skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be concerned with this back when GPT4 originally came out and was way more impressive than the current version and OpenAI was the only game in town.

But Nowadays GPT has been quantized and cost-optimized to hell that it's no longer as useful as it was and with Claude or Gemini or whatever it's no longer noticeably better than any of them so it doesn't really matter what happens with their pricing.
He mentions the entropy in the article...
The GPUs/OAM,UBB are not redundant and they do fail.

From what I hear, Nvidia has an exceptionally high failure rate.
I don’t mind the model IFF the team has interest in learning how to do it correctly. My biggest complaint as both an SRE and now DBRE has been that dev-managed infrastructure inevitably means during an incident that I had nothing to do with, I’ll be paged to fix it anyway. Actually, that’s not the problem; the problem is later when I explain precisely how and why it broke, and how to avoid it in the future, there’s rarely any interest in doing so.

“You have an unpartitioned table with a few billion rows and a UUIDv4 PK. I’m amazed it’s been working as long as it has. You need to change your schema.”

“Or we can just buy a bigger instance.”

“…”

Rinse and repeat six months later. I’m aware this is an organizational problem, but from what I’ve seen, it’s endemic.

Re: incentives, yes, also a problem. Dev teams are generally incentivized by Product, who doesn’t care at all whether or not something is optimal, only that new features are being shipped. I despise this mentality, but it’s not usually the devs fault.
My brother had a kid recently and their doc was pushing the Hep B shot like they got a commission on it. Mom gets tested for it multiple times during pregnancy. Doctor had no good answer on why an infant needs a vaccine for a STD. The excuses I've seen: they could trip and fall on a needle at a playground (lol)?
> Basically allowing for a uniform way to query data which is reminiscent of a more modern version of SQL (in my optics anyway)

It's more general and reusable than SQL, so you can map a subset of it to SQL, which is what some object-relational mappers do.
I prefer Rust for several reasons. First of all, Rust offers a balance between high performance and safety, which is essential for developing complex applications, including betting platforms like https://1wins.com.ph/ , it uses a strict memory management system, helping avoid common issues like memory leaks or incorrect access to memory, making it reliable for backend systems that handle high loads. Rust also has a modern syntax, making it more enjoyable to write code compared to Go. Additionally, its ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and the community is very active and supportive, much like the innovation we see on platforms like 1Win.
Twitter has been anything but stable; though I'd blame most of that on Musk rather than the layoffs.
EU considers including Elon Musk's business empire to calculate potential X fine
I've learned by doing, but here you go.

Books:
C# 12 and .NET 8 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Eighth Edition: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 by Mark J Price

Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8: Learn techniques, patterns, and tools for building high-performance, robust, and scalable web APIs by Xiaodi Yan

Turorials: series of tutorials on YouTube by IAmTimCorey and Shawn Wildermuth.
> literal nuclear reactor inside data centers

This is fascinating to think about. Wonder what kind of shielding/environmental controls/all other kinds of changes you'd need for this to actually work. Would rack-sized SMR be contained enough not to impact anything? Would datacenter operators/workers need to follow NRC guidance?
I can totally relate to your frustration. I recently tried using WordPress to set up a company website for me, and it was honestly a pretty awful experience. Between the constant need for plugins, slow loading times, and dealing with themes that didn’t quite work out of the box, I felt like I was spending more time fixing things than actually building the site.

In the end, I gave up and switched to a static site via simple html, bootstrap and js similar to your case, which was way smoother. Sure, WordPress has a massive ecosystem and is flexible, but when the core experience is this clunky, especially for someone who just wants to get content out there or set up a simple site, it really makes you question whether it’s still worth it.

Given the recent issues like the ACF plugin dispute, I’m definitely leaning towards alternatives that are more lightweight and give me more control without the bloat. Anyone else finding WordPress more of a hassle than a help these days?
If we're gonna go that route, you can just put a single pip on a corner and derive all of the other positions from that.
RISC V is gaining ground.
> > Tangent: determinism and replay

> > You need to make sure entities are always updated in the same order. This means deterministic O(1) datastructures like pools are your friend.

> That's not actually required. But I guess Go makes this the least painful avenue forward?

The formulation isn't complete but they're correct for what they're getting at. It should be:

"You need to make sure entities are always updated in the same order iff the order matters to the end result."

For example if you move entity A before entity B and collision check on move to make sure it's valid if A and B would intersect after moving without collision checking you will end up with different positions of A and B depending on which goes first.

Your choices then are to make sure entity update order is deterministic or rework the problem so it doesn't have the ordering dependency. The latter can be quite hard to do and the conditions where there is an ordering dependency can be subtle and unintuitive making it hard to cover all cases.
> Maybe you've been unlucky but LINQ didn't really seem all that interesting to me using it.

