skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds promising indeed. So many cellphone & other chips have ml accelerators. Neither WebGPU nor wasm are a great fit for this hardware. If this tech proves to be quality, using it as an intermediary layer on the web could open up a lot of potential uses of this hardware!

Also worth pointing out IEEE intends to target wasm, vulkan/spir-v (webgpu's wgsl isn't entirely unrelated but would take work). So if you don't have ml on your system you still have good targetting options. If the web platform gets support, the browser could internally target vulkan as a baseline.

I'm curious how different the training vs inference needs are, and whether these tools can adequately serve both.
Quite an interesting space and challenging problems you guys are about to solve. Excited to know more. Applied through your careers page.
What is culturally seen as looking nice may change over the years, but the fact that looking as nice as possible even if casual helps you in the workplace and life never really changed. We have sort of leaned into looking like you aren't trying in the last decade, but the core principle never really changed.
The parents realized I'd still quietly read without the gameboy, plus I'd already been given rechargeable batteries.
let's mapreduce search

map search-term to several search engine (using curl, headless browser and whatnot)

then reduce / filter the results, removing ads etc, weighing duplicates more and punish irrelevants

the search-result is then piped to your favorite browser
Well, not really. I have one too, and I can't imagine the crank being very usable if there was any resistance at all, beyond the tiny bit of friction present to stop it swinging on its own.
Yes, it seems like a serious concern.
Fair, thank you for pointing that out. The idea of paying per query for a search engine seems so alien to me that I just skipped over this option.
i run a startup. I would be extremely willing to join a shared blacklist API. If this comment gets votes, I will make a service and populate it with data from our end.
Their target market is people who don't want ads and don't want their search behavior sold to third parties. Having better (or at least similar) search quality is certainly a requirement, but that's not really what people are paying for.

Search privacy may not be something you care about, and that's fine, but it seems like Kagi may have found a market that can sustain their model.
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>>How does it "failed" for you ?

It generated ~0.01% of what was intended. The task is take an object from one type of images and insert it instead of another object from another thematic category of images. It tried to insert some very few elements of the first object alongside that another object, but not instead of it (didn't fully replaced it). And in one 3D render it inserted a graphical symbolic representation of this first object, rather than the object itself.
I have open a few bigger PDF files with Sumatra. It is insanely fast, it starts insanely fast. Or maybe Sumatra is just normal, we got used to dealing with crappy, slow, bloated software "because RAM and CPU is cheap" and forgot that stuff can work so good.
at least not in a direct way :)
Countries selling making bad deals when selling off their resources is of course not a good thing, but I'd rather risk that happening than give the US or any one central entity even more power to dictate who can or cannot have an online presence.

At least with domain names the countries in question could technically take the TLD back even if it would be a legal shitstorm - not so much with physical resources that have been removed.
I don't think people do know it - or even if they know it rationally, some low-level part of their brain thinks it's all real.
That's not how the legal system works. The other party would claim that you are, the courts would believe them, and it'd be on you to deal with it. "It's not feasible" won't wash - especially if you don't spend tens of thousands on your defense.
Which question isn’t clear?
Ask HN: Xcode 14.3 Beta 2 disables x86 builds for older Xcode versions?
Since I installed Xcode 14.3 Beta 2 I cannot build x86 simulator binaries even with Xcode 14.2. Uninstalling Xcode 14.3 Beta 2 and reinstalling Xcode 14.2 didn't fix it either. All simulator builds are now arm64 and fail to link to third party libraries only available for x86 simulator.

Can anyone confirm? Is there a fix?
However, insect hotels should be cleaned (emptied out) periodically or they can harbor viruses/bacteria and contaminate more insects.
Also, they broke their promise from last year, saying that they'd grandfather-in all early adopters, as long as they don't cancel:

If such change to Individual plans is to occur, we plan to grandfather-in all early adopters (meaning all current and future paid customers, up until this change) allowing them to keep their existing subscription price as long as they don’t cancel it.

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#futur...

