skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The structure of that 3yr old’s visual cortex is itself the result of a ~500 million year optimization process.
Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (2008)
That 10% investment would have a huge payoff too because it would shut down avenues that were only opened due to p-hacking long before they'd had a chance to seek further investment.
> I think this is just for some site focussed at promoting Sweden's image to foreigners?

I did think that myself, certainly a bit of space and countryside to enjoy
and getting around Sweden doesnt take long if you have a motorbike...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXiIJ32kaZU

Someone on Sweden was saying the Police have to catch you on the day to prove you are the driver, but I think I will stick to the German autobahns, less moose on the loose.

ghost rider patrik fürstenhoff
This has been discussed ad-nauseum in the comment section of anything pertaining to LangChain over the past few weeks or couple of months.

It’s simple: a bit of cargo culting and the real advantage that LangChain provides in its interoperability with various other useful systems.
IDKT
for sure if you have a super complicated UI

but often you don't

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

i'd de-escalate the whole thing by turning it from an "either/or" into a "sometimes/as well"

htmx & hypermedia is a tool, nothing more
I think a lot of companies don't actually make anything so there's no fundamental reason to really care (or if cynical : be proud)

As an extreme example - thousands of brilliant engineers would pay money to work for F1 teams. Not forever, but a little while, and certainly not just for the resume, but to say they did it. (I'd be lying if i didn't say I sometimes daydream about it.)

As a moderate example - medical technology/devices. It's certainly exploited to some degree on the most global capitalist level (e.g. you can pay people less if they have intrinsic motivation) but there is something neat about working a 12 hour day on something that will help sick people get better.
Billionaires aren't the unlimited money piñata that you might hope; their total assets are less than federal yearly tax revenues, and good luck getting even a tiny fraction of that per year. As for corporations, I assume you're proposing raising the corporate tax rate -- but we're already near the revenue-maximizing peak of the Laffer curve on that particular tax, and there's just not much room to get more money that way.

(Also, only about a third of the incidence of corporate taxes falls on shareholders, with the rest being split about equally between lower wages for workers and higher prices for customers. It can be surprisingly regressive!)
How does having more insects in residential areas fight climate change? Is residential dirt drought durability important? Not much agriculture happening there.
I asked it about cannibals. It said

> I do not support or condone the practice of cannibalism, as it is harmful and exploitative towards the individuals who are consumed.

Then it said that cannibals have inherent worth and dignity and that we should strive to appreciate what they do. Then it crashed and is now responding to all following inputs with just the letter "I"
So every single one of these types of "AI" systems would have a few percent chance of false positive. The cops buy twenty different "behavior analysis" wankery tools, and just run every single one against whoever they want, and pretty much ensure they get at least one false positive and take that to a judge to rubber stamp whatever warrant they want, so they can show up in the middle of the night, unannounced, and break down your door without warning so you think they are a robber and then they shoot you for non-compliance.

Meanwhile, with the ability to get ANYONE'S web browsing, phone location records, and other horrifically broad sets of data that are just openly sold to law enforcement officers to allow them to spy on whatever they want with zero warrant, they STILL have an obscenely low clearance rate for crime.

So what are they ACTUALLY doing with all those overtime hours we pay them for?
Chinese property developer Evergrande posts $81B loss over the past two years
This right here is tab 46 on my phone right now.
Soderhavet are not even in Soder - they're on Brunkebergsgatan 10, near t-centralen.
I always thought of it as a luxury, instant delivery thing. Like if you want your package on 15 minutes, pay $50 extra and someone will pilot it for you. And call your phone to run outside after finding the nearest LZ, if they have to. You know, like do real work.
I guess that's not what they had in mind?
> Clickbait works in terms of getting people to click on your video, but if you don't deliver what the clickbait promised people would leave and it would hurt your stats.

This is an interesting take. Google can only "reward" videos that people watch for longer because they own the site. That is, they can tell when people leave. For a good chunk of sites, they still can because of Google's ad market share, but for a really sizeable chunk of sites that isn't the case. For like 80% of users, they also still can because they own Chrome.

I'm not sure I like the idea of allowing Google to reward sites that use their ads or browser monopoly in their search algorithm.
I hope people on Twitter realize how many of us refuse to jump through Elon's hoops. Case in point, I see a single bare, uninteresting tweet while signed out with no indication of how to view what I assume is a thread.

I'm trying to keep my judgement in check but it's getting harder and harder.
I think the lockdown concept as implemented in 2020 was a great illustration of the problem of scale. It's trivially true that if you as an individual avoid all contact with others during a flu season, you won't catch the flu. You can probably extend that to your family, maybe a bit further, but at a certain scale it just becomes impossible (and undesirable) because of individual variations in occupation, lifestyle, risk and infinitely many other factors. And because someone has keep the wheels of society turning. There was no lockdown for supermarket cashiers.

