skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We deal in time all the time, we know how long an hour is, a day, a week. We can remember "I did something like this before, it took me 2 weeks", not "it took me 13 points".

I really don't get this. Can you guys genuinely work 2 weeks on a feature without doing anything else?. No extra meetings, no dependencies, no incidents, no coworkers to help?

Something simple can take me 2 weeks or 2 days - it really depends on all the other stuff going on when I'm working. That's why imo it's so silly to estimate time unless you're tracking every minute you work on that specific thing and manage to seal yourself in a box away from distractions.

The thing I remember when estimating is. Huh, last time I touched this feature it went really smooth. Doesn't look like much work, adding a validator here and I've got an example right there. Factor in some testwork and I guess it's like 3 points?

> No manager can predictably translate story points into days, which they need in order to pitch to customers and manage their budgets.

Either you're a godlike estimator or you disappoint your manager A LOT. Who the hell are these people that can reliably say feature X will take me 8 weeks? Is that also not just an estimate? I'd rather wallow in the vagueness of points than get my ass reprimanded because I said something would take X weeks. If you're looking for absolute predictability you need factory line work.
OSX only right now, eh?

Anyone on Linux replicated what is special about Arc?

At first glance, I'm assuming this requires shifting my usage patterns, which sounds painful, though the rave reviews so far do indicate it is worth it. But, I wish there was a more granular breakdown of the problem statement and how they solve it. Auto-closing tabs sounds very scary and very interesting.
Yes, for more than 99% of the world's population (including western countries) a woman is "an adult human female".
Also, you would need as many roundtrips as your dependency depth, no? No matter how parallel it is.
Non-profits have strong incentives to be greedy.

Thay the money goes to employees rather than shareholders is at least as motivating.
>Cheese DRM

Makes it sound like we're living in a cyberpunk future written by Douglas Adams.
Well, crypto and blockchain have real, verified, science behind them, and that hasn’t prevented the crypto industry from becoming a ponzi garden of delights.

I suspect we’ll be seeing some highly entertaining stuff, coming down the pipes.

Might not be as bad as the crypto snake oil bazaar, but it should have some interesting hucksters.
GPS jammers have been installed in Westminster ahead of the coronation
> for a lot of use cases WebGL has everything you need

I think the original post refers to WebGPU
Although there are multiple bottlenecks, my understanding (and why at a certain point, throwing more threads doesn't work) is that inference for dense LLMs are largely limited by memory bandwidth. Most desktop computers will have dual channel DDR4/DDR5 memory which will be hard pressed to get >60GB/s. A last-gen Epyc/Threadripper Pro should have 8 channel memory DDR4-3200 support, which should get you a theoretical max of 204.8 GB/s (benchmarking ends up more around 150GB/s in AIDA64).

The latest Genoa has 12 channel DDR5-4800 support (and boosted AVX-512) and I'd imagine should perform quite well, but if you primarily want to run inference on a quantized 65B model, I think you're best bang/buck (for local hardware) would be 2 x RTX 3090s (each of those has 24GB of GDDR6X w/ just shy of 1TB/s of memory bandwidth).
Ask HN: Password in Uncrypted Email
Does put password as images (instead of plain text) in uncrypted email a bit more secure?
Just buy a Steam Deck and run Steam on that?
Fine, but Diana was not just a failure in herself, she was first and foremost a failure of the so-called royal family. Again, their job is to not behave like total idiots, which includes choosing partners that don't go mad if they are not cuddled enough.
> * There’s no performance benefit to sticking with Fortran. You can make code fast in any language. The main argument that Fortran is faster than C/C++ is to do with aliasing which anyone writing performance critical code will know how to deal with anyway. Performance portability codes like Kokkos that let you run on OpenMP/MPI/CUDA but write code once are pretty much all C++ too.

Nonsense, any physics PhD student could write meaningful Fortran code over a weekend that's significantly faster then all but the most optimized C code. And even then there might still be a small gap.

It's a huge difference in skill-required effort and hours-spent effort, maybe as high as 100 to 1.
I don't think there is any strong argument for AGI (i.e., that it is somehow coming any time soon). In my explanatory framework all developments make sense as purely statistical algorithmic advances. The surprising and interesting applications involving images, language are not really changing that fundamental reality.

There is a case to be made that with sufficient ingenuity at some point people will expand the algorithmic toolkit into more flexible and powerful dimensions. It may integrate formal logic in some shape or form, or yet to be conceived mathematical constructs.

But the type of mental leap that I think would be required just to breakout of the statistical fitting straight-jacket cannot be invented to satisfy the timing of some market craze.

If you look at the broad outline of the development of mathematics there are many areas where we have hit a complexity wall and generations of talent have not advanced an iota.

