skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is batched inference for LLMs memory bound? My understanding is that sufficiently large batched matmuls will be compute bound and flash attention has mostly removed the memory bottleneck in the attention computation. If so, the value proposition here -- as well as with other memorymaxxing startups like Groq -- is primarily on the latency side of things. Though my personal impression is that latency isn't really a huge issue right now, especially for text. Even OpenAI's voice models are (purportedly) able to be served with a latency which is a low multiple of network latency, and I expect there is room for improvement here as this is essentially the first generation of real-time voice LLMs.
> these laws are marketed as reducing the need for tips.

One of the presidential candidates gave a speech recently with a back drop that said “no taxes on tips” or something.

That did nothing for me in terms of thinking meals would be cheaper. I assume they’re marketing the idea to restaurant workers directly rather than patrons.
From the perspective of government receipts, the bulk of taxes are paid by the middle, not the tails. The rich don't have enough numbers, and the poor don't have enough money, to offset the area under the middle of the curve. This isn't true everywhere, but is true in the US and most developed countries.
Exactly! But at time scales over 10k years you may as well say limitless I suppose. By that point you are either extinct or living in O'Neill cylinders at Lagrange points throughout the Solar system and mining asteroids. If not already traveling to other solar systems. I think the safe bet is extinct, given how things are going right now.
Vouching doesn't unflag reasonable comments.
I'm pretty sure that whole notion of these magical loans to avoid taxes is a made up internet conspiracy theory.

A) Loans need to be paid back, with interest. The person must either be selling assets or drawing in other (taxed) income to pay back the loan. A loan could delays the taxes to a future year to let someone buy a house or yacht or whatever without the full tax burden in year 1, but they still ultimately pay all the taxes

B) If they die while still having outstanding loans, their heirs pay a 40% inheritance tax on everything above like 10 million, so there is no magic avoidance of taxes there, just a change in whether it's capital gains tax today or inheritance tax tomorrow.

I'd love to be disproven if someone can explain a real tax loophole, but as far as I can tell, the "Billionaires avoid taxes by taking out loans" thing is completely untrue.
> Ultimately to maximize engagement you want to get people obsessed with something. Whether it’s sometimes violent racism, vaccine paranoia, national politics, whatever, you just need to get them obsessed, and then they will spend hours every day on your site feeding this beast and go insane. Then you will sell lots of ads and get rich.

Yes. This is exactly what Elon is doing with X at the moment.
Why Did Databricks Open-Source Unity Catalog?
I cite the git documentation:
This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions of Git
Sure I'll do it, as long as you agree to pay me $1000/hr, 2 hour minimum-- up front, to do your work for you.

No refunds.
Businesses already pay the exact minimum wage of $2.13/hour. The employees either make an additional $5.12/hour in tips or the employer must make up the difference at every pay period. Employees routinely underreport their tip earnings beyond the $5.12/hour to not pay taxes and fly under the DoL radar.

Edit: I should add that lots of states and some cities have their own minimum wage laws but they are all structured the same. There is a minimum wage like $10/hour but if an employee is tipped the employer can claim a “tip credit” of like $6 and pay the employee only $4. Then if the employee is underpaid the employer must. Make up the difference. Employees who routinely don’t make full tips are less likely to continue working at the restaurant but you can’t just legally fire them for not making enough tips.

I am sure lots of people have also noticed fast food restaurants pushing for tips for the crew at checkout. This is an industry shift. Same with single owner businesses asking for tips (generally if someone sets their own price a tip shouldn’t be expected, but Square et al made that a normal part of checkout and people now believe it’s necessary). With expected tips getting into the 25-30% territory I wonder if there is an opportunity here for a restaurant chain to advertise itself as “we pay our employees well so you don’t have to”.
I served for years, almost no one was claiming the exact amount of your cash tips. Credit card tips would automatically be tallied but cash tips are effectively under the table.
The easiest seems like who is paying the "tip". If it's your employer, it's taxable compensation. If it's a customer, than it could be a tip.

Then there would probably be a bunch of sub-bullet points defining whether a tip is taxable depending on whether you have a direct relationship with the customer tipping you, whether the "tip" is mandatory, or at the discretion of the customer, are you in X roles (e.g. barista) within Y industries (e.g. food services).
Yes.

Two justices are blatantly corrupt and should be removed from the court. Two more are there through GOP malfeasance, but there's nothing we can do about them at this point.

No other democracy has lifetime appointments for high court justices.

