skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taylor Swift's claim to fame is that she is an attractive white woman from affluent parents, who is both highly malleable and a very hard worker.

Swift's success is about much more than that. Fundamentally, she is targeting a market segment her competitors have left wide open. Her persona-- a hard working, self-deprecating, people pleasing young woman trying to navigate relationships--is immensely relatable to a huge number of young millennial women. That's especially true because Millennials are just more square than Boomers or Gen X. They are more inclined to follow social expectations, and have fewer vices than Boomers or Gen X at the same age. Swift's clean lyrics thus stand out in comparison to her contemporaries.

That also makes her more appealing across generations. I've been a Taylor Swift fan since the beginning, and I'm happy to spend $$$ taking my 10 year old daughter to one of her concerts. I'd never do the same with someone like Ariana Grande or Lizzo or even Beyonce, whose music is more sexualized and profane.

You should watch Miss Americana. Swift runs her operation like a business. It's quite amazing to watch.
Show HN: Avatar – Talk to people modeled on their tweets
Stumbling across an interesting person online and seeing decades of their writing history is always daunting to dig through to discover key ideas.

While standalone foundational models can dig through most popular writings available on open web, there is long tail that needs individual specific models to synthesize with LLMs.
Starting with twitter, Avatar intends to create a digital avatar for individuals while aiming to be factually correct.
Please Try ~50 interesting accounts on twitter IMO and let me know of any feedback on its utility.

RAG stack components: LLM (gpt-3.5-turbo), Embeddings (text-embedding-ada-002), Vector index (Chroma)

More details: https://twitter-avatar.com
Ah but that's not what I am referring to. If you take a look at Vercel Postgres page [^0], you will see that Vercel is marketing a new way of writing server side rendered code, where you can write SQL code right next to the HTML-ish code for the frontend. So I'm just merely making a (meant to be humorous) comparison with PHP.

> PHP can't run in the browser.

Well actually, WordPress did it [^1] [^2]. They compiled PHP to WASM, so you can run our favorite web framework in your own browser.

I see your point anyway. Systems evolve. Tooling has to follow suit. PHP cannot achieve some of the feat today mega stack can. The problem arises when we apply the latest bleeding edge technology meant for systems that have to serve millions into our little MVP that may have less than 1000 users in your first few years.

[0]: https://vercel.com/storage/postgres
[1]: https://developer.wordpress.org/playground/
[2]: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground
Meanwhile firefoxOS as kaios has been successful in their goals. There are likely more kaiOS users than firefox users at this point. That points to there being a commercial solution that Mozilla missed, as you say.

In terms of being the right idea, the idea of firefox OS was great and really needed in the face of chromebooks popping up and iOS dominance. I can’t imagine building a browser and not also planning a response to mobile lock-in and cloud based devices.
Sifting generally. At the end of the process the largest thing in the mill will be the balls.
If the products were homogenous they wouldn't have different names. Are you under the impression that the phrase "Taylor's Version" was chosen at random? Could the labeled active endorsement of the artist, with whom millions of fans have a parasocial emotional bond, possibly be affecting consumer choice in this matter?

Of course it can. Nobody's "subverting textbook economic thinking," a ridiculous assertion.
I've worked with plenty of educated developers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. One of our local universities has a shockingly bad program that's reproducing their own unique little brand of terrible bullshit. I've spent half my career fixing the messes they leave behind at various companies in the area.
I thought Linus and other believed GPLv2 was fine and the improvements of GPLv3 did not outweigh the potential problems introduced by it. It never came to a point where all authors were asked to agree, or sign away their ownership.
Just listened to Lex Fridman's three hour interview with George Hotz this weekend. He spoke about his new company, Tiny Corp.

Tiny Corp. will be producing the Tiny Box that lets you host your own LLM at home using TinyGrad software.

The tinybox

738 FP16 TFLOPS

144 GB GPU RAM

5.76 TB/s RAM bandwidth

30 GB/s model load bandwidth (big llama loads in around 4 seconds)

AMD EPYC CPU

1600W (one 120V outlet)

Runs 65B FP16 LLaMA out of the box (using tinygrad, subject to software development risks)

$15,000

Hardware startups are extremely difficult. But Hotz's other company Comma.ai is already profitable so it is possible. I find the guy extremely encouraging and he is always doing interesting stuff.
Maybe I'm naive, but Brave doing anything with crypto doesn't inspire confidence in their long-term product vision. Why does a browser need a business model?
So that's a "no", you cannot (or will not) supply a reference.

