skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s getting close to the famous ‘Reality has a well known liberal bias.’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_...
What. That’s insane. Essentially, if your deposit modeling is off just a little bit, you’re dead.
That's apples and oranges. With RAID the server is never retired and you don't need to set up auto-scaling and all the scale-out complexity that comes with it. It just keeps running. The replace/resilver cycle may degrade performance whilst the data is re-replicated, but bringing up a new VM will also degrade performance for a while whilst it replicates data from some other node onto itself.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35170422 is a Show HN of the same project, we'll move the comments thither and re-up that one.
In Ukraine, Crypto Finds a Purpose
Me neither. I find white text on black background to be much harder on the eyes.
Don't forget the first-party container runtime. Even Windows has one (or, er, three?). I am mostly responsible for maintaining our local development stack scripts, and Colima (to be clear, a heroic project) and MacOS are a continuous source of problems (full time problems when M1 first launched, down to at least 2-3 issues a month). I was helping a coworker with getting scripts working on Windows/WSL and how much effort was it? Download it and run it - no changes. How much effort was it when I migrated to Ubuntu (hurrah Intune for Linux)? All I had to do was disable Colima in our scripts.

The GP comments throws shade at Windows. Honestly? Probably still a better developer platform than MacOS. Working on MacOS is full of not-work.
Wikipedia is also "that guy on the internet board."
du -hs /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app

42M /Applications/Sublime Text.app

To compare it to a peer that's cross-platform and GUI.

This is about 6x as large, just for the main binary. Which pretty much always means it'll also eat a ton more memory, and probably burn lots of processor cycles while idle for no reason at all, given the way this usually works.

[EDIT] Maybe they're including debug symbols or something? Since it seems to be in beta.
Yes! Just like HN is anti blockchain but super pro AI. It seems most applications of generative AI at scale will havd a huge negative for society, far worse than anything blockchain could have brought about.
Yes this is for stuff you upload to their "service" whatever that is. It has nothing to do with the editor itself.
You can't run your code locally, but VSCode (but NOT VSCodium sadly) has a set of remote development plugins (ssh, containers, etc) that allow you to edit locally, run on a remote server.

Also see code-server (https://github.com/coder/code-server) for another option.
Regardless of intent, the way it is written is that the "Service" is what you're agreeing to, and that includes license to run a single instance of the "Application" and the "Tool" on a single device that you own.

It's incompatible with pretty much any activity. It also includes great stuff like:

> you agree to (a) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by the registration form (the “Registration Data”), and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete.

> You agree not to create an Account using a false identity
If you find writing code horrible and reviewing code even more horrible, you're in the wrong profession.
Funny -- I literally had someone tell me this same thing this morning... but the exact same guy last week was arguing with me against the reduced importance of these same tests for college admissions. Last week he was arguing how critical these tests were for the college admissions process, but this morning the same tests are basically worthless.

Not saying you hold the same opinions -- but I wouldn't be surprised if people's take on these tests is more about what is convenient for their psyche than any actual principled position.
Speculators build $16B bearish bet on Europe's banks
Fair enough, but why not push back on the lawyers before pushing the publish button, and spare yourself from a possibly inauspicious start?
I have no problem with this site. It might be nice though to take "Who's Hiring", run a classifier on it to exclude listings I don't want to apply to and feed that into my "application tracking system" which workflows my applications. (Last time I did that I had something to talk about for the interview and nailed it right there.)

Imagine though, you visited reddit or yahoo or anandtech or any other site filled with trash and it looked like HN. (Believe it or not there is a good site inside reddit if you took away the "install the app" crap, the image memes, the dark pattern designs that blend ads with the content, etc.) Imagine the first 50 spam search results on Google were gone and you just got content.

What if you followed a link to the New York Times or Wired magazine and it looked like archive.today?

People find it about as hard to imagine as the world that John Lennon asked you to imagine but "it's easy if you try".

I think of the line from a David Byrne song... "Say something once, why say it again?" My motto is "see something once, why see it again?" If I had a complaint about HN it is that a news article is going to get posted once but people who are slow on the draw will still be posting other articles about the same news item for the next six month. What if all the "me too" junk was gone? Why do I have to keep scanning ebay or craiglist and ignore the listings I've seen already? Why can't I get notified when a Sony MDS-NT1 is available? Why can't I just get notified when something I want is available at a good price?

