skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help a few poor people near my home and one of those has my Whatsapp. Yesterday she wrote around 7 or 8 lines of very "confusing to parse" pt-br and ChatGPT perfectly "understood" and rewrote it in discursive form.

Then I had this insight that AI like this could "empower" a few billion people just because of this "infinite patience" to communicate with people that are semi-illiterate or learning to write. I wish these tools get to them quickly.

(In my specific case, Whatsapp would have to run this rewrite before sending the message, and suggest the rewrite to her. This would teach her and at the same time put her on a more level playing field to get a job etc. And she won't install an app and do this. It will only "work" if integrated and automatic)
The Secret Sauce of Sweden's Success
What about cognitive dissonance?
I recently changed to macOS, and macOS Outlook is a bit of a puzzle. On one hand an admission that the web app isn't good enough, on the other... It's not quite a proper port of the windows version?

Thankfully i write mostly code and documentation - so far i don't have to care that 2023 Outlook is worse than 2003 Pine.

On the other hand there's a shared calendar.
When was the last time they were in effect and at what scale? A century ago? More than enough time for consolidation to happen. In practice, competition flourished due to the lack of restrictions on unique offerings, which allowed banks to compete for different market segments and industries (i.e. car loans vs mortgages). Another major factor is probably the existence of the 50 states themselves, which differ dramatically in real estate laws and consumer lending laws, allowing local banks to specialize and gain a niche but also expand to other states without restrictions.
Ancient Myths and Open Source: Software as Storytelling
I didn't measure, but IIRC it was lower than 1 token/sec
> Estimating in something other than hours still needs to be converted for hours in order to be useful

Yes. Did you see the part of my comment where I explained how you do that?

The fact that this is the most accurate estimation method is well established in research. You can get close with some other methods, like tri-partite estimation, but they're more cumbersome.

WHY it helps so much to abstract away from direct time estimation, has a few going theories. One obvious reason is that the abstraction and tracking the relationship to real time brings into play the Law Of Large Numbers, the same mathematical law that allows casinos to profit on games of pure chance. The more sprints you have under your belt, the more your conversion rate averages in unexpected external influences like illness, windows updates, upstream problems, etc, in proportion to their actual occurrence rates.

Another of the most popular theories is that human brains have specialized areas/heuristics for predicting time vs predicting effort, which come with different cognitive biases.

Fundamentally I can't give you a definitive answer to why, only that speaking in terms of difficulty with engineers, and converting to time to talk to business planning, is well demonstrated to greatly improve accuracy in controlled studies. In fact, the best estimators, when predicting time, still predict 130% of the time needed for a complex task. Using abstracted measures it is not unusual to see accuracy within 5% or 10% of actual.
Somehow they manage to control it with an iron fist but still allow apps to intercept links, opening them in their nasty embedded version with injected JS.
They would have to buy and stock the panels. Maybe they aren't getting enough requests for a higher res display.
> Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that enables the creation of decentralized applications where every single interaction between a user and a d-app is verified by all the participants.

One keeps hearing about the ability to build “decentralized applications” upon crypto/blockchain tech, but I have yet to actually encounter even one such app.

Is it just vaporware?
perform calculations for which the simple calculator apps on your phone are too limited

C'mon now. I know this guy's too smart to think the only calculator apps are the ones that come preinstalled. There exists every conceivable calculator program, including half a dozen HP-25 emulators. You're allowed to like using an old calculator just because it feels good and you enjoy it.
I don't think I'd ever seen that document. Thank you!

I worked on the Basic Workstation team; my part was the desktop and folders code. As I recall, the whole BWS rewrite was the result of Robert Ayers coming along and trying to rewrite the bottom layers of Star from scratch. The framework he came up with became the basis for BWS.
Ask HN: Resources about Troubleshooting
I'm building a collection with resource about troubleshooting. From the very theoretical to the very specific.

If you have any suggestions about books, article, videos, training, etc, I'd really appreciate it.

I'll share it here when it's done.

Thanks in advance.
I'd been waiting/hoping for someone to make something like this. Well done. A few ideas that will not clutter the UI but you might consider:

- when a user changes the score slider, encode that in the URL with a hash tag, so they can bookmark the page with their preferred settings
- a left button allowing me to step back to yesterday's news
- to simplify newsletter signups, just accept an e-mail address right on that page
- your **advanced** options:
- have GPT score each news story across common labels: science, politics, entertainment, news, etc. Then allow these as a filter. If I want to see the top science stories of the day, that should be easy.
- have GPT write a 2 sentence summary of each story as a lead-in after the headline title
- a user/saved whitelist/blacklist of news sites
- any advanced setting should be shareable. For example, if someone puts the effort in to make a page with just Australian news sources, focused on sports, with a minimum score of 5.0, they could save that with a title that can be shared for anyone.

