skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individual passenger cars weighing 3-4 tons is pure insanity. We had light army trucks below 3 tons even (ICE of course). Hell, there are full sized 6 wheeled real trucks with a mass around 6 tons. These monstrosities which carry a single owner to a market or kids to the school, are actually closer to a truck which can carry a complete small artillery gun inside. Mindboggling.
Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
The folly is the same as the rock star amplifier that “goes to 11” or how gig economy reviews are 5 star = acceptable or better, anything else means dreadful.’It is just a linear transform people have to do in their heads.
Anthropic just released their new Claude 3 models with evals showing better performance on coding tasks. With that in mind, I’ve been benchmarking the new models using Aider’s code editing benchmark suite.

Claude 3 Opus outperforms all of OpenAI’s models, making it the best available model for pair programming with AI.

The new claude-3-opus-20240229 model got the highest score ever on this benchmark, completing 68.4% of the tasks. While Opus got the highest score, it was only a few points higher than the GPT-4 Turbo results. Given the extra costs of Opus and the slower response times, it remains to be seen which is the most practical model for daily coding use.
Gravity as a Knob paper on how Varda Space tests crystal growth on Earth
The EU law here applies to Apple, not to you. Apple remains in the EU for as long as they have entities in the EU or operate in the EU. Thus Apple must follow EU law for as long as they have not exited the EU market completely.
> apparently dealing with borrow checker ... is appealing.

Yes it is. I love the borrow checker.
Is there any framework/system that distributes the work across multiple GPUs on different computers over a network (LAN or WAN)? I'm not concerned much about latency or generation time, but would love to train or load up huge models and send jobs to run overnight.
Can you not forgive someone and distance yourself from them? Did I miss where that is presented as a valid option?
In practice, the perceived noise is much (much) lower, basically inaudible: https://youtu.be/IX7rdJm5v6s?si=-eGOJKYidDWTRmHw&t=91
This is just proportional control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_control
Visual Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem [video]
Indeed - decomposition improves reliability but also makes the testing more challenging. That’s why we made the framework modular! Let us know of any feedback as you try it out!
IRCD + Tor should meet those needs. If you can get your friends to use a client that supports OTR even better so that you are not just depending on self signed TLS being on Tor but also end-to-end encryption in private chats. The reason to have a self signed cert within an already encrypted Tor is to allow your friends to install the public key for pinning or alternately to use torsocks + openssl client to validate the fingerprint and not depend on Tor specific mechanisms.

Irssi [1] and pidgin support OTR Off The Record. I believe the Weechat IRC client may also support OTR. UnrealIRCD [2] is the most flexible and powerful that I know of but takes a little bit to set up optimally. NGIRCD [3] is the simplest as far as I know as it can be set up in about 2 minutes. In terms of not storing data just avoid running services and instead make dedicated channels within the IRCD and either log to a ram disk or disable logging all together. Both IRCD's support requiring a password to access the server and/or channels. A single instance should be fine if you have less than about 20k friends especially if not running services.

[1] - https://irssi.org/documentation/help/otr/

[2] - https://www.unrealircd.org/

[3] - https://ngircd.barton.de/
Honestly it sounds a lot like the normal "full-release"-sized dose of 5-meo-dmt/bufo...only lasting a heck of a lot longer.
> It would never be tolerated if it was more visible.

Idk man, we put up with a lot of horrible stuff up here, too. Not so much because we like it but because nobody who isn't a billionaire (or perhaps heads a powerful but privately owned company) has much say in any of it. Heck, even my city council does whatever the heck the businesses want, no matter how big a crowd shows up at their meetings and says "please no."

