skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty unexpected twist, and I'm frilled with it.

I don't see every institution come up with a fix anytime soon, but having it clear that they're breaking the law is such a huge step. That will also have a huge impact on bank system development, and I wonder how they'll do it (extend the current system to have the customer facing bits rewritten, or just redo it all from top to bottom)

There is the tale of Mizuho bank [0], botching their system upgrade project so hard they were still seeing widespread failures after a decade into it.

[0] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/11/business/mizuho...
> If you believe in the scaling theory, then writing LLM applications is non sensical.

But not doing it is an opportunity cost. You don’t built skills, tooling and experience, and you don’t get feedback on what works and where you should go.

It’s like computers in the 1990s: there’s always a better one 6 months away, so if you wait for it to stabilise, then you don’t do anything for a decade. Just enjoy the ride, bearing in mind that things change very fast and some things will be obsolete next year.
Even 99% is barely noticeable. Totality is a different category, it's not just "a bit darker".

And a camera is not the same experience as looking around and being in a circle of darkness with a lit horizon in all directions.
It's important not to dismiss good ideas just because you dislike the people saying them

If more nuclear gets us away from Fossil Fuels faster it's a good thing
Could just be tit for tat over the Huawei ban.
I think we’d consider it absolutely nuts in the US if anybody on our side suggested using Loongsons in government computers. So, this seems pretty reasonable to me.
>What I did was I wrote a large macro library, inspired by Forth.

In an elementary-school BASIC class, I completed an assignment using `READ`/`DATA` when it was not necessary to do so. For a later assignment involving writing a quiz game, I resubmitted the same code with the `DATA` lines appropriately modified!
Ha, yet the US was gifted a wooden frame with an antenna inside (no battery) to listen to convos
> this disinformation may inoculate people against other types of online propaganda that's more subtle

Only if they realize that what they're reading is disinformation.
I always find it so interesting when people are eagerly ready to adopt The Matrix as metaphor for whatever they don't like, but are often vehemently against entertaining it as a literal concept.

25 years ago I thought "that's neat" for a clever film twist. Much like the Sixth Sense. But then a few years later I read Nick Bostrom's op-ed in the NYT, and started considering the notion seriously.

In the time since The Matrix we've shifted to a world where we've brought AI further than anyone thought it would be in their lifetimes with continued compounding gains, are using that tech to build virtual twins of ourselves and the world around us, and are even using AI to create dynamic agency and interactions within virtual worlds modeled off human thought processes.

Meanwhile we are still struggling to piece together the shattering realization that while our universe behaves as if continuous at large scales that at low fidelity it converts to discrete units at the point of stateful interactions (and reversed if the state is lost, much like a memory efficient program might do). We just sort of shrug and say it's 'weird' but take it for granted as how the world works because we've grown up knowing that's the case. I sometimes wonder if Einstein would have been so reluctant to think the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it if he had hundreds of parallels in virtual skyboxes where exactly that thing is the case when thinking about it.

We process time so linearly it can be hard to think about the future as prologue, but looking at the present relative to 25 years past and thinking about the future, it strikes me that the most preposterous concept in The Matrix was not the nature of its reality, but the notion that there were any bodies in pods somewhere to exit into.

Still, I have no doubt that in another 25 years we'll continue to see it embraced as metaphor while rejected in a more literal interpretation, just in a world where it reflects even less fiction vs science than today.

The irony is that AI agents in a virtual world, if correctly modeling human behavior, would also reject the same concept.
Collation and normal forms are totally different things with different purposes and goals.

Edit: reread the article. My comment is silly. UCA is the correct solution to the author's problem.
>Nvidia can't sell in China due to Department of Commerce sanctions

I believe they can still do business there, just not sell cards above a (likely somewhat arbitrary) level of performance.

There is a Chinese market RTX4090 they recently released for example.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reportedly-creating...
No, not at the time. I have a small hernia now, though.
China is largely a success story for foreign investment. Its prowess is almost entirely borrowed/extorted/stolen with little to no domestic expertise. I don’t mean this out of spite, but the best and brightest of China have left and leave. Very few repatriate and with the current climate that’s not reversing it’s accelerating. Most of the high tech in China is actually western, Japanese, Korean, or Taiwanese expertise and built staffed with Chinese labor. It’s certainly true their infrastructure as far as rail goes and other mass investment is top notch, but it’s not very productive. It’s also incomparable to compare China, which has only recently developed its infrastructure, to nations who have been building their modern infrastructure for over a hundred years. Legacy can weigh anyone down in so far as adoption. But last time I checked you don’t find self driving cars tooling the streets of China, all their top fabrication equipment is imported, and all of their official statistics of growth etc are almost entirely fabricated to the extent it’s unknowable how progressed they are other than it’s not as much as they claim.

