skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came from a MSSQL background and eventually worked on an MySQL project with somebody who had a TON of MySQL experience by way of symfony.

I was explaining that not all of his non-aggregated columns were in his group by, so his query wasn't going to work.... but what do you know, MySQL will just return whatever it feels like from the group in that situation. I expected it not to run at all.

I think there are some flags etc you can use to enable to stricter behavior but it was one of the wildest footguns I've ever seen.
Right there with you. I've gotten so used to having it give me exactly the answer to my specific question that, when I must fall back to traditional search, it's noticeably unpleasant.
One of my favourite websites growing up: download.com
Headlines are bad for your well-being and development, and reporters are meatheads of communication. Are you open-minded and comfortable living close to the edge of the unknown? That’s science! Science good!
I've always liked Pico myself.
There's a reason this site is banned from most hardware forums.
More succinctly stated as "Only the Sith deal in absolutes."
(+1) I'm a newb to Metal myself, and I wanted to use Swift as the driving language (which was a main selling point). Unfortunately, almost all the material is in Objective C.
Perhaps sites with a small ratio of new:total content would be downranked --- but I really don't think that makes sense because that's going to be the case for any long-established site.
Awesome idea and inspiration. I’ve been storing my old seed packets in a Rolodex with handwritten notes and have been thinking of ways to make it more scalable.

One question for the 3D printer crowd: PLA will probably fade and crack quickly-ish with sun exposure in a garden, any material selection ideas to extend the life without injecting a plastic into the ground next to veggies?
Id love to see shareware come back into fashion. I think it fills an important role that nothing else touches.

Probably needs a new name, though.
Cloud costs to easily balloon out of control and I bet this is helping companies save money but this FinOps stuff also seems like something straight out an HBO's Silicon Valley skit.
Wait till you hear about Sears!
I very much do appreciate your comment and will look into into llama.cpp.
Was it from here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Do you have a guide that you followed and could link it to me or was it just from prior knowledge? Also, do you know if I could run the Wizard Vicuna on it? That model isn't listed on the above page.
Did the ROCm 5.6 toolchain work for you out of the box? If not, what sort of hacking / hand holding did it need?

I don't know whether there's a LLM inference benchmark in the CI suite, if not perhaps something like this should be included in it.
Why do I need to care about what tool it is powered by?
It could be better to opt those articles out of the crawler. Unless that's more effort. If articles included the year and month in the URL prefix, I would disallow /201* instead.
This is legit, nice work! I'm going to link this to some friends
Is ChatGPT a Bit Unsporting?
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
> Because fair use allows transformation and the output of their algorithm looks nothing like the input of the copyrighted work?

I feel like you miss the point of a law. You seem to read the law, and say "well, the law says X, new technology Y is compatible with it, so that's legal, everyone is happy". But that is wrong. The law reflects the society we want. Do we want a society that completely kills creative work because Big Tech found a loophole to launder their IP? I guess we all agree that we don't. It is not clear if LLM is that loophole, I agree. But you seriously have to take a step back and think about that. What if it does? Then we may have to redefine the meaning of "fair use".

Maybe this particular software was not a danger for those authors. But they don't know that. And given that most engineers talking about LLMs don't seem to remotely understand how one could be worried about it, I understand that they start speaking up wherever they can't. Because clearly it does not seem like those who build those systems give a damn about copyright holders.
https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/ ("Non-Profit Computer Security Consultancy") was mentioned on the frontpage yesterday. I have a friend working at https://www.bugcrowd.com/ that's probably the other end of the spectrum, being all enterprise with sales teams.
Draup AI for HR and Sales
Can you please not take HN threads on generic tangents or into flamewar? The site guidelines contain several rules designed to prevent this kind of thing - for example:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

You started a flamewar with here and perpetuated it downthread. We're trying to avoid these things on HN as they are tedious, repetitive, and predictably turn nasty. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This doesn’t seem to account for government transfer payments and other benefits.

For example, a Boston single mother of two at the “living wage” line is definitely not going to net $25,768 worth of taxes!
Reddit does this and it's very frustrating
A fascinating result of how the regulations were written:

“FERC Order 745, issued in 2011, stipulated that demand response providers must be compensated for reducing electricity load at the same rates as if they met that demand with generated electricity.”

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/what-the-supreme-court-deci....
> people do not make random errors like hallucinating which is their left hand

Entire kindergarten classes could dispute this assertion. Even adults sometimes 'forget' which is left and right.