As far as packing the court, I am personally interested in any kind of reform that depoliticizes it somewhat, whether it be that the SCOTUS acts like the Appeals courts and is a rotation, or the appointed Justices choose a second tier of judges unanimously.

But process only does so much to prevent partisan political interference. At the end of the day, our amendment system and our Congress are broken. It will take something like a mild revolution or major systemic breakdowns to fix it.
Yet places with higher minimum wages don't always have higher burger prices at McDonald's.

And places with enforcement of minumum wages and no tips don't always have higher prices for food.

A very real alternative to your proposal is that market pressure could force prices down and eat into owner's profit. Market forces seem to be what controls the prices most places you can get food with and without tips.
Some people are trying to use references everywhere everytime, instead of (safely wrapped) pointers. It's a mental lock.
Right, complex numbers and the delta function lacked rigour for years and physicists and engineers didn't care because it turned out it captured the logic sufficiently well that useful stuff could be gained with it. Then the mathematicians did the rigour bit and everyone was happy again.
Thanks for creating this. However, I was a bit puzzled when I found a packages.json
and then saw that all the heavy lifting is done from bash. I don't understand the need for having to install Yarn for just running a bunch of bash scripts. IMHO, after seeing the size and the amount of logic within the scripts, I think you could have made it more ergonomic by just building a bash script that takes parameters and that's it.
> Country club membership is not a free speech issue. I thought this was an obvious enough example everyone could understand. But I guess the tech companies have polluted the definition and nobody remembers civics class.

Then why did you use that example at first place? Zuckerberg doing the white house's bidding in exchange for whatever perks Zuckerberg gets in return aren't a "country club". It isn't a private matter. It's absolutely a constitutional issue and a free speech issue.
I hadn't read about this concept - it's interesting.

It was really heart breaking coming up in the hacker culture of the late 80s through the 90s, then seeing the potential of "Don't be evil" Google, when it became clearer and clearer that no, hackers hadn't penetrated the capitalist class it was more the other way round. The only "disruption" was a set of new levers for the bankers, handed over freely by people eager to join them.
Flat earther, conspiracy theory, good/bad faith, etc...simple memes like this are very effective in controlling both dumb and normatively "smart" people with simple rhetoric.
.NET Community Toolkit 8.3 is here NativeAOT, .NET 8 enhancements, and more
It's a SD-WAN. Bundles up a bunch of network tools into a proprietary managed product to splice together multile WAN links, load balance them, minimise spend, and maximize uptime while keeping latency down and throughput up.
In my experience people who care or get hung up on this term are not people I think are great programmers/coders.

I like programming because it’s easy to ignore labels and just look at output to see if they are terrible or decent. Takes some time to distinguish decent or great, but it’s easy to see if someone is just horrible.

I’ve never cared if I’m programmer or coder or developer or engineer. It’s not like there’s legal differences like medicine or law (some places do have engineer labels, but no states where I’ve worked). I really care about ability to make an impact and compensation. Some of the stupidest titles I’ve had were most interesting work.

It seems odd to try to pick the right term as even for recruiting it’s probably better just to state the label, duties, and skills required in order to attract people.
I think you're kind of "talking past me" here, in that you're replying to a different point than the one I'm making. I'm not saying that psychedelics or crackpot theories are offering some kind of insight that scientists are missing. Rather, that describing reality with contemporary human concepts is just going to be inherently limited and restricted, because of its foundation in human perception. Saying that nothing bigger than our brain exists just seems very limited and human-centric to me.
What "ex-Apple" Andy Hertzfeld is most famous for, is for being a co-founder of General Magic [1]. General Magic's social interface was seen as a threat by Microsoft, and they responded to the threat with Microsoft Bob [2]. Sun found the agent technology of General Magic interesting, and they responded with Oak, which later became Java [3]. After General Magic collapsed Hertzfeld founded Eazel. I remember attending an Eazel demo, and notably Hertzfeld did not have a good answer when someone in the audience asked "how will you make money?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

[3] https://www.tech-insider.org/java/research/1995/07.html
When the pensions are the largest item in the budget, they are the cause of the bankrupting.
Since the end of 2019, Stack Exchange staff have repeatedly pushed away big contributors in the pursuit of increasing profit. Most recently they shut down the public data dumps that were the insurance in case Stack Exchange turned fully profit-driven. But if you're an AI company, you can buy access to them! I'm not enthused with their policy on Palestine, either (this is relevant because of the politics.se site, not on SO itself).
Git hooks? https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
There was a time not too long ago where software development was considered an expensive investment. Only companies with crazy deep pockets or passionate engineers with equity promises (think startups) could afford to work in such a profession. It was special. Over the last couple decades businesses have worked hard to commoditize it in every possible way leading to every Tom, Dick & Harry calling themselves an "engineer" and every "company" needing to have a software/web presence. It's become basic - like electricity.