There are numerous technical reasons why it hasn't happened (search ranking algorithms not being calibrated) but people are so used to the advertising corrupted web that a true user-centric web is almost unimaginable.
I'm glad to hear you'll be addressing this. To an unsophisticated reader like myself, it sounds like you guys are planning to examine the code I edit in Zed, maybe even keep copies of it. Aside from the general creepiness, many programmers are bound by contract to protect their employer's codebase.
> That doesn't include the overhead of parsing & executing all that

I would say "50KB of zipped javascript framework" includes parsing and execution.

> not to mention the runtime overheads of every interaction having to go through megabytes of crap JS

...do I have the wrong number? Even when you decompress those 50KB, it's less than 150KB of javascript.

> instead of native, battle-tested browser code refined over 2 decades.

Browsers don't have native code for dynamically updating the page. Without javascript the solution is reloading, which adds a lot more overhead than the equivalent react.
"I trust a scribe because they are a person with years of specialised training and experience who can be held accountable."

They can be held accountable, but it's unclear how much specialized training or experience they actually have. They could have had a 6-month course, an online course, etc.

And of course you're assuming their EMR is actually secure. In a small office you can usually find the passwords you need stuck to the monitor or under the keyboard.
I also think of the games market this way. It's bifurcated between single purchase and on-going, and I'm not interested in constantly paying for stuff or needlessly complicating transactions, so the latter doesn't exist to me.

I find the acceptance of in-game stores rather unfathomable, but apparently the market has spoken as it represents the majority of industry revenue. So, it's unfortunately not going anywhere. What's wrong with players willing to drop $1000+ on a single game and/or have their game mechanics and other activities tainted by constantly pulling out their wallet? I know people in RL that do this, some to great personal financial harm, and haven't really gotten a good answer yet.
Wonder how it fares against the monopoly of Pixar’s Renderman.
TikTok Is Changing What It Means to Be ‘Old’
Well, "these people are morons they didn’t hedge their crappy bonds" is pretty much correct. Here's a good explainer on the topic: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/accounting/h... .

But it's not just that they didn't hedge their interest rate risk, it's also that they assumed that their deposit base would continue to stay the same or grow. The problem is that their highly correlated deposit base of tech startups actually all needed to take their money out at the same time when they couldn't get additional funding.

Thus, it's important to understand that banks themselves make the choice of whether a bond goes into the "held to maturity" or "available for sale" bucket. I'm not a bank compliance officer so I don't know the rules about how much they're allowed to put in each bucket, but one problem was that SVB incorrectly estimated how much liquidity they would need because they didn't plan for the risk of their deposits all needing to be drawn down simultaneously.
And thus we re-invent shared libraries? Like that's not even really a snarky question; isn't that sort of restarting the cycle?
A shocking idea would be to prosecute the source of the ill gotten gains, or the underlying crime, rather than imposing these AML externalities on other actors. After all, something is not money laundering if the funds were legitimate to begin with.
They are building a per-user recurring revenue stream along with very strong lock-in features (embedded communications, limited/paid extensions). They won't need lot of traction if they're able to boil the early adopter and enterprise frogs.

Great business model but the editor is designed around it first and foremost.
This is super cool and useful. I know that Instabase , which also came from MIT got really popular and useful within finance communities because they allowed for really fast and efficient compute through their own Python DSL. Good to see this as an open source project which everyone can now use.
They don't need to leak it. ISPs, web hosts, social media companies, etc. give up the information willingly, and the feds take care of all the correlation work as needed.

Remember "SSL added and removed here :^)"?

https://archive.is/W3PDG
I'm not complaining. You're complaining that you don't like my choices.
Any idea of the suit in the presentation was actually pressurized to represent what wearing it will be like on the moon?
If there was a change to the surface of the moon that was visible to the naked eye, would this camera's software filter it out? Because that is where I draw the line. Imagine seeing a large asteroid impact, taking a photo, and getting gaslit.
None of the typical JVM languages supported, sad.
You can, and should, build things in public.

EDIT: I just don’t trust promises for things to be open source. Notch said Minecraft would be open source, and look where that went. A promise let’s you skip out on releasing the code if it turns out to be a convenient or profitable options.
How dare there be choices?

I’m a developer - I do a huge amount of work on Sql Server and .Net.

Unless I need to update some Sql Server CLR Procedures, all my development is done on my Mac using the Jetbrains suite or Azure Data Studio.

So it obviously works for many of us.

You do you, we’ll do us.
It begs the question of why we don't apply the same scrutiny to astronomers and cosmologists, who use the same technique on a much larger scale. It's not like anyone "took a picture of a Black Hole," and yet there were hundreds of newspaper headlines suggesting that's exactly what happened. Virtually every "photo" produced of "space" is created through an "imaging" process, which in recent years frequently involves fairly intense processing steps using ML algorithms that are subject to errors and biases which could substantially alter the end result. But the scientific community, and especially the media, largely takes these "images" at face value, despite them having little basis in any "actual" snapshot of reality. I don't really see how what Samsung is doing is any different.
I think there was a breakdown in communication here.

