skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your idea that if you give people space and resources they will explore and learn and do creative things is talked about in regards to many issues. I don't totally buy it.

Smartphones and computers in general are a pretty strong example of the opposite. Sure OS's are more restrictive than in the past, but anyone who has a laptop and smartphone has access to programming tools and device sensors that would have been sci-fi 20 years ago. The reality is the average person when enabled will flow down the path of least resistance, and consume whatever requires the least effort. An endless scroll of meme videos and pictures of friends is going to beat out learning a challenging new skill for 99% of kids, and most adults as well unless they are consciously avoiding it.
I don't understand this "slow rollout" thing about OpenAI competition. The chat / instruction models are continuously fine-tuned on real dialogues. To get these dialogues en masse, you need to deploy models to wide public. Otherwise, you will forever be on the losing side, if you can't quickly grab the streams of real time human-generated content.

People at OpenAI are smart, they understood that quickly, GPT-4 is available nearly everywhere, and lesser models are even free for anyone to use. This required hiring huge teams of moderators, but we are at land grab stage, everyone in the business needs to move fast and break a lot of things. However, GPT-4 and open source models are the only thing I can use. Bard "is not available in my country" (Switzerland), and the first thing that Claude access form is asking is whether I am based in US.

Well, their loss.
Sunsetting Subversion
I get the concept. But there's a pretty obvious difference between just sitting in my home and going to work and posting on a global media platform that is literally intended to reach every other living human as its core reason for existing.

The argument seems bizarre to me. A much better pre-technology analogy would be if I wrote lots of letters to the editor of a newspaper and people read them.

Maybe it would even be a little creepy if the government had an FBI agent in every small town that read letters to the editor and sent them to be filed by topic in Washington or something.

But it wouldn't be spying right?
It's a hedge against Intel.
The chart of how the A64FX supercomputer chip uses uops is telling: https://i0.wp.com/chipsandcheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2021...

We're targeting hardware compilers. At this point why not just do the Transmeta route again and abstract that last bits of specialty hardware. The Crusoe emulated things like the x86 MMU on it's VLIW hardware.

Example: LDADD is actually 4 operations, the chip emulates an atomic operation for one of the simplest instructions.

Things I'd like to happen that are kind of opposites:

- To be able to run uops programs. Sure Intel says the decoder is great and they gave up on making Itanium performant through compilation. Give us choice. There's no way the hardware decoding of instructions is always the most performant option. GPU manufactures acknowledged their fallibility with lower level frameworks like DX11 and Vulkan, and I hope we'll continue getting lower and lower level access to their hardware as well.

- Maybe the chip manufactures could all support a dual operation mode, their legacy ISAs, and a compatible ISA. Look at all these options we have on the way to a convergent ISA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Instruction_Set

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/26/undocumented-x86-instruction...

The above mentioned Transmeta Crusoe implements an x86 VM. Zilog Z80 is an Intel 8080 with renamed instructions.
The Web Assembly route is too high level, it's still running on top of the OS even. Java is cool as is .Net IR, but they also just use assembly. Give me the flexibility of the Gigatron to target two different ISAs : https://hackaday.com/2019/07/02/emulating-a-6502-in-rom/
Author seems to be using billion == 10^12 instead of the common billion == 10^9. A lot of the math still works out since there's a multiply and a divide by a billion, but it is a little confusing to see passages like this:

> Given the parameter count, we can multiply by two to get bytes. So to calculate the size of the weights for a 52B model.

> 52e12⋅2 = 104e12 bytes ≈ 104GB
Endospasm exists: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/endospasm/eyJ3IjogImV...
Imagine how different the world would be if some equivalent of this existed prior to the American Revolution.
I wonder if there's an embedded equivalent for such systems? Something like fasterlog but more mature?
Except Vice did start and end that way.

So you just made up a story of fictional version of Vice being taken over by trust fund Millenials (whatever that means) and you didn't realize that the content you hate was present in Vice from start to finish of its lifecycle (and may have even made its actual journalism possible). And then, when called out on it, you pretended you did know that all along.
I think NPR had something on this on "Wait, wait, don't tell me" a while ago. Some researchers were linking it to kids watching so much Peppa Pig that they developed at least a slight British accent
A new life for London's lost rivers
All of the numbers ("letters") concerned are symmetric wrt 180 degree rotation, so there's no need to turn the calculator upside down.
For more of these types of projects check this:

https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
If it has been spoken, it is a word.
What you’re saying isn’t false, but I guess I don’t understand what you’re suggesting. That this article should take some white guilt detour to delve into this topic?

