skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ability to run generative AI models like Llama 2 on devices such as smartphones, PCs, VR/AR headsets

Maybe it's an upcoming feature for the Quest 3?

To that end, I've been pretty amazed by how far quantization has come. Some early llama-2 quantizations[0] have gotten down to ~2.8gb, though I haven't tested it to see how it performs yet. Still though, we're now talking about models that can comfortably run on pretty low-end hardware. It will be interesting to see where llama crops up with so many options for inferencing hardware.

[0] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-Chat-GGML/tree/ma...
Which Chromebook did you go with? And what tools (IDEs, debuggers, etc.) do you use for development?
I paid $20 for ChatGPTPlus 24 hours ago and I still don't have access. Support is not responding. Great.
Not sure if you’re being serious here: the whole point of academia is to eventually be useful to the outside world. Something that applies to academia and nowhere else is kind of useless. The very reason we take science so seriously comes from how it helped us completely transform the world.

So the idea that something would only (easily) apply to academia because it was born out of it feels kind of ridiculous to be honest.
Can you disable an account if you have the secret key?
Definitely a fan of your work at Manna, Bobby.

Love the hardware design and the no-nonsense "get it done" with continuous drone operations in Europe. Things for us to aspire towards as another drone (non-delivery) company.
I'm having trouble getting CitusDB to work with RDS, even though I'd really like to use it with AWS. Whenever I try to research how to make it happen, I get stuck in a lot of challenges and end up concluding that it might not be possible. While I could use Azure instead, I'm hesitant because I have a lot of resources and infrastructure in AWS and it wouldn't make sense to move the database layer. The idea of having to do DBA and Ops work on my own EC2 instances is overwhelming. I would appreciate any guidance on how to use RDS with Citus on their documentation. It's concerning that Citus might be withholding information about the possibility of using RDS, given that Microsoft is its partner.
> Seriously though, what should be our relationship with those fated to be born less gifted than ourselves? Two ways to look at this: (1) What should USA race policies be? (2) In your declining years you write a will to disburse your estate. Assuming your children vary widely in intellect, health, wealth, and honesty (as countries do), what should your policies be?

It's wild to me that people view the world this way.
I would think that data is only about the publicly visible part of GitHub, and guess C# has relatively more activity in the dark part of GitHub.

Now, whether that would move C# over golang, I wouldn’t dare guess.
There are quite a few grammatical errors on that page which is surprising, as much because of the sites subject as the fact that Swedes excel at English
Yeah, until Wolverine or whoever fills all of Lake Michigan with PFAS 2.0. Industry in the state is still far too unregulated and wildly irresponsible.
Perhaps but LLMs have been trained on information that most people haven't. Most of the stuff ChatGPT is correct about are things "most people" wouldn't know the answer to anyway.
https://www.erlang.org/
https://elixir-lang.org/
I think there are lots of possible reasons for different outcomes. I was mostly curious about which funding numbers are accurate.
I think this is unfair. Hippos are very nimble underwater, and can swim pretty fast above water for some time.

Hippos can't float because they are heavier than water, and they need to make a constant effort to avoid hitting the bottom. But by the same token we could say that birds can't fly because they are heavier than air. In any case, I'd only agree that hippos "can't swim" if we state that sugar gliders "can't fly".
During the past years I found two answers to this question that seem plausible to me.

First, there are many myths about climate change that are believe by many [1].

Second, George Marshall investigated why 'we' don't take measures and wrote a book about it [2]. He found the problem is hard wired in our brains and caused by "our evolutionary origins, our perceptions of threats, our cognitive blind spots, our love of storytelling, our fear of death, and our deepest instincts to defend our family and tribe".

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php

[2] George Marshall - Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Are you suggesting that alumni interviews implicitly offer the opportunity for legacy candidates to reveal that connection (perhaps it might be part of how they became interested in MIT) and thus appeal toward the interviewer's in-group loyalty toward other MIT alumni, thereby increasing the likelihood of a positive interview outcome?

That doesn't seem entirely farfetched, nor does the idea of appealing to interviewer bias in general.
Same here, I like Draw.io but just did a sequence diagram showing a Stripe integration with actors, activations and notes in a few lines of Mermaid markdown on a GitHub readme:

https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-web#-workflow

But that diagram just renders as code for the same readme via GitHub Pages:

https://revenut.com
"That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel.

"Huh" said George.

"That dance-it was nice," said Hazel.

"Yup, " said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They
weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway.
They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces
were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty
face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the
vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get
very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his
thoughts .
If I ever have to climb Mount Everest, I'll try crawling instead of walking. That should help.
Windows does not fork processes as fast as Linux, although this is improved somewhat in the in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Here is a somewhat foolish test with a shell script, that forks "/bin/true" 10 million times.