So while your experience in carefully crafting a viable design and erring on the side of caution would have been appreciated decades ago, it's just not the nature of the game today. Just take heart that your approach is that of a true engineer and not someone who will cheapen their work by slapping on something that works in a sandbox type of env.
your first point is the only thing this whole discussion should be about... the second one is insanity :)
I see an animation without explanation.

So I have no idea what I am signing up for.

Signing up might benefit you. That usually means it won't benefit me. It isn't worth the effort.

Don't use Twitter and don't ever plan to.

Not being negative. What I am saying is:

=> I was curious.

=> that got me to your page.

=> Then page design and business strategy lost me.

My advice: ask yourself, "does this delight visitors?" and "does this benefit users?"

Good luck.
I'm not a fan of some of their UX design decisions, but I must admit that they seemingly know what they're doing, and their execution / implementation is pretty good.

I also hope that, unlike MS, they have no infighting between departments, and no stack ranking.
tips should be banned

not only is it a shitty source of income, it also exposes you to sexism, racism and makes you tolerate shit things, because your income could be at risk standing up for yourself.
>HN is awesome because of the rules and moderation (including bans);

It was awesome. Then it jumped the shark when people realized they could flag posts they don't like with no repercussions.
Another point of evidence of why HN is great. Even reading this point in this argument had me thinking and wondering why it was banned and then the moderator comment right below (but can't be replied to?) explains the reasoning.

One of the best uses of HN for me is watching my brain jump to conclusions only to have them slapped down by a well thought out counter argument.

This forum isn't perfect but I haven't found a better public discussion board on the internet. Hat tip to the moderators and others making this happen. Your work is appreciated.
Just use fucking paper, man
Nuclear can be made renewable.
That's so bizzare yet cool!
It's ranking according to skill level.

1. Software architect
2. Software engineer
3. Programmer
4. Coder

The lowest level is the coder who only knows how to code.

When you go higher, you have the more elite "programmer" who does the exact same thing as the coder but is more elite because he calls what he does "programming" instead of "coding"

The next level is the Software Engineer who is even more skilled then the programmer because although he does the exact same thing as both the coder and the programmer he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website. Keep in mind that as amazing as rockets that carry humans into space are, it is not as amazing as some plain website because these "software engineers" likely get paid waay more then rocket engineers.

The final, highest level is the software architect who's power is so high he doesn't even "code", "program" or "engineer" stuff anymore. Instead the software architect has the skill of "big picture reasoning" which is the skill of being able to draw boxes and circles on a white board and also drawing lines between those shapes. This is what we term "software architecture" and this is the epitome of software skill. The software architect is basically a god among software engineers.

My goal in life is to become a master at drawing circles and boxes and lines. I admire these people so much.
I don't think so either, but they likely have useful data that politicians can draw off of. Remember Milton Friedman, who wanted to eliminate many forms of taxes, came up with a lot of his policies after working at the Treasury department on taxation mechanisms.
The sea floor is not a contained environment. Also it is far harder to access.
It's a question of a typical behavior of mammoth. One method would work if an encircled mammoth was apt to charge humans. The other method would work if a mammoth was prone to panic and always ran away from aggressors. Looking however at the size of the animal, I doubt if the latter was its survival strategy.
It’s a nice thought, just extremely unlikely, no? Unlikely that someone has the time to deal with a huge legacy system, and unlikely they’ll be able to rewrite portions and get it working. There are very good reasons this hardly ever happens, releasing proprietary code, even when it’s all modern and working. The potential downsides are usually bigger than the upsides.
Churn is great for recruiters and HR! I once worked at a startup that implemented a policy of trying to always get rid of a certain % of workers every year to make sure they only employed "the very best". PS: Every confident company thinks they only employ the very best, and who they employ or hire is usually different.

The HR people really pushed this, I think because they believed in it. But it also coincidentally gave them a much bigger role than they would have had at a small company with a stable workforce.
Isn't it great that you can interact with other agents in this system, present them with prompts and observe how they respond, etc?

I am becoming increasingly skeptical about how real all these accounts on the internet are.
> Machine shops are a race to the bottom

It's not a race to the bottom. It's movement towards where the Supply and Demand curves intersect.

