skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example: "this position, but a few of the pieces can be in different places". (Maybe penalizing pawn moves with a higher weight—a pawn move is in practice a "larger change" to a position than a piece move).

This version is easy to formalize: it's just querying a bitstring x \in {0,1}^N, a bitboard vector representation of a chess position, and asking if there's any other needles within a short Hamming distance. I haven't a clue how to solve that (or if it's solvable at all).
Sounds like we also need a DRM FOIA.
Because the only thing McD cares about is getting theirs

"Ice Cream machine out of operation because of technical issue?" Not their problem
I have no interest in convincing anyone else, maybe they are only risky according to me.

But I do know they seem to result in net incomes that others would seemingly find envious, and yet the others are not able to replicate, so the empirical evidence doesn’t make it seem so easy.
Reminds me of the saying about a poet vs mathematician, the first gives different names to the same thing and the latter the same name to different things. Maybe that's why I can't stand highly descriptive prose (aka describing the water while I'm drowning over here).

Now what if you're a poetic mathematician (or mathematical poet), what's that mind map look like?
Based on your comment, I wouldn't want to work for you.
Wasn’t the issue that the “money” that was left was actually in the form of largely worthless cryptocurrency investments, some of which were issued by FTX themselves.
Federal prison sentences don't offer a lot of opportunities for early release--you get to shave of 54 days per year of served time, or in other words, he might be able to get out 7 years early were he sentenced for 50 years.

The only way he'll serve less than 5 years is if Trump is elected president and decides to pardon him because no one should go to prison merely for defrauding people out of billions of dollars.
For a multitude of reasons, Lewis is an unreliable narrator...
Call me crazy, but I think that an internal monologue is a "you" instance running beside your main instance.

The "you" is because "you" are a lot of smaller stuff instances of things running along in your brain.

Probably it's common to develop this multiple "yous" and kept them happily running (may be with therapy some get to "shutdown" or "suspend" some "evil" "you" they have running and messing everything).

But some people don't need several instances of themselves, and they just run one "you" thing. Hence, no internal monologue.
They are only too happy to delude themselves here. Hacker news is filled with blue pilled dweebs.
Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Do you think he'll get a sentence that short, or that one of the next two presidencies will pardon him?
Similar to a mafia coming to your small business and telling you you need to pay to stay open, otherwise they’ll make sure you. Still just the cost of business? Seems more like a power imbalance.
Is TikTok's parent company an agent of the Chinese state?
There is no idea to debate. No other comments were made. Fatalistic negativity is no a way to start an interesting conversation.
You're exaggerating about light-bulbs. There is no way LEDs last less than incandescents. If you are experiencing this, its possible your wiring is bad. You should call an electrician and have them check that out.
Depends on the taste. If it's as good as unagi (Japanese eel), I don't think people would have that much of a problem with it.
Here is the commit that added ROCm support to llama.cpp back in August:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/6bbc598a632560...
Doesn't change the fact of being there first, with a rich standard library, and one of the ecosystems that drove the design of rich developer tooling, decades before Go was even an idea.
You say it yourself. Why spend $7k on couches over a lifetime when you can spend $4k on one that lasts forever? If you can only scrape together $1k a year for a new piece of garbage, maybe you should sit on milk crates til you can scrape together $4k.

Maybe the fact that no one thinks this way anymore explains why everyone complains their six-figure income is constantly eaten up by replacing cheap shit.
AI is riding to the rescue on wildfires
What I'm realizing now is that I needed to do some educating as part of that comment - I'm surprised that so many people are interpreting those statements from the family as evidence of suicidal feelings, ideation, and planning.
I agree that the line is pretty thin, but would draw it as: fixed-width versus variable-width. I think the M? line of Apple CPUs, with extremely-wide parallel decode, has been a game changer. The performance per watt is really off the charts. That's partly due to integrated RAM and all, but mostly due to microarchitectural changes, which I believe to be a massive step function in superscalar bandwidth (wider decode, huge ROB, huge numbers of ports). It seems like the power-hungry decode stage has been tamed, and I think this is because of fixed-width instructions in arm.
We're going to build this over the next week - it's a high priority item for us. Once done, you should be able to do two things:
- Save existing workdflows to localStorage (a little drawer on the left side of the screen)
- Export workflows as a JSON file so you can share workflows with other by simply sending them the JSON file however you like
in a pull request all commits get merged into one when you review the PR, so it would have to be two separate pull requests to be reviews separately, which is what i suggested.

when working by myself without PRs then i would do almost exactly as you describe. i would probably put the cleanup after the code change though mainly because i want to focus on solving the problem first, and worry about cleanup later. but i can see the benefit of doing the cleanup first.
The entire point of my comment was that the initial commenter wasn't necessarily saying R is a better language. Somehow you've interpreted my comment as "R is a better language" which is quite far from what it says.
I'm in the US. Since 2000, I've only had my card used in an imprinter once. (And I'm not sure if it ever happened in the 1990's either.) I remember who did it, it was the Days Inn on the north side of Disneyland.
One of the weakest areas is analyzing heap dumps.

