skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that was funded (completely or partially) with tax money and can be processed by AI should be available to the public as humanity. A modest library fee to access the AI is ok.
> "...went on to shoot and make music videos for the likes of Depeche Mode, U2, the Killers and REM..."

Every time someone writes REM instead of R.E.M., a little kitten gets hurt. But then again, everybody hurts sometimes...
The "Big Deal" -- the game where the player chooses one of three doors -- was the finale of every episode of Let's Make a Deal under Monty Hall. Still is, in the Wayne Brady revival. Not hypothetical.
Is that even possible on Fly?
Is it me or the page is now gone?

"Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private."

Edit: Ok, I can see after sign up / log in.
It probably wasn't intentional, but the naming of this is a great play off the Arabic word "علماء", pronounced as Ulamā[1]. It translates to "scholars", or "the learned ones". Pretty fitting. Nowadays, the word is most often used in the context of religious knowledge, but isn't limited to that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulama
It's not just American but West Coast. Other parts of the country are different levels of polite and passive aggressive.

Also, GPT4:

> Why don't Emacs users ever get locked out of their house?

> Because they always bring their own keybindings!

and I think 3.5 is reusing a vim joke:

> Why did the programmer stick with Emacs for so long?

> Because every time they tried to leave, they just couldn't find the "Exit" door!
I've had GPT3 give me the wrong answers to questions. Then I google the topic, find the documentation and go "hm, yeah, I can see how it would think that." For instance, ask it what `set +o` does in Bash, then check the online docs.
Discussed on HN 17 days ago [1]

As said there, this might as well be simply a correlation with commented code.

Or, people swearing might be an indication of having taste.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584464
> Commodity servers have the same specs.

Probably not a coincidence. It would be interesting to know which ODM they partnered with for the hardware.

I've done some work with SuperMicro in the past. Some of their boards come with extensive headers and customization options right out of the box. They're also happy to work on board level customizations with the right contracts in place.
You can start asking it questions about a topic and it'll narrow down the data sets it needs and tell you how it can reduce resources needed to run / download based on what it knows you are talking about, or where you tell it this conversation needs to go. So you could in effect take a topic-constrained AI offline and continue the conversation in a more resource-friendly way than usual.

I don't know if this is really a thing that could be done but it'd be nice if somehow the AI could be a partner in reducing that energy / memory / CPU / data footprint. Like how we used to carry USB disks with portable apps, a portable AI

Just an idea
The question I guess still stands WRT...if FedNow is so easy/great/instant, is there even still a business model for Plaid?
Would you recommend HtDP to a non-beginner? Like SICP, it seems to cover fairly basic concepts and aimed at first-year CS students.

I always feel like I'm missing out on some sort of magical programming secrets that will expand my mind like a spiritual retreat when I'm in these threads. But it's just CS 101 except you use Lisp? I don't get it.
Interesting that this is getting downvoted!

This has been especially common in my home country Sweden,

where these labels were used by the political and media elite to put down the grass roots movement trying to stop mass migration from Africa and the Middle East.
Stop that. Now I want to play Deus Ex against for the Nth time, where N is large.

I wish there were more games like Deus Ex.
Well, we are the places where rich and smart people will always move to live. Because over here, their human rights and property rights are guaranteed and they can innovate. That alone more or less guarantees perpetual leadership.

Also, we have an advantage in diversity.

If people can move freely between places, the most attractive places are automatically the strongest long term. You want to tell me that at some potential future point, more people will try to immigrate to China than to the U.S.? That's not going to ever happen, period. If people can't move freely between places, the place rots and destroys itself very quickly as everyone is concerned with one thing: how to run away from it.
A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys
thanks for that detailed bit of eccentric 80s history! Yup it was the C128 I was thinking of but I incorrectly thought it had an x86-predecessor instead of the Z80. The C128 has it all, including good looks.
For 10 years I used a plastic microwave steam steriliser for my kids plastic bottles that boiled 200ml of water for 5 minutes at 1000W.
Good article, i'm very fond of the 3 library systems that i patronize (pac NW), they operate quite differently and have different collections.

