skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Words have valence, and valence reflects the state of emotional being of the user. This model appears to understand that better and responds like it’s in a therapeutic conversation and not composing an essay or article.

Perhaps they are/were going for stealth therapy-bot with this.
> This is very regionally-dependent.

Exactly, and so is a mortgage to home equity belief system. That's the point. Be objective.
I agree up to a certain scale. I've managed a large Nomad/Consul setup (multiple clusters, geographically separated), and it was nothing but a nightmare. I believe fly.io had a similar experience.
They keep saying this about crypto too and yet there's still no legitimate use in sight.
This Is Marina Safeway.
What's the Deal with (Ruby) Ractors?
The headline and section: "Dystopian and Social Concerns about AI Features" are interesting. It's roughly true... but somehow that broad statement seems minimize the point discussed.

I'd headline that thread as "Concerns about output tone". There were comments about dystopian implications of tone, marketing implications of tone and implementation issues of tone.

Of course, that I can comment about the fine-points of an AI summary shows it's made progress. But there's a lot riding on how much progress these things can make and what sort. So it's still worth looking at.
Reshaped functional connectivity gradients in acute ischemic stroke
Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
Definitely seems like a drug problem to me. He seems strung out of his mind if this article's sourcing is correct: https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-t...
It can never be just reasoning, right? Reasoning is the multiplier on some base model, and surely no amount of reasoning on top of something like gpt-2 will get you o1.

This model is too expensive right now, but as compute gets cheaper — and we have to keep in mind, that it will — having a better base to multiply with will enable things that just more thinking won't.
> a standard persistent key/value store()*

systemd-kvdb
I'm working on a little Poatgres graph db project. The querying and table structure is much simpler for the same task:

https://memelang.net/03/
https://github.com/memelang-net/memesql3
Lucid was a strong inspiration for my programming language Intonal, particularly the “fby” operator, which took over ~5 years of my life. Probably going to open source it soon
This stuff is decades old. It's completely legitimate that they may simply have lost the source code during a server migration or whatnot.
The article seems to make an assumption that the application backend is in the same datacenter as the load balancer, which is not necessarily true: people often put their load balancers at the network edge (which helps reduce latency when the response is cached), or just outsource those to a CDN vendor.

> In addition to the low roundtrip time, the connections between your load balancer and application server likely have a very long lifetime, hence don’t suffer from TCP slow start as much, and that’s assuming your operating system hasn’t been tuned to disable slow start entirely, which is very common on servers.

A single HTTP/1.1 connection can only process one request at a time (unless you attempt HTTP pipelining), so if you have N persistent TCP connections to the backend, you can only handle N concurrent requests. Since all of those connections are long-lived and are sending at the same time, if you make N very large, you will eventually run into TCP congestion control convergence issues.

Also, I don't understand why the author believes HTTP/2 is less debuggable than HTTP/1; curl and Wireshark work equally well with both.
I was studying for my MSc in CS some 25 years ago. Our curriculum included both automata/formal languages (multiple courses over multiple semesters) and parallel programming.

The latter course (a) was built on a mathematical formalism that had been developed at the university proper and not used anywhere else, (b) used PVM: <https://www.netlib.org/pvm3/>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Virtual_Machine>, for labs.

Since then, I've repeatedly felt that I've seriously benefited from my formal languages courses, while the same couldn't be said about my parallel programming studies. PVM is dead technology (I think it must have counted as "nearly dead" right when we were using it). And the only aspect I recall about the formal parallel stuff is that it resembles nothing that I've read or seen about distributed and/or concurrent programming ever since.

A funny old memory regarding PVM. (This was a time when we used landlines with 56 kbit/s modems and pppd to dial in to university servers.) I bought a cheap second computer just so I could actually "distribute" PVM over a "cluster". For connecting both machines, I used linux's PLIP implementation. I didn't have money for two ethernet cards. IIRC, PLIP allowed for 40 kbyte/s transfers! <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Line_Internet_Protoco...>
The scientific method is currently our best method to try to remove our biases and move towards the truth. It's certainly not perfect (funding can introduce systemic biases and can direct research away from certain topics), but it's so much better than the alternatives.

There's also the issue of people/scientists not being willing to adjust their beliefs when presented with new information. Science advances funeral by funeral
Probably depends how indie/small your studio is.
// Lets discuss how Windows is a flaming pile of poo. I'm now casting the header

// directly into the structure, because its the one I want, and this is just how

// its done. I hate Windows. - jkmcd

DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME *vol = (DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME*) (hdr);

// @todo - Yikes. This could cause us all kinds of pain. I don't really want
// to even think about the stink this could cause us.

