skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are alternatives to langchain when it comes to working with LLMs, some have bit less abstraction involved. One such library is PanML where it's coming at it from a different angle where you can feed in direct HuggingFace parameters: https://github.com/Pan-ML/panml

Regarding your requirements of loading in 4-bit, as I created the library, it's something at we are looking to support - but also keen to get inputs and feedback on it to collaborate. Generally speaking, we use the model_arg to pass in any HuggingFace based parameters to the AutoModel instantiation.
I know they're just Internet points but they are supposed to serve as a social signal that somebody has contributed (meaningful) content. Also some subreddits require a certain amount of karma to post. And finally, this activity is just useless spam.

I never implied it was such a big deal as to warrant your snark.
Trains can mostly be quiet even if sometimes there are people who are louder than usual. It happens sometimes. I wouldn't characterize regional trains as loud.
I thought people would find it really boring, hence the 800% speed up on most clips. Very glad to hear at least some people enjoyed it
The genotoxic edit was added by an IP editor citing an in-vitro study, I wouldn't pay much attention to it, you can find higher quality references on the article, for example this one:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151...
If I am doing "2 days in office, 3 remote" for my employees, why would I want to pay twice as much so desks can sit vacant more than half the time?
I'm using the ClearURL browser extension for that. It's also a available on Firefox Mobile.

Unfortunately some apps are making it harder to open links directly in Firefix. E.g. Reddit's app has removed the possibility to open links in an external browser.
They made a VR headset and used their own marketing name for it. A term which no one else uses.
Well - frankly no one has any idea about apple’s, because no one is using it. All anyone can have on Apple’s is an opinion. With Meta’s there’s evidence. Maybe it will meet the same fate. You’ve got probably the same idea as me
https://github.com/searchkit/searchkit is an instantsearch adapter for elasticsearch / opensearch
I’ve always found it odd that they allowed the middle finger emoji but still autocorrected swear words.
> You're not going to play VR games with a vanilla console controller.

You might. Flight sims are one of the most immediately compelling things to do in VR, and a controller is a huge step up from nothing.
And Schmidt was forced on them.
This has been an ongoing issue in tech for at least two decades now. The workers in these places are generally not as skilled at software development. Their countrymen who are quite skilled have, to a large degree, moved to the US for work. My in-office coworkers from India, for example, have for the most part been at least as good as those from anywhere else including native US citizens. Those who have worked off-shore? Not so much. Quite poor, in fact. On more than one occasion I've seen units off-shored only to be brought back in a year. Companies try it because they want to save labor costs, and then regret it because the cost ends up increasing, as those who are left on-shore have to sacrifice their own productivity to make-up for the negative productivity from these workers.
Big leap for hard drive capacities: 32 TB HAMR drives due soon, 40tb on horizon
Nobody said anything about extradition. See kearney v. salomon smith barney.
Is that more because no one can use it with an iPhone?

The stylus support on Samsung flagships is very convenient to have cross device capability on, and everyone I know who has those devices feels similarly.

Eg when doing something on the tab with the pen and having a calculator open on the phone and seamlessly being able to use the pen for that. Support on phones, especially with the large screens these days, allows for all sorts of little synergies that make the experience much more smooth.

This kind of synergy is especially convenient for students and teachers. But because Apple hasn't decided to make a slick commercial about it "revolutionizing" computing, HN must act like it isn't a thing.
I worked at a startup with just 2 other engineers. They hired a guy from Google with a decade less experience than me.

When I arrived I was taking my time to understand the culture, company, needs, etc. before making any suggestions. One example, they did Agile with sprints and I think KANBAN works better. But, I didn’t see it as an important issue to spend time on.

So the Google guy comes in and from day 1 began making suggestions for big changes to both process and the software architecture. He often started by saying, “At Google we…”

I was let go, in part, because the CEO thought I was not contributing to certain technical discussions. I told him I thought the proposed change wouldn’t bring any value to potential customers because it was a purely internal architectural change. We had a lot of actual customer facing work to do and this was a distraction.

