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M3 Macbook PRO doesn't support 2 monitors even with laptop closed. This is why it's confusing. M3 Air does but M3 Macbook Pro (for 'professionals') doesn't.
> With Kubernetes, developers can learn one API to deploy their applications and hopefully it works on AWS, Azure, GCP, DO, OVH or a laptop at home.

That's one of the lies developers tell themselves, because at some point you're going to need to manage Accounts, VPCs and ELBs, Certificates, Security Groups, IAM policies, and everything else. All of those underlying primitives that are required and have massive differences in behavior that are expressed differently in GCP, Azure, and AWS.

On top of that Kubernetes is itself a walled garden.

You will inevitably end up cargo culting the entire ecosystem of plugins, like Cilium and Helm and so on. All of this IaC is meaningless outside of Kubernetes. Soon enough, you have 10,000 lines of YAML configuring highly proprietary infrastructure with multiple variants for each cloud. At some point you will have to rewrite controllers to add functionality or correct bugs the upstream maintainers don't want to prioritize, and so on.

Your "knowledge" of the stack ends up being the ability to orchestrate 15 levels of templated YAML. Eventually your company ends up hiring people who only know how to copy/paste YAML, and lose institutional knowledge of how underlying systems work. You didn't break out of the walled garden, you created an elaborate prison. And Amazon and GCP and Azure love you, because you're their #1 customer. The more complex you make it to deploy a CRUD app the more they profit.
Replacing a broken system, with a broken and also expensive system, does not sound like an improvement.
Do not forget, for many, there is certain satsfaction and bragging rights in operating large complicated environment. Hundreds of Nodes, Thousands of Microservices is much more sexy than simple few nodes cluster

It always amazed me how efficient software can be created than excessive capital is not available
Divorce makes the fastest sales but the thing is people always sell for a reason anyway and every seller have somehow a deadline depending on what’s next.
P2P WhatsApp, Instagram and Metaverse in a PWA
Optimising data scaling seems to be one of these significant challenges in streamlining. Let's see what AI can do to bridge the gaps between them in the future.
The challenge of barbell deadlifting is that most people have poor hamstring mobility that deeply compromises their ability to reach the bar without back bending. Back squats have the "advantage" that even if you have mobility issues, you can at least start in a safe position and limit your range of motion (though they also have huge challenges and injury potential). To adapt a barbell deadlift you need to raise the bar off the ground (not hard, but also annoying, and a lot of people don't do it).

In any case, I'd say most barbell exercises are actually quite advanced and challenging motions to learn. Just look at how many videos there try trying to teach you "how to fix your deadlift", aimed at "experienced" lifters and athletes. The reality is that the barbell deadlift is almost unique amongst exercises in how much you are working around your equipment. You literally have to learn how to sequence your lift to make sure you don't bash the bar into your knees (body geometry dependent).

To riff on that even more (and to link back to the article) - if you were going to program in only a single lower body exercise, I'd probably pick the lunge (+dumbbells) for its relative safety, greater balance amongst muscle groups (major and stabilizing), being somewhat dynamic (especially if you step into it), being unilateral.
Taiwanese American.
The third thing is just the second thing. TurboTax lobbying to avoid free tax filing is obviously rent-seeking. It might even be more accurate to call this category rent seeking through regulatory capture. Fossil fuels would have been trounced by nuclear except that they lobbied to require nuclear to internalize all of its costs (and then some) but not their own, extracting undue rents by handicapping the competition.

The closest you get to a third category is Cambridge Analytica, in which case the third category would be criminal enterprises. But these rarely remain listed on the stock market; you won't find shares of the Guadalajara Cartel at your brokerage. It's the companies in the second category that do, because they're doing things that should be illegal but aren't.
Indeed. This sort of mindless revisionism is how you get the Google Gemini fire. There’s a small group of political radicals trying to rewrite history and present reality in real-time.
I’ve been waiting for something like Miro thats built, augmented and updated via AI.