TheFileSystem->unloadMusicFilesFromCD(vol->dbcv_unitmask);

return TRUE;
Did you intend to reference "It's a wonderful life?" When I read your comment I imagine a tiny child in Jimmy Stewart's arms, exclaiming the joys of capitalism ;-)
Terraform is not OSS, it switched to a source-available license over a year ago.

OpenTofu[0] is the OSS fork though.

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu

Disclaimer: involved with OpenTofu
Browsers started ignoring the 2 connection limit on H/1.x long before H2 came along
how prescient they were!

"Nationalism will bring us victory!"

"China will grow larger"
If such a fork happens, I propose the new name be either J-8 or L-10.
Been running nextcloud on a raspberry pi 4 on prem for a very small business <5 users for about 3-4 years ish. It’s faster than most clouds because it’s local. I’ve had very little trouble with it. Don’t tend to use much the features apart from files sync though.
Ohhh. Actually, quite a lot of NV3s were sold...You can view that just from Nvidia's revenue totals, and reviews at the time. Note the standards for image quality increased very quickly, so it was described as decent in 1997, but awful in 1999.
I have it at pro.
Nope! All the processing is done on the spinning wheel. The microcontroller is on one of the arms and it's using wifi for streaming data. The battery is taped to the inner hub.
Can't replicate, for what it's worth. I subscribe to multiple Substacks and don't get any emails from them other than posts from those subscriptions.
The fossil fuel industry is trying to keep buildings hooked on gas
I’m finding that the basic backend functionality of Pulumi and Terraform managed cloud is fairly easy to build (especially Terraform, I can’t quite believe how absurdly simple their cloud is…)
The only part of washing dishes that was stressful was the amount of money washing dishes paid me. The job itself had great hours and I could zone out washing dishes and not worry about things except running out of dishes to wash.
Why frequent monitoring decreases perceptions of progress
People forget that Elon impulse bought twitter and tried to reverse the deal through the bogus bot angle [1]. The only way in which the acquisition has been a success is as a way to force his political agenda.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-...
If you want this post to be a haiku, and you publish it in your collection of haikus so labeled, I would be hard pressed to argue otherwise. Fountain [1] is a sculpture because Duchamp placed it a fine art exhibit and labeled it so ("by the artist's act of choice").

Surely, this post is an avante garde example, defying most of the characteristics associated with haikus in form. It can definitively be said to not have the 5-7-5 pattern of traditional Japanese haiku, but in fact all English language haiku deviates from traditional Japanese haiku (a 17 on haiku in Japanese is typically only 12 syllables (note the "typically")).

So you're doing something new and experimental with the form. We can debate the artistic merit, the value of such an experiment. We can argue about what you mean by labeling this a haiku, what message you are trying to convey in the experience of the post. We can even question the sincerity of your motives. But I don't think it's totally invalid, I don't think it can be rejected in the same sense we can reject 2+2=5.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
Not commodity at all! Unless you count custom PCB and circuit layout "commodity". Also, I suspect mine is lighter than the MonkeyLectric since it doesn't have any supporting backing or weatherproofing. It's just raw PCB zip-tied to the spokes.
For the essential functions, yes. Even some control of the infotainment system is replicated on the steering wheel.
> This will kill baseline JIT performance.

You say that and then you describe exactly what I would have used as a solution: copy and patch.

Just have the checker check the templates that the baseline JIT is stitching together and then have a safe way to ask for the prechecked templates to be stitched together.

Bunch of details in getting that right obviously, but it doesn’t seem impossible.
Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action
This is probably inaccurate, but it seemed like they wrote it off as a safe move, with their main competitor, Pulumi, getting away with it.

However, to play devil's advocate, the number of Terraform resources is a (slightly weak) predictor for resource consumption. Every resource necessitates API calls that consume compute resources. So, if you're offering a "cloud" service that executes Terraform, it's probably a decent way to scale costs appropriately.

I hate it, though. It's user-hostile and forces people to adopt anti-patterns to limit costs.
Execs are employees, were they really exempt from the lockout? Seems unethical.
Okay, but the C standard does allow exactly that for void*.
I don’t think that’s how it works…
If you want to stream data inside a HTTP body (of any protocol), then the ReadableStream/WritableStream APIs would be the appropriate APIs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API) - however at least in the past they have not been fully standardized and implemented by browsers. Not sure what the latest state is.

WebTransport is a bit different - it offers raw QUIC streams that are running concurrently with the requests/streams that carry the HTTP/3 requests on shared underlying HTTP/3 connections and it also offers a datagram API.
How did you draw the connection between being babysat and drugs?
This is kinda funny too: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/0dc09bb...
Tesla would in principle be so much better off without the connection to Musk and all the bad publicity that results, even without him constantly siphoning value from the company. However, if they were able to somehow get rid of him now, there'd be the potential retribution from the US government to worry about.
The 4k remaster of the conversation that came out in theatres was so good. I hadn’t seen it before and I was blown away by the end. Super recommend people go to the cinema these days they are doing lots of 4k remasters of classics like this.
Selling as a kit would be cool but the weatherproofing would be difficult to get right I think. Lots more is needed to be done to get it rugged enough for consumer use.

