skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say "all" or even "most". You were the one making absolute categorical statements.

Some managers are unreasonable, and will not change their minds about what they've decided because of the arguments, no matter how rational and well-expressed, of people beneath them.

Declaring categorically that any engineer who cannot persuade their manager not to do something bloody stupid is a bad engineer is insulting to engineers who are, in fact, in exactly that situation, and is, from where I sit, part of a very large category of mistake where someone tries to avoid having to apply human judgement and critical thinking by making a hard and fast rule about things that are much more nuanced and fuzzy.
They did deliver, the device does mostly all the things that were shown in the demo and Marques shows most of it.

is it incredibly bad at doing such things? yes.

is a smartphone a much better device at doing all the things the AI pin does? yes as well.

So i wouldn't call it a scam, its just a bad product.
Core Java by Cay Horstmann (https://horstmann.com/corejava/) is a well-structured and concise review of major features. Historically, the most interesting chapters were scattered across both volumes. So completely skipping the "Fundamentals" volume was ill-advised while the "Advanced Features" volume had some boring and mostly unnecessary chapters.
Musk regularly lies and cannot be trusted.

He places a lot of bets, though, and that some of those bets may pay off in no way takes away from the fact that he engages in pretty scammy behavior.

In my view, his SOP is pretty much exactly what Theranos tried to do: fake it (scam) until you make it.
I thought so too. The movement seems a little slowed down too and maybe too smooth.
EDIT: Got my “future of” institutes mixed up.
If only all tech news were this way. Then I’d waste no cycles on hot garbage.
> "how can you even entertain a belief"

groupthink and in-group morality. The HODLers have a feeling of righteousness when they think about brining down the system
Even when ignoring the per-part cost, are the parts even the same material? Looking same != Being same. Not sure what Formlabs is trying to prove here.
I mean, it's standard to be presented a contract that heavily favors the party that wrote the first draft.

But if you review it and ask for a bunch of changes, how they respond to the change requests is interesting.

More importantly, this article makes me think about how enforceable the contract is, rather than just the terms.
No ideas about side projects or anything "productive" but for a concrete example look at SillyTavern. Making fictional characters. Finding narratives, stories, role-play for tabletop games. You can even have group chats of AI characters interacting. No good use cases for profit but plenty right now for exploration and fun.
So is anyone organizing a protest or anything? This I would definitely show up for. This is really important.
> most of the other vendors just copy Apple

Weird conspiracy theories aside, the low power variant of RAM (LPDDR) has to be soldered onto the motherboard, so laptops designed for longer battery life have been using it for years now.

The good news is that a newer variant of low power RAM has just been standardized that features low power RAM in memory modules, although they attach with screws and not clips.

https://fossbytes.com/camm2-ram-standard/
It’s far more than an innocent hallucination. It manufactured news propaganda. Statements like “has been accused”, “authorities are investigating”, “houses being damaged” would be sourced if it were by journalistic standards.

X ai weights and biases have gone Elon-mode.
Elizabeth Holmes was repeatedly told by domain experts that many of the types of blood assays she wanted to perform are physically impossible with a single drop of blood extracted from a finger-prick. She didn't simply raise money for a product beyond the current state of technology, she persisted in a narratively convenient fantasy until it caught up with her.
Looks like an issue with the quantization that ollama (i.e llama.cpp) uses and not the model itself. It's common knowledge from Mixtral 8x7B that quantizing the MoE gates is pernicious to model perplexity. And yet they continue to do it. :)
Whether it's true or not, there is the "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?" meme interview question https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-solve-crazy-open-ended-...
Was thinking if The Ring, but might be due to the head, straight after
Well when the bolts are setup tighter, the plane doesn’t unravel itself.
A former colleague of mine works at Humane as an engineer, and the laser tech is apparently closely guarded. They were reluctant to even give a demo when we ran into each other, stating that the laser tech was particularly sensitive topic. I got the sense it was very custom.
Is this in any way connected with the fact that Alaska uses an all-Boeing fleet? I presume if this was the case then Southwest and half of United could have been ground-stopped as well.
Were you working on that at BD? Who is designing kinematics around Atlas? I understood it to have no users.
FHI/Bostrom's relationship with the university was damaged for years before the apology email.

They'd already frozen funding and hiring years earlier which means their issues go back even further than that.
At least in that situation the kid that went to trade school and doesn't have loan debt gets the cash.

Trade schools aren't free either. For example, WyoTech's 6-month welding program is $28,000. My local community college has a one-year welding program and per semester estimated cost of $10,000, so $20k total. You certainly shouldn't be able to run up $30k+ in loans on these programs, but people are definitely borrowing money to pay for them.