My own government got very excited by the prospect of dictatorial central planning that lockdown mania created an enabling environment for and immediately set about writing all kinds of complicated rules about what food and clothing people were allowed to buy, as well as putting a prohibition on alcohol & cigarettes and imposing a curfew. Pandemic response immediately became a vehicle for imposing by fiat whatever pet policies ministers could vaguely link to it. Years later, they've all been rolled back, but the damage was done, and everyone still caught Covid.[1]

[1]: https://www.groundup.org.za/article/nearly-everyone-in-south...
I don't see Lotus Notes as all that different than other Offices products developed by big Tech. I think it would be similar to Google's business platform with some more legacy automation but not unlike SalesForce or ServiceNow.

Having used Microsoft recently, after Google for work, I'm absolutely flabbergasted at how terrible Word, Teams, Outlook, etc are. I would describe the average Microsoft product as a zombie in its own feature set, at war with a different version of itself, and attempting to steal organs from other products to try to transition to every possible entirely different role in the suite.

Attempting to use a Microsoft product is like watching developers capitulate to some kind of bizarre internal political war between Product managers.
> get this question correct

I am willing to bet a million dollars that it is unlikely any single model will ever be able to answer any question correctly.

The implications then are that one cannot use a single question evaluate whether a model is useful or not.
Yeah, I was onboard for two weeks of "flatten the curve" but once it continued for months and beyond they lost me.
This is just an intractable problem: if there is any way for people to leave unused code, they will. If you want the code to be clean, you cannot have (for example) a debug mode that allows unused code, because the code will just be left in 'debug' format. Eventually the community shared code will have so much debug-but-it-works code that you'll never get a system of clean code.

And think of what the current strict rule has done: go is the only(?!) language that has a consistently clean ecosystem. When's the last time you looked at go code that huge chunks commented out?

That said... it is annoying. More annoying the less import the script, and the faster you want to test something.
What is a merge queue, and does your team need one?
Not sure exactly what you're dancing around, but man, if some of those top schools in CA could reduce competition by, say, expanding admissions, that would be great.
Collective Knowledge Cup is announced - a set of open challenges prepared by MLCommons organizations to let the community benchmark and optimize AI and ML Systems in terms of latency, throughput, power consumption, accuracy, costs, and other metrics...
Many businesses don't bother with a website anymore and just have a Facebook page. It's like how in 1998 businesses would mention their AOL Keyword alongside www.example.com.

Reddit.com and Discord have replaced many individual forums.
The biggest go problem in practice is ironically omitted in both blog posts:

Verbosity of error handling!

There should be a shorthand for returning if last ret value is non-nil in one line. Otherwise all you code is littered with:

if err != nil {
return err
}

and it makes it four times as long and way less readable as a result. This needless verbosity really reminds me of Java.

Also, go fmt is not opinionated enough! There really should be one way to line break and max width. Right now you can't rely on it to magically format it as it "should be" and fire-and-forget when typing.
it seems to be "fixed" now i.e. back in English
Don't look behind your computer..
The magic "Just barely runs on 24GB VRAM" model being absent is fishy.

Let's hope they do fix it and release it and this isn't a ploy to keep people in the cloud by only releasing lesser models for local systems.
It's sort of prescriptive though in that the lawyers say they want to chip away at this.

I agree that VCs fund companies at high valuations with the idea that the company will use those funds to hit aggressive growth targets which in turn grows the potentiality of the company. This is often done by subsidizing customers to encourage rapid growth. Selling at a loss during the landgrab phase to capture market.

But it's not sustainable (as the article mentions) and eventually companies have to pivot to profitability. So I have no problem with it. It has never been the case in tech that a company did this long enough to put everyone out of business and then used its acquired monopoly power to gauge customers.

"Your margin is my opportunity" comes to mind and the second a margin is too big then someone will come along and take their piece.
It seems like too many people score well on this test for it to be useful anymore , due to the Flynn Effect or other factors. I got a top score
It also depends heavily on how you define "need". Calculus changed the way I view many, many concepts and phenomena. I think we present things like calculus as dryly as possible, and only to those blessed few who we perceive as able to understand it, and in doing so, we deprive so many people of a useful new way of considering problems. Whether it ends up being critical to their chosen career seems like a really narrow and poor criterion.
> Not saying they're ultimately wrong

... but if they were, it wouldn't be the first time. These guys are also global warming denialists, covid deniers, and they even vociferously defend third world sweatshops.
When I was in high school, IIRC we did 55 minute classes with 5 minutes between classes, 4 core classes 2 or 3 electives + lunch. It doesn't work, by time you start, the class settles, late arrivals show up, homework is collected, questions asked and whatnot, there's probably only 30 mins of real instruction. Class would boil down to either teaching or worksheets but not both.
This really should vary with grade. It's hard to keep a 6 year old's attention for almost 8 hours. Far more possible in High School.
C# has way, way more market share than Go as well as a bigger ecosystem and it's not even close. I would hardly call a Java replacement a "niche" since that's everywhere.