So… a guy with only 5 years of professional experience all at Google won over the 26 year old CEO more than someone with 20 years of experience across multiple companies and having built a very similar product just a year before.
It really would be bad if Reddit collapsed.

Facebook is a former juggernaut of manipulating midwesterners and grandparents by driving them to bigoted echo chambers and serving them Republican targeted adverts. Now it is a wasteland of corporate pages and zombie meme groups, extremist recruitment groups for SE Asian political parties, coordination for death squads on the African continent, etc. it is impossible to host a town square or public commons discussion there.

Twitter is owned by a “libertarian” Republican techbro bigot who was financed by private Saudi equity after conversations with Thiel and a bunch of other alt-Right figures. It is swiftly become 4chan.

There are no longer Google+ forums; all the other message boards save for slashdot are unmoderated post apocalyptic horror shows roamed by Mad Max gangs (or fifteen year old gamers imagining they’re in Mad Max). Even Tumblr has at-scale difficulties countering & preventing hatred & harassment. They have no volunteer mods.

Reddit cleaned up starting in 2019. It’s home to many communities which are exactly as diverse, vibrant, and rewarding as they make themselves to be.

Reddit isn’t going to go under. It cannot. It has to persevere.
California disagrees. kearney v. salomon smith barney
I don't think you have a good idea of scale here 4GW of solar and 12 GWh of storage are a tiny fraction of what we produce every year, barely worth mention.

Whereas even a single GW of new nuclear is newsworthy because it was such a monumental effort, over budget and behind schedule by factors of 2-4x

Wind, solar, and storage get delivered on time, under budget, and at a scale that nuclear can not even dream of achieving for decades. Claiming that 100GW/year of nuclear is even in the realm of possibility is beyond delusional, whereas 400 GW/year of solar is close to happening, and we will deploying TW/year in the 2030s, before a second site of nuclear could even come online in the US.

Land for solar is similarly a red herring. Solar "land use" is easily dual purpose, if need be, but it need not be. Using even a fraction of land that we currently use to grow corn for ethanol would completely power all of our transportation.
It's not that random if you know how to handle the interviewer's mood.
I get that when you live in a forest all you see are trees, but 99% of software companies are not in rather VC markets, nor have VC competitors.

There are massive problems that come with "scale" - problems most people don't want. The VC model is all about the exit, whereas, again, 90-something-% of businesses, trades included, are focused on long-term sustainability, not on the "exit".

Sure, the VC space us very visible, very "loud", gets a lot of press, and so on. And of course 100% of non-vc owners don't get to be billionaires, but to VC world is a tiny sliver of the software world.
John Carmac is a legend
Interesting point. It makes me wonder, do having only experience in SV tech scene make you a worse entrepreneur than someone who has experience elsewhere where making a business sustainable earlier is necessary?
I'm a middle school teacher in Europe. None of my students use Facebook. They even don't use Whatsapp that much anymore. FB has a big problem.
Through posting on Reddit I learnt that Moser wasn't the only one either. Apparently Ciga Designs did some similar watches and even Casio has one, the MTP-M305
An alternative web search architecture, is collaborative sharing the site we made or visit.

I made a self hosted spider that only index sites that I've visited and search engine with "and" "or" logics.

