skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a combat vet from the infantry. I was a lowly enlisted, not an officer. I attended college after wards and now work in tech out west.

I am amazed how confused, historically ignorant, but intelligent my coworkers are. It’s like they’ve never even heard of NATO, world war 1 or 2, and almost each one when they’ve asked what I did has then had the follow up question “what’s the infantry”. This used to seem cute, but lately I’ve wondered if it’s something to be concerned with.

If the people who are being paid all this money and building all these products are incredibly intelligent but have zero wisdom, what does that look like when war comes? Do they just step aside, point at a stock price, and tell me I’m barbaric and living in a past century? I wonder about it almost daily now as the conflict looks more and more likely to spread and I see an electorate more and more isolationist and looking to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Hmmm, not even sure my point. I guess it’s that I find many Americans insanely smart and intelligent, but they lack any wisdom but act as though they are all Martin Luther king jr when they pronounce a name correctly, or some such morally insignificant thing compared to life and death.

Something is totally fucked with how people are valuing things. What I’m not sure, but when a US Republican senator named JD Vance (a fucking veteran!) starts going around literally spouting Kremlin propaganda lines about Ukraine, and conservatives agree and repeat it, I just feel sad about my society.

Also, obviously some people do know these things, I’m being loose with language here. But a huge majority of the people have asked me those questions.
They might be optimizing for the wrong people.
I think we need to focus on getting a Cargo-esque tool for C++ established first.

cries in C/C++
> Flutter is written in Dart but renders to a canvas on the web making it a very, very poor choice for web apps.

Flutter has an HTML renderer (https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/renderers), but it's lower-performance than CanvasKit.
would a 192GB RAM mac studio or even a 7950x with 192GB RAM be practical for running this model for inference and possibly fine tuning? Especially if I don't need very low latency e.g. 1 token per second is fine for inference. i also have two 3090s.
> In addition to the shared backbone interface, there would need to be software written to make an almost-endless number of configurations work smoothly for the most demanding of users.

This describes modern devices connected via USB C or Thunderbolt, which in my experience works fine (eGPUs are a bit specific, but perhaps that will shake out). I don't think we're smarter today than back in the 68030 days; probably they would have worked it out. After all there have been any number of coprocessor cards for apple computers over the years.
25 years will be enough to where he’s doing time, wish it was more. Sadly his parents have enough cushion to where he won’t have to work when he is out.

Many people are in prison for doing less harm and for longer sentences than many white collar criminals.
Why are competitors not around to make Boeing less important? There's a national security reason to avoid monopolies/duopolies.
If you abstract far enough then yes, everything what we are doing is somehow akin to what we have done before. But that then also applies to what Einstein has done.
Except you can leak data even if you don't hold it. You are focusing on data at rest. Not storing the data obviously helps massively, but a bug or maliciously inserted code could lead to user data becoming compromised.
Ukraine was quietly telling everyone to shut up because it was frantically trying to position troops and equipment. Had it been officially acknowledged these trips and equipment would have been trying to smash through an onslaught of refugees fleeing the east, thus helping Russia to face less pushback and effectively ceding the territory as Ukrainians fled and ethnic Russians stayed.
I'm not going to fight you lol, and your hyperbole means nothing to me. You strut in here making assertions and assume everyone just feels the same and is going to go along.

Your mentality is irresponsible and exactly the problem I have with AI.
PCI passthrough just works on esxi, couple of clicks done. Seems a little more involved in proxmox.
Haha, I blame the Harmonic app :/
Update: The answer [0] is basically that if the probe request is for an SSID of an open network, then a malicious access point can say "that's me" and the client will connect. (Also, note the "that's me" is not a response per se, but a separate advertisement for a network with that name.) But if it's for a WEP or WPA/2 network, the client won't connect unless the malicious router also knows the password for that network, because the handshake used to generate encryption keys requires that the client and access point agree on a shared secret.

A malicious router doesn't know ahead of time whether the SSID in a probe request refers to an open network, so it could try to establish it and see if the client connects. (Even for closed networks, it's also possible there is a bug in some client software that would ignore errors caused by the server supplying the wrong key?)

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/210798/76104
To chime in: Firefox on MacOS in darkmode makes "Enable this content?" text unreadable (white text on white background)
"crowd-sourced" might be a better term.
yes, obviously, but beginning a factual correction of an easily verifiable error with 'actually', thus signifying that it's a factual correction, is not in the same league as saying 'fuck you'. unless someone is just ridiculously insecure, i guess

professors lecturing in classrooms (canonically one of the four central examples of 'professional') open sentences with 'actually' on a regular basis, including when answering student questions, an observation unlikely to hold true for 'fuck you'
101 In Oregon used to have at least one in every tiny town, haven't been out that way in a while but I found some amazing deals on some old and rare books.
In no sane world can you compare the percentage of kids engaging in social media with the likely 1% of children that owned porno mags in the 70s.