There are, of course, other benchmarks that rank c# above go, but benchmarks are flawed. I imagine people are comparing C# to go because it's got a pretty solid type system
Yeah we know. Americans also have 2X the obesity rate as EU, significantly more than that in mass shootings, lower average life expectancy, significantly more CO2 emissions from electricity production and with 2x the energy usage and electricity consumption per capita, 30% less renewable electricity production, 3X the murder rate, and we reserve the word “football” for the ball game that mostly involves kicking one with your feet.
Yeah... I'd been keeping my "source of truth" to my google account, so it's easy enough to export and import to other browsers... but trying to distance myself from the google account for everything.

Found a couple extensions, so will probably export to be safe, then start playing to see how it goes.
For those that are interest in the nuances of modelling infections, I'm going to leave a Wikipedia extract here.

"R_{0} is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population.

R_{0} values are usually estimated from mathematical models, and the estimated values are dependent on the model used and values of other parameters. Thus values given in the literature only make sense in the given context and it is recommended not to use obsolete values or compare values based on different models.
R_{0} does not by itself give an estimate of how fast an infection spreads in the population".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Thanks for letting me know! Fixed!
Yep, I was a Pheonix user from the beginning in 2002 ... where you just unzipped it to a folder and ran it.

I stuck with Firefox for literally 20 years, only caving in last year due to noticeable performance difference (went to Brave).

But this news makes me want to try it again, I'd rather be using Firefox just to have another browser engine thriving.

Competition is good.
How would they link them? It's been decades since I applied to MIT but I noted that they were the only application that didn't ask if you had any relatives who'd attended.
Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe
A year ago, a kid in our district made a presentation to the board asking for homework to be eliminated. The district is now undergoing a review of the homework policy, with equity-focused board members/administrators pushing for all homework to be eliminated, or at least reduced. One board member literally made the argument that "we don't actually know if homework increases learning, do we?".
with openai function calling, it is definitely getting easier and easier to build llm agent into a prototype. There are a few benefits of using AutoChain. 1) get started easily; plug and play different ideas before building into a product 2) AutoChain introduces a novel evaluation framework for evaluating LLM agent's ability to perform multi-turn conversation under different user scenarios.

In addition, when it comes to prototyping for a specific use case, we found it is often more than just calling the model but also the orchestration process matters, for example, when should LLM agent stop answering questions, fix input argument, ask a custom clarifying questions and more.

Hope AutoChain makes your exploration easier and more robust!
> I'd expect self driving cars to have much better sensors and reaction times than we do

That is never going to happen.
Except nobody is showing any evidence there has been an improvement, rather, everyone just says "Surely Uber does it better and does the right thing", which is absurd.
How does this differ from LibreWolf? https://librewolf.net
But that's an issue with how the OKRs are derived rather than if the OKRs are required. If the teams come up with OKRs with bottoms-up involvement then the issue you mention is mitigated.

The fact that a thing can be done badly is not an argument for not doing the thing.
I'm saying there is reputable evidence. I don't understand your hostility to this, or why you think these aren't serious:

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/nasal-irrigation-may-help-wo...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220913110403.h...

sample size of 79

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453155/

Aside from the formal research, there is clinical support for it: just ask your doctor. Most likely he or she will say, "Sure, go ahead. A lot of my patients do it." That's what mine said.

And finally, I've found on previous social network discussions (including on HN) that the practice is fairly widespread.

And don't paraphrase me ("So you are saying..."). I said what I said.
The process of bringing types to Elixir is officially underway:

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...

It's not Erlang specifically, but it is a BEAM language, so tomato tomahto.
I work at a company using LLMs, and so far Falcon has been the only commercially licensed LLM that was remotely close to ChatGPT in terms of performing well on our use case (MPT did not work well when we tried it). And a ton of the open source software for eg instruction-tuning llama will presumably now be viable for commercial use if transferred to this license. Sure, it's not 'true' open source, but IMHO this is still a HUGE deal.
Make Sunsets – Cooling the Earth one reflective cloud at a time
What are the best POS systems out there?
You should check out SigNoz - https://github.com/signoz/signoz

We are not specifically focused on web app monitoring, but you should be able to monitor web app easily, esp. if you want to also monitor backend services and have frontend in JS

And, yeah - we have all the docs for self hosting - https://signoz.io/docs/install/

Docs for Angular apps - https://signoz.io/docs/tutorial/instrumenting-angular-fronte...
In the menu there's an option to modify the prompt.
Even back when Go first came out, anyone who knew anything about programming languages rolled their eyes at pretty much everything about Go's type system, including the inference.

