skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google maps isn't so good because google is good* but because google feeds their maps with data from their users, which is a huge privacy concern that most people simply don't care about.

I use Apple's notably inferior maps because they're not feeding my data straight into their map and navigation products. It's a tradeoff most wouldn't be willing to make, but that tradeoff is why their maps are better.

It boils down to out of date maps are worse than worthless and google has a scheme to keep theirs up to date. It's a huge maintenance problem...unless your users are also the product.

So maps might be a bad comparison to ML/AI development.

*Google using their user data can be interpreted as google being good at it, sure.

As an aside, I stopped using Google maps/waze because I got the distinct impression I was being used as a guinea pig to find new routes during the awful commute I used to have. I would deliberately kill the app when I went to use a shortcut I knew about so that the horde wouldn't also find it via those tools.
Show HN: Generate and improve ChatGPT, DALLE, or Midjourney prompts using GPT-4
I just built a website that uses GPT-4 to create prompts for ChatGPT, DALLE•2, and Midjourney where you can test out the prompts directly on the website. I'm looking for some feedback on the website + some initial users to validate the idea.
The other problem (that Europeans often don't understand) is just how big America is. Texas alone is twice as big as the UK and Ireland combined.

My point is that covering America with train tracks would cost $trillions. Yes, there was a time when we built something on that scale: The interstate highway system. But those days are long over. American politics is now far too gridlocked to build a public bathroom, much less a trillion-dollar public transit system. Even if it ended up saving money and the planet.
SLC feels like a very modest downtown city, where-as Denver's urban core feels much more significant. And there's major East-West and Southern low-rise urban corridors out of Denver, that feel active, where-as SLC to me felt far more suburban very quickly. Denver also has a bunch of intense pockets around it, with major tech hubs Northwest and south of Denver. I admittedly haven't spent much time in SLC but I did travel around a bit trying to get a feel for the area.

SLC felt far sleepier & suburban, to me. With incredible mountains right there.
AI is not just a destination, but what does AI native look like?
Does it present a completely different opportunity in terms of our relationships with the online world?

And does building / teaching / connecting skills to AI systems lead to a network effect which will be difficult to compete against in the abscence of it?

The moats come from the connected skills, closed data and feedback loops.
This isn't a modular reactor (SMR). It is just a small reactor, with all the caveats of building such. Most notably, you just just get a couple delivered to a decommissioned coal plant and plug them in to meet your 2030 emissions targets, but instead have to deal with a multi-year project to build the thing.
Hs he considered the possibly that even in the event of financial crisis or hyperinflation, Bitcoin may still do badly? This was the case in 2022, when inflation and interest rates surged and Bitcoin lost 75% of its value.
It seems facially non-credible that the body has non-fat stores of energy that exceed the margin of error of standard body scales.
> any large business will already be doing Backups, DR etc for their existing systems

Any? Are you sure?
Finnish newspaper uses video game to dodge Russia’s press restrictions
For Transformers you would need an infinite number of self-attention layers.

For RNN/LSTM all you need is enough neurons to implement a counter.
Why do you need a terminal in your editor. CMD-tab to switch vs CMD-tilda to open the terminal and you get a worse experience in the editor.

Same as the build system.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Debugger is superior to VSCode's debugger.

I use vim for remote editing but I am sure you can find something for Sublime if you really wanted to.

Sublime Text also has tons of plugins by the way. Just because VS Code is built on top of open source technologies doesn't mean it's better.
...whereas the rampaging horde of google maps and waze users are ubiquitous.
Assertions are often free or nearly so. On modern out of order processors, it’s a fully predictable branch and a cheap assertion that nothing depends on. So the pipeline is unaffected and there’s usually a cheap test that often is completely free because there’s spare capacity.

If the assert tests something expensive, I will usually switch to a debug assert.
Awesome! Now that I've seen this framework, it tempts me though...

I have this personal side project which in the wee days of me career I wrote in CherryPy; I love Python and have been exploring frameworks. I didn't really get a lot written in it because eventually I realized the project is frontend-heavy and I was never in the mood to write the JS for it.

Recently I had the need for this side project again so I thought, why not rewrite it using a framework that would avoid me having to deal with the madness that is the Node.js ecosystem? For one reason or another I ended up with Vaadin.

I've nothing against Java. If it works, it works. I got over the initial bump that is Spring and I got a "core" backend running, with tests too. My grievance with it is the usual Java fault of needing to write a lot of boilerplate just to shoehorn my app into the framework's philosophy. (Man, part of my initial consideration was even the tooling, editor, autocomplete, and all that, because damn me if I try Spring without these modern conveniences!)

And this...this is all the things that attracted me to Vaadin---but in Python! I am so tempted to rewrite again. My experience and your documentation should make this a two hour job, right? Right?

