skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I ran a Beowulf Hyper-V cluster on these (in production) I wouldn't call them 'quite' powerful for today's needs.

I had a stint with PhotoPrism recently and it was faster to upload gigabytes of photos to my Xeon E5-26xx server and run PhotoPrism there (including transfer time) than wait for it to complete the face recognition on my desktop with the Ivy Bridge CPU.

But for a bare packet pusher ie file server, PiHole and the like I would agree it would be more than just fine.
Paper on https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150...
Strikes me as a low signal-to-noise endeavor. How many "government leaks" are someone trolling the internet with a forged document? Aliens, Kennedy assassination, political out-group targeting, etc.
I would like to challenge you a little. Most programming languages are all designed around an environment where typing is relatively easy and quick. Keyboards allow you to input so much quicker than phone screens.

However, the phone has the pro that you can have any arbitrary keyboard layout. In that case I think that perhaps APL might be pretty well suited. Perhaps we should design languages around the idea that they should be used on phonescreens, where we don't need to restrict the character set to ASCI?

I have an APL program and I like using it basically like a calculator, but I imagine one could write full programs on a phone, if we did some tweaking to the interface.
Only you can decide that, but it's always worth the ask IMO.
Sorry but you’re taking such an elitist tone about this whole thing, and it’s completely unjustified. The only reason yo see this as different is because you’re feeling sour and contrarian about the AI hype. Take that away, and it’s an incredibly common, accepted, and not even problematic marketing standard.

The customer does not care about your internal build vs buy decisions. It is utterly inconsequential to the value that your product brings. Making that distinction part of the marketing message would muddy things purely to please…who? I don’t even think that this is something that the typical puritan nerd cares about.
OpenAI have made their tokenizers public [1].

As someone has pointed out, with BPE you specify the vocab size, not the token size. It's a relatively simple algo, this Huggingface course does a nice job of explaining it [2]. Plus the original paper has a very readable Python example [3].

[1] https://github.com/openai/tiktoken

[2] https://huggingface.co/course/chapter6/5?fw=pt

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07909
If it was a regular thing, perhaps. In this case it's collateral damage and not policy. Hanlon's law applies here -- it's far more likely to be incompetence than malice.

There are plenty of other negative reviews on that game.
I am not sure about CarPlay, but Android Auto is able to give directions via HUD.
Marketing mostly (uses AI)
> Physically, a computer is imperative, has mutating state, and is filled with all kinds of possible race conditions.

Those are too difficult for compiler writers to reason about. While you're mutating the finite set of registers in your high-level C code - just like a real computer does - clang is swapping those out for operations on an infinite number of immutable registers.
It works completely fine in a browser though
"Do you have a screenshot you could share? That would go a long way towards making this post more verifiable.
Also if you could provide the response from the support ticket about their explanation as to why it's missing, so we could all understand."

You're joking right?! Now I have to respond to two Docusign people? lol
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The people who want to tinker with unsigned drivers is many orders of magnitude smaller than the people who would accidentally install a malicious driver and ruin their PC.

They had to make a choice for UX sake, they chose the bigger group of people and are happy to let the tinkers go to Linux
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I think the root problem is that, much like 90% of drivers think they're better than average, so do 90% of workers.

Keeping wages secret lets everyone keep believing that.

Not a joke!
Hey, kudos on getting this out. I just opened sourced a similar tool for the JetML platform.

https://github.com/jetml/jetmlgpt

Would love to collaborate!
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> Free yourself from the notion that a web browser purely browses The Web.

Free yourself from the notion that a web browser should do anything more than browsing the web. native applications have existed for decades, no reason to bloat the scope of a browser.
My model for understanding phenomena where quantum effects matter is this: if you think of the universe like a big sheet of something stretchy, an electron/proton/particle is just a knot tied in the sheet. Outside of some small region local to the knot the sheet looks flat.
The (shocking) inability to reply, and follow replies, in any kind of coherent form is what has kept me from using Twitter in any regular way - even as a reader.

It is a crime that a generation of users believes that this is what online discussion looks like.
Well, "US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent," is just not what one should imply from a causal stand point.

"US pay transparency laws result in workers realizing that their employers are trying to underpay them and this results in workers being discontent," is the truth. This is the whole point of transparency, which I assume is what you are getting at. The transparency doesn't share any of the blame however, so the wording of the title is unfair.

Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant.
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The name is how they poached most of Google's ML team. Of course, in hindsight all they did was move to Microsoft.
If the battery already had to slide into place, it the jack & plug were already pre-aligned, I think the connector reliability would be absurdly good.

