skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the SQL/CSS analogy, with the full-stack spectrum being like:

SQL - Backend - Frontend - CSS

Most people just want to stay in the middle doing backend/frontend ("full-stack") work because it's just writing functions. Or because it's building the core of a feature, where things like database work and styling is pushed off or abstracted in libraries.

But on each end is where all the interesting stuff is really happening, and a full-stack dev who embraces both SQL and CSS is a lot more useful than a full-stack dev who stays in the middle.
While I don’t disagree that Teslas have some strange design choices… is location of the wiper switch a complaint on the topic of Elon Musk? Do you think that was his call? Is he the one who did you wrong?

Or is everything so tied together, so conjoined to ideology that bad Tesla equals bad Musk? Should I hope for a SpaceX explosion because Elon thinks we should control our borders more?

All I see here are meek people looking for more ammo or easy points in the culture war they seem to want so badly. Careful what you wish for.
Have you ever seen algorithms written as "pseudo code"?

Why do you think they do that?

Answer: To make algorithms easier to understand for other humans.

Python more closely resemble pseudo-code compared to Ruby.

Hence Python is more aligned toward "built for humans" than Ruby.
and you are not the only one, i'm sure. You have a valid viewpoint.

Also, not everyone makes their car/EV purchase based on who Elon is. Some might care more about the car itself and how it competes with others. Some might not even know who Elon is, or what he's done on twitter.
The topic of customer interest is addressed at timestamp 59 minutes and zero seconds of the keynote.

By my count, 49 corporate logos were shown as launch partners.

At one point in the talk the CEO claims that “Blackwell will be Nvidia’s most successful product ever”.

—

And again, the product he’s talking about is a data centers packed with 56 racks…
FWIW the UN FAO (Food and Agriculture) Climate change and food security: risks and responses report maps out multiple scenarios based on degrees of response to the various climate change possibilities.

These include "billions" (ie > 2 billion) facing hunger, food insecurity and starvation to varying levels .. which is not hard to imagine given that the 2015 number for that was already 0.8 billion and the world population will be increasing until 2050 at least.

I'll assume that those interested can find and read the report for themselves.
It's pretty crazy to watch companies so far ahead in their fields fumble the lead. This reminds me of Toyota fumbling the gigantic lead they had with hybrids and electric power trains.
The Rust 3D rendering stacks. I just want to use them, not work on them. But there are low-level problems and I had to open the lid on Rend3->WGPU->Vulkan.
FARM is begging for a good backronym
I think you've misconstrued the argument being made. The historical analogy is kind of interesting -- "smoke and mirrors" was a real technology with genuinely useful applications, but also attracted hucksters promising the impossible. Is it really that implausible that the supposedly world-ending powers of chat bots might have something in common?
That graph of expenditures is nuts. The hold-driven purchasing is more than 50% larger than the other categories of new titles and renewals.

Does every library do this? I know when I want something popular from King County Public Library I often find that there's a weeks or months long waitlist.

But often times those popular titles are rather frivolous, only popular because they're new, and I'd be just as happy if I'd read something older.

I wonder how much it would cost to surface an in-stock recommendation in lieu of a too-popular hold whenever a user goes to request such a hold.
> I would also settle for a loophole that would allow the library to OCR a physical copy they own and then own the resulting digital copy.

That was what the Internet Archive was doing.

They got sued and the last I heard, had lost at every level. That said, I don't know that the lawsuits are over yet.

To be clear, no one claims that IA digitally lent out more copies than it physically had. The publishers argued that IA couldn't make a digital copy and lend that instead of the physical copy.
Indeed. I clicked to see an HTML-first UI library but entered a utility-first Tailwind library.
A few years ago I was interested in a Tesla, but have written them off, primarily because of Musk. He is not amusing. My next EV will be a non-Tesla.
If you are used to Big3 (4) vehicles, get a Big3 (4) vehicle.

I can tell you as an automotive EE though, everything has questionable choices right now. If I wanted an EV, I think the RAM 1500 is the least offensive then the GM.

Maybe the Blazer EV but you need to deal with the screen a bit more.
No it's the opposite. I don't think the drop in sales has much to do with Elon at all unless it was him personally that led to these dealbreaker changes.
Completions need to do arbitrary computation. A command like `git switch` needs to find what branches are available in the repository.
Companies spend billions on advertisement to give their products good associations. The goal is that you look at the product and feel a certain flavor of positive feelings (which flavor depends on the type of the product).

The old Tesla had a feeling of a visionary, sci-fi, ecological, luxury (because of the price point mainly) car. Today, when I see Tesla, the main feeling I get is disgust. People are not rational actors when buying things - you often decide what you want to buy based on wants/feelings and then your brain finds a way to rationalize the decision.
Phi-2 wasn't chat/instruct tuned, so it didn't act good in chat, it was a base model. But the benchmark #s were real.
3. Teslas are still very popular and their owners are generally happy with them.

