skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, HN! Maybe not your typical startup announcement here, but I recently left my job as a bioinformatics engineer to start a company called Lodestar Bio.

We are addressing challenges faced by families of children with rare diseases who are seeking a diagnosis, and our solution is a two-sided marketplace for rare disease genomic insights.

On one side, we will offer children who have a rare disease—and an inconclusive whole genome assay—another chance at a diagnosis. A majority of families who order a whole genome test do not receive their much needed diagnosis and are rarely provided with clear followup options. On the other side of the market, we will use the genomic data we collect to identify orphan drug leads, which we will sell to biopharma clients who are creating personalized medicines.

I'm happy to chat about any questions or comments you have!
Also, northern India and Yunnan province of China say "Hi we also drink black tea".
Most people access social media using mobile apps, not websites. I don’t think I’ve used the Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter websites in years.
List of prior works on LLM hallucination
List of prior works on LLM hallucination, organized by evaluation, benchmark, enhancement, survey
MaxiBan: Putting the Block in Blockchain
I asked ChatGPT the same question again and then followed up with:

“Is there a more efficient way to connect to the database”

It then went off the rails. It gave me generic answers about using connection pooling that your language framework provides.

Of course that doesn’t help with each Lambda being invoked separately.

I then asked “But each Lambda runs based on its own vm”

It then correctly said that while each Lambda invocation would have its own pool and couldn’t be shared, it could be shared with multiple connections during one invocation.

Which is technically correct. But not the answer I was looking for.

In all fairness, it’s the same type of answers I would expect from a junior to mid developer with limited experience with AWS. I would hire a person who could answer that well.
I’ve never met a developer with that attitude, but I’ve met too many managers with it. You’ll be even less of a fan of working for those developers, I guarantee it.

That mediocre dev is a straight shooter with middle management written all over them…
To be honest, their websites fails spectacularly more than half the time, even when trying to look up a flight.

Funny enough, it’s even worse when abroad, and easily fixed by using a VPN that exits in France.
Wayland. (Budgie DE status update)
I'm not sure that's true when even Intel's low cost GPU offerings are not doing any better. The cheaper AMD's RX7600 is probably a better value than Intel's more expensive A770. Nvidia's newest RTX 4060 is in that price range too, also performs similarly, but will probably have more mindshare.
https://blog.plover.com/ The Universe of Discourse, since 2006. I don't know how many posts, maybe 800 or 900?

About ⅓ math and ⅔ everything under the sun.

Hits the front page here several times a year.

A few of my favorites:

* https://blog.plover.com/lang/middle-english.html You can learn to read Middle English

* https://blog.plover.com/math/60-degree-angles.html 60-degree angles on a lattice

* https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle-2.html Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same
For me and my network of friends, it has definitely corresponded to many personal experiences in the past 5 years. I wish I could say the opposite.
I don't think this is the case. The primary limitation for games is cost of development. Creating content with an order of magnitude more detail is too expensive.

The power of the last two generations of console have allowed developers to make high quality games cheaper. But they are also lazier. We aren't seeing the hyper optimized experiences that fully utilize the hardware like late generation PS2 and PS3. Consider that a PS3 has only 256 Mb of main RAM and 256 on the video card.
One of the more feasible ones was a linear greenhouse with a canal in it.

I'm sure someone has done the math to figure out what the proper length is for such a canal, to avoid problems with scaling. And if you've ever been near an ocean for much time, you know the salt tends to get around. So I'm not sure how in a multi-year project you keep that to a minimum.
I mean, about 5 years ago there were many folks that were trying to do raytracing using GPU compute rather than the current methods, it was essentially treating the CPU as a giant parallel software rendered. The results were pretty good even then.
When was this? Just before the pandemic, the grad students protested at UAW meetings and went on a wildcat strike after UAW ratified a contract the campus voted against.

Later, Janet Nepolitano released police drones and set up barricades to try to shut down the picket lines. Eventually covid ended the drama, but only after some students were deported (I assume. The plan was to deport them, but the story stopped making news once the 2020 lockdowns hit.)