Your comment is completely disingenuous.
You might look into node api or ffi and add some native code to speed up some operations on the server.

I helped with this project to do that and get prebuilt binaries:
https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD

I haven't looked at ffi over node yet.
Also tangentially related: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
I hope you are able to build a beautiful trip for your parents!
Not any consequences. CEO Paula Vennells is now a pariah. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells
If it wasn't a big deal, SBF would have been OK with Ellison going public with it. But he wasn't, and held out against it. Lewis spends not a single word digging into SBF's motivations around that.

Worse, he spends barely a chapter on how the polyamory which pervaded the highest levels of both Alameda and FTX might have clouded everyone's judgement and ability to say no. Mostly just limiting himself to: "It was a bunch of young adults all living together and who slept with whom changed rather fluidly. It wasn't a sex or orgy den, and the lurid tales about sex parties and all that aren't accurate."

Which I guess is probably true as far as it goes.

But not spending any time at all about how those relationships may have affected the corporate governance shows a strange lack of curiosity and unwillingness to think about conflicts of interest any relationship between business partners creates.

[I have no problem with polyamory itself--as long as everyone is consenting it's not really any of my business.]
5 per day?

My budget is $20 dollars a day.

Lmao people are so out of touch with reality.

5 transactions a day? For what? Honestly can I get off this train.
Im horrified by the extensions I've got installed in VS Code. They are so good but one day one will go rouge and install malware on my machine.
Bourgeois have fun with number crushers. Clowns, make comparison of metrics normalized to token/second/watt and token/second/per memory stick of ram 8gb, 16gb, 32gb and consumer GPUs.
With the exception of books that are really about the appearance perhaps, it's not like browsing a book in a bookstore for a few minutes tells you all that much. You're basically dealing with the marketing (like the cover and the blurb) at that point. Probably better to deal with online reviews however imperfect.

I still appreciate the experience every now and then but, really, I don't have a lot of reason to buy from bookstores much of the time.
Careful there. By saying "many of the results", you're hand-waving most of the book. The book covers over several decades of his collaborative research with Amos Tversky.

Most of the "underpowered studies" are in the priming-related chapter, called "The Assoviative Machine". The rest of the book is still worth a careful read.

(I had to make this same correction here several years ago. I didn't look up the comment to link it here.)
+1 even I want to join the mailing list.
I don't track management changes for the apps I use because who has the time? How can we protect ourselves against a malicious company changing their tech behind the scenes?
Its incredible we are nearly 2 decades into this scandal and only the victims of this giant crime have seen the inside of jail.
Who said that we peaked with transformers? I sure hope we did not. The current focus on them is just institutional inertia. Worst case another AI winter comes, at the end of which a newer, more promising technology would manage to attract funding anew.
added to my todo list!
If you get mugged, you feel it was outside your control. If you get scammed, you feel it was partly your fault that you were fooled.
> It's amazing how many people don't bother implementing this indispensable feature.

BBEdit is almost bizarrely bulletproof in this regard. I never, in a decade, lost a single note. To me, this is probably the most overlooked and important feature in a text editor.

I switched to Plasma/Linux a few years ago and have since learned that Kate is not as robust.

Must try Notepad Next.
wait... did you just open the webpage, saw "you write a prompt" and turned it off, thinking it's a "speak with ai" game?

could've waiting until 2 clicks at least, man...
Doom Captcha (2021)
Also an American and I like the British (and also Japanese) royals. Benevolent monarchs are a cornerstone of serenity and sanity.

And yes, I realize the irony as an American. I think on average Americans like the British royal family more than Britons do?
A mugger would have traumatized you. You can't put a price on [the lack of] trauma.

The harm you received was mostly financial, so the healthy way to recover is also mostly financial.
That's what I was expecting.
You’ll get much more out of a good therapist than a book.

A good therapist isn’t just there to help you work through past trauma or personal issues, they can also help with all your interpersonal interactions and relationships.
The phrase used was "superior", not "advanced". Words mean things. This shit is breaking important things for no reason other than shareholder value. This is not superior.
This is broadly why I'm in favour of aggressive antitrust and pro-competition regulation. Companies should be kept medium-sized and competitive. Economies of scale should be sought through cooperation, not conglomeration.
I think it's helpful to realize that most everything on the internet is already financialized by default. Whenever you post a comment, upvote, or "write", it costs some company somewhere an amount of money to maintain the marginal amount of server capacity required to process your request. And if you aren't paying for the product, then you are the product of course (ads).

