skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did you try the different instance generation strategy suggested in the thread?

you make it sound like clojure.spec.alpha doesn't do shrinking at all. possibly you don't know what shrinking is? shrinking keeps your results from looking "random" by simplifying them until all the simpler versions of the test case pass, so it finds the simplest failing case instead of a "random" one. this also enables hypothesis to be a lot more aggressive at looking for failing cases, for example by generating much larger test data sets than you would want to pore over, because if it finds one that fails, it will shrink it before showing it to you

if i've misunderstood you and clojure.spec.alpha does do shrinking, what does it do in the case where your test case is written to reject all but an exponentially small fraction of shrunk cases? does it just take an exponentially long time to run your test suite? is that what you mean by 'just works'?
How will Google collect data about every page load then?
> the model just reflects those answers

I think there is a lot happening in the word "reflects"! Is it so simple?

Does this mean that the model takes on the opinion of a specific lit crit essay it has "read"? Does that mean it takes on some kind of "average" opinion from everything? How would you define the "average" opinion on a topic, anyway?

Anyway, although I think this is really interesting stuff and cuts to the core of what an LLM is, this paper isn't where you're going to get the answer to that, because it is much more focused and narrow.
By that metric Uber and Tesla are the better companies on the history of the universe.

Wake me up when that speculation translates to profit that is not just fraud of funneling investor money from AI companies they are on the board back into azure profit center.

see this https://www.detectx.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-... (ignore the site, i don't know it, just random image result) that whole yellow block of revenue for microsoft is what i'm talking about.
What internet are you talking about that has abandoned the web?

Most people use both apps and websites.

Websites haven't gone anywhere. How do you use the internet from your laptop or desktop?
Western democracies can play a long game too. See the fall of the Soviet Union for example.
Yeah, it's crazy how with a $15 walkie talkie running on AAA batteries you can talk to your friend miles away in the wilderness, but your $1000 phone is a brick if it can't see a cell tower. Something went wrong there.

Pretty soon we're going to have satellite cell service via Starlink. So it will work, but it will be silly when your signals are going to space and back twice to travel a mile as the crow flies.
One more:

https://www.leanternet.com/

(Scroll all the way down; HN is mentioned first).
Not sure if I'm interpreting your response correctly, but every house and apartment bloc in Switzerland has a bunker.
Dude. He has all the chats. ALL THE CHATS. And all the chats he traded for others' chats.
you are right. i don't even know which one i was thinking when my finger decided to type salesforce. well. I only know enough about MS for the occasional checks to keep it into the not buy pile.
Is this it? https://www.sagemath.org/

This looks like a programming language built on top of Python.

Satyrn only supports the Python programming language right now.

If you are using this on the regular, I'm curious if you have tried Julia or Mathematica, if so why do you use Sagemath over those alternatives?
That's assuming that wind tunnels are not Turning-complete. Terry Tao has this fantastic idea of proving the Navier-Stokes equations blow up by proving the existence of a 'fluid computer'. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/searching-for-sing...
> For Russians, the 1990s are as coupled to territorial losses and new borders as they are to economic hardships. So tearing down these borders is a case of recovery.

No, I am not speaking about the mythical 1990s as they exist in the mass conscious in the present day, warped by a huge dose of Soviet nostalgia. I am speaking about the 1990s that people actually lived through. Hyperinflation, shortages, poverty, crime. Breakdown of social order. Life's savings losing value almost overnight. Wages going unpaid for months and months. Abandoned kids sniffing glue and no-one caring. Few people had the luxury to care about issues beyond their immediate survival. Knew a family that had collected enough money for a house. Money lost value in such a short time that they managed to get only an ugly floor lamp by the time reality hit them. Nobody gave a shit where borders ran or if they even existed.

Massive spending on completely non-productive activities like the war against Ukraine while the world pivots away from you in disgust is a solid strategy for reaching such socio-economic deterioration again.

And it's important to stress that the 1990s were not seen as separate chapter at the time, but as the natural endgame of USSR's deep internal rot and failure to provide even bare sustenance to its population. Somehow you managed to run a resource-rich country into the ground during peacetime, and dragged down with you the European nations that you had enslaved during the WWII. And yet, for some reason, you think you've suffered a great injustice and still deserve an empire. Why? You can't run a normal country.
>should [talking moving color pictures ever work] our descendants will be able to deceive themselves into something very like [reminiscence/time travel]: but it will be but a barren husk: a soulless phantasm and nothing more.