Anyway, the UAW was a similar disaster at UC Berkeley a while back. There weren’t widespread protests, but there were salary caps for grad students, and the union eliminated health care coverage for a number of female problems (over student objections).
Two pedestrian strikes. Doesn’t seem like suicide has been ruled out yet.
Graduate student unions aren't aiming to tackle this, and I don't know of any that are. At Stanford, the unionization campaign centered around Stanford's stipends (which have not kept up with inflation and put students in the "extremely low income" category per the county) and Stanford's status as both employer and landlord for many students.
Ask HN: Why is the threads app in Apple 260MB vs. Android's 70-odd?
This is a very naive question. I am not a user of the app either, but was curious to know/understand why a text-based conversation app needs to be so bloated? Not necessarily questioning the size difference between the two ecosystems.
Interesting, I assumed that latency and dead zones made direct drive a no-go. Plus throughput could become an issue as AVs scale. Is there actually some truth to the 5g = AV hype?
Mother Sauce
phpMyAdmin, what a great database tool. I have always missed it when working with postgres.
I wonder if, using something like RISC-V, it would be possible to create a modern system where all the components are controlled by the operating system instead of firmware. If so could assembly be the best systems language?
Since you seem knowledgeable about the topic, would you say it's basically imperative to never check in something into luggage that you are unwilling to lose?

(Ie. only travel with things small enough for cabin or things insured and possible buy again)

If an airline's low-reliability baggage system loses my second-hand bought modular synth I might just have no receipts to show unlike in cases with toiletries and medication for example for one, and besides sometimes it can just be something I cannot even buy again.
With many exceptions (the left-pad debacle comes to mind), it’s generally much better to use a third party library instead of supporting your own implementation.
OpenAI doesn't pay minimum wages, they pay around the median local wage IIRC. I wouldn't say that if it was minimum wage.
Google has TPU, Amazon has their equivalent, so it’s wrong to say folks aren’t competing with them.
> I don't think you understand just how insanely difficult it is to break into that market.

You're right, I have no clue nor have I ever tried myself.

> Even with apple money or something like that, it's a losing prospect because in the time it'll take you to get up and off the ground (which is FOREVER) your competition will crush you.

This I find hard to believe, do you have a source or reference for that claim? Companies with that amount of cash are hardly going to be crushed by competition be it direct or indirect. Anyway, I'm talking more about the Intels and AMDs of this world.

We have very lacklustre efforts from players I won't name <cough Intel> with their Zluda library (https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA) which I got REALLY excited about, until I read the README.txt. Four contributors, last commit early 2021.

Why, oh why, is it this bad?
Ben and David did an amazing recap of this as a followup to their Nintendo episode for anyone interested in longer form audio:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cYnQRvFySAG8n3Hu5or44?si=9...
It's kinda strange seeing some people link advancements in transformer models with stuff like cryptos and NFTs. You've gotta ask, where are these thoughts coming from? Plus, the ongoing use of the 'stochastic parrot' argument is starting to feel a bit repetitive in these discussions.
Right? It is CUDA, that is why they are winning.

AMD has the patents for putting a SSD directly on the card, they could be killing it in the home AI market, but.... they just can't get it together.
I would agree with greed but push back on capitalism. There are many ways to be a capitalist. Greed is a common choice, but there are more humanist approaches, too.

From your example, Craigslist is itself is a capitalist institution, making >$100mm/year. Patagonia, Wikipedia, King Arthur Baking Company, Darn Tough Socks, Lodge cookware, are all capitalist too.

I think it's important for entrepreneurial-minded folks to have positive role models – it's possible to develop wealth for yourself, your customers, your employees, and your environment, and to do so with respect and dignity. In fact, a well-operated business is probably the most effective vehicle for having an outsized impact in your community, so defined.
I quit my last job mainly because my new manager was a few years younger than me. I found it got under my skin but dude was kind of annoying too lol.
OK but I mean I don't know them and it could have been someone pretending to be them, and probably it's easily possible to trick me about API keys. We are discussing it on a hacker news website do you seriously think tricks couldn't be hidden in a repo like that.
Why would anyone not immediately declare bankruptcy upon graduation under this model?
Newton the last alchemist is a good example.

> dumb beliefs.

You sure about that though? There was no stone capable of turn base metal into gold - that knowledge of atomic transition via fission and fusion came later - but

( important point here )

a large amount of 'alchemy' worked just fine .. you followed the process and the stuff claimed happened just as the recipe said.

It did transform into what we now call chemistry.
And all it takes is some Apple PR magic to make you disregard objective measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
The CO2 emission of one flight from NY to Chicago is equivalent to like 100 years of using a roll of paper towels every 3 days.
Allowing decryption of the messages sounds like falling to pieces to me...
This is really cool. Budgie was a great desktop on x11 and scratched the minimal desktop itch for me in ways LXDE and XFCE just didn't. With neither of those DEs being immediately ported to Wayland, it's nice to see Budgie get started in that direction. It will take a while (and I'm probably sticking with KDE) but I wish them luck!
Well, you could get historical summaries from reference sources way before computers existed.

But the study of history is not about "summarizing" aspects and timelines from existing written histories.

It is more about reading those summaries, and even more so, reading more extended historical works and original sources too.

