skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this is a valid PoV IFF you believe the AI adds value. On the premise it's true, then ignoring it is a huge move.
The thing is, thats a big IFF. What if it turns out, the net outcome is net-negative, in reputation, in quality of response, and on effect on the bottom line?

This is a great point I’ve only lightly expanded on in the thread, even though that was the premise behind the bravery of their strategic change.

Google had the tech for years, but chose to be conservative about deploying it, exactly for the reasons you mentioned.

Ultimately I think what changed is not just the competition heating up and forcing to make Google to make a move if only to hedge its position, but also society warming up to the idea of AI with its warts (hallucination comes first), which relatively reduces the bottom line impact should something go wrong.

Of course only time will tell, but for now promises of LLM-in-the-loop looks too much like a gold rush. It’s too attractive to ignore for most economic actors.

> I think its still an open question. Its a great tool, but is google in the tool up selling business?

Google is (was?) in the ads business. This move seems to be more in the information and infrastructure business. For them to be relevant in this space, their own tools need to be state of the art in this regard. It seems most AI players are following this bottom-up approach. ChatGPT, Midjourney on Discord, Claude on Slack, but I think they’re all playing on selling infrastructure rather than tooling. It’s just an acquisition funnel.
The only person that I've ever seen do that had to replace his USB socket after a few months. It turns out that USB C is not designed for long term constant torque being applied, as is the case when it has a dongle attached constantly in a pocket bouncing around. Perhaps if someone sold a dongle that sits flush with the device, and is secured such that no force is transferred to the socket, that would help.

The dongle solution seems to only be good for sitting at a desk. Not for a device that is literally called "a mobile".
The thing is clickbait serves a purpose. Much of what you consume on the web is free. In order to be free it needs to monetize somehow and it’s usually on page clicks so ads can get impressions. If the article title had the answer embedded in it you’d never click the article and the author would never get paid and content producing folks would suffer.
Sure, of a law is on the books, then hold people responsible. But we are talking about 3rd party printer ink here. Why is criminality and jail even being mentioned at all?
Do you know of any with normal sized keys?
Just checking:

Two of your sources are links to tweets of mobile screenshots of graphs/tables correct?

Thanks in advance
Appreciate the vouch, @chatmasta! I actually did write those comments myself, and think that the 3-point explanation makes for a clear explanation. My cofounder and I both started our careers as software engineers, and I've been in the data space for over a decade.

A quick Google search for LogicLoop will also show you that we're both featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, and are funded by Tier 1 Silicon Valley VCs. https://www.forbes.com/profile/logicloop/?sh=67ca2b047a89
"Engagement" can mean completely different measurements. Clicking headlines is a measure of initiating attention, video watch time is a measure of maintaining attention. Maintaining attention seems like a great measurement of the relative quality of various videos.
There are some threads with hardware recommendations in the LocalLLaMa subreddit.

Here’s a recent one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13f5gwn/home_ll...
The 754 spec has somewhat moved past the 8087 at this point (3 revisions later). A lot of things have been fixed, including the whole language around exceptions (which used to define "traps" - a very processor-specific idea rather than an arithmetic-centered one). I am hoping we can be free of (required) exceptions in 2028.

As I understand it, your other complaints tend to center around overflow to infinity and precise summation of vectors. For applications that really care about that precision, there are ways to do it in floating point without a quire register - sorting before summing is the naive approach, but look into ReproBLAS for some better algorithms.

Also, I can't help but wonder if the memory wall idea here is centered only around synthetic benchmarks like gigantic dot products. A lot of code leans heavily on caches these days, which make the energy cost of operations a lot lower, and pretty much everything short of massive dot products uses them. I imagine you would have to make a very nuanced argument about why a 1k fixed point sum is saving energy here. Even matmuls are pretty cache-efficient now.

Elsewhere in computing, we are actually generally moving away from tightly-packed structs in performance-sensitive code despite the memory retrieval cost, because they are just easier to deal with in both hardware and software, and locality picks up all the slack.
Nah, I think thats cynicism speak. For some of them, they're leaving the big shops because their concerns got buried in a rush to monetize. And because the time for their theoretics may be moving, and they're bored and don't need the hassle. Somebody like Hinton is my age +5, he's late stage career. Nobody gives him shit, he does what he wants.

Kicking the ladder out to stop young pups isn't in his model. Why would he do that? His legacy is secure.

I'm not convinced Scott Aarenson is doing his job right atm. He needs to be more "lets wait and see" and less "we've got a fix for this in planning. His "we have a fix for typing the words as AI sourced" went very quiet.
R.I.P/
Bard is not available in Norway. Alphabet is an American company clearly.
I’ll be sure to check it out. To be more specific it’s about using dotnet EF core to generate a .sql artifact and then executing it using mssql server tool.