("Haha, I'm in danger," my side project chuckles like Ralph Wiggum, staring blankly at https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/11/25/west-side-project-...)
yea those jobs require negative competence compared to being a CEO
Scam. While you are at it any timeshare you can also recommend? Or get rich quick from bitcoin scheme?
I mean...isn't that just a smartphone?

I know exactly what you're talking about because my father-in-law had the same thing. I'm just very skeptical that specialist hardware will overtake general commoditized computing devices for mass-market usage. The economics alone make it unlikely.
Shipping around individual video frames between components is really an astonishingly bad idea.

Microservices seem to be a decent idea with a terrible name. The idea of running services that are small enough that they can be managed by a single team makes sense - it enables each team to deploy their own stuff.

But if you break things down further, where you need multiple "services" to perform a single task, and you have a single team managing multiple services - all you do is increase operational & computational overhead.
Is Rivian considered a luxury brand? Because this seems untennable for the average driver.
It’s Javascript. Everything is weird - from the equality coercion to the package management to left padding text.
You're 100% correct, honestly I was just trying not to come off as being too hyperbolic
Good news, but the Supreme Court deciding to override the FCC and declare fiber to be exempted from Local-Loop-Unbundling requirements is still a travesty.

The Supreme Court sides with Verizon, whose argument was effectively, sure, there are laws about sharing the physical infrastructure. But we want to make a lot more money & might not do fiber unless we get a physical monopoly over this utility. The Supreme Court gave them their monopoly.

There should be multiple ISPs competing to offer you high-speed service. Each would have to build it's own physical network, without Local Loop Unbundling, which gets harder & harder the more infrastructure is already put down. Before fiber, DSL for example allowed competition, created a huge number of competitive ISPs. But the Supreme Court killed that competitiveness, & seemingly nothing can ever be done to claw back this physical monopoly that was handed out to the giant corporate entities. Fuck us.
Since this is mentioning d/dx stuff...

In the past I've read that that stuff is more or less just a shorthand for the "formal" definition of a derivative. But I have also seen people solve problems through manipulation of the dx's and the dy's, and treading that as... well as a fraction.

Is there some sort of guide to what you're "allowed" to do with dx and dy in general? Or is the thing basically that people are just "being careful"? This, like discussion of set theory, is always tough because I feel like I'm missing the axioms that could justify certain operations
Pgvector for postgres and vector search in Elasticsearch would be two ways to do it without adopting some new untested product.
Potentially Chroma https://www.trychroma.com/ ?
It isn't modular. It is just a small version of the existing AP1000.
The development of custom DSP. The Cube had its own powerful DSP processor which could process sound in programmable ways, rather than simply playing an 8-bit sample or two.

It was the direct ancestor of today's VST/AU/AAX/etc synth and FX plugin market.
Why? What GP describes seems both feasible and inevitable to me.
The author raises the question whether LLMs could make devops tasks as easy as basic python text to code generation.

I had been thinking about this and it seems unlikely to me because with modern declarative infra there isnt a lot of waste between specifying what you want and implementing it.

All the work is in understanding your requirements and context and modification demands.

Has anyone who knows more about llms and infra thought about this?
Systems Thinking, Learning, and Problem Solving by Russell L. Ackoff
I think one of the most creative and progressive times was when Labor was forced to negotiate with the independants.

My choice for the most creative time was those first couple of months of the Whitlam government in 1972 when it was basically just Whitlam and Barnard acting alone.
Business Shopify Cuts Jobs Again, Sells Most of Logistics Business to Flexport
The belief of lottery players going broke is a way to rationalize the seeming unfairness of sudden and unearned wealth. It's similar to the belief that child prodigies burn out as adults.
Amazon does not let you cancel and keep it for the month. As soon as you cancel it, your subscription ends.
> What does that matter?

It matters because we have a secular government, so we don’t make laws based on people’s religious beliefs, no matter how popular those beliefs may be.

Religious people are welcome to live by whatever set of rules their books dictate, as long as doing so doesn’t infringe on other people’s rights. But they are not welcome to apply their religious restrictions to everyone else.
No this article was about layoffs. The employee-employer relationship is very different the one between competing companies. If you have created a better widget factory and need 90% less staff, I do think you have some responsibility to those employees that are no longer needed.
Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request
This whole thread is about incompatible databases. If you know a 2 minute solution to a live transfer in that situation I’m all ears.
I believe it's mostly just a direct jab at C++. Almost every other language has fast or fast enough compilation speeds.
Heygen’s logo looks like M365. Probably a bad idea.
Do you lead an open source project?
Their trucks are expensive, but to be clear, the other driver’s insurance paid for it.

