skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many organisms have been observed to acquire various new functions which they did not have previously (Endler 1986). Bacteria have acquired resistance to viruses (Luria and Delbruck 1943) and to antibiotics (Lederberg and Lederberg 1952). Bacteria have also evolved the ability to synthesize new amino acids and DNA bases (Futuyma 1998, p. 274). Unicellular organisms have evolved the ability to use nylon and pentachlorophenol (which are both unnatural manmade chemicals) as their sole carbon sources (Okada et al. 1983; Orser and Lange 1994). The acquisition of this latter ability entailed the evolution of an entirely novel multienzyme metabolic pathway (Lee et al. 1998). Bacteria have evolved to grow at previously unviable temperatures (Bennett et al. 1992). In E. coli, we have seen the evolution (by artificial selection) of an entirely novel metabolic system including the ability to metabolize a new carbon source, the regulation of this ability by new regulatory genes, and the evolution of the ability to transport this new carbon source across the cell membrane (Hall 1982).
Such evolutionary acquisition of new function is also common in metazoans. We have observed insects become resistant to insecticides (Ffrench-Constant et al. 2000), animals and plants acquire disease resistance (Carpenter and O'Brien 1995; Richter and Ronald 2000), crustaceans evolve new defenses to predators (Hairston 1990), amphibians evolve tolerance to habitat acidification (Andren et al. 1989), and mammals acquire immunity to poisons (Bishop 1981). Recent beneficial mutations are also known in humans, such as the famous apolipoprotein AI Milano mutation that confers lowered risk to cardiovascular disease in its carriers.
> and countless trial and error

Is it countless though? Earth is "only" 4.5 billion years old with life appearing "only" 800 million years later, which seems pretty short for something chaotic and unorganized to self-organize into the nearly unfathomable sophistication we have now. Of course, humans are bad at grokking large numbers, and I might be too biased as a God fearing man... to be clear I don't deny the realities of evolution, but I currently tend to believe that as far as abiogenesis/evolution goes, life was "seeded" in some way on the planet, i.e. given a head start vs arising spontaneously from primordial soup within 800M years. I realize that this belief doesn't really contribute anything to the scientific discussion, just musing that 800M years to create the initial life seed doesn't seem that long considering we use super computers to simulate trillion+ iterations of various models and have failed to observe similar phenomenon in terms of self-organization without outside influence.
I don't need a million tokens, but 8k is absolutely too few for many of the use cases that I find important. YMMV.
Note this is from 2003...

Internet is no longer just 5% of retail.

That $100m rebuild of the Tanforan mall is already being exited and will be converted to a biotech and life sciences hub.

The rest of the general impact to retail, I'm sure everyone is aware of.
It's not about indexing, though most casual users don't know that FKs are not indexed automatically. Postgres should be smart enough to know when an index is appropriate for a foreign key, but I respect the fact that the core team wants people to make explicit well-reasoned decisions to index instead of doing it automatically.

Regardless of indexing, what actually matters is cardinality estimates. Foreign keys are almost always a reasonable hint to the SQL engine that there will be a large number of joins along foreign keys, and thus should be able to provide cross-table cardinality estimates.
It's almost guaranteed that there will be quantizations and adaptations to consumer hardware that should make it both versions of the model accessible to mortals on consumer GPUs (and even CPUs).
Home prices are rising to unsustainable levels everywhere. Take a look at place where I grew up, Tracy, CA. The average home is 6x the average household income. Tracy is/was a sleepy town and it's unaffordable now.
I think you missed the point. This is about someone entering into a new team. Walking into a team day 1, knowing nothing, and telling everyone they’re doing it wrong, is a horrible way to start things off.

By watching and waiting a bit, it gives time to learn why the stupid things are stupid, what is actually being worked on, etc. This helps build trust in the team, because it shows the new person respects the team enough to take some time to learn how things are before trying to change it. I don’t trust anyone in a leadership role that starts changing things before taking the time to learn how and why things are currently done the way they are.

A guy on my team now takes your approach. He derails every meeting with the way things “should” be, and he is just saying what everyone already knows, he just lacks the understanding on why the problem is more difficult to fix than he realizes. If he would talk less and listen more, he might understand those things better and stop wasting everyone’s time.
The site was terrible. Reader view didn't work for me it just turned it into a blank page. I had to open up inspector and change the css rules to read it.
One of the reasons UNIX won over the other proprietary systems, without the book and the related AT&T drama, most universities wouldn't have bothered.
I mean, LionOS appears to (with the exception of sel4 itself) be mainly written in unverified C without heavy static analysis.