Something that lays out the responses to my prompts, as research, and then I can interact with as a whole.

This seems like some of those ideas, but not others.

Cool to see it. What’s the direction here?
Right, but the interpreted languages will be on the slow side, which matters with the limited resources of shared hosting.
As GP refers to >> neurodivergent/ADHD/autistic

>> paid crazy salaries for programming

may be it's difficult to go through the typical interview loops for such jobs as they are not designed to be inclusive for ND etc despite all the diversity and inclusion BS (more often than not) at such workplaces.
Several MSFT AI/ML friends actively dissuaded me and my team from fine-tuning. They said that it's pretty clear in all their internal tests that it "lobotomizes" the general reasoning capabilities of the model, unless you're really careful.

"All work and no play makes GPT a very dull AI"
It was my reaction at first too. Luckily, I am not running anything super important or something requiring much privacy there (it's mostly computational services that don't store data). Since I am a student with no residence (and bad university network uptime), I can't self-host, but will do as soon as I move-in to my own place.
Performance Isn't That Important
My dad was never into computers, but this was one game he played a lot of. Plenty of my childhood memories are of him playing RCT, he would micro optimize the ticket prices until he was swimming in profits.
Does openreview.net not count as preprint review in the sense the author means? It has substantial uptake in computer science.
Destroying things and killing others for religious reasons has a long history, even amongst atheists. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_t... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_d...
Don't buy a computer today with a six month delivery lead time, because there's a company that releases computers with a same-day lead time with several improved models coming out next week.
Treatment of Glaucoma with Natural Products and Their Mechanism of Action (2022)
A few years back I attended a conference at Google's Sunnyvale campus and every stall had a high-end TOTO Washlet installed. At the time I had the cheapie Amazon type at home but that trip convinced me to get a TOTO.
Precisely. The continued hyperspecialization of science shrinks the potential pool of qualified reviewers to zero. I rarely get knowledgeable reviews these days. Instead of disputing my methods, they complain about the font or figure styles, or raise questions that weren't answered in the paper because they are common knowledge in the field.
" The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example. " You mean that guy who brings Chinese economy into troubles and just does one genocide (or two, if you count Tibet).
I dunno if k8s is actually right for your company, but it most certainly is possible to configure it to give engineers limited access, including viewing logs, pod status, services and deployments, etc, but not reading sensitive data or updating anything. In my opinion, deploying production services using devops technology nobody on the team has much understanding of is what's a bad idea, not any particular technology.
Ask HN: How to find a fullfilling career after a data science job?
Hi all! I have a friend that has a stable job, but hates all data extraction work, running pipelines and debugging legacy code, as a result procrastinates a lot, but doesn't know what other profession can be enjoyable and fulfilling. Anyone has an advice? I'm not really sure what to suggest, I tried 80000 hours but I've got as a reply "I'm not sure I need to focus on an impact and just want to do what I enjoy, but I'm not sure what I enjoy and not sure what I'm good at"
On the other hand, stuff written on macs are a lot more likely to require normalization in the first place.
You can also avoid most reboots by livepatching the kernel.
It might cost $100k - $1m (or more) to repeat the work and run replications. The $5k - $10k mentioned earlier would be enough to allow time reading and thinking and checking some stuff on pen-and-paper.
It seems so. Part of growing up is accepting change. I would say that the internet is the best it's ever been.

We have a wealth of knowledge that is easily shared, I can make friends in a variety of shared communities much easier now, and playing games together is more accessible than ever before.

All from consumer hardware that requires very little knowledge to set up. It's great!
Claude is excellent for brainstorming, being a thought partner, general knowledge acquisition tasks, and creative writing.

The one mixed-bag weak spot I've found is in coding -- It tends to make more "d'oh" mistakes while coding, but comes up with more creative solutions at the same time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1. The first paper's rationale, is: "agents/entities with less power may not feel free to decline the more powerful agent/entity's request". The second paper would probably argue that "the diffuse nature of large organizations reduces reciprocation so it's lack becomes normalized" (my paraphrase).