Now they changed it to only the current billing period.
It's not clear to me from that article, what the supposed crime the USPIS committed here. Maybe I'm butchering the reading, but it sounds like they looked for, and read public Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc posts by extremists, looking for threats made against the USPS; their buildings and their workers, the hard working mailmen and women who deliver the mail, and also the mail itself. which like, good? That's literally their job! I know ACAB and all but like, be real. If you're making a plan, in public, to commit violent crimes against mail carriers, then shouldn't the cops investigate? Instead of waiting for someone to shoot up a post office and then realizing they left a cry for help and warning signs after they've already committed their henious act?

Am I just totally misunderstanding the situation here?
And Paint.NET.
Show HN: Dixit – Semantic search from quotation database
[LLM-based semantic search meets historical quotes]
Hello HN,

Want to sound smart, impress a date, get the right quotation to introduce this essay? Dixit lets you type an idea, and searches for historical quotations that roughly convey the the same idea, but probably in a cooler formulation + with the authority stamp of someone who has a Wikipedia page.

I built it over the 3 last weekends (and a few nights). It was quite fun! Dixit uses 25,000 quotations, a light language model from HuggingFace hub, Django, Railway server, and some CSS animations that I find cool. The code is available at http://github.com/A-Roucher/dixit.

Next thing I'll do is keep improving the database to remove some quotes and add many more. Please don't hesitate to propose improvements!
> is it actually possible to be controversial

This may be unintentional, but I find there’s a meaningful difference between having/making controversial opinions/ideas/statements and being controversial.

The former is (IMO) an important part of a tolerant and thinking society. The latter feels to me like attention seeking.
Cool, something like this is definitely needed. Now it just needs vbulletin and xenforo.
I don't get why you'd consider this a "bait and switch". It seems pretty unsurprising to me that a company testing out an uncommon, unproven business model would get the pricing wrong on the first attempt.

Regardless, it's not like they're the only game in town, or that you're locked in to some long-term contract with them. If you don't like the new pricing, cancel and go back to an ad-supported/data-mining-supported search engine.
Counting on my RISC-V FPGA CPU
In September they said:

If such change to Individual plans is to occur, we plan to grandfather-in all early adopters (meaning all current and future paid customers, up until this change) allowing them to keep their existing subscription price as long as they don’t cancel it.

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#futur...

So they changed the pricing terms.
I hope I'm mistaken, but it seems the plan is to build and open the middle bit without a through connection to San Francisco or Los Angeles, and the connections aren't even approved yet.

Do they forecast much demand on the middle bit alone?

Britain's current high speed rail project has been criticised for rising costs, but at least they have the sense to build the part that will generate the most revenue first (London to Birmingham) even if it means politically appealing investment north of Birmingham has to wait.
Methinks the inventor had the right idea with the potato name but they should go all-in and charge the potato with another potato

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project...
Who are you kidding? Most engineers don't know what and who they are designing and building for. Engineers sticking together? These are the same folks that fork over every microaggression to release a command-line tool that did the same thing the last three releases did except it’s not rewritten in Rust.
Would you rather take the slower form of travel? If it's a nine hour flight, that could be over the ocean, so days instead of hours to get there.
Paint.NET is another must have for me. I do have Photoshop installed but for some very simple things I don't have to load Photoshop.
It depends on the things you want to say and where you say them. In most countries, even the US, free speech has limitations.

If you stay within the law you are totally fine to say whatever you want, but it's a fuck around and find out situation, there might be consequences. If you say wild shit at work your employer might rethink your position, if you say wild shit to your friends they might not appreciate your company anymore, if you say wild shit online the platform might remove it. This is imo fair, you get to make your decisions, others can make theirs.

"Questioning a narrative" sounds innocent, but can certainly be used in hateful and malicious ways. The same rules apply; you can likely say it, but people might not appreciate it, and that's ok.

Often "I want to say controversial things" is a way to say "I want to say hateful things". The tolerance for hate speech is decreasing and hopefully will decrease further, which is great. If that applies to your situation (and I'm not saying it does), I suggest you question your narrative a bit more.

