skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a decent point, in that it reminds me of a startup that posted on HN a couple of months ago that did background removal from images using AI models. They claimed this was a mature market now where bulk pricing was bringing the cost down to some marginal over the price of compute. I suspect those kinds of models are comparatively small compared to the general intelligence LLMs we are seeing and might reasonably be trainable on 250k clusters. There is likely a universe of low-hanging fruit for those kinds of problems and those who are capable. That is definitely not a market I would want to compete in since once a particular problem is sufficiently solved then it becomes a race to the bottom in cost.

But my (totally amateur and outsider informed) intuition is that the innovative work will still happen at the edge of model size for the next few years. We literally just got the breakthroughs in LLM capabilities around the 30b parameter mark. These capabilities seemed to accelerate with larger models. There appears to be a gulf in the capabilities from 7B to 70B parameter LLMs that makes me not want to bother with LLMs at all unless I can get that higher level performance of the massive models. But even if I did want to play around at 30B or whatever I have to pay 15k-100k.

I think we are just in a weird spot right now where the useful model sizes for a large class of potential applications is at a price point that many engineers will find prohibitively expensive to experiment with on their own.
How might a quantum computer help? I was under the impression that there are only two quantum algorithms that are concretely known to provide exponential speedups for interesting problems relative to known classical state-of-the-art, and neither of them (Shor's and Grover's) appears to be useful for physics simulations. Was I mistaken?
Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and might itself have been a corruption of the word German).
Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?
For example:

I've used 3+ code editors on MacOS and prefer sublime text over VScode, coteditor, xcode.

I've used Chrome, Firefox and Safari all within the past year, and I prefer Chrome and Safari.

I've used 3+ voice transcription apps, the ones I prefer are 'just press record' and Otter.ai, I can't remember the names of the others I used - but I downloaded a bunch of Whisper based ones and non-whisper based ones on the iOS app store.

I've used 3+ messaging apps, I like iMessage and Telegram, I prefer those over Signal and WhatsApp.

I've used 3+ interfaces for GPT, and I prefer the OpenAI playground over ChatGPT, chatbot-ui, typingmind, openplayground, Poe, and a few others I can't remember.

I think it's important to note that for me these are all preferences. I'm not saying one of these tools are objectively better. I am saying that for me they are better, and I prefer them.

What are areas of products, tools, developer tools, APIs, anything, where you've personally used 3+ tools, and what did you prefer, and what did you not prefer, if you can still remember?
It isn't misplaced.

It's hard to dynamically figure out if you're an EU citizen or not via the browser. Hence, websites play it "safe" by showing it to pretty much the whole world.
I can feel that you are from EU. Just because the way you defend your arguments sounds so european. But, let me whisper it to your ears, this thing is shit bro. Literally, I'm spending hours looking at screen and this consent banner pops out almost every minute...I keep my right to take this to the court if I'm diagnosed with schizophrenia or whatever.
I hope they won't use them to actively engage with real people and making the platforms even more toxic than they already are.
As always, OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - I recently integrated with a bunch of on-call schedule providers, so I'm going to spend a few weeks marketing that so my existing users find out about it.

On top of that, looking at adding mutual TLS as a means of letting folks allow-list OnlineOrNot without punching a hole through their firewall.
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Couldn't a criminal leave enough info to point to someone else? Then Krebs exposes a mark.
Yes, which makes sense I guess, but localhost et al are already considered "secure origins" by that, so the features should be available regardless if you're doing TLS or not, if you're loading the document/page/application from localhost.
I mean sure you could create an all analog PID that reads out the temperature sensor in the tip and heats it accordingly and maybe displays the tips temperature — but then you would get all the disadvantages of analog without any of it's benefits.

I have multiple digital JBC soldering stations and the time from taking out the sleeping handle to having it heated to soldering temperature is so short you stop bothering even thinking about it.

And because the sensor is in the tips you can solder huge pads without the temperature of the tip going down enough to notice.

I am a guy who loves analog (in fact I build a lot of modular synthesizer stuff that is mostly analog computers), but in this case anything other than digital is silly, especially if you want your iron to do advanced things like extending the tips livetime by having a sleep mode that reacts to how often you took the tip out in the past minute etc.
in a way, this has already been done! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCC941xKuBs
The reason government is trying to get outside developers creating this game is that they don't have the talent for that, nor are they in the business of creating games in general. They would probably not have a program for continued improvement of games provided by 3rd parties.

Whoever wins the competition however is a talented creative developer. If government wanted to develop the game further they would probably be happy to contract with the original developer if they have further budget for that. But if not, you the creative developer could create your own follow-up game which government could not copy without your permission.