2. The second paper would probably say lower. Closer to a small friend / family group, with more obvious reciprocal behavior.

3. Maybe if they ask you to do a bunch of weird stuff on the interview? Give you a bunch of homework that feels like "off the clock time". I donno. With the second, only that maybe it all feels super hands-off in hiring, like you're just being handed to someone.
Ask HN: Better Alternatives Than Passwords?
im not talking about no password manager or auth either something more seamless.
Linux Mint saved me too. I had to upgrade my PC that was on Windows 8.1 because 8.1 was no longer receiving security updates. The process to upgrade to Windows 10 was painful and then it failed during the install and the PC became inoperative. I installed Linux Mint - very straightforward and easy, computer now works faster and is rock solid with no problems whatsoever.
So what happens if someone puts those two in a git repo and a Mac user checks out the folder?
"Designed Data" and "Organic Data" (2011)
The Chinese government uses Kylin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin
Yes and later the purple blossoms fall too and become a purple goo. They’re pretty but probably belong in a park rather along streets with sidewalks.
While I understand your point of view, I think you are over-simplifying.

I use Linux, macos, and Windows. I have specific reasons for using each for a specific use case.

I use Linux for work because I appreciate the ability to customize my interface exactly how I need it. But it's also a lot of work to get many different programs configured and working together.

I use macOS for iOS development and for my personal laptop when traveling because the battery life on the Mac is easily 5x what my Linux laptop gets.

I use Windows for gaming because I have Game Pass and I have no desire to spend hours or days fiddling with Linux to see if it's possible to run games with AntiCheat and other stupid DRM. So I have a Windows computer just for gaming.

I have no desire to pigeonhole myself into one system for purely ideological reasons. I consider myself pragmatic.
Maybe check out Clojure spec?

https://clojure.org/guides/spec
I have that in gnome terminal. The dots always end up on the letter after, not before. At least makes it easy to spot filenames in decomposed form so I can fix them.
Everyone should learn a proper deadlift because those who don't increase their chances of injury living daily life. For example, picking up a gallon of milk or their kid/grandkid.

Being able to deadlift and squat a 45lb kettlebell should be the minimum everyone strives for.
Hear hear. I know a 3 person startup that has a "lead AI researcher" who is trying to train and fine-tune models. That's not their startup's purpose though... they have an actual product. So wtf are they doing? The lead AI guy thinks he's going to compete with these big companies and it's total fantasy.

LLMs are a commodity
Is that different from any other job?
Text to Speech for Papers
I know I use it. I am italian so we normally have a bidet, not a little shower thingy that gets called (improperly) a bidet.

In any house you go, you will see soap on the bidet… So I'm probably not an outlier in using soap.
Emacs has a git client, Magit, which can use ediff, the Elisp implementation of diff.

Since Emacs is widely used for parsing, and can parse using tree-sitter, Emacs doesn’t seem to benefit from difftastic. But perhaps I’m overlooking some capability of difftastic.
If your database is a long ways off an edge connection could end up with a worse latency situation than TLS setup.

Distributed database is usually painful.
It depends! There should probably also be a process by which reviewers themselves get graded. Then paper writers can choose whether to splurge for fewer really amazing reviewers, or a larger quantity of mediocre reviewers. Also, readers will be able to see the quality of the reviewers that looked at a preprint.
VW ID.1 is only going to be released in 2027 ... dead man walking.
A remarkable comment in that it is clear, confident and wrong.

Fine-tunes lead to catastrophic forgetting.

RAG is only irrelevant if you’re completely disinterested in cost and latency.