(We don't have any ocean, here, but we do have lakes that have been getting more and more polluted for decades because nobody has the backbone to tell folks upstream to keep their fertilizer out of the water, or whatever.)
NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa
Classic gaslighting.
Thank you for catching that! Looking into it now.
If you are looking for a different term you can use the greek work "techne"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techne
Yep, forgot to mention that in my post, thanks.
A big reason that the US trades so much with China is because they are an adversary. It's a similar concept to nuclear MAD doctrine. Mutual Assured Economic destruction for both of the countries if there is a war.
I feel like some perspective needs to be applied to these popular terms. Imposter syndrome: there's a "sadness is not depression" thing going on here.

There is an actual Imposter Syndrome that afflicts people who are highly qualified/credentialed, people who have qualified for entrance into elite programs, and put in the time and effort to progress to graduation; and yet for psychological reasons, they have great self doubts about their "worth". This is akin to depression. (a third party would look at you and say "wow, you are super competent and qualified, it's terrible you feel you aren't," and no pep talk they give you is going to help you.)

Then there are bouts of insecurity and guilt whereby any of us can feel like "I fibbed on my resume and interview to get this job, and I now I'm surrounded by people who know what they are doing, I hope nobody figures out I snuck in." This is akin to sadness. (a third party would look at you and say "ha ha serves you right, but it's always fake-it-till-you-make-it, everybody feels this way to start out, just grit your teeth, you'll be fine," and that pep talk will help you.)

Everybody experiences sadness; sadness clears up and goes away. Not everybody suffers clinical depression, and it does not go away on its own.

Dunning Kruger? it's not really an Effect, it's an observation/tendency that is explained by simple logic along the lines of, "you don't know what you don't know".
Zsh is quite a bit nicer than Bash for scripting. For one, parameter expansion doesn't word-split by default, so you don't have to haphazardly quote everything. There's also some really powerful features, like the parameter expansion flags [1] and filename generation (globbing) flags [2] that can be combined to do very flexible things. [3]

Zsh also bundles a ton of useful modules that can be used to do things pretty outside the box. Eg, there's a module for creating and controlling a hidden PTY. [4]

Zsh also has some quite nice shorthands for basic grammar, like compact loops and conditionals. Eg, you can do:

for foo in bar*;
do_stuff # you don't need the do..done here for single-line for-loops

Also, while Zsh diverges from POSIX sh in some areas (like word splitting), Zsh has sh- and Bash-compatible emulation modes, which can even be mixed together within single scripts (eg functions can set their emulation mode and shell options locally, or files can be sourced or commands run with different emulation modes prefixed). [5]

Lastly, Zsh has this weird reputation for being slow, because the configuration frameworks like oh-my-zsh are absolute dogs. But it's actually among the faster shells, with very respectable script performance that's squarely ahead of Bash. [6] Interactive performance can also be fantastic if you use a less hungry framework or write your own config, and Zsh has many tools to improve speed further, like support for pre-compiling source files [7] and pretty good support for async workers. [8]

Zsh has also been around about as long as Bash, and runs on every major platform and is available in just about every platform's package manager. So the cliche about Bash being available everywhere is just as true for Zsh. Zsh is honestly a much better replacement for scripting, but Bash benefits from already established traction and by being the default shell on most Linux distros.

[1] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Parame...

[2] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Globbi...

[3] https://thevaluable.dev/zsh-expansion-guide-example/

[4] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Zsh-Modules.html#Zsh-...

[5] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Shell-Builtin-Command... (see 'emulate' command)

[6] https://towardsdatascience.com/comparing-sh-bash-ksh-and-zsh...

[7] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Shell-Builtin-Command... (see 'zcompile' command)

[8] https://github.com/mafredri/zsh-async as an example, but also doable in bare Zsh
how I can be criminal if Stripe is the one who stole my funds and I have 0 disputes? you need to talk with facts, proofs please, you can call people criminal if they have huge amount of disputes but all the proofs show facts are on my side, your feelings about me being bad does not equal to reality
> At the end of the day, people really like their big cars

That doesn’t apply to the entire planet so surely this could be different in the US as well.
(Nearly?) all states already have liability insurance requirements, and they already scale with real-world injury probabilities.

