skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no! Won't someone think of 'The Economy' or 'The Children'?!

Sorry man, an unrestricted global 'public library' that allows those who can't afford it to access just about any published book is an unmitigated 'good thing'. I bet you also hate scihub as well. Won't someone think of the poor academic journals and their rent seeking?
I would like to see any post-stress discussion about what forced measures were good and what bad. I have seen both online and offline a lot of abuse of office from police, such as bulling a lone walkers while being in crowd.
Hi! I'm also here (other co-founder of the company/project), we'd love to understand if this is a problem only we encountered - or others also need to keep track of their simulated model performance over time!
Thai food near me- chatgpt can give you a list of thai restaurants near you. IRS phone number has a definitive answer. Chatgpt can also spit out the golang documentation for cmp or even give you sample code.
I was on Sicily last week and saw quite some of those. Doesn't even stand out that much as people there seem to prefer very small cars (just look at a city like Modica on Streetview and you get why).
Your claim is that inflation in ~4 years is almost 90%?
Yep. For now the element.io keeps coming up and getting blocked on a 10-20 minutes schedule for some reason.

No stoppage of service is happening for now. Even matrix.org is working.

All clients are working, all servers are working
Moore's law isn't dead. Only Dennard's law. See slide 13 here[0] (2021). Moore's law stated that the number of transistors per area will double every n months. That's still happening. Besides, neither Moore's law nor Dennard scaling are even the most critical scaling law to be concerned about...

...that's probably Koomey's law[1][3], which looks well on track to hold for the rest of our careers. But eventually as computing approaches the Landauer limit[2] it must asymptotically level off as well. Probably starting around year 2050. Then we'll need to actually start "doing more with less" and minimizing the number of computations done for specific tasks. That will begin a very very productive time for custom silicon that is very task-specialized and low-level algorithmic optimization.

[0] Shows that Moore's law (green line) is expected to start leveling off soon, but it has not yet slowed down. It also shows Koomey's law (orange line) holding indefinitely. Fun fact, if Koomey's law holds, we'll have exaflop power in <20W in about 20 years. That's equivalent to a whole OpenAI/DeepMind-worth of power in every smartphone.

The neural engine in the A16 bionic on the latest iPhones can perform 17 TOPS. The A100 is about 1250 TOPS. Both these performance metrics are very subject to how you measure them, and I'm absolutely not sure I'm comparing apples to bananas properly. However, we'd expect the iPhone has reached its maximum thermal load. So without increasing power use, it should match the A100 in about 6 to 7 doublings, which would be about 11 years. In 20 years the iPhone would be expected to reach the performance of approximately 1000 A100's.

At which point anyone will be able to train a GPT-4 in their pocket in a matter of days.

There's some argument to be made that Koomey himself declared in 2016 that his law was dead[4], but that was during a particularly "slump-y" era of semiconductor manufacturing. IMHO, the 2016 analysis misses the A11 Bionic through A16 Bionic and M1 and M2 processors -- which instantly blew way past their competitors, breaking the temporary slump around 2016 and reverting us back to the mean slope. Mainly note that now they're analyzing only "supercomputers" and honestly that arena has changed, where quite a bit of the HPC work has moved to the cloud [e.g. Graviton] (not all of it, but a lot), and I don't think they're analyzing TPU pods, which also probably have far better TOPS/watt than traditional supercomputers like the ones on top500.org.

0: (Slide 13) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/0001193125212...

1: "The constant rate of doubling of the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

2: "The thermodynamic limit for the minimum amount of energy theoretically necessary to perform an irreversible single-bit operation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

3: https://www.koomey.com/post/14466436072

4: https://www.koomey.com/post/153838038643
Reminds me of the essay "Whats the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?" by David Graeber (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-hav...):

"Generally speaking, an analysis of animal behavior is not considered scientific unless the animal is assumed, at least tacitly, to be operating according to the same means/end calculations that one would apply to economic transactions. Under this assumption, an expenditure of energy must be directed toward some goal, whether it be obtaining food, securing territory, achieving dominance, or maximizing reproductive success—unless one can absolutely prove that it isnt, and absolute proof in such matters is, as one might imagine, very hard to come by.

I must emphasize here that it doesn’t really matter what sort of theory of animal motivation a scientist might entertain: what she believes an animal to be thinking, whether she thinks an animal can be said to be “thinking” anything at all. I' m not saying that ethologists actually believe that animals are simply rational calculating machines. I' m simply saying that ethologists have boxed themselves into a world where to be scientific means to offer an explanation of behavior in rational terms—which in turn means describing an animal as if it were a calculating economic actor trying to maximize some sort of self-interest—whatever their theory of animal psychology, or motivation, might be.

