skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tough because LiveView is really just the dessert at the Elixir dining hall-- you can't live off of dessert. It's (at least) an order of magnitude smaller an ecosystem than React and the like, and while average library quality is very high, you won't find ready-made solutions to all your use cases like you do in those big front end ecosystems. JS and LiveView do interoperate surprisingly well, so ProseMirror isn't off the table, but I still think there are important benefits in the big front-end ecosystems.

Nevermind front end though, the main course is Erlang/Elixir's concise, functional, concurrency paradigm that feels more discovered than invented. The default structures they provide for thinking about message-passing actors are so much easier than tangled webs of async functions. This means CRDTs, calling out to APIs, running jobs in other languages, realtime coms, all go very well in Elixir.

I think Actors are a paradigm shift somewhat akin to garbage collection. Increasingly complex programs demanded we abstract away memory management to stay sane, knowing we'd drop down to memory manage when needed. In this web-heavy world, we abstract into tiny statefull services (actors) to stay sane, knowing we'll drop down to sequential languages when needed.
Oof. I don't know much about tubes, do they always fail in ways that are reliable to detect? (E.g. I can imagine that detecting a burned out heater is easy, but I don't know what other common failure modes there are.) And even then there's a lot of effort to just make the system "switch over"... and a lot of extra real estate with technology that was already constrained by the minimum size bound of the tubes.
I think this is because normal people dont use git and/or console text editors. Its a powerful combination that makes markdown useful.
It's incorrect to say that Perfect Pitch means you can pick out any of the 12 tones commonly used in western music. It doesn't mean that; that can only come with training.

The core ability with perfect pitch is to remember a note persistent over many months or years. If you know a song well, and you have perfect pitch, you will almost always sing it in the correct pitch. Not within a semitone; within a percent, enough that if you were singing with the recording, you would not be out of tune.

There is overwhelming evidence that this ability is either genetic or acquired at a very early age. It's a difference between people like the way you can fold your tongue or move your thumb. It's innate.

someone with musical training can use this skill to identify the 12 tones of western music, but that's frankly just a party trick built on the core capability.

Here's the concrete example. My son has perfect pitch. I didn't know this until we were watching a Beatles movie, I think A Hard Day's night, and he asked why the instruments Were Out Of Tune. Later I played the record and compared it with the video, and they were off by less than a quarter tone. The Beatles another musicians in the '60s often used very speed to subtly change the tone and tempo and many Beatles Tunes are at a pitch that lies between the standard a 440 12 lb scale
What an obnoxious and condescending response. They said they've used those languages. Consider that these languages have huge flaws of their own. Elixir doesn't even have a proper language server. Using niche languages does not automatically make you special on internet forums.
I don't know what the commenter who posted about chemo and amputation actually thinks or believes. But I hesitate to call them "nuts" or to lecture them about how they have a wrong opinion. And I would not expand their personal opinion as a judgment on people who decide they can live with the effects of chemo, or amputation, or loss of an eye, because nothing in the original comment included a judgment on other people. Everyone has their own threshold for what they consider a life worth continuing, but we should not impose our own thresholds on other people, or judge them for making different choices.

For me the question goes beyond "Can I survive chemo (or amputation) and resume something like a normal life?" When you have to face cancer or loss of a limb or any illness or injury that threatens your life, or perceived quality of life, or dignity and autonomy, you necessarily have to think about what that means for your future. Until you get a diagnosis of (for example) cancer you don't know what it feels like, or how you will react, to the fact that no matter if you survive the treatment or not, you will always have that threat and reminder of your mortality in your conscious thoughts. You think about how you might not get so lucky the next time, how much your treatments might cost, what your illness might put your loved ones through, how far you will go to keep yourself alive even when it imposes costs and obligations on other people. And you think that maybe other people will have to make hard decisions about your future if you can't. A cancer diagnosis doesn't just affect me, in other words. If I lost a leg or arm that would impose burdens on my wife and family, affect my ability to make a living. Those thoughts more than the medical condition itself lead people to arrive at opinions such as the original commenter expressed.

Having faced my own mortality already I know I think more about how my own end of life scenarios affect other people more than how they will affect me. I worry that I will suffer a stroke, or slip into dementia, before I can pull my own plug, leaving people I care deeply about with that awful obligation, and the burden of caring for me rather than living their own life. And it's that thought, not the fear of disease or dying, that leads me to my own ideas about how much I might endure, because I won't endure it alone or without cost to others.
> If they would only actually open source their driver the community would have made their cards better than nvidia ones long ago.

Software wise, maybe. But you can't change AMD's hardware with a magic wand, and that's where a lot of CUDA's optimizations come from. AMD's GPU architecture is optimized for raster compute, and it's been that way for decades.