4. The terminally online crowd that hates Elon only seem large because they are loud online.
I hope it’s not hard for Tesla to pivot back to making normal cars with reasonable interfaces. the EV transition is coming no matter what, and nobody else has ramped up their production capacity enough, so we’re going to be mostly stuck with Teslas, unless BYD figures out how to sell cars in the US
I mean yeah, it was just a little bit of humor at Apples expense. Obviously the Voyager plan of turning stuff off wouldn't be applicable to an iPhone.
Yes, I've been saying this. It's like if I invented a robot that can run, and then suddenly people started saying it shouldn't be allowed to run down the sidewalk. What's the difference between a human running down the sidewalk and a robot running down the sidewalk? I guess someone could argue that the robot runs a million times faster than any human can, and that sidewalks weren't built with this in mind, but I personally don't see a difference since my robot is just "running" and humans can run too.
I'm in a paw paw/persimmon zone, and figs grow nicely. One of the lowest-maintenance trees that don't have much insect pressure. I thought they were notably absent from your list. The variety I chose tastes much like a peach.
AI Is Revolutionizing Search but Also Bringing a Major Problem
The internet is undergoing a transformation with the rise of AI-powered "answer engines" challenging traditional search engines like Google. These new AI systems aim to provide direct answers to user queries, streamlining information retrieval but raising concerns about the impact on publishers and content creators. The development of AI agents has also led to copyright infringement issues, with companies like The New York Times filing lawsuits against tech giants. Online communities like Stack Overflow are also feeling the effects, with traffic declining due to AI-generated code. As AI-driven search continues to evolve, it presents both opportunities and challenges for users and tech companies alike. Balancing innovation with ethical considerations will be crucial in navigating this changing digital landscape.
Absolutely not on the first one. Not even close.
Any explanation for the name?
Another for the pro side: inlining can allow for better branch prediction if the different call sites would tend to drive different code paths in the function.
I partially disagree.

At a number of places I've implemented a, "Randomly, rarely, this request will be logged in detail into a detailed trace." The volume of such traces can easily be kept down by limiting the frequency. But when we do this proactively, when a production problem happens, we can just look for a relevant trace. Alternately, at the end of the traced request, we can do something special. Like email the trace off if the request takes too long.

This proved to be incredibly useful.

But these days, you get this sort of capability easily with tools like Data Dog. And save yourself a lot of headaches in setting it up. So it is useful if your employer doesn't have that kind of monitoring pipeline. But if you don't have that, the manual version is a good thing to know.
The Western rock/metal bands I see don't usually get packed together into "one big lineup", except at those big multi-day festivals. They seem to be able to do their own tours profitably all by themselves, or sometimes with one opening band.

However, granted, these are older, long-established bands, and all the guys are in their 50s or 60s or older, and their audiences seem to be older/middle-aged people who grew up with these bands, and also some younger people who found an appreciation for classic rock and metal music.

Here in Japan, however, there's lots of local (newer) metal bands that play gigs by themselves profitably. The dynamics of the music business seem pretty different from what's going on in America.
I have a Chevy Bolt, it’s fine. it feels like any Chevy, more or less. I wish it charged faster, but it gets the job done
OpenCRISPR – AI-generated gene editing systems
Bottle digging, i.e. looking for and collecting old bottles, typically buried or submerged.

Wife and I live on a floating house in Oregon outside of Portland. Taking my paddle board to various beaches on the river to pick up trash has become a beloved hobby of mine. Fantastic way to get exercise, get out in nature, and clean up my community.

I kept finding old, antique bottles during outings: Coke bottles from the 40s and 50s, little medicine bottles from who knows when, old beer bottles from brands no longer in business. I eventually learned that there's a whole hobby around this called "bottle digging", even an active subreddit (r/bottledigging).

I've since bought a nice snorkel and mask and have been diving for old bottles on clear days, when river visibility allows it. Thinking about taking it to the next level and getting scuba certified.

If you like finding things, you might like bottle digging.
I wonder if factors like maybe a decent chunk of engineers might be open to relocating to Japan (even if temporarily) play a role. After all, there's a lot of overlap between interests in aspects of Japanese culture (or Japan in general) and being a tech person. So maybe they expect to attract talent with the added prospect of being able to spend a couple of years there.

I recall SpaceX starting to do some similar stuff to entice their staff from California to relocate to the far less affluent corner of Texas their Starship facilities are in.
No map?
I’d hardly characterize it as “perfectly normal”, although it is definitely a frustrating issue that provokes a great deal of controversy domestically (and seems to induce strangely aggressive statements from a great many folks commenting from countries heavily reliant on American arms for protection from their regional neighbors).

