skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so you can probably get them as employeed for very cheap

Not everything is about money or paying for things.

>but, on the other hand, people are in dire economical condition, so it's hard to sell them anything.

Buying and selling things is a very American construct and tells like 1/4 of the story when it comes to trading.

I grew up in a rural area of the US. Lots of folks are poor but wealthy beyond measure. Bartering goes a long way and only works if you provide a service that is valuable ;-).
Yeah. Until we wanted multitasking. Separate address spaces, shared resources, protection, eventually security. That's when the "operating system" came in. DOS was allowed to live as a virtualized task, but it wasn't the same.

I did get tambourine_man's reference, though. Nice!
Any material comparing the different embedding models? I'm working on information retrieval from government documents and without any ML experience it's daunting
Twitter Hires New CEO
Which I must sadly agree with :(
I loved the one I had but when it broke I replaced it with an Amazon Fire tablet, which this article never mentions as the phenomenon that killed all other Android tablets. (e.g. go into a trailer somewhere in the rural US and you may find somebody who uses a Fire tablet for all their internet access and they may not know it is a ‘Fire’ tablet or that Amazon has anything to do with it, but they get along pretty well.)
Peloton recalls 2M bikes over injury risk
I'm not american, but sometimes I wonder if those things happen because a smart evil person manages to convince another negligent and unintelligent person to do a bad thing and take responsibility for it.

I mean I don't think we need full communism to prevent and solve this kind of crazy finance thing, but it's really weird how americans will often fight against common sense regarding finance, safety and risks.

There are days I want to believe capitalism can be "reformed" and made better, but other days, I tend to think finance should be managed and tightly controlled by the government to limit the level of damage foul play can do. And yet I can already hear armchair economist answering me about the invisible hand, the collective intelligence of the free market, decentralized decision making, etc.

It is really weird how currency and economics have been hijacked by politics. Such a weird phenomenon.
Based on the comments in there Mozilla should push/sell corporate use, I'm not sure if they have it but organization managed browser that is privacy/security focused and has better Dev Tools.

Im sure that there are many tech companies that will support FF purely out of principle
You hold "an IOU from a market"? I'm not sure that's how that works.
FYI it's svelte over mongo.
I mean, I know. I lost my money. I wrote the post explaining that I feel stupid about it.
Don't be trite in a technical conversation. While I agree that those things are bad, it adds nothing here, and besides only a minority of Operating Systems does what you say.
This is often impractical when shipping costs more than the components.

Yeah, there are things you shouldn't be buying "just in case" - for example, a stash of SoCs will age faster than you can use them - but definitely buy a hundred of common capacitors, such as 100 nF, 1 µF, or 10 µF, rather than buying them one-by-one.

You generally don't need a complete set of all standard resistances or capacitances - there are precious few circuits where you need precisely 47 pF and 6.8 kΩ - but there's plenty of stuff that goes into almost every single project you build. Battery clips, 100 Ω / 1k / 10k resistors, 100 nF / 1 µF / 10 µF decoupling caps, LEDs, PCB-mount switches...
Not necessarily. Where do they get the energy to produce that enzyme?

Is it more efficient than having them convert sugars to alcohol and burning it?
Red pandas aren't humans. Zookeepers are (or should be) providing them yet with a lot of satiating fiber in the diet. Apples are just a treat to reduce boredom.

But fruit prices had increased in the last years. And zoos are economically exhausted after two really difficult COVID years without visitors. So they are replacing fruits with a pear flavored pellet.

Finding fruit at a supermarket that tastes like cardboard is not difficult. Even the most sweet varieties are picked green or treated chemically to look nice and last much longer in the market (the process burns sugar).

