skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a fun experience at work this week: tsunami warning goes off on the west coast while we are all in a remote meeting. I say that there has been a large earthquake off the coast. 30 seconds go by and coworker posts a link to a news article with the headline that "tsunami warning tests were being conducted that week" and goes on to tell everyone it is just a test. I open the article and immediately see that it is from 8 months ago. Its an easy mistake and I do it all the time as well, nevertheless it was interesting to see how quickly the wrong thing gets out.
Sign of times; we have trained millions of MBA monkeys and they have infiltrated everywhere. just see what a cesspool linkedin is.
Think you're not wrong about these, but think this was the price of 5 nodes in 4 years (these stepping stone nodes are going to be pretty shaky). Yeah, think overall, Gelsinger's done a really good job where it's important, the technology.

Becausefrom what I've read on forums, by all accounts from the insiders, the technology behind 18A is incredible (gate all around transistors, backside power delivery, 3d Chip stacking...) and that in a year or two ,it should put Intel manufacturing a little ahead of TSMC.

Although, have also read that the one problem is that even 18A won't be profitable for a couple years. Yeah, that the problem with Gelsinger's original plan is that 3 years wasn't enough time to get to profitability, but 5-8 (but that it still is a good plan).
They did as recently as 2016 and then gave up on it: "Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it spent trying to expand in those markets. The company is immediately canceling Atom chips, code-named Sofia and Broxton, for mobile devices, an Intel spokeswoman confirmed."
(https://www.pcworld.com/article/414673/intel-is-on-the-verge...)
As Big Tech Profit Growth Slows, Investors Hunt for a New Thing
I'll believe it when I see it. Nice marketing hook though.
Arrogance being one of the main criticisms in the article is a little ironic, coming from bcantrill.
We actually used to maintain coverage maps, but after expanding through several huge providers such as Cityfibre and Openreach it became silly to maintain.

Certainly in UK that could be also be quite a risky thing to do, as it could expose build strategies to competitors. That said, we expose an API to Better Internet Dashboard so they can do map based coverage exploration.
Why the Soft Skills Gap Continues to Damage Workplaces
Bootstrapping python incorrectly is the main source of packaging problem.

There is a lot to leak. For exemple, if you install a non wheel compiled extension, you'll need the headers, but some python distro don't provide it.

Then of course, on windows, is your python registered with the py launcher? How does it interact with existing anaconda installations ? On linux on existing system installation ? Is the shim (or path update for mise) affecting /bin/env ? How that works with .pyw association ?

The. what does it implies on the venv creation and activation ? And on using -m ? And .pth files ? user-sites ?

All those questions are linked to bootstrapping.

What happens then is pip install fail or import break, but the user have no idea it's related to his bad python setup because most people don't know how it works.

And now bootstrapping has broken packaging.

This is where most "python packaging sucks" things are born: from unkowingly botching the bootstrapping.

And the vast majority of tools to do it suck. E.g: Shims are all kind of broken (pyenv and rye come to mind).

To suceed, mise would have to know all that, pick the right tool, make a perfect abstraction, create fantastic error reporting, and test all those cases on ci on all platforms.

It's possible, but I know only one project that does this almost correctly. And even this one has a long way to go.

Saying "there is literally nothing to leak" is actually perfectly making my point most people don't know the topic deeply enough to know what they get into.

Then of courses there are all the modes of failure. This article has a good bit about that:

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use

It's cover more than mise's scope, but the idea is there.
agreed, 18A is supposed to be amazing according to insiders.
How is it going to get enough money to pay for the computers to run the LLMs?

Steal it?
Loving this. I wonder how people even come up with an idea of truncating hashes. For what purpose or benefit?
Go already has pseudo-functions such as "make", special syntax for channels/map, and switching on types, technically they could do something like this:

value := make(option[int, bool], true)
b := value.(bool) // panic if not a bool

switch value.(type) {
case int:
case bool:
}

If an option value isn't initialized, all attempts to do something with such an option will panic (there's already such a rule for nil interfaces). Not saying it's good design, but it's consistent with the syntax/semantics of the rest of the language.
A fun piece of fiction I think. However, if I'm wrong, I look forward to my brief existence as a paper clip analogue when this framework is released!
The problem persists because nobody has managed to put together the incentive and the ability to fix it.

People won’t fix it, because people is a big amorphous blob that doesn’t have an ability to really focus on anything at all.

