skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://blog.skouf.com

I don't write as much as I would like, as you can see from the big gaps between posts. Some homelab stuff, a little Kubernetes, some food stuff as well.
It’s not about revenue for him.
Not that I'll die, it works, but I had to cut it off after it ran for hours straight and couldn't even hold 90° (its highest setting).

Otherwise, like I told someone else today who asked me this same question, I'm "relatively happy".
This reminds me of playonlinux tool which does the same with reasonable success.
If this wasn’t math code we’d refactor such code into helper functions, but somehow when it’s math we refuse to.

vec4 c = a * 4 + b;

vec4 c = vec4_add(vec4_mul(a, 4), b);

vec4 c = vec4_fma(4, a, b);
I only have a Bachelor’s but work at a large tech company where a good portion of the technical leadership have PhDs. I can’t imagine deciding to just go for a PhD right out of undergrad. In the grand scheme of things, you know nothing after a 4 year degree. I could not fathom finding a topic on which you are truly passionate and decide to dedicate the next 5-7 years of your life studying it.

After 6 years in industry, I have a much more solid foundation and idea of what I want to focus on for the rest of my career. But at this point, getting a PhD is not remotely a possibility for numerous reasons.

It’s an interesting conundrum and I see a lot of PhDs who advise against getting one. But I will always have a small pang of jealousy towards those that have one.
The current models for GPT-2 and GPT-J are large, slow and parameter-starved. Of those, the highest-performing GPT-2 models are instruction-tuned on GPT-4 and Alpaca responses.

Is it enough for "most tasks" nowadays? Maybe, but unless you're trying to sell a product to people there's really no reason not to use a LLaMA finetune.
Besides all of that, it just looks sort of stupid. Especially when it starts to degrade...
The detailed response is much appreciated!
see also: Jeff Schmidt's book Disciplined Minds

> In this riveting book about the world of professional work, Jeff Schmidt demonstrates that the workplace is a battleground for the very identity of the individual, as is graduate school, where professionals are trained. He shows that professional work is inherently political, and that professionals are hired to subordinate their own vision and maintain strict "ideological discipline."

> The hidden root of much career dissatisfaction, argues Schmidt, is the professional's lack of control over the political component of his or her creative work. Many professionals set out to make a contribution to society and add meaning to their lives. Yet our system of professional education and employment abusively inculcates an acceptance of politically subordinate roles in which professionals typically do not make a significant difference, undermining the creative potential of individuals, organizations and even democracy.

https://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/
Probably because it's based entirely on (non-black-box) reverse-engineered Switch binaries, and is therefore very possibly a derivative work of Nintendo's copyrighted code.
I agree. I'd love to work on this full time if I could.
Again: this has nothing to do with LE; any CA can issue any certificate at any time by design, and it's the responsibility of the CT scheme to detect misissuances and malevolent behavior.

A NSL sent to the operators of a CT log cannot stop the log operators from logging inauthentic certificates: each CT log is a timely and append-only signed ledger of all certificates issued, meaning that any deviation between logs would also be detected and treated as a sign of mis-issuance or compromise by the larger Web PKI. What's more, certificates need to be logged as a matter of validity: an order compelling log operators to refuse a certificate would effectively ensure that the certificate never becomes valid. That's what makes CT nice: anybody who wants to create a malicious certificate needs to do so in a way that's globally detectable.

It can be fun to play mind games about shadowy agencies, but that's not really how these things work: if you're of sufficient interest to a country's intelligence service, then they're going to spearphish you, exploit your phone, steal your TLS session keys, your cookies, or do any number of other much less visible things to get the access they want. And, if they're competent, they will get it[1].

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Belgian perspective, but what they use in various nations around Europe/the world is likely closer to our system than to the American one:

We do not have school board meetings the way you do. We do have parents' councils, and parents' councils have delegates that represent all parents at school councils, and school councils additionally have delegates representing the local government, the school employees, and the students. The school council then negotiates with the school leadership (which is not elected, but appointed by national organisations). This is a lot more reflective of the "indirect democracy" principles that are common here in Europe.

What this means, practically, is that unless you've got broad support for your initiatives you can go pound sand if you disagree with how your kid's school is run.
Sorry, I had to clarify that the final decision has not yet been made. The city still approves digital billboards [0].

In Geneva, the debate has been going on for some time. There, I think since 2021, digital billboards should be banned, but in the latest votes there is the counter-movement to keep the billboards [1].

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[0]: https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/hbd/de/index/bewilligungen_und_...

[1]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/geneva-throws-out-ban-...
There are two sets of satellites that measure the temperature of the global troposphere, and have been doing so for over forty years. The data from one of them, UAH, is analyzed here.[0] It is increasing at 0.13C per decade, averaged over 44 years.