The lack of available, organic, non treated fruit at an affordable price is obviously the real problem. Zoos need to explain to the public why the animals are not receiving fruit. Articles like those solve the PR problem providing a silly excuse.
In the cinema and pro production world, Sound Devices reign supreme.
When you ran a game and saw "DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time", you knew you were in for a good time.
Also check out News Minimalist! https://www.newsminimalist.com
Yes, that drives cost down but even on the biggest scale, like insulin, enzymes are still orders of magnitude more expensive than inorganic catalysts (e.g. platinum for hydrogen fuel cells)
It's more of a comparison between costs and benefits. If you have to literally choose between taking the family to the movies or paying the power bill, that's not exactly a tough question.

Going to a 2-hour movie at the cost of $80-100 or more is quite the splurge.
I guess IRS has bigger elbows than other creditors to put itself in front of a judgement.

Many others can pretty much pack and go
Here's an idea, maybe the reason why news is angering and emotional is that there is a lot of bad shit going on in the world that we have just kind of let happen for a long time, and a lot of injustice that shouldn't be ignored, and a lot of people justice ignores that it shouldn't.

Maybe the solution isn't to pretend things are just fine. People keep trying to paint this as some sort of "sensationalism" and "I want just the facts" but the facts are that thousands of people die every day from cheaply and easily preventable illnesses and issues while people who can literally self fund rocketry get to accumulate even more wealth and power.

There's a difference between "remember the maine" and "hey women right now are literally dying because they can't get abortions to remove dead tissue inside their body because of some completely different person believes their religion says doing so is a crime"

Being angry from news like this isn't a bad thing. You SHOULD be angry.
Bad headline. India has banned a bunch of messaging apps, some of which are open source.

To me this headline sounded like India was targeting them _because_ they were open source.
Hehe yeah work never actually ends but it's a different beast.
I have a new Junior Developer and it kinda sucks
MacOS had two amazing editors before SublimeText and VS Code came along.

TextMate and BBEdit.

TextMate is no longer supported (if I remember correctly).

But BBEdit is still going strong.

To this day, BBEdit's diff utility is still my favorite.

Also, BBEdit always provided free, incredible and comprehensive user manual PDF.
We even have HxDOS, which runs Win32 applications, including console applications. For example, even a modern version of 7-zip (console version) runs perfectly on ancient DOS computers.
Show HN: Databerry – Nocode generative AI platform (open source)
Pro level mics have a lot to say about their audio quality: Why it's good, why it's innovative, etc.

This TP-7 doesn't. Not at all. Their marketing is heavily based on how cool it looks, with very little if any stuff like audio samples, frequency response, etc.

In other words, their marketing materials say "it's good, because it looks good"...

Teenage Engineering make shiny expensive toys, and market an 'experience'. Which is fine, if that's what you're after. But if you're after quality recording, get something twice as good and ten times cheaper.
I’m curious about how enterprises will manage model upgrades.

On one hand, as you mention, upgrades could break or degrade prompts in ways that are hard to fix. However, these models will need constant streams of updates for bugs and security fixes just like any other piece of software. Plus the temptation to get better performance.

The decisions around how and whether to upgrade LLMs will be much more complicated than upgrading Postgres versions.
Article says “ According to bankruptcy filings on April 27 and 28, the IRS filed claims worth nearly $44 billion against the firms, including FTX.US and Alameda Research.”

Clicking through to the list of filings shows about 1850 items (rounded, 93 pages of 20 filings each), many of which don’t appear to be against FTX.

For example there’s a $2.5 billion one on the first page against “Paper Bird Inc”, who I haven’t looked up yet.
Do you wish your product team did more introspection?
Some teams do retrospectives to reflect on ways to improve. Some teams do 360 feedback. Other teams wait for problems and handle them in the moment.

What does your team do? What do you wish they did differently?
I doubt people with tens of millions of dollars have a cook to slice up their kid's apple, but I wouldn't know.

Though, I'm sure Elon isn't doing something so mundane.
As a parent, you can get about a six months to a year with Hobson's choice before your kids start to catch on. But in that time, it's glorious.