My introduction to one was at a bluegrass festival where one library had a booth showing off Ableton and 3 tables of hard and soft synths, VST's, effect pedals. Incongruous and delightful at the same time.
It looks like all 166 threads with the "App not working" tag are invisible when not logged in. So I'm guessing somebody applied that tag retroactively.

https://community.fly.io/c/questions-and-help/app-not-workin...

EDIT: it now appears that the "app-not-working" tag itself has been deleted, and no longer shows up even when logged in.
It's using 4-bit quantized models, so it's kind of like if someone removed half your brain and still expected it to work. Especially since that quantization comes after training, so it doesn't get a chance to "heal" from it.
What Texas needs is a Frankenstein Veto that will give workers 4-hour breaks every 10 minutes!
Using societal context knowledge for Responsible AI
Backblaze even has an s3 api these days.
I'm a Japanese, Oppenhiemer isn't much famous name IMO, though his name may be written in textbook. How Manhattan project succeeded great is a minor topic in general. It's somewhat famous that Einstein encouraged developing of nuke and finally against for bombing. Fermi is somewhat famous for Fermi estimate.
> The title is funny to me. We should consider a new computation complexity class for LLMs. Let's call the ones that can be solved with a prompt, Promptable. For the problems that we cannot reliably solve with a single prompt yet, let's call them non-deterministic promptable, or NP.

Promptable is old hat now. I propose an entirely new class of problems which is whether you can prompt GPT to construct a prompt for GPT that can solve a problem. I call it Deep-Promptability™ (patent pending). The "order" is defined by how many levels of prompting can you solve the problem in, so if a problem is order-3 deep-promptable then you can prompt GPT to construct a prompt for GPT that will construct a prompt that allows GPT to solve it.
Reading that book inspired me to watch the documentary Trinity and Beyond(https://youtu.be/p4yXfrYSmuA) a fascinating Shatner-narrated dive into the cold war era of nuclear testing and proliferation.

Only documentary I've ever bought the soundtrack to.
Just adding here that if you want a vector DB that handles inference for you too, you can try Marqo https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo
Plastic aside, that was an interesting read.
You need an incentive too. Ai has an incentive to make the thing correctly. Place does not.
> … perhaps the automotive industry needs trust busting.

We talking about the same auto industry that received TARP and other bailouts from the government? Yeah, I am afraid the trust busting ship may have sailed here.
I think this is the right solution: Have the API standardized, and perhaps even provide a default implementation out of the box, but fully support replacing it. Just like how, say, most systems ship an image viewer out of the box, but you can replace it with something else because the system has a standard file association system that a replacement can slot into.
No devops, focus on writing your app: https://www.convex.dev/
It’s the route into your bloodstream through the lungs that really worries me.
The bit about MSG being cheating was funny. I’ve given out 1lb bags of Aji-No-Moto as gifts for years. Most people I know use it at least a little bit. It’s not a secret or banned or even discouraged much outside of weird blogs.
>So why would you put others through it.

Because I've found there's a bunch of developers who apparently think it is fun to figure out the "why?", and they code accordingly.

>So why would you put others through it.

Because they think their code is "self documenting" and perfect and that anyone that can't immediately understand their code is too dumb to be working with it.

>Explain it with comments.

We just had a discussion here in the last week or two where people were actually saying that comments are completely useless and should never be used.

>Make it so that there's minimal - preferably zero - unnecessary digging for the next poor soul who'll work on it.

Sounds great to me, but in my experience it's a minority of developers who agree with you. It makes working on others' codebases very frustrating in most cases.
Seems to me people is failing to understand what CBDCs will bring, especially even more “bad money” and economic slavery caused by “incentives” to spend.