So LionOS and Genode appear to be about equal in that regard.
I just hosted both models here: https://chat.tune.app/

Playground: https://studio.tune.app/
speaking of age - raise a glass to the few thousand over-forty people who were categorically rejected from the rank and file of so many Y-companies
Always a good idea to keep a work journal, but there's something on the tone of this article that bothers me. I would like working with someone that is not a borg and is not following a script that seems taken from How to win friends and influence people. In general I will mistrust anyone that tries to manipulate me, that is, if I catch them doing it.
That's how it was sold to us. Literally, the recruiter's exact words were "we don't succeed unless you succeed." In reality, they just kept taking in more and more students. When you have your students doing peer reviews and self-reviews, there not a lot of added cost for having more students. So cohorts went from 8 - 10 students to 30+ students. They also bundled ISAs and sold them off without telling the students they were doing it. So "we don't succeed unless you succeed" was patently false. They were getting their money up front regardless.
You can just ban US companies from buying foreign made airplanes.
It appears they're using Google for web searches, a la Perplexity.
It can be more like auto suggest the one that is present in code editors.
Yeah, my mom watched me cook the other day and decided she needed to use her scale more. So much easier. Dump stuff in bowl, tare, dump next thing in bowl.

And if I ever need to measure honey (usually you can eyeball it), it's gotta be by weight. A tablespoon of honey is 21g, but you're not going to it back out of the tablespoon.
I think you might want to read the Tuning Playbook if you haven't already. https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook
You'd probably want to transition the older people to mentor and guide the younger people, but not to do the same exact work. But that's a different job description; some older people may not want to do that kind of work, nor would the company want to pay for both the old and the young.
Probably too late for anyone to notice, but I appreciate this being posted.

My perspective on this coming into the discussion is EA started off well and noble and I had a good impression of organizations like GiveWell and the Against Malaria Foundation. I was largely of the mind that EA was corrupted later on when it was taken over by long-termists and AI alarmists who Pascal's Wagered their way into making no possible cause more important than raising the probability of producing infinite future good by infinitesimal percentage points that are bullshit to begin with because nobody can estimate future probability to that many significant digits anyway. But the original "most charity money today goes to museums and universities that are already rich so they can buy paintings and build ornate classrooms - surely we can do better with poverty aid in developing nations" message was basically sound.

This guy is making me question whether any of it was ever sound. Unless this is all lies, it would appear GiveWell was, at best, selectively presenting data and making up a lot of it, at worst, flat-out lying, and poverty aid in and of itself may not even be effective, possibly not even net positive.

It's interesting to see myself going in the exact opposite direction of the supposed "all old people are conservative" trope. I was an avowed libertarian 20 years ago, but today, everything I see and learn has made me question whether concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a tiny number of oligarchs who use shoddy data that might be made up to justify allocating resources toward pet projects they already found interesting in the first place is really the best way to organize the whole of human activity. Maybe, Marxist as it sounds, the real answer is distribute that power more evenly amongst all people and let those closest to each local purchasing decision decide what to allocate toward.

In theory, that is what free market economics was supposed to accomplish in the first place, but it doesn't work if you only have a few hundred out of 8 billion people making 99% of the world's purchasing decisions. You've just privatized a centralized command economy.
Wow! Thank you for mentioning this!
Nothing new. Amazon's (now discontinued) browser extension [1] was, among other things, used to get competitive price information w/o being hit by crawling restrictions.

[1]:https://www.tomsguide.com/news/amazon-is-killing-one-of-its-...
Tesla has created a website whose sole purpose is to convince shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay deal.

https://www.supportteslavalue.com/
With the precision needed for lithography machine to run, I wander how they even managed to survive so far in such a seismically active place.

Any military farting too loud in the vicinity of those machines and they don’t even freeze
I could see it for the US...I'd imagine there are many US commercial buyers that would be willing to pay a premium - ranging from modest (e.g. cloud) to whatever it take (military).

Rest of the world...doubt it.
You understand though, that if Taiwan falls, many of these experts may fall into Chinese hands, right?

Letting China win won't give the US a microchip monopoly. It will give China a chance to talk to experts familiar with the state of the art.
The "in addition to" was to note the change of behaviour she's noticed, not the fact you couldn't have PTSD after an injury. :)
For example she mentions she forgets stuff (the injury probably) then also mentions about not feeling motivated (the PTSD).
A simpler example is to look at advertisements, which are a more acceptable form of propaganda. For example TV ads. A lot of what they say is a kind of fuzzy forgettable nonsense, but really pay attention to the underlying message of the ad and the techniques they use.
Change CEO. It's time. Google is dying
"graduate student descent"

Ahhh that takes me back!
It is. You can see a little "G" icon indicating that it searched the web with Google.
Just get Putin and Xi Jinping back on board and we're fine then.
Looks like we can now finally experiment with EURISKO ourselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070667
Looks like it (the 8B version) blows out of the water the other free models, really great stuff from Yann and Zuck.