No wonder they didn't choose him as the father of film, he went all in on experiencing real life instead. Funny how these days a refined film must maintain illusion and suspend disbelief to be called soulful and people will rewatch them until they can remember every line.
Apple are making servers again?
There are organizations which develop talent in-house. Most military forces work that way. The Union Pacific Railroad is unusually explicit about it. The path to management starts by working in a freight yard in Chicago at 5 AM in a snowstorm.[1] The current CEO of Union Pacific started as a laborer in maintenance of way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMViWazEYoc
temporal commutativity of thought in the media vector space?
how do you create encrypted communication that isn't easily triangulated?

some youtubers are pushing LoRa but its hardly secure or encrypted

creating your own number station requires shortwave broadcast which takes up a ton of power and your station is known

the only way to break 5E is good old paper with one time pad encryption with dead drops but its hardly efficient
Additional citations:

> “Once a woman receives enough information and autonomy to make an informed and self-directed choice about when to have children, and how many to have, she immediately has fewer of them, and has them later.”

https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Planet-Global-Population-Declin...

> Our findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and slow population growth. A sustained TFR lower than the replacement level in many countries, including China and India, would have economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical consequences. Policy options to adapt to continued low fertility, while sustaining and enhancing female reproductive health, will be crucial in the years to come.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2
Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training [pdf]
Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose an espionage network? (2020)
Since forever, sharding, distributing postgres / mysql was not easy. There were a few proprietary extensions. Nowadays it's more accessible.

This was typical crap you had to say to pass fang style interview "oh of course I'd use mongo because this use case doesn't have relations and because it's easy to scale", while you know postgres will give you way less problems and allow you to make charts and analytics in 30m when finance comes around.

I made the mistake of picking mongo for my own startup, because of propaganda coming from interviewing materials and I regretted it for the entire duration of the company.
Huh. HTTP works, but HTTPS does not.
I think of it as something of a hobby. A little bit camping-adjacent. But just a little bit.
The question is too broad.

If we get another covid-scale disease, lockdown, closed borders, a year's wait for vaccination, etc., with similar risks to life and quality of life?

Then life goes on as normal, after a brief initial period of just enough people simultaneously choosing to make sure they have the basics for the those basics to no longer be on supermarket shelves.

If Russia rolls through Ukraine, then decides to keep going until it reaches the old Iron Curtain?

Then I'm 170 km on the wrong side of the new border for someone whose entire knowledge of Russian is [da, nyet, vodka, mir, privyet], but they'd probably let me leave.

If an EMP or solar flare destroys the power grid, I don't think there's much I can do; even if I bought some farmland and some oxen to pull a plough without needing to maintain a tractor, my total experience of blacksmithing consists of making some hoops on an activity day at the Weald & Downland Living Museum some time around 1993 when I was about 10.
My impression is that it doesn’t matter.

There are so many ways to track down your age with automated databases linked in clues, etc

And they will eventually zoom or meet you for most jobs, and know.

Definitely curtail and curate the resume, in general the last 10 years or two jobs should be fine, keep it to two pages. But it’s not going to inoculate against ageism
Starship Booster Might Have Exploded Suggests Fan Theory, Alleged Leaked Image
If its doomsday scenario, you are dying either way faster or just a tad slower
I'm glad we do a bit of that rather than just letting the Russians dominate there.
> Of course they don’t want some stapled-together thing.

We had two-sided printing back in those days and it was still not a good idea to go to two pages.

I was always told it was a rule of thumb to ensure that what mattered got seen in the initial, cursory screening. They're going to spend 30 seconds on the resume and likely won't get to a second page if you have it, so better to just fit what you need to on a single page and scrap anything that's not incredibly persuasive.

