skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should think about how we get our training data. That is important, we don't have in our DNA that much information, most of it comes by learning. If you don't include the provenance of the information we use to train ourselves you don't really look at the whole process. The brain by itself does nothing just like computers without software and input data.

On the other hand scientists need experimentation to come up with anything new. It never comes from pure thinking, there is always the experimental validation. The place we get all our knowledge from is the environment. Without environment as grounding we are just language hallucinators, remember the string theory - that was a nice ungrounded hallucination that kept physicists busy for decades. Without validation our theories are worthless. So a LLM trained purely on human text can't make radical discoveries but when it learns from the environment it can. AlphaGo discovered move 37 from its self-play experience.
I'm not sure if I would expect any bridge to survive being struck by an enormous container ship.
In glass houses it’s already possible to solve most issues without chemicals, but still happens often. Farmers in general are very risk averse.

Flower fields are terrible chemical wise, much worse then food due to less strict rules
How many people would need to die for it to be justified in your eyes? Or maybe just focus on the potential loss of cargo from trucks on the bridge, if that helps you.
"If we decided to build like Romans did, there would likely be very little infrastructure"

Why? The romans build lots of infrastructure. Roads, sewage, irrigation, .. and they used the materials and technics of their time.

Can't we really do better today, with all our advanced technology?

Or can't we, because everything has to be cheap, cheap, cheap?

I mean, the romans used slaves. That is cheap. But we have machines.
Why would they need to? They could just turn it off over countries they don’t have a license to provide service in!

This is not an 1980s satellite service with global or regional beams that are too course to provide very coarse-grained, continent-sized service boundaries. As far as I know, the Starlink spot beam size is on the order of a few kilometers in diameter, so anything other than border regions should be very easy to control access to.

In fact, not doing so seems to violate the law of most if not all countries covered without a license.
Only Americans get to be expats, everyone else has to be immigrants.
> Mostly to have a hazmat route around the city (HAZMAT trucks aren’t allowed in the tunnels)

That is a very interesting point I hadn't considered at all. Price is an obvious point, but I hadn't considered hazmat.

It does make me wonder how hazmat traffic is handled around Amsterdam. I think they are allowed in some tunnels here.
This is incorrect. The abstract clearly describes both cell line and in vivo experiments after modeling.
Guessing it makes it more flexible to use since it is self-contained, so it could be used on whatever size or configuration of field.

It sounds like a gasoline engine? That seems an interesting choice.
What exactly do you expect an optimizing compiler to do?
Just discovered WOLFRAM Demonstrations Project from this post, amazing and huge treasure trove, especially for kids.
You are not reading the claim wrong, but the claim is a lie. We did not add async/await to Rust because it was popular but because it was the right solution for Rust. If you actually read my post that this liar linked to, you will find a detailed explanation of the technical history behind the decision.
> Retrieval Aware Fine-Tuning (RAFT), presents a novel recipe to prepare fine-tuning data to tailor the models for domain-specific open-book setting, equivalent to in-domain RAG.

I cannot see the insight on why this is a for a limited domain? The key problem that is being solved is the known problem where RAG returns an irrelevant chunk. It seems like the "benefit" is training a model to ignore irrelevant chunks.

I am guessing because it costs money to train on multi-domains so they limited their research on one-domain at a time but not sure if there is a "bigger reason" why this isn't an approach to a fine-tuned "make answers from only relevant chunks" model? The paper seems to imply this is only works for specific-domains but I can't see why.
That's not why I shared it at all, I included his Twitter so that people can follow along in case he makes any statements, which I imagine he will.
Lol 30 cents. When they will quit with trying to lead you into a subscription, they'll get people paying reasonable microtransactions.
He came to UK. He’s not an Australian expat in USA.
> Bridges only last for roughly 50 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge

Opened in 1781, still in service and perfectly safe. Of course, there are no container ships nearby. But I reckon you could sail a container ship under it, given enough water; and to damage the bridge supports, the container ship would need climbing equipment.

1781 isn't many years after the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn
All this money that is aping into an ai gold rush could have been taxed to fund schools and other broadly useful things.

I'm very much a free market capitalist, but seeing all vcs ape into ai at the same time does not make me think there is value in have so many super rich people in the world.

I hate it when discussion devolves into high taxation vs low taxation or high regulation vs low regulation. There must be a thing such as the appropriate type of taxation and the appropriate type of regulation. And that depends on what we want as a society. Do we want a big class of super rich that don't know what to do with their money so they squander it on an ai gold rush? Or do we want to tax them so we can put that money to use that we all benefit from?
As usual, I think it's a lot more nuanced than that.

An option was added last year [0] the way you propose it, but until then users already had the option to mark the columns as text. The same way we have to deal with any data where auto detection might be problematic: explicitely set a type, and potentially a format.