Ad and social media companies won’t fix it because fixing it would mean removing themselves from existence.

The best chance we have is OS companies—Apple has managed to built this reputation (however flawed) of being a more thoughtful and privacy preserving company. Unfortunately Microsoft forgot how to make operating systems.
> Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

But without the law, they are doing the moral decision of allowing the hurtful ads. There's no neutral state. The government has to pick a side anyway. So let's pick the side favorable to the citizens?

> individual freedom is more important than majority opinion

Isn't this a contradiction? If the majority wants something, you are hurting the individual freedom of the greatest number of people.
Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18
And one could argue that:
1. Immigrants typically have higher TFRs that within years wipes out the gains you allude to
2. Productivity depends on how skilled the immigrants are; much of Europe has a large chunk of immigrants with lower productivity than the native born.
Anyway, this is a low signal discussion on both sides; this is my last comment on this matter
Yes, I also found the first child much harder than the second, which I wasn’t expecting.

I’m one of those people who had a strong feeling of falling in love with my child right away, but even so the toil and sleep deprivation ground my sanity down to a low I never reached before or since.

I was really anxious about #2, but a) we spent some savings and hired much more help for the first year, and b) she just sleeps better than her older brother, which is luck. It’s been incomparably better.

To the parent poster, look into a mother’s helper, or even a cleaner who can come daily. We also had to switch to formula earlier than we planned (biology intervened), and that transition had to happen even earlier with #2, and frankly that helped too. I’ve become very pro-formula. Nursing is nice when it’s working, but if it’s not, it’s not worth making a tough year harder—formula has gotten quite good and lets you balance the load better. The breastmilk-IQ link everyone’s scared of isn’t borne out by sibling studies anyway.
I had a family friend who was convinced Y2K would be the collapse of society. He bought a safehouse in the woods and spent nearly a year stocking it with all sorts of prepper stuff. After Christmas they packed up everything from their lives and drove to the safehouse only to find it had been looted...
Beyond Being There: Making Remote Work Better
Stumpy Nubs over on YT gave some testimony where he believes that a well-made blade guard could prevent most injuries. He believes that it's a culture around not using them (or poorly-made ones) that is the source of most injuries.

Timestamped for convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk
There have been enough attempts post-Vista to do spatial audio on GPUs that I don't think the argument that CPUs were fast enough really holds water. I think it's mainly that spatial audio hasn't been a must-have feature, so omitting it or half-assing it hasn't been a problem.
> I'm really curious how dystopian we actually are

No idea how widespread it is, but in Singapore airport the system is tightly integrated. You are "tagged" when you check in, and "tagged out" as you board, with your appearance associated with your intended flight details. If you miss your flight or otherwise spend too much time in the secure zone, you are highlighted in the system and will eventually be approached. Arriving passengers are also given a time limit to take their next action, be it clear immigration or enter transit, and lingering will also trigger a response.

All in the name of safety and security but I can't help but feel a measure of discomfort with it all.
Most of machine learning solutions are somewhat similar to self-modifying code.
The website is honestly not the most loved, however you get a static v4 address and v6 network as standard. We reserve the right to shift them if we need to for network reorg, though that has never happened to date.
why would you need that complex representation in the interoperable library instead of a much simpler one: a property, a comment, a comment, a value, a comment, ...?

This doesn't explode anything and you don't need to lose any data, so the monstrosity of XML still has no benefit, and neither does "createdAt$date", which would need a custom library anyway, so it doesn't matter where you insert your types
Why not use JSONC then?
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They were once trailblazing, while their CEO is lighting progressive environmentalism on fire.

Tesla is building a moat. They are defending their market share, preventing subsidies aiding competitors, keeping China out of the US market. That's not trailblazing, its not innovative.

Tesla needs to jettison their CEO. He's toxic and destructive to the mission of the company, or at least the mission it used to have.
I hear you, and I admit I'm drawing a fuzzy line (is the conventional approach “rigorous”).

Here are two “test functions”-

- we learned much about impulse responses, and sometimes considered responses to dipoles, etc. However, if I read the Wikipedia article correctly (it’s not great…), the theory implies that a distribution (in the technical sense) has derivatives of any order. I’m not sure I really knew that I could count on that. A rigorous treatment would have given me that assurance.