So blockchains don't necessarily financialize things that aren't already financialized, they just tend to make money flow in a more direct way from a group of people using a service to a group of people hosting/providing it. Instead of paying using a micropayment of attention that gets monetized through a complex and often bespoke advertising arrangement, you can pay using a micropayment of a recognizable asset that has actual market value.

Personally, if I could click a single Apple-pay-like button in my browser to attach say 0.5 cents of postage to this Hacker News comment to get it to post, I doubt I would think twice about it. In fact, I would probably participate more confidently knowing it's a deterrent for bots (less of a problem for Hacker News, but a huge problem on Reddit and Xitter).
Challenging software projects some programmers should try
I 100% agree. I tried a few workarounds to get the same result, but it quickly gets out of hand. The two main solutions I'm using is to define the individual variants as in your post, and then one enum per union I care about; even with macros it gets very verbose. There's also the problem that it requires explicit conversions (so it's not zero cost). As an alternative, I define a generic enum where each variant corresponds to a generic param and then you can set it to an inhabited type (such as Infallible) when the variant is not possible. Converting is not zero-cost again.
You can retrieve the zero cost manually, but then you need to deal with discriminators yourself / the compiler can't help you there.

The pattern type work I mentioned earlier would bring us very close to what you have at the end:

enum Auth { Guest, User(u32), Bot(u32) }

type FullAuth = pattern_type!(Auth, Auth::Guest | Auth::User(_) | Auth::Bot(_)); // useless, but works
type IdAuth = pattern_type!(Auth, Auth::User(_) | Auth::Bot(_));

The full enum still needs to be defined. In particular, it serves as the basis the in-memory representation. All the subset can be handled by the compiler though.
We shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good
Because their current solution doesn’t meet their own stated goals.

> even if we are competent enough to prevent a leak from ever happening, and even if our users trust us to do what we say, we must be resilient to being strong-armed by a future controlling power (e.g. if someone we don't trust buys us)

They could be strong armed into collecting data and then handing it over.
Having built my own queue-based data processing system and worked through a lot of pain in the past, I will say that I'm a huge fan of Inngest and what they are doing.

As for the article, I think the main point being driven here is:

"building a system with queues requires much more than just the queue itself"

I would imagine almost anyone who has built a production grade queue-based message processing system would agree.

For me, I would say that for the majority of software being developed, the investment to build all of that yourself just doesn't make sense. Obviously there will be exceptions, but Inngest gives you incredible power at a very simple layer of abstraction.
what i don't understand about liberal/left economists is how they don't talk about control of the money supply in class conflict terms

this seems like an obvious thing to socialize: fiat money is granted value by the assent of all (backed by the monopoly on violence of the government) so why on earth allow a barely-concealed private cartel to manage it via credit expansion?

why is it only libertarians who talk about this, typically in terms of private money? maybe I'm just ignorant and there is a lot of content on this topic someone can point me to?
> partly due to the direction he set

What do you mean?
Thanks for the suggestions! I like them and added them to my todo list. Someone else also mentioned they'd like to be able to click outside to close the itinerary.
Effects of chocolate on cognitive function and mood: a systematic review
Yeah, my info was based on George Hotz interviews on Openpilot. He said they are safe because even if the software wants to steer the car off the road, the lane keep assist actuator won’t be able to steer that hard and will disengage. Haven’t personally tested that myself :)
Did you miss the part where it says “enterprise”?
Uhh google showed you a bunch of different things that a bunch of different people call Christmas cakes?

Again fruit cake lacks all context. The definition I. Your head is not contained in the word itself.

This is why people get confused even talking to each other…
I was reading your comments as a classic overly negative hn comment but then went straight to that website and wow, yep that's bad.

I can't tell if they're trying to sell me groundbreaking new brain scan technology or very dodgy supplements. Possibly one of the most vague product sites I've seen and there are a lot that come up on here.

I'm surprised this happens in tech so much. I feel I'm always very aware of people in the real world having no idea what I work on, so I always need to give background and context. I have noticed people in other industries haven't experienced that their whole life so often rattle off jargon that means nothing to me.

Looks like all the founders are US based, maybe it's a cultural thing.
The scent of the random used bookstores my parents dragged me into as a kid is a core memory.

Also contributed a lot of garbage/mid tier 70s and 80s sci fi to our shelves but I'm still a voracious reader so mission accomplished, parents.
Here's an excellent blog post explaining the anti-forgery features of Royal Mail stamps:

http://www.jolschimke.de/briefmarken-und-ganzsachen/erste-ge...

What strikes me most is how crude the imitation stamps are - most aren't even trying to emulate the genuine printing techniques. It's all quantity over quality, trying to minimise the cost of producing counterfeit stamps whilst hoping to sell bulk loads of them to naive (or unscrupulous) customers.