But the list goes on..
Yeah, even some of the uninteresting results we got have been classified. I wouldn't be surprised if some research is still ongoing in secret. I remember reading about this: https://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen but that seems like it's more about intuition and gut feelings than magic.
This is cool but I don’t really like how their material is under a trade secret. I’m sure it’s good under their testing but there are tangible differences between things like lumber/metal/composite grades.
What would it mean for something like code compliance/liability etc
Not that nothing will fail - but some manufacturers have just really good fault management, monitoring, alerting, etc.
And even the simplest shit like SNMP with a few custom MIBs from the vendor (which theres some that do it better). Facilities and vendors that lend a good hand with remote hands is also nice, if you remote management infrastructure should fail. But out of band, full featured management cards with all the trimmings work so well. Some do good Redfish BMC/JSON/API stuff too on top of the usual SNMP and other nice builtin Easy Buttons.
And today's tooling with bare metal and KVM, working around faults to be quite seamless. Even good NVME raid options if you just absolutely must have your local box with mirrored data protection, 10/40/100Gbps cards with a good libvirt setup to migrates large VMs in mere minutes, resuming on the remote end with nigh 1ms blip.
>Caring for the customer is not limited to privacy.

Sure. But Apple (To my knowledge) never said "we care about you". That's very different from "we value your privacy".

>The marketing push around "privacy" is simply marketing.

I don't disagree, but it feels like low hanging capitalism bashing to attack a company over something they never stated. We are well past the 90's age where companies tried to make their customers feel like family. Companies these days very blantatly make it clear that they care about money first, so shaming Apple for caring about money just feels like drowning a fish in water.

I may not really want the government to be involved in such matters, but it's a better attack vector than appealing to a coporation's humanity.
> I feel that's a much more philosophical POV than you let on. But let's digress from that argument of redemption and reparations for now.

It's not at all clear to me what you are trying to communicate in the paragraph I quoted above.

> While there are certainly some careers where you don't get do-overs, I see the other extreme happening more with the current state of mind; they realize that they are out of time, feel like they can't extend deadlines, so they just say "fuck it", throw out some sloppily put together report or attend a meeting without the knowledge necessary, take their D in stride and move on.

I'm also confused about what you are communicating here. Is this a simple lamentation, or are you trying to make an argument?
I mean, `apt update` is probably more tied to the sheer number of packages (and sometimes repos) that it has to reload in its database than anything about what's actually installed. Maybe also a function of what's installed to check for upgradable packages and check dependency trees, but that still seems like its own problem.
> Did your app purchases form the Google Play Store automatically transfer to your Apple App store

Since every app that I pay to use that has an Android version is subscription based, yes.

> and did your photos off your Google drive transfer to your iCloud, or vice-versa?

Since I can download the Google Drive app on my iPhone and it shows up right next to iCloud Drive on the Files app and in File dialogs. Yes.

As far as photos from iCloud to Google, just download Google Photos on your iPhone and sync your photos.

Anything else?
> If land cost rules out solar, it also rules out agriculture.

Land cost rules out solar because there are alternatives which do not cost nearly as much in land (barring, per above, preventable and rare disasters). The same can't be said about agriculture; there ain't (to my knowledge) some agricultural equivalent of a nuclear power plant. Vertical farming might be it someday, but so far that hasn't panned out at scale.

> I never see the nuke bros saying we shouldn't grow things because it uses too much land, or that we need to go vegan to reduce land use.

We "nuke bros" ain't saying we shouldn't use PV at all, either. Solar panels:

- Are much more portable than nuclear plants

- Can be deployed in a wider range of locations than nuclear plants (Have you tried putting a molten-salt reactor on a rooftop? Solar's great for that!)

- Are great at providing energy for peak loads, energy to be stored later, and energy for things that don't typically need to be powered when there's no sunlight (e.g. air conditioning)

Solar panels have their place even in a world powered primarily by nuclear.

