skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been doing something similar to control racing video games while biking on an indoor exercise bike. I convert pedal speed into brake and acceleration keys (there’s some middle amount of pedaling that’s neutral) with pynput. I used OpenCV for webcam input and MediaPipe’s models to convert lean angle into left and right keyboard presses, and head tilt into up and down. It’s really fun but the slight latency in recognizing my pose is tough for fast courses. Now I’m thinking about some Arduino with a sensor or low res IR camera or something else that could detect changes a lot quicker.
I’d like to thank Elon for helping me kick the last remnants of my Twitter habit. Meta is going to eat his lunch if rumors are true. Weird position to be in, finding myself rooting for Meta.
That was my impression when I travelled in Moscow. Every where I looked there was a kiosk selling beer and little bottles of vodka - along with some tasty cold cuts. It was pretty hard not to stop by and get one of these little bottles of vodka.
(On a side note, alcoholism in Moscow was on a different level then what I experienced. Middle aged men and women struggling to "walk" on their hands and legs at 10 in the morning was quite the experience for me.... This was on one of the Muscovite neighborhoods, not in the touristy places like Kremlin, Arbat, Tverskaya, etc..)
It would also probably annoy non-players something fierce. The basketball courts near me are popular.
Does it look so different though? What happens when the LLMs are good enough to propose practical code improvements that will result in more-useful LLMs? And when we start generating LLM-driven agents that actually train and deploy these more-useful LLMs? Are we taking on faith that we'll never get there?

This is what a lot of skeptics fail to appreciate imo: That yes the current generation of models are not threatening, and on their own they probably never will be. But there will likely come a point where they can be used to recursively self-improve, and that can potentially lead to very dangerous scenarios.
What do you think the long-term trajectory is? In the absence of judicial activism I guess schools will be able to set their admissions criteria to whatever they want (other than some protections for individuals in protected classes).
Haha, yes. I’ve edited my comment.
But an architect is a way of saving money not the other way around. It’s (by comparison to the overall cost) not very expensive, and it can save costs by avoiding costly design mistakes. Also, after architecting a few homes and interiors they are already paid for, the developer can build any number of homes to amortize the costs.
I used to use Surface Pros, but I switched to a Dell Latitude 2-in-1 to get an external eGPU (w/ Thunderbolt 3 before Surface Pro added it)

I like it so much more. It's a little thicker, but it's cheaper, it's repairable (I've replaced the battery twice), and it supports Linux better. I love having a Surface-like that runs Linux
What Rocky is giving the community is a check on Red Hat's ability to charge nearly anything they want to for RHEL. That is worth quite a bit.
Q: Why do all your reviews avatar pictures look fake? Why stoop to such low standards?
Which is an odd take, since conservatives have a tendency to obsess over fairness - taxes, social responsibility, social safety nets, anything resembling reparations...
It's not doomers; it's the people in power paying to produce a bunch of propaganda against anything new that challenges them, and then people who get all their values from the TV (or online equivalent) buying into the propaganda.
Somewhat related: starting a new Ubuntu-pytorch-cuda project? That’ll be 10-15 gigabytes, please. Is there some way to strip down the individual deps? I imagine it’s the way that it is because the drivers and the pytorch source are probably machine generated before compilation, to some extent. Is there any hope for triton becoming a lightweight interstitial frame in the codebase stack that can just allow me to do the hw codegen after pulling, without having to rebuild completely everything, and also simultaneously allowing more accelerators?
Targeted ads are terrible at that. They are quite often overly specific and just try to convince me to buy more of the things I already know about.
This is a common misunderstanding. They don't own the land.
Anything under $70m is a bargain. Wagner could do it. Any hired gun. Put up a bounty.
Much longer than that! The first really user-hostile move was pop-up ads, then pop-UNDER ads, which were just offensively intrusive, so bad that all the browsers stopped them. Then the advertising industry started to innovate, and it became necessary to block everything. I've been blocking ads since the late 90s.

Once they lose you, once you get so pissed off that you go to the trouble to install and configure an adblocker, they NEVER get you back.

They do not understand this, and so they'll simply push more people to adblockers. Maybe Chrome's manifest v3 won't suffice, so people will move to Firefox or Brave to do it. Either way, Google loses.
I still do this. There was another command which was used to park the heads, too.
A very well-done article, especially for a local radio station.

Neither simplistic nor overtly ideological, as stereotypes might lead one to fear from an NPR station.

At least for me, it was more about the congenital stupidity of early teen boys than about guns.
More features that people didn't ask for. How does twitter benefit by not allowing peopel to see the tweets?
It depends. Are there any apps you want to know about specifically? I'm running CalyxOS right now and can try.