If I train a classic deep net as a classifier and there are 5 possible classes, it will only ever output those 5 classes (unless there's a bug).

With ChatGPT, for example, it could theoretically decide to introduce a 6th class - what I would call an alien failure mode, even if you explicitly told it not to.

I think formally / provably constraining the output of LLM APIs will help mitigate these issues, rather than needing to use an embedding API / use the LLM as a featurizer and train another model on top of it.
Darling will hopefully one day support complex GUI applications, but it's not there yet.

From https://www.darlinghq.org:

> Does it support GUI apps?

> Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.

From https://docs.darlinghq.org/known-nonfunctional-software.html:

> GUI applications will not work in Darling at this point in time, with very few exceptions.

> Any complex GUI application in general will not work at this point in time - only simple "Hello World" type GUIs will work.
> scheduled for 2025

There is no way they'll have a lander ready by then. They spent 10 years and $1B just to develop a suit before giving up. The lander RFP only went out in 2019. Their primary selection is a massive tower that's going to land on an uneven rocky surface and use the same engines to take off. There's way too much risk involved for them to ever meet that date. Apollo 12 landed on the edge of a crater with enough tilt that they were close to aborting the mission. If that happens with a starship they're all dead.
This is already a question in astronomy. At least in astrophotography (think Instagram accounts or computer backgrounds) there are virtually no images that don't involve combining individual frames and programmatically combining the best x% to enhance the image (increase saturation, sharpness, etc.) and sometimes color is artificially added in.

Seems like whats missed in this is a lot of people not understanding that "regular" pictures of the moon from astrophotographers/ NASA are actually big composites of multiple images that have gone through pretty intense processing - next to none of it is done with single-frame data, and the fact phones can mimic this at any level is pretty neat imo.
Sure, maybe you can use a shell script, but now the AI assistant can write it based on your verbal/text description, and then the assistant can also run it for you after you’ve checked it.

What your are saying is: “why use the washing machine, if I my clothes are even cleaner when I wash them myself - I also spend less detergent and less water”.

You are free to keep doing your laundry by hand.

But I bet most people prefer the washing machine.
Not to pile on the the crazy person's thread, but it would not be unprecedented if Proton is actually a honeypot controlled by foreign intelligence agencies and would not be the first such Swiss company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
It should be opt-in
Visible. It's actually a Verizon subsidiary, but you pay $25/mo for unlimited talk and data (though low priority data). There's a trivial hoop you need to jump through to get that rate (join a group of other people with whom you never need to actually interact; there are multiple googelable public groups).
CPUs are still king at the scale Dreamworks/Pixar/etc operate at, GPUs are faster up to a point but they hit a wall in extremely large and complex scenes. They just don't have enough VRAM, or the work is too divergent and batches too small to keep all the threads busy. In recent years the high-end renderers (including MoonRay) have started supporting GPU rendering alongside their traditional CPU modes, but the GPU mode is meant for smaller scale work like an artist iterating on a single asset, and then for larger tasks and final frame rendering it's still off to the CPU farm.

Pixar did a presentation on bringing GPU rendering to Renderman, which goes over some of the challenges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiWr5aqDeck
Genuine question: Is Github profitable? I can't seem to figure out if it was before or after the acquisition from Microsoft.
It is one of the direct consequences of this policy enacted in January 2020, which lead to a series of layoffs: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/readying-for-the-future-...
It's "all" over the news now ;)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/you-c...

Here's results of running on Android:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/124

This is about running llama on a Raspberry Pi:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/58

...and this is where people have been posting their results running on all sorts of hardware, though I don't see anything Android related: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/issues/79

Obviously the larger models won't run on such limited hardware (yet) but one of the next big projects (that I can see) being worked on is converting the models to be 3bit (currently 8bit and 4bit are popular) which cuts down required resources drastically with minimal noticeable loss in quality.

