skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the optical light gathering ability of a full frame f/1.4 lens is slightly better than that of the Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8, and modern digital sensors have eclipsed 6x6 film in every respect, such as resolution, sensitivity, and indeed even dynamic range. Photo technology has in fact progressed a fair bit in the last half a century.

Of course, nothing can touch the light gathering ability of that Zeiss 50mm f/0.7, but then that lens wasn't very sharp anyway and modern digital sensors can go up to way higher ISO than possible with film while still making decent pictures.
One. Building a brand is hard enough and at least in the beginning you don’t want to get distracted (and confuse others) by ”we are from $company, you know the ones making $productWithATotallyDifferentName“.

Later you can then rename your holding to Alphabet or Meta.
if you want to see similar tricks applied in Python (with a JIT compiler for query-time optimization), take a look at this fun deck that I presented a long time ago: https://tuulos.github.io/sf-python-meetup-sep-2013

we were able to handle trillion+ datapoints with relatively modest machines - definitely a useful approach if you are ready to do some bit twiddling
if you make 100k a year that payout is 71 years worth of your wages. absurd.
Offline-first databases are a hard problem because there isn't just one copy of the database on the user's side, there are N copies - every browser tab or device on which the user can open the local database and make an edit. It's basically an AP multi-master database (= the same row can be edited at different nodes at the same time), and you likely cannot achieve good results without a database that natively supports multi-master operations.
1.5 billion over 15 plaintiffs does seem high. i was under the assumption a wrongful death would not reach 100 million often. so its kind of questionable that is he is paying out an average of 100 million per plaintiff for the torts he was found liable for.
Apple needs to enable local owner-authorized examination and backup of the iOS filesystem, for device recovery and forensic investigation. With the never-ending fixing of zero-day bugs in iOS, the only path to a clean iOS installation is DFU restore and data restore. At present, many manual steps are required to restore a device to its previous configuration. Owner-authorized filesystem access would enable root cause investigations of bugs/anomalies like this iMessage-iCloud sequence of cross-device events.
Profile guided optimizations are already a thing and don't need JITting your program.
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I’m an aging (60s) academic and I’ve found that the old assumption of our world offering a “life of ideas” that any talented person would want is no longer true. If you’re coming in now or came in in the past 30 years, it’s liters just a job. Not necessarily a bad job, but certainly not a calling.

The tenure system is necessary for it to function, because wages are so low relative to skill level and the job market is so unreliable, but it also makes things worse because the old hands mostly don’t fight evil changes (and there have been tons of evil changes recently) of only the young will be affected.

Of course, the current state of the US government and the rising anti intellectualism don’t help.
Why would more turnover imply more reference-checking?
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Prices in the nordics aren't that bad.
Yes! You have one on the tip of each finger. Just don't go too crazy because while they're rechargeable, they recharge very slowly.
Your perspective is very strange, as I want to be replaced by cheaper devs - or ideally, even machines, which would free us humans to work on other problems that machine can't work on yet.

> In fact, I do not care to be convinced otherwise, I am ideologically speaking completely opposed to any form of LLM or "AI".

Then could you try to convince me of your argument?

I don't see tech problems as worse or better than other problems like growing food, which we were fortunate to solve with industrialized farming and other technological breakthroughs like the Haber–Bosch process

Explain me why I should join your daydream!
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Is there an alternative that keeps the stage(/index) concept ?

I acknowedge that the inconsistent argument style looks clumsy when remembering `git log --name-only --oneline`. However, I value the workflow afforded by the stage: I can keep work for several tasks in my workspace until I am ready to commit them.

I've checked Fossil, Jujutsu, and Mercurial. Each disavows the stage. I understand that it takes more discipline (and I occasionally fail to adhere to that discipline). But, I'm not interested in the other features of a vcs if it forces me to work on only one thing at a time.
My experience was the opposite: I picked up HTML-based web design quite easily, but when CSS came along, it was so finicky that I was never able to make it reliably do what I wanted. Everything seemed to be connected to everything else by invisible springs, so that if you breathed on one thing a little funny, something unwanted would happen somewhere else. I ended up abandoning web design altogether rather than continue fighting with CSS.

With traditional HTML layout, I could just write out a document, and reasonably expect that it would come out looking right: but using CSS was a frustrating, trial-and-error process, where it was often easier to change my design to fit what the CSS was willing to do than to suffer along, wrestling with endless side-effects, trying to make something happen that would have been easy with tables.
Very interesting, I particularly enjoyed the handling of memory reduction with the Interned<T> comparison. How do you go about finding open source projects which expose fascinating data such as this one?
The whole clause is weird because Mozilla doesn't operate Firefox; the user does. So at face value, "you give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox" means you give Mozilla no rights, but obviously that's not the intent. Then they explicitly list a couple examples, but don't say the granted rights are limited to those examples, so the clause could mean practically anything.

