skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should start asking for residuals on software we write!
Failing to yield to pedestrians where?

e: Actually, not going to get into it but c'mon - cars kill pedestrians in a way that bikes rarely do and removing the cars from your NY neighborhood would have an obviously better impact on pedestrians compared to the bikes.
> That's a very short sighted business strategy if true. Simply liquidating their reputation.

Why should they care? They're too big to fail…

Google controls almost the whole end-user realm through Chrome & clones, and Android, the dominating end-user OS by a wide margin.

At the same time end-users are completely helpless and can't do anything against Googles liking because they don't understand anything about IT tech.

Computers are black magic to most people so they're trapped. This never changed! Especially millennials and gen-z are completely clueless as they didn't had the chance to use personal computers ever, where you had at lest some control over the device and needed to know at least some basics about its inner working. All the younger people know are the tightly sealed black-box devices you don't have any control over, called mobiles, which are fully operated by big-tech. Google search + Android apps are "the internet" for most people. They mostly don't even know there is something else beyond that, so Google can do whatever they want, and this will have exactly zero consequences for them by now.

Google's move regarding rolling out "browser DRM", the next "trusted computing" initiative, regardless of what anybody thinks about is is very telling.

Now they will violently reap the fruits of their monopoly, and likely nobody will be able to stop them in the next decade. People where warned about the consequences of this monopoly for many many years. Nobody cared. Now it's payout day for Google.
This is an excellent use of the technology. It would be their familiar voice, but also input would be a whole lot easier.

I think this is the kind of thing Jason Becker and his father would really appreciate. Jason has had ALS for decades, and his father created a method for him to communicate, spelling with his eyes. He managed to produce music for a couple of albums with his eyes, too.

An AI layer on top of that would make sentence completion so much more efficient.

https://jasonbecker.com/
>They may write well on a subject but that doesn't mean they know anything.

There's a bit to unpack here. Being articulate is orthogonal to being skilled. That is, it's widely understood to be harder to explain what you do than to actually do, often by an order-of-magnitude.

Articulation can itself be considered a skill, but I think it's practical to ignore that in a conversation like this - with the sole exception of when articulation takes precedent over skill, as is the case with bullshitters and sophists. This is an error mode, similar to how any valuable quality can be overdone and loose it's healthy relationship to other qualities.
A defense of the imperial measurement system [video]
How I do my computing (2006-2022)
I'm making a Action MMO engine where the game will be coded in C and hot-reloaded with this API: http://edit.rupy.se?host=move.rupy.se&path=/file/game.cpp&sp...

So far the API is really small and the turnaroud is 100 millisec.
Please make your substantive points without swipes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Can we just go ahead and remove this link as being OT before the comments turn into the inevitable ignorant shit-storm?
This is very easy to answer:

Design toys and environments for them that promote the development of infinity category theoretical intuitions. Let them decide the pace from there.
1. it matters what training data the creators of the LLM use

2. the step of reinforcement learning with human feedback is important

3. as a user you need to ask questions well and know how to prompt it to get the best results
You don't have to take responsibility for fixing something just because you criticized it.

Fixating on the term used is a tad disingenuous. I think most people reading hacker news understands that the IRC ecosystem is being referenced here - not the protocol itself. IRC has been around 30+ years and it still doesn't have any great clients.

If you wanted to build a featureful chat client IRC wouldn't even be a good choice because there is so many things missing from the spec.
Man I'd be living the life if I could show up to work one time and then get paid for it over and over as long as my work was still benefitting the company.

I don't understand how Disney and Netflix and HBO decide it makes financial sense to strip major series like Westworld off their streaming services because the residuals are costing them more than the series is earning but actors are on strike because they don't get paid enough. What's going on?
Love how all the horses are just standing around non-chalant while gunshots go off all over. Very realistic :-)
I don't think it's uncharitable at all. Anyone who makes a statement like "most people under 50 have never experienced a Main St" is making assumptions so large, so unexamined and so obviously incorrect that it has to be emotionally driven, especially when it's phrased along the lines of "kids today don't understand X".

If it is a legitimate observation, they must really, literally, not get out much and I would recommend driving to the nearest town with a population north of 10,000 and look around a bit to broaden their horizons. That's the generous interpretation.
> That knowledge exists now in Europe, but there was easily a lost decade in terms of capability.

You keep saying this but I’m not seeing any evidence it’s true. There have always been plenty of companies in Europe that have had data centre scale compute too (plus managing a data centre requires that level of understanding as well so I don’t agree with you dismissing OVH.

