skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which limits its performance severely. Even with active cooling it can reach 60 degrees C without much effort.

On the other hand RPi5 idles around 37 and reaches 50 degrees C while passively cooled with a heat-sink case.
In serious reading of anything, there is no difference
> silk was effectively wielded as an economic weapon

Wasn’t most of the silk used in Europe produced in Italy and France, though? Added together they weren’t that far off from China (which also had a huge domestic market). India was also a major exporter so clearly Britain had the option to expand “domestic” production or buy more silk from Italy (importing from China was presumably just cheaper).

European silk production collapsed in 1849 due to some still not well understood disease but that was quite some time after the first Opium War.
strSum :: String -> Either String Int
strSum = fmap sum . mapM readEither . words
You mean a refurbished Intel box.

That's not a fair price comparison.
> There's already a panoply of CUDA alternatives, and even several CUDA-to-non-Nvidia-GPU alternatives (which aren't supported by the hardware vendors and are in some sense riskier). To my knowledge (this isn't really my space), many of the higher-level frameworks already support these CUDA alternatives.

On paper, yes. But how many of them actually work? Every couple of years AMD puts out a press release saying they're getting serious this time and will fully support their thing, and then a couple of people try it and it doesn't work (or maybe the basic hello world test works, but anything else is too buggy), and they give up.
> If we want to make the world a better place, we can’t just think about the lofty stuff: we have to get our hands dirty and make sure the economic engine works.

This seems a very narrow if not conformist view of art.

Artists doing graffiti, participating in hobby groups, state funded projects, discovered by later generations, etc - they don’t care about making viewers feel good about funding; and yet their art can very much make the world a better place.
> Now, if all the landlords in an entire city or community is using RealPage, then it should be illegal.

Waiting for a cartel to be established _before_ acting against the cartel does not seem like a particularly good idea. Like, it’s not hard to see the argument that this is, essentially, price fixing, with some element of indirection.
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> We were going to change the world

Ah, the importance of being specific.

If you want to change your neighbourhood, you could start every morning by sweeping the pavement. Or you could leave a random dog turd. Both will accomplish your stated goal.
Are Japanese people less likely to have food allergies?
Iverson's Notation as a Tool of Thought defends the opposite idea (and explains the reason for APL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249563

It's about phase transitions. When you understand the system, shorter symbols are easier/faster to reason with. If your primitives are well thought out for the domain, this notation will be the optimal way of understanding it!

On the other hand, longer names help on board new people. Theoretically, you could avoid this issue by transforming back and forth. Uiua e.g. lets you enter symbols by typing out their names. Typing "sum = reduce add" becomes: "sum ← /+". If you transform it back...

Imagine if you could encode the std lib with aliases!
It all depends. For a quick script that I can write in 15 mins that uses an HTTP client, JSON and joins two APIs together, the standard library is OK.

To be fair, it could be almost a bash script (using curl and jq or something like that), but I'm more comfortable with Python.

So for one-off (or almost one-off) scripts, the standard library is worth avoiding dealing with dependencies.
I know from experience that I'm not able to take a vitamin D pill every day in the winter months to combat winter depression. It's actually kinda difficult to build habits like that, and I'd have to remember to bring it with me wherever I may go and stay for a couple of days.
Then it should not be a tip, but part of the price?
No need, Linux with extinguish by itself when the leadership that created it in first place is long gone.

It will certainly continue to exist in dozen forks, although nothing that will continue their vision.
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> A lot goes on and it consumes a ton of resources.

But why should this be taken a sign of a brain microbiome? I fail to see the connection you're implying.
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It is absolutely more competitive when nVidia is a separate company from Intel so they can't pull shit like "our GPUs only work with our GPUs" like Intel is now pulling with their WiFi chips.
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From USAID:

> When used correctly and consistently, male condoms are estimated to be 90 percent effective in reducing HIV transmission.

They work to a degree, but they're not perfect
Maybe back then the concept of "stakeholders" was not bandied about quite as cynically.
>If you hand China all the technological cards,

They already have all the cards, thinking that we still hold the cards is delusional. The changeover of eras hasn't caught up yet, but it's only a matter of time.

No, rather than mulling over spilt milk that has dried out and stank like death, I would rather we put our tax dollars towards the milk that's still in the glass. Reform our military and politics so we can fucking win wars again if we must wage them at all. Rebuild our fucking crumbling infrastructure. Divest ourselves of all the fucking lard that has accumulated during Pax Americana.

If we can't find a practical reason to have domestic silicon factories then so be fucking it, that's reality. I want to see my tax dollars spent towards something other than against an immovable object.
Unless targeting flagship devices, most likely OpenGL ES drivers are more stable than Vulkan.

Hence why OpenGL ES on Vulkan is now a thing since Android 14, that is the only way Google has found out to force OEMs to up their game on Vulkan drivers.
> This can lead to scalability issues in large clusters, as the number of connections that each node needs to maintain grows quadratically with the number of nodes in the cluster.