But of course that's bothersome, sometime people forget to do it, sometimes they don't even know how to properly do it etc. And some of these people will still probably forget to set the option, and there are still edge cases where it can fail (macros are cited)

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel...
Not reddit.
Keep using excel, access, js and Python. It’ll be fine. >.>
There's another alternative to get paid. Get paid for writing software. Unfortunately, that requires a level of co-ordinatio between payers that's not possible at this time in marker apart from really small cases.
The first virus they're trying to keep in check is called TBV, Tulip Breaking Virus. It spreads through aphids.
The infected plants are sprayed with Roundup and die, so aphids won't feed on them.
I have a feeling that soon we will stop learning new languages to communicate with others because real-time AI translation will be so good, and we'll learn languages in a vacuum for intellectual amusement only, barely getting past the A2 level due to the lack of true human stimulation in the activity. This tool is certainly a step in that direction, and it strikes me as a great loss to humanity because we are losing our diversity. It just makes no sense to equalize all possible abilities over all human beings so we have nothing to offer each other.
I definitely agree with the limit of only lending what IA bought - and their brief violation of that policy was wrong in my opinion. But that shouldn't be used as an excuse to enforce a completely separate regime on "digital books".

I was not aware of the dividend on every loan in other countries. If you can provide a reference to where and how much, that'd be quite interesting.
Sure, but how does a person not fluent in tech know what the good choice is. Think from the perspective of a tech illiterate for a moment. They won’t know and the law will forbid making recommendations, and Safari cannot be put as first choice because the bureaucrat doesn’t like it.
"We want to make the bridge safer for the users"
You joke but when something is really bad I make a point of saying it is "job security" for myself in front of my tech lead (and my teach lead's manager). It triggers something in their heads that "oh, if he quits we are screwed". Those things tend to get addressed.

There other bad things I don't refer like that, like something that is bad but if I quit and they get a new guy he can probably figure it out in a few weeks tops.
Just to put some numbers on this:

The MV Dali (IMO#9697428) is a little over 95000 GT, or ballpark-ish probably around 114000 tons loaded (and it seems to have been loaded, which would make sense on departure). If it was going even 5kn (2.6 m/s) that'd be about 300 million newton-seconds, or about 3.3 times the momentum of a large jumbo jet like a 747 shortly at cruising speed (around 560 mph). It'd still have the same momentum as said jet if it was going just 1.5kn. The ship of course is enormously more stoutly built and the force is going to be transmitted far more directly into whatever it hits vs into explosions driving mass elsewhere.

I've read that both on water and in space for that matter enormously massive objects moving very slowly messes with human perception and "common sense", it "feels like" something moving along smoothly and slowly should be stoppable or come to a stop. Enormous momentum and forces can be terrifying things.
The potential usefulness of things like TPUs actually made me invest in Broadcomm, which helped Google design them and could potentially help Amazon or however else design their equivalents. But I'm also long NVidia and a half dozen other companies with AI exposure while still keeping most of my money in index funds.
Sure, I hope they take at least that precaution.

It’s still a much too high risk in my view, given the sensitivity of a long-term historical communications log that’s on the other side of that authentication.

I’m also not sure that these are effective deterrents: The people trying to brute-force my Instagram password certainly don’t care about sending me a warning email and locking my account once per day, for example.
Ubiquity has a quality all of its own.

Yes CSV is a pain in many regards, but many of the difficulties with it arise from the fact that anybody can produce it with very little tool support - which is also the reason it is so widely used.

Recommending a decidedly niche format as an alternative is not going anywhere.
I see the negs, but I don't see any coherent arguments, much like "irl", past "We just need it, ok". Nevermind the fact that even the OS-agnostic garbage argument falls apart the moment you do anything complex since it relies on the host kernel. Doing some graphics stuff (no, not games or AI, just say, PDF report generation)? Guess what, your library might be relying on OS-specific libraries and will break the moment you put your "agnostic" container on Linux. And now Docker desktop needs a license and everyone needs to learn Rancher.

Again, you don't need Docker. You aren't CoreWeave or a cloud provider. You DON'T need to virtualize your hardware and parse it out in pieces on a moment's notice. You don't need K8S to do a rolling update for you when on the cloud, you don't need Ingress to load balance, you don't need ECS/EKS to break every day.

I am persisting in hopes someone convinces me I am wrong by the way. This isn't a rant, I have a decade of experience of someone building a fancy container/orchestrator infrastructure only for all of it to fall apart the moment the DevOps team leaves. Perpetual cost center that adds nothing.

And yes, I know, I am not doing it right and we need Flux to fix all our problems now.
I wonder how many games utilized Windows CE (which was a thing for it) on the Dreamcast.
that pack added 4MB extra RAM, OOT and Majora’s Mask are like night and day thanks to it.