Even if we condition on some future breakthrough, the next level of mathematical / algorithmic dexterity we might reach will follow its own intrinsic logic, which will probably be very interesting but may or may not have anything to do with human intelligence.
Yet rents dropped by 20% during Covid in San Francisco. Seems like companies and landlords do compete on price.
> anyone writing performance critical code will know how to deal with anyway

There is a point about making it as easy and idiomatic to write performant code. If a naïve implementation performs as well (or almost as well) as a more difficult to understand explicitly optimized one, the former one tends to win. Easily usable libraries turn that on its head (as we see with Python and its numerics tools on desktops - not sure how adoption in HPC is).
Universal Love said the Cactus Person https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...
Just when you are thoroughly resigned to the fact that humanity is just terrible, and that a large asteroid would be just the thing the planet needs, someone comes along and puts something out into the world that is just nice and beautiful.

Well, shit.

And THANK YOU!
The overall point is that, even if Boeing can, they can't do it often. And they are basically the only ones who can.

That's not a healthy market and it is definitely suppressing advancement and discovery of new technology that we would all benefit from. What we should like to see is a market where safety is maximized AND it is possible to start a new aviation company with a reasonable chance of success.

The public is not well served by the current regulation environment. It looks like maximum safety concern, but we don't even get to know how safe and efficient flying could be if the tech was actually moving forward at a reasonable pace.

It took forever to even get winglets on most of the big aircraft. We knew about winglets in 1897.
"You said it would take a week"

"No I said it was 12 jellybeans"

"but we all know that 12 jellybeans is a week!!"

"No, we all know that 12 jellybeans is explicitly not a week. It just happens that 12 jellybeans has taken 'around a week' in the past. An estimate of 12 jellybeans is still not a promise that it will only take a week."
Thanks. It has CSS variables for controls colors, border radius, shadows and borders: https://niui.dev/#colors
It's interesting that this is your perception of "the spirit of the web" whereas other people are going to say that requiring JavaScript at all is "counter to the spirit of the web".
Great point! I closed it immediately after the first drawing, couldn't read it.
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Heavier elements sink to the bottom. The liquid core is mostly iron, so I would expect the even heavier gold, uranium, platinum, etc to be distributed closer to the centre of mass than the surface.

Now the crust is not liquid but it is very old and there have been lots of plate tectonics. I imagine all the shaking and scraping would be enough to get the gold in deeper.

It's interesting to note that the richest gold field we have was created when a meteorite hit the Earth so hard, the deeper parts of the crust got bent upward and lay closer to the surface (Vredefort dome).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_impact_structure
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> WebGPU goes live… today, actually. Chrome 113 shipped in the final minutes of me finishing this post

Note that WebGPU in Chrome is not yet available for Linux.

Firefox Nightly has some partial support for Linux so that the first two of these examples work for me: https://webkit.org/demos/webgpu/
Mad props, what a skill level. I've been busy for a day or so designing a bracket to hold solar panel cables, a project of this complexity takes some serious dedication. Really curious where this will go, 3D printers are still in their infancy but projects like these show their true potential.
In my experience the worst it does is setting itself to boot automatically. It won't mess with secureboot keys or anything. In my case, I removed the pc's default ones and installed my own and signed ms's key with mine. It works fine.
Well, "Mercury rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun."
So wait... do we now have a situation where the browser engine has converged with where the Java Virtual Machine was and provided a container to run write-once-run-anywhere desktop apps compiled to WASM?

All we need is the last mile -- progressive web apps -- to include better support for integration with desktop OSes and we have a way to take WASM apps and drag them to the desktop.

The up and coming languages for writing these WASM apps seem to be Go and Rust. Here's a Rust example:

https://www.egui.rs
I mean, sorta? Science is advanced in many ways. Not all are open. Some for good reasons. Some not.
You actually don’t have to pay to use Xcode. You only need to pay to build for real devices and submit to the App Store.
Hi, this is a vertical carousel with native scrolling inside the slides. Carousel sliding is also native scrolling with scroll snap.
That’s two years old. Several of those cities have reversed course. NYC just gave a huge increase to the police, and a new Texas law forced Austin to refund. Others are mentioned as “planning to” which never happened.
Plus, there seems to be a chronic conflation of "capable of configuring" and "fundamentally understanding the technology".
They ran lm-evaluation-harness on both this model and the original llama weights, which is the correct way to do it.