>Things like "describe the deities of the Akkadian empire, and which ones were preserved or influenced others in subsequent near-Eastern civilizations" and you get instant answers to what would be days or evens weeks of book-based research.

For personal purposes (e.g. not writing an academic paper on the subject) and for someone with a good reference library (or access to a good library), days at most. Often mere hours, as such things are often summarized in "popular history" or more specialized tomes. With the advented of the web and access to online academic libraries and papers, plus full-text search, even less.

And of course, ChatGPTs summary will often contain confident made-up BS.
It's on Steam. Works on Linux too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358800/projectM_Music_Vi...
The US is putting restrictions on this, so it feels like a short term workaround:

“Jordan Schneider: Chinese firms, however, are not restricted in accessing cloud services overseas. Nothing is stopping a Chinese company from buying top-of-the-line Nvidia compute from AWS. Does that alter the dynamic?”
The Linux packaging ecosystem works extremely well for open-source software, and it produces a much leaner, more integrated system than bundling approaches like are common on macOS (and in a less extreme way, Windows).

There are two things that Snap and Flatpak are trying to 'fix':

1. The Unix security model, which relies on the user as a main boundary for security/policy. These tools are trying to add sandboxing that makes running untrusted software safer and accounts for the fact that being able to access everything in a user's home dir (and so on; this isn't just about the filesystem) is 'bad enough'.

2. The Linux packaging ecosystem (and whole userland, down to glibc's ABI policies) has never been intended to serve proprietary software developers/publishers/vendors who want to be able to throw their binaries over the wall or test only on an extremely limited range of library versions.

(AppImage only aims to 'fix' the latter, and poorly at that, since it doesn't even attempt to encapsulate huge parts of the runtime environment that vary from distro to distro.)

The only thing 'fragile and complicated' about Linux packaging itself is the practice of installing everything into a shared global namespace on the filesystem, which is already better addressed within the packaging infrastructure itself, as has been done on NixOS, GuixSD, GoboLinux, and Distri. (The latter two being more research projects than practical distros.) Those distros all prove that resource sharing and dynamic linking are actually red herrings when it comes to what is problematic about distributing software on Linux— you can keep both of those things and escape dependency hell forever (with or without containerization).
You canceled without logging in?
I am going through a similar case here in Canada, and our government body (the CTA) responsible for handling claims against the airlines told me this last month:

"We continue to receive a high number of cases. There are more than 46,000 cases waiting to be reviewed.

The wait time between when you submitted your case and when it is reviewed can be more than 18 months."

I have written proof that they changed narratives partway through, but given the long delay, I'm not holding my breath.
Then you should know this is literally what every capitalist does!
> when I make account is that for that specific instance? If I choose one instance, can I see things from a different instance?

>> When you first create your account, you choose a server — similar to how you choose to open an email account on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or wherever — which generates your profile’s address. So, for example, if you sign up for Mastodon via the climate justice server, then your address will be @[your username]@climatejustice.social. But no matter which server you sign up with, you will be able to communicate with users from any other server, just like how Gmail users email Hotmail users and vice versa. However, some servers might have blocked other servers (perhaps if it’s an unsavory group), which would mean you can’t communicate with anyone from the blocked server.

>> https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon/
>> people who apply to Harvard and don’t get in end up having similar incomes to those who did get in

No. People who apply to Harvard and do get in, but decide to go to some other college do as well as those apply to Harvard and do get in and go to Harvard.

The ability to get in to Harvard predicts outcomes, actually going there does not predict outcomes.
I've just checked my computer, and it is on Ventura 13.0.1.
Very true. I installed the app, signed up, browsed for a few minutes to see what it was like, and then uninstalled it :-).
Hostory is already dead before ChatGPT.
With the invention of smartphone and globally available internet, the volume of records' accumulation is in exponential growing rate.

For example if 911 happan in 2023, the total amount of videos and photos will exceeds 100TB, with different angles and perspectives. So all we know historians are not going to check all 100TB of records to find the truth. So what exactly are they trying to achieve?

They are going to read newspapers as what people did in the old days. But we know newspaper do not tell truth. Live streams do. Vlogs do. People burning inside the building leaving their last note on tiktok, that captures exactly what is happening, and historians will just ignore those.
I despise Air France perhaps like few other companies. [1] With that said:

> Why? Because the burden of proof falls on the airline and they were presumably lying to me.

This is a non sequitur. Dispute resolution schemes like these (Ombudsman etc) are rightly set up so that the customer cannot under any circumstances simply be dismissed by the heft of the corporation. Going through any kind of dispute resolution process the corporation will often look at the cost of winning and decide that it's simply cheaper to give the complainant what they want.

It's the height of arrogance to come out of this thinking anything else except that Air France chose the cheapest option.

