skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point of view, and I think it comes down to how much you rely on the service

As you mention gas, for instance my gas cost are ridiculously low (less than 10 bucks a month) as the car is only for specific cases, and 99% of the time I'm not driving.

Same way I care a lot more about visiting new places than going to theaters, and I'd never end up with 5$ of paper maps (to dig my own grave, I also buy paper maps of the wilder areas I go and they sure cost way more than that...)

On the other had, getting lost somewhere I have no familiarity with, being stuck at a station that has an incident and not having any backup plans, looking for someone in a town for 30 min because they're describing places in a way that is too vague are situations that are highly stressful and can cost a lot more than 10 or 20 bucks. Have you ever missed the last train and thought how much it will cost you to do something about it ?

That's where I put the price of an app I actually use a ton, it could be one of the main reasons I have a smartphone and not a combination of a dumb modem and a tablet.
Ironic that they protect their documentation pages with a Cloudflare CAPTCHA. Wouldn't want a bot to scrape that.
Yeah, here in the USA we haven't figured out Section 230 yet. There is no hope for sensible (or illogical) AI regulation.
Decline and Fall is an excellent read, and I did enjoy Sword of Honor, but I never much cared for any of his other work; I think perhaps I read them a little too young to get the underlying themes
I am currently building a web directory of the best sites I ever came accross, because I keep sharing them individually with friends which is inefficient. The most useful websites are often targeted at professionnals but contain good information that will also help the curious mind.

One example (I have no affiliation) is Examine which does science summaries and is targeted at health professionals : their research pages are exhaustive and include sources.

What is the one website you know that fits this pattern?
I doubt the solution to ideologies of hate is blocking them at the architectural or protocol level. That sounds just as dystopic, if not more.
> Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years.

I think that's one of the roles of anthropology.
I've been experimenting a bit with Vim, and so far I'm _really_ not convinced. I know VSCode is slow, but I have an intuitive set of keyboard commands that accomplish 80% of what I need to do throughout the day:

move to end of line: cmd + right
move to begin of line: cmd + left
move to end of file: cmd + down
move to begin of file: cmd + up
select to begin of line: cmd + shift + left
select to end of line: cmd + shift + right

There are several others but they're all similar in that they feel logical and intuitive.

By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive, it requires more strain of my hands/fingers, and I could easily see myself feeling the pain if I used it full time. Unless I switch keyboards or something.

I'm still giving it a shot because everyone raves about how Vim makes them so much faster, but am I crazy for being highly skeptical at this stage?
I don't think big and important are synonymous. One of the most important problems in many communities is the vanishing of so called 'third places'. The places people go that isn't their home or work. Many communities lack them them nowadays.

This is something everyone can work on, you don't need to be a climate scientist or solve global peace. If you're a programmer as many people here are you can work on buildings things for your community, your neighborhood, a civic organisation, and so on.

The alternative to building some soulless ad platform isn't some world changing thing, it's simply to build small scale things with good incentives for people around you. That is important, and if enough people do it, collectively it will have a big impact.
That's good feedback for the developer for sure.
While building LLM apps, we mostly cared about cost management as that completely sucked in the OpenAI dashboards.

We've today tried to create the perfect set of dashboards that can serve as a starting point for any AI builder to find control over the LLM requests. Very curious to get feedback from this community.
I have moved from scientific research to the tech industry working on inane problems to working in health data science. I get infinitely more reward working on what I feel are important issues than I did working for something I didn’t care about (even though the money was much better!).

The important issues as I see it:

* improving health care, access to health care and generally helping people to live healthier lives.

* helping in some way those in poverty around the world.

* Climate change
I'm always so annoyed at Google Maps for not displaying street names. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you zoom or pan, it just won't show it.

I know it knows them because it announces them just fine during navigation.

Why? What's the point? It's a map. Street names are pretty much the #1 most important thing.
I spent a year at Harris Semi’s RTX group. A previous gig as a Forth programmer plus undergrad work in assembly programming came in handy.