- if I understand correctly, the concept of introducing an impulse to a system that has an identity impulse response, which implies an inner product of delta with itself, is not well-defined. Again, I’m not sure if we covered that concept. (Admittedly, it’s been a long time.)
My understanding is that immigration gets you in the country, even as a tourist, and customs gets your stuff in.
> You can, of course, just write it like a C enum if you were so inclined and that willing to go out of your way to show your disinterest in something.

Oh c'mon, that's a cheap shot. Your example is odd, as it doesn't really show off anything interesting; I can indeed write it as a C enum, and I can do it with less typing:

enum {
A = 'A',
B,
};

iota doesn't really do anything interesting there. Much more interesting, IMO, was the example in the article where it can be used to easily construct bitfields. That shows off the "just about any static math expression" that you point out.

I think my problem with it overall is that it's weird and unexpected. Even when it can be genuinely useful, it doesn't really fit in the language as a part of syntax. Then again, I feel like that's pretty common for Go.
I thought it was just for show. I typed a single character and "logged in"
Not at the cost of harming people, usually. Its role is also to protect individuals themselves.

Infinite individual freedom doesn't exist, it stops where others' individual freedom starts.
I remember having this argument 10+ years ago. Discrete GPUs like what gamers were buying were thought to be a small market with no real routes to bigger markets. Workstation and HPC could be addressed with entirely separate product lines, hence the disaster that was larrabee. It was Nvidia that pushed the unified workstation/consumer architecture. ATI reused core architecture, but they had very different software stacks above with their firestream stuff.
> This is why for some time they would give you a free cartridge if yours triggered on flesh - they wanted the data on there from real-life flesh contact to improve their calculations.

The automatic defibrillators manufacturers also will often send you a unit for free if you used your unit for an actual defibrillation. Same idea.
I actually understand his comment to be primarily about wanting a thicker phone such that there is no camera bump. The possibility of a bigger battery is then a secondary benefit.

Either way, my point is that with a case the pixel 9 is mostly flat, and has a battery life that I can't complain about. How big the battery is physically is unimportant to me. Logically it's big enough.
They did more than investigate. Nokia, at that time still market leader in mobile phones, wasted a lot of time and effort because management wanted them to move to Intel. Nokia engineers did not believe that Intel would ever reach the required power efficiency. Whether it was self-fullfilling prophecy or just technically impossible is anyone's guess. (No, Nokia did not fail because of Intel, but that miss certainly made the disaster more complete.)
What? This is really wrong. The name of the game these days is optimizing memory and FLOPs usage on these GPUs. For example, Hopper (H100) cards introduced the WGMMA (Warp-group Matrix-Multiply Accumulate) instruction, and anyone who does LLM training jumped to use it ASAP because without it you can't fully utilize the FLOPs. Anyone training AIs at the cutting age cares a lot about CUDA details. https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-05-12-tk
The problem is that you can’t really make this work within the runtime in the way you think it would work. The runtime relies on being able to figure out where pointers and non-pointers are. When you assign to a union, you’re not just changing the value, you’re (potentially) changing which parts of it are pointers. If you just let this be, you have to redesign the runtime (significant changes). Alternatively, you could make the union store everything like it were a struct containing all variants… but that would be inefficient. These are not good options.
Hmm... I thought every ML algorithm was already intelligently self-modifying software. I would love if the release was just a linear regression optimization algorithm :)
For me - nothing beats in-person classes in lieu of a native speaker whom you can interact with. Being forced to actually speak the language in “mock settings” makes all the difference.

And even if you don’t get your grammar completely right, you will learn enough to survive in a real-life setting.

I learned Spanish through a combination of both - I took Spanish classes after I started dating my Mexican wife, enough to get conversational. Then I started interacting in Spanish with her family, which helps me now maintain the language without needing the classes.
This writing style is Titoresque.
I don't like that enshittification of technology has created an entire profession around babying pretend servers - if the cloud lived up to the promise of being an operating system for a global server farm, capacity scaling would consist of a new computer being allocated in ~1ms, said computer downloading my 100MB binary in ~10ms and loading it into memory and jumping to the first instruction in ~0ms. And I'm being generous with the timings.You could literally spin up a server in the time it takes to process a request.

If I write a program and decide to start a new thread, I don't need a dedicated ThreadOps professional moralizing about how I should've configured my app in the yaml file to use 2 threads instead of 1.

