skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting to notice all unofficial institutions (bottom table) have a higher outcome of partial success. Unless the more legitimate labs are less capable, you have to wonder whether anything outside of an accredited institution can be trusted at all at this point. My guess is the allure of hype (more followers / engagement) is too strong for personal gain.
Ah so we need three or four additional language features to do it, and PhDs in category theory.

...or you could accept that not every language needs to be a Haskell clone, and there is more than one good way to design a language. Choices have tradeoffs. The choices Haskell and Rust make are not the only valid choices. They have costs.
> information extraction task

I do that with orca-mini-3b in ggml format and it's pretty good at it, at twice the speed. Of all the LLMs I've tried, this one gave me the best results. It just requires a properly written prompt.
This is interesting because it appears to be the same technology used by Cloudflare's S2 / Cloudflare Browser Isolation.
I keep expecting to see coverage of this in what some would term the "mainstream" press but it's crickets. I refuse to believe that they're waiting for more results either, even the more reputable publications will carry junk science. At the very least there's an interesting story to tell in the publishing of the paper.
Really? Because I see it a lot in "engineers" in tech. They're right, you're wrong and that's how it plays out.
Can't beat Stobe the Hobo's videos, though sadly jumping trains killed him in the end:

https://youtube.com/@hobostobearchive6909
Not everything is made for the web. Most software in use today is not. You live in a bubble.
Yes, you can't keep installing and uninstalling stuff to run tests.
We are, indeed, in a world where Jquery is now the preferable choice. Frontend development is going through what video games went through in the 80s, so much new shovelware every day that people are eventually going to get tired of it.
Monopoly are fine if they are natural monopolies - e.g. utilities; which need to be regulated. Otherwise monopolies are suboptimal as prices won’t come down due to lack of competition.
Well I am horrible at playing this, but here you can see how it basically looks:
https://github.com/francisduvivier/sedmario_with_gif/blob/ma...
I used to be CTO of an Uber Eats style service that ran on hosting costs of about £100pm. Thousands of orders every few days, real time driver tracking, self hosted invoice generation, the works. Hetzner servers, Docker Swarm and Cloudflare for the tech.
I hear PHP is a pretty good language nowdays. Now, if we could just optionally drop the $ sign from the beginning of every variable and use them only for string templating ;).
How does the 7B model use only 512 megabytes? That's not possible?

Is it using mmap and concealing the actual memory usage?
Ask HN: Why are everybody going back to hybrid? Did remote work fail?
It feels that pretty much all companies are going back to a hybrid model these days. There is a scarcity for remote jobs, at least in the Scandinavia.

Is this due to remote work model failing or the current weak economic climate or due to some other factors I am not considering?

I wish that working across the European borders should be more accessible than it is today.

https://archive.is/20230511110219/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-remote-work-revolution-fail/#selection-1145.79-1149.214
You can probably run it locally with llama.cpp using CPU only, but it will be slow. I have a couple year old laptop with a RTX 3060 and it runs pretty well split across the CPU and GPU.
According to [0], he's now 70 years old.

[0] https://timonoko.github.io/curricu/IRTISANO.jpg
Or a keepass
> Bugs like this aren’t possible at all in Go or C#

As a point of order, such bugs are possible for Go. Eg, hashmap's behaviour becomes undefined if you access from multiple threads at the same time.

Admittedly, that's a Go peculiarity. Making the programmer deal with concurrency on collections undoubtedly gets it a speed boost, but it's not the tradeoff most gc languages take.

The beauty of Rust, is you don't need to trade speed or memory for concurrency.
It just kind of puts everything else you said into question when you make a statement which is easily disproved by anyone vaguely familiar with the subject.

If you're wrong about the one sentence in your comment that I have knowledge of, what other bits are wrong? Why should I assume the one sentence I can relate to is wrong but the other sentences are not?
I think they've done their "exciting breakthrough" piece and now it's not very news worthy.
Interesting, thanks for sharing . Especially Ahref, Intercom and at some point the AWS bill make up the vast majority of the expenses. Chatwool on Railway for 5$/month would probably do the trick instead of intercom. At first glance 200-300$ per month for AWS once your credit runs out seems like _way_ too much. If I understand your product correctly then you serve customizable widgets for signup campaigns and persist the emails with some metadata for analytics in a database. I would like to be proven wrong but to me that sounds like a 29$/month supabase pro bill or a 20$/month neon.tech bill if you like managed services. Or given the numbers on the landing page this should(!) easily be doable with a hetzer server for about 30$/month. Depending on the exact usage Cloudflare R2 might also be significantly cheaper than AWS S3.
LK-99 is a quasi two-dimensional material, and one which seems particularly challenging to synthesize in a bulk polycrystalline three-dimensional mass. Even the original researchers stated that they'd "get it right" only a fraction of the time, and that their famous floating cracked-disc is still impure.