I'm curious if any lawyers can comment on how courts would be likely to interpret the clause.
I'm pretty sure the major penalty is the lack of inline objects (thus requiring lots of pointer-chasing), rather than GC. GC will give you unpredictable performance but allocation has a penalty regardless of approach.

For purely array-based code, JIT is the only factor and Java can seriously compete with C/C++. It's impossible to be competitive with idiomatic Java code though.

C# has structs (value classes) if you bother to use them. Java has something allegedly similar with Project Valhalla, but my observation indicates they completely misunderstand the problem and their solution is worthless.
Both of those are real things that have real examples
Oh i think I saw an AvE video where they explained a cheap part being omitted resulted in this exact sort of problem.
I think many of these folks like the idea of drone delivery as long as it's not THEIR house next to the droneport
> You're amazing.

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to check out mmar.

> But without port-forwarding on the router, running mmar on the server PC I can see the tunnel to port 8080 on your subdomain, but have not had any luck reaching the VLC media from that address on the web.

I haven't tested HTTP streaming using mmar, however taking a look at the logs, I can see a bunch of i/o timeouts, so it's likely the case the HTTP streaming doesn't work properly with mmar currently.

Do you have any suggestions off the top of your head for a small project that has HTTP streaming that I can run locally to test? If not, that's fine, I can figure something out to reproduce the issue.
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> expect users to connect to the service using multiple devices (clients).

But probably using only one device at a time by a single user?

My thought, and it is just a thought, here is that instead of trying to provide a GENERAL solution for all kinds of data-update patterns, it is often possible to think in terms of what my current application specifically needs. It is easier to come up with such a solution with SQLite per app because SQLite is so "lite".

I can't speak for the "general solution" except to say that many times you don't need an all-encompassing general solution, just a solution for your current app.
OK, let me be more clear, because I'm not sure what you're arguing against.

If the process in the brain is modellable at all, then it is certainly a model with at a minimum many billions of parameters. Your list of additional parameters if anything supports that rather than arguing against it. If you want to argue with that contention, I think you need to argue that the process isn't modellable, which if you want to talk about burden of proof, would place a huge burden on you. But maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that it's ludicrous to say we're using as many as billions of parameters, but perhaps you're trying to say that billions is obviously far too small, in which case I agree.

My second point, which is that there's a live theory that prediction may be a core element of our consciousness was intended as an interesting aside, I don't know how it will stand the test of time and I certainly don't know if its correct or not, I intended only to use it to prove that the things you seem to think are obvious are not in fact obvious to everyone.

For example, that big list of things that you are using as an argument against prediction doesn't work at all because you don't know whether they are implemented via a predictive process in the brain or not.

It feels that rather than arguing against modellability or large numbers of parameters or prediction you're arguing against the notion that the human brain is exactly an llm, which is an idea so obviously true I don't think anyone actually disagrees with it.
Man.....I'm all for good executive pay usually, but this is absurd.
Right. I do. The US buys a lot of it, and it is cheap.

As for Europe, you are right, partially it's a matter of a mindset, however there are objective reasons for expensive energy. France's access to cheap uranium is almost gone. Europe refuses to sign long-term russian gas delivery contracts and are buying spot which costs arm and leg (whatever is left of it). German power plants are shuttered. LNG imported from the US is very expensive.

Some German CEOs (I think Volkswagen if I recall correctly) said recently that Germany offers no competitive advantage these days. I agree.

Where do you think manufacturing will go? Energy is everything.
I guess my issue is more that I feel like you’re looking in the wrong direction here. Imo the government’s behavior, which I don’t think is quite as egregious as you’re making it out to be, is primarily downstream from other things (notably the interests of money). I asked that question because I don’t think that getting rid of the federal government would help people very much at all.
Still waiting for Houston Police Department to finish entering 6.2 years worth of crime statistics entailing over 240,000 incidents into the databases.

So underreporting of crime is self evident and not limited to just one city.

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Agreed. I work for a company that has separate names. Confuses customers and prospects.
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I disagree. Stern corporate demeanor is a disadvantageous to a group that is trying to show personality.
This sounds like some platitude out of a facebooks comment section.
I think there are a few fallacies at play here:

1. Anthropomorphizing the kind of “influence” and “learning” these tools are doing, which is quite unrelated to the human process

2. Underrepresenting the massive differences in scale when comparing the human process of learning vs. the massive data centers training the AI models

3. Ignoring that this isn’t just about influence, it’s about the fact that the models would not exist at all, if not for the work of the artists it was trained on
I'm not sure how common it is, but I know I had a good job offer at Amex rescinded because I lied on my resume about having an Associates Degree [1]. I don't blame them for rescinding it, I had lied about it and I can't really get mad at them just because they found out.

So at least one company does check.