The positive side effect is that afterwards, they've gained the critical thinking skill of choice framing critique. ie: they are keen to reject ill-posed choices and offer their own options when the given choices are substandard - a skill , frankly, more people could use.
I know this is probably the dumbest question but I hate mounting swivel arm monitors / TVs to stud wall / plasterboard. The stud is either in wrong place and all the clever expanding screw fix things just seem ... meh.

I miss brick walls
Indeed, that's what I created those filters for. I run ubo on mobile.
There's a tiny benefit of the doubt to be given here that while async/await is several years old, support for "top-level await" was only more recently standardized and took too long for common LTS versions of Node to also support it.

All of these examples appear to be top-level and perhaps they didn't want to write them as async functions or IIFEs, especially for error-handling code.
Is this update made visible somewhere? The language models offered on my Playground are still the ones from March, same with ChatGPT.
ATM ChatGPT is tedious.

I think there are two things we can take from discord/fb messenger/slack to improve it:

1) ChatGPT and this thing needs threads. I want to be able to take a conversation and fork it - with separate conversational memories/context after a point of forking. I want to be able to take a message, go "reply" to it, and be able to do that as many times as I want, per message, with each reply being treated independently of all other replies. It is insanely useful to be able to take a conversation / debugging session / etc into a different direction experimentally without risking the entire state of the conversation thus far.

2) I want to be able to react to the messages. Thumbs up / down, agree/ disagree, etc - a small set of reactions to drive behavior would be huge, and would cut down on a lot of back and forth verbosity that plagues these.
pretty silly comments. historically, people have always made such stupid comments on things they didn't understand, and I think they will continue to do so.
I was so happy with my Watcom C compiler after Borland. Made me feel like a pro.
I'd imagine working with an entire company document would require a lot more hand holding and investment in prompt engineering. You can definitely get better results if you add much more context of what you're expecting and how the LLM should do it. Treating these LLMs as just simple Q&A machines is usually not enough unless you're doing simple stuff.
Can you expand on how you use low temperature solder?
I am 47 and I am the best I have ever been. I might code slower than people 20 years younger than me but I produce much much better code than they do.

There is definitely ageism out there. What you don't get in velocity, I make up in quality.

Also, I think I am wise enough to know that I know nothing and there is still a heck of a lot to learn!
That sounds nice, but the problem is that 99.99% of people get angry and then .. do little. At best they complain to their friends and raise awareness. Mostly they just feel stressed. The point is that the bottleneck is not awareness or even justifiable rage, it's intelligent action, and a more staid view of current events sounds attractive.
ChatGPT (at least, the paid version) does do this. But the UI doesn't emphasize it very much, and there's no way to visualize the tree of conversations.
You'd want to generate it in multiple steps to make it feasible to control the text generation anyway. First call generates the broad outline, several parallel calls flesh out character development and some other details so that they're consistent, then generate the story piece by piece by feeding in bits of the outline.
Navigation and Search Improvements for Accessibility
One month ago I phoned the best data warehouse developer I've ever met because I wanted to hire him.
Turns out he's 62 - and he plans to stay in the company he works until he retires.

I should have kidnaped and cloned him when I had the chance.
I have worked for Paul Vixie. (I've met Mockepetris and Liu.) Even Vixie agrees UDP frags were a bad idea for The DNS.

Given the context of where we're discussing this, mind if I ask: Why is UDP so attractive for DNS operators? Is it that it encapsulates the message query / response paradigm so well?

Why isn't encryption of greater concern? How can DoT or DoH be "faster" than UDP? Is it really the protocol or a misattribution of causality actually based on LFNs, buffer bloat, and mis- or mal- construction of the tenet that UDP traffic can be dropped with no consequence (instead of employing traffic shaping, for instance).