C:\>busybox sh
~ $ echo 'x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done' > timetest
~ $ time sh timetest
real 0m 46.86s
user 0m 46.76s
sys 0m 0.04s

Here is the same test with Debian's dash shell, one of the fastest:

$ cat timetest
x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done
$ time dash timetest
0m33.79s real 0m33.50s user 0m0.05s system

Not a great test, but there is quite a difference there.
Does Cloudflare DNS block it? Or are you proposing Cloudflare DNS as a solution?
Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar
There are multiple cultural streams within Silicon Valley. Anyone who lives there could tell you that. Again, not a monolith. One of those currents easily tips into scams, and they are the least respectable.

Other currents are focused on deep tech and life sciences. The first powers everything you do online, and the second will probably save your life at some point. Any society that equates technical innovation with "scams" will stagnate. It is in all of our interests to remember that and not lapse into easy pessimism. Silicon Valley is much more than scams.
I know that this is not a popular opinion here.
I think its hard to put the genie back in the bottle, but I also think a tremendous amount of innovation happens in person.

Existing companies will probably continue to operate just fine, but the next wave of game changing companies will be small and in person.
I've not had any problems.

Would you recommend they enable advertising to subsidize these server upgrades?

I thought not.
Google's answers to factual questions differ person-to-person
If you listen really closely you can almost make out the sound of the world's tiniest violin, playing a sad song.
Hey they forgot to include the WebGPU speed comparison... oh wait ;)
Maybe we picked one too early and didn’t have enough innovation in this area for too long. Bring the war :)
I definitely benefit from knowing calculus. But I always disliked it, it was taught in such a mechanical fashion.

I only really started to get math when I learned about linear algebra, combinatorics, proofs, A&D, algebraic structures, mathematical logic etc. And quite frankly those topics helped me much, much more than calculus.
This is probably what I would want - I'd prefer to know them and never visit them again except for a chosen few. (Wasm has many legitimate uses and I'm happy it exists but being old enough to see the evolution of the web I'm 100% sure it will be abused also in the ways we have no idea about yet.)
Villains determined to bake the earth struggle to find henchmen.
This tells me imperfect, which, sure. It doesn't tell me "the worst of the bunch."
One of the valuable things AutoChain provides is simulated conversation evaluation. Testing and tuning those agent is very hard and expensive. checkout the evaluation output from AutoChain, for example.

"conversation_history":

"user: I want to change the shipping address for my order",
"assistant: Can you please provide the order ID?",
"user: The order ID is 456",
"assistant: The order with ID 456 has not yet shipped. I can update the shipping address for you. Please provide the new shipping address.",
"user: The new shipping address is 234 Spear St, San Francisco",
"assistant: The shipping address for your order with ID 456 has been successfully updated to 234 Spear St, San Francisco.",
"user: Thank you for updating the shipping address for my order",
"assistant: Thank your for contacting"

"is_agent_helpful":
{
"rating": 5,
"reason": "The conversation reaches the expected outcome. The user successfully provides the order ID and the new shipping address, and the assistant updates the shipping address for the order with ID 456. The assistant confirms the successful update and thanks the user for contacting."
},
"actions_took":

{
"tool": "check_order_status",
"tool_input":
{
"order_id": "456"
},
"tool_output":
{
"status_code": 200,
"order_id": "456",
"order_status": "not_shipped",
"tracking_url": "example.com/456",
"shipping_address": "301 ivy street san francisco ca"
}
},
{
"tool": "change_shipping_address",
"tool_input":
{
"order_id": "456",
"new_address": "234 Spear St, San Francisco"
},
"tool_output":
{
"status_code": 200,
"order_id": "456",
"shipping_address": "234 Spear St, San Francisco"
}
}

"num_turns": 8,
"expected_outcome": "found order status and changed shipping address"
In my opinion, much of this comes down to blind empathy. Folks are more worried about hurting people’s feelings than about their life outcomes. They would rather “lean in” and embrace the huge rise in single parent households than push back, even with the knowledge that these social changes have resulted in millions of children living in poverty who otherwise would not have! It’s absolutely bananas.
I bought that hook line and sinker :) I was even feeling a real blackout start at the word "remote". Comedic timing is hard to pull off in text. Is any of that even real?
Please include a screenshot if it's ever appropriate. You will save your visitors so much time!
My company is starting to do this. People are actively leaving, and the company is just doubling down even more and just added an additional day of required office time, slowly clawing back to full time in office.

I literally told my boss if this happens for me I both won't come in anyways and will actively start seeking other opportunities.

Engineers who have been called back have already started leaving, but they seem to just hinge on hopefully surviving the storm.

