skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“There’s no mystery here”

Nobody’s claiming there’s ‘mystery’. Transformers are a well known, publicly documented architecture. This thread is about a video explaining exactly how they work - that they are a highly parallelizable approach that lends itself to scaling back propagation training.

“No person with … formal training … would be taken in here”

All of a sudden you’re accusing someone of perpetuating a fraud - I’m not sure who though. “Ad companies”?

Are you seriously claiming that there hasn’t been a qualitative improvement in the results of language generation tasks as a result of applying transformers in the large language model approach? Word frequencies turn out to be a powerful thing to model!

It’s ALL just hype, none of the work being done in the field has produced any value, and everyone should… use ‘statistical dashboards’ (whatever those are)?
I've been looking for the same, and the closest I've come to is the protocol utility & the more-maintained protocol-go re-implementation.

https://www.luismg.com/protocol/
https://github.com/ryungmin/protocol-go
This article on society 5.0 doesn't mention lasers. Anyone have info on why ultra-powerful lasers are critical to specifically this plan for the future?

https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/society5_0/index.html
because in orienteering you use compass that points into the direction you are moving while the compass needle points north. then you align the map with the needle, so your map points north too, and you end up looking at the map in the direction you are moving.
> Because people want that?

People want to drive without their seatbelts while drunk. Actually, this is one of the few times it's correct to truck out, "if we asked the people what they want, they'd say faster horses." Most Americans have no idea what they're missing in terms of the convenience and comfort of a good public transit system. Instead of being mad at everyone in your city for 40 minutes twice a day, you can relax for 30-45 minutes twice a day while reading a book or taking a nap. And, you can get drunk if you feel like it, and get home cheap anyway.

> But not always - there are those mysterious poles of unavailability.

A better funded public transit system wouldn't have this.

> off-site parking could still free up a lot of street estate

Offsite where? Parking lots? Consider Houston: "off site" aka out of the city is about a hundred miles from the city center. There's no "off site" for many American cities.
Why don’t we just wait to see how things play out before making that kind of judgment? Production has barely started to ramp.
when i wrote my very first ray tracer it didn't take me an entire weekend; it's about four pages of c that i wrote in one night

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/my-very-first-raytra...

since then i've written raytracers in clojure and lua and a raymarcher in js; they can be very small and simple

last night i was looking at Spongy by mentor/TBC https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871 which is a fractal animation raytracer with fog in 65 machine instructions. the ms-dos executable is 128 bytes

i think it's easy to get overwhelmed by how stunning raytraced images look and decide that the algorithms and data structures to generate them must be very difficult, but actually they're very simple, at least if you already know about three-dimensional vectors. i feel like sdf raymarching is even simpler than the traditional whitted-style raytracer, because it replaces most of the hairy math needed to solve for precise intersections with scene geometry with very simple successive approximation algorithms

the very smallest raytracers like spongy and Oscar Toledo G.'s bootsector raytracer https://github.com/nanochess/RayTracer are often a bit harder to understand than slightly bigger ones, because you have to use a lot of tricks to get that small, and the tricks are harder to understand than a dumber piece of code would be
No they didn't, Germany has been hit by rising natural gas costs more than other Western countries due to sanctions on one hand and dropping exports (Germany was by far EUs largest exporter to Russia) on the other hand. Cost rises are mostly due to primary energy usage not electricity though.

With dropping demand and rising inflation, Germany has a bad economy (just as bad as the UK, but due to different reasons, the UKs main driver is Brexit).

Third, in a crisis Germans spend (even) less money for longer, while people in the US earlier overspend their credit limits. Which boosts the US economy, especially after a recession it growths earlier and faster.

Because of the bad economy BMW and other companies in Germany did not hire as many people as the US did (also compare US to German labor laws as a reason why Germany is well behind the curve when it gets to economy growth).
As a Finn, the most annoying aspect here is the unequal treatment by the government. A PHEV is treated very favourably tax wise, and the emissions calculations are very optimistic about the usage of electric power.

My car is a compressed natural gas car that I drive with 100 % biogas, which is domestic made from waste and other side products of industry, and has an estimated CO2 equivalent emission of ~0 g/km. The tax law and emissions calculations assume that I drive it on natural gas all of the time, never a single kilometer using biogas. Additionally I need to pay an extra fixed tax (not based on kilometers driven) just because it's a CNG car. This tax is 6 times higher than for PHEVs.

Thus, a big SUV like Mitsubishi Outlander, which eats a lot of petrol as soon as you get outside the short EV range and runs its engine anyway when it's cold in the winter, gets to pay less tax (which is specifically based on CO2 emissions) than my biogas car.

