skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discovered him with the excellent Royal Institution talk "If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software?" [0]. And the quote which marked my mind is "How could a slow, mindless process build a thing that could build a thing that a slow mindless process couldn't build on it's own ?".

[0] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c
I actually prefer to add a passing test asserting the bug exists in one commit, then fix the bug and reverse the sense of the test in a second commit. The second commit is now more or less self documenting -- this case used to produce this buggy behavior but now produces correct behavior -- and the fact that the test originally passed provides proof that the test is capable of detecting a regression.
Did blood tests ever show low magnesium?
I have seen multiple thousands of dollars of precast concrete get junked because an edge was less than half an inch out of tolerance. Multiple times. I have myself rejected multiple thousands of dollars of rebar because the hook length was short by less than an inch. Nothing that is shown in the plans or specs is inconsequential and payment doesn’t occur absent an approved variance.
Loom's EGA graphics were, arguably, better than the VGA version.

http://www.superrune.com/tutorials/loom_ega.php
That's not true. You can see UN sites get flagged to death. Here I was just saying that HN discussion are not strictly bound to be technological. Parent was saying they would flag basically everything related to this.
I found gpt to be awesome in this though - it's good at mapping some fields into others.

While working, I kept asking it about certain ideas, and if the idea was known to him, he said "oh, that's this and it's called this and this".

As a fun sidenote, I noticed there are three levels of GPT's answers:
- "This has a name and it's...."
- "This will be difficult / very hard to do..." (it will never say impossible)
- "This is an intriguing idea"

The last one is what one should aim for - I noticed that when it sees an idea that is absolutely new to it, but it doesn't see any specific reason it should not be possible, it will label it as "intriguing".

The topmost compliment I got, when asked about opinion it said more or less "it shows a deep and nuanced understanding of XX, you should publish" (and then began listing steps necessary - testing, finding collabolators etc).

All in all GPT was super useful for getting into a new field - I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, but I didn't want to spend months catching up with the 50 years history of this field. I kept repeatedly asking him for stuff like "I need to do this and this", and it kept pointing me in the right directions and providing nomenclature.
Generosity doesn’t mean rubber stamping everyone who wants to emigrate. “Simple” seems to imply that becoming a citizen should just involve filling out a few forms.

I don’t think people truly appreciate the sheer number of people who are trying to emigrate. If I may, which European country do you belong to? I invite you to compare your own nation’s legal emigration numbers and procedures to that of the US. I suspect you’ll find that the barrier to entry is even higher.

As for generosity, here is some information from Wikipedia: “In absolute numbers, the United States has by far the highest number of immigrants in the world, with 50,661,149 people as of 2019.[1][2] This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the United States' population.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...
> Regular encyclopedias are online now

Regular encyclopedias have been online since before Wikipedia existed, here's 2000 Britannica http://web.archive.org/web/20000301020003/https://www.britan...
Of course the protest is about technology -- it's about the provision of technology to governments who use that technology for war. Why wouldn't you expect the employees of these companies have a position on that?

Like a lot of people here, I have family who died in the Holocaust. It is highly likely that the camps they moved through were using tech supplied by IBM. Would it have been "culture warring" for tech employees circa 1938, to publicize the human rights abuses being enabled by their companies? Because that's what the people who support these protesters think is going on here.
Overcoming GitHub's 100MB Video Limit: Introducing GithubVideoCompressor
If you upload demo videos to GitHub, you might have encountered the frustrating "This video is too big" message for files over 100MB. I've developed a solution: GithubVideoCompressor. This app lets you quickly compress and upload videos up to 350MB directly to GitHub PRs.

Here's what it offers:

Local Compression: Ensures your videos are processed on your MacOS with M-series chips, keeping your data private and secure.
Chrome Extension: This extension streamlines the entire process. Drop your video into the PR, and the extension handles the rest.
Resource Efficient: The app runs only when needed, preserving your system's resources.

Installation Steps:

If something doesn't work, please post about your problem in a reply. Thank you.

1. Unzip the folder you downloaded.
2. Transfer "GithubVideoCompressor.app" into your Applications folder. Right-click "GithubVideoCompressor.app" and press "Open." A warning message will pop up, click "Open". It may take a few attempts to open it. Just keep trying. It should eventually work. The app does take 3 seconds to boot the UI.
3. When the app opens, follow the three installation steps in the app.
4. Once installed, completely close the application. The compression cannot work if the app is running in the background.

Requirements
* The application works on MacOS with M-series chips
* The extension currently is only built for the Chrome browser.

Disclaimer: This is a public Beta, un-sandboxed application. If you are uncomfortable installing the application, that is okay. This is the first public release.
Certainly... it's just that anyone with any real knowledge/power knows that isn't happening (see the leaders of basically every consequential democracy from Germany to USA, even Ukraine).
Wax compiler – a tiny language designed to transpile to other languages
Ignoring the much more annoying syntax needed to handle exceptions, I'd agree. But that's not the problem: you never know if foo() throws things other thank MyError. So in practice you still need an exception catch-all after your catch for MyError.

