skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not affiliated with them, but I recall this being marketed at some point as giving you the flexibility and customization powers that the Googles and Facebooks of the world have with their on-prem infrastructure without needing to have as deep of a dedicated staff as they do to just this which allowed them to develop all their custom tooling in the first place.

Basically if you are on-prem, and you are dissatisfied with what you are getting out of today's onprem sellers. Things like bad firmware with slow update cycles, issues with rack/power supplies/cabling/interconnecting systems. Closed down systems that don't allow much customization, etc. They are open sourcing a lot of their work along the way

Again, I'm not affiliated with them, and my info may be outdated so take it with a grain of salt. But that's how I've seen them for some time.
The locked-in part is what will screw them. People arent going to stick around with a smallfry version of Computer Associates. They'll find a way to migrate out, and they'll have an SGI final arc soon enough.
If you’re talking about Intercom (it sounds like it), I thought they took a grossly irresponsible approach that optimized for splashy “we haz bot” rather than really understanding customer support interactions deeply, and looking for where speed or quality could be improved with LLMs. It really shocked me how poorly they approached this.

We have done deep dives with a couple other providers who are being waaaay more insightful and smart about decomposing the problem.
why do you think it was a regulatory failure? it's not the Fed's job to make sure every bank has a sane business plan and rock solid conservative riskless strategy.

its job is to make sure the entire system can take the stress of failing banks.

the FDIC did its job too.
You'll notice those last three words "and obtain consent".

Either the cookies are strictly necessary - in which case, there is no need to display a banner, or they aren't in which case you have to ask the user for consent.

"List non-necessary cookies, but don't ask for consent" isn't an option.
When I want to know what the future of money transfers could look like, I'd ask people from, say the Swahili-speaking regions of Africa, not Silicon Valley.
The announcement is very unclear. What I as layperson will get from it?

Is it an app FedPayPal/Fedmo that I will be able to use for sending funds? Is it something that will be used by other apps to have cheaper funds transfer? Because if it is latter then I'm afraid that entrenched players will just keep doing what they're doing, keeping the profits but offloading processing to that system if it will be cheaper.

The fees by Paypal/Square/Stripe even Visa and Mastercard are enormous. Personally, I strongly believe that if one will dig deep enough he will find cartel there that sets prices. And when that will happen, LIBOR scandal is going to be a kindergarten play.
This part is interesting if thinking about other ratios that could develop.

> Sometimes it’s easier to spot a trophy job in retrospect. For example, when someone has a trophy job and its status drops, their desire to do it decreases a lot. It’s common for people to lose motivation when they’re unhappy with their job's substance, but with trophy jobs, satisfaction is tied most to status (e.g. of their role, the company, industry).

So the current jobs that supposedly could soon be replaced by ML/AI will or are dropping in status, possibly also in valuation and satisfaction with perceived substance. What's funny is that the actual substance of work and expertise hasn't changed. Even if I had a quickly responding LLM, I'd still be tweaking inputs, outputs and reinterpreting to make it as I see fit. Not much if at all easier than just writing it.

I suppose these could become high substance, low status jobs (always were?). Artists are mixed in that their status level depends on which circle you talk with.
Indeed, I'm just trying to highlight your efforts as an 'artist' might be wasted.

I recently worked on a project with some seriously clean code. My job? Shut it down. This made me sad.
Considering the AI community it would be very easy to portray them as: portraying the derivatives as a new/original work, in a commercial gold rush (these first two brutally violate #1), violating the entirety of the work (#3), and a massive chilling effect on the market (#4 and how hard writer/actor strikes are anti-AI with studios simultaneously refusing to budge in any way on AI).
I gather check verifications have gotten better. I had to buy a new car last year and my deposit was via CC but, for the final payment, they were fine with a personal check whereas I've always had to pay with a cashier's check from the bank in the past.
Ya, that was the most memorable part of Dark Sun. IIRC the State department confronted the Soviet ambassador about the routine exfiltration of boxes and boxes of US R&D documents, and the response was something like "We're losing 10,000 people a day in this war. This is how you be our ally.".
I'm surprised none used the API of Amadeus.

It will give you the same results as most booking websites. (Most of them rely on a shortlist of companies like Amadeus or Sabre.)

And you can't buy tickets without creating your own company plus extra steps, so you end up on a booking website anyway.

But eh, we're IT guys and that's fun.
Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
A relevant PR:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773
> a) I don't think a Gallup poll is useful information :P

I'm not sure why you're here commenting on the Gallup poll article then, or how you think we would ever have useful information about the public?

b) I thought we were talking about being onboard in landslide elections, as you quoted so many messages ago.