My banking apps work fine, surprisingly. And some Google (Gmail, Phone, and Fi) apps too, surprisingly, but not all (eg Meet, Messages, and Fit)
I don't know what DE you're using, but on Gnome multitouch support worked out of the box the moment I logged in with Wayland enabled. Pinch to zoom worked in most apps (in my browser, in the picture viewer, and in the Maps app, which are the only places I ever bothered to look for it) and horizontal/vertical scrolling worked a lot smoother than on X11 across the board.

Your trackpad does need to be supported, though. Trackpads without Linux driver support will report to the kernel as if they're PS/2 mice with weird side effects, and those will never work well. If your trackpad has decent driver support (many Synaptic models, for example, though not all) then every single touch is being forwarded to the OS and gestures should work like they do on Windows.

Funnily enough, Windows battery life is a lot worse on my laptop than Linux battery life. I don't know what intern Lenovo had design the fan curves and power settings for this laptop, but I have the choice between "30fps desktop" and "sounds like a fan taking off" whenever I use Windows. I have my suspicions that Linux doesn't boost the CPU as much as Windows does, but honestly I don't need it to stick to its max boost all that often anyway.
Ah, looked at your profile, I see you're one of the locusts.
Do you have a scope of what you want the llm to do? If it is just answering questions on the data then you likely don’t need to do a lot of training. I think the problem is more the infra setup, the embedding database, and the cost of hosting a model for inference and so on. Transparently I am also the founder of a start up that is providing this as a service, so feel free to book some time if you are interested in us doing it for you or if you want tips on how to do it yourself. Here is my Calendly if you want to talk: https://calendly.com/andrew-vb
I used to pack a desktop replacement laptop in my backpack but now I have a regular iPad and a cheap BT keyboard and mouse.

I leave my big “gaming PC” on and use Tailscale to log in with RDP, I have ADSL at home so it could be faster but with some tactics to manage latency it is not that bad, mostly I use a web app that I wrote on it. (my YOShInOn RSS reader)

I used to do the same with an Amazon Fire Tablet a long time ago with a big cloud PC behind it. I’d go to a hackathon and have such sleek kit that people with their Macbook Pro’s would get jealous.
Oh I'm sure I can't recall a bunch of (details of) books I've read.

On the flip side, I have a firm belief that every book worth reading changes you at least a little, so even if I don't remember it consciously, it has had an impact on me.

I did try writing notes at some point, and stopped after the first attempt. That was several years ago and I never read those notes :)
> In fact, overwhelmingly, most of the evidence and thinking supports the notion that over time, the capabilities of AI will greatly over-match human beings in specific contexts. The same even goes for general intelligence.

How much of that "evidence and thinking" is actually evidence? Isn't it mostly just thinking, especially with respect to general intelligence?
>And even if we achieve it, how do we know the AIs won't convince Homo sapiens to simply stop breeding and fade away in alignment with our values?

If it could do this, then we should seriously question whether it's actually a bad outcome.
> They're killing themselves because they cannot make a living anymore, and this is due to the perpetuated belief that money is central to your worthiness. Something plenty of groups have been trying to fight against, what do we call those again? Com something...

It's nice to talk about those groups in the abstract, but when you look at them more specifically... well, let's ignore their historical record, and focus on the ones in the US. Their central tenet seems to be that white men (and women, when they dare object) are the source of all evil in the US, are solely and inherently racist, and must repent and atone for their current and historical sins for the foreseeable future.

Give up your borders, your identity, your remaining political power, and maybe, if you grovel hard enough, the new benevolent authorities will throw you a few scraps, after they're done redressing your historic wrongs.

You can maybe see why that's not a tempting offer. Learning from history, Ukraine once "accepted" such an offer - gave up their national identity and political power, to join the Soviet Union and its utopian classless society. They were repaid with Russification and the Holodomor. I'm sure they had people admonishing fellow Ukrainians for "acting against their self-interest" by clinging to their nationality then, too.
>an RedHat have cloud vendors "voluntarily agree" to not spin up VMs for rebuilders?

I mean, maybe, but does it matter? You only need one person with access to the code to distribute it to everyone else, and the identity of that one person doesn't have to be public, so I really don't see how Red Hat could ever hope to stop it.
And enough to bifurcate the community by having two conflicting standards!
Currently, one of the problems AI developers are dealing with is that LLMs training on data that is 'polluted' by AI generated content get dumber at predicting their desired outcomes.

Even if there was a way to gain efficiency through self modification rather than losing it, it would likely hit a plateau of diminishing returns, like most things in the world do.
Not why I block ads. I simply hate them in any form.
> Biased sources are more reliable when they make a statement contrary to their expected bias then when they do so for it,

Is this supposed to be a comprehensible sentence fragment?
Thank you! I’ll reach out.
Kyla Scanlon will have a great newsletter on it. It's likely to cause slight decrease in inflation
You might enjoy https://trent.me/is-prefix-of-string-in-table/
Why do you say it's 99% propaganda?