The Go team was populated by people who had created one of the most influential languages of all time, C. Who created the new language based on theories about how to encourage good engineering practice. Theories that they were able to test through internal access to a very large and actively maintained codebase at Google. A codebase into which they had inserted several other languages that they had devised for various purposes.

I'm pretty sure that nobody in the external programming languages community had the same depth of experience in the practical use of programming languages that the Go team had. And so it was bizarre to them to see the Go team deliberately leave features out because of concerns about how those features are used in practice.

Few of the critics who "knew about programming languages" have created any language that ever made it into the top 10 programming languages in the world. It is therefore funny to me that they were complaining about exactly the kinds of choices that lead to Go becoming popular.

I'll generally take the design choices of a team with 2 popular languages under their belt over academics in the ivory tower.
I hate the tab reload in Chrome after switching tabs, which often changes form input.
On ChromeOS, does the software you develop run in Crostini?
Yep, and what if I want and to make an arbitrarily large array without much copying?
I wonder what happens when a 286 in protected mode flips PE back to 0, assuming sane values in seg regs etc. Do you end up in some kind of unreal mode, does it lock up completely, or what happens?
I'm currently building a quick prototype with Fresh and loving it. It was the perfect excuse to play for the first time with Deno and Fresh.

As expected, coming from Node there were some hiccups, but Deno and Fresh might become my default stack.

If you're not using Tailwind the styling is still not straightforward. Hopefully they will release some sort of SASS plugin.
Your code shouldn't be littered with that though, those errors should be wrapped or have some kind of logging/handling associated with them. If you find yourself just returning err all the time, you're not doing it right, IMO.
I'm pretty cynical and don't strongly believe something like "paper straws" make a Big Difference - it does make a difference though.

I like using biodiesel when possible and don't eat meat or commute. These are lifestyle choices that would be made regardless of environmental impact, though
And yet it still works because it's based on something that human writers did.
Maybe anti-Twitter? Aren't Elon and Zuck having a spat?
Appreciate it. Let us know what you think when you have a chance to try it!
This is what I do.

It's a role for a techie with good communication skills. Some are more marketing and some are more technical (I lean towards the latter, and think the former are pretty ineffective). A good dev advocate/tech evangelist/dev relations person helps external developers learn about a company's platform (APIs, SDKs, etc.), and also helps internal developers and product managers learn what sort of issues or ideas devs have.

The job itself usually entails speaking at conferences or meetups, videos online, blog posts/tweets, sample projects, sales support/white glove assistance to big customers and general enthusiasm. When asked questions, a dev advocate should either have the answer (because they know the platform inside and out) or know where to find it. They also should have access to the internal decision makers to help them plan new features and opportunities. In large organizations, you might even speak at internal events, helping the left hand understand what the right is doing.

Because it's not a dev position or pure marketing, it's an easy position to dismiss or misunderstand ("I deal with the goddamn customers so engineers don't have to. I'm a people person, dammit!!" [1]), though as time goes by this is becoming less the case as tech companies realize how important they can be.

1. https://youtu.be/fcIMIyQnOso
An AI toolkit to manage models through a set of developer friendly APIs
windshield wipers behind a touch menu

Are you sure you didn't mean a *safety* relevant feature?

Sometimes I have to wonder if some of the designers actually drive. If they did, I would think some of the worst mistakes would be blatantly obvious.

When in doubt, see Hyundai/Kia. They ain't fancy. For the most part, they just seem to take a consistent, practical, subdued, utilitarian approach that gets the job done on an everyday basis.
> But this wouldn't work for programming language ideologies. Not for the OOP proponents, anyway.

Why not? Are you saying that OOP isn't solving any problem?

As I understand it, OOP is mainly about allowing behavior to be reconfigured at runtime. As the introduction to "Design Patterns" puts it: "Polymorphism simplifies the definition of clients, decouples objects from each other and lets them vary their relationships to each other at run-time."

Using this indirection absolutely everywhere probably isn't great for performance, but it seems helpful in moderation.
I wouldn't rely on guidance. I've been waiting for them to approve a commit for something as basic as token counts for OAI models for weeks now. It's just not actively developed enough for serious use cases.
Measuring faithfulness in chain-of-thought reasoning [pdf]