It sounds like the biggest problem is the conflict of interest that the Royal Mail has, since they currently get to keep the fine payments as revenue. They have no direct incentive to stop the sale of counterfeit stamps, let alone deal with a tiny proportion of false-positives from their scanning machines.

Perhaps the answer is for the Royal Mail to be required to forfeit the revenue from fake postage fines, but be absolved of the responsibility to deliver these letters. Therefore, false positives in detection would simply be losses for their reputation, and they can decide, as a private company, whether or not this is an issue for their shareholders.

Personally, I would go the other way, requiring that the Royal Mail always deliver letters with fake stamps without issuing fines, but have proper independent investigations into both the origin of the alleged fakes and the reliability of the scanning machines. This isn't going to happen without an Act of Parliament, unfortunately.
Delivery date is part of the implied contract. They would be fine if they just called it an estimated delivery time, but they didn't.

Of course if there was a road closure or something like that then the consequences would be minimal, but it sounds like they caught Amazon systematically making promises it can't keep.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree, I need to do a lot better with search
Every AI inference costs money. It would be better for them to have these ongoing expenses on the user side vs them having to pay for the expense.
I wonder if this opens up an opportunity for Bombardier and Embraer to move up market into the 737s space.
The nn.Block should probably be renamed to nn.DecoderBlock as it's not very clear if it's supposed to be an encoder or a decoder block, also an option to disable the mask from attention. That said, very cool project.
Sam Weller's is somewhat of an institution, but I was sad to see them move out of downtown and over to Trolley Square.

Trolley square is one of those urban/suburban mall projects that always seems to be teetering on the edge. The edge of success, or the edge of failure, depending on your optimism/pessimism scale. You can go there on a summer afternoon and see nary a soul in the place.

The effect of them moving over there is that I now have to _purposely_ go to Sam Weller's, rather than stopping by when doing other things downtown. Couple that with the bookstore being split between the books you can actually buy and the rare-book reading room, and its somehow a incongruous experience.

I love the store and what it represents, but do feel that the move kind of signified the full turnover of downtown SLC from a somewhat bohemian place, with cafe's such as the Atlantic, and tea shops such as the Beehive Tea room, to just a support structure for City Creek Mall, is complete.
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That would be dumb. Nothing prevents attempted reuse of a genuine stamp.
Xr0 makes a "limited subset of C89" as safe as Rust, after adding cumbersome function annotations to every function and limiting the types of allocation patterns that can be used. (Also: "Buffer overflows/underflows" prevention is not implemented yet. So the Xr0 programs are not yet safer than Rust.)
I was a grad student in an ab initio quantum chemistry group about a decade and a half ago. I was working on using DFT with correction from various post-Hartree-Fock methods for long-range correlation - it worked okay, but it was clear that it would never scale up to large non-crystalline molecules. DFT did somewhat better on solid-state systems. The scaling issue really killed my motivation to work on the field, and led me to taking a master's degree and leaving early. So it's been fascinating to hear about deep learning approaches to computational chemistry recently - almost like the revenge of the molecular mechanics models, which our group disdained a little but was also by far the most-used feature of the software package for which we wrote our codes.
Bash CLI video editing "suite": FFmpeg wrapper
Thought some folks here might find it useful, was getting sick of loom. Been using this with simplescreenrecorder, obs studio. On my daily driver System76 Gazelle with pop_os!
It wasn't about being paroled but the disparity in leniency.
> People need to look outside of the USA to understand the state of the art.

And yet people need only to look down at their smartphone, no matter where in the world they are located, to understand the state of the art in public ledgers.
My guess is that their product page (which serves the rest of the country too) doesn’t feature the label in it’s image because it’s not relevant to anyone outside of CA. Perhaps Oregon has it’s own version of CA 65 with a different warning label, but that wouldn’t be relevant to anyone outside of OR so it’s not prominent in the product page.

I suppose they could display regional versions of the product page based on geolocation, but that’s a huge layer of added complexity and they may not be legally required to alter their website to comply.

So I’d chalk it up to neglect or indifference, rather than a deliberate dark pattern.
Frans de Waal: Acclaimed primatologist and impactful Big Thinker
> avoid saving info so you can't ever leak it

I think that this is a good idea. It's similar to the principle of least privilege: keep only what you need to offer the service you are providing. Less risk for the provider, less risk for the consumer.

However, at least in the USA, I've noticed an increasing number of companies who have determined that personal data is worth good money. This is why most stores have rewards programs, where they capture what you've bought and when you have bought it.

If it was just about repeat business, they'd still be using punch cards, like they did a decade ago.

I don't have any insight into how they use the data, but why would they offer free things (restaurants offer appetizers, grocery stores offer discounts, etc) unless the value they received was more than the cost of the incentive?