Thinking to make it a federated search engine by allow each user whitelist domains that are not sensitive to search with the peer. And users can follow/block other users explicitly to avoid spam.

https://github.com/beenotung/personal-search-engine
It's how it works in California, where Reddit is domiciled. kearney v. salomon smith barney
??? B-

They want people to RTO ??? But they're deleting the office? "Never let them know your next move!"
Producing a return doesn’t imply maximizing that return. Short-term profit maximization may actually be detrimental to long-term success. People also buy stocks because they believe in what the company does in terms of meaningfulness, and that meaningfulness tends to decline when trying to maximize profits.
It wasn’t an exclusive before Meta bought them, and even the new PSVR2 version they recently released is just a recompile. So…where do you think Meta’s interest is? It sounds like they made a promise to support the PlayStation, and that won’t extend to Apple.
What is to stop Apple from implementing their own BeatSaber? Apple has infinite money, and the core gameplay loop is pretty straightforward. As far as I know, game mechanics cannot be protected, so Apple would just have to use their own design and music.
Couldn't it be a "sign" that (at least) 100% back to office is off the table?
But who invented fitness? Theoretically a self-sustaining chemical reaction can go on forever, and it is energetically less costly to search ways to sustain it even further rather than rebooting the whole organism from start. The invention of death must have happened before the beginning of evolution. Which reminds me that our quest for immortality is the end of it.
Why is Delaware the go to for startups, and most big companies?
I was never talking about VR games, other people keep mentioning them. I brought up the game porting toolkit because of the performance people are achieving on their laptops that have similar or the same apple chip that the headset will have. I understand not everyone will see the appeal of playing regular games on a headset but I feel that it makes sense with what the way they are marketing it. The draw is that I could play AAA titles practically anywhere I want with just a headset and a controller. Those games would appear to be displayed on a full size TV or smaller/larger depending on personal preference.

I have yet to find a reason to buy and keep a VR headset as most things just feel so gimmicky to me. At this point unless you’re either tethered to a more powerful device to be able to do the heavy lifting for the headset or you have a standalone headset that can play some basic arcade like games. A single device that can be taken on the go and play new releases not made specifically for the headset would be amazing to me. Obviously until it’s released who can say what it will actually be capable of but if it has the equivalent power of a MacBook, when my mid 2015 MacBook Pro finally dies I’d honestly consider replacing it with the vision pro but wouldn’t run out to buy one to have in addition to the MacBook.
Yeah, I'd never heard of investors threatening to take their money back, either before or since. I've never had such a clause in any financing docs I've signed.
Not really, it was in (very bad) C++ and GeoGebra is in Java. A couple of good ideas made it across (and hopefully none of the mistakes :)

PS Hi!
If there were cognitive limitations you'd expect big holes in the theories we come up with unless you believe that for some reason we happen to be limited in a way that we observe a subset of the universe which is strangely internally consistent and shows essentially no signs of interaction with an bigger universe, yet alien species can somehow use the bigger universe to interact with our subset of the universe in a way that appears to be magic. I find that pretty far fetched.
About 2/5ths of the book is really good. Granted, the rest seemed like filler, but that doesn't invalidate the good parts.
If the CEO thought process used in a megacorp was appropriate for a four engineer startup, then he is a fucking idiot and you are better off out of that impending cluster fuck.
Damn yeah, you guys are all on the money. I was thinking of an ETA clone or Sellita. As well as the Miyota 90S5 which was a really odd pick from
ghostganz because I don't think its that popular of a movement. But I was looking at it as I had 0.5mm less height than Seiko's recommended minimum height within the case, and the 90S5 was much thinner. Ended up with the NH38 anyway because I was really REALLY unsure if I could even get this to work so it was a lower monetary investment. And, the stem shape worked for the weirdo linkages I made, because the linkage I made is technically within the footprint of all those movements.
I moved to Colorado a decade ago. I love it here.
> Drive around with a device that constantly captures air and checks it for the DNA of a suspect

Why would they drive around when there are undoubtedly hotspots where they would install sensors?
isn't the objective to capture and define the market?

metaverse vs spatial computing?

and whoever can make money for their respective business: sell ads or sell apps/integrate with rest of apple ecosystem?
> In-person is much better if you don't know what you need to build, are trying to "figure it out as you go along", and are relying on the implicit fast feedback loop of standing next to each other.

true.

