skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meme that Haskellers never accomplish anything practical is probably even older, maybe as old as the language itself.
C was the first language covered at my University back in the early 2000s

It was not a problem for me as I was learning Turbo C and Visual C++ 5/6.0 a year or two beforehand.

Everyone else in the class, though, were sooooo frustrated with their "89 errors, 103 Warnings" all because they forgot to add a semicolon in the code.

Truth is they were not getting anywhere to understanding how to write or care about the quality of the code.. leading to proper planning, etc. They would keep changing something to reduce the errors/warnings.

Personally, I think every person has their own journey into the world of programming. For me, I was happy for it to be C, with a bit of Pascal and Visual Basic. For someone else, perhaps Scheme and Javascript. Another maybe Java.

Some developers/programmers, in my opinion, are not for C.
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FileZilla has a long history with bundling spyware/adware with their primary installers. If you are looking for alternatives, check out Cyberduck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileZilla#Bundled_adware_issue...

https://cyberduck.io
Isn't this basically an overdraft?
Excuse my ignorance of someone who grew up in an ex-commie country, but what were the merits of communism that I missed?

Sure, if you cherry pick you can always find merits in absolutely everything, including in catching Covid: you get sick leave and get to stay at home, or in the war in Ukraine: it boosts the defense industry spending.

Even though those are all net negatives, but who cares right? Let's look at the merits and not at the whole picture which is overall terrible.
These guys are unbelievable. They were the first to provide ARM servers (non-virtual, if I remember correctly), and now this. I hope they are benefitting from those innovations.
Probably because Romanian farmers make more money selling their produce outside of Romania and the Netherlands and other countries can produce so much cheap produce that it's cheaper for Romania to import it rather than pay the price Romanian farmers are willing to sell it in the internal market.

I don't see any issue with that, it's a win-win.
> That's orthogonal. C is very readable, yet you can easily shoot your leg off.

Or, you could use C++ which, on one hand is hard and obtuse to read, and on the other hand, has 10x as many footguns as C.
I have collegues who care about their work quality, and the impact their work has in their colleuges work. In short, they care about more than just a pay check and increasing that pay check. Like in non-selfcentered egomaniacs.
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Nice!

I'll be sure to prioritize this work then. :D
I briefly worked on a swift app that had just a login screen and a background process, so no Storyboard stuff. It was still so horribly, horribly buggy, it starts getting comical. When turning to seasoned full-time iOS developers, they would just shrug it off as a normal thing. It constantly needs to be restarted, and actions retried. An insane amount of "clicking around". It was a complete joke, I cannot fathom that some people just take it as state of the art.

I tried the IntelliJ IDE, which didn't feel so shoddy, but in turn has a lot of other problems that boil down to not being the "blessed" solution.
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Small context for those who are not familiar with why Tesla setup the gigafactory in the most hostile place in Germany: Tesla had the idea to place a production plant in Germany to have access to some of the subsidies for electric cars since Germany has a plan to not have cars with fossil fuels in 2035.

The German government was a good deal because it would kill 2 birds with a single store: it would attract investments in a (debatable) lower cost via subsidies plus the site would be placed in East Germany in the 13th/16 poorest state is Brandenburg that converges to the big plan of the federal government to develop east Germany [2].

The whole process from the announcement until the end of gigafactory construction was "controversial" at least [3] but they made it.

I do not want to go to the avenue of the ideological antagonism of those groups with Elon Musk, using a bit of hindsight bias I think that Tesla right now should regret not opening this factory in Poland [4], the Czech Republic or Hungary are places where the production costs are lower from the working force perspective and energy perspective.

Considering energy prices, in Poland has 0.1769 EUR/kWh and Germany has 0.4125 EUR/kWh [5].

Even inside Germany they could have a way better pick in other states in the East as Thüringen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen. Those folks would have a way better reception than the population between the border between Brandenburg/Berlin (where the Gigafactory is located).

I would be surprised if the situation continues to deteriorate, Tesla will move to Poland in some point in future.

[1] - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-richest-and-poorest-...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/taiwan-chipmaker-tsmc-app...

[3] - https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/26/23372783/tesla-gigafactor...

[4] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/09/poland-vying...

[5] - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
GGUF files seems to be proliferating. I think some folks (like myself) make an incorrect assumption that the format has more portability/generalizability than it appears to have. Hence, the horror!
Note that pushing it on 'equal pay' settlements also covered up for the senior executives who were responsible for Oracle issues.
The question is rather why people like asking for trouble so much.
I think it's more comparable to say "You have colleagues that would continue to work even if they got a better paying job offer?". A purely individualistic mindset would take whatever gets them more money for less hours. Someone staying despite that must have some sort of collectivist mindset that is non-financial qualities of life. Be it the company, the peers, the problem space, etc.
I did a proposal for a very large city council in Australia some years ago. We were a little upstart company with an idea that fitted nicely with councils priorities.