The flight of foreign investment out of China is going to be sobering as it accelerates faster and faster. The Silk Road projects are bankrupt, the real estate bubble is finally popping, etc. My real worry is the upcoming instability leads to military adventurism.
> Everyone should be storing strings as UTF-8, and any time strings are being compared they should undergo some form of normalization. Doesn't matter which, as long as it's consistent. There's no reason to store string data in any other format, and any comparison code which isn't normalizing is buggy.

This will result in misprinting Japanese names (or misprinting Chinese names depending on the rest of your system).
Obligatory reminder that wikipedia is NOT (trying to be) a source. This particular fact comes from Chris Sawyer's own website, that has some more interesting details as well: https://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm

You can easily find sources from Wikipedia by following the numbers in brackets (here "[3]").
Sometimes I wish they had disallowed spaces in file names.

Historically, many systems were very restrictive in what characters are allowed in file names. In part in reaction to that, Unix went to the other extreme, allowing any byte except NUL and slash.

I think that was a mistake - allowing C0 control characters in file names (bytes 0x01 thru 0x1F) serves no useful use case, it just creates the potential for bugs and security vulnerabilities. I wish they’d blocked them.

POSIX debated banning C0 controls, although appears to have settled on just a recommendation (not a mandate) that implementations disallow newline: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251
Bitwarden and KeePassXC also provide free, secure, and open-source 2FA in addition to password management. I keep my TOTP secret keys separate from my passwords simply by storing them in separate vaults. I don't know why anyone would use anything else (although I'd love for someone to comment and tell me).
That's just the purring of the cats.
Combining characters go back to the 90s. The unicode normal forms were defined in the 90s. None of this is new at this point.
I believe ELife may eventually get deeper paid reviews. That is a reason to involve the journal in this process. The way reviews at ELife work can be seen as solicited letter-to-the editor reviews, as these do not influence the outcome. Your article is already published.
Whether pro or anti nuclear, one paper I feel every engineer should read is “Do Artifacts have Politics” that asks the question “divorced from creator or user intent, do inventions/technologies/artifacts contain and/or promote a political will”. Here’s a link https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf (hint, the answer is “yes” but the journey is more important than the destination).

It’s a surprisingly easy read too. More like a long blog post than a dry paper. One of the examples in there is nuclear technologies, which is what brings this up for me.
And the preprint
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.28.22281553v...

Edit: this pre print is from more than a year ago! It was just published in Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
Server portions probably run on Linux, though, which the phone also runs. And most business software written in the last 25 years assumes a web browser for a client.

Yes, there's a lot of software outside that box but quite a lot in it, we're not talking about the soviets starting from first principles.
Can ü be printed on a passport rather than a u? I have a ş and a ç so I have been successfully substituting s and c for them in a somewhat consistent manner.
Don't expect to be able to leave the eclipse area for hours after.

Traffic will be in all directions. If you can just chill for several hours and then leave.
And we lost a lot every time. I don't believe it was needed to crush the cultures of America and elsewhere because of disagreeable religious practice. The argument could be made that we should wipe out Islamic culture because of their opression of women. And it would be an abbhorent argument.
It shows no such thing. The Fermi paradox is fun but it explodes into such a massive tree of possibilities that are all untestable that it’s just that… fun.

It could be that as we explore the universe we find a ton of microbes but few or no other nearby complex lifeforms with any form of intelligence. This would imply that Earth is a special environment for fostering stable complexity, in which case the great filter is still behind us.

BTW there are reasons to think Earth might be special: it’s got this nice magnetic field, a huge moon that reduces bombardment, a thick radiation shielding atmosphere, volcanic activity enough to replenish that atmosphere and the landscape, a reasonably stable climate, is not tide locked to its star (as many planets likely are), and orbits a friendly star that doesn’t throw tantrums and blast us with gamma rays. (The sun appears to be a cute fuzzy waggy little puppy as stars go.)

