skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its funny because I've found the opposite; the fact that the smaller community (and lets face it - most FP langs have a much smaller community than needed to get the scale you are after) the more it needs to piggy back on the army of engineers in the mainstream language target and stick to only its value add as a technology. There were web frameworks in F# that were written from scratch, but fundamentally ASP.NET is quite good and fast enough at least from my evaluations and these frameworks are now out of favor.

I personally don't have much issues using ASP.NET directly from F# (don't bother with Giraffe or anything like that); its not too hard. The routing layer is only a few classes/functions anyway - it isn't the majority of your program. I guess maybe I'm in a different position to you - I find for the few bits of ASP.NET config it isn't worth switching to C#. A few rules you need to follow but I would say that is a lot less than the Clojure learning curve and you get static typing still - that is just my opinion however.

My experience is that both languages have their pros/cons and tbh both have their challenges w.r.t adoption. My personal view is most of these challenges are not technical. The issues we complain about with the language as developers are IMO minor (i.e. things are still possible or decent compared to some other languages) and probably aren't the major factor in the wide scale technology choice away from FP in general.

For better or worse developers are often "languages takers" not "language deciders" in most big shops and this is where most of the jobs are - its only in niche elements/problem spaces (i.e small shops, dedicated niche teams, etc) where niche technologies can be worth it. This means not a lot of jobs; but when there is a job it can be higher paying. Big employers drive the market for technologies though when it comes to large scale usage and they want commodity fungible developers (i.e. resources), and are happy using a mediocre tech that gets the job done to do it. Unless there is a "killer app" where the language must be used to unlock the value most managements will stay clear of better tech - predictable, boring, commodity tech that I can get anyone in for (contractor, offshore person, etc) wins for them every time especially for the MBA/product manager/etc types. In the current economic climate developers are trying to meet the jobs that are being advertised as well (higher interest rates, less startup's, etc etc).
> Now suppose that it's open source and runs on your own device.

I agree that AI could be a massive asset to people and help improve our lives if it worked for us and our interests. Sadly that's not how things seem to work out. Every piece of technology on offer today seems to work for someone else. Our phones, our cars, our TVs, our computers, our appliances, even our medical devices. All of our tech works for other someone other than the person who paid for it and mostly so that companies can exploit us while delivering only a fraction of what those devices are capable of. Features are often locked or paywalled off to extract more money or encourage additional purchases or to prevent you from blocking ads or taking back control of your hardware and the software it runs. Our usage is monitored and data collected to be used against us later.

Even now AI is largely controlled by private companies. Even as the hardware requirements to run AI locally go down, we'll never compete with companies like facebook, google, and microsoft in terms of the size of the datasets they have to train with. Worse I think we're starting to see efforts by corporations to push for laws that limit the ability for people to use AI. They'll say it's too dangerous to let regular people use AI, and that only they can be trusted with such power.
In the UK it can all be done online. It costs £12 and the form takes about ten minutes to complete. You'll get your registration within 12 hours. The only complicated bit is if you don't want your home address to be public record and you don't have a physical office you'll need to sign up for a mailing address somewhere. Of course Brexit makes the whole thing less appealing than it used to be.
Its not a madeup number, if his hourly rate is genuinely high, then its perfectly valid.

Time is money, and government isn’t supposed to get any discount coupon on it.
Yes, I did know. Darwin, etc. Thanks.
SD has two thriving malls - UTC and fashion valley. Both seem to pushing out lower end retail and replacing with upscale brands. That seems to be resonating, plus a lot of people come up from Mexico to shop in SD. South coast plaza / Irvine Spectrum Center in OC seems to be doing okay too.
I find it interesting that the correct link for this post was:
https://akselmo.dev/posts/plasma-6-and-me/

But when linked from HackerNews, the URL doesn't work.

Maybe a bug on referrer tracking on akselmo.dev?
It is worth studying the quality of the generated messages, but the system's effectiveness does not hinge solely on the quality of those messages.

There's not a singular metric like accuracy that summarizes the quality of a generative system. What would an "accurate" message be? I can think of several aspects: mimicking the doctor's tone, addressing the correct patient concern, not providing clinically false information, not being too long, using the correct language. A good statistical characterization of this system requires rating multiple aspects of the content. These researchers measure the system's quality through user surveys and interviews. Is there a better ground truth to compare it to?

There's an important distinction between accuracy and effectiveness. These researchers are interested in the system's effectiveness. An algebra library can't be effective without being 99%+ accurate. Plenty of tools can still be useful without being perfectly accurate. Diagnostic tests are a great example. Conversely, you can have tests that are 99% accurate, but not useful, depending on the context and implementation.