After years of Java, handling errors in idiomatic Scala with Either was a breath of fresh air. (And you can even wrap things that might throw in Try() to save yourself the headache of a try/catch tree.) Rust did it right with Result, and leaving out exceptions entirely.
For the algorithmically inclined, this is basically exponential search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_search
This is textbook civil disobedience. They believed they could not quietly aid an ongoing injustice, so they loudly protested in the full knowledge they would be punished. This is how protest is supposed to work.
Be an assistant at a law firm for 3 months would presumably cut it. Domain knowledge for something like this is not optional.
In my case, some vague idea worth a few words comes up to my mind, I turn it into a monologue, and continue. This is what I feel is happening in my head.

But the process is also too automatic. Maybe what's actually happening is completely different from what I described.
In order to get interest in your product among people who believe in the mission of OSS, you do actually have to be OSS.

I could agree if we were talking about something unrelated that OSS folks also happen to like but yeah, your product does have to not have meat if you want buy-in from vegetarians.
Nice! Generic confidently written blurb as a service. Can you do my numerology, palm and astrology in the same hit.
The "Ivy League" consists of precisely these eight schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.

Honestly I feel like some of these are negative indicators when it comes to engineering cred.

Meanwhile, stellar engineering schools like Caltech, Stanford, and MIT are in a league of their own.

This comment is mostly to complain that using "Ivy League" as a shorthand for prestigious engineering schools is inaccurate.
What if there's another backdoor lurking in your VPN software? Why are you more confident in your VPN than SSH? Of those two pieces of software, which do you think has more eyes on it?
Good old made up numbers.

Even ignoring that it's a multinational, a very small portion of Americans donate to a political party. I doubt there is any company of decent size anywhere in the US with a rate like that.
When contemplating technology stuff people are usually very disciplined about striving correctness...on certain topics though, it seems like the opposite becomes true: no effort, and don't you dare suggest it.

It is both funny and not.
It's me. I'm posting the horror stories to increase my chances of getting in.
I might beat that for this batch! This will be my 8th application. 2 for my previous company, and 6 with my current startup and co founders.
Also: Do yourself a favor and (dont? er do?) read/listen to his brother's books! Particularly The Phoney Victory. He writes polemics as good as Christopher. Truly a yin to the yang. I like the way they argue, although I don't necessarily agree with everything they argue.
i installed a "shell gpt" that lets me do things like:

sgpt "please show me a javascript function that appends to a list if the arguments are within seventeen days of each other disregarding timezones"
Anything can be a toxin at a high enough dose, likewise a pollutant depends on the concentration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
Correct. People with no real view on the events in Israel get very excited to sneer at the "spoiled brat" protesters (who just willingly walked away from extremely fat paychecks). It makes them feel more comfortable about their own lack of moral fiber. The strong Zionists opposing this, I understand, but most people mocking it are just enjoying "the wokes getting owned."
With respect, this is a myopic view. Gaza has been blockaded for a long time now. Sea, Air and Land. Not years, but more than a decade. Israel has restricted the calorie per citizen even before these recent events. Prevented them from collecting rainwater. Blowed up buildings hosting International media without scrutiny. It did not start with the recent events. And please do not compare with Germany, Britain or Japan, they had Large standing militaries, navies, and airforce. You simply can't say this is such a war.
There is no other use. Bitcoin is only for gamblers and criminals.
Does that mean it has the ending animation that plays way too fast? They fixed that in Windows 2000.
Why climb Everest? Because it's there.
Prescribe can simply mean to advise on taking a course of action. The word is commonly associated with the medical profession, but isn't unique to it.
It isn't that science cannot, it is that they do not.

Science practices a watered down version of epistemology (which is fine for the domain they are in as far as I'm concerned: speed matters, and errors can usually be corrected later), the dangerous part is that people think science is the gold standard of reasoning, truth discovery, etc. Just read the thread.

And the fan base seems often unable to even wonder what is true, let alone discern it.
I am just repeating what I have heard from people who should know.
> Fiat currency holds value because it is backed by a sufficiently large group with guns.

Yep that's what I said: payment of taxes.

> Crypto currency holds value because it is backed by a sufficiently large group with encryption.

I disagree. There is no reason for bitcoin to hold its value. Miners expend real resources (which they pay for) to obtain bitcoin because they speculate that someone will pay more for it further down the line.

People buy bitcoin for the same reason.

The price of bitcoin could go to zero without any compromise of the underlying encryption.