We also don’t have enough data to gauge performance of models >200k context window size when reasoning over inputs of that size, much of which will be irrelevant to any particular user. Multiple random needles in haystack tests work flawlessly, but rarely applies to real world activity.
The first Cold War was pretty destructive and extremely protracted. In some ways it’s still happening with the same players just different political ideologies.
That sounds easy, but it's expensive and difficult. The infrastructure (plumbing, HVAC, electric, egress) needs of office and other commercial spaces are very different compared to what residential units need.

So, for example: Bathrooms. While there may have been one or two [sets of] bathrooms per section of floor in commercial use, and this worked fine, residential tenants want at least one full bathroom all for themselves in their relatively small 1, 2, or 3-bedroom spread.

Or kitchens: What might have been a few limited break-room-type kitchenettes per floor needs to be a full kitchen, per-unit.

Those pipes need to live somewhere. (And this can be accomplished, but it's a somewhat monumental task to design and implement.)
How many of the request on sqlite.org go to the "dynamic pages"? I would assume by far most are on the static docs. The forum and other "dynamic" content is quite hidden.
Compute is.. I don’t know the exact English grammatical term but it’s like water. Computation is not.

“I have 1000 flops of compute” - works.

“I have 1000 flops of computation” - doesn’t work.

“That compute failed” - doesn’t work.

“That computation failed” - works.

They’re different.
This discussion is so dumb - finetuning a base model costs ~$1 with LORA/QLORA and can yield same performance as gpt-4, but at 1/100 of the cost per token.

What Bloomberg did for $10M was not finetuning..
Just tried Toucan and it can't be disabled on localhost, a major pain for using it during work as an engineer. For those that haven't used toucan, it's an extension that translates words/phrases inline on a page with various levels of replacement frequency and complexity based on your proficiency with the language.
I think it was an attempt to add a cheeky or comical tone to the response, instead of outright saying "Yes, you're missing something" or the more curt "Yes". But if I helps,

Yes, you're missing something.
Which LB doesn't support non-http flows?
IMO, it was a mistake for Unicode to provide multiple ways to represent 100% identical-looking characters. After all, ASCII doesn't have separate "c"s for "hard c" and "soft c".
Async cryptography? So tls certificates or passkeys. Even Kerberos tickets be part of that
Nice catch! I was going from the data shared in that paper[1] and didn't notice that it excluded OpenReview.net (which I'm aware of). The paper got their data[2, 3] from Sciety and it looks like OpenReview isn't included in Sciety's data.

It may have been excluded because OpenReview (as I understand it) seems to be primarily used to provide open review of conference proceedings, which I suspect the article puts in a different category than generally shared preprints.

But it would be worth analyzing OpenReview's uptake separately and thinking about what it's doing differently!

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[2]https://zenodo.org/records/10070536

[3] https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b09cf3e8-88c7-...
I experienced acute lower back pain after walking for 30+ minutes. I searched the whole internet to find a solution but only found advice saying, "if you have back pain, walk!" which was ironic since my pain occurred while walking. Then it dawned on me: I sit most of the day, cycle a lot, and drive my car, but I wasn't walking regularly. Now, I walk the dog for 40 minutes a few days a week, and the pain has disappeared!
Well, I do like this behavior for search though. I don't want to install a new keyboard layout just to be able to search for a Spanish word.
Freakanomics recently did an episode on this:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/water-water-everywhere-but-...
In case anyone is curious to see how far people have pushed the game, check out NEDesigns[1]. Some truly incredible RCT (mostly 2) parks. I'm a huge theme park enthusiast and I love seeing the realism that people have managed to get out of this limited game.

[1] https://www.nedesigns.com/
By definition you wouldn’t fine tune a 7B model to be generally as good at GPT4. You would just be trying to overfit some small amount of functionality in a narrow domain.
Some construction company with actual resources get on making "wavy sidewalks". I'll consult as a former hiker. Honestly, probably wouldn't be that hard to make matching tile edge sidewalks with semi-randomized central wave patterns. Games do it all the time.
A hot water recirculation system might be a possibility.
The goal of this article was to lay the concepts and give insight into the technical machinery, so you’re right, it didn’t contain a lot of concrete examples.