You are the one making the claim, so the burden of proof is on you. And BTW, the claim you need to defend is not that "Turing was Wittgenstein's student for a number of years". That is demonstrably false. Turing and Wittgenstein didn't even meet for the first time until after Turing finished his Ph.D., indeed, after he published "On Computable Numbers". But that is neither here nor there (except insofar as it speaks to your general credibility). The claim you need to defend is that the Tractatus "put an end to analytical philosophy and a start to computer science".

Can you cite even one author who supports this claim? Can you cite a single example of Turing acknowledging Wittgenstein as an influence on OCN? (OCN itself doesn't mention Wittgenstein at all.) In fact, can you cite a single example of Turing and Wittgenstein publicly agreeing about anything? Because all of the references to Turing and Wittgenstein interacting with either other involve vehement disagreement.

In fact, I suspect that the truth is the exact opposite. If Wittgenstein had any influence on Turing at all, it would have been to motivate Turing to invent computer science in order to debunk Wittgenstein. Indeed, many of Wittgenstein's positions are embarrassingly naive in light of modern knowledge. It's not just the Tractatus that is bogus, AFAICT he was just wrong about everything. The fact that he is so highly regarded is truly bewildering.
Hardening repositories against credential theft
It's Bill Simmons talking in a podcast. He's trying to harness some of the Swift-a-mania and to get more focus on himself.
BlackBerry Introduces Major Update to Next-Generation AI Engine
AI Cybersecurity Pioneer, BlackBerry Introduces Major Update to Next-Generation AI Engine

"BlackBerry’s generational release announced today updates the AI engine to enhance threat prediction capabilities for organizations by 40 percent compared with earlier versions."
This looks really cool. One thing I've wondered about with, e.g., the OpenAI API is if json is really a good format for passing embeddings back and forth. I'd think that passing floats as text over the wire wastes a ton of space that could add up, and might even sacrifice some precision in. Would it be better to encode at least the vectors as binary blobs, or else use something like protobuf to more efficiently handle sending tons of floats around?
My “burnout” is more like demotivation. I see a program that can do a lot or most of what I can do, and I’m like “what’s the point?” I could spend hours doing what ChatGPT can churn out in seconds… but typing out what I want ChatGPT to write, while technically more efficient than writing the code myself, is dull.

I’m exploring alternative careers and kind of want programming to just be a hobby.
Perhaps the little anesthetic effect also helps us to calm down and not being hyperactive all the time? I find thinking in diffuse mode and day-dreaming very beneficent.
Meanwhile, I'm the guy in the corner happily writing native Web Components with (optionally ) lit-html as a renderer.

I get reactivity with class properties and a call to render().

It's so damned easy and straightforward, super fast light weight little components that know how to take care of themselves.

I stick with the light DOM and use a CSS design system that matches the project - bootstrap or whatever.

I have zero build time during development, and a quick "vite build" for deployment - just for easy packaging.

No framework churn.

No complex debugging. What you code is what you debug in chrome dev tools. No source maps.

No complicated state management or insanity like redux.

A new dev can be set up and productive in a day or two, and that includes learning how Web Components work.

I've been sitting in my lonely corner looking at the room full of unbelievably complex front end frameworks and scratching my head.

I just don't get it.
I don't know why we spend so much time and resources on speeding when it is not the biggest issue facing the motoring public.
Another way to view things is that if code seems too low level, it is not abstracted correctly.
I don't really think of it that way. I've been doing Mac and iOS development for over ten years now. A lot of the info I gleaning is not design techniques or stuff that I feel is worth memorizing. It's more what functions are available to do something and what types are needed to interact with an API.

A common thing I've searched for, for instance, is the various date formatting options and types I need for managing time zones. I suppose I could sit down and learn the plethora of options, but I don't see that is information that's worth memorizing internally. Similarly, I suppose I could really internalize the complete syntax of regular expressions, but is it worth it? I've used them so many times before ChatGPT, but I've not memorized absolutely all the options available to me.

The other side of the coin is this is allowing me to make so much progress that I'm needing to even use more APIs than I would've previously. If I had done it the old way, I might only have time and energy to devote to a small number of tasks, but with ChatGPT I can "explore" more territory than I wouldn't have previously.
Not surprising, given the influence of people like Murdoch and his media which is just the same crap that's being fed to Americans.
As someone with over a decade of Django experience, _very little_ has changed in Django since it started; you can bring up a very old app to speed in a matter of a couple of days.

