skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link appears to be broken, try: http://www.exemark.com/FORTH/Ting_Laws_of_Computing_v4.pdf
And that reminds me of the rebuttal: such "embedding/blessing" of libraries would give them a considerable tailwind and stifle innovation. Suppose React/styled-components/Apollo/Highcharts is already available on the client. In that case, it becomes much harder to consider alternatives, and any new contenders (Vue/Solid/urql/emotion/etc) would never get traction.
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We want to create a personal AI
possibly. i wasn't doing anything nasty to the rats/gerbils except keeping them a bit hungry, and i despise animal cruelty in all its forms. i actually gave up attending my HND biology course (needed to progress in career as a microbiology tech) because they needlessly made us pith a frog (i like frogs). still won the prize for best student - god knows how! stick with your convictions is probably the answer.
There are treatments that are very effective for treating psoriasis, especially those based on monoclonal antibodies. I was treated for atopic dermatitis (which is a similar disease), and I have been in near remission for several years. However, the treatment is very expensive.
> I replied in topic, your reply is off topic.

It's always Safari.

In a different skin, but it's Safari nonetheless.

Do Firefox or Chrome on iOS support web apis that Apple does not support?

No, they don't, because it's Safari.

Sorry if I skipped a few steps and went straight to the conclusion, that's why it probably looked off topic to you.
I wonder what the EU's antitrust regulators have to say about this one.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission#... for previous clashes on related matters
That would suggest that 1-Hidden-Layer neural nets would work fine, since they are also universal function approximators. But no -- when people talk about "deep learning", the word "deep" refers to having lots of hidden layers.

I'm not an expert, but the motivation seems more like this:

- Linear regression and SVM sometimes work. But they apply to very few problems.

- We can fit those models using gradient descent. Alternatives to gradient descent do exist, but they become less useful as the above models get varied and generalised.

- Empirically, if we compose with some simple non-linearities, we get very good results on otherwise seemingly intractable problems like OCR. See Kernel SVM and Krieging.

- Initially, one might choose this non-linearity from a known list. And then fit the model using specialised optimisation algorithms. But gradient descent still works fine.

- To further improve results, the choice of non-linearity must itself be optimised. Call the non-linearity F. We break F into three parts: F' o L o F'', where L is linear, and F' and F'' are "simpler" non-linearities. We recursively factorise the F' and F'' in a similar way. Eventually, we get a deep feedforward neural network. We cannot use fancy algorithms to fit such a model anymore.

- Somehow, gradient descent, despite being a very generic optimisation algorithm, works much better than expected at successfully fitting the above model. We have derived Deep Learning.
edit: thank you for the invite!
They are likely doing some interpolation for 200B or benchmarking it in wrong way. e.g. Hellaswag accuracy for llama 7b is 0.76[1], but it is written 0.56 in the repo. Even at 200B tokens, it is higher than 0.56 for llama looking at the charts.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf
There have been automatic translators from Fortran to C for many years, but they don’t product idiomatic C code.
When someone wrote a clickbaity article about it.
There are some limits you can query from the adapter: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUSupporte...
Honestly... those images are openly marked as generated. I don't see too much trouble with this. If they tried to pretend they're real, that would be totally fucked up, yes.
Show HN: ChatGPT from the Terminal
With HTTP2 would we not use 1 request / stream but with multiplexing to allow a huge number of parallel requests?
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Another Russian 'own goal'
I think that is their point? That China wouldn't let that happen, meaning the Yuan is unlikely to become the world's new reserve currency?
how is svg connected to opengl?
The Race for True AI at Google (Demis Hassabis)
> If it’s a high ionization and still on the planet that seems unlikely to be habitable as we know it

"habitable as we know it" is already ruled out by the 430 degree Celsius surface temperature of the planet that was mentioned in the article.
I had been using Swiftkey on my iPhone and in the middle of typing something, my keys disappear and is replaced with, what is effectively, an ad to use "Microsoft Speech Recognition". Extremely annoying to be in the middle of typing something and having to say "no thanks" to extra MS crap they are trying to shove onto you.

Previously, they also added a Bing AI button to the keyboard, but they did actually make a setting to disable that.

Edit: Upon mentioning this to a coworker and digging into this a bit more, it may have been that I accidentally clicked the microphone to bring up that screen, and that it didn't target an ad. I'm not quite sure what happened though, so I'm leaving my comment as is :)
SVG is not considered a graphics API, just like PDF isn't.
Estimating and a lot of project management stuff is a form of procrastination for a lot of folks/businesses. It doesn't matter what fields the cards have or how they are arranged, the work still needs to get done, and all of this shuffling is just delaying the start of that work.
Society has reshaped itself for cars. So why can’t you find a space to park one?
This seems to be interesting stuff!

