skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gamification definitely works better when it's in conjunction with something you already want to do, or feel like you should do. It gives you an excuse to push a little harder to keep on task. It mostly seems to not work at all when it's for something you don't care about.
The W model has Bluetooth, the plain version RP Pico 2040 version does not. BT has always been possible to use but under a non commercial license.
It used to. Past 7ish years or so I saw a lot more posting that was straight up lies or people pretending to be experts that wasn’t heavily downvoted. Or maybe it was always like that and I got more aware. Either way, not something I’d want ingested into a model.
I think it's nonsense to invent new terminology for this tiny minor difference in how you use threads and whether you wait on results or you don't wait.
> This blew up on Hacker News. An HN mod edited the title to add a ? at the end. It was not me. The answer to any headline with a ? at the end is “no.” I would not own myself like that.

Agree with the viewpoint. Hacker News is heavily moderated in a non-user-friendly way which results in some comments being nonsensical after moderation editorials and also disturbs searching for content by a title one remembers.
You might like to look at some apologetical writing. Christian apologetics, for example, are often split into three layers, essentially:

1. Is there a God - this is actually fairly straightforward to argue, simply because we can use analytical philosophy to reason about the unknowable and first causes and so on.

2. Is Jesus God - much tougher to approach for obvious reasons, but can at least be reasoned about if you've gone through step 1.

3. Should I be x sort of Christian - easier to reason about if you accept 1 & 2.

That first step is very approachable if you're already interested in things like logical proofs and higher physics.
Note: Since this post, they've multithreaded a fair bit of the simulation as well. It runs insanely well, the entire game is a marvel of software engineering in my book.
I’m at the other extreme of “private stuff”. Nothing work related should live on my work machine. It should all be pushed to git or dumped in the wiki (personal pages if nothing else).

On one of my largest projects the IT dept made bulk orders for hardware and doled them out to new hires. 18 months into our new project someone’s hard drive died.

Everyone acted like his dog died. I said no problem let’s go through the onboarding docs. The longest step by far was that the company mandated Whole Disk Encryption but IT hadn’t put it in their old inventory yet. So that was 2/3 of setup time. We found some issues with the docs and fixed them.

Every two to four weeks that summer, someone else’s drive would go. You see, we got all of these machines from the same production run. So the hard drives came from the same production run, which was apparently faulty. The process got a little faster as we went. By the end of the summer it was my turn, and people still looked at me like I needed condolences. I got a faster machine for a few hours worth of work. I’m not sad. All my stuff was in the network already. I lost a couple hours’ of work, tops.
I've freelanced for tech writing agencies and some of my experience comes from there so in a target audience you likely are :)

That said, great, constructive feedback there, so let me address some points:

- I don't like jumping between different tools. I prefer a consistent, great user experience when available. That's why project/content management is a big part of Vrite. That said, I'd like it to be more customizable to different use-cases people might have so, in the future, other "views" aren't out of question, e.g. list view or folder view.

- I see the point. However, building a product around external products (i.e. other code/text editors) doesn't make much sense to me. However, a "raw Markdown mode" with Monaco Editor or a sync extension for editors like VS Code is in consideration for after full GFM support is implemented. Indeed Gitbook has recently been my inspiration as I'm trying to extend Vrite to handle general tech documentation rather than just dev marketing. Git is a big part of that, and I have some ideas on how to integrate it though, given that Vrite is an API-based CMS, this will be a challenging process.

- Various integrations and asset management/optimization are cetainly important. Images are already handled by Cloudflare's R2 so CDN-wise it's already good - they're just too big. That said, I'm currently working on an assets manager and optimizer for Vrite.
I'm about to do similar...

Its that, or I DIY my product.

Either sounds fine to be honest.
> they are impractical and unaffordable for many

If you're not going to provide any evidence, please stop making that claim. Heat pumps are not bulkier, noisier, or more expensive than any alternative that would suffice for most people. They are more efficient and environmentally benign, likewise. Using dogwhistles like "sacred cow" or insulting interlocutors is not going to carry the day for you.
TLDR: software engineers using software to make their lives easier.

This reads like it’s written by someone who really doesn’t like Amazon.
Any non-trival LLM that works by scraping the internet is already sufficiently advanced to be able to classify blogspam.
Their supposed secret sauce is the low-latency audio synchronization between rooms. But that isn't so secret/hard anymore.
It would be nice if there was somewhere ready to upload the archive, though.
The comparison only works in mobile. The M2 vs mobile Intel/AMD is indeed favorable for the M2 because it uses much less power.