I wanted to just generate one big .sql instead of one per context, but maybe you just can’t.
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Ask HN: Engineering managers, how do you “upskill” your team?
Really trying to improve the skillset of an eng team and give them career development opportunities. Some questions I need help with:

- How do you define upskilling / approach career development for team members
- what are the best tools and platforms to use
- do team members actually care about upskilling?
- how do your team members spend their learning budget

Any and all thoughts very welcome!
How to say “no” when things don’t align with your product vision
> In fact if you take the constitution in context with the British law it was inspired by it's explicitly prohibited.

Can you say more about this? It sounds very interesting.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30343086 - Feb 2022 (52 comments)
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While you are rating things, let me chime in and say I still use fetchmail today. For some reason, I prefer a local Dovecot over everything else that needs my laptop to be online to browse the INBOX.
> They put him under house arrest for having an astronomy theory they disagreed with.

No, they put him under house arrest because he wrote a book about for the Pope is a moron for not agreeing with him, after the Pope explicitly asked him to write a factual account of the theories at the time.

Tyrannical? Sure, like any monarchy. But not anti-science.
That's a great idea for future improvements, thank you for trying it out!
And what steps would you take to sell it? I mean there are not meteorite buy&sell shops around the corner normally.
...which is why I stated "the MC can help you conceptualize distribution of results", however again this doesn't really require an MC simulation. To achieve $2000 while betting $1000 requires you to win one bet more than you lose. To get there while betting $10 requires you to win 100 more. Common sense should tell you which is significantly easier to achieve.
To the contrary. Developing native apps is so painful that the average S&P500 company will treat it like a root canal. Given how meaningless native functionality is to them, they won't hesitate at the opportunity to serve you a shitty Electron app. Many of them are only successful because they didn't waste time writing native apps for each platform.
Yes, we can actually connect to third-party apps via APIs https://docs.logicloop.com/data-sources/supported-data-sourc...
As a corporate low level programmer far away from the SV world, this book was rather eye opening to me. It might not have been the best take on the world or proven out in history, but reading it helped me down the path of open source and understanding the differences between what I was doing and what was going on elsewhere. I'm glad C&B was written and that I read it when I did.
I have wondered something for a while. x86 (32 and 64 bit) have much smaller instruction size on average than RISC ISAs. Given that modern compute performance is heavily affected by cache performance and memory latency, it seems like the smaller codesize could really help with caching performance. Is this actually a factor? Does arm need bigger caches to combat this? Or does the unpredictability of unguessable instruction offsets ruin this in some way? It's obviously only one factor among menay, and ram is often filled with data not just code, but I've wondered about it for a while.
R.I.P...Learn tons of things from his blogger and posts.Take care, guys.
Yup, our bet is that people are going to want better integration into data sources and actions resulting from their queries, and that a lot of business value will come from that.
The autonomous driving capabilities on Curiosity (known as "guarded" and "autonav" modes) are quite limited and haven't been used recently. They don't work in rough terrain, and we've been in rough terrain for a while now. This means that we can only drive to the end of the 3D meshes generated from images from the previous parking spot. When the terrain is acceptable for autonav we can usually rely on orbital imagery and drive farther.

We do set limits on suspension angles and tilt of the rover. So we'll say "stop driving if you are tilted more than 20 degrees," "stop driving if your differential angle goes above 7 degrees," etc.
If they sell "Kubernetes but tuned by AI" and it shows how it saves $ and improves TPC, I'll believe it added value.

Amazon should totally sell "we used an AI to ELI5 on our pricing and control knob mess" because I gave up on understanding the 5,430 options in their GUI.

I don't do it now, but for my older dayjob I had to run ads as a customer of google ads, and the "how ads are displayed" logic is compellingly awful and shows definite signs of "for gods sake, soak this ad to get the $ out of the client before we end the run window" which is pretty bad. If they can tune their AI smarts to intuit what is a good placement rate and stop it spiking, I'd be there.

(Google ad placement logic is good. But it's also kind of terrible)

(I don't and never have worked for a FAANG)
> memory is 10+ times slower than the CPU

The difference is much greater than that - one uncached RAM access can take hundreds of CPU cycles.
Same. Ear pads and cable are consumables. Especially the latter rarely lasted more than a year back when I was actually using headphones 12h a day on average.

Thankfully, replacing cables on big headphones is a fitting challenge for newbies as soldering.
R.I.P
He is really a wonderful person. His blog CoolShell helped countless people starting the career in programming. It's been a long journey for me through my undergrad and now PhD student in CS, but I still remember the time that learnt quite a lot from his blog. It's still stared on my homepage all the time. I'll carry on his passion about explaining many complicate concepts in software engineering.
If they can do it, it might be a nice replacement for NG. Transportation of both is about the same (assuming it can only be compressed so much?).