I think most are growing weary of having content about how terrible white people are injected into every possible thing.
I don't think the issue you describe there is very relevant for typical Sixel usecase. Yes, it's not efficient to play full screen high frame rate animations that way, but the more typical use would be things like being able to pipe log data into a command line tool and get a plot out inline in the terminal, or similar type of uses where you'd otherwise use characters.

You can do all kinds of things to make something better, but the two things that matters for this usecase is being able to do it over ssh and wide enough support that you can start relying on it. Better performance or more features only matters if both of those are met.
> Maybe it's down to management style.

It's down to the caliber of employees and managers that a company employs (that's the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about).

In my experience, remote just doesn't work for cheaper (or "best cost" whatever the current term is).

A lot of firms tried "cheaping out" on coders over the years, hiring employees from bootcamps and doing internal coaching. In my experience that breaks down completely when going remote because of the amount of hand-holding required. While they could drop-in and check-in on the coders almost once per hour in office, it's more like once per day when working from home.

Firms that paid more and hired proper Software Engineers don't have the same experience at all, mostly because ICs now have several hours extra per week to concentrate and focus.
Sixels is supported by more than one terminal implementation, while the example you posted only works in iTerm2 (and IIRC only accepts a filename as input, but doesn't offer a way to send image data directly as a stream of characters through stdout).

I would welcome a proper pixel graphics / framebuffer standard for terminals though.
Not necessarily.

Parents that are less involved in their kids lives might get them a smartphone earlier. Could also be a proxy for how involved they are with their kids school (the private schools all try to de-emphasize phone use and some exclusive private schools here in the valley ban them altogether).
(I know nothing about big companies)

Or just different departments doing their own lobbying in their own preferred way
On having enough socks is a very related discussion about executive function, which also has an incredible breakdown of why we don't get stuff done. A pretty large discussion happened recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812525 https://gwern.net/socks
This is a good point. I don't remember any BASIC app for DOS that allowed you to actually compile the code into a command-line utility. I would have killed for that.
Vice Media joins list of America's biggest startup flameouts
Not sure it's much of a waste. What happens to the trade-in? It gets resold, not sent to the junkyard.
> 10. Someone calls technical support; wacky hijinx ensue.

> a. Someone calls technical support for a magical item.

> b. Someone calls technical support for a piece of advanced technology.

This one seems appealing. Are there any good books with this theme?
Show HN: Mayu Live, a reactive web framework written in Ruby
Hi everyone,

I have been working on this for some time now and thought I should post it here.

I have enjoyed working with React in the past, and I love Ruby, so I thought I'd implement something like React in Ruby, and this is the result. Components are written in Haml and transformed into Ruby. Everything runs on the server, and there's no need to write any JavaScript.

It's pretty fast, and latency is usually low enough nowadays when you can deploy apps anywhere in the world.

It might not be suitable for all types of web apps, but it might be perfect for some. One of the main benefits of using something like this is that you don't have to implement an API to update state on the server; you can talk directly to a database from within a callback handler.

I thought that if the project got some attention, maybe I would get motivated to keep working on it.
The people your teenager are trying to fit in with check to see for an app icon, but not the friend request from the social media account and posting history?
> If you have to be briefed on what an author is "really saying" outside of the story conveying it, what's the point?

What armitron said was, "it's not explicit, you have to synthesize it." The verb 'synthesize' implies the exact opposite of what you've construed them as saying.
That’s always difficult, but exclusionary slights between various clicks happen and have happened just as easily in person.
Please point us to some science about this, because of that is true, it’s a pretty big deal.
I think this entire thread has gone of the rails with the local/global discussion. You can have your entire state captured as one 'entity' without every control inside the state being global. The controls can be in isolation, and has nothing to do with the 'state' of the entire page as a whole. Or can break it down into substates if desired, but it doesn't mean each component is global to make that happen.
Finally IT is being used for something useful, recently a Swedish version[1] was launched too.

1. https://lobbykollen.se/
While that used to be true, AK-47/AK-74/etc. types of rifles are typically multiple times more expensive than AR-15s these days.
Well you can use it in Incognito... if you login
lol you are probably right , and if you see my response down thread - the replacement broke on its second day of service so..
When you create a word using an existing word, e.g. house, it will define the word using the word itself.
TLDR: "I work at Confluent, the owners of Kafka, and I have determined through my tests that Redpanda's performance is greatly exaggerated."

I don't think we can get a less reliable or trustworthy set of performance tests than when someone's paycheck depends on the outcome of those tests. If Redpanda's performance were found to be better, would he really publish the test results?
How does this work? When I was a student and later when I got a job afterwards, moving was way easier. And I had hardly any money.