I think that there's no reason to assume that negative results right now are conclusive, whereas positive results are strongly indicative.
I know very few altruist humans. Whenever someone puts up some content online I believe there is always some motive from the author to benefit themselves even if it's subconscious. Perhaps through ad revenue or exposure from their blog/OSS project or just the dopamine of fake internet points from answering questions on forums. A human may particularly like your content and keep coming back to it or spread it with attribution.

But you don't get any of that from an LLM.
Or, Stardew Valley is FarmVille+ love.

Maybe that's the secret.
The Microsoft code leak mentioned by one of the comments has been out there for years so might as well paste it here so cut down on some of the speculation? Fair use - commercial value is zero, historical value for analysis and criticism is high.

The relevant code comments seems to be

"Fix timing problem??"

and

"486 bug - must wait till after last "out f0" to clear fp exceptions or IGNNE# will be permanently active."

public __fpIRQ13
__fpIRQ13:
cli

WASTE_TIME 70

push ax
xor al, al
NULL_JMP
out 0f0h, al ; reset busy line.
NULL_JMP
mov al, 65h
NULL_JMP
out 0a0h, al ; EOI slave irq 5
NULL_JMP
mov al, 62h
NULL_JMP
out 20h, al ; EOI master irq 2
NULL_JMP
pop ax

sub sp, 2

push bp
mov bp, sp

fnstsw [bp+2]
WASTE_TIME
push ax
xor al, al
NULL_JMP
out 0f0h, al ; reset busy line.
NULL_JMP
pop ax

pop bp

; fnclex ; 486 bug - must wait till after last
; "out f0" to clear fp exceptions
; or IGNNE# will be permanently active.
WASTE_TIME
push ax
xor al, al
NULL_JMP
out 0f0h, al ; reset busy line.
NULL_JMP
pop ax

; fnclex ; 486 bug - must wait till after last
; "out f0" to clear fp exceptions
; or IGNNE# will be permanently active.
WASTE_TIME
push ax
xor al, al
NULL_JMP
out 0f0h, al ; reset busy line.
NULL_JMP
pop ax

fnclex ;Now this is safe.
WASTE_TIME 70 ;Fix timing problem??

jmp __FPEXCEPTION87P
Indexing starts at -1.
>> The evidence is that it understands and can respond with human language which arose from purely biological processes.

Well, human mathematical thinking, including logical thinking, also arose from purely biological processes (self-evidently) and yet we have machines that can reproduce all that: digital computers. Perhaps we should consider computers already artificial intelligence?

I actually think that yes, totally, 100% we should. But that makes for a definition of artificial intelligence that will disappoint most people who hope for Star Trek like computer-friends.
Al it takes is a different better AI model that doesn’t require the type of computing capabilities Nvidia offers or for the LLM hype to die.

Nvidia made their fortune riding 2 consecutive hype waves - crypto and LLMs.
I didn't even see that. Am I living under a rock?
My takeaway is that nobody, not even the original authors, knows a good, easily replicable way to make LK-99.

A clear no would be multiple sources synthesizing a material that is clearly the same as LK-99 (e.g. by showing most or all of the behavior shown in the videos or described in one of the papers), and then showing experimentally that it isn't actually a superconductor but that some other effect is at play.
However, we have never seen a material with such strong diamagnetism that is not a superconductor
Perhaps the ultimate progression is even larger groups until there is just one.
This article is somewhat puzzling for me. On one hand, the OP clearly knows Clojure very well. The disadvantages of laziness are real and well described.

On the other hand, though, this sounds like a theoretical/academic article to me. I've been using Clojure for 15 years now, 8 of those developing and maintaining a large complex SaaS app. I've also used Clojure for data science, working with large datasets. The disadvantages described in the article bothered me in the first 2 years or so, and never afterwards.

Laziness does not bother me, because I very rarely pass lazy sequences around. The key here is to use transducers: that lets you write composable and reusable transformations that do not care about the kind of sequence they work with. Using transducers also forces you to explicitly realize the entire resulting sequence (note that this does not imply that you will realize the entire source sequence!), thus limiting the scope of lazy sequences and avoiding a whole set of potential pitfalls (with dynamic binding, for example), and providing fantastic performance.

I do like laziness, because when I need it, it's there. And when you need it, you are really happy that it's there.

In other words, it's something I don't think much about anymore, and it doesn't inconvenience me in any noticeable way. That's why I find the article puzzling.
Mark Jones Lorenzo’s Endless Loop: The History of the Basic Programming Language
Hardware companies often find it very hard to competently build software.

