skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you educate the majority of the population, these more educated people will all be average. Credential creep has nothing to do with it, this is simple arithmetics.
Anne was never CEO of YouTube
I suppose - though we still seem to have interest in a 'faster' python, and its more compatible then a lot of the alternatives. They had just gotten SQLAlchemy(?) working with it when I moved on to other stuff, so I never got a chance to try it out for 'real' work...

I have to admit though, I don't reach for python as much as I used to, so I can see your point.
It doesn't see "straw" or "berry". It sees a vector which happens to represent the word strawberry and is translated from and to English on the way in and out. It never sees the letters, 'strawberry' is represented by a number, or group of numbers. Try to count the Rs in "21009873628" - you can't.
You can get refurbished Mac Studio M1 Ultra with 128GB VRAM for ~ $3k on ebay. M1 ultra has 800GB/s memory bandwidth, same as the M2 ultra.

Not sure if 128GB VRAM is enough for running 405b (maybe at 3-bit quant?), but it seems to offer great value for running 70B models at 8-bit.
Yes, laptops are really not a great for resell.

We only buy new and kept ours until they die, and they sure die or become quirky in ways we'd be pissed about if we bought it in that state.

The big issue is of course repairability: buying a second hand business DELL Opiplex is mostly fine because replacing anything other than the motherboard/power supply will be dead simple, and even that can be managed either through salvaging or diy. A flacky or half broken laptop is a world of hurt, for any brand, even if you're into soldering.
They are not booby traps, since they are not traps to begin with. No one sane calls rigging the military comms of your enemy to blow a "booby trap".
Once #1 is nobuild for the front-end (2023)
These pretexts for "discovering" are a "bedrock principle" in law enforcement called parallel construction.

The NSA sharing data with the DEA becomes a "routine traffic stop" that finds the drugs. The court would not allow the NSA evidence or anything found as a result, but through parallel construction, the officer lies in court that it was a "routine stop", and judicial review never occurs.
Yeah that was brilliant
The challenge is not just to make Python faster, it's to make Python faster __and__ port the ecosystem of Python modules to your new environment.
We can do both?

This benchmark is very sensationalized, I don’t get the intention here other than trying to get engagement (positive or defensive otherwise).
Are those recent laws? It wasn’t a database, but many years ago I had a web host tell me to remove certain files from their servers or they would terminate my account. The stuff wasn’t publicly accessible, I just had it available for myself via FTP so I could get at them from a couple locations. So there was some snooping going on.
I don't know if I'm unique or something, but Radon is extremely painful for me to look at and makes everything harder to read. It makes me feel like I'm dyslexic or something. I currently use Fira Code and find that very easy to read and look at.
There are thousands of startups incorporated in all sorts of irrelevant locations that get made every year. Why does it matter to you?

Edit: I'm not going to post the reply you typed for posterity's sake, but discriminating against people who are just as likely Soviet expats that have no control over the war is a silly way to "get back" at a perceived enemy. Yes, Russia is bad. Avoid AI businesses altogether if you want to avoid suspicious products and you'll have dodged a number of chargebacks in the long-run. Turning this into an opportunity to virtue-signal is a mind-numbing exercise in racism.
It is not disingenuous and it really doesn't even require much math. Buying target date and index funds is remarkably straightforward in 2024. Know how and where to buy them takes about an evening of reading. I know because that's how I did it. I did not have a home ec class, I did not have someone to show me how, and I am not that great at math.
All previous attempts have failed and to me it looks mostly like challenges with communication, processes, priorities, etc.

Company standards are a people problem and therefore a money problem. Unless senior management is willing to back the costs of a full transition, it is not going to happen. The costs are lost productivity and involuntary turnover in staff.

Unless you are the chairman of the board, you can't make it happen. If the chairman and the C-suite make it a priority, then it has a reasonable chance of happening. If the initiative comes from any other part of the org-chart, people can resist doing what they are told without much consequence. They will just wait until the initiative runs out of steam just like last time. And the time before that. And the time before that.

Be aware that people are assigned to work on internal standards when things are slow. This doesn't happen when it's all hands, assholes and elbows to the pump. So things are slow at your company. The opportunity you have is to go and get to know the 100 other staff and add them to your professional network. This will help when you look for your next job. Good luck.
I missed the initial blogpost about this; thanks for the solid explanation and the links. Probably won't make much of a difference for my use cases but cool to know this is now in the stdlib.
Also the Julia people wrote their own notebook system called Pluto. Which is so on brand for them. It might be technically better, but they miss out on the whole jupyter ecosystem, further isolating the language.
It's impossible to prove or disprove a counterfactual, but my guess is it would create a delay of at least one year, and possibly two or three.
Just visit r/LinkedInLunatics to get all the best LI content
> I feel like that's a great way to make everyone hate you

Maybe. But at least you'd know what the discussion is about. Or ask for notes. I can't say I've been in a meeting where someone asking questions was frowned upon.