No, the total number of dist connections grows quadratically with the number of nodes, but the number of dist connections each node makes grows linearally.

> Not only that, in order to keep the cluster connected, each node periodically sends heartbeat messages to every other node in the cluster.

IIRC, heat beats are once every 30 seconds by default.

> This can lead to a lot of network traffic in large clusters, which can put a strain on the network.

Lets say I'm right about 30 seconds between heart beats, and you've got 1000 nodes. Every 30 seconds each node sends out 999 heartbeats (which almost certainly fit in a single tcp packet each, maybe less if they're piggybacking on real data exchanges). That's 999,000 packets every second, or 33k pps across your whole cluster. For reference, GigE line rate with full 1500 mtu packets is 80k pps. If you actually have 1000 nodes worth of work, the heartbeats are not at all a big deal.

> Historically, a "large" cluster in Erlang was considered to be around 50-100 nodes. This may have changed in recent years, but it's still something to be aware of when designing distributed Erlang systems.

I don't have recent numbers, but Rick Reed's presentation at Erlang Factory in 2014 shows a dist cluster with 400 nodes. I'm pretty sure I saw 1000+ node clusters too. I left WhatsApp in 2019, and any public presentations from WA are less about raw scale, because it's passe.

Really, 1000 dist connections is nothing when you're managing 500k client connections. Dist connections weren't even a big deal when we went to smaller nodes in FB.

It's good to have a solid backend network, and to try to bias towards fewer larger nodes, rather than more smaller nodes. If you want to play with large scale dist, so you spin up 1000 low cpu, low memory VMs, you might have some trouble. It makes sense to start with small nodes and whatever number makes you comfortable for availability, and then when you run into limits, reach for bigger nodes until you get to the point where adding nodes is more cost effective: WA ran dual xeon 2690 servers before the move to FB infra; facebook had better economics with smaller single Xeon D nodes; I dunno what makes sense today, maybe a single socket Epyc?
Question. What do you say to a manager who thinks that since software is non physical, it's easy to make changes to it?
> I have vague memories of something like this happening with RAM in the late 90

We don't even need to go that far in the history. Crypto hype just few years ago skyrocketed the GPU prices.
> political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

They say you shouldn't bring a knife to a gunfight. But this is the only time a flag might be useful in a gunfight.
There are more interesting investigations and results
This one is ok but not remarkable
> The idea of not being able to purchase older titles in a legitimate way only encourages piracy

The solution is to dramatically decrease the length of copyright, so that old games (or other software) can be obtained legally (and modified) even if the original maker no longer sells it.
You can't rule out a fan sucking in dusty air from side or worse, bottom of the case. Most N100 systems have too much air circulation inside to forget them in the long term.

Many N100 systems come with 5W TDP as default. However, this is more of an "average" TDP. It doesn't prevent the CPU to enable its turbo and exhaust its thermal budget. Forcing it to lower envelopes via cpufreqd would work, but you're limited by your fan again, which will make everything dusty, eventually.

I have found a pretty cheap completely aluminum case [0] which sucks heat from every IC and bottom of the case via silicon thermal pads. It keeps the processor at 37 degrees, cools USB bridge and power controller too.

With no moving part, case is almost airtight. So, it's sitting snug and cool in that case. You can't burn RPi in that configuration.

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StuffIt compression is proprietary, but they’re (somehow) still in business, _and_ provide free decompressors for Mac and Windows: https://stuffit.com/
I feel like this is a rehash of the very old conversation "what is math? is it invented or discovered". Note to the author: repeating trivial questions isn't the same as asking deeper questions.
> 10,000 negative reviews is wild for something so banal. I can't imagine defending a politician over what might be the mildest insult ever conceived.

Imagine the poster unironically showed Trump dressed up to resemble Abraham Lincoln, and praised him as the great leader of USA. Or some such.

Imagine what would happen in the reviews then.
Interesting. Such variance in humans.

I find such things inordinately simple. I wake, stretch, urinate, go take my vitamins and drink two glasses of water. A third follows me to my current home office, where I process emails, alerts, whatever may be.

I find the best time to triage overnight emails is when I'm not quite awake yet to realise I'm doing it. Less pain that way.

The key is it being part of a routine, and the easiest is a part of the wake routine. At least for me. Which is why I find human variance interesting.

Meanwhile scheduling something 6+ months out (a doctor's appointment, or maybe at a pharmacy) for a shot is quite difficult to keep on time. I have to schedule, I have to keep free, I have to keep it in my mental space (calendars on phones help, but still...).

I literally don't know what part of the planet I will be on in a week. How on Earth could I know where to schedule such a thing, months or even weeks in advance?

Yet I bet for the parent poster, scheduling things like this is a breeze. Wild. Totally incomprehensible for me, as maybe it being easy for me to daily schedule is for them?
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It's more interesting how y'all always find ways to tear into everyone that makes a stand - no true scotsman style while giving a pass to much worse actors.