Plus you keep saying it’s taken a decade for the EU to catch up and on those timescales it would put things before GDPR et al. Thus EU legislation would have no impact even if your point was true.

> Similar will happen in AI and you will be stuck relying on American products.

At risk of sounding repetitive: I work for a European AI firm.

We actually have a lot of American clients — so the exact inverse of the point you’re making.
One could say that you need to understand something about the artifact you are compressing, but, to be clear, you can compress text without understanding anything about its semantic content, and this is what gzip does. The only understanding needed for that level of compression is that the thing to be compressed is a string in a binary alphabet.
Related: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/july/research...

(we changed the main URL to the paper above but it's still worth a look - also some of the comments below quote from the press release, not the paper)
I once had to administer a system where a particular folder had so many files that things stopped working, even the ls command would not complete. (It was probably on ext3 or ext2.)

The workaround involved writing a python script that handled everything in a gradual manner, moving files into subdirectories based on shared prefixes.
If they own the attestation for Chrome then presumably they could also allow their scrapers to attest?
http://move.rupy.se/file/last_computer.png

If you want to drive VR you'll need minimum Jetson Nano and 15W.
> People can still do things that suck if they want to do those things enough.

Yes, but why would they when a thing is painful and unpleasant? There's other ways to get around or get exercise, people will default to things that are nice and convenient.

> If you want to walk and have two legs that work, don’t whine about wishing walking didn’t suck. Get out and walk.

Incredibly nonsensical dismissal. Let's see how silly your reasoning is:

"Americans just don't wanna walk, no matter what."

"People don't do X because it sucks, if it didn't suck more people would do it."

"Doesn't matter, suck it up and do it anyway loser"

Wow, we sure learned a lot there. Do you teach gym class maybe?

We're talking about a systemic problem. Insulting people isn't gonna get the population to walk more, shockingly enough.
>might not even have a full computer at home

How awful. Do they play games, do work and watch TV on their phone?
ChaiScript is another option: https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript
It seems like you can run Envoy as a sidecar next to each application instance to allow non-cluster-aware libraries to use the cluster: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overv...
There's an argument to be made that the military employs socialization tactics often found in cults, such as group mentality--I'll be the first to concede that. But the notion that the military's 'objective' is the "continuous exploitation of lower level persons" is utter nonsense.

The objective of the U.S. Military is to fight and win wars. There's been a lot of social science put into the military on how best to accomplish that. Much of that science is on leadership and how to organize groups into effective teams.

A brief skimming of many of these texts clearly highlight how tactics like overworking subordinates, threatening troops, and other intimidation tactics have terrible consequences in the long term. The most effective leaders care for and inspire their subordinates, which yields more cohesive teams and higher productivity. The military teaches this constantly.
What are you talking about? Even most common supermarkets have a small variety of IPAs and other craft beers. And even without them there are small breweries everywhere in southern Germany which have great "classical" beers..
Is this why manpages resemble grimoires?
In regards to violations holding the striver instead of the company liable, I see it exactly the opposite way you do. It empowers individual workers to refuse to create a dangerous situation. If the company is the one liable, the worker can wash their hands of the situation and happily make a dangerous situation on the road. The company won’t care and can treat it as a cost of doing business/lean on insurance risk pooling because things almost never go wrong making the risk cheap. If no individual is responsible, the only people who lose are the worker and other road users.
I didn't say it wasn't "editorializing".

I objected to shusaku implying that this headline was exaggerating.

I don't know how to make this clearer.

> Do you think an equally good title might be "If you’ve ever had an MRI, you’ve lain inside a big electromagnet made of superconducting wire."?

Well, if you really want to get into this, even though I acknowledge it's cherry-picking:

If that fact is what the submitter cared about, and this was the only page on the internet talking about that fact... it wouldn't be a terrible idea.

The HN guidelines aren't great here. You can make your own blog post about something and link that, but it will probably get replaced to the "original" link even if the "original" link had a completely different focus.

Sometimes you have to pray that whoever wrote the original splits it up into different articles themselves. Or that they write on twitter, so you can link to a specific tweet.

Sometimes a newspaper will put three completely separate stories into the same article, and trying to link the second or third story on HN risks the title getting replaced with something utterly unrelated.
As an Epidemiologist, Ed Yong's work has been some of the most solid public health reporting I've ever read, both before and during the pandemic.
I remember the hachyderm postmortems were also pretty good. I'm glad that folks are transparent.
1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo
I keep wondering how articles make it up to the first page.
This one, for example, an article hosted by substack.
A service with terrible user interface, that tries to make you think that someone is doing you a favour for letting you read their literature without paying, whereas... the opposite is true.