Long story short, they loved the proposal but they were quite clear that unless we “partnered” with a company like IBM, we had no chance.

The reasoning I was given was that they needed a company that was big enough to be able to accept liability for failure. In other words, someone they could theoretically sue.

It was one of the most depressing meetings I’ve ever attended.
> I think it's because it makes absolutely 0 sense to say "sure, why not? AIs _should_ assign people who sound like blacks harsher penalties for the same crime! Blacks commit more crimes!"

If your goal was to make the most accurate predictions given incomplete data, that is in fact what you would do, because taking into account every data point, including that one, would improve predictive accuracy. And that's what LLMs do.

Of course, that isn't what we want in this context, because taking race into account is bad and illegal and gets everyone's hackles up because of the history. The normal way we handle this is just by taking it out -- you don't allow someone's race to be a question on the mortgage application, and then the bank doesn't know it. You can do the same thing with LLMs -- don't tell it someone's race if you don't want it to consider that.

But it has never been possible to fully remove the implications of it because they leak into everything, and that has nothing to do with LLMs. The mortgage application doesn't ask about race, but it asks about income and credit score and employment etc., all of which correlate with race. You can't not ask about those kinds of things because they're critical to knowing if someone has the capacity to make their payments. This is a really hard problem to solve for humans who can only take into account a limited amount of information.

But it's not that hard of a problem to solve for computers, as I've already explained. The more information you give them, the less weight they have to put on any individual piece, including the ones you don't want considered. Whereas if you're trying to be a troll what you do is only give them the one piece that causes them to make unsavory inferences and nothing they could use to infer any other conclusion, i.e. the exact opposite of that. Which is what we see from people trying to stir up controversy.
The list is long, but for starters Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are obvious cases, imprisoned since 1981 and 1977 respectively. The Black Panther and AIM had countless other political prisoners over the years. Since 2001, anti-terrorist laws have been used against eco-activists to imprison them.

There are prisoners of the social war in every country, but i think it's unique that a country has prisoners for life where they're accused of crimes that noone can prove and noone dares say they committed. In contrast, Georges Ibrahim-Abdallah (french political prisoner since 1984) or Abdullah Öcalan (turkish political prisoner since 1999) have both committed actual crimes and do not claim otherwise. To be clear, i will stand for their liberation too, but it's clear from the history of COINTELPRO (and related militant assassinations) that the US is not better than Saudi when it comes to thought crimes.

More recently, Chelsea Manning was a US political prisoner. And we can say that despite being incarcerated in the UK, Julian Assange is a US political prisoner to this day.

Some people argue that every prisoner is a political prisoner, since prisons are a recent invention and there's entire policies around how to fill them with desperate people to turn them into cheap labor for the industry. I won't make that point here, but it's worth keeping in mind when considering that the US has the highest incarceration rates in the world.
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MIRV warheads were not a thing yet. Also by being possible you kinda need to build them to uphold MAD. Being able to kill all civilians is the whole point
AIs ranked by IQ; AI passes 100 IQ for first time, with release of Claude-3
Nothing stops you from writing the same in Kap:

∇ quadraticRoots (a;b;c) {
root1 ← ((-b)+√(b⋆2)-(4×a×c)) ÷ (2×a)
root2 ← ((-b)-√(b⋆2)-(4×a×c)) ÷ (2×a)
root1 root2
}

This is exactly the same code, converted to Kap. Is it that much worse?
Emulator developers should incorporate in the Netherlands, it seems.
Get one? Sure. Be happy with it? Propably not.

I learned that the hard way, only the other way around.
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No. We're just being condescending pricks on the internet
Even if they did, some designer would just decide that they need a specific font that is not in the set and then it's just the same thing again.
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The funny part of people who have lived in ex-communist countries is that when they think capitalism they only think US and western Europe and not all that part of the rest of the world that has been fully integrated into global capitalism for quite a long time and is still very poor because they are in the _wrong_ side of capitalism, the part that is there only to function as providers of natural resources. The part that has been historically kept in that place (often violently) by the countries that people that come from ex-communist countries admire so much
> Many of the people I have had the pleasure to work with are "detailed oriented".... or at least that's what the claim. I consider myself one of those people too.