Honestly, lay it on me: explain to me about messaging versus pipes using DNS as an example.
Environmental impacts of cultured meat: A cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment
I was hoping for something really unusual after the introduction

"While at first, they might seem obscure, unhelpful, or tools for people who write in low level programming languages, they do serve a purpose. "

But then... Instructions set, assembly language...
A lot of the MySQL issues historically have been fixed. UTF-8 is better now, invalid data handling is better (by default even! though your distros default config probably puts you back in permissive mode!) but regardless I'm still using Postgres every single time.

The fact is that MySQL historically was terrible for complex schemas with complex types while postgres was a pleasure to work with. MySQL had a huge performance edge for many years but that came at a cost of resiliency and reliability. MySQL has greatly improved on these key areas and Postgres has also made significant performance improvements. Systems these days are also so powerful that the database probably isn't your benchmark.

Regardless, I always use Postgres every single time because I am just scarred from years of dealing with MySQL. What even is MySQL is also an open question at this point, there's MySQL and MariaDB and Percona flavors and the founder of Percona was just ousted and I can't be bothered to put in mental energy to untangle all this to even figure out what MySQL I should be developing against.

Compare this to Postgres where the community seems to have an extremely steady hand and constant progress. There's no forks, there's no infighting, there's no drama, there's a great regular release schedule with incremental improvements.
At the moment it's slim pickings out there, so even if you have to grind out a few years, it's better than nothing. Some people also enjoy the hectic environment. There're definitely ways to do startups that don't involve crazy hours and / or burnout, but it takes discipline and acceptance that you can only do so much in a day.
In an age of 10 million dollar seed rounds there's more ability than ever for startups to pay competitive salaries to non-founders.

I did the early-employee-recently-out-of-college thing a while back, they weren't able to raise nearly as much; my boss would've LOVED to have the money to retain me when I got a closer-to-market offer from another company.
> ” financial outcome is close to zero”

No. These startups still pay a salary, right? And I don’t think they that much less than your opportunity cost (at least my opportunity cost is not $500k at Google)
I built an app that ran on 30k+ servers across multiple data centers and it had an auto update mechanism because the app needed to be routinely updated with new features.

I had an integration test that ensured that the app would start up correctly and that the self-update mechanism worked. Without those tests, any failure to start would cause me to have to "talk" to 30k+ servers to get it to install a new version of the app. (ssh into each server and re-install the app).

Automating that communication across that many servers (many of which could be rebooting at any time) and ensuring that they all had a running version of the app, was difficult to say the least. How do you even track that the app is running? (You end up having to have a ping mechanism too!)

Of course, I didn't start off with those tests and had to do things the hard way more than a few times. The thing is that once I added the tests, I never once had to do things the hard way again.

So, you can certainly do things the hard way, or you can just write tests and be done with it and work on features instead.
This is one of those HN-isms that I think isn't right at all. Having worked at early stage companies, growth-stage companies, and in big tech:

1. What is the risk? From where I'm sitting, layoffs seem to be happening at all company sizes. At least early stage cos typically are pretty transparent internally so you know where the business stands.

2. Compensation is lower than $BigTechCo, no doubt about it, but it's competitive with other companies for folks early in their career.

3. Early stage companies are more fun! Ask your friends, you'll find that the $BigTechCo ones dislike their job but feel the weight of the golden handcuffs, and the $EarlyStageStartup ones love their jobs (but wish they could get $BigTechCo money for it!). Personally after the nth re-org, project cancellation, and executive temper tantrum I was ready to leave $BigTechCo.