I invite you to check out part 2 of this series, which focuses more on the Python implementation https://stealthrocket.tech/blog/distributed-coroutines-in-py...

Stay tuned for more content as well, we couldn’t fit everything in one post!
A couple studies have shown that people who believe they are lucky get better outcomes. Something about looking at most positive outcomes - https://www.frameofmindcoaching.com/blog/why-are-some-people...
It's not really an entire chain. Only a small handful of big bosses (maybe only one) can really be held responsible. Everyone else basically gets told "if you don't go along with this, we'll fire you and get someone else to".
Better to have loved and lost....
Hipster devops was overcomplicated long before kubernetes.

In my 1st job we had autoscaling on AWS to handle peaks… except that our servers took about 30 minutes to do the upgrades, download gcc, compile all the needed python modules… We'd always reach the autoscaling limit because the new servers weren't doing anything at all. All of them would be downloading and compiling the same things.

I was very junior, but I told my boss if we shouldn't maybe use base images that already contained everything, instead of a default blank ubuntu for the servers.

The boss said no, because that wouldn't be agile.

The whole thing of using yaml files to configure servers already existed, it worked terribly.

It was basically meme development there. Including using mongodb for no reason at all, and using it badly so that every write was actually moving thousands of records around.
I think I’ll use “Made with slight annoyance”.
The worst part is they we know that they can build a version of Windows without all this crap because the Enterprise editions can easily be configured without it.

Tools like litent, tiny11, etc, also show that its fairly trivial for MS to reduce the footprint of the OS.

It also feels to me like a bunch of independent teams working without a cohesive vision. Some tools like Notepad, Terminal, and WSL are getting built without any advertising garbage while other parts of the OS are overflowing with them.
Or that sort order is locale independent. Swedish is a good example here as åäö are sorted at the end, and where until 2006 w was sorted as v. And then it changed and w is now considered a letter of its own.
Market size of USSR was tiny compared to Chinese market size. Also, USSR was a socialist country with plan economy, China is capitalist economy. It's incorrect to compare China to USSR.
> Hmm, let me try to defend TypeScript, then. I think it’s a terrific language, and more importantly manages to salvage JavaScript into a very decent language

Counterpoint: It's a desperate attempt to make Javascript useable and nearly does so, but ends up being weird in itself to get around the limitations of the underlying language.

I use Typescript most days and I hate it. Part of that is that npm is a dumpster fire but a lot of it is that Typescript is a rubbish version of much better languages and it hurts to use it. I am so desperate to get back to something sane like C# that I will quit this job for less money.
> I have no desire to pigeonhole myself into one system for purely ideological reasons. I consider myself pragmatic.

"Purely ideological reasons" aren't the only reasons to avoid MS. I could talk for hours about pragmatic reasons for avoiding them, and have. The Web has copious information about reasons to avoid them, for decades.

Given this, still dismissing it as "purely ideological reasons", and suggesting how MS can be a part of this healthy breakfast, might as well be PR handling on their behalf.
For those who were oblivious to it, like myself, the bitter lesson is written by Richard S Sutton who invented reinforcement learning a long, long time ago.
> The $5k - $10k mentioned earlier would be enough to allow time reading and thinking and checking some stuff on pen-and-paper.

The average postdoc in the US earns $32.81/hour, according to the results of some googling. Even taking overheads into account, $5k should cover more than a week's full time work.
The outcome would most likely be exactly this: "it's probably research not worth doing in first place" (and why would you want to signal you want more busy work?)
That does indeed sound crazy. But finetuning is also a commodity these days. You can train a good Mistral LoRA in under 24 hours on a single consumer GPU. We’re talking about $10 of compute.

You can run a dozen of these LoRAs atop the same base model on the same infrastructure for a dozen specific use cases.

The inference quality, performance and cost can all be substantially better than GPT4 with prompting.