You're on the right track.
If you are in Salt Lake go check out the computers in the big fancy temple temple there, they used to help you research ancestry stuff. Though all that could have been because we were there on some sort of VIP thing and it might not be open to the public. Interesting side, it's missionaries there that help you. Only instead of young men shipped out into the world, it was attractive young women on missionary to the temple from all over the world.
For me it's still total immaturity everywhere in GUI and consumer hardware. The most performant mail client, kMail, cashes too much, when it has more than ten thousand of emails its performance is very bad it's preferences are somewhat crazy. Still a mess with DPI scaling. Still a mess with the mix of different KDE/Gnome/Qt styled applications everywhere. None of the modern distributions can turn off my monitor by DDC when entering dark mode after computer inactivity. I'l kee my hackintosh as long as i can, it handles hardware much more better than any other OS.
Where's the fraud and illegality? If they did something illegal why weren't they charged years ago?
You're right, sorry, I mixed up the models while testing.
Personally I hate software customizations. I prefer to build from scratch using proper software development tools than use whatever piss-poor customization system commercial software typically provides.

I recently sold my director on building some software from scratch rather than try to combine two commercial products together for some Frankenstiened solution. The motivation for Frankenstiening it is that we are paying for both services so we should use them (and at least one is very customizable). Only after 6 months of failing to get these systems to play together in an acceptable way, I finally asked a team member to spend 3 days building a mock up of a new app. From there it was quickly approved and we hope to roll out next month. I only wish I had done that sooner; we would have had way more time for development.
Jerboas ride on your shoulder to alert you of an incoming storm.
Where do I say it's unnecessary?
It's not important how "relieved" you feel, it is important that we exercise scientific rigor when we notice something like this. I don't want scientists to look at the lack of evidence of harm, and just breathe a sigh of relief and carry on with other studies. I want scientists to see the overwhelming microplastic problem, and exhaustively study the risks, and harms, and the solutions.

I see no benefit in hand waving away a potentially serious public health problem just because you aren't seeing any anecdotal evidence of harm.
There's more to a union than just negotiating on behalf of employees. Unions have quasi-government status wherein the National Labor Relations Bureau can just step in and force the company to make business decisions. Furthermore, unions aren't optional in a lot of states. If you want to work a certain job at a company, you have no choice but to join the union (or at least pay union dues).

Something like the National Press Photographer's Association [1] is a valuable organization. They provide resources like contract templates, and can help if a customer doesn't pay the agreed royalties and whatnot. But membership isn't mandatory. A software developer's association and a software developer's unions would be to vastly different groups.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Press_Photographers_A...
Chord Progression Trends
If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them.

That said, I’m confident that they know better.
I've only used them in Colab, which feels a lot like a Codepen. It's a self-contained scratchpad that's easily linkable to send to others.
Charitably: because of what you mentioned, it gives people an idea of the level of non-magical technology and helps build the world.

Uncharitably: it sounds cool and most people won’t know better or even care
Mozambique, too. We should bomb them.

It's even got the bayonet fixed so there's no confusion about their terrorist intentions.
They made it ridiculously convoluted to order. You need to use the awful MyChevrolet app, and click your initials in the corner. From there, select "Public Charging". After it loads, there should be a Tesla-related option to click towards the top. (If it's missing, force-kill the app and relaunch and try again. I had to do that, even though I was already running the latest version of the app.)

Next you'll need to enter a credit card, and then X out of the confirmation screen. Finally you'll get a link to order the adapter, which you can only access in a web view inside the MyChevrolet app.

The web view will show multiple discount codes regarding parts, but none of the %-off ones do anything for this order, only the free shipping one works on this. Also don't click the outermost X during the order process, since this will close the web view and make you start over. At times you'll need to click an "inner" X below that. It's one of the worst order interfaces I've ever seen.

Oh, and the first time I actually made it through the full checkout process, it gave me an error and said to try again later. But it wouldn't let me try again later (couldn't resubmit my order/cart) so I had to start from scratch for like the third time.

Also the adapter is already on backorder, so there's no estimation of when this will actually ship.