Or am I thinking wrong here. The hurdle is not the physical move, but like losing close access to friends and family?
"Conventional" (i.e. phophoramidite) DNA synthesis has a coupling efficiency of ~99% - so the yield after 100-200 bases is about zero. It's been possible for a long time, though, to splice together these short stretches to get longer stretches. But that process has been very low yield and required a lot of skill.
As a demonstration, 20 years ago Cello et al demonstrated synthesizing an active polio virus (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)

Although it might be easier to make long stretches of DNA with these machines, it would still take a lot of skill to translate these sequences into a weapon. Anyone with those skills could have already been doing this.
megg - a chicken in which the flesh is pressed into fine slices

chowpaw - a small black-and-tan domestic cat with a small head and black back, found in the dark

chachunga - a drink like kool-aid or candy, consisting of hot sauce, milk, and a small amount of liquor

bunnet - a chain of rods having bunks for each arm

dynamocomp - a container with two handles containing a continuous rotating system of fluid which keeps a load in. One of these is heated by the power of the other and can be carried on a strap suspended above an aircraft's nose for assistance, usually during takeoff or landing
>I've never been under any illusion that he is Orange Hitler.

>I supported censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because it helped Biden

>I’ve said on several occasions that I think Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden

>Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared. There’s nothing, it’s Hunter Biden, it’s not Joe Biden. Whatever the scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is…it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like a firefly to the sun.

That's sounds like a radical leftist to me with a severe case of TDS.
Lol, I posted "Google is BACK! MusicLM rules!" and no one paid me for that. I just think MusicLM is cool!

Funny to think that somewhere out there I'm loaded into someone's consciousness as a pawn in the marketing machinery of The Alphabet.
You will acquire accent different then you learned language with after being apposed to it a lot. Not perfectly, but you will "naturally" and without effort mimic it.

also, British media are all around the internet.
Person A: "What city could we pick to distance ourselves from money laundering?"

Person B: "Miami!"
Because unlike the alternatives, Sixel has relatively widespread support, and that matters far more.
That's pretty much his personality/public persona...
My kids' schools always issued a tablet or laptop for online courseware. It was not optional, you got a device locked down and pre-configured with the software the school was using.
> man I just don't get how someone could just unlearn the muscle memory of a normal keyboard layout

Honestly - this is the draw to unusual layouts to me. It's significantly helped RSI for typing too much. I don't need 'ultimate speed' really as much as comfort and physically being able to type.

It's medical! At least that's what i tell my wife (... and myself) when the credit card bill comes in.
> What constitutes lobby costs?

"Legal" corruption.
The money they invest trying to convince the EU representatives.
> Again, there are a lot of identically possible explanation: the whole society has changed and became globally more anxiogenic

It's not one society, it's every society in which smartphones and social media are available. It's simply implausible to suggest that every society on Earth nearly simultaneously became more anxiogenic for no common reason. The common reason very clearly seems to be social media.

> the measurement of the decline may be biased as people are nowadays more incline to be honest with their mental health or less incline to "shake it off", or ...

He covered this in prior articles too.

> What do you mean "cross-cultural"? Isn't the study showing that it's mainly a US problem?

No:

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-il...

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-il...

You're ignoring a whole body of work across a decade, and this article also clearly says these reports are international but he's focusing specifically on the Anglosphere in this article. He literally links to all of the prior work discussing the trends and possible explanations, so like I said, I suggest reading them before claiming the situation is murky.

> And other experts, with similar credentials than Haidt, have been critical of the work.

And he's reviewed those as well: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/why-some-researchers-th...

The jury is not as far out as you think, only a few jurors are holding out but the direction of the verdict is quite clear now.
I don’t think such a statement tells much. This might, for example, mean they

- feel the need to bolster the morale of their population/military

- want the enemy to spend a few weeks of anxious nights waiting for the offensive so that, if it comes, they’re more tired.

- already started a counteroffensive and want the enemy to withhold reserves

- double-bluff and expect the enemy to not believe this, and surprise them by attacking soon
Uh-uh.

Calls. SMS. Family (and friend) chats. Maps. Language translation. Camera. Shopping lists. Calendar. Weather reports. School email 2FA. Public transportation app. Possibly payments.

And then some educational / misc stuff on top like PlantNet.

All of that is there and convenient to use. Literally the only two problems are unmoderated antisocial platforms and gambling.
Coke Zero is much more common as an Everyman drink in Europe apparently, perhaps because of less sugar insensitivity.

In the USA a large size combo meal with a diet coke coming in at 1500+ calories is a meme based in reality.
This is the reasonable middle ground, I think. No outright refusal, nor blind acceptance.