Likewise, livestock animals:

- Are much more portable than crop fields

- Can be raised in a wider range of locations than most crops (Have you tried growing corn on a mountain? Chickens and goats are great for that!)

- Taste good, produce byproducts that taste good (like eggs and milk), and provide nutrients that are harder to come by in vegan diets without either supplements or additional planning (e.g. multiple different crops).

Animal products have their place even in a world fed primarily by plant products.

Given this: yeah, by all means work toward reducing agriculture's land footprint - but that effort's independent from the effort to reduce the energy sector's land footprint, so it really shouldn't be surprising that people advocating for the power-per-land effort won't automatically start talking about the food-per-land effort in a conversation about power.
For most sudoku puzzles solving each cell is a logic puzzle that can be expressed in words just as current solvers have it in code. It can try to solve each vacant cell in turn using each of its rules until it finds a solution for that cell. And then it can be told to keep trying to solve another cell until it finishes the puzzle. Brute force with a core of logic.
Other way around for me "Fermion" "Fermi-Dirac Statistics" "Fermi Energy Level" etc. There are a lot of things in physics named after Fermi not aware of anything named after Oppenheimer.
I remember my father had a checkbook in the 1970's. I never had one, not sure they even exist here anymore (Belgium).

For payments to friends we use bank apps. Usually the receiver generates a QR code for the payment on their phone, which you scan from your bank app, sign with a pincode, and the payment is executed immediately. If you are not near you can also use their account number to transfer money instantly.
This is why people should just run a small managed k8s cluster on GCP. This has worked super well for us. https://www.vmii.org/blog/2023/03/12/kubernetes/
How companies like Linear and Miro design for team growth
Please explain to me what FedNow changes compared to the current ACH system in regards to government recording of transactions? Please explain to me how FedNow prevents cash transactions from occurring, or otherwise justify your statement “every financial transaction I make”?
Llama.cpp, through kobold.cpp, offloading some of it to ram.
I dabbled with Custom Elements a while back, which IIRC was essentially the same thing as web components, but without the shadow DOM.
Stupid question (no trolling, I promise): Could this product be valuable to public cloud vendors, like AWS, Google, Oracle, IBM, etc? Or even medium sized ones, like Linode? My thinking: Could this be the cloud inversion moment akin to TSMC and outsourcing semi-conductor manuf?
Yeah, I really like this initiative, but this is not a technology problem. This is a trust problem. The EUJ actually has a not-terrible framework in place around electronic signatures, and _some_ countries are pushing hard for adoption and implementation.
Best I can tell, neither the video linked from TFA nor an earlier version submitted previously to HN remain online. See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809645>

Whether or not there's a more definitive source I haven't investigated.
The referred license: https://www.json.org/license.html
Debian thinks it is a nonfree license: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
This is what I tell our junior devs. I remind them that the "next developer" may well be themselves in a year's time.
Let's share our gratitude indeed; it's like a warming fire.

I have had extraordinary coworkers who wrote incredibly solid code that was a joy to work with at every turn. When some of those coworkers have moved on, I've bought them thank you presents and taken them out for a meal to say thank you for making a difference. It's a token gesture in the face of how much I've learned from them and their wonderful work.

My message is to all of us who work away in the trenches of our day-to-day, where we stare through straws and move grains of sand; please let us shout and celebrate the granules of gold that our peers produce!
Fly works on a new and interesting platform paradigm by writing a lot of their software stack from scratch.

Unfortunately, such an approach is unlikely to produce the same stability you might be used to from other places.
Y'all, this is going to be deeply unsatisfying, but it's what I can report personally:

I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted.

We're looking at the admin UI for it right now, and there's like, a little lock next to do the story, but the "unlist story" option is still there for us to click. The best I can say is: I'm reasonably sure there wasn't some top-down edict to hide this thread (the site is public, anybody can sign up for an account and see the thread).