[0] https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/06/uah-global-temperature-...
I believe that AI will get so good at creating new code that a lot of existing libraries will be let unused. What is the point of using lots of libraries if AI can generate the code we need directly? The AI will be the library itself, and the generated code will embed the knowledge about doing lots of things for which we used libraries.
It wasn't compiled, but the way Smalltalk-72 did ?integrated into the rest of the execution? parsing is worth understanding.

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
Most framework devs don't have any incentive to stop adding features. What was a simple and elegant tool ends up trying to do much more and the additional complexity negates a lot of the benefits.
>In my opinion, Gitlab is a primary example of feature-creep and it will be the demise of the company.

Gitlab was VC funded which means it had little choice but to take on a high risk/high reward approach. It worked fairly well since it IPOed at $12b while it's last round of funding was at under $3b. Good return for VCs. Of course the stock is down over 50% since IPO but that's someone else's problem.
this is such a bad analogy, unprotected sex is objectively way better just riskier. ads on the web are in no way better, and maybe marginally riskier than no ads
Survey finds 1/3 of Chinese scientists in the US feel unwelcome in the country
> They literally wrote a blog post about how they're going to use this feature. In what way have they not "specified their plans"?

Which domains will be quarantined? And which extensions will be exempted?

Everyone seems to be assuming "banking" with absolutely no evidence whatsoever. Mozilla hasn't said.

There are countless banks in the world. Is Mozilla going to maintain a list of every banking web site?

The fact is that nobody knows what the hell Mozilla is going to do with the quarantine list.
Perhaps those comments are from younger gamers that have grown up with "live service" and free-to-play games that constantly get new content (like fortnite, destiny 2, League of legends)? Someone that grew up on those would not realize that is not typical video game economics.
Several startups back, I worked for a pompous boss, ex-Goldman-VP, who told me that people who get masters are worse programmers, especially if it's from a better school than their bachelor's. You'll be surprised how many nutty biases people have out there.
A bottle is basically just a wine prefix, everything you run in that bottle runs in that prefix.
Storage space is cheap
Lessons learned from first genetically-modified pig heart into human patient
It's mostly meant as a service. This is a great application for Go.
Ximera: Open Courses, Free Math
"Recent research shows that plant-based diets can help athletes improve their performance by decreasing weight, creating leaner bodies, and improving stamina."

Are we talking pro athletes here?

Based on what I have seen, most pro athletes already have a relatively ideal weight and lean bodies. (When it is needed - not a lineman in American Football)
Blog about engineering management and building game around it. Also, touching speculative ideas about future of tech and games.

https://mitrapunk.com/
I think you and the parent comment are running into a mobile feature that attempts to ensure text is legible: https://maxleiter.com/blog/mobile-browsers-resizing-font
I write about biotech mostly

https://atelfo.github.io/
Yes, this is my thinking too. No need to learn tons of new frameworks, just ask ChatGPT what framework we can use to do a particular task and ask for sample code. You can learn from that much more easily.
The hype around AI coding assistants has recently inspired me to improve my efficiency in writing code. I started using NeoVim instead of vim to get access to LSP, for autocomplete. I’ve found it actually slows me down because I can type nearly anything faster than the LSP can synthesize a response and I’m able to visually process the options, select one, and input it into the computer. I’ve never compared against an AI coding assistant, so maybe that’s different, but my experience has been that fast typing speed combined with understanding of the task at hand and what code must be written nullifies almost all benefit of a coding assistant.
lá ele irmão
Email? Python script? Git?? Okay, Rube Goldberg.

I serve my site from a 6502 processor I carved out of balsa wood back in 2003 and epoxied to an ethernet cable. When I want to make changes, I heat the EPROM with a hair dryer until the right bits flip. No templating, no code, no bloat.
Bottles have been around longer than Linux containers, I'm afraid. The world of Windows emulation on Linux pre-bottle was extremely difficult to say the least.

You're juggling a dozen dependencies, some of which are closed-source binaries, some are blackbox replacements, and each game or application is a special snowflake requiring very specific versions of these (and perhaps some tweaks here and there).
In the US, life expectancy isn't really increasing.

It's been fairly flat for the last 10 years or so. [1][2]

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Li...
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
It's a little more complicated than than just having to refrain from selling MongoDB services. There is a good page which summarizes the problem with SSPL. [1]
SSPL is crafted in a way that it very hard to tell whether you comply with the license or not, especially if you run it as part of a cloud hosted solution.

[1]: www.ssplisbad.com
Can you explain how containers are bloated?
An even worse question to a PhD student is: "When are you finishing your PhD?"
Crooks need accounting too.

Most fraud doesn't revolve around fudging the accounting.

SBF made billions of other people's money disappear into the crypto void without breaking the blockchain.