Again, the context is the submitted link. I can't speak for the OP, but I'm guessing the idea was that a landslide election is supposed to give the winner a "mandate" for their agenda.
vendor lock in to a library and the design choices they make

basically, since it reduces the user input space, you are giving up flexibility and control for some questionably valuable abstractions, such as a predefined prompt, no ability to prompt engineer, CoT/ToT, etc...

if anything, choose a broader framework like langchain and have something like this an extension or plugin to the framework, no need for a library for this one little thing
You know they already do right? If you pay or get paid by direct deposit or check those all run through the fed.
It's a section header in an article written as a story. It's normal for those to not be understood until you read the section. And the explanation begins with the first sentence of that section. I don't think this is a reasonable complaint.
China is also pissed off when South Korea decided to put THAAD from US
Sure, but I honestly I think std should have things you DON'T want to evolve. Stuff like time/chrono. And YAML.

Pretty sure Rust developers want to move std into crates as well, as well as parts of compiler. And I completely understand them.
Hey congrats. Your project is showing a hockey stick type growth

https://devboard.gitsense.com/jmorganca/ollama

which highlights how hot this space is right now.

Full Disclosure: This is my tool.
> But once it gets more complicated with different toolchains and compatibility problems (and it usually does if you have an RTOS),

Just curious, but based on your experience, why does it “usually” get more complicated in those ways with an RTOS?
I'd fly out to their factory on my dime and pay to watch a dog-and-pony show and hear a Q&A. I'm that excited about this stuff. Even if I just end up being a Customer of somebody who hosts my VM on this gear it's plenty exciting. It actually feels like a new computer, as opposed to the same old, same old offerings from the incumbents.
I think it's ironic that some people are saying the likes of Chat GPT will make software engineers obsolete when in reality there will be huge demand for the humans that will eventually be needed to clean up messes just like this.
By linking to those examples you confirmed the point you were trying to refute.

From my personal perspective this is mediocre code at best.

It’s written in an unsafe language.

Littered with macros, which in C are not hygienic and are land mines in waiting.

Constants defined with lowercase and not actually marked as const.

Double underscores everywhere, which are the bad alternative to namespaces seen in weak languages like C.

WTF does “BITBIT_NR(nr)” do!? Does it “bit” the “bits”? What is NR? Is it a “number”? Then why not use “n” and drop it from the macro name?

Abbreviations everywhere: ofdr, nfdt, fds, fs, etc…

Then there is a long-winded explanation of how they pack bits into an array of longs. Okay, why not make this a reusable module of code? Because C is a weak language, or because the Linux kernel is spaghetti with a dozen implementations of bit maps?

\*
* Note that this can drive nr *below* what we had passed if sysctl_nr_open
* had been set lower between the check in expand_files() and here. Deal
* with that in caller, it's cheaper that way.

Huuuurk.

Sorry… did I just see a data race just casually commented as “okay because it is faster if it’s horrifically unsafe?

Yes? No? Maybe?

Do you even know?
This just occurred to me as well but I'm a US-based Plus user.
I have probably too many cores on my music production Mac, and I definitely would rather have faster single-threaded performance, even if it meant half the cores I currently have available.

I mean, I'm pretty happy with it. But the workload is only marginally faster/smoother than it would be with half the cores, and still sometimes feels sluggish. Law of diminishing returns, for sure. It never hangs on a hard load though, but I feel that would be the same with fewer but faster cores anyway.
Lol the Bundys only "survived" because 80% of the cops out there are on their side.

Give me a break, them having guns in no way prevented LE from doing what they wanted.
Getting credit card numbers out of the trash at a local Enterprise Rent-A-Car location was a weekly thing for us here, especially corporate accounts.
I don't think some folks nowadays realize just how effortless it was to find such information laying out in the open.
You mean your work on Dart at Google or are you working on a new programming language right now?

If it's the latter, I need more info please!
It's trivial to turn it off in Lit if you don't want to use the Shadow DOM.
That's pretty standard? Anything that's going straight into 400V (I assume) deserves a good eyeball before it's energised. I doubt their "root of trust" knows how to protect the system from a dead mouse in the bus bars.
You go your bank and set up a bank transfer, check the box to save details to your contacts if desired, and then hit the submit button.
https://whatsthefuckingnews.com
While it's correct that they had never heard of PRISM, PRISM has nothing to do with NSLs. It ingests data from FISA Section 702 requests.
the debate is about how valuable the abstraction here is to warrant a library, and the fact that it predefines the prompt and api call flow, so you cannot prompt engineer or use something like CoT/ToT
The profit part of it really came down to "well, just punishing them is leaving money on the table!"