> The $42,000 repair cost, along with Apfelstadt's rental car cost, was very close to maxing out the other driver's $50,000 insurance payout limit.
Well what has happened is that asset price increase go up faster than what a person can save. I lived at home and saved money, then the covid house bubble came and doubled the prices. Now i would have to save for another decade.

Nope sorry, I'm out. Everyone who thinks they have decent equity in their house is going to feel pain when no one can afford their million dollar condos in a few years
I’m not the person would said it was two minutes.
I would think iCloud is their biggest seller, considering the price and utility to almost all iPhone users.
You would think it would be economical to just move the work force around with the projects. You get the talent, but built in place.
Langchain is absolutely perfect though, it's bad enough that you'll be driven to write something better out of pure frustration but gives you enough good ideas and breadcrumbs to actually do it.

It's probably the best on-ramp for "practical uses of llms" because it scratches just the right developer itch.
word is of type char*, a pointer to a (single) object of type char.

The initializer means that the char object it points to happens to be the first (0th) element of an array containing 4 elements with values 'x', 'y', 'z', and '\0'.

Most manipulation of arrays in C is done via pointers to the individual elements, and arithmetic on those pointers. (Incrementing a pointer value yields a pointer to the next element in the array.)

For example, `sizeof word` gives you the size of the pointer object, but `strlen(word)` yields 3, because it calls a library function that performs pointer arithmetic to find the trailing '\0' that marks the end of the string. (A "string" in C is a data layout, not a data type.)
> And we should not expect to be able to catch up. The modern internet runs on open source for a reason. Open source has some significant advantages that we cannot replicate.

I don't have faith in OpenAI as a company, but I have faith in Open-Source. What you're trying to say, if I understand correctly, is that Google will absorb the open-source and simply be back on top. But who will maintain this newly acquired status quo for Google? Google cannot EEE their own developer base. They said that much in the article;

> We cannot hope to both drive innovation and control it.

History as an example, Android did not kill *nix. Chrome did not kill Firefox. Google Docs has not killed Open Office. For the simple fact that Google needs all of these organizations to push Google forward. Whether that means Google gets access to code, or whether that means Google becomes incentivized to improve in some way.

If Google wants to eat another free lunch tomorrow they have no choice but to leave some of that free labor standing, if not prop it up a little. The real question becomes, how much market share can we realistically expect without eating tomorrow's lunch?
In my case as a daily user, it’s zero. I pull up older (90+days) projects to reuse assets all the time and I never notice. As an AWS admin (past) I can definitely tell when other apps pull data from slower buckets.
This almost feels like hospital pricing in the U.S. - where there's the official price that assumes you have insurance, and then the actual price you can negotiate down to if you're paying out of pocket.
Yes, very much a luxury brand.
I agree, with a personal thought.

This gets said often and it's true. But it's also self sustaining, and not just at a societal level, at an individual level.
I previously worked with many people who lead full lives with minimal online interactions besides group chats with family. They were not significant people in a significant place but they lead meaningful lives.
I personally find it helpful to remember that.
> > I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd.

> It builds off of several specifications that came from the crypto crowd. It does not use a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain, though, so depending on how you use the words "crypto" and "blockchain," it either is or is not those things.

From the protocol's FAQ docs itself:

> Is ATP a blockchain?

> No. ATP is a federated protocol. It's not a blockchain nor does it use a blockchain.

https://atproto.com/guides/faq#is-atp-a-blockchain

Architecturally, it's an attempt at improving ActivityPub in terms of account transfers & portability between federated instances, which ActivityPub doesn't inherently support. Mastodon, by comparison, requires one of those steps to be the explicit export into a locally-saved file, rather than communications between the federated instances themselves.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
None of these links work for me. 429's on all of them right now.
People will figure out how to hack these things. But the difference here, I think, is that EVs tend to be much more software-driven than even the most sophisticated ICE car. They're likely to contain half-decent crypto that makes hacking much more difficult, and EV companies are likely to sue you under the DMCA if you succeed. In addition these cars are always connected to the mother ship which can disable the engine by remote control if they suspect tampering.

"Chipping" an EV is going to be much harder than it was with ICE cars.
That list of "over 130 emergent capabilities" the article links sounds very impressive, but just from spot checking, at least one of them shows the opposite, namely that GPT-3 could not do the task: https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/tree/main/bigbench/bench...
So the number is not 130 after all.
The total number of roles in HFT firms and other top finance companies that pay tech employees that well are tiny compared to the number of roles in FAANG.

Along those lines, the number of SWEs in FAANG are tiny compared to the legions upon legions of SWEs working at nontech companies where a 60yo staff engineer retires with compensation similar to a FAANG 25yo junior engineer.

The comparison is even more dire if you bring non-US jobs into play. I’ve heard a typical Venetian gondolier is paid more than an Italian SWE.

So I disagree a FAANG engineer is underpaid compared to the vast majority of their peers at other companies.