That’s why the existence of animal play is considered something of an intellectual scandal. It' s understudied, and those who do study it are seen as mildly eccentric. As with many vaguely threatening, speculative notions, difficult-to-satisfy criteria are introduced for proving animal play exists, and even when it is acknowledged, the research more often than not cannibalizes its own insights by trying to demonstrate that play must have some long-term survival or reproductive function."
Yes, this is the common meaning in all of the humanities and social sciences. In that context if you mean a ceremony or a religious ritual, you'd need to say that specifically.
Covid global health emergency is over, WHO says
> The whole idea of representing UI interactions by changes to a document model is absurd.

Citations needed. Works on my & most machines.

The protesting against the DOM is so endless, but golly gee willikers it sure looks a heckuva lot like a Android Layout xml or any of a hundred other widget tree systems. It's a tree of stuff, like every other UI paradigm. All in all, the DOM makes incredibly little impact, one way or another, on UI design. But heavens is it amazing for the user that there is a declarative document, that there is a common interchange, & not just gooping mounds of code that resist user scripting & user agency.

DOM is a pretty powerful flexible system that, frankly, does much better & has a much harder job than native apps. Native apps rarely do a good job supporting a variety of sizes/zooms, are minimally reactive, where-as the web is incredibly flexible.

> Then it all went in the garbage because it all had to go "on the web".

Citation needed. Did it?

What other UI systems give users any where as much agency or power? What alternate systems give users any agency or power? Or to your bias, what was the halycon wonderful UI world developers frolicked in before?

I feel like the negative voices on this are extremely persistent, but it's entirely unclear to me what UI paradigm is in any way even in the least bit better. They all seem a bit like soupy messes. None of them are remotely good for culture & society at large except the DOM, for none of them are live & learnable & malleable & userscriptable. Which are better for developers seems to be the only question of the anti-DOM world, and there are, best I can tell, zero highly attractive targets we should go flock to. UIs just are a bit of a mess, especially ad complexity builds.

I also think folks highly underrate the slow but steady trickle of major major companies moving to WebComponents & having great success. GitHub, YouTube, maybe next reddit. The web is such a malleable architecture, the DOM is such a multi-paradigm. Trying to find your groove is not seamless & easy for all. Some people see that as a weakness, but it's a characteristic of an appropriately post modern[1] mode of developement, to have great capabilities & not be shoehorned into a tiny singular path.

[1] http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
An embedding is a collection of learned vectors.

Each vector is an array of n floats that represent a location of a thing in an n-dimensional space. The idea of learning an embedding is that you have some learning process that will put items that are similar into similar parts of that vector space.

The vectors don’t necessarily need to represent words and the model that produces them doesn’t necessarily to be a language model.

For example, embeddings are widely used to generate recommendations. Say you have a dataset of users clicking on products on a website. You could assume that products that get clicked in the same session are probably similar and use that dataset to learn an embedding for products. This would give you vector representing each product. When you want to generate recommendations for a product, you take the vector for that product and then search through the set of all product vectors to find those that are closest to it in the vector space.
> if the underlying assumptions were true: in a democracy you got the right to vote people out who misbehave. If you are blind to the differences between those people, you are effectively letting those who are a little bit worse than the others stay. And so the spiral moves downwards and you will at some point in your life wake up and ask how it came to this.

Bingo. In my opinion, this is where we're at right now. Your choice as a voter is between bad and bad in part because the voting population has been stirred up to believe that the difference between the candidates is much bigger than it actually is.

I think your other points are reasonable, but you seem to be trying to shame anyone that refuses to pick a team instead of considering that maybe both teams stink.
Because a document model is not a representation of a widget tree. UI toolkits came with preconfigured set of widgets that were rendered in a uniform way, had predefined behaviour that was controlled by the operating system (say for accessibility purposes) did not need to be "styled" unless the user wanted to style it at the OS level etc. Finally the callback system is far more intuitive for an average developer than the whole "UI as a function of state" mantra that dominates web based UI toolkits.
> You know what worsens race relations? People shouting, despite all evidence to the contrary that there isn't a racism...

Is there? It's actually hard to tell. A review of the evidence: https://manhattan.institute/article/fatal-police-shootings-a...

> Or a police accountability problem in this country

I agree. Police union corruption is a huge issue, "asset forfeiteture" is a total scam, police officer immunity is too strong… But the solution is not "turn a blind eye to all of it until something happens that you can pigeonhole into a politically convenient racial narrative, at which point burn down the city." It also isn't "stop prosecuting crime, and allow criminals to victimize the least privileged people in society with impunity."
that's "shadowsocks"

wireguard is fingerprintable. it's trivial to look at packets and see "this is wireguard". and block the packets

Outline traffic looks much more like noise (pre-shared keys, lack of handshake, …)
Fed mandate is clear: Price stability and low unemployment.

