skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I guess it also depends on what are you further looking into. A few months ago I implemented a feature a client requested that was being charged by the hour. When code review came a more senior engineer suggested a huge refactor that in the end would leave cleaner code but required changing half of the small code base. I pushed back saying it wasn’t necessary due to the scale of the library we were working on. Turns out he took on the task to refactor it himself, broke both my code and preexisting code, and I had to go in and spend triple the amount of time debugging the refactor. A few months pass by and the whole code base will forcefully have to be refactored again to be merged into another code base.

He was looking further into making a clean code base, but I was looking further into saving our clients a few thousand bucks and delivering early. Which one was right? I’ll reflect on that after this new refactor and see how much the previous one helps (or doesn’t).
> and they all look to be in the 900mhz range

Why is this an issue? Z-Wave is a mesh network, all hardwired switches/outlets/etc. are repeaters by default.

> low volt LEDs in your kitchen like I do

What is "low volt?" 12-24V? I have this in my kitchen using a 110V -> 24V dimmable LED PSU and a Z-Wave triac dimmer.

Zigbee is not Z-Wave - Z-Wave has far more definition and structure to available devices and can do everything Lutron can do at this point.
> However, Intel should have pushed a couple of cards for free to every single HPC/AI grad department in the US. And perhaps even tossed in a $50K grant to boot. That's, what, $50K*100=$5 million max and a thousand graphics cards

Nvidia used to do this in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

It did wonders to drive CUDA uptake versus Vulkan, and Nvidia would sponsor plenty of researchers and students to leverage CUDA and Nvidia GPUs in Parallel Programming classes.

> you have to value software for that idea to penetrate

I'm not sure it's software per say and more so Developer Experience.

If a vendor fails to truly interact with their implementers, they lose critical feedback.

Intel used to have a very active Technical Marketing Engineer org (the old word for DevEx), but I'm not sure how active or relevant it is anymore.
Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Perry are both walking free after unambiguously murdering people in broad daylight.

You're right, I do find it less likely that the murderer of a CEO would get the same kind of treatment as murderers of civil rights protesters, but there are examples in recent history of people walking free despite unambiguously murdering people in broad daylight for political reasons.
The banality of evil right here. Whatever defense you have of this executive, it's just murder with extra steps.
The only trials that they ran, in very small numbers of around a few thousand children, did not even attempt to demonstrate a clinical benefit to children, because SARS-CoV-2 was already such a mild illness for them it would have been impossible to discern one. So they simply measured an increase in "antibody levels" and called it a day. I think risk-benefit calls should be pretty easy to make when "no discernable benefit" is what's been put on the table.

And yes, it was obviously a mistake at the time to issue an "emergency use authorization" for use of the vaccines in people for whom COVID was not even remotely an emergency.
There are multiple tools in this space - even devbox has a direct competitor. With mise, I'm not expecting an isolated environment, but rather a meta package manager. I can install many tools directly into my user shell. If I wanted that with nix, I would be using a nix user install rather than devbox.

You just choose what you like most. And mise seems to have a large fanbase.
I enjoyed her Star Wars hotel review enough that I watched a ton of her other videos. The thing that bugged me about her channel, and the reason I unsubscribed, is because I couldn't see any evidence that she ever really liked anything. She never had a positive review of a thing. Every video was taking something apart and criticizing it. I think her take down of the SW hotel was probably just, but it's exhausting hearing from someone who only finds flaws in things.
There's just two things Intel should have been focusing on, and that's getting their fabs back to being competitive with TSMC, and getting their chip designs back to being the best IP in the world.

There is no reason why TSMC should be leading Intel on fabrication by so much. Intel has had a crazy amount of time to restructure and refocus when we consider how long their x86 intellectual property lead kept them afloat with their subpar fabrication and delayed manufacturing process updates. They spent many years having faster chips than anyone else despite having subpar fabrication. But now, they can't really escape the fact that ARM is exploding and AMD has the most flexible x86 platform where as each year goes by the number of use cases where Intel is the best choice diminishes.

If you play games, the x3D chips are basically the only sensible choice. If you are looking for servers, AMD is consistently 10% cheaper in all the cloud platforms. If you want a mobile system, anything involving ARM and/or TSMC will get you better battery life.