Getting good use out of a tool you do not find interesting would mean a person was… unlucky?
Minsky is right. The "rift" between symbolic and sub-symbolic, or learning and reasoning has only impeded progress. The problem is it's very hard to be an expert on both at once, and it's getting harder and harder as more and more work is done on both.

Since you mentioned Hinton, he has worked hard to entrench the idea that symbolic AI failed. I was listening to a lecture he gave [1] and he went on and On and ON about how symbolic AI was a stupid idea and it was conclusively proved wrong by neural nets. He went on for so long bashing symbolic AI to the ground that at some point I started wondering whether he's deep down worried that there might be a resurgence of it right on time to address the limitations of neural nets with respect to reasoning, before he and his mates have the chance to figure out how to overcome it. Which, well, good luck with that.

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[1] https://youtu.be/N1TEjTeQeg0?si=OIYY3wnDbi7rzJt3
> it wouldn't be easy because these scans are highly detailed and so would require too many polygons to be loaded at once

In practice a a 3d artist could very easily create low poly models for these objects. For that low poly replica the high poly model can serve as a useful reference. (But to be honest many artist can just look at images of the object and do the same.)

This is not even hard, on the order of minutes (for something like the Rosetta Stone) or days (for something seriously detailed).

In this case where there is a will, there is a way. In fact this "reduction" step very often part of the game creation pipeline already. Monsters/characters/objects very often get sculpted at a higher resolution and then those high resolution meshes are reduced down to something more manageable (while they bake the details into a bump map texture, or similar).
This doesnt work on default Firefox, as when you start typing it automatically brings up the Ctr-F search box and starts typing in there :(
NASA might need to redo the tender for the 2nd supplier of crewed missions, regardless of the (even further) reputational hit to Boeing.
Do you find that this actually saves you time, and that you get to your desired search result faster? These sound like great features to me, but I haven’t found them translating to less time spent searching.
Why would they lie about it then? These museums are subsidized by tax payers, not only just local money but often with additional EU funding as well. The scans were paid for by the public. This seems comically evil for no apparent reason.
That is because all the hot-and-new in .NET web development is Blazor, and it is not really popular outside of Microsoft's Blogosphere (and IMHO never will be and go down the same way as Silverlight did). The "venerable" technologies are still present in .NET 9 and still work, get maintained etc.

Doing web dev in .NET nowadays for me is mostly creating HTTP/JSON/REST APIs and using whatever FE framework you like to interface it (for me that is React or NextJS). The keyword you want to search for is "ASP.NET WebApi" or - more modern - "ASP.NET minimal API".

You could still do .NET MVC server-side rendering using "Razor" (the markup language in ASP.NET MVC - search for "ASP.NET MVC Razor".
> Marriage? That’s a whole different ball game, especially when children are involved.

While, yes, it's more serious than writing a README, there is certainly often a point where it's better for all concerned to just pack it in.
so basically you're retracting your previous statement that the notebook sleeps as soon as you close the lid? Because doing all that shit isn't sleeping, even if their marketing calls it a 'nap'
There are two primary issues with PostgreSQL:

* Upgrades

* Database Protocol

MS SQL Server does better on both of these fronts: Upgrades, when running MS SQL Server in a container, is rebooting the database with the new database engine version. The DBMS sees the old files, upgrades them in place and starts the DB completely seamlessly 100% of the time.

The MS SQL Server protocol, TDS, supports native named parameters, executes the T-SQL PL inline with SQL. TDS also supports inline query cancellations because the protocol is framed, and both T-SQL and TDS supports returning multiple result sets from a single query.

But yes, whenever I see PG docs saying, major versions require an export and re-load, I shudder.
I feel exactly the same way. WordPress used to be my go-to as well, and it was fantastic for simple sites about 10 years ago. But now? It feels like you’re stuck inside a never-ending loop of web builders stacked on top of each other. You install a theme, and suddenly you’re dealing with its own set of custom builders, page templates, and sometimes a whole new interface. What was once a straightforward blogging platform has become a full-on web-building labyrinth.

I agree—WordPress feels over-engineered for something that should be simple. I’ve recently been experimenting with static site generators and Webflow as well. Webflow is intuitive, fast, and gets the job done without all the bloat. As for open-source alternatives, I’ve seen some buzz around platforms like Ghost or Hugo for those wanting something lightweight, but they don’t quite match the "everything in one" ecosystem WordPress used to offer.
Goody, let’s just drive out all the human creators who actually interview real experts and go in depth on a subject, with AI-generated voices and summaries.

If AI ends up destroying humanity, it isn’t going to be through weapons and death robots, but just by entertaining and placating us all to death.
One important approach is missing: extrapolation.

Usually, your entities all have velocities, which you can use to extrapolate from the last simulated state to the current one (after <dt time has passed). For things like visual effects, you'd have to have a custom extrapolate implementation, which is not really different than a custom interpolate implementation that you need for interpolation.