FAANG is an anthill, and HFT firms are a wart on an ant’s thorax compared to the Mt. Everest that comprises the legions of companies that pay far, far less.
If I had to do Windows automation I would reach for:

https://www.libreautomate.com/
If you think about it, every company is a competitor because they’re all competing for money
After Microsoft swapped out the CEO. New guys better than Balmer.
Post-Harvard, pre-everyone
Generally, the models seem to struggle with fine details that correlate with broader features. Each finger typically looks ok, it's the hand that's off... remote controls might have appropriately detailed buttons with a nonsense layout. I wonder if the training process can "weight" various visual features instead of optimizing loss equally over the whole image.
Repair shops are going to love Rivian. As they bring 30x more money for a single repair.

The only thing is that an insurance will probably cost 30x (not only for Rivian cars owners!). So insurance will love such cars too.
The representation of an object is determined by how the object itself is defined.

An initializer doesn't change that. It only affects the value stored in the object when it's created.

A special case exception is that an array object defined with empty square brackets gets its length from the initializer, so

char word[] = "xyz";

is a shorthand for, and is exactly equivalent to:

char word[4] = "xyz";
Kids have had access to porn on the internet for at least 25 years now. I don't know how harmful that has been but the premise that this is somehow a new situation is pretty absurd.
Link to report please
Steep enrollment declines in public education in major US cities
Looking up words you don't know =/= Reverse engineering
Correct me if I am wrong, to use LORA fine-tuned model in inference you would still need the original model + trained additional layers, right?

If we can perfect methods to fine-tune large models for specific task while reducing the overall model size, then it can fit into more consumer grade hardware for inference and can be broadly used. The objective is to prune unnecessary trivia and memorization artifacts from the model and leverage LLMs purely for interpreting natural language inputs.
https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveil...
Wow this is super interesting! Thank you!
Baseball’s last dive bar: Farewell to the crumbling Oakland Coliseum
Yeah for sure. I would guess storage, music, tv, fitness and arcade, news in that order.
In this case, sure, but unless Rivian drivers are unusually careful they will end up being at fault around 50% of the time. And their insurance companies will adjust their rates to account for $42,000 fender benders.
> No, I think this is wrong, we should be expanding children's rights, not be taking them away.

Children have the right to be protected until adulthood.
> 15 MWe / min "load following" capability

I know nothing of nuclear. What sets this rate? Is it some system level thermal gradient limitation? Or maybe the complexity of the safety around the movement?
If we consider the Word 2.0 (for Windows) era as the beginning of a graphical Microsoft Office suite, then graphical Office has had the ribbon for as long as it didn’t: 16 years.

I’m still waiting for people to stop complaining about it.
That's about half the sticker price of a new R1T. If one more panel was involved would it be totalled?
Uber is a financial scam. It's never intended to make a profit. If it did, it would simply be yet another taxi company and have to raise prices to suit its responsibilities.

It's designed to soak money out of investors and drivers alike and pass that cash along to the administrative officers of the company as bonuses.

If drivers were to make a proper accounting of the business, they'd see they are paying the transportation bills for Uber, and making a personal loss. And if the investors did their due diligence, they'd see that investing in Uber is a mug's game.

But good old P.T. Barnum said it right, (paraphrased): "There's a new sucker born every minute."
Anyone interested in having some of the window/screenArea manipulations à la i3 should have a look at Microsoft’s PowerToys, and especially its functionality « FancyZones ». That’s truly VERY nice !

https://youtu.be/ld-vmpbngDE

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
In my experience, profiling is hard and a lot of times doesn't show the issue. e.g. for unnamed goroutines it is hard to see which goroutine profiler is referring to. Or say if some code change increased CPU usage without increase in time/memory, it will affect the entire monolith performance. Yes a good maintainer could pinpoint the issue, but remember my premise was that it is low trust environment, and saying I think your code change increased CPU usage involves talking to managers and being in 2 meetings. And in microservice they would have to deal with their alerts to not miss the SLA.

> Microservices is just taking a monolith and moving the components into separate processes that communicate via RPC.

Microservice architecture divides the responsibility much more than that. They have separate redis cache, local cache, tests, and even likely has different DB etc.
You're being redirected to chaos.social because you don't have an account on those other servers.
AFAIR, it was a stock Motorola DSP. The only that was odd about it was that it was mounted on the motherboard. You could (and I did) get access that sort of DSP through daughterboards before the Cube, but NeXT took the step of saying "this ought to be a part of the computer itself".

I really disagree about it as a direct ancestor of the contemporary plugin API. These have always run on the host CPU, not dedicated DSP chips (excluding of course Digidesign's original ProTools model, but that was DSP farm rather than just a chip).

And the sort of DSP that was being done on the Cube DSP was being done before the Cube too.