Congrats on a well-executed project.
That ship sailed decades ago, as is the case with thousands of British charities
thats unbelievable. Diabolical.

That is the path to hyperinflation if more companies adopted something similar.
Inflation is a consequence of the conditions that permit economic growth (fractional reserve banking / currency creation, credit extension / investment / speculation).

We could "solve" inflation tomorrow, but we'd also be zeroing growth.

Ergo why the usual target is a small but acceptable bit of inflation. E.g. the US Fed's 2%
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/02/safari-overtakes-edge-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786080
Are you aware of the concentration camps in which the Japanese were 'interned' during WWII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

I'll leave slavery, the Red Scare, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and all other atrocities out of it for now.

This exceptionalism thing is jarring.
And yet wages remain flat while profits and inflation rise.

The average person in this country already can't afford on two incomes what the last generation could afford on one.

How sustainable is this?
Not that your overall point is wrong but lithium ion batteries aren't that bad. I've have quite a few over a decade old that work just fine.
The Google Chat desktop app (which is really just a chrome instance, but this is obscured from the user) only opens links in Chrome and ignores the system default. It's had this behaviour forever.
Overall, this seems very pleasant to use, although I would like to have some non-American voices to choose from.

The UI has a feel that I would describe as relaxing, but the voices seem to have a tone that I found somewhat unpleasant and certainly not at all relaxing to listen to.

Another thing I find is that these sorts of things cope quite poorly with Socratic dialogue, and tend to fall back to quite woolly platitudes. If I'm trying to tease meaning and truth out of the system's 'knowledge' then I don't really find it helpful to be prompted repeatedly to disclose what I think, because I haven't decided yet - I'm exploring!

As a layer on top of a LLM, it's good work. I would be interested in hearing more about what you've done - the tech, the prompts, etc.
I’d say the two most relevant models right now are Stable Diffusion and GPT-4.

Stable Diffusion is open in all senses of the word.

GPT-4 is closed but the techniques it enables are reproducible by anyone with a credit card.

GPT-like things like LLaMA are, well, available. Direct, individually reproducible, these tools and their related academic publications qualify as computer science.

Nullius in verba certainly applies.
It's called an analogy. If you'd think for a few minutes you'd see the two situations are pretty similar. Of course one is far more extreme than the other, but both put the blame on the victim. Stop victim blaming.
Microsoft make a ton of products that are still great to use. Microsoft Flight Sim? No jokes, it's just good fun from what I hear. Their Visual Whatever IDEs? They built that by creating great things like the LSP.

And they aren't the only ones engaged in exploiting these kind of walled garden incentive mechanism.

I mentioned before, it feels like we're being herded to Mastodon with the Twitter drama. This feels like being herded to a different OS. Perhaps ome new brilliant one. But how we get there, the journey, matters.

Of course, that's crazy talk, Microsoft would never do that. Why would they chase away customers. So I'll just end that silly argument before it inches into a snowball dragging me towards a troll state.

But it doesn't feel good. It turns my love of programming into something else.

And I see that happening with other things I love too.
Here in the US mortgages are typically 30 years, so taking your $250k @ 4% example over 30 years is $1200/month. After 7 years you'd have paid $35k in Principle and $66k in Interest [0] leaving a balance of $214k. The $1200 mortgage payment doesn't include property/school taxes per the jurisdiction, estimate $300/month, it doesn't include PMI (mortgage insurance for putting down less than 20%), it doesn't include HOA fees either which we'll estimate PMI+HOA at $100/month. So the total cost per month is $1600 which is $134,400 over 7 years. Property taxes and HOA fees could be a lot higher depending on location and they also typically increase every couple years, I'll keep it simple and skip those facts.

After 7 years of owning that $250k home you will have paid $134k in total costs for it and property taxes, PMI and HOA, not including any maintenance costs (see my comment about maintenance/mechanical systems). So your $250k home will have to have appreciated over 50% in 7 years and be worth $384k for you to cover the costs of property taxes, PMI and HOA fees plus the mortgage principle+interest. If its less than $384k you are not breaking even (I'm not adding in all the extra stuff that happens with owning a home either).