Instead: separation of powers and reasonable barrier to entry. Dumbphone + stationary desktop PC would be much better for kids than a smartphone + tablet.
There are a lot of things going on in the world at the same time.

Family size has trended down in developed countries. This has a significant impact on social fabric.

My father was one of five kids. My mother was one of twelve. I was one of three and had an aunt with four children who lived nearby.

So I had many, many aunts, uncles and cousins. In contrast, me and my siblings all have only one or two kids apiece and it does not provide the same social fabric.

Women in particular are facing radically different roles in life and often have relatively few good role models for the kind of life they need to somehow create for themselves.

I find their tactic of talking about preponderance of the evidence versus beyond a shadow of a doubt annoying. It's a strong arm tactic trying to force their position on other people and I find that objectionable on the face of it.

Having said that, when they were adolescents my sons inherited an old phone of mine when I upgraded. It had one use: to let them go where they wanted at the mall and I could call them and say "Hey, I'm ready to go now" or whatever.

They might want to beef up their investigation into "Why girls?" rather than harp so much on "We should be allowed to cram our policies down your throats with merely the preponderance of the evidence. It's not like this is a criminal trial."

Yeah, buddy, you want to dictate to me how to raise my kids, you better have more compelling evidence than a criminal trial.

Provide better info and best practices, not a desperate plea to be allowed to "win" this argument with a less stringent standard of evidence. Geez.
I got "microdosing" which I'm pretty sure is a word.

The definition was new though:
"the injection of small amounts of a drug to a microdialysis unit"
But you can't really compare any artifact with a metal object, metal was valuable and often melted down. The ones we know about were the ones not found by battlefield scavengers and other opportunists. Even gravediggers would take metal objects and melt them down.
strategically yes, but i think historians of the luftwaffe would agree that it was fataly dammaged because its pilots never got a rest. didn't help that the rest of german high command, up to hitler himself, were all on pills/injections. you can't imagine eisenhower getting into such a state.
opensecrets
I asked this question here [0] and I suspect you are correct and that the simplest version of this just harvests DNS requests.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35822465
Show HN: Run StableDiffusion on Google Cloud Platform Using Pulumi
The people who already own in the community vote against lowering real estate prices. The prospective future residents don't get a vote, so they lose every time.
Math's Pedagogical Curse(3B1B)
Can I replace google voice assistant on a pixel 7 with it? How about a rooted pixel 7?
Ask HN: My boss keeps changing projects and teams for me
My boss is a Director of engineering and I am a staff engineer who recently joined the company. Obviously, I don't have any achievements yet.

My boss is constantly changing things for me, projects, teams, stack of technology.

Optimist in me thinks, maybe he needs my talent, realist is telling me, no you are not performing well and your boss is annoyed by you and keeps moving to different directions, until he gets rid of you.

Need advice, if anyone can mentor me or direct me on right direction would be great.
Whether that hints at solutions to US issues is up for debate, but at least on the "are smartphone inherently problematic" question, it's a interesting comparison point IMHO.
That's weird. I spent some time going through the wiki last night. I was actually trying to find the original source for WikiWikiWeb, but I couldn't find a download anywhere.
But ... Apple isn't going to suddenly vanish. It would be a slow fade, and there's plenty of room for different things to happen. All those Mac users aren't going to be in a hurry to run to Windows. It's certainly possible Microsoft could build something attractive to them, but I think it's also quite possible that someone else could too.

But that said, even if MS did get all the market, when the concern is Apple's closed and walled-garden approach, wouldn't an MS world be better? I am certainly no fan of Windows, but it does seem much more compatible, and usable in broader ecosystems than Macs do.
I mean, the other benchmarks we have are from RedPanda, so we're comparing one biased set of benchmarks to another biased set of benchmarks. Ultimately it's a matter of the reader understanding the methodology and drawing their own conclusions based on their own experience. I appreciate that the author explains the changes they've made, the impact of those changes, and why they think the changes are reasonable (ex: disabling fsync).

Personally I'm happy to see companies competing on performance like this. If one company puts out benchmarks I want to see their competition come in with their own benchmarks. Ideally we'll see improvements to both products, and a refined benchmarking suite and philosophy.
Before we have to face a rouge Artificial Intelligence mankind has to face Artificial Idiocy in the form of pseudo-intelligence and people who fall for it.
News Minimalist. Major time savor.
Just to add a datapoint: the main audioLM based models (not the BERT embedding part) fully utilize an RTX 2080 Ti.
The shock typically comes from the release of the preload, not from the NEA itself.