I can assure you that AMD does not have a magic button to press that would make their systems competitive for AI. If that was possible it would have been done years ago, with or without their consent. The problem is deeper and extends to design decisions and disagreement over the complexity of GPU designs. If you compare AMD's cards to Nvidia on "fair ground" (eg. no CUDA, only OpenCL) the GPGPU performance still leans in Nvidia's favor.
The Australian ABC news site, like many others, uses "dynamic headlining" .. the same end URL and content can have multiple headlines over the course of time and even in the moment can vary between the "current news" web and RSS feeds.

It's a PiTA for HN submissions as I've been bitten in the past by submitting a story plus headline and getting later complaints that the submitted headline doesn't match the story headline .. (well, it did once).
MI300X already leads in VRAM as it has 192 GB.

For local inference, 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM for less than $1000.

At what threshold of VRAM would you start being interested in MI?
I was young at the time, but when I TA'd, the lesson I'd try to impart here is to take the time to learn the lexicon of the compiler error, and understand what it is trying to tell you. Then it's not just "code broke yo" but "is here is what is wrong."

Much better to learn to have a conversation with a deterministic compiler than an LLM that'll just cook up some random junk when it gets backed into a corner.
> I would check the certificates

What good does that do? It is pretty rare for companies to get an EV or OV certificate, since it is more expensive and more hassle than a DV cert, and even when they do, the name on the cert isn't always what you expect since it might be the name of the owning company, not the brand you are familiar with.

Whois on DNS isn't always reliable either, since it often just points to another company that provides a dns service (such as AWS).
Hi Winston, My name is Dan and I am a PM wearing many hats and my current project is to find a Full Stack Engineer in downtown Austin, TX. It is a hybrid role, we seek 5+ years software development experience with Rust, Typescript, Node and Svelte. You seem like a good match. IRONLIGHT is an amazing fintech startup gearing up for an exciting year. Please send me you CV at Dan.Nether@ironlight.io at your earliest.

Thanks,
Dan
This is great work.
I started around the same age, though I only had BASIC or assembly language and neither was very suitable, to the extent I almost gave up on game development.
I didn't start building games with JS until 2-3 decades later, I really wish I'd had something like this back then.
This did not go far enough.
Why is there a class action lawsuit for Cliff bars and not for scummy location data harvesters.
I am curious whether they sold only segments or device level data and whether you could identify an individual
yep this is exactly what is saving me, and its taking a while. how long did it take you to “complete” the AT/myofascial work?
right, because it is illegal to pay for care in Canada outside of the system. i didn't say that Canada had some global anti-private care enforcement power
> It's because normal people do not want to spend their day wasted in minutia, carving out huge chunks of technical jargon, just to get some words on a page to show up with a certain layout and format.

> They want to highlight some text, and click the Bold button, or maybe Ctrl+B, and see the text become bold.

They do not. No normal person has ever said how happy they were that they could highlight text and click a button, and certainly not that they typed Ctrl+B. Normal people do not type Ctrl+anything.

Normal people don't type text at all, but if you find the most normie internet forum you can think of - one where people talk about car parts or who the Khardasians are dating or something - you'll find it has some kind of text markup format, and the most prolific users of that forum use the markup format rather than the WYSIWTF editor that craps up their formatting too much. And if you ever find a topic with two competing norie fora, you'll find the people on the one whose text markup format is more markdown-like will be happier than the people on the one whose text markup format is less markdown-like.
It’s fascinating that Amazon is investing heavily in Anthropic while simultaneously competing with them.
>We give rabies shots to dogs and cats constantly, why do humans have to jump through hoops to get it?

Because even vaccinations are not universally without risk of complication. See my last cat I had to put to sleep due to complications resulting from an injection site sarcoma as a result of just such a "trivial and routine" vaccination. So, while your flippant attitude toward the matter is noted, it is not appreciated. These things are not without risk in all cases. Bring the damn bat for testing.
> I suspect it wouldn’t cost anywhere near that, as it doesn’t cost anywhere near that in India.

I have bad news.
I wonder if we could add some type of verification registry. It would be nice if browser's could have a big indicator saying that this website is verified to associated with Dell inc.
Pure intuition, nothing more. I think we're just beginning to understand the microbiome and the brain does so much, has so many ports, and requires so many resources, that I think there are probably hundreds or thousands of heretofore unknown critters it relies on.
Curious: What other libs are you using for the PDF generation?
It's not, but it's very, very common, basically the rule in fact, starting I think in the early 2000s.
The question is why Intel GPUs, which already have soldered memory, aren't sold with more of it. The market here isn't something that can beat enterprise GPUs at training, it's something that can beat desktop CPUs at inference with enough VRAM to fit large models at an affordable price.
I used RUNOFF back in the 1970s. I used it for writing papers. Things haven't evolved much beyond it.
Je suis Alfie Evans, Charlie Gard, Archie Battersbee.
So? I could write my blog post in raw HTML without using any markdown at all. But we don't, because raw HTML is a bad tool for composing rich content.