I have long held the belief that the clowning around that happens in IT nowadays is the opposite of engineering.
I've been using nixpkgs on macos (and without brew) for 3 years now and not sure what kind of split brain problem you're talking about?
I also have no idea about the problems with multiple anaconda and other python builds complain about.
Apple was an interested customer, but rumors are they perceived Intel extremely arrogant. The chip would have been to iPhone.
Re-Imagining the Emacs User Experience with Casual Suite
The complicating factor is that it isn't just "their property", it's an essential destination of many people's ability to function in society, which makes them adjacent to public utilities. If the water retailer which services your home started adding substances which could be used to track and identify their customers, you'd be pretty unhappy. Private ownership doesn't absolve an entity from public accountability, especially when there is extremely little option to not engage them.
>I immediately noticed that the length of the hash is truncated to 12, out of 64 characters.

Ouch...
To be precise, JSON was a replacement for XML, not the other way around. And the problem with XML was that it's way to verbose and difficult to write by hand, so it's exactly the opposite of the direction YAML/JSON5/... are taking.
Yes, generics. Have all the people complaining about the lack of generics in Go adopted it now that it supports generics? No, they found other things to complain about. So this should probably be a lesson to stop looking for the "next big thing" to implement (non-nullability? Union types?).
According to the WSJ article, he makes his living from advertising on his website. That's perfectly legitimate, but whether he did it or not, he has every incentive to embellish things.
Plus the first edition was hardcover initially. The 3rd edition seems to be the last hardcover edition.
More like a scam I think

> Any and all contributions are profoundly appreciated as we position ourselves to tackle what comes next. Bitcoin Address: 1G4…
Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).
Sometimes it’s done to fit into an existing tool/database that has a preexisting limit. Or when the hash is used only as a locator rather than for integrity.

Not a good practice imo but people are pragmatic.
Not sure i can trust a free ebook with that title tbh
Despite the intent to show an equal distribution visually, if you actually pay attention to the individual outlets you see a few things. Nearly all the outlets in the summit block, over 40 reliability score, are considered left or far left by republicans. The most extreme fringe of low reliability score are all right wing. I’m honestly not sure how any critical thinker could believe both sides are equally bad at spreading misinformation. Both sides do it to an extent, but the right is clearly worse, and that’s what your chart shows. Believing that is not bias. It’s reality.
Here is a relevant discussion about it in S/O: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67797804/how-to-distingu...
Don’t assume that this development is inevitable.

Some countries have strong privacy laws, such as Switzerland.
Check out X these days. There is this "founder mode" meme that is about company founders are the culprit of growing bigger and fix how the company works.

Imho this is bullshit. It is not about being the founder, but most people just cannot change their ways of working. Like hired managers would not be able with the same chance. At the same time, when founders or engineers cannot change to accomodate some business reality, only time will tell wether they can and manage to lead through that - or the McKinsey usual mantra "selling off unprofitable business unit" would have been proved better.
Do you have a different username there? I couldn't find your account.
In all scripting language, packaging problems mostly stem from bootstrapping.

Nvm shims break, python path confusion, gem installed on the wrong ruby interpretters, etc.

Maybe you managed the impossible.

But in 20 years of python I've seen only one tool doing bootstrapping in the right direction, all the other ones have failed.

So I'm suspicious of something that does multiple languages.

In the case of mise, it delegates this complexity to the user. E.g: for python, you have to know the config choices, and choose the right backend like asdf, pyenv, or indygreg.

Then you better understand the consequences of that choice.

To me, that's alreay a leak of the abstraction.
> because those acts aren't illegal when police officers do them -- and not because they can commit illegal acts

Well by logical conclusion, they can't commit all illegal acts, but they can commit some, if those acts aren't considered illegal when police officers do them.
Poetry is a package manager though, there's Poe the Poet[0] for a reason. How do you use poetry to run custom tasks?

[0]: https://poethepoet.natn.io/poetry_plugin.html
I believe it's possible to improve things. I don't think this is an example of a material change. I, personally, find both the incoming and outgoing administrations to be truly repellant.

But where it makes sense to do so, I will give credit.

This just feels like something that can be undone with a few minutes of trump's time. If it stays paused then great. And I'm sure halting the practice even for a few months does material good for people, I just can't give more credit when the Biden admin could do much more to halt it.
No, you have it backwards. It wasn't legal for anyone to manufacture crack cocaine. The police were already committing illegal acts by doing so. I suspect they weren't really punished for it, though, unfortunately. But the court case was more about whether or not this chain of (already illegal) activity could be used to prosecute people for buying crack, and the answer was "no".