The current format has very limited tooling; "go tool" has some extremely rudimentary visualization. There is gotraceui [1], which is much better, though you need to use Go trace regions to get much useful context.

There's a proposal to support Perfetto [2], but I don't know if anything has come of it.

[1] https://gotraceui.dev/

[2] https://perfetto.dev/
> whether Biden administration officials may contact social media platforms to combat what they say is misinformation.

What a delightful euphemism for federal intelligence agencies strong-arming social media companies to censor American citizens, thanks NYT
Does this work with integrated Radeon graphics? If so it might be worth getting one of those Ryzen mini PCs to use as a local LLM server.
I'm managing two medium sized projects on that stack, using both EF core and Dapper. I'm about to switch a third over from Oracle because I'm so tired of all the issues with Oracle.
Yes, leave only an accusation without supporting facts or ideas.
programming is about keeping control of the way the infrastructure operates
OK so what happens if every next year will be like this? How much time have we left?
I don't understand what the public problem is here.

People are free not to operate a franchise. Why should I, John Q. Public, care if some restaurant owner enters into a shitty contract with McDonald corporation or a ice cream machine vendor.

Ice cream isn't exactly a human right.
When the standard library does the job, there is no need to look elsewhe, unless forced to by third party libraries dependencies.
My understanding is that the money is "back", but only because the Crypto holdings were frozen at the point of bankruptcy and the crypto prices have more than doubled since then.

So, account holders might get something approaching the dollar value of what they held two years ago, not what they "should" have got if they still held it today.
> I never said "this will never happen". I said "I don't see this happening".

Give me a break. There’s no difference there.

> So the point here was to make people aware that (I [and others] believe that) the current trajectory isn't very promising as far as reaching their goals, and needs to change.

Then say that instead. Your original comment didn’t even resemble this point. It was drive-by negativity.

The only engagement you got was me saying your comment isn’t constructive. Because it isn’t. Nobody else was interested in making up an interesting point to respond to.
For folks looking for a workaround in the meantime, you can add an AI block and it will give you the returned SQL to edit.

Not ideal because it’s just wasting credits, but it worked for me.
For append-only or write-once objects or for BLAKE-3 and other fully parallelizable hashes it's possible to store the intermediate hash function state with each chunk or stripe so that the final bytes of the data, once the hash is finished, yield the user-facing checksum as well.
now we use postgres, testing duckdb/md for analytics.
People who are good at “business itself” without being good at any particular business are really just reckless profit extractors willing to cut corners because they have friends in high places to bail them out when it all inevitably goes wrong.
Yeah, like for stealing 11 million it would mean 14 to 18 day sentence... Which seems very very little for the amount.
The minimum for federal sentences is that you have to serve 2/3.
> There's no good reason to believe there's a tight correlation there.

You don't think there is a strong correlation between how people spend their time and what they talk about?
Have a look at https://sql-workbench.com, it supports query sharing via URL, as well as sharing visualizations. Let me know if you have questions!
Consolidating industry is always a failing strategy. There are often short term gains, but eventually the system breaks.
ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks
I had been daydreaming a couple of weeks ago about being able to listen to papers while driving or doing repetitive tasks, and it looks like there is now a YouTube channel where these get posted:

https://www.youtube.com/@ArxivPapers

The pipeline seems to do a pretty good job of cleaning up the writing too, some ArXiv papers are a little rough.

(I'm not the project owner)
In IL there are no green providers but 3rd parties provide it somehow from TX. I'm not sure how it works but it's quite expensive. I did it for a few years but stopped. Now, with my increase in energy usage due to moving away from gas, it's hard to justify. In the United States, we want to move everything to electric and I believe that's a mistake. Not without nuclear power to subsidize costs. I'd imagine my monthly costs would be closer to $400, which I believe to be insane.
The McDonald's franchise agreement is what precludes the purchase of a non-defective unit.
Exactly. They'd use PCIe x1 to PCIe x16 risers with power adapters. These require high-bandwidth.
> Their design is pretty much solely a limitation caused by the idea that all filesystems should exist through the 9p protocol, which as a networked protocol cannot share data (fds, structs), only copy (payloads to/from read, write). With the idea that all functionality had to be replaceable and mountable from remote machines, the only possible API became read/write for everything.