Now, it might be the case that the people profiting from the string and long punishments are so cynical and greedy that they started campaigning for longer, harsher sentences specifically for their own enrichment, but the people are buying it as purification and penance through pain. The prison industrial complex only works as a business because the people already want what's being sold to them.
Thw difference between Russians and Westerners is that Russians know they are subjected to propaganda
I agree we are making a similar point. My original post had a long rant about Asians only being minorities when it benefits someone's argument (on the left or right) but I deleted it before posting. Suffice to say that there is a long history of marginalizing racism against Asians in America (recall that the Chinese Exclusion Act or some form of it was in effect until the World War 2) and the fight that the left has put up to try to excuse or hide the clear facts that affirmative action policies have (had?) an adverse impact on Asians is the latest example of that.
Here's the thing, though. Tax filing should not be a thing nearly anyone actually does. The IRS already knows what you made. I should be able to log into a website and verify that it's correct, or receive a letter, or both, and sign off on it. If my tax situation is complicated then I should be able to log into that same platform and tell them that I will be filing proper documentation.

I agree with the rest of your statement but while Conservatives exist with their two Santa Claus nonsense then it won't matter.
> Build nonce, fail everywhere

I’m pretty sure that was a typo, but it was an excellent one and I hope it doesn’t change! :)
That wasn't one of the choices.

I really love the book "The decision to go to the moon" because it chronicles not apollo itself, but the years leading up to the decision to do it.

Remember: The soviets had just successfully launched sputnik and were years ahead of the US. It was perceived to be a matter of national security and pride, we had to do something.

The choices were:

1 - do it, but as a secret CIA/Pentagon thing focused on military power, objectives, run by the military leadership.

2 - Do it as it was done, as a civilian, public thing for us all to share in.

I, for one, am very grateful they chose 2.
Fraud detection heuristics, at least, fundamentally have to rely on security through obscurity. If fraudsters know exactly what is detected as fraud, they can avoid detection.

Bitcoin gets around this by having absolutely no fraud prevention, and just saying "lol sucks for you should've been more careful"...
I worked on adding some of these. We pull them from each of the company's respective brand identity page + some manual SVG cruft elimination to decrease code size.
Ultra Ethernet Consortium Started by LF, Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE and Others
I think I just fell in love with you.

Finally a sane person <3

Honestly, I never understood why so many developers abbreviate function names or variables. Is it so much pain to type abc<tab> for auto completion?

Why not simply name fd file_descriptor?

Short names are a mental barrier and a level of abstraction that can easily be avoided.
In India, there’s something similar to FedNow called UPI — “Unified Payments Interface” that really disrupted the market completely about 7 years ago — it is interoperable, works instantly and has no charges. It was phenomenal how that grew and got adopted, keen to see how FedNow changes the American payments systems.
> categorically false

What does categorically false mean?
Can you configure your Oxide mainframe for different uses?
Like max it out with 90% being GPUs?

I like the idea, though it may be dumb, if you could fill it with
different types of processors for what you need.

Sort of like chiplets but at a different scale
I couldn't disagree more. We are a professional setting and have an app that is ten years old at this point that has used them previously and is expanding the use of them, not contracting them. This is after using Angular for a long time (we actually use our Web Components from Angular).

I would say starting a new application in 2023 based upon Angular or React would be the Ooof thing to do.
the quality of the prompt does not look that good from my experience reaching flexible structured output based on a schema

There are other questionable decisions and a valuable use of engineering time is indeed to evaluate candidate abstractions and think about the long-term cost of adopting them. In this case, it does not seem like it saves that much effort and in the long run means a lot of important LLM knobs are out of your control. Not a good tradeoff
You are assuming that software always improves as its development moves forward. It might not. It might even get more insecure as time passes.
For that one comment, probably not, but maybe for dozens of previous flagged and/or dead comments
Damn, $75 is steep but it does look very clean
>I think it'd be great if someone made a de-Googled fork of ChromeOS without all the Google telemetry and bloatware, because it'd be the perfect Linux distro for security-conscious individuals.

Since such a thing is currently unavailable, I'm inclined to try running ChromeOS, then having a headless Linux box next to it in the hopes that my customizing the headless Linux box will satisfy my need to customize my software environment.

For example, I'm inclined to try to keep most of my personal files on the headless Linux box.
It will be interest to see if life expectance temporarily increases when one of the largest progenitors of iatrogenesis loses capacity.
I recently saw a horrible presentation by Microsoft on how they
built the OpenAI supercomputer on Azure. (with custom bits).

How would an Oxide computer systems look like for for an "OpenAI super computer"
compared to Azure?
They are not necessary.

> One of the ways we use cookies is to show you useful and relevant ads on and off Project Aria.
Comparing AI to humans when discussing copyright is disingenuous.

Even if AI learns like humans do (which is decidedly not true anyways), it is just a tool; a means to an end. Humans are not. If we don't like what AI is doing we can (theoretically) throw the entire thing out. We cannot do this with humans.