Also, all 168 LED's were hand soldered here but I'd need to get them machine laid out and soldered if selling as a kit.
I'm personally done with watching new TV shows. They take way to long to get to the point. So much filler time from networks trying to maximize minutes on their platform. Will only be watching old TV shows or watching movies
Two pages is fine. More than three and people will start to roll their eyes
This work is great. May I ask the maximum token length supported by this model? During inference, do we process the maximum token length directly? in other words, what is the runtime estimate for different prompt length and different output length?
Yes even 'simple' devices these days will have devices (ADC/SPI etc) running in parallel often using DMA, multiple semi-independent clocks, possibly nested interrupts etc. Oh and the UART for some reason always, always has bugs, so hopefully you're using multiple levels of error checking.
Has anyone done something like this with a very large dataset? Hundreds of millions of rows.
There is an unfortunate overloaded of the terms relational and relationships in relational databases.

Relationships is association between relations/tables, parent-child, node/edge etc, depending on model, extensions etc..

There are three basic models of databases:

model name. | basic data structure
-----------------------------------
relational | tables
hierarchical | trees
network | graph

A "relational" in RDBMS and Codd's rules is just a table data structure with some additional rules.

Part of those rules are a named table, with named and typed attributes (columns) with data in the form of rows of tuples.

PgVector is nearest neighbor search for tuple values, often from a single table/relation while PgRouting is graph traversal for relational data.

There is a bit more to that and in the relational model the data is independent of the schema, and no RDBMS is pure.

It is possibly helpful to realize that pgvector is about finding neighbors among tuples, in that relation/table, and that it is very different from graph traversal.
Five years ago I was absolutely frustrated with the state of Graph databases and libraries and tried putting several non-Graph DBMSs behind a NetworkX-like Python interface <https://github.com/unum-cloud/NetworkXum>.

When benchmarked, Neo4J crashed on every graph I’ve tried <https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2020-11-12-graphs>, making SQLite and Postgres much more viable options even for network-processing workloads. So I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people actually use pgRouting and Supabase in that setting.

With the rise of Postgres-compatible I’m wondering if it’s worth refreshing the project. Similarly, there are now more Graph DBs like MemGraph compatible with CYPHER, which should probably work much better than Neo4J.
This Musk fellow seems like quite the loose cannon.
I’ve been using Yaak for a few weeks now and it’s great.

I bounce around API clients a lot because the UX just never feels right, they always get in the way or start to feel clunky sooner or later.

With Yaak it feels natural, it’s clean and simple and is a joy to use.

I’m looking forward to seeing it grow and improve further.

I just hope as its feature set grows it can hold on to that simplicity. Hopefully the plugin system can be used to bridge any gaps without overloading the main app.
(use-package exec-path-from-shell
:demand t
:config
(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
(exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "PATH"))
I can only imagine this will be thrown out of court unless they're is some gross misconduct not described in the article.

That some people have disabilities is a fact of life.
One of those places (like HP, Oracle and Broadcom, and also CA back in the day) where once good companies go to die.
No, because Red Alert 2 Remaster exists...
If you use the "retry" functionality in ChatGPT enough, you will notice this happens basically all the time.
You should start an If/else from the else case and use unless keyword. { return 1; } unless 8 == 3 { return 2 }
"it only needs to be good enough" there are tons of productive uses for them. Reliable, much less. But productive? Tons
Their products are really good. Others might have better numbers, the same way a McLaren can be faster than a 911, but the 911 is a much more pleasant drive.
Speed of acceptance of mission failure 2017 -> 2025.

Thatsenough time to circulate all personal , if you fire 10% every year.
I can't overstate how important it is that a real bookmark stores itself by simply tucking it somewhere else in the book while I'm reading. A titanium dongle with a battery in it can't beat that for UX....
No browser I'm aware of is planning on allowing the request and response bodies to be streamed simultaneously for the same request using ReadableStream and WriteableStream. When using streaming request bodies, you have to set the request explicitly to half-duplex.

Anyways, yes, this is technically true, but the streaming semantics are not really that well-defined for HTTP/1.1, probably because it was simply never envisioned. The HTTP/1.1 request and response were viewed as unary entities and the fact that their contents were streamed was mostly an implementation detail. Most HTTP/1.1 software, not just browsers, ultimately treat the requests and responses of HTTP as different and distinct phases. For most uses of HTTP, this makes sense. e.g. for a form post, the entire request entity is going to need to be read before the status can possibly be known.