They tend to lack appreciation/understanding of software in the first place (hardware-first thinking) leading to underinvestments.

It's also hard for them to identify great software people - at all levels, starting from the CEO/board.
No one buys any product that costs more than it is worth to them. If value is lower than cost sales tend to go to zero. The continued market for a product even in the midst of shortage indicates that someone somewhere values the product more than its market price. Otherwise the price would drop until demand converged with supply.
Looks better than a lot of real food!
To be clear, I'm just using ChatGPT as a (slightly tongue in cheek) shorthand for LLMs in general, but I do think there is a large potential for them within medicine.

They are so unreasonably effective for being, fundamentally, word predictors.
AWS RDS: my multi-AZ RDS has been down for 9 hours. What to do?
I have raised the issue, tacked to our SA, upgraded to Business support to create a chat...

I get from them that I will get an update as soon as they know something.

In the meanwhile, I can't process orders.

Any tips to get better/faster support and/or get a serious compensation?
Suppose they have a room temp superconductor(even if it’s not pure). What’s stopping them from revealing the process? It seems like the way they describe it is extremely hard to reproduce. So, are they trying to figure out how to make the most money off it? What else could it be?
You can live rather comfortably at $40k per year in Europe.
Thanks! Still, the article does not back the claim of the parent. The citation that is given for the horizontal gene transfer in herpesvirus states the following:

> herpesviruses are known to capture host genes to evade host defenses. [0]

That still sounds like a one-way gene transfer, and in no way an 'insertion into your DNA to stay dormant' as parent claims.

[0]: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.00359-18
> Magnetic levitation can't be done with normal magnets alone

Technically it can be done with an array of magnets with opposing polarities.

Without more details from on this video's source and legitimacy, one could argue that an array of magnets is hiding under the 'single magnet' cover plate.

I am not saying this is a hoax, but as exciting as this seems we just have to wait it out for more replication publications to make that call.
As my old granny used to say, “If in doubt, keep it out”. (She meant your nose from other people’s business). But it’s good advice when considering which software to allow on your computer and in your life. Personally, I’d avoid using ANY software whose Terms I don’t fully trust.
There was some articles on here about how maps have been changing over the years (also other map apps). The gist is that why would you need to show street names anymore? On printed maps that's the only thing you have, but that's not how most people navigate anymore. They search for a place or POIs and then use navigation.

So the things most people care about have changed, streets are less important now and things like attractions or "active areas" are more important. Yeah, some people still read maps the "old way", but now probably those are in the minority so catering to them isn't worth it anymore.

Of course that's only one aspect next to the question of what makes the most ad money.
Ahh, fingers crossed then! I'm really hoping this is real, I just hope I'm not disappointed in the end.
Oh my god, are we going to have machine learning "Minority Report" from space analysis of earth?
Why can't the weakly positive results be explained by an irregular formation of magnetic crystals that stabilizes the forces, in a way a single magnetic object cannot? As in, not a superconductor, just a novel configuration of magnetic particles?
Well, Maps is as much ado about Mapping, as Smart Phones about Phoning, or social networks about socializing etc. Most popular apps/services are about forming a community around "X" subject, with the aim of selling/advertising services around "X,Y,Z"

From experience, I know many people & businesses that use maps mostly for Business Intelligence, if you're Renting property of Buying property/businesses/real estate, Google maps has data up to 2008 (street view). Couple that with Satellite data, reviews, user-generated photos etc, and you've got a treasure trove.

Yes, the map UI is "busy" but I think we've evolved as users too.
All google need to do now is work a way to Verify/Trust info around Pins/Comments etc, and they've revenue sorted.
The stores I came across in Japan very adamant about calling these model food/food models, not fake food. I kind of agree, since "fake" has a bit of a negative touch and those models are works of art.
That is word salad.
I can’t imagine Intercom is worth like 1/3 of the budget. I’ve never used one of those AI pop ups and have always felt them annoying
At least for my employer I think it's equal parts a good-faith argument to come back to the office and a bad-faith one.

The good-faith argument. They say that by being in the office more often it will improve team cohesion and possibly improve productivity and even create more opportunities for cross-team connections (random meetings in the lunch hall, hallways, etc.).