It's not clear to me that 9p itself could not be extended to allow for shared memory. With low-level control over the operating system and rebuilding of existing binaries, distributed shared memory becomes a possibility. (I.e. the existing VM system ought to be enough to implement whatever cache coherence is needed for shared memory over the network.)
So, this one will be left or right wing politically controlled?
Ok but the Go example

This was a thread about julia and garbage collection, you keep talking about unrelated things and trying to go off in all sorts of other directions.

manual memory management is hard to get right, even for very smart people.

This is very different in modern C++, I basically never have memory problems since the actual allocation is minimal and inside value types.

if you compared it allocation-heavy Julia to malloc+free-heavy C++ the differences wouldn't really be that far off

The point is that if you care about performance you don't do either of these. If you try this you will see that they are both much slower than they need to be, but julia will pause and hiccup because of the gc.

With C++, if you stick to built-ins you are basically stuck with mutexes

This is a bizarre and unrelated tangent, but it's so wrong I figured I would say something. Not only does the standard library have great primitives, but there are great libraries out there for lock free queues, lock free hash maps and openmp for fork join parallelism. I don't think anyone has concurrency nailed down but julia is not any better.
I like this. One of the issues I'm hearing from the SWE hiring community is that a lot developer applicants are too generic. Here, the developer managed to combine a passion and niche (gaming) with a skill (javascript development) and has taken the time to build demonstrable projects, including an engaging website and YouTube channel. There's a lot here that can be emulated for other developers looking to differentiate themselves from the mass of generalists.
I don't know anyone who liked The Little Prince when they were kids, regardless of their appreciation of the book as adults.

I disliked it as a kid for the same reasons I've loved it (and Exupéry's other aviator stories) as adult: it's abstract and impressionist.
And to think this is the "level 1" type of paradox in statistics and probability...

It's a fun area.
I would have believed this before the M1, but now I think fixed-width instructions are great for parallel decode, so there's a real threat now which is attributable to RISC.
If you want to redefine MVP in that manner, the term and whole idea carries exactly 0 bits of information.

It's a bit like yelling "not real socialism" / "not real capitalism" every time someone gives a good counter example to your prefered ideology
Does industry consolidation ever make things better?

There must be counter examples but I can’t think of any.

Regulation can help, and it broke up the single telecom where I am and really improved things (just wondering if I can justify a 8gbps connection…).
Depends on the C compiler one decides to use.

If you believe that regarding Kubernetes you're in for a surprise regarding reproducible container builds.
I think problem with 'SMS 2FA is much better than nothing, as long as it's an actual second factor.' statement is: even though it is totally correct, at least passes some responsibility to 3rd party. ( phone operators etc )

So it becomes easy choice for companies, this leads to non-savvy to stay non-savvy.
Nah Apple maps still sucks where I live. Lots of small streets and alleys that are on Google maps are absent on Apple's. Locations are slow to be updated. Driving directions that are illogical to locals. Maybe it's better in Cupertino/New York, but not where I live.
Sum types have definitely been making a big splash. I'd also look at how C++ has added concepts and Go has added generics. Local type inference is also commonplace too, even Java has it.
[PRQL dev here]

Love what you've done and thanks for building on PRQL!

We're very happy to add something like a PIVOT statement. In the long term, we'd have to think about how to make it work deeply in PRQL, since the column names are suddenly runtime dependent. In the short term, we should definitely make PRQL work for your case — it's important that there's an escape hatch for things that aren't natively supported by PRQL yet. (We have s-strings but I'm guessing they don't cover this specific case?)
That makes sense, thank you. I can imagine that a more substantive piece would not be flagged.
Removing legal and financial protections, not to mention the concept of "too big to fail", would help quite a bit.

Consolidating companies into a few massive corporations centralized power, but it also centralizes risk. They'd be more careful, and may even be unwilling to risk the treadmill of endless acquisitions if each addition adds more risk and liability.
I would advise getting as much RAM as you possibly can. You can't upgrade later, so get as much as you can afford.

Mine is 64GB, and my memory pressure goes into the red when running a quantized 70B model with a dozen Chrome tabs open.
What about Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh? This wasn't just Sam Bankman-Fried and the rest should be rounded up for racketeering. Their plea deals were only with the Southern District of New York.
Let's see if it goes like MtGox where it takes more than a decade to pay out the money.
Surprising to see these models stumbling on what at first glance seems like a simple task, it would be interesting to see how the non-vision models fare if you convert the problems to ascii art
You can use OpenCL just fine on Nvidia, but CUDA is just a superior compute programming model overall (both in features and design.) Pretty much every vendor offers something superior to OpenCL (HIP, OneAPI, etc), because it simply isn't very nice to use.
Good places to live > a little cost in retrofitting
> There are many, many companies that the general public do not buy things from yet suffer their harms.