As for new programs, we should try to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy. What's better for society? Loan forgiveness or not? But, I definitely agree that we should avoid moral hazards by fixing the funding of higher ed as part of any package (otherwise we get to revisit the problem in another generation).
'Have you ever....sent a fax from the beach? You will.'

Always interesting when I see these to see how the future rhymes a bit, but we are still sometimes restricted in our thinking by current technology. (Faxes = Phones in 2024?)
> Good database design needs to make a come back (and people need to stop being afraid of sql)

Aye - folks should learn third normal form. They should learn SQL as well.
The WHO list of essential medicines is not just over-the-counter drugs. It includes things like the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. I happened to need that for testicular cancer ~10 years ago, and the treatment cost was $50k (as "payed" by insurance). That overall seems pretty reasonable to me for the treatment I received, but definitely not something I'd expect the median American to be able to pay out of pocket.
At some point the energy we are capturing from the sun and core are going to start becoming a significant source of atmospheric heat (given that most wasted energy is dumped into the atmosphere as heat). I wonder when we'll need to start building heatsinks to send the energy back off into space (we could probably double-dip with thermocouples or sterling engines?).
Though there are sometimes good reasons to do so, company brand (logo, typography, name, etc.) refreshes often come across as an employment program for designers. There are legit reasons--e.g. working better on mobile or reflecting that a company doesn't do what it used to do any longer. But I see the sort of redesign where a company subtly adjusted the hue of its logo and I'm like "Why?"
In 2022, I was able to visit the excavation site Bilzingsleben, which is mentioned in the article, and can highly recommend a visit to everyone interested in science. The site itself is just a quarry, but they have built a museum right above the place where they found fossils of thousands of creatures. You can then stand over a control table like in the spaceship Enterprise and trigger 3D animations of those animals and humans in their natural environment on a large screen on the wall on other side over an excavation ditch. But the best thing was getting to know to the curator of the site. He himself took part in the excavation, published scientific articles about it and seems to know everything about the site, its excavation history and palaeological topics related to it. I was able to talk with him for more than an hour.

The excavation site is located about 20km north of Erfurt (Thuringia, Germany). In the summer it is open Weddensday to Sunday and on holidays from 10:00 to 17:00. For those with a camper-van: it is no problem to stay in their very quite car park for the night for free. Its Web-site can be found at http://www.steinrinne-bilzingsleben.com/ (in German).
Wow, that's disgusting
You raise good points and I used to agree.

What changed my mind is thinking of humanoid robots as the “last mile” of robotics. All the thousands of use cases where there are no easy patterns and we need something that can fit into any human task without planning or modification.
Why the limit on physical violence? Why's that the universal line in the sand that society should enforce?
Who has switched? Or do you mean voters? How do you know this?
I thought it was already the case that the feds could show up to, say, a data center that hosts a VPN with a piece of paper that says "install this logging software and don't tell anybody. Or else."
When the head of the commission was elected various parties presented their favorites for a direct election as had been done in 2014. When the results came in for 2019 parliament refused to accept them and selected its own favorites from out of nowhere. An election result that can be disregarded at the whim of the current ruling parties does not paint a very democratic picture.
It is certainly possible that the plans are similar, and that improvements to the execution engine are being measured. The join order benchmark was designed to test optimizer quality. It is worth noting that in addition to trying to measure the number of pages read from disk, the PG optimizer also tries to reduce the number of tuples examined by the CPU, the number of predicate evaluations, etc. All these numbers are rolled up into a "cost," which is the function that the optimizer minimizes.

It is also true that measuring cold cache and warm cache performance can produce different results, and this experiment is certainly in the warm cache scenario. But, the cold cache scenario suffers from the problem you mention as well: an improvement to PG's B-tree that saves a few IOs will dominate any kind of CPU-based improvement (at least at the data size of the join order benchmark).

FWIW, the plan for the query with the P90 latency changes from a plan that uses loop and merge join in PG8.4 to a plan that uses hash join in PG16 (where it is no longer the P90 query), which is at least some evidence of optimizer improvements.
I absolutely did not:

ollama run mixtral:8x22b

EDIT: I like how you ninja-editted your comment ;)
That woman at the top (at least I assume it's supposed to be a woman) should be wearing a beauty pageant sash reading "Ms Uncanny Valley of 2024". Creepy AF, IMO.

Agreed that some of the others aren't so bad, however the bar for a convincing swamp creature is a lot lower than for a convincing human being.