But in general, it's much more nuanced. I have both a desktop with a Ryzen 7700x and a mac book pro m2, my coworker has a 13900k and a m2 max, the performances aren't really always comparable.

There's many tasks where you are looking at a much less capable machine. Compiling and IDE performances are still way better in general on x86 linux than a notebook macos. You may not care about that 0.5second more lag every time you save and EsLint reprocesses your entire file, and the watcher restarts some application after and you're looking at 5/6 seconds instead of a couple. I do.

There's no doubt that Apple produced a great CPU, but when you get into considering costs and performance there's still a huge lag. There's no doubt that the crown on laptops is in Apple hands right now. That's not every use case out there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324118 this one has lots of discussions, but i somehow didn't notice it on the HN front page.

The only way to learn about these is to scan this page from time to time: https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
> Boggles my mind that people do that.

Why?

It boggles my mind that you'd reboot needlessly. My uptime is usually in the hundreds of days.

Sleep is good: I just close the lid. Next time I open the lid it immediately picks up where I left off. Why on earth would you want any other behaviour?
> if I am ok with slightly suboptimal efficiency (keeping slightly less tokens than the model supports) ... multiply the length of the result of splitting on spaces by 1.55 for OpenAI and 1.7 for Claude

This sounds reasonable to me. You might also want to consider estimates based on the number of characters. And you also need a fallback for what to do when the user inputs some weird input that doesn't fall inside your safety margin, but instead causes OpenAI API to return an error (maybe in that case you aggressively trim the input and retry?)
>If Reddit merely wanted to restrict the ability to scrape its data, they could have done so without killing off clients – e.g. via licensing deals[1].

They haven't taken any steps to stop scrapping. They made access to the data via api extremely expensive. Calling an API is not crawling/scrapping. You can still crawl/scrape, well once/if the mod protest is over. And also stop calling it scrapping, it web crawling.

I also actually wonder about the validity of it as training data. I've done a few experiments with fine tuning models, with a few hundred thousand samples curated from hundreds of millions of threads <https://huggingface.co/winddude/pb_lora_7b_v0.1>. they are interesting, because they end up being so sarcastic. People tend to either be short, or overly opinionated.

At the very least someone would have to do a lot of pre-processing, which would make it a transfomative work anyways.
Reddit don't own the copyright to it, just a license. That plus public web scraping is legal. Reproducing the data directly might violate the user's copyrights, but through an LLM it is assumed not.
There is actually a bayesian version which I wrote: https://github.com/ealdwulf/bbchop

Basically it calculates the commit to test at each step which gains the most information, under some trivial assumptions. The calculation is O(N) in the number of commits if you have a linear history, but it requires prefix-sum which is not O(N) on a DAG so it could be expensive if your history is complex.

Never got round to integrating it into git though.
This is a huge, huge, huge problem and Google I feel could work to solve this.

NEWS (heh it contains new) is important to be up-to-date and recent.

But so many things are olds and you should give more weight to older pagerank-verified pages.
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I've also met many women with low abilities who will themselves to get degrees (barely) where as a man who feels he is not suited for higher education, usually chooses the trade routes. So even these two people are equal in ability, the woman would generally not go for the man who chose to drop out because "i am better educated." I've also noticed woman have a far better control of their impulses where as men would just give in (more emotionally intelligent on average).
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> There are plenty of engineers and doctors on reddit answering nuanced questions that arent talked about in any journals.

There are also plenty of people answering nuanced questions with complete BS.

It's not that bold to claim that as when taken as a whole the signal-noise is worse on Reddit than in a publication.
Recently learned about Verse: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-lan...

It features "speculative execution" which practically is STM. Known names like Tim Sweeney and Simon Peyton Jones are behind that.
idk.. kagi still works great. I've experienced no impact to search quality over the last few days.
BBC news is free worldwide on-line[1]. It's usually the first news site I go to in the morning (from the US). Obviously, elsewhere for my local news, but it gives me a good overview of what is going on big picture.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk
Algorithms MOOC or Course Recommendations
My work colleagues and I are planning on doing an algorithms and data structures MOOC or course together. I'm aware of the coursera offerings from Stanford and Princeton, the Udacity Georgia Tech course and Steven Skienas youtube videos. Does anyone have any favorites amongst these or other recommendations? The purpose is to get a basic working knowledge of the fundamentals for the members of our team without a background in Compsci and as a refresher for the members that did this a long time ago.
It's not being provided in that jurisdiction. If you are hosted/domiciled in a country foreign users are entering another jurisdiction when they access the service.
This looks very similar to this: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/13/element-ai-raises-151m-on-...
Laziness as a programmer is a virtue, you will always find the path of least resistance which usually results in some pretty reasonable decisions imo.
Oh great! I just received a batch of Pico Ws and felt there may be BT functionality under the shield. Broadcom has incorporated into all their wifi chips even if it's not used/not connected.
you've done a great job on the overall UI/UX, but as always, for me the question is where and how the product fits in the overall marketplace. this is true even for free/open source products, as it's hard to maintain momentum on stuff no one else really notices or uses.