Irony alert ;)
Fascinating to see the Greg Egan participating in these experiments!
This sounds like one of those "soft leadership" roles, that almost always suck because you're "responsible" for something, but have little or no authority over the rest of the org. The real tech leadership (if any) are MIA or no longer in touch with the actual problems, even if they've been their forever or are the "system experts"

Been there, done that, no thanks.
many people would choose TypeScript over PHP

there is demand for readable replacement of regex

write-only languages stop giving "better thought" right after you stop writing that part of the code
2 litres of (diet) soda is definitely an absurd amount
Sample size of 1 and whatnot, but this has absolutely never been my experience on my iphone 7, which I've kept up to date and stopped using less than a year ago. Scrolling in Mail, for example, was the contents following my finger. Hell, I complain about Android phones, even newer ones, which lag while scrolling the settings app, but even there I've never noticed that big of a distance between the finger and the text.

Never handled an SE, though, but I doubt it's worse.
the issue is "none of the agency". Humans generally have enough leeway to fold to a persistant customer because it's financially unviable to have them on the phone for hours on end. a chatbot can waste all the time in the world, with all the customers, and may not even have the ability to process a refund or whatnot.
There's a disruption coming. One of the clearest LLM use cases is in learning and development. Another one is in producing "first drafts" of documents based on past work and "best practices". Both areas are what Accenture (and Deloitte, etc) excel at.

It's also a major disruptor for their business model: if the effort spent on "first drafts" and simple analysis is made automatically by LLMs, then you dont need as many juniors; your employee base gets smaller. But then how do you get experts if you hire fewer (better even) juniors? big consulting Cos are pyramids and these pyramids need feeding, continuously.

I think this is a brilliant move: Accenture has tons of capability in L&D that they've built up for their own purposes --feeding the pyramid. It's a capacity that they can easily offer to enterprises as an additional service, and they will probably use a lot of LLMs to deliver it. OTOH, this also gives them optionality in upskilling people (pushing them up the pyramid) while maybe having a narrower pyramid base because of the LLM disruption.

Expect Deloitte and the others to follow. It's too good a play.
It is good that there is an exemption for open source models. Although that would need to be defined. Open source data is difficult because of privacy concerns.

The reference to any "bias" is probably the worst form of legislation anyone could come up with. It doesn't just stifle innovation, that is the price for some forms of security, but it also stifles freedom, which in the long term undermines security.
Some people should really read up on Pawlow's pyramid. Money isn't everything...
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I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=10m2s
Can Greptile read Clojure codebases?
There’s a difference between developing and open sourcing models and technology and end user products though.
Oh geez I realize why I was downvoted now. I wasn't insinuating Trump's criticism was fake. That was a separate comment denoted by it being on a separate line. Just thought it was funny that's when they suddenly started believing in it more.
Most interesting parts of US government will buy and consume software written in C++ without qualification or reservation for the indefinite future. People are wishcasting, it isn’t a serious risk. New systems are being planned in C++ today and language choice isn’t even mentioned. Parts of government have a lot of experience with C++ in high reliability contexts.

There are many advanced systems in government written in C++ that would be impractical to deliver in any other language even if you were starting from scratch today. Extreme data intensity and throughput requirements are actually causing systems written in memory safe languages like Java to be replaced with C++ systems currently. Rust is often not a good fit for the software architectures required unless you are comfortable writing a lot of awkward unsafe code.

The government is pragmatic about programming languages, not ideological. They use both Rust and C++ in new systems but not for the same purpose, both have unique strengths in certain roles that ideologues are loathe to acknowledge. I use Rust and C++ the same way.
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Tembo has been doing very interesting work.
It’s really only us tech nerds who actually see through the scam.

When you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re spending other people’s money, the greater the cost and complexity the greater your accomplishment looks.
I wonder what customer sizes really matter to them. Are the bulk of their revenue a lot of small/medium-sized companies paying a few 10-100k a year, or do they have a few government/bigcorp whales subsidizing the service for the rest?
FileZilla is one of those examples that makes me want overly stringent trademark laws. To me the name implies it’s part of the Mozilla family and it is neither in ownership nor in spirit and it makes me irrationally angry
>They're probably right that building AGI will require a ton of computational power, and that it will be very expensive

Eh.

Humans have about 1.5 * 10 ^ 14 synapses (i.e connections between neurons). Assume all the synapses are firing (highly unlikely to be the case in reality), and the average firing speed is 0.05ms (there are chemical synapses that are much slower, but we take the fastest speed of the electrical synapses).