Their main lever is interest rates. Interest rate increases do not necessarily increase unemployment. Now that unemployment is low enough, their priority is inflation, and for that they will raise interest rates. If higher unemployment is a side effect that leads to 2% inflation, then their mandate is still achieved. But rest assured, if inflation comes down to 2% with unemployment flat or improved, it's all the better according to them. Their intention is not "more unemployment -> less inflation", it's just "less inflation," by any means necessary. They will accept causing higher unemployment to achieve 2% inflation because it's a balancing act between their two goals.

"Powell said he hoped that a slackening of demand might reduce pressure in the labor market without raising unemployment."[0]

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-29/higher...
Let's be honest, Firefox exists solely at Google's whim.
"I haven’t looked at Flutter for other platforms than web so I cannot comment on it other than that the general principle of Flutter is a terrible idea."

The author completely missed the point of Flutter. It is a mobile-first platform positioned as an alternative to ReactNative. Its main goal was to provide a way to build cross-platform iOS/Android mobile apps with a minimal performance trade-off. For example, its code is compiled into native machine code for iOS, Android, and desktop. Its apps tend to be more lightweight and feel snappier. Unlike ReactNative they do their own rendering so that you can have pixel-perfect consistency across platforms.

Flutter's web and desktop support is more of an experiment and a convenience for those who want to port their existing mobile apps to web and desktop.

ReactNative was targeted for web developers who want to port their existing apps to mobile, Flutter's web support is the reverse of that.
Milky Warp: Simple Magnifier for Presentations Made Using Tauri and Vue
>And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries?

You are not alone - it is kinda similar in other countries.
The only thing worse than a politician is someone that voted for them.
Megachiropteran lit up helicopter for me (as soon as he worte it means mega-bat) and chiro- naturally zing'd the word chiropractor. First guess was 'opter'/'opter' must have something to do with flight and the o is shared as a connective and it means 'bone-flying'. Wrong: turns out -pter is Latin for 'wing', and so we have helico(l)-pter (helix-wing) and our featherless friends are chiro-pter (hand-wing).
Write every day: my AlphaSmart3000 fail
What does your company use for the web?
Slavery in the US was not ultimately abolished by law. I mean it technically was, but only after a bloody war that removed opponents of abolition from positions of power until the laws could be updated.
> So if you add a ton of houses you have the same problem just many years later but now everyone is living in a massive overcrowded area.

Why would those areas be overcrowded instead of just appropriately dense? The suburbs, for example, are under crowded and that's a huge problem.

> The real solution imo is to spread out the jobs to other areas so that these major urban areas aren't the only places people have to move to find work.

I completely agree with the general theme here. I was hoping remote work would have a larger impact here than it has but alas major tech companies can't get away from a few select cities.

But I would just say that in the spirit of spreading things out we should be mindful to not spread too much. Farmland should stay farmland, forests should stay forests or areas that were previously home to dwindling populations of humans should return to nature. Appropriate levels of urban density (walkable neighborhoods, you can keep your car and your SFH still) should be the goal because it solves a lot of problems. We already have a model for cities that has lasted for thousands of years. It works because it's based on human evolution. I have yet to see a model that deviates from this that is successful.

> You have to just keep adding supply but unfortunately the amount of living space that can be built in an urban area is constrained at some point both vertically and horizontally.

In cases like NYC/SFO I do think that's a problem. As you build more it actually has the unique phenomenon of becoming more expensive because you have to buy land, you have to build the building, and you have to attract tenants that can afford to pay for those things + your profit. And naturally you aren't going to lower rent on your existing places because that contradicts any reason to build new units. This isn't an absolute truth, but I think New York City proves the point. If you could just add supply to lower prices, New York would be much cheaper than, say, Columbus or Pittsburgh.
The original comment claimed a language needs first class Windows support at a minimum to take off. Swift proves that is not a hard requirement, regardless of the reason for its popularity: that it’s the official vendor-supported language for a family of platforms that have been profitable for developers.

That Swift isn’t as popular outside the officially supported platforms isn’t surprising and doesn’t matter. The point is precisely that it didn’t have to cater to a specific one (Windows) to achieve success.
> This is basically an indirect validation that most non listed messaging apps supposedly offering e2e encryption such as Whatsapp or Signal have backdoors with access from any government asking for access.

Spot the user who thinks the Christian apologist must be on to something because if the story doesn't make any sense that means it must be true...
Find some way of attaching them to the cat.
Hey Doug :)

We always encourage folks to do their own testing. Everyone has different performance requirements, data shapes/sizes, budgets, and expectations of the user experience.