I think I'm never buying a GM car ever again.
This is not limited to Cloudflare. Google has the same issue and it turns out the IPs were being used by the Iranian hosting companies connected to internet surveillance but they keep moving around. So far we only observed this in Hetzner German DCs, which is consistent with the news about illicit activities by Iranian companies in Germany, two years ago during the last uprising against the Iranian government (the Woman, Life, Freedom movement)

We also wrote about this https://blog.cloud66.com/hetzner-connectivity-issues-due-to-...
Brain implants to restore sight, like Neuralink's Blindsight, face a problem
I was going to say that it's the streetlight effect but this makes even more sense.
How the DTC West Was Won
I have a Mastodon account, a Bluesky account, and apps for both. Mastodon doesn’t replace the comedy part of Twitter, and Bluesky is great but 99% of local social media is still on Twitter. So I’m “trapped” on Twitter until they move to Bluesky, but they won’t because a part of that crowd is addicted to the revenue share off their political tweets.
I wonder if this accidentally exposed the moderator admin interface.
iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
That makes sense - thanks for the reply.
I see that sentiment largely coming from developers who, I think, misunderstand the freedom that the GPL is protecting.

The GPL focuses on the user's freedom to modify any software they are using to better suit their own needs, and it does a great job of it.

The people saying that it is less free than bsd/mit/apache are looking at it from a developer's perspective. The GPL does deliberately limit a developer's freedom to include GPL code in a proprietary product, because that would restrict the user's freedom to modify the code.
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I'm a Hetzner customer in Australia that have moved away a big part of my workloads which was CI related as most build would start to fail with some access denied error calling various registries. I had a bunch of deep integration through their API as well which had to be reworked because that issue made it a no go anymore.
UFO sightings visualization using Rowboat
Sometimes an EOL is ignored if it's serious enough - https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2017/05/customer-guidance-fo...
This is a bad analogy. The factory producing crayons doesn’t need to ingest hundreds of millions of copyrighted works as a fundamental part of its process to make crayons.
this is one of those false negatives...first you have to argue for a reason they should be...why arent zebra crossings blue and maroon?
Cutting videos in the terminal with chafa and FFmpeg
I completely disagree. Jabs are a way of being able to tell someone something without bottling it up or getting too serious about it. It’s infinitely better than sitting down and “having a talk about it” which sours the relationship. They’re invaluable and without them relationships feel shallow.
You can pull up a similar environment for Clojure as well, I guess it's also worthy opening a PR in https://github.com/NixOS/templates, adding some Clojure goodies.
"Might" is a delightfully cop out word. Anything "might" be true.
there are maybe 50 web framework / app builder in python

just like there are new frameworks everyday in javascript
That'd be pretty normal if you asked it of a manager.
To be pedantic, the F in TFA has the same meaning as the F in RTFM.

It’s the same origin. On Slashdot (the HN of the early 00’s) people would admonish others to RTFA. Then they started using it as a referent: TFA was the thing you were supposed to have read.
I'm not aware of wide scale mass displacement happening to Palestinians in the West Bank. A few thousand people are displaced each year, and it does look like a lot of these are unjustly kicked out of their homes, but it’s out of 3,000,000 Palestinians there and I do not otherwise see anything that looks like a mass forced relocation. I'm sure there are "thin end of the wedge" arguments that could be made here but that's poor soil on which to plant a war. Is there an alternative view that better supports a belief of Israel trying to take it all away from Palestinians?
Does Amazon do anything that requires best people anymore? They could probably survive on decidedly mediocre
In the last century the landscape of human health problems has pretty drastically shifted (more cancers, more obesity, more asthma, perhaps more mental illness, lower rates of maiming, less malaria and consumption deaths, and frankly this is all just deaths, which is not the only kind of health outcome we care about) so the fact that we can't suss out all the cause and effect from every factor and every outcome is neither surprising nor an argument against it being alarming any time a novel foreign substance can penetrate cell membranes and readily bioaccumulates

Like we study mechanisms for a reason. "Little things get into all your cells" isn't a specific causal argument for specific health outcomes, but it's reasonable to assume it might do something undesirable based on what we know about how cells work and other cases like it. Also, the intervention space is pretty large and some scaling back on plastic usage from the current levels would not be some crazy obvious harm either

Also, "we haven't found effects yet" is especially troublesome in a case where the contaminant in question is a cash cow for an industry that has continuously spent more money than I can even meaningfully reason about suppressing science and muddying discourse about products they sell. Sowing doubt has been an explicit strategy of the petroleum industry for greenhouse effects and it took a long time for us to even definitively know that, so now that we do, why should I assume the same companies aren't taking the same approach for this problem? Again, it feels like isolated demands for rigor
Van Gogh painting mirrors real atmospheric physics
A relatively small ongoing investment in a phone with which they earned billions of dollars in profit. Doesn't necessarily require new feature updates, but security updates should be available for a far more significant length of time than the single-digit years the have self-regulated themselves. As an alternative, perhaps these companies should be held responsible for the e-waste of their prematurely expired hardware...
Dr1v3n Wild – Arcade Driving in 13 Kilobytes
Run Qwen 2.5 Family and Other LMs in GGUF Format from HF Locally
Next level "exploding capacitors" ... :-/
It's crazy that anyone could believe a corporation cares about anything other than profits.