If it was a race to the bottom, skilled machinists would be paid minimum wage.
Yeah, seeing narcissist everywhere is irritating too. "You did not act in my interest without hesitation, narcissist!!" Coping technique: The world and people in it do not revolve around you, don't create an expectation they will. Also: Assume good intensions.
Something like this? https://www.autoweb.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lovci-mamu...
No, because many people in Africa have higher-than-average salary in their region. If you adjust the definition to be "higher-than-median", it will be exactly 50%.
I'm guessing you mean find a job where his/her skills are appreciated.
> this is the way you get equal numbers of men and women applying

I don't think this is the only way, it's just the easy/lazy way. Being sexist during admissions is a proximal way of getting more women graduates, but it's also unfair. Focusing on distal methods can be more fair and also get the outcome we all want.

Things like helping girls out in elementary school and high school by, say, requiring STEM courses for everyone and giving plenty of help to the low-performing students, along with plenty of encouragement to enter the field, and plenty of good examples to show girls that they're individuals and might be good at STEM, are ways to avoid being sexist while also advancing toward the goal. The fact that it's a slower method isn't a good argument; we could just ban boys from doing STEM at all and that would make women 100% of the graduates. But that's not fair, so we don't do it.

IMO the university is not the place to try to achieve these balances, because they only have gross methods that can't be applied fairly, it's way too late in the process. Intervening earlier is the correct and fair way.
Borrow checker is just a checker, which ensures that programmer doesn't write obviously wrong programs. It's obviously wrong to create cyclic references, even in a language with garbage collector, such as JavaScript. Why you need to fight with checker?
in my time there were two ways to university. gymnasium or gesamtschule. i understand that it was somehow possible to switch from other schools if you had very good grades, but it wasn't natural or obvious. at the gesamtschule i believe only the worst students were denied to continue, and i think about a third of all students actually did continue after 10th grade in my year. (i don't remember the specifics as i actually went on to be an exchange student for grade 11, and i came back to school for grade 12)

i don't know if switching schools became easier or harder, but today i would only send my children to a gesamtschule where it was certain that they would not be under undue pressure in order to be able to continue after 10th grade. in my opinion the three-tiered system might as well be abolished because evaluating 9 year old children whether they might be capable of passing the abitur some 9 years later is absolutely dumb and misguided, and forcing them to switch schools will also hurt their socialization as they lose touch with some friends and have to find new ones.

the system should be replaced with a highschool like system that allows everyone a chance at passing the abitur, and only those that specifically opt to learn a trade instead should be able to leave school earlier, and even those should be offered a short path to an abitur test if they complete their apprenticeship.

on the other hand there is no problem entering university in germany at 40. it's free, so what should stop you? i actually did become a student again at age 30 for a short time. noone suggested that that would be wrong.

getting a loan for that is an entirely different matter. conservative thinking and ageism suggests that nobody has good job prospects starting a new career at that age. but you can do it if you get a part time job (actually, if you switch your current job to part time, which is something you are allowed to do by law in germany) and then use the remaining time to study. if classes are still structured the way they were in my time then you can study at your own pace. it may take a bit longer, but then i also expect that at 40 you are more driven to focus on getting stuff done so i don't think part time study will double the time you need to complete your studies.
There are no IQ tests that measure IQ through genetics though. They are all measuring it by asking knowledge questions that the subject answers. There aren't many people that claim IQ isn't measuring anything. Just that it is not a measurement of genetics, as some people do insist that it is.
I’ve previously noticed that Claude is far less apologetic and more assertive when refusing requests compared to other AIs. I think the answer is as simple as being ok with just making it more that way, not completely that way. The section on pretending not to recognize faces implies they’d take a much more extensive approach if really aiming to make something never happen.
translation: disinformation and lies welcome here
I know that HN policy is never to ask if someone read TFA but ...

the focus of TFA is much more on how there used to (at least) two distinct tasks which got different names (and had socio-economic and gender implications); following the development of "automatic programming" (what we would call compilation today), this distinction went away, but the two terms stuck around.
Running prey into nets, or in this case, pikes seem to be make more sense. The steppe nomads of Asia used mass volleys of arrows from horseback to harass and direct pret into prepared positions. Ranged weapons (thrown rocks, hunting clubs, bows and arrows) can fill those roles.

I have my doubts that a spear launched by human muscle power would be effective against megafauna, although maybe with an atlatl?