If it's not about hate speech you can absolutely discuss controversial takes, given that the other people are willing to hear about them and you have some decent arguments to back them up. I have plenty of controversial coding and design takes, nobody ever even tried to censor me, and some even agree!
Patterns – A collection of code snippets to help you optimize your web projects
Why does it need to be economically viable? Is the US interstate system economically viable? We don't charge for the use of the interstate system at all. In an ideal world we'd run all train/bus infrastructure free of use as well. Transportation is a common good.
I searched for porn, programming, computer science and anything computer related in that order.
Companies don't want to support internal products with in-house resources that cost too much when they can get it cheaper from contractor or vendor or opensource.
And that's really the sad thing. If this pricing is too high for the business to be viable, it suggests that people would rather participate in surveillance capitalism than pay for privacy.
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Mac Ventura only allows for "App store and identified developers". Meaning the application must be signed with an apple developer cert to go through gatekeeper.
This like a great step to moving DL away from Nvidia chokehold. Given large LLMs can take upto few cents per token in cloud Nvidia GPUs, this looks like a great way to bring the cost down
While I'd never heard of the language or compiler before, so unless you want a title that covers the blog post, I don't know how you want to get rid of your objections.
Not the capabilities, the results.

One one hand I support authors' rights to place restrictions on their art for a limited time. (Not the current forever + 75 years.) So let them draw whatever lines they want in the sand.

Because otherwise there's no general good way to delineate generative AI from other tools. It's a very fast magic brush. (You might have seen timelapse videos of artists do a digital painting. It's already pretty magical. Especially to me, because I can't even draw to eggs to match.)
Also, looking at their own performance numbers, it appears that all of this only managed to reduce the character insertion latency by 21% when compared to CLion. That's still useful, but maybe not even noticeable to the user.
However, the Martian dream dies the moment they find out there are other worlds with biospheres not named Earth that they can migrate to. Particularly one named Laconia. The problem with Mars in the Expanse is they never got around to terraforming the surface. That and the military culture.

In the books, Holden says that not a single blade of grass grows outdoors on the surface. But Earth, despite its pollution and massive population, still grows tons of things that don't grow anywhere else. It's hard to understand just how fertile our planet remains. Bobby is dazzled sitting by the polluted harbor, hearing a sea gall flying overhead. Mars only has underground zoos and farms.
You can get similiar process as Heroku (just push to github repo and everything automagically deploys) on Azure using App Services. The problem is there is no free tier anymore, although i didn't really look up exact prices. There are plenty of very basic tutorials in official Microsoft documentation, if you search for stuff like "how to deploy .Net core app on azure" you surely find some tutorials that go through whole process from scaffolding basic project to running it in the cloud.
And if you go all the way down the rabbit hole, oh shit the rods and cones in my eyes have different spacing!
Hah, that brings back a lot of good memories. Also of the cold at the attic where my pc was. Got my copy via floppy disks, of course. It also reminded me of “TechHelp”, if my memory serves me well it could run as ISR and you could summon it with a hot key. Apparently someone has been awesome enough to convert the dos program into a website: http://www.techhelpmanual.com/
Another Deepspeed?
anyone want to help me build this? first we get traction on hackernews (as we clearly see demand for it), join YC, sell to startups, serve ethoca their lunch, then potentially get acquired by Stripe?
You obviously didn't read the Apple 2 Reference Manual and neither Jim Sather's book.

The Apple 2 is much simpler, sure, but these documents were really professional and comprehensive.
What I get from this is you pay a lot of attention to content you dislike.
I cancelled by Kagi subscription because of this.

I don't want to have to pause before I search and think "do I need to search for this? should I look through my bookmarks, notes, etc? is this worth one of the 7 searches my $5 plan will cover for the day?".

I've been a frequent user of Kagi for the past ~9 months. Last month I made 1600 searches.

I've even 'tipped the difference' (~$70) in the past to support Kagi. It feels gross that they're now upcharging me despite the goodwill I showed them. I know they're a business, but if you're a business, and you're not willing to respect your users, then don't ask for donations.

I hope that something better than Google comes along. It was Kagi, but now it's back to the drawing board for me.

My advice to Kagi: make searches cheaper. This product has no future otherwise.
There was, in french, "La Bible du PC". It was full of very technical information, over a thousand pages or so...

But Ralf's one, sure, it was so useful when Internet didn't exist for us !
If you try to sample continuously and eliminate that discretization error, I have some bad news for you about the nature of reality itself...
> What prior knowledge would you need to do computing?