Edit: Have you never heard someone say "No, your other left!"?
Hose him down next time he comes.
Huh. Maybe the twin cities region of minnesota is just terrible in this regard? I really thought it was like this everywhere but all these comments are pretty convincing. I guess it's just locally bad.
> it talks a lot about how GPUs work

it's true - out of all of the "LEARN CUDA IN 24 HOURS" books, this is the best one. indeed this isn't one of those same books - this is a textbook - but at first glance it resembles them (at least the color scheme and the title led me astray when i first found it).
I've got a Kona EV subscription from Hyundai. I just took a trip to Crater Lake and was able to charge every night I was there.

At least one person had brought their extension cable and was charging via their cabin's electrical outlet.
So can I charge UPS the same fee. Can I charge you that fee? Because if so get your wallet out
> For that of you who have no idea what the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is, to a first approximation it is the missing link between your MAC address (what Ethernet runs on) and your IP address (what Internet runs on)

More commonly, this is 802.11 nowadays, though I guess ARP would be used at any data link layer protocol when the host needs to get an IP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_link_layer
Even if that rule were true, why wouldn’t everything in the say, top NNN internet sites get an exemption? It is the Internet’s most hit content, why would it not be exhaustively indexed?

Alternatively, other than ads, what is changing on a CNN article from 10 years ago? Why would that still be getting daily scans?
I don’t feel like a field that has in its entire history only produced a handful of actual successful designs at all can possibly rate this kind of ‘world weary cynicism’ style of writing.

Nobody has the experience or ability to be able to say ‘trust me I’ve built a few spaceships, this is the hard won truth of how it is’. There are exactly nine spacecraft that humans have ever flown in. Only the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs really accumulated any kind of experience and that experience was extremely specific to a particular place and time and organization.

So sure, some general engineering truisms in here have the ring of wisdom to them and us non-spacecraft engineers can nod at them and quote them with the cachet they get from being associated with NASA.

But ‘trust me I have been teaching people to design spacecraft for decades’ doesn’t really count for much when during those decades no new spacecraft designs were actually getting made and launched.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN or use the site for ideological battle. We've had to ask you this before. Also, please don't break the site guidelines regardless of what another commenter has been doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's going on with Moq? SponsorLink and burnt soil
yeah we tried out popular solutions like exllama and llama.cpp among others that support inference of 4bit quantized models
Why not just use a dumpster and/or fire? Why would you dispose of inventory as a seller? That's not how stores work
Gpt always an answer for you. Even if it’s made up!
Yes, it works out of box and the blog contains a prebuilt python package that you can try out
my comment on this three months ago got upvoted to the top of the thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980709

basically, i said the ultra-low-power screen is wasted by using a cpu that uses ten thousand times as much power

it would make more sense to use either an ultra-low-power cpu, getting orders of magnitude more battery life (and probably reducing the weight and charge time of the battery), or a screen that takes advantage of the orders of magnitude more power available, with features such as backlighting, grayscale (the memory lcd is really only black and white with no shades of gray), or even color

summary from the thread:

> unfortunately, their current design seems to have a fatal flaw that renders it useless for its intended purpose ['a weekend chat device' according to erohead], but one that's easily fixed

> my comments are not shitting on it; they explain how to fix it, providing information the original designers were evidently unaware of, so that they can ship a product that fulfills its intended purpose, which would probably make them a few tens of thousands of dollars. up to them if they want to do it or not; i'm not an investor. if they don't, probably someone else will

comments here from people who are trying the device seem to support my calculation that the battery only lasts the few hours i calculated rather than the intended weekend
You broke the site guidelines in several places in this thread, but here you crossed the line very badly. We ban accounts that attack others like this, so please don't do it again.

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this was my thought too. less about the plastic getting into my veggies, but the longevity of the plastic case after frost/thaw cycles and uv exposure.

maybe you just pull them in the winter? i supposed that’s a no-brainer in a veggie garden at least.
Soundtrack for yall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzjCWyV4CIw
Glad you don't know my mother
That’s fair - as the perpetrator of much of that abstraction I believe that highlighting the type system aspect of this code obscures the real problem we were solving for, which Go is spectacularly good at: letting you get within inches of C performance with reasonable effort for serialization and mapping versions of structs.