I really wish RTX had caught on with commercial clients, but the lack of tools made it tough for most folks.
People generally seem to miss the point that humanity in its current state is fully dependent on fossil fuel and that will change only very very slowly. So, emissions will be there to stay for a while. Fundamental research into capturing it at scale would be a good endeavor.
I feel like this can really vary by person. Some things may be more important to others.

I personally think seeking ways to improve transit and reduce car dependency is an important task. A lot of other commentors mention electric cars. These are conflicting goals but both solve similar problems and may be worthwhile to work on.

If you are interested in seeing what jobs are actually out there, I think "80,000 Hours" is a good place to start: https://80000hours.org/start-here/?int_campaign=2021-12--pri.... I don't think they are always perfect, but I think the idea is in the right place and their job board often has roles that are working on important problems for humanity.
The definition of readability changes with one’s experience. With time you really want something with less redirections and something which is easy to change like globally.
Karl Friston has been a long time proponent of the free energy principle in brain [0]. This paper claims to have found evidence that supports this principle in "neurons on a chip" based system [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle

[1] https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw
From May 2023:

"With the major rains at an end for now, potatoes are returning to the shelves and frozen food section."

https://theconversation.com/what-was-behind-australias-potat...
It's only hell if you don't have money
The driver was most likely on their phone when it happened, so hopefully there will be some charges filed. I would love to see the precedent set where killing someone while distracted is treated as murder.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191096086/cyclist-magnus-whi...
I have to admit I'm not very familiar with how patents work in this field in particular, but in general, patents seem to have a huge limiting effect on research. For example, in video coding, nobody wants to invest into making a new codec just to find that their codec falls under a patent owned by the MPEG, and it's really hard to make a new codec which doesn't fall under those patents.
You try to lawyer your way out of it as much as you want, it's still going to be a blatant violation of the spirit of the GPL if not the letter.
Compare the experience of adding stuff to OSM and to Google Maps. Much easier.

OSM is for nerds. Very hard to add even basic info. Google Maps it’s trivial.

Same as uploading photo to Google Maps is easier than adding it to WikiMedia Commons. Such is life.

(Ironically one of the biggest sources of photos is commons is Panoramio; before Google merged it with Google Maps, the photos there defaulted to Creative Commons.)
Might be temporary, we've also randomly received 403s for short periods of time with no real explanations. Becomes ok with a retry.

Can you share evidence on shorter look-backs though?
OP, do you have one or two examples of Ahrefs being used in practise for a startup?
Not enough investment in building apartments, evidently.
Good note :-) The wrapper can by the way be used outside of LiveBook (e.g. https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/16885335909659033...) to provide charting in an Elixir app.
That’s true, but:

1) they did add threading macros, which are very popular, and these seem to serve a very similar purpose for transducers. You could argue their inclusion would make the language a little more uniform even.

2) There is precedence for doing the same operation with different mechanisms, like map vs mapv, so the change fits in nicely in that sense

3) as the article points out (edit: just realized you are the author, heh, hello!), transducers often have better performance than alternatives. I think it makes sense to highlight them and encourage their usage as much as possible. The more high performance code in the wild, the better. Even just introducing new ergonomics that facilitate their usage will influence that.
> it's also the people themselves, especially the natives. If you mention you live in a flat (as opposed to a house) people will look down on you because you're so poor. What's wrong with flats?

Native here. Born '74, perhaps ironically I lived in a house when young because my family were poor and we lived in charity housing. In '99 I moved out and lived only in flats until eventually leaving London in 2021, moving back into a house at age 46. Suffice to say I don't recognise this attitude in myself, nor any of my friends or colleagues throughout those 46 years. TBH I knew very few people that lived in a house in London for most of that time anyway.
Why do some websites with bad interfaces live so long? (2019)
My experience is more that having your own flat is a sign of wealth. Lots of people only have a room.
Covert and confusing ‘service charges’ anger US diners
This seems wrong. I don't think the average business owner has the capability to reverse engineer the anonymous tokens that represent hash IDs. Also, it's good to go in and reset that occasionally with Google. I gave up on it and switched to apple, tho. Far as I can tell, they don't ever sell that info, even in anonymous hash # form. I'm happy to be proven wrong other than "wHy wOuLd yOu tRuSt aPPle?" .
There’s this meme where people make variations of 1-1. “1-1 except that…”

And I find it to be the most interesting thing in gaming in a While. It demonstrates such creativity.