If IBM actually had the ages of their employees available to the system that did the layoffs, then that would be age based discrimination. But I'd be willing to bet that wasn't a factor.

If you start with a pool of people with large salaries, and look for people not adding at least that much value to the business, you are going to find people who have that salary for reasons other than merit.

The discrimination, if any, was in their favor until the business couldn't afford to discriminate in their favor.
Hetzner Connectivity Issues Due to Sanction Busting Activities
direct to pdf, https://ia804608.us.archive.org/10/items/smbx-genera-program...
I suspect that models will become smaller, getting pruned to focus on relevant tasks. Someone using an LLM to power tech support chat doesn't want, nor need, the ability to generate random short stories. In this sense, AI is akin to cars prior to assembly line manufacturing: expensive and bespoke machines, with their full potential tapped when they're later made in a more efficient manner.
Listening vs transcribing. No one has time to listen to a subreddit our eyes scan much quicker. Transcribing might be quicker for most (some of us type quicker than speaking). The experience is negative on the whole. Lucky AI can listen and put to words those voicemails.
Silica is one of the most common substances on earth — the crust is more than half silica by mass. Pretty much all life can, by necessity, tolerate a good deal of silica exposure. You don't really want to breathe a lot of fine silica dust (or, frankly, any size of glass bits), but actively grinding it into dust that gets airborne is just about the only way it'll cause problems, other than cutting yourself.
I love that notebooks started as a student hacking together a Python fork and now they're core infrastructure for all these places trying to make sense of GenAI.
J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices
I have heard similar reports
I only own one 4090.
Banning an entire country and punishing its innocent citizens feels extreme. It doesn't seem right that, for example, an Iranian student can't use cloud services. Ban commercial and government entities, not the individuals.
I used to get chronic headaches back in high school. Mt Dew was pretty much all I drank at the time, and occasionally Sprite. The headache issue went on for years, to the point my dad was trying to talk me into going to a neurologist, but I refused.

In college, I was too lazy/cheap to buy Mt Dew, or soda or any kind and just drank water. I had a week long headache from the caffeine withdrawal. After it passed, I was fine. I can count on one hand the number of times I drink caffeine each year, and headaches are extremely infrequent. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had one.

If you are drinking energy drinks regularly, it could be as simple as caffeine withdrawal.
DRY is an okay rule at the absolute beginning of your programming career, but it must become obvious why it is too simple for you to advance much further. DRY is most certainly not abstraction.

I actually took a general Software Development course when I was in school that sort of touched on things like Linux, source control, debugging, and other things I now forget— it was an elective though. It was neat, the teacher even introduced us to Ruby, which was a cool experience for a bunch of dumb kids who thought the whole world ran on Java or C++ :) I liked it so much I went on to implement Ruby-isms in C++ for my other classes, and use those to orchestrate solutions. Completely dumb in retrospect, but I thought it was so cool at the time. And hey I guess that’s a great example of learning early on how to “hide the bad parts!”
I have also done this. But ...

my wife, who is perfectly capable of basic math, would never have been able to do this task, nor would she have wanted to, and in the past she was exploited by financial advisers seeking to do it for her.

I have no doubt that some people with weak/average math skills can do this, mostly because the math skills have nothing to do with it, really. Confidence about how to invest and manage your life savings is an entirely different thing, and since we don't teach people anything about this, many, many people do not have it.
Are there? I only someones stumble upon some medical website that redirects me to a "tracking free" empty static page[1] if I come from Europe and opt-out of cookies (which I always do anyway). Maybe we visit other parts of the internet, I don't read a lot of non-IT English things.

[1]A big troll that I respect.
> Still, the kids of MSB were decidedly American (as was their school bus)

An odd critique to level at an American show made for an American audience.

> and Ms. Frizzle reinforced dominant images of teaching as a white women’s profession.

This reflects that in the 1990s, it wasn't automatically offensive simply to not subvert every single trope, since tropes are just based in reality. Especially since we are talking about a cartoon and not a live action show where casting plays 100% of the role in determining a character's color, someone had to explicitly select skin tones for every character. It was decided to make the skin tone of the teacher the color of 80% of the American population[1] as of the 1990 census.

[1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/...
The original "Block Editor" (that Jupyter modeled itself after) is the one that's now called "Quanta", and has been around for decades in various forms and incantations:

https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr

I'm thinking that Jupyter might still not be "Tree Based" but that would be a heck of a leap in capability if they "fix" that.
It is also a training issue. The model has to be trained to reinforce longer outputs, which has a quadratic train-time cost and requires suitable long-context response training data.