PHEVs in my eyes are nothing but greenwashing for most people.
I can't say how strongly I disagree with the ethical/copyright concerns raised here.

The idea that intelligences - whether they be human, artificial or alien - should be forbidden from learning from code freely shared on the internet goes against everything I like about open source.

I think it's fair that no one should be able to use reproduced copyright code verbatim, whether that by by a human memorizing something or a computer copying it.

But I take the complete opposite view on the ethics of letting machine learn from work. I think this should be encouraged.
ah thanks!

must have missed that joke
And make sure the bean counters are kept busy somewhere else, otherwise they're just going to produce the same garbage that comes out of any MBA run manufacturing firm located in China. MBAs are the scourge of reliable products, they drive everything to shit all in the name of a few pennies of "cost optimization."
Haha, it's my friend's tweet, Atai, from https://CopilotKit.ai he became a meme.
> This is the same Germany who recently “halved” their plastic waste numbers by attaching milk bottle caps to the actual bottles so they’re counted as a single piece of waste instead of two…

Do you have any sources discussing this? Most waste numbers I've seen from France (where I live) and the EU are in volume or weight, neither of which will be affected by the caps remaining attached to bottles (which is an EU-wide thing IIRC).
EXCEPT for turbocharged Subarus (at least my Forester didn't qualify).
Which self respecting recruiters text you on SMS? I've never seen that. They either text me on LinkedIn messenger, direct email or more rarely via WhatsApp but a lot of those seem like scammers.
This only really works (for some value of 'works') if you go for external autarky, internal free market. Otherwise, you very much have the government picking winners and losers; banning or heavily tariffing the import of foreign steel, say, will be great for your steel industry, but probably pretty dire for other heavy industry, which consumes steel.

Even the autarky option (or somewhat less extreme options like only applying protectionism to end products, rather than raw materials and intermediate products) is only free market if you kind of decide that _end consumers_ are not part of the free market. The car industry in particular has produced many examples of how this goes; look at the East German and Soviet car manufacturing industries, or to some extent the British one prior to European accession. Pumping out shoddy overpriced products which only had a market because people were forced to buy them, and which were utterly unable to compete once imports were finally practical.
I went through this exact rabbit hole in 2021 looking to out about USB enclosure CPU usage. As jsheard mentioned, you're looking for UASP. UASP has been around for a decade or more and even the cheapest USB enclosures should support it. I use a Sabrent※ that was $11USD last year.

※ Listed on Amazon as "SABRENT 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-Free Clear External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III]"
When would that default value be initialized?
How are any of those unrelated?
The "Python", the "Actually" and the "Portable" parts.
My takeaway was that they weren't happy about upstreams, but didn't feel like there was anything that could actually be done:

> We can't do
much about upstream projects using it.

As a potential upstream, I could potentially help them by adding some kind of metadata to my package, indicating, "Some portions of this code were written with CoPilot active." And this could allow them to automatically filter out and reject packaging requests from users.

(As an open source author, I'm deeply ambivalent about distro packaging anyways. I release my software as pre-built, standalone binaries specifically to avoid the tarpit of distro packaging politics. If my software is packaged for a distro, it will almost always need to go through someone else, who may or may not do a good job, or keep the software up to date, or break the software in a way that creates more support requests for me.)
My experience with SSDs and nvme in usb enclosure is that temperature management is probably a much bigger factor.

Even on my old thinkpad USB3.0 ports, performance drop when the drive is hot. I have one drive that I use to run my "works" VM on different computers, and when I am doing IO intensive stuff I can really observe the difference wether the usb casing is open or closed or if I put a ventilator in front of it.
These concerns seem like throwing the baby out of bathwater, which has been correctly pointed out down the Gentoo mail list thread. It's nowhere near as clear cut as OP makes it sound.

Let's take for example the point about code laundering by LLMs and their un-traceability. Clean room reimplementation is widely considered ethical in the software world (for example Wine is built this way), but thinking of it in this context, how is it not laundering to avoid lawsuits, technically legal but ethically dubious? Where's the line? How can writing the boilerplate and generic scaffolding be considered laundering? Certainly there are gradations, and a blanket ban is myopic? This all has been discussed in that thread.

What about writing Autowiki-style documentation, filling the gaps nobody wants to work with? Machine-assisted translation? Indirect use of the tools?