The idea that blockchain will prevent fraud is naive, absurd and laughable.
Agreed. Women can be certainly be sexist and should be held to the same standard as men. If a woman crewmember said women can't be blamed for murdering annoying husbands while taxiing a 737, that would absolutely be inappropriate. And, the main point here wasn't that there was fight followed by sexist reflections on said fight, but that there was a fight.
Take a deep breath and go for a walk, there's no reason an inconsequential blog post should make you this angry.
Gotta say, that's a great blog. I opened it only to check the design and ended up reading 4 articles back to back.

It feels nostalgic scrolling down and back through our technological history.
https://blog.rmrubert.eu/

Dont really post that much, and the blog definitely does not have a topic.
All you need is something like the Avatar 3 production buying a 1000 of these so they can show the previz live for everyone on the greenscreen set.
I use pandoc (and a makefile) as an SSG. It has stuff like syntax highlighting and TeX equations built-in and the install is one exe, not a pile of node or python cruft. It's simple and reliable.
That depends on what on your wishlist though. I just bought Halo collection (90% off, includes 6 games) and Sleeping Dogs (also 90% off) for a grand total of $5 (localized pricing).
> I still don't have a feel for Kagi. I used it occasionally when they had a free tier, but was always afraid my habit of submitting multiple revised queries to search engines would use up the free allotment.

I have the base plan (1400 queries a month I believe) and regularly revise queries or put in things I should use something else for (e.g "current time UTC"). I'm yet to exceed the included query quantity.
I’m reminded of those pro StarCraft players who retire at like 30 because, while their strategy is perfect, their fingers simply can’t click or hotkey as fast as the twenty somethings.
> and netlify is totally free for an infinite amount of sites! how crazy is that?

Netlify is hot garbage and you should avoid them like the plague.

I built a startup on a second account, invited a team, and then it started charging me for my personal websites on my first account.

I didn't know about this and they cumulatively billed me hundreds of dollars. When my card info changed, they took my websites hard down. I had no idea either of these things was going to happen.

When I told them their support was 100% unhelpful. No refund, not even a restoration of my websites that they completely deleted.

Do not use Netlify.
The kind of thing I mentioned: memes, solidarity stuff, things done instead of because no writers. Actors did a whole video where they didn't speak any lines.
Back in the old days (90s), I remember seeing the “made with notepad” icon on the footer of many pages :-)

I used it myself on many websites. Heck, we were still using the <blink> tag back then. Here’s an Easter egg for young HN readers, search for “blink tag” on Google and see the results ;-)
You can extend that rule to the operation of any vehicle.
“Open source” tends to be a spectrum.

For example, many consider GPL to be a great OSS license, but it’s restrictive enough that some BSD projects try to avoid it.
So you assume the worst because you apparently don't trust them.

I assume the best because I believe they have an exceptional track record.

I see what they say and assume the best intentions.

You look at what they don't say and assume the worst.

I guess at this point we'll just see how it shakes out.
Intelligence need not be magical.

I suspect when it comes to training data, it may need to be general enough to allow the architecture a chance to learn the meta concept of "learning". Ie identify the latent gestalt within a text corpus that we most identify as "reasoning ability".

If the training data is not rich enough, then these more refined emergent abilities will not be discovered through our current algorithms/architecture. Maybe in the future when more efficient algorithms are found (we know the lower bound must be at least as efficient as our human brains for example) then we won't need as much/as rich data. Or use Multi modal data.

From what we're seeing I believe we can already discount the tainted training data as likely hypothesis, and trend to the suspicion there is something deeper at play.

For instance, what if LLMs through pattern recognition of text alone may have built a coherent enough world model that it yields answers indistinguishable from human intelligence?

Nothing about that seems improbable from current neuroscience theories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

It may also suggest there to be nothing special functionally about the human brain; the ability for a system to recursively identify, model, and remix concepts may be sufficient to give rise to the phenomenology we know as intelligence.

Qualia, goals, "feelings", that sounds more nebulous and complicated to define and assess though.
Additionally, compared to AWS Outposts which use inefficient commodity hardware and closed source software, the Oxide platform uses integrated hardware and software, and open source software.
Not sure I have exact answer to your question but here are some tips:
https://mitrapunk.com/the-essential-transition-from-develope...
https://earth.org/environmental-impact-of-fireworks/

"Another better option is a drone display, similar to the one presented at the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Laser spectacles can replace fireworks, too, as they reduce the risk of wildfires and do not increase air pollution. Salt Lake City in Utah, the United States, has been substituting some of the city’s fireworks with lasers during the Fourth of July holiday to reduce environmental damage, and these lasers still have the same level of spectacle as fireworks.