[1] I do have a completed bachelors now...honest!
A) Agreed! B) So I guess the argument here is that this doesn't apply to AI music. I think that if someone really pours their soul into the lyrics of a song and regenerates/experiments with prompts until it's just right, and maybe even contributes a melody or starting point that's still a human creating art and expressing themselves. It's definitely not as difficult as creating a song from scratch, but I've been told similar arguments were made regarding whether photography was art when that became a thing.

btw, if the user of the AI doesn't do any of the above then I think the US copyright office says it can't be copyrighted in the first place (so no profiting for them anyway).
So a fun story about how interning numbers can go wrong: When compiling the apple's ui designs from the xml based xib to a binary nib, their compiler uses lots of interning. It's pretty cool for avoiding 20 copies of an empty string for example. But then they messed up and did the same thing with numbers while ignoring the type... Which means if you have a value 5.0 as a size somewhere, then your sequentially assigned ids will be: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.0, 6,...
Beating them to being first at what? The first to sink taxpayer resources into buying the latest meme coin? The first to provide a taxpayer funded bailout for crypto-bros? This is precisely the sort of 'waste and corruption' that the new administration should be getting away from, not diving into.
It never ceases to amaze me how good computer people are at solving problems which are not problems (readability of serialized representation) at the expense of multiple orders of magnitude more compute and storage.
Many VMs do. The JVM was one of the first to do this extensively - all strings are in a "constant pool" as part of the .class format, and then they're referenced by index in instructions. Python does it for strings that appear in source code, and you can force it for runtime data with sys.intern().
Hi Tomte, any background on why you linked this paper?
> Coops are basically geared toward mediocre success - because there's really no pressure to risk aiming for amazing/startup-style success.

I'm just straight-up offended at this. Co-ops are the job most people want. What you refer to as "amazing success" is dismantling our society and the people who run them appear to struggle to empathize with other humans.

Granted, i'm sure coops can be equally antisocial and misanthropic. But growth surely isn't what we want to be optimizing for.
Congrats on the launch!

Also question: your writing makes you seem quite bilingual and fluent in English. Given this, would you consider yourself a user of your own product? Do you often find yourself needing to use it? It strikes me that the main users would be people who struggle with English specifically. Though I guess with recent innovations in China, potentially more English speakers will start needing to translate from Chinese.
Our enemies can have their money stolen by hackers. Our enemies can have inefficient transactions. That would be fantastic. Instead, our enemies have basically outlawed cryptocurrencies among their citizens to prevent them from getting scammed and then steal them from gullible Americans to fund their anti-American schemes. Now the US taxpayer is propping up these governments.
Philosophy is only useful for generating questions anyway, so the harm is minimized - but yes, it's not something you should base your worldview on.
I don't think it meets your ask of "solve this particularly well" but the unlimited plans in video that I am familiar with have a fast/slow queue system. This effectively limits the plan. It seems, as well, that these kind of queue systems are tiered. So you can have N number of fast queued items, X number of tier one slow queue, Y number of tier two slow queue, etc. On the backend this is probably just some kind of weighted priority queue where the number of requests in some time duration determines some weight scaling factor.
Nah, chances are the guy was born rich. These kind of management positions in Germany are reserved for rich people. In fact according to his bio it appears that he went from doing a PhD in IT to being head of a department at SAP and then a few years later he is CTO. That's connections and nepotism, and you don't get those connections without being already rich.
You either fight far away or you fight at home.

That's just the sort of macho thinking that has caused so many military endeavors to fail throughout history. Maybe the politics is about soundbites like that one? I don't know? I'm not a politician. But the actual prosecution of a military conflict is about outcomes. Not soundbites.

Will there be a good outcome or not?

I mean, if it makes you feel any better, you can think of it this way. Our past has taught us that, without question, it is best to fight far away, but only after an enemy has been weakened by others.

I know how that sounds to many non-US citizens. But I'm just being honest about how the thinking in America has developed historically.
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I also believe there is a difference of expectations. The legacy system is often written to work with all edge cases that pop up, and in government software also to conform to the law.

If you don't know the requirements you are bound to see something that is inefficient.
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Pure folly. Ukraine is wrecked. Continuing the war will make things worse, especially for Ukraine. For the love of Ukraine support the end of this War.

I agree that Trump and Vance treated Zenlenskyy disgracefully. Ukraine has been led on by the USA (under Biden et al) and the UK. Now Europe wants to join in. This is dangerous. Russia is a nuclear power. The West has to accept defeat and move on.

Helping the Ukrainians would be ending this War and helping them to rebuild. Lets do that.
Yeah. This is going to be bad. This retraction is driven by the stark drop-off in consumer sentiment. Intelligent billionaires like Buffet, etc., take that into consideration. You know, all that big-brained macroeconomy thing, like IS-LM curves. Grown-up stuff of real economists.

Too-cool-for-school sociopathic Pepe avatar tech dudebros don't know how the actual economy works, and worse, don't care.

World Beware.
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Everyone who bought into neoliberalism in the 80s is now experiencing economies that are mysteriously failing to thrive. Correlation isn't cause, except when it is.
That's great; it's always good to hear that someone who contributed so much value was able to get paid something for it.

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Apple is known for their refusal to fix bugs.

One example where it is almost 2 years since they "made" a fix, but have not yet released it.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545#c32