I've had to spend a week moving a 3 year-old React app to the latest versions and failed because certain dependencies were just a mess.
This isn't our field but its something similar.
So say some of your clients are old publications. Some have articles dating back to the 1800s. Nearly all the work is digitized but searching for something in the great categorized mess is a nightmare. As most old publications are downsizing they don't have the man power to curate there archives but are inundated with research requests nearly 24/7.
As a service to help these publications maintain there image as an organized informative keeper of historical records you could do the following.
1. have an LLM make a series of tags for all the articles.
2. make a summary for all the articles to improve search results.
3. provide a service to them or up sold to their clients were a question/prompt can be ran across every article or a section of articles.

> how is the performance/cost of running vs more specialized models trained for the task.
most models are GNU licensed so thats not an issue. But I imagine you meant the age old question of hosting yourself vs using openAI. Truth is as of now it currently is not foretasted to beat using one of the less intelligent models on openAI. hardware cost alone yes but Dev time is very expensive.
Lucky were a small company & our CEO sees this as training. Because LLMs are so new there really isn't a large labor market for it yet. If our devs and engineers get in this early then we can beat others to market as the technology develops and new opportunities come to light.
on top of having possible HIPPA, GDPR, or other security laws to follow that OpenAI has been very shooty about, we do not want be at the whim of OpenAI or another SaaS provider on a mission critical part of a vertical. They have talked about depreciating old model. As well they have had content changes in there models to placate political critics, well not realizing that this pulls the rug out from under developers that need any sense of stability from there product.
And how much of that 82% is attributable to the Linux Foundation as opposed to Google?
"They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it.

If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life.

You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?”

And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers.

And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’

Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15
Even still, add-ons have always been a Fx selling point so I’m still quite shocked.
Not really. Firefox blocks more things out of the box for a better browsing experience than Chrome does. But I admit that there’s a good chance that at least some not-insignificant percentage of those 41% wouldn’t notice and realize that they would need to install uBlock to use Chrome comparably.
Speaking of nuclear options, need to get the providers to pledge/follow the fork, maybe via some kind of API incompatibility. Terraform is useless if the providers don't work with it and only the fork. Focus on disrupting the ecosystem.
That’s why people burnout and take up fighting martial arts or buy a motorcycle

People have a need to feel the feedback from their actions
Are museums not publicly accessible? That's their whole point as far as I'm aware.
I am a co-founder of Terrateam and we have made a pledge for OpenTF. I understand where you are coming from, but right now it is difficult to know what exactly to pledge as we want a dialogue with HashiCorp on what they need as well, if they want to donate to a foundation.
The sad and ironic part is that additional gatekeeping won't produce better results anyway.
Two-way data binding is a foot-gun for sure (I also worked in a large knockout codebase circa 2010), but man is the alternative a PITA when you’re just filling in a form. And the problem only shows up when you start propagating two-way data back up the tree.

If someone wants to invent a framework where two-way form binding is easy, but the data can’t leave the component without being dispatched as an action, I’m in.
Google Doc's markdown mode support is limited, especially because you can't just paste a giant pile of markdown into Google Docs and have it convert properly as if you'd typed the exact same thing, but people should be aware it exists. After turning it on, I can type, eg "# heading1", and it'll convert into its version of an <h1>.

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036
Human Resource Machine is great! My wife ended up having a career change into coding after finishing it and the sequel
Sorry friend, WordPress already beat you to it: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground
A whole lot of stuff on datpiff.com from the mixtape era.
I wonder whether the little anesthetic effect of nitrogen also helps us to calm down and not being hyperactive all the time?! I find thinking in diffuse mode and day-dreaming very beneficent.
I have very similar experience - subjectively I experience more stuttering in FF than Chrome both on Android and Linux laptop.
That's a possibility, but a collection of companies trying to drive FOSS even after the original company stops is a great argument that it is in fact a collaborative thing
How many tokens per second do you think we can get out of this 6TFlops NPU?
My UDM-Pro-SE has a 12TB hard drive in it and acts as the NVR itself without issues. I do not need any APs (doorbells are direct wired PoE), and I do not need a separate NVR.
It's available on Windows. Not sure about Linux/Android.
You compared using Whatsapp to wearing a seatbelt; the problem with this analogy is that many, MANY more people die in car accidents than from... whatever abstract value me using Whatsapp will provide you, a complete stranger.

