skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ has become a large language. Within any team it seems that each member has their preferred subset of the language. Going back to C only makes sense where C++ features do yield benefits. Personally I prefer code-reviews and project level standards/conventions to maintain cohesion and consistency.
The only thing standardized tests measure very well in aggregate are parental income and educations level
Minimal graphically, perhaps; the homepage alone downloaded and executed 96 separate JavaScript files.

It does look pretty though.
2001 - it was on TV one afternoon on a rainy bank holiday in the early 80s, when I was probably far too young to fully appreciate it, and what I saw was simply awe-inspiring.
Thread reeks of intellectualism.

> Me SWE/work at FAANG, so smart

More realistically, you’ll seem very, very surprised that someone not at corporate would be CEO level “smart” or even smart
We support any stack via our API over here at Stytch, take a look! Would love to hear feedback.
>The package manager can't, but the distro can.

The package manager is a technology, while the distro is a set of people and policies. It's fairer to compare distros with Flathub, the most popular repository for flatpaks (although not the only one; for example, Red Hat maintains its own flatpak remote for RHEL customers). And yes, Debian likely has stricter rules than Flathub. But those don't apply to any software you might require outside the distros' repos -- just take a look at Google Chrome, probably one of the most popular DEBs or RPMs; it's full of bundled libraries.
“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” - Paul Krugman 1998
This is one of those things everyone will agree is extremely important, and which they then won't do when assigned the job.
> Employing others to produce more than you pay them is fundamentally how business works.

I detect some snark. Whenever you pay someone to get something, and you do it on your free will, not being coerced, you perceive that you get is worth more than what you pay. Otherwise, why would you do it, in a free society.

This is universal. It happens when you buy a car, when you dine at a restaurant, when you book an airplane ticket, and yes, when you pay someone for their labor. I do pay a cleaning lady, and she comes once every two weeks and cleans my apartment. Is this exploitation? My guess is that you'll say that yes, I'm exploiting her. And also that water is wet.
I'm waiting for someone to implement the Redis API by swapping out the state machine in TigerBeetle (which was built modularly such that the state machine can be swapped out).

https://tigerbeetle.com/
Both. The title is clickbait, the content is cheap garbage under a paywall. It also has nothing to do with hacker news.
This is worth having a look at:
https://mixmark-io.github.io/turndown/

With some configuration you can get most of the way there.
I knew of Werner Herzog but recently got really interested in his work after he guested on Conan O'Brien's podcast. I'm reading his autobiography right now.

It's fascinating how he was begging some investor about how he had to make the movie Fitzcarraldo, because if he didn't, his life would be purposeless (I do hope I'm remembering this right). It got me wondering how he got away with things like forcing his crew to carry tonnes of ship over a mountain, but, also why shouldn't he get away with it, why should there be a strict construct of what's allowed or not.
It’s strange: most answers here assume the next gen models won’t be able to perform RAG on its own. IMO, it would be wise to assume the opposite - anything humans currently do to make models smarter will be built in.
But everyone has mental health. If you have a mind, then it's in some form of health. An extremely broad, arguably meaningless, classification. All it does in this context is reinforce the public stigma towards the millions of perfectly good people in the community dealing with hugely diverse situations from depression to autism and far beyond.
Spectral Ray Tracing
Oh, I see. Isn’t that more of an oxymoron though?
It doesn't matter how much knowledge augmentation is provided, if it is less than infinite, hallucinations are going to be a problem. This is a mitigation, not a solution.

The solution is finding a way for models to recognise the absence of knowledge.
After the fact. That doesn't change thr
E fact that a card with a $500 limit can generate a $10k invoice, which you need to go to your manager to tell them about.
A Most Violent Year
Barry Lyndon
Breaking the Maya Code
Equilibrium
Margin Call
Moonfall
Good Kill
Godzilla vs Kong
Inception
Seven Days in May
Simone
The Leopard / Il Gattopardo
Trudell
Until the End of the World
A Tale of Two Raids: Ukraine Has No Nuclear Weapons So Must Suffer
It being totally uncorrelated to the standard time format makes it inconvenient/unintuitive, but it does mean it never gets misinterpreted as local time, which sometimes happens when UTC is used. interesting.

also interesting to see it find its niche use in an MMO
A lot of states already have stronger to much stronger protections, including the two largest states, CA and (very recently) TX. A very large percentage of the population of the country would lose privacy protections if this bill is passed without removing preemption.

Hopefully either they remove preemption from the bill, or the bill dies.
If you want ordering, then a hash-map doesn't help you.
uh yeah it works out of the box, this is how most RAG systems are designed, just look at pgvector for example.
It'd be nice if there were Somewhere Else.
>Here’s a fairly simple service unit:

>You can probably puzzle most of that out.