Many people have been struggling to reproduce the benchmark numbers included in the original llama paper.
afaik, pretty much any user-agent changer works. At least that's what one of my colleagues uses to join MS Teams meetings on Firefox. Simply switch your user-agent to Chrome, and it should do the trick.
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To date no culprit has been identified but let's assume the Russians 'did it'. Can somebody please lay out the tangible benefits for Russia in conducting such an operation and how the successful conclusion (for them) has played out? I am not sufficiently informed to see what they are.
I think it’s reasonable to use the word intelligence, if you define intelligence as something like “a system’s ability to take in information and use that information rationally to decide what action to take to meet a goal”, which seems like a good definition to me. It might be tempting to define it in a way that only includes what humans do but I don’t think that’s a good general definition
A special feature of LFortran is that it has a REPL and can be used interactively.
As annoying as for Edge-loving people who then buy a mobile phone and are then forced to "open their links" in Safari or Chrome.

But to be honest, it's mostly the other way around: people live on phones, and when they have to interact with desktops, they pick the browser that integrates with their phones in the most seamless way. Which means, inevitably, the browser picked by their mobile-OS vendor, since there is little or no choice in that world.

The solution is not to turn into a little enforcer/fanboi for this or that corporation, but to crack open the mobile world (as well as Windows or any future platform) with the force of the State.
It's not individual companies though; in fact I think every telco includes that same RPI + {X}% increase in their contracts.
Previous thread about the same report, with 71 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738763
Yeah, obviously curious if a fastapi port could be written in mojo
I wouldn't bring math into this. Math is genuinely hard for everyone. Some people just have enormous amounts of dedication and sheer xxx will. The hardships extend far beyond learning the language.
> FTX running on Quickbooks

Quickbooks? I thought they were using post-it notes. Maybe I underestimated them..
Actually one of the main (the main?) pillar of Dollar hegemony was the USA-KSA strategic agreement for mandating the use of US Dollars for energy transactions. This is all early 70s geopolitical actions that had and continues to have significant side effects, including dropping the Shah of Iran* (and embracing KSA instead). For many nations, holding Dollar reserves is/was for buying oil and gas.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untol... (https://archive.is/kRW9c)

[2] https://www.currencytransfer.com/blog/expert-analysis/saudi-...

* From [1]: “Just a week before setting foot in Saudi Arabia, Simon publicly lambasted the Shah of Iran, a close regional ally at the time, calling him a “nut.””

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Showdown-at-Doha%3A-th...

The rise of Islamic Jihadis, financed by KSA and trained by CIA, propagation of Wahabism, tolerating the replacement of a secular ally in Iran with Islamist revolutionaries, ..., are all the direct consequence of this strategic shift by the USA. This is all in the context of post-Vietnam debt, rise of OPEC, and a still very menacing Soviet Union.

The Shah had made the error of thinking that by not joining the oil embargo of Arab states he was proving yet another reason (beyond being a forward Western block allied barrier to Soviet Union’s access to the Persian Gulf) for being considered a strategic ally to US. Nixon and Kissinger publicly and privately also assured of Iran’s importance. But what actually happened was that the oil embargo demanded a reassessment of the value of Shah of Iran to US. It was seen that oil and Arab producing nations’ alignment was far more important than any value Shah’s Iran was providing as a bulwark against the Soviets. The Brezhinski doctrine effectively addressed the means of filling the vacuum: Islamic Fundamentalism.
@dataminded explained it pretty well, at least based on my experience. I'm not on the HR/hiring manager side of this one (technically a separate team I collaborate with), so I can only say that it does appear that it is the desired years of experience for this particular role.

Having worked for a number of years in both the private and public sectors, I can say that job titles and descriptions do not necessarily always align between the two. In other words, I understand what you're saying, and can empathize with your confusion.

If helpful, the job descriptions/classifications for all roles at the City of Minneapolis are available online:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/minneapolismn/classsp...

I don't know that it will resolve the confusion entirely, but it may help to shed some light. Thank you again for the question!
This is a literal copy/paste from the Wikipedia article, word for word.
This is a great idea, the only issue is that in many cases "news" or "what I want to read" can be very subjective.

If I want to know what's happening from an authoritative source I go straight to Reuters and that's it.

However, there is also objectively less interesting news out there that I might want to click and read, and reducing the score to 3,4,5... (?) will give me a ton of crappy news which I don't want to read, and then I am back to square 1: google news or similar.

You need to provide a better way to select or filter out, otherwise you'll only get proxies of Reuters and similar, which we probably already go to during the day.
Must be nice to be paid to do little.
Credit Unions aren't FDIC insured, which is what this data set is using.
Samsung is not the only company enforcing this, it’s just that for some reason Samsung = news. Federal agencies banned it right away.
I don’t know about WebGPU, but WebGL is missing some key performance features from OpenGL ES, like client-side buffers, pixel buffer objects, and MSAA render-to-texture frame buffers.
> Surely a non-profit like this their number 1 priority should be accuracy and truth

I know a number of people in the non-profit space. Some acquire a belief that the end justifies the means, and therefore it’s okay to push the ethical limits as long as it’s for a good cause. They believe their own cause is good, naturally, so fundraising pushes can become a slippery slope of bending the rules.
Precisely. LLM’s are an engineered system. Artificial.