It seems to be heavily focused on Algebra and arithmetic. My own recommendation would be to pick up Coq or Idris and use that to bridge programming, math and logic. In my experience this is the best way to leverage the knowledge. Understanding monads and category theory will immediately let you make better API designs, architecting larger applications, etc.
Oh web outlook ugh. People where I work hate Outlook web. It's not intuitive. Shared mailboxes in web Outlook are a pain they dont show on the left sidebar they need to be opened in a separate tab. Terrible for efficiency. Except "out of office" which for shared mailboxes it can't be disabled in non-web Outlook you have to do it in web.

My day and job are based on Microsoft weirdness.
Hey thanks for this, there was a bunch of useful stuff here.

>> Simplifying your toolchain by removing type safety from your views.

And poorer testing. Haven’t figured out how to get a nice testing setup that i like with htmx.
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>Does this mean that in theory i could skip the build/bundling step entirely?

You can but you must write your app in something the browser understands (js not ts, css not sass etc) and use native modules. For example, here is the test harness for a custom module, written in pure html with no build step: https://github.com/javajosh/simpatico/blob/master/combine2.h.... Here is a more complex (and much older) example from Crockford: https://www.jslint.com/

And yes, the experience developing this way is quite nice!
Having the code in the browser be the code you wrote is...so refreshing.
I highly recommend it.
Disagree. There is a very old rule of thumb in the restaurant biz, that your selling price has to be 4x your actual cost of the food - because of all the labor, kitchen equipment, rent, etc. overhead. I'd bet that similar rules of thumb apply to grocery stores' deli departments, shrink-wrapped sandwiches in vending machines, and pretty much every other sort of non-restaurant prepared food.

And, at least in the area I live in, the barriers to entry for the restaurant biz are pretty minimal. Most restaurants are (at most) local micro-chains, and there's a lot of churn as people try to make a restaurant work...and often fail financially. Want to get into the restaurant biz? With a low-6-figure nest egg, and willingness to wait for some local commercial landlord to have a vacant failed little restaurant on his hands, it's "easy". And the real estate supply is pretty elastic - cities and NIMBYs favor the (often quick & easy) construction of more small retail spaces; likewise converting generic vacant retail spaces into more restaurants.

Vs. if you want to be residential landlord - I'll guess a 7-figure nest egg to buy existing property (limited supply, and buying some does not increase overall supply). If you want to actually expand supply, by building rental housing at scale...you'd better have an 8-figure nest egg, and experienced legal team, and be willing to spend 8+ years (from "ready to do this" to "collect rent checks") fighting your way through the government red tape, NIMBY-land's standing army, and actual construction. With no guarantees of success.
It doesn't. But by the magic of insanely large training corpus, it does anyway. Similar to how it can "roll a die" or "pick a card"[1], the weighted model can do some (to me) mind bending stuff, just by answering "which tokens are likely to come next, in this given context" (which, in some ways, is the same as me trying to guess what you are going to say next; "Thank you for explaining"? (Actually chatgpt is much better at that game than me...).

[1] I tried it with gpt4:

> Pick a card.

>> As an AI language model, I am unable to physically pick a card for you. However, if you're referring to a card from a standard 52-card deck, I can randomly select one for you.

>> Your randomly selected card is the 7 of Hearts.

> Again.

>> Alright, let's randomly select another card for you.

>> Your new randomly selected card is the Jack of Diamonds.
My point was not that the current approaches are fruitless; it is that we have no information to decide if they will lead to AGI in a few years or not. Whilst this fits a dictionary definition of "possible" they are trying to make it sound "likely" with no evidence.
> We’ve raised over $17 million dollars from a diverse group that includes the founders of Instagram, Stripe, Twitter, Zoom, Figma, and LinkedIn.

https://thebrowser.company/#15

> We may also de-identify or anonymize Personal Data to further our legitimate interests.

https://start.arc.net/privacy-rights-by-region

Closed source, as far as I could tell.

It looks like a really nice product but the combination of these little factoids and their divergence from claims made on the browser's primary marketing website does leave me feeling a little bit uneasy.
> I don’t think the underlying engine really matters

It is what makes all the difference here.