The kind of things I want to be able to do (that markdown makes hard):

- Make a standard component for embedded images, which supports clicking the image to see it full-screen.

- Make "boxes", showing certain kinds of content. This is useful for diagrams, commentary, code, formulas, and more depending on what you're doing.

- Run code when building the page which can load external data and display it however I want. For example, I wrote a paper using typst recently. I have some data in a JSON file. My typst paper contains code to read in the JSON file and embed some of the values into a table in the output.

- Embed raw SVGs into the output, in an svg tag.

- Have programmatic content - eg, onclick handlers, hover states, etc.

- Make a table of contents (I think GFM supports this, but I don't think its a standard markdown feature)

- Have generated section titles (Eg "3.a Benchmark results")

- Make a webpage which contains content from a lot of markdown files in a folder. Each of those files may need custom ... well, everything.

- Use custom CSS styles. Styles might be local (just this element) or global across the page.

- Use extensions / plugins for things like programmatic diagrams

Raw HTML is a complete non-answer to this stuff. Its the sort of answer that makes me question if you've done any serious writing at all. Like, your comment reads to me as the writing equivalent of arguing that C is the best programming language because - if you need anything thats not in C, you can write it in assembly.

What I really want is some combination of markdown + react. Typst is close - or, it will be close once it supports HTML output. But markdown simply isn't powerful enough for serious writing.
There's a complex of these passengers you can't discuss because it wakes them up and they reflexively defend themselves. They wrap themselves around your sense of truth and it's impossible to get them out.

Sleep tight. :)
I am not sure Markdown is a curse because of the gap that it creates in the chart. But I agree with one thing: we do need to explore interesting DSLs for producing beautiful documents.
We don’t need text editors to handle all character sets in the same way that I don’t need code editors to be able to parse every language without changing settings.

If Arabic text editors don’t have the cursor behave the same as English ones, that’s fine. If I press backspace in a Hebrew text editor I probably want it to delete the character to the right. The behavior doesn’t need to be universal
I really wish Raku would pick up some steam. A really cool language.
It's not independent because if I'm 80kg here, I'm still 80kg on the moon. Because gravity does not affect mass.

If I weigh 160lb on earth I'm told that I would weigh 26lb on the moon.

That makes sense if lb measures force because gravity affects force.

In short, this commonly shared "fact" is consistent with pounds being a unit of force, not of mass.

Or, I suppose, of lb at least sometimes being a unit of force.
Our expertise in any kind of technical skill that allows us to participate in society is of no importance compared to our becoming a positive member of all the societies/cultures we encounter. This requires becoming a compassionate, empathetic human being via deliberate, honest, self-critical work on the areas of our personality that cause unhappiness to others via selfish negativity.

We are the only beings on Earth that can self-evolve, by using our conscience and mind to evaluate of our actions to find out where we are causing unhappiness. Then, we must engage our free will to choose to be better, and do the things that help us to grow spiritually out of the immature, selfish mammals we begin as, into the humanitarians that result from reaching our highest potential.

The most destructive lie we let our minds tell us is that this transformation is not possible, or is the figment of someone's imagination. The ego tells us this because the spiritual path entails the destruction of the negative ego. Under this existential threat, the ego defends itself like hell.
<p>because, it is <i>really</i> awkward</p>
Honestly I'd like to have my mind copied, but may only be 'simulated' once the current me is dead. From my perspective I'll be dead and there's no changing that, but from the clone's perspective, life just goes on.
How obnoxious and rude. It was in the article, it's a nice clever analogy that the authors used, it's an allusion that's not that deep or complicated to get. If you finished high-school English and/or did well on the SAT you should have the reading comprehension skills to infer the meaning from that passage, despite it being a term not defined anywhere. Furthermore, you are free to disagree/skeptical with their notion of a "philosophy-industrial complex" being true or valid, but that issue would be a different matter and does not warrant your passive-aggressiveness toward me.
Some people might be against regulating private data collection on principle, but I would imagine far more people are simply unaware of it. And even if they are, it’s pretty damn hard to opt out of, and the harms are pretty abstract.

Unless you can demonstrate concrete ways in which it even inconveniences someone, it’s gonna fall pretty low on most people’s priorities.
AWS Trainium does as well: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/
This is awesome. Good job
I hope you're referring to Joel Schumacher's kitschy drivel, and not to Tim Burton's masterpieces (both of which are IMO vastly superior to Nolan's take on the subject).
This works both ways or it doesn't at all.