is there a pain for managing content for technical writers? yes, probably. not many products target this niche. is the pain big enough to overcome inertia? that seems questionable, but perhaps it is big enough. i doubt large businesses would even look at a fledgling product like this, as it doesn't solve enough pain for them. it seems that there might be a market in small-to-medium-sized technical businesses that have like 1 technical writer and a few guest postings to use a platform like this.

but does it make sense to target developers at all? perhaps for initial marketing, but i'd conjecture that devs mainly just want to get something out on one platform (whether their own blog, or dev.to, or whatever) and perhaps secondarily on twitter (or similar) for more reach and discussion. it seems to be an uphill battle to get them to switch over to a completely different tool that requires integration to get content flowing to all the right places (which is what a headless cms requires).

in any case, the positioning as a headless CMS falls flat to me. that seems to be leading with a technical detail ("headless") rather than the pain and the solution. my off-the-cuff suggestion is something more like "Content Automation" as the descriptor. similar to "Marketing Automation" (e.g., buffer, hubspot) yours is a CMS plus and an automation platform (in the making). it helps people crank out technical content and put it in all the right places to be seen by the people you want to target.
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Kagi does, and in any caee Kagi rarely shows Quora results
The real problem isn't that Google can't detect what spam is, it's that this spam drives so much of the traffic, and thus their revenue that they cannot remove it.

Google at this point is literally teaming up with spammers. Just go on a android phone and swipe left from homepage for "Google", count how many clicks it takes to get to an 100% AI generated spam page.
These battery + solar controller + inverter all-in-one things are very overpriced. You can DIY one for 1/4th of the price, with better components, and learn something along the way. I will say the software/apps they come with can be nice.
for every titties there are 20 other news subs that are just not gaining traction. You only see titties because it's sufficiently differentiated from the news subreddit
20+ years of this handle online without problems, and I found out trying to sign up for Stern Pinball Insider that "bint" is a dirty word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bint
Yea but this is Hacker News and it was an opportunity to bring up an interesting and relevant tidbit that people might not have heard about before.
Bell curve moment
It costs like $50M to build a next gen model, so if what they want to pitch is training next gen models it makes sense they get $100M to try. Similar to Hippocratic AI $50M seed raise. If anything this founder team seems more legit.
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> Apple Maps sucks

Really? I found it more accurate in most cases. I wonder if there is a difference based on location. I am in California. Also maybe years ago it was not as good as Google, maybe it got better since then?
That would just be wanton destruction of information.
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That's really weird and a big difference so I decided to look more into it

The US site says "Starts at USD1391.00"

If you scroll down and see the different modules, see the 1st column, the 2229 EUR and the one in the US site

EU model: i7 3.7GHz, 16GB ram, 512GB ssd, Windows PRO

US model i5 3.4GHz, 16GB ram, 256GB ssd, Windows HOME

It's also mentioning the US site is on sale Est Value $2,319.00 to $1,391.40

So you see this seems to be an exception
Google flourished because it could find forums (and blogs) and mine those, but much of that content has disappeared into Facebook and Discord (and YouTube - we must not discount how many things that would have been easily parseable blogs are now buried in livestreams and videos).
You're wrong. Things can be publicly funded. They can be sponsored. Wikipedia does no creepy tracking and the only annoying ad is when Jimmy Wales is begging for money (even though they have the funds to run the company for 10 years without receiving another penny right now).

Your mindset of "everything costs money and so everyone is the internet's paypig" is broken and exemplifies the problem with the modern internet.

Yes, everything costs money, but honestly, not that much money. $20-$40 a month is enough to run your own kbin/lemmy/mastodon instance on a VPS with your own domain name and everything. If you have 300 regular users, getting them to throw $500 a year in support at your site is nothing.

Also, if you occupy a niche and run it well, you can make internet money the old fashioned way, by finding products that your niche users specifically want and organically selling to them without ad spamming them to death.