This eliminates the lag issue, and at anywhere close to 60FPS, looks perfectly fine. It will look strange at very low framerates, but at that point, you can just automatically switch it off.

You do need a way to extrapolate game state, which is slightly painful, but the author's proposed solution has big drawbacks (which he hints at). Since it touches all game state each frame (even though it's "just" a memcpy), it completely changes the performance characteristics of your main loop.

Without this, the complexity of your game step is linear in the number of updated or rendered entities, so you can add large amounts of additional state at any time, as long as only a small part of it will be visible/relevant to update each frame.

With the author's approach, your step complexity is linear in the state size. You basically have an additional write for all state, which gives you a very restrictive upper limit. It's not just AAA games - as soon as you add a particle system, you've created a great many entities which you now need to memcpy every frame.

The scalable solution to this complication is copy-on-write, which is more complexity... or, bite the bullet, write that extrapolation function, and enjoy your freedom to introduce crazy particles, physics, MMO world state, or whatever you want! At real-world framerates, it will look no different.
Perhaps Google TV(there is both an OS and a service by that name, the OS was once called Android TV)?
Alt alt alt should show a big green Access Granted :)
Your comment is phrased as though you think you're correcting me, but your point seems to be agreeing with what I said. My point is not at all about the technological ability of a computer to simultaneously process audio input and output.

The "limitation" arises because Teams/Zoom/etc all have mechanisms to prevent audio feedback. Participant A, using their laptop's microphone and speakers, will cause unpleasant audio cutouts for every other participant whenever they talk, even if Participants B-Z are all wearing headphones that prevent their microphone from picking up their audio output.
> people wear bending rules as a badge of honour

It's actually quite similar for most in the Philippines. Yeah, there are some smaller cliques or sub-groups where this is frowned upon, but it is mostly also a "badge of honour".
I also like 3.5 sonnet as the best model (best ui too) and it’s the one I ask questions to

We use Gemini flash in prod. The latency and cost is just unbeatable - our product uses llms for lots of simple tasks so we don’t need a frontier model.
I want that, so bad. Mine brings up the sign in screen every time you turn it on. I also want the ability to just change channels when you hit the channel button. My TV brings up a mini-guide when you hit the channel button, so that the down button goes up in station number and vice versa. Then once you select a channel, because it's not connected to the web, it blinks on and off for 5 seconds or so while it's trying to find program information from the internet connection it does not have. It's absolutely asinine. I miss the days when TV's were just screens to show whatever input I have connected to them.
Takes a lot more than that, LINQ providers work by accepting a LINQ Expression Syntax tree instead of an opaque function, which allows providers to inspect and traverse the Expression's AST and translate it into the data source it's implementing.

This Expression AST is constructed by the compiler, not something that can be tacked on by a library later.
nitpick: dopamine means reward anticipation, the longing for the goal, not the satisfaction of achieving the goal.
Yeah, fuck this. Advertising is literally the root of so many of our social problems.

Advertising has completely gutted the news and information ecosystems to the point that every site is a rage-click race to the bottom.
>> I'm not smart enough to make sense of my own Scheme meta-programming when I revisit it months later.

Then be smart enough to comment your code :P

>> Prolog is very surprising, because it is homoiconic and immensely powerful in metaprogramming, BUT ... the declarative style and execution model reigns in the complexity/readability.

Iiiish? This is from one of my yesterday's commit messages:

* New look and look-around actions in the Basic Sim Environment allow
for looking ahead in eight direction. This does get a liiittle bit
complicated, or rather there's the usual millefeuille of abstraction
layers on top of abstraction layers all the way down pou that mou ta
spasei kapoia stigmi but OK.

The Greek-lish interjection says approximately "that is going to bite me in the ass down the line". Because it will. The better I get with Prolog the more I worry nobody will be able to maintain my code but myself, and my future self will hate me with deep, burning passion.
nah it's not coming, functions like maps and filters won't come to go by design, iterators are not only about FP stuff
I've recently taken an interest in web development using C#. It seems to me that ASP.NET is THE way for creating web applications in .NET, for better or worse ("for worse" since lack of alternatives sounds a bit suspicious to me...).

Anyway, I came across a podcast featuring the author of "ASP.NET Core in Action", Andrew Lock, and he seems to know his stuff. I haven't read the book yet, but maybe this is the book you are looking for.

--

1: https://dotnetcore.show/season-6/navigating-the-aspnet-core-...

2: https://www.manning.com/books/asp-net-core-in-action-third-e...
Claude is great except for the fact the iOS app seems to require a login every week. I’ve never had to log into ChatGPT but Claude requires a constant login and the passwordless login makes it more of a pain!
the few places that are attractive.