Elasticsearch is a great option. But clearly there's a large cohort of smart teams that decided the combination of performance + cost + scale + [etc] on Pinecone makes more sense for them.
I don’t see its relevance, that’s up to the compiler to “solve”, adhering to reference’s semantics. It is just pointers/transformations either way in machine code, which can be trivially emulated in any language/platform that has an array of bytes available.
This has not been correct since Tcl 8.0 debuted circa 1999. 8.0's Tcl_Obj system allowed for lists to be proper O(1) integer indexed arrays while also retaining compatibility with 7.x's "specially formatted strings".

And even for 7.x where lists were just "specially formatted strings" they were not simply "semicolon separated" strings, the special formatting was more complex than "semi-colon delimiter".
Ask HN: How do you plan your side projects?
Hey HN!

Like a lot of you I tinker away at side projects before and after work.

My system for how I plan my "work away from work" is roughly:

- Capture all ideas as a digital one-sentence "pitch"
- Repeat entries are okay
- Add context (links, examples, growth strategies) if they are novel
- When I get free time from executing all existing commitments, hit the idea backlog and see what feels doable based on the coming weeks, my energy and interest.

Please share how you plan your side projects!
Justin
Ever-growing armies of ever-better-paid administrators aren't going to magically pay for themselves. And a university won't be atop America's merciless academic pecking order for long if it's burdened with scruples about funding sources.
Chicago doesn't have an urban growth boundary.
> Don't send this one to a printer. It will take too long

Damn, and here I was going to send it to my LaserWriter IINT!
And once people have a dependence on income from a government program or any type, you believe there's any chance of reforming it? All it takes is "candidate X wants to take away your Y" and it's over, so we end up in this endless growing expense cycle that cannot ever be fixed.

It's one of the primary reasons that I'd support a basic income policy as long as it was contingent on gutting the other programs so hard that they could be removed or reformed without anybody batting an eye.
You're right ... I usually lump C & C++ for conversational purposes .. but they are different languages :)
if the question of whether people have died as a result of intelligence leaks is a waste of time for you, then you should not have made your reply to the thread that asked this question and answered it ("yes"), in which you argued with that answer

by failing to acknowledge the answer (again: "yes"), you fail to graduate to the next discussion, which, obviously, necessarily builds upon a shared understanding of facts

otherwise, it'd be like discussing the circumference of earth with one who fails to even acknowledge its roundness: you simply don't get to discuss the implications of the facts while you're arguing with those very facts

your own post above illustrates how bizarre it is that you're unable to acknowledge something so obviously true: should we expect you next to similarly refuse to acknowledge people have ever died from sex or bicycling or drinking too much water?
I assumed that the title was a reference but it doesn't seem to be a good reference. I don't think "fractal" fits well here as really the only mistake discussed was ditching HTML. I do think this is a critical error and makes Flutter sites largely unusable but it is still one big mistake, not a fractal.
Video calls, or actual voice phone calls?

Ironically, video calls use more bandwidth yet are cheaper (for voice calls using the standard phone dialing functionality I mean, I don't know too much about plain old voice calls over wifi and their cost structure)
and I hope that corporation's ability to lobby Congress to change laws against the public interest banned, and their lawyer's ability to practice law removed for ever.

Free the Mouse!
No - the low hanging fruit is that ~40%+ of most American cities are dedicated to cars (parking & roads) and another ~20% to yards.

When you consider that airports & parks & golf courses take up a considerable amount of space - you're down to <10% of the city (proper) dedicated to space people actually live in.

And that's often times single story - with no vertical use whatsoever.
Do any of the web accessibility issues come up for other platforms as well? How does the iOS screenreader handle Flutter-generated views on iOS?

"It doesn't seem like the Semantic HTML issue will ever be solved too, the Flutter team did mention in the latest conference that they're aiming it more to be used for web apps than websites."

I'm not sure I understand the distinction between web apps and web sites. Don't both of those experiences need to be accessible?

Thanks for sharing your input! Helpful to hear from folks actually using the tech and not just arm-chair analysis.
MosaicML MPT-7B: A Commercially-Usable LLaMa-Quality Model
> that's "shadowsocks"

I'm not familiar with the software, but according to Wikipedia it's a client to connect to a SOCKS5 proxy:

> Shadowsocks is not a proxy on its own, but (typically) is the client software to help connect to a third-party SOCKS5 proxy, which is similar to a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel.

Are you saying that's incorrect?
qrp off the moon @ the path loss is insane
Where I live people are on bikes, ebikes, escooters and cargo bikes all over the roads anyway so this fits right in.

I drove through Texas in a small Kia once, indeed, I was always afraid someone would fail to notice me and drive over the car thinking "what was that?"
Right, because we see so many APL derived languages lately.