Yes, that means money changes hands. That's capitalism. But in that system the site users are not being spammed with annoying ads and the only tracking being done is with the interest category itself and not on a per user basis including all of the other sites they've ever visited before visiting your site.

Just like forums used to do.

Sure, forums are outdated because the site navigation is clunky and user participation is difficult, but federated systems can bridge the gap between the forum based glory days and the modern interface without costing everyone so much money that it boggles the mind.
I was a bit short in the original description, but luckily we've since reached an understanding on how to try to reproduce this bug.

Unfortunately he's not been able to reproduce it, even though I can reproduce it on several machines here (and it's been independently reproduced by other people at Red Hat). We do know that it happens much less frequently on Intel hardware than AMD hardware (likely just because of subtle timing differences), and he's of course working at Intel.
Google, Facebook and others spent billions buying the best ML people and giving them the best, and got scooped badly by OpenAI. And I know it's a cliche but lots of better engineered "iphone/ipod" products existed that got destroyed by apple. Unless they can invest in the man himself - a Jobs or Altman, I don't think investing in a good team is an automatic road to victory.
Napoleon is not the source of the "four categories" doctrine.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/
The replies of engineers and doctors are significantly outweighed by the responses of bored teenagers.
I think it just means that the investors will hold 113/260 ~43% of the shares, with the founders controlling the other 57%.
Personally I love it, but I love it a lot more paired with a robust system for browsing.
Google should be more pro-active in checking its results health and present cached versions if underlying sources are gone. It's not only about reddit, I also have plenty of websites which don't open in my computer (either because my country banned them or because they banned my country) and Google still presents those pages in my search results, wasting my time.
In my opinion, it comes back to search engines not giving you a the best answer.
If you're looking for the best headset with whatever feature, you'll find mostly sponsored reviews, or at the very least hard to trust reviews.

On the other hand, some random people's opinions in a Reddit community with -apparently- no further agenda seem somewhat more honest.

Not that the answer is better but it gives you new data points in your search.

Basically, it's not one or the other, you can use both tools and that's probably why it makes sense to include Reddit in AI models (which do this job for you automatically)
I think 2004 is when the concept really gained currency.
Okay, I understand. I don't think this way of divvying up generations is useful, but I see how you get there.

For me "generations" are a lot more about how they approach things than how much they implement. Esbuild kicked off a new generation of fast tooling, and Vite builds on it and integrates other tooling with a shared and stable API, without falling into the same pitfalls Webpack etc. did.
I agree and also think the author did a wrong turn somewhere after the original quote.
One point of the quote roughly translated into the modern office is that dumb managers that create pointless busywork for others are part of big corporations and all together not a big deal as long as they are lazy dumb managers. Energetic dumb managers on the other hand may create a neverending spiral of problems and need to be watched carefully.

(On a sidenote there are several versions of the quote attributed to German generals - Moltke the elder, von Mannstein and von Hammerstein-Equord and I think most of them are better).
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I really hope that the corning portion of the company survives and continues to make pyrex, corelle, and corning products. They are some of my favorite ceramics and have been a staple for decades. I'm very sad to hear about this.
F12 is even easier
> it's guaranteed (at least for now) that the answer came from humans who are not trying to sell you something.

No no no no! This is not guaranteed AT ALL on Reddit! Why do you think Redditors are constantly accusing each other of being shills? Because Reddit users are often corporate representatives doing "native marketing" or whatever they call it, and they are not upfront about it, because they are preying on the naivete of people like you!

Seeing the belief expressed that Redditors aren't trying to sell you something is.. distressing to me. Half of Reddit is some kind of ad, if not for a physical product it's for a political party or cause, or some celebrity's personal brand.

Please have a little cynicism online.. please, for the sake of everyone..
Filters like that are so trivial to bypass on a higher level too. Look at how many gamer or forum tags are “Lovecraft’s Cat”. And good luck catching those cases on a non-manual basis.
That would be terrible, because if someone owns the @express namespace that isn't express team (not gonna happen, just illustrating why this idea is bad), then goodbye all `express-*` packages.
Big company internal dependency. So nothing for the public to care about.
Above Pinterest even?!
What is this hostility towards non-US companies I see on HN??

EU has a lot of small-medium companies in both AI and cloud and they are doing just fine. If anything, they are better at adapting to regulations compared to, say, openAI...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65708114
I think it would take quite a bit of work for someone to grab that BPE implementation and make it work for LLaMA. Less work than rewriting the whole tokenizer from scratch, for sure, but a non trivial amount of work anyway.