"sinofication" sounds a lot like "eliminating the existing culture" which sounds a lot like genocide. Genocide is more than just murdering everyone like in some of the most well known cases like the Holocaust -- it includes elimination of an ethnic group by any means possible, including "nativification"
Harvard's admission goal is to find the most successful people in the world, not the most successful academics. Top athletes are very successful, so yes, they probably deserve admission.
> so unless you think that medical professionals are useless or that medicine should only be practiced by the rich, you should reconsider your views.

Doctors and medical professionals are among the highest paid in this country[1]. Paying off their student loans makes the least sense.

> The fact that you have to take enormous debts to be allowed to study (which is your only hope for social mobility)

This is so absurdly false. It's a false narrative that's been pushed by higher-learning institutions for decades, and now regular people believe it. You do not need a piece of paper to earn a tremendous amount in this country. So very many blue-collar jobs earn six figures annually.

What's required to have social and economic mobility is a work ethic and skill. It's that simple.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm
Stolen from the mermaids!
I’ve seen extreme sync times when writing large files to an old slow USB thumb drive. Often you will see the first part of the copy run at full USB speed but then it slows to a crawl. Then the unmount (which does a sync) pays back that initial burst of speed. I’ve seen it take more than 5 minutes (a kernel warning about the slow sync appears in dmesg after 300 seconds IIRC).
Use vitest.
Has there been more discussion about charging the gun's owner with a crime committed with their firearm? Someone along the way needs to be held responsible or else there is no responsibility. The gun is useless without someone using it to commit crime or murder. Putting the person who committed the crime in jail does not seem to be reducing crime. If a gun owner, and the gun store for that matter, knew that they could be charged with a crime committed with their gun, regardless of who had it or how it was obtained, then maybe we would have more responsibility. Reporting your gun stolen should not absolve the owner of responsibility.
That is a red flag that you should move on from gmail
Most definitely not, op even gave a direct example.

Also you have to consider what we used to call keyboard kourage. Many people will say things online they never would in real life.

To quote Mike Tyson- 'Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it'.
I think one point missed by this is that the vast majority of outcomes for species in a "darwinian" environment is extinction.

We look at evolution with a very rosy lens because we ended up on the top of the food chain. Unintelligent prokaryotes far and away dominate the "darwinian" world. Intelligent species have vastly less control over their environment as they think they do.
Nothing about forcing someone to bake me a wedding cake or make a website for my wedding is moving the needle at all for equal rights when I could just as easily go to someone who would happily take my money.

It never has. Maybe in 10-20 years when people stop giving a shit than sure, we can say they are clearly in the minority and we can have a different discussion. But we are not there.

At best talking about this stuff is a distraction at worst it is actively moving us backwards.

And I fear that we are on the worst side of things considering how drastically things have changed in the other direction in the last few years.

The fact is we have to look at why after making so much progress we are regressing and I refuse to put all of that blame on the opposition when we picked the stupid battles like cakes.

Frankly at this point in time I don't give a rats ass about someone baking a cake or making a website when trans kids can't get the healthcare that they need and we have schools across this country trying to erase queer identities. Also the issues with many of the racial books being removed from school.

This is not the issue we should be talking about and never was.
Didn't see mention of Browserify and other bundlers after it that made CommonJS the defacto standard for client/browser libraries as well.

I think the biggest miss was not making mixed mode (default) for Node do it the way webpack/babel, etc did it by default in terms of interop. I get they wanted to make it more implicit to call cjs from esm, in the end it just inhibits conversion of existing libraries as dependencies are now a bigger hurdle.

Frankly, I like the Deno way of things better. I find it annoying, to say the least that the TypeScript team won't consider allowing you to import with a .ts(x) extension, and convert to .js(x) as part of the build process... no, you must omit the extension.

I've been using the import/export syntax since well before it was standardized via babeljs, these days I kind of want to remove webpack/babel from my pipelines altogether and mostly just rely on esbuild. I've also been using/following rome.tools development, having switched over several projects from eslint already, and will probably start with their bundler when it's ready.

I think there's a way to go with tree shaking and static analysis in that direction to reduce load. I also would not mind seeing the efforts to treat TS extensions as comments in the JS engines in that it would be easier to serve up straight TS/JS without bundling/minifying. I'm not sure we'll ever see a return to that in practical terms.

In the end, it's evolving. I'd also like to see Cloudflare, Deno and others come together on a more common server interface so that you can target multiple clouds with a single codebase. I don't know how well that would ever work out at this point though. There's aspects that I definitely like to all of them.
It seems somewhat comical to me that there's some kind of protest against niantic and it's being hosted on reddit.
hi HN! am writing this up as a recap of the enhanced role of code in LLM applications, and the emerging professionalization that will happen as a result. would welcome any and all feedback!