I think the winner will be somebody who is already developing games. They have the process and tools in place already. It won't be me (either).
>"A typical SMES system includes three parts: superconducting coil, power conditioning system and cryogenically cooled refrigerator. Once the superconducting coil is charged, the current will not decay and the magnetic energy can be stored indefinitely."

I wonder if this effect is in any way related to that of Ed Leedskalnin's PMH:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=leedskalnin+(PM...

(Since the effect common to both is maintaining a current persistently (persisting a current once charged) -- until discharged...)

Probably not, however...

Perhaps the general terminology around this phenomena in the future will be "Magnetic Capacitor" and/or "Magnetic Capacitance"...

Also, it's a well-known effect in electronics that coils AKA inductors (temporarily, not indefinitely, at least not without being recharged somehow) store electrical energy in a magnetic field... though there doesn't seem to yet exist a discrete commercially available coil/inductor electronic part -- that can store the same amount of energy that a supercapacitor can...

Perhaps in the future that might change...
Yea weirdly enough it seems to be pretty balanced right now. For what its worth, the key players are not attrition risks, which is why I can be so blaise about it. I have seem attrition ruin many a team in my career.
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Yes because even the "easiest" of them to use the Steam Deck can easily run into its fair share of PC gamer problems. I've never once had my Switch boot a game with the incorrect button config, there's no need to fiddle with output resolutions on a game by game basis, pairing controllers for local play always works flawlessly etc. And this isn't even getting into trying to find the best settings for optimal battery life/noise, adjusting TDP, frame rate cap etc.

There's a lot of value in handheld PCs but they just don't have the ease of use a console like the Switch does.
Researchers have come up with a new way to store electricity in cement
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I wish the cheapest non-free tier was cheaper, but I totally agree that building an editor with all the features listed is very time consuming. I love that you are working to tackle this issue!

If I had one request, it would be instead of making me jump from $0 to $150 a month, have a usage-based model similar to OpenAI or Firebase, with functionality so I could cap costs to say $15 a month.
> Why not just ask that then?

Because that's not all I want to know. I want to see the first things that surface in their mind and what they enjoy talking about. It's not a trick question and the only wrong answers are very clearly wrong sometimes even to those who don't work in software.

> Hiring managers frequently can't differentiate between people who are knowledgeable and people who are just good at interviewing.

I don't agree with this at all. We don't have "hiring managers". That's the problem right there. What the hell are they going to know about the position if they're not in it?

The developers have always done the interviewing of candidates at every place I've worked. We know exactly what to ask and what technical answers actually indicate they can get the job done. It's not hard to know what to ask when you actually do the job you're interviewing someone about.
> Two electrodes made of this material, separated by a thin space or an insulating layer, form a very powerful supercapacitor, the researchers found.

The image of a huge cube is a bit misleading. If you made a huge cube, you'd probably want a sandwich of thin layers separated by thin film, wired in alternating polarity. Not exactly something you could pour in a foundation.
This is a project which builds firmware for multiple devices and processor architectures, supporting developers running various operating systems locally, and includes support for documentation generation and firmware localization. It doesn't sound too strange to me that such a project includes a decent amount of tooling to ensure that compiling things is accessible for a layperson, and ensure a healthy influx of community and corporate contributions which don't diminish software quality. None of the dependencies mentioned in the Dockerfile [1] really seem out of place, to me, and I don't think the documentation generation or checkstyle packages are critical to compiling the firmware.

Besides, you can always treat a built Docker image as a stable toolchain archive if that's a concern; there's little reason to assume that it won't work 12 years into the future as - as far as I can tell - none of the software relies on it being run inside a Docker container.

[1] https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS/blob/80c4b58976268849b6d1c8d...
Realistically, Jujutsu is a pretty new project and there are many features to add and lots and lots of code that needs to be written. There is a lot of talking that needs to happen, in other words. So, most of the developers and committers actively hang out and discuss things in Discord, yes, because it's convenient, and fast, and allows all the interested parties to be alerted. I say this as someone who started hacking/working on Jujutsu recently; having Discord has been nice for such a new project.

The reality is that the project is in a part of its life where active discussion and feedback with the userbase is pretty valuable. So, you just go where the users are, and Discord is a big place for that.

GitHub Issues and GitHub Discussions are also actively used by a lot of people, and you can just post things there. Every major committer watches those venues as well, AFAIK, I know my notifications are set up for it.

Over time, assuming things are wildly successful, you'd probably have a lot of different venues to discuss things. I would view Discord mostly in the context of a new project that wants feedback, in that regard.
Adyen is several years older than Stripe. Hardly a fighting back against incumbents situation.
Ever seen one of these high school science demos?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWojYBhvfjM

Now imagine one where you don't have to chill it with liquid nitrogen.
What game engines does it support?
Something wrong. I've been riding several times a week for decades and get 1-2 flats a year, maybe.
What happens? Do they call you and ask for more money before they pick you up? Why don't they get 0-starred after that?
I didn't know people needed an MRI twice a day to be able to work, or to use an MRI to enjoy a concert or a dinner out. If people need that many MRIs, maybe everyone should get their own!
Ask HN: Git, JavaScript, Chrome, Redis etc. what next?
I wanted to work on something really interesting, such as problem statements that don't have good solutions yet.