Even if we do allow bidirectional full-duplex streaming over HTTP/1.1, it will block an entire TCP connection for a given hostname, since HTTP/1.1 is not multiplexed. This is true even if the connection isn't particularly busy. Obviously, this is still an issue even with long-polling, but that's all the more reason why HTTP/2 is simply nicer.

NGINX may always be stuck in an old school HTTP/1 mindset, but modern software like Envoy shows a lot of promise for how architecting around HTTP/2 can work and bring advantages while remaining fully backwards compatible with HTTP/1 software.
Honestly it's a bit of a shame because there's so many little things that SharePoint does right that I immediately miss when going to another product. Lists alone, much less the combined portfolio of Lists + Pages + Power automate is such an amazing power user combination that I can't find a viable replacement for in GSuite/Atlassian/virtually anywhere else. It really is too bad that the core Document Libraries module is so lacking in performance.
> The investors would want a return on their investment soon

Investors have no say on how the company is run at this stage and frankly no right to anything from Kagi until they get a company valuation from selling actual shares. That's how SAFE notes work. And the founder will probably still have more shares than all VC investors combined after that.

Also, literally everything you use in daily life is made by companies who have investor backing. They are people, just like you. Some are greedy without limit just like most people, some just want to invest in quality companies with healthy business models. That's a proven concept for long-term returns.
> Who here has another language that they knew pretty well before learning Python? (most hands go up) Great! Terrific! That’s a superpower you have that I can never have. I can never unlearn Python, become fluent in another language, and then learn Python again. You have this perspective that I can’t have.

It felt a little strange to read this. I knew many languages "pretty well" (or would have said so at the time) before Python, but it's been my primary programming language pretty much the entire time since I first picked it up 20 years ago. So I do have that perspective (I also spend a fair amount of time thinking about PL design in the abstract), but I don't feel "PSL" at all.

> Does the value stored in `a` know the name of that variable?

Okay, I'm stumped - in what other language would it "know" (I assume this means automatically recording the string "a" as part of the object's state in some way)? Or is this just referring to debugging information added in some environments?

> Python = is like Java, it’s always a reference and never a copy (which it is by default in C++).

Java has primitive types, for which it is a copy. But it's more accurate IMO to attribute this as a property of names, rather than a property of assignment. Python's names (and most Java values, and some C# values) have reference semantics. Having understood that properly, saying that Python (like Java) is "pass by assignment" then just follows naturally, and all the usual confusion around this point vanishes. Passing an argument to a function is simply assigning it to the corresponding parameter. (C++'s idea of "references" in the type system is far more complex IMO - e.g. https://langdev.stackexchange.com/q/3798/_/3807#3807 .)

> We have both reference counting and garbage collection in Python.

This is strange phrasing, because reference counting is a garbage collection strategy. I assume that here "garbage collection" is meant to refer to mark-and-sweep etc. strategies that operate in a separate pass, timed independently of the explicit code. But also, the reference-counting system is a CPython implementation detail. (Although it does look like PyPy tries to emulate that, at least: https://doc.pypy.org/en/default/discussion/rawrefcount.html )

> I’ll translate this one to the transcript later - for now you’ll have to watch it because the visual is important: explicit super.

Raymond Hettinger's video is also a useful reference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOglTERPEo

> It takes less characters in Python!

This checks out, but it would be fairer to show what it looks like on the declaration side rather than just the usage side.
Quanta raises $4.7M for AI accounting software
The timing seems weird. Did Elon know the deal was about to fall through and tweeted out of sour grapes?
Yep. You're thinking of TFE. Workspaces and Stacks are the the advertised method for building composable infra.
Yeah, full color simulated iee nimo tube displays with a more modern pin interface via arduino![1]

Post script compatible flip dots using an arduino! [2]

inexpensive replacements for rare fiber optic displays! [3]

easy way to make flexled utf compliant![4]

link spreadsheet cells to corresponding set of fiber flip-dot buttons[5]/[6].
for the more turing complete / engineering minded[7]/[8]

Ok, enough normal Babbage about Apes, Taylor, and Laplace.

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[1] : iee nimo tube display : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5bMWp9MY3Bc

[2] : http://hackaday.io/project/159415/gallery#6040e2625adb34d5f6...

[3] : super rare fiber-optic displays : http://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gDhewwJNK0A&t=442

[4] flexled : https://hackaday.com/2019/07/09/flexled-is-a-unique-take-on-...

[5] picture to excel : https://leondrolio.com/apps/pixel-spreadsheet/

[6] pdfscale : https://github.com/tavinus/pdfScale

[7] : http://jfrohnhofen.github.io/metamaterial-mechanisms/

[8] : 'mov' on x86 : https://esoteric.codes/blog/movfuscator-and-reductio (vs. ast tree / linear compilation).