The biggest on the job problem would probably shift away from mechanical stress entirely, & be an issue of degree. Sawdust & gunk getting into the jack or plug.

I agree that a better connector would be awesome. I'd love a high amp big leafy thing.
I don't think so, but in order to answer the question of how close we are, I think it would be necessary to survey the most automated factories in the world, and the most advanced biotechnology.
I find this result satisfying. Of course an electron is as a Platonic solid, that's very sensible. God does not play dice -- God plays with marbles.
Charter/Spectrum (upstate NY), 500Mbps down tier, $100/mo. In practice, tends to be between 80 and 100 MBps down; considering downgrading.
I think it's supposed to relate the variation of the shape of electric field around electron not the size of the electron which is a pointlike particle.
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There’s no one right answer but this is how I pick, in many cases, when to use null vs undefined.
In these scenarios these low code tools feel like the evolution of excel. How many times did people who couldn't write full on apps throw something together with some excel formulas to do a version of what they needed?
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> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learni...
Sure, you'd still have video capture and hardware controlled cheats but those can be mitigated as well. No FPS that I know of has a "max turn rate" due to the twitchiness of the mouse. Want to look behind you and then back in front in 2ms? Crank your mouse sensitivity all the way up. I've seen some hardware mouse controller cheats in the wild. They aren't that good. There was one that used a video feed and AI to "software control" the mouse but that can be detected as well by reading from the hardware directly. Mouse input is pretty standard USBHID shit.
The cookie consent law followed a similar path: A lot of people saw the proposals and assumed it would only hurt the websites they didn’t like. Then the laws passed and now almost every website you visit comes with an annoying cookie pop-up.

I’m baffled by all the HN comments from people who think this will only apply to websites they don’t use. No, it’s going to become a miserable burden on the entire internet if it happens.

A remarkable number of commenters haven’t stopped to think about how all of these websites will only apply the laws to minors: The answer is that they’ll have to ID everyone. Either that, or it becomes a silly checkbox for kids to say that they’re over 18.
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because I want limited scope tools. if I want something on the GPU, I can just write a native tool. I dont need the browser to do anything beyond web browsing.
It makes perfect sense - if you reorient your thinking.

AI companies come in two flavors.

(1) Build a novel AI for a pre-existing purpose

(2) Use a pre-existing AI for novel purpose.

It's "I didn't realize _AI_ could do that!" vs. "I didn't realize AI could do _that_!"

Engineers found company type 1. Product people found company type 2. Both are valuable, but for different reasons.
I don't think so. They're not measuring the radius to precision 10^-31 cm. They're measuring the differences in radius against zero, and they know the value of zero to infinite precision.
No way. A messaging platform that can be used to recruit soliders can also be used to leak military secrets? That's crazy.
The next sentence after the first part you quoted: "The latest results are in: The electron is rounder than that."

Which would be great if the Earth was actually perfectly round, but we've known for over three centuries that it's not. I'm sure the science the article is reporting on is fine, but it definitely sounds like the author of the article is out of their depth.
>Surely this was by design?

It is indeed, and one of the first things you learn in scientific computing is to make your values fit mostly within [-1, 1].
All of this is perfectly possible. End users don't seem to want to use these features for native apps for some reason, though, and developers seem to have all switched to the web instead of building native experiences.

It makes sense: native apps need to be developed for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and maybe Linux. Web apps need to be developed once. Android apps will work on Android, ChromeOS, Linux (after some setup), and Windows, but I doubt Apple is going to add an Android runtime to their platform any time soon.

App stores are on every major platform and custom URIs for sharing app state and views are implemented on phones already. Most people seem to run their desktop applications either full screen or nearly full screen. Pin the Windows task bar to the top of the screen and you've basically got yourself a tab bar. I don't know about macOS, but Android and Windows will start clearing caches and temporary files automatically under storage pressure. Sandboxing applications is available on all platforms as well.

I don't want every website to become a native application, though. I don't trust most websites enough to download native code from them. Let's not go back to the ActiveX/Java applet days where you needed to download some scary code for every website you wanted to visit.