Now, today your first hurdle is an automated scanner rather than a 30-second human inspection, which may mean that you need to actually increase the amount of text in order to be able to check all the right boxes. It's the same principle (optimize for making it past the first stage), just with a new first stage.
I would imagine the answer here is something along the lines of: "let a few billion people starve."
It's not just WebRTC. Basically, if you want things to work when both endpoints are behind typical NATs (a very common situation), you need some kind of signaling system. There are several reasons for this:

- NAT bindings are usually not stable over long periods of time
- Many NATs implement what's basically a stateful inspection firewall, which means that you actually need to send a packet out to the peer's address before it will be allowed to send a packet to you from the outside
- In some nontrivial fraction of cases, you actually need to relay traffic through a third party.

The result is that you need some coordination protocol to set up the connection and that has to go through some service which is accessible from the endpoints; generally this means some type of service. So, yes WebRTC is designed this way, but it's basically a constraint of any system of this type.

For more on this than you wanted to know, see: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/nat-part-1/ and following posts.
Well, maybe an alternative: Localsend[1]

Works pretty good for my use cases.

1: https://localsend.org/

EDIT: Oh, this was already mentioned... sorry.
I know you are being sarcastic, but SSH from an iPad actually has worked for years.
WiGLE is very expensive to use.
It also was how N. saw his thoughts at times. An evidence, disgraced for being explained. And stylistic flamboyance around a theme is hardly foreign to philosophers, this one in particular (any chapter of Zarathustra can be read as a blog post in the same way).

I still advocate that style - and being drunk with style - can lead the writer to singularly original and contemporaneous ideas. Language is a dynamic object, filled with the spirit of the age, and very high sensitivity to it within a philosophical context can act as a catalyst.
The US Marines tend to greatly value delegation. In one instance, a Colonel boarded a helicopter to direct a rescue operation. It ended his career as it was clear he either did not have the ability to delegate or had not sufficiently prepared his troops.

However, the US military actually trains leaders - extensively. And it also trains people to work in coordinated units. The more well trained a unit is, the more broadly a commander can give orders and expected a good result. There's a lot of context embedded in the training and the doctrine that informs the training.
Not only that, .insurance is a TLD, so why didn't they just get travelers.insurance?
I think a lot of the time you would be correct. But this is published to arxiv so it’s not peer reviewed and doesn’t boost the authors credentials. It could be designed to attract attention to the company they work at. Or it could just be a cool idea the author wanted to share.
Huh, I was fooled by marketing copy, the upgrade button says my free account has "Access to GPT-3.5, Limited Access to GPT-4o" but you're right, 4o is the default
In Germany, very often. VDE is like ANSI or IEEE there.

If you ever work on anything electrical in Germany, you see the acronym VDE everywhere on standards etc.
Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
ACCU London is not very active anymore, I think CppLondon pretty much took over (it was the same guy as the CppOnSea conference, but I think he started asking other people to arrange it now).

I don't know if it's that great these days, but it's a meetup I used to present at in the past, and I remember having fun getting beers with attendees afterwards.
Indexmap does reuse hashbrown. It consists of a hashtable containing `usize` indexes into a `Vec` which in turn contains the actual entries (keys and values), along with a cached hash for the key. In the end the overhead should only be that index and the hash.
And now make it seekable, dynamically adapt bitrate, add subtitles, have clickable areas on the video and support all browsers and operating systems with various kinds of DRM and codecs and it’s not “just add a html tag” any more.
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that - I just meant as in feeling so excited like a child over what amounts to a manual labelmaker :-) No bad vibes at all on my end though. Very interesting about the rest though, thanks for the comment.
I could really see this taking off. Sagemaker is garbage and hugging face interfaces are laggy and buggy. The future is on-prem bespoke models you can run on commodity NPU SoCs. On my M3 MacBook I’ve been running local models like Llama-70B instead of ChatGPT for a while now.
Continue (YC S23) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in San Francisco
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Am I the only one who creates them manually and add an entry only when I see a file that should not be committed when I "git status" ?

I mean, .gitignore is a simple text file, editable from any tool. Why would anyone bother exporting such a file in JSON to then add it as a text file to a repository ?

I'm sorry, but I don't see any actual usage for this. There is no point in having a bloated .gitignore with things you don't even use.
Ironically, Software Developers do Doomsday Prepping _literally all the time_: Imaginary (aka 'Pretend') Problems are much "fun" to solve.
Worried AI Will Take Your Job? You Should Be
I think the approach is a Mac-first app that follows Apple's design language, no?
Regardless of ageism, which I have to imagine is going to vary based on the employer:

* The job market is very tough right now. Not getting a lot of responses seems to be a pretty common experience.