Those events just aren't as common as HN believes, so the driver of a KillMax HighBumper 9000 doesn't pay much more in insurance than the driver of a Civic.
Because the coding style is different. The basic unit of code is the procedure, not abstract entities like DateTimeCalculator or EmployeePayrollManager. Procedures are sensitive to the context where they are called. A procedure calling another procedure usually takes care to provide valid input data. Robust error-checking must be in place, or your program is unsafe.

A unit test wouldn't know the calling context of procedures deep in the call graph, and cannot detect unsafe but seemingly working code.
There really are no strong signals, which is why interviewing is relatively painful. Instead, there are a bunch of weak and moderate positive and negative signals, that you have to aggregate into an overall signal. Unfortunately the error bars on those signals are significant, and so usually you only hire on a relatively strong aggregate signal, and even then get it wrong occasionally.

Plus, nervousness and comfort with the environment and questions makes the error bars bigger.

Depending on the level, but assuming a Senior role, then some stronger (not strong, just stronger) signals are:

- ability to code basic solutions in the language of choice
- ability to reason about code complexity

- ability to get to a solution

- ability to explain their reasoning

- demonstrate they understand the nuance and complexity of software development

- understanding common tools in the domain they are interviewing for (sharding for distributed systems for instance)

Same, but on the negative/bad side of things:

- arrogance, argumentative, rude (nervousness is totally fine and expected)

- one true way-ism

- complaining about interviews during an interview

- inability to solve basic coding questions

- lack of understanding about basic data structures (too many people I've interviewed don't even understand how a hashmap is used)
I just feel it doesn't have to be this way. We can get the benefits of nix without the hardness of nix. It's just someone hasn't taken the time to make this "thing" yet.

It's annoying enough that I won't use nix personally. I've used it at work so I'm quite knowledgeable with it.
Yep - Amtrak is about the journey NOT the destination (because you may never arrive lol).

I have found that a great "in the US" vacation can be to fly out to your destination, do your vacation, and then take the train back. If you leave a buffer day you won't even miss work, and you'll arrive much more refreshed than if you flew in (at least in my experience).
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This is a self-fulfilling prophecy, of course. High-speed passenger trains do very well all over the world. Coast-to-coast distances are too long for them, but cities in the US tend to be clustered at distances that are absolutely viable if we cared to invest. And if we continue to treat passenger rail as an afterthought, of course it will remain one.
> The responsibility is on our ecosystem, not the developer

I completely agree. "Rewrite it in Rust" is not the answer (it might be part of the answer).

After spending some time laying the groundwork, leadership at my employer is receptive to this idea. But now what? How do we transform our ecosystem? Anyone know of books, training, consultants worth paying?
Thank you for the feedback! That’s a great suggestion. We do want to make the demo into a separate page, and also add a live evaluation demo using the synthetic data generated on the fly.
Not much. A diesel bus at street level is going to make more noise than an air taxi at cruising altitude: https://youtu.be/IX7rdJm5v6s?si=-eGOJKYidDWTRmHw&t=91
I started my comment with an agreement to the sentiment you're expressing and the sentiment expressed by the parent.

The only thing I added was a caveat that there is a useful term I'd like to see a replacement for.
Bandwidth is not artificial, but Amazon’s pricing structure for it absolutely is artificial. As you point out, bandwidth is not free but Amazon didn’t charge for ingress. Now they’re taking that artificial pricing structure and making it equally artificial in a way that (somewhat) promotes competition.
If imposter syndrome doesn’t go away with time, it is very possible the person overly focuses on knowledge/skills that are lacking but that are not required at all to perform at their job, and this can happen even when the person already is a/the top performer.
> EU jurisdiction ends at EU borders.