I can understand it being hard to reckon with when one’s primary understanding of government stems from a familiarity with countries founded in accordance with the desires of a handful of pre-existing, regional groups (as opposed to a country founded with explicit mechanisms by which new groups can achieve representation).
Someone already mentioned Mike Bison, but FWIW, in the fighting game community - which includes people from Japan and outside of Japan - those characters are generally called "Boxer", "Claw", and "Dictator" specifically because of the localization changes, to give them unambiguous names.

At least Sagat kept his name, though "Tiger bullshit" would've been a great moniker, and no, I'm not salty about losing to his projectile once too many.
They had to put together ~14 hours of visuals, more than 5x what U2 had to do. There's nothing low effort about that. Some visuals were not as good as others as a result but I can promise you that the audience had their jaws on the floor all four nights.
Conversion's a very good solution for files you're storing locally! I'm working on polishing a script workflow to implement this—I haven't figured out which format to store things into yet. I don't consider it a full solution to the problem—more of a bandaid/workaround.

The downside is that any PDF conversion is a long-running batch job, one that probably shouldn't be part of any UX sequence—it's way too slow.

Emacs' PDF reader does something like this: when it loads a pdf, its default behavior is to start a background script that converts every page into a PNG, which decodes much more quickly than typical PDF formats. (You can start reading the PDF right away, and the end of the conversion, it becomes more responsive). I think it's a questionable design choice: it's a high-CPU task during a UI interaction, and potentially a long-running one, for a large PDF. (This is why I was profiling libpng, incidentally).

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Do...
I vehemently disagree that doctors should remain silent on their opinions. I think doing so would be very unethical and deceitful, by way of omission.

However, they should be clear on what is option vs established consensus
A secure system should not allow any single credential access to the entire system.

A secure system should be designed with the assumption of compromise.

No single person should have access to the whole system. No single entry point should have access to everything.

And so on.
I've noticed one problem is that say 20-year old cars are different animals from current cars.

Newer cars not only have backup cameras, but lots of them have all kinds of driver assist features that make the cars easier to drive or (almost) drive themselves.
On a Mac/Safari, I noticed that looking around while holding the left mouse button down made it normal
Because each cell has it's own state, and 64 bits of "program" (16 bits in each of the 4 LUTs), it's unlike the game of life, where the rule is the same for each cell.

I looked at a lot of choices for architecture, and wanted to allow data paths to cross without conflict, and the 4 in/4 out choice worked best without going too far.

Someone did work out how you could run the game of life on a BitGrid, it's in the Esoteric Languages wiki

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

I see it as something like a Turing machine, a bit less abstract, and much, much faster at computing real results. I hope it can democratize access to PetaFLOPS.

The question I can't seem to find an answer to is simple... how much power does a 4 bit in/out set of LUTs with a latch take statically? How many femtojoules does it take to switch?

If those numbers are good enough, it's entirely possible that really fast compute is on the table of possibilities. If not, it's another Turing machine.
Many empires were either founded or strongly assisted by unifying trade. It’s a straightforward way of capturing value accruing from comparative advantage.
There's plenty of phones like this available: just go look at the ~$50 Android phones. They're cheap and the cameras are barely adequate, and don't protrude from the case.

If you're not interested in using the camera feature of your phone, then high-end smartphones aren't for you. It's like buying a Ferrari and complaining about the fuel economy and lack of passenger space.
And if they won't, there are ways to pay for a copy (in whatever way most benefits the author), and then then get your DRM-free copy.
Thoughts and Prayers with Dang during this attack !
It's likely to be more obvious if you tried it out.
I found abook is the best gift, particularly when it includes a bookmark that is a sufficiently thick envelope.
> combined onto the huge quality problems I regularly see pop up online

Tesla problems get multiple orders of magnitude of attention than any other manufacturer.

German EVs with the possible exception of BMW are highly unreliable with a lot of problems. You will not hear that from the news but you will from a VW mechanic.
> Yes, it's not particularly ecological

If it makes you feel better, just think of your bookshelf as a carbon sequestration facility.
Postgres (with pgvector) is an unbelievably goated vector db. Idk why anyone would use anything else.
Firstly, English is a highly subjective category.

Secondly, Llama 3 usually adds first sentences like ‘What a unique question!’ or ‘What an insightful thought’, which might make people like it more than the competition because of the pandering.

While Llama 3 is singular in terms of size to quality ratio, calling the 8B model close to GPT4 would be an overstretch.
Scientists develop simple test to boost cancer detection in poorer countries
I know it's an old platform by now, but the Nissan Leaf is very much a normal car but with an electric motor. Everything has a dedicated physical button. The speedometer has an actual needle that moves around a dial. My biggest gripe with it, is its single phase AC charging and Chademo DC charging, but for my driving pattern it's not that big of a deal.
Yeah, but we're outliers in the real world. I mean, you're aware of Elon and Twitter, and read tech news etc.