If breasts come out looking like that, I'd be taking a hard look at my training data.
Huh. now that they do not please their voters, conclusion is that they are infiltrated by neocons? I don't think they are changed. They just showed their true colors with the recent events.
Me neither.That is basically part of corpse in your home, right?
The progress is insane. A few days ago I started being very impressed with LLM coding skills. I wanted Golang code, instead of Python, which you can see in many demos. The prompt was:

Write a Golang func, which accepts the path into a .gpx file and outputs a JSON string with points(x=tolal distance in km, y=elevation). Don't use any library.
POV: "Cooler transformers" == GPT with enhanced rizz
Google isn't really a government... so, civil disobedience doesn't really work here.

Google, as well as any other employer is required by many different regulations to both comply with government rulings and to give certain means for its employees to appeal / protest whatever the company is doing. Staging a protest inside CEO office isn't a legal way to protest.

It makes sense to protest in such way against an overstepping government because there's no other means to call upon the government to change its course (similar to how there's no way to deal with ethics violations of the supreme court, since there's no court that can judge them). When it comes to a company, things are different because there's a higher power that regulates what companies can do.

The protesters come across as annoying and arrogant for wanting to cut corners in the process of appealing their company decisions and for putting themselves on display rather than trying to use the proper channels and working towards the benefit of those affected / involved.

It's kind of like as if I had a dispute with my landlord over who has to fix the plumbing, and instead of reporting them to the proper authority, I'd block traffic on a busy highway demanding "justice" for the broken plumbing.
classic shill behavior by appealing to your target audience!

what if I want a different berry?! No answer to that I assume /s
> But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though when they're running their own API, because it basically means they can tax you to death if you build a service that competes with their API right - so in effect only viable to create small companies with this tech?

"undisclosed" doesn't imply changing the price after it was negotiated with you. It just mean they will negotiate the contracts for large projects, without disclosing the terms to the public ... in my view.
I wish you could turn off auto-play when watching a video from a playlist. The general auto-play option doesn't have any impact on playlists.
Am phasor has no setting for 'stun'
The way that these amendments can change specific punctuation without clarifying the impact or meaning of the change seems terrible. Like trying to read a git commit without any message.
Before reading the article, I thought it was about Neanderthal themed designs on the tile.
> When anyone utters this phrase today, it’s a tell that they literally have no idea what any of the words they say actually mean.

I'd argue it's a tell that they don't understand the history of the term or the perception of it held by those who disagree with them.

For most people who say it, I believe "we're a republic, not a democracy" means "we're not majority rule, there are structures in place to protect the interests of the minority". This is why they don't trot out the phrase every time the word "democracy" is used. It's a rebuttal to specific instances where people invoke "democracy" to mean "most people I know disagree with you, so your opinion doesn't matter".

Maybe I'm projecting my own views here, but I generally agree with what I believe people are trying to convey when they use the phrase. I don't use it myself, because I know it's not an effective way to communicate my position - not because it's technically not a true statement.

For what it's worth, there's also more nuance to the word "democracy" than you seem to be presenting here. At the time of the founding, it basically meant "rule by popular vote", and was pretty much a synonym for "mob rule". A large part of the US system was explicitly designed to work around the shortcomings of direct democracy.
Software programs are equivalent to mathematical proofs. [1]

Short of a bug in the implementation, there has yet to be a valid explanation for why mathematics libraries need to be continuously maintained. If I published an NPM library called left-add, which adds the left parameter to the right parameter (read: addition) how long, exactly, should I expect to maintain this for others?

The only explanation so far is that scumbags expect open source library maintainers to slave away indefinitely. The further we steer into the weeds of ignorant explanations, the more I'm inclined to believe this really is the underlying rationale.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
What's even more disturbing is that there are groups and interests which are actively controlling these students opinions. One would think these would be the best and brightest at those universities, and consequently the best and brightest at Google. Surely, they should be hardest ones to use as ideological drones.

One case I remember, for instance, which illustrates this drone control well was the bakery incident at Oberlin college. At some point during the discovery, there was an email from an "organizer" how they will unleash the students. I thought that a rare case of controller putting in writting and acknowledging how the whole mechanism works.

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/448711-oberlin-college...

> Raimondo replied saying she would “unleash the students” if she was not convinced “this needs to be put behind us.”

It would be interesting to find out who is unleashing the Googlers in this case...
Is there any other decision with such long lasting consequences? Having children as a teenager, but I can't think of anything else.

We don't give large loans to teenagers for any other reason.

Meanwhile teachers, parents, older students, friends and so on say "follow your heart" and it will all work out.
In general, all negotiations start with a ridiculous wish-list offer, as any further discussions sound more reasonable by comparison. Calling people on their BS is sometimes an impulse control test, as perceived insults may not be necessarily intentional.

Talk of legal what-ifs generally make people question if a deal is already going sideways. Negotiation of terms should be a paperwork revision process, and not something dropped on some company rep.

If the key agreement terms are incompatible, just walk away... if people are interested, they may reevaluate the deal terms after the board cools off their egos for awhile.