I don't see why I would benefit from WebGPU support, I think I'll leave it disabled by default. It's probably one of those technologies that'll be useful for platforms with overbearing control (i.e. how game streaming on iOS is made possible). Maybe some small itch.io games will make use of it so I don't need to download Some Guy(TM)'s native executable every time I want to try a small experimental game.
Because creatures who didn’t experience that as aversive didn’t survive. We’re the descendants of those who subjectively suffered due to objective physical damage — all the other ones died.
this almost fell like a twilight zone episode.

if in the 90s you've told me that pocket computers would have the os locked by company G and a rag-tag team of 14yr olds would work on forums to extract binary blobs and manually patch syscalls addresses so the old drivers work on newer phones, just so you can install the later version of a still closed OS... and that the practice would eventually move to the computers of the competing company...

i would have laughed but not in a funny haha way, like you do on most good twilight zone episodes.

sad times we live in.
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> No, it's just a bit complex, but it depends on use - and today it is for a number of reasons more common to see "silver bullet" for "ineffective but seducing". It is a (non-)"solution" that /is believed/ to «work incredibly, almost magically, well». It works in a fable and not outside.

Yes, you're re-asserting that, but I still disagree, at least in my dialect of General American English. Maybe you're in the UK and it's different there?

In my experience, you almost always hear it as part of the negative: "X is not a silver bullet". That phrase has your meaning of "ineffective but seducing". The implication then is that the silver bullet is effective. Magically so. Everyone associates it with the only thing that can kill a werewolf.

The thing that began this whole inane conversation was the mildly interesting use of "silver bullet" in the positive:

> ChatGPT is the silver bullet, you can't convince me otherwise.

The poster is taking the "no silver bullet" idiom and flipping it on its head. The "standard" usage would say "ChatGPT is no silver bullet", meaning it's not a magical solution to all problems. By negating it (and using the idiom unusually in the positive), they're saying that it is magically effective and can work on all problems.
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I did say “almost all”. Bills like this just reinforce it.
Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language
The biggest issue is people using stale oils from over a year ago instead of fresh harvest. Olive oil loses flavor and goes bad earlier than it goes completely rancid. Most retail is deceptive about harvest date.
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Before people dismiss this as a conspiracy theory, it's 100% correct. It's not even a radical view.

* Authoritarian governments don't give their subjects a good civic education because an educated population tends to start demanding more freedoms.

* Industrial barons never wanted their factory workers to learn about unions because once they did, sure enough they wanted to unionize.

* To desire and defend your digital rights you need to understand how the digital world works, and what's at stake. Big tech doesn't want you thinking about uncomfortable things like that. They want you to pay your monthly fees, watch the ads they put in front of you, go to bed and do it all again tomorrow.

Virtually everyone with power, since the beginning of civilization, has preferred for their subjects to be poorly informed about anything that threatens their power.
.jar files exist and so far they haven't replaced any browsers as far as I can tell.
Is the article published free somewhere?
> Do you expect OpenAI to maintain its breakaway lead for the forseeable future?

Eventually, there will be an alternative that is just as good as O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com. They are not in a league of their own. They are just great at marketing hype, only possible alongside Microsoft.

The top one(s) to watch in AI is DeepMind (Google), Meta, Nvidia and Anthropic as they push for the foundational breakthroughs in AI. Not just LLMs.

> Are others playing their cards close to their chest and will surprise us? Will the rate of progress slow and allow for the field to stabilize with multiple companies having effectively comparable offerings?

Yes. The under hyped ones that almost no-one is looking at and will definitely surprise the industry will be Cohere.ai and Cerebras Systems. Apple Inc. may decide to enter later with their Apple Silicon hardware and will push for smaller, local and useable AI models in Macs and iPhones focusing on 'privacy'.

Hardware compute is what separates these companies and Cerebras Systems, amongst all the hype is a hardware AI startup that is going to be acquired by a large company. Anyone would want systems to cut the time to train extremely large AI models at scale to maintain their lead. I wonder who could that be...
The main app they seem to have built with it (so far) is a p2p chat app: https://keet.io/

I’m curious to see what else they’ll build!
> and not in ProCreate or iMovie.

Or – gasp – Instagram or TikTok!

—

I just listened to a radio show where they talked about how easy it is to create (rap music and music videos in this case) these days, as all you need is your phone rather than expensive devices and desktop applications.
That seems completely coherent to me. Getting a job as a teen is good for you. It teaches delayed gratification, working with others, responsibility and it provides a measure of independence early.

Social media, on the other hand, will make teens depressed. The association of social media => teen depression is ~5x stronger than cigarettes => lung cancer, which is a completely unfair comparison for cigarettes because you get the lung cancer 50 years later and you get the depression today.
It’s wrong to say (or imply) that pay transparency only benefits women and people of color, but it’s good to point out that they especially benefit because they face pay discrimination.
Online gaming chats have long been spy risk for US military
North Korea claims it successfully tested a 'new type' of solid-fuel ICBM
> But calling auxiliary functions "go" is almost always bad naming.