The fact that fabless players in the market like AMD and Apple can outpace Intel in so many product lines is, frankly, embarrassing. While I think that other processor design shops selling off fabrication divisions made sense, I think that Intel as a company basically makes no sense if they can't get their fabrication shit together. Because if Intel can't fabricate bleeding edge chips what's the point of using their IP?
> It's so weird that people think academia is contributing in any meaningful way

> PyTorch/TF/Triton/HF/llama/whatever and judge for yourself.

Where do you think the creators of most of these current models came from and started their careers?

More critically, the ecosystem the arose for these to exist was subsidized by research for decades.
"Jensen Huang, the 61-year-old co-founder and CEO of Nvidia" ... There's a hint in there somewhere.

How do you get a CEO to believe innovation is the best thing for them and the company? Even if you get them to believe that how do they get their company to innovate?

Innovation is hard work. It involves failures. Just buy back your shares and make money. Then someone else comes and eats your lunch. That is how the world works.
First, I’m not sure being tracked across all platforms is actually a requirement here. On device age verification and device attestation and/or simply assuming anonymous users are under 18 from an ad safety perspective would allow a level of anonymity across platforms. It might also help solve a large chunk of ad fraud.

Second, I think you really need strong evidence to say that the upside you’re asserting is truly worth sacrificing kids safety.
Things have not regressed. Have you driven in a modern car? Flown in a modern plane?

"Why shouldn't a motivated/intelligent layman try and get hold of those devices and learn them?"

Why don you buy a typewriter and write Shakespeare?

You really just assume that you, untrained and unexperienced would be better than a trained professional? You would really cut open your partner or child, cut out a section of their bowels, sew them back together, and know all the right drugs to give and have the half million dollar anesthesia machine? Do you have the MRI machine you need to diagnose this?

It's the same reason we don't just let anyone work on airliners.

Someone who thinks they can do this is dangerous, and borderline psychopath. I'd encourage them to watch one live surgury first. Saying you can fo something like this without even seeing it once is why this shows too much unfounded confidence. Yikes.
Seconding this. A demo video might be easier to create and would also be useful. Or you could even send it to some Japanese learning YouTubers and see if any will review it.
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No, it’s simple but people lack conviction or maybe coherence in pursuing their beliefs.

If an activity requires a healthcare license, only allow the government to pay for it. Some things are required for healthcare delivery and are not of value outside of those activities. Apply imminent domain law to expropriate those things to prevent fraud on the part of their owners.

The examples of extra-scientific or optional healthcare activities are likewise simple. Establish a lottery for such procedures using any resources not expended to improve existing quality of life years. Current private provision of healthcare resources bids up the fixed pool of providers and causes us all to pay more for life-continuing care.

Ancillary nonmedical services are red herring. Charge back the cost of those services against provider payments. Much of health IT exists as an elaborate method by healthcare providers to justify payments from payors and can be eliminated.
I used to think that fixed things, then I learned how many parsers refuse to update. Like PyYAML.
Just static type then. You can’t trust incoming data shapes anyway, e.g. if it specifies a schema and doesn’t even follow it. You always expect something in a typed language, not anything. So validate it and that’s it. Thinking that dynamic data can be typed is a mistake. It can only be structured ([], {}, "", …) into basic types and then matched to some template. Any above-data section about types is as good as none. It can help a human to make sense of its shape, but that’s it.
Docker had nothing to do with it?
Firing people is hard and fraught with peril legally for a large company in the US. It was simply easier to marginalize them and get things done in spite of them. That was my strategy anyhow. My management discouraged me from making a further issue of it lest someone outside the org start asking questions about how we had people on the payroll doing exactly nothing for so long. Keep in mind that this was a team I was put in charge of, not a team I built from the ground up and groomed as my own. I inherited organizational mistakes/neglect and the organization was happy to not have them see the light of day that correcting the situation would bring.
I would be glad to see better table saw safety mechanisms, though I'm skeptical that 1. This will actually happen 2. That patent is the only one that will wind up mattering.

I can't help but wonder if a big part of the reason the number of incidents is so high is because we're intentionally hyperbolic about risks when it comes to warning labels, for liability reasons. As an example, many appliances will warn that you can never operate them with the covers off and doing so can cause death or serious injury. Okay fine, sure, it's not necessarily safe, and perhaps you could indeed kill yourself by accident doing so. However, in practice it's bullshit. People do this all the time, and you pretty much have to sometimes. How the hell are you even supposed to troubleshoot without being able to see what's wrong? Just guess?

So sometimes when it comes to warnings it's easy to empathize with the person who didn't take them very seriously, as we're pretty much conditioned to take warnings like this with a grain of salt.