What I keep hearing from the AGI folks is that we’re on the verge of replacing humans. That these systems, “think,” on their own and will be superior to us in every way: dangerous even!

I highly doubt they will be a danger on their own. Bing isn’t going to decide one day that it thinks you’ve been a bit distant lately and doesn’t want to answer your query until you apologize. It will answer the query because it’s an algorithm run on a computer that is designed to answer queries.

The danger of AGI still comes from people and corporations that wield them.

Although it would be very convenient if future cases against Google could absolve them of responsibility because of a “rogue AI.”
What do you use it for?

Larger companies already have their workflow, compliance etc.

Developer productivity alone is not going to be worth going through audits / signoffs. It doesn't add enough to the product itself e.g. does it beat Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, etc in that space? No.
Fun to think that the two least sexy programming languages, COBOL and FORTRAN, run on the sexiest computers ever built.

Code has an almost surreal longevity.
How do companies raise money on the stock market without others speculating on their future value?
Just be annoying.

If it's a business, I mean.

In those cases where your proposition solves an important problem, you are being helpful, not annoying.

Most of the time, even if you are not annoying the answer will be "No."

Rejection is the norm in sales.
Could it have been a misunderstanding?

Interlaken is, as the name implies, between two lakes, one of which called Brienz. Could have been "Brienz cheese" or something similar?

There is a sbrinz cheese that's made nearby, but that seems to be more of a hard cheese that's used more like you would parmesan.
> features I use are worse than competition, and there are features I don't use that are annoying

I hate Teams. I hate Meet. But they work with basically zero training. You have to pick your battles, and successful businesses choose theirs in core competencies.
Not OP, but what about something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metisse ?

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3q7Z7RjIU 4min54sec)

Which begat https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1166253.1166301 from the same institution. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUUtiOWTzz4 7min20sec)

Married with something like https://arcan-fe.com/about/

With some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface sprinkled in,

not necessarily in the 'style' of https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/ but the concept.

Rounded with something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenQwaq , or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt

OFC fully themable like GTK before they broke it, or something like https://github.com/KDE/qtcurve which is endlessly modifiable.

Nirvana!
Which demonstrates the problem. When you have a market that only one or a few players can even operate in, that is bound to lead to this exact situation.

The regulations are so heavy and complicated that the best path to profit is to just capture and manipulate the regulators. Which only the biggest power players can do.

So there is effectively no competition allowed here. That doesn't serve the public well at all. We should like to see a market where many more new aircraft companies are popping up with new designs to prove out. Safety as a top concern, yes, but also a path to profit that doesn't have to involve cheating the system.
> Let’s turn it around, so there is absolutely no distinction between Russia and the US?

This depends on what one finds importand and what not. My wife says, for example, that there is no difference except for nature, climate and a few minor thigs.

I say - there is more than a few differences, but still two countries have more in common than people think.

>let’s demonstrate
>I assure you both outcomes are different.

If the result if the same (the government changing or not changing its policy or decisions) than there is no difference.

Yes in one scenario you may end up dead (and not necessarily in Russia) but this is not what's important here.
I wonder what if other big companies invest in desktop Linux (aimed at regular users) to increase its adoption and therefore competition in the market. It seems to be worth it.
People sell projects for a fixed price? How does that work? You either overpay a ton of underpay right?

And how would you even say what a project will cost? Projects change all the time, and there is no way to know the entire scope beforehand unless it's really really small. Otherwise you're just lying.

Genuinely how does this work?
There should be a warning in the title, "(website has large data size)" or somethlike that.
Is it me, or does this kind of illustrate that the banking industry doesn't know what it's doing and cannot be trusted in the future? I don't know what the answer is, but these "fat cats" running banks really aught not to.
Sadly Gmail won't let me send using that email address. Something to consider.
With usable screen space. Pixel doubling on a 4k 32” display leaves you with just 1080p effective resolution. Everything is way too big. It would be fine at 24”, but it’s not useful at 32”. At 32” I want 1440p at least.
This is a correct intuition yes. A program written in Cairo taking your balance (private) and a minimum collateral (public) and outputs a boolean for pass/fail, where the lender can only see "pass/fail" but trust the program was executed correctly is right.

However the technology isn't particularly useful in this scenario. It's enough for your bank to just reply to a request with "yes" without running the program because in theory you are forced to trust the bank no matter what as you have no guarantee the bank didn't just lie about your balance in the input to the Cairo program, so in this scenario the proof doesn't bring much. This technology is a lot more useful when the data being verified is combined with something that guarantees that the data input wasn't forged somehow, which is why this is more useful in blockchain environments where all transactions and balances are signed, so someone can't just invent a balance out of thin air.