You're failing to understand that the conversation does not end just because someone is harmed by something. You, and society generally, do not consider "one single negative outcome" to be enough of a reason to not do anything.

We can't get past this. You must either accept this as an observation about reality, or you will not understand whatever other direction this conversation may go.
I totally agree when you're talking about a bunch of embeddings at once-- that's why the document level endpoint (and the token-level embedding endpoint) can optionally return a link to a zip file containing the JSON. For a single embedding, not sure it matters that much, and the extra convenience is nice.

Edit: One other thing is that you can store the JSON in SQLite using the JSON data type and then use the nice querying constructs directly at the database level, which is nice for the token-level embeddings and document embeddings. This is built in to my project.
>The only people complaining are the ones who want to disregard road laws because they don't care about the danger they pose to others, and like that there's barely any enforcement.

This assumes that speeding laws are mainly there to prevent danger to others.

That's not true.
The more I am reading about and from people being productive using LLMs, the more I think that most people are just lazy slackers. Any time I try to use LLM to solve my problems or deal with my tasks - it shows at most mediocre half-baked half-assed results.

The only thing ChatGPT is good for me is to replace Google for knowledge access. But I have to validate those answers in case they are hallucinated or just plain wrong.
this should allow for fewer net resources to be used to combat speeding thanks to automation. police can be used elsewhere.
Florida!

Yeah I can’t even pay the mortgage with Florida’s unemployment. They like us poor and stupid. Meanwhile my homeowner’s insurance goes up each year even though my area hasn’t been hit by a hurricane. Fun fact, Jacksonville FL gets fewer direct strikes from hurricanes than New Jersey.
> someone would just go and read source code of some program from start to finish.

Well, one has to start reading from somewhere, and the start seems like a good way to start, is it not? Well, actually, no, it's not, because you have to waddle from main through like ten levels of procedure calls until some actual work starts being performed, but if you don't know where exactly the interesting parts are the only other options are either try to grep (doesn't work reliably in repositories where the authors like short and cryptic names) or to read source files until you find the relevant place.

> It would be something like reading an encyclopedia starting from the letter A.

I actually did something similar as a child, except I'd just open it on a random page and start reading. There is nothing really wrong with that as a recreational reading IMHO.
Having watched the company for the past two years, there's nothing to learn from their policies.
> You can't stop the immediate sinking.

Technically we can. Those in power don’t _want_ to. They don’t have our best interest at heart.

These kind of “it is inevitable” attitudes are a big part of the problem.
> Personally, in my early 40s, I feel my brain is back in 20s.

Software like GPT should be a tool, not a crutch. There is a lot that people can do to maintain their mental acuity over the decades, and I know first-hand the difference between doing it and not doing it. Those who do nothing, and especially those that increasingly lean on crutches, soon learn just how much worse it can get. Even a genetically lucky brain can be squandered.

Watch the Huberman Lab podcast and ask yourself if you'd like the kind of mental acuity that 48yo Dr Andrew Huberman effortlessly demonstrates every single time. His worst off days are better than most people in their prime. That's what is possible when people actually research and apply tools to improve their own health and abilities directly. There are a lot of rabbit holes this can go down, but just acknowledging it as an axis worth working on is the most important first step.
curl is fantastic. There's also HTTPStat which provides a waterfall visualization on top of curl timings: https://github.com/reorx/httpstat

There's also Skytrace (made by yours truly), which provides timing info as a waterfall visualization inspired by HTTPStat + lots more (syntax highlighting for responses, built-in JMESPath support, command-line assertions and checks etc) - https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/tree/main/packages/...
Can someone tell me how much Chrome has in terms of resources? Firefox, a company with one main product, has hundreds of millions of dollars coming in + millions in donations. That should pay for a sizeable engineering team.

Is the Chrome engineering team much larger? Is the V8 team larger than the SpiderMonkey team, significantly so?
That's an option in the US, but going to Walgreens to pick up every package is a much bigger hassle than just opening your door. In very high-crime areas, that's what people do (or get their own lockbox), but in most places in the US trying to prevent the crime is still more popular than trying to avoid it.
Also, they don't sell your email address to spammers and refuse all attempts to get off their lists (like scirp does).
Hashicorp left the provider frameworks under the original licenses, probably because they don't want to scare provider developers off. So for now both Terraform and a potential fork can continue sharing the same providers without issue.