[1] Air France once delayed a flight my mother and my siblings were meant to be on by 8 hours and 56 minutes and then told my mother that if she did not board then she'd lose the money for all the tickets despite our plans being obviously destroyed. There was no compensation of any sort. We would only have been eligible for a refund if they had taken 9 hours delay. In tears, she got us on the plane.
Yeah, I almost said “suppose you were writing a Fibonacci program because who did you annoy to make this your life now...”

Like, obviously you’re not going to be writing `fib(n)` for real. I still claim that other languages — not just Python, either — make it easier to express cleverer algorithms than C does. You can’t write anything in Rust you can’t write in C, but it’ll probably be easier to say it more efficiently, and more correctly, in Rust. And much of the time, using a better design is going to blow compiler improvements out of the water.

(The professor was right if you limit the scope of the statement to “programs written in C or assembler”, of course. Unless you’re a freaking genius, a compiler’s going to write better object code.)
Perhaps I was too cavalier in my original comment, but when I said building tools built on open source software, I meant leveraging things like Matano (matano.dev). So you’re not writing everything from scratch but you are responsible for wiring everything up to fit your environment.

And you’re right, it’s not going to be a universal truth - there will probably be some tool you end up buying. But I’d like to have a security engineering team that is forging something that will fit my organization like a glove instead of us trying to bend over backwards to make some big off the shelf tool fit with all of its features.
Interesting to see the media side of the battle of the billionaires.

Honestly, I find it far more interesting than the physical fight that Musk and Zuckerberg were talking about.
You and I can both claim opposite things without citation, but we both know which is closer to reality based on what skill is on demand in the job market and what's LOGICALLY required to make web apps with such and such capabilities.
yiiikes, when I see something like that, I lose all respect for the person speaking
Because under this model nobody would make student loans.
https://cryptopals.com/sets/8/challenges/63.txt
TBC, those examples are from markdown, which is orthogonal to the plain <> styled text axis.
Geohot is working w/ AMD and essentially pleading with them to fix their driver stacks - check out his interview on Latent Space
My use case is a bit different (I am a PM) but I found what pyCharm offers very useful for my use case (Postgres) . I don't create or manage DBs if that helps.

They have a tool called DataGrip as well [1]

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
It’s a little disappointing that they didn’t include any examples of translation, isn’t it?
Material Maker is surprisingly alone in the PBR material department for FOSS, I have started thinking about diving into the PRs just to get it up to snuff with Substance. I can hardly pay for Photoshop, Adobe!
This reply is a good example of someone whose perspective is utterly locked in to their own perceived personal threat model (which may or may not accurately understand their own actual threats). This technology, they think, is perfectly acceptable according to their own sense of threats, so why isn't it good enough for literally everyone?

Other people's threat models are so unimaginable, so inconceivable that the commenter "hates" the "hit pieces" that attempt to inform people of risks, people who may face different threats than the hater.

I hope most folks can step out of their own context occasionally and view our current zietgeist from the perspective of a sex worker, or a journalist, or basically anybody who may have perfectly good reasons for electing to maintain their privacy.

I don't think that's too much to ask.
I made zero mention of my driving skill. Assume I have normal driving skill, but don't drink, don't go over 80mph, don't pass aggressively, and don't text and drive.

A Tesla is currently safer than people that do that, and they want me to believe that system is safe enough to get into. But it's not as safe as a sane responsible driver.
Hence "global warming" became "climate change". You do seem to be using the latter which is consistent with your personal experience, no?
You've hit the nail right on the head.

In the late 19th century, New Zealand raised one of the greatest scientists of all time - Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of atomic and nuclear physics, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. He is often referred to as "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday".

Now New Zealand is introducing a new science curriculum that has no mention of physics or chemistry! Only last year the NZ government made Maori mythology part of science education.

I see this as another indicator of New Zealand's continued evolution into an impoverished agrarian backwater where social justice ideology is worshipped as the state religion.

I'm Aussie and am fond of New Zealand. It's our next-door neighbour. I enjoyed my brief visits there and found it to be a beautiful country with many good people. Unfortunately, their isolation and naïve idealism has made them complacent as hell about their economic future and their civil liberties.

We face similar regressive forces here in Australia, but I feel they've taken a far stronger hold in New Zealand. My heart breaks.
Im waiting for the tinygrad custom ASIC.

Also VR/AR/mixed reality. Looking forward to a true mixed reality operating system with 3d widgets and 3d applications that interact with each other and your environment.

Also things like AI text-to-video in the next few years will probably get vastly more useful.
What is the ai grift? It’s doing real things. Some of those things are shitty, but that doesn’t make it a grift.