Though honestly, when it comes to using a table saw, the thing I'm actually afraid of is kickback. Amputation risk is still very serious of course, but I feel safe enough with the many layers of mitigations I already use. I don't want to fall into complacency, but I also don't think I'm going to lose sleep over not having a SawStop table saw either. (I am not using my table saw often enough for it to be a terrible concern anyways.)
short timelines are a death sentence in 2024
Google has the same disease.
I’m thinking it will only be a matter of time before (if it’s not already the case) that things like self-checkout systems that do HQ faces level video for facial recognition and identification, akin to any number of dystopian novels/movies where some protagonist cannot move around without face covering because there are scanners, or even something like Idiocracy where the public is so conditioned that they immediately report someone who does not obey the government regime’s requirement to have some barcode.
> But then Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. This annoyed many windows users.

Why did it annoy them? I don’t picture most people noticing such things, and in my mental model, almost everyone that would notice such things would know better than to fly off the handle about it. But clearly I’m miscalculating in some way, so I’m curious if anyone can help me to understand.
>must be scored using the "NPM model". Only scores exceeding 4 are "banned", which will include sweetened oats

Thanks. Do you have a link to "the list" and this NPM model scoring system?
I used to think this is where I am heading, until reading “Hunt, Gather, Parent”, and realizing that being a good parent does not mean my existence as an individual needs to stop. Me and my kids can co-exist. I just need to let go of controlling their lives.
Anyone have any idea what makes Rust evangelists / apologists so religious about it?

It's not like it's the only high-performance memory safe language. It wasn't the first. It's not the highest performance. What am I missing?
It was worth the down votes.
lunduke.

opensuse banned him. and apparently nixos banned him preemptively before he ever participated.
Not getting all defensive is a superpower!
The xz example does not support your case. Not only was every downstream build infected until it was discovered, it also needed a distro-specific modification (to openssh in Debian and Fedora, IIRC) to work at all.
The real violence being done here is to the word "murder".
https://archive.ph/vnPBD
What is the benefit of this over something like Pkl[0]? Pkl compiles down to JSON, YAML, etc., but the language itself is user-friendly. This way you get best of both worlds: readable and editable for humans, and parsable for computers.

[0]: https://pkl-lang.org
because most of the internet now uses encryption*
because the majority of the internet now uses encryption*
CIA torture flights?
Off topic but I wonder how broadly the idea of very expensive failure scenarios but human damage is avoided could be applied to industry at large...
And that is fine reasoning, the workaround is not for me… but the larger issue is an inventor kneecapping something by stating how you should use it.

It’s not like there isn’t another side to this argument.
Trailing to signal a floating point seems like to niche of a use case to me. Generally it's best to treat every JSON number literal as a 64-bit float anyway for the sake of interoperability.
I once created a library (now bit rotted) that did all the things you suggested plus some: schema, binary representation, changing date times to offsets from the first record's date time, abbreviating common strings like hostnames etc.

There were a bunch of problems/irritants mostly stemming from the fact that the format become stateful. Every log needed to have a schema (or repository) available. Abbreviations and date offsets meant that the log contained meta information ... for example, assignment of a compact abbreviation to a string in anticipation of using that abbreviation from that point on. This meant that the log could not be arbitrarily lopped off.

And to my chagrin, I found that simply gzipping a json stream made it almost as compact! That's when I figured it wasn't worth it. I'd probably have investigated more if there was CPU or memory bandwidth pressure in that situation (due to creating more data just to compress it).
Do the implementation details really matter that much?

It's all some sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_platform_station ,

limited by the constraints of available technology and budget for experiments at that time.

And not that pioneering (conceptually at least) either, because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic from 199x...
I'm an old man, 76 years old. The time it takes to go through the motions... is way more than I want to pay, considering each day is more likely to be my last. But I agree with your sentiment.
Id agree -- it is crazy but this is 30 years ago..

For those still impacted thats a problem. Not the same level of shock though.
I'm the same. My children are practically never exposed to these ads. But, all their peers are.

My kids have never had any fast food, and have never seen an ad, but they talk about KFC and McDonald's constantly. It all comes from their friends at school.
Testosterone, sexual desire and courtship efforts association in young men
I mean...I'll say this, for all the great things spoken about it I also found myself wildly disappointed with Rust's error handling when I tried to use it (and then a pile of blog posts going "oh yeah, it does kind of suck...").