Real estate advice is also generic and location matters a lot. These past few years property values have soared, which is unusual. They haven't soared everywhere though. Inflation has also soared along with interest rates so yes on paper a house may have inflated value (like +50%) but the numbers of buyers and sellers has gone down dramatically, values will also fall from their highs.

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/amortization-calculator/
Where is Lehmann Brothers there?
I did a write up of how I use import maps to avoid bundling JS on my static site and cache modules more effectively. I mostly use JS for little experiments and generative art and such, so I have a number of utility modules. These get hashed and the names of each resolved in the import map. Original modules are kept for browsers without import map support (without the immutable cache header).

There are a few gotchas. The browser won't use the import map to result an entry point in a script tag for example. Content security policy is a painful one too for static sites like mine (the import map counts as a script, so you have to hash the map and put that in the CSP header).

https://qubyte.codes/blog/progressively-enhanced-caching-of-...
I'm not sure about the "a lot" part... I've never seen it before
The 22% figure comes from this report, I believe, https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Aviation-2050...
Yes. Today LLM seems like an "obvious" choice, but before ChatGPT, one could easily argue that game-playing AI is with much higher business value (to "play" stock market or even fighters), and chatbots are only good for customer service.
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But you're not stopping in the middle of the street for long periods in confusion because of a common situation. There's levels to this and the self driving cars are not yet at an acceptable level.
Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab slowed disease progression in trials
> You're talking about this like Microsoft ever did anything differently than what you wrote? Since when have they focused 100% on just building great products and competing fairly?

They did a wonderful job with C# and .NET Core.

But you need to remember your org charts; the Edge and Windows 11 decision-makers are not the same people with the same incentives.
Faulty Memory Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Ultimately it'll happen if there's enough evidence to prosecute. I think one thing we're learning as a democracy is that the law has to be applied fairly to everyone. Just think about how damning the invasion of Iraq has been. It would be a totally different narrative if Bush and co. were properly investigated for their role in potentially lying about the invasion. The issue is that these lessons move at the speed of democracy, which is quite slow, and it's fundamentally a political process at that. Therefore, it's up to voters and that takes time and access to information. On the other hand, I'm not aware of a better way to do things.
I love it! The magical feel of analogue moving image... <3

Is the creator reading this?

Personally, what would attract me more to a mkIII of this camera would be:

1. scan with smartphone;

2. lowering usage costs / efficiency of film use;

3. further compactness;

- Would you also like some systems engineering thoughts?
It has partial gpu acceleration if you compile it with LLAMA_CUBLAS or LLAMA_CLBLAST

They really have come a long way since... A few weeks ago.

Using cublas with my 1080ti results in a 52% speedup compared to cpu-only. Vram usage is very minimal.
Not OP and unsure what happened to that link, but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135
When I say three contradicting meanings of "money printing" I mean it.

MMT predicts that if you print money you don't necessarily end up printing money but if you print money you definitely end up printing money.

People don't understand the difference between printed money and printed money that was printed.

It should be pretty obvious. If the central bank prints money but the government doesn't print money then no money was printed except when people withdraw their printed money into printed money. If however the government does print money it will definitely cause inflation (classical economists and MMTists agree). It is especially likely if the government prints money into the form of printed money.

Also MMTists think "MMT" shouldn't be done as it is too much like printing money because MMT is a theory of money and accounting and not a theory of printing money unlike "MMT".

I don't know why I wrote this. I believe in accounting identities which are sort of MMTish so I knee jerk when people violate accounting identities by building straw men and reusing the same words to use completely different meanings for the same of political framing.

For god's sake you can't even use money printing in its original meaning anymore. Aka governments physically creating money to increase the money supply without supplying goods in return which as I mentioned above is a bad idea.

You know the difference between the various types of "money printing" that distinguishes them from the political framing is that the ones done the most have a sort ratcheting mechanism that forces the money to come back eventually. In other words, if there was no threat of deflation, via negative interest or whatever mechanism of your choosing, then the mechanism of money creation would unwind and the money would disappear on its own without causing inflation.

Alas we don't live in that world. Deflation is scary and must be avoided so we are stuck on this inflation treadmill until people wake up and accept mitigations to the dangers of deflation which then gives central banks, governments , businesses and private citizens more leeway to steer the economy towards their preferences and away from permanent inflation and money supply increases. So the inflation treadmill it is...
I love that there are no news over 7.0 significant. FOMO cured.
I don’t miss the seemingly arbitrary restrictions from university IT admins.

