-man,

Thanks so much for checking it out, I am the author of the original notebook. I forgot to mention it initially but the timezone is UTC as was already mentioned.

If you have any feedback, would love to hear it as well!
Surge in syphilis cases drives some doctors to ration penicillin
19% slower doesn't meet very many definitions of "serious threat".
Didn't they also mandate Ada at one point?
That tenet is unfortunately lost on many people in America who are often the most vocal about their faith.
Qualcomm waited just long enough to get decent Linux support going. Now instead of buying a capable Aarch64 laptop as soon as possible, Qualcomm has to compete with the fact that I can perfectly play Halo from Linux on x86_64-linux via Proton.
I do it that way with toolchains for exotic architectures. Its easier.

(I'm from the "Hey as long as it works" school of thought).
here’s my simplified but experienced take:

Increased obesity is definitely part of why straight men reject straight women. Mental health is probably the number one reason why straight women reject straight men.

straight women expect straight men to be willing to go to therapy, but also to not need it in the first place

the mental health expectations placed on straight men are unrealistic

meanwhile, gay men see traumatized men and try to claim them. There’s a misunderstanding that men who got picked on in school are ripe for gay conversion.

Not all gay men are predators, but hey I’ve been sexually harassed by both straight women and gay men, and it’s definitely more gay men.

I think it comes down to how the different groups perceive mental health difference, and perhaps that gay men feel safer pushing when they’ve already gotten a “no” versus straight women who have more to worry about regarding their safety.
I get that there are limitations with LLMs, but I don't understand people saying it has no value, just because it occasionally hallucinates. Over the past week I've used chatGpt to code not one, but two things that were completely beyond my knowledge (an auto delete js snippet, and a gnome extension that turns my dock red if my vpn turns off). These are just two examples. I've also used it to write a handy regex and write a better bash script.

LLMs are insanely helpful if you use them with their limitations in mind.
If it were a subsidy then Wendy’s would be closed during downtimes.

If it were about wages then the plan would raise prices when wages increase overnight, not lower them. In general, prices are always about demand, not cost.

People don’t cancel their weekend plans because Uber isn’t surging, they avoid or delay Uber when it is surging. It’s about spreading out the surge.

Acting like the opposite is untenable is ridiculous, it’s the way the whole world works and has worked forever, except for one industry that gets away with everybody hating them because people have no alternative.

It’s solely about increasing profits at the expense of customers, let’s not pretend anything else.
This is a great question, thanks for asking.

We are testing workflows internally that use orchestration software like Hatchet/Temporal to allow the framework to robustly handle 100s of GBs of upload data from parsing to chunking to embedding to storing [1][2]. The goal is to build durable execution at each step, because even steps like PDF extraction can be expensive / time consuming. We are targeting an prelim. release of these features in < 1 month.

Logging is built natively into the framework with postgres or sqlite options. We ship a GUI that leverages these logs and the application flow to allow developers to see queries, search results, and RAG completions in realtime.

We are planning on adding more features here to help with evaluation / insight as we get further feedback.

On the A/B, slow rollout, and analytics side, we are still early but suspect there is a lot of value to be had here, particularly because human feedback is pretty crucial in optimizing any RAG system. Developer feedback will be particularly important here since there are a lot of paths to choose between.

[1] https://hatchet.run/
[2] https://temporal.io/
"Serious threat" until you find out that it won't match power-per-watt of the M3, or very likely whatever else Apple already has in the pipeline.

IIRC the SXE is only getting its rumored performance running at some 50-80W of power usage?
The bottom 40% of Americans have consumed goods and services in excess of their current resources. There was a time early in my career when I was in debt (school loans, mostly). Someone had lent me money that my family and I didn't have and I was able to use that money to attend college. I was able to use that college degree to help me start my career.

I was able to buy my first car before saving up the full amount for it. I was able to buy my first house (and later our current house) without saving the full amount.

Debt, used properly, can be a very useful and productive tool. Banning debt doesn't help all poor people and surely hurts many of them.
Media is the wrong barometer. Its foundation is copyright, which is antithetical to everything punk.
Indeed, I'm not disagreeing on that, merely opining that "ChatGPT" as a name could well be relevant for a bit.
Perhaps we can use Moon dust to our advantage: kick a thick enough cloud of it, and the helicopter will have something to fly in.
They are, so I want to smash my face in once a month or so when this boogeyman is dragged up out of hell during executive calls
Per you link, they also removed these quotes:

In your hands

Our products comes with transparent access to our weights, permitting full customisation. We don't want your data!