The purchasing power of a currency issued by a soevereign can only go to zero as a result of the collapse of sovereignty (ie. no more guns, or being outgunned). This is the very definition of hyper inflation in terms of a currency: when a government cannot provision itself in exchange for that currency.
So cool! I only started playing solitaire on XP though and it was slightly different
https://archive.is/R81sU
Lol, they just intersect with the people who are still thinking about COVID. That's all.
Just once for me. Leapt into a mountain lake and it was much colder than I could’ve determined from the shore. I really wanted to stop swimming back because it was so cold.

Seemingly at the same time, I had two thoughts: first, that if I stopped, I would only get colder, and second, that if I stopped, I would most certainly never start again. Super creepy to recall.
Google has really shifted their “vibe”. The constant layoffs, deals with the Israeli military, shuttering daycare etc. They don’t seem to care anymore.

While I didn’t care too much about all my email going to a google system Ive definitely been looking for an alternative lately.
ublock origin and Firefox mobile are a lovely combination!
That is right, but the cores used by Intel in Sierra Forest are intermediate in performance between the slower Neoverse N2 cores and the faster Neoverse V2 cores that are used in the latest server CPUs introduced by NVIDIA, Amazon and Google.

It is not known for now with how many Neoverse V2 cores will Sierra Forest be equivalent and how the Ampere proprietary cores compare with the Neoverse cores, so it is not known whether the planned 256-core Ampere CPU will be faster or slower than a 288-core Sierra Forest.

However, if the Ampere CPU will be ready only much later than Sierra Forest and the faster AMD Zen 5c CPUs (which are likely to also reach 256 cores), its performance might not matter much, as there is too much competition for it.
It's awful. (At least with stock on the phones I've used)
"Everybody in the US's alliance structure agrees that the US's top Middle-East ally is behaving completely appropriately, which is strong evidence that they are. I am very smart."
Beyond trust - they have nothing to gain. You learn from the interview. They get...what exactly?
Funny how everyone thinks it's not okay for other people to opine on what you do, but still reserve the right of it when it's hypothetically you pulling the strings. Self-referential inconsistency leads only to unrealized madness.
Just the demo. Once you manage to leave the room, it starts over.
We can safely assume at that point the GUI may not look exactly as intended either way.
Does anyone know what the latest/newest generation is?

With the i3/i5/i7/i9 naming convention I have lost track
Unless i3.1s have essentially the same architecture as i3.xxx
newest.
I bet we'll find there's more computation going on in neurons (and possibly other brain cells) than we currently know about which will necessarily be happening at much smaller scales than synapse firing.
It's hard for me to imagine not having Firefox with its (limited, true) extension ecosystem on my phone. Are people really just out there, no script, tracker or ad blockers, no dark mode enforcers, no pay wall bypassers or YouTube enhancers, just raw dogging the internet on their iPhones?
What a great read.
Thank you Paul Hsieh.

I think the website is also a great design and implementation.
Given that it was last updated in 1999 the design is original
not a retro creation.
All you're doing is shifting the burden, there's no guarantee they won't (or already are) doing something similar
Given PCOS is associated with hyperandrogenism [0], why do you think something will change in time?

[0]: https://www.verywellhealth.com/androgens-and-pcos-excess-lev...
This reads like a boomer shitpost. Like something you see in the comments section of clickbait tabloid news sites like the guardian or dailymail, not necessarily here.
What a great read.
Thank you Paul Hsieh.

I think the website is also a great design and implementation.
Given that it was last updated in 1999 the design is original
not a retro creation.

When did Transmeta join the fray?
Don't worry about a playable demo. Just make a 45 second sizzle reel. That's enough to convert anyone who -would- pay into paying.

A playable demo will max engagement but you won't see more paying conversions from it. Maybe less.
Might as well have a webpage about "myths about applying" at this point with how much confusion and misinformation there seems to be.
> Compared with a dense Matrix-Vector Multiply implementation, your algorithm adds algorithmic complexity, but reduces memory traffic. Because Matrix-Vector is usually memory-bound, your throughput increases when you can reduce memory accesses. For batch sizes > 1, the speedup would likely disappear very quickly because you are no longer bottle-necked by memory accesses. (Assuming that's a scenario you are interested in)

It doesn't really increase an algorithmic complexity. It is O(effrt * inDim * outDim) for multiplications, O(inDim) for calculating dispatch and O(~inDim * log inDim) for finding the cutoff point.

O-metric is not great for GPU work, but in this case it roughly holds.

The main issue is the architectual limitations of GPUs - the algorithm needs more register / threadgroup / cache memory than the traditional ones, and that would be the main bottleneck then. And the fact that it's not straightforward to parrarelize the work, since every multiplication uses different buckets (just like with MoE models).

As for a bigger architecture - I did a lot of testing on Mixtral, which is essentially a 13B model, and my feeling is that it holds way better there. In terms of inference speed per effort it holds as well, and in terms of quality per effort it holds up readable results until 12-16%, not 20-25%. The tests I did were limited, and I broke the Mixtral implementation when I implemented Mistral, so I don't have hard data on this - but will definitely fix it soon.