"With the slew of problems that climate change bring existing at the front line of this world, it is vital to take all necessary actions to strive for a greener and healthier planet, including taking action on the dazzling but damaging fireworks."
Somewhere in this metaphor is a disdain for both prompt engineers and farmers.
How is computer usage remotely comparable? At my high school we had 2 hours of computer class per week. The rest of the time we spent in regular, computer-less classrooms. We had smartphones already in my days and I promise you they were a major source of distraction for the students even though they were banned.

I cannot imagine I would have bothered to pay attention at all if I could just be scrolling twitter or reddit all day. There's a reason why I block these apps on my own phone during work hours.
https://josephm.dev/blog/

I'm trying to develop a habit of writing ~750 words each day and then taking one of these 'drafts' each week to edit into a blog post. I've found this is a good balance.
https://www.jackriminton.com

I only started it last week so it has a solitary post. I'm going to cover my journey of learning generative ai and generally rambling about code, art and making art with code
Show HN: Notify Abroad
a simple app that lets you forward your text messages and/or call logs to your telegram chat.

When I came to the US for my post-graduate education, it was an unavoidable need to have access to the OTPs or calls that come to my Indian number, which, by the way, I left at home. Since it was not feasible to make a human relay the OTPs every time the Indian number received one, I built an app to forward them automatically to my Telegram chat and called it ‘Notify Abroad’.
Even better - Edge Side Includes:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/edge-side-includes-with-cloudfla...
Climate science has always acknowledged this. The rate of rise is unprecedented. This is based on non-man-made evidence we gather from the world around us. Concentration of pollen in layers of ice cores for example.
Love it, it's just what the missing bit, together with https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-lin...
Sex, drugs, rock-'n'-roll, lisp, rust, pg, homogeny, scq123, madness, bliss, short shorts.
It's an impressive technical achievement, no question, but we're bedeviled by elusive crashes that seem to be exposed by some nuance of the Proton (WINE) emulation layer (at least 2% of our game crashes and at least 25% of our launcher crashes which is disproportionate given that only half a percent of our players are using some version of WINE).

So I wonder about the metric for "playable" -- is a 4x greater chance of crashing when using your Steam Deck vs your PC still "playable"? And I wonder if players, who can't tell if a crash is related to emulation or a bug in the game, will blame the game developer when it isn't really fair to hold them accountable.
It has never happened to me but I did have days when it was difficult to get started and I didn’t do much. I guess you can just say you’re still working on whatever you were working on. There’s probably no value in emphasizing you were stuck unless asked.
> I'm ok with healthy ads

no such thing as a healthy ad!
https://shadowfacts.net/

I mostly write about iOS app development, but recently I'm particularly proud of my blog post about ActivityPub and portable identities: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/
> make the company sponsor that master degree

Just a note that I jumped from academia to industry last century, and even then although my advisor and department (science) were horrified at the thought of aiming for anything less than a doctorate (masters? that's a consolation degree!), when I went to talk with the Dean (engineering) he gave me exactly the same advice: if you want a degree, get your company to pay for it.
That's true for _this_ polyhedron, but it's useful and more clear to demonstrate the technique with a simple example and allow the mind to then explore what else could be modelled this way than to blow someone away with complexity that they miss the point.

This is far more about SDFs than it is about the polyhedron.
US set to restrict China's access to cloud computing
No, unless you like higher rates of injury. Seriously avoid mixing those two things.
I suppose a bit of both.

I was more directly inspired by Lisps, but I do prefer the original M-expressions and the syntactic choices that REBOL and Red make.

I think placing the operator before the opening bracket better emphasizes its special significance and can reduce nesting for constructs like `f[x][y]` (vs. `((f x) y)` in Lisps). Square brackets somehow seem more aesthetically pleasing to me. And there is a practical reason to prefer them, especially if your syntax uses only one kind of brackets -- square brackets are the easiest to type on an average keyboard.

So REBOL-like syntax is nicer. As were M-expressions. They probably didn't catch on, because they were not minimal enough, compared to S-expressions. And maybe because S-expressions were fully implemented first.
"Isn't allowing any kind of behavior the default in free societies?"

No?

What exactly is so difficult to understand about a school being there for educational purposes, and the smartphone directly distracting from that?
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Email: In resume
> I personally despise women

At some point you have to deal with the fact that your formative years are not an excuse for holding a life-long grudge against such a large group of people. This makes no sense at all.
Prompt engineering is a reality. No reasons denying. Better prompt is needed for better results.

But, even today prompts and rules of writing are not transferable even between existing LLMs. Future LLMs will have different architectures and requirements. I suspect today's prompt will be split into data and prompt. Probably just references, keywords to actual data.

In other words current state is transitory, next will be very different.
Bootstrap Studio looks good. Is there anything like that for Tailwind?
So sad. And even if one didn’t care about privacy, the speed of Nitter relative to the official Twitter client was amazing