What I am yet to find in any programming language is a reliable way to put my cursor somewhere in the code base, and know exactly all the possible errors which can happen, where they could come from, and whether I've handled them (or might be interested in handling them).

Fault-injection is also consistently a sore point - i.e. in Go if you're doing an os.Open(somefile) call - it'd be really nice if writing code which tests the failure path was just easier - i.e. most of the time I'm saying "this Open on this line, just return an error for this test case so I can make sure it does what I want" - without bogging myself down in dependency injection or call monitoring (i.e. realistically I just want to say "os.Open in file somefile.go, line 143 - for this test please just return err"). Yes something like this can be done, but can we really not make this easier? Write tools which make this easier?
Interview (audio and full transcript) with the author, Zoë Schlanger:

Emergence Magazine: The World Is a Prism, Not a Window

https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/the-world-is-a-prism...
I don't disagree with you that Nvidia has good leadership, and that Intel has bad leadership, but I take a bit of issue with this pedestal that founders are placed on.

Being a founder doesn't magically make you the best person for the job of CEO of a company. Huang happens to be a very good leader, but a lot of founders become a drag on their companies later on.

It's just an anecdote, I worked for one place where the company truly outgrew the founder's abilities. He was just some guy with an art degree who was at the right place at the right time with his dorm room business idea. I would argue that his lack of ability and experience squandered a lot of the later stage growth opportunities that could have made the company into a billion dollar public corporation.

I think about a company like WeWork, that's a company that would not exist today if the founder was not kicked out. Some companies like McDonald's would never have expanded to be a household name if their founders were still in charge.
Intel never wrote posts of the sort oxide wrote here, that’s the point.
Right, you guys say like “naught point three”… sounds just as weird to us as ours does to you.

Still… I can be required to put a zero in, read 0.3, and still think “that’s point three”.
With twitter posts, you have it easy because it was 95% trash before AI. You'll definitely have a lot of problem with other content though.
Makes a lot of sense given that a lower HRV from your baseline is considered to be a heightened stress state
I think that’s commendable! Out of curiosity, did you find a tech job again?
I think this is both true and false in some senses. The whole point of the transformer and why it was so impactful is that it gave the model the ability to introspect on output in this way, and therefore achieve the sorts of results you've seen (that I've also seen), and in general a much more consistent output, and therefore one more likely to be factual, than previous types of generative model.

However, the way in which the author is correct is that there is still functionally one stream, one "thought process", and the introspection is very limited and well defined based on how the model is constructed. If you ask a human a hard question they can take longer thinking about it, and that's not something an LLM can do at all. o1 is one attempt to add further streams of thought as a way to address that limitation, so that the LLM can continue to think and weigh up options through multiple rounds of generation.
I got hit with a CVE spammer last year which forced me to re-release a library to fix a fake vulnerability that cannot be disputed in any way -- https://gist.github.com/6en6ar. They do nothing but post exploits where long strings purportedly take a long time to process -- because they are slow to construct! And even more fun, the example exploits often don't even compile.

I assumed it was a human, but I'm starting to wonder if this was an early CVE-farming AI bot.

The CVE process is very broken and extremely exploitable as a DoS against humans.
As much as me farting and you moving away is active communication.

It's cute, I like it, I'd tell my kid it.

But I don't think active communication is a useful way to describe every single process where one's action causes another's reaction.
Manhunt for CEO Killer Meets Unexpected Obstacle: Sympathy for the Gunman
This is very close to what the ruby REPL will accept.

I tried to paste in the kitchen sink - it didn't like dangling decimals and the comment format, everything else worked as expected.
What disease is that? Making more money every year?

Google revenue has only declined twice, and never by more than 3%.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...
I came back to revisit the article, but it's mysteriously disappeared.

Here's the Archive.org link for anyone who stumbles across it later: https://web.archive.org/web/20210918034921/http://timhulsize...
All shown in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
Ah, the era of people deleting random files on their computer that they "don't use"
True, but of the same importance, the speaker cannot be measured independently of the room in a home setup. You need an anechoic chamber, or at least a large and very quiet space. Even a decent size living room will alter the measurements considerably and of course materials matter too.

I have spent a lot of time measuring rooms and you can't underestimate how they can mess with frequencies, but it's also true that good speakers sound pretty good in almost any room, and bad ones will sound bad.
No one wanted to write code for the Knight’s product line. That was the main problem. Followed by p1272,1274,1276 disasters.