A university I attended blocked all BitTorrent traffic at the protocol level. They theoretically allowed exceptions per their policy but when I applied for some bioinformatics images to be allowed they said they would only allow specific files for a 24 hour window. I applied for a file and got no response. I applied for 1000 files and got no response. Then I gave up.
As some of the other comments have noted, Windscale (now Sellafield) was part of the British nuclear weapons programme. That covered everything in secrecy which was bad for public trust. And this has always been difficult to extricate from uranium-based processes. It's where the "peace" in "Greenpeace" comes from; a lot of historical opposition to nuclear reactors was driven by the knowledge that the resulting plutonium would be used to make even more bombs.

The worst case of this was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera , a foreshadow of the "weapons of mass destruction" excuse for attacking Iraq.
Hmmm. I tried about a dozen times before giving up. I thought the game was broken before reading your comment.

Nothing in the game visually indicates that going back is worse than going forwards. As the level is symmetrical, the distance is literally the same. A one-way door, or crumbling floor, would have been easy solutions I think.
The skills gap for Fortran looms large in HPC
This article is not particularly detailed, authoritative, or newsworthy. Wikipedia offers a better overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
This is an impressive project. I wonder about the longevity of the 3d-printed mechanism.

Anyway, some years ago I went to a Lumière brothers exhibition. At the end of the exhibition there was an original "Cinematograph" in function.

I was astonished by the simplicity of the machine: It was just a little wooden box with a film magazine, a lens and a hand crank.[1][2]

And it doubled as a projector, just by placing a lamp behind it[3] (an oil lamp, and film was highly flammable back then, most early motion pictures were lost due to fire).

And that was it, it required neither electricity, nor any special or complex operation. I couldn't stop thinking how this little device was the start of one of the most important and influential industries of the 20th century.

I guess most of the innovation was in the development of the film itself.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Institut...

[2]: https://img.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/10...

[3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Cinemato...
Thanks for the hint. From the paper it seems it's highly implementation-dependent which drives can be compromised and there's no immediate way to tell. Still it seems OPAL 2.0 is good enough to deter data leaks in case of theft (excluding targeted attacks).
Show HN: Niui 3.0 – lightweight, rich, accessible front end
Here is a library of the most common components I've created in the last decade. It aims to solve the toughest UI problems like Carousel, Modal and Select, while using native browser capabilities as much as possible, and focusing on accessibility, stability and customisation. 14 KB of CSS, JS optional.

https://rado.bg/niui-3-0-native-internet-user-interface/
New life for used electric bike motors
I'm ok with believing that all it takes to make intelligence (probably not the only way) is a sufficiently large neural net with the right architecture and weights.

I think it is easy to distracted by the specific mechanisms by which these models work, but most of the technological detail is because we want something to happen on systems at the scale of what we can actually build. We simply can't build a human brain scale neural net yet. We build what we can and besides maybe with all this research we will figure something significant about what intelligence actually is.

The notion "This can't be all thought is" is as old as the idea of AI. I think it informed Turing when he proposed the Imitation Game. The insight is that people would be resistant to the idea of a bunch of simple things stuck together becoming thinking until they were faced with something that behaves sufficiently indistinguishable from themselves that to doubt that they were thinking would be akin to doubting everyone you meet.

In the end some people won't even accept an AI that does everything a human does as actually thinking, but then again some people are actually solipsistic.
So no matter how objectively or rationally true something is, if it triggers people, it is flamebait?

I'm not a fan of Trump but if I merely mention his name and it sets off a flamewar, then the primary responsibility lies with me? Really?

Honest question as it was literally 100% not my intent so I'm just a little surprised.

It's like I said Santa Claus doesn't exist and that triggered a bunch of children, so it's my fault... I fail to understand.

I can think of just 1 example where everyone agrees that simply speaking a truth is wrong and that is "spoilers," but in that case it's because it is objectively ruining the enjoyment of people. I don't know what exactly I'm "ruining" here
The Crown Estate is not private property of the King in the sense that Bill Gates owns his property. It would probably be a legal nightmare to untangle this, but it's hard for me to see how it would be bad for the british citizens if 100% of the profits instead of 85% of the profits would go to them.
I mean, they were there to stop the transition of power from one president to another... that's a coup, even if it failed.
The Dutch system cited didn't use AI and is 15+ years old (ie predates current AI hype by far).

Most AI papers have working code available.
Etc

This entire article is rife with trivial to find errors that totally invalidate it's claims. there may be a problem, there may not, this article doesn’t help figure it out either way.

It feels like narrative was written first, then someone went looking to try to find newsbites that sound like they support it.
Correct, but I don’t see Firefox or Chrome bothering to add tensor core support.