Another point, quality. The person committing the code should be responsible for it, LLM-assisted or not. And the reviewer is responsible for verifying that it meets the quality bar before accepting it. It's as simple as that. (although it's addressed down the thread by pointing out the concerns are redundant).
iirc there are/were still issues because SMART is part of ATA but not part of SCSI so you need an extra encapsulation layer - smartmontools has code to send special vendor-defined packets because of this.
The subsidy is badly structured:

- installing the charging point - 2k credit

- charing at charging station - 2k credit

- your electricity bill - 2k credit

- servicing the car - the more you drive on electric power the greater the discount is, say up to 50% with 2k cap.
I'm curious how stainless steel is a nightmare to maintain. My (basic) understanding of the material is it's meant to be very low maintenance.
On that note, did anyone ever make a handheld inkjet or spray nozzle, so you could print graffiti on walls or things on the go? I imagine most of the tech in it would be the same as in the kind of laser device you're asking about.
fwiw the definition doesn't come from the author, it's how Cosmopolitan/APE describes itself (APE being Actually Portable Executable - as opposed to a mere Portable Executable, aka EXE)
1) It does not need to solve every issue to be useful; it just needs to surface some issue that a human reviewer can then validate. It's seen a lot of code; it can find common issues.

2) The specific issue you're talking about is because they don't see letters, they see tokens, which are groups of letters / subwords. It can't count those because it can't actually "see" what it's counting. This is being worked on as well.
Not easy to make the connection to Palmer being fired here. The case was decided much later and it equally involve John Carmack, who stayed at Meta much longer, until he left out of his own accord.
It matters because it can eat up the reviewers’ time. Contributors can generate some AI output in perhaps (amortized) basically no time while the reviewer has to review it for half an hour.

At scale it doesn’t work to simply judge the content on its merit when the content can be generated at no cost. The content becomes indistinguishable from spam, no matter the intent of the contributor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40034815
Because there are more people who care about the jobs than care about the stock price.
When I taught web development at university, we made sure to focus on hireable skills. Back then, that involved making a website based on a Photoshop export. That proved to be very successful, and we hired a bunch of those students over the summer since they had skills we could actually use.

That said, I think a lot of theoretical practice tasks are good for stretching knowledge and skills, so they have value too.
Yet. Lets talk again in 2034.
For the big players, the Jevons paradox might be even stronger. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox) Making their services more efficient financially might make them more accessible for things that previously wouldn't be interesting to run in the cloud. That could make them a lot more money eventually. IPv4 is not for free and it is a limited resource - that is a recipe for rising costs and missed opportunity.
I don't get what's unintuitive here?

default parameters are caller's hint, it's even part of declaration - not definition (and it doesn't have to be the same in different files, it's not even ub - because it's literally hint for the caller when param isn't there)

"dynamic default parameters" would pin them to the function, which isn't the design
Things have been playing out before our eyes for a few years now. I know, because I put down a deposit for a cybertruck on Day 1.

Glad I canceled it several months ago.
We don’t need Elon to discover the properties of stainless steel for us, thanks.
Yeah but what are the politics of the people who profit from traditional car makers?
Same problem with physical books disappearing.

History doesn't change if you read a book. If you read Wikipedia, who knows?

Not picking on Wikipedia, same could be with any online source.
Have you ever heard of the The Christian Science Monitor? It's a mostly-respectable newspaper (now website) published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, the publishing arm of the church.

Christian Science is very much a dying religion, and is not "prominent" anywhere so I'm not surprised that you never heard of them if you're young. The mother church is in Boston though.
> especially if you read the documentation for those functions

Shouldn't that be enough in the first place? RTFM is a real thing.
I'm aware of both Python and Cosmopolitan implementation details and neither of these things explain a multi-second page load.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addr...

I think it is to do with country wise allocation. I think India is seeing wide adaption of IPv6.
Depression Kills Creativity
The funny thing is that if a function does not exist they often just make up one. But that happened on Stack Overflow too. Most of the answers in areas I knew had incorrect answers on SO. Only in areas where I am a beginner there is usually correct answers.
Grant has a gift of explaining complicated things very clearly. There's a good reason his channel is so popular.
Couldn't the same result be achieved by just copying an entire virtualenv? Though that is rather annoying to source every time and in every terminal.
I have an upcoming trip to Europe, which I am quite excited about. I wanted to set up a Tailscale exit node to ensure that critical apps I depend on, such as banking portals continue working from outside the country.

I've never had an issue accessing banking portals from Europe.
At the same time, if you produce text and code that reads overly like a bot, they may have just cause to dismiss your submission and maybe even ban you, if we're being so teleological about it.

I don't personally agree this particular line in the sand will help in all cases -- it is a difficult standard determining whether something is AI-created, this will likely increase the burden on the humans in the loop. But as policies go, it makes sense to have a line drawn in the sand for outright rejecting it on source not content, especially in the context of a package manager and Linux distribution. The burden on said humans in the loop will be even greater if they don't have a rule in place granting blanket dismissal on this characteristic, especially if they're correct in seeing an increase in AI-produced packaging of unknown binaries.
The interpreter is linked to a cross-platform libc-like library, and compiled to a funky executable format, supporting multiple OS targets simultaneously. The initialisation and startup are probably computationally-intensive.
No, I think you’re thinking of Kazaam, the one where Sinbad was a genie
Congratulations and welcome to the auth party!
But is it that C# is hated by the masses or is it a vocal minority hating against languages they know very little of? Personally, I love C# for game development and Java for backend tasks.