Guess the moat is disappearing day by day.
China is old [1] and broke [2]. It won't be able to afford to attack Taiwan - for reference, 1930s Japan and Germany had way more young people. Japan was also rich from its empire, while Germany transitioned away from gold standard to afford its wars. 2022 Russia thought the war would end in 3 days.

Also, as we see from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, drones and missiles are effective at taking out the world's second largest navy. Taiwan has very accurate and effective homegrown missiles [3]. China would need to amass a ton of ships which would be easily detected, staff them with only sons from families, and try to move them across a 100 mile straits while under the barrage of US/Japan/Taiwan missiles and drones.

Lastly, China is quickly transitioning to state run economy much like Soviet Union [4], which means innovations and growth will be gone forever, especially in tech industries.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

[2] https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/frugal... https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/325...

[3] https://www.eurasiantimes.com/taiwan-smashes-chinese-warship...

[4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/China-s-favored-sta...
They've been moving in that direction for years.

When you've got a strong industrial base AND a big local market then it becomes common sense both economically and strategically to nudge things in that direction
active (PDF) documents seem to have become a thing on eReaders, especially pen-based ones; mostly they leverage clever linking and bookmarking, and not much more, though.
This is good but nowhere as good as EMO https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533326)

This one has too much movement and looks eerie/robotic/uncanny valley. While EMO looks just perfect.
> Well seeing that if AWS went bankrupt and couldn’t afford their servers, I assure you that the federal government would step in seeing how many government services are hosted both in the commercial, GovCloud and secret regions not to mention how many financial companies are hosted there.

Maybe. Worldcom was eventually bought out too. That does not mean you can assume that there will be no disruption to services, or no loss. And that addressed one of many potential risks. Unless you can guarantee that there are no such risks whatsoever, the point I made stands.

That point was simply that if you rely on a third party's durability level, then whatever that level is, the durability of the data from your point of view is lower, because there will always be a risk that your access to the data is removed either permanently or long enough for the eventual recovery to be irrelevant.

And so if you actually need and care about that durability level, you'll need multiple providers. Which you probably should at far lower reliability levels anyway.

I did not suggest it'd be simpler to use another cloud provider, so I have no idea why you're bringing that up as it's entirely irrelevant to the argument I made.
I built a desktop tool to help reduce the amount of copy-pasting and improve the output quality for coding using ChatGPT or Claude: https://prompt.16x.engineer/
A more reliable and shorter escrow is of high value to sellers. Failed escrows break momentum on marketing and buyer interest and obviously cause major logistical frustrations for the seller.

Provided that a house draws competing offers, the everyday residential home buyer expecting to finance their mortgage needs to offer comparable or greater value in some other way, such as by making a substantially higher offer than the all-cash buyers. Many of these traditional buyers find it hard to anticipate how much higher their offer will need to be (the value of a more reliable escrow is subjective) and are often bidding mostly blind anyway. Further, affordability is already strained for most of these buyers and many shop by list price, unable to effectively compete in a bidding wars.

A high rate of all-cash offers usually correlates with a much more difficult and fatiguing home buying process for traditional in-community middle class buyers and sustained high prices. The article is basically just affirming that this dynamic currently (continues) to be at play in SoCal even as other markets soften.
We just got emails yesterday about the EKS price increase. It's another reason we're trying to move the main app to the vendors SaaS because I don't have enough time and resources to be a fulltime k8s admin. The ecosystem moves way too fast and upgrades/deprecation happens way too quickly to keep up and to have time test / plan / rollout proper upgrades without breaking our critical production workloads.
Well thank goodness you haven't just done that!

Oh, wait a minute...
I feel like it might be illegal to discriminate on this.
The analogy isn't perfect. It's somewhere in-between what you're describing, and say...getting a job on Google's BigQuery team to gather intel.
Those schools have not always charged $50k - that's a recent political choice. I'd point to student loan policy as the main driver [0].

Many bootcamps require full-time attendance, and many universities have part-time options. Further, community colleges are an option if the only goal is skill acquisition. Those programs take less time and are cheaper.

0 - John Oliver is not the primary driver of my thinking, but he did an interesting and engaging segment if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2_0WC7UfU
If there ever were a war between China and Taiwan, I think how cheap our chips are would be one of the least of our worries. If the U.S. got dragged into it, nobody would be worried about chip prices for the next ten thousand years.