The article itself is irrelevant but since I read it, I can tell that it is a classical nonsensical piece on the benefits of listening to children. The author lacks any formal qualification on teaching from what I could also find.

In other terms a complete time waster.
Poor people can’t live in the places you’re describing so they’re going out of the public transit coverage
Equity? Are y'all not asking for that? Travolta Confused Meme here

Royalties are equity distributions, "dividends" if you will.
The research is slightly misleading... the models they experimented all had an original pretrained context length significantly less than the fine tuned context length they tested for, e.g. they used MPT-30B-Instruct, which was pretrained for 2k sequence length and then fine tuned for 8k sequence length. A real test of if current self attention has this issue would be natively training a model with the extended sequence length.
> Otherwise she would just skate through elementary school, never being forced to persevere or really apply herself.

This really resonates. I rarely felt challenged until around high school when I accidentally tested my way into some advanced classes taught by teachers who demanded much more. It felt awful and my self esteem was shot, but I was grateful in the end. I had the same issues applying myself again in college, but for the opposite reason.

Nobody should have to stumble through school like that.

I do think it's important to diversify the experience of perseverance though. Math isn't everything.
I'm the founder of AirGradient and last year we have decided to focus our company on open hardware air quality monitors that we produce professionally.

Our outdoor monitor Open Air has been designed from the start as an open hardware project with a beautiful plastic injected enclosure to demonstrate that open source hardware can look and perform on the same level like traditional products.

We do also work intensively with research institutions around the world to test the monitor and ensure that the monitors are as accurate as possible [1].

Happy to answer any question that might come up.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/research/
Which tools to use to start a hardware based health startup in 2023
We just founded a company that sells a hardware device in the medtech sector.
Analyzing our future processes and departments we are thinking of which tools these need. The selling of the device will partially happen on shopify.
I am just so confused, cause the tools overlap each other so much and it will become a huge cost factor when we grow.
Should we just start with Excel lists for orders and sales and later move to more sophisticated tools once we know more about how the business is run, or do you have your go to tools that you set up whenever you start a new company?

For me it was:
- Confluence (free)
- Jira (free)
- HubSpot CRM (free)
- Wordpress for the Website (cheap)

Thanks!
How do you manage to do that for Python AND Fortran in the same language?
Ask HN: Which apps are you subscribed to?
Frogs seem to have a delayed Ontogeny, too, but the restructuring is much less drastic than insects.

Vertebrates go through several stages in their development while in the egg (or placental sack, which stands in for the egg). The develop a head, spine, and tail initially. Then they add front limbs and finally rear limbs. Frogs hatch from their eggs prior to the limb development stage and retain that neotenous legless form while tadpoles. They are essentially hatched as embryos and don’t assume their adult form until later.
The Transformer Blueprint
Medicare isn't losing most of that money to their own administrators out of their back door; it's being taken by doctors, users.
PeerDB syncs your Postgres data with other databases in real-time.
Why do authors receive royalty every time their book is sold?
"The new provisions grant AGCOM the power to issue “dynamic injunctions” against online service providers of all kinds, a privilege usually reserved for judges in Europe’s highest courts."

Recap: Corporate interests acquire profound legal power.
Because it is no longer properly restricted to the highest courts, it is no longer properly safeguarded from the inherent risk of abuse.

In my experience, the trading of cash/favors <-> gov power (bribery) that results in corruption like this - it is rarely challenged by the press or voters.

In the US, this sort of corruption is everyday Congress. News orgs rarely cover it. Meanwhile, it causes ~0% of voters to change their vote. In short, most people behave as if they're fairly well fine with it.
You can do this in Spotify now by creating a playlist and then playing the station driven from that playlist.
From the number of flights offered, I think it’s much more common than you might think. My guess is that part of the reason has to to with Seattle’s very very bad traffic. I once spent 4 hours traveling less than 15 miles on a drive heading south from the city center, and I don’t think that’s even super anomalous.
Tiny life hack: paint your mouse dongles
I would think it has to do with the IP owners using the likeness of the actors to continue to market the show year after year.
And yet, there's way more walking going on there on average than in typical US cities. That's my point.

Just like snow can be an impediment for biking, and yet Oulu Finland has way more biking than US cities with much milder climates.
> I drive a Tesla model Y. Probably the smallest SUV I can buy.