You want selfless devotion to the goal then you damn well better not be wasting my time and cutting costs at the expense of my productivity.

Managers who don't know what they're talking about and insist they do and insist they are right causing massive lost time, then want to hold meeting after meeting about how it is everyone else's fault. You've seen it. Why am I working long hours doing work, some of which is shovelling sand that need shovelling because I'm not too good for it when if that idiot had been restrained to their level of competence we'd already have delivered and I'd see more of my family. Selfless devotion? To what?

In the old days when SSDs were 'expensive' and companies economised and didn't immediately buy them for the team because my time isn't worth saving but they want me to stay back to get more done for a deadline? Selfless devotion to a goal you're showing clearly you don't care about.

This stuff is really normal. You have stories, everyone does. And so we take the path that is best for ourselves and those we like. Any other choice isn't "egoless" it's insane.

Managing a team is hard. Keeping idiots from having idiotic influence is hard. Spotting who is managing up is hard. Noticing, supporting and retaining who is good is hard.

Having someone with a massive ego who you might cross the road to avoid having to socially interact with other than they do a decent job of that hard managing might work out better than "Egoless."
What? Gruber doesn't mention Softbank. Are you getting your articles mixed up?
What he said was basically that it just couldn't create unexpected verses or break form. Since supposedly it can only do the most probable token -- but that's not how sampling works unless you use temperature 0. And it can easily be instructed to break from a strict form (which would create a new variation of the form) for effect if it made sense.

You could also ask it to create a new form and it could. I don't work for you so I don't have to create examples, but anyone who has used the latest SOTA models for any amount of time knows this capability is expected, and if you were really interested then you would try it. If you feel the result isn't very good, ask it to improve it.
Waymo ridership doubles in 3 months
This is really cool! I had fun playing your game, thank you for sharing it with us!

I like the way you’ve made animations for the attacks. One thing I noticed is that the health counter goes down right away, before the attack hits and makes the background flash red.

I wonder if the health could go down at the same time the attack hits? It’s a small thing, but it might make the attack feel even more exciting!
He should enter it into https://online.coolestprojects.org/
Very cool game
You're correct, and usually I try to be extremely measured in how I interact here, avoiding appeals, fallacies and insults.

However, I have an understandably short fuse for anyone with the audacity to not just claim ignorance, but actively put forth a narrative that no genocide is taking place. I've spent too long being nice and understanding to these people.

There is little hope in connecting with them via fair argument, because they only understand appeals to authority (thus my invocation of the ICC and UN), but selectively reject them as well. They reject sound arguments in favor of feelgood statements. It takes that caliber of person to arrogantly proclaim in December, 2024 that there is no genocide.

The most effective option for dealing with this kind of person would actually be to disengage and not respond. However, that opens up the possibility that someone else reads their comment, and when not presented with a counterargument, takes their argument in good faith.

I mean, look at his yet unanswered reply to my statement. How do you even begin to engage fruitfully with something like that? They set up a system of biases and then try to frontrun you by invoking the words "bias" and "projection" before you can use them, engaging in a preemptive tu quoque [0].

You don't even get a chance to attack their core arguments, because they're shielded by a continuously growing pile of weaker arguments, and you'll get lost in a meta-argument about semantics or some other trapdoor.

Sometimes ignorant people are just ignorant, and they need to hear it. But I do generally agree with you, and thanks for the criticism!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Yes, and not thinking that one is better than anyone else. We are all equal, no matter how much better we are than another, with respect to either some job skill or even the spiritual path. Dunning-Kruger's true-experts are better than the slackers, but we must be humble to achieve that and then not be an ahole about our achievements.

It's a tricky business, being a human being, with its very many pitfalls.
Huh. I thought it was thought of negatively because people confuse the word ego (self) with egotism/conceit (exaggerated sense of self-importance).

The same sadly has happened with confusion of the word selfless (having no concern with self) with unselfish (concerned with others before oneself) and altruistic (unselfish concern for others' well being).

Personally, I don't see any incompatibility between having a sense of self and healthy self-esteem and having compassion.

Indeed, I see a major incompatibility between actual selflessness and universal compassion - as selflessness would preclude compassion for oneself.
Chat with veternarians? I've heard they often are vaccinated, because they're at higher risk, and they may know the right words to say to get the vaccine?
>I was somewhat successful.

Given the technicalities of the stunt, I rather suspect you were successful (no crash), or not successful (did crash). "Somewhat successful", seems very - I don't know - 'corporate'..."The number of deaths do not reflect the overall success of the mission, which managed to gather substantial information regarding the cause of the deaths".