It's not at all clear to me that AI is going to be a net-positive for most people. It seems that AI folks from certain companies have convinced themselves that we just need to scale up a little bit more and suddenly we'll create a utopia. I am not sure that they care about any damage done on the way there.
I find I still have to write a few a year, annoyingly.

Of all things my life insurance company is still not set up for credit card payments. In 2023.

Boggles the mind.
An article on HN a while ago posited that 'bad code' is directly correlated to forgetting what the code does over time - not the code quality itself. When you green-field a project, everything is fresh in your memory and the code feels great. When you come back to the exact same code a year later you you've lost your landmarks, there's workarounds you don't remember why they exist, suddenly you hate it, ugh this code is terrible! So you re-write it, making you more familiar with the code again and making it easy to remember - suddenly its good code!

I try to keep that in mind when writing my code. Sometimes its comments, sometimes its documentation, sometimes its CleanCode™, sometimes its big blocks of text explaining why the heck a certain class exists, but my approach is "Write it for myself in a year when I can't remember what the hell half this stuff does", using every tool at my disposal to achieve that.
One of my favourite books!
>private sector lobbying

Honestly half the problem is you call bribery "lobbying". Why on earth companies are allowed to donate mega millions to a politician is insane.
So the way project Wing works is you order through an app and track the delivery. Delivery is within a few minutes so the lag time is fairly low.

I don't see this system being used to deliver stuff not being specifically requested (like say an Rx). Strong winds, fog, and rain would ground delivery also.
It was not mentioned in the leaked documents that the Guardian published. Instead, it said that the data came "directly from" the tech companies (who responded to wiretap requests on specific accounts). Greenwald couldn't be bothered to understand what the documents said and hallucinated the phrase "direct access" like a low capacity language model, but we on HN are functionally literate.
They explicitly say

> One of the ways we use cookies is to show you useful and relevant ads on and off Project Aria.

Also no, it doesn't let them do that because that's not how the law works. There must be an opt out.
I don't think anyone is arguing that an automagical system of electronic payments that everyone uses wouldn't be desirable [so long as cash wasn't also an option] but writing/depositing a check now and then is so far down my list of weekly annoyances it doesn't even register especially given my bank actually "writes" most of them based on online payment instructions. I'd be much more annoyed if I had to use cash on a regular basis as is the case in some countries.
Same here. I assume progressive rollout
There are multiple ways to get structured output, and what this library is doing is not really that interesting. The concept is interesting and has had multiple implementations already, the code (and abstraction) here is not interesting and creates more issues than it solves
As I see it, the innovative part is that the service is push-only. With ACH and most other systems in the US, payees can pull from accounts, while FedNow has no support for forceful debits. That's a significant shift in the way we think about payments (for the better, IMHO). This has been done before by other service providers, but not by someone with this kind of influence and clout in the US.
Thanks for the link, but it will only confirm what you and I both believe for opposite reasons. The latest paper from the link reinforces the idea that long term post surgery QoL decreases after an an initial short term increase. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440516/

Edit to add: as the father of two neuro-atypical kids I have an interest in therapy’s that help them get through life with their unique gifts. Were I offered a therapy that placated their idiosyncrasies in the short term only to harm them in the long term, it would quickly be rejected from all options, doubly were it permanently damaging to them in some way. Unfortunately, psychology is full of pop “therapies” that cause significant harm to vulnerable populations who are left to deal with the consequences.
I would say Oxide is inflexible and non-customizable since they have exactly one hardware configuration and few software features at this point. Their claim is more that their rack works and everything else on the market is full of bugs.
Also check out the YouTube video from corridor crew on this topic. It will likely further convince you.
Good code is sound.
> Im wondering if sulfates from wine are a major player.

I work in healthcare in one of the wine capitals of the world, Napa County, CA.

We do not have a higher rate of pancreatic cancer than anywhere else. It is average. If sulfates from wine were a factor, it is quite likely that we would have seen a higher rate of pancreatic cancer here.

https://www.countyofnapa.org/DocumentCenter/View/11029/Main-...
A dumbed down interpretation. What most people can buy off the shelf for servers more or less looks like a pc shoved into an odd looking case (1u, 3U rack). To get anywhere near the cost / performance of the big players you need something that’s designed for the data center server workloads.
> Wish we could do the same for the credit card companies. Would be great if the Federal Government could intervene in some way to have Visa / Mastercard / American Express / Discover use the same API interface for payments. Would dramatically increase competition for providers.

If FedNow can fit in with ApplePay, then it can displace credit cards in the first place! The corollary I’m drawing, is from India where “UPI” payments (something similar to FedNow) was launched about 7 years ago and today is the more dominant payment mode than credit cards.
He hasn't been a criminal for a very long time. He more than payed his dues as well when he was unconstitutionally held in solitary confinement without bail. Reducing a man who has done so much to something so trivial as this reflects poorly on you alone.