> For large companies like FAANG, I actually think they mostly fall in bucket 2

Also true most fall in the "figure it out" bucket... But here's where it gets funny: just meet in-person you say?

No, this is FAANG. You're in MTV, but the people you need to collaborate are in NYC, LAX, SEA, AUS, SFO...

So your in-person experience is you booking a room just for yourself so you can video conference all those people who also booked a room for themselves.

Because every other team is in same situation, finding a meeting room is a challenge in itself.

Take the call from your desk then?

No, this is FAANG, every building is open office layout, it'd be rude & disrespectful to your colleagues around who are busy coding.
I've had a lot of people asking...
The fact that they released it for PSVR2, years after the purchase, shows that it still isn’t an exclusive. They didn’t have to do that. It doesn’t matter that it was just a recompile, it’s not the same platform as the PSVR and requires work to publish and maintain. I’m not sure how you could know that fact and yet still claim it is.

Hell, they could’ve actually made it an exclusive when they bought it and nobody would have been able to stop them. That it was kept on all platforms and released on new platforms since shows it very clearly was and is not.

The question, once again, isn’t where Meta’s interest is. It isn’t if it’s going to be released on Apple Vision or not. None of that matters.

The question was simple: is it an exclusive?

The answer is also simple: no.

A few seconds of searching would have easily revealed that, but you chose to assume instead, and it ended up being wrong. Let it go.
I misread your original comment. I rescind my previous statement. Apologies for commenting on the internet while tired :-P
but they are using instagram no?
And in dysfunctional workplaces, breaking consensus can put your job in jeopardy.
Compare average programmer's salary Chicago vs. Mountain View...
It's called communication.

It's not a VR headset and it's not an AR headset. It's something else. It's reasonable to give your specific vision of these technologies a more human name.

Also, it's something that's going to be released in very limited quantities in a year from now. And it was announced at a developer conference so developers can start to prepare apps. We've only really seen a preview and the technology is in the earliest stages.

There's a ton of stuff they only mentioned in passing - like their proprietary camera format and cameras that can record the world in immersive depth-mapped 3D. Those will likely be licensed out to studios and sports leagues which can prepare content for Vision Pro.
While I enjoy this whole debate in HN about remote Vs in-person, the point here majority seems to be missing is that the sole attendance is used as a threat for performance review. Effectively a joke. If Google had a problem with people and teams hiding behind a monitor not doing much, I'm sure you can recall a pre-pandemic world where this was also the norm when in the office.
Teams are more distributed now. Seattle and LA footprint will grow, bay area will shrink.
- "I want everyone at this conference play by these rules."

- "I don't like those rules, so I won't be coming and I'll start my own conference."

- "Okay, good luck!"

Doesn't need to be hard. Everyone wins. This is a non-controversy because 20 people on Twitter are "angry" (what else is new).
Russian ships sail around Europe all the time. What's your point?
I don't know why you're trying to muddy the waters here. The countries around China do not want them to expand their territory. Why are you okay with China doing so by ceasing the trips?

Legitimate concerns? How about the concerns of every country around China about China? Do they just not matter to you? Why are you washing away their legitimate concerns?
That’s where negotiations come in. He has been very upfront about talking and negotiations but Reddit hasn’t budged on pricing at all.
It wouldn't have been anywhere near as funny to me or enjoyable for me to wear. Literally the only reasons. Mechanical movements are strictly worse
I decided to rip the bandaid off now. Uninstalled it earlier tonight. Honestly, I don’t want to support Reddit anymore.
You’re probably better off without that nonsense.
So do the people at Google who handle real estate rentals talk to the people who ordered everyone to come back to the office?
Advice Expires
Is this part of Plan 9?
No, you wrote he was a shill, which implies a financial arrangement.

Are you claiming he is paid by the Russian government or are you claiming he simply has the same position?

The first is an explosive claim requiring proof the last one is insignificant.
The golden rule isn't so simple when different people have different ideas of what people would have.