We just don’t really know.
Talking your own book is basically CNBC in a nutshell.
not sure what you're replying to?

of course one shouldn't "dismiss good ideas just because you dislike the people saying them", but if your country doesn't already have a nuclear industry then it's too late to get to net zero with nuclear.

of course you can plan for using it later, but you can't get distracted by it now or fall victim to scams by well-funded and malicious groups.
yes, that's exactly my point. it's moving money from newer gamblers to previous gamblers. it's not actually enabling much new economic value.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, #41 - People have GUIDs.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
For roundtripping e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSCII you do need both composing characters and precomposed characters.
The Huawei ARM chips are progression. They are not good. They are several years behind in performance.
I think my focus is hardening as I get older. This might also be why I find myself in situations now where I just can’t make sense of whatever hot garbage UI that tool X rearranged for no apparent reason. I have a lot of pattern recognition from using computers so much but my focus is sometimes so narrow that I will not see something that I might have if I softened my focus.
> If more nuclear gets us away from Fossil Fuels faster it's a good thing

His point is that in Australia, it won’t. And it doesn’t matter how much evidence you put in front of these people to show them that. You can’t even tell them it’s costly because they reject even that provable fact.

Renewables plus firming is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than any form of nuclear ever will be in AU and getting cheaper every day to boot. To which the response will simply be “nuuhh uhhh”.

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Ene...
My understanding is way back in the day, people would use ascii backspace to combine an ascii letter with an ascii accent character.
It is probably safe to assume, until being proven wrong, that every manufacturer adds backdoors controlled by their own government, and consequently governments are suspicious of "foreign" hardware.
If that's the case, the real question should be: as a normal citizen, am I more comfortable with a backdoor installed by my own government or any other one that shares information with them, or I would better use something controlled by a foreign country that doesn't share that information and quite likely also doesn't give a damn about who I am and what I do?
https://www.techpowerup.com/316189/chinese-loongson-3a6000-c...

Even if the Chinese CPU has half the performance of Intel, it will be more productive than an i7 burdened with Windows 11 and corporate trashware. The Chinese government runs Linux.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin
Do they? I thought the woke thing was more about discrimination, but I don’t know much about this. The statement makes sense though, why do you think it’s wrong?
Announcing Casual – An opinionated porcelain for Emacs Calc
nit: lets stop using whitelist and switch to allowlist
> For clarity, the register of all our nurses, midwives and nursing practitioners is held within Dynamics 365 which is our system of record," the spinner continued. "This solution and the data held within it, is secure and well documented. It does not rely on any SQL database. The SQL database referenced by the whistleblower relates to our data warehouse which we are in the process of modernizing as previously shared
The last time I checked docker was libcontainer and not running lxc any longer.

Libcontaier lxc all use the same api calls to the kernel... so in effect your still correct (mostly)

They all have overhead, if you're starting to use their features... cgroups can have some very funny impacts on app performance more so if your running containers ontop of a linux install over a hypervisor vs nix on hardware.
This works fine as a personal choice, but doesn't really work if you're writing something other random people interact with.

Even for just English it doesn't work all that well because it lacks things like the Euro which is fairly common (certainly in Europe), there are names with diacritics (including "native" names, e.g. in Ireland it's common), there are too many loanwords with diacritics, and ASCII has a somewhat limited set of punctuation.

There are some languages where this can sort of work (e.g. Indonesian can be fairly reliably written in just ASCII), although even there you will run in to some of these issue. It certainly doesn't work for English, and even less for other Latin-based European languages.
One of the idea is to just stuff all the documents in the prompt, which still keeps them private but avoids having to faff around with chunking, embedding, and vector stores. That’s not really the end of RAG as a concept, but it would change all the current tooling and infrastructure we built for it.

I don’t think RAG is going away, at least not because of this. But I expect new techniques to become available fairly regularly.
Love code made for kicks. Also the other articles on the blog are super different one from the other!
Thank you for sharing and I wish you good health. Rippetoe and Starting Strength can be brutal about injuries.
you see that with very high dollar listings. They sit on the market longer
If more nuclear takes 20+ years to build while we can get wind farms online next month, is it really faster?

I love nuclear but have to admit it’s dead until we figure out how to build these things faster. You can get 10MW of wind built in 2 months. A nuclear plant gives you 1000MW (1GW). You need to build that in less than 50 months (4 years) to compete with wind. And wind can already deliver incremental value for most of those 50 months so lead times aren’t a problem.

When’s the last time anyone built a nuclear plant in 4 years?
I attempted to use this but was disheartened but the fact that it doesn't statically type node names. Tree Sitter doesn't either but it has much more of an excuse given that it targets C.

https://github.com/lezer-parser/lezer/issues/8

The dev seems mildly hostile to outside involvement too, so I moved on. These days I use Chumsky which is Rust rather than Typescript, but also way more awesome, if you can deal with the often incomprehensible compilation errors at least!

https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky
This is pretty evil :-D
Once rates go down and borrowing becomes easy again, I think they will see Biotech tenants move in. I think lots of people who would start something are staying put because they can't raise money at reasonable terms now. Same As SSF.
Operator overloading is one of those things that needs to be done with good taste.
I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. What can you expect the response to be from things like ME?
If we can ban tiktok with a straight face they reasonably could ban all US made processors under the secure but with anti competitive cherry logic.
Yep! And it's on the chopping block [0]:

"That's not productive," Raimondo said. "I am telling you if you redesign a chip around a particular cutline that enables them to do AI, I am going to control it the very next day." [0]

Also, it's moreso about the buyers and use case. If it can be used for cutting edge simulations related applications, it will absolutely get controlled.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-talks-with-nvidia-abou...
The stock market grows because companies create value for real consumers. Companies serving the people.