Here’s a bunch of them in Mario Maker, but there’s 1-1s made everywhere, in other games and even in real life.

https://youtu.be/PhyG0s9tJaM
> Wearables, ultimately, are an expiremental product. Neither the users not the developers really know what the application is.

I think we know what the killer applications are, and the problem is that the killer apps for wearables (especially glasses type devices) have deep societal/ethical concerns. The apps that would sell well are mostly "situational awareness" for law enforcement, sales (used car credit checks before rep engages), venue security (don't let people with records/bad social credit in), etc... Connecting face recognition, credit/background checks and putting that at the point of sale or entry. Unfortunately, it's coming. I'm not sure this is going to make the world better.

BTW - UI, design and all of that really matters less than you would think if the application has great utility and benefit (to the wearer/wearer's employer). The problem is a lot of the apps I've seen don't really do anything that is all that remarkable or useful enough to make your "greeters" wear them.
Do you think OP is confused what a serial killer is?
Took an old 42U rackmount cabinet and turned it into a dehydrator, last year. Cleaned it out and used light diffuser grille for shelving, a little table fan for air movement and a simple speed controller. Ugly fruits make great dried fruit snacks.

Software may become involved. i'm playing with ideas for adding temp / humidity sensors and putting the fan's speed under the control of something that switches it based on time and those sensor readings. The in/out vent baffles could be actuated by servos. It completely lacks blinkenlights, which deficiency keeps me from showing it off more.
With regards to global warming, one important task is to more accurately and convincingly measure the cost of climate change. People are already working on this topic, but all the work is quite napkin-mathsy at this point, and of course heavily politicized.
If one could very convincingly predict the future cost of climate change it would do a lot to convince people to pay today to avoid the worst in the future.
Self driving vehicles will eliminate the leading cause of death for grownups under 40.
It's purpose is physics research, which benefits both weapons and fusion for power production, and other fields besides. Being able to study a burning plasma in a lab environment, allowing us to validate our computer models, is valuable even the power reactors we build using those models wind up looking very different.
It will happen, we all know it, and people are most certainly thinking about it. But it shouldn't be opposed to reducing CO2. Even if it is already happening, reducing CO2 will (most likely) also reduce the warming itself, and make the future slightly more bearable.

Moreover, global warming is just the tip of the iceberg, it's the thing that is presented to us in the most direct ways, but other things like mass extinctions of species, oil depravity, overpopulation, forever chemicals etc. Etc. Will be a problem someday also.

So instead of trying to "cope" with every catastrophy that is thrown at us (while making living on earth more and more annoying), maybe we should think about the solutions on a global scale, because there's no way it will happen without that

So there's really nothing one can do. Even living the regular lifestyle of any western country is by itself a contribution to the issue. Stop fooling yourself with technical solutions, as it will only push the issue for later, or be counter productive

Changes can't come without a massive overhaul of our economy and society (probably for the worse)
Best Buy gave up on a bunch of their IoT switches, etc, and sent me Best Buy gift cards for the full purchase price.

Amusingly, because they’re HomeKit compatible, they continue to work because Apple required HomeKit to work without some weird manufacturer cloud system.
Disagree, we should be prioritizing developing and improving carbon capture capabilities such that we can outmatch and overcome existing emission levels. Most people aren't going to reduce their CO2 emissions if it means a noticeably worse lifestyle.

Accepting that CO2 emissions are unbeatable, so the best we can do is cope, sounds like a loser mindset. Those who believe in the inevitability of increasing CO2 emissions have already accepted defeat. The game is far from over and hope is not lost.
Bald tires won't pass inspection.
At this point it's better to flag LK-99 posts like this on HN and move on.

To much noise and no signal. There's no point going down a rabbit hole on unconfirmed and low quality replication attempts. You'll hear about it elsewhere if it's actually replicated.
Parts 2 & 3 of a blog post series on touching up performance in the centered.app web app. These pushed the Lighthouse performance score from 36 to 51 by pruning a multi-MB unused asset & working around a (since-fixed) bug in barrel export detection.
> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options.