EU law applies to Apple or its subsidiaries operating in Europe. As long as Apple itself stays within EU borders, the law applies to them. It stops applying to them when they exit the EU market. The third parties (including EU citizens) mentioned within the text of the regulation do not define the applicability of the law itself.
Small businesses can literally get $25,000 as a reward for buying a vehicle over a certain weight.
> we were helping other Stripe merchants to get users for the exchange of % of their sales
This means:
we used Stripe Standard Connect, and you as Stripe user can connect your account to ours, and we do marketing on your behalf with no upfront fees and once customer we bring pays you we charge % from your sales. I do not know what exactly you are looking for but this is as technical as it gets except you are looking for specific codes how this works
I'm pretty sure $20,000 per LPU isn't actually the cost of these LPUs. I saw someone else on HN asking if $20,000 could get them something and an employee said to reach out. Which makes me think $20,000 is enough to get some sort of model running at least, even if it's not necessarily an LLM.
To clarify: it does affect the ux. The page reliably stops responding for about half a minute on every other request / click.
In case others are coming into this thinking about LK-99, the article isn't about that.

I had figured the LK-99 team might actually have something interesting considering that they were promising a proper presentation of their work at the American Physical Society. I had heard it had been withdrawn and wrote it off as another case of academic fraud, but looking it up right now, apparently it's weirder than that.

Someone pretended to be the corresponding author and submitted a withdrawal, but this was fixed and the conference the presentation is at should be happening around these days.
I'm really confused about this. I've been using GPT-4 for coding for months now and it's immensely useful. Sure it makes mistakes; I also make mistakes. Its mistakes are different from my mistakes. It just feels like it's very very close to being able to close the loop and self-correct incrementally, and once that happens we're dancing on the edge of takeoff.

It seems like we're in a situation of "it has the skills but it cannot learn how to reliably invoke them." I just don't think that's a safe place to stand.
It’s not meant to be insulting, it’s a joke in good spirit

I think it communicates the point that their setup requires a level of effort and commitment that’s not for everyone
*aspect ratio

Sorry, had to say it. Has the world really moved on from 16:9? I only buy used thinkpads and am t420 and t470s deep into the 16:9 era.
I like your way of thinking about Audiobooks as
"Audio books are a transformation function applied to physical books."

They also help sometimes in getting the "musicality" of a work.
I didn't know how musical Moby Dick was until I heard the audiobook narrated by Frank Muller. He transformed the whole thing. Like when one reads Shakespeare and only afterwards watches it live.

I tend to have audiobook+book combos for almost every book I love, since it's also a good way to continue "reading" even when ones eyes are tired...
"crypto" is not a very useful term. There are multiple classes within it, some good some bad.

Bitcoin is one and definitely going to stay around as a store of value (digital gold).

There are legit projects like ETH, USDC or Uniswap which have earned credibility in one way or the other (being open source, regulators allowing them to exist etc). Most of the alpha is going to be in this bucket, as it is still maturing.

And then there is a cesspool of scammers (SBF) and shitcoins. Stay away from those.
Time for open source pesticides catalogue?
Flash memory relies on cells keeping charged, but the electrons can slowly leak and discharge the cells over time. It looks like the commonly claimed number is 10 years, but there's no clear answer. Hard drives also aren't great as a "set and forget" method. In either case you should refresh the data regularly (~yearly). Optical media is a great option for digital long-term storage, but paper is a very tried-and-true method, if stored in the right conditions.
This doesn't pass my sniff test. The results are based on what people say about who "looks powerful" but didn't put people in a position where they actually give power to them . "Look what people do rather than what they say" is very relevant here. Reject and resubmit
This comment is almost entirely ahistorical.

India as a country is about 75 years old. It’s ridiculously young.

India is the largest democracy in the world despite having half as many official languages as American states, and an order of magnitude more spoken languages, cultures and religions.

Despite this India has remained a largely integral state, has seen authoritarian rule and seen it off in a few years, unlike nearly every other democracy formed around the same time has never been ruled by the military for even a moment.