Say what you want about us, but hiding out from stuff like this isn't one of our flaws. When I find out more about what happened with this thread, I'll let you know (or Kurt will reply here and tell me I'm wrong).

I don't know enough about what happened with this Sydney server to be helpful to people who had instances running on it. When I know more about it, I'll be helpful, but I'm just learning about this stuff right now, after getting back in from a night out.

Almost immediately afterwards

It looks like... all the posts in the app-not-working category are "private"? Like it's some setting on the category itself? "Private" here means you need to have signed up for a Discourse account to see them?
UPI is not mandatory in India, don't know where and why such a message circulates. If I am benefitting with Credit Cards at petrol pumps, I deliberately use it and there's no concern from anybody. Merchants prefer UPI (for now) because money goes to their bank account without any cost. And cash still works at most places where UPI does.
I'm not an infra engineer, but this claim "everything else on the market is full of bugs" might be the killer app. Of course, it needs to be true. What if they iterate to an insanely stable embedded code base (BIOS, etc.)? Then, continuously upgrade the hardware to use the latest CPU/RAM/NVME. I could see that being very valuable.
Podman 4.6 Release
My father was a school gym coach and then a flight attendant. My mother was a sales clerk. Neither of them were into computers.

I have no idea about none of their areas either.

So I guess this only applies to a prestigious occupations.
anglo-centrist take of quotation rules
Ask HN: Prompted to turn on “Enhanced Safe Browsing” checks passwords for breach
When logging into GMail, I'm now prompted to turn on "Enhanced Safe Browsing"

Once of the the "benefits" of this is that it would let me know if the credentials I use to log into some website have been exposed in a data breach.

That's all well and good (I guess?) if it's sending hashed versions of those passwords to Google, but according to https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10311524?hl=en#zippy=%2Chow-password-protection-works

> Chrome can warn you if the username and password you use to sign in to a website were involved in a data breach. This setting is turned on by default.

> ...

> To check your credentials, Chrome first encrypts your username and password. Then it sends the encrypted credentials to Google for comparison against an encrypted list of known breached data. If Chrome detects a match between the encrypted sets of data, it displays a warning that prompts you to change your password. Google never learns your usernames or passwords during this process.

I'm curious how Google is comparing "encrypted" passwords against known breaches, in a secure way. I'm fine sending hashes or, even better, encrypted hashes. But if it's sending the password (or even encrypted password that Google is able to decrypt), that's a pretty strong no from me.
The article says the original wooden blocks are mostly lost. They were not metal.
> a throat to choke

yikes
Amazon Refuses to Deny Alexa Illegally Collected Data About Children [pdf]
This is done with lit
https://github.com/OnurGumus/FunPizzaShop/tree/main
https://imgur.com/a/93x1FZu non-retina

How does it look on windows?
> I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted.

Maybe it's hosted in the SYD region
This is the hoodoo-voodoo magic! It just **ing knows!
exLlama supports batching, and I believe it claws back much the throughput loss from quantization (depending on the exact settings you use to quantize).

And as said below, whatever throughput you lose is going to be massively offset by the ability to use smaller single GPUs.
With a multi expert system you end up making way more inferences per query, and depending on exactly how its built up, you may even end up requiring more training as well. There could be some extremely domain specific way they're saving some money, somehow, but it seems generally unlikely. It's all about diminishing returns. OpenAI themselves have also publicly acknowledged they're hitting diminishing returns on model size. [1]

In any case this happens in literally every single domain that uses neural networks. You make this extremely rapid and unbelievably progress which leads one to start looking forward to where this is leading, and the literally infinite possibilities. But then at some point each single percent point improvement starts costing more and more. Initially a bit more compute can help you get over these hurdles, but then it becomes clear you're headed towards an asymptote that's far from where you want to be. It's why genuine fully self driving vehicles look much further away today than they did ~8 years ago.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of...