Nuclear power might be ideal for hydrogen production as well (using excess of peak power to make hydrogen to store in huge tanks rather than charging a battery or pumped reservoir?).
Which is idiotic imo, since swiftly murdering a pigeon is much better than eating a chicken that has been through a lifetime of suffering, which is the majority of chickens in post industrial societies.
"Compared to GPT2 it’s on par"
Any benchmarks or evidence tu support this claim? IF you try to find them, official benchmarks will tell you that this is not true. Even the smallest LLaMa model (7B) is far ahead of GPT2, like an order of magnitude better in perplexity.
In my view it's the other way around. If you stick to a state machine for your app logic, you'll end up with an unintentional half built reimplementation of a general purpose programming language.

The fact these state machines aren't the mathematical constructs from CS, but "extended" versions with "context" (this is where all the actual app state goes), should be the giveaway that they aren't a sufficiently capable model for the demands of UI programming. After you add extensions for every possible need, what do you end up with?

I understand the appeal though. UI development is a complicated mess, and people want a formula to make sense of it all. I've went through several iterations of these cookie cutter patterns form MVC to MVVMC++ to flux to redux to redux-saga to immutable.js to Recoil and so on. At best these marginally improve the situation, at worst they end up adding complexity on top of the inherent mess.

At the risk of missing out on the One True Way of doing UI development, I'll pass on this latest installment. I keep open the possibility that state machines "marginally improve the situation" though.
Very interesting reads, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your experience. By organizing and storing queries, we hope to be able to improve these suggestions as well behind the scenes.
Life is short. Life is what happens in between empty neglected side projects on GitHub.
Gunfire ?
I am from Switzerland, and as I can see it is not available here either. I suppose it is related to regulations or country restrictions. Otherwise I don't see what usfulness it can have in Somalia for example.
People are repeating the same kind of rhetoric that was used against wind or solar. That we will never have cheap green energy and the future will always be fossil fuels. Those claims are now the source of mockery.

Green hydrogen will be one of the cheapest energy sources available in the near future. It will be made from excess wind or solar and will cost nearly nothing to produce. This will be the next big fundamental error by anti-green energy skeptics.
We haggle because we like to pay fair prices. Except for the jerks who have means who aggressively haggle down poor merchants on things (ex. Item costs pennies in buyer’s equivalent currency and yet still haggles and haggles), I don’t mind paying the full extent of my consumer surplus if I’m in a pinch, if I was dying of thirst I’d give you all the money in my pocket/bank/etc to get water. But I will haggle till I’m out of breath to not get fleeced on something that to me is a “reasonable sum” (something that I might by at home when not traveling), just because I’m a tourist. This happened a few days ago. While in Portugal I paid a fair price for a blanket to use on the beach where the merchant wanted 20 when the going raid was 10-12 euros.
On simpler multi-table joins we've been able to product good results, and we've done a lot of prompt engineering to make sure it takes the schema very seriously so that prevents hallucinations too. We're always finding new edge cases and fixing those as we go.
In the 19th century, Europe was a bit further ahead than wooden arrows with flint tips.

It definitely did prove that it came from far away.
> The author seems to have had a worldview in which bugs don't really matter

That would explain so much… https://gitlab.com/esr/gif2png/-/commit/a8a761561b2a071e7452...
It's not about high-end or whatever. It's about whether these headphones are going to be usable at all in 5 years' time.
Imo it’s the best city in the worlds hands down. I’ve been to a few but Tokyo is as good as it gets.

It had everything, insanely good transport, safe, some of the best food in the world, beautiful weather most of the year except for rainy season, incredible art, great mix of old and new, some beautiful parks, great for riding bikes, little traffic, clean air.

The only thing I’d say let’s it down and it does let it down a bit is the lack of greenery. I think it’s a known issue though.

It’s honestly the best city I’ve ever visited and I’ve been to a few.

New York is a close second for the history but it’s so dirty that it’s beyond charming.
Long-term memory (LTM) extension for oobabooga's Text Generation Web UI
While I certainly don’t agree with them (the church), it’s not quite as evil as I had previously thought.

First, he was kept in a palace, and he was permitted to continue publishing until his death. Second, according to the article he had made a lot of enemies in ways that other scientists of the day, who also held heliocentric beliefs, hadn’t done. Lastly, he was pushing science that there wasn’t evidence for and that required new assumptions to make up for the current assumptions they were trying to prove. Like I said, I don’t agree with them but I also have the luxury of hindsight.

One way to look at it from the church’s pov may have been that he was making up a bunch of stuff that wasn't supported by evidence and also contradicted directly their institution, so they might have perceived him as just creating political trouble and instability. People in the past would make up all sorts of lies back then that would later be used as justification for war, especially when these things had some sort theological underpinnings to properly motivate one side against another.