Assume that each synapse is essntially a signal that gets attenuated somehow in transmission. I.e value times a fractional weight, which really is a floating point operation. That gives us (1.5 * 10 ^14)/(0.0005)/(10 ^ 12)) = 300000 TFLOPS

Nvidia 4090 is capable of 1300 Tflop of fp8. So for comparable compute, we need 230 4090s, which is about $345k. So with everything else on board, you are looking at $500k, which is comparatively not that much money, and thats consumer pricing.

The biggest expense like you said is paying salaries of people who are gonna figure out the right software to put on those 4090s. I just hope that most of them aren't working on LLMs.
It's important to have a solid understanding of some common contract management legal concepts and terms that you and your team will regularly encounter.
Neat! Any notable gotchas we should know about?
Replace "AI" in your comment with "human journalists" and it still holds largely true though.

It's not like AI invented clickbait, though it might have mastered the art of it.

The convincing bullshit problem does not stem from AI, I'd argue it stems from the interaction between ad revenue and SEO and the weird and unexpected incentives created in when mixing those 2.

To put it differently,
the problem isn't that AI will be great at writing 100 pages of bullshit you'll need to scroll through to get to the actual recipie, the problem is that there was an incentive to write those pages in there first place. Personally I don't care if a human or a robot wrote the bs, in fact I'm glad one fewer human has to waste their time doing just that. Would be great if cutting the bs was a more profitable model though.
Beginner here, but shouldn't `terraform destroy` make this very easy? Assuming you deploy everything with IaC.
So one of the ways how it can be done is:
In linux (at least in gnome) it's possible to bind any app or script to a custom global hotkey, plus xclip has access to the currently selected text and zenity can be used to display the result. So it's possible to do it just using bash script bound to a global hotkey.
> Personally, I do not find that long names, brackets and general verbosity helps _me_ with "readability".

Thank you, 1vuio0pswjnm7
Thanks. Unfamiliar with the Node ecosystem, that escaped me
>that part of the rest of the world that has been fully integrated into global capitalism for quite a long time and is still very poor because they are in the _wrong_ side of capitalism

Sorry mate, but capitalism and integration into the world economy has lifted million(billions?) out of poverty even from the countries on the wrong side of capitalism (the ones being exploited by the richer ones).

Look at present day South Korea vs North Korea. Post-WW2 South Korea was poorer than the North, but after the sixties the South economically skyrocketed while the North stil wallows in absolute poverty.

A lot of Asia post-WW2(Japan, Taiwan, Korea, India, etc) became the sweatshop of the west/US, or "on the wrong side of capitalism" to quote you, and look at them now. Would they have been better off today without that phase? That's what you have to look at.
The self portrait was a bit... pompous.

https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764789887071580657?s=20

> The entire structure would be in constant flux, rotating, morphing, and rearranging itself into novel patterns never before seen, hinting at the unimaginable depth of intelligence operating within.
You're racist then. Openly too. Don't you realize this is blackface?

Sometimes people want photos of families that look like their current reality.

I wouldn't want someone from a visibly different ethnicity when I'm looking for something like this.

Even black communities around me have visibly discernable differences. Where I live driving an hour might be enough. We aren't a monolith anywhere

When you take photos of your family do you rent others of a different ethnicity to avoid looking racist?
One of the problems with asahi is that it isn't pressure sensitive enough, so you have to press harder. That feels like something that they can fix, but they haven't for some reason.
oh! so there is an impact. somehow, every business tries to be a monopoly. govt shoudl simply restrict the "Exclusive" deals for small artists. they are not employed by Amazon, so why should Amazon be allowed to have that kind of power?
even if Uiua has english words - it does not show them on the frontpage (instead presenting virtual keyboard of its own, differently shaped monstrosities), so there's a lot of marketing left to do
>And in case someone comes up with some brilliant edge case - Does it generalize to a billion+ people ?

The answer is curation, and no, it doesn't need to scale to a billion people. maybe not even a million.

The sad fact of life is that most people don't care enough to discrminate against low quality content, so they are already a lost cause. Focus on those who do care enough and build an audience around them. You as a likely not billion dollar company can't afford to worry about that kind of scale, and lowering the scale helps you get a solution out for the short term. You can worry about scaling if/when you tap into an audience.
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I’m using pg_vector in supabase and it seems great in a prototype form.

Has anyone tried using it at scale? How does it do vs pine cone / Cloudflare before search?
Kaggle.com. Sign up to a competition or download a dataset.

Install python 3.11, and the libraries sklearn, lightgbm, pandas, matplotlib and numpy

Ask a LLM to write a python script that loads the data and fits a model to the data and summarizes/plots some results.

Jupyter Lab with autoreload, and using a python virtual environment are recommended.