Examples, please? I find this claim extremely dubious.

> There are a lot of terrible businesses, large and small, that I don’t purchase from which I’d vote in a heartbeat to get rid of if I had the opportunity.

Of course, because you personally don't depend on those business for anything. (At least you appear to be assuming you don't--though you might indirectly. But let's assume you don't even indirectly.) What about the people who do?
What is engineering? That isn't a rhetorical question, but the root of the whole question.

I would argue that engineering isn't certifications, exams, or education. Those are methods of quality control, not the act itself.

Merriam-Webster gives the following definition for engineering:

> 1: the activities or function of an engineer

> 2a: the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature
are made useful to people

> 2b: the design and manufacture of complex products software engineering

> 3: calculated manipulation or direction (as of behavior) social engineering
compare genetic engineering

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering)

The first definition is unhelpful as it takes us back to the question of definition, but definitions 2-3 apply to software engineering.

Should software engineering require the same quality control mechanisms as civil or mechanical engineering? Possibly, but that's a very different question.
Excellent, just like text extractor in windows powertoys! Love this!
Racial equity in physics education research
It's much easier to fail to replicate a result than to actually try to replicate it.
Ditto, my kivik has lasted so well that i didnt have the heart to get rid of it. It helps that there are many stores that sell custom covers of all kinds of fabrics.

IKEA has also however gone downhill compared to ~10 years ago, however. A Poang today, compared to 10 years ago: does not have beveled edges on the wood (which makes it look cheaper and feel less 'soft'), and is even slightly narrower, so that the old cushions dont really fit in the new one.

I think we are seing the effect of increasing prices and breakdown of global supply chains there
Definitely not a Boeing apologist, but as a paramedic, I'd take this with a grain of salt, too.

I have been on calls for a non-trivial number of patients who've sworn black and blue that they're "no longer suicidal", "no longer a threat", "if anything happens to me, it wasn't suicide" who, you guessed it, went on to attempt or commit suicide in very short order.
People digging into Boeing's specific history are likely doing themselves a huge disservice. It's too easy to say, "Oh well I won't acquire a company like McDonnell Douglas!" But that's not the issue. The issue is a culture (nationally/globally) of financialization. You're vulnerable to it even if you don't acquire MDA, or if you don't acquire anyone at all.

The fundamental issue is simple: Mistaking side-effects of the system for the goals of the system. The goal of a company shouldn't be to make number-on-spreadsheet go up. The goal is to produce excess value, capture some amount of it, and pass the rest onto your customers. The amount that you capture will affect the spreadsheet, but the real goal of the organization must be to produce that excess value and pass on a meaningful portion of it to your customers!

The whole meme that companies exist to maximize shareholder value is just that: a meme, and a recent one at that. Boeing is the natural outcome of believing it like a zealot.
Maybe even then too!
Having used Tesseract for OCR for other things, getting the right PSM helps but it's still rather terrible, especially for sans-serif fonts, which are common in UIs.

Granted there's a lot of ambiguity in sans serif fonts, lower-case "L", vertical bar, and upper-case "i" can even be pixel-identical, but I've seen tesseract turn

Chapter III

into

Chapter |l1

which really surprises me. In fact, for books, I run it through sed to replace vertical bar with upper-case "i" and it significantly improved recognition.
Nice, a few years ago I tried making a game engine for maps made using Tiled that has a very similar look, slightly different controls though.

https://numtel.github.io/webgl-isometric/
The Game That Inspired Minecraft, but Never Made a Penny [video]
A useful related term is "McNamara Fallacy" where quantitative factors are given too much emphasis.

> But when the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can't easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. The fo[u]rth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

-- Daniel Yankelovich, "Interpreting the New Life Styles", Sales Management (1971)
I think this is a great reason why one should trash all these self-improvement books by grifters with "expensive" credentials (CEO, Ivy League person etc.) and replace them with fiction works of 19th Century American/Russian literature.
Heck, nintendo even tried marketing a stereoscopic gameboy headset as virtual reality in '95.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy
Yeah, over-consolidation leads to fragility, and to market abuses, and together those make it not really worth the efficiency gains of shedding "redundancies". Redundancies are often good for robustness...
What exactly does this have to do with a ruling on whether or not public officials can block trolls and spam bots on social media?
It does sometimes, specifically with utilities.

That’s why many utility companies in the US are government sanctioned monopolies.