I find it amusing that the runtime registry code is cited as an example for anything other than it’s possible to overcomplicate a problem in any language. We thought we’d need more flexibility than we needed in practice, because humans involved (myself included) couldn’t anticipate the future.
Yeah. I thought the story would end with the HR person saying, “Oh. Turns out Bob died. I guess you’re hired. Have Bob’s office.”
Yearbooks actually
I’ve got some printed with PLA and some with PETG to see how they perform - I’m just going to give it some time and see what happens.
this is unfairly negative, Storybook started calling it stories and before them, PMs and UX researchers, to the point that it was an industry understood term long before Histoire came along. the overloading is unfortunate but happens all the time - we don't complain about "bug" or "fork".
There shouldn't be any real roadblocks in your setup. If you can find an inferencing tool with ARM support, you should be good to go.
And the requisite astrobin link https://www.astrobin.com/7hwtz0/

This is great work highlighting that even in optical wavelengths there is a lot more to galaxies than the high surface brightness stars, and that there is a lot of astronomy that can be done on the ground.
Who is Science?
I bought the first edition when it came out, and definitely it was a gold mine of information on the subject. I wonder though, is the fourth edition worth buying another copy? Nvidia has been advancing CUDA, in particular moving more towards C++ in the kernel language. But none of that was present when this book came out in 2007. Now more and more stuff is happening at thread block level with the cooperative group C++ API and warp level for tensor cores. It would be great if the authors revisited all the early chapters to modernize that content, but that's a lot of work so I don't usually count on authors making such an effort for later editions.
History of Table Changes in PostgreSQL
You're actually standing on your doorstep 24x7, to make sure no delivery people just leave packages?
Some slots machines may have a poorly designed RNG. For example it may have too little entropy, and its state may be calculated from multiple rounds of watching the symbols it displays.

In one of Kevin Mitnick's books—can't recall which one, maybe The Art Of Deception?—he interviews anonymous hackers about their exploits, and one of the chapters is about a group of 4 people who did just that. They bought used slot machines, reverse-engineered the RNG in the firmware, found it was vulnerable. They exploited it to win a few million dollars over many months/years and many casinos. They spread their winnings over time, and they stopped when they felt it was too risky to get caught by the casinos.
Is Java 21 the next LTS version?
You change the compiler to carefully step around the stuff that doesn't work in the hardware.
devil's advocate: a bad software engineer is not only unproductive but drags down good software engineer's productivity. It doesn't make SWE's important, but it does sometimes mean that no hire isn't the worst choice.

In addition, Canonical is HQ'd in the UK, so it's not quite as easy to let someone go if red flags come up.
Think of it like floating point logic.
Donate them as-is to charity or a thrift shop and reap the sweet sweet karma you've earned by putting like-new shoes into the hands (feet?) of people who need them.
It depends where you're going. Villas Las Estrellas requires an appendix removal.
In case it helps anyone, here's a recent blog article written by Daniele Procida (a director of engineering at Canonical, responsible for documentation) that helps explain the motivation for our written interview: https://ubuntu.com/blog/written-interviews - "Not just an annoying list of questions"

Disclaimer: I work for Canonical and help with recruiting.

I'd love it if our hiring process was shorter or tighter, but the written interview part (the part people seem to protest the most) I actually think is helpful. We're a fully remote company, and written communication is very important, so I think it's important that we evaluate how well someone can relate their experience and get technical ideas across. I personally review several written submissions per day, I read them in full, write notes of my thoughts, and evaluate them carefully. So your effort isn't wasted!
Apparently an LLM fails at doing these inferences repeatedly, which makes it inferior to a 3SAT solver.
Much less a general computer like a Turing machine.
If there's a zero day that's been embedded in a protocol by the NSA or actively used by the NSA, I normally wouldn't expect it to come from the actual encryption process itself. It would be something that choosing your own cipher wouldn't fix, because it would be about compromising security on the software level rather than the encryption level. There's a very good reason the PRC won't allow compromised Cisco routers, it wouldn't surprise me if there was similar thinking here, justified or not.
I've recently mentioned* that I believe the serverless model to be a great fit for self hosting needs.

It enables a kind of bring your own account (BYOA?) installation process. Where self-hostable services would be entirely built based on managed services.

- Infrastructure as code. The installer takes in any <cloud_vendor> account and provisions + configures the required components

- High availability built in

- no need to support old or niche hardware

- On-demand costs structure. Many self-hosted services don't need to run 24/7

My biggest fear with raspberry pi or VPS is the security. But self-hosting does not mean my-server-hosting. Some amount of vendor lock-in is acceptable and using the same APIs and processes as enterprise users sounds like a win. At least compared to not self-hosting at all.

Of course many things are still missing:

- self-hosted tools that actually work like this

- connection between data center and home. To integrate with smart home/IoT and similar things

- a reliable billing model for less technical users. It has to be impossible to rack up huge cloud bills

For now I guess it's just not yet mature enough. But I would like to see the serverless mentality finding it's way into self-hosted software communities.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986980

An example of what I mean: https://github.com/full-stack-serverless/conference-app-in-a...