The N64 had mere kilobytes of texture cache, AFAIK the solution was to stream textures, but it took awhile for developers to figure that out
Whether or not you use Parquet is one thing, but CSV will stay because any achival/data exchange format should be human readable.
So many tools do that, even (most importantly) Excel does
Makes sense; (red) diesel is already in use on farm fields, one tank lasts for ages, loads of power, doesn't need to be quiet since it's in fields, it's lighter weight so less soil impact, and water doesn't affect it much.

Downsides is of course pollution etc, even if diesel engines have gotten a lot cleaner over the years.
It makes a difference because those that solve problems are well paid, whereas those than spend their time pushing their ideals of how things "should be", aren't.
Fair. At the current rate, the revenue takes two years to cover the original cost. The net profit takes 6. The margins are quite good due to consistent price increases.
What's the first billion dollar mistake in computing?
What an utterly absurd judgment, that should have no place on a free society. They have a literal kidnapping/assassination plot, and yet the Judge considers it all above board and that it doesn't show any prejudice.
Well the two vector coprocessors (vu0, vu1) each talking to a different processor (cpu or "gpu") was quite weird, imho.
Compound past perfect, specifically
I'm not convinced, said AI companies have millions of users through e.g. Discord networks already. Plus the market is a lot more constrained.
> Useful stacktraces is one of the reasons why I use Go

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not.
I was responding to the GP's:

USVs are easy to edit in a text editor

I don't see how that's the case.

If a format with sane separators was common, so would editors that could edit that format be

Sure, but that's a hypothetical future editor, not something that currently exists.

Edit to add: I also disagree with "sane" in that context. New separators won't solve anything. You'll always need escaping/encoding/encapsulation; get that right and everything else follows. JSON is comma-separated and does just fine.
> I threw some ads up and showed to a few thousand people and so far no interest at all.

Perhaps people will be more interested if you write the message in the blockchain and also post it in eXTwitter and a link to a webpage where they can "see" that it's posted in the blockchain.

It's silly to add a feature that are to ephemeral post to a permanent one, but people understand eXTwitter better than the blockchain. They don't want to store "I love you" forever. They only want to post in eXTwetter that they have done that.
Most of the bridges I can think of in the state of Washington are much newer than that.

There are now two Tacoma Narrows Bridges. The oldest was built in 1950. The one that infamously collapsed was built in 1940. The newer bridge is from 2007. The West Seattle Bridge was closed due to damage in 2020 and reopened after repairs in 2022. It was originally built in the 1980’s after the previous bridge was hit by a ship. There are two floating bridges on I-90 east of Seattle. One of them sunk during reconstruction work in 1990 and was replaced. Theres also a new 520 floating bridge that opened in 2016. The Hood Canal Bridge (also a floating bridge) originally opened in 1961, sunk in 1979, was reopened in the 1980’s, and large parts of it were replaced in the 00’s.

The Ballard Bridge actually is over a century old! It was opened in 1917. However there was a lot of reconstruction done during the 1930’s. The Fremont Bridge is also from 1917. Both of these bridges span a ship canal that was built between 1911 and 1934. The Aurora Bridge was also built in the 1930’s.
All right.

I am no expert in compilers, but how does it compare to, say...

• TinyC – https://bellard.org/tcc/

• Small-C – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C

• Smaller C – https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC

…?
While I agree with the sentiment, I also feel the reverse is true.
A lot of companies are hiring specifically for AI/ML at the moment, because it's the current thing. Performance and efficiency of their applications are somehow seldom prioritized.
Can confirm, used to work at Flora Holland, the world's largest flower exchange and a big part of the incoming product was from Africa. A lot from Dutch greenhouses as well.
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1) cash has an anti-gambling function inherent to it these days aka inflation. Unfortunately, this affects the investing decisions of millions of people rather than a few thousand hopeful & unsophisticated would-be investors in bitcoin et al.

2) cash has a multi-century head start from the entire cryptocurrency milieu, which has barely stepped out of the cradle.

3) Central banks and nations extract Seignorage from fiat currencies which has a recurring history of preying on the population of entire nations to keep incompetent and/or corrupt administrations and their adjacent buddies (the 0,01%) afloat, or in practice in say the USA, major corporate banks that control most of the day to day flows.
They survived for roughly an hour after the airliners hit. That hour let roughly 40,000 people make it out.

The towers failed, in the end, but withstanding the initial hit mattered a lot.
I tend to agree, but also, what could one even do? I have seen videos of shipping containers going into the shore and they don't stop for a good hundred yards or more.
Null pointers: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
Followed by Energize C++, a C++ IDE based on XEmacs, with a language server, incremental compilation and code reloading, that only became common decades later.

IBM had something similar with Visual Age for C++ v4, coming from the Smalltalk experience side.
Did you separate the test dataset from the training one?
Yes. The algorithm is very much using SIMD in the abstract sense but it isn't using SIMD instructions.