Committing to open models.

We believe in open science, community and free software. We release many of our models and deployment tools under permissive licenses. We benefit from the OSS community, and give back.

Edit: this is pretty fucking sad, and the fact that it's become expected is... I dunno, a tragedy? I mean, the whole point of anti-trust law was that monopolies like this are a net negative to the economy and to social and technological progress. They are BAD for business for everyone except the monopolist.
Honey, I Insider-Traded Your Merger
That was inside the DoD itself, yes.
The bubble is that every $1 in capital going to OpenAI/Nvidia is a $1 that cannot be invested anywhere else: Healthcare, Automotive, Education, etc. Of course OAI and Nvidia will invest those funds, but in areas beneficial purely to them. Meta has lost $20bn trying to make Horizon Worlds a success, and appears to have abandoned it.

Even government-led industrialization efforts in socialist economies led to actual products, like the production of the Yagan automobile in Chile in the 1970s[0].

We've already had a decade plus of sovereign wealth funds sinking tens of billions into Uber and autonomous driving. We still don't have those types of cars on the road and it's questionable whether self driving will even generate the economic growth multiplier that its investment levels should merit.

[0] https://journal.hkw.de/en/erinnerungen-an-den-yagan-allendes...
It really depends on what "substantial" and "easily" mean.

If you're truly living paycheck to paycheck, then you are actually in danger, because paychecks can easily stop, e.g., layoffs, and then you won't be able to "easily" afford your car payment.

This is not even mentioning other unexpected expenses that can arise and suddenly make your easy car payments not so easy.
What I'm most curious about is how this will affect new program language development, and programming languages currently in development. Like if Zig wants to see mainstream adoption, will it have to implement the Borrow Checker, or something similar, if people want to use Zig in government contexts? Trying to create a new programming language that people will invest in is hard enough, and if it isn't memory safe, it will be even less attractive to people.

On top of that, trying to start a software business is tough, and if your will be shunned if your stack is non memory safe, why put yourself at a disadvantage?
Actually it does matter. If you lose automatically when a car is shown, that will happen in 1/3 of games: none of the times your first pick was a car (0 * 1/3 = 0), half of the times your first pick was a goat (1/2 * 2/3 = 1/3). The remaining 2/3 are equally split between the times you chose a car first (which are guaranteed to complete) and the times you chose a goat first and MH randomly chose the other goat rather than the car.

(Note: this analysis does depend on the constraint that MH doesn't open your first pick door! Edit: actually the answer also becomes equal odds if he can pick any door, regardless of whether it was your first pick or the car. In that case, 1/3 of games will not complete, and the rest will be 50/50 between the unopened doors.)
I don't think your interpretation of the sentence is sensible. The sentence mentions that the host knows what's behind the doors. So, if he is allowed to open the door with the car, the problem would become insoluble and would just be about speculating on the host's personality. And it definitely doesn't support the conclusion that the probabilities become 50/50.
Yes, I have.... quoting Wikipedia[1]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In information security, a confused deputy is a computer program that is tricked by another program (with fewer privileges or less rights) into misusing its authority on the system. It is a specific type of privilege escalation.[] The confused deputy problem is often cited as an example of why capability-based security is important.

Capability systems protect against the confused deputy problem, whereas access-control list–based systems do not.[]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
>Within another couple years, automated systems that are descendants of today's rapidly-advancing coding-assistant LLMs will be able to do amazing things.

Yeah I'll believe it when I see it. If humans struggle to figure out what these systems are supposed to do, no AI is going to figure it out.

Hundreds of billions of dollars is a lowball estimate on what it would take to rewrite it all in Rust.
JVM arguments as an optimization technique give me that winter melancholy.
With mixture of experts (MoE) models, I would think that Mistral might make a lot of money reselling specific models to big players like Microsoft and Google to augment their MoE systems.

I mostly use either mistral7b or mixtral8-7b for most things, and experiment with other models on the side. In what world will LLMs not become a commodity?