* Thought experiment: imagine you have 100 applicants and need to move some of them on to a phone screen. How much about each applicant would you want to read? Keep resumes on the short side. I've heard 1 page is a good limit, as is last 10 years of experience. Throw the old stuff out. Make your resume a picture of your experience and capabilities that is easy to understand at a glance.

* From my own experience in this market it is much better to have a human point of contact -- a recruiter, an employee referral, etc -- than cold applying.
While I think that supply chains are pretty resilient... were we watching the same thing?

We had a mild disease making rounds - far less serious than some of the pandemics of the early 20th century, let alone before that - and we had multi-week shortages of TP, followed by multi-year shortages of ICs and cars.

Yeah, no one died due to not being able to buy TP, but it wasn't all that confidence-inspiring. Pre-COVID, would you have thought that the supply of such a basic and easily-manufactured good is so weirdly inflexible?
Having browsed the prepper communities for years it is actually pretty cool how reasonable a lot of them are. The big thing they have is constantly heading off the newbies with their doomsday prophecies/fantasies.

Most long term preppers advocate for a deeper pantry, so a few months instead of a few weeks, a few gallons of water in a shed. A focus on personal health as there is no point hoarding guns if you cannot run 100 meters. Increase personal skills that can be useful in a time of disruption such as basic medical aid. And community, that is key - "If you want to fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others." African proverb

A lot of them point out about how the stereo type of the food hoard on your own land with a small military of guns is foolish. That even if the worst case Zombie situation did arise, that just makes you a target for others and would have to become endlessly paranoid just to maintain a terrible lifestyle.
Speaking as a current manager (by choice): No!

We don't need more reluctant managers in engineering, they do enough damage as it is. Management should be a strictly personal choice, and it should be easy to bail out of if it turns out you don't like it after all.

We seem to be exiting the exponential growth stage of our industry, which means we're past the point where shoehorning people into management made any kind of sense. If we hit something approximating steady state then we'd expect 1 engineer to transition to management for every ~4 engineers who don't, which means what's actually needed now is a clear career path for the 4/5 who don't need to and don't want to be managers.

> technically, if you do want to perform at the very best, interacting with other people is not avoidable

This is a weird line to include, given that OP didn't mention anything about not liking interacting with other people. Management involves a lot more than interacting with other people—many introverts make great managers and many extroverts make terrible ones.
In 1994, I was still using Gopher, and reading email and Usenet with Pine, on IBM X Windows terminals, connected into DG/UX, and several xterms.
Has this WSI chip been taped out/verified? I must admit I am somewhat skeptical of TBs of SRAM, even at wafer scale integration. What would the power efficiency/cooling look like?
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I was about to make a snarky comment about 2002, but looking back that really was the early days. A lot of the early stuff (with a few exceptions) basically extinct now.
Gif managers?
I said in another comment, it is an endless task of talking down the newbies off the ledge of their doomsday prophecy.

"No we are not going to be in a Mad max world in 2 years!"
Nice job !

A small remark : since nothing is free in our world, it would be super cool if you could add the rate limits of each API. This way, we could see if it can be safely used in production or not.
I checked again and yes it defaults to 4o, I was confused by the upgrade button which says free accounts have limited access
FB had internal tools that did this in 2013-2014 based on pieceable (https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/11/facebook-picks-up-the-mobi...).
Quickly skimmed the paper, I didn't see this economy modeling computer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine?wprov=sfla1
I imagine if we could make helicopters fly on mars and gas giant's moons, I wonder if we could tune a chopper's blades to work in extreme heat (I'm guessing a lot more of them and wider surface area). This is of course excluding the economics of such a thing
Well the good thing about the vaccine record tattoo is that the skin is always transforming and rebuilding. It would be impossible to get a set of literal quantum dots to stay forever. Apparently the record would only be viable for 5 years.
No. If majority is paying 5 when the minimum is 5, the median is also 5. The rest can still be paying more than 5 which would yield a higher mean.