It’s definitely not good but I now see, as how the history was laid out, that Galileo hadn’t really discovered anything himself, wasn’t even correct, didn’t have evidence for things he was putting fourth, and other scientists didn’t even agree with him. It was in fact Kepler who was much closer to a correct model, but he wasn’t a polemical of a writer so he didn’t have as much influence and legend as Galileo.
There would be a shittonne of confounding factors. I don't doubt smoking is part of it saying that, but over the last 20 years diet has gone from "fat is bad" to "this fat is less bad" to "fat isn't bad its sugar, stupid".

Hydrogenated margerine was just heading out the door 20 years ago. The cohort who lived off it probably had their heart attacks by now.

(I don't think "i can't believe its not butter" caused the heart attacks, I just point out there's been wider societal changes than just smoking: Exercise is trendy again, and TV has got crap so people do less couch time than they used to)

I'm sure the real science here is good. If they say it's smoking, and they ran the numbers, I'd believe them.

You know, it says "smoking" in a sentence which says "and other factors" to me. The truly interesting thing is the variance in survival rates between POC and white America has reduced. Thats really good. Because survival is about improved treatment and detection. It may mean a POC harming bias in social/medical services and access to quality healthcare has improved, or that their income levels have aligned more with mainstream america and so the health improvement is about lifestyle lift.
Ask HN: Site that tells you if news/video link is starting down extremist path?
I wonder if anyone has created such a website, where you could submit a video link / news URL, and it would tell you to what extent this seems to be at the beginning of a fringe / extremist / reinforcing unhealthy "fake news" kind of directions?

I am especially interested in trying to help family / etc. who are not very sophisticated in their browsing habits be able to check themselves at least, with some kind of external measure of whether a website is reasonable or not. For example, based on the links / associations / authors / circles that some video or news site has, is this likely to be an objective source of info, or down a hole of extremism?

I would be really interested if someone has come across this.
> Elastic was useless without X-Pack after a few versions

But somehow users still manage to derive value from OpenSearch.

> Calling it Opensearch while touting Elasticsearch support is just as confusing

Right. Because it's not like Amazon explicitly state that they won't support Elastic Search versions beyond 7.10. Oh, wait: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/opensearch/
I run Home Assistant on it.
Much of Europe doesn’t have free street parking like the states does, a lot of those people don’t have cars or are paying extra to have their cars garaged.
HN's title limit is 80 chars so the submitter had to shorten it. I've taken a second crack at it now.

(Submitted title was "Human activities drive long-term old trees in human-dominated landscapes".)
While burning through the battery in under 72 minutes, and require you to stay within 3 meters of the phone, and will lose connection if the phone goes into your back pocket. I've got three pairs of wireless headphones that all suffer these three traits.

My daughter's modern Sennheiser headphones though, work across the house, through two walls. And the battery literally lasts over eight hours, for all I know it might have lasted another eight. Seriously impressive.
Analyzing items on their own is as useless as analyzing single fireworks by color, size, and audience mouth gape. It's the dynamics of the whole fireworks show that matters.

It must be hard to say "quality is near to the primary goal of social media" and "nothing is wasted" in the same blogpost. You will always get trickling here, obfuscating there. Those who lack engagement or refuse to expose their habits are punished with lower quality buffet spread until they capitulate to the platform's definition of quality.
>This is my biggest issue with all McCarthy's works. They feel like pointless exercises in sadism and cruelty, where the forces of evil are literally superhumanly powerful (like the judge) and nihilistic misanthropy is the only sensible philosophy.

I think Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men are like this, and The Road to a lesser extent (the evil is mortal men, it's just there's a lot of them). As others have mentioned, not all his books are like that. Suttree is downright funny at times.

I've always thought Cormac McCarthy has a great fear of evil and war and those bleak stories are his expression of it. Humans are in a downward spiraling race of shedding their humanity to be capable of greater acts violence so that no violence could be done against them. And those that don't engage in that are eventually overcome, like Llewellyn Moss in No Country For Old Men - someone capable of handling themselves, but was never able or willing to be so ruthless. It's why ironically The Road, grim and miserable, is one of his most hopeful books - the boy lives and they remain "the good guys". Blood Meridian certainly the most hopeless, and possibly a reflection how he was feeling about these fears at the time.

I'm not a literature person but that's my take on those.

Consider the Border Trilogy if you ever want to give him another chance. Blood Meridian is an anti-western, but the Border Trilogy looks at the frontier lifestyle from a more humanist perspective and deeply mourns the loss of it.
Who are the target audience?

For non-admin task, I don't think there are much different between distro.

For admin task, this won't go too far...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62303245