Calling auxiliary functions "go" is like calling loop variables "i".
Are you sure about that? Because my cooking habits are not anything strange. As I say above, I stir fry and I've deep fried, and I do everything else that you can do with shortening, with EVOO, and it doesn't burn.

Where does your information about EVOO being "on the lower end of cooking oil smoke point spectrum" come from?

And what kind of EVOO are we talking about? There are different qualities of EVOO with drastically different behaviour, but they're all sold as EVOO.
> Not an issue for you, that you know of, because you have no equivalent software that's written in a more performant language

How on earth would you know that? No, incorrect.
Burning it is easy, and a technique sometimes to add astringency for balance depending on what exactly you’re doing. Common mistake is to heat oil on a cold pan though - lots of unnecessary burning of flavor/smoke to reach sometimes necessary high momentary temperatures
I would consider banning implicit casting of floats to ints from the codebase: Nobody would have intentionally truncated in this HP conversion; they would’ve rounded.
Okay, but what kind of evidence/analysis did you collect before arriving at the conclusion that a "PhD is little more than a UBI program for people unable to integrate into the workforce"? Because data show they are able to integrate into the workforce just fine.
The long-term solution seems to be to ditch iOS and Android on mobile devices entirely and replace them with fully featured operating systems based on Linux, e.g.

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/
This looks heavily geared towards graphics. I’m interested in the compute capabilities of WebGPU to build an in-browser simulator (e.g. physics/quantum). Anyone know of any good resources for that? (Samples, best practices, etc.)
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How was walling with housing nerfed? I remember doing that a lot.
How noticeable changes will be have little connection with loss reduction during training. Holding very complex thought processes may actually not diminish the loss function all that much. But they are very noticeable when we are interacting with these systems.
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IIRC T2 changed Macs from largely being IBM PC/EFI compatible to being closer to the architecture they now use on their ARM processors.
not saying they don't exist, but to penetrate that 1% market share to be relevant they have not. I did call out things like raspi and such as still viable for tinkering but not the same way that I was introduced to computers with the Apple II and later the 386/486DX revolution. Around Pentium II things got anti-tinker and ever since 2007 it's been pretty much a consumer-only market. Walled gardens and locked down OS's, complete with injected ads and tracking.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. Regardless of what you're battling for, that's not allowed here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Regen breaking.. similar to how manual transmission cars can transfer some stopping power from the brakes to the engine.. regen breaking changes the electric motor into a generator and this consumes power slowing the car down.

These actions cause the brakes to last a LOT longer. I've never driven an EV but the manual transmission cars i have had needed far fewer brake jobs.
One could make an argument that negative zero is not in [0, 1]. Usually, negative zero is the result of operations like `(small negative number) / (big positive number)`, whose result at infinite precision would not be inside [0, 1]. Negative zero is equal to zero, though, so maybe it is inside [0, 1].
I wouldn’t call it a taboo as much as a conversation generally regarded to be awkward. Most people don’t want to have awkward conversations at work.

I’m also not aware of any company culture that revels[0] in discussing employee pay and doesn’t face legal requirements to do so.

[0] Exceptions for companies that do so but by deliberate action of founders/CEO rather than a bottom-up company culture https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...
> The industry does not want you [...] creating

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok would like to differ. User created content is still a major thing, even if we stopped calling it web 2.0. Most of that just happens in other domains than programming (though Roblox exists, so programming does happen too).
This is my main fear with Flutter CanvasKit & "Towards a Modern Web Stack". https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Towards%20a%20modern%20web%...

They are using canvas & webgpu, & making their own rendering engine (borrowing Skia) to take web apps from part of a participatory open ecosystem where extensions & user-agency work, & turning the page into a giant animated screen.

The best open ecosystem we have on the planet is being body snatched by the closed-as-can-be native app world.

The post here is a more developer-centric view of open & I think that's so valuable. It feels like we really used to have a more share-early share-by-default spirit.

I think that's one thing that kind of agitated so many folks about webdev, is how share-centric it was.

We didn't have established experts, there were no well established patterns, everyone was collectively figuring it out. Finding libraries that might work for you or doodling around with an idea was lead by sensibilities fit & taste. Throw it against the wall & see what sticks.

The web today has really become a far far far more hyperindustrialized system, with far more popular (not enforced) norms & conventions. The random lead devs at a company are no longer necessarily intrepid explorers navigating an open sea of possibility. Everything is more set. And we no longer have that spirit of it just being us in the room, of sharing by default. The expectation is there's very very smart far off people building libraries, and we're just working on our app. The mindset has shifted, the culture has shifted, in a way where open is no longer the collective exciting happening place that we are all a part of.