No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
If that interests you: Janko keyboard.
Aren't those devices called trees? They absorb CO2, store CO2 and water eco-friendly, reduce ground temperature, prevent erosion, create natural habitats for animals and can be used as construction materials. Governments: I'll send you my PayPal in a PM.
- Sustainable *and* scalable agriculture
- Energy sector transition to renewable

I quit finance and work on EV chargers. The energy sector seems like an interesting place to be as a software engineer. A lot of the software problems has to do with customer acquisition, user interaction, and pricing, but there are lots of real engineering problems, too.
I just wanted to call out that some of these quick-to-start tools are CPU only (eg ollama) which is great to play with but if you want your GPU you’ve gotta go to llama.cpp

Further, the 70B for llama.cpp is still under development as far as I know.
I'm not sure why they could add "personalities" or "modes" like simple, tourist, night-life, etc. Seems rather obvious to just about anyone who thinks more than 30 seconds about it
> My content is stolen

Physical property is stolen. Information is copied.
Just curious, how are companies such Noya [1] scammers? I would like to know more about the technical due diligence part. Thinking about Theranos story and how easy was to realize the company was an scam.

I agree to the general idea that we need to plant trees and create technologies to solve the problem.

[1] https://www.noya.co/
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So I tried getting Longchat running (a 32k context llama 2 7b model released a few days ago) with FastChat and I was able to successfully get it running. It seems what I was trying to use it for (Langchain SQL agent) it is not good enough out of the box. Part of this is that I think Langchain is kind of biased towards OpenAi’s models and perhaps Llamaindex would perform better. However Llamaindex uses a newer version of sqlalchemy that a bunch of data warehouse clients don’t support yet.

Unfortunately with all of the hype it seems that unless you have a REALLY beefy machine the better 70B model feels out of reach for most to run locally leaving the 7B and 13B as the only viable options outside of some quantization trickery. Or am I wrong in that?

I want to focus more on larger context windows since it seems like RAG has a lot of promise so it seems like the 7B with giant context window is the best path to explore rather than focusing on getting the 70B to work locally
darn it, I was hopping to find out, but in fact the OP it's a review of 5 novels. never mind
How to quit it, just in case you're unsure:

:q!
often it's not just a vocal minority, as this article claims, but it's more like manufacturing consent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

with the war in ukraine, for example, i find a huge disconnect about how reality is described in the media and some actions are seen as evident and necessary, and how people in my social circle feel about it...
You’re allowed to talk about it.
I once came across a short list titled "email addresses it is hard to give out over the phone". I only remember this one:

one1firstthenumberthentheword@gmail.com
Is it realistic to think self-driving cars will have a 0% fatal accident rate?
If you did it right you could make it a marketing sell point - list the number of guaranteed days left in the UI and then start telling you how much you “beat” the system once that’s past.
surely google employees can't look up peoples locations..
Best vim cheatsheet I have seen so far. OTOH I haven't looked at one in a while, and back then my understanding of vim may have been insufficient to appreciate other lists.
I’ve been using Apple Maps more and more lately and it’s quite refreshing. I prefer their rendering style now, just looks cleaner. Google Maps is really a mess.
Write your passwords down (2010)
If this is just about latency (speed of light in air vs glass/fiber), then hollow-core fiber may be here before this gets approved.

I guess the second aspect could be signal path length (point to point vs whatever route the fiber takes through a city's infrastructure)...but if this is about short-range links, then I would think microwave point to point would help.

Is there some other aspect or key point why they want to do this?
Keybase is over, but worry not, KeyOxide to the rescue!
g; has been more useful for me than this one. It goes to the most recent change location. I edit a little, then move around in the same file for reference or check signatures and then continue editing by going to previous edit location using g;.
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All I can say is that neutral color negative films have more than enough range for a black person in a white dress, and any wedding photographer who had too hard a time nonetheless would soon find themselves no longer photographing black weddings.