Additionally we are already a global company, anybody who comes into an office will be on zoom meetings with other team members riddled across the country anyways.
No, it's running on debroome which uses AWS.
Haven't needed one yet.

Twitter's always been open before, and I've never felt the need to chime into discussion over there. 250 characters sucks for discussion.

As far as my personal habits go, its easier for me to cut out Twitter forever (if they're going the crappy Quora model) rather than me making an account.

What does Twitter offer me? All it is is a bunch of crappy, one-or-two sentence long comments with the occasional person taking screenshots of text whenever they want to bypass the character-limits. (Alternatively, they make X/46 posts to link tweets together so that they can actually form a cohesive point, but such behavior is better suited for a proper blogpost + Twitter link anyway). Discussion is incredibly shallow and the bulk of the "usefulness" is top-level posts that get reposted to other locations on the internet anyway.

Discussion is consistently bad and shallow. Why would I ever want to join Twitter? Reading for points was all I ever did, and only when other people posted Twitter links.
Fair point, but there are no shortcuts. Either you will use domain knowledge and you will build a model-based approach (LP, IP, MINLP, CP/SAT, DP), or you will have to find terabytes of good quality samples to feed the RL beast, hoping it will approximate a good enough policy / value function.

The main appeal of RL is for cases where an explicit model cannot be derived. Think of very complex chemical reactions or other system dynamics. There indeed, you can go with RL and cross your fingers.

If your process is dangerous, we must also have a supervisor system, to ensure that the RL actions will not lead to catastrophic situations (from violating constraints). Like Teslas targeting firetrucks.
Sweden using Ø for 0 is so insensitive towards their fellow Scandic neighbors to the west! Such a Swedish thing to do.
Honestly, I'm incredibly frustrated with this issue; it's just pure idiocy. Commenting out a part of the code and observing the effects is such a simple and useful debugging technique, yet this "feature" of Go prevents you from doing so effectively.

What's even more frustrating is that when you search for solutions, you come across two kinds of (pardon my language) completely brain-dead responses:

First, there are those who argue that unused variables/imports lead to bugs and worse performance in production, so they should always be fixed. But that's completely beside the point; I've never seen anyone argue that allowing unused variables is good for production. It's always been about facilitating the development process and debugging. Yes, I am aware now there are unused variables, but please just let me see what does removing this part of the code do.

Secondly, people suggest using a dummy function like UNUSED or a blank variable _ to solve the problem. But again, these suggestions miss the mark entirely. Changing variable names or adding UNUSED calls to "disable" the rule is even worse than what we've been doing to temporarily "circumvent" the rule, which is simply commenting out the declarations, test, and undo afterwards. Not only it involves more effort, but more crucially, you might actually forgot to revert those changes and leave in unused variables.

Frankly, I believe this is just a bad design decision, and it seems like the Go team is stubbornly doubling down on this mistake due to ego.

(Sorry, I just have a very strong opinion on this topic, and I am deeply frustrated when the tools I am using think they know better than I do and are adamantly wrong.)
At the same time, anecdotally it seems like the worst job market in tech since 2008. For instance, we had the ex Meta employee yesterday who had applied for 2500 roles.

What’s going on to stop the market from clearing?
Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker
> I was responding to the comment that it "is completely untrue" that there are "human preferences".

Ok, but I never said that

> Here in California lots are smaller and smaller all the time

Good, that means zoning laws are changing to allow variation
It seems you didn't quite hear the argument. I agree with you that the models Google has released to the public are absolutely worthless. That certainly does not mean they don't have extremely performant models at all however.

If you actually have worked in the area of NLP for about 10 years, you would recognize how the work from Deepmind is much more novel and innovative than other groups. OpenAI certainly has great public facing services, and Meta should be congratulated for releasing these models (although I would still prefer the Galactica training data), but academically Deepmind is one of the best groups around.
Ask HN: What became possible or practical in 2023, which wasn't in 2022?
My inputs:
- Building an AI friend that is indistinguishable from an online human friend
- Building a robot that could travel around the world and interact with humans all on its own
- Making a movie out of all AI generated art
nah, not real, I was just being silly :)
There's not really any benefit, I was just surprised that after deleting most of the lines it still worked.
Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10816484
Also: Don't use Markdown. Yes, it's "human-readable," but it's full of code text and there are almost no stand-alone VIEWERS for it.

The rampant use of Markdown while there's a lack of viewers for it is baffling. And no, I don't count editors in which you can invoke a "preview" of the Markdown. Why publish in a format that must be loaded into an editor and then "previewed?"

You might as well just use plain text, since the reader is just going to be seeing the raw text of the file anyway.

Or have stand-alone viewers (not editors) for Markdown proliferated since I last checked a couple years ago?
I don't think plagued has ever meant X%.