The bad-faith argument. They've spent millions building out new office space for a workforce that was likely larger than it is now and to see it go unused would be a shame. Solution: mandatory 2-days in the office. Lol.
You miss his point. NT was thought to have “won” and their position seem unassailable but the unexpected happened and their reign in the server world was short lived.
> “You cannot levitate a normal magnet on another magnet without mechanical stabilization”

The mechanical stabilisation is right there in plain sight where one side of the magnet is clearly resting on the other magnet (physically in contact). Anyone who’s played around with magnets that are heavy and too weak to flip themselves around will not be satisfied with this video. It could be explained by two South Poles opposing each other.
Ah, you're right, I hadn't realized they probably didn't manage to make it well enough.
Potions being a bonus action is the biggest thing for me. I've house-ruled that forever. Glad Larian agrees.
This is the old track, with normal train (around 130kmh).
The TGV track is 406km and has just a few stops: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Est
Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit
The optimistic aspects are:
1. The diamagnetism of LK-99 is very strong;
2. In almost all experiments, LK-99 has only exhibited one-dimensional diamagnetism, which is hard to consider as fraudulent coincidence;
3. One-dimensional diamagnetism is very mysterious, and there is currently no suitable theoretical explanation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/science/lk-99-superconduc... (gifted link, sorry for the mess)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/08/03/ro...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/08/02/lk...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/08/04/lk...

Plenty more from less "historic MSM outlets". Looks like the MSM has been writing more than a few LK99 articles in the past 5 days!
There is such a thing as low-skill labour. Nobody said 'no skill required'. The term is low-skill.

Of the people I have met that do manual labouring jobs, I know many people could do those jobs if they got fit and learnt to do them, and that those people could not learn to do intellectual work no matter how hard they tried.

Also working in the forestry industry is much harder than having sex for a living.
What are you building? Do you already have a preferred tech stack? Do you need security clearance or banking?

I am founder and CTO of a startup, and I have hired and grown a few teams. Contact me directly at cto @ nosql dot com.

Some general advice:
It is ok to hire individuals remotely, but do not start with time and materials. Pay for work product.
Get a lot of quotes and hire multiple people and keep the best
Use the full SDLC tools to ensure quality: git, tests, stories, Ui mocks, etc
It is ok to choose a cheap database or other core tech, but design the system to be able to change.
Using the cloud will be faster and cheaper to start, but more expensive in the long run.
FYI: Google Domains is a discontinued service: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670?hl=en
> That's equivalent to a relatively short cross-strung upright piano

Not being familiar with piano configurations and sizes I was wondering indeed how one could squeeze the "real piano" strings into such a small space. Apparently you can't :-)

Seems to be a form over function exercise.
Bizarrely, the site's custom font is apparently not the monospace font, just another random odd and kind of off-putting one. The featured font itself looks decent.
No they don't. They earn more because their jobs are in more demand and there their skills are in lower supply.
Really? That's encouraging, thanks.
Using transducers is really easy and intuitive (with "comp" letting you compose a pipeline of transformations in a readable way).

Writing custom transducers, especially stateful transducers is really difficult. But that's not something you'll do often. My 10kLOC complex app has three stateful transducers that I wrote.

I think transducers are an under-appreciated aspect of Clojure. They are an extremely valuable and flexible tool, and have allowed me to write reusable and composable code and tackle significant complexity, all with great performance.
It's actually (1997).
> Everything should be at least double precision by default, and extended precision serves as an additional safeguard

Honestly I don't understand how this would constitute a "solution" or even a "safeguard", really. Using any kind of FP arithmetics without being acutely aware of its quirks is going to cause headache no matter the precision. Conversely, when you do know how to deal with FP, then FP32 can suit many scenarios just fine.
So… www logs. That weird trick they have been using since 1994 or earlier!
Yes, the work takes more skills. It is not 'functionally gatekept'.
That makes sense, thanks. So if the replication is not diamagnetic, it means that it's not LK-99, rather than that LK-99 is not diamagnetic itself, thanks.
>It's achievable only if you are self employed.

I think most self employed people would tell you otherwise.
I'm pretty sure this material is wax, as explained in another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVPhcw7OFc
Do you hibernate? Then you need swap, and I think it has to be a partition. I do because sleep is broken on this system (it doesn't reliably wake) so I disabled it in systemd to prevent the couple of accidental sleeps I did.
To ensure you do not miss this: LiveBook comes with a Vega Lite integration (https://livebook.dev/integrations -> https://livebook.dev/integrations/vega-lite/), which means you get access to a lot of visualisations out of the box, should you need that (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

In the same "standing on giant's shoulders" stance, you can use Explorer (see example LiveBook at https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer/blob/main/notebo...), which leverages Polars (https://www.pola.rs), a very fast DataFrame library and now a company (https://www.pola.rs/posts/company-announcement/) with 4M$ seed.
I'm confused because I didn't say that Rust makes refactoring a breeze right? In fact, I said it does the opposite. So I don't really understand your response.
The question was which job required more skill. And the answer is very clearly: the architect's.
Agree to agree.
> You can’t develop a product for people to use behind closed doors, because you run the risk of building the wrong product

Then again you could develop a product behind doors despite the risk of building the wrong product ... :)
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