My intuition also is that the bigger the model the more you can shave off from effort.

- Ommitting multiplications - that was my guess also, but unintuitively it's not! I have some charts, but didn't manage to prepare them for a release yet.

Because the values in the matrix are evenly distributed in positive and in negative numbers, after a certain threshold there is not much drift in the resulting values.
Yep, when we see fancy cliff sides it's almost as if people think that happened through magic
Looks like there's a C++ interface to Metal as well.

https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
Rust - Low Latency Alternative to Crossbeam for Trading Applications
On my iPhone, I use Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

It integrates with the system browser and, I think, all embedded browsers. I only use the 'privacy-safe' subset of Wipr, that is, the passive filter list that Safari supports most efficiently. It works great. I'm sure there are other options that other iPhone users can recommend to you if you ever want to try it.
Text manipulation on all phones after blackberry has just been awful.
We can't truly exalt our enlightened present and future without denigrating the past.
Agree. Dude was a consequential philosopher but had little to do w hacker culture.
Ok, your post is just pure gish galloping. Basically, you think that the US is forging alliances in the Indo-Pacific because it wants an excuse to go to war with China and crush it. In reality, the US is using its military, specifically it’s deterrence capability as a bargaining chip in alliances with countries who are fed up with China. Yes, it wants to counter China’s rise but it’s doing that through diplomacy. If China doesn’t like this, they are free to start acting like a good neighbor, but it seems that’s not their plan.
From the article:

However, on its own, template databases are not fast enough for our use case. The time it takes to create a new database from a template database is still too high for running thousands of tests:

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE contra;
CREATE DATABASE
Time: 1999.758 ms (00:02.000)

So no. They say this adds ~33 minutes to running their tests.
Please, redo Hearts from windows 3.11 too. :-)
Maybe my dns blacklist needs updating, but the ads were so bad I bailed.
And you're suggesting what, that we hand the reins to the democratic process you just described as flawed, one that is corrupted by lobbying? Yeah why don't we just take a corrupt institution and put it in charge of more things.
What makes us post "No Soliciting" signs.
We will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks
What we have in animal agriculture is more like if the organs were farmed at age 20, and humans bred at puberty to produce more babies to feed the organ farm. Not sure why you chose age 70 in your example.
It's great for VW's competitors
The current gcc documentation (13.2.1) says:

"_Standard Library Header Units_
The Standard Library is not provided as importable header units.
If you want to import such units, you must explicitly build them
first. If you do not do this with care, you may have multiple
declarations, which the module machinery must merge--compiler
resource usage can be affected by how you partition header files
into header units."

So for now any "import" can work only if one writes appropriate module files first.

Nevertheless, I do not expect that the updating of the standard C++ library of gcc will take a long time, so later this new book will become directly usable as it is.

For someone who already knows older C++ and just wants to update their knowledge, writing the corresponding module files can be a good learning experience in itself.
Made a tool to browse the web on an infinite canvas like Figma
Dennett clearly is an important mind. I do not disagree with anything he has opinions on. His belief that "self control is the arena of consciousness and emotional valence is what does all the pushing and pulling", I think expresses the limits of his theory and has some pretty obvious blindspots. I think both of these gentlemen would benefit by a study of islamic philosophy.

I only wish the islamic religion was as tangible to me as its philosophy and sociology but I find it completely inscrutable. I might enjoy its theogony and stories if i spoke arabic.
Beazley's videos on YouTube including his channel are great

https://youtube.com/@dabeazllc

I also like Raymond Hettinger.
Windows 3.0 according to Wikipedia, which mentions no changes until Windows 2000.

A little googling shows screenshots, obviously the widgets look a little different but no meaningful differences are apparent at a glance.
By moving the goal posts of how CPI is calculated, the government can take in more, or pay out less.

Social security, Medicare, etc are indexed to inflation.

Tax brackets are indexed to inflation.

So when the government needs more money, it can create it by paying less to elderly, poor, and sick people, or taking more taxes without the population aware.

There are better ways of calculating inflation. But they allow less shenanigans.

You know what would really make it hard to siphon money off to a black budget project, or to the business of a politician’s brother-in-law that gets the contract? A deflationary asset where there’s a cryptographically secure immutable ledger of all transactions.
This was very enjoyable. A glimpse of the future of gaming IMO, and just plain fun! Some of the situations had me cracking up hard. Well done.
One thing I greatly appreciate on Android is when selecting text of an actual email address (i.e. with long press), it automatically expands to capture the whole email address and gives me relevant email options straight away. On iOS you have to manually move the left and right pins which is its own little mini-game experience.

Try it here: someonesemail@notyahoo.com

Edit: This appears to be a Chrome thing.
It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight