skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider joining a small but growing startup as an employee. It's a bit of a gamble, but if you find one that grows from e.g. <10 to >50 people in 3-5 years, that will be the best way to learn marketing (and sales, customer support, product, etc etc) which is not replicable through any books, courses etc.

You can learn what does _and doesn't_ work, work with and learn from a team (and hopefully a good founder), and then apply those lessons to your own side project or startup.
This is the most valuable skill to learn. Also try to build an audience around a topic you know well on social media.
Google's software quality has been going down hill for years now.
He is using his authority to put an idea in the minds of others. That idea is:

"don't bother competing with me. i have already won."
Bird Photo May Break Your Brain (and No, It Wasn't Photoshopped)
May I ask: why?
I am betting this came out because of Valve steam deck popularity. A linux based device that uses sdcards
I love there is a rationale, more projects should have one. What problem is the project designed to solve?
This is also noticeable in the ages of our leaders, it seems that 80 years of age is becoming the new average.

With that we get out-of-date worldviews and status-quo capitalism.
I worked on an openvms system rubbing a lab at a hospital in 2019. Damn that thing was rickety. DCL saved my bacon for a while, since their COBOL compiler was broken. I did miss command-line history. I was watching this project like a hawk, hoping that I could set up a VM for testing. I'm glad that they finally released something but I their number of users has to be in the hundreds at most.
Easy to meet people, and easy to hop on public transport to visit existing friends, are two very distinct things. How did you meet these people who were not within walking distance?
You do have somewhat of a point here. The US is one of only two countries (and the only country that can make it stick) that sees any American or any person born in the US, as falling under US tax law, and requires them to file taxes in the US, even if they don't live there or work there. Banks across the world are required to enforce this and have special rules for "US Persons" or they're not allowed to do business with the US, which is understandably crippling for any bank. Because of this, even some people who feel like they have no connection with the US at all, may be unable to open a bank account anywhere unless they agree to file taxes in the US.

So yes, the US also tries to exert power over people it considers American subjects well outside its jurisdiction.

That doesn't excuse China intimidating and threatening Chinese people living abroad, though.
omg i have been searching forever for this. THANK YOU.
That sounds interesting. How can I obtain this Vicuna model that works with llama.cpp?
If you installed it yourself, why can't you install something else?
>equal damage to roads.

That's an understatement. Afaik damage to the road scales with weight to the _FOURTH_ power.
What would you suggest the US policy makers do instead?
Not on punctuation specifically but otherwise highly recommended Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style" discusses the ampersand and its usage in great depth. Somehow Bringhurst's obsession with this character is almost uncanny.
I read your link. It says Twitter and Youtube were ordered by the government to take down links to the BBC documentary and both complied. The BBC itself is sending copyright strikes to Youtubers who upload the documentary. Even the Internet Archive took the link down when someone uploaded it there.

HN seems to have Musk Derangement Syndrome. I have never seen selective outrage aimed at someone to this degree. Everyone on this site seems to turn a blind eye or tolerate to every tech company complying with local laws in foreign countries, but then hold Musk to a much higher standard. He's not allowed to merely be an improvement over his predecessors, he must pass the highest purity tests given to a tech leader, or else he's a lying hypocrite.
Trains are great if they go where you need to go. But of course their high infrastructure requirements mean they won't always. Still to visit my friends i usually take the car as they don't live in the same city and housing near the station isn't cheap.
Yeah we had a similar thing – our database backup machine was taken offline. It only allowed SSH traffic, and DO claimed it received a web (80/443) DDoS. We said the machine didn't have those ports open, and they said "just put Cloudflare in front of it". Completely missing the point, no actual understanding of what was happening.

So, I'd never put a production machine for a business with an active user base there, but... new machines on day 1 of a startup? Sure, it's dead simple. We also had good success with it providing on-demand VMs for developer use, AWS/GCP was somewhat locked down, cost managed, etc, but the team all had a login for DO and could spin up VMs for one-off jobs, that worked well.
Mostly I want to ensure valid and correct search results, and I'm a bit worried that apparently all search engines are now struggling to use AI (ML/LLM) in one form or the other. I don't trust 'AI' in the current stage, and I don't have time (or reason) to teach them.

As you didn't provide a list of applicable search engines, maybe you just proved my point: There are no general purpose search engines that do not employ 'AI' in one form or the other.

I know there are several definitions of AI, so maybe this is really difficult to answer.
What exactly was updated, the model weights, the code, or both? Can I find release notes anywhere?

I am a little wary of the opaque installer binary that requires root permission...
Clojure compiles to jar files, that run on JVM. So, it’s both compiling and JIT in the REPL. In a weird way.
With Clojure I like using uberjars + systemd .service files instead of setting up Docker
But this is not a bad rendering of what longtermism suggests we should think like. The author only reports it.
In a way, I think this story is the opposite, of what would have happened, if an artist made a photograph picture, and presented it, as a hyper realistic painting, back in the days where photography was in its infancy.
Not many smartphones or cameras run Windows either, if this being for Linux is what you're talking about. I'm also not sure why they'd bother with multiple cpu architectures in such a case. Sdcards are so widespread, I really don't think Steamdeck is what made them think they might need a raspberry pi, arch linux, and debian 10(!) release.
I thought the same way. It's kind of so obvious but also so wrong.
Thank you! Maybe it will be a good enough argument that I own a machine capable of running the alpha build of OpenVMS.

Wonder why they are keeping such tabs on the users of their newfangled x86 build.
May I ask why you are asking that instead of answering the question?
(btw I have tried to answer some of it in a sibling comment)
That's a dangerous path. It implies that anything that so much as touches a computer must be preserved for the government. There absolutely should be a category for data to be transmitted with the understanding that it will not be preserved. Otherwise, you will just push people to use analog communication channels (or legal arguments around "what is a record", "what about E2E encrypted", "do debug logs count", etc), and for what? No one wins.
Ask HN: How did scammers steal so much money in the early days of the internet?
No, really. You could make a single sector that was a long tube, it could curve in over itself. And you could do that multiple times. And even though such a construction is physically impossible, the engine would still let you walk through the tube with 'proper' collision, and render it as if it was possible.
it's insane how good Microsoft sales people are, if they manage to make Azure sell this well when GCP and AWS are objectively better at basically everything, including cost considerations.
I wonder if marketing can be automated.

"Marketing" exists to bring the right solutions to the people who need them. Maybe that is something we could do via software.

Advertising is usually seen as a negative, annoying thing. But if marketing would be more efficient, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing? If you saw a box and knew that inside is a tool that will make you more productive and increase the quality of your life - wouldn't you want to look inside?

Could we build that box via software?
Doesn't Google have any patents on the transformer architecture? I assume large enterprises tend to patent everything that comes out of their research.
Religious buildings can be third places, but the kind Christian churches that have faded out of American public life fail the “neutral ground” condition: there’s usually strong social and community pressure to make appearances, meaning that individuals can’t come and go as they please.

This is in contrast with dominant religions (including Christianity) in other countries.
yeah at best this is a silly mistake but it's probably an understood move to ride the coat tails of the GPT4 hype cycle. No way a 3GB model is GPT4 and it runs on a CPU.
Real time with DFT is a bit sketchy.
Just view it as a matrix vector multiplication.
The vector is the sampled signal at discrete time steps of equal spacing, the matrix is the DFT of fixed size.

You need to fill your vector before the multiplication. This time needs to pass. You might shift it by just one value in time to create a sliding DFT, but nonetheless you will need to sample your time vector first.

The length of each chunk is fixed by the size of the DFT.

Let's say it is 1 millisecond long, each sample is 1 microsecond spaced, so it has a length of 1000. You may then create a spectrogram that captures 1 millisecond and then advances by 1 microsecond every step and this will be as close as real time as you can get.

The initial delay of your analysis vector, then advancing by one sample, plus all the time you need for the calculations included cause a delay. Although this is sometimes called real time DFT. Since you may observe the change in the signal basically in real time, but after some delay.

It is always done in chunks. Hope this helps.
If you're a nihilist it is immaterial to me what else you say. Because you're saying that not only am I irrelevant, everyone and everything that exists and has existed is so, too. Gives me every right in the world to not listen to you.
You've got to do both or find a co-founder that rounds off your startup team, in this case I guess it would be someone on the sales/marketing/commercial side.

If you do go down the route of learning and upskilling in marketing. You'll probably find a solid startup idea along the way.
14 years of my life spent supporting debt collection attorneys and their OpenVMS based debt collection software… never again.

Great article on supporting and troubleshooting and the setup of OpenVMS
AI is a very broad term. Most search engines use some kind of ML for building their search index and also for ranking because it works very well.

> Do you want to avoid LLMs answering your search? I have not seen that widely adopted at all.

It's starting to get more though. The brief answers that sometimes show up right beneath the search term will most likely get improved by leveraging LLMs.
As a dev, think of marketing as a premature optimisation. In addition, if you learn the theory but have nothing to apply it to, all the knowledge will just erode.

I built 3 side projects without marketing knowledge. 2 of them have less than 5 clients. But those clients give me a lot of feedback. I am at the stage where I will have to either learn sales/marketing or outsource it in order to grow the projects.

So go for the second option - build something.

(no data to back it up, just personal, limited experience)
Some advice:

1. Find a social media site that works for you, and post regularly, daily if possible, but don't spend too much time per day. Twitter works well. Then build up your follower account. No matter which startup you launch in the years to come, a strong follower count will help your marketing efforts.

2. Do start a side project. You'll find out which tech stack you prefer and gain some minimum experience. You'll also come up against some problems you'll need to solve, and spend time thinking about those problems and how to solve them quickly and efficiently in the future. E.g. how to best implement auth. If possible implement payments, just to know how they work and be ready once you have a startup going.
Well, who knows what genetic advances we'll make in 40 years. We squashed a pandemic in two years based on research that had been percolating for ten years. People don't die of old age, they die of ailments that accumulate through age. The more of those we fix, the longer people live. I'm not confident of the 150 number, but larger generational cohorts above 100? You bet.
At least in my country, no one calls ahead before dropping by to meet you in smaller cities. They just show up and hang out.

In the big cities, of course, everyone plans ahead. Which is great for productivity but pretty awful for socializing.

Urban culture revolves around productivity, while in smaller towns here, everyone seems happy being non-productive if it means keeping their social life.
This is what the S in SD stands for - "Secure Digital". SmartSD cards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#smartSD_cards are actually the norm, because the simple spec is easy enough to add to the flash memory controller.

I know someone who worked on a weird SD-Card based "Video Rental" service[1][2] - The idea was that you'd bring your standard consumer SD card to a redbox-like kiosk, load some video onto it, and then be able to play it on their special but standard (integrated into smart tvs by Toshiba et al) video player, which would automatically self-destruct the encryption keys using that secure element.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-08-mod-systems-download2go-...

[2] The far more interesting product of this company was all of the weird fraud that their founder was engaged in. https://www.geekwire.com/tag/mod-systems/
I asked ChatGPT for sentimental poems to trick my friends with
https://medium.com/@martin-thissen/vicuna-on-your-cpu-gpu-be...

See the section "CPU Installation (GGML Quantised)"

You need Python to download the model from HuggingFace using the official API. After that, all you need is the binary file with weights and a compiled binary of llama.cpp

P.S. The author seems to have renamed their repo to "eachadea/legacy-vicuna-13b" on HuggingFace
I don’t think the density quite compares. I’ve seen some of the new developments around Timișoara for example and they’re still far higher density than most of the US.
I was super surprised when my mom, who believes anything anyone tells her, said that her new doctor works with an evidenced based approach. After some probing I realized what they mean with that now is "we'll use anything we think might work, unlike those dogmatic academics who restrict themselves", which is a funny reversal of the original meaning.
Or if you're a programmer and are looking for that paper written by Professor Firstname Lastname, you might prefer results about the CS professor, not about the eponymous person who undresses for a living. Or plays baseball for a living.

I like arthouse films. ∀ arthouse ∃ approximately eponymous porn film. I can't say I dislike porn, but if the search engines were to treat me like my neighbour I'd never get any arthouse results. Too niche.
> because I have a ton of trouble hearing people in bars

Have you tried switching on subtitles?
cool site! used it immediately to check if there are interesting places to add to my next trip. "normal" museums bore me.

May I suggest two additions? Kassel, Germany has two weird ones: A museum for death culture (Sepulkralkulturmuseum, https://www.sepulkralmuseum.de/), and a museum of wallpaper (https://www.tapeten.museum-kassel.de/) :)
13 Minutes to the Moon is a podcast series about 13 minutes of radio communications up to Apollo 11 landing.

The magic of it comes from the music composed by Hans Zimmer making the podcast an absolutely favourite of mine that I can listen to again and again (like any good album.) Given that, I think will enjoy this and the other references given in the comments here.
Most organisations use Excel and it doesn't work on Linux - at least you can't have a seamless experience for a typical office user.

Some companies tried to use free alternatives to Excel, but there were always compatibility issues when customer or partner use Excel.

I think if someone had created 1:1 alternative to MS Office (with all its quirks and bugs), then switching to Linux would likely be a no brainer.
Apple does this kind of secrecy well.
I just came back from Vietnam and I noticed that many Western countries lack low intensity socialising. There are tea carts everywhere. People sit, sip tea or some other light beverage and just do nothing. They’re close to others who are also doing nothing with whom they may or may not engage with.
Bars and clubs are too intense, too expensive and unappealing if you don’t drink alcohol. At libraries and coffeeshops people are often busy.
2020 seems like an odd year to source those stats from considering how abnormal transportation was during COVID-19.

Particularly air travel, which is part of transportation, would have been way down vs. normal, artificially inflating the %age contributed by others including the fraction you're implying would go away.
The US is trying to weaken the ties between EU and China. Classic divide and conquer.
Here's another, not very practical or scalable solution: live in a small, healthy European village in the 200 to 1000 population range. I have a grocery store, a hair stylist, a kindergarten and my firewood guy within walking distance. And 499 neighbors, some of whom have become friends.

What I'm saying is that it goes the other direction sometimes: physical proximity can create friendship when you make a commitment to a place and make a concerted effort to take care of your neighbors.
I have a good knowledge of how search engines work (having built search myself several times in the past), but the recent use of ChatGPT and other variations of the same theme brought me to the conclusion that there might not be any pure search engines left that are not using 'AI' (or more precisely LLM).
People in this community are also worried about these issues, e.g.:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601128
so I'm definitely not the only one.
Are these only indie projects?
Out of the top 6 contributors of jpeg-xl, just one is not from Google.
source: https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/graphs/contributors
Above roadways is fine. The bad idea is making the road surface out of solar panels that vehicles drive on top of.
I believe you have to be more specific what kind of AI you refer to.

Machine Learning algorithms, which include some really straight-forward ones like decision trees, linear regression, support vector machines, etc. are pretty ubiquitous.

If you mean generative AI models (e.g. what powers ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc.) then it's a different story.
Quite interesting indeed. For RVs they are already used, but not so much in regular EVs for obvious reasons.

The perfect battery will probably never become a reality, but the incremental changes may get us specialist solutions that are good enough for all practical applications. Titanium isn't all that expensive in raw form, it's when you start machining it that it gets expensive quickly. Typically it's about 1.5 times whatever the going rate for Aluminum is.
The article doesn't mention billing, I hope you weren't billed twice? :o
There's plenty of opportunity to live towards the edge of a city (or even in the city) and drive out to the mountains at the weekend.

I like hiking, so I often choose to take a train out (sometimes followed by a bus), since then I'm not restricted to walking a circular route. I can also be utterly exhausted (far too tired to drive) on the way home. However, there are a lot more options when driving.
I always want to see more on HN about programming languages and logic programming, but I'd like some context here, on the notability of the work that is presented in the linked article. It sounds cool. What are the current applications, uses?
Likewise, I’m not sure you’re understanding the points I’m trying to make :)

I’m lucky enough to never have been homeless (and I’ve never worked in that area either) but if I was Prime Minister, it’s an area I’d focus on. But… as PM, I’d likely delegate the details to whichever Secretary of State was most logical, and be happy to act as a sponsor, or figurehead.

Does this mean whatever my government did in this would be worthless, and I’d just be being superficial? Not necessarily: the policies and delivery should be judged on their merit, independently of how they were developed or pushed.

This is my point. It doesn’t matter whether Sunak is historically deeply invested in the area - as PM, he’s just supporting something he believes (not incorrectly) is worthwhile. That’s absolutely okay.

The policy itself will have likely been worked in by a plethora of different folk: civil servants, special advisors, domain experts, ministers - and probably least of all Sunak himself.

So judge the content and delivery of the policy on its merits. It may be a terrible policy - but that’s independent of whether the PM is expert or deeply invested in the area.
> Stop climate change and prevent pandemics and so there are all these terrible things that people are worried about and if we can just not have them, then maybe that’s a bright future, but that’s not actually a better future than today. It’s just avoiding a worse one.

He should study the notion of priority before thinking about philosophy. That's much more in its abilities.

> Here’s the case as clearly and concisely as I can make it. Consider the 50-year period that ended about 100 years ago, from 1870 to 1920, let’s say. In this period, we got by my count, five major innovations.

Between 1870 and 1920 one had WW1. So maybe there wasn't much progress on peace ?

> One is the burden of regulation, which has grown enormously.

Regulation is progress in handling innovation.
Honestly, lack of marketing knowledge shouldn't hold you back. It's something you'll learn eventually through hit and trial. No matter how good a course or a book, no marketing plan has a 0% failure rate. In fact, I would say worrying about marketing is a hindrance than anything. You'll start experimenting with ads, social channels, when you should be worrying about getting feedback and customers. The fact is business consists of moving so many levers that by the time you learn of all of them, you'll be 50. Let's say you learn marketing, then, what about Sales? Customer success? Accounting?

What makes or breaks a business isn't lack of expertise in these domains, it's simply focus and confidence in the problem you're trying to solve. Most of the times, founders don't have enough of that. If you think your idea has a good market, simply start talking to your customers, building, and getting feedback. You don't need more than that.
In terms of whether the bed is warm enough to plant out in, the advice frequently given by Christine Walkden [1] on Gardeners Question Time [2] on how to judge whether it is warm enough is to sit on the soil with your bare bottom.

[1] http://www.christinewalkden.com/

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp2f