But I fail to find things that could be done that haven't been implemented yet.

It seems like all the low (and even medium, high) hanging fruit has been covered. [Of course not calling Redis and such low hanging fruits, but just to give examples of something fundamental.]

How would you explore what to work on? Especially something non-AI.
AFS solved the cross OS permission problem by throwing away OS permissions and handling permissions itself entirely. It's tightly integrated with kerberos for auth/encryption enabling trivial federation.

It also solved a lot of data locality/ discovery issues by using SRV records. You want to visit /afs/cmu.edu? No problem, client looks up the dns record then uses that to ask the volserver where the volume actually lives.

The openafs server implementation is single threaded unfortunately. However is a more performant proprietary implementation via auristor (it's not all bad as Jeff Altman has been involved in openafs for a long time).

If you don't want to install the openafs kernel module on all your clients, there is also a stripped down in-kernel Linux client, kafs.

You still run into it in the research/edu space although a lot of places now block outbound afs so you don't accidentally leak data.

I highly recommend checking out other software that came out of project Athena. It really was a special time in compute and had some really novel concepts.

Source: I've spent waaaay too much time dealing with AFS and kerberos.
Yea, just GitHub repos. In fact just a single repo (work's mono repo) for now, but that's where I spend the majority of my day.
It could be something like i-codes.

It's mentioned about 2 minutes into this video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJTp-3rtkYQ
> Website analytics can be incredibly useful for designers and developers; giving those up would be a huge hit to a lot of companies, large and small, so it's understandable that they're not going to do so.

Everyone thinks that but in practice most folks don't have a clue what they're looking at and just use the numbers as a crutch for whatever opinion they already had.

Of course, this problem isn't just a web analytics one.
When the first cookie law came into action companies sprung up claiming to provide a solution. Rather than actually doing anything useful they'd give you a JavaScript snippet to just dump onto your page and then they'd deal with everything. They'd scan your site and compile a list of cookies and their purpose and present that to your users. It sort of worked, expect the service would frequently fail to recognize certain cookies or part of you site might be behind a login. But it was something you could easily implement and push the responsibility to a third-party for a small fee.

Then came GDPR and these retarded cookie banner companies decided to offer that as a service as well... Basically the same thing right? Well for many of the sites it is, because their goal is find a way to do nothing, or as little as possible, they don't want things to change and here's someone offering them just that.

I hate that it when people are blaming the EU for the nightmare that is consent popups. They aren't required, unless you doing stupid shit. Companies love presenting this as: The EU is making us do this. NO, you want to track people online and the EU is simply asking for you to declare that.

It's truly amazing that companies don't see to problem telling people that they care about their privacy, yet presents them with a list of 600 "partners" whom which they share our data.

So yes, it's laziness, these sites don't want to chance the way they deal with advertisers, because that would be slightly harder. It's also partly incompetence, there's an entire generation of ad people who don't know the first thing about advertising, they know Google Adwords and Facebook Ads.
I took this as an estimate of the number of dams.
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Well, I hope you inquired as to whether he was born that much of an asshole, or if he had to work his whole life to achieve it, and then refused to address him as anything other than "fucking wanker" for the remainder of the meeting. On behalf of the rest of us.
It's a fiction. You can tell because the rule is consistent across differing legal regimes: tipped wage permitted or not.
Thanks for the detailed answer.

> For example, you could write `jj merge @ main` to make a merge commit with the working copy[1] and the `main` branch.

Since it's my first time seeing this, the syntax is a bit confusing, the man says "Unlike most other VCSs, `jj merge` does not implicitly include the working copy revision's parent as one of the parents of the merge; you need to explicitly list all revisions that should become parents of the merge.", it's not clear to me if the order matters and how many can be listed (and why for more than 2).
What I wanted to replicate was just doing a "git co main; git merge feature-branch", thanks for the explanation.

> git log`/`jj log` are non-mutating operations, so why would you expect that they can update `HEAD`/branches?

What I meant was that with git status/log the differences between your local clone and the remote are clearly shown, you know if they are misaligned and see the last commit for each branch without using additional commands, jj log/st provide way less info. I see where "main" is in jj log but have no idea if that label will update after a push or a fetch of the remote. Just a bit confusing for newcomers, I have to play with it.
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When I looked at it a few years ago, the compiler didn't prevent you from accessing fields from the wrong variant, and didn't provide exhaustivity checks. So I think it still falls short of this (excellent) litmus test :/
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