My mom (quite literally) has never heard of him and certainly doesn't link any decisions she makes to her non-opinion of him.

That said, Tesla's are an opinionated car. You either like the touchscreen interface, lack of familiar car stuff etc, or you don't. You're either prepared to pay premium prices or you aren't.

Fundamentally there are a LOT more EV choices now, filling more market segments.

So sure, Elon's personality absolutely plays a part. He is the "face" of the brand and that matters. Sales have definitely been lost by that.

At the same time, there are many other factors coming into play. It's hard to pull just one out and blame the decine of sales on just that.
My dad and I did that when I was a kid... we were always in search of the Ruby Red beer bottles. We also looked for insulators on the ground near the telephone poles next to old railroads.

We frequented a subdivision that was being built on land that was a former city dump.
> cutting nessesities to save a few dollars more than anything else has ruled out 2024 model Tesla's

It turns out that not all lessons from building rockets make sense with a car.

Trimming weight is a huge benefit in rocket design. The less weight the rocket has, the more fuel it can carry, and this mass ratio has a non-linear effect on how much, how far can you carry. Rocket failure is a part of life which you just accept and can iterate.

But mass ratio just doesn't have the same importance for cars. Safety, reliability, usability are kings. Few kilograms extra are unimportant. The recent Cybertruck's accelerator pedal issue was quite illustrative there.
That's a whole lot of Zhangs!
use pandacss
https://panda-css.com/
The confluence of happenstance that occurs to make this a reality is pretty amazing to witness.

Unfortunately it starts with the passing of Douglas Lenat. But that enabled Stanford to open up their 40 year old archive, which they still had, of Lenats work.

Somehow, someway, someone not only stumbled upon EURISKO, but also knew what it was. One of the most notorious AI research projects of the age that actually broke out of the research labs of Stanford and out into the public eye, with impactful results. Granted, for arguably small values of “public” and “impactful”, but for the small community it affected, it made a big splash.

Lenat used EURISKO to find a very unconventional winning configuration to go on to win a national gaming tournament. Twice.

In that community, it was a big deal. The publisher changed the rules because of it, but Lenat returned victorious again the next year. After a discussion with the game and tournament sponsors, he never came back.

Apparently EURISKO has quite a reputation in the symbolic AI world, but even there it was held close.

But now it has been made available. Not only made available, but made operational. EURISKO is written in an obsolete Lisp dialect, Interlisp. But, coincidentally, we have today machine simulators that can run versions of that Lisp on long lost, 40 year machines.

And someone was able to port it. And it seems to run.

The thought of the tendrils through time that had to twist their way for us to get here leaves, at least me, awestruck. So much opportunity for the wrong butterfly to have been stepped on to prevent this from happening.

But it didn’t, and here we are. Great job by the spelunkers who dug this up.
This won't dethrone Llama 3, but it's equally impressive.

They mention this model's relative weakness in the TruthfulQA eval, since it's more lossy trying to pack 'knowledge' into a small model relative to problem-solving skills (which shine on MMLU)

Regardless - still a very useful thing to have offline and on the fly. Those scores are nothing to scoff at.

Given that these pipelines are likely harder harder to imitate than new architectures like Transformers, I assume there has been and will be an intense focus on synthetic data generation and cleansing. Llama 3 used 15T of tokens in its training corpus vs 4.8T in the "scaled-up" version of phi-3. If you made it to the end of this disjointed ramble I'm sorry
A friend of mine made something like this in WebGL for a computer graphics class a few years ago. I thought it was pretty neat.
My SAIC (MG) is a regular car with an electric drive but quite usual otherwise (including software issues)
True, but you can represent that in the db as a a CLI invocation to run in a subshell.

The big gain from something like carapace or my theoretical SQLite-based completion system is faster startup time. I had to remove zsh-completions from my shell setup as it added too much to the startup time (https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/README_no...)
> Also, not everyone makes their car/EV purchase based on who Elon is

More like barely anyone in the real world does.
Don’t forget the politicians; they deserve our scorn as well
> We could have public libraries be entirely outside the copyright system.

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has, I think, such an exemption.
Sure. I think people don't claim Tesla's downturn is all because of Musk's behavior. But it contributes to the problems, unfortunately it's not very clear how much.
I don't think it's possible to tell at this point.

If you looked at the operation of a digital computer, you'd find an analog substrate, with some quite interesting properties. Deciding whether the analog substrate is an important semantic element of how the computer worked, or whether its operation should be understand digitally, is as much a (research-driving) leap of faith as anything else.
It’s the same with search engines. Look how the news aggregation business has shaken out.
using " " to force the query still works, last I checked
Why is LMsys flawed?

Many people treat LMsys as gospel because it's the only large-scale, up-to-date qualitative benchmark. All the numeric benchmarks seem to miss real-world applicability.