There are legitimate reasons not to not like either language but I never see these reasons being mentioned. Rather, I see people who at some point in their live were exposed to these languages with little experience, thrown into the shark tank and developed a passionate hate because they did not have the prerequisites to actually comprehend what they were working on.

Universities certainly did Java a disservice, exposing students to ancient syntax and construts from the 90s which has burnt them ever since.
I test drove a BYD seal recently. It was much better than the model 3. All of the marketing was around crash safety.
Thanks to these technology laggards, a significant and growing number of Internet users are now participating in a sort of mix network [1] through their residential ISP or mobile carrier, who are using CGNAT/464XLAT at scale.

As a result it is easier to scrape a public website because the website would need to block legitimate users at the residential ISP or on the same mobile network, and this consequence is likely worse for the website than having to accept scraping. It's much harder for a website to determine that 100 requests/second from a single IPv4 address is a single user scraping away, or 100 customers each on their own phone/computer just wanting to use the website.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network
I agree that sounds hypocritical but I don't see a lot of people saying that. I don't even know if I can buy cheap Chinese EVs in the US, or when I'll be able to. It's not really an option that's on the table as far as I can tell.

I think the bottom line for many people is EVs are still not as cheap as ICE options and definitely not as convenient, yet. When that situation changes I don't know why most consumers would stick to ICE.
In this case you won't have default parameters at all when calling through a base class pointer, resulting in an error if you don't mention the parameter explicitly.

It won't solve the problem, but it is a much saner behavior.

If you want the expected behavior, that is that a call through a base class pointer uses the default parameters of the derived class, then you shouldn't use default parameters at all. Use overloading instead.
We're about to find out how cash rich Tesla really is.
Now I'm curious. It's seems you are not the father I'm still drinking beer with. This means there is only one person left that fits this attribute :) ... we should meet for some beer with the other father ;)
> enhance IPv4 by adding more digits

I mean, that's not too far off from what IPv6 is. The main difference, at least as far as the visual addresses go, is that IPv6 also supports letters, which drastically increases the total number of addresses beyond what extending the number of characters would do.

I think part of the idea was that, since transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is going to be difficult, we might as well make it worthwile be ensuring that another transition never needs to happen again for the forseeable future.
> Musk is too conservative for you

Is white replacement now just conservative ideology these days?
Sure, why not? Are you suggesting that having a human in the loop, robotically bumping the version numbers of your dependencies would have mitigated it?

Lots of humans upgraded lots of dependencies without noticing, I doubt whoever is doing it in your org is special enough to be the one who would have caught it. And if they are, they should be working in security research, not bumping dependency versions in package.json.
Yeah C# is really, really nice. And the standard library is incredible.

But there's so much MS baggage and MBA bullshittery that it's a headache to use--and that's even if you're targeting windows solely.

.net NET dotnet core netcore coredotnet netCORE CORE core 5, 6, 7, net 9, dot core 4.

One other thing: To get the most out of csharp you want to use visual studio. Yes there are good extensions for vscode but they are so inferior in every way to the VS experience that it's kind of pointless.

VS has these really great tools but it's a hulking buggy proprietary, paid for, colossus. I don't even know what it's like to use on macos, I never even bothered (I imagine it's even worse than windows).

So great language, but the experience in practice is hampered by the MBAs at MS (and it'll never, ever, get better because of that).
Don't plug in hybrids typically have a 20-30 mile range on the battery?

Unless I have a dedicated garage for my car it just sounds like a huge faff. The cost savings for plugging it in vs. fuelling it are probably something like 50 pence, and the only time I'm ever going to do that would be dangling a cable from a window if I manage to park outside the house.
> Do you think there is any chance that the legacy media has convinced you to behave this way?

Bro, you can see the tweets yourself. Nobody is putting words into this guy's mouth. When people show you who they are, believe them.
This doesn't seem to be related to Gentoo? The linked mailing less message explicitly says their policy won't apply to upstream packages.
No clear coat.

> To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.). Do not wait until Cybertruck is due for a complete wash. If necessary, use denatured alcohol to remove tar spots and stubborn grease stains, then immediately wash the area with water and a mild, non-detergent soap to remove the alcohol.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-653...
Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung
Vote with your wallet if possible. A competent ISP must have IPv6. If they don't have IPv6, what else do they skip that is their job?