It is basically using 64 bit integer operations to check 8 bytes at a time.
> Also, if a hypothetical US pipeline had been attacked by a large nuclear armed adversary, pretty sure that country would still be on the map...

Doesn't have to be the same country. There is a bit of history in recent times; US went in to Afghanistan to find Osama and Iraq to find WMD. Turned out both were only to be found in Pakistan.
It's a complex legal matter and nobody involved is in any rush to make hasty decisions, because they may impact future extradition requests. Speaking of the future, intentional or not, Assange's case has a freezing effect on people who might be thinking of sharing secrets. That's already a win for those who don't want secrets to be shared with the public.
It’s called being human.

I worked next door to the church that was shot up in Charleston and felt similarly moved despite not knowing them, never having been inside the building, and not having even been a Christian at the time.

It is a bit strange at some level - not having any true connection beyond proximity but you should probably worry if you _don’t_ at least feel a little something.
The page got longer, and they didn’t account for that. So appointment times would go under the z-index of the footer, and then past it vertically. The footer then became a band across the middle of the page.
> I don't know if we are on the right track if we have to ship "super optimized assembly" for HTML and CSS

You know, I don't disagree. In fact I am 100% with you, it's just that we have to work with the realities presented in front of us. I'd think that nowadays we (as in, the general bigger tech community) know how would we do HTML+CSS much better from scratch but this is not ever happening -- I think we all know it.

So the next best thing in my view is (when it comes to generating static pages, that is, not sure about how viable this tool would be if you put it in the pipeline to improve all your dynamically-generated HTML -- it has to be hyper-optimized in order for it to not get in the way; having an nginx/Caddy plugin could also work):

1. Write Markdown or something else that's easier on the eyes and fingers;

2. Write your own CSS or use a theme from your SSG software;

3. Generate the HTML with your SSG software;

4. (NEW STEP) Run it through JamPack;

5. Deploy.

Personally as a techie I want my pages to have 100/100 lightweight / speedy / small score. That includes things like not loading images until they enter the viewport, that includes using all sorts of OS- / browser-specific hackery for faster loading, it includes the fastest time to first contentful paint... that includes everything that can be used in terms of tricks, in fact.

So again, I get your point and I really wish we lived in that reality but at one point I stopped believing that we ever will so I am trying to settle for the second best thing.
Hello, I'm an engineer in Canva's editing team, which is also responsible for rendering of designs.

Text in our PDF export should generally be selectable and copyable. I just tested one presentation template I recently used, and it is indeed so.

I know there were bugs forcing text to be rasterized in certain cases, mostly related to text effects. To my knowledge, they should have been worked around by adding a layer of transparent text on top.

If you know any design that produces PDF file where text becomes not selectable, that might be a bug, and it would be appreciated if you can provide more details so that we can investigate and possibly fix.
Given that the US is not a signatory to several international treaties and regularly employs solitary confinement, which is internationally considered as a form of torture, there is a humanitarian argument against the extradition. The desire to comply with the extradition request seems to be more about politics (i.e. maintaining good relationships with the US) than the rule of law.

The treatment of Manning should be sufficient evidence to deny the claim that Assange would receive a fair trial and treatment as a prisoner that is compatible with human rights (i.e. that excludes torture). But given that the judgement argues that even the plans to assassinate him were justified, I doubt this will be given any consideration.
https://youtu.be/G2uN7cw-PaU?t=4333
Apparently the Scale people don't know how to do chapter marks on youtube.
> An RX 5700 XT shows up for $230 on Amazon, so you can probably get it for much less.

You forgot the noise and maintaining drivers. I'm the kind that used to replace video card fans with passive radiators when that was still possible. If you can't hear the vacuum cleaner because you play with headphones, good for you :)

> I also think the era of terribad ports is largely over.

There are a few gaming companies that "have console in their DNA". No matter if the port does 15 or 1500 fps, they clearly designed for the controller and the 10ft distance on the couch. And there's always some quirk on PC that annoys you if you know how things work on a playstation. I'm not talking about frame rate here.

For example soulsbornes and kojima games. Clearly best enjoyed on a console (Bloodborne is still a Playstation exclusive, and their best IMO), unless you have the 1200 fps fetish.

Edit: hey, looky what I was just reading:

Some of the Nvidia GPUs we tested initially showed rather poor performance, and if you experience serious stuttering you might want to try a full driver clean (we use Display Driver Uninstaller) followed by a reinstall of the latest drivers. We also tested in exclusive fullscreen mode, which seemed to give slightly better performance than the default fullscreen setting.

A review on Tom's Hardware of the Horizon Forbidden West PC port. Needless to say, I've finished it ages ago and had no problems... on the PS5.

The 5700XT seems to do 54 fps average at 1080p, so no 1200 fps fetish for me either if i get one.
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