I'm also soft launching the conference I am planning for Oct. Join us if you are in SF (will be streamed) https://ai.engineer/
This is a very real take. Large institutions tend to have teams dedicated to future proofing and mitigating these risks, i'd hope and imagine it is on their radar.

I do hope that AMD gets their shit in order because we need the competition to keep this space energized.
I wouldn't go as far as saying CommonJS is hurting JavaScript, but it's current status in the node ecosystem is definitely painful. I mean the default remains CommonJS, so using esmodules is awkward on 'native' node, but if you use the most popular bundling systems, the default becomes esmodules. I won't pretend I know which is better between the two, but the decision should be made to either make it optional or deprecate it if esmodules is really the Best Module System™. The current in-between is far from ideal, that's for sure.
Sounds like you've never seen the website you are commenting on.
Same here, website doesn't work on FF.

I even tried edge and it doesn't work.
Is CommonJS even a thing for javascript running in web browsers? Moving from CommonJS to modules shouldn't affect any running in a browser.
You have to have a sense of proportion on this, and an example that isn't 30 years old.
> At the time the HEROES Act was passed, forgiveness was separately considered by the Education Act. (For example, "bankrupt borrowers may have their loans forgiven.")

That separate bill adds other authorities but doesn't restrict the ability to waive or modify during a national emergency. The heroes act of 2003 makes no reference to bankruptcy. https://www.congress.gov/108/plaws/publ76/PLAW-108publ76.pdf

> There is the added complication that it's not a straightforward waiver of statute, but, due to the income qualification, a writing of provisions anew.

Waive and modify.

> Based on my reading, saying student loans will be automatically forgiven in bankruptcy as well as increasing the number of professions considered "public servants" seems the savvier way to go.

What test did you use to come to that being the limit of the powers here (or near)?
The only measure this can be relative to is human past, which included legal race and gender discrimination, forced incarceration for social nonconformity, nation state imperialism, and toxic industrial activity the past just pushed over seas to hide it not deal with it; and those are just a few highlights of the last 60-70 years

When was this magic era of grander moral heights we’d be “declining” from?

IMO rich people try to keep this meme viral as a social control device. Lament the potential threat to their figurative status as a decline in morality when the public is merely uninterested having their outputs expropriated to prop up some figuratively rich nobody
Great for whatever tiny proportion of your affected customers knew to look on Twitter.
If you are same origin, you do not require CORS to use type=module. Also type=module works on HTML pages served from file:// (file:///.../index.html).
The expiration date on most medications functions differently than the expiration date on something like food. It's more about effectiveness than it is about safety. It's the date that the manufacturer can guarantee full potency of the drug. After this date, the drug may have lost some potency. However the vast majority of drugs are still effective, even 15 years after the expiration date [1], if they've been stored correctly. There are some exceptions which either degrade quickly or can gain toxicity post expiration (e.g., nitorglycerin, insulin, liquid antibiotics, biologics), but something like ibuprofen would generally be safe even years after expiration though it may be marginally less effective.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expirati...
Mostly just Signal, and a good maps app. TOPT apps I'd assume is readily available. The only other app I regularly use otherwise is ErgData from Concept2, but they offer the APK file for download.

I do have a local payment app, which would be nice to not lose, but it's not a hard requirement. The number of apps I use these days are surprisingly low.
Worth looking at, if you have never done so: https://www.tinaja.com/

RIP. Thanks for the education, inspiration, and amusement, Mr. Lancaster.
More likely they just have a different value system from yours. Some people see life more as a resource to be used than a treasure to be protected. For some people boredom is a fate worse than death. Some people value intensity of experience over duration of existence; a higher risk of injury or death is acceptable in service of a more satisfying life.
I've long known that reddit isn't good for my mood. Even though I unsubbed from all default subs and joined niche hobby subs, reddit is still frequently poison, especially with politics (and more importantly, low-effort political "takes") just infecting the least-relevant places.

This whole debacle has been the impetus I needed. I'll let myself read reddit links surfaced by my search engine (because that's ostensibly useful, not mindless scrolling), but I haven't felt any urge to casually browse at all.
Reminds me of https://www.cakewrecks.com :)
> <script src="/js/anything.js" ></script>

Shouldn't that be a relative path for it to actually work as you intend?
I don't see how chat history prevents that feeling. There's no requirement to read through history every time.
Polonium in their tea?
I hate this website sometimes.
This was downvoted but Is correct, relative amounts mean nothing.
Baffling decision. The fact that tweets were, by default, essentially public and easily linkable was a big differentiator between Twitter and other social networks (particularly Facebook) and made them very attractive for things like news sites to link, vs, say, Facebook posts.
That never stopped any of those shady foreign-power agencies... but anyway, why do you think Putin needs actual facts to refuel his bonfire?