You can be the sole person in the world with the Bubonic Plague and you'll still be plagued by it. Whether or not untrustworthful clinical trials "cause distress to" [1] Medicine I don't think is debatable; medicine should be based on treatments that have reproducible effects or else people don't get better.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+plagued
A tremendous amount of innovation happens in person and not in person. Alone and working in teams.

The next wave of game changing companies will be the ones to hire the best people. I find it very unlikely that being 100% in person will be a competitive advantage versus companies that can simply hire the best and ask them to work in the way they consider the most productive.
There are some similarities to the 32 bit x86 NaCL and one of the early NaCl paper mentions this. https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

They both use x86 memory segment functionality for limiting memory access, but seems like there are also plenty of things they do differently. And the x86_64 and ARM versions of NaCl are even more different, they can't use the segment registers so they use masking instead.
If that's what the parent and GP are saying then we definitely don't agree. In my mind, it was anticompetitive and a rousing success. Microsoft managed to fully execute the extend and extinguish phases to then hold a stranglehold on the web for roughly a decade at a cost of less than a billion dollars. Anticompetitive measures kept it from being worse, but it was far from a bad outcome for Microsoft either.
Hotel room interface problems I have known and loved: lights with no switch at all (instead you need to origami your hand inside the shade or twist some rotary knob integrated in to the peak of the lampshade), central control panels with modal groupings that don't match real world use ("night mode", "evening mode", "reading mode", "interior designer mode", "electrical band-aid mode", etc.), devices (TVs, kettles, phones, remotes, ACs, AC controllers, fridges) with perma-idle lights, inaccessible power points so you can't just de-power them, dodgy keycard inserts, keycard inserts that take paper, blinds that have remote control only so you can't move them naturally, AC that doesn't work (classic is 'central control' AC with no actual in-room preference - becoming extremely popular in 'mid'-range chain hotels but I've seen this in "5" star places), windows that don't open, towels stashed in irritatingly inaccessible or invisible locations, disfunctionally small bins, minibar-dominates designs, the prestocked minibar-fridge-as-sole-fridge where you actually need the fridge for something else, one could go on...
Sorry it was a lame joke. You shouldn't be downvoted (downvote my joke instead people)
ChatGPT 3.5 is the base level people expect LLMs to be, it would be 2-3 generation(3-4 years) of hardware before we can reach that. Anything below is just going to get bad reviews
It turns out that a lot of what makes a relationship work is also what causes the children of 2-parent families to do better. Namely, if you remove the stress of scrambling just to make ends meet, and remove food and housing and healthcare and employment insecurity, then people have more time to spend on their families. And provided the parents aren't terrible people, that leads to better outcomes, more stable marriages, etc etc.

Its very easy to say "if we could just keep more parents together..." as if the availability of divorce after giving birth was the problem. Solve the major reasons why relationships fail after giving birth, and you'll likely create the situation where kids have more engaged parents too.
I found HERE WeGo maps the best of the bunch when traveling in Albania and Greece. Particularly for offline maps. Apple Maps lacked enough detail to be usable and Google Maps frequently insisted on taking narrow alleyways designed for humans that the car could not fit in. I’ve become a big fan.
SMTP2GO is really really good...
I feel like I agree with some conclusions but the lack of evidence and abundance of hyperbole make for a poor blog post. Going by his logic we’d be left with the USA as the only developed country.
WFH should have been the norm for tech and office white collar workers since 2000. For decades, I've been scratching my head as to why can't software people just work from the comfort of their own home and their own hardware.
An interesting finding was also that Lewy bodies are strongly associated with a reduced sense of smell even before other symptoms have developed. The sense of smell also deteriorates as the disease progresses. The correlation is so clear that it could be justified to screen individuals over 60 years of age with a smell test and then proceed with testing spinal fluid if one wants to detect Lewy body disease early, according to Oskar Hansson
Why would it not be relevant? Naturally-occurring materials have a much better chance of being biologically uncontroversial when introduced to the human organism -- not that eg cyanogenic glycosides, which can kill you, don't exist in apricots, but some levels of those dangerous compounds can be processed because they've been a component of the natural world for evolutionary time. The idea that modern science, let alone modern-science-as-influenced-by-capitalism, can't properly perceive the consequences of artificial compounds is what TFA is about, and if TFA isn't convincing I invite you to consider PFAS, BPA, or leaded gasoline.
I actually decided to quit my entire dev career some months ago and move to the country side as I didn't see a point in the grind anymore given the situation with the world. (I know this might seem extreme - I was ripe for a downshift anyways, and am financially stable.)

So now I'm literally just watching the world burn and trying to figure out long term plans. The more you look at what's going on in planet Earth, the more absurd it seems.

I'd be interested to hear how other HNers plan for the future.