I think that's why these researchers are less concerned with accuracy. Effectiveness is a separate concern from quality/accuracy and can be studied separately. They're different research questions.
Amanda Palmer celebrated Vegemite in a song called Vegemite (The Black Death).

“I cannot hold a man so close, who spreads this cancer on his toast…”

https://youtu.be/t_BkZYmTQ5c
>I want a public park. A protocol as free as the old web and BitTorrent.

Public parks have rules, and police. Every forum on the old web had administrators and moderators, which you seem to be against. You said you wanted a system where "no node can impose its will upon others." In other words with no hierarchy, and that's definitionally anarchist.

Which again, is fine if that's what you want, but not everyone does. And I believe any platform run that way will inevitably devolve into a cesspool. Show me an example to the contrary.

>I don't want all of our protocols and platforms to have a higher class of user with God mode.

Different platforms and instances are owned by different people and operate under different rules, but there is nothing in the protocols of either the web or any federated system that imposes any specific political or ideological view on anyone. If you don't like Hacker News, you can make your own Hacker News with blackjack and hookers if you want. You just can't force everyone to care. But then, you don't have the right to force anyone to care.

>I'm a moderate centrist and I get censored by everybody. The right, the left. People want to shut you up unless you agree with them.

Please... you're acting like you're trapped in a dystopian nightmare, being censored like some radical political dissident. But scrolling through some your comment history I see the vast majority of your comments are untouched, or have at worst a couple of downvotes. And even in those, you seem capable of having conversations. You don't seem to be the victim of egregious censorship, so much as having opinions that some people disagree with slightly.

>You might think you're the one getting to pick and choose the topics today, but very quickly that will escape you.

I doubt anyone is going to come after me or my gamedev Mastodon instance anytime soon but if they do I'll say you told me so. And then just spin up another one.
Maaaan I've wanted this for a while for Java and Dart (for flutter apps). Nice job!
Orderly, rational people. Hard working, rich country, despite no natural wealth. No cutting corners, one of the reasons bureaucracy is so horrid. You are expected to have your shit together, still people are as lenient as they can be. Things work, you can trust people. Low crime, clean streets. Good sense of morality.
Country is capable of much more, still holds itself back a lot, preference in humbleness. Things are built on solid foundations. Not a bad place to be.
I shut down my personal UG (small gmbh) and it was very painless. If you can prove that there are is no outstanding assets or debt, for example when you’re the only owner and did your books (Bilanz) correct, you can file for “deletion” (sofortige Löschung) of the corp, and not go through the liquidation process.

It involves setting your balance sheets to 0 (careful here, if it goes under 0 you are bankrupt and have to file for insolvency), proof through your bookkeeping that the company has no assets and no debt, submitting to the court and wait a couple days until the court signed off on it. Then the corp is gone.
How large of context can it handle?
I did not make up anything. it was nearly 100h (so i did not even use a high hourly rate for estimating) of work for me, took ~2 years and the pure cash cost was nearly 10k. i think its really fair to simplify this as saying it cost 15k. I am really fed up by people downplaying the cost of labour imposed by ruthless beurocrats and i think its toxic to banalize this.
I want my broods named like my superbowls and final fantasy games.
Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture
We are slipping down the slope to hell...
... Slashdot? :P

(I mean, I say that with a tongue in cheek but it's probably actually a legit answer...)
Seems a little different, because MGM admits it's gambling, while the other claims to be an investment
Meh. I think it's just endemic of online gatherings of programmers that the discussions seep with a strong sense of intellectual and moral superiority. We are the type to feel like we have life and the world figured out.
We spent a fair bit of effort ensuring we were accurate with the language and claims, so we're happy to take any feedback and make updates in subsequent versions. However, I don't see where we claim that MoD allocates more to some sequences and not others (specifically, the abstract says "transformers can instead learn to dynamically allocate FLOPs (or compute) to specific positions in a sequence".

That said, it's a pretty simple change to make the approach work in the way you describe (allocating more to some sequences and not others) by changing the group across which the top-k works. In the paper we use the time (sequence) dimension, but one could also use the batch * time dimension, which would result in asymmetric allocation across sequences
As a real world example my ipad pro on the latest iPadOS 17 can't even maintain 2 weeks of uptime without crashing or getting so slow it becomes unusable without a restart. And I've tested it multiple times on normal workloads using just the stock apps without ever connecting it to external devices

I wasn't expecting 20 years of uptime like an AS/400 but 2 weeks is absurdly short reliability for under the most ideal circumstances.
India to produce 33% of world's milk by 2030
Food inflation across rich nations drops to pre-Ukraine war levels
So should we just accept that the country is now a dictatorship and move on?
NASA Warns Against Taking Eclipse Photos with Your Smartphone
That is a fair analysis and a fair opinion to hold. Does this mean you do not believe in one or more of the more apocalyptic climate scenarios? Because if you do, but not in the need for an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power, you may benefit from further research on the math around world energy production and consumption.
Superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
Straight to the bathroom. The airport shortly thereafter.
> Have slower ticks.

Yes, this solves the stated issue about huge lookup tables.

> A planet size CPU that runs at .5 hz but can work on impossibly large numbers.

This doesn't make much sense to me, though.

If your goal is "any algorithm", you'll often have to go a lot slower than .5Hz. A hash-calculating circuit that's built out of a single mountain of silicon could have a critical path that's light-years long.

But if your goal is just "work on impossibly large numbers", but it's okay to take multiple ticks, then there's no reason to drag the frequency down that low. You can run a planet-scale CPU at 1GHz. CPUs have no need for signals to go all the way across inside a single tick.
> Advanced militaries have clearly indicated their interest in such systems. Reasons range from speed of response and enhanced situational awareness to the ability to overwhelm the defence systems of adversaries.

My understanding of experts I've read over years:

Western militaries, at least, have for over a decade worked on keeping humans 'in the loop', for the obvious moral reasons and also for effectiveness - human-machine teaming is considered much more effective than either humans or machines alone.

Yet they are developing autonomous machines because they don't believe they can rely on communications. The measure-countermeasure contest between communication and jamming leans too much toward the latter and it becomes a serious vulnerability: The machine army could be entirely shut down by simply jamming communications.
I don’t like to both sides many things but immigration is definitely one case. The system is broken on purpose because US agriculture, construction, and many other labor intensive trades can’t operate profitably without a migrant labor underclass. Nobody wants to fix this. Not Democrats, not Republicans.

Add to that the fact that the Republicans now have a second reason not to fix immigration: they can’t run on it if it’s not broken.

If Trump gets in again he will do a lot of anti immigration theater for his base but nothing will really change. Democrats won’t fix it either. Someone has to pick berries and trim hedges.
I had to get married fast because my travel agent failed to get our wedding license to Jamaica fast enough for our destination wedding to be legal in Canada. So we got married a few days before leaving to Jamaica and had the pastor on the resort “officiate” for the family experience even if we were already married (nobody knew except us). The “two weddings” were only a few days apart. My pastor at home dropped everything to marry us the afternoon we called him with our dilemma.
Yes. OSX is designed precisely so one doesn't have to RTFM. If my you can't see that, go back to your Mac. We get it you're a follower.
My son and 27 others have died at skydiving centre. How is it still open?
https://archive.ph/PfSrP
This sounds sensible. Which means it's off the table.

Instead ArriveCan part deux would be a better money pit.
Meta Stops Removing Some AI-Generated Posts, Even If Misleading
If a lay man’s vague proscription is so easily counter acted perhaps one should reconsider its meaningfulness.
In Australia organic waste bins are becoming more common as councils adopt some sustainability guidelines. One of the biggest issue they have is people placing "cardboard", like coffee cups, that are lined with plasitc or have toxic inks. The amount of contamination isn't insignificant unfortunately making the whole program a bit less promising in the long term.

The amount of confusion with the multiple bins is surprising at first glance
and here's the announcement by the Human Brain Project: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/08/...
Plants get most of their structure by pulling in carbon from the atmosphere and using it to make more plant. Regenerative organic farming generally works to keep that captured carbon in the soil, by using excess plant matter as soil amendment, to put it simply. From what I have seen this has the potential for massive carbon retention over chemical intensive industrial farming which generally does not focus on the use of organic matter as soil amendment.
Lol - it's "stuck up" to prefer software that works? If you want people to switch, it'd help to actually cover their use cases. Showing up to proclaim software "obsolete" when the supposed replacement literally doesn't support the features in use, then... what, claiming we're bad people for not contributing to Wayland? is the cultural part of why people don't like Wayland. (In a distant second place behind the technical reasons people don't like it, which boils down to missing features and present bugs.)
webOS was really nice, a lot of ideas that didn't come to iOS and Android until much later were present and nicely implemented back in 2010 or so.
Well... for curiosity-sake I clicked through the list of scientists on the Martians page. Every single one of them has Jewish ancestry. So while fascism more generally (right-wing nationalist authoritarianism) doesn't strictly prohibit intellectuals, World War II fascism alienated these folks because of their heritage.

There were still lots of smart people in Nazi Germany, as evidenced by Operation Paperclip which brought ~1,600 Nazi scientists over to the US to work on rockets and help the US fight the USSR in the Cold War and space race.
they don't even let us pay them, it's insane

I just have free API access with no ability to add a credit card.
> it's quite a magic feeling to hear the fire alarm go off and the doors independently close by themselves

Closing doors on a fire alarm seems hilariously cruel.
A cowling falling off probably isn’t a manufacturing defect. Someone forgot to close the latch, and the pilot failed to spot it on their walkaround before takeoff.
Stuck up means they don't care to collaborate. If they don't, how would anyone know about their specific needs? Those who don't have this dinosaur mentality do work with Wayland developers and their needs are addressed faster. Others learn the hard way but also usually like to complain that "things don't work".
There's another major issue with civilians and autonomous warfare machines of all sorts: Civilian control.

For all of history, military power depended most of all on population size (to provide soldiers) and economic resources (to equip them). Mad wizards were limited by population. However, mad wizards - megalomaniacal persons with lust for power and disregard of others - with enough resources might manufacture a machine army.

Also, note that these machines are often built for the US military by people who openly denegrate democracy and seem megalomaniacal; they have the technology and a lot of wealth. Could they build a factory somewhere and hide in their bunker until it's over?
I'm also wondering how incentives / leadership structure were setup to make this "scope creep" possible.
They're calling the lie on needing bleeding edge hardware for performance.

5 yr old silicon (14 nm!!) and no hbm.

Their secret sauce seems to be an ahead-of-time compiler that statically lays out entire computation, enabling zero contention at runtime. Basically, they stamp out all non-determinism.

https://wow.groq.com/isca-2022-paper
What are you using all this for? Whats the product?
Classic MacOS did, but it's definitely not something needed for multitasking without an MMU. For instance AmigaOS didn't do this, but instead effectively had a single shared heap.
The muscular fellow?
HBCU. I don't think I've ever heard of an application being binned because a recruiter didn't think someone was qualified to get into the school they listed. (But, for the record, I WAS qualified; the HBCU gave me more money.)
It’s not just Germany - I’ve got a similar can’t leave situation in UK currently
Seems pretty bogus.
This is correct, you can compile Clojure to native code using GraalVM. There are many heavily used projects that do this.
My upload bandwidth is 3Mbps. My NAS is an old computer running Linux and samba. Due to the bandwidth issue cloud is a complete non-starter.
Not true. It probably depends on the location, but last time I paid for a public service, I had no problem using my Visa Debit Card. I think it was not even possible to use cash.
I like the rawness of your thinking/questions.

> alienation is core to fascism

Fascism, a neighbour of Futurism, idolises technology, of only for its
semiotic power. But then so did Soviet Communism. Stalin executed all
the "bourgeois engineers" and Bolsheviks who built the industrial
engine of the CCCP. Alternatively, the great leap forward in China and
Pol Pot in Cambodia both rounded up the thinkers, teachers and
engineers first.

So I don't think it's unique to fascism. What is common?

Seems it's a hallmark of the treachery of totalitarianism. Tyrants
fear but use intellectuals. They need actual smart people to gain
power, but then who is more threatening than people who know how the
system works because they built it for you? So they are always
betrayed. Consider Oppenheimer. Many of the great scientists and
artists are put out to pasture once they've done what's useful for the
party.

> "alienates the best thinkers" seems like a good litmus test.

Almost the whole Frankfurt School were Jewish intellectuals who fled
to America.

I've written (probably in Digital Vegan) on how the Silicon Valley
Billionaires, once they've built their "Social Media Digital Utopia" -
a pageant of vanity, fear and cybernetic governance - would simply
dispose of the coders (perhaps not as directly as Stalin). Maybe an
indicator of that came early with the layoffs when some got a bit too
moist about "AI". I think they hope that "AI" will be the way to
pull up the ladder, leaving no challenging class.
Southwest B738 at Denver on Apr 7th 2024, dropped engine doors, flap damage
Liquid Prediction Markets are (finally) here
Imo there’s a lot of rationalization. I worked on an autonomous quad copter learning to fly in a simulated environment back in 2013-2014. It would then target and track a target following it.

We then moved the AI from a simulation to reality and it worked very well. I was an undergraduate at university at the time.

Based on the training data we had (what looked a lot like predictor drone video), I imagine the tech is fully capable and ready to go as needed.

Everyone knew what we were building, but rationalized it as “oh this will be used for speeding tickets or tracking drug deals”… like sure, but I can see the AKs in the video lol
That seems like a circular argument. Solar and storage are cheaper because of massive subsidies, they don't adequately account for externalities like the environmental impact of lithium mining, and benefit from streamlined zoning and aggressive variances. Nuclear is expensive and takes a long time to stand up at least in part because the state doesn't favor it.

The state can absolutely reduce costs and speed up plant construction in a way that is safe, and which is less vulnerable to bad weather, and which does not create as many energy storage problems.

Pursue wind and solar at the same time if you like, but the math climate scientists claim to understand requires them to also push for an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear.

I find it suspicious that they do not, and that they never have.