I think starting with FlexGen barely 4 weeks ago, there have been some pretty crazy LLM projects/forks popping up on github almost daily. With FlexGen I felt like I was still able to stay up-to-date but I'm getting close to giving up trying as things are moving exponentially faster... you know it's crazy when a ton of noobs who have never heard of conda are getting this stuff running (sometimes coming in flexgen discord or posting github issues to get help, though even those are becoming rarer as one-click-installer's are becoming a thing for some popular ML tools, such as oobabooga's amazing webui tool which has managed to integrate almost all the hottest new feature forks fairly quickly: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

I just helped someone recently get oobabooga running which has a --listen option to open the webui to your network, now he's running llama on his tablet (via his PC).
I wasn’t clear. Yes that’s what I meant for people staring aghast. I believe the only division that matters between people is material or class division.
Actually, no, Microsoft also likes to have closed source language servers or plugins like Pylance and part of the C# stuff.
Kmll
My iPhone was stolen. Now scammers asks me to login to findmy.device-id.cloud to check where my stolen iPhone is. The page looks like real Apple iCloud page.
So you’re making the argument that because you don’t personally care, it doesn’t matter?
https://xkcd.com/1074/ provides a surprisingly robust explanation for how we know we actually went to the moon:

> If NASA were willing to fake great accomplishments, they'd have a second one by now.

More prosaically, the main reason that we went to the Moon in the first place was that it was a superpower dick-length contest, although the space technology also has sufficient other uses in things like intercontinental ballistic missiles and other military technology. Once someone landed on the moon, the contest was over, and the evaluation of the scientific or economic benefits of manned missions to the moon took over and... there isn't really that many, so interest in it waned very quickly, and resources were allocated to other (frankly, more useful) missions instead.

Interest has spiked again because it's essentially a new dick-length contest. Several powers that weren't superpowers 50 years ago are interested in doing it, in part, to prove their mettle as modern superpowers, and the US is interested in doing it again (in part) to one-up the wanna-be superpowers.

For the US in particular, manned spaceflight programs have had a fair amount of listlessness since the cancellation of Apollo. There's a tension between people who want to focus on LEO, those who want to move to the next great accomplishment (landing on Mars, which is probably somewhat beyond current capabilities, though how far beyond is debatable), and those who would rather have more robotic space exploration endeavors. And pretty much every administration comes in, declares a new vision for human spaceflight that scrubs the previous administration's proposals, and things move on because you can't get anywhere in 8 years.
> The main difference between the prototype shown today and what will be going to the moon is that the ones going to the moon will be white instead of dark. “That’s really for thermal reasons,” Mr. Ralston said.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I believe the only division that matters between people is our material differences. Class division.
This is so silly. Lightroom has had a slider that does basically this for a long time. The great thing is it goes the other way and you can make a picture of a kid look like an old man who has smoked 1,000,001 cigarettes. Add it to a mobile app and all of a sudden it so fresh...
Have you looked at project management certificates? There's IPMA [1] and PMI [2], for example. IPMA Level D is about basic skills necessary for project management and the organization provides a 1.500 page textbook.

[1] https://www.ipma.world/
[2] https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp

Edit: As an afterthought, there's only so much you can lern from a book. I guess in project management, nothing beats experience.
But Google had text-based captchas, Yandex still has. Aren't they big enough? )
The ReCAPTCHA was(is) huge a b2b collaboration in AI training (I've been warning about) for years. Now everyone can see clearly where it is going. So it's not that the image content is easily crackable. It's its purpose, IMHO.
Looks really nice, but I'll wait until you embed neovim :)
Most use case are not hacks aren't they? If you charge back because not happy for example? Every time you charge back Steam or Epic has to pay $10 or so to the bank if I recall.
Torch is building solar-powered outdoor sensors to spot wildfires early
It doesn't feel native on MacOS either, and wouldn't look any more out of place on Windows or Linux.
Great thanks a lot.

So we have numbers on PTB original perplexity 8.79 quantized 9.68, already 10% worse. And PPL reported per token I suppose? Because word PPL for PTB must be around 20, not less than 10.

Any numbers on more complex tasks then? like QA?
I'm trying to learn emacs too - last night I kept ChatGPT open and asked it any questions I had ("what's the hotkey to open up a new window below the current one") and I'm getting better really quickly.
The setup only takes 5 minutes,

Nothing ever takes 5 minutes. Remember these are engineers you're talking to here.
My comment is going to get downvoted (or worse, ignored), but here I go again:

We, as software engineers (or working in the field), have the power to not implement these features when our employer asks us to do it.

Everyday we read about organisations using dark patterns in their (software) products and then we come to HN to complain about it.

How did these features get built? By whom?

Yes, I realise not everyone has the privilege to say "NO", but at least some of us can and should push back.
Sathoshi Nakamoto's soul remains intact.
Ten years ago we got fun and exciting errors in scanned documents.[0] I'm looking forward to ten years from now, when I can read about a conviction being overturned because an AI-enabled camera did a similar "enhancement".

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202