The greatest economic miracle in the history of human civilization, the growth of China was a product of almost complete central planning to the point that the state also coercively controlled the number of kids you could have. Central planning is clearly no barrier to growth.

India, on the other hand has a highly federal system of government. Arguably the last few years have seen a lot more top down management but that’s a result of the party in federal government also being in power in most state governments.

The current debate playing out in the world is the exact opposite of what you’re claiming. China’s success has made central planning and authoritarianism appear highly desirable. India’s slower growth has made it appear that federalism and democracy are not popular.

However, as the pandemic is showing, when authoritarians mess up they tend to cause irreparable harm whereas democracies are able to absorb a lot more hits.

Your vision of India is a mirror house vision of a 50 year old India at best.

(Btw, even the court and municipal problems you’re referring to is clearly not cultural. India’s slow legal system is very clearly a result of sticking to an antiquated British system and not modernizing it to allow, for example, out of court settlements, which has led to massive backlogs that are now being addressed.

And in terms of municipal actions the Indian state is addressing those issues to the point where there are many functions where the Indian equivalent are significantly faster than the U.S. Try getting a passport in the U.S. today vs India.

Try making payments. India is far ahead of the U.S. which is frankly shocking considering the massive head start the U.S. has here.

Try IDs. While Apple is celebrating something like 4 states doing a pilot system of digital IDs which hasn’t even grown in the 5 years or so, nearly every municipal ID in India today is digital.

Most civil functions can now be done online.

India has also drastically improved government distributions. While the US government was sending literal checks through the mail over COVID Indian monetary benefits are now directly deposited in a bank account.
I loved that movie! It truly is gorgeous, right up there with Blade Runner IMO. I just wish they'd release it in 4k, I'd re-buy it in a heartbeat.
The overwhelming majority (90%+, IIRC) of Mongolia already lives in Ulanbataar.

They have different winter-related problems there (severe coal smog) but at least they're not at the mercy of ice on the pastures.
> The phenomenon of persistent derailment is, in fact, something that I had not seen until Rust arrived.

Apparently you have never seen a thread on X11, which almost invariably is derailed by a discussion about Wayland. Or in general, any discussion on Wayland or systemd is derailed into a rant how they're the worst software ever developed or something, to a tedious degree that makes me long for the Rewrite-it-in-Rust comments because at least those sometime make compelling points.
Cool! It might be worth getting in touch with Diomidis Spinellis who runs the Unix History Repository and see if they're interested in adding them.

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
The difference is that music labels and artists are making up the difference with other streams of revenue, like live show ticket sales, merch, and sync licensing, all of which have gone up as recorded music revenue has flatlined or gone down.

Movies are not doing well with any alternate revenue streams yet. Ticket sales and merch are way down.
What is the setup required to obtain the equivalent of running : ngrok http 8080?
Iran and North Korea don't need open source missiles.

Maybe it's European countries need such projects to be on par with them
I have a Tuxedo Aura Gen 3 (I think), on arch.
Works well, no issue to mention.
Their custom kernel module and control center that goes with is is available in the aur.
When Will the Fed Raise Rates?
The ironic bit is that the food produced outside of the EU with the use of products banned by the EU is making its way back into the EU and being sold cheaper than the EU produced items.
Conway's Law in Team Topolgies: Did you get it?
You can withdraw funds out of Base using Coinbase. Takes a few seconds, it is a legit entity approved by the US govt with all the KYC/AML regulations, and is going to cost very less in a few weeks after the Dencun upgrade.
You are already on the hook. Keeping separate accounts will not insulate you. (If that is what you are getting at).
Presumably they didn't just fly in and wing it, and it's kind of a given that any solutions to this problem will be different to the status quo.

The only thing that shows more hubris than telling foreigners how to live is foreigners dying en masse because they refuse to change their way of life - see, America on cars or gun control.