> Why are people in this thread jumping to these absolutely absurd ideas about the motivations somebody would have for the car they drive? Do some of you seriously have this idea of a deranged murderous psychopath gassing up their giant child squishing machine and going out into the world looking for children to run over or something?

It doesn't matter what your justification is for owning SUV, statistically you are more likely to hit pedestrians because SUV have bad visibility. And when you hit pedestrian it's more likely that injuries they suffer will be fatal. SUVs are higher than normal cars so when hit by it pedestrian will more likely have head and torso injuries, with more often are fatal. Also SUVs have bigger clearance under it, so hit pedestrian will more likely be also squished by wheels and dragged under the car for no one knows how long. This is even more dangerous for kids(you might not know that but on average they are smaller than average adult).

SUVs are not safer than normal cars. Poor visibility, higher center of gravity, stiff undercarriage all contribute to higher possibility of rollover. They have worse crumple zone, car might be ok but driver not so much. Worse fuel efficiency (car exhausts are not healthy). And many other things.

In the end your motivation doesn't matter, you are a bigger danger to pedestrians(not to mention other drivers) than if you owned normal car or bicycle.
This reminded me of a Google settlement, which we only have 2 days to claim.

https://www.refererheadersettlement.com/

I keep getting an "Unexpected Error has Occurred"...how convenient.
The Progressive laid out how to build a hydrogen bomb:
https://progressive.org/magazine/november-1979-issue/

The US government said that info was born secret and sued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....

I won’t spoil who won the argument.
Yeah, this is along the lines of "If I could just say a few words, I'd be a better public speaker."
And yet there's a wide gulf between the leadership effectiveness of the NATO-trained Ukrainian armed forces and their Russian opponents.

In both armies, you can't quit without serious repercussions. Yet soldiers in one army punch well above their weight class, while the others dig in for dear life and lob artillery at random civilian areas. Leadership is why all armies are not the same, any more than corporations, schools, churches, or Scout troops are.
man -Tpdf perlintro > perlintro.pdf

Kinda.
Set accuracy aside for a moment.

There is an opportunity cost for stuffing garbage into an model's limited parameter count. Every SEO bot article, angry tweet, or off topic ingestion (like hair product comparisons or neutron star descriptions in your code completion llm) takes up "space" that could instead be taken up by a textbook, classic literature or whatever.

Generative AI works pretty well in spite of this garbage because of the diamonds in the rough. But I am certain the lack of curation and specialization leaves a ton of efficiency/quality left on the table.
If I signed up for this settlement (what feels like) six months ago, do I have to do anything now?
Not too unthinkable when SaaS exists :)
Probably the same reason every Senate Democrats voted against having an Inspector General on Ukraine aide. [1]

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[1] https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/senate-dems-oppose-oversight-o....
it's weird to hear a famous actor/actress complaining about work and then saying that the boss is too busy yachting while they bust their hump.

it's very much a turtles-all-the-way-down feeling.
No less than 49% I hope!
I was very confused by the headline. Like wtf is "year on year profit", and what does it mean that this year's is down by 95%.

Just tell me that last year profits were 11B, and now they're 0.5B.

And here it is: https://www.statista.com/statistics/237093/samsungs-operatin...
> Yet if everyone does that, the number of traffic fatalities increases.

But without trees they might run into someone walking or on their porch/front yard.
This line:

> No, I don't give a shit about your "seamless experience".

Is way more respectful than the situation calls for.
Url changed from https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/28/if-we-want-a-s..., which points to this.
Matrix is very much alive and well; we just hit 100M total addressable users on the network :)
I put GPT to write a warning about sharp knives btw. I have posted it on HN some months back, but i can't resist to post it again.

About the lobotomy of the models, i think that's a mute point. In my opinion the training methods are going to change a lot over the next 2-3 years, and we will find a way, for a language model, to start in a blank state, not knowing anything about the world, and load up specialized knowledge on demand. I made a separate comment how that can be achieved, a little bit far up.

https://imgur.com/a/usrpFc7
Would like to point about, replacing the imperial system in the US will cost a lot of time and money

"E could 'a drawed me off a pint,' grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. 'A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price.'
yes, but the problem is there is for example some native apps like google drive that randomly sends you something, even if it never did for 2 years

then you also have the thing of not using big screens every day
YOMM2 1.4.0: fat pointer, headers only
Parents are often pressured into it by nosy people who call the law if they see kids out by themselves.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/prompt-engineering-for/...