Diversifying the fab locations has no profit or business motivation. Seems to me the only reason we are doing it is to make it "less risky" to start a trade war.

The problem is a trade war will never be "less risky" for any country than the kind of nice, harmonious, trade we've had with China for the past 25 years. Its kept U.S. inflation low, enabled massive technological and manufacturing advances, and has lifted hundreds of millions of people into the middle class.

Its one of the best things that's ever happened in history. Why are we so eager to throw all that away?

Frankly, instead of making it easier for everybody to pick a fight with each other, it would be better if we just remember the fact that we actually are friends.

I love being able to design a circuit board, hit a button and have it manufactured in China and delivered to my front door in 5 days for $25. Let's just all go back to making money hand over fist, what say?
This is a really good example of how focusing on a single metric can eventually lead to the death of your company. The reason people started using online shopping was to save time, which is completely at odds with the metric malls were using for success, which was the amount of time you spend in the mall and the number of visits you made. Had they recognized that their key metric was at odds with the desires of their patrons, they might have made some significant changes at a time when they still had a strong beachhead in the space.
Can the nagging be switched off?
> in my eyes. The range right now just isn’t useful.

According to the department of transportation, only 7% of drivers drive more than 30 miles a day: https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips

The base model 3 has an epa range of 270 miles. Say you cut that in half, that's 135 miles a day. If you personally drive more than 135 miles in one day and don't want to stop to charge, and have serious range anxiety, then EVs aren't ready for you. But your experience and requirements are far outside the norm.

> There are also barely any charging stations along this route, if at all.

I have not driven that route, but there seem to be plenty of level3 chargers all along that route: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity-locations#/find/ro...
You seem to be implying that buying during bubbles/peaks is cheaper than renting. I haven't seen that at all in my areas.
Llama 3 in Tokenizer Playground
There is a reason that you're a bad judge of the "usablity" of your product. You already know how to use it. your numb to it's mistakes and flaws. New team members dont suffer from this!

One of the best things my company does is allow me to sit down on a chair next to the people who use my products as they use them.

I just sit there with a notebook and write things down, and talk to the users as they're using the product.

Once you start doing that, you understand that it doesn't matter how many terabytes of "telemetry" you gather, you will never understand how people use your product as well as actually speaking to them.

The tech industry really needs to get over its fear of other human beings.
This is exactly why i as a manger want to assign bigger projects on new hires. They have fresh eyes, and are not used to things we do just because we have always done them in a special way. It's interesting to see how they solve tasks, before they get used to the status quo.
Poor Bloomtech, unable to grow big enough to build a massive portfolio of indentured servant payouts cause of those damn regulators.
I struggle to blame people for speaking in whatever way is most natural to them, when they're answering hard questions off the cuff. "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one."
My sway, terminal, neovim setup is so goddamn /comfy/ I love it
Depends.

If you want high speed storage, thats reliable and zero cost to setup (ie doesn't require staff to do) then AWS and spot instances is very much a cheap option.

If you have in house expertise and can knock up a reliable high speed storage cluster (no porting to s3 is not the right option, that takes years and means you can't edit files inline.) then running on one of the other cloud providers is an option.

But they often can't cope with the scale, or don't provide the right support.
Very interesting part around 5 mins in where Zuck says that they bought a shit ton of H100 GPUs a few years ago to build the recommendation engine for Reels to compete with TikTok (2x what they needed at the time, just to be safe), and now they are accidentally one of the very few companies out there with enough GPU capacity to train LLMs at this scale.
The blog did not state what you said, sorry I’ll have to downvote your comment
Maximizing the killing of peoples belonging to the victim group is not a criteria of the Genocide under international law. You don’t need to kill as many people as you are capable before the threshold for genocide is met, far from it.

Israel targets and kills a lot of people, and so far it has failed to demonstrate how the majority of them pose a threat. A good example is when al-Jazeera journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh was targeted and killed by an Israeli missile. Israel said he and his coworker were terrorists posing a direct threat to nearby soldiers. Evidence however showed that they had been covering a news story nearby and were on their way back, completely contradicting Israel’s claim. In light of the overwhelming evidence against Israel’s initial claim they simply backtracked and said it was an accident. However evidence shows that their car was indeed targeted[1]. Hamza al-Dahdouh is only one of thousands of such cases. The only reasonable explanation is that Israel targets and kills non-combatants on mass scale in an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

1: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/10/israeli-army-appear...
Is this a quine?