That's hilarious. No, you can not.
Why is there a "WantedBy" for multi-user.target when it is started "After" network.target and auditd.service? If you understand systemd the answer is obvious, but if you don't this should confuse you.

>It can replace inetd, syslog, and many other traditional services.

On Ubuntu it replaced the fstab.

>This is a benefit or a drawback, depending on your point of view.

I don't know from which perspective it is good to have one program extend itself into random unrelated areas and absorb their functionality into itself. Certainly no university course or anyone I ever worked with had that perspective. Usually people talked about defining and limiting scope and having a clear vision of what your software should do.

I think the "Unix Philosophy" debate is largely silly, mostly because it misses the point. Regardless of what some people in the 80s thought about UNIX system programming, it is bad software engineering to not have a defined scope for your software and let it sprawl endlessly.

Whether software should do one thing only is neither here nor there, but it certainly shouldn't do a couple dozen unrelated things while replacing perfectly functional existing system software.
Base 10 is not a good base
There's a ton of hype around k8s and tons of people positing it as a solution for everything under the sun. It's not. It's a good building block for everything under the sun, if and when you need the scale of "More than one team that doesn't want to get paged in the middle of the night". A ton of the solutions built on top of it are terrible.

What K8s is good at - Running collections of stateless application servers. If you have a dozen copies of the same process that are all identical, K8s is right for you. There's a lot more it can do, but that's the one that is most common.
I never got complaints about systemd. A few times I had to deal with writing custom unit files, it wasn't hard to figure out.
What really needs to die here isn't x86, it's the entire concept of RISC versus CISC.

RISC is a collection of ideas about how to build chips that came about in the late 70s and early 80s. CISC is a retronym for things that didn't have those ideas. Some ideas worked out. Some ideas have failed. It's no longer a useful concept for talking about computer architecture; let's instead talk about the actual microarchitecture of the chips.

(Also, yowsers, that original article really is bad.)
> I think most of what a brain cell effectively does

I would love to see a source for your belief of this.
The UI makes me think of Discord. I suppose that might be the inspiration for it?
Research has been done, and has shown herbal medicines to not work[1], to nobody's surprise. Sure, there's not a huge amount of research into the matter, but this is comparable to the small amount of research time sunk into verifying if prayer can cure cancer.

Nonsense like "rhino horns look like an erect penis, so surely they will give you erections" should be dismissed without further discussion, but unfortunately a multi-billion dollar industry continues to wipe out rare and endangered species for magic cures that can't possibly work.

[1] A large subset of such medications are basically stimulants that make patients feel better but do more harm than good. My father in law was scammed this way by a herbal doctor that gave him such huge doses as to cause heart damage.
> towards government

it felt like more of an attack against academia and the forward march of scientific "progress" than specifically towards government. The character Oppenheimer has his own issues specifically with government, but it's moreso that by that point, he has decided not to blindly agree with the status quo and so has become a threat. Oppenheimer is portrayed as part of the problem after around the 3/4 mark though. "I feel I have blood on my hands"
For those of us who don’t know what RAG is (including myself), RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation.

From the video in this IBM post [0], I understand that it is a way for the LLM to check what its source and latest date of information is. Based on that, it could, in principle, say “I don’t know”, instead of “hallucinating” an answer. A RAG is a way to implement this feature for LLMs.

[0] https://research.ibm.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation...
>Editor’s note: And this logging functionality was exactly what was abused in last week’s insane liblzma / ssh backdoor.

How was the logging functionality of systemd abused by the xz backdoor?
I thought the point of Redis was to avoid hitting DB. Why not just use SQL?
It's true for the most of the North and West Europe as all Atlantic and Baltic areas will get significantly colder. Southern and Eastern Europe will get significantly warmer, on the other hand. This will also drive the weather systems a lot more unstable within the whole Europe, so it's a bad news for everyone there.
Recently introduced a friend to Desiring God. Changed their whole perspective on Christianity. Took things back to basics for them, here’s what Jesus actually said, here’s what the Bible actually teaches, no sensationalism, let’s calm down and dive deep.

Here are some favorites of mine, bookmarked and ready to reread whenever I feel the urge.

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-to-be-spiritually-mi...

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-humility

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-one-must-read-this-y...
Into the Wild, this perhaps romanticized / dumb idea that blindly chasing your passion to your demise may still be worth it. Dying from mushroom poisoning doesn't seem so fun though...

Walter Mitty and Big Year, similar adventures about people chasing their silly passions (but not fatally).

Transcendence, Her, and Robot and Frank, some of the very few AI-optimistic movies. I've always believed in the transformative social good of AI, since I first heard of the Borg, but most people and media are staunchly against it. It was nice to see a more friendly viewpoint.

I really enjoyed Arrival too and hope we have an experience like that someday, but the whole time travel thing was a turnoff.
I mean you can’t build rag into a model, it’s part of a system or application.

You wouldn’t say a steering wheel is built into an engine. People just build cars with engines.
>facebook used their vpn onavo [...]

It's worth pointing out that while it operated as a VPN (so it could capture traffic), it was ostensibly marketed as a "security" app (ie. scanning your web traffic for threats). It's not really a good example of shady VPNs.
With modern high level languages, yes, perhaps. The article says as much.
x86 and x86_64 software optimization resources
The Matrix, Inception, Transcendence.
One theory about autism is that it's caused by some sort of problem in synaptic pruning early in development. I don't think there's actually that much evidence for this theory, but if it is in fact caused by something like that, there could perhaps be a high degree of randomness in terms of how it affects different areas of the brain.
The Fog of War. It caused me to see geopolitics from both a simpler and more constantly ambiguous perspective.

A River Runs through It. Even more so the book, but the movie gets the job done: the meanings of our experiences only make sense once their dust has settled.

The Leftovers. I'm going to cheat a little and say a TV show here. Better than anything else, it draws a connection between the philosophical immensity of things like 2001/Interstellar and the real drama of everyday human lives.
Thanks, this is how I view it, too: there will always be relevant context that was unavailable at training, eg because it didn't exist yet, because it doesn't belong to the trainers, or because it wasn't yet known to be relevant.

One of these will remain true until every person has their own pet model which is fine-tuned, on keyup, on all public data and their own personal data. Still, something heinously parametric (like regional weather on some arbitrary date) I struggle to imagine fitting into a transformer.

Edit: I can imagine every user getting a LoRA.
> "I blocked the doomsday bill" works fine

The allegation is Cantwell is bombing these bills so she can keep claiming to her constituents that she's fighting to pass them. If she straight up came out and changed her mind on privacy, sure, that would resolve the conundrum, but that sidesteps the dilemma instead of solving it.
Wow, even with subtitles vs movie audio I have a hard time not just turning it into a reading session where I forgot the voice audio is there. Maybe it's different without the visual element behind the subtitles, I'll have to give it a try.
Yeah I say cost is the biggest thing. Why doesn’t everyone just use GPT 4 for everything or Gemini ultra + RAG with all documents in the rag system with the best embedding model

Among other things because it’s way too expensive and narrowing your scope cuts huge costs and isn’t hard to do at a high level
I left Oppenheimer with the feeling that you had choose between politics and science, it was very hard to do both.
Corona virus research and and wild caught live animal markets aren't quite 'luck'.
Revolver - 2005
It taught me that the biggest enemy is the one within, i.e. the ego, and taught me to challenge my desires/goals/aspirations and try to understand why it came to be that I have such desires.
* everything is far apart, intentionally. US cities used to be denser before the car, but in the postwar era not only were there significant amounts of new areas of car-oriented low density, but a lot of the existing dense areas were destroyed, and now in most of the country building traditional density is illegal.

* because everything is far apart and designed for car usage, public transit, walking and cycling are inversely very bad. this simultaneously makes doing any of that dangerous; and it also puts a lot of people on the roads who probably shouldn't be (drunk drivers, distracted drivers, people with failing vision, etc.)

* in some of the worst affected areas, the transport department has applied road standards meant for interstate highways to local roads with traffic lights and no center barriers, and so these roads in particular are quite dangerous and full of rampant speeding

* Americans have tended towards larger cars, and unlike Europe there is no testing in the US for how safe automobiles are for pedestrian impact, so the cars themselves are actually more deadly to pedestrians
While that sounds ridiculous. I would point out that between about 2000-2009 was the age of the phpbb and weblog. It wasn't until the 2008 financial crisis and a decade of zirp, a decade of "unicorn" companies losing a billion a year for a decade, that "the internet" as a financial concern was anything more craigslists, ebay, google-adwords and a selection of e-catalogs.
There are a non-negative number of compromise bills that are worth less than nothing. There's no way I was able to tell from the article's text whether Cantwell was blocking things that were legitimately valuable or complete garbage (ie, use the word "privacy" offer only block stronger privacy guarantee, etc).

Statement like, "Again and again, aides said, she has thwarted promising talks by refusing to iron out key disputes, speaking out publicly against colleagues’ efforts and not empowering her staff to fully negotiate." say nothing at all.
How Much Does This Cow Weigh? (2015)
He has this wonderful story of how someone else got 'his' monkeys for Aguirre from the airport, the ones used for the final shot.
He forged paperwork to make it look like he was a veterinarian who needed to give the monkeys vaccinations, and took them to the movie-set instead. The original 'ask for forgiveness, not for permission' mind-set.
Don’t ask me why, but the couple of scenes with the Jurassic Park sys admin stuff made me want to get into computers.
We already have those batteries: Electric Vehicles. We just need some kind of vehicle-to-grid standardization.
What's your point? There are people who engage in private drone ownership more or less for the same reasons commonly put forth for private gun ownership.
Completely different. Not only from a comfort perspective, but show me a decent study which looks at the impact of "sleep brainwave stimulation music" on immune function, cardiovascular function, memory, reaction time, etc etc.

This isn't "gentle tones to help you sleep". Directly interacting with slow-waves can increase the spectral power by 30%.
Recently, Midsommer. I think if you go into it with an open mind (and not get too weirded out by the gore) it asks some really fascinating anthropological and social questions.

By the end of the movie, I was almost entirely on the side of the culture and their behavior made complete sense to me. During the course of the movie I experienced a shift of position and perspective and continues to affect me 4 years later.

All the token others… Pi,
Memento, Waking Life, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, etc. etc.

I felt like Midsommer was the best interesting film in decades.
So you don't know how much to allocate and you also don't want to allocate too much.

It sounds like you want something built on top of std::vector but with your own rules about when to reserve() and how much.
Fucking Amal
MS popularised that, but based on some recent comments here by employees, it sounds more like they're just getting force-fed the dogfood without having any power to change it.
You cherry picked one sentence and stripped away the entire context and meaning of my post.
All good, thought that's how you'd posed it... has more weight as an onion!
> Frances, who claims he doesn't care about the royalties (which amount, he says, to just 10 grand a year)

for a writer these days, 10 grand is definitely not chump change.
I consider pay more like a caste system in the US. It's a way to separate people who "deserve" to be highly paid and people who don't. Working in software, it always felt odd that I make 3x as much as the guy making my food and have 10x the expendable income, even though they work harder at much more miserable work. The first degree of separation is whether you can afford to do a 4-6 year take home test that's getting more and more expensive each year.
I don’t want to sound like a snob, but Godzilla vs Kong looks pretty out of place on that list. Can I ask what put it on your list?
Blade Runner, as it was the first one I saw that was about the meaning of memories and beliefs.

I actually liked The 6th Day when it comes to ideas of our "natural" view on identity and ownership of individual assets etc.

Matrix, of course, for its search for reality/truth behind ones inherited perceptions, no matter what consequences (there are more ideas in the movies, though).
I guess systemd uses liblzma to automatically compress logs after a configurable timeframe (e.g., daily).
I don't necessarily disagree that there's a lot of people being sold a VPN that probably don't need it, but VPNs still can be a legitimate tool. Even outside of the "well known" VPN uses like piracy, privacy (in a 'I trust it more then my ISP' fashion), and getting around geo-fences there's still uses for them. A couple of quick examples:

Getting around blocks or monitoring on networks like work WiFi. No need to tell my work I'm on Indeed, and for a little while they seemed to block my email provider (Proton) and reading my email is handy to be able to do.

For use as a network tool. For example, I was recently helping my brother set up a website, and with port forwarding he was able to really easily VNC into my VM I was working on it with.

VPNs can also be handy for the 'slightly suspicious stuff' that's not illegal. You know, things like an internet search about something you saw on TV or were just curious about that's not illegal to research, but you're worried it could be a suspicious search. Or maybe I want to use wget to grab an offline archive of a website, but don't want to raise alarms and get my IP banned.
The whole matrix being a trans metaphor didn't even register for me until I heard about it in an interview on YouTube.
As a concept infinite context will not be discovered. We can spin up huge models with large contexts that cost more but even 1M context is 1 expensive and 2 not 3trillion(size of some datasets)

Rag is not bad attention, rag is the user not knowing the context to give the LLM
Contact

What would aliens be like if they've existed a billion years longer than us?
The Man From Earth

Can't describe this without giving it away.
fwiw, Midsommer also has the best approximation of psylocibin visual come-up in video format that I’ve found
I think that's likely a natural outcome of a diagnosing something that appears to be a spectrum rather than a discrete disorder. Perhaps analogous to how back pain can range from a mild inconvenience to completely debilitating. Or how there's a spectrum between someone who is harmlessly arrogant to a clinical narcissist.
The Commanding Heights Documentary
Definitely a stream best enjoyed in small doses
Cloudflare does a pretty good job of managing it, at the cost of some centralization.

It would be pretty cool if there was a way to DDOS-harden at the protocol layer. Not sure if that’s even possible though
For what it's worth, I get where you're coming from on this in theory, but in practice I don't think this thesis has been borne out.

If this were right, we wouldn't have solar power scaling up by hundreds of gigawatts per year, or the EV and charging network deployment we're currently seeing, or a bunch of recent progress on geothermal power, electrolysis, and heat pumps (including for industrial heat).

I'm not sure which part of your thesis is wrong though. Maybe people do feel sufficient urgency to work on all this? Or maybe people are actually capable of working on things without needing a "five alarm fire" to motivate them. I tend think it's the latter, personally.
The Intercept Is Running Out of Cash