Companies like Activision, Ubisoft, EA and Microsoft can do outright horrible things and you'll be sitting by quitely, but god forbid someone like GoG shows up with an idea to fix something and you tear into them just because they didn't solve all the worlds political problems at once.
I'm doubtful most of those reviews were real.
As a Haskell noob, I had the same problem a few times. Essentially: there's a function to do what you want to do, but good look finding it!

Someone thought "words" was the perfect name, and it wasn't me!
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I use it in a 3d printer. I don't need 10x the capabilities. For my usecase it's just 70 EUR more, with the only benefit it might boot and update faster.
Never bet against Win32.
Haha, can't tell if you're joking or not.

For anyone else reading - you don't need to make a copy if you know your data isn't going to change under your feet.

https://dev.to/kylec32/effective-java-make-defensive-copies-...
What about the product of the instructions? Or as another commenter said, the runtime execution? Which of those is more “software” than the other and what does it make the other?

Seems reasonable to believe the thing happening due to the instructions is on another level of “abstract artifact” corroborating the point despite semantic nuances.
Why the heck do you think it's the stores job to employ developers to maintain games for you forever?

How do you think that actually works out? For games that are sold for usually less than 15 bucks?
Coinbase encourages users not to use VPNs
Depends heavily on the city too. I think this kind of thing is more accepted in NYC and LA with big immigrant communities from countries with more informal economies, but in Seattle it gets shut down quickly.
Look, it may be unfathomable to your alien mind from outer space, but it is what it is. Human beings tend to entangle their sense of self with causes and people they care about, whether it's a politician, a singer, a sportsball player, or a spouse. You need to accept that if you want to understand humans.
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> This is the support email address you are looking for: ac-mobile-feedback@cisco.com

Thank you. I have a bunch of curl tech support questions, but didn't know who to contact.
If you mean Google search, that had an immediate and obvious value from the day it went live. I didn’t call Google or anything else useless. I suggested defining and measuring expected benefits, costs, and risks. I would suggest that for any unproven technology, not just LLMs.

We can revisit the graveyard of over-hyped technologies if you want, and catalog the failures and wasted money. Ride the wave if you like. Show the success stories of LLMs in terms of business value or innovation. Don’t just repeat the press releases and anecdotes. You won’t find many successes, though maybe they will come in time.

> I’ve found [an LLM] good at writing SQL queries.

I don’t mean snark, but how do you know it writes good queries? I will grant that it can write queries that execute, but do those give correct results? Will they look good on a large production database where performance starts to matter?

When I played with LLMs writing SQL they worked well enough on toy schemas that resemble those found in tutorials. But faced with a real schema that requires joining tables and applying complex conditions they failed to produce usable SQL. However they did (with prodding) produce SQL that executed. It just gave the wrong results. That’s not a gain along any axis and could cost a lot of money for an organization blindly trusting such tools.

LLMs can write “good” code for some constrained definition of “good.” If you also want correct, testable, maintainable, secure, etc. they don’t perform well enough. Not just my opinion, we’ve had time to study the output of coding LLMs and it’s not looking good.
I don't believe you can get any useable results. Perhaps only for R&D.
Just curious, what can a 0.5B model be used for?
Find 30% is quite a feat
That doesn't exactly give a good error message, though:

> strSum "10 20 x"
Left "Prelude.read: no parse"

But yeah, I didn't remember "mapM". mapM f = sequence . fmap f, which is what I used.
> also can’t really explain why it was so great

I like it when

assertTrue (f x) -- passes in test

means that

assertTrue (f x) -- passes in prod
This is a really interesting story. I wonder if this YC power dynamic still exists today.
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I still have mine, which is apparently unusual.
If you read the article this is explained, including how both mechanisms work.
How much is too much when it comes to VS Code Extensions?
How is it a weak point for a supermarket to be open at 11? 24 hour supermarkets are fantastic and have saved my bottom many a time.

Do I _need_ it? No, I don't _need_ much of anything other than air to breathe and a bit of food in my belly. Most people don't just settle for that though.
I know a few people that are already using LLMs in their own professional fields. I can assure you that none of them needed to learn (or recall) "the relevant math".

Just like the majority of MS Word users do not need to know that the paragraphs are internally represented as XML encapsulated in <x:p> tags.

You seem to conflate the idea of "building models from scratch" together with "using a model created by others to do meaningful work.

We are discussing "tools" here, you do not need to know much about physics or metallurgy or woodworking to use a hammer. And hammer users will outnumber hammer makers by various orders of magnitude.

Same applies to LLMs, IMHO.
What does giving money to Blizzard is achieving for such ancient titles anyways?

Nobody from that era probably works at Blizzard anymore and some are probably retired.

Who piracy is even supposed to be spoiling here exactly even in theory?