A graduate of pretty much any degree working in Hull in pretty much any job is not attractive. They would earn far more in other countries, and earn little more than a minimum wage school dropout.

A graduate working in fintech in London is fine, but they are subsidising the rest of the country and bring up the "graduate salary" and "total earnings" across the board.

The problem isn't the lack of graduates, its the lack of well paid jobs. We don't value an educated workforce (which is at a similar level to France, the US, Ireland, Australia etc)
The more C# borrows from F#, the happier I am. I am awaiting for discriminated unions to finally reach C# so I can do domain modelling like a boss. :)
Are you saying they reduced the quality of the model in order to save compute? Would it make sense for them to offer a premium version of the model at at a very high price? At least offer it to those willing to pay?

It would not make sense to reduce output quality only to save on compute at inference, why not offer a premium (and perhaps perhaps slower) tier?

Unless the cost is at training time, maybe it would not be cost-effective for them to keep a model like that up to date.

As you can tell I am a bit uninformed on the topic.
Path of Exile has some fountains and sculptures in it that are based on publicaly available scans iirc.

Edit: best source I can find on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPy74M9FNpY&t=690s

and here's one from the Louvre: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/8b6f54/nice_de...
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
I saw that the OP already replied, but wanted to share how I approach this myself. I have a desktop, laptop, and phone that I wanted to keep synced up, so I actually used it as an excuse to setup my own git repo on my NAS (which I wanted to do anyway).

The only tricky part has been dealing with git on iOS. I have to use a particular app (Working Copy) and some shortcuts to get the syncing behavior consistent. But it is doable!
The point is about Western society and its progression, not “humans” in general. So yes, one route may to be create a belief system more similar to animist or other religions. But that is itself a tall order.

A lot of this has to do with the Enlightenment project and disenchantment so it’s already largely focused on the Western world to begin with. Other places have less a history with this.
Reducing the Transformer Architecture to a Minimum
There's absolutely no hand waving in TCS. Everything is as rigorous as in any other subfield if math.

But asymptotics are heavily used, true. That is because often the theoretically interesting properties appear only when the inputs are huge (I'm sure this happens in other areas as well).
Woo-ha!

… bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4.

Gtk4. Meanwhile at Gimp? Puh. Maybe they will manage to port to the 14 year old Gtk3 soon. I hope it at least. I’m sure the Gimp developers doing their best and will benefit soon from Wayland and HiDPI.
The unrealtournament subreddit is your best bet.

You can find links to download the game, get a cd key, and configure for the new master servers so you can find servers online. Game tracker still lists this game, so you can check there to find the most popular servers which are still active and have players.
Was excited to read this, but disappointed tjere was no information on the actual human diet, other tha a few hugh-level sentences.

Do you know of other sources of information?
Well yes! But it still don't have one click installation for shared hosting.
If I saw that Peil design on store shelves I’d likely buy it, so it likely worked quite well as a limited edition. Really click the line and ask yourself if you’d do the same. https://heideblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/screen-shot...

The inherent issue with these campaigns is the select for initial response not how long you’re going to like some design.
> If you can convince the Russian commanders of that I would suggest getting in contact with them.

They already know it. The European part of Russia is practically undefended, everything has been committed to Ukraine. When Prigozhin marched on Moscow, there was nothing to oppose him other than a few bucket loaders to dig up roads.

Russians are huffing and puffing about NATO because it makes riskier and costlier for them to invade other countries and kill people there. That's the simple truth. Everything else is bullshit and the theories you are spinning do not hold up to any scrutiny.

Nothing of this is new. In the 1940s, Russians acted the same way. Demanded neutrality and "military cooperation" and all the other fine euphemism you present us, then invaded their neighbors, set up communist dictatorships and began sending by hundreds of thousands everyone from toddlers to bed-ridden elderly to labor camps in the Siberian wilderness or executed them on the spot, and opened floodgates to massive resettlement of ethnic Russians to wipe natives off the map. It's still in the living memory. Nobody wants to relive that again, which is why this time nobody intends to make themselves an easy target with neutrality again and countries have only increased military cooperation the more hostile Russia has become.
Why would that be the qualification for success? I didn’t write that “everyone believing it” was the marker of success, so I don’t know why that would be relevant.

In another comment thread, I wrote that a story is needed which combines accurate scientific information with a human purpose in the world. Those examples quite obviously didn’t have scientific views of the world.
this is a good read https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/property-based-testi...
Yes and no, the LINQ syntax being coherent between IEnumerable<> and IQueryable<> hides a lot of good magic.

IEnumerable<> is regular in-memory lambdas/streams, same what you find in many places.

IQueryable<> relies on the LINQ expressions, those CAN be JIT compiled for direct execution, but the fact that they are data-objects is what allows the translation to SQL and execution on the server rather than locally and can give massive gains since processing can be done where the data lives.