Many features that are a Web Standard are unsupported on iOS precisely because Apple refuses to allow alternative engines because they don't want those features on their platform (mostly to favor native apps under the pretext of security, like if Google is not capable of making a secure browser, at least as secure as Safari).

Chrome and Firefox on iOS are not the same Chrome and iOS that run on all the other platforms, they are basically Safari.

It does matters.
Sure, so what are the specific concepts it doesn’t understand?

I don’t think its ability to program in an obscure program is really a great test. That’s a matter of syntax more than semantics, no?

Novel conceptual blends are where it excels. Yes, it needs to understand the concepts involved to blend them —but humans need that too.
I saw that post a few weeks ago. Did they really get access or do they think they did cause they put about 1,000 lines of code in?
We often look at companies as a single monolith but that isn't conductive to productive discussions.

OP is giving a different perspective, a more detailed and granular one.

One interest counterpoint would be that the problematic behavior is encouraged by the CEO, then the different units wouldn't matter much (well, unless they have a tendency to go rogue). Anyway, all idle speculation on my part but I welcome the perspective.
Same in a 7 person company. Got voted down in favor of Teams because the "learning curve" of anything else wasn't worth their time. This despite the confusing and ridiculous UX of Teams.
Ask HN: Will the WGA strike increase AI use in Hollywood?
Similar to how the 2007/2008 seemed to push reality shows forward[0] will this writers strike have a similar effect pushing the use of AI-like or AI-assisted script writing into the forefront(for better or worse)?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_on_television
The volume of a circle would presumably be zero, but yes I've used the wrong word. I'll change it above. I sometimes wish there was a forum that allowed editing of spelling in other peoples posts and they could just accept the changes (same with Twitter). You could spend all your days correcting obvious mistakes...
> Yeah, and it's trivial in C++, what's your point?

I see lots of assertions of that fact, but no examples. Care to link some actual code?

> Why the hell would you want to change the direction of a pin anyway? Just declare it as Pin<Input> or Pin<Output>.

i2c uses the same pin for sending and receiving and changes the mode of the pin for the purposes of communication with peripherals.
Maybe "Meta" needs to rename itself "Intelli"? That will fix the problem.
> Mu can easily take several minutes to compile a single large application. We will circumvent those problems by switching our front-end to use GHC directly

What does he mean by this?
… and boy they sure want regulators to let them merge with whoever they want to. They should show a little humility.
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I'm not sure whether the number of parameters serves as a reliable measure of quality. I believe that these models have a lot of redundant computation and could be a lot smaller without losing quality.
> I want to get a loan for a house. A lender wants to see that I am trust worthy enough for a loan, however I don't want just any potential lender to know my exact bank account balance or anything like that, just that I have enough.

That's... what? If you "have enough", you don't need a loan, do you? And lenders generally don't want to know your bank account balance either, they want to know if you have a stable (and large enough) current of income, e.g. that you're employed and yearn at least X per month, so that you'd be able to make monthly payments for years to come.
My impression is that the vast majority of people who are currently engaged in the “discourse” surrounding AI do not have the technical background to make this distinction. In my opinion, there’s an element of “the man behind the curtain” which is being unethically leveraged by AI companies to drive sales and hype.
Those limits only tell you how big each individual GPU allocation can be, not how much you can allocate total before the browser puts a bullet in your context.
That's the entry ticket price my friend. Beyond that you also have continuing currency requirements and that basic license pretty much only allows you to fly on clear weather days.

Which is also a problem because weather changes during flight. So if you actually want to travel with a plane you rented, you're going to need an instrument rating, which costs about as much as the initial license.

So you're out the price of a new mid-tier sedan, which you had to pay in cash upfront, and all you have to show for it is a card that says you can rent someone else's plane to go somewhere, AFTER they make you do a check ride with one of their local instructors anyway. You'll also then be renting the even more expensive IFR rated planes. And I hope you're doing this with aviation renter's insurance, which most places actually don't make you carry...but planes are expensive, remember? And you're borrowing one because you can't afford your own. And you're a low flight time pilot at this point, so enjoy those insurance premiums.

Software people are well paid enough to do all this, yes. So are lawyers and doctors. But that amounts to around 1% or less of the US population.
Documentation is one of the skills that I personally think separates a senior/staff engineer from a junior/mid-level engineer.

As an added bonus, it aids in the transfer of knowledge and handing off work/ownership to others.

It feels like now we are in an age of Ikea of code (assemble and dispose) and many devs end up not exercising this skill.
That article at therealdeal has me pretty stunned.