Best of luck, =)
This is from part 2, but wow...

> Do not use mushy words like ... ownership,

If you think ownership is just mushy words, you've never given someone ownership. Giving someone ownership isn't just mush. It's real, and can have real impact. Of course, this also literally means giving them some actual, real, legal ownership in that project and it's results.

This is especially hypocritical when paired with an "actual example"

> The intended outcome is to increase the rate at which we create value for customers, facilitate easier troubleshooting, decrease downtime, enable more developers to work across different code bases seamlessly and improve developer morale.

Talk about mush. That's just one part of a completely mushy "behavioral statement" that just reeks of insincerity and mush. This is also covered under specifics, and the entire thing lacks ANY specifics.

Give them ownership. Real ownership, not this fake "ownership" that clearly comes from someone who doesn't know what the word means. Give them power to drive direction and results, and reward them for that.

There are more things that could be said about this, but honestly, reading that, it just screamed hypocrisy.
PostgreSQL has coarse-grain query hints (like `enable_hashjoin`), and the excellent `pg_hint_plan` extension allows you to specify a complete or partial execution plan: https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan
Unfortunately "small" is about the size and resolution of space, not the quantity of ships.
I found a contemporary source <http://archive.informationdisplay.org/Portals/InformationDis...>

> Compact tape drive. which uses 1/4-in. magnetic tape cassettes operating at 80 ips, each containing every street and specific address, for an area about twice that of an ordinary paper street map, as well as overviews of major state and regional roads, and national interstates (installed under the vehicle dashboard or in the glove compartment).

So it seems that, if it's not 80 inches per second, then the confusion dates at least back to 1985!

another source <https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2332/dot_2332_DS1.pdf> also reports:

> TAPE DRIVE

> 5” x 2 3/4” x 3 3/4" 80 ips
I wonder if the big shots at YouTube watched Tom & Jerry growing up.

The mouse usually wins.
Considering "mixtral:8x22b" on ollama was last updated yesterday, and Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 (the topic of this post) was released about 2 hours ago, they are not the same model.
Scientists probe the secrets of mega icebergs
I don't know why you're being downvoted, it is true. Even though Trump sucked, he did start 0 new wars. Whereas the current administration has signed us up for several conflicts, which the neocons love.
I really wish HTTP had a no-build solution for caching static assets that didn't require either a request or a stale asset period. For example, ability to declare that static assets under a path won't change unless a build version at some other path changes.
An incredible testament to Boston Dynamics Engineering that commentators think it’s CGI. I’m sure it’s real because BD never releases CGI and this looked real to me.
As someone who has worked with Postgres for 15 years and also has spent most of my career modeling and solving mathematical optimization problems, I have so much to say on this topic, but I'll leave it at these three points:

* Every optimization problem needs data on costs, and the more and better the data is, the better. Postgres has made some improvements here, especially with cross column statistics, but there are still massive improvements left on the table. The most glaring omission is data on syscall latencies. Reading a page from disk has dramatically different latencies from system to system, and postgres still relies on configuration values for these costs, when it could very easily be measuring them. Another omission is foreign key statistics. Joins along foreign keys should never have a bad plan, but they still occasionally do.

* Deferred or alternative scenario planning should be adopted, especially for large and expensive queries. As it is today, your plan is finalized before it is executed, even though earlier stages of execution could provide information (like rowcounts or cardinality estimates) that could dramatically improve later stage plans.

* Machine learning most definitely could be an area where improvements could be made, but I've been unimpressed with the efforts that Ive seen. Don't use machine learning for planning, use machine learning for cost discovery and estimation. Build better cost models, and then let the optimization engine work with that data.
It's home grown.

People like to blame immigrants or the "other" but at the end of the day, society has specialized.

Either you build the skills to specialize, or you don't and wither away.

This has happened in every country from Japan to Jordan.

The difference is, lots of people in countries like Japan or Jordan still remember how actual poverty feels like, and will work their hardest to prevent something like that.

Most Americans have now grown up with 3 generations of surplus.

It was always the immigrants that did the dirty work and eventually assimilated - look at anti-Italian, anti-Mexican, anti-Japanese, anti-Armenian, anti-Jewish, anti-Slavic .... sentinment in the US.

Their kids eventually assimilate and also lose that ruthlessness.
How we optimized cluster-wide scheduling for sticky workloads
They may also be insolvent due to FTX bankruptcy clawing back grants.
According to Robert Habeck and the post-Merkel clique, criticizing Israel is antisemitism. Ironically the AfD are Israel sympathizers. But Israeli Jews who have the wrong opinions according to the state of Germany, cannot speak in Germany without getting censored or locked up.