4. You don't get founder equity, but the first 10 employees certainly get $LifeChanging outcomes on >B+ exits.

5. I worked the same number of hours at $ShittyBigCompany, $ExcitingEarlyStageStartup, $FamousBigTechCo, and current $GrowhtStageStartup (in fact, maybe a bit less now that I have kids). YMMV!
Where does it do this?
Welp, guess I picked a bad one. Paper Bird Inc seems to be owned by Sam Bankman-Fried… but anyway maybe they aren’t all owned by him, and regardless it might partially explain why the revenue numbers GP was looking up are much lower than the claims.
I think it replaced BBEdit Lite IIRC?
Lots of small/medium opportunities in "unbundling Excel" indeed.
Here is a slightly more boring version of your description according to ChatGPT4:

Today, many news articles contain eye-catching titles and content that can lead readers away from the central facts. Boring Report uses OpenAI's language models to take these types of articles and changes them into the content you are reading now, with the goal of aiding readers in paying attention to the primary information.
Occam's Razor is over here telling me that most commenters are more worried about being on the bandwagon than rationally considering their position on this matter.

Element's position is a little simpler: Government agencies give them money and blowhards on the Internet generally don't.
> On the plus side kids are out of your hair.

That almost sounds like you did not really enjoy raising your kids? I find that's a taboo thing to say, and if that's what you meant, I appreciate you saying so.
I totally agree with you. Had a similar discussion in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683027
No but sam altman is. That company can go whistling.
> the website operators will get a call

Then what we actually need isn't more content moderation, we need explicit laws explicitly _protecting_ website operators and any other publishers who are actually following the law.
I did notice an increase in UI glitches. I guess the codebase is just as flaky as it has ever been, but they used to canary their changes so gradually that 99% problems were caught at that stage
How do you know you got lucky with corrupted blocks?

mdadm doesn’t checksum data, and just trusts the HDD to either return correct data, or an error. But HDDs return incorrect data all the time, their specs even tell you how much incorrect data they’ll return, and for anything over about 8TB you’re basically guaranteed some silent corruption if you read every byte.
All it was missing was an (optional) network stack, IMHO
$10M is well above where you start seeing people have full time live in childcare.
I used to carefully clean my mushrooms with a brush to keep them dry so they wouldn’t end up slimy. But someone told me that was a myth and I decided to try just quickly rinsing them instead. Never resulted in slimy mushrooms, and I was shocked at how much crap ended up in the rinse water.
How does Claude stack up to GPT-4?
Meth is not the same as prescription drugs. You can absolutely distinguish in a drug screen.
From the study[1]: "Several years ago, we found that the risk of the development of peanut allergy was 10 times as high among Jewish children in the United Kingdom as it was in Israeli children of similar ancestry. This observation correlated with a striking difference in the time at which peanuts are introduced in the diet in these countries: in the United Kingdom infants typically do not consume peanut-based foods in the first year of life, whereas in Israel, peanut-based foods are usually introduced in the diet when infants are approximately 7 months of age"

So, the difference in real-world outcomes amongst Jewish populations in different countries inspired this study.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850?url_ver=Z39.8...
Pretty sure it's not "real" (model) context width.

Another wide context model is MosaicML's MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ which they are describing as having a context width of 65k, but then give a bit more detail to say they are using ALiBi - a type of positional encoding that allows longer contexts at inference time than training (i.e beyond the real context width of the model).

For these types of "extended context" models to actually reason over inputs longer than the native context width of the model, I assume that there is indeed some sort of vector DB trickery - maybe paging thru the input to generate vector DB content, then using some type of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to process that using the extended contexts ?

Maybe someone from Anthropic or MosaicML could throw us a bone and give a bit more detail of how these are working !

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401
I wouldn't really call it "having choices". Most services are duopolies at best.
https://archive.is/LHwKj
There are a fair amount of benchmarks out there showing the difference in compressed JSON vs things like protobuf, msgpack, cbor for HTTP APIs. It's a decent stand in for this so you can get you a general idea of the scale.

It's also something you can easily build and test for yourself today. The compression ratio for that test is really depends on the content of the JSON, but that will be the same for some theoretical binary HTML too. From my real world experience, I saw msgpack coming out slightly ahead of compressed JSON with a non-negligible CPU advantage too.

This differences really are extremely minor. But when the tooling is designed well and easy to use then these minor performance wins are free. It is something you never notice or have to deal with directly.