The headline story is that landlords are keeping rent controlled units vacant rather than renovating them which would be unprofitable, and daring the toothless regulators to do something about it. Ok, makes sense.

Then as a side note, the article mentions that they’re also deferring maintenance on whole buildings: roofs, boilers, cameras, etc. The fact that these landlords are incentivized not just to let a few units turn into roach hotels, but to let their whole buildings crumble, without the remaining tenants leaving to a better building - that’s a fundamentally broken market. Way beyond a few rent controlled units.
>The nerds all learned to program Fortran, which was two years younger than COBOL

A typo ? I thought FORTRAN was a bit older than COBOL :)

Anyway, i very nice article.
Well, introducing any new patterns was always an uphill battle. People don't like to learn, and especially don't like to relearn something they already know. If anything, I think it's easier to fine-tune Copilot to use a new feature than it is to convince meatware to do the same.
At the risk of bikeshedding, what's with the syntax? Would it not make sense to stick closer to HTML tags? eg.

<script type="importmap" name="browser-fs-access" src="https://unpkg.com/browser-fs-access@0.33.0/dist/index.modern.js">

The current implementation seems like something I'd have to look up every time I wanted to use it.
Maybe because the "goal posts" aren't well defined?
Purely my subjective experience but the MS tools seem designed to keep the users that have been using Outlook on the desktop for decades. I get ornery when it doesn't work the way I'm used to.
If you’re looking to capture all of JIRA’s features, it would take you a very long time. Duplicating their extensive automation capabilities is a massive project.

If you ever get around to that, let me know. JIRA really is best in class and I want to shove it into a very tiny, very lonely box before tossing it into the deepest part of the ocean I can find.
I'm sure there are some nice nuggets in this article, but if you're working in UX design please make sure your content is legible and follows basic accessibility standards.

The text is extremely low contrast and quite small. I didn't even attempt to read the text - too much strain on the eyes, esp if I already have to stare at a monitor all day.

To steal a phrase from Steve Krug and adapt it slightly:

Don't make me work extra to read your articles.
I'll happily engage with the fact. It's great news! Humans are awesome, all my favorite entities are humans! Everything good about my life was provided by me (a human) or another human. Hope it 10x's again!
I see plenty of links to recent papers (last two years).

> This entire article is rife with trivial to find errors that totally invalidate it's claims.

Could you share some? Maybe they’re trivial for you but handwaving it doesn’t help others identify what is correct or not. For your claim to be true either the multiple papers cited would have to contain glaring flaws or the author would have to be wildly misinterpreting them. That doesn’t seem trivial to assess.

> It feels like narrative was written first, then someone went looking to try to find newsbites that sound like they support it.

From the author’s other writings, the opposite seems to be true:

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/thank-you-for-your-pati...

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/why-i-wrote-the-intelli...
> you just need enough people who are well off enough to pay,

Which is what happens after a decade long bull market, tax cuts, low rates, and stimulus. More people had more money that didn't before and they wanted more things and they wanted them now.

But you still need a critical mass of demand, which means a bigger portion of the population demanding goods. Which means you need a bigger population than the mega rich to explain the problem. There was always rich people - yet we never saw this problem until now.
I think Arc is an interesting browser, but not groundbreaking enough.
What about positive news?

Is “news” supposed to be about worrying/negative signals incentivizing doom scrolling? Out of the first 20 headlines only one is truly positive(HPV vaccine). The rest show how broken and dreadful our world is. This does not (exclusively) apply to this particular website. It is a common trait across all media platforms - all about politics, war and economic and social problems.

It is like, yeah, we have many problems but just pointing out those is an imbalanced way to feed the idol of misery. Where are the news about solutions?

One guy even wrote a book called “Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life”.
RPG is almost as old as Fortran and is still in use!
Tom Scott mentioned this on his video from yesterday: How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evV05QeSjAw
Reid Hoffman is a cofounder :)
What does it mean to vendor the script?
This looks a lot like a combination of several Firefox addons made to work well together. Sideberry combined with the ideas behind Panorama (which nobody else seems to remember) offer a lot of these features it seems.

Looks Apple-only though, so I guess I'll never know the difference.
That’s a good point, although it seems that this kind of behavior, at least specifically to map apps, is quite common.

Out of curiosity, I opened the Google app in iOS, searched for a place, and tapped on the result to open a map. Even with the default app set to Apple Maps, it goes straight to Google Maps.

I haven’t been able to find the correct MIME type or URL protocol for a generic geo call, either, which makes me suspect that there is more to it than it seems.