Wikipedia to the rescue, as usual

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software.

now go to the average person, ask them what an algorithm is and be prepared to be disappointed.

Ask them what a pressure cooker or filleting is and you won't be.

> just as typing a Word document and printing it

that's not computing, that's typewriting.

typewriting is easy, as the adage says: monkeys can do it and eventually write Shakespeare.

> More complicated cooking tends to stress people out immensely. Kind of the same as more complicated computer stuff does.

Not really.

More complicated cooking mostly takes more time, but it's not really more difficult. I would argue that many people can make cakes which is some of the more complicated food one can cook, but they amusingly say they can't cook.

Making sushi it's easy, but it needs a very long preparation.

More complicated computer stuff requires a lot of studying and you have to learn a lot of concepts that have no other use outside of computing world.
> Asyncio was never about disk I/O. It's about Internet socket I/O exclusively.

Game over. You have no clue what you're talking about.
Why do so many modern sites disable zoom in the browser? It's a real pain in the butt.

Does anyone know of a workaround?
People like you are literally the enemy of free speech. Controversial things are not hateful things, that’s why it’s called controversial in the first place and not hateful. Labelling things which go against the mainstream narrative as possibly hateful is a huge jump to make out of nowhere and really does nothing good other than trying to suppress any critical thinking.
Yes, it's really weird, and I think they're going to lose a lot of customers who have the same first impression as you, that they'll have to bump up to the too-expensive plan because they're a small amount over the limit on the cheaper plan.
As this incident demonstrates, errors can easily creep into mathematical proofs, even those written by experts. The only way to mitigate this is to use computer-readable proofs, which can be verified by algorithms to ensure correctness. Especially computer generated proofs should be distrusted unless their output is generated as a computer verifiable. Successful example is Flyspeck, that translated a proof with a large computer generated part into a computer readable one (http://www.proof-technologies.com/flyspeck/)

Computer-readable proofs provide a rigorous and reliable way to verify mathematical results, reducing the likelihood of mistakes and increasing confidence in the validity of mathematical arguments. However, the use of computer-readable proofs is still not widespread in the mathematical community, and it is not yet a standard part of mathematics education.

The tools are ready, it is just that doing the hard work going from a handwritten one to a computer-readable proof is not sufficiently appreciated. It should become more widely used in mathematics, and be incorporated into mathematics education curricula at all levels. Doing so will not only help prevent errors but also promote transparency and reproducibility in mathematical research.
(1) It's ok to want a secure, easy job. If you want it to be high-paid it usually requires some extra effort at least at the beginning. Think about the effort you need to put as a short-term uncomfortableness for long-term comfortableness

(2) There are other valuable things you can bring into the team even if you're initially weaker technically than the rest: caring about details, enthusiasm, humour, curiosity, doing research well, doing extra chores (writing meeting notes and what not), etc.

(3) If you don't meet their expectations while putting good effort it means that they have made a mistake in recruitment - no reason to self blame there.

(4) Usually joining better teams improve your chances of getting hired so the job hunting process, as soul crushing as it can be, will be somewhat easier even if you do get fired (probably you won't).

(5) It costs a lot to recruit a new team member, if you show any chance of being productive, they will keep you.
Can it play Carmageddon?
I was already there... I abandoned Altavista since Google was so much better. Until Google became spammed too and no longer seems to be much better than Altavista.
Zinc cream used to also be pretty common, applied to the nose, as a sunscreen in Australia.
Often cited reason is electric power steering, which technically don't need absolute angle because they assist with torque. Stability controls sounds more plausible to me, and self driving can be another reason.

I don't know for sure, but I think all of above benefit from an encoder and it would be logical enough to have one for any of those.
Not only this, but our HP Pagewide inkjet machine will even refuse to use genuine ink if it’s “out of date”. I.e, its manufacture date was more than a couple of years ago. Also consider that the ink can sit on the shelf at the store or Managed Service Provider for this entire time and therefore go into landfill without ever being used in a machine.
You couldn't just shut up? This is internet addiction, you need attention from strangers so badly you couldn't just shut up about 150k your receiving for doing nothing.
Great contribution to the space, my friend