I don't see any reason why that shouldn't also work for more typical self-hosted applications
This is some bullshit. It’s bad enough that a lot of sites with content going back 10-20 years have linkrot or have simply gone offline. But I am at a loss for words that they’re disappearing content on purpose just for SEO rankings.

If this is what online publishing has come to we have seriously screwed up.
and many other things
I think it’s unfortunate how the headline frames it like the original claim is somehow separate from the observe-hypothesize-experiment-explain loop of science. It’s also bit overconfident IMO - we totally still don’t have a handle on what’s actually going on, even if the evidence for room temperature superconductivity isn’t looking great. There’s still new preprints coming out every day
You got me beat: IMHO these things are plenty friggin awesome already and getting cooler all the time. I don't see why there is so much ink (and money) being spilled trying to get them to do things more easily done other ways.

Language models are really good at language tasks: summarization, sentiment analysis, borderline-creepy convincing chatbots, writing pretty good fiction at least in short form, the list goes on and on. At all of the traditional NLP stuff they are just super impressive.

They already represent an HCI revolution with significance something like the iPhone as a lower bound: it's a super big deal.

But while the details are absurdly complicated and the super modern ones represent an engineering achievement up there with anything ever done on a computer, they still fundamentally predict some probability-like metric (typically still via softmax [0]) based on some corpus of tokenized language (typically still via byte-pair [1]).

And when the corpus has a bunch of conversations in it? Great at generating conversations! And when the corpus has some explanations of logical reasoning? Often passably good at looking logical. And when the corpus has short stories, novellas, and novels featuring conversations between humans and science-fiction AIs? Well they can sample from that too.

But imitating William Gibson doesn't make GPT-4 any kind of sentient any more than it makes me a once-in-a-generation science fiction author.

“Real motive problem, with an AI. Not human, see?”

“Well, yeah, obviously.”

“Nope. I mean, it’s not human. And you can’t get a handle on it. Me, I’m not human either, but I respond like one. See?”

“Wait a sec,” Case said. “Are you sentient, or not?”

“Well, it feels like I am, kid, but I’m really just a bunch of ROM. It’s one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess...” The ugly laughter sensation rattled down Case’s spine. “But I ain’t likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain’t no way human.” [2]

[0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/ge...
[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/to...
[2] https://www.litcharts.com/lit/neuromancer/characters/mccoy-d...
I also wonder how they make these sales. Is there an escrow for this? Are Chrome extension transfers non-reversible? Can't imagine such a shady deal is safe for either party.
From the article that was linked:

> The research will also provide Infineon with a fundamental understanding of the design and reliability challenges customers face with the new material in their core applications.

That is corporate-speak for: they have no idea.
ROCm has improved a lot over the past few months, and now ROCm 5.6 seems to work out of box by just following this tutorial: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/deploy/linux/installer/i.... TVM Unity, the underlying compiler MLC LLM uses, seems to work out of box too on ROCm 5.6 - from Bohan Hou who sets up the environment
In the USA it's illegal for anyone other than the Postal Service to place anything in your mailbox. Technically, they own your mailbox, even though you have to provide it at your expense.

That's why they are dumping the advertising on his driveway, and why newspapers often provided a separate box for your newspaper that you mount below or beside your mailbox. I used past tense because we have no local newspaper anymore.

If they put this crap in your mailbox, they'd be committing a federal crime and postal inspectors would probably track them down if they got enough complaints.
Agreed. So it's basically a tool for documenting components, with an obnoxious name.

Even the use of french. Why French? Because it's really so exotic?
Article says that’s what they’re doing. It says exactly that.

Doesn’t really make things better, IMO, but they are at least doing that.
Yes I think that's it, thanks!
What are some examples of these legacy features?

Overwhelmingly, I see complaints that java has been too simple compared to virtually all other languages. I agree that cognitive load is important. However, it feels really strange to me to suggest that java has reached the complexity of other similar languages. What am I missing?
They also interned Japanese-Americans, caused the Arab Spring/Syrian Civil War, made the atomic bomb (oh, you mentioned that one!), ran numerous undisclosed human experimentation projects, imposed multiple central banking systems on the United States, caused the mortgage crisis, and gave China most favoured nation status.
If you're using or benefitting from OSM data, you should make a donation. The project has grown so large, that more money is needed for improvements and site stability. It's not just the data, either, it's the API, the tile service. etc.

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/
Plenty of people in Europe have credit cards [1] so now I'm curious. Why do so many have them?

In the US where most people who are not paying cash do indeed use credit cards it is pretty normal to also have a debit card, but that is because the debit card is what you use to get cash at an ATM and so it makes sense to have one even if you never use it for payments.

[1] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...