You might answer that question by saying that on player achieves AGI and captures the market, but I think there will be more to AGI than LLMs.
Gawker got sued for their role in the sexual exploitation of an individual (hosting and publishing a non-consensual sex tape).

Peter Thiel provided financial support for the victims of Gawker's abuse to pursue legal recourse. Many people believe his motivations for this were due to his own previous exploitation by the organization.

The only dystopian thing about the Gawker case is that it took the benevolence of a rich person supporting the lawsuit to get justice. In a better system, Gawker would have been successfully sued without needing extra financial backing to pay for expensive lawyers.
Not sure why people on HN can't understand that companies actually need to make money to survive.
>The only compelling reasons I can think of off the top of my head are interop with existing software and that C and C++ developers would require a bit of training to move to safer languages.

Decent C and C++ developers shouldn't take that long to grasp the borrow-checker. Those that don't can't be trusted coding C or C++ in the first place. Because they don't have a good enough mental model of memory management to deal with it manually.

Interop with C is fairly straightforward. Python also with PyO3. C++ has some support.

> There may also be a few problem domains that demand the maximum performance and lowest resource utilization possible

You can approach that with Rust as well. Often you can even do performance improvements better and safer then in C++, because the borrow checker helps you stay safe. Especially CoW is a godsend when processing data.
If these were scrappy start-ups looking to survive one can sort-of understand why they might bend the rules about copyright to train their models.

But we're talking about behemoth companies here, one of which deigns to make a pitch worth 7 Trillion dollars (10% of global GDP).

So... they're trying to rake in investment at levels that are unheard of in human history. Surpassing Apollo, the Manhattan project, the great pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and anything else one might think of.

And they're not paying for the books ???
This would logically be read as "bottom 30% of Americans, ranked by car ownership [rather than net worth or income]". I suspect that there are in fact more than 30% of Americans who own zero cars.

18% of Americans are 14 years old or younger [and presumably almost none of them own a car], so if 15% of those 15 years old or older don't own a car, the total is over 30%.
A basis state would be one of the fundamental states a quantum thing can be in. A classical computing bit has states of 1 and 0 that are analagous to |1> and |0> basis states in a quantum state. A quantum bit would be in a mxture of both.
It is a lovely font but those angled o's and sloped n,m,h in the lower case are too distracting for me personally. I can imagine it being popular as slightly more professional looking Cooper Black (as discussed a few times in the article), especially if one sticks to upper case.
Looks like a general language comparison. The article isn't really geared towards system administration. I'd have preferred to see a standard lib comparison specifically directed at system administration.

That said I do prefer working with regular expressions in Ruby It feels very clunky in Python, probably for historical reasons.
My son has a couple allergies. My anecdote (in the US): it was very easy to get EpiPens for him. Having decent insurance, it was also not expensive.
And it’ll be running windows. I cannot imaging having to use that again - it feels so backwards.
Is "agile" meant for product dev? IMHO, no.

Very loosely, "product dev" projects have concrete deliverables, deadlines, and high cost of change (updates). So therefore are ameniable to PMI-ish critical path like methodologies. (Avoiding the evergreen unresolvable sophistry wrt "waterfall".)

The original motivation for "agile" was to protect the dev team from terrible customers (clients). Those who cannot or will not commit to requirements, actively resist any kind of formalism, have no clue what "done" even means.

Meaning most IT (data processing) efforts. And now most web stuff.

"Agile" is totally rational in those unwinnable situations. Because the dev team would always have something to show for their suffering. Lessening the likelihood of being the scapegoat come the inevitable failure.

Unfortunately, "agile" became a fad, a belief system, an identity. Curtailing any kind of introspection. Only in the last few years have we been able to have calm, frank discussions about "agile". Mostly because some of its progenators have broken ranks and done mea culpas.
It isn’t moral relativism. It’s just economic sense. In both cases.

There is no moral requirement to be open source.

Being closed is not fraud, coercion, theft, dishonest, anti-competitive, …

(On the other hand, being open, in situations where closed would be more profitable, is taking the moral high ground.

Open provides better value for the customer, user, and community.)

Aside from moralizing, the economic puzzle is: How to align the economic incentives of businesses with the real long term community value of openness. While also providing greater resources to successful innovators to incentivize and compound there best efforts.

(Note that copyright has been the solution to this problem for cultural artifacts. And patents try to do this for tech, but with more problems and much less success.)