But the stock market and its derivative markets are just people speculating on the price of the stock. So the vast majority of the value is a zero sum game.

Think of it like the "use value" of a house, vs a housing speculative bubble on top. They can pump, they can dump.
> Give up and ask people to consistenly use a ascii-only name?

> Officially change my name?

Yes. That's the only one that's going to actually work. You can go on about how these systems ought to work until until the cows come home, and I'm sure plenty of people on HN will, but if you actually want to get on with your life and avoid problems, legally change your name to one that's short and ascii-only.
> Note that a logical clock can be effectively derived from the precise CPU hardware performance counter–retired conditional branches (RCB).

That's surprising, why is this preferred over RDTSC?
I love how grand parent used that as an example instead of some boring “business luminary”. Now people are gonna politi-rage in a third of the replies.
Let's Make Things Together
Fun fact, the technology needed to accelerate a spacecraft to 10% of the speed of light already existed in the 60s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
> If you want to convincingly argue that markets are positive sum you have to demonstrate that markets produce more than they consume in terms of something besides money. E.g. when some of the factory workers quit to go be day traders, the factory ends up producing more while consuming the same or less due to the positive effects of the investments enabled by the increased trading activity.

Price discovery would be the function of the markets that allows this. If the markets find out that iron ore production is going to crash because of a flood or something, they create demand for futures of that iron production, raising the price of iron and encouraging stability in the supply of iron via more companies mining it.

These futures then provide stability of supply and price (somewhat) to the factory. Conversely, they provide stability of demand and price to the mine, who can sell their production ahead of time.

I would not be surprised if most factories do employ investors, even if indirectly via a third-party supplier. Knowing that the price of iron was going to go up would be tremendously useful, and they would be able to produce their goods cheaper than everyone else if they stocked up on materials at lower prices.

They're traded in dollars, but the same would be true in a barter system. Liquidity would be incredibly important in any non-monetary system; people would pay a pretty penny to be able to exchange payment in goods they don't want to something they did want.

> Money gets created when people take out loans which creates debt which is then traded in the markets. That's not money flowing into the markets, that's just the markets doing their own internal bookkeeping (much like D&D uses HP for internal bookkeeping about character health).

That is meant to reflect the new value being created by all of the entities in the market. If you don't add currency to account for growth, the currency increases in value equal to demand for it, making the currency itself a very attractive investment.

Those loans have interest rates, so the borrowers need to be doing something with the cash to generate value in excess of the interest rate, which in turn creates value on the market. Loans backed by actual currency are dramatically more expensive to service because of opportunity costs. The borrower's interest rate would be higher than what the loan offerer thought they could get in return for safer investments. Current loan rates for practically everything are far below that.

The factory benefits by having access to extra cash for cheap. They don't have to stockpile cash for a decade to open a new factory, they can borrow money and do it now at an interest rate that still allows them to keep most of the value.
Do they double check the information for hallucinations?

I'd personally be scared to promote usage of this for someone (especially a senior) who wouldn't have the ability and discipline to.
Is several years behind that large gap? I think most apps/infra are fine to run on 10yo hardware
on another sidenote, it's important to be extremely cynical about people claiming that all nuclear is being pushed to the exclusion of other things. This straw man is made of straw.

I'm glad that after 40 years renewables are finally viable as a nuclear alternative... but if we just hadn't stopped building nuclear and continued building at the same pace (no learning curves assumed) we would already be done decarbonizing the grid! It takes some really special thinking to call that a grift. Instead, we are just starting to decarbonize, and with 100 gigatons of extra CO2 in the atmosphere from US emissions alone. I am glad we are un-stuck, but gee, I have a really hard time chalking up the concerted effort to kill nuclear and keep it dead as a "win."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

The reputation of scientific researchers has been greatly harmed by the current system. Please, help find a way to fix it, or at the very least don't hinder people trying to fix it. Thanks to the way we do things now a coin flip is _better_ than peer review. Public trust in science is at an all time low. I really hope you don't think "this is fine".