For example, if the HN mods think they '[host] harassment and abuse that goes unchecked' they may actually want the HN mods to not allow referrals from them.

Or, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Differences_in_val... : "George Bernard Shaw wrote, "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."[95] This suggests that if your values are not shared with others, the way you want to be treated will not be the way they want to be treated."

Reading even further in the Wikipedia article, you'll see '"doing as you would be done by" includes taking into account your neighbour's tastes as you would that he should take yours into account'.

Using technical measures to avoid someone's block would see, under that reading of the golden rule, seem to break the golden rule.

On a related topic, why do so many faiths have something like the golden rule, while also being male patriarchies where women are treated differently from men? Placing cultural restrictions on a woman that aren't place on a man would seem to fundamentally contrary to the golden rule.
I have some personal knowledge of this. I worked at Google 2005-2017, and in 2006 I quite often walked through the hills across Amphitheatre from Google. I would often see burrowing owls then.

South of there is Shoreline Amphitheatre, north is the golf course, and east is more park, plus a restaurant. None of that changed at all, as of 2017. The owls were gone long before that. Unfortunately I don't recall exactly when I stopped seeing them.

Often they would just sit and stare at me, even though I was only 15 or so feet away. So I can easily believe that predators got them, maybe even cats; it seems being more skittish would be more adaptive. I've also seen snakes in there.

[3] says "Humans can also be a big nuisance for the owls. City parks staffers have installed signs and fencing to cordon off sensitive areas, but hikers sometimes go trailblazing. Shoreline Park prohibits dogs except in an off-leash zone near the entrance, yet some people still untether their canines in other parts of the park."

This is completely unsubstantiated and just plain wrong, from my experience. People do not go "trailblazing" and off-leash dogs are just not a thing.

"a certain Mountain View company rapidly expanding its campus circa 2018" -- you have outed yourself here. Google did not expand into the habitat area at all.
RTO may not mean return to the Bay Area ?

Considering the high CoL people have already moved other places and this is a reflection of that ?
Did you pick gentoo for a reason? Maybe because you don't have a point otherwise?
7.5.3 on my dad’s Quadra 950 at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Coolest thing ever (except there were SGI Indy’s a few floors above).

Not to mention SCSI!
And had to be open heart 1. because I liked how the mockup I did looked with an open heart and 2. because any more stem positions for different complication settings would have made my life a lot harder with getting the button/crown to work
I think so, the same as for n.korean hacker penetrating California corp system.
Wasn't there something called `teddit` that was written in nim that did a better job of removing all the js crap that makes reddit terrible?
I would imagine everyone will just move to that if possible. Although perhaps that may also be affected by their idiotic API charge junk.
Vaccines couldn't be mandated if there was alternative treatment, legally.
ugh, you're so right about this hot-desking nonsense.

But it's not even just Google. I haven't been back to my company's office because they insist on not assigning a desk. Every time I wanna go in I have find a random desk to sit in.
Ask HN: Advice on starting a YouTube channel?
Hello HN,

Would love to hear from devs who started their YouTube channel and what was the journey like
Agree with your points. That said, I think people work from home because they value their personal happiness more than helping Google make more money. They probably see that Google isn't doing much to help anyone except Google, particularly Google's executive team and shareholders. If leaders want workers to be more productive, they should improve culture and motivation, forcing workers to put social pressure on each other is a short term boost, but folks will move to greener pastures eventually.
Of course it doesn't fit all possible needs but for the vast majority of what most people need, it is more than enough.

For all the talk of various frameworks and machine learning we have on here, the spreadsheet as it came in Visicalc (via Excel) is the backbone of accounting the world over. Not for everything but for a lot.
The country doesn’t own its citizens, it’s the other way around. Conscription is immoral and should be opposed.
What if someone types defamatory lies in Microsoft Word can we sue Microsoft for rendering them? What if Word did some spellchecking and grammar improvement to aid and abet the final version of the defamation?